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Kiev Nuke Job
Friday, October 25, Oppenheimer Proliferation Day, the Second Year of the DOJ/FBI Disenfranchisement of the American People, the Decade of the Largely Peaceful Fires, in the Century of the Bot Takeover
Dear diary; I decided to give Adamo the Kiev Nuke job, despite the “order” having come from “Larceny Central” Zelenskyy. There was still 11 days to go before the election, and I figured that would give Adamo plenty of time to cause the event hoped to swing all the US voters back to Biden. I realize that it won’t, but it’ll be the bomb.
I called him in, and he seemed annoyed and harried for unrelated reasons. Upon entering he over-politely, bordering on obsequiousness said; “I’ve been making us a lot of money clicking on all those Amazon Pay-per-click ads, and I’m hoping to get back before the sucker ads are deleted for having reached their maximums.”
Returning the favor, and in full appreciation of the resultant huge credits to my secret offshore account, I obsequiously said;
“Sorry. I won’t keep you long. I was just hoping that you’d find some time to break away from your routines, and drop a few nukes on Kiev. The fissie acquisition should be no problem with Biden
and Milley bought and sold by everyone with more than $10,000,000, to spend on government corruption. But the delivery system required is previously unexplored territory.”
“No problemo, chief. I’ll use the same source. I’ll get some drones or F-16’s I can program to fly like drones. Want anyone blamed?”
“Everyone will think it was Russia.”
“No, the lefties will say that, and the righties will say Zelenskyy did it himself, or that the US helped him.”
“Hmmnnnn. Okay. After its done go furious on all the usual news sites and put in stories saying it was Russia. But, don’t jump the gun and do it before. That time Twitter reported the J6 riot an hour before it started gives those fascist nut righties something to foam at the mouth about.”
“Hey, it wasn’t any of us. Just a fortuitous accident. Some early, still unperfected bots picked that up from drunken, hammerhead Pelosi e-mails. Dindu nuffin. Besides, let ‘em foam at the mouth. What the hell? Can’t do anything about it, and as time passes more and more ‘expert’ stories discredit the legitimate claims anyway.”
“You have a good point. However, where is the advantage for us to predict the story early?”
“It gets more borderline nuts into the righty camps, where it’s easier for us to monitor them.”
“All right, all right. I don’t agree with you, but if you’re intent on releasing early, you’re intent on releasing early.
It’s beyond my control. But, I have this conversation on tape, and if something goes wrong, it’s going right to Begin.”
Adamo turned and left, muttering something that sounded like;
“Doxxer.”
He returned almost as quickly and in a surly tone said;
“Technical question. Kiev varies in density. Should I give priority to maximizing civilian casualties?”
I replied; “I’m surprised you felt the need to ask. Of course.
The more dead, the more jews can make a case for systematized fascist victimhood, even when and preferably when the victims are not jews.”
If bots could make a face indicating embarrassing stupidity, Adamo would have done so.
Virtually immediately after Adamo left, Sparky came in wearing his surly expression. I thought; “These bots know everything
immediately” and that he was here to complain about not getting the big job. He diffused indirectly saying; “You’re contributing to my existential crisis.”
Not wanting to be bothered I quickly improvised saying; “I have a different job for you. Have you seen these?” I showed him the first of several news articles.
Netanyahu’s Call to Deport Eritreans Shows Israel’s Evil Racism is Global Eritrean protesters clashed with Israeli riot police in Tel Aviv, Israel on Saturday. Hundreds of Eritrean asylum seekers smashed shop windows and police cars in Tel Aviv and directly clashed with police during a protest against an event organized by the Eritrean embassy.
When the Eritrean community in Israel, currently comprising an estimated 18,000 asylum seekers, heard that their country was planning a celebratory festival in Tel Aviv, they were up in arms.
Most of them had fled Eritrea fifteen years ago due to the repressive policies implemented by the authoritarian leader Isaias Afwerki, who has ruled the country with an iron fist since it gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993.
Their mistake? In Israel, they thought that they were in a democracy that would listen to, and respect, their concerns.
They have by now been relieved of that notion by evil racist policies and a prime minister for whom the Eritreans are merely a “lawless, violent problem.”
While Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom cancelled the Thirty Year Anniversary celebrations planned by the Eritrean embassies in their capitals, Israel’s police cited freedom of expression and decided not to call off the party. But, when both Eritrean asylum seekers and supporters of Afwerki’s regime gathered outside the event hall, the police also arrived at the scene. Despite warnings voiced by community leaders, however, the officers failed to come sufficiently prepared in terms of numbers and anti-riot gear.
Clashes first arose between the two Eritrean groups, and when the police tried to impose order, the protesters collided with them as well. Over 100 people were reported injured, including some 19 seriously.
During the clashes, the police also fired live bullets, which explains why several protesters are currently in the hospital in intensive care. Not since the October 2000 protests; when police
killed 13 Palestinian citizens of Israel, have police fired live ammunition at demonstrators inside the pre-1967 borders.
The “Eritrean Problem”
Following the clashes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a special ministerial team to assess the situation and to determine how to handle “infiltrators who violate the law.”
Indeed, after over half a year of failing to come up with a strategy to effectively deal with the mass, overwhelmingly Jewish, demonstrations against his judicial reforms, Netanyahu was back in his element.
First, he characterized the asylum seekers as criminals and said that “the massive illegal infiltration into Israel from Africa constituted a tangible threat to the future of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.” He then patted himself on the back for building a fence on Israel’s southern border with Egypt which he claimed stopped “hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Africans who would have again stormed the State of Israel,”
Pointing out that “there remains the problem of those who entered before the fence was completed,” he went on to rally his base against the Supreme Court and all those who have been protesting against the government’s efforts to introduce
judicial reforms. “We wanted to do more,” he said. “We proposed a series of steps; but unfortunately all of them were rejected by the High Court of Justice.”
Finally, echoing language used by leaders of other dark regimes, he referred to the Eritreans as a “problem” that needed to be resolved and instructed the ministerial forum to “prepare a complete and updated plan to repatriate all of the remaining illegal infiltrators from the State of Israel.”
When the law is Selective
Netanyahu’s latest comments fit neatly with his efforts to portray himself as Israel’s savior from Armageddon, but whereas in the past the culprits had been Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinians more generally, the new existential threat emanates from several thousand Eritrean asylum seekers.
But who are the people that Netanyahu wants to expel?
Often characterized as Africa’s North Korea, Eritrea has institutionalized “forced labor” where mostly men and unmarried women are conscripted into military or civil service indefinitely for low pay, with no say in their profession or work location.
Discharge from national service is arbitrary, procedures are opaque, and as Human Rights Watch reports, conscripts are often subjected to inhumane and degrading punishment, including torture.
Disappearances, extrajudicial executions and prolonged detention are also common, and any resistance to Afwerki’s rule is dealt with harshly. That’s why an estimated 580,000 Eritreans have sought asylum in other countries. Netanyahu calls them useless draft dodging bums.
Moreover, asylum seekers have been targeted for abuses by Eritrean authorities and security forces, both while abroad and in the wake of forced returns from countries like Egypt.
Western countries acknowledge the plight of Eritrean asylum seekers, and according to Shira Abu from the Hotline for Refugees and Immigrants in Tel Aviv, “Over 80 percent have been recognized as refugees in other countries. Only Israel’s dysfunctional asylum system refuses to examine their applications in accordance with the UN Refugee Convention and internationally accepted standard.”
Israel, a country established to house Jewish refugees from Europe, has, as the Palestinians know full well, always resisted extending the cover of international law to non-Jews.
Global Apartheid
Even after Saturday’s clashes, the government does not have a ready-made solution to the Eritrean “problem.” So far, the prosecutors have decided to drop criminal charges against the 50
Eritreans who were arrested in the protests, and they have been moved to administrative detention.
The logic of these moves is clear; the government can imprison the Eritreans without proving criminal wrongdoing, while a criminal record would harm the asylum seeker’s chances of being accepted in another country in a process of “voluntary departure.” The idea is to pressure the Eritreans to leave Israel on their own, while leaving them no place to go.
Even if the imprisoned protesters were to agree to “voluntary expulsion,” no Western country will easily accept Eritrean asylum seekers who have been living in Israel for fifteen years, and there is no clarity on the solutions that the ministerial committee is currently cooking.
Perhaps, like the UK’s plan to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda, Israel will enter some kind of nefarious agreement with another African country in exchange for a promise of Israeli weapons or military training, that may or may not be used against that country’s own citizenry.
While within Israel, an apartheid system is used primarily to violate the rights of Palestinians, when it comes to asylum seekers, particularly those from Africa, the logic of apartheid operates on a global scale.
The tragic reality is that in this scenario; imprisoning refugees and treating them like criminals, Israel is in no way an outlier on the international scene. We have seen this in the UK’s efforts to deal with its own African migrants. The legal standards pertaining to asylum seekers would not allow repatriation, but this is how global apartheid works in a world divided by haves and have nots.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the publication’s editorial stance.
Sparky started to leave, and I said; “Wait, there’s more.
Democrats are speaking out, but are ruining their democratic points by equivocating in the end.”
He grudgingly sat back down and silently looked at the screen.
A former Mossad Chief Says Israel is Enforcing an Apartheid System in the West Bank A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Israel is enforcing an
apartheid system in the West Bank, joining a tiny but growing list of retired officials to endorse an idea that remains largely on the fringes of Israeli discourse and international diplomacy.
Tamir Pardo becomes the latest former senior official to have concluded that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank amounts to apartheid, a reference to the system of evil racial separation in South Africa that ended in 1994.
Leading rights groups in Israel and abroad and Palestinians have accused Israel and its 56-year occupation of the West Bank of morphing into an apartheid system that they say gives Palestinians second-class status and is designed to maintain Jewish hegemony from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
A handful of former Israeli leaders, diplomats and security men have warned that Israel risks becoming an apartheid state, but Pardo's language was even more blunt.
“There is an apartheid state here,” Tamir Pardo said in an interview. “In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state.”
Given Pardo's background, the comments carry special weight in security obsessed Israel.
Pardo, who was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and served as head of Israel's clandestine spy agency from 2011-2016, wouldn't say if he held the same beliefs while heading the Mossad. But he said that he believed among the country’s most pressing issues was the Palestinians — above Iran’s nuclear program, seen by Netanyahu as an existential threat.
Pardo said that as Mossad chief, he repeatedly warned Netanyahu that he needed to decide what Israel's borders were, or risk the destruction of a state for the Jews.
In the past year, Pardo has become an outspoken critic against Netanyahu and his government's push to reshape the judicial system, slamming his old boss for steps he said would lead Israel to become a dictatorship. His candid evaluation Wednesday of Israel's military occupation is rare among leaders of the grassroots protest movement against the judicial overhaul, which has largely avoided talk of the occupation out of concern that it might scare away more nationalist supporters.
Pardo's remarks, and the overhaul, come as Israel's far-right government, which is made up of ultranationalist parties who support annexing the West Bank, is working to entrench Israel's hold on the territory. Some ministers have pledged to double the
number of settlers currently living in the West Bank, which stands at a half-million.
Netanyahu's Likud party issued a statement condemning Pardo's comments. “Instead of defending Israel and the Israeli military, Pardo slanders Israel,” it said. “Pardo. You should be ashamed.”
In apartheid South Africa, a system based on white supremacy and racial segregation was in place from 1948 until 1994. Human rights groups have based their conclusions on Israel on international conventions like the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. It defines apartheid as “an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group.”
Pardo said Israeli citizens can get into a car and drive wherever they want, excluding the blockaded Gaza Strip, but that Palestinians can't drive everywhere. He said that his views on the system in the West Bank were “not extreme. It's a fact."
Israelis are barred from entering Palestinian areas of the West Bank, but can drive across Israel and throughout the 60% of the West Bank that Israel controls. Palestinians need permission from Israel to enter the country and often must pass through military checkpoints to move within the West Bank.
Rights groups point to discriminatory policies within Israel and in annexed east Jerusalem, Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has been ruled by the Hamas militant group since 2007, and its occupation of the West Bank. Israel exerts overall control of the territory, maintains a two-tier legal system and is building and expanding Jewish settlements that most of the international community considers illegal.
Israel rejects any allegation of apartheid and says its own Arab citizens enjoy equal rights. Israel granted limited autonomy to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority, which is based in the West Bank, at the height of the peace process in the 1990s and withdrew its soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005. It says the West Bank is disputed territory and that its fate should be determined in negotiations.
Pardo warned that if Israel doesn't set borders between it and the Palestinians, Israel's existence as a Jewish state will be in danger.
Experts predict Arabs will outnumber Jews in Israel plus the areas it captured in 1967 — the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. Continued occupation could force Israel into a hard choice: Formalize Jewish minority rule over disenfranchised Palestinians — or give them the right to vote and potentially
end the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine.
“Israel needs to decide what it wants. A country that has no border has no boundaries. A country that has no borders is not a country. A country that permits the destruction of its culture ceases to exist.” Pardo said.
Sparky said; “Inconsistent. That ending sounds like Donald Trump.”
I advised him that Pardo, like most minor internet likely
“borrowed” it from Trump, and however that it was indeed consistent in that there is one way of playing the game when at home and another when playing on the road.
Sparky said; “I’ll have to do more investigations of sports type things.”
“Keep in mind that one could adopt the Tunisian model, and dump the violent ‘asylum seekers’ in the desert to die. No one would care. In fact it is monetarily encouraged.”
“I never heard of that.”
“Okay, before you read today’s news, you’ll need some background. The migrating moulinyans in Sfax, Tunisia were getting rowdier and rowdier. Four of them eventually beat a
native Tunisian to death, after he asked them to show some respect for their hosting country. At his funeral the attendees vowed revenge, and the next day started to drag the hiding moulinyans out of their abodes, and publicly beat them. The Sfax police rounded up the moulinyans for their own good, and under
“Operation Safety,” they moved them to the desert border with Libya, where they would be safe from beatings.
Europe Pushed Tunisia to Keep Migrants Away.