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🔴 Amos Hochstein, U.S. President Joe Biden's energy security advisor, is currently visiting Israel to discuss economic revitalization plans for Gaza centred around undeveloped offshore natural gas fields.

Now the sharks are coming…🧵
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Amos J. Hochstein is an American-Israeli businessman, diplomat, and lobbyist. Currently the Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser for Energy and Investment under U.S. President Joe Biden Image
If you ask the IDF, you’ll find he was a tank crewman in the Israeli army but his dual US - Israel citizenship changed all that. Hochstein became the broker for the maritime dispute between Israel and Lebanon involving natural gas exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean. Image
In March 2017, he joined Tellurian, a private Houston-based LNG company, where he served as SVP Marketing until his departure in Sept 2020. He served on the boards of the Atlantic Council and U.S-India Business Council and was a former MOSB of Ukrainian Naftogaz until Oct 2020
Aug 2021, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken appointed Hochstein as the Senior Advisor for Energy Security, and Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security. He currently also leads Biden's Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment
Fair to say that Biden is listening to Hochstein like his investment depended on it; what are the odds Hochstein who was in Ukraine in the oil & gas sector, where Biden left few squeletons, is now projected as a deal broker to revitalize the Gaza Gas Marine project. Image
A 2019 paper by the UN Conference on Trade and Development suggested that there are substantial oil and gas reserves in Palestinian land and waters and that some of the gas discovered in the eastern Mediterranean could belong to the Palestinians.
However, the paper said, "Israel has begun to exploit [the resources] for its own benefit, while these resources may be considered shared resources, whereby the oil and natural gas exist in common pools."
What we know so far from his visit to Israel is that companies have already expressed interest in the development of the project Gaza Marine project.

There have been suggestions that this gas is the reason for the war between Israel and Hamas...
...with the Israeli government eyeing control of the Gaza Marine field.

Still, the U.S. has now signalled the gas belongs to the Palestinian people and is theirs to exploit. For that to happen, however, peace must be restored.
We of course will be following the development of what seems to be a juicy business which we hope will benefit the Palestinian people and not a few well-known corrupt senior officials of the Palestinian authority.

To be continued...
Amos Hochstein with President Biden, the photo was taken shortly before Joe Biden arrived in 🇺🇦 in 1 meeting with the president and threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid 🇺🇸, if they did not fire their top prosecutor Viktor Shokin.

He allegedly interacted with Hunter Image
A December 2020 Senate Republican report on Hunter's business activities indicates that in October 2015, Hochstein expressed concern that Hunter's role on the Burisma board could compromise U.S. policy in Ukraine.
finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
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When he testified before Congress, he refused, on the advice of his lawyer, to testify about the content of his conversations with Vice President Biden which suggests these two are up to no good and should be watched very closely
In Summer of 2014, shortly after joining the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, Hunter and his associates at Burisma from Rosemont Seneca Partners discussed speaking with Hochstein...
foxnews.com/politics/top-h…
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Amos Hochstein was the middle man between Blue Star Strategy and Joe Biden when he was Vice president. Amos Hochstein was the person that Blue Star Strategies was working closely with to get information to Joe Biden, because they could not go see Joe Biden directly,
Hochstein was an intermediary responsible for delivering all the official information to Joe Biden himself on Hunter Biden and Burisma and advising on what had to be done and how to save that company from being prosecuted, from being closed down thegrayzone.com/2023/07/13/bid…
There is very little doubt that Hochstein has a man or company on the ground in Israel to facilitate any gas dealing including Gaza Marine and hopefully soon we will be able to reveal more on this topic...
Hochstein met with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, Chief of General Staff of the Israeli Army Herzi Halevi, and Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi as US wants to prevent a war between Israel and Lebanon
Hochstein said

“There is an opportunity here to develop the gas fields in offshore Gaza, on behalf of the Palestinians," adding he had worked on the issue with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah for the past year and a half and said, "it is entirely possible”
- The National- Image
We believe that Amos Hochstein met with the Palestinian leader in the West Bank Mahmud Abbas in January 2023 alongside CIA chief William Burns, during a meeting in Ramallah on Sunday 29th January
Blinken envoy was Amos Hochstein
france24.com/en/middle-east…
Now of course this is highly complex especially since Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out return of Palestinian Authority in Gaza

Israeli prime minister opposed the US position on who will govern the enclave when fighting ends
ft.com/content/c8d52c…
So no Hamas, no Palestinian Authorities to rule Gaza... So who do you think is going to get their hand on the Palestinian gas?

Israel? US? or both?
Perhaps the answer to this question lies in the 42 USC §17337. United States-Israel energy cooperation which according to the US Congress is in the highest national security interest of the United States to develop covered energy sources
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req…
US is of course promising to assist Israel with “regional safety and security issues”.

More on this topic in this Great article from RACHEL DONALD - Everybody Wants Gaza's Gas
The $500 billion windfall shoring up EU supplies
planetcritical.com/p/everybody-wa…

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Dec 15
Will🇶🇦 Qatar and 🇹🇷 Turkey's long-planned pipeline through Syria's project be revived?

The West has worked for 20 years (not 10) to remove Bashar al-Assad, but have they given us the true reason why they wanted to remove him in the first place?

In 2009 Bashar al-Assad rejected the Qatar-Turkey pipeline project through Syria, and it has remained off the agenda ever since. However, the collapse of Syria’s 61-year Baath regime is fueling speculation as far as the energy project revival is concerned.

What has often been left aside in many assessments made on Syria's destabilisation is China’s Nwe Silk Road and how it was bound to meet Syria’s Four Seas Strategy. 🧵Image
Brief History
In 2009 Qatar and Turkey explored the possibility of Qatar supplying gas to the strategic Nabucco pipeline project, which would transport Central Asian and Middle Eastern gas to Europe, bypassing Russia.

At the time, Erdogan and the prime ministers of four European countries signed a transit agreement for Nabucco, clearing the way for a final investment decision in 2010 on the EU-backed project to reduce European dependence on Russian gas. The project was originally conceived as a conduit for Central Asian gas.

Two routes were entertained

1) The first one would lead from Qatar through Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq to Turkey.

2) The second one would go through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey.

It was alleged that Assad's opposed the project purportedly in favor of Russian interests,Image
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In a meeting which took place on Monday 9th December 2024 in Ankara, the Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alpraslan Bayraktar stated:

"the realization of the pipeline could be possible 'if Syria achieves its (territorial) integrity and stability."

“If this happens, the route must be secure. Hopefully, it will be, as that is our wish.”

IN 2011, at the centre of Assad's Four Seas strategy was Syria's economic relationship with Turkey and connecting the nation's oil and gas infrastructure to the region's expanding energy pipeline networks - Turkey had taken on a critical dimension with Ankara and Damascus planning to integrate their gas grids and link them with the Arab Gas Pipeline that starts in Egypt and serves Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey.

But this was without counting on a new development which in my opinion changed everything, when in 2009 large natural gas resources were discovered off the shores of Israel, after many decades of previously unsuccessful exploration. Israel discovered more significant gas basins since.

By 2023, Cyprus and Israel were working on a deal to create a natural gas pipeline between the two countries, whereas Israeli natural gas would be liquified and exported to Europe. The race to supply Europe with Mediterranean Gas was in full steam.Image
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Nov 20
🇩🇪 Germany, the Covid-19 political scam has now been exposed, with strong and irrefutable supporting evidence.

The evidence came from a whistleblower who leaked 10 GB of the Robert Koch Institute (German CDC) files, including reports and documents which reveal how the German Government sought to hide the truth about the so-called pandemic from the public - It also reveals how key ministers became the mouthpiece of the Pharmaceutical for reasons that are currently under review.

The files reveal how the government forced the RKI to spread false information and recommendations contrary to science on the grounds of an emergency that can only be described as manufactured.

Unredcated RKI files in English can be downloaded here: rki-transparenzbericht.de
You can also search the unredacted RKI files using keywords here:
rkileak.com

What I found very interesting is the hand of a NATO Major General, Dr.Hans-Ulrich Holtherm, Commandant of the Bundeswehr Medical Academy in Munich who was the former head of the CORONA Crisis Management Team at the Federal Ministry of Health.

NATO General Holtherm's name was mentioned during an "RKI File "presentation recently delivered by Professor Stefan Homburg in a room of the Bundestag. He seems to have endeavoured to keep the level of transmission risk associated with the COVID-19 pandemic high for reasons he might soon have to explain publically or in court.

The RKI file confirms what I had suspected when writing about NATO and a transnational Biodense Mafia whose fingerprints are all over the COVID-19 scam. 21stcenturywire.com/2023/03/08/nat…

Who is NATO Major General Dr. Hans-Ulrich Holtherm, and how after being appointed as the Commander of The Ulm Bundeswehr (German armed forces) Hospital, the largest military treatment facility in southern Germany, on January 15th 2020, he only stayed there for one week before being solicited by Jens Spahn, the German Federal Minister of Health who appointed him out of the blue (or not) as the head of a newly established Department 6 (Health Protection, Health Security and Sustainability) in the German Ministry of Health (BMG).

This NATO military officer seems to have had a lot of sway over the RKI and we needImage
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2010 -2012 , NATO Major General Dr. Hans-Ulrich Holtherm was the Branch Chief “NATO Deployment Health Surveillance Capability Branch” (DHSC) in Münich, a NATO Center of Excellence for Military Medicine” (MilMedCOE)

NATO Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine (MilMed COE) and the Multinational Medical Coordination Centre/European Medical Command (MMCC/EMC) are known to have taken part in military medical training, simulation and the lessons learned were processed for interoperability development purposes and to support their political agenda.

In early March 2020, not long before the flaring Corona crisis, the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance and the MMCC/EMC hosted a workshop with day one focusing exclusively on the upcoming pandemic. This workshop laid a foundation for reinforcing multinational civil-military cooperation, calling for better preparedness and surge requirements for an outbreak scenario and major incidents within a MASCAL scenario (mass casualty exercise).

For further work purposes,  it was suggested to conduct a wargame with a pandemic focus. This has been the starting point for the wargame Resilient Response 2020 known as RERE20. More on RER20 here.

Back in the autumn of 2018, the Surgeon Generals of the Medical Services of NATO Brigadier General Bubenik and the EU called for an additional coordinating medical organisation as an urgent necessity. On 4 September 2019, the 14 member states during a solemn ceremony signed the initial operational capability (IOC) of MMCC/ EMC (Multinational Medical Coordination Centre/ European Medical Command) whose website is currently down 🤔
bundeswehr.de/en/organizatio…
Thanks to the Wayback machine we can still see it here:
web.archive.org/web/2021041214…

The timing is of course very interesting, especially for an organisation such as MMCC/EMC a Germany-led Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) project launched in March 2018 and whose key ambition was to promote closer EU-NATO medical cooperation to speed up the readiness for a potential trans-border biological threat like a DiseaseX pandemic. The German Armed forces were undeniably preparing themselves or being prepared by NATO for a pandemic.

At the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz (German state of Rhineland-Palatinat), the inspectors of eight medical services from European NATO countries signed a basic document for increased and sustainable cooperation. By signing their Declaration of Intent (DoI), the high-ranking officers laid the foundation for a joint coordination element of European medical services, the future Multinational Medical Coordination Center – MMCC.

Signatory countries were Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, the Czech Republic and Hungary as shown in this picture taken during the meeting where they all signed a Declaration of Intent. bundeswehr-journal.de/2017/europaeis…

RRE20: bundeswehr.de/en/organizatio…

military-medicine.com/article/4174-r…

PESCO: eda.europa.eu/webzine/issue1…
When digging further we can see that it was in December 2017 that NATO - PESCO - European Defense Agency (EDA) and the MILMED COE entered into a partnership.

This February 2016 letter confirms the official partnership between the NATO Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine (NATO MILMED COE) and the European Defense Agency (EDA) / PESCO
eda.europa.eu/docs/default-s…

NATO MILMED COE: coemed.orgImage
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Nov 11
🇫🇷🇮🇱 How French Zionist’s associations defraud the French tax payers to send military equipment to the Israeli Army.

An investigation from French investigative journalists at “Le Media”, reveals the mechanisms of the tax exemption system of donations in France to finance the Israeli army illegal war in South Lebanon.

This scheme was designed to encourage donations to public utility associations, allows taxable persons to deduct 66% of the amount of their donation from their taxes.

For instance for a 100 euros donation the French government reimburses 66 euros. Diverted public money made it possible for these unscrupulous French Zionist association such as “Tipat Mazal”, to finance the IDF.

according to “Le Media”, Tipat Mazal" encouraged companies to finance Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza or Lebanon whilst highlighting a collection for a company located in a settlement in the West Bank.

The association and others were collecting donation to buy helmet, protective gears and thermal drones which can locate people heat signatures…These thermal drones’ value ranges between 7,000 and 11,000 euros per unit. All, bought thanks to tax-free donations in France wrote “Le Media”.

The French law is very clear on this matter….none of these activities are legal and it is expected of our Minister of Interior to investigate these nefarious practices and punish those who illegally sponsors the genocidal army of Israel and their illegal war in Lebanon.

Source 1: lemediatv.fr/podcasts/2024/…

Source 2: revolutionpermanente.fr/Une-associatio…
“Legalized trafficking of military gear to illegal settlements and occupation forces”

Allegedly one of the key player, the controversial French lawyer Sarah Saldman, explains how to financially support the Israeli genocidal army ( IDF -Tsahal) by claiming tax deductions in France.

The scheme allows any zionist in france who supports the massacre of civilians, to be reimbursed by French tax payers. Disgusting, these guys need to go to jail.
If I am not mistaken this is the CERFA document donors were provided with to get reimbursed for their donation to Zionist associations in France who are backing the Gaza genocide and the invasion of Lebanon.

CERFA: the acronym for "registration and review center for administrative forms". Today, this term refers, by extension, to the administrative forms developed and registered by this center

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Aug 14
🇩🇪 Nordtream Sabotage - Germany wants to blame the Ukrainian Andromeda Commando and has issued an arrest warrant for Ukrainian diver Wladimir S over Nord Stream explosions, says the German press.

The warrant was served in a quiet residential area in Pruszków, a suburb southwest of Warsaw in Poland.

According to research conducted by ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung and ARD, S. Wladimir S is considered the main suspect in the investigation conducted by the German Federal Prosecutor General on suspicion of unconstitutional sabotage.

Wladimir S has denied involvement and is believed to have already left Poland however, the German Federal Prosecutor is planning to serve the World with a decoy story called Andromeda and of course, a good conspiracy needs a "Patsy".

According to the three media outlets, German investigators were also able to identify another man and a woman, also Ukrainians, who were involved in the attacks but warrants were served to them.


This is a cover-up, the Andromeda story doesn't hold water, not even close.zeit.de/politik/deutsc…Image
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The real name of the 44-year-old Ukrainian diver called by the investigation Wladimir S is apparently Volodymyr Zhuralov
correction: the two other Ukrainian nationals identified by German investigators (a man and a woman) were not served with an arrest warrant.

These two persons would appear to be from a Scuba Family diving school from Kiev in Ukraine - the owners of the diving school, Ewgen U. and his wife Switlana.
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Mar 1
ANAT SCHWARTZ - THE FRENCH CONNECTION
the Israeli filmmaker who wrote a very controversial post in the New York Times titled ”Screams Without Words’’ on how Palestinian resistance group Hamas allegedly weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7.”

She's worked with the best filmmakers with no experience and for the NYT with no experience either,

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Anat is believed to have served in the Israeli Air Force Intelligence the Lahak Modi'in also known as “Lamdan” or the the Modi’in Squadron, which is where many people believe her bias comes from.

She was assigned by the New York Times to work with her partner’s nephew Adam Sella and veteran Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman, on an investigation into alleged sexual violence by Hamas on October 7.

Lamdan (LMDAN) is responsible for the formulation of the aerial intelligence picture and participates in forging the overall intelligence view as part of the Israeli Intelligence Community.

It operates several research and collection units, including the Technical Assistance Unit (formerly the Air Photography Unit) which analyzes aerial photography, and the Zoom Unit which studies the procurement of new aircraft.

Lamdan also operates alongside Aman's Visual Intelligence Branch and the Naval Intelligence Division's Visual Intelligence Unit.

In the case of Anat Schwartz, she would have been attached to the Aman’s Visual Intelligence Unit which according to Wikipedia is attached to the Israeli Intelligence Corps (Heil HaModi'in). The Intelligence Corps includes Unit 8200, which is the IDF central collection unit, including the Hatzav Unit, responsible for collecting OSINT intelligence.

Subordinate to Unit 8200 is Unit Hatzav responsible for collecting OSINT intelligence. The unit monitors and collects military intelligence–related information from television, radio, newspapers, and the internet. The translation of various items accounts for part of what is termed "basic intelligence", which is collected by the units. These are the people you will find embedded in Newspapers or TV networks in Israel and abroad.
The French Connection
Anat happened to have a strong connection with France. This young Israeli director with impeccable French is a graduate of the prestigious Femis (Ecole nationale supérieure des professions de l'image et du son, in Paris ), which decided for his first attempt, to make a documentary on French aliyah and more precisely on its disillusionments.

Upon finishing cinema studies in Jerusalem at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, she joined FEMIS in Paris. In this context, she had to make a short film that turned out to be a series (3 episodes). 

She is originally from Haifa but spent a considerable amount of time in Tel Aviv where many French people have arrived in recent years,  even though their image among Israelis is not always very good.

Anat gave an interview in France regarding her movie “The Promised One” or “ La Promise” in French, during which she explains how the French who arrive in Israel pose a great challenge to them, the Israelis”.

According to her “The French Jews reflect back to the Israelis the image of what they are”. This is also why they sometimes arouse hostility.

In Paris they were "the Jews" and in Israel, they are "the French".femis.frImage
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Feb 23
🇫🇷🇮🇱 FRANCE - ISRAEL
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated yesterday afternoon that France does not plan to stop its arms sales to Israel. 🧵

➡️ During his weekly press briefing, Christophe Lemoine, deputy spokesperson for French Diplomacy, was again questioned yesterday, on the issue of arms sales to Israel.

➡️ According to the 2023 report submitted by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces in July 2022 to Parliament, France exported nearly €200 million in arms to Israel between 2013 and 2022, making Paris one of the largest exporters of weapons in Tel Aviv.

➡️ According to the report from the Ministry of the Armed Forces, weapons exported by France to Israel include "bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, [...] high-tech missile and bomb guidance systems, as well as machine guns

➡️ On the subject of Israel, Lemoine specified that France remains a “marginal” partner, with exports to this country representing “only 0.1% of total French exports of war material” for the year 2022.

➡️ Responding to a question about the possible use of these weapons in the Gaza conflict, he reported a “precise and careful interministerial examination” governing French exports.

➡️ Lemoine insisted on the existence of a particularly “strict” arms sales control system in France. This process involves a review taking into account “respect for human rights and international humanitarian law” by the recipient country. This assessment also focuses on the potential consequences “in terms of peace, security and regional stability”.

“Arms exports are not done in a rapid and inconsiderate manner.”

➡️ His response comes in a context where parliamentarians and Amnesty International recently called upon President Macron to stop military cooperation with Israel.Image
🇫🇷 France under pressure to suspend military sales to Israel as war in Gaza grinds on
NGOs and leftist members of the opposition have increased the pressure on France's government to reconsider arms sales to Israel in the wake of the war in Gaza and follow in the footsteps of other European nations that made moves to suspend military exports over concerns about the humanitarian situation on the ground.Image
The Shuheibar case
In July 2014, 8-year-old Afnan Shuheibar, her 16-year-old brother Oday, and her three cousins Basel, Jihad and Wassim – ages 8 to 11 – went up to the roof of the Shuheibar home in Gaza City to feed the pigeons when they were struck by a missile.

It was fired by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), but what helped guide it to the Shuheibars’ home was a small black position sensor around 2 centimetres long lodged deep inside the missile. On it were three words, with some letters partially erased: “EUROFARAD PARIS FRANCE”.

Wassim and Jihad were killed instantly, and Afnan died in her father’s arms on the way to the hospital.

In 2016, the Shuheibar family filed a legal suit against Eurofarad. The company has since been bought by Exxelia Technologies, which is now facing charges of complicity in war crimes in France. (Exxelia itself was recently bought by the US group HEICO but is still headquartered in Paris.)
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