In Gaza

1. Ukrainian (Western-backed) drone terrorism in my southeastern Moscow district

Starting early Tuesday, September 10, Russian air defense shot down 144 Ukrainian drones in 9 regions, including 72 drones above Bryansk Region and 20 above Moscow Region, according to the Ministry of Defence.

Three drones managed to hit three different apartment buildings in the Ramenskoe district, one impact tragically killing a 46 year old woman and injuring at least three other civilians. These were completely civilian, residential, areas. Ukraine sending drones to strike there was pure terrorism.

Just over one week prior, on September 1, Russian air defense shot down or intercepted 158 drones, some of those again in the Ramenskoe region.

From my nearby district just after 2:15am Tuesday, I heard the first air defense blasts targeting drones, followed by several more until daylight.

On Wednesday, I went to the area within Ramenskoe district where the drones impacted. Irina Medvedeva, a friend's sister, was in an apartment next to one of the buildings struck. She witnessed the first explosion which killed Zinaida Akhmetovna.

While there, we met a man who had come from Kursk (which Ukraine started attacking last month) for a week of quiet. He said he would go back to Kursk, in spite of Ukraine's continued (failed) attacks on the city, spoke of how the people there support their army and said Russia would defeat the Ukrainian terrorism.

Related links here: https://t.me/Reality_Theories/20594

2. Maria Butina, Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee member, discusses her politicized incarceration in the United States and describes the horrific conditions in US prisons

Maria Butina, a Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee member, was a student of foreign affairs at the School of International Services (Washington, D.C.) in 2018 when she was convicted as acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and was imprisoned for 18 months—including 4 torturous months in solitary confinement.

In this conversation, Maria describes her incarceration and the harsh, inhumane and filthy conditions she experienced in various US prisons. She was subjected to psychological torture via sleep deprivation and prolonged isolation.

She now advocates for people facing political persecution.

"Now I help people who want to come to Russia, looking for asylum here, they fear their own state."

Excerpts from her memoir, Prison diary, can be read here:
https://www.rt.com/russia/507910-maria-butina-prison-book-journal/

[Regarding my reference to the likewise horrible conditions journalist and editor Kirill Vyshinsky endured, imprisoned without trial for nearly 1.5 years in Ukraine, see my 2019 interview with Kirill.]
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/accused-of-treason-and-imprisoned-without-trial-journalist-kirill-vyshinsky-recounts-his-harrowing-time-in-a-ukrainian-prison/

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3. Can Israel survive its new war on the West Bank?

September 8, 2024, RT.com

-by Eva Karene Bartlett
*(blog re-publish slightly longer & with some additional comments than first published)

Having failed to eradicate Hamas during it's ongoing genocide of Gaza, Israel on August 28 began its war on the West Bank, 'Operation Summer Camps'.

This Israeli assault on West Bank areas is the largest since 2002, with thousands of Israeli soldiers, supported by helicopters and drones, invading northern West Bank cities, particularly targeting refugee camps of Jenin, Tubas, and Tulkarem cities.

The same day, the non-profit Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported: "Immediately after entering the West Bank, the Israeli army began besieging hospitals, ambulances, and emergency centres, replicating its horrifying and systematic policy of breaching and taking control of health institutions that it has employed in the Gaza Strip.

Simultaneously, with the storming of these areas, raid and arrest campaigns were carried out in most cities in the West Bank amidst gunfire that resulted in the injury of many Palestinians. Since last October, 660 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed as a result of the Israeli military's systematic, large-scale, premeditated killings."

Journalist Mariam Barghouti on August 31 wrote, "I was in Jenin and I cannot explain how ruthless the Israeli military is being. The city is like a ghost town and the refugee camp is a collective torture chamber. Israeli practices in Jenin include: mass arrests including minors, blowing up homes of civilians, denying entry of food, water, medics. The children that managed to escape are traumatized, they're nothing but tears and shock. Everyone is unable to fully recognize this unprecedented violence and at such an intensity. Jenin is another Gaza in terms of violence being inflicted."

According to the UN's OCHA, between 27 August and 2 September, Israeli forces killed 30 Palestinians in the West Bank, including seven children, the highest weekly death toll since November 2023 (by September 6, the number had increased to 39 Palestinians killed, including eight children, and approximately 145 injured).

Those murdered, OCHA notes, include an 82-year-old Palestinian man, shot and killed while attempting to buy bread. Israeli forces also reportedly shot and killed two Palestinian boys, aged 13 and 16, "being chased by Israeli forces while attempting to distribute bread to besieged families near the eastern neighbourhood of Jenin city." Israeli soldiers also abducted and tortured to death a 50-year-old civilian.

Further, OCHA reports that between October 7, 2023 and September 2 this year, "652 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem."

The brutality is not only from the Israeli military but also the illegal Jewish colonists who are given carte blanche to attack and kill, Palestinians, as they've done for decades, and as I've written about before.

According to OCHA, in the same timeframe there were "about 1,300 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, of which over 120 led to Palestinian fatalities and injuries."

On top of all of this Israeli destruction and carnage are the continued abductions of Palestinian civilians (young and elderly). It has been widely reported from inside Israel, through leaked footage and in countless testimonies from Palestinian hostages, that Israel routinely tortures Palestinians via beatings, electric shocks to genitals, stress positions, psychological torture, near starvation, and also rape to the point of causing serious internal damage.

Palestine Chronicle reported on September 3, citing the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), that "at least 53 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli custody" between October 7, 2023, and July 31, 2024.

The article refers to a letter from Ronen Bar, head of the Israeli security agency, Shin Bet, to Benjamin Netanyahu this June, putting the number of detainees at 21,000. This is a shocking 11,000 higher than was known in April when I last wrote about the nearly 10,000 Palestinian hostages in Israeli prisons.

Israel wants West Bank wiped off the map

On the morning Israel started its current mini-Gaza bombardment and displacement campaign, Foreign Minister Israel Katz boasted of the destruction and killing to come, saying, "We must deal with the threat just as we deal with the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever steps are required. This is a war for everything and we must win it."

Then, there was Prime Minister Netanyahu during a press conference pointing to his map with the West Bank erased.

In its report, the human rights organization Euromed cites Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth writing that, "an organised evacuation of the Palestinian civilian population will be carried out according to the…combat centres."

The group notes, "This is a clear indication of Israel's intention to commit genocide against Palestinians in the West Bank, just as it has done against those in the Gaza Strip."

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on September 2 stated, "There is mounting evidence that no Palestinian is safe under Israel's unfettered control…The long-standing impunity granted to Israel is enabling the de-Palestinisation of the occupied territory, leaving Palestinians at the mercy of the forces pursuing their elimination as a national group."

However, Palestinian resistance groups are putting up a fight. On X, accounts closely following events claim as of September 1, the Jenin Brigade, "Conducted over 15 IED operations, killing & wounding IOF [Israeli occupation forces], significantly damaging their vehicles," while the Tulkam Brigade "Conducted 6 IED operations, killing & wounding IOF."

Al Mayadeen some days later reported similar events, noting, "Palestinian Resistance confronts IOF in Jenin, Tulkarm for 8th day The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – Jenin confirmed that its resistance fighters engaged in confrontations with Israeli forces in the al-Hadaf neighborhood using machine guns and IEDs."

It's worth remembering the words of Retired Israeli General Yitzhak Brick just a couple of weeks ago, when he stated, "Israel is sinking deeper into the Gazan mud, losing more and more soldiers as they get killed or wounded, without any chance of achieving the war's main goal: bringing down Hamas. The country really is galloping towards the edge of an abyss. If the war of attrition against Hamas and Hezbollah continues, Israel will collapse within no more than a year."

After eleven months of Israel savagely genociding and starving the Palestinians of Gaza, it's safe to say the general's prediction would be some slight justice for the crimes Israel has been committing not only since October 7 but for the decades following Israel's creation.

EuroMed, in its above-mentioned report, calls on all nations to, "impose strong sanctions on Israel and halt all forms of military, political, and financial assistance. This includes immediately cutting off all arms transfers to Israel, including export permits and military aid; otherwise, these nations will be complicit in and partners in the Israeli crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, including the crime of genocide."

Given that the so-called international community has colossally failed Palestinians in allowing Israel to slaughter, starve and torture them, halting arms supplies to Israel and imposing sanctions is the least countries could do.

My Related:

–I documented two Israeli wars on Gaza. This current one is the worst

–Israel is now killing Palestinians in Gaza by starvation–media downplaying this are complicit in these preventable deaths.

–The uncounted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza being killed by Israel

–Neglect, abuse, torture: The West is ignoring the fate of Palestinians stuck in Israeli jails

–Israeli illegal colonists attack Palestinians, steal land with impunity. Imagine outrage & calls for sanctions if any other state did it

4. Interview on Coffee and a Mike

Michael Farris had me on his podcast recently for a conversation spanning many topics.

First published here:
https://rumble.com/v5cs0e5-coffee-and-a-mike-eva-bartlett-blissfully-unaware.html

Please visit his rumble to see where to follow him & how to support his work.

My Related Links:

–Youtube deleted my channel, go to Odysee & Rumble

–The Donbass: My Articles, Videos & Interviews From/On the Donetsk & Lugansk People's Republics (2019-present)

–What I've seen of Ukraine's war crimes against civilians in the Donbass over the years

–Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces are Defending their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism

–Observations from Occupied Palestine: Gaza

–Israel is Genociding Gaza. It's far worse than anything I saw during two brutal Israeli wars on Gaza

–Israel is now killing Palestinians in Gaza by starvation–media downplaying this are complicit in these preventable deaths

–Israeli Sniper Targets Uniformed Medics & Our Ambulance (during ceasefire hours): what I witnessed in eastern Jabaliya,Gaza (2009)

–I documented two Israeli wars on Gaza. This current one is the worst

–"They killed me three times": Palestinian father on Israeli army murder of family members including infant daughter (2009, Gaza)

–While eating chips and chocolate, Israeli soldiers murder 2 and 7 year old (2009, Gaza)

–Ethnic Cleansing (Expulsion) (photo archive)

–Detailed Chronology of Events During & Following the Nakba (in Arabic, but easily web-translatable)

–Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine" (PDF)

–Zionist terrorism prior to 1948

–Western corporate media 'disappears' over 1.5 million Syrians and 4,000 doctors in Aleppo (2016)

–Aleppo: How US & Saudi-Backed Rebels Target 'Every Syrian': War diary by Western journalist Eva Bartlett on the truth about Aleppo (2016)

–SYRIA: My Published Articles From and on Syria (2014-2023)

–Here's what I found at the reported 'mass grave' near Mariupol

–Debunking Western Media's Latest Mariupol Mass Grave Hoax, By Actually Going to the Cemeteries in Question

–The uncounted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza being killed by Israel

–Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria (2015)

–The Palestinians' inalienable right to resist (By Louis Allday)

–Neglect, abuse, torture: The West is ignoring the fate of (~10,000) Palestinians stuck in Israeli jails

–MY ENTRIES FROM OCCUPIED PALESTINE [APR-DEC 2007]

–Alastair Crooke: Western Propaganda Wars

-Crimean Tatar & Interethnic and Interfaith Relations Chair, Ibraim Shirin, Counters Western Lies on Crimea (Odysee) (Rumble)

–Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since (2019)

–Travels in Crimea, the peninsula locals say *returned* to Russia (2019 video)

–US sanctions are part of a multi-front war on Syria, and its long-suffering civilians are the main target

–US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and 'needed' intervention (2019)

–Venezuela playlist (2019)

5. Venezuela & The Resistance Fight Against Yankee Imperialism with Eva Bartlett

Wednesday, August 7, 2024
[ https://rumble.com/v5a1xeb-venezuela-and-the-resistance-fight-against-yankee-imperialism.html]

Eva Bartlett, independent journalist who goes to the places she talks about. Based in Russia with extensive, ground-based knowledge in West Asia including Gaza, Syria and Donbass. But Eva has also been to Venezuela which is why she's here today to talk about the similarities the country faces today as well as connections that operation could have in the Middle East.

"Fi" Fiorella Isabel:
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Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/FiorellaIsabelM
Fiorella Isabel on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-5021915
Fiorella In Moscow YT: https://www.youtube.com/@FiorellaInMoscow

Twitter/X: https://x.com/EvaKBartlett

Telegram: https://t.me/Reality_Theories

My Related Links:

-My Venezuela (2019) playlist: On Rumble & On Odysee

–The US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and 'needed' intervention

–Camila Escalante on Venezuela's Presidential Election & Opposition Violence

6. Camila Escalante on Venezuela’s Presidential Election & Opposition Violence

I spoke with Latin America correspondent for Press TV, Camila Escalante, about what she saw and heard on the ground in Caracas, Venezuela, before, during and after the recent Presidential Election.

A well-travelled, longtime correspondent all over Latin America, Camila brings a deep understanding of the history of the country and region, and of the people. With ample experience in Venezuela in years prior, she speaks with first hand knowledge on the positive changes in the country, in spite of the brutal Western sanctions against the Venezuelan people.

Follow Camilla on X at camilapress

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CamilaPress

Twitter/X: https://x.com/EvaKBartlett

Telegram: https://t.me/Reality_Theories

My Related Links:

-My Venezuela (2019) playlist: On Rumble & On Odysee

-The US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and 'needed' intervention

US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and 'needed' intervention