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Did Israel Pull the US Out Compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?

IRmep’s Grant F. Smith takes on the Arms Control Association’s Daryl Kimball over Israel nuclear smuggling and U.S. compliance with the NPT.

IRmep’s Grant F. Smith Explains the Motives Behind the Israel Lobby’s Smears of Rep. Omar

In a call to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.

The Lobby — USA

Israeli Sadists Mock Dying Boy

“Die you son of a whore!” “Faggot!” the Israelis scream at Ahmad Salih Manasra, 14, as he lays gasping for breath after being shot by an Israeli colonist.

Charlotte Silver reports he is still alive, in critical condition. His cousin was killed.

The killers claim the boy had a knife. We presume him innocent.

The Gaza Strip: “It’s just that dystopian”

Max Blumenthal tells Glenn Greenwald:

“And for all I knew about the Israel-Palestine crisis, I was not prepared to come in to such intimate contact with so much human destruction. And to really come to grips with the fact that the Gaza Strip is an open-air prison, and it’s not hyperbolic to say so. We’re not just saying this for rhetorical effect.

In order to enter Gaza, you pass through the Erez terminal with your government press office credential, which means you’re one of very few people who can get in or get out. And you wander down a long corridor, which is a cage, and then you arrive at a metal door at a concrete wall. The metal door opens, it shuts behind you, and you’re inside what is effectively a walled-off ghetto.

You look down this endless wall, to your right, and you see a remote-controlled machine gun perched on the wall. That’s the spot and strike system, which is operated by an all-female unit of Israeli soldiers in the Negev Desert, tens of kilometers away, by remote. And what they do is, they watch the buffer zone?—?this 300-kilometer area that Palestinians are forbidden from entering inside the Gaza Strip. And anyone who enters who they determine to be a “terrorist,” they eliminate with the push of a joystick button from a remote-controlled machine gun. It’s just that dystopian.”