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Trump's Israeli Allies are Persecuting the indigenous Christians of Palestine

In the Old City of Jerusalem, Zionists are harassing the Armenian Palestinian Christians with the objective of seizing their tiny patches of land inside the city, including churches, communal buildings and even parking lots.

No one doubts that the Zionists want to de-Palestinize all of Palestine, which means to erase and delete both Christians and Muslims from their ancestral homeland. This is consistent with War Criminal Netanyahu's declaration that "Israel will be a Democracy for Jews only". 

But there is a deafening silence by an otherwise vocal Zionist propaganda as to what exactly the foreign colonial settler Zionists want to do with the non-Jewish indigenous Palestinians, all 5 millions of them that they have not yet managed to kill, displace or deport. They have never proposed an idea or a plan for how they see the native Palestinians fitting in their "Democracy for Jews only" Jewish valhalla resort on the Mediterranean. Thus, it seems that whatever their plan is, it will not include the Palestinians who, logically, must somehow vanish out of existence. Ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass deportations, demographic pruning... You name it. There are many options, all of barbaric biblical vintage.

Christians across the Middle East have been ravaged by radical Islam. Iraq and Syria have lost much of their Christian populations due to wars between radical Islam and a western world bent on intervening in the region. There a few Christians left in Jordan. In Palestine, they too are under stress, with Israel determined to rid itself of its Christian Palestinians as part of its grand scheme of Judaizing all of Palestine.

The only significant Christian populations in the Near East are in Lebanon and Egypt. Although they make up some 15% of the 115 million-strong Egyptian population, the Egyptian Coptic Christians face daily persecutions, including church burnings, forced conversions, and rampant discrimination. 

In Lebanon, the Christians have also been reduced to some 25% of the population through 50 years of wars and emigration, unfortunately enabled by the indifference of a West eager not to offend the wealthy oil-laden Muslims of the Arabian peninsula. Throughout the Assad dictatorship in neighboring Syria, which invaded and ruled Lebanon for the same 50 years, the West gave a carte blanche to the Assad regime to continue oppressing the Christians and strip them of the little power they have historically held. As in Palestine under the Zionist occupation, the Lebanese Christian community has under the Syrian occupation dwindled from a majority of some 65% in the early 20th century to the 25% left today. The only reason the Lebanese Christians have managed to maintain political relevance and freedom is that they dwell in their rugged mountainous hinterland hideouts, despite facing a constant state of siege and a chronic challenge to their existence as a free community. 

It is interesting to note that American "Christians" - of the protestant evangelical breed - have long hated the Christians of the Near East because they are Catholics and Orthodox, and not Protestants. Which explains the ease with which Zionists have been persecuting Palestine's Christians; the Americans do not care for non-protestant Christians. Historically, there are no protestants in the Near East. Attempts by British and American protestants to proselytize and implant themselves there have utterly failed. American Univeristy of Beirut is a flagrant example in which a failed British-American missionary endeavor in the mid-1800s metamorphosed into an "educational" one after World War I. 
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Christmas under occupation: Israeli attacks against Palestinian Christians
Mohammed Haddad, Marium Ali
Thu, December 25, 2025

Palestinian Christians have gathered at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem for the first time since Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza began in 2023 to celebrate Christmas.

Bethlehem’s mayor says the municipality has chosen to restore the city’s festivities after a long period of darkness and silence.

At a Christmas market, Safaa Thalgieh, a mother from Bethlehem, told Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim: “Our joy doesn’t mean people are not suffering, have lost their loved ones, or are desperate, but we can only pray that things get better.”

Palestine: The birthplace of Christianity

Palestinian Christians make up some of the oldest Christian groups in the world.

According to the Bible, Mary and Joseph travelled from Nazareth to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born and placed in a manger. The Church of the Nativity was built at this location, and its grotto holds great religious significance, attracting Christians from all over the world to the city of Bethlehem every Christmas.

However, making that trip today would be very different due to several Israeli checkpoints, illegal settlements, and the separation wall, as highlighted in the map below.


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Palestinian Christians living under Israeli occupation

Once a thriving community, the number of Christians living in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza is now fewer than 50,000, according to the 2017 census, making up about 1 percent of the population.

In the early 20th century, Christians made up about 12 percent of the population. However, Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank has squeezed communities, created economic hardships, and deprived them of the conditions needed to exist on their land, pushing many families to seek a more stable life abroad.

A nun surveys heavy damage caused to the Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha, on the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, which was set on fire by Yinon Reuveni, on June 18, 2015 [Ariel Schalit/AP Photo]

Most of Palestine’s Christians live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, totalling approximately 47,000 to 50,000, with an additional 1,000 in Gaza before the war.


The Christian population in the West Bank is highly concentrated in three main urban areas:

Bethlehem governorate (22,000–25,000): This is the largest concentration, centred in Bethlehem and the surrounding towns of Beit Jala and Beit Sahour.


Ramallah and el-Bireh (10,000): A major administrative and economic hub, including nearby historic villages like Taybeh, Birzeit, and Jifna.


East Jerusalem (8,000–10,000): Primarily located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City and neighbourhoods like Beit Hanina.

Like the rest of the Palestinian population, Palestinian Christians are subjected to Israeli military control, settler violence, and a legal system that discriminates against them.


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Israeli attacks against Christians and churches

Across Palestine, Christian communities and their churches have faced numerous attacks by Israeli forces and members of the Israeli public.

The Religious Freedom Data Center (RFDC) has been monitoring violence against Christians through an incident hotline operated by volunteers and activists.

Between January 2024 and September 2025, the group documented at least 201 incidents of violence against Christians, primarily committed by Orthodox Jews targeting international clergy or individuals displaying Christian symbols.

These incidents include multiple forms of harassment, including spitting, verbal abuse, vandalism, assaults and more.

The majority (137) of these incidents took place in Jerusalem’s Old City, located in occupied East Jerusalem.


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Jerusalem holds profound significance to multiple faiths, including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, and is home to many holy sites. One of the most notable for Christians is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.

In 2025, Christian communities in the occupied West Bank faced an alarming surge in targeted violence and land seizures.

In the predominantly Christian town of Beit Sahour, just east of Bethlehem, Israeli settlers, backed by the military, bulldozed the historic Ush al-Ghurab hilltop in November to establish a new illegal settlement outpost.

Meanwhile, in Taybeh, the predominantly Christian town in the West Bank, the ancient St George Church was targeted by arsonists in July.

In June, a group of Israelis was filmed attacking the Armenian Monastery and Christian holy sites during a raid on the Armenian Quarter in the Old City of East Jerusalem, which has come under attack numerous times.

Father Aghan Gogchyan, chancellor of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, stands outside St James Cathedral in the Armenian Quarter of occupied East Jerusalem [File: Francisco Seco/AP Photo]

In Gaza, numerous places of worship, including churches, have been attacked by Israeli forces.

An Open Doors report from early 2025 estimated that roughly 75 percent of Christian-owned homes in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed since the start of Israel’s genocidal war.

On October 19, 2023, Israeli forces attacked Gaza’s oldest Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius, killing at least 18 displaced people, including children who were seeking shelter in the church.

The church, built in 1150, was Gaza’s oldest active place of worship and had been serving as a multi-faith sanctuary for hundreds of civilians.

A grief-stricken father told Al Jazeera that his three children were killed in the blast. “We sought refuge here, thinking it was a safe haven – our last safe haven, in a church. The house of God,” he said. “They bombed my angels and killed them without warning.”

Israeli forces have also repeatedly attacked the Holy Family Church, Gaza’s only Roman Catholic church, which has long served as a refuge for the local Christian community.

On November 4, 2023, an air attack on the church compound partially destroyed a school inside the complex. The attacks continued in July 2025, when an Israeli tank shell struck the church, killing three people and wounding several others.

The Holy Family Church has long held symbolic importance beyond Gaza. Throughout the war, the late Pope Francis called the parish almost daily, maintaining a direct line to the besieged community.

MAGA-GOP's Genetic Antisemitic Nazism is Having an Existential 'Civil War' Crisis

RACIST LAURA LOOMER: THE GOP HAS A NAZI PROBLEM. 

American conservatives descend from a long line of pro-slavery racists, white spuremacists, antisemites and Nazis - remember the American Nazi Party marching in the streets of America in the 1930s chanting praises for Hitler and calling for turning away and deporting all Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Europe? They are now having difficulty juggling their so-called love for Israel AND their hatred of Jews and any other non-Anglo-Saxon protestant white people.

It must be heart-wrenching for them to both love Israel and hate Jews. But the answer to their dilemma rests in the so-called "Christian" Evangelical ideology, which is no more than white American supremacist imperialism disguised as a religion. Evangelicals "love" Jews, but only pending the return of Jesus, the Christian Messiah, from his vacation up in the clouds. Once the tanned Jesus returns to earth and unleashes his violent armageddon and end of times, the beloved Jews would have to convert to Christianity lest they be slaughtered by the sword by the Evangelicals themselves, who literally love the Jews to death. Now, the Jews do not consider Jesus as the Messiah and await a better one, but that does not seem to be a problem either for the Evangelical bloodthirsty numskulls.

This dilemma of the conservative-republican-GOP-MAGA has in recent weeks erupted into a feud - a civil war - within the ranks of Trump's racist movement. It used to be that the "traditional" or "mainstream" conservatives were skilled at hiding their hatred-filled antisemitism and xenophobia, leaving the public virulence of their ideology safely in the hands of the backwoods survivalists, NRA members, Radical Right terrorist organizations like Proud Boys, Posse Comitatus, White Power, Ku Klux Klan, the Montana Freemen, Oath Keepers, Boogaloo Bois, David Duke, Randy Weaver (Ruby Ridge 1991), David Koresh (Waco siege 1993), White Power...and many many others.

With the ascent of the first African-American president, Barack Obama, to the presidency in 2009, both the "mainstream" and "underground" republicans were stunned at the realization that white people no longer have monopoly over power and are losing it to the untermensch. Mainstream republicans blocked every executive attempt by Obama and pledged to ensure his administration's failure. In a 2010 interview McConnell famously stated, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president", a commitment to obstruct every item on Obama's legislative agenda, which earned them the "party of no" monicker.

At the same time, Donald Trump appeared on the political stage and began making outlandish claims that Obama was not born in the US and that he should not be president (the "birther" conspiracy). At this point, mainstream republicans began encouraging Trump and the underground Radical Right extremists to join them in their efforts to reclaim white power and ensure the failure of Obama. And so, when Trump was elected in 2016, there was no dissent whatsoever, neither by the mainstream GOP nor (as we would be expected) by the extremist Radical Right militias, against his virulent racism and xenophobia. In secret, the mainstream were relishing what the racist Radical Right was doing, all the while claiming deniability of their own responsibility. Which explains how and why, to this date, very few GOP politicians have objected or opposed Trump. It's like a good cop-bad cop cabal that, while undermining the country's system, at least kept an appearance of respectability for ther republican establishment.



But this honeymoon is beginning to unravel. The masks are off, and the intra-republican civil war is under way. The establishment GOP notables know they have associated themselves with ignorant violent thugs and given the keys of the city to the barbarians. What is interesting is that those non-white republicans - African Americans, Hispanics, immigrants, etc. - who joined the right-wing cabal are also realizing they are being used while being hated for being non-white. The scission within the ranks of the Radical Right is now raising the specter of a crushing defeat in the 2026 legislatives and the 2028 presidential elections, both because many Trump-voters know they have screwed up and because of the deep divisions within the Radical Right MAGA movement.

Some are going as far as publicly accuse one another of being Nazis. Not that they reject the Nazi ideology, but only because they know that the Nazi tag is unpopular and will make them lose elections. The civil war within MAGA-GOP is not about principle. It's about political opportunism and expediency.

Vivek Ramaswamy and Usha Vance are the perfect examples of that existential problem for the conservatives: As Indians who have not converted from their Hindu religion to the Christian religion, but who are ideoligically devout conservatives, they are having a problem getting accepted solely on the basis of their ideological affiliation; indeed they are rejected because of their skin color and their immigrant background. Same thing with American Jews: They love Trump's America because it is protecting the criminal colonial state of Israel, but they also hate Trump's America for its intrinsic antisemitism.
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‘This Is Sabotage’: Laura Loomer Slams ‘Woke Right’ for Trying to Block Vivek Ramaswamy’s Gubernatorial Bid
Willa Pope Robbins
Wed, December 24, 2025


Ted Shaffrey, Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo - Ramaswamy (left) and Loomer (Right)

MAGA activist Laura Loomer slammed far right figures she accused of having a “mask off moment” on Wednesday for attempting to block former 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s bid to become the next governor of Ohio.

Loomer reposted a clip of white nationalist Nick Fuentes speaking on a livestream on Tuesday in which he called on his followers to “vote for a protest candidate, vote for a Democrat, vote for a third party, don’t vote, vote for anyone else” rather than Ramaswamy.

In a rant riddled with racist slurs, Fuentes said conservatives “have to deny Vivek Ramaswamy the governorship” at all costs.

Fuentes’s comments came just days after Ramaswamy called out the white nationalist in a New York Times op-ed and a speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference.

“If you believe, and you will forgive me for giving you an exact quote from our online commentator, Nick Fuentes. If you believe that Hitler was pretty f*cking cool, you have no place in the future of the conservative movement,” he said to the AmericaFest crowd.

In her repost of the clip, Loomer excoriated Fuentes, accusing him of being guilty of a “sabotage of the Trump agenda.”

“Glad the Woke Right is having a mask off moment to tell people to make Ohio blue before 2026 and 2028,” she wrote. “This is sabotage of the Trump agenda and an effort to elect more Democrats to help obstruct the rest of President Trump’s agenda.”

Loomer has long been a vocal critic of those she views as being disloyal to the President Donald Trump’s agenda.

On Monday, Loomer tore into former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who was recently at the center of a scandal stemming from his controversial interview with Fuentes in October.

“He’s trying to have a hostile takeover of the GOP to destroy MAGA & redefine the GOP into modern day Hitler youth with a drizzle of Sharia Law on top,” Loomer said of Carlson.

Loomer also shredded Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts after his defense of Carlson’s interview, calling his comments “outrageous” and predicting that there was “no way [Heritage] survive this.”

The post ‘This Is Sabotage’: Laura Loomer Slams ‘Woke Right’ for Trying to Block Vivek Ramaswamy’s Gubernatorial Bid first appeared on Mediaite.

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MAGA Activist Laura Loomer Says Democrats 'Were Right' About Some Conservatives Being Neo-Nazis: 'It's Kind of Undeniable'

The Trump ally and far-right provocateur's remarks came amid growing tensions over antisemitism and Israel within conservative circles
Dave Quinn
Wed, December 24, 2025


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NEED TO KNOW

Laura Loomer criticized the GOP for failing to address neo-Nazi extremism and antisemitism within its ranks on Tuesday, Dec. 23

She warned Republicans could face electoral losses in 2026 and 2028 if the issue is ignored

Loomer’s comments come amid growing conservative divisions over Israel and accusations of antisemitic rhetoric

Laura Loomer, the far-right activist and ally of Donald Trump, said Democrats “were right” about the presence of neo-Nazis within conservative circles, warning that the Republican Party risks future electoral losses if it fails to confront extremism within its ranks.

In a series of posts to X on Tuesday, Dec. 23, Loomer raised concerns about what she described as a growing neo-Nazi presence on the right and urged Republicans to take a firmer stance against antisemitism and racism within the party.

"Maybe some of those Democrats were right when they called some people on the so called right Nazis," Loomer wrote. "It’s kind of undeniable at this point that we do have a neo-Nazi problem on the right."

She went on to note that ignoring the issue would lead to "bigger" losses for Republicans in both the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election.

"Jew hate is not an electoral strategy," she wrote in another post on Tuesday. "It’s sad I have to say that, but the GOP has a Nazi problem."

One Year on: Fear and Loathing in Trump's America

Most countries around the world issue national identification cards to their citizens. The US has to be different, of course, because of its "Manifest Destiny" BS. So Americans rely on their driver's licenses as "government-issued photo ID" to prove who they are. But since anyone can get a driver's license which are issued by the States and not by the federal government, this becomes a problem because non-citizens can also use their driver's licenses and use them as identification cards. 

With Trump's persecution of people of color, people with accents, people who "look" different, etc., Americans are walking around carrying their passports to use them as ID cards if the American Getsapo arrests them. But people who don't travel don't have passports....So, fear, confusion, incomptence, injustice... are rampant these days.

  

A person carries their passport in Fresno, California, on 31 July 2025.Photograph: Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee via Getty Images

‘It’s sad we have to do this’: the US citizens carrying passports out of fear

Guardian staff

Tue, December 23, 2025

Across the United States, citizens say they have started carrying their passports with them through their daily activities as widespread immigration raids create a pervasive climate of fear, and reports of citizens being detained circulate in the media.

The Guardian talked to people living this reality.

Munira Maalimisaq, Minneapolis

Munira Maalimisaq, a family nurse practitioner who runs a clinic in Minneapolis, started carrying her passport with her daily on 2 December, as federal agents surged in the city after Trump repeatedly targeted Somalis.

Maalimisaq has been a naturalized US citizen for more than two decades; she came to the US as a child from Somalia. She previously only carried her passport when traveling in other countries.

Her clinic, Inspire Change Clinic, with a mission to serve marginalized communities, is located in an area where ICE agents have been targeting the local residents. Her patients have expressed fear about coming to the clinic, leading her to start a rapid response effort to provide more telehealth appointments and safe rides if needed. When patients check in at the clinic, more and more have presented their passports rather than a driver’s license, something she hadn’t seen previously.

“We have a lot of patients that may be targeted,” she said. “And because of that, I know that I may come in contact with [federal agents]. And for that, I want to make sure that I go home safely to my kids and simply for my own safety, I feel like, if I have my passport and I have my ID with me, I can show it, and hopefully that itself will be sufficient.”

She knows some people may be pulled over because they look like immigrants. In the Minneapolis area, and nationwide, people who are US citizens have been detained. She notes that she wears a headscarf: “I do look like an immigrant. It’s not something that I can hide who I am.

“For me, it didn’t stop me from working and doing everything that needs to be done, but just taking extra precautions, and the passport was my safety net,” she said.

“No one should have to carry a passport just to exist safely in their own city.”

– Rachel Leingang

Walter Cruz Perez, Kenner, Louisiana

Walter Cruz Perez has been a US citizen since 2022, six years after immigrating to the US from his native Guatemala with legal permanent residency. He used to never think twice about only carrying his driver’s license while going about his life in Kenner, Louisiana, running his successful landscaping and gardening business.

But then the second Trump administration embarked on its campaign to deport as many immigrants as possible. Kenner, with a relatively large Hispanic population, became a focus of that effort when federal agents descended on the New Orleans suburb in early December. Cruz, 58, began seeing stories in the media of Latino US citizens without their American passports readily on hand being at least temporarily detained by immigration agents.

Cruz said none of those agents seen scouring Kenner’s streets had approached him. But if they did, he surmised his accent would betray that he is a native Spanish speaker as well as an immigrant. He also joked that his short height and belly could make him seem like a particularly soft target.

So now Cruz said he is in the habit of putting his passport in his cellphone case while he tends to his landscaping in case any of the agents seen scouring the streets of his city in recent days eventually approach him. He always makes sure to put it in a zip lock bag to protect it from inclement weather and keep it in the best shape possible – out of fear an agent may doubt the document’s authenticity if it gets too worn down.

“It’s stressful,” said Cruz. “But you see on the news that people don’t have the chance to identify themselves … so you do what you have to do to avoid problems.”

– Ramon Antonio Vargas

Carola Lopez, outside New Orleans

Carola Lopez, an educator who lives outside New Orleans, grew up in the Latino US territory of Puerto Rico. And despite the fact that Puerto Ricans are US citizens, she became accustomed to being asked by other Americans why she and her people spoke Spanish, and even if she paid taxes.

She said she had been carrying her US passport with her in her car since the time in 2015 when authorities stopped her for no apparent reason near Houston while traveling there to watch star singer Ricky Martin – her fellow Puerto Rican – perform in a concert. And she said she was making sure to stick to that practice given the ongoing immigration crackdown as well as the stories in the media of US citizens being detained temporarily by agents in some instances.

Lopez said she would never understand “why we have to carry our passports and be afraid of being detained despite having US citizenship”.

“I bring it around to avoid getting into uncomfortable situations with the authorities,” Lopez said.

She added: “It’s really sad that we have to do this and that Americans are living in these times. I never thought I’d feel like I have to prove where I’m from … and that we are from the United States.”

– Ramon Antonio Vargas

Miguel Rios, Los Angeles

Miguel Rios, a 49-year-old born and raised in Los Angeles, and his family started carrying copies of their passports once the immigration raids began in the region earlier this year. He cancelled planned road trips to Utah and northern California, and discouraged his parents from going to large family functions where they might be more vulnerable.

Even as a US citizen, Rios, who works in aquarium and pond maintenance, was concerned when the Trump administration began mass sweeps across Los Angeles. But the turning point came when he heard from an associate at work that their relative, a US citizen, had been erroneously detained and taken to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility in the southern California desert. Around the same time, ICE agents used a moving truck for an operation at a Home Depot near his house. That was when he decided to carry additional identification.

But Rios said he felt there was little he could do to protect himself. “My sister taught me how to go Instagram live, that’s all I got going on … I have a dash cam on my truck. That’s kind of it.”

The supreme court ruling that federal agents can stop people in Los Angeles for speaking Spanish or appearing Latino was particularly upsetting, he said, and it had been difficult to see the widespread impacts of the administration’s deportations.

“It’s really scary for the elders,” Rios said. “You’re tearing families apart. The numbers have come out, it’s not like they’re catching criminals. You’re going to workplaces – that’s not where the criminals hang out.”

– Dani Anguiano

Ana, southern California

For Ana*, a middle-aged educator based in southern California, the danger came into focus with the detainment of Andrea Velez. The US citizen was on her way to work in downtown Los Angeles when masked men suddenly picked her up and dragged her into a vehicle parked nearby. The men were US immigration officials. Velez was charged with assaulting an officer, but the charge was later dismissed. During the incident, her mother and sister watched nearby but were afraid to intervene.

Ana, a US citizen and the daughter of Mexican immigrants, watched the news coverage, horrified by what Velez experienced.

“I thought if that happened to her that could happen to me. That could happen to anybody who looks like me or sounds like me,” she said. “If I’m just buying a taco at a taco truck, speaking Spanish. You never know. It’s just a reminder you are not what they consider fully American.

“I know I am. [But] this is an administration that says ‘you don’t belong’.”

Now, she carries her passport and ID at all times: “I’m a citizen but nonetheless I feel the need to carry my damn passport.” She’s gone to marches and talked to city council and tried to ensure her students, who have family members who have been deported, know their rights. But she fears the erosion of basic human rights and due process in the US.

“This is a very dangerous moment,” she said.

– Dani Anguiano

*Ana asked for her last name not to be used because she’s afraid for her safety and fears she will be targeted for speaking out

The Jeffrey Epstein Method: A Case Study

The accusers of Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers, etc... Just wondering if they all qualify as "antisemites"? Zionists insist on equating Jew with Israeli with Zionist. An attack on one is an attack on all, they say.  Sort of a Hebrew NATO. Which is why criticizing apartheid genocidal Israel is deemed by Zionists as "antisemitic".

Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein's 'First Known Victim' Was Just 13 — and He Allegedly Met Her at His Childhood Summer Camp: Complaint

The woman filed a civil complaint against Epstein's estate and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2020
Liam Quinn
Wed, December 24, 2025

Jeffrey Epstein's "first known victim" alleges that she met him while she attended a Michigan summer camp when she was 13 years old, according to a lawsuit

Epstein formerly attended the camp in 1967, according to UpNorthLive.

The allegations were made in a 2020 civil complaint that was included in a trove of Epstein materials released by the Department of Justice

Jeffrey Epstein's "first known victim" said she met him when she was 13 years old at a summer camp that he used to attend, according to a 2020 lawsuit.

The claim is found in a 2020 civil complaint filed by a woman under the name "Jane Doe," against Epstein's estate and Ghislaine Maxwell.

"It all started in 1994 when 13-year-old Jane Doe met Epstein and [Maxwell] at a summer camp in Michigan," the complaint alleges. "Jane Doe was their first known victim and was subsequently abused by Epstein and Maxwell for years as a young girl, suffering unimaginable physical and psychological trauma and distress."

The plaintiff says she was attending Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, where she was a vocal student, when she met Epstein and Maxwell. At the time, the plaintiff says she was living in both New York and Florida.

"Doe was sitting alone on a bench between classes when Epstein and Maxwell approached her," the complaint alleges. "Epstein bragged to her about being a patron of the arts and giving scholarships to talented young artists like Doe."

The two then began asking the girl questions about her family situation and background. When she got up to leave, Epstein asked for her mother's phone number back in Florida, according to the complaint.

UpNorthLive reported that Epstein attended the camp in 1967 and later became a prominent donor.

The complaint further states that when the girl returned home to Florida weeks later, Epstein called her mother and arranged for a driver to pick them up for a visit to his mansion, telling her that he "mentors young kids."

Over the next several months, the girl alleges she was groomed by Epstein and Maxwell, which eventually escalated into sexual abuse perpetrated by Epstein, who had also begun financially supporting her family, according to the complaint.

When she was 14, the plaintiff says she was taken to Mar-a-Lago, where Epstein allegedly introduced her to the hotel's owner, Donald Trump.

"Epstein elbowed Trump playfully asking him, referring to Doe, 'This is a good one, right?,'" the complaint alleges. "Trump smiled and nodded in agreement."

Trump is not accused of wrongdoing in the civil complaint.

The complaint was included in a series of materials released by the Department of Justice, including photos, emails and several documents, related to the Epstein investigation.

The disclosures have come after Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November. The act was signed by President Trump, even after he initially opposed its passage before changing his tune and telling Republicans to vote for it.

What has been released thus far has come with significant redactions, which has created controversy despite the act allowing some discretion.

Congress permitted the Justice Department to withhold classified material, information that could potentially identify victims, or anything that could interfere with an active federal investigation.

Images that have been released so far include ones of Epstein appearing to cuddle with unidentified children.

Upon release of the latest batch of materials, the Justice Department said the files "contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump."

Still, the president's name is found several times in the files. Trump was seen in a picture with Epstein that was one of at least 16 photos that was taken down from DOJ's website before being restored following backlash..

Also pictured in different images were high-profile figures, including former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Michael Jackson and Kevin Spacey.

Epstein controversially died by suicide while in federal custody in New York City in 2019. The disgraced financier had been arrested and was set to face sex trafficking charges.

Maxwell, Epstein's longtime co-conspirator, is serving a 20-year sentence following a sex trafficking conviction in 2021.

Read the original article on People

 

Zionist Occupiers Save Western Civilization by Killing Indigenous Palestinian Teen "Terrorist"

How long will the barbarian indigenous Palestinian owners of the land keep harassing the foreign civilized white european settlers who are illegally colonizing and stealing Palestine in defense of Trump and Netanyahu's Western civilization? 

The most moral army in the world as it saved Western civilization....

 

...by killing 16-year old Rayyan Abdel Qader point blank for no reason [Screenshot]


Israeli soldiers shot and killed a West Bank teen they say ‘hurled a block.’ Video shows them shooting him point blank
Ibrahim Dahman, Max Saltman, Thomas Bordeaux, CNN
Mon, December 22, 2025

The Israeli military said it shot dead a Palestinian “suspected of hurling a block” at soldiers on Saturday during an operation in the occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya.

Video reviewed by CNN shows a soldier shooting the teen when he is just feet away. In an earlier statement, the military did not use the word “suspected,” and said the person “hurled a block toward the soldiers.”

The Palestinian was identified as 16-year-old Rayan Muhammad Abdul Qader Abu Mualla by the Ministry of Health, citing the Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs (PGACA), who said his body is still being held by Israel after he was killed in the Al-Sab’aneh neighborhood in Qabatiya.

A 26-second security camera video shared on social media and geolocated by CNN to Al-Sab’aneh, shows what appears to be the moment Israeli troops shot Abu Mualla.

In the video, a person walks down an alley towards two helmeted soldiers crouched partially behind a corner. The person is just about to reach the corner when one soldier raises his rifle and fires at point blank range, causing the person to collapse backwards.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in its initial statement that its soldiers had been attacked by a “terrorist.” The video shows the 18 seconds before the shooting, in which time nothing appears to be thrown from the alley the Palestinian teenager comes from. His left hand, however, is obscured. It was not immediately clear who captured the footage, who initially released it, or what happened before the video begins.

On Saturday, the Israeli news site Ynet published what it says is a photo of Abu Mualla’s left hand clutching a chunk of concrete, taken after his death. CNN could not verify whether the photo is of the same person in the security footage.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that Israeli troops blocked its emergency workers from reaching the scene of the shooting.

A set of videos geolocated by CNN show an ambulance, with its emergency lights on, stopped about 650 feet away from the site of the shooting.

Asked for comment on the video and the allegation that emergency workers were blocked from reaching Abu Mualla, the IDF said: “Yesterday (Saturday), a Palestinian suspected of hurling a block at IDF soldiers was shot. The incident is under review.”

Late on Saturday, Abu Mualla’s school announced on Facebook that it would close on Sunday in honor of his memory and pushed exams a week ahead.

In a separate incident on Saturday, the Ministry of Health said the IDF shot and killed a 22-year-old Palestinian man named Ahmed Saed Ziyoud in Silat al-Harathiya, a town north of Jenin in the West Bank.

The IDF said in a statement on Telegram that it shot an individual in Silat al-Harathiya who “hurled an explosive” toward soldiers.

On Sunday, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, said he was a fighter in the Al-Quds Brigades. He was shot by an Israeli sniper’s bullet during the IDF storming of the town.

CNN’s Dana Karni contributed to this report.

 

Sex, Religion and Crime: Perfect Trifecta in Backward South Carolina

Pastor indicted after allegedly posting nude photo of wife before her death
Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY
Fri, December 19, 2025

Editor’s note: This article discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org.

For the video, go to: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/19/south-carolina-pastor-john-paul-miller-stalking-wife/87844288007/ 

A South Carolina pastor, whose wife died by suicide last year after she filed for divorce, has been federally indicted after being accused of posting her nude photo online and stalking her before her death.

John-Paul Miller, 46, is charged with felony charges of cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators, according to information from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina.

Miller, who previously preached at Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, came under fire after his wife, Mica Miller, was found dead at Lumber River State Park in April 2024. The 30-year-old woman's death was ruled a suicide, but the case drew national interest after allegations that Miller abused Mica before her death came to light

According to prosecutors, Miller was indicted on Thursday, for allegedly sending "unwanted and harassing communications" to his estranged wife from November 2022 until her death.

The behavior, the indictment alleges, included posting a nude photo of his wife online without her consent, and in one instance, contacting her over 50 times in a single day. Prosecutors also allege Miller interfered with her finances and her daily activities and on one occasion damaged her vehicle tires.

USA TODAY has reached out to the church and Miller's attorney.

Who is Pastor John-Paul Miller?

Miller has five children with his wife.

One day after his wife was found dead, Miller announced her death at the end of a sermon.

“I’m taking a little bit of a break and I don’t want to have to worry about the church,” he said before announcing her death. “My break may be a few days, a few weeks, I don’t know."

Soon after, reports began to surface alleging the pastor abused his wife in the leadup to her suicide. According to a WBTW police report obtained in May 2024, Miller's wife alleged her husband did not allow her to drive and “groomed” her years before their marriage.

"She has known her husband since she was 10 years old and that he ‘groomed’ her while she worked for him at Solid Rock Church until they were married six years ago,” the police report from the outlet reads.

Who is Mica Miller?

Mica Acacia Miller, was born in Wichita, Kansas to Michael Francis and Angelita Ramirez, according to her obituary.

Family described her as "energetic, affirming and adventurous" in the written memorial, and said she and her husband married in 2017.

"Mica was a great stepmother, and an amazing wife and helpmate," the obituary reads. "She helped Pastor JP with the church in every way. Mica was the worship leader, graphics designer, youth leader, women’s ministry leader, and Pastor’s assistant."
Pastor faces prison if convicted in wife's stalking case

If convicted, prosecutors said Miller faces up to five years in prison for cyberstalking and two years in prison for his false statements.

Miller is set for arraignment on Jan. 12 in federal court in Florence, about 95 miles southeast of Charlotte.

Contributing: Fernando Cervantes Jr.

MAGA Moron Buyers Regret Votes for Trump Because they are Losing Money

This is how unprincipled and selfish MAGA morons are as they regret their vote for Trump. It's all about money and the bottom line. It's not about making American great. It's not about genuine patriotism. It's all about racism. They thought Trump would remove ALL the migrants, except those they hire to do their menial work. It's like you are anti-slavery, on condition they let you keep your own slaves. 

Many of the MAGA racist morons below knew Trump was going to clean up the country of all those dark-skinned immigrants they hate, but they didn't think (stupid as they are) it would affect them personally especially in their purses. 

They were not offended by Trump's racism, sexism, vulgarity, his creepy adulterous life, his attempt to topple the government, his sending a mob of criminals to attack the Congress, his alliance with the Russian dictator.... Oh no, none of these things bothered them. 

The fact that illiterate ignorant white americans ignore a man's filth simply because he's white should give you an idea of how American democracy allows mediocrity and criminality to rise to power. These illiterate ignorant white Americans from the boonies hate smart educated people. They prefer a moron like them, and only then realize they voted for a moron only because it hurts their money-making obsession.

How pathetic. 
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This MAGA supporter regrets their vote now that it's affecting their employeers and therefore their business.
"Let me start by saying I voted for Trump," the business owner shared in a recent rant online. "He was the best option on the ballot. I didn't agree with all his ideas but over all I was hoping he would be the a vast improvement over the past administration. In a lot of ways I think he has been."

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"However, this hellbent notion of deporting all illegal aliens is wrong in my opinion."
"Yes there are many bad illegal immigrants here, and they need to be deported. I'm all for it. That is the exception not the norm."
"I'm a 67 year old white small business owner," they continued. "We are a concrete construction company. I have Hispanic finishers and carpenters that have worked for me for years. A couple for over 20 years."       THE ASSHO-- KNEW THEY WERE ILLEGALS BUT HE HIRED THEM ANYWAY.  HE SHOULD BE FINED AND SENT TO JAIL.

"They are not employees to me. They are family. There's nothing I wouldn't do for them. They are honest hard working, dependable guys who exceed expectations. They care, take pride in what they do. A couple of them have their sons help on occassion." "They don't even have family in Mexico now. If they were to get deported they would have nowhere to go or family."

"If you have never been to Mexico, before you judge these people, you need to experience Mexico for yourself. These people come from poverty. Backbreaking work for $70 a week."
"I realize the majority of people don't get it or probably care," they concluded. "This is not what America should be about. Shame on Trump and anyone who thinks this is the right thing to do."

"It breaks my heart to see these fine families getting separated and having to live in fear here, when all they want is to make a honest living. They don't live extravagent lives, because they send money to help there parents and loved ones get by so they don't have to work for the cartel."

THE ASSH--- TURNED INTO A BLEEDING HEART DEMOCRAT NOW THAT HE HAS TO HIRE US CITIZENS FOR $500 A WEEK INSTEAD OF THE SLAVE WAGES OF $70 A WEEK HE WAS GIVING HIS BELOVED ILLEGAL SLAVES.
A screenshot of the full post went viral on Reddit:

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Commenters granted all of their sympathy to the employees affected, but certainly held nothing back when it came to their boss. Here's what they're saying:
"'There's nothing I wouldn't do for them.' Except vote in their best interests (and my own)."
—SmellGestapo

"He was willing to do anything except sponsor, fund, or take any action whatsoever to protect their status in this country. They were such family to him, yet he decided to exploit them for the fact they were not naturalized citizens, and is now just fucking gutted that he's no longer able to exploit his family for another two decades."
—TheDevil-YouKnow

"What part of 'deport the illegals' did this guy not understand?" —southofakronoh

"Best option? He means Trump was a better option than a Black woman?"
—Sucksmaga

"Ding ding ding. To him, Trump was clearly the white choice." —GhostofZellers

"You should’ve voted for the well-educated woman of color, instead of the clueless angry white guy, lol. If you can listen to a former president ramble on for hours and not take every single thing he said at face value, then shame on you." TravelerMSY


20th Television  —contude327

"Hope he has to work until he dies and can never retire. Fuck that guy."—vonhizzle

"So it affects his bottom line and he’s not fine with that. Everything else👍"
—PhoenixCogburn

Jeffrey1012: Behind America's Obsession with China and Venezuela

Must watch: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffrey1012v2/video/7580611030284520725 

An insight from a former IMF (International Monetary Fund) official into what is behind the US calling  China an "enemy" and the US harassing and possibly regime changing in Venezuela: Paper money vs real wealth (e.g. oil) and debt vs empire? The dollar economy imposed by Washington is in collapse mode.

Bottom line: US is no longer the sole power in a new multipolar world. It can no longer control the world with the paper dollar it has imposed since 1945. The BRICs are no longer using the dollar - they do their exchanges in Yuan, Rand, Yen, Rupee, etc.

US debt to China is in the tens of trillions of dollars, and it is literally begging the Chinese to buy more US dollars. The US needs 3 trillion dollars just to keep the country going. The US spends trillions more than it taxes.

In Venezuela, the US is literally begging Maduro for his oil to save the dollar. They made an outlaw of Maduro, sanctioned his oil so that the world stops buying it. But the world (China, India and others) kept buying Venezuela's oil but not paying in US dollars. In desperation, the US now want a regime change in order to seize Venezuela's oil.

Scandinavians & South African Whites: Emigrate to US. Trump Wants You

The deranged senile Simian in the White House is stopping all immigration from the "Third World", and he wants only whites from northern Europe and South Africa to immigrate to the US. His plan is to bleach the melting pot.

It's you chance for the American Dream. You should all apply to move to the US and leave your countries for the migrants and immigrants from filthy countries. He says Europe is finished. 

 

It's Gonna Be a Democrat Landslide Next November

The country is done with Trump's garbage.

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Former Trump Official Already Waving the White Flag: ‘You Gotta Favor the Democrats in the Midterms’
Willa Pope Robbins
Sat, December 13, 2025 

Former Trump White House official Marc Short told Politico’s Dasha Burns that the Democratic Party will likely dominate the 2026 midterms.

In an appearance on CSPAN’s Ceasefire alongside Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod, Short said that the Republican Party is already set to endure heavy losses in the upcoming elections.

“I think it’s going to be a really steep climb, Dasha,” said Short, in relation to GOP midterm efforts. “The reality is that Americans like divided government. They don’t want one party in control. Each time there’s been one party in control, there’s been a backlash.”

The once chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence noted that in previous midterms, the incumbent party is much more vulnerable to losing Congressional seats.

“And so, just like in the 2018 midterms when Republicans had control of everything, Democrats had a big year. In 2022, when Democrats are in control of everything, Republicans had a big year,” he said. “So, I think you’re going to see likely a Democrat year in the midterms.”

Short said that due to recent gerrymandering efforts that have decreased the number of contested districts, a Democratic sweep may be smaller than in past years, if still significant.

“The reality is that so many of our house districts are drawn today to gerrymander for each side that there’s fewer really districts that are really competitive,” he said.

“And potentially more that are going to be gerrymandered, right?” asked Burns.

“Potentially more that are going to be gerrymandered. So I do think there’ll be a swing,” he said. “But the question is, you know, I remember being, to date myself, a hill staffer in 2010 when after the Obamacare passage, there was 63 seats the Republicans picked up. I think it’s hard to think you’re going to have that kind of a swing or even 40 in the 2018 midterms. But I still think that the margins, as tight as they are of potentially one or two seats by that point, that you got to favor the Democrats in the midterms.”

Short is not the only prominent Republican who’s voiced fears about the party’s chances in the upcoming election cycle.

Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters was at the center of an internet firestorm on Friday after an unearth audio recording heard him describe the GOP as “facing almost certain defeat” in the midterms.

Fox News host Jesse Watters similarly predicted that the GOP would lose control of the House of Representatives come November, telling his co-hosts on Wednesday that the party’s lack of focus on affordability was at the root of the problem.

“They have no credibility at all on any domestic policy,” said Watters, referring to Republicans. “And it’s fresh in everyone’s head. And they’re running on fixing a problem they created, and they won’t tell you how they’re gonna fix it.”

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The Only Conclusion to be Drawn from the so-far-released Epstein Files

 

He once sold condoms bearing his name to fellow pedophiles. Now he sells $1,000-a-pop bible to MAGA morons. Which of the two products best describes Donald Trump? 

The undeniable fact from the Epstein Files so far released is that Epstein was close to BOTH DEMOCRACTS and REPUBLICANS. 

The conspiracies long peddled by Trump and his MAGA morons of an exclusively Democrat pedophile ring are only half true, for we now know that many diehard Republicans were also involved with Epstein. Most notable is the disgusting, disheveled, unshaven, unshowered slob called Radical Right extremist Steve Bannon who now appears to have been very very close to Epstein, and who remains very close to Trump himself. I haven't mentioned Trump because we all know by now how "close" was Trump with Epstein, sharing "wonderful secrets" with him.

 

So my message to Trump's MAGA morons is that the guilty in the conspiracy are THE ELITES, regardless of whether they are democrats or republicans. THE ELITES are the ultra-wealthy, the billionaires, the powerful and corrupt, the newspaper magnates, the Hollywood and Netflix and Paramount executives, those who run every detail of your lives as if you were sheep led to the slaughter. 

Instead of taking sides over the dividing line between Democrats and Republicans, instead of defending Trump blindly because he lies to you every time he opens his mouth blaming everything on the Democrats, hoax this hoax that... stop being morons believing him. TRUMP IS AS MUCH PART OF THAT CORRUPT ELITE AS ANY DEMOCRAT MIGHT BE.

The dividing line is not between Democrats and Republicans. It is not between Christians and non-Christians. It is not between Blacks and Whites. It is not between natives and immigrants....It is between decency and indecency. It is between character and integrity on one side, and villainy, dishonesty and bigotry on the other side. Now perhaps you can see that Trump is not really a republican. He is not really a Christian. He has no decency or integrity. He lies, he manipulates, he kills, he cheats, ... and he duped you to vote for him, only then to turn around and do whatever corrupt stuff he wants to do. 

TRUMP IS PART OF THE ELITE YOU DECRY. His children and Steve Witkoff's children are running around the planet supposedly making peace between "filthy sh--hole" countries but really making billions and billions in deals with every unsavory dictator out there.

And what are YOU getting out of Trump? Nothing of real value, an economy in shambles, warfare against another country, violence erupting all around a world on the verge of a third world war....All of this is Trump's own doing while claiming the exact oppposite. He says he is going to war with Venezuela to fight drug trafficking just as pardons and liberates a major druglord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country. He is sacrificing our long-standing European allies for the sake of an alliance with a criminal dictator like him, Vladimir Putin. With Trump, you are getting a cheap violent movie about cleansing the country out of ordinary people who are just like you, struggling to survive a world of ELITIST rapists and thieves... except they have darker skin, while he and his family engage in shady, corrupt enrichment schemes. Is that the decency you really want to see? Is that what you voted for? Is that what your Christian faith tells you to trust?

There is no shame admitting to having been suckered like fools by a convicted criminal and his convicted pedophile friends. It takes courage inside of yourself and with yourself - and not out publicly on social media - to admit your error. Next time you listen to a politician, Democrat or Republican, trying to scam you into voting for them, don't listen to the words because they may be just lies and promises they know they won't keep. Don't listen to the policies they are promising, they may be just a smokescreen. Watch for the character of the individual. Because he/she may have to face unprecedented situations he/she could not have foreseen during the campaign and for which he had no "ready-to-go" policies. At that moment, it will be his integrity and character that determine his conduct, not his campaign promises.

Trump is Buying Your "Loyalty" for $2,000. Are you This Easy and Cheap?

Up to $2,000/household, says Scott Bessent, as he tries to buy your loyalty to the billionaire crooks like him Trump and himself. They are raking billions for themselves and their elite families with deals around the world and are trying to keep you on their leash with an "up to $2,000" crumb. "Up to" means many of you will get nothing or much less, if Trump and Bessent actually act on this promise. They otherwise are telling you to tighten your belt by buying less gifts, less pencils, and are forcing you to buy less food, less medical care.... 

Only suckers will fall for this trick. I wouldn't mind getting $2,000, but that will not make me vote for criminal bilionaires.

Financial crooks are applauding Bessent's promise that says, "Working Americans will soon see a sizable financial boost — all thanks to changes tied to President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill". TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS is NOT A SIZABLE BOOST. It's a pathetic bribe. The financial and business crooks will be hounding you with commercials to try and sucker you into a scam and rip off the $2,000 out of your bank account.

Bessent said that Trump has fought harder than anyone for his signature initiatives in the One Big Beautiful Bill, pointing to provisions such as no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and auto deductibility. But he failed to mention higher crime rates, higher medical insurance costs, higher taxes/tariffs on food and groceries....

Texas Pervert US Army Doctor is a US-Born White Criminal. Not a Brown Migrant!

I suspect most male doctors who specialize in gynecology are some sort of sex perverts. Just like most Catholic priests are homosexuals or pedophiles. Imagine if you are a homosexual male in a conservative society. You don't have and you don't want a girlfriend, and you can't have one without marrying her. 

One way to escape the unavoidable questions as to your marital status is to become a priest. Once a priest, conservative people accept - or at least do not question - your status of an umarried male who somehow has no sex life. They will not question your asexual life as they would if you were a lay person. Which is why many homosexuals are drawn to the priesthood as a way to protect themselves from prying eyes and the social pressure to conform. 

The reality though is that a normal male cannot not have a sex life. At the very least, priests who abide by the vow of chastity do in all likelihood masturbate, which is also a forbidden sin. I once argued with a devout Catholic and I asked him how does he think priests manage their libido without breaking their chastity vow. His answer was that they have unwanted "nocturnal emissions"!!!

What the Church expects of its priests is inhumane and unattainable, just like much of the Christian religion which is based on made-up myths and is, at best, aspirational and not grounded in reality, unlike Judaism and Islam which are less hypothetical, more grounded, based on rules of living and less on faith (i.e. suspension of reason), without mysteries and convoluted mental distortions as explanations for the impossible. Have you ever heard of someone turning the other cheek? Or forgiving and loving his/her enemy or even his/her neighbor? Or not caring for tomorrow and living for the day? Or not having any ambition in this life because their ambition is in the afterlife bullshit? Or giving away all their wealth and money? Ever since its genesis, Christianity has NOT succeeded in eliminating or reducing violence, killings, wars, abuse of the weak. Not that the other religions have suceeded either. All religions are an epibiological "cultural" development in all human societies that tries - and always fails - to answer questions that only reason can answer. FAITH is by definition THE SUSPENSION OF REASON. 

Religious leaders can keep reminding the worst animal species that evolution ever produced of the need to be like all the other animals: In a state of grace, i.e. violent when needed, civilized when possible. But humans are violent when possible and civilized when needed. And all of it is because of that human cerebral cortex that wants answers to everything, and when there are no reasonable facts to answer those questions, the cortex invents an answer: Religion. Which is why every time science and reason find an answer to a given question, the previous commonly-held religious explanation dies off. When the plague used to strike medieval societies, people didn't know of Yersinia pestis (and of the existence of bacteria altogether). Religions told them back then that God was punishing them. They don't do that anymore because we now know that the plague is caused by a bacterium, not by God.

Forvige me for drifting far from the subject that ignited this post. But here is a white US-born male doctor serving in the US army who graduated from medical school and decided to specialize in the female genitalia. His "career", as it were, appears not to have been driven by his desire to genuinely care for his female patients, but more by his desire to peep into his female patients' genitalia. 

What pushes male doctors to specialize in the female genitalia? I'll let you answer the question for yourself. I do have a question for which I still haven't looked for an answer, but I'll venture asking it: What fraction of graduating female physicians specialize in the male genitalia? If it is the same proportion as male doctors specializing in the female genitalia, then I'll accept an innocent answer. 

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Army Gynecologist Charged for Allegedly Taking Secret Videos of 44 Patients During Exams

Army gynecologist Maj. Blaine McGraw has been formally charged with 54 counts of indecent visual recording
Charna Flam
Fri, December 12, 2025


Bell County Sheriff's Office Blaine McGraw

NEED TO KNOW

Army gynecologist Maj. Blaine McGraw has been charged with indecent visual recording, among other charges, after allegedly secretly filming his patients

McGraw was formally charged on Dec. 9, following an investigation from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division

A majority of the alleged offenses occurred when McGraw conducted medical exams at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, Texas

Army gynecologist Maj. Blaine McGraw has been formally charged with allegedly secretly recording women.

McGraw, 47, was charged on Tuesday, Dec. 9, with 54 counts of indecent visual recording, five counts of conduct unbecoming an officer, one count of willful disobedience of a superior officer and one count of making a false official statement, according to The New York Times.

McGraw has been held in pretrial confinement at the Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas since Dec. 2, the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) said in a statement.

The OB-GYN worked at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, from June 2019 to June 2023, before beginning practice at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, Texas.

During his time in Texas, McGraw is accused of making secret recordings of 44 patients from Jan. 1 through Dec. 1, 2025, CBS News reports. A majority of the alleged offenses occurred when McGraw conducted medical exams at Darnall Army Medical Center.

A source connected to the case told NBC News that as many as 1,500 people have been notified that they may have been recorded without their consent during McGraw's Army tenure.

Alamy Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 30, 2014

A patient made allegations against McGraw on Oct. 17. That same day, the Army CID suspended him, revoked his access to medical records and launched its investigation "within hours,” according to a statement.

On Nov. 5, Texas law firm National Trial Law announced in a statement that it is representing a group of several victims in a lawsuit against the U.S. government, alleging that "victims had previously reported the doctor's inappropriate behavior to the Army, but allege that nothing was done and the provider was allowed to continue treating patients."

"The allegations involve one of the most egregious violations of medical trust imaginable: non-consensual videotaping and photographing of patients during intimate medical examinations, coupled with improper sexual touching during OB-GYN procedures," National Trial Law's statement continued.

On Nov. 12, National Trial Law filed an administrative complaint against the U.S. Department of the Army on behalf of an anonymous complainant identified as Jane Doe 1.

Two days prior, on Nov. 10, the Cobos Law Firm, also a Texas-based law firm, filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of alleged victims in Bell County District Court.

Cobos represents 56 of the alleged victims, USA Today reports. The firm is representing a Jane Doe, who is identified only as a military spouse. The lawsuit alleges the U.S. Army covered up McGraw's alleged abuse.

"The Army knew," the lawsuit reviewed by PEOPLE reads. "Complaints had been made about Defendant McGraw—at Fort Hood, and years earlier at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii—yet leadership dismissed the warnings, laughed off credible allegations, and allowed McGraw to continue practicing. By doing so, the Army gave cover to a predator in uniform."

On Dec. 3, the Army’s CID said its extensive investigation now includes hundreds of interviews and a review of over half a terabyte of digital media.

Then on Monday, Dec. 8, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and more than 50 other congressional Democrats sent a letter to the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General. The politicians requested the office investigate if the Army allegedly ignored reports and dismissed complaints about McGraw.

“The allegations against Dr. McGraw are extremely serious, and the Army’s criminal investigation of this matter must continue unabated,” the letter read. “We are committed to demanding justice for victims of sexual assault and harassment, and we will not stay silent while the safety of women is at risk.”

A preliminary hearing for McGraw has not been scheduled.

PEOPLE reached out to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division for comment.

From the Archives: Lebanese-American Opportunistic Incompetence

Gabriel Issa and Tony Haddad: The Laurel and Hardy duo of Lebanese American politics. As the Lebanese are struggling with ways to disarm the Iranian Hezbollah without falling into a civil war, it is interesting to go over the history of some Lebanese Americans whose opportunism by far dwarfs any sense of principle or genuine patriotism.

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1- GABRIEL ISSA - former Michel Aoun supporter, first anti-Syrian then pro-Syrian and ambassador of Lebanon to the US (for which he had to renounce his US citizenship). 

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Turncoat Gaby Issa in his Own Words

Gabriel "Gaby" Issa, an otherwise useful idiot ally of Michel Aoun, was appointed Lebanese ambassador to the U.S. in July 2017 as a reward for serving Aoun financially for decades. He also spent much of his years in the US begging the pro-Israeli Zionist lobby in the US congress for help against the Syrian occupation of Lebanon and pouring money into the Aoun coffers. But then, circa 2002, he was instructed by Aoun's son-in-law Gebran Bassil to switch sides, and overnight became an ardent supporter of the Syrian-Iranian occupation of Lebanon as embodied by Hezbollah and a hater of America and Israel. 

Aoun himself had made the same magical metamorphosis around that time. In addition to interview statements in which he expressed sympathy for the Israelis as they were targeted by a wave of suicide bombings (see: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2022/07/aouns-legacy-unprincipled-greed-for_11.html), Aoun twice made statements into my own ears completely opposite to his current transformation: once pitying the poor Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism, and another time when he said "he is one of us" (هيدا منّا وفينا) about the leader of the Guardians of the Cedars Etienne Sacre (aka Abu-Arz), exiled in Cyprus and condemned for treason because he fled to Israel, along with thousands of other southern Lebanese, after Israel treacherously handed the Lebanese South to the Iranian terrorist militia Hezbollah in 2000.

In an interview on April 14, 2022 with Aoun's OTV television channel, Issa said that he not only supports the presence of Hezbollah's weapons on the Lebanese border with Israel, but that he believes that Hezbollah should increase its arsenal dozens of times over because it protects the Lebanese people. 

Rebuttals: 

- If the Aoun administration believes that stockpiling weapons on the border will protect the Lebanese people, why doesn't he [Aoun] send his army, instead of his ally the Iranian militia Hezbollah, to the border? Why subcontract the defense of the nation to an unlawful terrorist organization acting on behalf of Iran? 

- If Aoun and his son-in-law Gebran Bassil, head of the Free Patriotic Movement [FPM], believe that the south of the country is a "national", and not only a "Shiite", territory worthy of defense, why haven't they mobilized their Christian FPM followers to build their own militia or join the ranks of Hezbollah along the border to fight against Israel, instead of hurling insults from behind their cell phone screens and the comfort of their couches? Why is a matter [the supposed continued Israeli occupation of the Shebaa Farms] of such national gravity as territorial integrity or national defense left to a radical fundamentalist Muslim organization? Perhaps those Christians of the FPM do not wish to fall under US sanctions, and are hiding like coward Dhimmis behind the Muslim Shiite Hezbollah. Perhaps those Christians of the FPM - including Gaby Issa himself, a Lebanese-born US citizen who lived in the US for 40 years before losing his US citizenship to become ambassador - have a lot of money and assets in the US that they do not wish to jeopardize their own little self-interests. It may be that after 40 years in the US, Gaby has become just another dumb American..

Issa said that it is hypocritical of the U.S. to "grumble" and call for the dissolution of Hezbollah and other Lebanese militias because today's situation in Lebanon is America's doing.

- Issa should at least adhere to the Lebanese constitution of the Taif Agreement that his boss Michel Aoun first opposed, then accepted after he decimated the Christian population of Beirut in futile internecine battles that he lost, fleeing like a coward to the basement of the French embassy. The Taif Agreement called for the dissolution of ALL - not some - militias; yet of all wartime militias, only Hezbollah was allowed to remain armed and active. The Taif Agreement called for the Lebanese Army to take control of the entire border zone, yet to date Hezbollah has full control of the southern border and continues to harass and threaten the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) present on the ground.

Issa explained that the issue of Hezbollah's weapons will be resolved when all regional issues are resolved...

- This idiot wants Lebanon to wait for the resolution of all regional issues - Iran's nuclear stalemate, Iranian-Saudi rivalry, Palestine/Israel, Yemen's civil war, Syria's civil war, Iraq's smoldering civil war, etc. - before Hezbollah's weapons are dealt with. Let's see: Every one of these conflicts has been smoldering for decades; in fact the Saudi-Iranian conflict has been simmering since the 7th century with no end in sight. 

- Mr. Issa's ally, Hezbollah, has only one resolution in mind when it comes to all these conflicts: Eradicate Israel from the map and establish a Shiite Muslim Caliphate over the entire Near East. So Mr. Issa, a Christian Dhimmi ("tolerated" by Muslim rulers), is asking the Lebanese people to remain under the constant threat of war until Israel disappears and the Iranian mullahs rule over the entire region. Very sagacious and realistic goals. 

Issa said that by pressuring Lebanon on Hezbollah's weapons, the U.S. is trying to push Lebanon towards civil war.

But Lebanon has been in a chronic civil war between Christians and Muslims long before there even was an America worthy of any influence. Let's see: 

- 1842-1860 - Christians and Druze massacre one another. Country is partitioned into 2 mini-states, one Druze, one Christian. It fails. Massacres resume, European powers intervene and a small Christian Mount-Lebanon Protectorate is declared from which Turkish Ottoman troops are excluded.

- 1914-1918 - Ottoman Turkish troops re-invade and requisition everything, one third of the Mount Lebanon Protectorate dies of famine and a third emigrates to no return.

- 1920 - Contrary to French advice, Mount Lebanon is enlarged into a Greater Lebanon that reduces the Christians to 50% of the population.

- 1943 - The stupid Lebanese Christians kick their WWII-weakened French protectors out of Lebanon. Modern Lebanon is born.

- 1958 - Crisis with Abdel-Nasser of Egypt leads to a brief civil war. Lebanon's Sunni Muslims want to join a Greater Arabia BS entity.

- 1961 - Failed coup d'état attempt by the Near East Nazi Party (Syrian National Socialist Party) close to the Syrian Baath Party. Leads to the militarization of the Lebanese government under the Chehab and Helou presidential terms.

- 1970 - Yasser Arafat and his PLO move their headquarters from Amman to Beirut and attempt to seize power and make Lebanon a substitute homeland in lieu of Palestine, leading to the war of 1975-1990 between Lebanon's Christians and the Palestinian organizations.

1982-present time - By force of weapons and terrorist actions (kidnappings, hijackings, bombings, assassinations, etc.), the Iranian Hezbollah militia - apparently Mr. Issa's favorite terrorist organization - evicts all Western presence from Lebanon and subdues the entire country under the pretext of "defending" Lebanon. Mr. Issa's shallow cerebrum makes him think that Hezbollah is the answer to Lebanon's chronic problems. Good luck with that. 

Issa also said that the U.S. threateningly told the Lebanese that they must not contribute to the reconstruction of Syria in the aftermath of the Syrian civil war, even though Lebanon was impacted by the war more than any other country. 

- While he doesn't cite who exactly of "the Americans" told him not to contribute to the reconstruction of Syria, this remark points to where Mr. Issa's priorities are: Money-making schemes, while the country is floundering. It is Lebanon that needs to be reconstructed from the abysmally corrupt governance of the very Aoun administration that Gaby Issa flaunts. No amount of money, whether from the reconstruction of Syria or from begging the IMF, will fix Lebanon's constitutive structural problems. Mr. Issa and his buddies stand to make lots of money from reconstructing Syria if, and only if, his Iranian allies in Hezbollah keep the upper hand in Lebanon: The reason being that Hezbollah and Syria have elevated the art of smuggling across the porous border (thanks to Michel Aoun's laxity with his Syrian allies) to new heights, combining ancient donkey caravans, trucks and modern drones. So Issa and Bassil stand to make a good cut of Syria's reconstruction because they are counting, as Issa said, on the many long years still to go before all regional conflicts are resolved. Peace and the rule of law are not to their advantage, but anarchy, lawlessness, war, or even just the constant threat of war that Hezbollah perpetuates definitely works to Bassil and Issa's advantage.

Below are excerpts from an interview with Gabriel Issa, the former Lebanese ambassador to the United States, on the Lebanese OTV channel on April 14, 2022.

Interviewer: "So you are in favor of keeping the weapons of the Resistance (i.e. Hezbollah)?"

Issa: "Not just keeping them. I support increasing them dozens of times over. I confronted senior American officials who came to talk to me. I said to them: 'You allowed for this.' They said it was the Syrians, not them. So I said: 'You allowed Syria to invade Lebanon.' The same thing happened with regard to the Taif Agreement. I said to them: 'You imposed the ruling system of the Taif Agreement on us.' Their answer was: 'It was the Saudis, not us.' The Americans always deny responsibility. They say that they did not allow Syria to invade Lebanon, that they did not allow Saudi Arabia to impose the Taif Agreement on us... All the Americans who say today that we do not have the right to do this – they themselves formed a militia and invented the concept of a militia and of a mini-state within a state. Not only did they invent this notion, but they have imposed it on us for many years, and now they grumble about the existence of the Hezbollah militia? You have the same background. You said that you were defending Lebanon, and Hezbollah also says it defends Lebanon ... Okay, so there are weapons that not held by the Lebanese army. Sure, there is a problem and it will be resolved when the regional issues are resolved. But today, in the elections, all you hear is people suggesting to take away the weapons of the resistance, as if this is the only problem."

Interviewer: "It is also noteworthy that no one mentions the weapons of the Palestinians in the refugee camps."

Issa: "Absolutely. We talked about when the mini-states within the state began, and when the Lebanese army came to restore its control of this Lebanese land, everybody opposed it. Today, the Americans are inciting us to send the Lebanese army to take away the weapons of the resistance. What does this mean? That they want to push us towards a civil war. This is what I am against.

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"The Americans pressured us with regard to many issues. For example, they pressured us with regard to our dealings with Syria. We were directly informed about this in a threatening tone. I was at the meeting when they said: 'Don't even think about contributing to the reconstruction of Syria.' This is the language they used. They threatened to impose sanctions on us. Lebanon was forbidden from helping in this reconstruction, even though this was an opportunity for the Lebanese. We paid a higher price for that war than other countries, considering the size of Lebanon, its economy, and its population. We were the country impacted the most by that war, so at least, when the reconstruction begins, let us offset some of it – I'm not talking about benefiting from this but at least some offsetting some of our losses. No. We were completely prevented from doing this. I am not saying that we accepted this, but this was the language they used with us – not only with me. Officials more senior than me were also present, and they were told to their faces by the top American in charge of the Syrian portfolio: 'I came to tell you that you are forbidden from participating in the reconstruction of Syria.' During the discussion, we said: 'Why? We have the right to do this.' But he said: 'I did not come to negotiate with you. I came to inform you.' This was the language he used."

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2- TONY HADDAD - former Michel Aoun supporter, first anti-Syrian then everything and nothing depending on which way the wind blows. When Michel Aoun did the switcheroo from anti-Hezbollah to pro-Hezbollah, Tony did the same - he told me once that he agreed with Aoun because "the Shiites are better than the Sunnis" - stunning intellect. Gebran Bassil must have fed him this bullshit. After kissing ass to Hezbollah as a maid-servant to Michel Aoun, he now kisses ass to the Americans. I am always amazed at the ease with which Lebanese opportunists switch their political allegiances: No principles, only carpetbaggery. 

Since Tony didn't get his "reward" like Issa when Michel Aoun became president, he tried to shove himself into the maritime border negotiations between Lebanon and Israel. But Aoun's heir apparent, the Son-in-Law Gebran Bassil, kicked him out of the presidential palace. Now he appears to sit alongside the current president (Joseph Aoun)'s bunch of antique-looking advisors when there is a meeting with the Americans. I don't think Tony has any idea of what he wants, other than be in the game regardless of principle  or political position....  He just wants to be seen as an "important person". Never speaks, never has interviews.... more a like a court jester, a sycophant, a puppet, a dummy, a seat holder....He's so inconsequential that he doesn't even rise to the level of a satanic Rasputin. I wish some journalist interviews Tony Hardy Haddad so we know into what exactly he has metamorphosed. At least with Gaby Laurel Issa, we know: He's hunkered down in hiding somewhere because his positions are very unpopular right now. With Tony Hardy Haddad, it's more like slithering for survival through the complexities of Lebanese  political life.  Laurel Gaby and Hardy Tony were always dense and blundering, and were never funny.

Thursday, November 26, 2020

My Friend Tony Haddad

 [Update June 2023]: PLEASE READ the end of this piece, where I just added some historical information that you can delight yourself with and read Tony Haddad's e-mail exchanges with me in 2006 that reveal how he was brainwashed by Gebran Bassil into believing Hezbollah's lies. Tony Haddad was expelled from the entourage of Aoun and Bassil. He arrogantly thought he could lead the negiotiations with Israel over the maritme borders from which he evidently was dumped like a sack of manure. The senile Aoun is licking the boots of Bashar Assad on behalf of Bassil. And Bassil is crawling back like a snake out of the Hezbollah swamp in which he had dragged idiots like Tony Haddad....I feel blissfully vindicated. 

I knew that Tony was just a nobody with money [who tells me in the appended e-mail exchange that "I am not that important"; he assumes that all the Lebanese Americans who fought decades to liberate Lebanon from Syria were, like him, doing it with the ambition of "being important" ], like his alter ego the guy from Michigan who was briefly the proxy-ambassador - under cover of the Lebanese embassy - of Tehran and Damascus in washington DC... all shills of a cretin called Bassil who has no friends left because of his stupidity. I predict that when the aging Aoun dies, the FPM will splinter and decay as spitefully as when it was born. Tony: What a poor jackass you've made of yourself. [Key to Tony's abbreviations: HN=Hassan Nasrallah, GMA=General Michel Aoun, Hizb=Hezbollah, PR=Press Release, FPM=Free Patriotic Movement, MOU=Memorandum of Understanding, YYY=Yours truly, idiot13=you know who].

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In typical Lebanese clientelist mentality, Tony Haddad was hoping for big returns from his decades-long crawling at Michel Aoun's feet. Nothing wrong with that, as long as the overarching objective was sublime, namely to end Syria's occupation of Lebanon from the 1970s through the first half of the 2000s. 

But when Aoun turned his coat in early 2006 and became a defender of the very Syrian regime that, during its occupation, killed, maimed, imprisoned, assassinated, kidnapped and otherwise forcibly disappeared hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, Tony turned his own coat too. That is the essence of the problem in primitive societies like Lebanon's that have yet to mature politically: to follow a person, and not an idea, a principle, or even an ideal. Like many in the Aoun camp, Tony became one of the herd who overnight supported Syria and Hezbollah (after decrying it as a Syrian and Iranian puppet for nearly 25 years), and who, after lobbying US congressmen and senators, including some who were members of the Zionist lobby in Washington DC, became ardent enemies of Israel and defenders of Hezbollah's "resistance" against Israel. 

The issue itself never changed: Syria has been since the 1940s Lebanon's top enemy, much more so than Israel. Syria refused to recognize Lebanon's right to exist from the days of independence in the 1940s, all the way to 2005 when it was forced to pull its forces out of Lebanon and to 2008 when it was forced to exchange embassies with its small neighbor. Syria's Assad constantly poured mercenaries, terrorists, Islamic Jihadists, and weapons into Lebanon with the aim of destabilizing the country, starting fires only to be asked by a naive or cowardly West to put out those same fires. During those early decades, a liberal Lebanon thrived economically while Syria continued to decline with a Socialist Baathist operation rife with corruption and crime.

One of the many examples of how Syria harassed Lebanon during all those years is at the very heart of Lebanon's current woes with Hezbollah. At independence (Lebanon in 1943, Syria in 1946), the borders between the two countries were agreed upon, but Syria continually propped up problems and issues, not because of serious questions of sovereignty but simply as a way to destabilize and harass its more successful neighbor. One such territorial dispute between Lebanon and Syria is the issue of the Shebaa Farms, a bald hill sitting at the tri-border junction between Israel, Syria and Lebanon. At the outset, the Shebaa Farms were assigned to Lebanon by the retreating mandatory powers, France and Great Britain. Even after agreeing to it, Syria changed its mind in the 1950s, dispatched an armed contingent to the Shebaa Farms where it proceeded to kill two Lebanese gendarmes and seize the parcel. The Lebanese, overwhelmed by the constant harassment, failed to dispute this aggressive seizure of its territory. And so it went until the 1967 and 1973 wars between Israel and Syria, when Israel seized the Golan Heights and with them the Shebaa Farms that Syria had annexed. 

When Tony Haddad, Michel Aoun and others of their ilk want to argue why they support Hezbollah and Syria's Assad, they say that the terror group is fighting to reclaim Lebanese territory occupied by Israel. But under international law, Israel seized the Shebaa Farms from Syria, not from Lebanon. If the Lebanese are serious about recovering the Shebaa Farms, they should be fighting Syria over it and getting Syria to officially cede the territory back to Lebanon, and only then can it be reclaimed from Israel. 

But I digress. When I parted ways with Michel Aoun in 2006 over his signing of a MOU with Hezbollah, Tony Haddad accused me of many things, including that "I had a big ego". How did he, the nearly illiterate gas station manager, discover my big ego after years of sending me daily tasks: letters and publications to be written or translated, traveling to lobby the US Congress on behalf of Lebanon, all pro bono of course, of late night faxes and phone calls, of trips to Detroit, DC, New York, Ottawa, Montreal and other cities, while keeping a job and a life? He did, not because he meant it; I suspect he just hurled the insults at me because I did not subscribe to turncoat Aoun's flopping around on matters of principle.

Tony also told me that the main reason for Aoun's flip flop in 2006 was that "the Shiites are better than the Sunnis". How rich of an argument, that radical murderous Muslim Jihadists of the Shiite brand of Islam are somehow better than radical murderous Muslim Jihadists of the Sunni brand of Islam. I bet you Master Gebran Bassil, Aoun's son-in-law, told Tony to promote this argument, and Tony swallowed it without giving the matter an ounce of thinking. When you are in a client-boss Mafia mentality, you just do what the boss tells you... How pathetic that grown men agree to be treated like a stinking sack of dirt. 

Today in 2020, Tony Haddad is finally on the gallows tree, figuratively speaking. He is banned from visiting Aoun in the presidential palace, and is on a Twitter war with Bassil. It took him 15 years to realize what I saw coming overnight in 2006. The reason? He clung to the prospects of some reward from Aoun. But Tony has nothing to offer Aoun, really. He gave Aoun lots of money back during the exile, just as Gaby Issa did. But Issa got the ambassadorship in Washington DC, for which he had to renounce his US citizenship, and his diplomatic immunity precludes any action by the US government against him as an ally of Hezbollah. Tony got nothing. There was nothing to reward him with. 

So he is today upset. He tried to get himself somehow involved in the Israeli-Lebanese indirect negotiations over their maritime borders, supposedly because owning a gas station makes him an expert in gas and oil drilling off the coast of Lebanon, or because of his many contacts with pro-Israeli congressmen (before his chameleonic metamorphosis from anti-Syrian to pro-Syrian). But he got in trouble with Gebran Bassil who wanted the whole oil negotiations experience to himself. Banned, Tony. You're banned by the very people you served like a lackey for decades. You're a nice guy, a useful idiot, but you have nothing to offer. Money? Aoun and Bassil today have plenty of it after pilfering the state coffers; they don't need you.

Is your big stupid ego bruised, my friend? Stick to your principles, you'll sleep better at night. Trading political loyalty over an empty cauldron of principles doesn't a chowder make. I regret working with you for Aoun, but I don't regret having tried to work for my country of birth because it comes above and beyond you, Aoun, Bassil, or anyone else for that matter. 

Enjoy your retirement, wherever that may be, assuming you can sleep at night. You now have made many enemies. Hope you learned why. 

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As you read Tony's (Idiot13) messages below, please forgive his mediocre English writing skills....

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From: XXX@hotmail.com                                                                              2/27/2011 – 8:38 am

To: idiot13@gmail.com

Hi idiot13,
It's been a while, and I hope you are well.
I was cleaning up some old e-mails and I came across this exchange we had back in 2006, and I was wondering if anything had changed in your position. Obviously, nothing has changed on the ground in Lebanon other than the country keeps sinking further into Syrian and Iranian control, Hezbollah has no intention whatsoever to lay down its weapons, and Aoun has his head fully up HN's ass.

For me, the bottom line is: If I am given a choice between a Lebanon ruled by Hezbollah, Iran and Syria on one hand, and a Lebanon ruled by the US, the UN, and Europe on the other hand, I would choose the latter rather than the former. As to utopian and fantastic ideas that - thanks to Hezbollah's weapons - Lebanon somehow can become truly independent of all those forces, I just don't think they will ever materialize.

Where do you stand today?
XXX

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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:29:54 -0400
From: idiot13@gmail.com
To: XXX@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: YYY Press Release

XXX, just for the record, you were not kicked out you decided to go out. I know they were trying to call you from Lebanon and I tried to call you but you have already made up your mind. And that is your choice and we respect it.

As for your PR you're blaming Hizballah's behavior on the MOU between GMA and HN that is very naive coming from someone that suppose to know one thing or two. If the MOU was supported by the other parties we would not be in this mess today. Only GMA told Hizballah that they must put down their weapons and put a road map for it. [Hahahahahaa].All the others had BS talk and some of the idiots here keep on telling us what the problem is but without providing solution. You know very well that GMA didn't just go and have a photo opp with HN. He was the only one that said "if we're going to talk, the outcome of our negotiation is the deliverance of the Arms"[Hahahahhaa... can't stop laughing]. While the rest made an election pact with the HIZB and they're with them in the government instead of them being with us, And you're blaming the FPM for this mess. What did they have to do with it. The Israelies, and the administration here are blaming the government and you're blaming the FPM. Let's think and be responsible for a change and weigh the words before we say and know were can it lead us.[More hilarious laughter] This is precisely why they talked to you from Lebanon. Just like the Hariri and the Feb 14 Gang used your other PR [in which I dumped the Tayyar and its Fascist imbeciles from my life] and by the way not because you're that important to them but just to attack the FPM and GMA, your PR today is going to be used to take the blame away from the government and put it on FPM and GMA which includes your own family and friends [Oh, so sad, I'm tearful. I thought I was working for the country, not for "family and friends", unlike you my dear cloacal sycophant].
 

On 7/13/06, XXX <XXX@hotmail.com> wrote:

Idiot13,
You know very well it has nothing to do with ego. This is what I had been trying to say for a year now while INSIDE the Tayyar. But the Tayyar wanted me to shut up and wait for a miracle, and I was kicked out. You do not expect me to continue to shut up?

Now that we have this Hezbollah crap on our hands, how is the Tayyar going to clean the mess? 

XXX

 
>From: "idiot13" <idiot13@gmail.com>
>To: "XXX" <XXX@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: YYY Press Release
>Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:52:30 -0400
>
>How irresponsible!!!! I hope you satisfied your ego.
>
>On 7/13/06, XXX <XXX@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>For Immediate Release
>>July 12, 2006, Boston - Massachusetts

With another escalation of hostilities along the Lebanese-Israeli border, YYY raises again the issue of the power duality existing today in Lebanon because of Hezbollah's hijacking of the national will from the sovereign authority of the Lebanese State.
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What happened over the past 2 days is precisely the scenario against which YYY has time and again warned the Lebanese political establishment,  particularly political parties like the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) of General Michel Aoun who have unreservedly backed Hezbollah's "Resistance" platform against the will of the Lebanese people and the international community, and who have struck political alliances with Hezbollah that were supposed to have only a short-term tactical objective, but which evolved since last January's signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the FPM and Hezbollah into a long term-strategic alliance. YYY has in fact severed its ties with Aoun's FPM specifically over the issue of this mutation in the FPM's endorsement of Hezbollah's "Resistance" platform.
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Hezbollah is the only extant private fundamentalist Shiite Muslim militia to remain armed and >>operational after the end of the Lebanese War and the withdrawal of the Syrian occupation forces in April 2005. Hezbollah, funded and armed by Iran and Syria, and member of the Lebanese government, maintains an autonomous base of military power that runs parallel to the Lebanese government and its legitimate armed forces, and controls large swaths of Lebanese national territory over which the Lebanese government is denied any exercise of sovereignty.
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This situation, along with the support and cover provided to it by such political parties as the FPM, has emboldened Hezbollah to drag the entire country into hostilities and confrontation with Israel whenever it chooses, for its own selfish interests, and with complete disregard for the higher interests of the Lebanese State and the nation. This is tantamount to treason and is a gross violation of the Lebanese constitution and of all international resolutions that have attempted over the past 2 years to lift Lebanon out of the Arab Nationalist and Moslem fundamentalist grip that Syria had imposed on the country for over 30 years.
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When asked yesterday by the press to comment on the Hezbollah-triggered Israeli attacks against Lebanon, PFM opposition leader General Michel Aoun declined to comment until such time as the government of Prime Minister Saniora takes a stance. How, we ask, can the opposition movement of General Aoun defer to the government in a matter of such gravity? How can General Aoun not have a position on the impending invasion of his country by Israel because of actions taken by Hezbollah, General Aoun's foremost ally on the ground in Beirut?
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With an already devastated Lebanese economy seeking some relief with tourism at the beginning of this summer season, the Hezbollah-caused hostilities with Israel will certainly deal a fatal blow to the business and economic climate in Lebanon, not to mention the destruction that will be inflicted on the infrastructure by the Israeli retaliation. This is only one instance of how devastating the actions of one freelance armed and terrorist militia can be on the entire nation.  YYY demands that the FPM openly declare its distance from Hezbollah's actions and abrogate the Memorandum of Understanding between the two sides, until Hezbollah demonstrates in deeds that it will disarm and cede all sovereignty to the Lebanese State.
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>>YYY
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>>Contact: YYY
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