Trump should have allowed Israel to kill the fucking Ayatollah

Iran issues fatwa against Donald Trump: "Enemy of God"

Why did Trump let this piece of shit murderous cocksucker live? I have no idea. Israel could have taken him out, but Trump said no. Big mistake.

Cornering and Strangulating Iran Has Backfired on Israel — Alastair Crooke

What happens if the two premises on which Israel and America’s grand Iran strategy is founded are proven false? ‘What if’ maximum pressure fails either to implode the Iranian state politically, nor brings Iran to its knees, begging for a new ‘hairshirt’ nuclear deal? Well …? Well, it seems that Netanyahu and Mossad were so cocksure of their initial premise, that they neglected to think beyond first move on the chess board. It was to be checkmate in one. And this neglect is the cause of the strategic bind in which Israel now finds itself….

Strategic Culture Foundation
Cornering and Strangulating Iran Has Backfired on Israel
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy

John Helmer — PUTIN ENDORSES NETANYAHU FOR RE-ELECTION – SHOIGU AND LAVROV REACT

Putin apparently conflicts with the Stavka (Russian General Staff) and Foreign Ministry.

(Xi is facing similar pressure from the PLA (People's Liberation Army) over what it perceives as Western aggression in the South China Sea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.)

Dances with Bears
PUTIN ENDORSES NETANYAHU FOR RE-ELECTION – SHOIGU AND LAVROV REACT
John Helmer

To Think Outside the Box, It Helps First to Understand What’s IN the Box — Alastair Crooke

President Trump doesn't seem to have any idea of what is in the box. He may find out soon.

Strategic Culture Foundation
To Think Outside the Box, It Helps First to Understand What’s IN the Box
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy

Col. Patrick Lang — Trump and the Spookery

Col. Lang backs the intel chiefs rather than the neocons handling Trump.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Trump and the Spookery
Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)

At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates. From 1992 to 1994, all the U.S. military attachés worldwide reported to him. During that period, he also briefed President George H. W. Bush at the White House, as he had during Operation Desert Storm.

He was also the head of intelligence analysis for the Middle East for seven or eight years at that institution. He was the head of all the Middle East and South Asia analysis in DIA for counter-terrorism for seven years. For his service in the DIA, Lang received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. — Wikipedia

See also

Sputnik International
Intelligence Community 'Wrong' About Iran, 'Should Go Back to School' - Trump

Col. Patrick Lang — How clever!

All's fair in love and war — including human shields?

The Israeli leadership is generating a perception problem that is eroding what's left of their good will and soft power. First a Russian aircraft and now civilian airliners.

Double whammy of moral failure and strategic blunder.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
How clever!
Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)

At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates. From 1992 to 1994, all the U.S. military attachés worldwide reported to him. During that period, he also briefed President George H. W. Bush at the White House, as he had during Operation Desert Storm.

He was also the head of intelligence analysis for the Middle East for seven or eight years at that institution. He was the head of all the Middle East and South Asia analysis in DIA for counter-terrorism for seven years. For his service in the DIA, Lang received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. — Wikipedia

See also

The goal of today’s leaders in Israel is to carry out a program of vast cruelty and violence while maintaining the public perception that they’re liberal democrats who advance peace and equality. But as the genocide against the Palestinians continues in front of the world, and as Israel slips into dictatorship, maintaining this image is an increasingly difficult task.…

The Ghion Journal
Netanyahu, Likud, And The Farce Of Israeli “Democracy”

Ranier Shea

Bibi feeling his oats?

Geopolitics Alert

Israel Bombs 60 Targets in Gaza in Just 24 Hours
Julia "Samar" Kassem

Fort Russ

Israeli planes attack western Syria

Paul Antonopoulos

NEO

Tel-Aviv Decided to Make Israel an Exclusively Jewish Deal

Martine Berger

Reuters
Israel launches U.S.-backed missile shield on Syria frontier, Russia sends envoys

Jeffrey Heller

WSWS
Israel intervenes to extract US-UK-backed White Helmets from Syria

Bill Van Auken

Sputnik International

Damascus Calls White Helmets' Evacuation From Syria 'Criminal Op' by Israel

Russia Insider
Israel Was the Big Winner from the Trump-Putin Meeting - Israel's Influence Far Surpasses Russia's

Philip Weiss

Publius Tacitus — Why Is Israel Behaving Like Hitler's Germany?

But there is irony in this [false flag] action. Israel used a ploy that Hitler's Nazi Germany wielded. Hitler and the Wehrmacht were keen on coming up with a casus belli for war against Poland. I grant you that the Nazi invasion of Poland is in another league from what Israel did in Syria against Iranians. But we should not ignore the possibility that Israel's unprovoked attacks are likely to spawn future retaliation by the Iranians. When that happens Israeli leaders will be under pressure to punch back. That means we will be traveling the road of tit-for-tat, which usually winds up in Escalation City and full blown war.

Hey, Armageddon is good in the end, right?

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Why Is Israel Behaving Like Hitler's Germany?

Publius Tacitus

TTG — Syrians and Israelis are shooting at each other

As my old friend would say, “The shit’s on, good buddy.”

Meanwhile, Bibi is in Moscow was guest of honor, watching the Victory Day parade.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Syrians and Israelis are shooting at each other

TTG

Craig Murray — Condemned By Their Own Words

The Zionists are getting slammed, in case you missed it. And they are not helping their own case.

Craig Murray Blog
Condemned By Their Own Words
Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee

Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man — The Israeli army’s war on consciousness

“In the past few months we at the IDF Spokesperson’s Office have come to the understanding that we are actually conducting media operations,” IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis told a room full of Israeli journalists earlier this week. “The IDF’s digital platforms are operational tools in the operational arm of the IDF.”
In the chief spokesperson’s words, the military is engaged of “a war over consciousness” — changing what and how people think of Israel, its army — and if you’re an Arab, what you think of your own leaders, government, and society.

“We actually define different goals for each audience, different platforms, and most fundamentally, different messages,” added Manelis, whose background is as an intelligence officer. “We come up with an operational strategy. We conduct media intelligence about who we are trying to reach with what message.”...

LobeLog

The Israeli army’s war on consciousness

Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man

WSJ Report — Israel treating al-Qaida fighters wounded in Syria civil war

Israel has opened its borders with Syria in order to provide medical treatment to Nusra Front and al-Qaida fighters wounded in the ongoing civil war, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The prominent American newspaper reported that Nusra Front, the Sunni Muslim al-Qaida offshoot which is currently fighting the Iranian-backed axis of Bashar Assad and Hezbollah, “hasn’t bothered Israel since seizing the border area last summer” along the Golan Heights.

When you lose the WSJ.…

Defend Democracy Press
Report: Israel treating al-Qaida fighters wounded in Syria civil war

See also from DDP

Backgrounder

Who Is the Real Culprit Behind the Chemical Attacks in Syria? A Brief History

Muhammad Sahimi

Also

Lavrov: Swiss lab says ‘BZ toxin’ used in Salisbury, not produced in Russia, was in US & UK service

Also

Russia modifies its policy towards Israel, provoking havoc for Neocon strategic planning

See also

HAARETZ
Analysis — Putin May Limit Israel's Operations in Syria in Retaliation for U.S.-led Strikes

Zvi Bar'el

HAARETZ — Trump Adviser Bolton Coordinated U.S.-led Strike in Syria With Israel

Bolton spoke with his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben Shabbat, to coordinate the U.S.-led attack on Syria early Saturday morning.

HAARETZ
Trump Adviser Bolton Coordinated U.S.-led Strike in Syria With Israel
Noa Landau

Pat Lang — Population parity in the Holy Land

Jews no longer the majority.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Population parity in the Holy LandCol. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)

At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates. From 1992 to 1994, all the U.S. military attachés worldwide reported to him. During that period, he also briefed President George H. W. Bush at the White House, as he had during Operation Desert Storm.

He was also the head of intelligence analysis for the Middle East for seven or eight years at that institution. He was the head of all the Middle East and South Asia analysis in DIA for counter-terrorism for seven years. For his service in the DIA, Lang received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. — Wikipedia

Philip Giraldi on the Good Friday massacre at Gaza

And Nikki Haley at the U.N. has also used the U.S. veto to block any independent inquiry into the violence, demonstrating once again that the White House team is little more than Israel’s echo chamber. America’s enabling of the brutal reality that is today’s Israel makes it fully complicit in the war crimes carried out against the helpless and hapless Palestinian people....

It's significant that Col. Lang choose to repost this at his place considering that Giraldi has been ostracized for daring to criticize Israel previously.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Giraldi on the Good Friday massacre at GazaCol. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)

At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates. From 1992 to 1994, all the U.S. military attachés worldwide reported to him. During that period, he also briefed President George H. W. Bush at the White House, as he had during Operation Desert Storm.

He was also the head of intelligence analysis for the Middle East for seven or eight years at that institution. He was the head of all the Middle East and South Asia analysis in DIA for counter-terrorism for seven years. For his service in the DIA, Lang received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. — Wikipedia

See also

Common Dreams
Where Every Bullet Landed
Abby Zimet

Darius Shahtahmasebi — The Real Reason Israel and Lebanon Are on the Verge of War

You guessed it. Oil and gas.

AntiMedia | OpEd
The Real Reason Israel and Lebanon Are on the Verge of War

Darius Shahtahmasebi

Pat Lang — Trump kicked the Islamic world in the teeth today, and loved doing it.

Stirring up the hornet's nest.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Trump kicked the Islamic world in the teeth today, and loved doing it.
Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)

At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates. From 1992 to 1994, all the U.S. military attachés worldwide reported to him. During that period, he also briefed President George H. W. Bush at the White House, as he had during Operation Desert Storm.

He was also the head of intelligence analysis for the Middle East for seven or eight years at that institution. He was the head of all the Middle East and South Asia analysis in DIA for counter-terrorism for seven years. For his service in the DIA, Lang received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. — Wikipedia

Israel Rafalovich — Israel: On the Way to a Theocratic State

Liberal democracy, or theocratic apartheid state?

Until today the state of Israel has not decided whether it is a theocracy for Jews or a democratic sovereign state. The ultra-orthodox appear to be on the road to winning this fundamental battle of principles. Ultra-orthodox radicals are increasingly occupying key positions, thereby imposing their stamp on the secular majority. Israeli’s secular democrats are growing increasingly worried that Israel’s future may resemble Saudi Arabia and Iran more than Europe.

Israeli Jews increasingly interpret the identity of the state in religious terms, asserting the priority of Jewish over democratic values. Israel’s shift toward orthodoxy is not merely a religious one. Since the vast majority of Orthodox Jews are also against any agreement with the Palestinians, the chances of reaching a peace deal diminish with each passing day. Nor is time on the side of those who want a democratic Israel.

Israel defines itself as a “Jewish and democratic state.” However, because Israel has never created a system of checks and balances between these two sources of authority, they are closer than ever to a terrible clash.

LobeLog
Israel: On the Way to a Theocratic State
Israel Rafalovich, journalist and analyst based in Brussels, Belgium who covers European and international relations

Philip Weiss — Israeli Jews will never accept Palestinians as equals — Klutznick, chair of Americans for Peace Now

More ethnic tribalism. (Of course, this is one person's opinion, and he is an American, not an Israeli.)

MONDOWEISS — News & Opinion About Palestine, Israel & the United States

Israeli Jews will never accept Palestinians as equals — Klutznick, chair of Americans for Peace Now

Philip Weiss | Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.

Jay Tharappel — Iran: internal grievances, external agendas

US and Israel back another terrorist group (in addition to Al Qaeda and ISIS) when it is useful.

Fort Russ
Iran: internal grievances, external agendas

Jay Tharappel | Guest Contributor

See also

Wikipedia

People's Mujahedin of Iran (Mojahedin-e Khalq, acronyms MEK, MKO)

See also 

The Guardian (23 Sep 2012)
Five lessons from the de-listing of MEK as a terrorist group

Glenn Greenwald

What could go wrong with getting in bed a bit with the devil as long you don't worship him? Using AQ and ISIS has worked out so well.