‘Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true’: Israel releases exposé of UN’s bias before General Assembly

‘Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true’: Israel releases exposé of UN’s bias before General Assembly

ByARIELLA ROITMAN

The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism and the National Public Diplomacy Directorate in the Prime Minister's Office are launching The UN's Lie Industry, an exposé of the “systematic and false bias against Israel” as the United Nations kicks off its first day of the General Assembly. 

The campaign video depicts the UN General Assembly hall populated by parrots representing various countries, the organizations said in a statement. “The parrots repeat the same message one after another: ‘Blame Israel.’”

The call duplicates as the video progresses, with echoes heard throughout the hall until it becomes a choir repeating the same accusation.

The video concludes with the message: “Repeating lies doesn’t make them true.”

‘Even 1,000 repetitions of a lie will not make it true,’ Chikli says

Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli said, "Time and again, the UN General Assembly hall has turned into an echo chamber for libels against Israel. The same lies pass from mouth to mouth, report to report, and speech to speech, until an attempt is made to present them as an agreed-upon truth.” 

“The new video sharply underscores this culture of repetition. Even 1,000 repetitions of a lie will not make it true, and we will continue to expose the facts behind the anti-Israel choir,” he concluded.

The Diaspora Ministry also launched a website tied to the campaign and exposing the “lies and biases in UN publications,” according to the statement.

The website was made in cooperation with the National Security Council (NCS), and contains “comprehensive research sources documenting how biased information about Israel has been gathered, given institutional endorsement, and distributed worldwide since the October 7 attacks,” according to the statement.

It addresses topics such as information manipulation, an organized culture based on hostility towards Israel, false claims of starvation in Gaza, Hamas infiltration into UNRWA, and the fabrication of a "genocide" narrative, among others.

“The site also includes testimonies from UN personnel regarding internal silencing and persecution,” the statement added.

"A large portion of the false blood libels against Israel come from the workshop of UN reports,” National Public Diplomacy Directorate Head Tzipi Hotovely alleged.

He also said that the “false starvation campaign in Gaza is just one example of this machinery of lies.”

“Facing this propaganda, we are putting forward the truth and the facts to shatter the industry of lies against Israel.”

The organization described the video as illustrating “one of the central mechanisms exposed on the website: An international system that echoes itself. Claims against Israel pass between bodies, countries, UN agencies, and media outlets, are cited repeatedly, and are given the appearance of an accepted fact, even when their source has not been checked or verified.”

The campaign, which focuses primarily on US and European capitals’ policies on Israel, was produced via the Government Advertising Agency (Lapam).

War with Russia becoming Europe’s Plan A – Rachel Marsden (VIDEO)

War with Russia becoming Europe’s Plan A – Rachel Marsden (VIDEO)

RT

Europe’s accelerated moves to deter conflict with Russia could end up provoking one, RT contributor Rachel Marsden has said.

Russian officials have repeatedly rejected claims that they have aggressive designs against the EU and NATO, saying that they are contrived by Western politicians to scare the population at home and justify growing military spending. Moscow has said a conflict with its European neighbors is only possible if Russia is attacked first.

Speaking to RT on Monday, Marsden said that Europe “is having one of those moments when everyone insists that they’re preparing for peace, which apparently involves a whole lot of paperwork about war.”

“European governments are increasing defense spending, rebuilding military capacity, and discussing what they might do if a confrontation with Russia widens,” she noted.

The RT contributor mentioned last week’s statement by the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, who said that the bloc has developed 4,000 pages of military plans detailing a response to a possible escalation with Moscow.

Europe insists that it’s looking to avoid a conflict with Russia and that a direct clash is only a contingency, but with “an awful lot of detail devoted to Plan B it starts to sound suspiciously like Plan A,” she noted.

“The existence of military plans does not by itself prove that either side intends to start a war with the other, but it does show how thoroughly the possibility of one has really at this point been built into the everyday operating system,” Marsden said.

How Bill Gates’ Billions Shape US Medical Research

How Bill Gates’ Billions Shape US Medical Research

Paul Thacker

On the eve of Gates’ private testimony with Congress scheduled for tomorrow, a trove of federal whistleblower documents provided to RealClearInvestigations is renewing questions about how Gates money has bought what critics complain is an untoward influence on government health policy. For almost a quarter of a century, his main vehicle of power, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), allowing Gates to shape the direction of the country’s health strategy in ways that have benefitted his own priorities and pet causes while polishing his image as a benevolent global do-gooder.

At a time of growing concern about the power of billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, Gates’ efforts stand out. Instead of lobbying federal agencies for specific policies, Gates leveraged his wealth to work inside the government, partnering with high-ranking NIH officials to steer taxpayer research funding and design scientific policies for several federal programs.

The cache of several dozen emails and documents, made public for the first time by an NIH whistleblower, reinforces previous reports detailing Gates’s extensive influence over U.S. biomedical research. During the height of the CV pandemic, Kate Elder, a senior vaccines policy adviser for Doctors Without Borders, complained to Politico, “What makes Bill Gates qualified to be giving advice and advising the U.S. government on where they should be putting the tremendous resources?”

Emails and internal plans, for example, show that the NIH – the world’s largest funder of biomedical research – gave the Gates Foundation first billing for the joint workshops and meetings held on federal property.

The Gates Foundation did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The NIH also declined to comment.

Like most philanthropies, the Gates Foundation tries to grow its endowment through investments. Some of these efforts, especially its stake in vaccine companies, blur the lines between profit-seeking and the foundation’s mission to develop and deliver vaccines around the world. This symbiotic relationship between capitalism and charity also benefits Gates, whose power and position hinge in large part on the size of his foundation’s assets. Before the pandemic, The Nation magazine reported that the Gates Foundation had a $40 million stake in CureVac – this was not a grant but an investment. CureVac was one of many companies the nonprofit bought stock in that were working on vaccines and therapeutics.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established in 2000 with an initial endowment of $20 billion and a primary focus on reducing global health disparities. Rather than working exclusively through non-governmental agencies, the Gates Foundation began contributing to the NIH through the agency’s own nonprofit, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). Congress created the FNIH in 1990 as a firewall between NIH officials and outside donors seeking to influence federal research.

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Moscow’s Mach-9 message: Russia unleashes barrage of nuclear-capable Zircon missiles into Ukraine

Moscow’s Mach-9 message: Russia unleashes barrage of nuclear-capable Zircon missiles into Ukraine

Lance D Johnson

Under a blanket of darkness, Russia's military machine came alive across three domains at once, launching salvo after salvo of precision-guided munitions from land batteries, naval vessels and aircraft, while swarms of drones filled the gaps overhead. 

The target list, according to the Russian Defense Ministry's own account, read like an inventory of Ukraine's wartime backbone: metallurgical plants, chemical facilities, fuel depots and defense manufacturers, alongside the port terminals that keep supplies flowing into the country.

Kyiv bore the brunt of the opening blow. The ministry said its forces struck the Fire Point industrial complex, a facility Ukraine has used to build components and warheads for its long-range FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile, a weapon Kyiv has increasingly leaned on to strike deep behind Russian lines.

The bombardment then rippled southeast to Pavlograd, where a solid rocket fuel plant supplying Ukraine's FP-9 ballistic missile program came under fire, and further west to Vinnitsa, where railway infrastructure was hit hard enough to disrupt the arteries that move Ukrainian military hardware across the country.

In the Poltava region, the ministry claimed its strikes crippled an oil refinery in Kremenchug, describing it as a linchpin of Ukraine's fuel and energy sector and the primary source of processed fuel feeding the country's armed forces.

The night's targets extended to the water as well. Russian forces reportedly struck a cargo vessel loaded with Western-supplied military equipment as it approached the port of Odessa, along with a fuel and lubricant storage warehouse in Kyiv and port facilities in Reni, in the Odessa region, that Ukraine's military has relied on to move supplies through the south.

The world has entered a new chapter in modern warfare, one where speed and precision rewrite the rules of engagement and render multi-billion dollar defense systems obsolete overnight. Russia’s deployment of the nuclear-capable 3M22 Zircon, or Tsirkon, missile against targets in Ukraine signals the arrival of a weapon that challenges the very foundations of Western military strategy and exposes the fragility of the defensive architectures built by NATO over decades.

Key points:

• Russia’s Tsirkon hypersonic missile has been used operationally in Ukraine, striking targets in Kyiv and elsewhere.
• The missile travels at speeds up to Mach 9, making it nearly impossible for current air defense systems to intercept.
• Nuclear capable and deployed on submarines, frigates, and ground launchers, the Tsirkon alters the balance of power in Europe.
• Western analysts admit the missile slows in its terminal phase to Mach 4.5, but even that speed overwhelms most defenses.
• Russian shipbuilders now equip Yasen-M class nuclear submarines with the missile on a regular basis, extending its reach globally.

The Tsirkon missile represents a quantum leap in military technology, one that the Kremlin has been perfecting since at least 2017 when the first test firing occurred nearly a year ahead of schedule. By October 2020, the Admiral Gorshkov frigate launched a Tsirkon in the Barents Sea that reached Mach 8 and soared to an altitude of 28 kilometers. By February 2019, President Vladimir Putin boasted the missile could accelerate to Mach 9 and destroy targets within 1,000 kilometers. These are not abstract figures. They translate into a weapon that can strike any target in Europe within minutes, leaving no time for political deliberation or military reaction.

For European nations that have spent decades investing in missile defense systems designed to counter Soviet era threats, the Tsirkon represents an existential challenge. The missile’s range, estimated at 400 to 450 kilometers on average but extending to 1,000 kilometers in some configurations, covers virtually every capital city on the continent when launched from the Baltic, Black, or Barents Seas. When combined with Russia’s nuclear submarine fleet, the Tsirkon provides a first strike capability that can hold any target in Europe at risk with little to no warning.

The weapon also exposes the hollow promises of NATO’s defensive posture. Alliance members have been told that systems like the Patriot, THAAD, and Aegis Ashore can protect them from missile attack. The Tsirkon proves otherwise. Its speed, maneuverability, and plasma stealth make interception a matter of luck rather than skill. Former Royal Navy Commander Tom Sharpe acknowledged that Patriot and SAMP/T systems might destroy a Tsirkon in its terminal phase when it slows to Mach 4.5, but that is like trying to catch a bullet with a butterfly net. The kinetic energy alone, even at reduced speed, can overwhelm a warship or destroy a building.

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Iran’s Delegate Sits With Stone-Cold Stare as Trump Threatens To ‘Annihilate’ Country

Iran’s Delegate Sits With Stone-Cold Stare as Trump Threatens To ‘Annihilate’ Country

Mal

During his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump defended the war with Iran as a measure to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, warning he could “annihilate the Islamic Republic” if a peace deal is not reached. While predicting a settlement could come after the US midterms, Trump urged global economic isolation of Iran to force negotiations and cited past justifications for the conflict, including proxy support and the nuclear program, though Tehran has consistently denied seeking nuclear weapons.

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