WHAT IS JARED KUSHNER BUYING?
Three deals. Three countries. Same pattern every time.
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Let's start with how he found Sazan Island.
Kushner said he discovered it while vacationing aboard a yacht owned by Nat Rothschild.
A Rothschild showed him the island.
Keep that in your pocket.
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ALBANIA. Sazan Island. $1.4 billion.
Sazan Island was used as a military base by Italy during World War II. The remains of military fortifications are still there. Hundreds of aging concrete bunkers built during the reign of communist dictator Enver Hoxha.
There are still munitions buried underground. In addition the Soviet Union used the island when it was on friendly terms with Albania. After the relationship ruptured the Soviets abandoned a fleet of submarines in a base by Vlora. They eventually rotted and sank.
WWII Italian military fortifications.
Hundreds of Cold War bunkers.
Live munitions still in the ground.
Abandoned Soviet submarine base.
The project envisages turning this communist-era fortified island, riddled with abandoned bunkers and tunnels, into a luxury resort.
Preparatory requirements include demilitarization, clearance of unexploded ordnance, and the inventory of underground tunnels and bunkers, all before a finalized business plan can even be submitted.
He needs to count the bunkers before he can submit a business plan.
And Albania declassified the island for civilian use one month after Trump won re-election.
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To get it, protected status had to be stripped.
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors froze the bank accounts of the landholding company tied to the project.
The seizure was ordered by the Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime amid a widening investigation into allegedly fraudulent property titles.
Heavy machinery began clearing the core of the protected zone without permits, without a completed environmental impact assessment, and without public consultation.
Thousands took to the streets of Tirana for two consecutive days. Private security guards beat protesters while police watched. Fifteen protesters charged with criminal proceedings. Deltia's Gaming
Assets frozen. Fraudulent titles. Protesters beaten. Machines running without permits.
On a live munitions island he doesn't legally own yet.
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SERBIA. Former Yugoslav Army Headquarters. $500 million.
The deal would see the bombed-out site of the former Yugoslav Ministry of Defense in Belgrade transformed into a luxury hotel complex. Bombs were dropped on the site in 1999 by NATO forces during the Serbia-Kosovo war.
The destroyed headquarters of the entire Yugoslav military apparatus.
Belgrade sits on top of a tangle of tunnels, shafts, caves and bunkers built across thousands of years. Military tunnels running under the city from Roman times through the Cold War. Tito built a nuclear-capable bunker beneath Kalemegdan Fortress to protect the Yugoslav government from Russian invasion.
Over a hundred machine gun nests and nuclear-capable bunkers were built under the fortress in the early 1950s. One remained a classified state secret until 2008.
Kushner targets the NATO-bombed headquarters of Yugoslavia's military, sitting directly above a documented Cold War underground tunnel network.
To get it, a heritage protection had to be stripped.
Prosecutors confirmed a cultural official admitted to forging a key document to lift the site's heritage protections and clear the way for the deal.
Forged government document. Military heritage site. Classified tunnel network underneath.
The deal collapsed when the forgery was exposed. Serbia's president called the prosecution a witch hunt.
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Hezbollah announces 5 operations so far on Thursday, 4 June in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon:
• Targeted at 15:30 on 3 June an Israeli Hermes 450 ("Zik") drone over the western sector of south Lebanon with a surface-to-air missile, forcing it to withdraw from Lebanese airspace.
• Targeted at 22:30 on 3 June a gathering of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles on the southern outskirts of Yohmor al-Shaqif with a rocket barrage.
• Targeted at 00:15 on 4 June a gathering of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles in the town of Qana with a rocket barrage.
• Targeted at 00:20 on 4 June an Israeli command post near the historic Beaufort (Qalaat al-Shaqif) Castle with two attack drones.
• Targeted at 08:00 on 4 June another gathering of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles in Qana with two missile strikes.
During an interview, I was asked if Iran can hold without an agreement with the US for a few more weeks.
I answer: Definitely not. Israel cannot wait for a few weeks, but at least for another two and a half years until Trump ends his mandate.
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امين عام حزب الله الشيخ نعيم قاسم: هذا إعلان لتخريب لبنان وعدم استقراره وإحداث الفتنة بين اللبنانيين لمصلحة إسرائيل وأن تأخذ إسرائيل بالسياسة ما لم تأخذه بالحرب
هذا مستحيل لمن يريد العزة والكرامة وحفظ دماء الشهداء والجرحى والأسرى وهذا الشعب المضحي العظيم
نحن لسنا ممن يخون أمانة الشهداء والأرض ومستقبل الأجيال
وقف إطلاق النار الوهمي، وتفسيره بأن يوقف حزب الله إطلاق النار وأن يترك المقاومون ساحة الجنوب وفي ظل استمرار العدوان تحت الضغط العسكري هو استسلام وهزيمة وتحقيق لأهداف العدو
لن يستقر قتلة الأنبياء على أرضنا سنقاتل الغزاة حتى نطردهم من أرضنا ونوقف عدوانهم متكلين على عون الله ومَدَدِه وبسالة أبطال المقاومة والتفاف شعبنا العظيم والاستثنائي والذي قدَّم تضحيات كبيرة نُجلُّه عليها
ما دام العدوان مستمرًا فسنواجهه بكل ما أوتينا من قوة وسنطاله حيث نقرر ونستطيع
ما دامت قرانا غير آمنة تقصف وتهدم ويقتل شعبنا، فلن تكون المستوطنات آمنة، وسيرَوا بأسنَا وشدّتَنا
#BREAKING
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei, issued a message on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA).
My mother fear for Misho never leaves her mind…💔
Today she looked at him sadly and said to me, “Let's bathe him and clean him… maybe he'll feel better.”
And we did so with all our love and concern, simply because we want to see him well again. 🤍
Please pray for Misho…
All we wish for now is that he gets better soon. 😢
The only real negotiations are decided in the field by the resistance. Until the zionist monsters tire of their repeated failures in battle, our people are forced to endure loss after loss, physically, ecologically, and culturally
Any negotiations with Israel require a large team of legal experts looking into the past Israeli agreements with other countries and studying every comma. The Lebanese president sent amateurs, like himself, to conclude a deal with Israel within hours or days.
Hezbollah will not pull out of the south of Lebanon, and the army can be deployed in small, irrelevant areas for the time being.
https://t.co/bQUkZo16Po
As a gesture of goodwill and to support the decision of the Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, and the prime minister, Nawaf Salam, Israel has decided to withdraw from all the villages in the south of Lebanon where it has failed to occupy and faced stiff local resistance.