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Here is the detail that makes no sense. The report claims Kushner had an account at the Bank of Israel. The Bank of Israel is the central bank, not a commercial bank. Private individuals cannot just open accounts there. If he truly had an account at the central bank, that means the state itself was holding his money.
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Netanyahu Said the Real Threat Was Online. The Streets of Tel Aviv Just Proved Him Wrong.
"EVERYTHING IS DONE WITH BOTS." Netanyahu's explanation for the global backlash against Israel. Asked directly if the documented settler violence is also a lie, his answer: "Yes, yes, everything is done with bots... trying to poison young minds." He calls it the "eighth front" and says he needs to deploy AI to fight it. But a French mayor beaten into the dirt isn't a bot. A Washington Post photographer kicked 50 times isn't an algorithm. Burned Palestinian olive groves aren't an information war. He's trying to automate a defense for the reality on the ground. 馃Л
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NETANYAHU JUST ANNOUNCED HE'S BRINGING THE "REFUGEE CAMP MODEL" TO THE WEST BANK. "We will evacuate the residents." That is a direct quote from the Israeli Prime Minister. His justification? A shooting that left four people dead. His plan? Apply the "successful, aggressive model" from the refugee camps. Evacuate Palestinian neighborhoods, go house-to-house, destroy infrastructure, and impose a closure on entire cities. Thousands of uninvolved civilians are about to be forcibly displaced. He announced the blueprint for collective punishment on live television. 馃Л
"DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. IT'S NOT AN ISSUE." In 1973, Richard Nixon told congressional leaders the quiet part out loud: "No American President will let Israel go down that tube." Fifty years later, the names change, the wars change, and the Oval Office changes hands. But the blank check never bounces. Here is how they pulled it off in 3 steps. They did it all on camera. STEP 1: PROMISE SOMEONE ELSE'S LAND. 1917. Britain never owned Palestine. But Balfour gave it away anyway. At the time, Jews were 3% of the population. 13,942 vs 386,320 Muslims. In their own home, they were referred to as the "non-Jewish communities." STEP 2: SEND THE SALESMAN. 1978. Enter 28-year-old Netanyahu on American TV. Articulate. MIT graduate. Selling the exact same script you hear today: "The core is Arab refusal, not occupation." Then Nixon admits the economic reality in 1992: "Israel is not a strategic interest of the US." It's a moral commitment. Translation: American taxpayers fund it. STEP 3: TAKE 78% BY FORCE. 1947. The UN proposes giving 56% of the land to people who own 7% and are 33% of the population. Palestinians say no. Who would say yes? 1948. Deir Yassin. Tantura. Lydda. Over 500 villages wiped off the map. The official British report on Deir Yassin: "Women and children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and slaughtered." 750,000 expelled. Never allowed back. Their houses taken. The orders are in the documents: "expelled outside the borders of the state." They call it independence. Palestinians call it what it is: AL-NAKBA. The Catastrophe. And they tell you this started on October 7th? This documentary shows every receipt from 1878 to 1949. Watch it before they claim this one is "complicated" too. 馃Л
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DECEMBER 4, 1947: THEY CELEBRATED. THE NAKBA WAS ALREADY STARTING. Jewish residents celebrate the UN partition vote. What the newsreels leave out: The proposed state included 500,000 Palestinians who never consented to it. The vote was just a recommendation. By the time Israel declared independence in May 1948, the catastrophe was already underway. 馃Л
A VOTE GAVE 56% OF THE LAND TO 32% OF THE PEOPLE November 29, 1947, the UN partitioned Palestine, the Arab majority got 43%. The Arabs rejected it. Fighting broke out. In April 1948, the Deir Yassin massacre sent refugees fleeing. On May 14, the Jewish state declared itself. By December, half of Palestine's population was gone. The population was mostly unarmed, facing a well-organized, well-armed force. The narrator's words: "The principal and main impulse of people was to run, to get as far away from the fighting, from the terror, as possible." The same UN that voted to partition resolved that refugees wishing to return home should be permitted to, "at the earliest practicable date." That resolution has been reaffirmed every year since. It has never been implemented. 馃Л
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"THEY KNEW HE WAS THE DIRECTOR OF A HOSPITAL... BUT HE WAS SHOT BY A HIGH VELOCITY BULLET." April 2002. Israeli forces enter Bethlehem. A local resident describes the military occupation of his city. During the assault, Palestinian fighters and civilians took refuge in the Church of the Nativity. The siege lasted 39 days. Eight Palestinians were killed inside the church, including a Christian church worker shot by Israeli soldiers. By the end of the year, 46 Palestinians were killed in the Bethlehem district. A city sacred to Christians around the world, turned into a military zone. 馃Л
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Europe is deliberately destroying its own economy to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. Why? Because they lost their colonies and this is their last desperate grab at carving up the world's largest country. Richard Wolff doesn't hold back.
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"DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. IT'S NOT AN ISSUE." In 1973, Richard Nixon told congressional leaders the quiet part out loud: "No American President will let Israel go down that tube." Fifty years later, the names change, the wars change, and the Oval Office changes hands. But the blank check never bounces. Here is how they pulled it off in 3 steps. They did it all on camera. STEP 1: PROMISE SOMEONE ELSE'S LAND. 1917. Britain never owned Palestine. But Balfour gave it away anyway. At the time, Jews were 3% of the population. 13,942 vs 386,320 Muslims. In their own home, they were referred to as the "non-Jewish communities." STEP 2: SEND THE SALESMAN. 1978. Enter 28-year-old Netanyahu on American TV. Articulate. MIT graduate. Selling the exact same script you hear today: "The core is Arab refusal, not occupation." Then Nixon admits the economic reality in 1992: "Israel is not a strategic interest of the US." It's a moral commitment. Translation: American taxpayers fund it. STEP 3: TAKE 78% BY FORCE. 1947. The UN proposes giving 56% of the land to people who own 7% and are 33% of the population. Palestinians say no. Who would say yes? 1948. Deir Yassin. Tantura. Lydda. Over 500 villages wiped off the map. The official British report on Deir Yassin: "Women and children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and slaughtered." 750,000 expelled. Never allowed back. Their houses taken. The orders are in the documents: "expelled outside the borders of the state." They call it independence. Palestinians call it what it is: AL-NAKBA. The Catastrophe. And they tell you this started on October 7th? This documentary shows every receipt from 1878 to 1949. Watch it before they claim this one is "complicated" too. 馃Л
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"EVERYTHING IS DONE WITH BOTS." Netanyahu's explanation for the global backlash against Israel. Asked directly if the documented settler violence is also a lie, his answer: "Yes, yes, everything is done with bots... trying to poison young minds." He calls it the "eighth front" and says he needs to deploy AI to fight it. But a French mayor beaten into the dirt isn't a bot. A Washington Post photographer kicked 50 times isn't an algorithm. Burned Palestinian olive groves aren't an information war. He's trying to automate a defense for the reality on the ground. 馃Л
"ISRAEL IS IN MORE DANGER OF DISAPPEARING NOW THAN IT EVER WAS." Prof. Richard Wolff on the failure of Israel's strategy. For the first time, Israel has been massively bombed by Iran and Hezbollah. Global public opinion has flipped against it, despite all the AIPAC money. And the UN and international courts are calling its actions war crimes. Wolff's question is simple: "Was it really smart to be out there doing something the world considers war crimes? Has that enhanced your security?" 馃Л
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"ISRAEL IS IN MORE DANGER OF DISAPPEARING NOW THAN IT EVER WAS." Prof. Richard Wolff on the failure of Israel's strategy. For the first time, Israel has been massively bombed by Iran and Hezbollah. Global public opinion has flipped against it, despite all the AIPAC money. And the UN and international courts are calling its actions war crimes. Wolff's question is simple: "Was it really smart to be out there doing something the world considers war crimes? Has that enhanced your security?" 馃Л
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"I DON'T REALLY WANT MY HOUSE BACK. WHAT I WANT IS A SIGN THAT YOU DID WRONG TO ME." Edward Said, dismantling the "tragedy of right versus right" narrative. "I'm convinced that there is justice and there is injustice, and they're really quite different." He strips away the diplomatic excuses and asks the simplest question: "Would you like it done to you?" He points out the absolute essence of the issue, the willful transport of one people's history to another people's land, resulting in dispossession. "It wasn't that we were exploited, it was that we were excluded." They call it a complex, tragic conflict where both sides share the blame. He calls it a profound, irreducible injustice that demands institutional acknowledgment. When you refuse to admit a wrong was done, you aren't looking for peace. You're just managing the crime scene. 馃Л
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"IF ISRAEL HAS THE WRONG LEADER... AMERICA WILL HAVE TO DO THIS WORK OURSELVES." A US president just published an open letter to the Israeli public, explicitly telling them who to vote for. Trump's message is blunt: anyone other than Netanyahu is the "wrong Leader." And if Israelis make the wrong choice, America might stop doing the "work" for them. What work? The bombs, the vetoes, the military cover. They spend years talking about Israel鈥檚 sovereignty and democracy. But the moment an election comes up, the patron reminds the client exactly who pays the bills. The letter is an endorsement for Bibi. The threat is for the voters. 馃Л
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