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Police brutality, intimidation, harassment, free speech attacked. NSW Premier Chris Minns was groomed for Israel, writes Andrew Brown.

Chris Minns did not arrive at this moment by accident. He was built for it.

 

Groomed, captured, deployed. How the Israel lobby runs Chris Minns

by Andrew Brown

 

In 2003, before he held any significant office, Minns was selected for the AIJAC Rambam Israel Fellowship – an all-expenses-paid program with one purpose: take promising Australian political figures to Israel, immerse them, and bind them. 

Not bribe them. Bind them. 

Build the kind of loyalty that doesn’t need instructions because it has already become instinct.

It worked.

By the time Minns reached the premiership, leading pro-Israel organisations were publicly hailing him as a “strong friend.” Not a sympathiser. Not a useful contact. A reliable asset – a politician whose instincts they had watched develop over two decades and had learned to trust completely.

A great investment

Israeli President Isaac Herzog praised him by name for his leadership and support – a foreign head of state openly thanking an Australian Premier for services rendered. Millions in public money flowed to the Sydney Jewish Museum. Appearances at Yom Ha’atzmaut celebrations. 

The relationship was not hidden. It was celebrated. Because when the investment matures this completely, there is nothing to hide.

When October 7 arrived, the lobby didn’t need to call him. He already knew what to do.

The Israeli flag went up on the Opera House. 

Protesters who objected were told by the Premier they would not be allowed to “commandeer Sydney streets” – the language of seizure applied to citizens walking through a public space to express a political opinion. 

NSW Police launched Operation Shelter within days, framed as community safety and deployed in practice almost exclusively against Palestine solidarity demonstrations.

Riot squads flooded the Town Hall protests. The Harbour Bridge march was killed through legal challenge. 

When Israeli President Herzog visited in early 2026, the government declared a major event to unlock expanded police powers, and officers pre-planned to disperse the crowd if numbers grew too large. 

Not if violence erupted. If enough people showed up.

Presence itself had become the threat.

Control the words

Minns also backed moves to criminalise phrases including “globalise the intifada” — despite overwhelming legal opposition and a parliamentary inquiry whose submissions were dominated by objections. The inquiry’s purpose was not to inform policy. It was to provide procedural cover for a decision already made. 

Control the words. Control the space. Control the protest.

Then he built the machine to make it permanent.

In February 2026, Operation Shelter was converted into a fixture of New South Wales policing. The Armed Response Command – 250 officers, long-arm rifles, modified rapid-response vehicles, a 24/7 intelligence-led operations centre – was stood up as a standing capability. 

Minister Yasmin Catley said it would rove suburbs around the clock, targeting protests and large gatherings. To design it, Minns sent a NSW Police delegation to the United Kingdom to study what his government called “best practice in anti-hate policing.”

The UK model he chose to import: approximately 30 arrests every day for online comments. Sixty thousand hours annually of home visits for “non-crime hate incidents” – conduct that is not illegal but which police have decided warrants monitoring.

Intimidation tactics

Fewer than 10 per cent of hate-related arrests leading to conviction. A system built not to prosecute crime but to make dissent feel dangerous enough that people stop.

In parliament, Libertarian MP John Ruddick warned the new unit would soon be door-knocking citizens over social media posts. He advised New South Welshmen to be polite but exercise their right to silence. The government told him he was alarmist.

That was weeks ago.

Harassing for a foreign power

This week, eight masked officers in full tactical gear arrived at a young woman’s home at 5am. She had attended Palestine solidarity protests. 

She had allegedly thrown a water bottle at an officer during a demonstration. She had allegedly told an officer she would hit him back if he hit her.

They did not knock. They kicked the door in.

She was dragged out half-naked. Taken to a police station. Arrested. 

Her phone seized and searched against her explicit refusal. Legal advocate Nick Hanna, who advised her in custody and documented the aftermath on video, posted the destroyed doorframe – the splintered timber, the violence of the entry written into the architecture of her home – with a single caption: 

“This is Australia in 2026.”

Captured

This is what a captured politician looks like at full maturity. Not a man receiving instructions. A man whose grooming was so complete, whose alignment so total, that the apparatus of the state now moves on instinct – his instinct, shaped over two decades by the lobby that identified him, cultivated him, and placed him precisely where he would be most useful.

There is no 250-officer task force for domestic violence, 

which kills two Australian women every week. There is no intelligence-led rapid response unit for organised crime in Western Sydney. There is one for this.

John Ruddick told parliament they would come to the door. The government called him alarmist.

A young woman’s splintered doorframe tells you who was right.

https://michaelwest.com.au/groomed-captured-deployed-how-the-israel-lobby-runs-chris-minns/

 

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

ras baalbek....

The Telegraph has removed an article from its website about the close ties between Hezbollah and the Christian town of Ras Baalbek in northeastern Lebanon. The story, which was accessible for just around a day, portrayed the militant movement in a positive light while mentioning local resentment of Israel.

The story was published on Monday amid the ongoing Israeli military offensive against Hezbollah that began earlier this month and has already left more than 880 people dead, over 2,000 injured, and around one million displaced.

West Jerusalem launched the campaign after Hezbollah launched waves of strikes on the Jewish state in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a joint US-Israeli campaign against Iran.

According to the now inaccessible article, the residents of Ras Baalbek formed a strong bond with Hezbollah when the militants came to their defense against attacks by Islamic State (IS, former ISIS) from 2013 to 2017. Hezbollah also reportedly aided the town with medical care during the Covid-19 pandemic, supplied electricity generators, and even Christmas trees.

https://www.rt.com/news/636209-telegraph-removes-article-christians-hezbollah/

 

THE STORY THAT FOLLOWS WAS THE ONE DELETED BY THE PUBLISHER [BUT RETAINED BY THE DATA-HOLDERS]

 

Christians and Hezbollah unite against 'Epstein empire'

 

Story by Paul Nuki, Simon Townsley

 

 

The complexity of Lebanon is apparent in few places more than Ras Baalbek, a Catholic Christian town in Lebanon’s northern Bekaa Valley close to the borders with Syria.

The town, which boasts two Byzantine churches, has teamed up with Hezbollah in a bid to preserve its heritage and protect its 6,000 devout Catholic residents.

So close are the two communities that the Iranian-backed militant group buys a Christmas tree each year for the village.

“The relationship between the village and Hezbollah is stronger than with the Pope,” Rifiat Nasrallah, 60, a quarryman and village leader whose marble sarcophagi line the village cemetery, told The Telegraph during a visit in the midst of war.

“The Vatican did nothing for us but Hezbollah spilt their blood to protect us. The Pope only has prayers.”

Two soldiers from the Lebanese army, whose political leaders have vowed to disarm Hezbollah, sit in Mr Nasrallah’s home as he explains the local politics. A crucifix hangs next to a portrait of Hassan Nasrallah (no relation), Hezbollah’s former secretary general, on one of the room’s walls.

The Bekaa Valley is beautiful, dangerous and cosmopolitan in equal measures. Christian, Sunni and Shia Muslim villages sit cheek by jowl.

As The Telegraph drives there, Israeli jets and drones are hunting Hezbollah positions in the hills to the west after the militants let rip one of their long-range ground-to-ground missiles towards “the entity” the previous night.

These missiles are large and said to be launched from adapted shipping containers carried by articulated trucks, which makes the drive there hazardous.

But the threat that brought the Christians of Ras Baalbek and Hezbollah close came from the east. The village sits at the foothills of the arid Qalamoun mountains, over which you can trek just a few kilometres into Syria.

It was from there, between 2013 and 2017 during the height of the Syrian civil war, that Islamic State (IS) fighters launched several assaults on the village, threatening to wipe it from the map and behead its Catholic residents.

“The first attack came from a village called Qasr, just seven kilometres from here in Syria. IS came over the hills and reached the edge of the village and kidnapped some of my workers and tortured them,” he said.

“At first, it was only Hezbollah and the villagers who fought back against the Salafists. We fought together with missiles and rockets. Many were wounded and some died. I was almost killed with shrapnel in my back from a mortar.”

Mr Nasrallah did not say so, but the bond between the villagers and Hezbollah, is a case of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” – or that’s how it started.

During the Syrian civil war, Hezbollah sent thousands of fighters in support of the Iranian-backed Assad regime. Their adversaries included jihadist organisations such as Isis and the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra.

When IS first struck on Lebanese soil in 2013, the group was quick to the defence of the villagers, unlike the Lebanese army, which only became involved later.

“The army was weak. The leader of the army at the time was not strong. He did not have the political support for the fight. Only later in 2015 and 2017 did they help,” said Mr Nasrallah

One of the two Lebanese soldiers said: “I lost five friends. One Humvee we were following was blown up by a mine. Three colleagues died in that. We had good-quality soldiers but, at first, we lacked logistics and equipment.”

In 2017, the Lebanese army did see IS off, and is credited for doing so in much of Lebanon. The Dawn of the Jurds (hills) anti-terror operation was documented in official dispatches at the time.

 

“The army liberated today around 30 square kilometres, making the total liberated space since the beginning… now around 80 square kilometres out of 120 square kilometres,” said an official army memo dated Aug 20 2017.

It added: “During the military operations, three soldiers fell and a fourth was severely injured as a result of the explosion of a landmine that hit a military vehicle. Moreover, two other soldiers were slightly injured during the clashes while the operations resulted in the death of 15 terrorists and the destruction of 12 posts containing caves, tunnels, communication paths, fortifications and different weapons.”

Today in Lebanon there are again widespread fears, so far unsubstantiated, that Syria will become involved in the war. Hezbollah suspects that the Israelis are making use of Syrian airspace to launch commando attacks on places like Nabi Sheet, which was attacked two weeks ago. And the Christians of Ras Baalbek are worried about renewed attacks from Syrian Salafist groups like IS.

 

“His history speaks for itself”, said Mr Nasrallah of Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, the new Syrian president, who once led the al-Nusra Front, the al-Qaeda affiliate that fought against Hezbollah in Syria. “We have a saying, ‘You cannot change a wild animal. He is what he is’. And he is at our border.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/christians-and-hezbollah-unite-against-epstein-empire/ar-AA1ZcAt2

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.