| EU drafting deal to obtain natural gas from Israel and Egypt instead of Russianoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 10 Jun 04:45 AM From EUObserver: The E | | From EUObserver: The European Union is negotiating a gas supply agreement with Egypt and Israel, according to internal documents dated 7 June and seen by EUobserver. A draft memorandum of understanding with the two countries, still subject to changes, is part of its efforts to reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuels in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "Security of gas supply is a common major concern. Egypt and the EU will work together on the stable delivery of gas to the EU," reads another internal document mentioning the trilateral collaboration deal. The proposed agreement highlights that natural gas will be shipped to the EU from Egypt, Israel or any other source in the East Mediterranean region, including EU member states in the region. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is due to travel to Cairo next week, but it is currently unclear whether the memorandum will be signed during her visit. Egypt has increasingly become a regional gas hub, with its two liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But Israel has also become a key regional gas supplier in recent years. Under the draft deal, imports from Israel would involve gas being processed at Egypt's liquefaction plants before being shipped to Europe as LNG. Mediterranean natural gas has been a game changer for Israel - not as earthshaking as the Abraham Accords, but it is redrawing the...Read More |
From Ian: Mark Regev: Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinians, Al Jazeera and press freedom - opinion The accusation of a willful murder is made when among the nations of the Middle East it is in Israel alone that a free and critical press thrives. Israel's famously boisterous and pugnacious media is always ready to expose a misbehaving politician, government wrongdoing and the IDF's mistakes. This while the practice in the PA and Al Jazeera falls into a very different category. Press freedom in the PA, Qatar
Although a PA basic law theoretically guarantees a free press, in reality such freedom is nonexistent: the media is severely constrained, critical platforms are shut down and journalists arrested when the authorities object to their work. Reporters have been beaten while in custody, blogger Nizar Banat ended up dead. When Abbas was angered by an Al Jazeera story, he ordered the closure of the network's Ramallah offices. The Palestinian president might have championed the deceased Abu Akleh as a martyr, but live Palestinian journalists know what may happen if they incur the wrath of the PA. For its part, Al Jazeera likes to present its reporting as hard-hitting independent journalism, but the Qatari government-funded channel's hundreds of employees never report about matters that could embarrass their patron. Consequently, Qatar's ongoing systematic mistreatment of the country's migrant worker population of more than...Read More |
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas gave a speech via telephone to the "Property Documents and the Historical Status of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque" conference at Al-Bireh.
He started off by directly attacking the fundamentals of Judaism, denying Jewish history and Judaism's connection to Jerusalem, accusing Jews of having a "false narrative" that has "no basis, neither in history, nor in reality, nor in international law."
"All the historical evidence and documents confirm the identity of Al-Quds and Al-Aqsa Mosque and all the Islamic and Christian holy sites in our holy capital," he said, after denying any Jewish connection to the city.
But don't worry - he assured everyone that he isn't antisemitic. He went on to say, "Our struggle with the occupation is essentially a political struggle and not a struggle against a particular religion." Good to know that he is really a tolerant person. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
In 1960, Life magazine published small excerpts of transcripts of tapes from a fellow Nazi interviewing Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in the 1950s.
This excerpt explains the similarities between Nazis in the 1930s and the fanatic Israel haters today. We did not devise the yellow star to put pressure on the Jews themselves. On the contrary, its purpose was to control the natural tendency of our German people to come to the aid of someone in trouble. The marking was intended to hinder any such assistance to Jews who were being harassed. We wanted Germans to feel embarrassed, to feel afraid of having any contact with Jews. So our administration was quite happy to distribute these bolts of yellow cloth and to regulate the time limit by which the stars would have to be worn.
The yellow star was not to punish the Jews, but to make it difficult for non-Jews to express sympathy with them. Today, the people who advocate boycotts of Israel aren't primarily trying to hurt Israel. They are trying to make it difficult for other people to be pro-Israel. Those who accuse Israel of "apartheid" or "ethnic cleansing" or "genocide" aren't trying to get Israel to treat Palestinians better. They are trying to make tar anyone who supports Israel's right to exist as supporting...Read More |
From Ian: Feeding Palestinian delusions If the administration were consistent about its claim to be concerned with human rights, it would refuse to provide a nickel to the Palestinians until they ended their abuses, which include paying salaries to terrorists who have murdered Americans, continuing to incite violence, denying their people civil and political rights, and being so corrupt and inept that the overwhelming majority want Abbas to resign. Then again, Biden is also going to grovel when he arrives in Saudi Arabia as part of a scheduled trip next month. After making a point of criticizing the Saudis' human-rights violations and shunning Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the president now believes, like his predecessors, that it is more important to be solicitous of the Saudis. He needs Saudi goodwill to increase the flow of oil to lower gas prices and perhaps save his presidency. The difference is the United States does not need anything from the Palestinians and has no reason to care about their feelings. Sadly, the Europeans, the United Nations, and the Palestinians' cheerleaders in America and elsewhere continue to feed Palestinian fantasies that they can achieve their goals through petulance and claims of victimhood. Instead of returning to the old, failed policy of making unilateral concessions, the administration should be putting the screws...Read More |
In 2015, Amnesty International created a website called the Gaza Platform, created with Forensics Architecture, that claimed to identify every casualty in the 2014 Gaza war and the circumstances around the incident. As I showed at the time, the database was filled with inaccuracies, and many of the people that they claimed were civilian were in fact terrorists. Amnesty was aware of my research showing terrorists in their uniforms with guns that they called "civilian" and chose to keep the lies in the database - which is still available, today.
Airwars is another NGO that purports to document the innocent victims of war, and they do just what Amnesty did - they are calling legitimate military targets "civilians."
This is a Twitter thread by open source researcher DigFind on this: Our investigation finds that award winning non-profit company @airwars is whitewashing terrorism with the help of high profile donors. Airwars' interactive map project detailing the "civilian casualties" in Gaza was nominated for @amnesty media awards 2022. Airwars is based at Goldsmiths, University of London @GoldsmithsUoL. Chris Woods...Read More |
I have previously mentioned that I think I identified the most likely location of the gunman who killed Shireen Abu Akleh. Based on the audio forensics of the gunshots/bullet shockwave, this building is the exact distance away that the gun that killed her was - between 178-187 meters away from the microphone that recorded the shots depending on where one would be standing on the roof of this house.
Here is the path a bullet would take from that house to Abu Akleh. I have found a fantastic high resolution aerial video of Jenin, uploaded to YouTube last month, which shows even more clearly how perfect that location would be both for Jenin snipers to be positioned and their line of sight to Shireen. Not only is there perfect line of sight to where Abu Akleh was standing, but from the vantage point of the snipers there would be an unimpeded view down the street to where the IDF convoy was likely (and, indeed, did) pass by. The entire area at full resolution can be seen if you click on this thumbnail. As previously reported, multiple witnesses said that they saw snipers on buildings at the time of Abu Akleh's death. We do not have any direct video of those gunmen at that time, but it is obvious that the terrorists would use rooftops as the most strategic firing locations in Jenin. Proof can be seen from this video of multiple...Read More |
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