US cannot disarm Lebanon’s Hezbollah through sanctions: Russian ambassador to Beirut
Press TV – August 1, 2020
The Russian ambassador to Beirut says US officials are under the illusion that they can disarm the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement through sanctions.
“Disarming Hezbollah is the primary purpose of US sanctions… I do not think that such a goal would be achieved through this method. The United States will not manage to force Hezbollah into laying down its weapons. This is an illusion,” Zasypkin said in an exclusive interview with Beirut-based Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network on Friday.
In late October 2018, US President Donald Trump’s administration imposed a new round of sanctions on Hezbollah, targeting individuals and international organizations that do business with the group.
“Over the past year, we have levied the highest sanctions ever imposed on Hezbollah, in a single year, by far. Just a few moments ago, I signed legislation imposing even more hard-hitting sanctions on Hezbollah to further starve them of their funds. And they are starving for them,” Trump said during an event in Washington, DC, that marked the 35th anniversary of an attack on US marine barracks in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
Zasypkin added, “We (Russia) have made efforts in Syria. This is not only beneficial to Syria, but also to Lebanon as it protects the country against the potential threat of terrorism. If terrorism prevails in Syria, it will be easy for thousands of terrorists to cross into Lebanon, and this would lead to the partitioning of the country.”
He noted that Iran plays a positive role in the Middle East region, condemning the recent harassment of an Iranian passenger plane flying from Tehran to Beirut by two US fighter jets over Syria.
“Americans are creating problems and violating international law. The goal is to create tensions and reestablish their presence, role and influence,” the Russian diplomat said.
He went on to say that the balance of power in Syria is changing. “Over the past four years, the balance of power had been in the interest of terrorists. The ensuing terrorism allowed outsiders, including the US-led coalition, to come into play.”
“I think Americans have numerous problems there (in Syria), but al-Tanf region is still under their control. They are clinging to the area in order to have influence. Their main goal is to sever ties between Iran and Syria,” Zasypkin pointed out.
He noted that Moscow honors the principle of non-interference in Syria’s domestic affairs, lauding “close relations” between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad as well as military forces of the two countries.
Zasypkin said Russian and Syrian institutions are closely cooperating with each other in various fields, including combat against terrorism, maintenance, reconstruction and humanitarian activities.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Russian ambassador pointed to the recent rafts of economic sanctions against Syria under the so-called Caesar Act.
“The United States has used the leverage of sanctions for decades against Russia, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran. The essence of the idea has been to starve people in those countries in a way that they would ultimately turn against their own ruling systems. The scheme is now being applied to all countries,” Zasypkin highlighted.
He added, “Caesar Act is broad and comprehensive, and affects other parties since Syria has been under sanctions for a long time. Foreign companies are now targeted by the ruling. It is a preemptive battle against the possibility of restoration of ties between Syria and Western or Arab parties.”
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By Alan Hart | June 4, 2012
In retrospect it can be seen that the 1967 war, the Six Days War, was the turning point in the relationship between the Zionist state of Israel and the Jews of the world (the majority of Jews who prefer to live not in Israel but as citizens of many other nations). Until the 1967 war, and with the exception of a minority of who were politically active, most non-Israeli Jews did not have – how can I put it? – a great empathy with Zionism’s child. Israel was there and, in the sub-consciousness, a refuge of last resort; but the Jewish nationalism it represented had not generated the overtly enthusiastic support of the Jews of the world. The Jews of Israel were in their chosen place and the Jews of the world were in their chosen places. There was not, so to speak, a great feeling of togetherness. At a point David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister, was so disillusioned by the indifference of world Jewry that he went public with his criticism – not enough Jews were coming to live in Israel.
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Flailing ineffectually about at the behest of their Zionist masters. Of course the Zios would like to see Hezbollah disarmed, as that would remove the sole obstacle to their long-cherished plan of annexing southern Lebanon, exterminating or expelling all the people who live there, and sluicing off every drop of the water of the Litani River for the benefit of Jews only. No good, I’m afraid, chaps.
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“Americans are creating problems and violating international law. The goal is to create tensions and reestablish their presence, role and influence,” the Russian diplomat said”.
It’s time that the USA told Israel to fight their own battles, but, of course, Israel has such a strangle hold over the USA Government that the Military Industrial Complex “Rules the day” in Washington.
So, don’t worry, more young American troops(cannon Fodder) will be sent in to fight Israel’s wars, while Israel sits on its FAT ASS, and enjoys the slaughter……..
To HELL with israel.
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Was the Beirut explosion a result of Lebanon dumping the US dollar for cryptocurrency?
https://www.newsbtc.com/2020/04/24/bitcoin-trades-at-15k-in-lebanon-amidst-economic-turmoil-showing-its-real-potential/
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Countries like Russia, China, Venezuela, Lebanon, etc etc are fed up with being bullied by the USA, and, sometime down the track, they will be looking to disconnect from the US Dollar. I presume that the USA has an answer, when it happens….well, they’d better have anyway…..
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In 1997, the Central Bank of Lebanon pegged the Lebanese Lira to the U.S. dollar at 1,507 to 1. Now, with Scamdemic, sanctions & IMF destabilization, the Lira trades 9,600 to 1. Was the Beirut explosion US-Israel retaliation using photovoltaic golden nanoparticle technology to blast Lebanon into submission after self-preservation forced them to dump the US dollar for cryptocurrency? Is that why altcoins took a dip today?
https://www.newsbtc.com/2020/04/24/bitcoin-trades-at-15k-in-lebanon-amidst-economic-turmoil-showing-its-real-potential/
Integration of Gold Nanoparticles to Modulate the Ignitability of Nanothermite Films
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsanm.9b02619
Is that what caused all 3 of the World Trade Center towers to collapse on 9/11? If so, it confirms both US & Israel pre-planted explosives in the towers & explains why Building 7 collapsed and why Flight 93 was shot down after it missed its target.
Is it just a coincidence that Scamdemic has caused David Bruck, the new defense attorney for five men charged in the 9/11 attacks, to requests a 30-month delay to prepare his case for a trial that was scheduled for January 2021?
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/september-11-guantanamo-trial-attorney-requests-30-month-delay
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“Is that what caused all 3 of the World Trade Center towers to collapse on 9/11?”
Whatever brought down the 7 Towers on “9’11” certainly wasn’t what that load of absolute rubbish, The NIST REPORT, said happened.
Larry Silverstein knows what happened because he admitted that HE decided to “Pull Building 7”. And it hasn’t occurred to anyone in the American hierarchy to put Silverstein into a Court of Law, and put a blowtorch on his ass, for an explanation.
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And we all thought 9/11 was the biggest gold heist in history. Looks like Panama Papers Dan Gertler’s gold and “conflict” diamond smuggling under the cover of Magen David Adom Ebola pandemic aid and the recent Kingold Jewelry switcheroo take the cake!
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-suitcases-of-cash-deposited-in-congo-then-millions-transferred-to-israeli-figures
Is the Kingold Jewelry gold to copper loan switcheroo another CIA/Mossad mafia false-flag against China like Scamdemic is?
https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3093391/nasdaq-listed-kingold-jewelry-says-its-under-investigations
“Gertler’s DGI Group is using the same laundering process they perfected in Angola to move conflict diamonds from Congo to Israel to then be sold on using Israel’s position at the head of the international diamond trade as cover… it is worth noting that other gold companies operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo have gotten into trouble for illegally purchasing gold from rebel factions, which then use the profit to fund their insurrections.”
https://bit.ly/3fuSgRh
In Angola in the spring of 1988, the armed forces of apartheid Israel-backed South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas Savimbi were defeated by the combined force of the Russian-backed Cuban military, the Angolan army, and the military units of the liberation movements of South Africa and Namibia. This led directly to the independence of Namibia and then to the fall of the Apartheid regime in South Africa itself. Cuba’s heroic role is the outstanding example of principled anti-imperialist internationalism.
https://monthlyreview.org/2013/04/01/the-military-defeat-of-the-south-africans-in-angola/
America’s Jim Crow was the blueprint for Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Hindutva India & Kahanist Israel.
http://www.upalumni.org/medschool/appendices/appendix-65a.html
“Three violators of human rights in one embrace: white racism, zionism and hindu racism.
The issues rejected by the three cowards:
* Reparations for slavery and colonialism * Zionism is Racism, Freedom for Palestine * Caste system is Racism, Freedom for India’s Dalits
This alliance of reactionary forces: the US, Israel and India’s Hindu fascist regime are working hand in hand; the affinity of like minded ideologies is not a coincidence. It translates into billion dollar deals on arms, weapons, colonizing projects, and the subjugation of millions of human beings. The bottom line is the cruel marginalization of the most pressing democratic, human rights issues facing the world in these three important regions of the world.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20011122062843/http://www.mediamonitors.net/rajaharishswamy1.html
“The world owes a duty to the untouchables as it does to all oppressed people to break their shackles, and to set them free.”
http://www.dalitchristians.com/Html/dalit_and_caste.htm
http://www.mediamonitors.net/rajaharishswamy1.html
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Additionally, is that what happened to all those missing gold ingots under the World Trade Center, or did it all get laundered to Israel?
https://m.independent.ie/world-news/americas/crushed-towers-give-up-gold-cache-26066418.html
Gangs [aka CIA/Mossad mafia] from Israel and Spain, North African [aka Mizrahim, slavetrading Benghazi rebel] cannabis dealers and [Sephardic] cartels from Mexico and Colombia are among those using China [or Hong Kong, tbh] as a haven where they can safely hide money, clean it, and pump it back into the global financial system.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/how-an-israel-based-con-man-laundered-millions-1.5423570
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The missing Gold Ingots were missing from a Safe that had been OPENED using the combination(s). And there is no record of the person(s) who held the combinations, being even questioned as to “what happened to the GOLD”
The “Official ” 9/11 story, STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN……!!! And, it is not going to be properly investigated either….!!
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Must’ve been Mista’arvim!
Five men detained as suspected conspirators | About eight hours after terrorists struck Manhattan’s tallest skyscrapers, police in Bergen County detained five men who they said were found carrying maps linking them to the blasts.
The five men, who were in a van stopped on Route 3 in East Rutherford around 4:30 p.m., were being questioned by police but had not been charged with any crime late Tuesday. The Bergen County Police bomb squad X-rayed packages found inside the van but did not find any explosives, authorities said.
However, sources close to the investigation said they found other evidence linking the men to the bombing plot.
“There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted,” the source said. “It looked like they’re hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park.”
Sources also said that bomb-sniffing dogs reacted as if they had detected explosives, although officers were unable to find anything. The FBI seized the van for further testing, authorities said.
Sources close to the investigation said the men said they were Israeli tourists, but police had not been able to confirm their identities. Authorities would not release their names.
[According to the police report, one of the passengers told the officers they had been on the West Side Highway in Manhattan “during the incident” — referring to the World Trade Center attack. The driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers, “We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem.” The other passengers were his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari.]
East Rutherford officers stopped the van after the FBI’s Newark Field Office broadcast an alert asking surrounding police departments to look for a white Chevrolet van, police said.
Sources said the FBI alert, known as a BOLO or “Be On Lookout,” was sent out at 3:31 p.m.
It read:
“Vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration with ‘Urban Moving Systems’ sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center.
“Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals.”
Business records show an Urban Moving Systems with offices on West 50th Street in Manhattan and on West 18th Street in Weehawken. Telephone messages left at the businesses Tuesday evening were not immediately returned.
Business records show the owner as Dominik Suter of Fair Lawn. A woman answering the telephone at Suter’s home acknowledged he owned the company but refused to comment further. She also declined to identify herself.
A business traveler staying at the Homestead Studio Suites Hotel said she watched state troopers drive the suspects away in a procession of state police cars about 5 p.m.
The woman, who asked not to be identified, said the people detained appeared to be white men.
https://web.archive.org/web/20011108025936/http://www.bergen.com/news/2bombvan200109125.htm
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You mean the five Dancing Israeli’s?…………..The NIST report never mentioned them. No One was tried in an American court relating to “9/11”, but whisked away to GITMO BAY…….”9/11′ was a massive Fraud, and high ranking American’s up to the President were involved.
The official “STORY” of 9/11 is utter “BOVINE EXCRETA”…….
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Don’t tell me what I mean! I know what I wrote and it was crystal clear what I meant…just like your limited hangout reveals who you are and what you’re about!
ICYMI, directly contradicting NIST’s claim that World Trade Center 7 was the first tall building in the world to collapse primarily due to fire, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Final Report concludes that the “only way it could have fallen in the observed manner is by the near-simultaneous failure of every column” aka controlled demolition!
https://www.ae911truth.org/news/656-wtc-7-not-destroyed-by-fire-concludes-final-university-of-alaska-fairbanks-report
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Cool down mate….I’m not arguing with you, I’m agreeing with you……
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I’m cool as a cucumber; that which you say “I’m agreeing with you” remains to be seen.
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Sorry…I didn’t realise that you were hyper sensitive.
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NOPE. I’m not “hyper sensitive”… I’m just vigilant!
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Beirut
An Acrostic by Steven Magallanes
Barbarous moroccans invade.
Electromechanical timers bobble.
Inward wats explode.
Raging busts bomb.
Unimaginative tommies come.
Thoughtful lebanese boast.
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Did CIA’s/Mossad’s aggressive collection of data effectively snuff out Nissan/Mitsubishi/Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn? Was it worth it to save Big Oil, Tesla & maintain Western hegemony to create casualties of thousands of harmless civilians in Beirut over automation and electric vehicle technology?
Jeff Bezos’ WAPO: Carlos Ghosn might not be as safe in Lebanon as he thought
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/carlos-ghosn-might-not-be-as-safe-in-lebanon-as-he-thought/2020/01/02/f884bece-2d6d-11ea-bffe-020c88b3f120_story.html
Mike Bloomberg’s surveillance: Ghosn Urges Patience to Get Renault-Nissan Deal Right
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-05-23/ghosn-says-electric-car-sales-are-driven-by-regulation-video
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