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Benjamin Rubinstein

@BenFRubinstein

Jan 22

The coordinated accusations against Dan Cohen, Kim Ives and the ACP make absolutely no sense and are highly suspect

It blows my mind that people are taking any of this seriously.

So let me get this straight, the accusation is that Dan Cohen is trafficking guns on behalf of Russian Oligarchs to Barbeque, who Shaw claims is a CIA asset…why? To fund Cohen’s anti-Israel journalism?? This makes zero sense at all.

And he’ll “organize in the courts?”

Strange statement for a self-proclaimed communist. Don’t you think?

What’s with the over the top preacher accent? Honestly it seems forced and I suspect something larger is at play. Unfortunately

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Benjamin Rubinstein

@BenFRubinstein

Dec 5, 2023

Community notes: "black people are very welcome in Israel"
Israel:

Ethiopian Jews have been ethnically cleansed by being forced or coerced into taking Depo-Provera, a Phizer birth prevention drug widely considered unsafe.

Some women were told it was a flu shot, others were threatened with deportation.

In recent years Ethiopian Jews saw a 50% decline in birth rate.

Ethiopian Jews also face chronic poverty and are often unable to find jobs.

Anti-Black Racism is RAMPANT in Israel.

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Benjamin Rubinstein

@BenFRubinstein

Sep 11, 2023

THE DANCING ISRAELIS: FBI DOCS SHED LIGHT ON APPARENT MOSSAD FOREKNOWLEDGE OF 9/11 ATTACK

NEW YORK — For nearly two decades, one of the most overlooked and little known arrests made in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was that of the so-called “High Fivers,” or the “Dancing Israelis.” However, new information released by the FBI on May 7 has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the “Dancing Israelis,” at least two of whom were known Mossad operatives, had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Shortly after 8:46 a.m. on the day of the attacks, just minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center, five men — later revealed to be Israeli nationals — had positioned themselves in the parking lot of the Doric Apartment Complex in Union City, New Jersey, where they were seen taking pictures and filming the attacks while also celebrating the destruction of the towers and “high fiving” each other. At least one eyewitness interviewed by the FBI had seen the Israelis’ van in the parking lot as early as 8:00 a.m. that day, more than 40 minutes prior to the attack. The story received coverage in U.S. mainstream media at the time but has since been largely forgotten.

The men — Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Yaron Shimuel and Omar Marmari — were subsequently apprehended by law enforcement and claimed to be Israeli tourists on a “working holiday” in the United States where they were employed by a moving company, Urban Moving Systems. Upon his arrest, Sivan Kurzberg told the arresting officer, “We are Israeli; we are not your problem. Your problems are our problems, The Palestinians are the problem.”

For years, the official story has been that these individuals, while they had engaged in “immature” behavior by celebrating and being “visibly happy” in their documenting of the attacks, had no prior knowledge of the attack. However, newly released FBI copies of the photos taken by the five Israelis strongly suggest that these individuals had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center. The copies of the photos were obtained via a FOIA request made by a private citizen.

According to a former high-ranking American intelligence official who spoke to the Jewish Daily Forward in 2002, the FBI concluded in its investigation that the five Israelis arrested “were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, NJ, served as a front.” At least two of the men arrested were determined to have direct links to the Mossad after their names appeared in a CIA-FBI database of foreign intelligence operatives. According to one of their lawyers, one of the men, Paul Kurzberg, had previously worked for the Mossad in another country prior to arriving in the United States. Another of those arrested, Oded Ellner, subsequently stated on Israeli TV that the five Israelis had been in New York at the time “to document the event,” meaning the attack on the World Trade Center.

The FOIA release of the photos is notable because responses to prior FOIA requests to the Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI, had previously claimed that all of the photos taken by the Israeli nationals had been destroyed in January 2014. The photos themselves are heavily redacted, making it impossible to see the Israelis’ facial expressions. However, previously declassified yet heavily redacted FBI reports state that the Israelis are “visibly happy” in nearly every photo, even when the burning towers are in the background. The photos released are also not original copies and instead appear to be photocopies of photocopies of the original pictures. In addition, of the original 76 pictures developed by authorities from the camera in the Israelis’ possession, only 14 were released.

Based on the impressions of the French website Panamza and subsequently MintPress, three of these photos — despite the heavy redaction and poor quality — appear damning. Since 2001, even though the photos were never released until now, it had been known that one of the Israelis arrested — Sivan Kurzberg — was seen in a photo “holding a lighted lighter in the foreground, with the smoldering wreckage [of the twin towers] in the background,” according to Steven Noah Gordon, then-lawyer for the five Israelis, as cited in a New York Times report from November 2001.

The picture of Kurzberg with the lit lighter appears to be photo #5 in the new FOIA release. Yet, the picture released includes a visible date of September 10, 2001, the day before the attacks, as do two other photos — images #7 and #8 in the collection — whereas all other photos with dates show only the month and the year (9 ‘01). The FOIA release did not provide any information as to the apparent discrepancy in dates.

While this could be explained away as the camera in question being programmed with a slightly inaccurate date, that doesn’t seem to be the case for two reasons. First, only three out of the 14 pictures appear to carry that date and, second, previously declassified FBI reports report an eyewitness adamantly stating that Sivan Kurzberg had visited the Doric Apartments on September 10, 2001 at around 3 p.m. with at least one other man, with whom he was conversing in a foreign language, and had identified himself as a “construction worker” to a tenant (page 61 of declassified FBI report).

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Benjamin Rubinstein

@BenFRubinstein

Sep 5, 2023

https://twitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1698867716247982381

This is interesting.

This Israeli intelligence officer was outted on a space today for working for Black Cube.

Turns out Black Cube's founder was the largest shareholder of Cambridge Analytica's parent company.

Cambridge Analytica stole the information of 50 million non-consenting Facebook users, interfering with the 2016 US presidential election.

https://twitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1698867716247982381

The Israeli intelligence operative's company Black Cube itself is no stranger to controversy and even went to bat as investigators targeting the victims of Harvey Weinstein, the famous Hollywood predator.

Black Cube specializes in foreign interference.

In 2016 they created a criminal gang in an effort to intimidate Romania's top anti-corruption prosecutor.

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Benjamin Rubinstein

@BenFRubinstein

Aug 1, 2023

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Algeria's General of the Army Said Chenegriha was in Moscow today meeting with Russian Defense ministry Sergei Shogu. Algeria and Russia have had a an agreement to enhance security and stability in Africa since 2021.

Now ECOWAS is threatening war with US & French backing

This… https://t.co/fF4tPluVlLtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

More details about Chad Nationalizing Exon at @african_stream

Algeria is calling for peace.

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Benjamin Rubinstein

@BenFRubinstein

Mar 5, 2022

Joe Biden just a few days ago promised to mitigate gas price increases and vowed to stop Nord Stream 2. This global market instability is a result of U.S. Imperialist interventions.

Russia has sold at record breaking discounts within the past few days as well. Yet prices go up at the Pump, hurting working class Americans & citizens across the world.

In America wages have remained stagnant for decades while the price of gas is nearing $6 a gallon in some areas, groceries become more expensive by the day.

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