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The Wall Street Journal Blames Iran For Helping to Plot Tribe of Nova Massacre When This is Uncorroborated

During the late 1800s, the Hearst yellow press ran stories falsely accusing Spain of sinking the U.S.S. Maine in order to help mobilize public opinion in support of the Spanish-American War that resulted in the U.S. colonization of Cuba and the Philippines.

 

By Jeremy Kuzmarov

 

In the 100+ years since, the same formula has been followed time and again. The latest target appears to be Iran, whose Islamist government neoconservatives in Washington and Tel Aviv have long dreamed of overthrowing.

On October 8, The Wall Street Journal accused Iran of helping to plan the Tribe of Nova massacre; a Hamas terrorist attack on an Israeli music festival that has triggered renewed outbreak of war in the Middle East.

The Wall Street Journal’s article entitled “Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks” was written by Summer Said, Benoit Faucon and Stephen Kalin, with assistance by by Michael Gordon, a former New York Times reporter who was the lead author of a September 2002 piece hyping the idea that Iraq was trying to procure special aluminum tubes for its nuclear weapons program.

In 2007, Gordon—an advocate for bombing Iraq—also wrote articles relying heavily on anonymous U.S. sources alleging that the Iranian government was sending weapons into Iraq.

The Wall Street Journal piece was also based on anonymous sources, specifically un-named senior members of Hamas, Hezbollah and officer’s of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard.[1]

They claimed that the Tribe of Nova massacre—in which Hamas militants attacked an all night concert in a field near a kibbutz on the Israeli-Gaza border and killed hundreds of Jewish concert goers—was planned in meetings in Beirut attended by Iranian officials who allegedly gave the green light for the attacks.

Mahmoud Mirdani, a senior Hamas official was quoted in the piece, however, stating that Hamas planned the attacks on its own, which makes the articles’ headline misleading

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken furthermore told CNN that “we have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack, but there is certainly a long relationship.”

Blinken’s comments undercut The Wall Street Journal’s headline, though subtly insinuate that Iran was or could have been behind the attacks and that evidence would emerge about this.

In 2003, the neoconservatives thought that Iraq would be a cakewalk and that the U.S. could quickly move on to overthrow Iran’s Islamic regime, which in 1979 had overthrown the Shah, a close U.S. and Israeli ally who had been installed in a CIA coup.

A popular saying among members of the Bush administration during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq was: “Forget Baghdad, real men go to Tehran.”

The October 9th Wall Street Journal article suggested that since April, when China brokered a diplomatic alliance between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the Iranian regime had begun training, arming, and financing militias antagonistic to Israel, including Hezbollah and Hamas.

A primary concern was that Israel’s improved relations with Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf Arab states would create a chain of U.S. allies linking three key choke points of global trade—the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandeb connecting the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea.

Ismael Qaani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and commander of its Quds force, a division responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations, allegedly began attending biweekly meetings in Beirut where the Tribe of Nova massacre was planned along with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Islamic jihad leader Ziyad al Nakhalah, and Saleh Arouri, Hamas’ military chief.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian attended at least two of the meetings also.

 

Lina Khatib, director of the University of London’s Middle East Institite was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article stating that “an attack of such scope [Tribe of Nova massacre] could only have happened after months of planning and would not have happened without coordination with Iran.”[2]

Blaming Biden For Enriching Iran and Enabling Attacks

The Wall Street Journal’s pattern of yellow journalism continued when it published an editorial on October 10 blaming the Biden administration for the Tribe of Nova massacre by failing to enforce oil sanctions on Iran, thus helping Iran to finance Hamas.

Entitled “How Biden’s Policy Enriched Iran,” the editorial suggested that the previous day’s report that Iran had “signed off on the Hamas assault on Israel should jolt President Biden from his failed Iran strategy”—which was one of appeasement.[3]

While technically true that the $6 billion the Biden administration unfroze in exchange for the release of five American prisoners wasn’t used to attack Israel, there was no question that “the U.S. decision to ease enforcement of oil sanctions against Iran aided Israel’s enemies (ie. Hizbollah and Hamas).”

According to The Journal, Iran may not have directly spent any money from the unfrozen $6 billion account but would have anticipated the increase cash flow, and so could plot the attacks.

The problem with this logic is that there is no proof of any direct use of U.S. funds nor that Iran was actually involved in the planning. The Journal’s editors furthermore never question whether there was any legitimate and legal reason in the first place for the U.S. to have applied oil sanctions on Iran or to have frozen its assets.

For years, The Wall Street Journal has provided a platform for neoconservative war hawks who have accused Iran of all kinds of crimes, including developing a nuclear program that allegedly serves as an existential threat the U.S. and Israel, though this program does not actually exist.[4]

 

Avoidance of Critical Questions

The brazenness of the Tribe of Nova massacre has many people questioning the source of the Israeli intelligence failure.

Robert Morningstar asked on Substack how it was possible that the “presumably omniscient all-seing eye spies of Mossad missed the massing of weapons and people to mount this assault? And why didn’t their super high-tech seismic ground detectors (listening 24/7 for terrorists digging tunnels into Israel) hear the crunch or swooshing sounds of long convoys of trucks hauling 5,000 rockets into position?”[5]

The answer is not clear.

The massacre comes at a convenient time for the Netanyahu government, which had triggered mass protests against its attempt to destroy the independence of Israel’s judiciary.

And convenient for the U.S. too in the creation of a crisis that could turn public attention away from the unfolding debacle in Ukraine and growing domestic ills.

Better ultimately to blame Iran to deflect critical questioning and avoid scrutinizing Israeli policies over the last decades which have fueled Gazans desire for revenge.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/11/widening-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-yellow-journalism-stoking-potential-war-on-iran/

 

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BY Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov

 

At a time when the attention of countries on every content is once again focused on events in the Middle East, Africa is not being left behind, and has its own distinct perspective on the unfolding situation. Naturally, this interest is partly due to various historical processes, but it is also based on current events. 

Many Africans are, of course, keeping a close eye on the events involving Israel and Palestine. After all, and despite the often very erroneous point of view, citizens of the African states not only attentively follow worldwide events, but also and to tell the truth – so often have a much better analytical sense of geopolitical processes than a majority of the so-called “golden billion” in the West.

Even those many Africans who view the Israel-Palestine conflict as a remote issue on a different continent that has no impact on their lives are nevertheless often remarkably well-informed about the history, causes and consequences of this long-standing confrontation.

But if one were to focus specifically on those Africans who take a clearly defined position on what is happening, then naturally one should first take into account certain regional factors. Thus, quite naturally, the great majority of people in North Africa traditionally support Palestine. This support is not only based on religious and ethnic considerations, but also on a general sense that the Palestinians have been the victims of great injustice over the last few decades.

If you look at sub-Saharan Africa, then you are likely to find a wider range of views, based on many different factors, of which religion is just one. Of course, the religious factor is also complex. Generally, Muslims tend to feel sympathy towards the Palestinians, while many Protestant churches support Israel. In relation to those churches, there are a number of points of interest that it is worth focusing on.

Often, those Protestant churches have close links with the US. Moreover, pastors from the US are involved in missionary work in many African countries. And, one might ask why not? After all, travelling to and preaching in distant countries lies at the heart of missionary work. But, as often happens when we are talking about the US, geopolitical and other national interests inevitably come into play here as well. And that includes interests relating to Israel and its policies.

Very often these US – or US-trained – pastors argue that Israel is God’s chosen nation, and that modern Israel should therefore be supported in everything. Including its policies towards the Palestinians. In view of the strength of the pro-Israeli lobby in the United States itself, where relations with Tel Aviv are given the highest priority not only as part of US policy in the Middle East, but also at the wider international level and in relation to domestic policies, it is easy to guess why a number of US-supported Protestant churches working in Africa are so actively promoting a pro-Israeli line.

This has certainly helped serve the interests of Israel and the US on the continent, but today this policy is becoming more and more difficult to put into practice. This is due to the factor already mentioned above – Africans generally have a good grasp of history and geopolitics. And today, more and more citizens of African countries, including, it should be noted, many members of Protestant churches, are asking the obvious question, namely, What is the connection between modern Israel, with its ideology and policies, and the Israel of the Bible? In many cases, Africans’ answer to that question has changed their attitude to the Israel-Palestine issue. And very often their response has been the opposite of that hoped for in Washington and Tel Aviv.

And, finally, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have very real historical connection to this issue. The connection is based on the long solidarity between nations who engaged in a shared fight for many years. This particularly applies to South Africa, where the ruling African National Congress has long had close links with the Palestinians’ resistance to Israel. The South African authorities, even today, frequently equate Israel’s policies towards Palestine with the apartheid policy that was for decades imposed by South Africa’s White, Westernized regime on the indigenous majority and other ethnic groups.

However, it should be noted that despite the pro-Palestinian position taken by the political elite and much of the population, the South African Jewish community is thriving and is quite comfortable living in the country.

In general, it is worth noting that the positions taken by the citizens of African countries, including in relation to the Israel-Palestine conflict, are a continuation of the contemporary processes that are characteristic of the multipolar world order. And however those who favor a unipolar world order may try to persuade Africans to accept their position, it does not appear that they are having much success.

 

Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov, entrepreneur and political observer, expert in issues relating to Africa and the Middle East, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”

https://journal-neo.su/2023/10/11/the-israel-palestine-conflict-an-african-perspective/

 

 

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White House backtracks on Biden’s ‘beheaded babies’ claim


The Israeli military says it is unable to “officially” substantiate the heinous allegation

 

US officials have backtracked after President Joe Biden claimed to have seen “confirmed pictures” of Palestinian militants “beheading children” in Israel, explaining that he had seen no images and was merely relaying claims from the Israeli government and media reports.

While Biden declared in an address tio Jewish leaders on Wednesday that he was shocked by photos depicting brutal acts against Israeli babies, a White House spokesperson later told the Washington Post that officials were unaware of the pictures the president claimed to have seen. They added that they had no independent confirmation of reports that children were beheaded during a Hamas attack on Israel last weekend, despite Biden’s claim of having seen “confirmed” images.

“The president based his comments about the alleged atrocities on the claims from [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s spokesman and media reports from Israel,” the Post reported, citing the White House.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/584717-biden-beheaded-babies-claim/

 

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