Setting Up In Beirut 85


I apologise for the break, I have been setting up in Beirut to cover the Israeli assault from here.

This has been quite a logistic challenge. I am accompanied by Niels Ladefoged, the cinematographer with Wikileaks who was with Julian Assange on his flight to Australia. Readers of this blog know Niels as the cinematographer of Ithaka who was my companion on the month-long tour of Germany I made with that film.

We have needed to get to Beirut and then get safe accommodation, and organise internet access, a car and driver, interpreters, etc. I am lucky to have some very good local introductions to get us started, but obviously do not have the kind of support a media organisation offers.

One thing we have needed to obtain is passes to enter and operate in the evacuated areas of the city. We can without them move freely around much of Beirut including the centre, and film. We have also been able to enter the bombed-out areas and look, but could not stay longer and take pictures or videos there without permission from local committees, which we have been awaiting.

There are two dangers. The first is assassination by the Israelis, who target journalists specifically. The second is that local people are understandably outraged and are suspicious of westerners, with good cause. A cursory check of me first brings the information that I am a former British diplomat, which can bring misunderstanding. That is why permits and protection from local committees is highly recommended to us.

I have sketched out a first article about what I have seen, but really want to get images to accompany it. I am hoping we will solve this today.

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85 thoughts on “Setting Up In Beirut

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    • Zain

      God bless you for all you do for humanity.
      You are the voice of thousands of people Craig, and a hero to many more.
      There are not many people who would do what you do, that in itself is testament to your character.

      Above everything else, please stay safe.
      Looking forward to your reporting.

      Take care and God bless.

  • frankywiggles

    Credit to you Craig, I am sure you will provide valuable observations and insights from one of Israel’s killing zones.

    I fear however you are as vulnerable as a lamb in Beirut. Particularly because there is a third danger in that city very closely intertwined with the first.

    Namely, your old mates the British establishment: 

    https://thecradle.co/articles/double-cross-how-lebanons-military-intelligence-spies-for-london

    Here too

    https://thecradle.co/articles/secrecy-shrouds-british-military-actions-in-lebanon

    We know from their actions over the past year that they are not averse to surveilling and identifying on Israel’s behalf. And that has just been unknown, voiceless Palestinians who are no thorn in the side of the British establishment.

    • Brian Red

      @Franky – Interesting stuff.

      1. Makes you wonder whether the British regime helped with blowing up the pagers and other handheld devices. Very interesting that there’s no credible narrative yet of where and how the supply chain was penetrated.

      2. How does Kit Klarenberg get this information?

      Take something like this:

      Torchlight’s offices boast rare ‘List X’ accreditation, meaning the Ministry of Defence has entrusted the firm with storing highly sensitive, classified material on its premises.

      That must be classified information, in the sense that somebody has broken the Official Secrets Act. So what is going on?

      3. Seems not just that the Lebanese and Palestinian Authority security structures have been penetrated by the British, but the British state has been utterly penetrated by the Israelis.

      4. How long is the list of people who have had their computer equipment and data seized by the British authorities without being charged with committing a crime, either at the border or inside the country?

      5. Almost every day there’s a top media story in Britain about someone being jailed for what they allegedly posted to the internet, or downloaded from the internet. This point connects with 4 and 2, but it also makes me wonder whether a big crackdown and clampdown may be coming. I.e. the message going out that basically no-one is allowed to do X on the internet, and look at all these people who have been jailed this week for doing X.

  • M.J.

    If it’s of any use, I remember reading in Thomas Friedman’s “From Beirut to Jerusalem” many years ago that, when he asked a member of Hezbollah for a permit or pass so that he could move around freely, the man looked at him as if he were crazy, than tore off the corner of a poster (I forget what symbol or picture was on it), and Friedman could get around by waving this.
    So, if you can’t get a permit, try the corner of a poster instead.
    Good luck!

    • M.J.

      Correction: just found out that the “press pass” was actually given to a Ms Robin Wright who told Friedman the story. It was the bottom corner of a Hezbollah poster with the organisation’s emblem on it. The poster fragment worked, too, when she was at a Hezbollah checkpoint a few days after.
      Friedman got past one checkpoint when the guard demanded to know his religion. The taxi driver replied ‘They’re journalists – that’s it’, which luckily worked on that occasion.

  • M C

    I salute and admire your courage. But, you are a marked man, and have been so for many years.
    I can only hope that you do stay alive and uninjured as we need your rare voice of sanity in this increasingly disintegrating world.

  • Jan Brooker

    Perhaps, in an idle moment, you could update your wikipedia [and other] entries? Watch out you don’t give away your geolocation [or set up a false one in the middle of nowhere]. Most of all, try to stay safe.
    Wikipedia starts : “Craig John Murray (born 17 October 1958) is a Scottish author, human rights campaigner, journalist, and former diplomat” …. at the moment.

    • Lapsed Agnostic

      He already has given away his geolocation, Jan (see embedded video*). It will have taken the Israelis less than 5 minutes to work out where he’s staying. If they’d have known he wouldn’t even be doing *basic* operational security on his trip, they probably wouldn’t have bothered sending the drone up.

      * There’s a reason that ISIS members blur out the minor undulations in the Syrian desert backdrops to their pledges of allegiance to their latest caliph, before posting the videos on their channels.

        • Lapsed Agnostic

          Thanks for your reply AG. You assume wrong. They were trying, and repeatedly failing, to get Hezbollah’s Imad Mughniyeh for over two decades, because he was smart and took sensible precautions. They eventually got him in Damascus in 2008, but they were lucky – if he’d been six feet further away from the car bomb, he might have got away with only minor injuries.

          • AG

            Well, granted some escape, those reporters, those doctors, those NGO-members who got killed – they did not escape.
            And none of them were Hezbollah “special intelligence”. Mughniyeh after all was playing that game being part of it.
            He knew the rules and was intent of evading the danger.
            Craig is not. He belongs to the group of victims I mentioned initially. He is a civilian who doesn’t play the spooks’ war games.
            And it was you who – rightly so – pointed out this danger, just yesterday?
            First I thought you were exaggerating. But no. You were totally right.

          • Lapsed Agnostic

            Thanks for your reply AG. Israel will have known the home addresses of most of the journalists, NGO workers it slaughtered for years beforehand. It has plenty of spies in Gaza – maybe just not in the higher echelons of Hamas etc, since those tend to get dealt with. By contrast, our host only arrived in Beirut a couple days ago. He doesn’t have to employ Mughniyeh-level tradecraft – he just has to be a bit careful, and not do stupid shit. For example, he could have filmed the piece on the hotel balcony/terrace with his back to the foliage. The tips below from ‘thatoldgeezer’ would also be worth him reading – occasionally, age does bring wisdom.

            Re: ‘You were totally right.’

            I usually am.

        • np

          An Israeli attempt to assassinate the US ambassador to Lebanon in 1979, using a Lebanese proxy group, failed. John Gunther Dean and his wife escaped unhurt when two anti-tank weapons were fired at their car. The Israelis used the same terrorist group to carry out other car bombings which allegedly killed hundreds of civilians back then.

          Dean said he was convinced that the Israeli Mossad was behind the attempt on his life, apparently because he had established contacts with the PLO and Yasser Arafat. The incident was largely hushed up and never properly investigated.

          (A seasoned US diplomat, Dean was born in Germany to Jewish parents).

        • Lapsed Agnostic

          Thanks for your reply Brian. I don’t believe everything I read on TwitterX – or indeed much of read on there. However, I don’t have to read any tweets to know that there are teenagers in their bedrooms who can work out within 15 minutes exactly where in Kabul a suicide bomber has blown himself up, and that people in Mossad do that sort of thing for a living. The current conflict in the western Levant is the first I can recall in which journalists (most of whom, rather than calling for the end of Israel like our host, were doing nothing more than documenting the carnage in Gaza & Lebanon) have been specially targeted by one side for ‘neutralisation’ as the Israelis term it. I don’t believe they’d make a particular exception for our host – especially if he’s in what they consider to be their backyard, and they believe they might have a degree of deniability*, however implausible.

          * He’s even let them know which cash machine he’s using – which hopefully won’t lead to any future TV exchanges like this:

          Reporter actually doing his/her job: “Why would anyone not just hand over the $200 when someone was pointing a Kalashnikov in their face?”

          One of the smarter IDF spokespersons (e.g. David Mencer): “I don’t know. Why would anyone not just delete a few court reports from their blog – ones that 99% of people that were ever going to do so would have already read – when ordered to by the COPFS, and thus not have to spend four months of their life in a Covid-ridden Saughton prison?”

  • DunGroanin

    “I apologise for the break,”

    Lol. What break?
    CM’s Twitter feed has been exceptional for the last few weeks even as it is throttled by Musks Mean Minions.
    It took me hours to catch up and follow up many great threads there.
    I recommend all who haven’t yet, to keep track of it – I use a nitter feed as I am allergic to single and 3 lettered entity’s.
    https://nitter.poast.org/CraigMurrayOrg

    CM is a Great Soul.
    Worthy of title ‘Mahatma’
    Not just for his sacrifices of riches.
    They threaten him daily but he does not Fear.
    He is Feared.

    I am more scared knowing he is there.
    Sending an extra pony on the way today to help his ride as we await,
    his despatches from the genocide.

  • glenn_nl

    You’ll probably be very aware of this, but…

    You – Craig – will hardly be regarded as a “Friend of Israel” by that crazed, bloodthirsty and utterly lawless regime. On account of the fact that you regard Palestinians as human beings, and don’t chortle away while genocide is occurring, and don’t regurgitate their blatant lies with a straight face – all of which is necessary to be a “Friend of Israel”.

    As such, you are in great danger there. I’m sure Israel “will investigate” any stray missile or sniper’s bullet which happens to go in your direction, before blaming Hamas, Hezbollah and antisemitism. Israeli death squads, otherwise known as the IDF, will know of your presence, and the only solution to any problem is violence and death as far as they’re concerned.

    Be very, very careful about giving away your location. Anyone recording or reporting on Israeli atrocities is a terrorist, after all.

  • pete

    I am impressed by your bravery and genuinely worried for your safety. I can only hope that the Zionists will see the folly of making you a target, but wisdom is not one of their strengths. Reporting from a war zone will give your posts added credence as opposed to the ramblings of armchair critics who try to dismiss them.

    • thatoldgeezer

      couple of obvious tips to CM;

      1) don’t sleep in the same place more than once. .The geolocation of any upload is critical; don’t leave it until you are finished for the day.

      2) Next, don’t stay filming in any one place for longer than 20 mins, max. Even with a bodyguard and fixer. That’s roughly the time needed for any ill-wisher to formulate a plan. Frank Gardner of the BBC who got shot and paralyzed in Saudi some years ago can testify to that. His film crew took 40 mins to set up for a simple shot. Ridiculous.

      3) As others have said, it’s not just the Israelis CM has to think about. There are a large number of private militias who are all itching for action. A large number of shootings in this kind of situation are down to an individual just wanting to big himself up in his own eyes and then in the eyes of his friends.

  • nonclassical

    Thank you Sir,

    As we continue to support your discovery of TRUTH in an age marked by obvious government corruption and LIE$…

  • Goose

    First and foremost : Stay safe.

    Are there any restrictions on who British journalists can meet and interview, from Hezbollah, due to the UK’s proscription order? Recently, the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen interviewed a Hamas deputy, broadcast on the BBC’s six o’clock news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cdd4rpv5jp0o .So, it would be strange if the law is being selectively applied?

    • Nota Tory Fanboy

      Why the heck is the Government of Israel not proscribed as a terrorist organisation? The MSM interviews and airs propaganda from their genocidal terrorist officials on a regular basis…

      • Carlyle Moulton

        Three terms missing from our vocabulary needed to balance “terror”, “terrorism” and “terrorist”:-

        “State terror”;
        “State Terrorist”
        and
        “Terror State”.

        • Tom Welsh

          With a very few exceptions, those are all tautologies. Terrorism is both the MO and the main purpose of the state. Otherwise, how would I manage to wrest such a large proportion of ordinary people’s productive efforts away from them?

    • Brian Red

      One of Jeremy Bowen’s questions to Khalil al-Hayya was “You could surrender”.

      What does the IRM get from such interviews? When the British state broadcaster asks for an interview, why don’t they set the condition that the IRM will keep a tape of everything and publish it unredacted, or else the BBC can f*** right off back to Vauxhall Cross.

      Or stop the interview as soon as the British state creepo suggests that the resistance could surrender to the occupation. Or if that would be a step too far, ask him whether he’ll be putting the same “question” to Netanyahu or Halevi.

      The way the notion of “journalism” works, it’s often of little help to the resistance. The BBC is part of the British state. Putting that knowledge aside even for a brief while helps the b*stards.

      • Goose

        Many were upset the Bowen interview took place at all.

        I wouldn’t defend the BBC, because I don’t view it as truly impartial or objective. But part of the reason it is the way it is, comes from the fact they get flooded with threats and complaints from the Zionist lobby, if they so much as attempt balance. Some were even furious when the BBC correspondent Orla Guerin recently debunked Israeli claims that Lebanese hospitals were being used as storage locations for Hezbollah weaponry and gold. That’s the thing with Lebanon, unlike Gaza, Israel can’t ban reporters visiting these sites to check the wild Israeli claims out for themselves.

        • Brian Red

          Good point about the difference between Lebanon and Gaza for access.

          Re. the BBC and corrective actions by the Lobby, a similar thing (mutatis mutandis) could be said about the Foreign Office or SIS. But I wouldn’t push it too far, because those who get jobs in the FCO or SIS, or with any kind of Middle East-relevant role in the BBC will have had their student records checked for not having said or done anything remotely pro-Palestinian – except maybe having said it’s hard to know how to deal with the natives, but Israeli colonialists should be more British about it, and they should realise they need the clever Pallies on their side. (So the rightwing posho Cambridge undergrads who I heard saying exactly this should do OK.)

          PS For those who don’t get how the Zionist complaints effort works in the British media, the case of the argy-bargy on Oxford Street in December 2021 and its aftermath will be instructive. It has strong similarities with if you mildly upset someone in the mafia, things can be put right if you hand over some money.

        • Brian Red

          Many were upset the Bowen interview took place at all.

          I can well believe it. The response to the voicing of that concern at liaison meetings will presumably be “SIS has got to keep face with its assets in the Gulf” and “There is a line somewhere, okay?”

          But it’s hard to imagine many of the said assets turning against their British handlers friends even if the penny drops – clang! – that their handlers’ ties to the Israelis make a complete nullity of whatever anti-Israeli jokes or sentiments they may have shared. (In many cases, the penny probably dropped ages ago.) They may not suss or give a damn that they have been seen as “useful towelheads” all along, because at the end of the day it’s all about money.

        • Stevie Boy

          The BBC don’t so much get flooded with complaints from zionists, the fact is they are 100% infiltrated by zionists. Look at their management, look at their presenters, they are all zionists. The BBC is the propaganda arm of Israel. Benji’s Biased C*nts.

    • Brian Red

      Pope Francis is far better than Wojtyla or Ratzinger.

      From an Israeli POV he’s the head of that organisation that wants Jerusalem to be internationalised.

        • Alyson

          Christianity at its heart is about Love and kindness, about sharing with the less fortunate, and not judging what gender or nationality they might be. Jesus overturned the tables of the money lenders and got thousands of people to share their loaves and fishes. And it all happened in Jerusalem for all three religions of the Book. Islam means surrender, to divine goodness. Of course all these religions have been usurped by selfish men who claim patriarchy trumps Wisdom, Sophia, and men have built laws around the Ten Commandments updated by their messiahs. History matters as identity is supported by its constructs, and my choice is Christian compassion, where it gets to lead from the heart. Muslim hospitality is very fine too. Religion has its values and where they are kind to all people, then they are good.

          • F. Foundling

            You can’t be truly ‘kind’ and ‘compassionate’ if you close your eyes to the truth, and the truth is that there is no God, all three Abrahamic religions are full of lies and teachings incompatible with being ‘kind to all people’, and they have always been patriarchal. Jesus’s whole message is a self-professed postscript to the Old Testament, and the Old Testament is a handbook of genocide (Netanyahu himself cited what the Israelites did to the Amalekites by God’s command as a model for what he intended to do in Gaza). The Quran is full of stuff about polytheists burning in hell for all eternity – not very compassionate – and the hadiths record approvingly both people being killed for insulting Mohammad and genocidal acts.

            As a human, you are obliged to think, not just to feel – feelings are not an adequate indicator of justice. You can be compassionate without subscribing to handbooks of genocide and lies. I

            f you are choosing to close your eyes to the absurdities and evils of the traditional narratives and teachings of religions, I don’t see what prevents you from closing your eyes to the absurdities of Israeli propaganda and the evils of Israel’s actions today – you might do that tomorrow, too.

  • joel

    At least 201 journalists have been murdered by Israel in 387 days.

    Source: StopMurderingJournalists.com (@IDFkillsPress)

    That’s Gaza, but the targeting is well underway in Lebanon too.

    They have already destroyed the headquarters of the Al-Sirat and Al Mayadeen TV channels in Beirut, bombed the editor-in-chief of Maraya International Network when he was live on air and murdered journalists in their homes in southern Lebanon.

    Journalists are their priority targets. The impunity is total.

  • Tatyana

    @craig,
    my sister and I once took our children to the sea. My son was small then, and I was very concerned about the possibility that he might get lost in a resort area and not be able to name the address where we were staying. I made him memorize “Anapa, Tolstoy Street 25”. You see, I do remember it up to this moment 🙂

    I ask you please, to memorize the address of the Russian embassy in Lebanon:
    St. Elijah Street – Elijah is the religious figure who is supposed to come before the Messiah and anoint him as the king.
    The building is named El-Tina, no idea what it could be, the only asossiasion that comes to mind is Tina Turner, but she is a woman and the prefix “El” does not suit her.
    The phone number is super easy – 300 041.
    300 – a popular Russian joke based on the rhyme – “Триста. Отсоси у тракториста”. I’m really sorry to use this obscene thing for the memorizing purpose! As an apology, I won’t leave the translation for the audience 🙂
    And ’41’ is the year the Second World War began, as is customary history date in Russia.
    Zero in between the ‘300’ and ’41’ is there to fill in the gap, as Lebanon numbers should be 6 digits.
    The code befor these is +9 611, nearly as easy as 911, but with a local feature 🙂

    +9 611 300 0 41 El-Tina on Mar-Elias street, near Sint Charber (doctor) church.

    Plese do memorise it, hope you’ll never have a chance to turn for help there.

    • Brian Red

      Memorising such a short number is easy:

      * use the Major system (work on pairs or triples), come up with your own images, put them in a vivid story, fix, use a bit of spaced repetition, job done.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system

      For a 10-digit number you need 5 words if you’re working with pairs.

      For added fun, use “SAS” for a string of two zeros. I won’t say what I came up with for the whole thing, but it didn’t contain anything as rude as your “300” reference, @Tatyana.

      But using rude imagery is fine so long as it’s vivid.

      This is such a window on the subconscious.

      • Brian Red

        The Major system, or something similar for other languages than English, should be taught to all children everywhere in the world. It should be part of everyone’s common knowledge. It’s empowering. No-one should be conditioned to feel their memory is like a sieve and they can’t even remember a new 10-digit number. It’s like thinking they’ll never know how to tie their shoelaces.

      • Tatyana

        I knew I’d have to blush for those “300” Brian!
        I hoped Mr. Murray had spent some time in Russia so he wouldn’t be a shrinking violet at the sight of that 🙂

        • Tatyana

          Aaaah, I’m so stupid!
          I should have just used the image of ‘300’ like in the movie ‘300 Spartans’. That image correlates well with the subsequent image of Russia’s borders in 1941.
          And I wouldn’t have to blush.
          Think twice, Tanya, and you disgrace yourself only once, perhaps (-_-*;)

    • Neil

      “The building is named El-Tina, no idea what it could be” – probably named after the Palestinian village التينة ethnically cleansed by the Zionists BEFORE Israel came into existence.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Tina (some of us wiki-wonks have been working hard over many years to ensure that Wikipedia has an article for every single village ethnically cleansed (“depopulated”) by the Zionists.)

      In this country, the war began in 1939, not 1941. My father joined the RAF (air force) when war was declared in September 1939.

      • Cornudet

        It is worth remembering that the UK state and its propaganda organs referred to the conflict against the Third Reich as the “War Against Aggression” up until 1941, when the war was recognised as a truly global affair and christened accordingly. If, say, you are Vietnamese, Abyssinian or Mongolian, you might well aver that WW2 began at a date rather earlier than 1939

  • Squeeth

    While you’re dodging the zionist Einsatzgruppen, can you have a look at the Lebanese health service and let us know how much better it is than the CommercialPrivateEquityNHS please?

  • El Dee

    I hope that our own ‘side’ doesn’t disclose your location to the Israelis. And I also wish you well on your return journey and hope you aren’t ‘robbed’ again and make it through Customs without having anything confiscated or being arrested for having used the word ‘resistance’ in this article.

    The fact I’m even thinking of these things has made me realise we no longer live in a free country OR perhaps we never did and I was too naive to realise it..

    • Brian Red

      @El Dee – “The fact I’m even thinking of these things has made me realise we no longer live in a free country.

      Pretty much anyone in Britain who does anything against the system should think twice before they go abroad with a laptop, flash drive, or smartphone intending to bring it back into the country.

      That’s the position now. It wasn’t the position 10 years ago. Or even 2 years ago. Things have changed fast, and there will be further rapid changes – this is quite clear.

      PS You may be confusing Customs (which comes under the Revenue, which comes under the Treasury) with Immigration (which comes under the Home Secretary, as do the police and MI5).

  • Lieve

    I don’t know if “congratulations” is appropriate, but I’m deeply supportive and admirative of your move, and I pray you stay alive.

    (Living as a volunteer in South India, financial support is not an option unfortunately.)

  • Jack

    Stay safe Craig and do not save any critical documents on your digial devices, may be confiscated when you get back.

    Speaking on Lebanon, Israel’s destruction of Lebanon is systematic, all according to the genocidal plan:
    The Israeli military has demolished hundreds of buildings in Lebanese border villages, our new @nytimes
    investigation shows. We counted at least 1,085 buildings destroyed/badly damaged, flattening one village and reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble:

    https://x.com/trbrtc/status/1851632384552116408

    And while Israel lies about this or that palestinian journalist being a “terrorist”, here you have Danny Kushmaro that openly work with the IDF blowing up houses in Lebanon and then…. claim to be a journalist
    Danny Kushmaro, a senior Israeli journalist and news anchor, is filmed here in Press vest, blowing up with his own hands a building in Lebanon. He then moved back to the studio to report on Hamas terrorists disguised as journalists.
    https://x.com/ofercass/status/1850216940926619953

    Always this nasty, flagrant psychological projection by Israel. They actually do what they accuse other people of doing!

  • oldbloke

    Wow. You have guts. I admire your courage and will contribute.

    I visited Lebanon a few years ago and loved it. There are many great places to visit, and the people were friendly. The Beirut “Corniche” was especially lovely (this was before the big explosion in the harbour). The Roman temple complex for which Baalbeck is famous was impressive and most interesting – it was well cared-for by the authorities. The Roman remains at Tyre were also interesting as were the 18th-century souks there – unfortunately, the latter had been damaged by earlier Israeli aggression, but there was still a lot left.

  • M.J.

    Just as Israel plans to destroy Northern Gaza and make it into an up-market area according to their “Project 2035”, I wonder if they plan to do the same to the Lebanese coast, especially West Beirut, having ethnically cleansed it of Muslims (I suspect they will leave the Christian areas alone for the most part).

    What might prevent them is the resistance by Hamas in Gaza (amazingly recycling unexploded munitions into weapons against the Zionists, as the Electronic Intifada reports) and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

    Yahya Sinwar’s novel The Thorn and the Carnation is, I gather not a terrorist manual but an autobiographical novel that appears to be in some ways reminiscent of Indres Naidoo’s Island in Chains, but which deals with childhood and growing up as well. One of its main characters apparently dies in a way that makes me wonder if Sinwar had a premonition of falling in battle 20 years before it happened. Sinwar’s book is not available on amazon, thanks to the website caving in to Zionist intimidation, so anyone wanting to read it would have to look for other websites.

    I haven’t been able to find any bibliographic details of Sinwar’s second novel Glory – apart from that it came out in 2010. That one is apparently about the methods of Shin Bet (which are also covered in Mosab Yousef’s Son of Hamas, though he speaks of them as good guys). If anyone can confirm that, like The Thorn and the Carnation, it is an autobiographical novel and not a manual for terrorist acts, it would be interesting to know if it can be obtained in English translation.

    Good luck to Craig playing it safe.

  • joel

    One of the biggest beasts in the KHive stepped out in Michigan last night to pitch to directly to Arab Americans on behalf of Holocaust Harris.

    Bill Clinton: “I understand why young Palestinian and Arab Americans in Michigan think too many people have died — I get that, but…”

    “..Hamas makes sure that they’re shielded by civilians, they’ll force you to kill civilians, if you want to defend yourself.”

    “I got news for [Hamas]—[Israelis] were there first before their faith existed.” 

    “…People in Michigan are thinking about not voting because they’re mad at the Biden administration…that’s a mistake. Kamala Harris said she’ll try to negotiate an end to violence…”that oughta be enough.”

    https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1851831227902284122

    • Jack

      Total corrupt buffoon, how could he say that and to this specific crowd?! How could he even think of urging palestinians, muslims, arabs to vote for the same woman that have green-checked Israel’s genocide for over 1 year and perhaps four more years?! Is he total unaware that Israel deliberately, indiscriminately target civilians something proved every human rights organization? Just the other week even msm like New York Times had an article how Israel use Palestinians as human shields
      How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza
      https://archive.is/aDNds

      Clinton use the typical zionist argument: If Palestinians are killed by Israel, it is never the fault of Israel, it is the fault of Palestinians themselves:
      Golda Meir:“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”

    • M.J.

      Clinton and Biden alike should read Ta-Nehasi Coates’ recent book “The Message” and Amnesty International’s report on Israeli apartheid. They should also take a good dose of Ilan Pappé, Miko Peled and the Electronic Intifada for good measure. Then they might understand better why Michigan Arabs might be inclined not to vote for Kamala, even if they might still more repelled by Trump.

    • F. Foundling

      “I got news for [Hamas]—[Israelis] were there first before their faith existed.”

      It’s funny how supposedly rational liberals, especially American ones, still keep resorting to such ridiculous, atavistic, blood-and-soil nationalistic arguments. So what if the Jews were there first? That doesn’t give them the right to come back to the place 2000 years later and expel and/or murder whoever lives there now!

      How are modern Palestinians responsible for the Jews migrating or being expelled out of Palestine 2000 years ago?

      If he is all about ‘who was where first’, he should move back to Europe, since he doesn’t look Native American to me. Specifically to England, judging from his ancestry. And then back to Germany, because his ancestors weren’t Welsh either. And then probably to somewhere in Ukraine, where Indo-European speakers seem to have come from originally.

      You have to be totally ignorant of the entire history of the world to accept or peddle this brain-dead argument. Or to be a disingenuous scoundrel, which is more likely in his case.

  • nevermind

    For the sake of all you know and befriend, Craig, try and get more than one abode, keep all your stuff in one holdall and keep moving; and switch to other phones if you can, they don’t have to belong to you if you are posting internationally.
    I hope you have a warm rainproof coat, ideally in dark colour, a sheepskin that keeps you warm, so you can stay outdoors if needed, once you got all the permissions you need.
    Don’t go to places you announced: go to the next one to interview and cover it with camera evidence. For Pete’s sake, keep switching locations. Try get yourself a scout who knows the areas inside out.
    And take your meds. Love ya X

    • Goose

      And avoid pagers..

      On which, I saw it initially reported that the founder of Taiwan’s Gold Apollo, Hsu Ching-Kuang, intended to launch a multi-billion lawsuit against the Israeli govt for among other things, reputational damage. Given the scale and indiscriminate nature of that attack , I’d imagine the Lebanese victims have legal avenues too. Though, I’ve not seen anything else since that initial report. Hsu Ching-Kuang also stated at that press conference the Taiwanese company didn’t manufacture the pagers.

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