THE POPE CALLS FOR PEACE AND SOVEREIGNTY AFTER VOICING CONCERNS OF AMERICA’S ATTACK IN VENEZUELA

He Has Deep Concerns Over The Attack On Venezuela, Urging That The Well-Being Of The Venezuelan People Must Take Precedence Over All Other Considerations.

Speaking during his traditional Sunday noon blessing at the Vatican, the pope called for an immediate end to violence and stressed the importance of respecting Venezuela’s sovereignty. He said the unfolding situation should lead to justice and peace, not further instability.

“With a heart full of concern, I am following the developments of the situation in Venezuela,” the pope said. “The good of the beloved Venezuelan people must prevail over every other consideration and lead to overcoming violence and embarking on paths of justice and peace, guaranteeing the country’s sovereignty, ensuring the rule of law enshrined in the constitution, and respecting the human and civil rights of each and every person.”

The pope’s remarks come amid heightened international debate following the American military operation and the detention of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. His appeal focused on protecting civilians and upholding legal and constitutional principles during a period of uncertainty.

This is not the first time Pope Leo has spoken out on Venezuela. In previous statements, he has urged the United States to pursue dialogue and diplomatic solutions, including the use of economic pressure, rather than military force, to achieve political change.

THE AMERICAN REGIME’S WAR ON VENEZUELA

During The Past Few Weeks, The Trump Administration Has Engaged In An Illegal And Immoral War Against Venezuela. The War Violates Both United States Law And International Law And The Principles Of A Just War.

Wars almost always bring atrocities with them, and unfortunately, Trump’s war on Venezuela is no exception. According to an account published by the Washington Post on November 28th, “As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors. The longer the American surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. ‘The order was to kill everybody,’ one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. Hegseth’s order, which has not been previously reported, adds another dimension to the campaign against suspected drug traffickers.”

People were aghast at this barbarous display, and in response, the Trump Administration put out a transparently lame excuse. It tried to shift the blame to the admiral in charge of the operation. “President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he would not have wanted a second strike on the boat and said Hegseth denied giving such an order. But White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Hegseth had authorized Admiral Frank Bradley to conduct the strikes on September 2nd. ‘Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated,’ Leavitt said. Leavitt said the strike was conducted in ‘self defense’ to protect American interests, took place in international waters and was in line with the law of armed conflict. ‘This administration has designated these narco- terrorists as foreign terrorist organizations,’ Leavitt said. Starting in September, the U.S. military has carried out at least 19 strikes against suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean and off the Pacific coasts of Latin America, killing at least 76 people.”

Trump’s alleged “concern” for so-called “narco-terrorism” is hypocritical. Trump pardoned a former president of Honduras who was serving a long prison term for bringing an enormous amount of cocaine into America. Somehow, that doesn’t qualify as “narco-terrorism.” Trump’s South America policy is getting more ridiculous by the day. As ‘Moon of Alabama’ reports, “Yesterday he announced a pardon for the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for partnering with drug traffickers who had allegedly shipped 400 tons of cocaine to the United States. He also endorsed a right-wing candidate Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura for Sunday’s election in Honduras. Asfura belongs to the same party as Hernández.”

It transpires that Venezuela is not a major supplier of drugs to America, despite all the hoopla from Trump. As Finian Cunningham reports, “Venezuela’s role in narcotics trafficking to the United States is not significant compared with other Latin American countries, according to the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime. Colombia and Peru are more important as cocaine sources. The American Drug Enforcement Administration has denoted Mexico as the biggest source of illicit fentanyl, which is responsible for most American overdose deaths.

It was said earlier that Trump’s war on “narco-terrorism” violates international law, and Cunningham offers a succinct summary of the relevant points: “The United Nations Charter explicitly outlaws every aspect of Trump’s conduct towards Venezuela. Article 2:3 mandates that all disputes must be settled through peaceful means. Article 2:4 prohibits the use or threat of military force.”

You should know that Trump’s policy violates American law. As law professor Michael Ramsey notes, “The Constitution’s Article I, Section 8 specifically lists as a power of Congress the power ‘to declare War,’ which unquestionably gives the legislature the power to initiate hostilities. . . Most people agree, at minimum, that the Declare War Clause grants Congress an exclusive power. That is, Presidents cannot, on their own authority, declare war.”

Now, let’s look at what is the most important thing we need to consider in assessing Trump’s aggressive and illegal war: Murray Rothbard’s account of just war. Here is what he says: “Much of ‘classical international law’ theory, developed by the Catholic Scholastics, notably the 16th-century Spanish Scholastics such as Vitoria and Suarez, and then the Dutch Protestant Scholastic Grotius and by 18th- and 19th-century jurists, was an explanation of the criteria for a just war. For war, as a grave act of killing, needs to be justified. A reasonable view of war can be put simply: a just war exists when a people try to ward off the threat of coercive domination by another people, or to overthrow an already-existing domination. A war is unjust, on the other hand, when a people try to impose domination on another people, or try to retain an already existing coercive rule over them.

In sum, what Murray is saying is that a just war must be defensive; a nation must be trying to stop an invasion. And even in a defensive war, you must follow certain restraints. You cannot attack non-combatants. Shipping narcotics to America is not waging war, however much we might oppose attempts to do this.

Moreover, blowing up people who are clinging to a boat so that they won’t drown is cowardly and dastardly. Only those utterly without a conscience could do such a thing. Let’s do everything we can to oppose Trump’s unjust war against Venezuela!

HOW ZIONISM TOOK OVER THE DEEP STATE FROM IRAN-CONTRA TO TRUMP

And So It’s Not A Coincidence That Wall Street And Silicon Valley, Corridors Of Power Where Zionists Hold Decisive Influence, Turned, Arguably Decisively, To Support Trump In Summer Of 2024.

The most politically prescient movie when it comes to the networks infiltrating our government these last forty years must be Power, director Sidney Lumet’s 1986 vehicle for exploring America’s mechanisms of political control, his informal sequel to the much more famous Network. The main characters in Power are portrayed by Richard Gere, as a political campaign consultant, and Denzel Washington, as his client: a lobbyist representing Gulf State sheiks who want to induce America’s government to sponsor coups in Latin American countries. The sheiks’ first step in this direction is using Gere to engineer the election of a dour Midwestern corporatist running to replace an old line WASP senator whose wife, played by the real-life WASP scion Beatrice Straight, committed a financial indiscretion which put her in Denzel Washington’s pocket.

When Gere starts asking questions about who’s paying whom and for what, Washington gets nervous: suddenly Gere’s threatened by mysterious go-betweens, his plane almost crashes, he loses clients, his phone is tapped (and he’s meant to know it). When Gere confronts Washington in the latter’s sleek and immaculate office in the literal shadow of the American capitol, Washington is unrepentant:

“We hired you to do a job, and it wasn’t to investigate me or my company…We just wanted you to know, if you really did try and screw us, something bad could happen to you. That was the message we were trying to convey. Now the plane, the phones, merely dramatic illustrations…It’s no fucking game. You are deciding who runs this country. Who runs other countries. My clients deal with the consequences.”

What is most interesting about Power, besides its forensic representation of an influence play distinctly exotic to pre-1980s America but inherently familiar to colonial societies, is how neatly it maps on to another play being run in Washington DC before and during Power’s production: Iran-Contra. This was also a play, a real-life one, in which operators with ties to the Middle East and Latin America infiltrated the capital via a pliant “heartland Republican,” Ronald Reagan, to run an agenda foreign to American interests. Iran-Contra was, famously yet confusingly, a covert effort by the Reagan administration to funnel arms shipments to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages; then to use the proceeds from these arms sales to fund the guerrilla Contras, who were fighting the socialist authoritarian regime of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua—all without congressional approval. In the course of this effort by “Reagan’s Junta,” people’s offices were bugged, and strange payoffs and stranger outreaches made. Middlemen like Gere were recruited, then threatened, then frightened, then ostracized, then disposed.

The only Iran-Contra element missing in Power, thanks likely to the Jewish-American Lumet’s well-documented loyalty to Israel, is the people who actually ran it: connected Jewish Zionists for whom Denzel Washington’s character was the stand-in. William Casey, the CIA director who set Iran-Contra in motion, was a product of Wall Street just as Zionists rose to influence there, and it was to a group of these associates including Maurice “Hank” Greenberg and Bruce Rappaport that Casey turned for advice on his White House agenda. He also turned for advice to Zionist fixer Roy Cohn (in 1980, during Reagan’s presidential campaign, which Casey ran, Nancy Reagan said that Casey called Cohn “almost daily”) and it was the Saudi expatriate Adnan Khashoggi, a client of Cohn’s, who ended up running crucial aspects of the Iran-Contra play. Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian expatriate arms dealer who shared top Iran-Contra billing with Khashoggi, was known by Casey to be an Israeli agent. And it was Israel which was the deal’s middleman, sending arms to Iran from America via Ghorbanifar via the ministrations of Michael Ledeen, a Zionist “consultant” with the National Security Council.

Then there were the Zionist-Contra connections. The primary Washington point person for the Contra end of that play was Elliott Abrams, the son-in-law of the late Commentary magazine editor Norman Podhoretz—who, by the 1980s, along with Public Interest editor Irving Kristol, was the most famous Jewish neoconservative in America. The Contra’s primary emissary to Washington was Arturo Cruz, Jr., who got his foot in the White House door by dating Fawn Hall, the famously loyal secretary (and future wife) of NSC official Oliver North, who managed Iran-Contra. Cruz thrived in Washington thanks in part to the support of the magazine The New Republic, which had been founded by Beatrice Straight’s family but, in the 1980s under the ownership of the ardent Zionist Martin Peretz, introduced Zionism to the capital’s media circles. The New Republic backed Cruz to the point where Peretz’s second-in-command, Leon Wieseltier, a “man about town” known for his own dubious sexual power plays, assured The Washington Post for attribution that Cruz’s infiltration of North’s office via his relationship with Fawn Hall was not a play for influence but the product of “real love.”

In geopolitical context, these insider operations make sense. The ultimate aim of Iran-Contra was solidifying American military corporate networks in the Middle East—put formally, to “establish a new US relationship with Iran, thus strengthening the US strategic posture throughout the Persian Gulf region”—to the benefit of Israel, already these networks’ most reliable client. Like Denzel Washington’s play in Power, Iran-Contra failed. But its key project, the “usurpation of power by a small, strategically placed group” of seeming renegades, has succeeded over the last forty years in far more dramatic fashion. During this time, Zionist networks run largely though not exclusively by connected American Jews have made themselves into arbiters of America’s military corporate complex. Recently, they have brought new groups of authoritarians and supremacists into that complex, and they have elevated politicians to defend their authority to the highest positions in our government.

THE SUFFERING OF GAZA PALESTINIANS WAS LAMENTED BY POPE LEO DURING HIS FIRST CHRISTMAS SERMON

Global Wars Are “Leaving Behind Rubble And Open Wounds”, The New Pope Has Also Lamented The Conditions For Palestinians In Gaza Several Times Recently.

Pope Leo has decried conditions ‍for Palestinians in ‍Gaza in his first Christmas sermon as pontiff, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

Leo, the first American pope, said on Thursday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable showed that God had “pitched his fragile tent” among the people of the world.

“How, then, ‍can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold?” he asked.

Leo, celebrating his first Christmas after being elected in May by the ‍world’s cardinals to succeed the late Pope Francis, has a quieter, more diplomatic style than his predecessor and usually refrains from making political references in his sermons.

But the new pope has also lamented the conditions for Palestinians in Gaza several times recently and told journalists last month that the only solution in the decades-long conflict between Israel and Palestine must include a Palestinian state.

Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in October ‌after two years of intense bombardment and military operations in Gaza, but humanitarian agencies say there is still too little aid getting into the largely destroyed Strip, where nearly the entire population is homeless after being displaced by Israeli attacks.

In Thursday’s service with thousands in ‌St Peter’s Basilica, Leo also lamented conditions for the homeless across the globe and the destruction caused by the wars ‌roiling the world.

“Fragile is the flesh of defenceless populations, tried by so many wars, ongoing or concluded, leaving behind rubble and open wounds,” said the pope.

“Fragile are the minds and lives of young people forced to take up arms, who on the ‌front lines feel the senselessness of what is asked of them and the falsehoods that fill the pompous speeches of those who send them to their deaths,” he ‍added.

In a later appeal during the “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) message and blessing given by the pope at Christmas and Easter, Leo called for an end to all global wars, lamenting conflicts, ‌political, social or military, in Ukraine, Sudan, Mali, Myanmar, and Thailand and Cambodia, among others.

“THE WOUNDS ARE DEEP”

Ahead of the pope’s mass, in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the Christian community began celebrating its first festive Christmas in more than two years, as the Palestinian city and biblical birthplace of Jesus emerges from the shadow of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Throughout the war, a sombre tone had marked Christmases in Bethlehem. But celebrations returned on Wednesday with parades and music. Hundreds of worshippers also gathered for mass at the Church of the Nativity on Wednesday night.

With pews filled long before midnight, many stood or sat on the floor for the traditional mass to usher in Christmas Day.

At 11:15 pm, organ music rang out as a procession of dozens of clergymen entered, followed by Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who blessed the crowd with signs of the cross.

In his homily, Pizzaballa urged peace, hope and rebirth, saying the Nativity story still held relevance in the turbulence of modern times.

He also spoke of his visit to Gaza over the weekend, where he said “suffering is still present” despite the ceasefire. In the Strip, hundreds of thousands of people face a bleak winter in makeshift tents.

“The wounds are deep, yet I have to say, here too, there too, their proclamation of Christmas resounds,” Pizzaballa said. “When I met them, I was struck by their strength and desire to start over.”

In Bethlehem, hundreds also took part in the parade down the narrow Star Street on Wednesday, while a dense crowd massed in the square. As darkness fell, multi-coloured lights shone over Manger Square and a towering Christmas tree glittered next to the Church of the Nativity.

The basilica dates back to the fourth century and was built on top of a grotto where Christians believe Jesus was born more than 2,000 years ago.

Bethlehem residents hoped the return of Christmas festivities would breathe life back into the city.

THE BAN ON AID AGENCIES IN GAZA IS “OUTRAGEOUS” PER THE UN RIGHTS CHIEF

The United Nations Rights Chief Has Denounced The “Outrageous” Proposed Ban On 37 Aid Agencies From Operating In Gaza.

“Israel’s suspension of numerous aid agencies from Gaza is outrageous,” Volker Turk said in a statement.

“Such arbitrary suspensions make an already intolerable situation even worse for the people of Gaza.”

SANCTIONS WERE APPLIED TO 30 AMERICAN FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS OVER WEAPONS SALES TO TAIWAN BY CHINA

Beijing Urged The American Regime To Cease “Dangerous” Efforts To Arm The Island, Which It Claims As Its Own.

China has sanctioned a group of United States defence companies and senior executives over weapons sales to Taiwan, the latest move against Washington’s support for the self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the measures on Friday, targeting 20 American defence firms and 10 individuals. It said the sanctions are retaliation for the American regime’s newly announced $11.1bn weapons package for Taiwan, one of its largest ever for the territory.

“Any provocative actions that cross the line on the Taiwan issue ‌will be met with a strong response from China,” said a statement from the ministry, urging the American regime to cease “dangerous” efforts to arm the island.

The sanctioned companies include Boeing’s St Louis branch, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, L3Harris Maritime Services and Lazarus AI.

The measures freeze these companies’ assets in China and bar domestic organizations and individuals from working with them, according to the ministry.

According to a report in September, Boeing has reportedly discussed the potential sale of up to 500 commercial jets to Chinese airlines, a development that could reopen the world’s second-largest aviation market after years of America-China trade tensions.

China is also expected to seize the China-held assets of sanctioned individuals and ban them from entering the country.

Targeted individuals include the founder of defence firm Anduril Industries and nine senior executives from the sanctioned firms. The measures took effect on December 26.

In response, the American State Department said it “strongly” objected to “Beijing’s efforts to retaliate against US companies for their support of US arms sales that support Taiwan’s self- defence capabilities”.

A State Department spokesperson also urged China to come to the negotiation table with Taiwan rather than impose military, diplomatic, and economic pressure.

The American regime is bound by law to provide Taiwan, which rejects Beijing’s claim to the territory, with the means to defend itself.

But American arms sales to the island have deepened tensions with China.

The latest American regime’s weapons deal with Taiwan, announced by President Donald Trump on December 17th, includes the proposed sale of 82 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, and 420 Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS – worth more than $4bn.

The defence systems are similar to what the American regime had been providing Ukraine to defend against Russian aerial attacks.

The deal also includes 60 self-propelled howitzer artillery systems and related equipment worth more than $4bn and drones valued at more than $1bn.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence praised the American regime for assisting Taiwan “in maintaining sufficient self-defence capabilities and in rapidly building strong deterrent power”.

ISRAEL BANS JOURNALISTS FOR THE SAME REASON IT BANS AID GROUPS

Doctors And Aid Workers Largely Became The De Facto Journalists On The Ground In Gaza When Israel Banned International News Media And Began Assassinating Gaza-Based Palestinian Journalists.

Israel has banned 37 aid groups from working in the Palestinian territories, citing plainly spurious reasons. Among the aid groups banned are Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Oxfam.

Israel banned the aid groups from Gaza for the same reason it continues to ban journalists. Of course it’s about eliminating aid itself, but it’s also about eliminating witnesses. Doctors and aid workers largely became the de facto journalists on the ground in Gaza when Israel banned international news media and began systematically assassinating Gaza-based Palestinian journalists. So Israel wants to get rid of those de facto reporters to hide its crimes.

Doctors Without Borders was one of the top humanitarian groups publicly accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in 2025. A lot of what we learned about the Israeli massacres of starving civilians at “Gaza Humanitarian Fund” sites came from MSF doctors describing the gunshot wounds they’d been seeing at medical facilities. MSF were the first to report the horrifying story of IDF soldiers entering hospitals they’d attacked in Gaza and destroying individual pieces of medical equipment to make them unusable, providing unassailable proof that Israel was actually targeting Gaza’s healthcare system itself rather than “Hamas bases in hospitals” as Israel falsely claimed. Doctors Without Borders were constantly putting out reports condemning Israel’s attacks on medical facilities where it had staff, and its doctors often spoke to the western press about the horrors they’d seen in Gaza.

And now they’ve been taken out, one of dozens of aid groups who Israel will no longer allow to operate in the occupied Palestinian territories. They took them out for the same reason they took out the journalists, and for the same reason Israel and its supporters try to stomp out speech that is critical of the Gaza holocaust throughout the western world, and for the same reason witnesses who try to tell law enforcement about the crimes of the Mafia tend to go missing.

They want to keep their crimes in the dark.

Is there anything more embarrassing or self-debasing than continuing to be a Trump supporter in 2026? It’s just degrading and cucky at this point. Trotting alongside Netanyahu and promising to help him bomb Iran while lying and claiming Israel has been “100 percent” abiding by the ceasefire in Gaza. Bombing Venezuela, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and all those boats off Latin America in a single year after campaigning as the “anti-war” candidate. Stomping out free speech that’s critical of Israel and shoveling money into the Israeli war machine after campaigning on a free speech and America First platform while repeatedly publicly admitting to being bought and owned by Miriam Adelson. Releasing Epstein files so full of redactions the pages look like black slate tiles.

If you supported Trump’s campaign platform in 2024, you should hate Donald Trump after 2025. If you don’t you’re just letting him defecate on your face and then saying “Thank you Daddy may I have another?”

Zionism is the single greatest threat to free speech in the western world. Israel and its supporters. They’re coming for our rights. They’re not even hiding it.

Even saying this will probably get our name on a list in the Israeli government, but just the fact that this is something we have to worry about now proves that what we are saying is correct. There is absolutely nothing on earth that poses a more immediate threat to our right to free expression than Israel and its supporters.

Israel lobbyists are making no secret that it is their intention to crush our right to speak critically of Israel and the west’s facilitation of its abuses. Just the other day the Executive Manager of the Israel & Jewish Affairs Council proclaimed that it is criticism of Israel itself that he wants to shut down, saying “I for one as a Jewish leader will no long talk about antisemitism in isolation from Israel, because it’s the rhetoric and language on Israel that motivates the people to come and kill us.” He demanded “no more protests” against Israel and argued that “language on Israel invading all of our social spaces have made this country a very unsafe space and place for Jews.”

What else can you call this? How else can you describe it besides as an undisguised agenda to stomp out our right to oppose the abuses of a genocidal apartheid state?

This is happening throughout all of western civilization. Nothing else comes anywhere remotely close to presenting such a direct threat to freedom of speech in western liberal democracies. It is necessary to point this out. We didn’t force this issue. They did.

TRUMP HAS BEEN CALLED UPON TO ADDRESS ISRAELI GAZA CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS BY NEARLY 50 AMERICAN LAWMAKERS

Dozens Of Democratic Members Of Congress Said Trump Should Leverage American Assistance To Israel To Halt Continued Attacks On The Strip.

Nearly 50 Democratic members of Congress called on President Donald Trump to address Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza and to withhold American assistance if attacks continue.

The letter said Israel’s “bombardment against civilians, destruction of property and insufficient delivery of humanitarian aid” were jeopardising the ceasefire that the America, Egypt and Qatar brokered in October.

“It’s imperative that we hold the Israeli government accountable for its actions,” 49 Democratic members of the House of Representatives said.

“We strongly urge your administration to exert maximum diplomatic pressure on the Israeli government, including by leveraging American assistance, to ensure full compliance with the terms of the framework and an end to the continued acts of violence and destruction that undermine this fragile agreement and threaten the prospect of lasting peace in the region,” the letter added.

The lawmakers accused Hamas of also violating the ceasefire, but said that Israel’s response “has been severe and disproportionate, resulting in massive loss of life”.

The letter was spearheaded by Representatives Mark Pocan and Madeleine Dean. It was also endorsed by the Jewish advocacy groups J Street, the New Jewish Narrative and Win Without War.

Israel has escalated its attacks on Gaza in recent weeks. Seventy-five days into the truce deal, Israel has killed over 411 Palestinians and left more than 1,112 wounded.

The Government Media Office in Gaza has estimated at least 875 violations commited by its army since the start of the ceasefire in October.

In addition to repeated attacks, Israel has also continued to evade obligations to allow the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

Only 17,819 trucks entered the blockaded territory out of the 43,800 that were stripulated to be delivered and distributed to its population of two million.

A severe shortage in adequate shelter, medicine, food, fuel and other necessities has compounded the already dire situation in the strip.

The media office warned on Tuesday of a “deepening and unprecedented humanitarian crisis” with regards to the lack of shelter amid freezing temperatures and heavy rainfall.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Trump next week in Florida.

A GLOBAL SPY MACHINE LIES BEHIND ISRAEL’S WARS

After The Devastating War In June 2025, Iranian Intelligence Minister Khatib Made A Claim That More Than Fifty Foreign Intelligence Services Had Provided Direct Support To Israel During The Conflict.

Speaking during an official visit to Iran’s southwestern Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in October 2025, Khatib characterized this coalition as an “intelligence NATO” that coordinated efforts to destabilize Iran through hybrid warfare encompassing military attacks, psychological operations, cyber warfare, and media campaigns.

His statement came against the backdrop of the Twelve Day War that began on June 13th, 2025, when Israel launched surprise attacks on Iranian military and nuclear facilities, killing over 1,000 Iranians. Iran responded with “Operation True Promise 3,” involving twenty-two waves of missile strikes and over 550 ballistic missiles targeting Israeli territory. The United States intervened on June 22nd with B-2 bomber strikes on Iranian nuclear sites before a ceasefire was brokered on June 24.

Khatib’s claims, while potentially inflated, align remarkably well with patterns documented in “The Illusion of Israeli Self-Sufficiency in Intelligence,” which exposed how Israel’s most celebrated operations relied on cooperation with the CIA, NSA cyberwarfare expertise, European intelligence networks, and covert collaboration with Arab regimes. As that analysis demonstrated, Israel’s intelligence empire survives not through independence but through reliance on Western logistics, intelligence sharing, and political approval.

The foundation of this multinational intelligence cooperation traces back decades. According to research covered by Israeli investigative journalists, the Berne Club—a secret European intelligence alliance founded in 1969—provided crucial support for Israel’s assassination campaign following the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. Through an encrypted communication system called “Kilowatt,” thousands of cables were exchanged among eighteen Western intelligence services, functioning as a secret clearinghouse for raw intelligence containing the locations of safe houses, vehicle registrations, the movements of high-value targets, and analytical assessments.

The core of Israel’s intelligence support network begins with the United States and extends through the Five Eyes alliance. The CIA-Mossad relationship dates to the early 1950s, with leaked documents revealing that the NSA shares intelligence with Israel’s Unit 8200 through a formal agreement. Following the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attacks, “US intelligence dispatched a special unit to assist the IDF in the war in Gaza and established intelligence-sharing channels with Israel to help locate top Hamas commanders,” according to a report by The Conversation. During Israel’s June 2025 strikes on Iran, the United States joined the operation directly with B-2 bomber strikes.

The United Kingdom maintains similarly close cooperation. GCHQ documents reveal Britain “cooperating very closely with Israel.’ DeClassified UK reported that between 2023-2024, “the RAF conducted 518 surveillance flights over Gaza from Cyprus’s RAF Akrotiri, supplying real-time intelligence to Israeli forces.”

European nations have provided extensive intelligence infrastructure supporting Israeli operations. Germany announced this past summer plans to strengthen cooperation on cyber defense, with Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt outlining a five-point plan for establishing a “Cyber Dome” including “establishing a joint German-Israel cyber research center.”

In 2020, Greece, Cyprus, and Israel agreed to “cooperate in the military and defence area, increase employment and bolster security in this tense area of the Mediterranean.” The Greek Cypriot administration signed defense agreements that “not only enhances the island’s air defense capabilities but also cements” its “role as a forward-operating base for Israeli intelligence and regional security coordination,” providing “early-warning capabilities and a strategic foothold” for monitoring Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Libya.

Perhaps the most striking validation of Khatib’s claims comes from documented intelligence cooperation between Israel and Arab states that publicly condemn it. Leaked American documents revealed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) participated in “a classified regional defense framework known as the ‘Regional Security Construct’” coordinated by America’s Central Command. According to the Ynet, “at least six Arab states—Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar—took part” in this network featuring “information-sharing, joint exercises, and operational coordination.”

Egypt and Jordan participate in the Regional Security Construct. Documents detail “joint training held in Egypt in September, involving forces from America, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Greece, India, Britain, and Qatar.”

The Times of Israel has described Morocco’s intelligence relationship with Israel “is among the Middle East and North Africa’s more enduring—and least understood—security partnerships.” Following normalization in December 2020, on November 24, 2021, Israel’s then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz signed in Rabat the first Defense Memorandum of Understanding ever concluded between Israel and an Arab state, a framework both parties described as establishing formal mechanisms for intelligence cooperation. Moroccan military communiqués referenced “expanded cooperation with Israel in these very domains—’intelligence, air defense and electronic warfare.”

Similarly, Azerbaijan has “become an important base for Israeli intelligence” with extensive cooperation focused on Iran, according to a report by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. In February 2012, dozens of Israeli intelligence operatives were reportedly active in Azerbaijan. One Mossad officer admitted, “Last year, we increased our presence, and this has brought us much closer to Iran.” Four years later, an Israeli intelligence analyst confirmed, “Mossad has a large and significant presence in Azerbaijan.

Israel’s intelligence network extends to Asia, where The Diplomat highlighted that “Intelligence collaboration between India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel’s Mossad began as early as the 1980s, focused on shared threats from Islamist extremism.” According to a report by Ground Zero, India helped Israel with “on ground human intelligence and logistics” to help it launch pinpoint strikes on Iran during the Twelve-Day War.

In Africa, cooperation between Israel and Ethiopia dates back to the 1950s. It notably forged a 2020 accord establishing bilateral cooperation on counterterrorism operations and intelligence coordination between the two countries.

Though not a NATO member, Israel has been a strategic partner since 1994 with high-level operational access to NATO intelligence structures since 2016. Israel has shared intelligence on Iranian drones with NATO and Ukraine, creating formal linkages that blur the distinction between Israeli operations and broader Western security architecture. This integration validates Khatib’s characterization of an “intelligence NATO”—a formal and informal network where intelligence flows seamlessly between Israel and dozens of partner nations.

The scope of this cooperation extended far beyond passive intelligence sharing during the June 2025 conflict. Israel used an American artificial intelligence model to analyze millions of data points, employed spyware to infiltrate Iranian officials’ communications, recruited operatives from local opposition groups, and established covert drone bases near Tehran—all enabled by extensive intelligence sharing with allies.

As documented in “The Illusion of Israeli Self-Sufficiency in Intelligence,” the February 2008 assassination of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh exemplified this dependency. The Mossad operative would identify Mughniyeh, while the CIA operative would activate the remote detonator. The CIA designed and built the bomb, tested it in North Carolina, and smuggled it into Syria through Jordan. The Stuxnet virus targeting Iran’s Natanz facility represented another collaborative effort, developed jointly by the NSA and Israeli cybersecurity experts and executed under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Prime Ministers Olmert and Netanyahu.

While Esmaeil Khatib’s claim of over fifty foreign intelligence services supporting Israel during the Twelve-Day War may contain elements of propaganda inflation, the documented reality reveals an intelligence cooperation network of stunning breadth. From the Five Eyes alliance to European partners, from covert Arab collaboration to Asian and African partnerships, Israel operates at the center of a vast multinational intelligence apparatus.

Israel’s intelligence record underscores how deeply its operations are embedded in Western power structures. The myths of self-sufficiency and unmatched brilliance collapse under the weight of evidence. Mossad’s reach is extended only because Washington, European capitals, and regional neighbors provide the pipelines of intelligence, technology, and manpower that make its operations possible.

The true scandal lies not in Israel’s dependency but in the willingness of dozens of nations to abet its destabilizing campaigns by supplying the bombs, intelligence streams, and diplomatic cover that allow Tel Aviv to operate with impunity. Whether the exact number is fifty or somewhat less, Khatib’s core assertion stands validated: Israel’s June 2025 strikes on Iran were not the product of isolated Israeli brilliance but rather represented a collective endeavor, outsourced across continents, exposing not a triumph of independence but a parasitic reliance on collaborators who enable its shadow wars.

To strip away the mythology is to confront the uncomfortable truth that Israel’s “miraculous” intelligence victories depend on an extensive network of complicity spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East—an “intelligence NATO” in all but name, where allied services provide the infrastructure, technology, and operational support that sustain Israel’s shadow wars while publicly maintaining plausible deniability.

Behind every Israeli triumph stands a silent alliance of enablers whose loyalty ensures perpetual conflict.

IN IT’S LATEST CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS, ISRAELI FORCES RAID A NORTHERN GAZA REFUGEE CAMP AND SHELL RAFA

Israel Has Committed Hundreds Of Violations In Gaza Since The Ceasefire Took Effect On October 10th, Resulting In The Death Of At Least 401 Palestinians.

The Israeli army has struck southern Gaza and advanced into a refugee camp in central Gaza, in the latest violations of the ceasefire agreement.

Local sources said on Monday that Israeli warplanes launched air strikes on several areas in Rafah, in the south, simultaneously with artillery shelling and gunfire from military vehicles in the northern parts of the city.

In northern Gaza, Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers entered the Jabalia refugee camp, from which forces withdrew as part of the ceasefire agreement.

Israeli quadcopter drones launched heavy fire while the army forces bulldozed some buildings before leaving the camp, the sources added.

In Gaza City, military vehicles that were stationed in the Israeli-controlled yellow zone opened fire towards residential neighbourhoods in the eastern areas of the city.

There have been no reports of casualties.

The Israeli army has committed hundreds of violations in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect on October 10th, resulting in the death of 401 Palestinians.

The Israeli army has killed nearly 71,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded over 171,000 others in attacks in Gaza since October 2023.

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