A Malaysian airliner en route from Netherlands to Malaysia crashed in the Donetsk province of eastern Ukraine on 17-July killing almost 300 people. The Boeing 777 was cruising at 33,000 ft altitude, and it has been alleged that the cause of the disaster was a surface-to-air missile. Political demagogues, led by Zionist warmongers John McCain and Hillary Clinton, were quick to point the finger at both the Russians and the separatists in eastern Ukraine.

However, it is just as likely that the well-equipped but poorly-trained Ukrainian military forces, now under command of the NATO backed junta in Kiev, were actually responsible. They control most of the territory in Donetsk, and it would not be the first time they have "accidently" shot down a civilian airliner.

"The Ukrainian military has several batteries of Buk-M1 (SA-11) surface-to-air missile systems with at least 27 launchers (see photo), capable of bringing down high-flying jets, in the Donetsk region where the Malaysian passenger plane crashed, the Russian Defense Ministry said... There were unconfirmed reports the Malaysian plane was travelling at an altitude of over 10,000 meters when it was allegedly hit by a missile... Only the S-300 and Buk surface-to-air missile systems are capable of hitting targets at such altitude..."We simply don’t have such air defense systems. Our man-portable air defense (shoulder-launched) systems have a firing range 3,000 - 4,000 meters. The Boeing was flying at a much higher altitude," Sergey Kavtaradze, special representative for the prime minister of the [breakaway] Donetsk People’s Republic, explained."

-- Russia Today

Not only were the Ukrainian missile batteries stationed in the Donetsk region, it also appears that someone in the Ukrainian air traffic control system directed the flight to deviate from the usual route, placing it within range:

"What’s peculiar about MH17 is that the ill-fated flight [on the 17th] was different from its usual path over Ukraine. According to data at flightaware.com, a website tracking civil aviation traffic, the flight on Thursday diverted about 200 km north from the paths the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 had used in previous days. And it led the plane right over the war-torn Donetsk Region. So far no official explanation has been given as to the unusual flight path. "

-- Russia Today

Igor Kolomoisky, the billionaire Jewish oligarch recently appointed governor of the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk province and founder of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP), has stated that he intends to use his private mercenaries to "wipe out" the separatists in neighboring Donetsk. Was the errant missile fired from a launcher located within Kolomoisky's domain, including areas in Donetsk under control of his forces?

"During the working visit of President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko to Donbass [in June], oligarch Igor Kolomoisky has openly declared, that he would not obey the President's decree on 'peaceful settlement', and that his army would "finish off" the militiamen in the South-East of the country in any case. This was confided by a source in the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on condition of anonymity, RIA Novosti reports... Earlier, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation made a statement that almost 1,500 people were recognized as victims in the case of using prohibited means and methods of war in Ukraine. The list of defendants in this case includes Governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Igor Kolomoisky..."

-- Voice of Russia

Another strong possibility, not mentioned in the western propaganda campaign, is that the airliner was shot down by a Ukranian fighter jet rather than a surface-to-air missile. There will be some sort of "investigation", but the truth may never be revealed. As usual, the most important question remains: who benefits?

UPDATE: It is likely that NATO knows exactly what happened to MH17, but are unwilling to release the information for some reason:

"The 10-day NATO exercise code named 'Breeze 2014' has ended in the Black Sea... NATO ships and aircraft had the Donetsk and Luhansk regions under total radar and electronic surveillance..."

-- Wayne Madsen article

UPDATE: A private investigation firm in Germany is now offering a $30 million reward for infomation which correctly identifies the perpetrators of the shootdown.