Two tweets summarizing @veteranstoday articles that blamed Israel for nuking a ME country. On the left a Jan 2019 tweet on Yemen that got 1.6K retweets & 1.1K likes & practically NO #Ziotrolls. On the right a tweet on Beirut from Aug 2020 with TONS of Ziotrolls. Was it the #bird?
For those interested in the actual tweets, here's the Jan 2019 thread on Yemen.
In previous threads I have laid out the long history of Netanyahu's "Hamas is ISIS" & "battle of civilization agst barbarism" rhetoric that dominated Zionist hasbara in aftermath of 10/7. What still needs to be told is the story of those who chose to fight this hasbara.
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Late on 10/7, Israeli PM Netanyahu tweeted (in Hebrew) to the citizens of Israel "Hamas started a cruel and evil war...Hamas wants to murder us all. It is an enemy who murders children and mothers in their homes, in their beds..." 2/
On 10/9 Netanyahu addressed the citizens of Israel in Hebrew & English. In English he said "Hamas is ISIS. And just as the forces of civilization united to defeat ISIS, the forces of civilization must support Israel in defeating Hamas." 3/
Up until 10/7 Netanyahu's rhetoric dating back to the 1980s that "the battle agst terrorism was part of a MUCH LARGER STRUGGLE, one btwn the forces of civilization & the forces of barbarism" had been treated as hyperbole. Is it still hyperbole?
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To understand whether Netanyahu's post-10/7 rhetoric threatens WWIII or just revival of Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, a good start is to compare/contrast how identical rhetorical elements played out in 2014 "Gaza War" & are currently playing out in 2023 "Israel-Hamas War" 2/
A key rhetorical device employed in both Gaza wars was the meme "Hamas is ISIS, ISIS is Hamas", personally introduced & propagandized by Netanyahu in the last week of the six-week long 2014 Gaza War (8 July – 26 August 2014) 3/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza…
No doubt if Netanyahu gave this "battle of civilization against barbarism" speech before joint session of Congress, he would break the record of 29 standing ovations he got in 2011! But what is it w/this WWII rhetoric? What happened to the "War on Terror"?
As Christopher Bollyn outlined in 2018, "the War on Terror is essentially an Israeli war strategy," first promoted on world stage by Netanyahu & Menachem Begin at Jerusalem Conference hosted by Netanyahu Institute in July 1979 web.archive.org/web/2018111208…
Netanyahu continued as the leading proponent of "the global War on Terror" through the 1980s & 1990s with books like "Terrorism" How The West Can Win" (1986) & "Fighting Terrorism" (1995)
Richard Medhurst & Paul Lookman have recently raised doubts 2020 #BeirutBlast was an ACCIDENT, observing how destruction of port of Beirut fit into a pattern along w/other recent events that can ALL be seen as part of a #USrael plan for Netanyahu’s “New Middle East”
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Both @richimedhurst & @PaulLookman suggest war in Ukraine, sanctions on Russia, blowing up Nord Stream pipelines, US occupation of & Israeli bombing of Syria, killing of Iranian nuclear deal all part of plan to give Israel oil & gas monopoly in Europe 2/
@richimedhurst @PaulLookman Both also see geopolitical motives behind the recent Gaza genocide/Nakba 2.0 as Israel needs to "extinguish the Palestinian issue once and for all" in order to provide the regional "stability" necessary for #USRAEL to carry out "New Middle East" agenda 3/ geopolitiekincontext.wordpress.com/2023/10/28/de-…
On 22 Jan 2004, "Joe Vialls" posted an article "Fortress Americas, Part 2" on his website in which he made the startling claim "the Zionists" were responsible for blowing up the US & French Marine barracks in Beirut on 23 Oct 1983. So WHO was this mysterious Joe Vialls?
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Joe Vialls more startlingly claimed "the Zionists" had NUKED the US & French Marines by detonating "two Dimona micro nukes" outside their barracks! But was he REALLY the impoverished, seriously ill Aussie working out of his home he portrayed himself as? 2/ web.archive.org/web/2005011510…
Vialls stated "The Zionists were furious when the multinational peace keeping force invaded their new training ground." So was "Joe Vialls" really the "extreme right wing" "anti-semitic" conspiracy theorist B'nai B'rith tried to paint him as? 3/
What could have caused this "cloud" at "surface zero" above the Nord Stream 1 explosion site in this photo taken at 19:12 (UTC+2) on 26 Sep 2022? Was it a "plume" from a 1-4 kiloton underwater nuke? A "fountain" from escaping methane? Could it have possibly been both?
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In the past year, two "citizen investigators" - Hans-Benjamin Braun @Ben68638515 (l) & Erik Andersson @Erkperk (r) - w/very different ideas on what caused the 2022 Nord Stream explosions, have done more than anyone to analyze the physical effects of these explosions 2/
@Ben68638515 @Erkperk Swiss physicist Hans-Benjamin Braun laid out his basic ideas in a 31 Dec 2022 paper "Nordstream - Anatomy of Dante's Explosion" that he immediately started circulating to other academics, journalists, politicians, governments, etc. 3/ drive.proton.me/urls/HYVJAJ3P5…