News Review 06/12/2023

Congress Reviews Plan to Facilitate Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza

‘Israel’ Hayom has reported that some members of Congress have reviewed a plan to condition US aid to Arab countries on their willingness to accept refugees from Gaza, which would facilitate the ‘Israeli’ goal of cleansing the territory of the Palestinians. The proposal was shown to key figures in the House and Senate, but the report did not say who submitted the plan. The proposal calls for conditioning aid to Egypt, Turkey, Yemen, and Iraq and even details how many Palestinians each country should take. The plan proposes that one million Palestinians go to Egypt, half a million to Turkey, 250,000 to Iraq, and another 250,000 to Yemen. In total, the plan outlines the expulsion of two million Palestinians from Gaza, nearly all of the 2.3 million Palestinians that live there. In a recent op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, two Israeli members of the Knesset called for Western countries to accept Palestinian refugees. ‘Israeli’ Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel penned a similar op-ed for The Jerusalem Post that proposed the “voluntary resettlement” of Palestinians in Gaza to other countries around the world.

Traders with Prior Knowledge of Hamas Attacks Made Millions Shorting ‘Israel’, Claims Report

A 60-page study by Robert Jackson Jr, of New York University School of Law, and Joshua Mitts, of Columbia Law School concluded Investors with prior knowledge of the Oct 7 Hamas massacre earned at least tens of millions of pounds short-selling ‘Israeli’ stocks in the days before the attack. While the report did not name the investors, the report said they were understood to be “informed traders anticipating and profiting from the Hamas attack”. The shorts were unusual as they occurred during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, a very quiet period in the Jewish entity both in terms of news events and financial activity. ‘Israeli’ financial authorities said they had launched an investigation into the report, which also noted suspicious trading activity on the US stock exchange shortly before the massacre. In response to the report, a Tel Aviv Stock Exchange spokesman said: “The matter is known to the authority and is under investigation by all the relevant parties.”

NATO has three years to prepare for Russian attack

The countries on NATO’s eastern flank have as little as three years to prepare for the possibility of a Russian attack, the head of a Polish national security agency said. As Ukraine suffered a series of setbacks in its defensive war against Russia, and Europe and the United States have struggled to secure their next packages of military aid to Kyiv, attention is turning to the threat the Kremlin will pose to NATO if the conflict becomes “frozen”. In a stark report, one leading German think tank has argued that the military alliance must be ready to fend off a Russian offensive within six to ten years. However, Jacek Siewiera, the chief of Poland’s National Security Bureau and a minister in President Duda’s chancellery, said the paper probably understated the urgency of the situation. Many analysts and NATO leaders worry that the alliance has only a limited period of time to bolster its defences as Russia scales up its military industry and puts in place a mobilisation machine that could sustain or expand troop numbers for years to come.