British “Lord” Gets Penalized for Mentioning Jewish Control of Western Media

[SEE:  Six Jewish Companies Control 96% of the World’s Media]

U.K. lawmaker suspended over ‘Jewish’ remarks

AP

 

Britain’s Labour Party has suspended one of its members in the House of Lords amid allegations he blamed a Jewish conspiracy for his prison sentence for dangerous driving.

Nazir Ahmed, 55, was jailed in 2009 for sending text messages shortly before his car was involved in a fatal crash.

The Times of London says that in an Urdu-language TV interview it has obtained, Lord Ahmed blamed his 12-week prison sentence on pressure put on courts by Jewish-owned media organization.

The Labour Party said Thursday it “deplores and does not tolerate” anti-Semitism and is suspending Lord Ahmed pending an investigation.

Lord Ahmed was also suspended from the party last year amid reports he offered a bounty for the capture of President Barack Obama comments he denied.

Jewish Think Tank Nails Obama’s Pro-Islamist Tilt

Obama’s Islamist Tilt

 

By Kyle Shideler

Important overseas populations are drawing the conclusion that the Obama administration is quietly realigning itself in the Middle East, toward the Islamists.

Recently returning from a visit to Egypt, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) noted that many of the Coptic Christian minorities he met believe the United States supports the Muslim Brotherhood’s vicious rule there:

“I was told people think the United States is developing relationships with the Muslim Brotherhood because it believes the party is going to remain in power,” Wolf said. “[T]he feeling is that as long as the Brotherhood protects the United States’ interests in the region, it can act with impunity within its borders.”

Such sentiments are increasingly common in Egypt. Protestors against Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Cairo stood outside the Egyptian Foreign ministry, and accused the U.S. of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.  The leadership of the primary Muslim Brotherhood opposition, the National Salvation Front, refused to meet with Kerry, citing his “pro-Morsi stance.” And U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson has been repeatedly accused of leading an effort to transform Egypt “into Pakistan,”  which is to say, a militarized, hardline-Islamist state. For his trip to Cairo, Kerry brought with him news of the release of $250 million in aid for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-led government, a figure which would have been larger still had Congress not intervened.

Nor are the Egyptian opposition the only ones convinced that America has become the strongest ally of the Muslim Brotherhood, or their even more violent Islamist brethren.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently accused the U.S. of partnering with the Taliban in a cynical strategy to prolong the military campaign in Afghanistan.  Karzai’s statement is ridiculous on its face since it’s difficult to give credence to any argument in which the Obama Administration appears anxious to remain in Afghanistan.

But given the repeated U.S. efforts to conduct negotiations with the Taliban, grant them an embassy,  and resist declaring them terrorists, one wonders if Karzai is quite as far off the mark as an objective observer would think he would be. Even if Karzai were speaking to a domestic audience only, shouldn’t the idea that the U.S. is partnering with the Taliban be so laughable as to be completely inconceivable even among isolated Afghan tribal peoples?

And, of course, if the idea of the U.S. collaborating with the Taliban should be considered as likely as flying pigs, then the idea that, in Syria, the U.S. is actively arming Jihadist groups, including Al Qaeda-affiliates, should be an idea popular with only the tinfoil hat crowd.

But increasingly it’s not.

As long time specialist on Syria, Barry Rubin, notes:

The United States is helping arm and perhaps helping to train radical Islamist guerrillas who want a Sharia state in Syria, who believe Israel should be wiped off the map, and who may soon be murdering and oppressing Christians and other groups in Syria itself.

Author of the Long War Journal, and an authority on Al Qaeda, Bill Roggio agrees:

The State Department announced that it would provide $60 million in direct aid to the Syrian Opposition Coalition, an alliance of Syrian groups that has come out in support of the Al Nusrah Front after the US designated it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and al Qaeda in Iraq’s affiliate in Syria in December 2012.

The struggle for Syria is becoming a repeat of the prior situation in Libya.  There, the U.S. provided assistance, including air cover, for Libyan rebels with openly admitted Al Qaeda ties. And we continue to reap the consequence0efits”  of that decision today from Benghazi to Mali. Now, the U.S. is doing the same for the Al Qaeda-affiliated Syrian groups.

Apropos the concerns of the protesting Egyptians, not only does U.S. policy risk turning Egypt into Pakistan, but increasingly, in our own way, we are turning our own country into Pakistan. We are, objectively speaking, supporting Islamic fundamentalists, and yes, even terrorists with the one hand, while opposing them with the other. We have transformed ourselves, in the span of a decade, from a nation that declares, “You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists,” to a nation that is credibly accused of arming terrorists.

And as in Pakistan, there is perhaps some room for debate over whether this schizophrenic policy is due largely to an increasingly incompetent bureaucracy (of the sort that invites a virulent twitter anti-Semite to be awarded a women’s rights award) or if it is by Machiavellian design.

But there’s no question over what gave rise to the increasing belief that the United States is backing the Muslim Brotherhood over religious minorities in Egypt, providing aid and comfort to the Taliban, or supporting violent jihad in Syria and Libya. What gave them that idea? We did.

Kyle Shideler is the Director of Research and Communications at the Endowment for Middle East Truth (www.emetonline.org).

Zionist Press Pushing Claim That Syrian Rebels Have Captured Scuds Armed With Chemical Warheads

Islamist Syrian rebels reportedly seize Scud missiles

Deputy PM says Israel is tracking developments but sees no immediate danger, adds that ‘when we identified a threat, we took action along the border and elsewhere’

“Al-CIA- DA” Posers Advocate the “Terrorism” of Flattening Tires–What’s Next “Keying” Car Doors?

[That invisible fraud known as "al-Qaeda," which the intelligence agencies have enabled to impersonate an international terrorist organization, has revealed its true nature today--a bunch of incompetent morons with zero technical terrorist skills, riding on the legends generated by the real CIA terrorists in the world.  The dummies are just there for window-dressing and to take the fall for real state terrorism, American/Saudi/Israeli terrorism.  That state terrorism is committed by battalions of those dummies, who have received actual technical training along the way by their Arab and Western instructors.  Even most of those guys are babbling, fanatical idiots, consider as a typical example, the morons who were captured early on in Northern Syria, around Aleppo.  They were certain that they had been waging jihad against the Israelis:

"You won't believe this...,One of our prisoners told me: 'I didn't realise Palestine was as beautiful as this.' He thought he was in Palestine to fight the Israelis!"--Reuters

These types of guys are typical of the real "al-Qaeda," just a bunch of terrorist wannabes, who don't even know whether they are fighting for or against the Zionist invaders.]

 

Al-Qaeda magazine lowers expectations, asks for ‘small’ terror operations like torching cars

Stewart Bell 

InspireThe latest edition of the English-language online manual for would-be terrorists explains how to set fire to vehicles using gasoline concealed in apple juice bottles, and suggests sabotaging highways with motor oil and five-inch nails.

The Al-Qaeda propaganda magazine Inspire has reappeared after a nine-month absence to urge extremists living in the West to conduct “small operations” such as torching parked cars and “causing road accidents.”

The latest edition of the English-language online manual for would-be terrorists explains how to set fire to vehicles using gasoline concealed in apple juice bottles, and suggests sabotaging highways with motor oil and five-inch nails.

“The goal is, Inshallah [God willing], that if enough Muslims fulfill their obligations of jihad, the kuffar [non-Muslims] and their insurance companies will be so sick of the terror caused and money wasted by these simple operations that they will press their government to stop the tyranny against Muslims,” it says.

While the magazine vows to terrorize the West into submission, it can’t help sounding desperate.

With its camps targeted by drones, leaders dead or imprisoned, and threats to repeat 9/11 unfulfilled, al-Qaeda has been reduced to encouraging automobile vandalism.

“How much more safe will the West feel parking their vehicles when they know they’re up for TORCHING,” it says, advising would-be arsonists to ensure the cars they target belong to non-Muslims.

“Go to known non-Muslims suburbs to be safe.”

Underscoring the impression of impotence is the magazine’s front-page declaration that, “We are all Osama,” inadvertently likening al-Qaeda and its regional affiliates to a decomposing corpse the U.S. Navy buried at sea almost two years ago.

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But terrorism experts said Friday it would be a mistake to trivialize the call for attacks in the West, including Canada, which is listed under the heading, “Other important targets for individual jihad.”

“The fashion of course these days is to see al-Qaeda as defeated and desperate, and I suppose if one is inclined to that view, then this can be viewed as proof positive,” said Prof. Bruce Hoffman, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies.

“While that may be true, I don’t think these ‘helpful terrorism tips’ necessarily prove that or really tell us anything. The power and influence of Inspire was always inflated — it reaps disproportionate attention only because it is colorful, glossy, provocative and most importantly published in English.”

The latest edition is the tenth to surface since Inspire first appeared in 2010. Produced by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, it offers step-by-step instructions on how to set fire to parked cars by dousing them in gasoline.

InspireSome inside pages from an older issue of Inspire.

“The West should taste some burning. They should pay for bombarding and burning our Muslim brothers and sisters’ homes and our holy Koran.”

It goes on to explain how to use nails and a wooden board to make a “tire-burster” that will cause drivers to lose control at high speed. It also says to pour “lubricative oil” or cooking oil on highway turns, bridges, tunnels and mountain roads, preferably on Sunday nights, when it says most non-Muslims will be driving drunk. A copy of the magazine was obtained by the SITE Intelligence Group.

“Small operations occupy the enemy’s time. Hitting him in his backyard drives him crazy. So these small operations of today are the stepping stones of tomorrow’s victory by the grace of Allah. Rely on Allah. Answer his call: jihad.”

It advises saboteurs to “work alone. Let it be a secret between Allah and you.”

Like all Islamist extremist propaganda, it justifies terrorism by claiming the West is waging an imaginary war on Islam.

Rick Dubin, vice-president of investigative services at the Insurance Bureau of Canada, said while he had long harbored concerns that auto thefts and staged collisions might be funding terrorism, the call for attacks on cars was news to him.

“We weren’t aware of it and we haven’t run into it.”

The decision to target cars reflects the evolving strategy of terrorists.

Unable to conduct mass casualty atrocities in the West, they have instead begun encouraging supporters already living in Western countries to attempt small-scale attacks.

In testimony to the Senate national security committee last month, CSIS director Richard Fadden mentioned Inspire and said al-Qaeda “has been saying that individuals can do as much harm … by using material that is readily available to them, can do as much good for the cause as somebody who would make a big bang.”

National Post

sbell@nationalpost.com

Zionism Was A Jewish/German Conspiracy To Export Nazi Germany’s Political Problems To the Middle East

[Zionism is a corrupt pre-nazi era Germanic political philosophy, which masquerades as a religious movement, promoting a policy of war against the Palestinian People, for the purpose of exporting Europe's intractible conflicts, biases and hatred to the Middle East.  Zionism tapped into German fear and hatred, into Jewish money, power and influence, to use as political blackmail over the Western governments, for the purpose of forcing them to manufacture a completely new state out of thin air, to be built upon land already owned and occupied by Palestinian Arabs (Semitic cousins of the Sephardic Jews of the Middle East).  The considerable Jewish political and economic influence in the world economy were exerted upon the British government, forcing London to issue the Balfour Declaration in 1917.  This conjured-up a previously non-existent "Jewish right" to buy-up the land and to "return" to Palestine. 

In 1947, the same political/economic arm-twisting was used to force the United States government to create an entirely new Jewish state  in Palestine (with a ready-made army and air force), selling it as the reincarnation of the ancient, totally extinct state of "Israel."  No extinct state, nor imaginary "citizens" of that "state," have "rights" to any land, or to anything else, which is derived from an actual state, any more than "Romans" or "Macedonians," can claim such "rights."   Purported "titles" to that land, which are obtained from probable works of fiction (Old Testament), carry no legal weight, and would have been dismissed outright if such claims had been taken before any judicial authority. 

Whether or not the so-called "Israeli" Russians, who have claimed shares in these pseudo "rights," are, in fact, hereditary "Jews" (even though almost all of them are the offspring of Khazarians, not coming from refugees from the Middle East), is irrelevant to the claim that neither Britain nor the United States of America, nor the United Nations, for that matter, have any authority to create "new" nations.   Therefore, any revival of an ancient, extinct state, previously known as "Israel," which has been savagely recreated on Palestinian land is an illigitimate entity, posing as a legitimate "state."  Any lawful body which attempts to create a completely new state in place of an already existing country, for the single purpose of giving legitimacy to an existing terrorist army that is already waging war against the native population, is party to the war crimes and international acts of aggression committed by that terrorist army.  War crimes and crimes against humanity committed in an organized campaign of ethnic-cleansing de-legitimizes both the so-called "state" aggressor and the authorizing body which created it.  As long as Zionist Israel exists, world peace is impossible.  If the citizens of that country decide to drop the "Zionist" partition, making Israel/Palestine an inclusive Jewish/Arab state, then that would write a new chapter in human history, one where a happy ending for all mankind is actually possible. 

That is the cold, hard truth, which makes Erdogan absolutely correct in calling Zionism out as another "crime against humanity  (SEE: Erdogan Surprises Everybody At the UN, Calling-Out Zionism As the Crime Against Humanity That It Is)."]

US, Israel irked by Turkish PM’s remarks on Zionism

AP

ANKARA: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday joined the United States and Israel in rejecting statements by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who compared Zionism to fascism at a United Nations meeting aiming to promote dialogue between all faiths.

Addressing the UN Alliance of Civilizations conference in Vienna this week, Erdogan complained of prejudices against Muslims and said Islamophobia should be considered a crime against humanity ”just like Zionism, like anti-Semitism and like fascism.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply condemned the remark late Thursday calling it a ”dark and mendacious statement the likes of which we thought had passed from the world.”

In Washington, US National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor said the characterisation about Zionism, the movement to establish and maintain a Jewish state, was ”offensive and wrong.”

”We encourage people of all faiths, cultures, and ideas to denounce hateful actions and to overcome the differences of our times,” he said.

Turkey is a co-sponsor, along with Spain, of the UN initiative to promote tolerance and understanding between various religions and a UN statement said: ”If the comment about Zionism was interpreted correctly, then it was not only wrong but contradicts the very principles on which the Alliance of Civilizations is based.”

The statement said Ban ”believes it is unfortunate that such hurtful and divisive comments were uttered at a meeting being held under the theme of responsible leadership.”

US State Secretary John Kerry is expected to raise the issue when he meets with Erdogan and other Turkish leaders in Ankara on Friday.

Turkey’s state-run news agency, Anadolu, reported Erdogan’s remarks on Wednesday but removed the reference to ”Zionism” in a correction sent out an hour later. It said the correction was ”made by the source” but gave no other explanation.

Turkey and Israel were once important allies but relations have deteriorated sharply after an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship in 2010 which killed nine pro-Palestinian activists.

Erdogan, whose ruling party has roots in Turkey’s Islamic movement, frequently criticises Israeli actions against Palestinians but rarely speaks out against Zionism. In November, he accused Israel of state terrorism and of an ”attempt at ethnic cleansing,” a euphemism used to describe how violence can be used to force a population from an area.

Erdogan Surprises Everybody At the UN, Calling-Out Zionism As the Crime Against Humanity That It Is

Erdogan says Zionism crime against humanity

PM speaking at Vienna forum of the Alliance of Civilizations, a UN forum for West-Islam dialogue; Kerry set to visit Turkey Friday.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Photo: REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called Zionism a “crime against humanity” likening it with anti-Semitism, fascism, and Islamophobia  while speaking at a UN forum on Wednesday.  Erdogan was speaking Wednesday before a Vienna forum of the Alliance of Civilizations, a UN framework for West-Islam dialogue.

UN Watch urged UN chief Ban Ki-moon who was present on the stage yet stayed silent, according to UN Watch, to speak out and condemn the speech. It also called on Erdogan to apologize.

“We remind secretary-general Ban Ki-moon that his predecessor Kofi Annan recognized that the UN’s 1975 Zionism-is-racism resolution was an expression of anti-Semitism, and he welcomed its repeal,” UN Watch stated.

In its condemnation of Erdogan’s remarks which it called “Ahmedinejad-style pronouncements,” UN Watch stated that the remarks “will only strengthen the belief that his government is hewing to a confrontational stance, and fundamentally unwilling to end its four-year-old feud with Israel.”

Israel sent messages to Ankara over the last two weeks that it is interested in creating a more “positive dynamic” in its badly strained relationship with Turkey so the two countries can work together to further common interests, government officials said on Monday.

The messages were sent prior to John Kerry’s maiden trip abroad as US secretary of state, a trip that will take him to nine countries including Turkey. Kerry is scheduled to arrive in Turkey on Friday.

It is widely expected that Kerry will raise the issue of ties with Israel during his talks with Turkish leaders in Ankara.

The US has long been pressing both Ankara and Jerusalem to take steps to improve relations that went into a nosedive following the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.

Herb Keinon contributed to this report.

The Jewish Lobby Which Owns American Government Demands World War Against Iran

[Both Engel and Ros-Lehtinen have served that little Zionist shit-hole which impersonates a legitimate "state" long and well, having been co-sponsors of every resolution leading to war against Iran since the beginning of this whole mess (SEE: IRAN WAR RESOLUTION, co-sponsor ‘SELL-OUTS”).  Both Jewish enclaves in New York and Florida continue to send these traitors back to the treason nest in Washington, time after time.]

Israel instructs Obama:

“Iranian and Syrian Sanctions are Not Painful Enough!” …impose an international blockade now!

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Franklin Lamb
Damascus

On 3/26/2013 Iran is expected to meet with other world powers in Astana, Kazakhstan to discuss its nuclear program. Discussions that the occupiers of Palestine fervently hope will not be successful. It is toward this end that their key demand this week to the US Congress, the White House and the European Union is “to cast responsibility on the Iranians by blaming them for the talks’ failure in the clearest terms possible.”

According to the Al-Monitor of 3/19/13, Israel also demands that the countries meeting in Kazakhstan “make it perfectly clear that slogans such as ‘negotiations can’t go on forever’ are their marching orders to the White House, and they want the Kazakhstan attendees to act “so severely that the Iranians realize that they face a greater threat than just Israeli military action.” “The message must be that this time the entire west, behind Israel’s leadership, is contemplating the launch of a massive military action.” Unsaid is that “the entire West” is expected to confront Iran militarily while Tel Aviv’s forces will mop up Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Syria if necessary.

Pending the above arrangements, Israel this week is further demanding that the Obama White House issue another Executive Order dramatically ratcheting up the US-led Sanctions against Iran and Syria while it prepares for a hoped for “ game changing international economic blockade, including no-fly zones enforced by NATO.

To achieve yet another lawyer of severe sanctions, and at the behest of AIPAC, a “legislative planning” meeting was called by Congressman Eliot Engel, who represents New Yorks 17th District (the Bronx) and who is the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep.   (Florida’s 27th District), Chair of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa. The session was held in a posh Georgetown restaurant and participant’s included representatives from AIPAC, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain plus half a dozen Congressional staffers.

Congressman Engel has co-sponsored virtually every anti-Arab, anti-Islam, anti-Palestinian, anti-Iran, and anti-Syrian Congressional broadside since he entered Congress a quarter-century ago. His campaign literature last fall stated: “I am a strong supporter of sanctions against those who repeatedly reject calls to behave as responsible nations. (Israel excepted-ed). I have authored or helped author numerous bills which have been signed into law to impose sanctions against rogue states including Iran and Syria.” Ros-Lehtinen and Engel led all members with AIPAC donations on the House side in last fall’s Congressional elections. They are ranked number one and two respectively as still serving career recipients of Israel-AIPAC’s “indirect” campaign donations.

Some Congressional operatives accuse Rep. Ros-Lehtinen of being a bit lazy and neglecting the bread and butter needs of her Florida constituents. But others argue that it depends on which constituents one has in mind. Her election mailings and her Congressional website claim that the Congresswoman “led all Congressional efforts tirelessly to generate votes to block what she views as anti-Israel resolutions offered at the former UN Commission on Human Rights.”

A big fan of US-led sanctions against Iran and Syria, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen introduced the Iran Freedom Support Act on January 6, 2005, which increased sanctions and expanded punitive measures against the Iranian people until the Iranian regime has dismantled its nuclear plants. Rep. Ros-Lehtinen also introduced H.R. 957, the Iran Sanctions Amendments Act, which she claims “will close loopholes in current law by holding export credit agencies, insurers, and other financial institutions accountable for their facilitation of investments in Iran and sanction them as well.” In addition, H.R. 957 seeks to impose liability on parent companies for violations of sanctions by their foreign entities. She also co-sponsored H.R 1357 which requires “U.S. government pension funds to divest from companies that do any business with any country that does business with Iran.” Her campaign literature states that, “She was proud to be the leading Republican sponsor of H.R. 1400, the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act. This bill applies and enhances a wide range of additional sanctions.”

In addition, last year Illeana introduced H.R. 394, which enlarges US Federal Court Jurisdiction regarding claims by American citizens their claims in U.S. courts. Unclear is whether she realizes that one consequence of her initiative would be to open even wider US courtroom doors to Iranian-Americans and Syria-Americans who today are being targeted and damaged by the lady’s ravenous insatiable craving for civilian targeting economic sanctions.

But Ileana and Elliot appear to be fretting.

So is Israel.

The reasons are several and they include the fact that the US-led sanctions have failed to date to achieve the accomplishments they were designed to produce. These being to cripple the Iranian economy, provoke a popular protest among the Iranian people over inflation and scarcity of food and medicines, weaken Iran as much as possible before adopting military measures against it, and, most essentially, achieving regime change to turn the clock back to those comfortable days of our submissive, compliant Shah.

Zionist prospects for Syria aren’t any better at the moment. Tel Aviv’s to intimidate the White House into invading Syria have not worked. Plan A has failed miserably according to the Israeli embassy people attending the Engel-Ros Litinen’s informal conflab. Neither did the “how about we just arm the opposition” plan that originated last year with David H. Petraeus and was supported by Hillary Clinton while being pushed by AIPAC. The goal was to create allies in Syria that the US and Israel could control if Mr. Assad was removed from power. Moreover, the White House believes that there are no good options for Obama. It has vetoed 4 recent Israeli proposals including arming the rebels and is said to believe that Syria is already dangerously awash with “unreliable arms.”

The recent shriveling of Israeli prospects for a dramatic Pentagon intervention in Syria reflect White House war weariness. And also Israel’s predilection to bomb targets itself in Syria, as it did recently to assassinate a senior Iranian officer in the Quds force of the Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Hassan Shateri. Contrary to the false story that Israel attacked a missiles convoy, some unassembled equipment was damaged but that was not the primary target according to Fred Hof, a former U.S. State Department official. Gen. Shateri was.

Making matters worse for Tel Aviv, the Israeli military is reportedly becoming skittish due to its deteriorating political and military status in the region and its troops have recently completed subterranean warfare drills to prepare them for a potential clash with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the Jerusalem Post reported on 2/20/13. “Today during training, we simulated a northern terrain, that included what we might encounter,” Israeli Lt. Sagiv Shoker, commander of a military Reconnaissance Unit of the Engineering Corps, based at the Elikim base in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon explained. Shoker added that his units spent a week focused on how to approach Hezbollah’s alleged underground bunkers and tunnels in South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley quietly and quickly. Israeli forces commander Gantz has been complaining recently to the Israeli cabinet that Hezbollah Special Forces are gaining much valuable experience in Syria fighting highly skilled and motivated al Nusra jihadists and his troops may not be prepared to face them on the battlefield if a conflict erupts. It has been known since 2006 that Israeli soldiers “are having motivation deficits” as Gantz and others have complained.

Ordinary citizens in Iran and Syria with whom this observer met recently, including some with whom he has shared lengthy conversations while posing many questions, cannot ignore the burden of the US-led sanctions in various aspects of their lives. Nor can the Iranian or Syrian governments or their economic institutions. At the beginning of the summer of 2010, and even more so since the summer of 2012, the US-led civilian targeting sanctions imposed were significantly tightened by the Obama administration and its allies. The administration realized that the sanctions imposed on Iran until then were ineffective and understood that Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear power capability would quickly leave the US with no alternative than the acceptance of a nuclear Iran. But the administration, according to former State Department official Hof, believed that unless it took more drastic measures against Iran, Israel would launch a military strike against Iran which would likely destroy Zionist Israel- a prospect not every US official and Congressional staffer privately laments. Congressional sources report that the White House now feels that Iran has achieved deterrence and that Israel would be dangerously foolhardy to attack the country.

While Israel advocates an economic blockade of Iran and Syria, under binding rules of international and US law, economic blockades are acts of war. They are variously defined as surrounding a nation with hostile forces, economic besieging, preventing the passage in or out of a country of civilian supplies or aid. It is an act of naval warfare to block access to a country’s coastline and deny entry to all vessels and aircraft, absent a formal declaration of war and approval of the UN Security Council.

All treaties to which America is a signatory, including the UN Charter, are binding US law. Chapter VII authorizes only the Security Council to “determine the existence of any threat to the peace, or act of aggression (and, if necessary, take military or other actions to) restore international peace and stability.” It permits a nation to use force (including a blockades) only under two conditions: when authorized by the Security Council or under Article 51 allowing the “right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member….until the Security Council has taken measures to maintain international peace and security.”

As International law Professor Francis Boyle reminds us, Customary International Law recognizes economic blockades as an act of war because of the implied use of force even against third party nations in enforcing the blockade. Writes Boyle, “Blockades as acts of war have been recognized as such in the Declaration of Paris of 1856 and the Declaration of London of 1909 that delineate the international rules of warfare.” America approved these Declarations, thereby are became binding US law as well “as part of general international law and customary international law.” US presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Jack Kennedy, called economic blockades acts of war.

So has the US Supreme Court.

In Bas v. Tingy (1800), the US Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of fighting an “undeclared war” (read extreme economic sanctions). It ruled the seizure of a French vessel (is) an act of hostility or reprisal. The Court cited Talbot v. Seaman (1801) in ruling that “specific legislative authority was required in the seizure. In Little v. Barreme (1804), the Court held that “even an order from the President could not justify or excuse an act that violated the laws and customs of warfare. Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that a captain of a United States warship could be held personally liable in trespass for wrongfully seizing a neutral Danish ship, even though” presidential authority ordered it.

“The Prize Cases” (1863) is perhaps the most definitive US Supreme Court ruling on economic blockades requiring congressional authorization. The case involved President Lincoln’s ordering “a blockade of coastal states that had joined the Confederacy at the outset of the Civil War. The Court….explicitly (ruled) that an economic blockade is an act of war and is legal only if properly authorized under the Constitution.”

Iran and Syria pose no threat to the US or any peaceful law abiding nation. Imposing a blockade against either violates the UN Charter and settled international humanitarian laws as well as US law. It would constitute an illegal act of aggression that under the Nuremberg Charter is the designated a “supreme international crime” above all others. It would render the Obama administration and every government of other participating nations criminally liable.

Contrary to what the occupiers of Palestine may fantasize, if the White House wants an economic blockade of Iran or Syria it must declare war, letting the American people be heard on the subject and convince the UN Security Council to pass a UNSCR under Chapter 7.

The White House cannot legally, morally or consistently with claimed American humanitarian values continue to target civilian populations with economic sanctions on the cheap.

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Franklin Lamb is doing research in Syria and can be reached c/ofplamb@gmal.com
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Palestine Civil Rights Campaign-Lebanon

“Legislate Now! Demand that Lebanon’s Parliament grant Palestinian Refugees elementary civil rights including, the right to work, to own a home, and to repair camp shelters. No more excuses!”

Franklin P. Lamb, LLM,PhD
Director, Americans Concerned for
Middle East Peace, Wash.DC-Beirut

Board Member, The Sabra Shatila Foundation and the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign, Beirut-Washington DC
Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp

Mossad Looks To Build the Bulgarian Bus Case In Cyprus

[The alleged case of a Lebanese man, bearing a Swedish passport, reconning buses in Cyprus which sometimes carried Israelis, among thousands of Goyim, is totally a Mossad/CIA set-up, with no actual evidence except for a notebook the man carried.  All articles on the Internet pertaining to the alleged case all derive from the Zionist press, either Reuters or Haaretz.   No strategic info contained there, as far as the news reports.  The NY Times is harping on the story below.]

Trial Offers Rare Look at Work of Hezbollah in Europe

By NICHOLAS KULISH

LIMASSOL, Cyprus — In a little-noticed trial in a small courtroom here on Wednesday, a 24-year-old man provided a rare look inside a covert global war between Israel and Iran, admitting that he is an operative of the militant group Hezbollah, for which he acted as a courier in Europe and staked out locations in this port city that Israelis were known to frequent.

French Army Reports To UN That Israeli Sub Doing Recon Along Coastal Road Between Sidon and Tyre

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Israeli submarines between Sidon and Tyre

Through devices not owned by the Lebanese army, but owned by the French army were identified every day and there is an Israeli submarine patrols of Naqoura Tyre to Sidon and fro like studying the road and places the possibility of cutting the road and get off by helicopter or air bombardment. Thus the French troops did not inform the Party of God this topic but informed the UN.

Time for the Regional Storm To Blow Back Into Lebanon

[First we hear about the Israelis crossing Lebanese airspace to bomb the mystery targets within Syria, then comes this flurry of reports on preparations being made on both sides for the next Israeli war upon Lebanon (SEE:  Israeli spy drones over South  ;  Hezbollah moves into south Lebanon villages ; 12 Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese airspace ).  Echoes coming from the Middle East report loudly that we stand on the cusp of a major regional conflagration, perhaps one on each end of the Mideast zone of turmoil.   If  a new Israeli aggression can be successfully blamed upon Hezbollah, instead of Syria, or Iran, then it will be unlikely that the Kremlin will want to intervene, which would effectively "checkmate" further Russian moves.  If, however, the Zionist forces can impel the Pentagon to bring American air superiority to bear in defense of the Israeli aggression, before Russia finds a way to block it, then the Libyan scenario will have been reenacted within Lebanon, the back door to Syria.  If Obama thinks that this use of American air power can defeat Hezbollah and steamroll over the war-battered Syrians, then we will not allow a repeat of the humiliating Israeli ass-whooping that the Zionist butchers suffered in 2006.]

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Iron Dome System (Consists of radar and 20 tube launcher)

Israeli Iron Dome missile is launched

Israel on Alert

Israel appears to be readying for conflict with Lebanon

BY: Adam Kredo
February 11, 2013

Senior Israeli officials have indicated that the Jewish state is gearing up for a major “war with Lebanon,” according to sources close to the Israeli government.

The Israeli military has reportedlydeployed missile defense systems to the northern part of the country, which sits near Lebanon, and has ordered all civilian aircraft to evacuate Haifa airport, the Jewish state’s northernmost air hub.

Senior Israeli officials have warned of an impending conflict in closed-door meetings in Washington, D.C., sources said.

The “world needs to be prepared for the next war with Lebanon,” a senior military adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said during aprivate meeting with representatives of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a D.C. think-tank.

“All of Lebanon is now South Lebanon,” the official reportedly said, referring to Israel’s ongoing attempts to prevent the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah from replenishing its weapons cache.

Jonathan Schanzer, FDD’s vice president of research, recalled being “struck by the blunt nature of this senior officials’ comments.”

“He seemed to be saying this is a matter of when not if,” Schanzer told theFree Beacon. “If you’re looking at the big picture, the Israelis continue to move chess pieces to the North. Something is happening on the Lebanese front.”

The Israeli official’s remarks suggest Israel is now willing to penetrate deep inside Lebanese territory in order to prevent Hezbollah from acquiring sophisticated weaponry.

Israel offered similar warnings during a recent meeting with officials from theUnited Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which is tasked with maintaining peace between Israel and Lebanon, according to reports.

“Israel told U.N. peacekeeping forces in South Lebanon to ‘take precautions’ amid growing fears of a regional conflict,” the Lebanese news site NOWreported over the weekend.

“There are dangers of an Israeli strike against Lebanon,” Lebanese parliamentarian Jean Ogassapian was quoted as saying. “There is information that Israel told UNIFIL to take precautions.”

Israel conducted a surprise military operation inside Syria late last month to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining sophisticated Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles, according to reports.

Israel then bombed a Hezbollah-run transmission tower several days later,according to the Times of Israel. Hezbollah later denied the attack had taken place.

Israeli officials have increasingly made clear that its military is willing to conduct similar operations in the future in order to prevent heavy weapons from reaching terrorist forces in Lebanon.

That declaration has led to concerns Hezbollah could begin to launch retaliatory attacks along Israel’s populous northern border.

There are several indications Israel is preparing to ward off an attack.

Israel has deployed a third Iron Dome missile defense system to the north in recent days. Additionally, Israel stepped up its military surveillance in Lebanon, reportedly deploying drones deep in Lebanese airspace.

“What they’re doing, especially with the Iron Dome, is contingency preparation,” said Jeffrey White, a defense fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “I don’t think they have a plan of releasing a general attack … but they have to be ready.”

Israel has “sent out enough fertile warnings” that it is prepared “to act as necessary to stop any flow of weapons to Hezbollah,” White said.

As Hezbollah works to restock its arms, Israel “must be ready to act against specific shipments and retaliation on some scale,” White explained. “They also have to be ready to act if there’s a rapid escalation.”

A spokesperson in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not respond to a Free Beacon request for comment.

International Condemnation of Zionist Bombing of Damascus Research Center

Arab and international condemnation of the Israeli aggression on the research center in Syria: blatant aggression and unacceptable violation of the Charter of the United Nations

(SANA) - Russia expressed its grave concern about the Israeli aircraft broke the Syrian airspace and bombed a scientific research centers in Syria, saying that this is an unacceptable violation of the Charter of the United Nations. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement today, “Moscow has received with deep concern the news of Israeli air raid on sites in Syria near Damascus, adding that if this information is correct, we will be in front of attacks are not justified on the territory of a sovereign state what is a gross violation of the Charter of the United Nations whatever the justifications. “ The statement went on to say, “to take rapid action to clarify the situation in all its details … and call again to stop any form of violence in Syria and the lack of external interference and the start of national dialogue Syrian Geneva on the basis of a statement.” Mansour: convicted and calls from Arab firm stance to confront it by all legitimate means Minister condemned the Lebanese Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Adnan Mansour strongly yesterday on the Israeli aggression a scientific research centers in Syria and the fact in Jmraiya area Rural Damascus, pointing out that it constitutes a flagrant aggression. Mansour said in a statement today that “this aggression once again confirms the fact the course Israeli terrorist since 1948 until today and the threat of a permanent threat to peace and security Arab” and “is requires us as Arabs to have a firm stance to confront him with all legitimate means.” In this connection, Mansour stressed that the de facto peace that Israel wants to impose will not find its way to the region and will provide them with security and peace that seeks him. Arab League: violation violates the United Nations Charter and the violation of international conventions and charters Also condemned the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States breach the Israeli enemy of the Syrian air yesterday and bombed airplanes scientific center in the area Jmraiya Rural Damascus, which resulted in the death and injury of a number of Syrian citizens and bring about the destruction of a large Taul established and accessories, describing it as “aggression brutal.” Secretariat condemned in a press statement today this blatant Israeli aggression and considered a flagrant violation of the territory and sovereignty of an Arab state and contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and the norms of international law and a violation of international agreements and conventions and Security Council resolutions relevant. And demanded the Secretariat in its statement the international community to shoulder its responsibilities and put an end to the persistence of “Israel” in their attacks on Arab states confirmed that the international community’s silence for the bombing, “Israel” to sites Syria in the past encouraged to proceed with the new aggression untapped situations where the feet of this criminal act. Secretariat also stressed the need to hold Israel fully responsible for the results of aggression and the right of Syria in the defense of its territory and sovereignty and “to seek full compensation resulting from human and material losses” caused by this aggression.

Ariel Sharon Coming Out of His Coma Just In Time for Armegeddon

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[Where are all the assassins when you need one?]

Israel: After seven years in a coma Sharon ‘signs of activity’ brain

Last Updated: January 29, at 13:06

Jerusalem, January 29 (Adnkronos) – After seven years in a coma, Ariel Sharon shows ‘significant’ signals ‘activity’ brain. “ He revealed the team of Israeli doctors and American Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva have put the former prime minister to a series of tests. In a vegetative state since 2006 as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage, Sharon, now 84 year old, responds to external stimuli and the activity ‘brain’ increased when the fixtures, as reported by the Israeli media, they showed him pictures of his family and made listen to a recording with the voice of the child. It is, doctors said, of “encouraging signs”, although this does not necessarily translate into a probable awakening from coma.

Paying-Up for All of Those Years Contracting-Out US Foreign Policy To the Barbaric Saudi Royals

[Some of the "news" in the report below is wrong, but it makes an important point about US regrets about its latest experiments with radical "Islamism."  This report from PressTV claims that the younger Zawahiri was arrested/captured in Syria on Jan. 6, but other reports (all leading back to Mossad front, MEMRI TV) show photos and video allegedly from a January 18 Salafi protest in front of the French Embassy in Cairo.  So, Mr. Al-Z wasn't captured in Syria, but the thrust of the article is the important point, America's "Islamists" are more trouble than they are worth.  

Those fanatic jihadis are extremely predictable, so there is no excuse for our government having used them in Libya and Syria in the first place.  That was all Bandar's doing.   (That is what we get for letting him run our covert operations for us.)  The terrorists are like a bunch of mad dogs, chomping at the chains which hold them back, or better yet, they more closely resemble a bunch of termites.  You can count on them to undermine an enemy's position, along with everything else.   At some point,  you have to flush them out and repair everything that they have damaged and they have damaged everything.  Wherever we use these guys, nothing but desolation is left--look at Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria.  I guess nobody considered the possibility that they would destroy Syria without destroying the Syrian government.  

Zawahiri has been on the American payroll for decades, just like his brother, the infamous "Number 2" of "al-Qaeda."  One organized the flow of "Islamists" ("al-Qaeda") and guns through America's smuggling pipelines, leading to Bosnia and Chechnya, Egypt, Syria and Libya, while the other Zawahiri brother organized the flow of heroin and money.  Their parent organization, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, provided the foundation for everything we ever called "al-Qaeda."  Whatever Bandar has in mind for Egypt, it will surely make the Benghazi incident look like a fistfight.

It should be pretty obvious to everyone by now just how bad an idea it was to contract America's covert war policy out to the Saudis.   

Just today, Prince Turki was quoted whining in the British press that the solution to the Syrian conflict was to give his boys better anti-tank rockets and sophisticated surface-to-air missiles.  Look at the militant Wahhabis armed with similar Libyan weapons in Mali and the trouble that they are causing there to understand just how warped are the minds of Prince Turki al-Faisal and his cousin, Prince Bandar bin Sultan and the rest of the Saudi royal family.  

They are the true enemies of the West.]

Fundamentalism fears pushing US to change course on Syria

 Jan. 18, 2013

Photo from the Salafi-Jihadi Protest at the French Embassy

Al-Zarqawi, Al-Zawahri and Jabhat Al-Nusra: terms that have two things in common: Al-Qaeda and lately Syria. Recently two leading Salafists who joined the armed Syrian opposition were killed by Syrian forces. One of them was the brother in law of Abou-Mesaab Al-Zarqawi, who was killed by US forces in Iraq in 2006. Al-Zarqawi was Al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq and considered by the US as one of the most wanted terrorists responsible for killing US soldiers. Reports have also said that Syrian forces have arrested the brother of Ayman Al-Zawahri, the leader of Al-Qaeda. In addition the so called mufti of Jabhat Al-Nusra was also recently killed in a Syrian air raid in Deraa. All this has raised questions about future US policy towards Damascus.

What’s more is that in his inaugural speech US president Barack Obama did make it clear that foreign military intervention in Syria was not on the agenda.

Experts believe that the US will eventually pressure its allies to change their course in the campaign against Bashar Al-Assad. Among these allies are Israel who labeled Assad as part of an axis of evil along with Iran and Hezbollah. Israel’s ambassador to Washington Michael Oren even went so far as to say that Assad is worse for Israel than Al-Qaeda. Other countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been the main providers of weapons and financing for the armed opposition.

Major US media outlets have said that the support provided by some Arab states to armed groups in Syria runs contrary to Washington’s interests. And last December the State Department blacklisted Jabhat Al-Nusra.

Many of those who were predicting the end of Bashar Al-Assad are now having second thoughts. One major factor behind this is the US position. The rising fundamentalist trend in Syria is a grave concern and comes at a time when the US congress is holding hearings on the killing of the US ambassador in Benghazi at the hands of extremists. That incident would probably have not occurred were it not for Nato military intervention in Libya

International Jewish Brain-Conference On “cognitive modifiability,” the Plasticity of Human Behavior

[I don't know why they would invite me to this, but they did.  It seems frightening, but not unexpected, that a bunch of Jewish psychiatrists and behavioralists would meet in Jerusalem in their quest for the means to modify the mind of Goy-man.  After all, modern psychiatry, especially the field of behaviorism is a predominately Jewish profession, or one which is led by Jewish researchers in the field.  With the Jewish domination of Western media outlets, it is easy to see the dangers of a bunch of Jewish "shrinks" brainstorming for ways to use their knowledge of bending the minds of Goy-man to accommodate Jewish plans for us, twisting human nature until we more closely resemble the "cattle" that we apparently are.]

DR. REUVEN FEUERSTEIN

The Conference   

(2-5 June 2013)

This conference brings together revolutionary developments in two disciplines: cognitive modifiability and the neurosciences. Neuroscience brings evidence that modifiability is possible, while cognitive modifiability shows how to make it happen. This meeting offers the opportunity for a worldwide gathering of scientists, practitioners, therapists, and educators who come from different professional perspectives, but share common interests to explore and become familiar with the developments in these related fields. The common theme is modifiability. Revolutionary developments in brain sciences support the theory and belief that basic human behaviors and functions can be modified.

The Potential to Respond to Critical Needs

From the perspective of both disciplines, it is now clear that systematic application of dynamic methods of assessment and intervention has the potential to produce cognitive and structural change. The advances of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and the growing awareness they have generated, indicates that the three conventionally accepted resistances to change can be overcome: etiology, critical periods,  and severity of the condition

However, we are at the frontier of this knowledge. There is much to be learned in order to understand the implications of the convergence of cognitive modifiability and the revolution in the brain sciences and bring them into wide acceptance and practice. The conference aims at providing researchers, psychologists, occupational and speech therapists, as well as special and regular education specialists with new conceptual tools for dealing with the question of modifiability in the laboratory, clinic, and the classroom.

Outcomes and Opportunities

The multicultural interaction between presenters and participants from different fields and professions is going to develop better understanding of the challenges and enrich us with the new available methods and ideas. Personal professional experience, research results, theories and practice will be discussed and new techniques will be presented in order to open new horizons for each one of the conference participants.

This is a critical period in the development of this dialogue and an opportunity for sharing knowledge and hope. Jerusalem, as a modern centre for technological and academic activity and research also symbolizes the historical core of human faith and soul. Is there a more appropriate place to host such a conference?

Jewish Wall Street led USA in permanent decline…….amen

MOSTAQUE ALI

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The Jews will destroy the USA for a variety of opaque quasi religious reasons. This is a shame, given the vast quality and ability of American citizens who could be doing a better job with genuine compassion and reason in the place of the current Obama administration.

Bizarre policies will continue to come out of the USA, and there will no magic formula which corrects the cumulative wrongs that the Jews have inflicted on the country.

The problem with the USA are the collective Jewish leadership.

When America continues to fail, YOU know who is responsible.

 

Courtesy of Infowars.com

President Barack Obama is believed to be Jewish on his mothers side, and a groomed agent of the CIA since birth (his mother worked for the CIA)….linked to Wall Street and the neo-liberal Jews of George Soros et al.

John Kerry the would be secretary of state is Jewish, though outwardly Catholic. Being Catholic is a disguise the Jews have adopted since the Middle Ages for a 1000 years.

Joseph Biden the vice president is of Jewish descent.

Timothy Geithner
Treasury Secretary, Crypto-Jew. All reliable information points to him being ethnically Jewish (at least partially), but if not, he definitely married into The Tribe (m. Carole Sonnenfeld, 1985); he has been President of the New York Fed (which is by far the most powerful and influential branch of the Fed) during the major economic crisis (2007-present) which has utterly decimated the American economy and brought us to the brink of a depression and now this guy is put in charge of the Treasury?

Janet Napolitano
Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, Jewish. Born to Jewish mother (technically makes her Jewish), she claims her religion is now Methodist. She also may be a closet bull dyke.

Robert Swan Mueller III may be crypto-Jewish, serving an extra-ordinary long time in his current position as the head of the FBI, the Jewish run organization that has led the false flag terrorism in the USA from 1993 to the point where the country is now a full police state.…though he has a crisp well groomed WASP persona from NY. Billions of useless Latinos pour into the country from the South….and yet when John Smith and his family move from Portland to Chicago, they must undertake grueling uber gestapo like humiliating inspections, and gropings to reinforce Jewish power and Jewish obedience training for the coming total gulag state…….which is a mixture of sexual fantasy based on BDSM and humiliation. In the Soviet  gulags mass rape was the order of the day, as a form of control, dominance and of course humiliation.  

Benjamin Shalom Bernanke….Head of the Federal Reserve…theoretically and constitutionally not part of the administration, but to all intents and purposes is.

Jack Lew	Chief of Staff to the President
David Plouffe	Senior Advisor to the President
Danielle Borrin	Associate Director, Office of Public Engagement; Special Assistant to the Vice President
Gary Gensler	Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Dan Shapiro	Ambassador to Israel
Gene Sperling	Director National Economic Council
Mary Schapiro	Chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Steven Simon	Head of Middle East/North Africa Desk at the National Security Council
Eric Lynn	Middle East Policy Advisor

    
Some more current and former members of the Obama administration.

Douglas Shulman
IRS Commissioner, Jewish.

Steven Rattner
Treasury Advisor For Auto Sector, Jewish.

Robert Rubin
Economic Advisor to the President, Jewish.

Alan Blinder
Economic Advisor to the President, Jewish.

Jason Furman
Director Of Economic Policy, Jewish.

Jon Leibowitz
Chairman Of FTC, Jewish.

Ronald Klain
Chief of Staff to the Vice President, Jewish.

Jared Bernstein
Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President.

Paul Volcker
Economic Advisor to the President, Former Head of Fed Reserve, Crypto-Jewish

Lee Feinstein (2009- )
Foreign Policy Advisor

Gary Gensler (2009- )
Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Elena Kagan (2009- )
Solicitor General of the United States

Ronald Klain (2009- )
Chief of Staff to the Vice President

Jack Lew (2009- )
Deputy Secretary of State

Eric Lynn (2009- )
Middle East Policy Advisor

Peter Orszag (2009- )
Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Formerly a member of Clinton’s Whitehouse, advisor to the Bank of Iceland before they crashed and burned, and also advisor to the Jewish Oligarchs in Russia when they started stealing billions.

Dennis Ross (2009- )
Special Advisor for the Gulf and Southwest Asia to the Secretary of State Mara Rudman (2009- ) Foreign Policy Advisor

Mary Schapiro (2009- )
Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Dan Shapiro (2009- )
Head of Middle East desk at the National Security Council (yet another ‘neutral diplomatic Jew’ when it comes to foreign policy matters involving the Middle East); also a major Washington lobbyist and fundraiser for the Democratic Party.

James B. Steinberg (2009- ) and Jacob Lew, Deputy Secretaries of State, second in rank only to Hillary Clinton in foreign policy matters (meaning if something happens to her one of them will take over, giving a Jew yet another major Cabinet slot); both of these people are hardcore Zionist Israel Firsters, so it is difficult to imagine how they will remain objective and neutral when it comes to dealing with foreign policy matters in the Middle East.

Lawrence Summers (2009- )
Director National Economic Council, Crypto-Jew (real name: Samuelson)

Mona Sutphen (2009- )
Deputy White House Chief of Staff

Eric Lander AND Harold E. Varmus, Co-Chairs of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science/Technology.

Penny Pritzker
Obama’s National Finance Chair during the election cycle; she is a billionaire heiress of the Pritzker family fortune (at least 5-7 separate billionaires in the family); the Pritzkers are major players in the ’squeaky clean’ Chicago political scene.

Robert Reich
Economic adviser to Obama-Biden.

Nora Volkow
Director, National Institute of Drug Abuse. Great-grandaughter of Trotsky (Leon Bronstein),

Bolshevik murderer and point man for the International Banking Jew’s over-throw of Russia.

Richard Hass
President of the CFR and Obama’s ambassador at large.

Jon Leibowitz
Chairman, Federal Trade Commission.

Alan Bersin
Special Representive for Border Affairs.

Susan Sher
Chief of Staff for Michelle Obama.

Thanks to Zsidozas
Obama’s Jews, Change we can’t believe in

OBAMA’S LEADING JEWISH ‘CZARS’

Economic Czar
Larry Summers (real name: Samuelson)

Regulatory Czar
Cass Sunstein

Pay Czar
Kenneth Feinberg

Medical Czar
Ezekiel Emanuel (brother of Rahm Emanuel)

Guantanamo/Military Jails Czar
Daniel Fried

Car Czar
Steven Rattner

Border Czar
Alan Bersin

Climate Czar
Todd Stern

Global Warming Czar
Carol Browner

Climate Change Czar
Todd Stern

JEWS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Richard Holbrooke
Special Envoy to Pakistan/Afghanistan

Stuart Levey
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

Lawrence Summers
Chairman, National Economic Council

Paul Volcker: Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board

Jared Bernstein
Chief Economist and Economic Adviser,

Peter Orszag
Director, Office of Management and Budget

Jason Furman
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget

Dennis Ross
Obama’s Ambassador-At-Large in the (Entire) Middle East

Jeffrey Zeints
Chief Performance Officer to streamline government and cut costs as well as Deputy

Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget

Gary Gensler
Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Mary Schapiro
Chairwoman, Securities and Exchange Commission

Sheila Bair
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Karen Mills
Administrator, Small Business Administration

Jon Leibowitz
Chairman, Federal Trade Commission

Douglas Shulman
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service

Neil M. Barofsky
Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP”)

The Federal Reserve…

Benjamin S. Bernanke
Chairman of the Federal Reserve

FRB of Boston
Eric S. Rosengren: Jewish

Timothy F. Geithner: (former) FRB of New York.
Crypto-Jewish. Former Goldman Sachs executive Stephen Friedman was acting head until May, when questions about his insider Goldman Sachs stock purchases came up and he stepped down. Denis Hughes, an apparent Goyim labor leader, fills the spot at least until December, when a new one will be named for 2010.

FRB of Philadelphia
Charles I. Plosser: Jewish

FRB of Richmond
Jeffrey M. Lacker: Jewish

FRB of St. Louis
James B. Bullard: Jewish

FRB of Minneapolis
Gary H. Stern: Jewish

FRB of Kansas City
Thomas M. Hoenig: Jewish

FRB of Dallas
Richard W. Fisher: Jewish

FRB of San Francisco
Janet L. Yellen: Jewish

Dead Royals Walking–When the Saudi Royal Family Falls Under It’s Own Executioner’s Sword

Brookings’ Bruce Riedel urges intensified US support for Saudi despots

Every now and then, leading mavens of the Foreign Policy Community have an uncharacteristic outburst of candor

Tony Blair meeting with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Ho/REUTERS

When it comes to the US “foreign policy community”, few if any people are more representative of it than Bruce Riedel. A 30-year CIA officer and adviser to the last four US presidents, he is now a senior fellow at the wing of the Brookings Institution funded by entertainment mogul Haim Saban (whom the New York Times described as “a tireless cheerleader for Israel” and who described himself this way: “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel”). In 2012, Riedel contributed to a book on Iran by Brookings “scholars” which argued that the US could launch a war against Iran by covertly provoking its government into responses that could then falsely be depicted by the US to the world “as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression” – exactly what Brookings’ Ken Pollack proposed be done in 2002 to deceitfully justify the attack on Iraq.According to Brookings, “in January 2009, President Barack Obama asked Riedel to chair a review of American policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan, the results of which the president announced in a speech on March 27, 2009.”

When they speak publicly, the mavens of the Foreign Policy Community – whose primary function is to justify US militarism and aggression – typically disguise their real beliefs and objectives with specialized obfuscating jargon. But every now and then, they have an outburst of uncharacteristic candor that clarifies their actual worldview. Such is the case with a remarkably clear memorandum to President Obama that Riedel just authored and Brooking published regarding the extremely close US alliance with the regime in Saudi Arabia.

Riedel begins by noting that “Saudi Arabia is the world’s last absolute monarchy” and “like Louis XIV, King Abdallah has complete authority.” Moreover, “the Saudi royal family has shown no interest in sharing power or in an elected legislature.” The Saudi regime not only imposes total repression on its own people but is also vital, he argues, in maintaining tyranny in multiple neighboring states: “they have helped ensure that revolution has not unseated any Arab monarch” and “the other monarchs of Arabia would inevitably be in jeopardy if revolution comes to Saudi Arabia.” Specifically:

“The Sunni minority in Bahrain could not last without Saudi money and tanks. Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are city-states that would be unable to defend themselves against a Saudi revolutionary regime, despite all their money.”

So given this extreme human suffering and repression imposed by the Saudi monarchy in multiple countries, what should the US – the Leader of the Free World and the self-proclaimed Deliverer of Freedom and Democracy – do? To Riedel, the answer is obvious: work even harder, do even more, to strengthen the Saudi regime as well as the neighboring tyrannies in order to crush the “Arab Awakenings” and ensure that democratic revolution cannot succeed in those nations.

Riedel stridently argues that the US must remain steadfastly opposed to any democratic revolutions in the region. That’s because Saudi Arabia is “America’s oldest ally in the Middle East, a partnership that dates back to 1945.” Thus, “since American interests are so intimately tied to the House of Saud, the US does not have the choice of distancing the United States from it in an effort to get on the right side of history.”

Instead, he insists, while Obama should “encourage” the Saudi King to accelerate the modest reforms he has abstractly embraced, the overarching principle driving US actions should be that “the overthrow of the monarchy would represent a severe setback to America’s position in the region and provide a dramatic strategic windfall for Iran.” And the US should not only prop up the Saudi dictatorship, but also must “be ready to shore up the neighboring kingdoms and sheikhdoms.” As a Bahraini correspondent wrote about this Riedel memo: “Brookings is basically telling Obama to make sure we remain ruled by dictatorial regimes.”

The only thing unclear about Riedel’s memo is why he perceives any urgency to write it. As he notes, US policy long has been and still is exactly what he advocates: to ensure that the people of Saudi Arabia remain tyrannized by this monarchy:

“The critical defender of the regime would be the National Guard. King Abdallah has spent his life building this Praetorian elite force. The United States has trained and equipped it with tens of billions of dollars’ worth of helicopters and armored vehicles.”

Just last week, President Obama emphasized how critical his alliance with the House of Saud is by doing something a US president rarely does: hosting not a fellow head of state but a mere minister (Saudi Minister of Interior, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud) in the Oval Office. Afterward, the White House proclaimed that Obama and the Saudi Prince “affirmed the strong partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia”.

Indeed, the Obama administration has continuously lavished the Saudi Kingdom with a record amount of arms and other weapons, and has done the same for the Bahraini tyranny. He has done all this while maintaining close-as-ever alliances with the Gulf State despots as they crush their own democratic movements.

As always, the rationale for this steadfast US support for Arab tyranny is dubious at best. Riedel notes that “while the United States can live without Saudi oil, China, India, Japan and Europe cannot” – but it’s absurd to think that whoever rules Saudi Arabia would refuse to sell its oil on the world market. Riedel also argues that “the CIA war against al-Qaida is heavily dependent on the Kingdom” – that gets closer to the truth, but it just shows how this endless “war” is the author of most of America’s bad acts in the region, and it’s ironic indeed that the only government with valid links to the 9/11 perpetrators has become the closest US ally in the “war on terror”, while governments with no such links – starting with Iran – have become perpetual US enemies.

Riedel also says that “the Saudis have also been a key player in containing Iran for decades.” But when it comes to repression and tyranny, Iran – as atrocious as its regime is capable of being – is no match for the Saudis. There is zero reason to view Iran as an implacable enemy of the US, and it is certainly no justification for imposing absolute tyranny on millions of people in the Arab world merely because those regimes are similarly hostile to Iran.

But as I emphasized last week, the point here is not to object to US support for the world’s worst dictators; it is, instead, to urge that this reality be acknowledged. Despite this obvious truth – that the US has no objection whatsoever to tyranny but rather loves and supports it when tyrants are faithful to its interests – hordes of foreign policy “experts” shamelessly pretend that the US and its Nato allies are committed to spreading freedom and democracy and fighting despotism in order to justify every new US and Nato intervention.

Just listen to the patently deceitful rhetoric that spews forth from US political leaders and their servants in the Foreign Policy Community when it comes time to rail against anti-US regimes in Libya, Syria and Iran. That the US and its Nato allies – eager benefactors of the world’s worst tyrants – are opposed to those regimes out of concern for democracy and human rights is a pretense, a conceit, so glaring and obvious that it really defies belief that people are willing to advocate it in public with a straight face. Even Riedel notes the real reason for those interventions: the Saudis, he writes, are “pragmatists and have backed revolutions in Libya and Syria that undermine longstanding enemies of the Kingdom, especially Iran.”

The same inane rhetoric is pouring forth in the debate over the Mali intervention. The same countries that are arming the worst human rights abusers on the African continent are simultaneously flattering themselves as crusaders for human rights by bombing Mali. Meanwhile, those who point out that bombing Muslims in yet another country will be used by al-Qaida to strengthen itself further – as the NYT put it: “the backlash might end up being worse than the original threat” – are predictably smeared as Terrorist sympathizers by the self-proclaimed experts of the Foreign Policy Community who exist to justify US and Nato militarism (see here and here as examples).

It’s the same warped, flagrantly propagandistic debate that has been taking place over and over for decades. It’s how the Saudi-loving George Bush and Tony Blair were able to tell their citizens that their former ally, Saddam Hussein, had to be attacked and removed from power in part because of how tyrannical he was (citing past human rights abuses that took place when he was supported by the US and Nato allies). And it’s how those who pointed out all of the contradictions and hypocrisies in these pro-freedom claims were systematically smeared as being pro-Saddam.

Critically, this propaganda about the commitment to human rights and democracy of the US and its Nato allies is aimed at, and only works on, the domestic populations of those countries. People in the region where these pro-tyranny policies are imposed by Nato members are fully aware of this reality, as public opinion polls unambiguously prove. But when there exists a massive apparatus of self-proclaimed experts calling itself the Foreign Policy Community that exists to propagate these myths, and a US media that similarly views the world through the prism of the US government, it is easy to see why these myths, despite how patently absurd they are, work so effectively. The fact that one can have a memo like Riedel’s so clearly explaining US policy to support the worst tyrannies that serve its interests, sitting right next to endless US pro-war rhetoric about the urgency of fighting for freedom and democracy, is an outstanding testament to that myth-making.

Denver’s Center of Jewish Fear-Mongering

FEAR AND LOATHING IN DENVER

Apart from the standard dinosaur fare and a few French oils, Denver’s museums tend to reflect their frontier location, with plenty of Native American artwork and old mansions of mining barons. The Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (also described as the Centre for Empowered Living and Learning), or CELL, does not fit this model. The aim of this somewhat odd two-year-old $6m project—which sits right next to the Daniel Libeskind-designed Denver Art Museum—is not cultural elucidation or historic preservation. Rather, it is a non-profit institution that is all about terrorism: where it comes from, how it manifests itself and what people can do to reduce its threat. Larry Mizel, a local businessman and regular donor to the Republican party, both founded and funded the museum. It is affiliated with his Mizel Museum, a local museum dedicated to Jewish life and culture.

The CELL’s mission, according to its website is “to provide the knowledge and tools needed to proactively effect change in order to help shape a better, safer world.” But how threatening is Denver? This is the CELL’s main point. Its well-crafted interactive exhibition, “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: Understanding the Threat of Terrorism“, warns visitors that terrorism affects us all, even those who are far away from centres of power. If this sounds like an expensive, museum-size example of America’s paranoia, that’s because it is.

The museum was built with the expectation that 20,000 people would visit its 6,000 square-foot exhibition each year. But during a recent visit I had the place to myself, amid a high-tech maze of flashing screens and touch-screen displays. The most powerful section, called “Hitting Home”, is a dark room filled with video images that create the feeling of standing in Denver’s city centre. A loud explosion is followed by the sight of whizzing buses and leafy cafes going up in flames, followed by aftermath footage from blast sites in New York, London and elsewhere.

Other displays are about terrorists’ weapons of choice and their use of the media. The last section, called the “Action Center”, shows a local videoabout how to recognise the signs of terrorism (they declare there are eight, such as “surveillance” and “acquiring supplies”) and what to do (ie, call the Colorado Information Analysis Centre). Viewers may notice that the video’s running time is exactly 9 minutes and 11 seconds.

The museum is good at being dark and scary. I walked out into the Colorado sunshine feeling disturbed. Yet Denver’s spreading suburbs seemingly suffer more from a distinctly American banality than ideology-driven angst. Graphic images of a bomb ripping apart downtown Denver seem to fall into the category of fear-mongering. Indeed, the exhibition includes a Rand Corporation expert who notes that the probability of an American of being killed in a terror attack is about one in a million, compared to one-in-7,000 or -8,000 chance of being killed in a car accident.

The CELL is keen to justify its location, offering several links between terrorism and Colorado. In 1984, Alan Berg, a Jewish left-wing talk-radio host in Denver, was gunned down by members of a white supremacist group. In 2009 a man named Najibullah Zazi was arrested in his suburban Denver home in connection with a plot to bomb the New York subway. And in 2010 a Colorado woman named Jamie Paulin-Ramirez (dubbed by the press as “Jihad Jamie”), was detained in connection with a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist. Other events, such as the Oklahoma City bombings and the attacks on London’s transport, are mentioned here.

But more interesting is what the CELL does not include, namely the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, which is certainly the state’s closest experience with indiscriminate and terrorising killing. This more than anything seems to highlight the kind of anxiety the CELL is promoting: a fear of ideological outsiders, rather than a dread of armed Americans.

Ultimately, the CELL offers far more reasons to feel afraid than to feel empowered. The film designed to highlight potential signs of terrorism only confirms just how difficult it is to recognise something suspicious. (How many times can a tourist snap photos of a power plant before the photographer seems odd?) I was hoping for a section on tightening America’s gun laws or ensuring that metropolitan police budgets remain at adequate levels. Not here. Nor is it much fun to get this unnerving “education”. Only roughly 10,000 have seen the exhibition since it opened in 2009, and that’s including the attendance at organised events. This is hardly surprising. In a state as idyllic as Colorado, there are just better places to spend an afternoon.

~ ALEXANDER EWING

American Foreign Policy Contradictions–Torn Between “Good Al-Qaeda” and “Bad Al-Qaeda”

American Foreign Policy Contradictions–

Torn Between “Good Al-Qaeda” and “Bad Al-Qaeda”

Peter Chamberlin    

“US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said the slimmed-down force would focus on preventing Al-Qaeda… from regaining a foothold in the war-shattered nation.”

When Do We Fight Against Terrorists and When Do We Put Them On the American Payroll?

The hypocritical foreign policy of Barack Obama is identical to that of his two predecessors–Little Moronic Bush and Sleazy Jefferson Clinton.  All three of them have somehow managed to convert Ronald Reagan’s “Mujahedeen” allies (originally called “freedom fighters”) into terrorists, just long enough to jump-start the Pentagon’s brilliant limited world war plan, before Obama converted the Mujahedeen (“al-Qaeda”) back into our allies in Libya and Syria.  The Al-Qaeda Mujahedeen have always worked on the American payroll, even when they were blowing-up our foreign facilities and helping to demolish American landmarks.  Now that we are back to the point where the two-headed al-Qaeda coin is once again flipped, to remind Americans of the phony excuse of “keeping al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan” and American troops in Afghanistan–The latest incarnation of “Why we fight,” according to Mr. Panetta.

The Pentagon and their minions in Hollywood have been producing similar films offering their version of  reality since WWII.  Now that computers have given them the capability to create simulations of their version of reality, they have their best liars hard at work simulating a very real World War III.  Their ultimate intention is to use this world war simulation as their vehicle to carry an all too real world war into the lives of the people of the world, beginning in 2013.   That is the key to understanding the contradictions, the hypocrisy and the deception–mixing staged productions with real events.  The mass-media makes it all possible, without them, there would be only reality, a reality that would be impossible for anyone to deny.

We have reached the point of contradiction in the grand psyop, where the majority of people will no longer be able to “suspend disbelief,” the key element of every good Hollywood production.  America’s “global war on terrorism” works on the same principles as every previous Hollywood extravaganza–in order for the plot to work, the viewer must first agree to the terms of  a symbolic contract between movie-goer and movie-maker.  In this instance, we are talking about the “suspension of disbelief” clause in the social/entertainment contract.  Every movie-watcher must abide by this guiding concept, to agree from the start, to watch the movie with an uncritical eye, saving any criticisms about plot deficiencies until the end of the movie, or at least until the true story has been revealed.

This is the point we have reached in the Hollywood/Pentagon production (PsyOp), where the true plot has been revealed to those of us with the power or the desire to see the truth in the American terror war, a point which would normally come towards the end of the production.  Since we are being sucked into a permanent state of limited world war, the rules of movie etiquette no longer apply to us.  Those of us who can see are free to openly rip into the cheesy plot that has been thrust upon us.

We are locked in a terror war, even though we are now openly allied with the very same “al-Qaeda” terrorists whom we have allegedly have allegedly been fighting against since the beginning of Bush’s terror war.  Barack Obama is were clearly using terrorists as the central element of his foreign policy.  He has been using them as a proxy force of paid mercenaries in Libya and Syria, just as he has been using the  the “al-Qaeda-linked”  Tehreek e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Pakistan’s Tribal Region.  Hakeemullah Mehsud’s TTP own the “al-Qaeda” franchise in Pakistan even though they are working for Obama, as they originally killed Pakistanis for Little Bush.  Before we contracted these “al-Qaeda” terrorists in Pakistan, Bush and Cheney had contracted a different branch of “al-Qaeda” to kill American servicemen in Iraq.  Bush had needed them to prolong the Iraq war for him after the initial quick victory.  Now Obama needs them to perform the same service in Pakistan and Afghanistan, helping him to prolong the war there into the indefinite future.  Whenever American foreign policy relies upon a hardcore force of “Islamist” militants to fight for us, either as “freedom fighters,” or against us as “terrorists,” then the inherent contradiction is revealed.  This is the turning point, where the audience begins to “look behind the curtain.”

This is the point of contradiction which now confronts us, the point where all government bullshit breaks-down.  This is the time for us to either hold the hypocritical contradictions high over our heads and turn them to our advantage, or to surrender our country to the Fascists and the closet Communists who have conspired to bring us to this point of ruin?  Another American revolution surely beats another American civil war, any day.

Without Obama’s hypocritical deceit, there would be no reason for any American troops to stay in Afghanistan.  Without President Obama’s use of terrorism within Iran and Lebanon ( in blind submission to the Fascist Israelis), then there would be no excuse for any anti-Iranian or anti-Hezbollah sanctions.  If it were not for American contracts with terrorists and mercenaries all over the world, then there would be no valid reason to wage any war anywhere.

“We the People of the United States” have a sacred duty to posterity and to the entire human race to put an end to the evil reign of the terrorist Barack Obama.  Anything less will not do.  It is high time that we all recognize the farce that we have all been living, thinking that it was all beyond our control.  We have to carry-out just one more “regime change,” this one has to take place in Washington, D.C.

Revolution is mandatory.  We will not follow a terrorist government any longer.

Take it to the streets.

therearenosunglasses@hotmail.com

 

Canada Covers-Up Its Own “USS Liberty” Murder of Canadian Peacekeeper By Zionist Scum

DND removes report on killing of Canadian soldier by Israeli forces

By David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen

Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener and three other United Nations observers were killed in 2006 when the Israeli military targeted their small outpost with repeated artillery barrages as well as an attack by a fighter aircraft. (Photo: Courtese CTV)

The Defence Department has quietly removed from the Internet a report into the killing of a Canadian military officer by Israeli forces, a move the soldier’s widow says is linked to the Conservative government’s reluctance to criticize Israel for any wrongdoing.

Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener and three other United Nations observers were killed in 2006 when the Israeli military targeted their small outpost with repeated artillery barrages as well as an attack by a fighter aircraft.

IN early 2008, the Defence Department posted on its website a 67-page report from the Canadian Forces board of inquiry into the killing. The board found Hess-von Kruedener’s death was preventable and caused by the Israeli military.

But less than a year later, the report was quietly removed from the DND website and has since remained off-limits to the public through official channels.

Hess-von Kruedener’s widow, Cynthia, told the Citizen that the decision to remove the document from the public domain was made by DND and the government in an effort to protect Israel’s reputation.

“They don’t want people reading about it,” she said. “It’s embarrassing to the Israelis and, as we know, Prime Minister (Stephen) Harper has given his unconditional support to the Israelis.”

The circumstances surrounding Hess-von Kruedener’s death and the attempts by DND and the Canadian Forces to limit access to the board of inquiry report are outlined in an article in the new edition of Legion magazine, an Ottawa-based publication sent to members of the Royal Canadian Legion.

DND originally refused to provide the magazine with the previously public board of inquiry report, claiming the publication needed to use the access-to-information law to obtain a copy.

Legion magazine obtained a copy of the report by other means. It has now posted the report on its website.

In an email sent to the Citizen, DND confirmed it had removed the board of inquiry report from its website in early 2009 for security reasons “after it was discovered that some of its content is considered protected information.”

That explanation, however, doesn’t stand up to scrutiny as Legion magazine compared both the 2008 version and the 2012 copy issued under the access law, discovering that the latest version actually contains more information than the original.

The Legion article also raises questions about the disappearance from DND of a United Nations report into the killing. The document was used by the Canadian Forces for its board of inquiry and the UN report is cited in the Canadian report. But DND’s access to information branch claims it has done a thorough search of records and no such report could be found.

DND could not comment on claims by defence sources that hard copies of the board of inquiry report were also removed from military libraries.

The death of Hess-von Kruedener, a UN observer assigned to the Israeli-Lebanon border, has largely been forgotten.

The Israeli attack on the UN outpost began shortly after noon on July 25, 2006, prompting the UN deputy secretary general to almost immediately call the Israeli ambassador to the UN and complain.

Several hours later another artillery barrage hit the outpost. That was followed by another 16 artillery rounds hitting the base, destroying most of the buildings above ground and blowing the door off the underground bunker where Hess-von Kruedener and his fellow peacekeepers had taken refuge.

At one point, a general in charge of UN operations in Lebanon called the Israeli liaison officer and told him, “You’re killing my people.” Previously, the Israelis halted such attacks when protests were received.

Later that day, an Israeli fighter pilot directed a precision-guided bomb through the door of the UN bunker. The blast from the massive bomb killed the four men.

Gen. Rick Hillier, then the chief of the defence staff, later described the major’s death as a “tragic accident.”

Cynthia Hess-von Kruedener told the Citizen that the Canadian Forces didn’t inform her of her husband’s death. Instead, she learned he had been killed from a television news report.

The Legion article notes the Israelis had deliberately targeted the base. The base had been included in the Israeli military’s “targeting list” which they acknowledged was an error on their part.

Cynthia Hess-von Kruedener also takes issue with some of the remarks made by Harper about her husband. At the time of the killing, Harper questioned what Hess-von Kruedener was doing at the UN outpost.

She said the answer is simple: He was doing his job as ordered by the Canadian Forces and government of Canada. “Instead of asking why this happened, (Harper) turned it onto an innocent UN peacekeeper,” she said.

On Sept. 19, 2006, then-Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert wrote Harper, expressing his deep regret. Harper wrote back on Nov. 20, 2006, thanking Olmert for his “expression of condolences, for the Israeli government’s rapid investigation of the incident and for information provided to Canadian officials.”

However, the Legion magazine article noted that the Israelis refused to answer questions from Canada about the attack.

dpugliese@ottawacitizen.com

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

Abbas Allegedly Threatens To Hand Over the West Bank To Israel

Abbas threatens to hand over the West Bank to Israel

via SyndiGate.info

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas attends a Fatah “Revolutionary Council” meeting in the Palestinian West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday.

Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said he will hand over responsibilty for the West Bank to Israel if peace talks are not renewed after Israel’s elections, Haaretz newspaper reported on Thursday.

In an interview with the Israeli newspaper, Abbas said he would relinquish control and disband the Palestinian authority if there was no progress after January 22.

“I’ll tell him [Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu]… Sit in the chair here instead of me, take the keys, and you will be responsible for the Palestinian Authority.”

“Once the new government in Israel is in place, Netanyahu will have to decide – yes or no,” Abbas said.

The Palestinian negotiating team has refused to return to the peace talks until Israel agrees on a settlement freeze. However, Israel has insisted on no preconditions to the talks.

Negotiations have been put on hold since September 2010.

Stamford Police Volunteered for Jewish Sensitizing/Desensitizing Training, Brainwashing Sessions

[Nearly 1,000 cops and Feds have been through these brainwashing sessions, the purpose of which, is to teach them about "extremist beliefs."  Those extremist beliefs are listed, ranging from alternative theories about the Mumbai attacks, to anti-government beliefs and considering Hezbollah to be a resistance force, not a "terrorist" force.  It is alright to support Sunni "Islamists," who work in the service of the world Empire, but not those who follow Shia beliefs  

These lawmen are being brainwashed to fight against anyone who focuses upon Jewish terrorism or any of their other hijinks, which are clearly detrimental to the people of the United States and their Constitution.  Do any of these volunteers to the Zionist cause even understand the contradiction between the oaths that they all have taken, "to defend the Constitution of the United States," and this training to suppress the rights of their fellow Americans?  

The Jewish elite, along with the rest of the self-proclaimed American aristocracy are fully engaged in a sickening plot to destroy this country and to bring the remnant under the control of the Zionist world government, residing in Washington, D.C..  I am very proud to be an "extremist" in the sacred cause of American Liberty and I will be very glad to explain that vigorously to whatever Jewish-trained enforcement officer who wishes to disarm me.] 

 source

Assistant police chief in Stamford receives counter-terrorism training

Staff Report

STAMFORD — Jim Matheny, assistant chief of the Stamford Police Department, joined 39 other top law enforcement leaders from around the country at the 22nd session of the Anti-Defamation League’s Advanced Training School (ATS) course on Extremist and Terrorist Threats.

Participants in the class, which was held earlier this month in Washington, D.C., included executives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Secret Service, Coast Guard Investigative Service, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Central Intelligence Agency Threat Management Unit, and dozens of the nation’s largest state and local law enforcement agencies.

The curriculum included presentations on white supremacy, anti-government extremism, homegrown Islamic extremism, the Mumbai attacks, Hezbollah and more.

“Thank you for this fantastic opportunity,” Matheny told the ADL upon his completion of the course. “This was the most distinguished and accomplished group of law enforcement professionals I have ever trained with.”

The Anti-Defamation League created the Advanced Training School in 2003 to provide top law enforcement leaders from across the country with practical resources and information to help them fight domestic and international terrorist threats.

ATS has now trained 815 law enforcement executives from across the country, representing more than 230 different agencies, and it is now recognized as one of the top counterterrorism schools in the nation, according to an ADL news release.

Candidates must apply to participate in the training, with several hundred applicants competing for the 40 places in each session of the course.

“ADL is proud to be the largest nongovernmental law enforcement education organization in the United States,” said Gary Jones, ADL’s Connecticut regional director. “It is important to remember that candidates must apply and be selected to participate in the Advanced Training School, and we are pleased that we were able to have Connecticut representation there in Stamford’s Jim Matheny.

“We have a strong relationship with law enforcement agencies at all levels throughout state,” Jones said. “One of the many reasons for that relationship is the quality of training we provide. We look forward to continue to work with them to make Connecticut a safer and better place for all who call it home.”

Helen Thomas: The Jews Are NOT Semites.

THE MODERN STATE OF “ISRAEL” IS A FRAUD PERPETUATED UPON THE HUMAN RACE BY THE BRITISH CROWN.

Semite–A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians.  

 

Arthur Koestler, author of The Thirteenth Tribe, easily the most expansive single work on the subject, states, “The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.” 1

This is the story of a kingdom of belligerent, warlike Caucasian nomads, having no linked ancestry with anything Israelite this side of Noah, yet adopting Talmudic Judaism and becoming the dominant — and virtually only — current force in twenty-first century international Jewry.

Where Do Jews Come From?

By EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN

This much is known: In the mid-eighth century, the ruling elite of the Khazars, a Turkic tribe in Eurasia, converted to Judaism. Their impetus was political, not spiritual. By embracing Judaism, the Khazars were able to maintain their independence from rival monotheistic states, the Muslim caliphate and the Christian Byzantine empire. Governed by a version of rabbinical law, the Khazar Jewish kingdom flourished along the Volga basin until the beginning of the second millennium, at which point it dissolved, leaving behind a mystery: Did the Khazar converts to Judaism remain Jews, and, if so, what became of them?

Enter Shlomo Sand. In a new book, “The Invention of the Jewish People,” the Tel Aviv University professor of history argues that large numbers of Khazar Jews migrated westward into Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, where they played a decisive role in the establishment of Eastern European Jewry. The implications are far-reaching: If the bulk of Eastern European Jews are the descendents of Khazars—not the ancient Israelites—then most Jews have no ancestral links to Palestine. Put differently: If most Jews are not Semites, then what justification is there for a Jewish state in the Middle East? By attempting to demonstrate the Khazar origins of Eastern European Jewry, Mr. Sand—a self-described post-Zionist who believes that Israel needs to shed its Jewish identity to become a democracy—aims to undermine the idea of a Jewish state.

Published in Hebrew last year, “The Invention of the Jewish People” was a best seller in Israel.

Mahmoud Abbas Makes Empty Offer To Capitalize Upon Syria’s Misery and To Provoke Zionist Outrage

[As long as that shitty little Zionist enclave exists, NO PALESTINIANS RETURN.]

Mahmoud Abbas offers to take Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria war

AP

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. — Photo by AFP

RAMALLAH: The Palestinian president said he was ready to take in Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war.    

Mahmoud Abbas said he had asked UN chief Ban Ki-moon to help in bringing the refugees to the Palestinian territories.

This could include the West Bank, where Abbas governs, or the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

The request was reported Wednesday by the official Wafa news agency. It follows an attack by Syrian warplanes against a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.

The statement said there are 450,000 Palestinian refugees living in 10 camps in Syria.

Abbas said the biggest camp, Yarmouk, ”has been through a difficult situation due to the escalating conflict in Syria”.

Any movement of refugees into the West Bank would need the consent of Israel. Israel’s Foreign Ministry had no comment.

174 to 6, UN tells Israel to let in nuclear inspectors

UN tells Israel to let in nuclear inspectors

As nuclear peace talks are cancelled, overwhelming vote by general assembly calls for Israel to join nonproliferation treaty

Associated Press

A vote by the United Nations general assembly has called on Israel to open its nuclear programme to weapons inspectors. Photograph: Chip East/Reuters

The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear programme for inspection.

The resolution, approved by a vote of 174 to six with six abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) “without further delay” and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those voting against were Israel, the US, Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.

Resolutions adopted by the 193-member general assembly are not legally binding but they do reflect world opinion and carry moral and political weight. And the resolution adds to pressure on Israel as it facescriticism over plans to increase settlement in the West Bank, a move seen as retaliation for the assembly recognising Palestinian statehood.

Israel refuses to confirm or deny possessing nuclear bombs though it is widely believed to have them. It has refused to join the non-proliferation treaty along with three nuclear weapon states: India, Pakistan and North Korea.

Israel insists there must first be a Middle East peace agreement before the establishment of a proposed regional zone free of weapons of mass destruction. Its rivals in the region argue that Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal presents the greatest threat to peace in the region.

While the US voted against the resolution, it voted in favour of two paragraphs in it that were put to separate votes. Both support universal adherence to the NPT and call on those countries that aren’t parties to ratify it “at the earliest date”. The only no votes on those paragraphs were Israel and India.

The vote came as a sequel to the cancellation of a high-level conference aimed at banning nuclear weapons from the Middle East. All the Arab nations and Iran had planned to attend the summit in mid-December in Helsinki, Finland, but the US announced on 23 November that it would not take place, citing political turmoil in the region and Iran’s defiant stance on non-proliferation. Iran and some Arab nations countered that the real reason for the cancellation was Israel’s refusal to attend.

Just before Monday’s vote, the Iranian diplomat Khodadad Seifi told the assembly “the truth is that the Israeli regime is the only party which rejected to conditions for a conference”. He called for “strong pressure on that regime to participate in the conference without any preconditions”.

Israeli diplomat Isi Yanouka told the general assembly his country had continuously pointed to the danger of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, singling out Iran and Syria by name. “All these cases challenge Israel’s security and cast a dark shadow at the prospect of embarking on a meaningful regional security process,” he said.

“The fact that the sponsors include in this anti-Israeli resolution language referring to the 2012 conference proves above all the ill intent of the Arab states with regard to this conference.”

The Syrian diplomat Abdullah Hallak told the assembly his government was angry the conference was not going to take place because of “the whim of just one party, a party with nuclear warheads”.

“We call on the international community to put pressure on Israel to accept the NPT, get rid of its arsenal and delivery systems, in order to allow for peace and stability in our region,” he said.

The conference’s main sponsors are the US, Russia and Britain. The British foreign office minister Alistair Burt has said it is being postponed, not cancelled.

United Nations Takes-Up the Pressing Issue of Israeli Nukes

[SEE:  Mordechai Vanunu PHOTOS OF DIMONA–(updated 12-5-12)]

UN Urges Israel To Open Nuclear Facilities For IAEA Inspection

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to adopt a resolution urging Israel to open its nuclear facilities for inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) “without further delay.”

The resolution was adopted 174 votes to six with six abstentions. The six nations which voted against the measure were Israel, the United States, Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. Incidentally, UNGA resolutions are non-binding, but they reflect world opinion and carry moral and political weight.

Israel is yet to confirm or deny whether it has nuclear weapons under its policy of “nuclear ambiguity,” but it is widely believed that the Jewish State has a nuclear arsenal. Israel is also not a signatory to the 1970 NPT, which is intended to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology. India, Pakistan and North Korea are the other nuclear-capable nations yet to sign the NPT.

The U.N. adopts the resolution amid speculations that Israel may soon launch a unilateral military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities if Tehran does not stop its disputed uranium enrichment work. Although Iran insists that its nuclear program is intended for peaceful civilian purposes, the West suspects the claim to be a cover-up for the country’s nuclear weapon ambitions. But Tehran argues that it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Israel has so far resisted efforts by Arab nations to create a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East, insisting that a Mideast peace agreement must be in place before it can back such an initiative. Although Israel is widely believed to be the only State in the region having a nuclear arsenal, the Jewish nation insist that it will not be the first or last country to introduce such weapons in the Mideast.

Incidentally, a high-level conference on banning nuclear weapons in the Middle East was originally set to open in the Finnish capital Helsinki in mid-December. But the conference, sponsored by Russia, the UK and the U.S., was canceled two weeks ago after Washington withdrew from the meeting, citing political turmoil in the region and Iran’s defiant nuclear program. But most Arab nations believe that the U.S. move was prompted by Israel’s refusal to attend the conference.

Notably, Tuesday’s UNGA resolution was the second setback to Israel at the world body in recent days. Last Thursday, the UNGA voted to upgrade Palestine’s “permanent observer” status at the world body to that of a “non-member observer State” despite stiff opposition from the United States and Israel.

Israel rejected the General Assembly vote as “one-sided,” stressing that the Palestinians’ U.N. bid violated peace accords under which the Palestinian Authority was established states clearly that a Palestinian state should emerge only as a result of bilateral negotiations.

Israel reacted to Thursday’s UNGA vote by announcing plans to construct 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied Palestinian territory of West Bank. Israel also withheld the December installment of tax revenues amounting 460 million shekels ($120 million) to the Palestinian Authority.

The Israeli move attracted widespread international criticism, with several world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, warning that it would undermine ongoing efforts to restart the currently-stalled Middle East peace talks. Besides, several EU nations, including Britain, France, Spain, Denmark and Sweden summoned Israeli Ambassadors in their countries to lodge their formal protests at the settlement expansion plans.

The elevated status of a “non-member observer State” allows the Palestinians to participate in debates at the U.N. But it does not provide an automatic entry into U.N. agencies or provide any guarantees in that regard. However, outcome of the U.N. vote amounts to an implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood.

Incidentally, the Security Council had rejected a Palestinian bid last year for a full U.N. membership for a Palestine State with pre-1967 borders and East Jerusalem as its capital. Palestine was later admitted as a member-state to the UNESCO despite objections from Israel and the U.S.

Palestinians believe that the non-member observer State status would eventually lead to Palestine’s recognition as a U.N. Member-State. Such a development would allow them to haul Israel to the International Criminal Court and other international forums over issues relating to the 2008 invasion of the Gaza Strip as well as building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Currently, the U.S.-mediated peace talks are deadlocked over Israel’s refusal to extend a construction freeze in the West Bank after its expiry on September 26, 2010. Palestinians insist that they will return to direct peace talks only if Israel stops settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israel has settled about 500,000 Jews in more than 100 settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the 1967 Six-Day War. However, its annexation of the captured area is not recognized by the international community, which considers building settlements in the occupied land as illegal.

A previously agreed 2003 peace plan mediated by the Middle East Quartet, comprising the U.N., European Union, the United States and Russia, requires Israel to dismantle settlement outposts erected since 2001 and freeze all settlement activities, while Palestinians are required to halt all violence against Israel. It is ultimately expected to lead to an independent Palestinian State alongside Israel with East Jerusalem as its capital.

by RTT Staff Writer

For comments and feedback: editorial@rttnews.com

BIG OIL Doesn’t Like the Stench of Zionist Gas–No One Is Willing To Partner with Israel

[SEE:  Israel Tapping Palestinian Gas Deposits?]

Australian Woodside in the Eastern Mediterranean: Throwing a Wrench in an Already Topsy Turvy Region

by Michael Economides in Australia

On December 2, Noble Energy, the Houston company that has played a vital role in drilling and confirming massive deep-water natural gas deposits (the largest in recent memory) in Israeli and Cypriot waters, announced a 30 percent sale of the Leviathan field to Australia’s Woodside.

Under the terms of the deal, Noble Energy will sell 9.66 percent of the total rights in the license for $802 million. The other partners, the Delek Group Ltd., controlled by Yitzhak Tshuva, will sell 15 percent of the rights for $1.281 billion and Ratio will sell 5 percent of the rights for $417 million.

These prices are firesale bargains for Woodside. Assuming that the Leviathan contains 17 Tcf of recoverable natural gas as reported by Noble, 30 percent of that (more than 5 Tcf) has just been purchased for $0.50 per thousand standard cubic feet (Mcf) or million Btu. Such price is probably the lowest paid this year anywhere in the world for gas in the ground, including the United States which arguably has had the lowest retail natural gas prices anywhere, less than $4/Mcf. In Europe prices hovered around $8 and in Asia toped $15. Woodside either has or contemplates several contracts calling for prices of $12 to $15/Mcf. For Woodside getting gas so cheap and been able to control it in a world market into which it has already established a large and ever increasing presence is a no brainer. It is also clear that the Israeli sellers wanted cash, any cash asap. How logical is that is another matter.

Woodside in Israeli waters is of course an important event no matter what. The company is somewhat of a maverick, a different breed from the traditional conservative Australian company and carrying the imprint of its long-time American CEO Don Voelte who was just replaced by long-time ExxonMobil alum Peter Coleman. Voelte who took over Woodside management when the company was tiny, was often derided by some Australians, naturally averse to the foreigner, he laughed all the way to the bank, with astute decisions establishing Woodside in a commanding position in both oil and, especially, liquid natural gas (LNG) production from Australia’s offshore North West Shelf.

Woodside had to fill a vacuum in Israel, repeatedly brought up in the Israeli press. Major multinational oil companies such as Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron and the like would not enter Israeli production for fear of antagonizing their Arab cohorts, which for practically all of them, provide the lion’s share of their activities. Large company aversion to invest in Israel is a situation that lasted since the creation of the country in 1948.

The second element to the Woodside entrance is the shutting out of Gazprom, Russia’s massive monopoly. Gazprom has been circling the area trying to buy into Israeli and Cypriot gas in what can be blatantly considered as a Trojan horse-kind of relationship. Gazprom would not want Mediterranean gas to be threatening its hegemony over Europe. There have been constant rumors that Russia would be even willing to throw Iran off the proverbial bus had Israel let Gazprom in.

Israel, taken on its own has very limited options for massive exports of gas. Pipelines through Arab countries or through Turkey are not politically feasible. LNG is the only answer and a liquefaction facility in Cyprus is the obvious choice.

Where do the recent maneuvers leave Cyprus? Not much has changed other than the dirt cheap price at which Israeli interests sold their properties. Surely the Woodside price will have an impact in the future.

However, in this type of situation, what is valuable is establishing long-term sales contracts where supply is guaranteed. Cyprus is immediately embarking on a drilling boom and the country’s petroleum future, properly managed, can lead the way from the area. Fortunately, after the February 2013 elections, Cypriot leaders will have the opportunity to concentrate on this critical issue, freed from the ongoing election campaign posturing. For Israel it should become abundantly clear that such an alliance, in fact unitization, will bring enormous benefit to both countries.

Michael Economides is Editor-in-Chief of the Energy Tribune

Not black-and-white: The chess game behind the recent Gaza-Israel war (Op-Ed)

Palestinian children walk on the rubble of a building destroyed during earlier Israeli bombardment adjacent to their United Nations run school, in Gaza City, on November 24, 2012 (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed)

The recent hostilities between the Gaza Strip and Israel have to be viewed in context of a broader geopolitical chessboard. The events in Gaza are tied to Syria and the US’s regional maneuvers against Iran and its regional alliance system.

Syria has been compromised as a conduit for weapons to Gaza, because of its domestic instability. Israel has capitalized on this politically and militarily. Benjamin Netanyahu has not only tried to secure his own election victory in the Knesset through an attack on Gaza, but has used the US-sponsored instability in Syria as an opportunity to try and target the arms stockpiles of the Palestinians.

Netanyahu calculated that Gaza will not be able to rearm itself while Syria and its allies are distracted. The bombing of the Yarmouk arms factory in Sudan, which Israel says was owned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, was probably part of this plan and a prelude to Israel’s attack on Gaza.

In this chess game, sit the so-called “Moderates”— a misleading label jointly utilized by Messrs George W. Bush Jr. and Tony Blair to whitewash their regional cabal of tyrants and backward regimes — alongside the Obama Administration and NATO. These so-called Moderates include the desert dictators of the feudal Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Jordan, Mahmoud Abbas, and Turkey. In 2011, the ranks of the Moderates were augmented by the NATO-installed government of Libya and the GCC/NATO-supported anti-government militias that were unleashed in Syria.

On the other side of the chessboard defiantly sits the Resistance Bloc composed of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah (and Hezbollah’s partners in Lebanon, like Amal and the Free Patriotic Movement), the so-called Palestinian Rejectionists, and increasingly Iraq. The Muslim Brotherhood, which has emerged as a new regional force, is being increasingly prodded into the Moderate camp by the US and the GCC in an attempt to ultimately play the sectarian card against the Resistance Bloc.

A Palestinian man helps clean the debris from the building of the Ministry of Interior in Gaza City on November 24, 2012, after it was destroyed during an Israeli air strike on November 16, at the height of the week-long conflict between Israel and Gaza militants (AFP Photo / Marco Longari)

Stark contrasts between Gaza and Syria

Israel’s attack on Gaza was a litmus test. All those voices continuously pushing for America’s McJihad against the Syrian government in the name of freedom vanished from their podiums or suddenly went silent when Israel attacked Gaza. Al Jazeera’s tele-preacher Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and Saudi Arabia’s dictator-selected Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz went silent. Adnan Al-Arour — the Saudi-based exiled kooky Syrian cleric who, as one of the spiritual heads of the Syrian anti-government forces, has threatened to punish anyone that says that Al-Qaeda is among their ranks — even berated Hamas and the Palestinians for fighting Israel.

The fighting in Gaza really placed them in a fix. Here we see the contradictions in their “Arab Spring.” We now see who really pays lip service to Palestinian liberation and who does not. Moreover, the foreign supporters of the Syrian National Coalition, a rehash of the Syrian National Council, are ironically all supporters of Israel.

This is why mentioning the support that Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah have provided for Gaza has become a taboo among the supporters of the anti-government forces in Syria. All they can say is that any acknowledgment of the support that Tehran, Damascus, and Hezbollah have provided to Gaza is an attempt to sanitize “Bashar Al-Assad and his supporters.”

Family members and Palestinian militants of Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, carry the body of one of their leaders, Judah Shamallah, during his funeral procession in Gaza City on November 24, 2012 (AFP Photo / Marco Longari)

Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah helped the Palestinians in Gaza

The Iranian Fijr-5 symbolically ingrains Tehran’s support for Palestine. Despite the fact that Israel and Gaza are by far not equal, it was predominately Iranian arms and technology that changed the balance of power. Tehran has been the main ally and supporter of the Palestinian resistance. The US, Israel, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Iran itself have all acknowledged this in different ways.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is unapologetically pro-Iranian, has openly stated that everything Gaza used in the fight against Israel, from its bullets to missiles, has been generously provided by Tehran. It was even reported during the fighting that Hezbollah, using a special unit dedicated to arming the Palestinians, resupplied the Gaza Strip with some of its own long-range missiles.

This has all taken place while the cads in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey have instead armed the Syrian anti-government militias. Egypt and Jordan continue to be major partners in preventing Iranian arms from reaching the Palestinians.

Palestinian fighters have also been trained in Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. Ironically, the anti-government forces in Syria are also targeting members of the Palestinian Liberation Army in Syria.

The support that the Resistance Bloc has given the Palestinians puts those actors, like Turkey and Qatar, opposed to the Syrian government in a real predicament. These so-called Sunni states were embarrassed; not only did they fail to help a predominately Sunni population, but their insincerity was exposed.  This is why there is an active effort to deny the support that Iran and its allies have provided for Gaza.

A boy looks up as he walks in the rubble of a destroyed shop in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 26, 2012 (AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams)

De-linking Hamas from Resistance Bloc to start a Muslim Civil War

As a back story to all this, the Israeli attack on Gaza and the Moderate’s wooing of Hamas is more than just about neutralizing Gaza. Hamas leaders are being tempted to choose between the Moderate and Resistance camps and increasingly between governing or active resistance to the Israeli occupation. Through this, some form of accommodation to the US and Israel is being sought from Hamas. The aims are to de-link the Palestinians, particularly Hamas, from the Resistance Bloc in order to portray Iran and its allies as a Shiite alliance bent on dominating the Sunnis.

If you are foolish enough to fall prey to it, welcome to the unfolding “American fitna” (schism) that aims to ignite a regional Muslim civil war between the Shiites and Sunnis. The Obama administration is trying to construct and line up a Sunni axis against the region’s Shiite Muslims.

It is a classic strategy of divide and conquer that envisions America and Israel dominating the region as the Muslims are incapacitated by their bloodletting. The Shia are systematically being vilified courtesy of the new media war: Iran, Hezbollah, Bashar Al-Assad (an Alawi who is increasingly labeled a Shiite for the benefit of this project), and Nouri Maliki’s administration in Iraq are being portrayed as the new oppressors of the Sunnis. In their place Turkey, with its virtually stillborn neo-Ottomanism foreign policy, and Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood are being presented as the champions of the Sunnis. Never mind that Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi has continued the blockade of Gaza for Israel or that Turkey’s Erdogan lost his voice for a while when Israel began bombing Gaza.

The US is trying to use Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to control Hamas, because it was Cairo that established a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. While Iran offers military technology, logistical support, and finance the Egyptians are being presented as Gaza’s ticket to establishing some form of normality and the GCC as alternative funding. This is why Qatar’s Emir Al-Thani visited Gaza to tempt Hamas with his declining supply of petro-dollars.

Smoke billows after Israeli air strikes near smuggling tunnels between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, on November 21, 2012 in Rafah (AFP Photo / Said Khatib)

 

Shiite and Sunni divisions are political constructs

Inside Hamas there are internal differences over this. While Damascus, Tehran, and Hezbollah desired some form of public acknowledgment about their vital assistance to Hamas and the Palestinians, Hamas officials were careful about their statements. When Khaled Meshaal thanked Egypt, Qatar, and Tunisia during an important press conference, he narrowly mentioned Iran.

Meshaal’s politicking was not lost on Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, who responded hours later by rhetorically asking who supplied and painstakingly transferred the Fajr-5 missiles into Gaza? Nasrallah asked people to look past Gaza’s fair-weather friends, like the Qataris and Saudis who think they can buy their ways into the grace of the Palestinians, but to look at Gaza’s tested friends who allowed Gaza to stand on its own two feet. Then the Lebanese leader reaffirmed the ongoing support of the Resistance Bloc for the Palestinian people.

Despite its politburo’s position on Syria, Hamas is still a part of the Resistance Bloc. There is a new format now. If Greece and Turkey were at odds with one another as two NATO allies, then Hamas can have its differences with Syria and still be allied with the Resistance Bloc against Israel.

The divide in the Middle East is not a sectarian one between Shiites and Sunnis, but fundamentally political. The alliance of the predominately Sunni Muslim Palestinian resistance movements and the Free Patriotic Movement, Lebanon’s largest Christian political party, with predominately Shiite Muslim Iran and Hezbollah should defuse such a perception that the US and its allies are trying to cultivate.

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya for RT

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is a sociologist and research associate at the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) in Montréal  and the author of The Globalization of NATO (Clarity Press)

France, Austria, and Spain Come-Out for Palestinian Vote–(US Has Corrected British Backsliding–UPDATED)

“William Hague says UK may abstain in Palestinian UN vote”

[It seems that every European ally of the US, except for the Zionist entity (and their German slaves) and the United States itself, are coming-out to support the Palestinian vote at the UN--France and Austria, Britain and Spain.]

France backs Palestinians in statehood bid

France has become the first major European country to back the Palestinian drive for statehood at the UN.

Austria reportedly also plans to support the proposal and claims it will be joined by more than half of the EU’s 27 member states. The vote is due later this week.

France is a permanent member of the UN security council and has backed an upgrade in status for Palestine for decades.

“It is a question of political coherence,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told the lower house of parliament. He added that immediate and unconditional negotiations are the only way that a Palestinian state can emerge.

Israel and the United States oppose the move.

“I think that the great majority of nations will vote with us. We tried very hard to win the largest number of European countries to vote in favor” said Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour.

Upgraded status would mean the opportunity to participate in debates in the General Assembly and to join UN agencies, as well as the International Criminal Court.

Israel has promised unilateral action if the Palestinians challenge its actions in the ICC.

Zionism is murder and lies

Israel’s recurrent massacres of Palestinians are largely made possible because no one in power has the courage to challenge Zionist lies

Khalid Amayreh

In addition to plain murder, Israel has been indulging in outright propaganda based on lies in the attempt to justify its genocidal killing spree in the Gaza Strip. In the final analysis, killing and lying go hand-in-hand.

A few years ago I spoke with an Israeli army spokeswoman, asking her how Israel could claim that it didn’t deliberately target Palestinian civilians when thousands of them were being killed, maimed and mutilated, often beyond recognition. With characteristic prevarication, the young woman answered: “We kill them knowingly but not deliberately.”

I asked what the difference was since killing knowingly is killing deliberately. Facing my persistent questions, the army spokeswoman eventually told me she was not an expert on linguistic sophistry, and that as far as she was concerned, the Israeli occupation army didn’t have an established policy of targeting innocent Palestinians.

The truth of the matter is that Israel does have a long established policy of targeting innocent civilians, whether in Gaza or the West Bank or South Lebanon.

License to kill

Israeli spokespersons claim that civilians are killed inadvertently or by mistake, while others fall as “collateral damage.”

But mistakes happen once, twice or 10 times. When “mistakes” occur numerous times and on every day and in every round of war, it means “mistakes” are an established policy pursued consciously.

In 2006, the Israeli air force reportedly dropped 2-3 million cluster bomblets on southern Lebanon. This huge number of deadly time bombs is enough, at least theoretically, to kill 2-3 million Lebanese children. This is half a holocaust by Zionist standards. Does Israel expect humanity to be so naïve to believe that this intended genocide of Lebanese civilians was planned and executed by mistake?

In reality, Zionists consider the rest of humanity too sheepish or gullible to discover their lies. This is why the bulk of Zionist rabbis believe in Jewish supremacy. Take, for example, Ovadia Yosef, the religious mentor of the Haredi Shas Party.

Two years ago, Yosef was quoted as saying during a Sabbath homily that Gentiles (non-Jews) are effectively donkeys that God created solely in order to serve Jews.

Yosef is not a demented or marginal rabbi. He is a former chief rabbi of Israel and has hundreds of thousands of loyal followers. Moreover, his party is a kingmaker within the Israeli political arena.

Reversing the truth

If murderous criminality is the modus operandi of Israel ‘s treatment of its Palestinian victims, lying is Israel’s shield against international condemnation.

Israel benefits from a huge network of Zionist-owned or Zionist-influenced media, extending from Sydney to California. These  mouthpieces of Zionist lies have a premier function to perform as far as Israel is concerned: to turn big lies into virtual truths glorified by thousands.

This week, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a habitual and pathological liar, asked a German official the following: What would Germany do if its capital was hit with wave after wave of rockets?

Of course, the German minister didn’t have the courage to tell Netanyahu that Israel is founded on a pre-existing country, that its founders, including Zionist terrorists, destroyed Palestinian homes, obliterated Palestinian villages, murdered Palestinian children and expelled hundreds of thousands with no chance of return. This is the reason Palestinians fire rockets on Israeli towns and settlements.

Indeed, even if the German minister had the rectitude to challenge Netanyahu, he probably wouldn’t dare say what should be said lest he lose his job and be ejected from his party, or worse.

In truth, Zionist lies have a beginning but have no end. Zionists claim they didn’t expel the bulk of the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland when Israel was established in 1948.

Listening to these obscene lies, a stranger who knows nothing about the conflict would probably think that the Palestinians left their homes because they got so bored that they needed an opportunity for recreational activities outside Palestine.

The Zionists also claim that they are only responding to Palestinian provocations, namely the firing of projectiles on Israeli towns and settlements.

Israeli spokespersons even dramatise these lies by asking Westerners how would they feel and react if their citizens were showered with thousands of rockets.

The truth, which much of the international media, including agenda setters such as CNN, the BBC, CBS along with The New York Times, The Washington Post, and even Le Monde, ignore is that these inaccurate projectiles are nearly innocuous and are absolutely no match for Israel’s state-of-the-art technology of death, such as F-15 and F-16 jets, Apache helicopters, unmanned predator drones, and laser-guided missiles fired from high altitudes on poor people’s homes, causing massacres and widespread destruction.

The world needs to know

The world needs to know the truth and stop being at the mercy of Zionist lies. So-called Palestinian missiles are the poor man’s weapon in the face of America and Israel’s most advanced arsenal.

Indeed, were these Palestinian rockets “real weapons,” they would enable Palestinians to protect their children who are slaughtered by the dozen per day. Indeed, a single bombing raid by an Israeli war plane, such as an F-15 or F-16, has more firepower and can inflict more damage and death than a thousand projectiles of the type fired from Gaza on Israel.

This is not propaganda. This is truth that is evident from the latest round of violence in Gaza. The Palestinians fired as many as 1100 “rockets” on Israel, leaving five Israelis dead and a few others injured.

In comparison, as many as 150 Palestinians were killed in little over a week, 90 per cent of them innocent civilians, including more than 30 babies and toddlers, with 1200 others — also mostly civilians — injured, many of them seriously. This is not to mention the destruction inflicted on the already bombed-out Gaza.

The Palestinians fire these projectiles because this is all they have to defend themselves and their children against a fascist enemy that is armed to the teeth and has the US government and Congress tightly under control.

The use of these so-called “missiles” is an expression of desperation and weakness on the Palestinians’ part. But it is also an expression of Palestinian determination to gain liberty from an evil entity that only understands the language of force.

Finally, the world should understand and internalise the historical fact that it was these terrorist thugs from Eastern Europe, such as Netanyahu and Barak, who invaded Palestine, terrorising and banishing its native people to the four winds. It is paramount to remember this fact everytime Israel claims it is only responding to Palestinian violence.

Besides, we should also understand what the American-English poet Auden said.

“I and the public know,

What all school children learn,

Those to whom evil is done,

Do evil in return”

The writer is a US-educated journalist living in the Israeli occupied West Bank.

Palestinian Ambassador Prefers Full Zionist Invasion Over “Zionist-Lite” Hamas

Palestinian ambassador tells Israeli counterpart: Hamas must go

Palestinian from Gaza tells Israeli that the offices destroyed by IDF operation are not important. ‘The real offices are the mosques which are connected to a widespread network of tunnels. Everything happens underground.’

By Barak Ravid

Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, right, with Hamas’ Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, speaks to the media.Photo by Reuters

As the Israel Air Force continued to pulverize Gaza and Hamas fired rockets at the south of Israel last Monday, an Israeli ambassador telephoned his Palestinian counterpart. Both officials have served for several years in the capital of the same major country. The Israeli ambassador was calling to ask after the welfare of the Palestinian ambassador’s family, who lives in Gaza.

The Israeli ambassador, an experienced and admired diplomat, heard that the Palestinian ambassador was confused, depressed, and frustrated over the situation in Gaza and the behavior of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and his colleagues in Arab countries. “Not one of the 19 Arab ambassadors stationed here called to ask how I’m doing or if everything’s all right,” the Palestinian ambassador told the Israeli.

The Israeli ambassador quickly sent a telegram to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem reporting the conversation in great detail. The telegram reached me. I will provide its contents here, with small omissions in order to protect the Palestinian ambassador and his family.

The Palestinian ambassador said that if Israel expanded the operation in Gaza, it must work to overthrow Hamas, instead of stopping in the middle, as it did in Operation Cast Lead in 2008. “If there should be a ground operation in Gaza, this time he expects to see [Hamas prime minister] Ismail Haniyeh and [high-ranking Hamas leader] Mahmoud al-Zahar in their underwear, as he put it,” the Israeli ambassador wrote, quoting his Palestinian colleague. “Otherwise, there is no sense in another operation, as big as it may be.”

Later on in the telegram, the Israeli ambassador repeated some harsh statements that the Palestinian ambassador had made against Hamas. “The Hamas offices that were destroyed are not important. The real offices are the mosques, which are connected to a widespread network of tunnels. Everything happens underground,” the Palestinian ambassador said. “Hamas has no regrets over the destruction in Gaza. On the contrary. Hamas gets a great deal of economic and political benefit from the terrible destruction because of the large donations that will come from the world and the political image of the organization that stands on the front line against Israel.”

The Palestinian continued his verbal attack on Hamas and the Arab world. “The call to open the Rafah border crossing is nothing but lip service,” he said. “Hamas has no problem with it being closed – that only adds to the profit Hamas makes from the tunnels…. The Arab world leans more in Hamas’ direction these days, and Egypt takes the lead in that. The Egyptian prime minister’s visit to Gaza would never have taken place in Mubarak’s time…. The Arabs’ pilgrimage to Gaza focuses attention exclusively on Hamas, which is accumulating points among the Palestinian public and in the Arab world.”

After venting his anger against Hamas, the Palestinian ambassador turned his criticism on the man who had appointed him to the position: Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. He claimed that Abbas and his advisers believe that the military operation in Gaza is a conspiracy to sabotage the Palestinian action in the United Nations.

This is how the Israeli ambassador described the Palestinian ambassador’s statements in his telegram to the Foreign Ministry: “Abu Mazen never troubled to bring the residents of Gaza close to him. He does not like Gaza, and if he could get rid of it, he would be happy to do so. Therefore, he is in no hurry to visit Gaza to show leadership and presence. The reason has nothing to do with security. He could have arranged such a visit with a foreign leader, thus making an unequivocal statement that Gaza is part of the future Palestinian state. Currently, this is not sufficiently clear, and time is working against the Palestinian Authority and its chairman. One way or another, Abu Mazen’s time is more or less up. The problem is who will replace him.”