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For more information, see: "Israeli newspaper: Israeli army ordered the killing of Israeli civilians and soldiers Oct 7" https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-newspaper-israeli-army-ordered-the-killing-of-israeli-civilians-and-soldiers-oct-7/ and "Israel has lost control of the narrative – October 7 truths coming out" https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-has-lost-control-of-the-narrative-october-7-truths-coming-out-hamas/ and "What media reports fail to tell you about October 7" https://israelpalestinenews.org/what-media-reports-fail-to-tell-you-about-october-7/ and "October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles" https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/

Dr. Giraldi is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a group that advocates for more even handed policies by the U.S. government in the Middle East.

He gave this speech at the National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship" on March 7, 2014 at the National Press Club in Washington DC.

For more information on the National Summit see https://ifamericaknew.org/us_ints/summit-videos.html

When you commit a crime so great that you will never recover from it yourself... Owen Jones is a British newspaper columnist, political commentator, author, and graduate of Oxford. He describes Israel's ruthless attack on Gaza in detail and points out that this massive violence Is enabled by the unconditional support by Western countries such as the United States and Britain.

Jones points out that "Western governments have openly facilitated some of the worst crimes of our age" and concludes: "I don't think the West is ever going to recover from this. This is not in itself a good thing, because the question is what fills the vacuum. I happen to think that maybe for a long time that will be chaos… "

Excerpted from a slightly longer video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY0x5ygzIs8)

Owen Jones' Patreon account is patreon.com/owenjones84

Distinguished Israeli historian and author Ilan Pappé discusses sexual assaults by Israeli soldiers during its 1948 founding war through the present time. Professor Pappé is a Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at Exeter University. He obtained a BA degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979 and a PhD from the University of Oxford in 1984.

Professor Pappé founded and directed the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva, Israel between 1992 to 2000 and was the Chair of the Emil Tuma Institute for Palestine Studies in Haifa between 2000 and 2006. Professor Pappé was a senior lecturer in the department of Middle Eastern History and the Department of Political Science in Haifa University, Israel between 1984 and 2006. He was appointed as chair in the department of History in the Cornwall Campus, 2007-2009 and became a fellow of the IAIS in 2010. His research focuses on the modern Middle East and in particular the history of Israel and Palestine. He has also written on multiculturalism, Critical Discourse Analysis and on Power and Knowledge in general. – https://arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/staff/pappe/

This video is excerpted from the documentary: "The Black Dress: Unveiling the Truth about Rape, Sexual Assault on October 7"

For more information see https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-communities-near-gaza-are-on-stolen-land-former-owners-consigned-to-the-gaza-ghetto/

Colonel Douglas MacGregor is a 28-year veteran of the US Army who previously served as Senior Advisor to the US Secretary of Defense. During this interview with Redacted’s Clayton Morris, he explains that Iran did not perpetrate the recent attack that killed three American servicemen and he describes the long effort to get the US to attack Iran on behalf of Israel. Colonel McGregor explains that such an attack would be disastrous on every level.

This excerpt is from a longer, excellent interview that can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le-Ktsau_iM (If Americans knew added the image of the New York Times advertisement and the photos of Gaza.)

Israel and Israel partisans embedded in the US government previously pushed the US into the disastrous Iraq War. See https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-loyalists-embedded-in-u-s-government-pushed-us-into-iraq-war/ and https://israelpalestinenews.org/pentagon-officer-described-how-israelists-manufactured-anti-iraq-disinfo-that-led-to-war/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjzD5zTLepc

This is not the first time the US has been used to deliver oil to Israel. See the account by Gary Vogler, a former US Army officer who served as a senior oil consultant for US Forces in Iraq. See https://israelpalestinenews.org/oil-for-israel-the-truth-about-the-iraq-war-15-years-later/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK-LFOpVowg

For more information on israel-Palestine go to https://ifamericansknew.org/

Irish international law expert Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh presents South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on January 10, 2024. Her full speech is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIAxmTPUZ2E

The clips and images of Gaza illustrating her statements have been added by the American non-profit organization if Americans Knew. There are a multitude of such incidents.

The other ICJ presentations are at https://iakn.org/ICJ

For more information on the issue see https://ifamericansknew.org/

"Blinne is a human rights and international law expert with a broad criminal, civil and public law practice. She advises and acts for individuals, States, Non-Governmental Organisations, and other national and international bodies, arguing novel, complex and often high-profile points of law before domestic courts, including the Supreme Court, and before international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice.

Her domestic practice includes cases involving the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of protest, discrimination and equality, international law, environmental law, national security, prisons, police.

Blinne was nominated Public International Law Junior of the Year in 2022. She was shortlisted for Barrister of the Year in 2022, Crime Junior of the Year in both 2020 and 2021, and for Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year in 2021. She was Times Lawyer of the Week in January 2022 and Irish Legal News Barrister of the Month in February 2022 for her defence of one of protesters who toppled the statue of the slaver Edward Colston in Bristol. She was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School in 2016, and a Pegasus Fellow to the Centre for Constitutional Right in New York in 2010.

She is called to the Bars of Ireland, North and South, in addition to the Bar of England and Wales. She is also on the International Criminal Court’s List of Counsel.

Languages
Fluent French, Basic Irish, Learning Arabic

Education

BA (Modern and Medieval Languages) Queens’ College, Cambridge (First Class Honours) Graduate Diploma in Law, University of Westminster (Distinction)
Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law (Outstanding)
LLM International Legal Studies, New York University (equivalent Distinction)
Visiting Fellowship, Harvard Law School (2015)

Fellowships and Awards

Pegasus Scholarship, Inns of Court
Phoenicia Scholarship, Bar European Group
International Scholarship, Centre for Capital Punishment Studies
Buchanan Prize, Lincoln’s Inn
Bairstow Scholarship, ICSL
St Thomas More Bursary, Lincoln’s Inn
Lord Bowen Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn
Hardwicke Award, Lincoln’s Inn
Foundation Scholarship, Queen’s College, Cambridge University

- https://www.legal500.com/firms/9227-matrix-chambers/9227-london-england/lawyers/253330-blinne-ni-ghralaigh/

Irish international law expert Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh presents South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on January 10, 2024. Her full speech is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIAxmTPUZ2E

The clips and images of Gaza illustrating her statements have been added by the American non-profit organization if Americans Knew. There are a multitude of such incidents.

The other ICJ presentations are at https://iakn.org/ICJ

For more information on the issue see https://ifamericansknew.org/

"Blinne is a human rights and international law expert with a broad criminal, civil and public law practice. She advises and acts for individuals, States, Non-Governmental Organisations, and other national and international bodies, arguing novel, complex and often high-profile points of law before domestic courts, including the Supreme Court, and before international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice.

Her domestic practice includes cases involving the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of protest, discrimination and equality, international law, environmental law, national security, prisons, police.

Blinne was nominated Public International Law Junior of the Year in 2022. She was shortlisted for Barrister of the Year in 2022, Crime Junior of the Year in both 2020 and 2021, and for Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year in 2021. She was Times Lawyer of the Week in January 2022 and Irish Legal News Barrister of the Month in February 2022 for her defence of one of protesters who toppled the statue of the slaver Edward Colston in Bristol. She was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School in 2016, and a Pegasus Fellow to the Centre for Constitutional Right in New York in 2010.

She is called to the Bars of Ireland, North and South, in addition to the Bar of England and Wales. She is also on the International Criminal Court’s List of Counsel.

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Fluent French, Basic Irish, Learn..

Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh speaks at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jan 10, 2024 on behalf of South Africa. From https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3

"The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court."

"Blinne is a human rights and international law expert with a broad criminal, civil and public law practice. She advises and acts for individuals, States, Non-Governmental Organisations, and other national and international bodies, arguing novel, complex and often high-profile points of law before domestic courts, including the Supreme Court, and before international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice.

Her domestic practice includes cases involving the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of protest, discrimination and equality, international law, environmental law, national security, prisons, police.

Blinne was nominated Public International Law Junior of the Year in 2022. She was shortlisted for Barrister of the Year in 2022, Crime Junior of the Year in both 2020 and 2021, and for Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year in 2021. She was Times Lawyer of the Week in January 2022 and Irish Legal News Barrister of the Month in February 2022 for her defence of one of protesters who toppled the statue of the slaver Edward Colston in Bristol. She was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School in 2016, and a Pegasus Fellow to the Centre for Constitutional Right in New York in 2010.

She is called to the Bars of Ireland, North and South, in addition to the Bar of England and Wales. She is also on the International Criminal Court’s List of Counsel.

Languages
Fluent Frenc..

John Dugard speaks at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jan 10, 2024 on behalf of South Africa. From https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3

"The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court."

"John Dugard has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Law for Palestine since 2020. He is a South African lawyer, specialized in international law and human rights law. During the apartheid era in South Africa, he directed the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, a unit committed to litigation and advocacy in defence of human rights. After the fall of apartheid, he participated in the drafting of the Bill of Rights for the new South African Constitution. In 2013 He was awarded the Order of the Baobab, South Africa’s highest award for community service and has received several honorary doctorates from South Africa universities for his work in the fields of human rights and international law. He is a senior counsel of the High Court of South Africa.

"John Dugard is professor emeritus of the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Leiden. He has held visiting professorships in universities in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. From 1995 to 1997 He was Director of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely in the fields of international law and human rights and has authored eight books on these subjects. He is an honorary member of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Institut de Droit International.

"Professor Dugard has held a number of positions in the field of internat..

"Max du Plessis speaks at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jan 10, 2024 on behalf of South Africa. From https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3

"The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court."

"Advocate Max du Plessis has been an advocate for 23 years, practising and teaching mostly in the South African city of Durban. He is associated with the Doughty Street Chambers in London and is an associate fellow at Chatham House, London.

"Du Plessis is without any doubt one of the top minds in international law. He combines practice and academic work. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela University.

"As an international lawyer, he advises governments, international organisations and NGOs. He has appeared in or advised on cases before, among others, the International Criminal Court, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, the Southern African Development Community Tribunal, and the East African Court of Justice.

""Du Plessis has submitted friend of the court briefs before the US Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals and the Israeli Supreme Court. He is the lead or co-author of textbooks prescribed by most law schools in South Africa. The most recent is International Law: A South African Perspective (2018 – 5th edition) .

"In 2015, he acted for the Southern African Litigation Centre, to counter the South African government’s argument that then Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who was visiting South Africa, had immunity from prosecution for war crimes under customary international law as a head of state.

"The Supreme Court of Appeal agreed and found t..

Vaughan Lowe speaks at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jan 10, 2024 on behalf of South Africa. From https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3

"The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court"

Vaughan Lowe is a practising Barrister at Essex Court Chambers, mainly in the field of international law, with cases in the International Court of Justice, the ECJ, the ECHR, the ITLOS, the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, ad hoc Arbitral Tribunals and courts in England and Hong Kong, among others. He has also sat as an arbitrator in many investment arbitrations under the auspices of ICSID, the Permanent Court of Arbitration and other bodies, and on the tribunals addressing the boundaries between Trinidad and Barbados, and between Croatia and Slovenia. He has sat as an ad hoc judge on the European Court of Human Rights and served as the UK-nominated judge on the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal. He is Emeritus Chichele Professor of Public International Law and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College in the University of Oxford." - https://essexcourt.com/barrister/professor-vaughan-lowe-kc/

For more information see https://israelpalestinenews.org/2023-israel-gaza-war/

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi speaks at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jan 10, 2024 on behalf of South Africa. From https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3

"Tembeka Nicholas Ngcukaitobi SC (born 25 December 1976) is a South African lawyer and legal scholar. An advocate of the Johannesburg Bar since August 2010, he gained silk status in February 2020. He is currently a member of the Judicial Service Commission and a part-time member of the Competition Commission's Competition Tribunal.

"Born in the former Transkei, Ngcukaitobi clerked for Justice Arthur Chaskalson on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He spent several years as an attorney for Bowman Gilfillan before joining the bar and the constitutional litigation unit of the Legal Resources Centre. He has since argued in front of the Constitutional Court on behalf of clients including the Economic Freedom Fighters, the Zondo Commission, and President Cyril Ramaphosa.

"In addition to his expertise in constitutional and public law, he has experience in competition law, labour law, and land law. He has written two books about land dispossession and land reform, The Land Is Ours (2018) and Land Matters (2021), and he has acted as a judge in the Labour Court, the Land Claims Court, and the High Court of South Africa... " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tembeka_Ngcukaitobi

"The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court."

For more information see https://israelpalestinenews.org/2023-israel-gaza-war/

Adila Hassim speaks at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Jan 10, 2024 on behalf of South Africa. From https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3

"The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court"

"Adila Hassim’s legal career has spanned decades, primarily focusing on socio-economic rights matters. She specializes in constitutional, administrative, health, and competition law. Hassim has served as an acting judge and has contributed to various legal and health journals. Additionally, she is a co-founder of Corruption Watch, an anti-corruption organization." - https://muslimmirror.com/eng/who-is-adila-hassim-the-lawyer-fighting-genocide-case-against-israel-at-icj/

For more information see https://israelpalestinenews.org/2023-israel-gaza-war/

While Israel is causing starvation in Gaza, Israeli soldiers are cheerfully filming themselves destroying food, looting, and vandalizing Palestinian property.

For more information, visit: https://israelpalestinenews.org/2023-israel-gaza-war/

Republican Congress Member from Kentucky Thomas Massie was interviewed by prominent journalist Glenn Greenwald on December 6, 2023 about the attacks on him by the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committe (AIPAC). Massie explains why he opposed several recent pro-Israel bills, including another $14 billion for Israel. Now AIPAC is running attack ads against him, including $90,000 on Fox News.

Massie entered Congress in November 2012 and is known as a strong supporter of the First Amendment. He attended MIT where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. (https://massie.house.gov/about/)

Greenwald is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law.

The full interview is on Greenwald's nightly System Update program: https://rumble.com/v3zxv44-rep.-thomas-massie-rejects-antisemitism-accusations-aipac-attacks.html

Colonel Douglas MacGregor is a 20-year veteran of the US Army who previously served as Senior Advisor to the US Secretary of Defense. He says: “Washington is now firmly under the control of Israel and its supporters in the United States.” Colonel McGregor discusses the situation in Gaza, the Hamas October 7 attack on southern Israel, the dangerous potential for a wider war that could involve the US, and says it is not in US interest "to bankroll Israel's expulsion of millions of people from their homes in order to create a new Jewish mega-state."

Congress is poised to give Israel another $14 billion on top of its regular $4 billion, the equivalent of $50 million per day. https://israelpalestinenews.org/us-poised-to-give-israel-19-billion-aid-this-year/

The excerpts are from an interview with Col. MacGregor by analyst Cyrus Janssen on December 6, 2023. To see the full interview go to https://youtu.be/_m05mUzjgbQ?feature=shared

During the first 'intifada' (uprising,) Israeli soldiers were instructed to break the bones of Palestinian protesters.

For more information see the following:
https://merip.org/1992/09/yitzhak-rabin-and-israels-death-squads/
https://www.haaretz.com/2005-11-04/ty-article/broken-bones-and-broken-hopes/0000017f-f6e1-d47e-a37f-fffda3b20000

On July 19, 2023 the US Congress convened a special joint session for Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Both Democrats and Republicans bobbed up and down to applaud him 29 times. They did this despite the fact that even though the US expends over $20 million per day on behalf of Israel (https://israelpalestinenews.org/house-committees-pass-20-mill-per-day-on-behalf-of-israel/),

(1) Israel has a pattern of spying on the US and stealing our technology – see https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/spy.html

(2) Israel tried to sink a US Navy ship, killing 34 American servicemen and injuring 174, and has lied about it ever since – see https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ussliberty.html

(3) Israel has a long, thoroughly documented record of human rights abuses and violations of international law – see https://israelpalestinenews.org/human-rights-reports-on-israel-palestine-regularly-updated/

The unavoidable reality is that Israel has the most pervasive and powerful special interest lobby on behalf of a foreign country in the US, which includes numerous billionaire campaign donors – see https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/introlobby.html

To learn more about this issue, see https://ifamericansknew.org/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/IfAmericansKnewVideo

For a best-selling book that details little-known facts on the US-Israel "special relationship" see https://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-History/dp/149591092X

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News Report from CBS 47, Fresno, CA

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In this short clip Alison talks about how she came to be aware of the Israel/Palestine conflict, America's role in it all, and about our ability and responsibility as U.S. citizens, to put an end to Israeli aggressions in the region.

Watch the full interview at: https://youtu.be/GG9wVNPBROM

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Israel has denied entry to an official visit by two US. Congress members despite the fact that the US has given Israel billions of dollars. Fox commentator Leslie Marshall and Congress members Aryanna Pressley (D-MA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Bernie Sanders criticize Israel's action. For more information see http://bit.ly/2KD76cw and for information on US aid to Israel see http://bit.ly/2bXRWiA

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If Americans Knew is an independent research and information-dissemination institute, with particular focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S. foreign policy regarding the Middle East, and media coverage of this issue. Specifically, the organization's objective is to provide information that is to a large degree missing from American press coverage of this critical region.