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Former IDF spokesman testifies on the power of the Israel lobby in the US

Published 10 April 2024
– By Editorial Staff
Jonathan Conricus spent more than 20 years in the Israeli military.
3 minute read

Swedish-Israeli Lieutenant Colonel and lobbyist Jonathan Conricus confirms that the “Jewish lobby” has a lot of influence in the US and hopes that pro-Israeli voices will soon be able to persuade American politicians to go to war with Iran.

– Swedes do not understand that there are Jews who are organized, who take initiatives, who dare, who have power and use it, he explains.

Born in Jerusalem in 1978 to an Israeli mother and Swedish father, Jonathan Conricus grew up in Malmö, Sweden, where he lived for 13 years before the family returned to Israel in the early 1990s. At the age of 18, he began his mandatory military service and remained in the Israeli army until 2021, where he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel over the years. In his final years, he also worked as a military spokesman.

When Hamas attacked Israel last fall, Conricus was called back into the army and served as a spokesman again for a few months. Now, however, he lives in New York and works for the lobby group Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which says it aims to “provide education to enhance Israel’s image in North America and the public’s understanding of issues affecting Israeli-Arab relations”.

“They’re in New York”

In an interview with Dagens Nyheter, owned by Bonnier, he speaks openly about the influence of the Israeli lobby, using the term “Jewish lobby” to describe AIPAC and similar organizations. He believes the differences between the US and Sweden are vast.

– There is no Jewish lobby in Sweden. Swedes are not used to Jews having power, standing up straight, looking people in the eye and saying: I decide here. Swedes are not used to such Jews.

– But they are here. Especially in New York. Swedes do not understand that there are Jews who organize themselves, who take initiatives, who dare, who have power and use it, he continues.

Iran – “the real show”

Conricus hopes that more people will have the opportunity to attend the pro-Israel conferences in the US to see for themselves how much influence the lobby groups have on the country’s politicians.

– I wish more people could attend the AIPAC policy conference and see American politicians stand up in front of 18,000 people and explain the importance of the American-Israeli relationship.

He also hopes that the Israel lobby can convince U.S. leaders to actually go to war with Iran, which he describes as “the real show” while the invasion of Gaza is just a “side show”.

– The problem is that Iran uses proxies as its main foreign policy weapon. Both Israel and the US, perhaps Israel less so, respond to the proxies instead of attacking Iran. We keep messing with the little kids instead of taking care of Daddy, stresses the lobbyist, who believes that American support for Israel remains very strong.

“No one is demanding responsibility from the Palestinians”

Conricus doesn’t want to return to Sweden and Malmö any time soon – because he believes that “hatred of Israel” is growing. As for the high number of civilian deaths in Gaza, he says the civilians themselves are responsible, since Israel “repeatedly asked them to evacuate”.

– Nevertheless, they chose to stay. But as usual in the Swedish media, no one demands responsibility from the Palestinians. No one says: you were warned, why don’t you move?

Exactly where the displaced Palestinian civilians should have moved to is not clear from the interview. In the past, the Israeli military has repeatedly besieged and bombed so-called “safe zones” to which the population has recently been urged to flee.

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Trump to release more Epstein files amid mounting pressure

The Epstein case

Published yesterday 11:48
– By Editorial Staff
Donald Trump with his future wife Melania Trump in 2000 together with Jeffrey Epstein and his Mossad-connected associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
2 minute read

The American president now agrees to release certain additional documents regarding the Epstein affair, following mounting discontent within the MAGA movement.

Trump has also been pressured by media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, which published an obscene drawing they claim he made for Epstein, prompting Trump to announce that he will now sue the newspaper and Murdoch himself.

Trump’s decision to put a lid on the Jeffrey Epstein affair has sparked outraged reactions within his own voter base. The Trump administration’s Department of Justice has, among other things, determined that there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding Epstein’s alleged suicide in his prison cell and that no compromising “client list” exists.

The approach has been perceived as a cover-up campaign that goes against his own campaign promises, despite being linked to a blackmail operation by Israeli intelligence services. Donald Trump has gone so far as to attack his own supporters and call those who want the president to release documents “weaklings”, while emphasizing that he distances himself from those who had expected more comprehensive revelations about high-profile clients in Epstein’s network.

I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax“, writes a frustrated Trump on his Truth Social platform.

Allegedly drew obscene picture for Epstein

Now the Wall Street Journal is publishing damaging information claiming that Trump personally drew an obscene picture for Jeffrey Epstein in connection with Epstein’s 50th birthday.

If there were any truth at all on the Epstein Hoax, as it pertains to President Trump, this information would have been revealed by Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and other Radical Left Lunatics years ago. It certainly would not have sat in a file waiting for ‘TRUMP’ to have won three Elections. This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS!” Trump writes in a new post about the matter on Truth Social.

He simultaneously announces that he is now allowing the release of certain classified documents regarding the affair.

In recordings with Jeffrey Epstein, made in August 2017, Epstein claims that he and Trump were very close for a long time and enjoyed to “fuck the wives of his best friends”. He suggests that Trump had sex with his current wife Melania for the first time aboard Epstein’s notorious aircraft, the so-called Lolita Express.

Israel launches new attack on Syria

The escalation in the Middle East

Published 17 July 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Israel bombs Syrian military government buildings to support the Druze minority in the country, officials explain.
1 minute read

Less than a week after the attack on neighboring Lebanon, Israel is now also launching a new attack on neighboring Syria, according to Times of Israel among many other media outlets. During the afternoon, they bombed the government’s military headquarters in the capital Damascus, and there are also reports that bombs struck near the presidential palace.

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, several people are reported to have died and been injured in the attacks.

The Israeli military justifies the attacks by claiming they are supporting the Druze religious minority in Syria, which in recent days has been engaged in armed conflict with state forces in southern Syria.

Islamist rule

Syria is currently ruled by Salafists from the group HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), a breakaway faction from the terrorist movement Al-Qaeda. They were also officially designated as such by the US, which nonetheless worked for many years to help them overthrow the secular socialist president Bashar Al-Assad, who fell around Christmas last year after more than 13 years of civil war.

Both Israel and the US initially positioned themselves as officially positive toward the change of power in Syria.

Read more about the Salafists who rule Syria

Nya Dagbladet (Swedish news outlet) has previously highlighted the new Syrian government in an analysis article that you can read here.

Trump urges Zelensky to attack Moscow

The war in Ukraine

Published 16 July 2025
– By Editorial Staff
2 minute read

Donald Trump has secretly urged Ukraine to carry out attacks against the Russian major cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg – as a strategy to force Russia to the negotiating table, according to the Financial Times.

The conversation reportedly took place on July 4 between American and Ukrainian representatives, where Trump posed direct questions to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

– Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow? . . . Can you hit St Petersburg too?

According to the newspaper’s sources, the plan is to make Russia “feel pain” in order to pressure a settlement. Trump has previously expressed frustration over the war’s duration and said:

– I’m disappointed in President Putin because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago.

At the same time, it is reported that Zelensky has received a list of long-range weapons that Trump wants to deliver through intermediaries – to circumvent Congress’s ban on direct military aid.

Escalation in the war

The revelations come at a sensitive time. The Kremlin has repeatedly warned that Russia could strike against the West if its weapons are used against Russian territory.

President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russia has the right to “use our weapons against military facilities in countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities”.

In November 2024, Russia tightened its nuclear doctrine, which now allows nuclear response if Russia is attacked with conventional weapons by “non-nuclear states supported by nuclear powers”.

So far, Ukraine has primarily used domestically produced long-range drones in its attacks inside Russia. Neither the White House nor the Ukrainian government has commented on the revelation.

Over 100 killed in Gaza over the weekend

The situation in Gaza

Published 14 July 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Ruins after bombings in Gaza, archive image.
1 minute read

On Saturday alone, at least 70 people were killed in Gaza and 208 were injured, reports the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

At least 40 more people were killed in new attacks on Sunday, including six children who were killed at a drinking water distribution point, according to a spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defense authority to AFP. Representatives from Al-Awda Hospital confirm that they received ten bodies following an Israeli attack on a water collection point in nearby Nuseirat. Hospital staff estimate that the actual death toll is 129 and that 33 of those killed were queuing for humanitarian aid.

The Israeli military, which has recently intensified its operations in Gaza, has according to Defense Minister Israel Katz received orders to establish a concentration camp that they refer to as a “humanitarian city” in the southern part of Gaza, where they aim to eventually house Gaza’s entire population.

According to health authorities in Hamas-controlled Gaza, the death toll now exceeds 58,000 people.

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