US Embassy Urges Lebanon To 'Revive' Energy Deals Stalled By Washington Since 2022

For two and a half years, US officials and DC-based institutions have stalled the implementation of an energy-sharing deal that could help Lebanon mitigate its dire energy crisis

US ambassador Lisa Johnson urged Lebanon to “revive” dormant agreements with Jordan and Egypt for electricity imports via Syria, praising the “opportunity” after Washington eased some restrictions on Damascus this week.

Johnson made these comments during a meeting with Lebanese caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad on 8 January, the eve of a crucial parliamentary session where lawmakers are expected to vote on a president for the crisis-hit nation.

The deals that Johnson hopes Beirut will “revive” are the brainchild of her predecessor, Dorothy Shea, who proposed them in August 2021 as an alternative to Iranian fuel shipments brought into the country by Hezbollah, aimed at mitigating a severe energy crisis.

Under US sponsorship, the agreements to supply Lebanon with gas from Egypt and electricity from Jordan via Syria were made official in June 2022. The nations involved also repaired the Arab Gas Pipeline, while Damascus rehabilitated its electricity grid to sustain the transfers.

Nevertheless, since the signing of the agreements, the US government has repeatedly stalled the issue of sanctions waivers for Beirut, Amman, and Cairo to begin the transfers, claiming that helping Lebanon receive energy via Syrian territory would undermine US Caesar Act sanctions.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle .

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The IDF Shoots And Kills A Cat For No Reason At All... I Guess The Cat Was, "Hamas."

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Noctis Draven

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❗️Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaybani receives the Italian delegation headed by Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani at the People's Palace in Damascus.

❗️Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaking from Syria:

○ "We affirm the preservation of the unity of Syrian territory and encourage the safe return of all Syrian citizens."

○ "We are ready to play our role in Syria and encourage the start of a new phase of reforms."

○ "We focused on combating criminal activities such as drug smuggling, human trafficking and illegal immigration."

○ "We seek for our country to be a bridge between Syria and the countries of the European Union."

○ "We stress the importance of lifting sanctions on Syria that were imposed on the former regime and cannot continue."

○ "We will contribute to opening a new page in relations with Syria, which has suffered greatly for decades."

○ "Steps taken by the new Syrian administration are going in the right direction."

Ian Carroll: Woke up to the comment having over 100k likes?!

It has now ratiod the original post by Elon…

America is waking up

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Ian Carroll

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Interesting 📰 by the Daily Mail June 23

“Epstein boasted about a 2012 lunch meeting with Elon Musk that took place AFTER the registered sex offender served a year in jail for procuring underage girls for prostitution”...

When you go back to Musk’s earlier days... affiliation with Peter Thiel... also known ... associate of Jeffrey Epstein

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Elon Musk While Speaking To Alice Weidel From Germany’s AFD On X.

Elon asked “Do you support the existence of the state of Israel?” Alice replied “Yes!”

Later Elon said “I very much support the state of Israel.”

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Suppressed News.

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Interesting 📰 by the Daily Mail June 23

“Jeffrey Epstein boasted about a 2012 lunch meeting with Elon Musk that took place AFTER the registered sex offender served a year in jail for procuring underage girls for prostitution”...

When you go back to Musk’s earlier days... affiliation with Peter Thiel... also known ... associate of Jeffrey Epstein

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Gaza 2035: Netanyahu hatches plan to raze and rebuild enclave

Israeli businessmen close to the prime minister wish to turn a destroyed Gaza into a regional trade and industrial hub under Israeli control and exploiting Palestinian natural gas and cheap labor

Gaza 2035: Netanyahu Hatches Plan to Raze and Rebuild Enclave

Israeli businessmen close to the prime minister wish to turn a destroyed Gaza into a regional trade and industrial hub under Israeli control and exploiting Palestinian natural gas and cheap labor

Documents published online lay out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s post-war vision for the Gaza Strip, known as “Gaza 2035,” the Jerusalem Post reported on 3 May.

The plan involves keeping Gaza under long-term Israeli security control, making major investments to rebuild the devastated enclave “from nothing” with Gulf assistance, turning Gaza into a regional trade and energy hub, and exploiting cheap Palestinian labor and natural gas for the benefit of Israeli business interests.

The document refers to Gaza as an “Iranian outpost” that “sabotages emerging supply chains” while euphemistically claiming it “thwarts any future hope for the Palestinian people.”

According to the document, the plan involves three steps.

The first step is planned to last 12 months and will see Israel create “safe areas free of Hamas control” in Gaza, starting first in the north and moving to the south.

Gazan Palestinians will run the safe zones under the supervision of a coalition of Arab states, which would be responsible for providing humanitarian aid.

Step two would last five to 10 years. The Israeli military will retain control of the strip, while the Arab states will be responsible for reconstruction under a newly established Gaza Rehabilitation Authority (GRA), and Palestinians will manage the safe areas.

Reconstruction efforts will involve “rebuilding from nothing” and designing new cities from scratch, featuring modern designs and planning. This implies that the Israeli military will continue to destroy much, if not all, of Gaza through bombing and controlled demolition.

Stage three would see Palestinians “self-govern” a demilitarized Gaza while Israel retains the right to act against “security threats.”

The final step, the Jerusalem Post notes, would be for the Palestinians to “fully manage Gaza independently” and join the Abraham Accords, an agreement binding several existing Arab states in an alliance with Israel.

The Jerusalem Post claims that the plan would benefit Palestinians in Gaza by offering them employment opportunities and eventual “self-governance” – under continued Israeli security control.

Many Israeli politicians have called for all of Gaza’s 2.3 million people to be forcibly expelled to Egypt or Europe. But the plan apparently calls for some to remain in Gaza as a source of cheap labor.

The Jerusalem Post says the plan would benefit the Gulf states by offering them “defensive pacts with the US and unfettered access to Gaza’s Mediterranean ports through railways and pipelines.”

The plan aims to turn Gaza into a significant industrial port on the Mediterranean, facilitating the export of Gazan goods, Saudi oil, and other raw materials from the Gulf....

Israel would tap the natural gas fields off the coast of Gaza to provide the energy needed for industrial manufacturing. Israel has blocked the development of the fields, which legally belong to Palestinians, for decades.

The Jerusalem Post adds that the plan included a proposal to manufacture electric cars in the free trade zone and complete with “cheap Chinese manufacturing,” further suggesting cheap Palestinian labor from Gaza would be critical to the proposal.

Israeli business interests would likely benefit most...

NYT added that the officials said the plan was “under consideration at the highest levels of Israel’s government.”

Any Israeli plan for post-war Gaza would also need to accommodate the demands of Israel’s far-right religious settler community, which demands colonizing Gaza and constructing Jewish settlements there after the war.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

Related: GAZA 2035: A NEW SMART 15 MINUTE CITY BUILT ON THE MASS GRAVES OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN:

WATCH: GAZA 2035 SMART 15 MINUTE CITY

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Israel Blocks UN Probe On 'Hamas Rape' Claims Fearing Inquiry Into Sexual Abuse Of Palestinians

Elected Israeli officials and settler groups last year started riots in defense of prison guards who gang-raped a Palestinian detainee inside the notorious Sde Teiman prison camp

Israeli officials have obstructed a UN investigation into alleged sexual crimes committed by Hamas fighters during the 7 October 2023 Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, fearing this would open the door to a probe into the rampant allegations of sexual violence against Palestinians inside Israeli torture camps.

According to a report by Israeli daily Haaretz, Tel Aviv rejected a request from Pramila Patten, the UN special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, to investigate the allegations against Hamas after she established that a necessary condition would be access to Israeli detention centers to probe claims against Israeli soldiers.

“The clear concern is that Israel will be the one to be added to the blacklist of entities and countries that engage in sexual violence in conflicts, while the terrorist organization Hamas will actually remain off the list,” Mia Schocken, director of the international department of the Israeli Women's Lobby told Haaretz.

Patten’s office previously confirmed plans to explore a future mission to the region, following invitations from both the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli government.

Thursday's report comes mere days after Israeli prosecutor Moran Gaz confirmed during an interview with Yediot Ahronoth that no allegations of rape or sexual assault by Hamas on 7 October have been filed.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

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Haaretz reported that the incidents described in the interview never took place.

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Three Individual Separate And Geographically Different Fire Sources All Ignited Simultaneously And Magically. Take All The Time You Need.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Lionel

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I read the SmartLA 2028 document so you don't have to: It is all about increasing fibreoptic cabling throughout LA & incorporating surveillance sensors (& cameras?) in street lamps. It also mentions real time facial recognition, and data collection. It is one massive digital panopticon (a prison where the wardens can see everything you are doing at all times).

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Biden Says Federal Government To Cover 100% of Costs for Initial LA Fire Recovery — ABC

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-raises-federal-funding-initial-los-angeles-fire/story?id=117516448

Was This Done For The Flooding In Appalachia?

🔗SOURCE ➡️ ABC, Mack

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Haaretz: Netanyahu Wants the Army Chief's Head, So His Henchman Has Escalated the War Against the IDF

Clashes Between Defense Minister Katz And Senior Defense Establishment Officials Are Merely Part Of A Plan, The Ultimate Goal Of Which Is To Allow Netanyahu To Place Full Responsibility For October 7 On Israel's Security Chiefs / Amos Harel

This has been a week of escalation. But not in the Gaza Strip, though soldiers continue to die there in the name of a goal that hasn't been clear for a long time; not in Lebanon, where Israel is threatening to remain beyond the 60 days agreed on in the cease-fire deal; and not even in Iran, despite headlines about increasingly close American-Israeli coordination on the possibility of attacking its nuclear facilities.

Rather, the main escalation, and the one that really worries the political and defense establishment, was the one between the prime and defense ministers, on one hand, and the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff on the other.

The reasons have been known for some time. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz want to accelerate the departure (or even dismissal) of IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi so they can portray him as solely to blame for.. October 7, 2023. At the same time, they are waging a holding action against the appointment of a state commission of inquiry.

Katz's crude attack on IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari on Wednesday was part of a complicated, deceptive move whose goal is to remove Halevi and Shin Bet security service director Ronen Bar...

Netanyahu fired former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant two months ago and replaced him with Katz to obtain full control over the Defense Ministry and, through it, to strengthen his grip on the IDF brass....

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Haaretz.com [archive]

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11/5 — Times of Israel - Netanyahu planning to also fire IDF, Shin Bet Chiefs

11/5- Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Gallant

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"Many Israelis blame the prime minister for allowing Hamas' Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to happen"

..These reports, as well as the ease with which Hamas fighters breached the Gaza border fence and the slow response of the air force and army, have led some Israelis to speculate that Netanyahu and others in Israeli intelligence and the military welcomed a Hamas attack.

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli settler Sharon Aloni, freed after 25 days in Gaza during the November 2023 prisoner exchange, made a video asking about her husband David Cunio, who is still a prisoner

Al-Qassam Brigades have released a video implying his fate is in Netanyahu's hands.

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❗️Israeli Army Radio correspondent:

"The brigadier general in charge of recruiting the Haredim in the Israeli army, Major General David Zini, was attacked last night in the city of Bnei Brak [east of Tel Aviv], along with his assistant, a major, while they were sitting in one of the city’s restaurants.

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered around them, chanted slogans and threw bottles. Police arrived at the scene and had to rescue the two officers from the incident. Three of the ultra-Orthodox attackers were detained for police investigation."

❗️Israel killed journalist Saed Nabhan while he was covering attacks on central Gaza's Nuseirat camp.

Nabhan worked as a photojournalist for Al-Ghad channel.

Over 200 journalists and 148 academics have been killed by Israel in Gaza since 7 October, 2023.