Raz Steinmetz, 53, was behind Kushner deals; his uncle, billionaire diamond dealer Beny Steinmetz, is under scrutiny by law enforcement in four countries – his lawyer is Alan Dershowitz; Kushner has traveled repeatedly to Israel, where Kushner Companies have taken out at least four loans from Israel’s largest bank…
Consortium News: As Official Washington fumes about Russia-gate, Israel’s far more significant political-influence-and-propaganda campaigns are ignored… The October Surprise… In some European circles, the neocons are described as “Israel’s American agents”…
A MUST READ: Robert Parry writes in Consortium News that the neocons, architects of the Iraq War, are counting on Democrats and liberals to be the foot soldiers in the new neocon campaign to push Trump into more “regime change” wars. As part of this they’re hyping evidence-free allegations that Russia colluded with Trump’s team to rig the U.S. election, and pushing for a US invasion of Syria…
“Every day we are collecting bones”; “from the river to the sea”; Israeli forces kill West Bank Palestinian; cost of war – to Americans; Gaza’s death toll; more.
Israeli occupation authorities have intensified economic measures against the Gaza Strip during the ongoing war, imposing what Palestinian sources describe as “forced arrangements” that have enabled Israel to extract vast sums from Gaza’s economy while deepening humanitarian suffering.
The targeting of the journalists, including one who had done work for CBS and AFP, marks Israel’s latest assault on the press in Gaza.
Israel killed at least 5 children in Gaza; going deaf a land without hearing aids; erasing refugee camps; female prisoners; Israeli whitewashing; stealing from West Bank to pay for Gaza; is ICE killing incident “the full Israelification” of the US?; Congress members taking gifts from foreign gov’t
The last family in this Palestinian village left their home last week; Yanoun now joins a growing list of West Bank communities that have been erased from existence, through the establishment of Israeli “shepherding outposts” in their place.
Ethnic cleansing; Gaza’s fishers; Gaza militia leader says the quiet part out loud; Israeli settler kills Palestinian teen after funeral for another teen; “altering demography” in West Bank; Palestinian prisoners in crisis; Israel says Gaza getting 5x the food it needs; Trump said that??
YouTube offered conflicting explanations for deleting the account of Robert Inlakesh, who covered Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.