So, just as the US drove Russia and China into each other's arms (exactly the opposite of what it wanted), it has driven the nations of West Asia into a stronger alliance against it and its satellite, "Israel"/ZION.
The Western playbook is savage slaughter of civilian populations: Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and more. These were all thought to be weak, unable to resist the technological might of the west and yet…
Suddenly there is a new factor, drones and missiles, and this has rendered the might of tanks and aircraft carriers obsolete. The fight is winnable.
I understand that there’s a strong desire for an optimistic interpretation of events, however we need to step back and take a serious, sober look at the situation on the ground. It is natural to gravitate toward hopeful narratives, but they don’t do us any favors.
I agree that Israel’s military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon are encountering obstacles, but we must avoid deluding ourselves into thinking that this equates to a victory for the resistance. Yes, there are difficulties on the Israeli side, but the narrative that the resistance is ‘winning’ oversimplifies the reality. The Iranian missile strike may have exposed vulnerabilities in the Iron Dome (a U.S.-made and supplied system that employs 1990’s technology) - however it generally performed as intended. The recent deployment of a single THAAD missile-battery system by the U.S. to Israel further underscores the point. This move is meant to patch any remaining gaps in Israel’s air defense network, effectively closing off opportunities for major breaches. While we may continue to see small-scale, low-tech successes from Hezbollah, particularly through the use of swarm tactics involving drones, the overall impact of these efforts will be limited. The damage inflicted on Israeli military infrastructure will remain minimal at best. In the meantime, the grim reality persists: the Zionist ‘kill camp’ in Gaza will continue its lethal operations with little disruption.
Hamas may have managed to bolster its numbers, but their capacity to gather meaningful intelligence and carry out effective military operations against Israeli forces has been so severely eroded that it is now practically insignificant. We can expect the IDF to clear northern Gaza, ultimately securing the area and establishing a heavily fortified militarized zone.
The alliance among the various resistance factions does hold symbolic significance, and it has had some impact on the geopolitical stage, particularly in relation to global shipping. There are reports that shipping traffic in the Red Sea has decreased by around 3%. However, global trade is nothing if not adaptable. Any disruptions will be absorbed, and the additional costs will be passed on to consumers around the world, minimizing the long-term economic impact.
In the grander scheme of things, while these military developments and tactical shifts are important, they are not the ultimate story. I find myself in agreement with Chris Hedges: the most significant and enduring outcome of this conflict will not be determined by territory or military gains. Instead, the lasting damage to Israel’s reputation—and, by extension, the reputation of the United States—will be far more consequential. The erosion of moral standing, both regionally and globally, is likely to leave a far deeper and longer-lasting mark. This reputational decline could have repercussions that extend well beyond the immediate conflict, reshaping perceptions and alliances for years, if not decades, to come. Additionally It’s clear that increasing militancy and deeper cooperation among Islamic resistance movements are on the rise, the result will likely be ongoing instability, further complicating Western and Zionist objectives across the region.
"... The recent deployment of a single THAAD missile-battery system by the U.S. to Israel further underscores the point..."
Actually you are unknowingly underscoring a different point.
The US las limited supplies of these batteries and even more limited production of supply of missiles that come out of them. Go investigate the facts. This is actually a quasi symbolic action.
And "iron dome" is a marketing term, and a well debunked one by now. It's a term no respectable military analyst would use, because they know full well the limitations of such systems. That the media love to parrot the term from the marketing team, tells you how vapid they are.
Of course, the ‘Iron Dome’ is a marketing term, as is ‘David’s Sling.’ My point is that these patchwork missile defense systems are not particularly sophisticated and employ older technology. It’s literally a U.S. hand-me-down. But that is more or less all that is needed when facing adversaries like Iran, Hizbollah, and the Houthis (who themselves are utilizing even older and often more primitive technology). This is the reality. Juxtapose this with what the U.S. has provided to Ukraine, where it is alarmingly clear that the U.S., vis-à-vis Ukraine, is facing near-peer Russian military technology.
The U.S. supposedly has seven of these THAAD systems, one of which is now in Israel. It’s a symbolic move with practical applications.
Kit’s overview of the situation on the ground was overly subjective and lacked depth. The risk of such a limited perspective is that it prevents advocates—whether militant, peaceful, or otherwise—from developing a meaningful strategy. I’m not a defeatist, by any means, but without a clear understanding, it becomes harder to *confront* the challenges, *adapt* to the evolving circumstances, and ultimately *overcome* the obstacles.
No its not of course - you smoothly slung out the term as it if were a magic wand. Its not. Missile defense systems are flawed and hopeful against modern ballistic missiles which are not only difficult to hit in the first place, but also are armed with several dummy/decoy warheads on each missile. And as you ignored - wishfully - there is a glaring shortage in the US production resources of missiles for use in these "THAAD" systems. That of course wasnt on the glossy brochure sent to the press or to congress.
The best missile defense is actually to NOT invite reasons to be on the end of them. That means not committing genocide for example, or not bombing your neighbouring countries, or assassinating their leaders. THAT is how you defend against neighbours who have missiles just like you do.
You’re completely missing the point of my critique. It’s not about whether I support the people being slaughtered—of course I do. My issue is with the naïve framing of what’s happening on the ground. The hard truth is this: the global systems designed to prevent this kind of atrocity either don’t work or were never meant to. While protests and campus activism, BDS l, etc. may change the conversation long-term, that shift could arrive too late for the Palestinians.
The resistance in Gaza has been shattered, along with the people they were fighting for. Sure, they probably have backup plans for their backup plans, but there’s no way they expected Israel to take a year-long scorched-earth approach with half of the globe’s approval. The resistance might limp through this, but will Gaza survive? This isn’t just a shocking reality check—it’s a call to wake up and rethink the entire strategy.
Take a look at the IRA’s fight against the British Empire. They were staring down an unbeatable enemy. Their tactics of asymmetrical warfare (1960’s) against a much stronger British force were failing. Faced with internal conflict and a weary population, they had to make a cold, hard assessment in the 1970’s and adapt. By bringing the war to England with their bombing campaigns, they started winning in a way that mattered—economically. By the 1990s, they could bring London to a halt just by phoning in a threat to the rail network. That economic pressure is what finally broke the British, not idealism or in-group cheerleading.
My point? If the Irish hadn’t faced the brutal reality and changed course, they’d still be stuck in the same endless cycle of failed resistance. The same goes for Palestine—wishing for change isn’t going to cut it. A radical rethinking of strategy is overdue. For those of us in the West, it means making a realistic analysis of the facts.
"THAAD" is not a magic bullet. Literally and figuratively. The resistance has not been shattered either. If it was, the US would not be sending more help.
You cannot just repeat debunked ideas and call it "realistic".
Realistic is you understand that the colonialists had to leave Algeria, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Rhodesia. And they only survived in South Africa by laying down arms. The colonialists in Palestine are simply generating more resistance by their own stupidity and its increasingly less likely they will even have a South Africa solution left on the table when all is said and done.
Sounds like my continuing ed from Brian Berletic, Andrei Martyanov, and Mark Thompson of POGO's The Bunker newsletter - each with their big reveals of absent US military brains, brawn, and industrial capacity but still big profits.
Wrong about Hamas and Hezbollah. And I’ve got news for you. THADD can’t shoot down Iran’s hypersonic missiles. Not only the Iron Dome failed that day. The Arrow 3, David’s Sling, and probably THADD too, all failed badly.
The premise of THADD is faulty. Missile defense is bullshit. We need to get back to the ABM treaty. THADD CANNOT shoot down ICBM’s. NOTHING can shoot down an ICBM, and that why missile defense was a crock from the very start. I’m sure THADD can shoot down lots of stuff, but there are definitely missiles it can’t shot down.
Also none of Israel’s air defenses seem to be able to shoot down a lot of these drones.
And Israel’s Iron Dome is running out of interceptors.
This is poppycock, the iron dome absolutely did NOT work as intended. Almost all the Iranian ballistic missiles hit their targets including direct hits on hangars at Nevatim airbase. F35s we’re lost and the Israelis know that they face certain destruction if they go gloves off with Iran.
The balance of power has shifted and with the Israeli economy tanking by the day and with record numbers of residents fleeing to other countries, it’s only going to end one way.
Really good points. Sadly, recent history has still not fully tipped against the occupiers. There is a difference between thought and action. The cost for the Axis will still be tremendous, especially if the entity sees itself the the final war for survival. Hard to be patient. Let's hope Iran will continue to measure its action carefully, yet the clock still ticks.
Agree that the fierce resistance to the occupation forces should not blind us to the fact that Israel still has overwhelming air superiority and technological advantage, and can still do a lot more damage. However the fact that the armed resistance in Gaza has not raised the white flag despite the massive destruction and horrendous loss of life should give us pause. I think it was Henry Kissinger who stated that in asymmetrical warfare the guerrillas win by not losing and the opposing conventional army loses by not winning. I agree with Ilan Pappe and Shir Hever that the zionist project is in its terminal stage due to external and internal pressures beyond the control of Israeli elites. However Pappe cautions that this decline may take some time and the end will not happen in the next couple of years.
To KHH: You are demonstrating your complete ignorance of Iran. You should do some deep research before making such a statement. The USSA and Israel are at least two generations behind Iran in missile technology and don't forget they will never catch up to Russia and China.
It's worked so well for the US the world over, with starvation sanctions, pet protesters, propagandists and militias. They've convinced themselves, as the world cheers or ignores their depravations, that fear and impotent rage will cede submission.
Looks like a brand new day, but let's keep an eye on it, just in case.
Israel's response to military resistance will be to kill more civilians. This is all they are able to do and this is all they are able to conceive as a strategy. Their idea of war is collective punishment and devastation. Like in the Iron Age. I am afraid if Israel feels cornered, they will nuclear bomb all human heritage and civilization in Iran, Lebanon and Yemen. After all, Israel's goal is not to win, but to prolong the genocide, destruction and military brutality for ever. Because without that, it makes no sense for them to exist. They lose their identity and their chutzpah without constant killing of defenseless people. And of course, genocide makes sky-high profits for their mafia dons. If the ordinary people and Israel's economics collapse, it does not matter for the key Zionist figures. They want the war, genocide, more murder, more psychopaths fighting for them. More money and more weapons from the West.
Thank you, Kit, for reporting these extremely important news. I only hope that the Resistance strategy and tactic will do such damage to Israeli army that the West would want to distant itself from Israel in order to save itself from bloody chaos.
Otherwise, logically thinking, if Israelis believe that killing civilians as much as possible means military strength, they will simply use nuclear weapons to kill everyone.
This is true. The end of the Zionist regime is at hand but, how many thousands of innocent people will it take with them before they are finally defeated?
If there's ever been a country that deserves to be massively attacked, it isn't even a real country it's an occupying bunch of mass extremists, a very high percentage of sex offenders. I've never in my life thought about a set of people in the way I do towards Zionists. But after watching over a year of lies, propaganda & mass genocide against innocent victims. Committing more war crimes I'm such a short period than anyone in recent history. It's very hard for an rational person to have anything but hatred towards these so called Zionists.
Kit, well described. Of course we all experience Zionist command & control in our personal & community lives here & everywhere as they censor our speech, control FAKE: finance, media, religion, education, military-industrial, legislative, judicial, pharma-med, agri-business COMPLEX.
7000 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS OLIGARCH CONTROL OVER COLONIAL EMPIRE Greater Israel's genocide of Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iranians, Iraqi, Afghani, Libyans etc. through its US slave, is the worst humanity will see before the western Oligarchy directed nuclear end, if we all do not act.
Just as the 31 UN imperial nations under Oligarch suzerainty, violently established Israel in 1948 in the homes, lands & over the graves of Palestinians, we can only hope for China & Russia to increase their military technology & arms support for all Israel's neighbours & regional nations, including a Nuclear Umbrella to protect their people as well as for as soon as possible an international Islamic army to re-occupy the 1948 borders of Palestine to protect the Palestinian people.
Ashkenazi Israel (some of my family in 3 branches) is after control of Palestine as the LAND-BRIDGE for control of trade, resources & people as the juncture between the Mega-Continents of Eurasia & Africa. This ancient coveting of this strategic land goes back continuously for 7000 years with description in the Torah of the 3 sons of Noah 1st born Japheth for Eurasia, Shem for Levant-Arabia & 3rd born Ham for Africa, with this 'world' control being indoctrinated as belonging that of 'Shem' (Origin of 'Semite'). According to UN genetic studies in the 'Out-of-Africa' hypothesis, most Eurasians & Africans have ancestry who’ve lived in or passed through Palestine. European Ashkenazi as major belligerents are removed from being Semites & have some of the least connection to Palestine, save brutal indoctrinated notions.
OLIGARCH CONTROL OF 'EXOGENOUS' (Latin 'Other-generated') COLONIAL EMPIRE: USA has never existed as a sovereign nation, nor Britain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain before.
"Permit me to issue & control the money of a nation, & I care not who makes its laws!" attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild. (Thank you for your honesty & the importance of this understanding as pertains to all finance, economics, society & governance systems)
The fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') top-down Oligarch financed 1776 'revolution' & fake half-baked US 'Constitution' is designed to be subverted, within its Amnesic inception, to be controlled by invisible $$$ changing hands 'under-the-table', hidden Campaign Financing. Washington et al were being financed with large sums by Oligarchy for their ends. Oligarchy with institutional control has perverted our very words to mean the opposite of syllabic roots (etymology) with FAKE: Finance (L. 'fin' = 'end' not 'exploit'), Media (L. 'Media' = 'middle' as in presenting all sides), 'Religion' (L. 'Religio' = 'to-relate' not 'indoctrinate'), 'Education' (L 'educare' = 'to lead-forth-from-within' not indoctrinate from without), Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-'Medicine' (L. 'medium' = 'middle' as in 'to achieve innate body balance') agri-Business COMPLEX. With Oligarch captured minds we spend Trillions on brutal war, maintained by Monologue rather than engaging in formal Dialogue.
Multi-Trillionaire multinational family hidden minority Share-owners of the cabal triangulated US-Federal-Reserve, Bank-of-England (City-of-London) & Bank of International Settlements, issue Western money as fiat forgivable loans in a trickledown from their choice of privileged friends, family owned businesses as a system of command & control. Most 'money' is released for Oligarch 'capital' projects, think Nuclear, Pesticides, GMO, mRNA, COVID-19 Gain-of-Function, digital centralized autocracy & much more in vast orchestrated worldwide roll-out in typically short months & years across the Complex of control. Over many millennia of control, Every fake centre of Empire including such as Mesopotamia, Athens, Rome, Britain etc have been propagandized as 'Democracies' (Gk 'Power-of-the-people'), as though marking an 'X' (symbolic of 'illiteracy'), once every 4 years, is any kind of empowerment, actually the opposite of real-life & work empowerment. Oligarchy, which is centered in & controls Israel also controls the USA as a colonial puppet regime for 248 years as well as previously as the same Oligarch lineage for 7000 years since Babylon-Mesopotamia (5000 BC), Assyria, PHOENICIA (4000-0 BC) as the Kingdom of Israel + City States of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut, then subsequently & in continuity in Egypt, Athens Greece, Carthage, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Britain, USA-Canada today under the same Oligarch control.
Phoenicia is still in Zionist memory & longing as their coveted model for today. Phoenicia is the model for GREATER-ISRAEL as well as for a new worldwide Empire.
Great fake metal-coin 'money wealth!?*' was built through invasion, terrorism, colonization of the whole Mediterranean & Black-Sea (Ashkenaz & Khazaria) regions over 4000 years. History keeps repeating itself simply because we’re kept amnesic of our real history. Phoenician 4000 years Legacy plus the hidden control since, is at the root of Zionist longing for command & control. During all this time such top-down Oligarch control disempowered the 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') knowledge of peoples & destroyed biospheres into deserts such as the Negev, Egyptian, Sahara & Sahel massive deserts where once huge productive 3-D Polyculture Orchards with flowing rivers, lakes, streams, rich communities & wildlife thriving in harmony with nature, just as Palestinians before the last 100 years of invasion, genocide, were restoring.
SYLVALIZATION (Latin 'sylva' = 'tree'). As empires spread, hungry for the hardwood Oak for weapons of war, forts, arms, ships etc. the main productivity loss is the indigenous, carefully cultivated 3-D POLYCULTURE ORCHARDs of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors, which because of:
a) Polyculture's 92-98% Photosynthesis compared with 2-D 'agriculture' 2-8% photosynthesis. Agriculture’s all settlers & 1st Nations had left to 'farm' (French 'ferme' = 'contract of servitude by the peasant imposed by the armed aristocrat') b) Deep Polyculture roots descend many 10s of metres into the substrate mining minerals, pumping water, developing extensive nutrient colonies etc. being 100 times = 10,000% more productivity than agriculture. Actually, this calculation is very conservative. In my experience with both Polyculture & Agriculture such as a 50 square meter (7 by 7 metres) area under the pre-colonial average 100 year old Oak tree produced some 3 tonnes (3000 kg) of nuts/year with little labour except bring wastes to feed the tree. The same 50 sq. M of Wheat, Barley, Oats or Rye will produce only 3 kgs of grains requiring intensive mechanical ploughing, seeding, weeding, fertilizing, fencing & irrigation or drainage preparation. c) Polyculture's nearly complete ~95% photosynthesis of solar energy into food, materials, energy & water-cycle, creates an energy vacuum which drives warm moist ocean winds inland. 60% of Moisture transfer from ocean to continent is through condensation of these winds upon quadrillions of square kilometres of fractal leaf & bark surface. Only 40% of moisture transfers as rain-snowfall. 2-D Agriculture only photosynthesizes 2-8% of solar energy, creating High-pressure airs which push wind from continent towards the sea, creating permanent desert. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-indigenous-welcome-orchard-food-production-efficiencies
This fake MONEY & 'CAPITAL' (L. 'cap' = 'head' is supposed to mean 'Collective-Intelligence') wealth & control enables Oligarch complete control of fake: Finance, Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med Agri-business COMPLEX.
MULTISTAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATORY CORPORATION legislation, facilitates: Founder, Worker, Manager, Supplier, Townspeople & Consumer investment, share holding, ownership, decision-making & Board representation. Invested interest by progressive ownership stakeholders creates the decentralized trust of participants in each department & division of enterprises. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
ALL HUMANITY's WORLDWIDE 'INDIGENOUS' (L. 'Self-generating') HERITAGE FOR MANY 10s of 1000s of years. Previous to Oligarch capture of the Babylon-Mesopotamia, issued COWRIE STRING-SHELL time-based equivalency accounting 'ECONOMY' (Gk 'Oikos' = 'Home' + 'Namein' = 'Care-&-nurture') Value system, was issued from the bottom up in ~100 person Multihome Domestic Economy (mostly women) as the core with Industry-Commerce (mostly men) as subsets. The intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale within each Multihome with Circular 'Economy' centered power from the Bottom-up. Gaza & the West Bank have operationalized the collective Multihome practice in the face of the hardest Zionist oppression as an example for all humanity. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing String-shell recognizes all contributions, experience, expertise & decision-making acumen. launched Oligarch directed financial mismanagement FAILURE in all of the fake Empires listed above. Bottom-up Time-based Equivalency Accounting on the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). String-shell integrates a) Capital (L 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence'), b) 'Currency' ('flow', compensation), c) 'Condolence' ('Social-security'), d) Collegial mentored apprenticeship 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, e) time-math Communication, f) professional Costume public identification of essential service providers. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
INDIGENOUS BODY-SOCIETY ANALOGY: Think about how the social, economic & political system should really be, like the 'indigenous' system, a reflection of the gene, cell, tissue & organ Autonomy of the human body with the expert memory retention, decision-making & implementation of each part. The brain’s only one of several Nexus-of-communication for facts & actions, mostly after they’ve already happened. We know for example now how the stomach or digestive system contains many times more memory & implementation neurons than the brain. Distributed 'ECONOMIC' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') MEMORY is core to the holistic function of the body. This is the Neural Science of today. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory Indigenous String-shell is issued for all collective economy contributions from the bottom up in the ~100 Person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village), specialized Domestic (Center of economy, mostly women) & Industrial-Commercial (mostly men) economies in support of human Livelihood as part of a worldwide indigenous system of ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY underlaying all 'political' (L. 'poly' = 'many' + 'tics' = 'workings-of') systems. All humanity is originally indigenous. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
Israel is the United States. The United States is Israel.
This is true militarily, but, more importantly, it is true economically, financially and monetarily.
Yes!, it is also true politically. But, politics is a result of and functions as an effect of money. Money causes and creates political reality.
Specifically, the United States and its vassal states will not let the "Zionist entity" fail, economically, or militarily.
If you were interested in understanding the life blood of war, has Türkiye stopped, ended economic trade with the "Zionist entity?"
Has any Arab country which signed the so-called "Abraham Accords" stopped, ended economic trade with the "Zionist entity?"
What country or countries, if any, have, has stopped, ended economic trade with the "Zionist entity?"
If only what you write were true, then there might exist a reasonable, objective and practical basis for the Palestinian people to avoid their seemingly inevitable historical and present reality, which is the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestine.
Simply, most tragically and regrettably, the Palestinian people will be driven from their land or they will be murdered.
“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides,
460 B.C.E. – 400 B.C.E.
“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
I know nothing.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
When the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline was inaugurated in 2006, it was hailed as a crucial commercial bridge that would connect Asia to Europe.
The 1,768km pipeline, which transports oil from Azerbaijan to Turkey, carried around 30 million tonnes of crude oil in 2023, with 227 million barrels of oil lifted at the port of Ceyhan and loaded onto 313 tankers.
But in recent months, as Israel's war on Gaza has continued to rage, the pipeline has come under fire from pro-Palestine activists who claim it's fuelling Israel's war effort in the enclave, and that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan must act to shut it down.
"Erdogan, turn off the oil valves," said a banner carried by the activist group called "One Thousand Youth for Palestine" outside the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul last Friday.
"End your participation in Israel's genocide."
Amid the protests, Turkey has been forced to face legal questions as to whether it has a duty to disrupt oil shipments to Israel through a pipeline it doesn't own and oil it doesn't produce.
Countries shipping fuel to Israel could be complicit in war crimes, experts say
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The questions are of particular importance should the International Court of Justice (ICJ) determine Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Countries such as Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan could be viewed as violating the duty to prevent genocide by supplying fuel and raw materials to Israel.
Last week, Oil Change International, an anti-fossil fuel advocacy group, reported that 28 percent of the crude oil supplied to Israel between 21 October 2023 and 12 July 2024 came from Azerbaijan.
"Azeri crude is delivered via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, majority-owned and operated by BP," the group said. "The crude oil is loaded onto tankers at the Turkish port of Ceyhan for delivery to Israel."
Turkish officials, speaking on condition of anonymity due to government protocol, told Middle East Eye that Ankara's responsibility was limited.
"We don't own the pipeline, BP does," one Turkish official said. "It is Azerbaijani or Kazakhstan oil and we don't own them either."
Destinations unclear
The official said that under a 2000 host government agreement, Turkey was unconditionally bound to provide the free flow of oil through the pipeline and could not stop it otherwise it would be forced to pay substantial amounts of monetary compensation.
The agreement makes Ankara liable for any construction or oil transport delays irrespective of the cause.
"On top of that, Turkey's long-term commitment and credibility as a neutral energy provider would be at stake," the official added.
Many in Ankara have pointed out that countries have to honour past contracts, citing examples such as Ukraine, which continues to allow Russian gas to pass through its territory to Europe.
Some have also noted that once the barrels are loaded onto tankers at Ceyhan, Turkish authorities are not aware whether they will head directly to Israel or if they will dock at its ports.
'If there was a UN-level sanction preventing oil being delivered to Israel – could Turkey prevent it being delivered via the pipeline? The answer would be yes'
- Tayab Ali, ICJP
When it comes to shipping, some ships fly the flag of their own country, meaning it is owned, operated, and manned by nationals of that country.
International oil tankers usually register under the flags of different countries, usually small island states, for the purpose of tax avoidance and legal responsibilities.
However, ship owners can also easily and quickly change the flag of their vessel in a bid to reduce costs and avoid laws.
"The destinations of the ships departing from Ceyhan are not under our initiative or control," Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told reporters earlier this year.
The Turkish official told MEE: "The oil is sold to intermediary companies by BP and it has nothing to do with Ankara. The intermediary companies pick up oil with their tankers without declaring their final destination."
The official said that in most cases, the oil would be sold to a buyer while the tanker is in the open sea.
Tayab Ali, a director at the International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) and deputy managing partner at the London-based law firm Bindmans, said the Turkish government could not simply dismiss its possible liability under international law.
"The test will be whether Turkey has any control over the pipeline," he told MEE.
The ICJ and provisional measures
Even though the Turkish government doesn't have any direct stakes in the pipeline's management, Turkish Petroleum Corporation, a public company, has a six percent minority share.
"The Turkish six percent company and its directors are likely to carry liability more directly than the state," Ali added.
However, two attorneys that represent Ankara in the international courts disagree.
Speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to speak to the media, they said that Turkish Petroleum’s six percent stake doesn’t afford them any control in the company, since BP has the majority shareholder along with the Azerbaijani state oil company.
"For instance, if there was a UN level sanction preventing oil being delivered to Israel – could Turkey prevent it being delivered via the pipeline?" Ali said.
"The answer would be yes. Why would they behave differently in the case of facilitating war crimes?"
Arab companies still trading kosher-certified food products to Israel
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For more than 10 months, Israel has been relentlessly bombing Gaza, with air strikes and artillery fire targeting civilian infrastructure, including schools, banks, residential towers and hospitals.
Someone once said, "It's the oil stupid!"
Moreover, the 54 categories of trade are not only old news, but also meaningless economically because it's a small, if not insignificant in money amount and utility, i.e., easily replaced.
In addition, those 54 categories are sold to sold to third party, who then sell it to israel. Turkey's G.D.P. and its exports numbers have not change since the data sited in the CNBC April artilce.
Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide must end.
Only when nations take relevant, material and objective actions to stop Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide will it end.
So, just as the US drove Russia and China into each other's arms (exactly the opposite of what it wanted), it has driven the nations of West Asia into a stronger alliance against it and its satellite, "Israel"/ZION.
Excellent news. I think I shall go and toast it live on air.
The Western playbook is savage slaughter of civilian populations: Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and more. These were all thought to be weak, unable to resist the technological might of the west and yet…
Suddenly there is a new factor, drones and missiles, and this has rendered the might of tanks and aircraft carriers obsolete. The fight is winnable.
I understand that there’s a strong desire for an optimistic interpretation of events, however we need to step back and take a serious, sober look at the situation on the ground. It is natural to gravitate toward hopeful narratives, but they don’t do us any favors.
I agree that Israel’s military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon are encountering obstacles, but we must avoid deluding ourselves into thinking that this equates to a victory for the resistance. Yes, there are difficulties on the Israeli side, but the narrative that the resistance is ‘winning’ oversimplifies the reality. The Iranian missile strike may have exposed vulnerabilities in the Iron Dome (a U.S.-made and supplied system that employs 1990’s technology) - however it generally performed as intended. The recent deployment of a single THAAD missile-battery system by the U.S. to Israel further underscores the point. This move is meant to patch any remaining gaps in Israel’s air defense network, effectively closing off opportunities for major breaches. While we may continue to see small-scale, low-tech successes from Hezbollah, particularly through the use of swarm tactics involving drones, the overall impact of these efforts will be limited. The damage inflicted on Israeli military infrastructure will remain minimal at best. In the meantime, the grim reality persists: the Zionist ‘kill camp’ in Gaza will continue its lethal operations with little disruption.
Hamas may have managed to bolster its numbers, but their capacity to gather meaningful intelligence and carry out effective military operations against Israeli forces has been so severely eroded that it is now practically insignificant. We can expect the IDF to clear northern Gaza, ultimately securing the area and establishing a heavily fortified militarized zone.
The alliance among the various resistance factions does hold symbolic significance, and it has had some impact on the geopolitical stage, particularly in relation to global shipping. There are reports that shipping traffic in the Red Sea has decreased by around 3%. However, global trade is nothing if not adaptable. Any disruptions will be absorbed, and the additional costs will be passed on to consumers around the world, minimizing the long-term economic impact.
In the grander scheme of things, while these military developments and tactical shifts are important, they are not the ultimate story. I find myself in agreement with Chris Hedges: the most significant and enduring outcome of this conflict will not be determined by territory or military gains. Instead, the lasting damage to Israel’s reputation—and, by extension, the reputation of the United States—will be far more consequential. The erosion of moral standing, both regionally and globally, is likely to leave a far deeper and longer-lasting mark. This reputational decline could have repercussions that extend well beyond the immediate conflict, reshaping perceptions and alliances for years, if not decades, to come. Additionally It’s clear that increasing militancy and deeper cooperation among Islamic resistance movements are on the rise, the result will likely be ongoing instability, further complicating Western and Zionist objectives across the region.
"... The recent deployment of a single THAAD missile-battery system by the U.S. to Israel further underscores the point..."
Actually you are unknowingly underscoring a different point.
The US las limited supplies of these batteries and even more limited production of supply of missiles that come out of them. Go investigate the facts. This is actually a quasi symbolic action.
And "iron dome" is a marketing term, and a well debunked one by now. It's a term no respectable military analyst would use, because they know full well the limitations of such systems. That the media love to parrot the term from the marketing team, tells you how vapid they are.
Of course, the ‘Iron Dome’ is a marketing term, as is ‘David’s Sling.’ My point is that these patchwork missile defense systems are not particularly sophisticated and employ older technology. It’s literally a U.S. hand-me-down. But that is more or less all that is needed when facing adversaries like Iran, Hizbollah, and the Houthis (who themselves are utilizing even older and often more primitive technology). This is the reality. Juxtapose this with what the U.S. has provided to Ukraine, where it is alarmingly clear that the U.S., vis-à-vis Ukraine, is facing near-peer Russian military technology.
The U.S. supposedly has seven of these THAAD systems, one of which is now in Israel. It’s a symbolic move with practical applications.
Kit’s overview of the situation on the ground was overly subjective and lacked depth. The risk of such a limited perspective is that it prevents advocates—whether militant, peaceful, or otherwise—from developing a meaningful strategy. I’m not a defeatist, by any means, but without a clear understanding, it becomes harder to *confront* the challenges, *adapt* to the evolving circumstances, and ultimately *overcome* the obstacles.
No its not of course - you smoothly slung out the term as it if were a magic wand. Its not. Missile defense systems are flawed and hopeful against modern ballistic missiles which are not only difficult to hit in the first place, but also are armed with several dummy/decoy warheads on each missile. And as you ignored - wishfully - there is a glaring shortage in the US production resources of missiles for use in these "THAAD" systems. That of course wasnt on the glossy brochure sent to the press or to congress.
The best missile defense is actually to NOT invite reasons to be on the end of them. That means not committing genocide for example, or not bombing your neighbouring countries, or assassinating their leaders. THAT is how you defend against neighbours who have missiles just like you do.
You’re completely missing the point of my critique. It’s not about whether I support the people being slaughtered—of course I do. My issue is with the naïve framing of what’s happening on the ground. The hard truth is this: the global systems designed to prevent this kind of atrocity either don’t work or were never meant to. While protests and campus activism, BDS l, etc. may change the conversation long-term, that shift could arrive too late for the Palestinians.
The resistance in Gaza has been shattered, along with the people they were fighting for. Sure, they probably have backup plans for their backup plans, but there’s no way they expected Israel to take a year-long scorched-earth approach with half of the globe’s approval. The resistance might limp through this, but will Gaza survive? This isn’t just a shocking reality check—it’s a call to wake up and rethink the entire strategy.
Take a look at the IRA’s fight against the British Empire. They were staring down an unbeatable enemy. Their tactics of asymmetrical warfare (1960’s) against a much stronger British force were failing. Faced with internal conflict and a weary population, they had to make a cold, hard assessment in the 1970’s and adapt. By bringing the war to England with their bombing campaigns, they started winning in a way that mattered—economically. By the 1990s, they could bring London to a halt just by phoning in a threat to the rail network. That economic pressure is what finally broke the British, not idealism or in-group cheerleading.
My point? If the Irish hadn’t faced the brutal reality and changed course, they’d still be stuck in the same endless cycle of failed resistance. The same goes for Palestine—wishing for change isn’t going to cut it. A radical rethinking of strategy is overdue. For those of us in the West, it means making a realistic analysis of the facts.
Confront / Adapt / Overcome
You are hopping all over the place making noise.
"THAAD" is not a magic bullet. Literally and figuratively. The resistance has not been shattered either. If it was, the US would not be sending more help.
You cannot just repeat debunked ideas and call it "realistic".
Realistic is you understand that the colonialists had to leave Algeria, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Rhodesia. And they only survived in South Africa by laying down arms. The colonialists in Palestine are simply generating more resistance by their own stupidity and its increasingly less likely they will even have a South Africa solution left on the table when all is said and done.
[I may have got this in the wrong spot to start - for Kojo]
It is so FRUSTRATING you have to say this.
And poor moms everywhere who know why they say play nice.
[for peace and quiet]
Sounds like my continuing ed from Brian Berletic, Andrei Martyanov, and Mark Thompson of POGO's The Bunker newsletter - each with their big reveals of absent US military brains, brawn, and industrial capacity but still big profits.
Wrong about Hamas and Hezbollah. And I’ve got news for you. THADD can’t shoot down Iran’s hypersonic missiles. Not only the Iron Dome failed that day. The Arrow 3, David’s Sling, and probably THADD too, all failed badly.
The premise of THADD is faulty. Missile defense is bullshit. We need to get back to the ABM treaty. THADD CANNOT shoot down ICBM’s. NOTHING can shoot down an ICBM, and that why missile defense was a crock from the very start. I’m sure THADD can shoot down lots of stuff, but there are definitely missiles it can’t shot down.
Also none of Israel’s air defenses seem to be able to shoot down a lot of these drones.
And Israel’s Iron Dome is running out of interceptors.
This is poppycock, the iron dome absolutely did NOT work as intended. Almost all the Iranian ballistic missiles hit their targets including direct hits on hangars at Nevatim airbase. F35s we’re lost and the Israelis know that they face certain destruction if they go gloves off with Iran.
The balance of power has shifted and with the Israeli economy tanking by the day and with record numbers of residents fleeing to other countries, it’s only going to end one way.
Really good points. Sadly, recent history has still not fully tipped against the occupiers. There is a difference between thought and action. The cost for the Axis will still be tremendous, especially if the entity sees itself the the final war for survival. Hard to be patient. Let's hope Iran will continue to measure its action carefully, yet the clock still ticks.
Agree that the fierce resistance to the occupation forces should not blind us to the fact that Israel still has overwhelming air superiority and technological advantage, and can still do a lot more damage. However the fact that the armed resistance in Gaza has not raised the white flag despite the massive destruction and horrendous loss of life should give us pause. I think it was Henry Kissinger who stated that in asymmetrical warfare the guerrillas win by not losing and the opposing conventional army loses by not winning. I agree with Ilan Pappe and Shir Hever that the zionist project is in its terminal stage due to external and internal pressures beyond the control of Israeli elites. However Pappe cautions that this decline may take some time and the end will not happen in the next couple of years.
Question: do you think H@mas can win this conflict, militarily?
Delighted to hear this.
I wish I were as optimistic as he is. May he be correct!
Please please please make Israel dissappear from the earth...viva le Resistance!
To KHH: You are demonstrating your complete ignorance of Iran. You should do some deep research before making such a statement. The USSA and Israel are at least two generations behind Iran in missile technology and don't forget they will never catch up to Russia and China.
Israel expected Palestinians to blame Hamas as Israel committed genocide against Palestinians? How insane is that?
It's worked so well for the US the world over, with starvation sanctions, pet protesters, propagandists and militias. They've convinced themselves, as the world cheers or ignores their depravations, that fear and impotent rage will cede submission.
Looks like a brand new day, but let's keep an eye on it, just in case.
Israel's response to military resistance will be to kill more civilians. This is all they are able to do and this is all they are able to conceive as a strategy. Their idea of war is collective punishment and devastation. Like in the Iron Age. I am afraid if Israel feels cornered, they will nuclear bomb all human heritage and civilization in Iran, Lebanon and Yemen. After all, Israel's goal is not to win, but to prolong the genocide, destruction and military brutality for ever. Because without that, it makes no sense for them to exist. They lose their identity and their chutzpah without constant killing of defenseless people. And of course, genocide makes sky-high profits for their mafia dons. If the ordinary people and Israel's economics collapse, it does not matter for the key Zionist figures. They want the war, genocide, more murder, more psychopaths fighting for them. More money and more weapons from the West.
Thank you, Kit, for reporting these extremely important news. I only hope that the Resistance strategy and tactic will do such damage to Israeli army that the West would want to distant itself from Israel in order to save itself from bloody chaos.
Otherwise, logically thinking, if Israelis believe that killing civilians as much as possible means military strength, they will simply use nuclear weapons to kill everyone.
This is true. The end of the Zionist regime is at hand but, how many thousands of innocent people will it take with them before they are finally defeated?
If there's ever been a country that deserves to be massively attacked, it isn't even a real country it's an occupying bunch of mass extremists, a very high percentage of sex offenders. I've never in my life thought about a set of people in the way I do towards Zionists. But after watching over a year of lies, propaganda & mass genocide against innocent victims. Committing more war crimes I'm such a short period than anyone in recent history. It's very hard for an rational person to have anything but hatred towards these so called Zionists.
Kit, well described. Of course we all experience Zionist command & control in our personal & community lives here & everywhere as they censor our speech, control FAKE: finance, media, religion, education, military-industrial, legislative, judicial, pharma-med, agri-business COMPLEX.
7000 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS OLIGARCH CONTROL OVER COLONIAL EMPIRE Greater Israel's genocide of Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iranians, Iraqi, Afghani, Libyans etc. through its US slave, is the worst humanity will see before the western Oligarchy directed nuclear end, if we all do not act.
Just as the 31 UN imperial nations under Oligarch suzerainty, violently established Israel in 1948 in the homes, lands & over the graves of Palestinians, we can only hope for China & Russia to increase their military technology & arms support for all Israel's neighbours & regional nations, including a Nuclear Umbrella to protect their people as well as for as soon as possible an international Islamic army to re-occupy the 1948 borders of Palestine to protect the Palestinian people.
Ashkenazi Israel (some of my family in 3 branches) is after control of Palestine as the LAND-BRIDGE for control of trade, resources & people as the juncture between the Mega-Continents of Eurasia & Africa. This ancient coveting of this strategic land goes back continuously for 7000 years with description in the Torah of the 3 sons of Noah 1st born Japheth for Eurasia, Shem for Levant-Arabia & 3rd born Ham for Africa, with this 'world' control being indoctrinated as belonging that of 'Shem' (Origin of 'Semite'). According to UN genetic studies in the 'Out-of-Africa' hypothesis, most Eurasians & Africans have ancestry who’ve lived in or passed through Palestine. European Ashkenazi as major belligerents are removed from being Semites & have some of the least connection to Palestine, save brutal indoctrinated notions.
OLIGARCH CONTROL OF 'EXOGENOUS' (Latin 'Other-generated') COLONIAL EMPIRE: USA has never existed as a sovereign nation, nor Britain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain before.
"Permit me to issue & control the money of a nation, & I care not who makes its laws!" attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild. (Thank you for your honesty & the importance of this understanding as pertains to all finance, economics, society & governance systems)
The fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') top-down Oligarch financed 1776 'revolution' & fake half-baked US 'Constitution' is designed to be subverted, within its Amnesic inception, to be controlled by invisible $$$ changing hands 'under-the-table', hidden Campaign Financing. Washington et al were being financed with large sums by Oligarchy for their ends. Oligarchy with institutional control has perverted our very words to mean the opposite of syllabic roots (etymology) with FAKE: Finance (L. 'fin' = 'end' not 'exploit'), Media (L. 'Media' = 'middle' as in presenting all sides), 'Religion' (L. 'Religio' = 'to-relate' not 'indoctrinate'), 'Education' (L 'educare' = 'to lead-forth-from-within' not indoctrinate from without), Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-'Medicine' (L. 'medium' = 'middle' as in 'to achieve innate body balance') agri-Business COMPLEX. With Oligarch captured minds we spend Trillions on brutal war, maintained by Monologue rather than engaging in formal Dialogue.
Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogue, part of all humanity's worldwide COUNCIL PROCESS, once a dialectic-right to raise issues positive for understanding, agreement, contract delineation or for Conflict Resolution. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
Multi-Trillionaire multinational family hidden minority Share-owners of the cabal triangulated US-Federal-Reserve, Bank-of-England (City-of-London) & Bank of International Settlements, issue Western money as fiat forgivable loans in a trickledown from their choice of privileged friends, family owned businesses as a system of command & control. Most 'money' is released for Oligarch 'capital' projects, think Nuclear, Pesticides, GMO, mRNA, COVID-19 Gain-of-Function, digital centralized autocracy & much more in vast orchestrated worldwide roll-out in typically short months & years across the Complex of control. Over many millennia of control, Every fake centre of Empire including such as Mesopotamia, Athens, Rome, Britain etc have been propagandized as 'Democracies' (Gk 'Power-of-the-people'), as though marking an 'X' (symbolic of 'illiteracy'), once every 4 years, is any kind of empowerment, actually the opposite of real-life & work empowerment. Oligarchy, which is centered in & controls Israel also controls the USA as a colonial puppet regime for 248 years as well as previously as the same Oligarch lineage for 7000 years since Babylon-Mesopotamia (5000 BC), Assyria, PHOENICIA (4000-0 BC) as the Kingdom of Israel + City States of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut, then subsequently & in continuity in Egypt, Athens Greece, Carthage, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Britain, USA-Canada today under the same Oligarch control.
Phoenicia is still in Zionist memory & longing as their coveted model for today. Phoenicia is the model for GREATER-ISRAEL as well as for a new worldwide Empire.
Great fake metal-coin 'money wealth!?*' was built through invasion, terrorism, colonization of the whole Mediterranean & Black-Sea (Ashkenaz & Khazaria) regions over 4000 years. History keeps repeating itself simply because we’re kept amnesic of our real history. Phoenician 4000 years Legacy plus the hidden control since, is at the root of Zionist longing for command & control. During all this time such top-down Oligarch control disempowered the 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') knowledge of peoples & destroyed biospheres into deserts such as the Negev, Egyptian, Sahara & Sahel massive deserts where once huge productive 3-D Polyculture Orchards with flowing rivers, lakes, streams, rich communities & wildlife thriving in harmony with nature, just as Palestinians before the last 100 years of invasion, genocide, were restoring.
SYLVALIZATION (Latin 'sylva' = 'tree'). As empires spread, hungry for the hardwood Oak for weapons of war, forts, arms, ships etc. the main productivity loss is the indigenous, carefully cultivated 3-D POLYCULTURE ORCHARDs of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors, which because of:
a) Polyculture's 92-98% Photosynthesis compared with 2-D 'agriculture' 2-8% photosynthesis. Agriculture’s all settlers & 1st Nations had left to 'farm' (French 'ferme' = 'contract of servitude by the peasant imposed by the armed aristocrat') b) Deep Polyculture roots descend many 10s of metres into the substrate mining minerals, pumping water, developing extensive nutrient colonies etc. being 100 times = 10,000% more productivity than agriculture. Actually, this calculation is very conservative. In my experience with both Polyculture & Agriculture such as a 50 square meter (7 by 7 metres) area under the pre-colonial average 100 year old Oak tree produced some 3 tonnes (3000 kg) of nuts/year with little labour except bring wastes to feed the tree. The same 50 sq. M of Wheat, Barley, Oats or Rye will produce only 3 kgs of grains requiring intensive mechanical ploughing, seeding, weeding, fertilizing, fencing & irrigation or drainage preparation. c) Polyculture's nearly complete ~95% photosynthesis of solar energy into food, materials, energy & water-cycle, creates an energy vacuum which drives warm moist ocean winds inland. 60% of Moisture transfer from ocean to continent is through condensation of these winds upon quadrillions of square kilometres of fractal leaf & bark surface. Only 40% of moisture transfers as rain-snowfall. 2-D Agriculture only photosynthesizes 2-8% of solar energy, creating High-pressure airs which push wind from continent towards the sea, creating permanent desert. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-indigenous-welcome-orchard-food-production-efficiencies
This fake MONEY & 'CAPITAL' (L. 'cap' = 'head' is supposed to mean 'Collective-Intelligence') wealth & control enables Oligarch complete control of fake: Finance, Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med Agri-business COMPLEX.
MULTISTAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATORY CORPORATION legislation, facilitates: Founder, Worker, Manager, Supplier, Townspeople & Consumer investment, share holding, ownership, decision-making & Board representation. Invested interest by progressive ownership stakeholders creates the decentralized trust of participants in each department & division of enterprises. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
ALL HUMANITY's WORLDWIDE 'INDIGENOUS' (L. 'Self-generating') HERITAGE FOR MANY 10s of 1000s of years. Previous to Oligarch capture of the Babylon-Mesopotamia, issued COWRIE STRING-SHELL time-based equivalency accounting 'ECONOMY' (Gk 'Oikos' = 'Home' + 'Namein' = 'Care-&-nurture') Value system, was issued from the bottom up in ~100 person Multihome Domestic Economy (mostly women) as the core with Industry-Commerce (mostly men) as subsets. The intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale within each Multihome with Circular 'Economy' centered power from the Bottom-up. Gaza & the West Bank have operationalized the collective Multihome practice in the face of the hardest Zionist oppression as an example for all humanity. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing String-shell recognizes all contributions, experience, expertise & decision-making acumen. launched Oligarch directed financial mismanagement FAILURE in all of the fake Empires listed above. Bottom-up Time-based Equivalency Accounting on the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). String-shell integrates a) Capital (L 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence'), b) 'Currency' ('flow', compensation), c) 'Condolence' ('Social-security'), d) Collegial mentored apprenticeship 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, e) time-math Communication, f) professional Costume public identification of essential service providers. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
INDIGENOUS BODY-SOCIETY ANALOGY: Think about how the social, economic & political system should really be, like the 'indigenous' system, a reflection of the gene, cell, tissue & organ Autonomy of the human body with the expert memory retention, decision-making & implementation of each part. The brain’s only one of several Nexus-of-communication for facts & actions, mostly after they’ve already happened. We know for example now how the stomach or digestive system contains many times more memory & implementation neurons than the brain. Distributed 'ECONOMIC' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') MEMORY is core to the holistic function of the body. This is the Neural Science of today. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory Indigenous String-shell is issued for all collective economy contributions from the bottom up in the ~100 Person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village), specialized Domestic (Center of economy, mostly women) & Industrial-Commercial (mostly men) economies in support of human Livelihood as part of a worldwide indigenous system of ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY underlaying all 'political' (L. 'poly' = 'many' + 'tics' = 'workings-of') systems. All humanity is originally indigenous. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
Mr. Klarenberg
Israel is the United States. The United States is Israel.
This is true militarily, but, more importantly, it is true economically, financially and monetarily.
Yes!, it is also true politically. But, politics is a result of and functions as an effect of money. Money causes and creates political reality.
Specifically, the United States and its vassal states will not let the "Zionist entity" fail, economically, or militarily.
If you were interested in understanding the life blood of war, has Türkiye stopped, ended economic trade with the "Zionist entity?"
Has any Arab country which signed the so-called "Abraham Accords" stopped, ended economic trade with the "Zionist entity?"
What country or countries, if any, have, has stopped, ended economic trade with the "Zionist entity?"
If only what you write were true, then there might exist a reasonable, objective and practical basis for the Palestinian people to avoid their seemingly inevitable historical and present reality, which is the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestine.
Simply, most tragically and regrettably, the Palestinian people will be driven from their land or they will be murdered.
“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides,
460 B.C.E. – 400 B.C.E.
“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
I know nothing.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates, 470 - 399 B.C.E.
dennis hanna
This is incorrect.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/09/turkey-imposes-export-restrictions-on-israel-until-gaza-ceasefire.html
This is not true. All Turkey did was change where the exports were going, but they somehow ended up in the same place. Don’t trust MSM articles!
Does Turkey have a duty to turn off the taps on oil supplies to Israel?
By Ragip Soylu in Ankara
Published date: 6 September 2024 10:41 BST
Last update: 1 month 1 week ago
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-does-turkey-duty-cut-oil-supplies-israel
When the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline was inaugurated in 2006, it was hailed as a crucial commercial bridge that would connect Asia to Europe.
The 1,768km pipeline, which transports oil from Azerbaijan to Turkey, carried around 30 million tonnes of crude oil in 2023, with 227 million barrels of oil lifted at the port of Ceyhan and loaded onto 313 tankers.
But in recent months, as Israel's war on Gaza has continued to rage, the pipeline has come under fire from pro-Palestine activists who claim it's fuelling Israel's war effort in the enclave, and that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan must act to shut it down.
"Erdogan, turn off the oil valves," said a banner carried by the activist group called "One Thousand Youth for Palestine" outside the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul last Friday.
"End your participation in Israel's genocide."
Amid the protests, Turkey has been forced to face legal questions as to whether it has a duty to disrupt oil shipments to Israel through a pipeline it doesn't own and oil it doesn't produce.
Countries shipping fuel to Israel could be complicit in war crimes, experts say
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The questions are of particular importance should the International Court of Justice (ICJ) determine Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Countries such as Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan could be viewed as violating the duty to prevent genocide by supplying fuel and raw materials to Israel.
Last week, Oil Change International, an anti-fossil fuel advocacy group, reported that 28 percent of the crude oil supplied to Israel between 21 October 2023 and 12 July 2024 came from Azerbaijan.
"Azeri crude is delivered via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, majority-owned and operated by BP," the group said. "The crude oil is loaded onto tankers at the Turkish port of Ceyhan for delivery to Israel."
Turkish officials, speaking on condition of anonymity due to government protocol, told Middle East Eye that Ankara's responsibility was limited.
"We don't own the pipeline, BP does," one Turkish official said. "It is Azerbaijani or Kazakhstan oil and we don't own them either."
Destinations unclear
The official said that under a 2000 host government agreement, Turkey was unconditionally bound to provide the free flow of oil through the pipeline and could not stop it otherwise it would be forced to pay substantial amounts of monetary compensation.
The agreement makes Ankara liable for any construction or oil transport delays irrespective of the cause.
"On top of that, Turkey's long-term commitment and credibility as a neutral energy provider would be at stake," the official added.
Many in Ankara have pointed out that countries have to honour past contracts, citing examples such as Ukraine, which continues to allow Russian gas to pass through its territory to Europe.
Some have also noted that once the barrels are loaded onto tankers at Ceyhan, Turkish authorities are not aware whether they will head directly to Israel or if they will dock at its ports.
'If there was a UN-level sanction preventing oil being delivered to Israel – could Turkey prevent it being delivered via the pipeline? The answer would be yes'
- Tayab Ali, ICJP
When it comes to shipping, some ships fly the flag of their own country, meaning it is owned, operated, and manned by nationals of that country.
International oil tankers usually register under the flags of different countries, usually small island states, for the purpose of tax avoidance and legal responsibilities.
However, ship owners can also easily and quickly change the flag of their vessel in a bid to reduce costs and avoid laws.
"The destinations of the ships departing from Ceyhan are not under our initiative or control," Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told reporters earlier this year.
The Turkish official told MEE: "The oil is sold to intermediary companies by BP and it has nothing to do with Ankara. The intermediary companies pick up oil with their tankers without declaring their final destination."
The official said that in most cases, the oil would be sold to a buyer while the tanker is in the open sea.
Tayab Ali, a director at the International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) and deputy managing partner at the London-based law firm Bindmans, said the Turkish government could not simply dismiss its possible liability under international law.
"The test will be whether Turkey has any control over the pipeline," he told MEE.
The ICJ and provisional measures
Even though the Turkish government doesn't have any direct stakes in the pipeline's management, Turkish Petroleum Corporation, a public company, has a six percent minority share.
"The Turkish six percent company and its directors are likely to carry liability more directly than the state," Ali added.
However, two attorneys that represent Ankara in the international courts disagree.
Speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to speak to the media, they said that Turkish Petroleum’s six percent stake doesn’t afford them any control in the company, since BP has the majority shareholder along with the Azerbaijani state oil company.
"For instance, if there was a UN level sanction preventing oil being delivered to Israel – could Turkey prevent it being delivered via the pipeline?" Ali said.
"The answer would be yes. Why would they behave differently in the case of facilitating war crimes?"
Arab companies still trading kosher-certified food products to Israel
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For more than 10 months, Israel has been relentlessly bombing Gaza, with air strikes and artillery fire targeting civilian infrastructure, including schools, banks, residential towers and hospitals.
Someone once said, "It's the oil stupid!"
Moreover, the 54 categories of trade are not only old news, but also meaningless economically because it's a small, if not insignificant in money amount and utility, i.e., easily replaced.
In addition, those 54 categories are sold to sold to third party, who then sell it to israel. Turkey's G.D.P. and its exports numbers have not change since the data sited in the CNBC April artilce.
Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide must end.
Only when nations take relevant, material and objective actions to stop Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide will it end.
dennis hanna
'struck deep inside the Zionist entity’s putrid heart' 🖤
Many thanks for this very encouraging article, Mr, Kit.