From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (86) eta Scott Ritter

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mai. 27

Jews and Muslims in brotherhood –

Rabbi Dovid Feldman prays with Muslims in a mosque.

Jews and Muslims are not enemies.

The only enemies of Jews and Muslims are Zionism and Israel.

The problem is not Judaism or Islam, the problem is Zionism.

mai. 27

“A lost child was found sleeping on the road, starving and thirsty. Please share strongly so that someone may recognize it. The child is in Jabalia Al-Nazla.”

Mai. 27

.@MouinRabbani: “The Spanish foreign minister is entirely correct, that silence is complicity. But I would also argue that words without accompanying action are also complicity”

Well said.

Rathbone@_rathbone

mai. 26

If you want to know how insane Israelis are, just let them talk.

Sarah Wilkinson@swilkinsonbc

mai. 27

Israelis set fire to a large farming area in Al-Mughayir, near Ramallah in Palestine: if you don’t care about Palestine, worry for the earth, at least

OCISA Corbyn Inspired@OcisaCorbyn

mai. 27

“A licence to kill issued by Keir Starmer and David Lammy’s Labour government who act as though they have no legal or moral obligations to prevent a genocide” Award winning actor Juliet Stevenson releases clip developed by Artists for Palestine UK affirming “it’s time to stop

mai. 27

Boycotting is the healthiest choice.. McDonald‘s should never recover from this

mai. 27

Today, professors and students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem held a solemn silent vigil to protest the ongoing starvation and m4ssacre in G4za. Holding photographs of innocent children murd3red in the conflict, the demonstrators stood in quiet defiance, calling for justice and an end to the violence.

The powerful act of remembrance highlighted the devastating human cost of the war, as academics and activists united in grief and solidarity.

mai. 27

Things you see that you know will be mentioned in court one day

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mai. 27

ISRAEL HAS KILLED MORE THAN 180,000 TO 330,000 IN GAZA

“Officially” it has been stuck on 50- 60,000 for months. Because the counting system in Gaza has essentially been destroyed

mai. 28

This is what they want the Palestinians to look like, humiliated, cheerful for a tiny bit of sugar and frying oil after 86 days of no food trucks. Of course no vegetables or fruit, no meat, no medications. And they call it aid as they never for a minute stopped slaughtering families. We do not want the hell any aid. We do not want aid. Just stop the genocide and end the cruel siege. We can farm our land and fish in our sea. Just go away.

Mai. 27

Israel is profiting big time from its genocide: the meager aid packs a few Gazans received today were almost entirely Israeli products with visible Hebrew writing on

So this shell Israeli-American mercenary group is helping Israel make some money from starving Gaza to death!

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Tamer Nahed ?@Tamer_Alnoaizy

mai. 28

The little girl tries to collect the remaining food after it was spilled. I cried while watching the video.

mai. 27

In long lines under the scorching sun, Gaza’s children crowd in front of communal kitchens in search of food. They push and jostle in scenes that embody hunger and deprivation. Some are burned by the scalding meals, others too small to even carry the pot — all this, just to ease their hunger for a few short hours.

mai. 27

Netanyahu 4 days ago:

Free Palestine is the same as Heil Hitler

Israelis today: Death to Arabs

Which one sounds actually genocidal?

mai. 27

“Unprovoked”

Back in February 2014, Maidan Square was a stage for US interference. John McCain filming the unrest, flanked by Geoffrey Pyatt, the US ambassador, while Victoria Nuland lurked nearby. All three basked in the chaos they helped unleash, proud of orchestrating the coup that ousted Ukraine’s democratically elected president, Yanukovych.

mai. 28

Israel is using tactics from its war on Gaza to seize and control territory in the occupied West Bank during its Operation Iron Wall campaign, according to a new report

https://aje.io/kz0hmx

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MintPress News@MintPressNews

mai. 27

According to a report by Israel’s Channel 12, none of the 110 aid truck looting incidents recorded in Gaza over the past week were linked to Hamas.

Instead, the report attributes the thefts to armed groups and powerful clans supported and shielded by Israeli forces.

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mai. 27

Gaza aid chaos ‘completely avoidable’ says UNRWA director

mai. 28

A Palestinian in occupied al-Naqab films Israeli forces dumping sacks of flour – sent from Turkey for Gaza – into the trash.

This happens as over 2 million in Gaza face famine

mai. 28

Viral footage from Dakar shows students in Senegal chasing Israeli ambassador Yuval Waks off a university campus, chanting “Free Palestine” in protest against his presence and the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Follow: http://T.me/PressTV

mai. 27

The UK must impose sanctions on Israel’s government and ministers and take steps to “prevent and punish genocide” in Gaza, according to a letter signed by more than 800 lawyers, academics and former judges.

Read more: http://aje.io/3qt2o8

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Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth

mai. 27

Farage says the International Court of Justice is not legitimate & has too much Chinese influence in it

The ICJ is part of the UN, all UN members are automatically signed up to it & they elect its judges. How is it illegitimate? Is Farage proposing the UK leaves the UN?

mai. 27

The U.S. delivers the 800th plane of weapons to Israel since October 7, 2023

Since the onset of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, the US has supplied over 90,000 tonnes of weapons and equipment, delivered through a massive logistical effort involving 800 cargo planes and 140 naval shipments.

This morning marked a milestone in that operation, as the 800th U.S. aircraft carrying arms landed in the occupied territories.

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Syrian Girl@Partisangirl·

mai. 27

Not all Israelis want to genocide Palestinians, just 82% according to a poll by Israeli news paper Haaretz.

mai. 27

Singer Janelle Monáe, “When you are fighting to protect babies and innocent children in Gaza, I stand with you.” Palestine

mai. 27

We reached a dystopian level we never even seen in movies. This is demonic beyond comprehension

Kerry Burgess@KerryBurgess

mai. 27

800 plus UK lawyers saying Israel has committed multiple breaches of international law, and if genocide is not already in progress, we’re at the very least on the precipice of genocide. Brilliant clip by Mike Galsworthy…

mai. 27

READ: Israel and the U.S. dismantled UN aid in Gaza and replaced it with barbed wire, checkpoints, and guns. Now their militarized aid scheme has collapsed into chaos.

mai. 27

it didn’t take 100 years to get back to this stage of fascism

Aipamena

mai. 27

Israel’s use of displacement orders is “psychological and physical warfare” in its campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza

mai. 25

My presentation at the Schiller Institute conference yesterday:

Mosab Abu Toha@MosabAbuToha

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Sad, sad news. Dr. Alaa al-Najjar’s husband, Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar, has just succumbed to his injuries. Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar died now along with his 9 children.

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Scott Ritter@RealScottRitter

Playing with Fire

(https://scottritter.substack.com/p/playing-with-fire)

Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb has crossed the threshold when it comes to triggering a Russian nuclear response. How Russia and the United States respond could determine the fate of the world.

Scott Ritter

Jun 01, 2025

In 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that “The nuclear weapons remain the most important guarantee of Russia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and play a key role in maintaining the regional balance and stability.”

In the intervening years, western analysts and observers have accused Russia and its leadership of irresponsibly invoking the threat of nuclear weapons as a means of “saber rattling”—a strategic bluff to hide operational and tactical shortfalls in Russian military capabilities.

In 2020 Russia published, for the first time, an unclassified version of its nuclear doctrine. The document, called “Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence,” noted that Russia “reserves the right to use nuclear weapons” when Moscow is acting “in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it and/or its allies, as well as in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is in jeopardy.” The document also stated that Russia reserved the right to use nuclear weapons in case of an “attack by [an] adversary against critical governmental or military sites of the Russian Federation, disruption of which would undermine nuclear forces response actions.”

In 2024 Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s nuclear doctrine to be updated to consider the complicated geopolitical realities that had emerged from the ongoing Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, where the conflict had morphed into a proxy war between the collective west (NATO and the US) and Russia.

The new doctrine declared that nuclear weapons would be authorized for use in case of an “aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies by any non-nuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear state is considered as their joint attack.”

Russia’s nuclear arsenal would also come into play in the event of “actions by an adversary affecting elements of critically important state or military infrastructure of the Russian Federation, the disablement of which would disrupt response actions by nuclear forces.”

The threats did not have to come in the form of nuclear weapons. Indeed, the new 2024 doctrine specifically stated that Russia could respond with nuclear weapons to any aggression against Russia involving “the employment of conventional weapons, which creates a critical threat to their sovereignty and (or) territorial integrity.”

Operation Spiderweb, the largescale assault on critical Russian military infrastructure directly related to Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrence by unmanned drones, has demonstrably crossed Russia’s red lines when it comes to triggering a nuclear retaliation and/or pre-emptive nuclear strike to preclude follow-on attacks. The Ukrainian SBU, under the personal direction of its chief, Vasyl Malyuk, has taken responsibility for the attack.

Operation Spiderweb is a covert direct-action assault on critical Russian military infrastructure and capabilities directly related to Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrent capabilities. At least three airfields were attacked using FPV drones operating out of the backs of civilian Kamaz trucks repurposed as drone launch pads. Dyagilevo airfield in Ryazan, Belaya airfield in Irkutsk, and Olenya airfield in Murmansk, home to Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bombers and A-50 early warning aircraft, were struck, resulting in numerous aircraft being destroyed and/or heavily damaged.

This would be the equivalent of a hostile actor launching drone strikes against US Air Force B-52H bombers stationed at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, and B-2 bombers stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

The timing of Operation Spiderweb is clearly designed to disrupt peace talks scheduled to take place in Istanbul on June 2.

First and foremost, one must understand that it is impossible for Ukraine to seriously prepare for substantive peace talks while planning and executing an operation such as Operation Spiderweb; while the SBU may have executed this attack, it could not have happened without the knowledge and consent of the Ukrainian President or the Minister of Defense.

Moreover, this attack could not have occurred without the consent of Ukraine’s European partners, in particular Great Britain, France and Germany, all of whom were engaged in direct consultations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the days and weeks leading up to the execution of Operation Spiderweb.

The Ukrainians have been encouraged by Europe to be seen as actively supporting the Istanbul peace process, with an eye to the notion that if the talks failed, the blame would be placed on Russia, not Ukraine, thereby making it easier for Europe to continue providing military and financial support to Ukraine.

There appears to be a major role being played by US actors as well—Senator’s Lyndsay Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, and Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, made a joint visit to Ukraine in the past week where they coordinated closely with the Ukrainian government about a new package of economic sanctions linked to Russia’s willingness to accept peace terms predicated on a 30-day ceasefire—one of Ukraine’s core demands.

Operation Spiderweb appears to be a concerted effort to drive Russia away from the Istanbul talks, either by provoking a Russian retaliation which would provide cover for Ukraine to stay home (and an excuse for Graham and Blumenthal to go forward with their sanctions legislation), or provoking Russia to pull out of the talks as it considers its options going forward, an act that would likewise trigger the Graham-Blumenthal sanctions action.

Unknown is the extent to which President Trump, who has been pushing for successful peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, was knowledgeable of the Ukrainian actions, including whether he approved of the action in advance (Trump appeared to be ignorant of the fact that Ukraine had targeted Russian President Putin using drones during a recent trip to Kursk.)

How Russia responds to this latest Ukrainian action is yet unknown; the drone attacks on Russian military bases came on the heels of at least two Ukrainian attacks on Russian rail lines that resulted in significant damage done to locomotives and passenger cars and killed and wounded scores of civilians.

But this much is clear: Ukraine could not have carried out Operation Spiderweb without the political approval and operational assistance of its western allies. The American and British intelligence services have both trained Ukrainian special operation forces in guerilla and unconventional warfare actions, and it is believed that previous Ukrainian attacks against critical Russian infrastructure (the Crimea bridge and Engels Air Base) were done with the assistance of US and British intelligence in the planning and execution phases. Indeed, both the Crimea bridge and Engels airbase attacks were seen as triggers for the issuing of Russia’s 2024 nuclear doctrine modifications.

Russia has in the past responded to provocations by Ukraine and its western allies with a mixture of patience and resolve.

Many have interpreted this stance as a sign of weakness, something which may have factored in the decision by Ukraine and its western facilitators to carry out such a provocative operation on the eve of critical peace discussions.

The extent to which Russia can continue to show the same level of restraint as in the past is tested by the very nature of the attack—a massive use of conventional weapons which struck Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrence force, causing damage.

It is not a stretch of the imagination to see this tactic being used in the future as a means of decapitating Russian strategic nuclear assets (aircraft and missiles) and leadership (the attack against Putin in Kursk underscores this threat.)

If Ukraine can position Kamaz trucks near Russian strategic air bases, it could do so against Russian bases housing Russia’s mobile missile forces.

That Ukraine would carry out such attack likewise shows the extent to which western intelligence services are testing the waters for any future conflict with Russia—one that NATO and EU members say they are actively preparing for.

We have reached an existential crossroads in the SMO.

For Russia, the very red lines it deemed necessary to define regarding the possible use of nuclear weapons have been blatantly violated by not only Ukraine, but its western allies.

President Trump, who has been claiming to support a peace process between Russia and Ukraine, must now decide as to where the United States stands considering these developments.

His Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has acknowledged that under the previous administration of Joe Biden the United States was engaged in a proxy war with Russia. Trump’s Special Envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, recently acknowledged the same about NATO.

In short, by continuing to support Ukraine, both the US and NATO have become active participants in a conflict which has now crossed the threshold regarding the employment of nuclear weapons.

The United States and the world stand on the precipice of a nuclear Armageddon of our own making.

Either we separate ourselves from the policies that have brought us to this point, or we accept the consequences of our actions, and pay the price.

We cannot live in a world where are future is dictated by the patience and restraint of a Russian leader in the face of provocations we are ourselves responsible for.

Ukraine, not Russia, represents an existential threat to humanity.

NATO, not Russia, is responsible for encouraging Ukraine to behave in such a reckless manner.

So, too, is the United States. The contradictory statements made by US policy makers regarding Russia provide political cover for Ukraine and its NATO enablers to plan and execute operations like Operation Spiderweb.

Senators Graham and Blumenthal should be called out for sedition if their intervention in Ukraine was done to deliberately sabotage a peace process President Trump has said is central to his vision of American national security going forward.

But it is Trump himself who must decide the fate of the world.

In the coming hours we will undoubtedly hear from the Russian President about how Russia will respond to this existential provocation.

Trump, too, must respond.

By telling Graham and Blumenthal and their supporters to stand down regarding Russian sanctions.

By ordering NATO and the EU to cease and desist from continuing to provide military and financial support to Ukraine.

And by taking sides in the SMO.

Choose Ukraine and trigger a nuclear war.

Choose Russia and save the world.

Scott Ritter is a former Marine intelligence officer with extensive experience in arms control and disarmament, and an expert on US-Russian relations. His work can be found at ScottRitter.com. He is the author of several books, including his latest, Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2014-2025, published by Clarity Press.

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