US nukes back in GB; Israeli false flag in Golders Green; V-1 VW factory to make Israeli weapons; Trump pals made $500m from speech

[Tony Gosling]

– Mounting evidence attack on Golders Green ambulances was Israeli false flag
– Jewish charity ambulance attack in Golders
Green, false flag? Source of claim Rita Katz – SITE Intelligence is Mossad
– The London Ambulances Attack: Of Course It Was A False Flag
– The notion that the Iranian state would
discredit itself by choosing to attack an ambulance service in London is crazy
– Rowland Dye and Suzie Luger join Tony and
Martin. Filton in Bristol and arms companies
including Elbit. Filton walking tours by Bristol Against the Arms Trade.
– CND’s RAF/USAF Lakenheath International Peace Camp 2026
– Revealed: How the arms industry is targeting
Bristol’s secondary schools From ‘colour your own F-35’
– M Shed Bristol exhibition of art against the
war – some items pulled at last minute. IDF destroying ambulances in Gaza.
– Bristol City Council shuts down art exhibition
criticising Bristol’s arms industry
– The temporary exhibition, which runs for
another few weeks, has now re-opened after the
artists and the council agreed to cut out names
and faces from artworks that were critical of
Bristol’s arms companies and the people who run them
– American Nuclear Weapons Back in the UK after
almost 20 years. Trident. RAF Lakenheath now has 20 B61 nuclear bombs.
– B1, B52 bombers at Fairford. What’s it about.
Why It’s Politically Controversial Increased
usability: Critics argue its accuracy and
low-yield settings make nuclear use more thinkable
– Speaking at a “Stop Bombing Iran” protest in
London on Saturday, journalist and author Peter
Oborne said the US and Israel’s war on Iran was
“a war of aggression” under international law
– BBC report: plane spotters and locallers in
Fairford. RAF Fairford B-1B bombers shake offices and startle dogs
– Offices were shaken and dogs were startled as a
pair of supersonic US heavy bombers passed overhead on a mission
– The US variable wing long-ranged bomber is
considered to be the loudest plane in the entire Air Force
– Suzie explains their Pilgrimage 4 Palestine
which ended up in Parliament Square – they stayed in Mosques along the way.
– Donate to Hands Up project. ‘Shattered’ book by 16 year old Gazan girl.
– UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Our international volunteers meet with classes in
Palestine every day of the week
– Swivel-Eyed Crusading Templar and War Secretary
Pete Hegseth saying Trump anointed by Jesus.
– New crusades. Christians targeted by IDF. Pete
Hegseth wanted an ‘American Crusade.’ Now he’s leading a war in the Middle East
– Gideon Levy, Israeli journalist, explains
Netanyahu’s diabolical plan to Chris Hedges.
– Jet fuel doubled in price.
BBC: Black Rock’s Larry Fink, who stands to gain
from mass death, extreme outcomes from present Iran war situation.
– Virgin issues huge airfare update after the
cost of jet fuel doubled in a MONTH – as a major
Aussie supermarket sounds the alarm
– Trump: the Insider Trader’s Perfect President:
Unknown traders placed over half a billion in
bets minutes before Trump claimed ‘productive’ talks with Iran
– Traders placed more than $500 million in oil
bets just minutes before US President Donald
Trump claimed talks were happening with Iran and
that he was postponing his planned strikes on the
Islamic Republic’s power infrastructure
– Middle East Eye editor: David Hearst – Trump
deluded. China.Oops, we have wrecked another country
– The key element in the decision to attack Iran
for the second time in a year was provided by an
intelligence briefing that turned out to be 100
percent false. The dodgy dossier that led to this
attack was written by Mossad director David Barnea
– Mark Rutte, NATO, speech – difficult questions from journalists.
– Alan Jones, a listener living in China, gives an insight in to life there.
– ‘Stronger Than Ever’: NATO Chief After Trump
Accuses Alliance Of ‘Doing Nothing’ On Iran War
– The Cradle – article – China says chaos in middle east.
– Warren Thornton, former UK military, joins Tony
and Martin live from the Philippines.
– Warren has his own daily podcast on Patreon.
War in Iran. Infiltration of Iranian protests.
– Russia giving Iran S-300 and S-400 air defence systems.
– 17,500 US troops heading to Strait of Hormuz. Flawed plan for war.
– British Intelligence tagged Shajareh Tayyebeh
school as military target says journalist Warren Thornton
– Ukraine war: 1300 Ukrainian soldiers are now
being killed every day in Russia's 'denazification' operation
– The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
has destroyed $2.7 billion worth of high value
radar systems during the first week of engagements with U.S. forces
– The Brookings Institute, Road to Persia paper –
US aid to Ukraine transferred to middle east.
– Which Path to Persia? Options for a New
Strategy Towards Iran By Kenneth Pollack
– If you woke up this morning wondering how best
to attack Iran, this book provides your answer
– Israeli chief of staff warns army on verge of ‘collapse’ amid troop shortage
– Volkswagen in talks to produce parts for
Israel’s missile defence system, FT reports
– German car giant with Nazi-era V-1 roots,
pivots to defence production as the industry struggles to compete with China
– J D Vance – Iran nuclear suicide vest. Marco Rubio dangerous. Nuclear war?
– Vice President JD Vance on Thursday attempted
to justify the continued US-Israeli war against
Iran by implying that Iran could potentially turn
a nuclear bomb into a suicide vest
– Child 18 months old tortured by Israelis. What
is the Philippines like, and is there an energy emergency?
– Israeli army tortures a Palestinian toddler in Gaza in front of his father
– Nigel Farage, now part of Israel lobby, fears a
[Zionist? ed.] fifth column was building up inside this country.
– Accelerationist Inversion Nigel? Nigel Farage
on Golders Green ambulance attack – Iranian 5th column in UK.
– Craig Murray: Iran has no track record of
attacking ambulances. Pro Zionist police force in North London.
– Man who confronted Al Jazeera journalists was
Met Police special constable David Soffer told
members of the Al Jazeera team to “go back to Qatar”
– C4 News – Russian ambassador saying Iran
stronger than US thought. US has underestimated Iran
– Netanyahu: Jesus couldn’t win against Genghis
Khan.The C18 British Empire was larger than the C13 Mongol Empire
– ‘Evil will overcome good…’: Netanyahu’s ‘Jesus
vs Genghis Khan’ quote sparks global backlash.
– Steve Reed MP and Housing Minister on Ryecroft
Report – foreign countries infiltrating UK politics but ignores Israel.
– Steve Reed in ‘incredible’ Israel lobby
omission in ‘foreign meddling’ speech
– A LABOUR minister is under fire after he failed
to declare his relationship with the pro-Israel
lobby when he unveiled a new report on foreign interference in UK politics
– The Rise of The Digital Surveillance State,
documentary by Bitchure boss Ray Vahey –
– Ray Vahey, owner of Bit Chute, on how private
corporations sell surveillance on us.
– Crispin Blunt guilty on drugs charges – only MP
supporting Palestine just before he was arrested.
– Richard Sanders, DDN, explaining why right wing shouldn’t support Israel.
– The End of Israel: The Ultimate Evidence Double
Down News Join the Future of Journalism
– You Gov poll – most Britons think WW3 will start in next few years.
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Part One – Local and National News Review

Emacs!




Jewish charity ambulance attack in Golders Green
– false flag? Rita Katz – Site. Jewish people
telling Al Jazeera to get off their streets.
Special constables. The London Ambulances Attack:
Of Course It Was A False Flag The notion that the
Iranian state would discredit itself by choosing
to attack an ambulance service in London is
crazy. Iran has not even attacked any hospitals
or ambulances in Israel. Iran has absolutely zero
record of attacks on healthcare facilities.
<https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/03/the-london-ambulances-attack-of-course-it-was-a-false-flag/>That
is of course in stark contrast to Israel which
specifically targets them in Gaza and Lebanon.
The obvious revulsion of a UK public, that has
been opposed to the war on Iran, at the
destruction of the ambulances would far outweigh
any possible gain. What precisely is the gain
that Iran is supposed to have sought? The
organisation that, conveniently for the Zionist
narrative, immediately claimed responsibility for
the attack is Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.
This is a group which simply did not exist until
the US and Israeli attack on Iran, when it
suddenly appeared fully formed
<https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/03/the-london-ambulances-attack-of-course-it-was-a-false-flag/>and
started causing small incidents of property
damage to Jewish communities in Belgium and the
Netherlands. From
<https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/03/the-london-ambulances-attack-of-course-it-was-a-false-flag/>day
one of its appearance, Israeli-backed think tanks
and security groups instantly claimed to have
linked it to Iranian militias. These Israeli
claims were first surfaced by regular Israeli
security service outlet Joe Truzman of the
“Foundation for Defending Democracy”, who makes a
living from fronting Israeli claims that all the
deaths in Gaza were Hamas. The first online
“evidence” of the existence of the group was on 9
March. On 16 March the entire Israeli Hasbara
machinery in coordination went into overdrive on
Harakat Ashab al-Yamin. Israel’s Diaspora
Ministry issued a statement. So did Israel’s MFA.
So did the Institute of National Security
Studies. So did BICOM – the Britain Israel
Communications and Research Centre. All on the
same morning. At a time when Harakat Ashab
al-Yamin had done nothing except allegedly start
a small fire in Rotterdam. This frenzied
publicity activity about this, by that point
practically non-existent, group was prioritised
by the Israeli state on the morning of some of
the most intense missile and bombing attacks by
Israel, the USA, Iran and Hezbollah of the war.
There are some real red flags about its
appearance. The first, as eloquently exposed by
Lowkey, is that in its manifesto it uses the term
“The Land of Israel” to refer to Palestine. No
Islamic group, ever, referred to “The Land of
Israel” and the phrase in Arabic is not even what
complicit Gulf Arab elites use – they use just
“Israel” or “The State of Israel”. “The Land of
Israel” is unnatural in Arabic and evidently
written by a Zionist and translated into Arabic.
The other strange thing is that this allegedly
Iranian group doesn’t use Farsi. Iranians don’t
speak Arabic. Nor would any Iranian
government-aligned group ever talk of “The Land
of Israel” in Farsi. To add further to this, the
group’s published logo appears to be AI-generated
and the Arabic lettering on it is wrong.
“Islamic” is rendered incorrectly and some of it
doesn’t mean anything coherent at all – it is
gibberish, presumably constructed by AI asked to
produce a shield with Arabic lettering. Unlike
the Zionist propaganda-pumping UK media, Dutch
media asked real experts and was openly sceptical
of the claims about the group: “Political
anthropologist Younes Saramifar from Amsterdam’s
VU university said the group was “completely
unknown” until this month. “Based on what I have
seen, this is absolutely not an organised and
coherent group,” he told NOS before the Zuidas
explosion. Saramifar said language mistakes in
statements accompanying the videos suggest the
makers are not native Arabic speakers and may not
be part of a trained militant network.” It is
another remarkably happy coincidence that the
group chose to attack the London ambulances just
hours before Metropolitan Police Chief
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley was due to address a
fundraising event for the Community Services
Trust, the group which receives enormous payouts
from the British Treasury for consistently
exaggerating the scale of antisemitism in the UK.
Thankfully, nobody has ever been hurt in any of
the “attacks” by “Harakat Ashab al-Yamin”. Isn’t
that fact in itself a bit strange for a
state-backed terror group? The ambulances in
London were the worst damage ever done in the
name of the alleged group. I am unhesitating in
condemning all attacks on the Jewish community in
the UK. Including those perpetrated by Mossad.

Emacs!

Rowland Dye and Suzie Luger join Tony and Martin.
Filton in Bristol and arms companies including
Elbit. Filton walking tours by Bristol Against
the Arms Trade. Revealed: How the arms industry
is targeting Bristol’s secondary schools From
‘colour your own F-35’ to missile simulators,
arms companies are promoting STEM careers in
schools, but obscuring their role in the bloody
global arms trade. Teachers, union reps, and
campaign groups are pushing back
<https://thebristolcable.org/2025/11/revealed-how-the-arms-industry-is-targeting-bristols-secondary-schools/>It’s
propaganda work. Companies clean up their image
by investing in education. Faria, Disarm
Education Just months into the bombardment, staff
from BAE Systems were invited to St Katherine’s
School near Bristol to speak to students. It is
one of the UK’s largest arms companies, and one
of the main partners in the production of F-35
fighter jets, many sold to Israel. “It was sprung
upon a lot of teachers,” says Alice*, a former St
Katherine’s employee. Students weren’t told about
the company’s arms involvement or its role in
Gaza. “It was a disgrace,” she says. The school’s
careers officers emailed staff, saying the
assembly would give year 8 students a chance to
explore aeronautics and STEM careers. Since 2020,
BAE Systems has spent over a billion pounds on
education and skills development, regularly
showcasing their forays on social media. Posts
include robot dogs, lightsaber fights, and
presenters with names like ‘Mr Magnetic.’ But
crucially – as Alice points out: “They don’t
mention at all who they are or what they actually
do.” Lack of scrutiny Nick, a religion and ethics
teacher, says the same about Rolls Royce, who
recently visited his Filton school. “They don’t
talk about weapons. They focus on aerospace, then
greenwash it by saying, ‘we’re developing
synthetic fuels.’” He adds that discussing war
with students is tricky. “I teach peace and
conflict, but if I start talking about missiles,
there’s a good chance someone’s dad works at the
nearby Ministry of Defence.” And, he knows many
of the students will go on to apprenticeships
with Rolls Royce or BAE Systems, both of which
have bases in Filton. “Parents need to give
consent for sexual health lessons and religious
trips, but they don’t have to for arms companies,
which is something that we want to raise in the
campaign,” she tells the Cable. “It’s propaganda
work. Companies clean up their image by investing
in education. Rolls Royce don’t announce
themselves as an arms company, they’ll hide it
under the veneer of innovation, engineering and
technology.” Some companies go further. French
company Thales, a French company, tours their
missile simulator around UK schools. While
Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest arms
manufacturer, produced an activity book with a
‘colour in the F-35 fighter plane’ exercise for
British Science Week. Unions pushing back In
July, the government proscribed Palestine Action,
which had carried out direct action against
companies producing arms used by Israel. Open
resistance has become riskier, but activists are
finding other ways to push back. In April, Disarm
Education affiliated with the National Education
Union (NEU), giving members protection to
challenge arms industry involvement. NEU members
in the Cabot Learning Federation successfully
blocked Labour MP Damien Egan, vice chair of
Labour Friends of Israel, from speaking at
Bristol Brunel Academy due to his stance on
Palestine Action and Israel sanctions. An NEU
member at a CLF school told the Cable how, in
September, the union rep at BBA posted about
Egan’s visit in a WhatsApp group, sparking a flurry of organising.

Emacs!

M Shed Bristol exhibition of art against the war
– some items pulled at last minute. IDF
destroying ambulances in Gaza.
<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/26/rklo-m26.html>Council
shuts down art exhibition criticising Bristol’s
arms industry “A decision was taken to refuse
permission to display certain items that depict
Bristol businesses” An art exhibition at the
M-Shed in Bristol has sparked controversy, after
the city council’s legal department ordered it be
shut down just a day after opening.
<https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/council-shuts-down-art-exhibition-10881269>The
temporary exhibition, which runs for another few
weeks, has now re-opened after the artists and
the council agreed to cut out names and faces
from artworks that were critical of Bristol’s
arms companies and the people who run them. The
art show opened in the M-Shed’s top floor
visiting exhibition space on March 10, and is
called ‘Anatomy of Solidarity’. Three different
art collectives contributed work to the
exhibition – Latinas in Bristol, Creative Shift
and a group called Art Against War Club. Art
Against War Club said they installed the works of
art on March 9, with the M-Shed’s public
programmes manager present, who said all their
pieces of art had been ‘flagged and cleared’ with
the creative team, and the exhibition opened to
the public on March 10. But the following day,
some of their work had been taken down and their
section of the exhibition was cordoned off, with
staff at the M-Shed telling them she wasn’t
allowed to speak to them, because the legal
department at Bristol City Council – which owns
and manages the M-Shed – had raised issues. The
exhibition has now, more than a week later,
finally opened to the public, but some of the
works of art have parts cut out by the artists
themselves, to get around what they said they see
as council censorship. Other works of the pop-art
exhibition have also had references to BAE
Systems, Elbit Systems and named people removed,
by the artists themselves. One that has survived
the ‘censorship’ is a photograph of the statue of
Edward Colston on its plinth, but with a
quadcopter armed drone where its head should be.
The artists said they wanted to challenge Bristol
companies’ involvement in supplying arms and
military equipment to Israel. The Israeli
military operation in Gaza was described as a
genocide by a UN Commission of Inquiry report in
September 2025, and by the world’s leading
association of genocide scholars in the same
month. One of the artists from Art Against War
Club, Jordan Glynn, claimed: “We understand that
a council’s nervous system is wired for
compliance – for avoiding risk, avoiding
conflict, avoiding being seen as ‘difficult’.
“But we’re not here to perform that obedience.
Arms companies benefit from a cultural
environment of fear and compliance. Our work is a
daily disobedience practice. We train ourselves
and our audiences to tolerate the discomfort of
asking: Who profits from war in our city? We
refuse to let fear of corporate displeasure set
the limits of what can be said in public space,”
he added. Another artist, Sam Catford, alleged:
“We had great communications with the M Shed
throughout, with work signed off at every stage.
“The Public Programmes Manager was present and
enthusiastic on opening day. Our only conclusion
can be that once people started engaging in these
conversations, someone felt there was too much
risk, and instead of standing up for the right to
discuss these realities in a public forum, they
chose to censor our work,” they added. A
spokesperson for Bristol City Council said that
the exhibition is now open again and they have
worked with the artist leading the event to add
material that provides visitors with the context
for why a request was made to ‘reconsider some
items’, and that any changes to the items were made by the artists…..

Emacs!

American Nuclear Weapons Back in the UK after
almost 20 years. Trident. RAF Lakenheath now has
20 B61 nuclear bombs. B1, B52 bombers at
Fairford. What’s it about. Why It’s Politically
Controversial Increased usability: Critics argue
its accuracy and low-yield settings make nuclear
use more thinkable. NATO forward-deployment: The
U.S. stores B61-12s in Europe (Belgium, Germany,
Italy, the Netherlands­and now the UK), under the
nuclear sharing program, which raises tensions
with Russia.
<https://aviationnews.eu/news/2025/07/american-nuclear-weapons-back-in-the-uk-after-almost-20-years-whats-it-about/>Modernization
cost: The total life extension program for the
B61-12 is expected to cost over $10 billion,
which has drawn criticism for cost overruns. How
They Got There AviationNews – In mid-July 2025,
U.S. B61-12 tactical nuclear gravity bombs were
reportedly flown from Kirtland Air Force Base in
New Mexico to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England,
via C-17 transport aircraft. This marks the first
return of American nukes to British soil since
around 2008. The deployment follows years of
infrastructure upgrades at Lakenheath­including
secure underground vaults and a new “surety
dormitory”­planned in U.S. Defense Department
budget documents as early as 2022–2023. When They
Got There Reports indicate the weapons arrived in
late July 2025, with public first mentions
circulating around July 20. That timing matches
recent RAF base upgrades tied to NATO’s dual
capable aircraft mission. Where in the UK The
site in question is RAF Lakenheath in
Suffolk­about 100 km northeast of London. Up to
33 underground vaults (each originally built to
store up to four B61 bombs) were in place since
the 1990s; currently around 22 are being
reactivated for modern storage of B61-12
warheads. These storage areas fall under U.S.
military control (not UK), though they are
located on British territory and operated in
coordination with the RAF’s F-35A–equipped 495th
Fighter Squadron, which is now NATO-certified to
deliver the B61-12 bombs. Why It Matters First
U.S. nukes in the UK in nearly two decades –
marking a major shift in NATO’s posture and UK’s
role beyond its submarine-based Trident
deterrent. Enhanced deterrence – B61-12 bombs
have dial-a-yield (0.3 to 50 kilotons) and
precision guidance to be delivered by
stealth-capable F-35As, signifying a
tactical-level nuclear capability redeployed into
Europe. Geopolitical signalling – seen by
analysts as a direct answer to growing Russian
aggression and the Ukraine war, and intended to
reassure NATO allies in northern Europe.
Non-proliferation concerns – critics warn that
resuming so-called nuclear “sharing” may erode
norms under the Non-Proliferation Treaty by
blurring the line between hosting and
proliferation. Security implications – because
the strategic placement now places Britain­and
its airbases­directly on Russia’s radar,
increasing both the symbolic and potential
physical exposure in a nuclear escalation
scenario. What It Changes in Plain Terms The UK,
which until now relied solely on Trident
submarines for its nuclear deterrent, will once
again host U.S. air-delivered warheads on its own
soil. RAF Lakenheath and the new F-35A squadron
signal an elevated role in NATO’s nuclear
posture. This move heightens tensions in Europe
and alters the strategic balance­making the UK
part of a deterrence triangle, rather than
passive supporter. For the first time in a
generation, British airfields may be central
launch points in a nuclear crisis­something reserved for Cold War planning…

Peter Oborne gives speech at anti war protest in
London. ‘This is a war of aggression’, says Peter
Oborne at Stop Bombing Iran protest in London
Middle East Eye
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSX63cRylKk>Speaking
at a “Stop Bombing Iran” protest in London on
Saturday, journalist and author Peter Oborne said
the US and Israel’s war on Iran was “a war of
aggression” under international law. Oborne also
criticised UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for
allowing US bombers to use British bases and for
failing to describe the war on Iran as a “criminal act”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4HmO9lKIck

Emacs!

BBC report – plane spotters and locallers in
Fairford. RAF Fairford B-1B bombers shake offices
and startle dogs on way to NATO mission There are
four US Air Force B-1B Lancers currently
stationed at RAF Fairford People across
Gloucestershire were surprised to hear a loud
booming roar split the sky overhead as they came
into work this morning, or for some four-legged
friends, as they were settling into a mid-morning
snooze.
<https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/raf-fairford-b-1b-bombers-8835959>According
to startled posts on social media, offices were
shaken and dogs were startled as a pair of
supersonic US heavy bombers passed overhead on a
mission. They were just two of the four B-1B
Lancer bombers currently stationed at RAF
Fairford as part of a US Air Force deployment,
which began landing on Thursday (October 12)
ahead of their NATO mission. For their Bomber
Task Force rotation they have been given fresh
callsigns, which are also quite appropriate given
the insane volume of their engines, HOWLER21 and
HOWLER22. While some in Cheltenham heard the
B-1Bs “howl” overhead just after 8.30am on their
way to their mission, residents in Northleach,
just 10 miles from RAF Fairford, reported hearing
the distant booming sound of the plane’s
pre-flight engine checks, which started around
7am. The US variable wing long-ranged bomber is
considered to be the loudest plane in the entire
Air Force. Each of the plane’s four engines is
able to provide more than 30,000 pounds of
thrust, with their ultra-loud afterburners which
are used at takeoff. This in turn creates between
127 and 140 decibels of sustained noise, which
for those on the ground, is the equivalent of
standing next to a blaring siren, or having a
firecracker go off next to your ear. Gen. James
Hecker, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe
said: “We’re not only demonstrating our
commitment to collective defense but also
strengthening our ability to respond to potential
challenges. This underscores the enduring
commitment of the United States to our Allies and partners.”

Emacs!

Suzie explains their Pilgrimage 4 Palestine which
ended up in Parliament Square – they stayed in
Mosques along the way. See Instagram and
Facebook. Pilgrimage for Palestine … Pilgrimage
for Palestine hit London Parliament Square on a
hot 30th March at 2pm. There was amazement and
some tears as we paused in Hyde Park, after
thirteen days of walking, talking, poetry,
generous hosts, massive support, huge donations,
canals, rivers, injury, iftar, rapture, waking
every day at 3.30am.
<https://www.handsupproject.org/blog-hup/pligrimage-for-palestine>We
paused and waited for the Red Rebels. We being
myself on foot, my wife Alice, Nick Bilbrough on
bicycle (Hands Up Project founder,) Rowland Dye
and Sue Luger, the support team, on foot/van. And
a number of supporters who had joined us for the
last leg. We moved closer to Parliament Square
and waited for the Rebels. They appeared, moving
very slowly as they do, as if in shock, dressed
in Renaissance velvet red. We followed them into
the square, traffic and sunlight and tourists and
towers – and Palestinian flags. Right round went
the rebels, and we followed, dazed and amazed,
stopped at Winston Churchill and began to speak,
as Zionists chanted and flung unspecified
liquids. A drunk man took our side and wanted to
attack them, and was gently diverted. I gave the
key round my neck a last kiss and touched it to
my forehead, then handed it to a girl in
traditional Palestinian dress. This was the key I
was given in Bristol by Feda Shahien on the 18th,
thirteen days before, the day the sham ceasefire
finally collapsed. All along the way it hung
round my neck on a strip of cloth from a
Palestinian shawl. It is the key to Feda’s
grandmother’s house in Palestine, from which she
was evicted by the Israelis (that part of history
does not exist in Israel.) Once, in Reading, the
key fell off. I was speaking at an event at the
University, reading poems by Palestinian children
collected by the Hands Up Project. The key untied
itself from its cloth and fell to the floor, and
the floor nearly gave way beneath my feet as I
realised they key could have fallen off when I
was walking along the canal and been lost. The
Kennet and Avon canal rescued us from heavy roads
all the way from Bath to Reading. Then the roads
claimed us again for one hectic and racist day,
when for a moment near Datchet I thought all was
lost. Union Jacks everywhere, and a smooth guy
rolled past, filming us, saying, ‘No thanks, not
in Datchet.’ Then we picked up the Grand Union canal all the way to Paddington.

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16 year old Gazan girl. The Hands Up Project is
committed to social justice, global citizenship,
and freedom of expression, and upholds the belief
that language learning is enhanced through
creativity, performance and collaborative
interaction. To these ends, the project affords
opportunities for children in difficult
circumstances, such as Palestine, to use English
to communicate with one another across borders in
a “spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom,
equality and solidarity.” UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 1989
<https://www.handsupproject.org/>Our
international volunteers meet with classes in
Palestine every day of the week to tell stories,
play games and chat with students. We also run
free teacher development courses for Palestinian
teachers and free specialised courses on Remote
theatre and other areas. In summer 2022 teachers
joined free courses in Remote Theatre and how to
use storytelling to help build students’
confidence in the language of science!
Storytelling is at the heart of every culture and
has always been at the heart of what we do .
Whether it’s students sharing their traditional
stories, or remote volunteers and young people
sharing anecdotes from their daily lives,
something extraordinary happens every time we
meet. The world gets a little closer to us, our
hearts become a little more open and our
understanding stretches towards people we may
never meet. Remote Theatre: We provide ongoing
support to the drama clubs we helped to establish
in schools all over Palestine. The clubs, and our
annual playwriting competition have stimulated a
brand new art form – remote theatre. Short plays
written by the children are shared with the world
in our SaturPLAY live sessions, published in our
3 books – “Toothbrush”, “Welcome to Earth” and
“Popcorn” and performed live at special events .
Because of the pandemic a new genre of remote
theatre where the children perform through
individual webcams ( Lockdown theatre ) has
emerged. The 2021 competition featured a
brand-new element – all the entries were
international collaborations. We were really
excited about seeing internationally produced
plays and we weren’t disappointed. Palestinian
students worked with students from as far afield
as Venezuela, Pakistan, Mexico, Italy, El
Salvador, Turkey and Romania. The three winning
plays Welcome to Earth, I can smell her and One
World, Different Stories were Palestinian
collaborations with the Czech Republic, Argentina
and Germany. The first place went to Welcome to
Earth acted and produced by students in Palestine
and the Czech Republic. As part of their prize
they travelled to Belfast in the north of Ireland
to meet each other for the first time and to
convert their play into a face-to-face multimedia
performance featuring dance and visual art.
Finalists from 2018 & 2019 (over 100 children)
left Gaza (a rare opportunity for the children to
travel within their own country) to perform in
The Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem, in
Alrowad cultural centre in Bethlehem, and in The
Freedom Theatre in Jenin. Overall winners also
travelled to the UK to perform live in schools,
theatres and at our annual conference. Now we’re
looking forward to this year’s competition where
the plays will be taken from Nick Bilbrough’s
book “Doing Remote Theatre” and once again feature international collaboration.

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Swivel-Eyed Crusading Templar and War Secretary
Pete Hegseth saying Trump anointed by Jesus. New
crusades. Christians targeted by IDF. Pete
Hegseth wanted an ‘American Crusade.’ Now he’s
leading a war in the Middle East In the war the
US launched on the Islamic Republic, the US
secretary of war, as he prefers to be called,
likes to talk about how the Christian God is on
his side. During an interview with CBS News that
aired Sunday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said
Iran should not doubt US resolve because it is
backed by the higher
power.<https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/hegseth-iran-israel-war-american-crusade-analysis>
“Our capabilities are better. Our will is better.
Our troops are better. The providence of our
almighty God is there protecting those troops,
and we’re committed to this mission,” he said.
The CBS reporter, Major Garrett, asked if Hegseth
views the war from a religious context. “I mean,
obviously, we’re fighting religious fanatics who
seek a nuclear capability in order for some
religious Armageddon.” Troops, he later added,
“need a connection with their almighty God in
these moments.” A couple of days later, not long
after returning from a dignified transfer of
soldiers killed in action, Hegseth quoted Psalm
144 at a Pentagon press conference: “Blessed be
the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war
and my fingers for battle.” Hegseth argues the US
is a Christian nation Hegseth has long wanted to
reprogram the country. “America was founded as a
Christian nation,” he said at a recent National
Prayer Breakfast. “It remains a Christian nation
in our DNA, if we can keep it,” he added,
splicing some religion onto a famous Benjamin
Franklin quip about whether the US was a republic
or a monarchy. “Not only are we warriors armed
with the arsenal of freedom, we ultimately are
armed with the arsenal of faith,” he said,
adapting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s idea that the US
should be the arsenal of democracy to his own
religious worldview. Faith is tattooed on his
chest Hegseth says one of his tattoos ­ a
Jerusalem Cross, a religious symbol tied to the
Crusades­ led him to be labeled an extremist and
disinvited from his unit’s detail to President
Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021. The imagery has
roots in the Crusades, when European Christians
tried to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslims. The
term Deus Vult, “God Wills It,” is also tattooed
on Hegseth’s body. In his 2020 book “American
Crusade,” he describes the term as “the rallying
cry of Christian knights as they marched to Jerusalem.”

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nedj7RSphvY>Gideon
Levy, Israeli journalist, explains Netanyahu’s diabolical plan to Chris Hedges.

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Jet fuel doubled in price. BBC – Black Rock’s
Larry Fink – extreme outcomes from present Iran
war situation. Virgin issues huge airfare update
after the cost of jet fuel doubled in a MONTH –
as a major Aussie supermarket sounds the alarm
Virgin will increase the price of domestic
airfares by five per cent after the cost of fuel
doubled in just one month amid the conflict in
the Middle East.
<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15663593/virgin-coles-price-airfares-domestic-middle-east.html>The
move comes after Australia’s national carrier
Qantas and its budget airline Jetstar said they
would raise prices due to the effects of the war
in Iran. ‘Costs across the aviation sector
continue to rise, now significantly exacerbated
by the situation in the Middle East,’ a Virgin
spokesperson said in a statement. ‘We are making
necessary fare adjustments to reflect these cost
pressures.’ It’s understood domestic airfares
will jump by five per cent, 9News reports. The
increase will apply to both economy and business
tickets. It comes after Qantas and Jetstar
announced similar hikes last week. Qantas has not
announced any changes to its domestic fares, with
the airline to conduct fortnightly reviews into
airfares. Meanwhile, Coles has also issued a
similar price warning. The major supermarket said
it would be conducting additional reviews of what
it pays its transporters amid the soaring cost of
fuel. Coles said it was ‘increasing the frequency
that we review the fuel component of our freight
rates from monthly to twice per month – so that
changing fuel costs are reflected more quickly
and fairly’. ‘In the current climate, this means
transport providers will be able to recoup more
of the rising fuel costs,’ a spokesman told the AFR.

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Trump: the Insider Trader’s Perfect President:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcEQGrEva0>Unknown
traders placed over half a billion in bets
minutes before Trump claimed ‘productive’ talks
with Iran: Report Open UK oil fields?
<https://archive.is/nxUI2#selection-1583.0-1587.104>Sky
– large trading volumes on oil 15 minutes before
Trump gives statement on Truth Social. Trump
speech on how they’re winning. The White House
dismissed rumours of insider trading among
officials, calling them ‘baseless and
irresponsible’ Traders placed more than $500
million in oil bets just minutes before US
President Donald Trump claimed talks were
happening with Iran and that he was postponing
his planned strikes on the Islamic Republic’s
power infrastructure, according to the Financial
Times (FT).
<https://thecradle.co/articles/unknown-traders-placed-over-half-a-billion-in-bets-minutes-before-trump-claimed-productive-talks-with-iran-report>Fifteen
minutes before the announcement, a large burst of
activity on online markets took place. Over 6,000
Brent and WTI futures contracts changed hands
between 6:49 am and 6:50 am in New York in a
one-minute flurry worth $580 million, FT
reported, citing data from Bloomberg. Volumes in
both benchmarks surged simultaneously. Trump’s
post was made at 7:04 am and sparked a
significant sell-off in energy markets. “It’s
hard to prove causality … but you have to wonder
who would have been relatively aggressive at
selling futures at that point, 15 minutes before
Trump’s post,” a broker strategist told FT.
According to the report, the timing has raised
questions about the trades and who might be
benefiting from them. “The only focus of
President Trump and Trump administration
officials is doing what’s best for the American
people,” a White House spokesperson said, calling
rumors of insider trading among officials
“baseless and irresponsible.” “The White House
does not tolerate any administration official
illegally profiteering off insider knowledge.”
Tehran quickly came out in response to the
announcement, denying that any talks took place
and vowing to continue fighting. Trump claimed he
was speaking to a “top” official, and that talks
were “very productive.” According to trading
platform Unusual Whales, S&P 500 futures worth
$1.5 billion were bought, and oil futures worth
$192 million were sold. The FT report comes as
concerns have grown about insider trading on
platforms such as Polymarket, both in the US and
Israel. On 2 March, four days after the start of
the US-Israeli war on Iran, Hebrew media reported
that Israeli police opened an investigation into
a Polymarket account that accurately forecast the
28 February strikes. The Polymarket user, under
the name “Magamyman,” reportedly earned about
$430,000 by predicting that the US would strike
Iran on 28 February. According to Globes, roughly
$529 million was bet on when the war would begin,
with $90 million riding on 28 February. In
mid-February, an Israeli man and an army
reservist were indicted on charges of using
sensitive, classified information to place bets
about military operations. Polymarket is being
increasingly used to bet on wars and military
operations, sparking concern among some lawmakers
that insider information used to place bets could
harm national security. In June last year, a user
under the name ricosuave666 made several highly
accurate bets about the Israeli war on Iran that
month, wagering tens of thousands and making a
profit of about $150,000. More recently, another
user made $400,000 dollars betting on a US
assault on Venezuela, just hours before the
illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was ordered by Trump.

Middle East Eye editor: David Hearst – Trump
deluded. China.Oops, we have wrecked another
country David Hearst
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/oops-we-have-wrecked-another-country>The
Iran war is not just a case of history repeating
itself, Mohammad ElBaradei warns. It is history
amplifying itself As the war on Iran lurches
towards its second month, a steady stream of
voices from the intelligence communities in the
US and Israel are making public their dissension
with the whole project. As a result, more details
are coming out about the decision to launch the
attack in February. It had, then, as little to do
with negotiations with Iran in Muscat and Geneva
as it has today. While President Donald Trump has
been talking up contacts with Iran – a notion
dismissed by Iranian parliamentary speaker
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf as “fake news” – flight
data shows that he has simultaneously ordered the
transfer of large numbers of US troops into
Israel and Jordan, apparently in preparation for
a ground assault and the next stage of the war.
No, the key element in the decision to attack
Iran for the second time in a year was provided
by an intelligence briefing that turned out to be
100 percent false. The dodgy dossier that led to
this attack was written by Mossad director David
Barnea. He claimed in a briefing to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Mossad was
so strong on the ground in Iran that it would be
able to galvanise Iranian opposition forces to
overthrow their government once an air war had started.

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Mark Rutte, NATO, speech – difficult questions
from journalists. Alan Jones, a listener living
in China, gives an insight in to life
there. ‘Stronger Than Ever’: NATO Chief After
Trump Accuses Alliance Of ‘Doing Nothing’ On Iran
War Mark Rutte defends NATO against Donald Trump,
citing missile interceptions for Turkey and
security in the Strait of Hormuz amid Iran
conflict tensions.
<https://www.news18.com/world/stronger-than-ever-nato-chief-after-trump-accuses-alliance-of-doing-nothing-on-iran-war-ws-l-9999094.html>NATO
Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday pushed
back against criticism from US President Donald
Trump, saying the military alliance is “stronger
today than it has ever been” despite Trump’s
accusation that it had done “nothing” to help
during the conflict with Iran. Speaking while
presenting NATO’s annual report, Rutte defended
the alliance’s role in the ongoing crisis and
highlighted its recent military actions in the
region. According to Rutte, NATO intercepted
three ballistic missiles headed toward Turkey
during the conflict and is also working to ensure
that the Strait of Hormuz remains safe for
international shipping. His remarks came shortly
after Trump posted on Truth Social, where he
criticised NATO and suggested the United States
would not forget the alliance’s lack of support
during the Iran conflict. The exchange exposed
fresh tensions between Washington and its
European allies at a time when the war in West
Asia continues to test international military
coordination. advertisement While countering
Trump’s criticism, Rutte also took care to praise
the US president for pushing NATO member states
to increase their defence spending. The former
Dutch prime minister said such budget increases
would likely not have happened without pressure
from the current US administration. Rutte also
acknowledged that the US had reasons to keep its
strikes on Iran confidential in the initial phase
of the conflict, but said the secrecy meant that
European allies needed time to “get organized” in
response. His comments suggest that while NATO
was not directly involved in the opening phase of
military operations, the alliance has since taken
on a more active role in securing allied
territory and critical maritime routes.

The Cradle – article – China says chaos in middle east.

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<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uS3LQMtMuM&t=505s>Warren<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uS3LQMtMuM&t=505s>
Thornton, former UK military, joins Tony and
Martin live from the Philippines. He has his own
daily podcast on Patreon. War in Iran.
Infiltration of Iranian protests. Russia giving
Iran S-300 and S-400 air defence systems. 17,500
US troops heading to Strait of Hormuz. Flawed
plan for war. Ukraine war – 1300 Ukrainian
soldiers lost per day. Iranian Strikes Have
Destroyed $2.7 Billion Worth of High Value U.S.
Anti-Missile Radars
<https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iranian-strikes-destroyed-antimissile-radars>The
Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has
destroyed $2.7 billion worth of high value radar
systems during the first week of engagements with
U.S. forces, after the Corps responded to U.S.
and Israeli attacks on Iran from February 28 by
launching large scale missile and drone strikes
on key military and strategic targets across the
Middle East. Although strikes on multiple radar
systems of varying value have been reported,
including lower value radars such as the
AN/TPS-59 valued at around $70 million, three of
the U.S. Armed Forces’ most high value radar
systems are confirmed to have been destroyed. The
most significant loss was the AN/FPS-132 radar, a
long-range ballistic missile early-warning radar
intended to form part of the outermost layer of
U.S. missile defences, detecting launches up to
5,000 kilometres away, and able to track hundreds
of targets simultaneously and provide precision
trajectory prediction for ballistic missiles.The
AN/FPS-132 is relied on heavily to provide cueing
data to missile defence systems, as well as early
warning to allow personnel and civilians to find
shelter. Each radar costs an estimated $1.1
billion, with U.S. sources estimating that it
will take five to eight years to replace the one
destroyed. The sole radar of its kind in outside
the United States first became operational in
Qatar in 2013, with the specific purpose of
countering the Iranian and Syrian ballistic
missile arsenals, the latter which was
neutralised after the government in Damascus was
toppled in December 2024. Despite general efforts
to downplay the successes of Iranian strikes,
reporting by U.S. sources has indicated the the
destruction of the AN/FPS-132 on February 28
degraded missile-warning capabilities in the
region because such radars are rare and hard to
replace. The fact that the system was singled out
and prioritised for targeting in the opening
hours of hostilities indicated that doing so may
well have been seen as a force multiplier for
subsequent ballistic missile attacks.

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The Brookings Institute, Road to Persia paper –
US aid to Ukraine transferred to middle east.
Which Path to Persia? Which Path to Persia?
Options for a New Strategy Towards Iran By
Kenneth Pollack, Suzanne Maloney, Daniel Byman,
Michael O’Hanlon, Martin Indyk and Bruce Riedel
Brookings Institution Press, £16.99, 229 pages
<https://www.ft.com/content/e41bb850-a3e1-11de-9fed-00144feabdc0>If
you woke up this morning wondering how best to
attack Iran, this book provides your answer. At
the start of a US invasion, marines would secure
a bridgehead, then occupy a port and launch the
push for Tehran. An American bombing campaign
against Iranian nuclear facilities would need
fewer resources but would still be extensive and
take several days. An Israeli strike, however,
would have to rely on just one round of attacks
due to the difficulty of flying over neighbouring
states. These are three of the more startling
scenarios examined in Which Path to Persia?, in
which experts at Washington’s Brookings
Institution address a perennial foreign policy
problem: how to handle Iran. The think-tank
writers analyse the options open to the Obama
administration – and find all unpalatable. The
blood of realpolitik courses through the book;
some readers may find it bracing, others
offensive. “Meddling in the internal politics of
another country requires excellent intelligence
if the efforts are to succeed,” reports a section
on how to help inculcate a velvet revolution
(note that three of the authors previously worked
at the CIA). “Coups are typically more successful
and easier to instigate and assist from abroad
than popular revolutions,” adds the chapter on
military takeovers. “It would be far more
preferable if the US could cite an Iranian
provocation as justification,” reads the section
on airstrikes. This book is written by some top
US experts on the Middle East. It would be an
injustice to the authors, however, to pretend
that this is a mere “How To” text for unseating
the ayatollahs or an exercise in fantasy regime
change. Instead, Which Path to Persia? is a
glorious example of the think-tanker’s art. There
is not a single striking metaphor or turn of
phrase in the text; it proudly boasts that it was written by committee.

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The Cradle – Iran gulf bases to rubble. Israeli
Chief of Staff – army at point of
collapse. Israeli chief of staff warns army on
verge of ‘collapse’ amid troop shortage
Netanyahu’s government has been unable to force
the ultra-Orthodox into military service despite
the multiple ongoing wars The Israeli army’s
chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, warned on 25 March
that the military is “going to collapse in on
itself” after failing to pass a law to recruit
soldiers among the ultra-Orthodox (Haredim) and
to extend military mandatory service to 36
months. “The reserves will not
last,<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/36761> I
am raising 10 red flags,” Zamir stated in an
interview with Channel 13. The warning comes as
Israel’s military is fighting wars against Gaza,
Iran, and Lebanon – where Israeli troops are
engaged in a ground campaign to conquer and annex
Lebanon’s south. Unless the existing law is
changed, the duration of compulsory service is
set to decrease to 30 months in January 2027,
despite a shortage of many thousands of soldiers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
cabinet has found it politically difficult to
continue to extend mandatory military service
while at the same time exempting tens of
thousands of ultra-Orthodox men from conscription
into the army. Left-wing and secular Israelis are
angry that the Haredim are not required to share
the burden of participating in the genocide of
Palestinians in Gaza and expanding the borders of
“Greater Israel” in Lebanon. Zamir made the
comments during a cabinet meeting attended by the
prime minister, heads of the defense
establishment, and ministers. “In a short time,
the IDF will not be prepared for its routine
mission. The reservists will not last,” the chief
of staff told attendees. “The reserves are being
eroded. The law needs to be regulated, more
reserves are needed, and the tasks are only
growing. Maintaining these areas requires
reserves, there have been gaps for a long time,” an army source added.

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Volkswagen to produce Iron Dome parts for Israel.
Volkswagen in talks to produce parts for Israel’s
missile defence system, FT reports German car
giant with Nazi-era V-1 roots, pivots to defence
production as the industry struggles to compete
with China
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nazi-era-weapons-maker-volkswagen-eyes-return-arms-production-time-israel>Volkswagen
is considering plans to convert one of its German
car factories into a production hub for Israel’s
missile defence systems, the Financial Times
reported on Tuesday. The carmaker has held talks
with Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
about repurposing its Osnabruck plant, shifting
from vehicle production to manufacturing
components for Israel’s Iron Dome system. The
move underscores growing pressure on Germany’s
automotive sector, which is struggling to compete
with Chinese electric vehicle makers. It also
carries historical resonance: during the Second
World War, Volkswagen halted car production and
switched to arms manufacturing for Nazi Germany.
The proposal points to a wider shift, as parts of
German industry move closer to defence production
with support from Berlin. Under the plan, the
factory would produce key Iron Dome components,
including launch platforms, power units and
heavy-duty vehicles used to transport missile
systems. Production could begin within 12 to 18
months with limited new investment. Germany has
ramped up military spending and deepened defence
ties with Israel, cementing its role as one of
its strongest European backers. In December,
Berlin approved a $3.1bn deal to purchase
Israel’s Arrow 3 missile defence system,
following a $3.5bn agreement two years earlier.
Together, the contracts mark Israel’s largest
arms sale to date, worth more than $6.6bn. The
deals boost Israel’s defence industry as it faces
growing international isolation over its war on
Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant are
wanted by the International Criminal Court for
war crimes and crimes against humanity. Germany
supplies about 30 percent of Israel’s imported
weapons, second only to the United States, which
accounts for nearly 60 percent. Meanwhile, South
Africa’s case at the International Court of
Justice accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza. The
court has recognised a plausible risk of
genocide, placing legal obligations on states not to support Israel’s actions.

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J D Vance – Iran nuclear suicide vest. Marco
Rubio dangerous. Nuclear war? Vance Claims Iran
Could Make Nuclear Suicide Vest Vice President JD
Vance on Thursday attempted to justify the
continued US-Israeli war against Iran by implying
that Iran could potentially turn a nuclear bomb
into a suicide vest, a claim not grounded in
reality.
<https://www.zerohedge.com/political/vance-claims-iran-could-make-nuclear-suicide-vest>Vance
made the claim during a cabinet meeting while
discussing military and diplomatic “options” that
the US has regarding the conflict with Iran. He
has continued to portray the war as being
necessary to prevent Iran from making a nuclear
weapon, though there was no evidence that Tehran
had decided to build a bomb either before the
June 2025 war or the current war that was
launched on February 28. “What we have now that
we didn’t have when the president took over, just
a little over a year ago, is the ability to use
every tool at our disposal to ensure that Iran
doesn’t get a nuclear weapon,” Vance said.
“Because when I say options, I think it’s
important the American people know options for
what? And it’s options to ensure that Iran never
has a nuclear weapon,” the vice president added.
“You talk about people who walk into a crowded
supermarket and have a vest on, and they blow up
the vest and a couple of people get killed, and
that’s a terrible tragedy. What happens when
what’s on the vest is not something that can kill
a couple of people, but can kill many, many tens
of thousands of people?” A nuclear bomb could not
be miniaturized to the point where it could be
worn as a vest, and if Vance was alluding to a
“dirty bomb” that uses some nuclear material,
such a weapon at that size would not cause tens
of thousands of casualties (and likely in the
‘dirty bomb’ scenario the wearer would die or
become incapacitated from the radiation). Plus,
in recent decades, the overwhelming majority of
suicide bombings in the region were carried out
by Sunni Muslim extremists, not Iran and its Shia
allies. Before the US and Israel launched the
war, Vance became one of the leading voices in
the administration, making the claim that the
coming conflict was about preventing Iran from
developing a nuclear bomb, contradicting
President Trump’s insistence that US airstrikes
in June 2025 “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear
program. At one point, Vance even claimed there
was evidence Iran was trying to “rebuild a
nuclear weapon,” something Iran has never had.

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Child 18 months old tortured by Israelis. What is
Philippines like, and is there an energy
emergency? Israeli army tortures a Palestinian
toddler in Gaza in front of his father, family
says An 18-month-old toddler in Gaza was returned
by the Israeli army to his family with burn marks
and puncture wounds on his legs. Doctors say the
wounds are clearly the result of torture while
the child was detained with his father. The marks
on the child’s legs appear unmistakable.
<http://Israeli army tortures a Palestinian
toddler in Gaza in front of his father, family
says An 18-month-old toddler in Gaza was returned
by the Israeli army to his family with burn marks
and puncture wounds on his legs. Doctors say the
wounds are clearly the result of torture while
the child was detained with his father. The marks
on the child s legs appear unmistakable. Round
burn marks, as if from cigarette butts, as well
as puncture wounds. His pants have the same two
holes, and they are stained with blood. This was
the state in which 18-month-old Jawad Abu Nasser
was returned to his family in Gaza by the Israeli
army. In video testimony for Mondoweiss, Waad
al-Shafi, 19, from the Maghazi area in central
Gaza, holds her son and lifts his legs and feet
toward the camera. According to the family, the
toddler was subjected to severe torture by the
Israeli army. They say that the Israelis had put
out cigarettes on his legs and punctured them
with sharp objects. Here is where his foot was
pierc>Round burn marks, as if from cigarette
butts, as well as puncture wounds. His pants have
the same two holes, and they are stained with
blood. This was the state in which 18-month-old
Jawad Abu Nasser was returned to his family in
Gaza by the Israeli army. In video testimony for
Mondoweiss, Waad al-Shafi, 19, from the Maghazi
area in central Gaza, holds her son and lifts his
legs and feet toward the camera. According to the
family, the toddler was subjected to severe
torture by the Israeli army. They say that the
Israelis had put out cigarettes on his legs and
punctured them with sharp objects. “Here is where
his foot was pierced, and here is where
cigarettes were put out on him,” Jawad’s mother
says, holding his feet as she points to each
injury. “And here’s another wound. And another.”
The family says they suspect that Jawad’s torture
could have been an attempt to pressure his father
into providing information, and they also believe
that he was likely there while the soldiers
carried out the abuse of his son. “After they
examined him, the doctors concluded that the
marks on his legs were clearly the result of
torture,” says Muhammad Abu Nassar, gradfather of
18-month-old Jawad. ‘Both of them were being
tortured together’ Waad al-Shafi says Osama Abu
Nassar, her husband and Jawad’s father, left home
carrying their son to buy him sweets from a
nearby shop. Instead, he mistakenly headed east
toward the “Yellow Line,” the invisible border
cutting the Gaza Strip roughly in half as part of
the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The
family lost contact with him at around 10 a.m.
and heard nothing until 8 p.m. that same day,
March 19. She adds that her husband had been
experiencing severe psychological distress in
recent weeks and was not in stable condition.

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Israel behind the 7/7 London Bombings: Tony’s
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfC2DfCTjdo>documentary,
and
<https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2015/08/521252.html>article
| <https://rumble.com/user/TonyGosling>Videos of
full shows | Economic essentials:
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/AH8pJ8vLnpQQ/>Michael
Hudson |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/mlGKutbgByo4/>Blackrock/Vanguard
|
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzz9Md0d76Y>Why/how
Israel Assassinated JFK & RFK |
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzWF2791gAM>Operation
Gladio | Tony
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAq1q1_swyM>on
Brexit &
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsxxlpLccE8&pp=ygUWVGhlIFRyYWl0b3JzIG9mIEFybmhlbQ%3D%3D>(4th
Reich) Traitors of Arnhem |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/s3keNigJaj63/>Creation
vs. Evolution |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/Yhv9ZMby68Ig>God
vs. Lucifer |
<http://www.itsuandi.org/itsui/downloads/Itsui_Materials/Albert_Pike's_Plan_for_Three_World_Wars.pdf>‘Great
Plan’ for 3 World Wars |
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RNijNuvrBQ>Devil
Worship: The Rise Of Satanism |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/OKOlmnHDyQ0U/>Nuclear
Armed IDF Doomsday Cult |
<https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/>Aanirfan |
Armageddonists I have known:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXKz4uwZC_k>Nick
Land (1976-8) |
<https://www.bitchute.com/video/pkIIeuailaUt/>George
Monbiot (1995-7) | Manna for the Revelation
Generation:
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Part Two – International news review,
Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWdtHLKzfV0>Over
a decade ago, Nigel Farage says he feared a
[Zionist? ed.] fifth column was building up
inside this country of people who literally hated
us and everything we stand for. ACCELERATIONIST
INVERSION NIGEL? Nigel Farage on Golders Green
ambulance attack – Iranian 5th column in UK.

Emacs!

Craig Murray – Iran has no track record of
attacking ambulances. Pro Zionist police force in
North London. Man who confronted Al Jazeera
journalists was Met Police special constable
David Soffer told members of the Al Jazeera team
to “go back to Qatar” A man who confronted a team
of journalists working for Al Jazeera during an
altercation after the Golders Green ambulance
attacks was a volunteer Metropolitan Police
officer.
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d45ejxz5qo>The
crew of journalists were reporting on an arson
attack which targeted Hatzola ambulances – a
Jewish community-run service – on Monday when
they were confronted by a group of people telling
them to leave the area. One of the individuals
has been identified as David Soffer, a Met Police
special constable, as first reported by
Declassified UK then confirmed by the BBC. He was
seen calling one of the team “you donkey, you
dog” in Arabic. The Met has referred the incident
to its professional standards team for
assessment. Videos from the scene show a group of
people from the Jewish community shouting: “Go
home” and “Al Jazeera off our streets”. Reporters
from the Press Association also heard the
journalists called “terrorist sympathisers”.
Soffer, who is also a technology businessman,
then arrived and told them to “go back to Qatar”.
In Arabic, he continued: “Go from here you
donkey… go from here you donkey, you dog”. He
then called one of the team a dog again and, in
Hebrew, he and one of the Al Jazeera staff then
call each other donkeys. At one stage, Soffer
warned another person next to him to not be
violent. When he was told to calm down, he
insisted he was calm. A female reporter told
Soffer “shame on you” after she believed he
suggested that she was an antisemite. He told her
he could define his own racism. Soffer then told
them no Jewish person was going to hurt the team
but no one was going to talk to them. BBC News
has contacted Soffer and Al Jazeera for comment…

C4 News – Russian ambassador saying Iran stronger
than US thought. US has underestimated Iran, says
Russian ambassador Channel 4 News Are higher oil
prices and the temporary lifting of sanctions
welcome news for Russia?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8TFQJdVDgA>Their
budget deficit has been soaring out of control,
but the rising price of Russian crude is bringing
billions of pounds a month in extra revenue. It
means Moscow can keep financing its war in
Ukraine despite record numbers of military
casualties. [for Ukraine, ed.] Ukraine was
targeted by more than 1,000 Russian drones on
Tuesday, damaging UNESCO-protected heritage sites
in the western city of Lviv, killing 7 people,
including a child. And on Wednesday morning, 9
people were injured when drones hit two
residential areas in the eastern city of Kharkiv.
Cathy Newman spoke to the Russian Ambassador to
the UK, Andrey Kelin, and I began by asking him whether Russia would

Emacs!


Netanyahu saying Jesus couldn’t win against
Genghis Khan.The C18 British Empire was larger
than the C13 Mongol Empire ‘Evil will overcome
good…’: Netanyahu’s ‘Jesus vs Genghis Khan’ quote
sparks global backlash. Here is what he said
Benjamin Netanyahu made a controversial statement
in his Thursday night address by comparing Jesus
Christ and Genghis Khan, and suggesting that the
former is weaker.
<https://www.wionews.com/trending/netanyahu-s-jesus-vs-genghis-khan-quote-sparks-global-backlash-here-is-what-he-said-1774005197201>He
later issued a clarification, stating those were
not his words. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu caused a major furore on Thursday night
when he said “Jesus Christ has no advantage over
Genghis Khan” in a televised address. He has now
issued a clarification, saying he “did not
denigrate Jesus Christ” and that he was merely
quoting historian Will Durant, Times of Israel
reported. “History proves that, unfortunately and
unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over
Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough,
ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will
overcome good. Aggression will overcome
moderation,” Netanyahu said in the address. He
quickly faced backlash for his choice of words,
with critics slamming him for suggesting that
those who possess the most power determine what
is “right.” The PM responded in an X post, “A
fervent admirer of Jesus Christ, Durant stated
that morality by itself is not enough to ensure
survival,” the post reads. “A morally superior
civilisation may still fall to a ruthless enemy
if it does not have the power to defend itself.”

Emacs!

Steve Reed on Ryecroft Report – foreign countries
infiltrating UK politics. Steve Reed in
‘incredible’ Israel lobby omission in ‘foreign
meddling’ speech A LABOUR minister is under fire
after he failed to declare his relationship with
the pro-Israel lobby when he unveiled a new
report on foreign interference in UK politics.
<https://archive.is/XQT0o#selection-1235.0-1597.150>Housing
Secretary Steve Reed announced the publication of
Philip Rycroft’s review into how other states
have tried to “exert influence on, and to
interfere in” the British political system. But
he faced criticism for failing to declare his
affiliation with the Labour Friends of Israel
(LFI) group, which has been linked to the Israeli
government and was at the centre of a
high-profile instance of “improper interference
in our democratic politics” in recent years.
Martin Abrams, a Green councillor in London, said
in a tweet that it was “incredible” that Reed
failed to make clear his relationship with a
group lobbying for the interests of a foreign
power. Noting that the Rycroft review fails to
mention Israel, Abrams added: “It is simply
shocking that the malign influence of Israel a
country being investigated for genocide by the
[International Court of Justice], whose Prime
Minister and [former] defence minister are wanted
by the [International Criminal Court] for war
crimes, a country which is waging illegal wars in
Gaza, Iran and Lebanon where at least 20% of UK
Labour MPs and 80% of UK Conservative MPs are
registered as ‘Friends of Israel’ are not in
scope of this report.” Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu pictured speaking to the media in Tel
AvivPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pictured
speaking to the media in Tel Aviv (Image: Ronen
Zvulun, REUTERS) Reed has been on two LFI-funded
trips to Israel and Palestine, according to his
entry in the register of interests, worth a total
of £3000. The first was in 2013 and the second
was the year after. He has also been on two trips
to Bangladesh, funded by Labour Friends of
Bangladesh. LFI is part of the influential
pro-Israel lobby in the UK, which was found to
have given funding to more than a quarter of
British MPs in the last parliament in an
investigation by Declassified UK. The same outlet
found that pro-Israel lobbyists had donated to 13
out of the 25 members of Keir Starmer’s first
Cabinet after he became Prime Minister. LFI found
itself at the centre of a diplomatic row in 2017,
when its then-chair Joan Ryan was found to have
discussed a sum of “more than £1 million” to pay
for MPs’ trips to Israel with Shai Masot, a
political officer at the Israeli embassy in
London. Masot was recalled to Israel after the
damaging revelations from Al-Jazeera’s
documentary The Lobby, which also saw him
discussing his desire to “take down” Alan Duncan,
then a minister in the Foreign Office and a
critic of Israel. The £1m sum was to be used to
fund an LFI delegation to Israel, the Mail on
Sunday reported at the time, though the
organisation dismissed this as “totally untrue”
and “utterly ridiculous”. Emily Thornberry, then
the shadow foreign secretary, described the
episode as an “extremely disturbing” example of
“improper interference in our democratic
politics”. Reed, who has held senior positions in
Starmer’s shadow cabinets and in Government, has
been hesitant to criticise Israel over the genocide in Gaza…

Emacs!


Ray Vahey, owner of Bit Chute, on how private
corporations sell surveillance on us. Internet of
things spying on us. The Rise of The Digital
Surveillance State
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOQ_bqpjIWY>Ray
Vahey In this video, I explore how governments
and corporations are reshaping the future of
privacy and control in the digital age. From
President Trump’s March 2025 executive order
designed to eliminate information silos across
federal agencies, to the growing influence of
data analytics firms like Palantir, the
boundaries between state security, private
enterprise, and individual freedoms are being redrawn.

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8dgxz54yno>Patricia
Opulenza poem. Crispin Blunt on drugs charges –
him supporting Palestine just before arrested.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpZefoQ5u2k>Richard
Sanders, DDN, explaining why right wing shouldn’t
support Israel. The End of Israel: The Ultimate
Evidence Double Down News Join the Future of Journalism

<https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54310-most-britons-now-believe-world-war-3-is-likely-in-the-next-few-years>You
Gov poll – most Britons think WW3 will start in next few years.



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