{"id":192790,"date":"2019-08-07T06:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192790"},"modified":"2019-08-10T05:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T05:40:53","slug":"faux-humanitarian-irwin-cotler-the-white-helmets-and-the-whitewashing-of-an-appalling-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192790","title":{"rendered":"Faux Humanitarian: Irwin Cotler, the White Helmets, and the Whitewashing of an Appalling Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Vaneesa Beeley \u2013 Patreon Aug 6, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_180901\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-Helmets-and-terrorist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180901\" class=\"wp-image-180901\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-Helmets-and-terrorist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-Helmets-and-terrorist.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-Helmets-and-terrorist-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-180901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This file photo shows a member of the so-called White Helmets &#8220;aid&#8221; group which independent researchers cite as an example of group members previously being part of terrorist groups in Syria. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>On July 22, 2018, Israel organized and facilitated an exceptional\u00a0<\/strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/2018\/07\/15\/syria-the-white-helmet-exodus-managed-by-regime-change-coalition\/\"><strong>evacuation<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0of White Helmet operatives from southern Syria, claiming the operatives were at risk from an advancing Syrian Arab Army. A number of NATO member states backed the move, calling on Israel to bring their intelligence assets to safety.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The White Helmets have been discredited and exposed as a British-government-incubated project by a number of independent geopolitical analysts, including<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-douma-chemical-attacks-that-led-us-to-bomb-syria-were-a-opcw-lie\/\">Scott Ritter<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/israels-terrorists-white-helmets-receive-award\/5676631\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Philip Giraldi<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X27B0yuazGo\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>John Pilger<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPRagJKxED4\">Seymour Hersh<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/435670-white-helmets-canada-syria\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Eva Bartlett<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/03\/11\/a-flawed-un-investigation-on-syria\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Graham Porter<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/07\/22\/the-white-helmets-controversy\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Rick Sterling<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrongkindofgreen.org\/2014\/09\/17\/syria-avaaz-purpose-the-art-of-selling-hate-for-empire\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Cory Morningstar<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and many more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This journalist\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/tag\/White-Helmets\/\">extensive work<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0has shown that the U.K. Intelligence-manufactured group of pseudo \u201chumanitarians\u201d \u2014 financed by the majority of member states within the U.S.-led interventionist alliance waging war against Syria \u2014 is nothing more than an auxiliary of the Al Qaeda generic offshoots in Syria. The White Helmet image has been professionally polished by a vast network of PR agencies, billionaire\u00a0<em>philanthropists,<\/em>\u00a0and media outlets aligned with their respective government objectives to overthrow the Syrian government and reduce Syria to a \u201cfailed state,\u201d as they succeeded in doing with Libya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel has a history of supporting terrorism in Syria since the start of the U.S. coalition war against the nation officially began in 2011. Israel has offered\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/2018\/08\/04\/570128\/israel-syria-golan\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>medical treatment<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to the various militant groups previously occupying areas of southern Syria. Stories abound of Israeli troops providing covering fire for groups dominated by Al Qaeda affiliates or rebrands as they came under attack from the Syrian Arab Army legitimately reclaiming territory lost to internationally-backed armed groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As journalist Sharmine Narwani pointed out in her article \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/are-al-qaeda-affiliates-fighting-alongside-u-s-rebels-in-syrias-south\/\">Are Al Qaeda affiliates fighting alongside U.S. rebels in Syria\u2019s south?<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If forced to choose, Israel prefers the presence of terrorist groups to Iranian influence [\u2026] Israel is so heavily [in]vested in keeping Syria and its allies away from its borders, it has actively\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20160901-israel-and-the-western-alliance-with-al-qaeda-in-syria\/\">bolstered<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0al-Qaeda and other extremists in Syria\u2019s southern theater.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel\u2019s evacuation of the White Helmets was an extension of its terrorist-supporting operations in southern Syria \u2014 and a response to a cry for help from a U.S. ally that has also supported proxy terrorism in Syria for the last eight years. Certainly Israel would not lift a finger to help any entity opposed to its existence in the Middle East, regardless of the pressure brought to bear by its allies in the U.S. or the U.K. It must also be noted that Israel and NATO member states\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/analysis\/201807221066593199-us-unlikely-accept-white-helmets-terrorists\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>did not offer<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0the same\u00a0<em>humanitarian\u00a0<\/em>assistance to ordinary Syrian refugees gathered at the borders with Jordan and in Israeli annexed territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The following video footage of the Israel forces enabling the White Helmet evacuation process was\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiBenari\/status\/1021075595629916161\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>published on<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiBenari\/status\/1021075595629916161\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>by former Israeli security affairs expert Shai Ben-Ari:<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N8ADlh3aCOE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N8ADlh3aCOE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N8ADlh3aCOE<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">During my time in the southern region of Syria, I visited numerous abandoned White Helmet centers located, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/investigation-white-helmets-committing-acts-terror-across-syria\/231597\/\">as they always<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>seemed to be, next to armed group centers or in shared complexes, usually former schools, hospitals or industrial buildings that had been converted into military headquarters and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/2018\/05\/23\/white-helmets-humanitarians-and-the-moderate-bomb-factory-in-saqba-eastern-ghouta\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>munitions factories<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AOjHtNfd7rU\">followed the route<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0taken before me by the White Helmets as they exited Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights before being transported to Jordan for their\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/analysis\/201807221066593199-us-unlikely-accept-white-helmets-terrorists\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>onward journey<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to asylum in the U.K., Canada, France or Germany. Locals in the area told me that a significant number of leaders and fighters from armed groups had been evacuated alongside the White Helmets with no opposition from Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On September 20, 2018, I managed to enter a still-operating White Helmet center in Daraa Al Balad, south of Damascus, and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/2018\/10\/17\/syria-exclusive-vanessa-beeley-meets-the-white-helmets-and-armed-group-leader-in-daraa-al-balad\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>interview<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>White Helmet members as they continued to work in areas still under the control of armed groups during ongoing Russian-brokered reconciliation talks. One of the White Helmets, Abu Mohanad Al Mahamid, told me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There are some [armed] factions connected with Israel; those factions were gathered by Israel in Quneitra and were told that you will [they would] leave with the White Helmets. By the way, the number of White Helmets in the southern area is 635, but those who left were 800. This means that there are [armed] factions who work with Mossad and they were extracted alongside the White Helmets\u2026 Not all those who left were White Helmets; there were people who left from Quneitra. There were terrorists; some left from the Yarmouk Basin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When asked to clarify who the terrorists from Yarmouk Basin were, Al Mahamid confirmed that they were ISIS fighters.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192794\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/White-Helmet-leader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192794\" class=\"wp-image-192794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/White-Helmet-leader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/White-Helmet-leader.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/White-Helmet-leader-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Helmets leader Abu Mohanad Al Mahamid in Daraa Al Balad talks to Vanessa Beeley on September 20, 2018. Photo | Vanessa Beeley. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>During the dramatic evacuation of the White Helmets, former U.K. Ambassador to Syria Peter Ford<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/2018\/07\/23\/whitewashing-the-white-helmets-peter-ford-former-uk-ambassador-to-syria-responds-to-uk-government-statement\/\">responded to a statement<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>issued by U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Ford raised a number of questions regarding the extradition of the White Helmets, perhaps one of the most pertinent being this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Might the British government have been afraid of this particular group being caught and interrogated, revealing perhaps the truth about alleged chemical weapons incidents?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In December of 2018, Jordanian Member of Parliament\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N2oCyYasr6Y&amp;t=4s\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tareq Khoury<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0demanded that the \u201cdregs of White Helmets\u201d still in Jordan be extradited as traitors to their homeland to face justice inside Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIt is known they are traitors,\u201d he said, adding:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Treason is a shameful and disgraceful act. Whoever betrays his homeland and his people will not spare the homeland of others. There are many stories throughout history in which traitors are eliminated by their operators when their dirty missions against their homelands are finished\u2026 I urge the Jordanian government to hand over those remaining [White Helmets] to the Sryian state to try them for betraying their homeland.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Who orchestrated this\u00a0<em>exceptional<\/em>\u00a0rescue?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When the pedigree of those behind the White Helmet evacuation is more closely examined, Israel\u2019s outsized role in the promotion and protection of the internationally financed group becomes more even more apparent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Rewind to the hatching of the White Helmet \u201crescue\u201d plan. On July 24, 2018, The\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/world\/article-how-canada-led-the-triumphant-rescue-of-white-helmets-in-syria\/\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Globe and Mail<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0ran a story<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0headlined: \u201cHow Canada\u2019s woman in Istanbul began the daring rescue of the White Helmets.\u201d The article outlines how White Helmets leader Raed Saleh approached Robin Wettlaufer, Canada\u2019s Istanbul-based special envoy to Syria, for help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Saleh has a history of being refused entry to the U.S. He was turned back at Dulles Airport in 2016 because of his\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/2016\/12\/10\/exclusive-president-raed-salehs-terrorist-connections-within-white-helmet-leadership\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>suspected ties<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to extremist groups in Syria. This inconvenient fact was wiped from his immigration slate by former Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry and Saleh was subsequently allowed to enter the United States in September 2016. Kerry met Saleh during a closed-door session at the U.N., where the then-secretary of state had convened a meeting with members of the Syrian opposition, including members of armed groups. Incidentally, it was during these talks that Kerry famously admitted to the Obama administration\u2019s support for ISIS in Syria in leaked audio published by the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=41HhRABl3kM\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to the\u00a0<em>Globe and Mail<\/em>, Canada was being \u201chailed for its leadership\u201d of the White Helmet rescue mission. Chrystia Freeland, Canadian foreign minister and former\u00a0<em>Globe and Mail\u00a0<\/em>editor, used a July\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/events_156556.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>NATO summit<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Brussels to issue a plea on behalf of the White Helmets, which persuaded both Germany and Britain to accept a number of the high-profile \u201crefugees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Former MI6 intelligence operative and creator of the White Helmets,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/james-le-mesurier-british-ex-military-mercenary-founded-white-helmets\/230320\/\">James Le Mesurier<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, praised Canada\u2019s initiative and singled out Wettlauger for praise. \u201cRobin has been absolutely extraordinary; \u2026the drive, the galvanization came from Canada,\u201d Le Mesurier told the\u00a0<em>Globe and Mail<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As time passed, another individual was revealed to have been at the forefront of the Canada-led campaign. In October 2018, the\u00a0<em>Globe and Mail\u00a0<\/em>ran another story identifying Irwin Cotler\u2019s role in the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Renowned international human-rights lawyer\u00a0<strong>Irwin Cotler<\/strong>\u00a0is nominating Syria\u2019s famed White Helmets, a group of volunteer humanitarian workers Canada helped rescue from the war-torn country, for the Nobel Peace Prize 2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler, the former Liberal minister of justice and attorney general for Canada, was a crucial element in the White Helmets rescue bid and was called upon to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/white-helmets-syria-rescue-mission-jordan-canada-freeland-trudeau-1.4757353\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>broker an agreement<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0for the mission with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why is Irwin Cotler so\u00a0<em>invested<\/em>\u00a0in the White Helmets?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler\u2019s history and connections reveal a high-profile global player who has consistently defended Israel\u2019s appalling human-rights record in Palestine and is a tireless promoter of the responsibility to protect doctrine or R2P.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-responsibility-to-protect-the-world-from-the-united-states\/5626128\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>R2P<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>is one of the most enterprising propaganda initiatives of the global powers aligned with U.S. supremacy and neo-colonialism. It effectively provides the moral justification to invade or attack any country whose government is deemed\u00a0<em>repressive<\/em>\u00a0toward its people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of course, those who decide what countries are repressive are the same ones with a history of militarily subjugating sovereign nations, plundering their resources, and in most cases ultimately\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-war-crimes-against-women-the-revolutionary-association-of-the-women-of-afghanistan-rawa-interview\/5525704\">reducing the quality of life<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for those same \u201crepressed people.\u201d This, on top of the years or even decades of bloodshed that leave behind\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/depleted-uranium-and-radioactive-contamination-in-iraq-an-overview\/5605215\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>depleted uranium<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and psychological trauma that will affect those \u201crepressed people\u201d for generations once the campaign has succeeded in reducing these nations to failed states.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192798\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wallenberg-center-for-human-rights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192798\" class=\"wp-image-192798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wallenberg-center-for-human-rights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wallenberg-center-for-human-rights.jpg 851w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wallenberg-center-for-human-rights-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wallenberg-center-for-human-rights-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irwin Cotler is the chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Photo | RWCHR<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The R2P doctrine has become one of the most insidious instruments used by global hegemons to manufacture consent for the myriad forever-wars of various intensities that are currently plaguing most regions of the world. It sells the \u201chumanitarian value\u201d of war and obfuscates hidden interests that are the true driver of modern-day colonization projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler has hung the R2P Sword of Damocles over the heads of both Syria and Libya. In 2016\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/politics\/canada-has-defaulted-on-its-responsibility-to-protect-syrian-civilians-says-irwin-cotler\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>he accused<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Canada of \u201cdefaulting\u201d on its responsibility to intervene in Syria, reinforcing the hyperbole used to facilitate another \u201chumanitarian\u201d war:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That doctrine [R2P] says that whenever there is a situation of war crimes and crimes against humanity and, God forbid, genocide, and the country in which it takes place is the author of that criminality, there is a responsibility to intervene and protect the innocent civilians. And I think we have defaulted on that \u2014 not just Canada, the international community \u2014 with respect to Syria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2011,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/01\/opinion\/01iht-edcotler01.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Cotler argued<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0that intervention in Libya to effectively bring down President Muammar Qaddafi would be a \u201ctest case for the UN Security Council and its implementation of the R2P doctrine.\u201d History has since revealed that many of those \u201cmass atrocities\u201d so vehemently condemned by Cotler were\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/libya-is-our-regime-change-nightmare\/\">little more than narratives<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0designed to manufacture consent for the wholesale destruction of Libya by NATO member states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The reality of Cotler\u2019s campaigns for foreign regime change or intervention is that they almost always march in lock-step with neoconservative U.S. foreign policy. His \u201chumanitarian\u201d branding is but a thin veneer of hypocrisy that attempts to conceal his establishment policies \u2014 policies that almost always serve the interests of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Canadian author and journalist Yves Engler has waged a long-time campaign against Cotler\u2019s crypto-neocolonialism. When former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin nominated Cotler for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, alongside Cotler\u2019s own nomination of the White Helmets, Engler\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/canadas-dershowitz-apologist-for-israeli-war-crimes-nominated-for-peace-prize\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>wrote an article<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>titled \u201cCanada\u2019s Dershowitz, apologist for Israeli war crimes, nominated for Peace prize.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192799\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cotler-israel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192799\" class=\"wp-image-192799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cotler-israel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cotler-israel.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cotler-israel-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cotler speaks at the 2014 Stand Strong for Israel Rally in Washington. Photo |\u00a0Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the article Engler lays out a convincing argument that Cotler is a serial apologist for Israel\u2019s genocidal policies towards the Palstinian people. Engler reveals that Cotler was a long-time\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-Elections\/Ex-Canadian-ministers-daughter-running-with-Yaalon-Gantz-580268\">unofficial advisor<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to the former Israeli military chief of staff, General Moshe Ya\u2019alon. Ya\u2019alon is on the record saying that Israel \u201chas a right to every part of the land of Israel.\u201d In 2002, Ya\u2019alon\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2002\/aug\/27\/israel\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>told a conference<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>of rabbis in Jerusalem: \u201cThe Palestinian threat harbors cancer-like attributes that have to be severed and fought to the bitter end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler\u2019s own daughter, attorney Michal Cotler-Wunsh, was\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-Elections\/Ex-Canadian-ministers-daughter-running-with-Yaalon-Gantz-580268\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>included in a joint list<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Israel\u2019s Resilience and Telem Party candidates headed by former Chiefs of Staff Benny Gantz and Moshe Ya\u2019alon. Cotler-Wunsh was \u201cborn in Jerusalem, served in the Israeli military and obtained law degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\u201d The Cotler family connections to extreme right-wing elements of the Israeli ruling elite could not be stronger or better defined.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192800\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Bakr-boys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192800\" class=\"wp-image-192800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Bakr-boys-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Bakr-boys-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Bakr-boys-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Bakr-boys-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Bakr-boys.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bakr boys, four brothers\u00a0hit by an Israeli airstrike\u00a0while playing soccer in Gaza in 2014. Khalil Hamra | AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To launch the Telem Party campaign, Gantz\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/only-the-strong-survive-gantzs-new-campaign-videos-laud-his-idf-bona-fides\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>released a video<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0celebrating his role in the massacre of 2,200 Palestinians during the 2014 \u201cmowing the lawn\u201d bombing campaign in Gaza. For Gantz, \u201cparts of Gaza [being] sent back to the Stone Age\u201d was a victory for \u201cpeace\u201d in the region. A \u201cpeace\u201d that only Israel would benefit from. In his article, Engler points out that Gantz faces a war-crimes case in the Netherlands for his participation in the 2014 campaign that claimed the lives of civilians in Gaza and reduced much of the besieged enclave to rubble, destroying infrastructure and ensuring living conditions were reduced to sub-third-world status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In his staunch defense of Israel, Cotler has\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/spme.org\/spme-research\/analysis\/irwin-cotler-the-disgrace-of-durban-five-years-later\/1812\/\">described<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank as \u201cdisputed territories\u201d and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hadassahmagazine.org\/2006\/12\/12\/interview-irwin-cotler\/\">justified<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon that left 1,200 mostly civilians dead. He has consistently attempted to derail investigations into Israeli war crimes \u2014 savagely\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/Op-Ed-Contributors\/The-Goldstone-Mission-Tainted-to-the-core-part-I\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>attacking<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Richard Goldstone, who led the UN investigation of Israel\u2019s Operation Cast Lead, which killed 1,400 Palestinians in Gazain 2008 and 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cotler and Venezuela<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It should come as no surprise that Cotler\u2019s support for U.S.-backed foreign interventions extends to the other side of the Atlantic as well. In Venezuela, he has been instrumental in furthering the U.S. agenda and undermining governance in an independent and sovereign state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler has gone so far as to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/02\/06\/recognizing-juan-guaido-as-venezuelas-leader-isnt-a-coup-its-an-embrace-of-democracy-nicolas-maduro-sanctions-icc\/\">state that<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u201crecognizing Juan Guaido as Venezuela\u2019s leader is not a coup, it\u2019s an embrace of democracy.\u201d Cotler has called for the delegitimization of the Maduro government, and the sanctioning of top officials to hasten the demise of Maduro and to \u201cspeed the transition to democratic governance\u201d in Venezuela. He described the Venezuelan government as being responsible for\u00a0the \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=hAT8c9GtinY\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>worst ever humanitarian<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0crisis in the region,\u201d while ignoring the U.S. role in creating and maintaining that \u201chumanitarian crisis\u201d through crippling sanctions aimed at undermining the Maduro government. This is such a textbook regime-change script and Cotler adheres to it without deviation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In his expos\u00e9 on Cotler, Engler\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/canadas-dershowitz-apologist-for-israeli-war-crimes-nominated-for-peace-prize\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>claims<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>that Cotler has been working with Guaido\u2019s right-wing Popular Will Party for four years with the aim of ousting the Maduro government. Regional media outlet\u00a0<em>VenezuelaAnalysis<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/venezuelanalysis.com\/analysis\/13859\">pointed out<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that Cotler was\u00a0\u201cone of three international experts\u201d responsible for a 400-page Canadian-backed Organization of American States (OAS) report on rights violations in Venezuela. The panel recommended OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro \u201csubmit the report to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC [International Criminal Court] and that other states refer Venezuela to the ICC.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/cija.ca\/irwin-cotler-pursuing-justice\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Cotler\u2019s dedication<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to the \u201cmobilization of shame against human-rights violators\u201d is invariably directed against states and leaders who oppose U.S. global supremacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cotler on Iran and Syria<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2012 the\u00a0<em>Jewish Telegraphic Agency<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2012\/09\/23\/united-states\/state-dept-reportedly-removes-irans-mek-from-terrorism-list\">reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that the U.S. State Department had reportedly removed Iran\u2019s\u00a0Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)\u00a0from the terrorism list. According to the article:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iranian Americans sympathetic to the plight of MEK enlisted the support of a number of pro-Israel figures, including Nobel Peace laureate and Holocaust memoirist\u00a0<strong>Elie Wiesel<\/strong>; Harvard law professor\u00a0<strong>Alan Dershowitz<\/strong>; and\u00a0<strong>Irwin Cotler<\/strong>, the former Canadian justice minister. \u201c (emphasis added)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192795\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raed_Alsaleh_Elie_Wiesel_Award_f49b7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192795\" class=\"wp-image-192795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raed_Alsaleh_Elie_Wiesel_Award_f49b7-787x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raed_Alsaleh_Elie_Wiesel_Award_f49b7-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raed_Alsaleh_Elie_Wiesel_Award_f49b7-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raed_Alsaleh_Elie_Wiesel_Award_f49b7-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raed_Alsaleh_Elie_Wiesel_Award_f49b7.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Helmets leader Raed Saleh (left) received the 2019 Elie Wiesel Award at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo | Wolf Blitzer via Twitter. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As an aside, earlier this year the White Helmets were\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/ahtribune.com\/world\/north-africa-south-west-asia\/syria-crisis\/3117-israel-terrorists-white-helmets.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>recipients<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of the Elie Wiesel Award from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (HMM) for their \u201cwork\u201d in Syria. Raed Saleh was available to receive the award on behalf of Al Qaeda\u2019s auxiliaries and simultaneously\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.almasdarnews.com\/article\/us-to-provide-5-million-to-white-helmets-to-continue-services-state-dept\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>picked up a check<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>from the U.S. government for $5 million to \u201chelp us with acquiring ambulances and to help us with search and rescue operations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Former CIA counter-terrorism officer Philip Giraldi wrote a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/ahtribune.com\/world\/north-africa-south-west-asia\/syria-crisis\/3117-israel-terrorists-white-helmets.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>scathing article<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>condemning the hypocrisy of the award, the irony of the taxpayer-funded HMM honoring what he called a \u201cterrorist group \u2026 used in support of Israeli propaganda vis-a-vis Syria.\u201d Giraldi concluded:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Perhaps, while they are at it, the museum\u2019s board just might also want to check out Elie Wiesel, for whom the award is named. Wiesel, who was a chronicler of Jewish victimhood while persistently refusing to acknowledge what Israel was doing to the Palestinians, notoriously\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/07\/01\/truth-and-fiction-in-elie-wiesels-night-2\/\">mixed fact and fiction<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>in his best-selling Holocaust memoir,\u00a0Night. Ironically, the award and recipient are well matched in this case, as mixing fact and fiction is what both Elie Wiesel and the White Helmets are all about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler, Wiesel\u2019s comrade in defending the MEK and promoting the White Helmets, was responsible for the organization of three \u201cIran Accountability\u201d weeks. In 2014 Cotler\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/controversial-iranian-exile-shakes-canadian-parliaments-human-rights-program\/\">invited Maryam Rajavi<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, leader of the MEK, to appear in the program alongside UN human-rights officials and \u201cpundits from a hawkish American think tank.\u201d Cotler later argued that Rajavi\u2019s inclusion in the event was \u201cissue specific,\u201d but his prior support for this\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/mek-cult-iran-regime-change-rally\/259944\/\">brutal terrorist cult<\/a><\/strong><\/span> undermines such an argument.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler employs blatant \u201chuman rights\u201d double standards in his condemnation of governments in U.S. and Israeli crosshairs, while systematically ignoring the appalling human-rights records of governments or organizations included within the U.S. circle of power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As in Syria, it seems that prominent neoconservatives will favor terrorist groups over legitimate governments that are perceived to threaten Israeli security in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler is also a member of the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icjp.net\/about\/members\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(ICJP). The ICJP has operated\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldjewishcongress.org\/en\/news\/former-canadian-justice-min-irwin-cotler-honored-by-world-jewish-congress-icjp-in-jerusalem-12-4-2015\">under the auspices<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) since 2006. Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel (NY-16), is chairman of the ICJP and vice president of the WJC. Engel is another\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/newsen\/48365\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>vociferous supporter<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>of the MEK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Engel<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldjewishcongress.org\/en\/news\/former-canadian-justice-min-irwin-cotler-honored-by-world-jewish-congress-icjp-in-jerusalem-12-4-2015\">presented<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>a \u201cgift of appreciation\u201d to Cotler during a dinner at the King David Hotel in 2015, on behalf of the WJC. \u201cIf one looks to this generation and seeks a role model, that would be Irwin Cotler,\u201d Engel said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Engel connects again with Cotler in his condemnation of the Syrian government and support for increased \u201chumanitarian\u201d military intervention in Syria. Engel was responsible for the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/engel.house.gov\/latest-news\/engel-and-mccaul-applaud-house-passage-of-syria-sanctions-bill\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Caesar Civilian Protection Act<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, which was ostensibly introduced to increase economic sanctions against the Syrian government based upon claims made by an alleged former Syrian military photographer in the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/03\/the-caesar-photo-fraud-that-undermined-syrian-negotiations\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>questionable<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Caesar Report. That report was<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/03\/the-caesar-photo-fraud-that-undermined-syrian-negotiations\/\">commissioned<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0by the government of Qatar, a Gulf State heavily invested in the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/gabbard.house.gov\/news\/StopArmingTerrorists\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>financing<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of terrorist groups and the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/2018\/05\/05\/white-helmets-the-john-mccain-connections-and-is-the-funding-freeze-for-real\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>White Helmets<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Caesar Civilian Protection Act will effectively collectively punish the Syrian people for resisting efforts to destabilize their country and topple their elected government in the time honored tradition of U.S. Coalition sanctions that can only be considered siege warfare or economic terrorism. The orchestrators of this vindictive measure clearly have their roots in the neoconservative camp in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There are now two more elements of Cotler\u2019s influence on the global stage that I would like to examine in some detail. Cotler has been at the forefront of the new cold war campaigns to criminalize Russia, but that warrants an entire article dedicated to Cotler\u2019s war against the Russian government\u2019s perceived \u201cculture of corruption and criminality.\u201d Cotler was\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cjnews.com\/news\/canada\/passage-magnitsky-law-cotler-urges-others-follow-suit\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>instrumental in introducing<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/the-united-states-is-okay-with-this-kind-of-russian-interference\/248322\/\">controversial<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u201cMagnitsky Law\u201d (Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act) in Canada to \u201cfight Russian thuggery,\u201d and for promoting the adoption of the Magnitsky Act by all aligned governments.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Cotler-Dershowitz partnership<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Alan Dershowitz, a controversial figure in his own right, has\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/cija.ca\/irwin-cotler-pursuing-justice\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>described<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Cotler as \u201chis mirror image in Canada.\u201d The Cotler-Dershowitz\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aish.com\/authors\/48869377.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>double act<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>is a longstanding and powerful partnership with far-reaching influence among the world\u2019s most powerful entities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dershowitz, and American lawyer and academic, was heavily implicated in the recent Jeffrey Epstein scandal that has sent shock waves through the establishment ruling classes, exposing decades of depravity among the most powerful sectors of society and a blackmail cartel that profited from the sexual perversion of their billionaire clients from within capitalist, political and intelligence inner circles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dershowitz\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/state\/florida\/article226922729.html\">negotiated<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the \u201csweetheart plea\u201d for Epstein that allowed him a \u201cwork release provision throughout his 13 months in Palm Beach County Jail\u201d in 2008, when Epstein faced charges of sexually abusing under-age girls at his Palm Beach mansion. Dershowitz\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/15\/741739336\/alan-dershowitz-weighs-in-on-his-work-on-the-jeffrey-epstein-case?t=1564078247697\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>denied<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>claims that an under-age child and a woman were forced to have sex with him by Epstein and his girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192796\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Epstein-and-Dershowitz-Getty-images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192796\" class=\"wp-image-192796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Epstein-and-Dershowitz-Getty-images-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Epstein-and-Dershowitz-Getty-images-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Epstein-and-Dershowitz-Getty-images-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Epstein-and-Dershowitz-Getty-images-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Epstein-and-Dershowitz-Getty-images.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Epstein and Dershowitz. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Award-winning journalist Whitney Webb is publishing a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era\/260760\/\">series of articles<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for\u00a0<em>MintPress News<\/em> detailing the horrifying implications of the Epstein case and the origins of this underworld-sanctioned debauchery. I asked Webb for a comment on the Dershowitz connections to Epstein and his role in furthering the U.S.\/Neocon \u201chumanitarian\u201d war agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She told me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Alan Dershowitz is an individual deeply involved in the pro-Israel lobby and has close ties to influential figures in the U.S. and Israel like casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson. In his pro-Israel activism, Dershowitz fits well with Cotler\u2019s efforts to \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/cija.ca\/irwin-cotler-pursuing-justice\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>shame<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u201d groups that run counter to their policy goals, and this has recently been seen in how Dershowitz has sought to initimidate and shame the young women who have accused him and his friend Jeffrey Epstein of rape.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2016 Dershowitz\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cjnews.com\/news\/canada\/cotler-nominated-by-dershowitz\">nominated<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Cotler for the Nobel Peace Prize. Like his \u201cheroes\u201d in the White Helmets \u2014 who have, themselves, been unsuccessfully nominated several times \u2014 Cotler has yet to succeed in his bid for the ultimate \u201chumanitarian\u201d prize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler, left, is seen with guest speaker Alan Dershowitz, right at an event honoring Cotler. Photo | CJN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While Cotler may promote his hawkish policies under the cover of \u201chumanitarian\u201d branding, Dershowitz has openly\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2559237\">advocated torture<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0under\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4DzbUKRpsVw\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>specific condtions<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and argued that\u00a0<em>non-lethal\u00a0<\/em>\u201ctorturous techniques of interrogation should indeed be legally authorized.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dershowitz\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate\/2011\/09\/07\/the-case-for-torture-warrants\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>seems to endorse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0torture if the government makes the decision to torture an individual under any \u201creasonable\u201d pretext. This is effectively the legitimization of state torture, which could very possibly be used against anyone classified by the government as\u00a0<em>high risk<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Jewish Coalition for Kurdistan<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Brussels-based Jewish Coalition for Kurdistan (JCFK)\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/new-group-fosters-jewish-kurdish-friendship\/\">counts<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Dershowitz and Cotler among its pro-Israel members. The JCFK<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jcfk.org\/about\">website<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>declares its mission to support independence for Iraqi Kurdistan:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Jewish Coalition for Kurdistan is committed to deepening friendship between the Jewish and Kurdish people worldwide, and supporting the further development and consolidation of relations between Kurdistan and the State of Israel,\u00a0<strong>the only two democratic and pro-Western\u00a0<\/strong>societies in the Middle East.\u201d (emphasis added)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This project brings Cotler and Dershowitz into\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2017\/11\/22\/united-states\/new-group-fosters-jewish-kurdish-friendship-and-supports-independence-for-kurdistan\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>alliance with<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Bernard Henri Levy, a French-Jewish philosopher with a deadly reputation for fomenting and supporting neocolonialist projects around the world, but perhaps most notoriously in Libya. Levy has been a long-time supporter of Kurdish \u201cindependence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While it would take a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/gowans.blog\/2017\/07\/11\/the-myth-of-the-kurdish-ypgs-moral-excellence\/\">separate article<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to fully explore the neoconservative weaponization of\u00a0<em>Kurdish independence<\/em>\u00a0to weaken, destabilize and partition target states, including Syria, Iraq and Iran, the involvement of these three empire builders in the \u201ccause\u201d and the marketing of Kurdistan as the\u00a0<em>other<\/em>\u00a0\u201cdemocratic and pro-Western society\u201d in the Middle East must indicate the direction in which this campaign is heading: the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/greater-israel-and-the-balkanization-of-the-middle-east-oded-yinons-strategy-for-israel\/5649059\">balkanization<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0of the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bringing down nations and trafficking children<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler must be considered a \u201chumanitarian\u201d fraud when one takes into account the extensive damage caused to nations that have had to resist one interventionist war after another by his neocon-aligned policies. Policies designed to remove non-aligned governments and collectively punish the non-aligned citizens of those countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In his 2019 petition against the nomination of Cotler for the Nobel Peace Prize, Iranian-Canadian activist Mehdi Samadian states:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The petition organizers believe that Irwin Cotler has supported and advocated for political actors and policies instigating conflicts and prolonging instability at the international stage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler\u2019s protectionist campaign on behalf of the White Helmets should raise alarm bells among the legions of Palestinian movement supporters and ostensibly pro-Palestine journalists and talking heads who have promoted the concept of a grassroots \u201cSyrian revolution\u201d to their substantial Western audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Whether wittingly or unwittingly, media personalities like\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/opinion\/syrians-explain-how-pro-assad-conspiracy-theories-are-hurting-them-15380\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>C.J Werleman<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2018-01-12\/monbiot-bully-hypocrite\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>George Monbiot<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bsnews.info\/correcting-the-record-nafeez-ahmed-is-clueless-in-his-smears-on-independent-journalists\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nafeez Ahmed<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2019\/07\/12\/channel-4s-inside-idlib-the-last-gasp-of-a-dying-campaign\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jon Snow<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of U.K. Channel 4, and many others have vehemently leapt to the defense of the White Helmets and joined the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/tag\/White-Helmets\/\">chorus of attacks and smears<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>against journalists and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/renegadeinc.com\/the-guardian-white-helmets-and-silenced-comment\/\">academics<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0who have dared to question the credibility of the organization financed by the U.S. Coalition that so clearly collaborates with the terrorist groups committing\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/2018\/01\/28\/last-men-aleppo-al-qaeda-presented-white-helmets-annual-terrorist-oscarnomination\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>heinous crimes<\/strong><\/span><\/a> against the Syrian people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel\u2019s involvement in the evacuation of the White Helmets and the subsequent promotion of the group by personalities and governments heavily invested in expanding Israel\u2019s interests must highlight who the organization serves in the region \u2014 and I do not believe it is the Syrian people, as their PR agencies claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler\u2019s \u201chuman rights credentials are a sham\u201d according to Engler. Much has been made of his role as legal advisor to late South African President Nelson Mandela. Yet South Africa\u2019s ambassador to Venezuela, Pandit Thaninga Shope-Linney, apparently\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/canadas-dershowitz-apologist-for-israeli-war-crimes-nominated-for-peace-prize\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>denies this claim<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, thus stripping Cotler of his most potent \u201chumanitarian\u201d identity. According to Engler, Mandela himself does not name Cotler in his biography, although he does mention other lawyers by name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler has been\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/irwincotler.liberal.ca\/blog\/petition-about-organ-harvesting-in-china\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>merciless<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in pursuit of China for its alleged\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/endtransplantabuse.org\/irwin-cotler-aims-to-curb-gruesome-trade\/\">record<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0of \u201cgruesome organ trade.\u201d Why then does Cotler not equally condemn Israel for its<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/2018\/10\/21\/577649\/israel-organ-harvesting-belgian-official\">appalling history<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0of organ trafficking and theft, particularly in Palestine?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2009, Nancy Scheper-Hughes was Chancellor\u2019s Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, the founder of Organ Watch and author of a number of academic books on organ trafficking. I have taken the following quote from an\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmea.org\/009-november\/israeli-organ-harvesting-from-moldova-to-palestine.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>article<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0by long-time author and journalist Alison Weir:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While Scheper-Hughes emphasizes that traffickers come from numerous nations and ethnicities, including Americans and Arabs, \u2018Israel,\u2019 she states, \u2018is at the top. It has tentacles reaching out worldwide.\u2019 \u2026 In a lecture last year she explained that Israeli organ traffickers \u2018have a pyramid system at work that\u2019s awesome\u2026they have brokers everywhere, bank accounts everywhere; they\u2019ve got recruiters, they\u2019ve got translators, they\u2019ve got travel agents who set up the visas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What is perhaps even more disturbing and ominous is the fact that Cotler has not addressed the<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unmultimedia.org\/avlibrary\/asset\/2338\/2338981\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>accusations<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>of organ trafficking levied against the White Helmets themselves by the Syrian civilians who were forced to live under their occupation in areas of Syria formerly under the control of terrorist groups partnered by the very organization that Cotler nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler has not only defended the White Helmets, but he has also lauded them and invested his reputation in the whitewashing of their image. Cotler is a powerful sympathizer of the Israeli government and influencer with connections that reach into the darkest corners of state affairs in Canada, the U.S. and Israel. He has not chosen to ally himself with this fraudulent and criminal organization by chance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cotler\u2019s\u00a0<em>mirror image\u00a0<\/em>in America is Alan Dershowitz, this, according to Dershowitz himself, accused of sexual abuse, defense lawyer for a convicted serial child-abuser and advocate for state-controlled torture. More recently, Dershowitz\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RWPUSA\/status\/1155939457440219137\">argued<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>that \u201cpuberty is arriving earlier, particularly among some ethnic groups,\u201d in light of which Dershowitz proposes that the age of consent in America should be lowered. Or, as Whitney Webb commented, \u201cAlan Dershowitz is now making a \u2018constitutional\u2019 argument to legalize statutory rape.\u201d Dershowitz is effectively suggesting that if a child reaches puberty at the age of 10, they are to be considered a legitimate target for sexual predators \u2014 interesting timing as the Epstein scandal storm gathers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We can only speculate that there is a connection between the White Helmets, accused of multiple<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/438645-children-kidnapped-idlib-syria\/\">child abductions<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and organ trafficking, and the nefarious activities connected to one of their staunchest supporters: Irwin Cotler and his double-act partner Alan Dershowitz. It certainly warrants a deeper investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To assist Vaneesa Beeley in her work go <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=563592&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fposts%2Ffaux-irwin-white-28961027\">here to make a donation<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/faux-irwin-white-28961027\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Beeley examines a nefarious web linking the Syrian White Helmets, Alan Dershowitz and organ trafficking, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":192800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic-sexual-abuse","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192790"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192806,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192790\/revisions\/192806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}