Mercenary firm that fired on starving Palestinians also run by former Biden staffers
Investigative journalism by All-Source Intelligence and the Grayzone has exposed how former staffers for ex-US president Joe Biden, notorious for denying Israel’s genocide, are now making hay as contractors for the genocidal regime while Israel continues to starve and slaughter Palestinian civilians and now prepares to move hundreds of thousands of them into a concentration camp.
Former State Department spokesman Vedant Patel, who persistently denied Israel’s crimes and genocide, insisting it is up to Israel to investigate itself, is now a vice-president at Democrat PR firm SKDK, which has a contract to represent Israel’s Foreign Ministry. Foreign minister Israel Katz is one of the chief architects and advocates of the concentration camp plan to force 600,000 people into a small zone in Rafah, southern Gaza – and to kill any Palestinians who refuse to enter.
The camps plan is the latest version of Israel’s ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) scam that it has used to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population out of large areas of Gaza toward so-called ‘aid stations’ in the hope of receiving food, only to murder hundreds of them as they try to obtain aid. UG Solutions, a US mercenary firm aiding Israeli troops in the GHF project, deleted the whole press section of its website after, presumably inadvertently, it released footage of its soldiers-for-hire shooting at desperate aid seekers.
The firm’s reconstituted news section is now also run by former Biden staffers at PR firm Seven Letter, which recently hired Sabrina Singh – formerly the deputy press secretary for the Biden Pentagon – who during her tenure there frequently tried to ‘spin’ away Israel’s atrocities.
Patel’s SKDK also represents ’10/7 Project’, a consortium of US pro-Israel groups that attacks journalists who depart from Israel’s line on Gaza.
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Know who your enemies are!
The 2nd Big Business Party the Democrats had 80m votes in the bag
against Trump’s 77.5m but 5m rebelled & showed true humanity by not voting Democrat & refused to legitimise their continuing enablement of Genocide in Gaza.
This grotesque agency is pretty SDKD (Sick)?
Profit in the gutter.
Liberals eh?
Biden, Starmer, Clinton, Blair,
eyes right – following the Money,
It’s over there – The Gaza Marine natural gas field.
32 billion cubic meters of natural gas,
worth Zyklon B-ing a few Palestinians for?
You may find this an interesting and informative read, follow the link.
https://defapress.ir/en/news/86431/israels-plan-to-plunder-the-gaza-marine-gas-field
Israel’s Plan to Plunder the Gaza Marine Gas Field
Israel, leveraging political, economic, and military tools, has not only disrupted the legitimate exploitation of the Gaza Marine gas field by Palestinians but is also seeking to consolidate its unilateral control over this strategic resource.
News ID: 86431
Publish Date: 13July 2025 – 11:23
TEHRAN (Defapress) – The Gaza Marine gas field, located off the coast of the Gaza Strip, is a strategic resource with high economic potential for Palestine, but has long been at the center of legal and political disputes. Situated approximately 35 to 36 kilometers (20 to 22 nautical miles) west of Gaza City in water depths of about 603 to 610 meters, the field was first discovered in 1999 by British Gas (BG) using seismic technology. Subsequent exploratory and appraisal drilling (Gaza Marine 1 and Gaza Marine 2) in 2000–2001 confirmed commercially viable reserves.
Thanks SteveH. Yes, point is the Gaza Marine natural gas field, is relatively small (32 billion cubic meters) compared with two other (neighbouring) gas fields in the Levant Basin (and thereby already lucrative for Israel).
Details, here https://www.britannica.com/topic/Natural-gas-in-the-Gaza-Strip
From it:
“The Gaza Marine field remains unexploited because of the difficulty attracting the investment to develop it….”
POINT IS:
An occupied territory will NEVER attract investment or partnership. Israel is achieving its possibly satanic*) purpose. – It all just confirms to me that Zionist Israel is acting like the imperialist occupier that its zionist government has turned it into.
*If I were a talmudic scholar, I’d explain to you why I might think that for scriptural reasons Israel is ‘satanic’. (Happily tho’, I’m not even ‘observant’, so the talmud is like yogurt (all greek) to me).
The posting of this article/report is indeed interesting and informative. In addition to the content, it is also interesting and informative in terms of the concepts of consistency and honesty.
It would seem reasonable to conclude that the observation of “Israel’s Plan to Plunder the Gaza Marine Gas Field” using “political, economic, and military tools” succinctly covers what is taking place; what the intentions are; and the tools to be used.
The only other aspect which needs to be made explicit is:
1. the Cui Bono question. Covered in this part of the article:
“On October 29, 2023, amidst extensive Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, Israel announced the issuance of 12 new licenses for offshore natural gas exploration to six companies, including British Petroleum and the Italian energy company Eni. ”
Quelle Surprise!
and
2. The methodology of breaking up the surrounding states into manageable geographical chunks ripe for plunder via the tools outlined above from the text of the article.
A methodology congruent with
a) what former US General Wesley Clark revealed in that well known interview of 2007 of the plan to take out seven countries in five years across the Middle East (Western definition)/West Asia (Global Majority definition). An objective which included Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Iran.
b) The Brookings Institute papers of the early 2000’s such as “The Path to Persia” among others of similar ilk.
Both of which (points a) & b))display a remarkable degree of congruency with actual events of recent years. Particularly in Syria as means to weaken Iran and provide a pathway to the plunder of the resources of Iran.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
To summarize, just as with the Corporate Western plunder in the energy fields of the Golan Heights to the detriment of the Syrian people, we have a reality in which Western Corporate and the Western Corporate State (in the Mussolini sense of the term) interests, intentions, goals, objectives and methodologies using political, economic and military tools – from vilification propaganda, to sanctions, to military force – are active in plundering the resources of the Palestinians via a local proxy.
In this case, the Zionist State of Israel, constructed by the British. In the case of Syria the head choppers of ISIS/AQ and its offshoots which are, like Israel, proxies funded, armed and legitimised by their Western sponsors.
The point being that any attempt to separate the plunder and slaughter taking place against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank and the plunder and associated slaughter of Syrians in Syria, the Lebanese in Lebanon, and the Libyans in Libya (among others in the region) by Western sponsored Jihadist proxies would be dishonest and inconsistent.
The receipts, as it were, are legion. The sponsors. The MO. The use of proxies. The published policy papers. The breaking up of entire States into manageable chunks – preferably ethnic based – to make the plunder easier and more manageable.
As a result, it would seem eminently reasonable – at least to a reasonable person – that the output of the Brooking Institute, only one paper of which is linked above, in regard to Iran, Syria et al in the region would be considered just as much an [checks notes] “interesting and informative read” (as well as relevant) in this context not only generally but also to anyone who considers the DEFA Press article to be “interesting and informative.”
As any honest and consistent person would also find these “an interesting and informative “read……..
………firstly, from the RAND Corporation [A global policy think tank which has helped inform United States policy decisions on a wide variety of issues] in 2019 entitled “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”
https://www.rand.
org/pubs/
research_briefs/RB10014.html
Which details some “interesting and informative” policy options which have actually come to pass. Among which are:
“Providing lethal aid to Ukraine [which]would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability.”
“Increasing U.S. forces in Europe, increasing European NATO member ground capabilities, and deploying a large number of NATO forces on the Russian border”
“Increasing U.S. and allied naval force posture and presence in Russia’s operating areas”
“Increasing the size and frequency of NATO exercises in Europe”
“Undermining Russia’s image abroad”
“Further sanctions”
“the removal of Russia from non-UN international forums,”
“boycotting…… events”
“Reposturing bombers within easy striking range of key Russian strategic targets”
“Reposturing fighters so that they are closer to their targets”
“Deploying additional tactical nuclear weapons to locations in Europe and Asia”
“Repositioning U.S. and allied ballistic missile defense systems”
“goad Russia into a costly arms race by breaking out of the nuclear arms control regime”
……….
……..And secondly, the plethora of similar Western based organisations, institutes, think tanks etc from the European Conservatives and Reform Group [who have called for the creation of 34 new states on the territory of the Russian Federation] to the Hudson Institute and Jamestown Foundation [“Preparing for the dissolution of the Russian Federation”] to the New York Times [calling for the break up of the Russian Federation [which recently published a similar op-ed calling for the break up of China]……….
………As discussed in this article from Responsible Statecraft in March 2023:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ukraine-weapons/
With estimates of the value of the Russian resource base varying from tens of trillions of dollars up to one hundred trillion dollars and the value of the Chinese resource base some five places behind on available indexes, the Gaza and Syrian energy/resource base currently being plundered is puny in comparison.
A reality which provides all the incentive required to explain the the drive across the entire Western policy spectrum of moving the borders of NATO a thousand kilometres or so right up to the Russian border; the deployment of missiles in Romania, Poland, and those planned for Ukraine ten minutes flying time from Moscow; the sighting of bio-labs across Ukraine; the colour revolutions; the annulment of elections and the banning of candidates in vassal states such as Romania and similar attempts in Georgia; and the reams of Russia-phobic propaganda which mirrors the Israeli propaganda against the Palestinians and anyone who supports their right not to be subject to Genocide.
The question hanging in the air is whether or not the same context and MO which is deemed to be “interesting and informative” in regard to the DEFA Press article/report is also considered to be “interesting and informative” in the case of similar reports detailing the same approach and MO applied in the examples provided?
Will there be honesty and consistency? Or will there once again be inconsistency and selective application of principles?
And better news – now 32 decent countries including South Africa, Columbia, Spain, Ireland & many Latin American countries, this week meeting in Bogata and have set up a Hague Group to co-ordinate action against the Genocide by Israel in Gaza.
Unlike other Western leaders they are standing up for international law, civilisation & humanity.
But Trump gave the game away last week saying he has Middle East countries ready to take Palestinians when they are re-allocated so Western Imperialism at a stroke & they all want their snouts in the trough as Israel with their support steals Gaza’s land, gas & oil resources as they plan a Greater Israel, all for their profits.
Morning Star (today 14/7) argues all of Gaza’s population to be sent & detained in Raffa’s Rubble – a staging post for the above?
So Middle East oil capitalist sell outs then can claim compassion as they take Palestinians and do Imperialism’s dirty work?
And why did Iran suddenly expel 1m Afghan refugees last week?
Pulling the rug on ME Leaders?
Perhaps The Hague Group & the oppressed of the world & BDS etc offer our best hope for justice for Palestine.
Came across the following earlier on youtube, which sums it all up perfectly:
Israeli ‘Birthright’: The Biggest Scam in Human History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWOBzM3F774 (6mins 38secs)
And also this, which is quite amusing. I’ve come across the name before, but he’s not someone you hear about very much. Just check out the first four/five minutes:
Christian Zionism and the New Crusaders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yMycZC6krc&t=190s (42mins)
One can’t help thinking about the type of people who were drawn to Hitler. And now we have Trump doing the same.
Psychopathic demented nutters, that is!
There’s a lot of this sort of thing about:
Frank Mankiewicz worked for Robert Kennedy on his 1968 presidential campaign and announced his death to the world after he was shot.
He later worked as vice president of notorious PR firm Hill and Knowlton:
“For the past three decades, Mr. Mankiewicz worked in public relations, first with Gray & Co. and then as vice chairman of Hill & Knowlton, where clients included the Church of Scientology, the tobacco industry and the country of Kuwait leading up to the Persian Gulf War.”
(Washington Post obituary, 23 October 2014)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
thanksTony – the Nayirah Testimony stuff is all new to me. The Frank Mankiewicz connection is Kuwait?
Yes, Hill and Knowlton worked for the Kuwaiti government but the requirement to register this was waived.