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		<description><![CDATA[Palestine was and will always remain the core issue, and to all who is concerned: Syria is the resistance cave and the conspiracy against Damascus is to fall as 2006 Israeli&#8221; aggression against Lebanon and its resistance suffered a humiliating defeat. Zeinab Essa From the glory of the anniversary was the speech and from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8242134&amp;post=3026&amp;subd=middleeastatemporal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><strong><em><a class="zem_slink" title="Palestine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine" rel="wikipedia">Palestine</a> was and will always remain the core issue, and to all who is concerned: Syria is the resistance cave and the conspiracy against Damascus is to fall as 2006 <a class="zem_slink" title="Israel" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Israeli</a>&#8221; aggression against <a class="zem_slink" title="Lebanon" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.9,35.5333333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=33.9,35.5333333333 (Lebanon)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Lebanon</a> and its resistance suffered a humiliating defeat.</em></strong></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><strong><a href="http://74.84.132.35/essaydetails.php?eid=16671&amp;cid=298">Zeinab Essa</a></strong></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left">From the glory of the anniversary was the speech and from the sacred blood a renewed vow that the resistance is ready in all the fronts.</div>
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Palestine was and will always remain the core issue, and to all who is concerned: Syria is the resistance cave and the conspiracy against Damascus is to fall as 2006 Israeli&#8221; aggression against Lebanon and its resistance suffered a humiliating defeat.</div>
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And to the &#8220;Israeli&#8217;s&#8221;, the Master of Speech set the boundaries of avenging Haj Imad&#8217;s martyrdom:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left">&#8220;His Blood is to chase you in your conscious and nightmares and we aren&#8217;t to choose a humiliating revenge.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under the slogan <strong>&#8220;Invincible Resistance&#8221;</strong> and in the Leader Martyrs&#8217; day the Secretary General of <a class="zem_slink" title="Hezbollah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah" rel="wikipedia">Hizbullah</a> His Eminence <a class="zem_slink" title="Hassan Nasrallah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah" rel="wikipedia">Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah</a> tackled a number of regional and internal files that both the nation and Lebanon are facing.</p>
<p><strong>Condlences on Passing Away of <a class="zem_slink" title="Sayyid" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid" rel="wikipedia">Sayyed</a> Moussawi&#8217;s Father </strong></p>
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<p>Thanking the mass audience for their sincere participation in the Resistance Leader Martyrs anniversary, Sheikh Ragheb Harb, Sayyed Abbas al-Moussawi, and Haj Imad Moughnyieh, the Secretary General of Hizbullah expressed his condolence to the death of Sayyed Abu Hssein al-Moussawi&#8217;s, father of Sayyed Abbas.</p>
<p>&#8220;From 20 years, we miss today the presence of beloved and<a href="http://74.84.132.35/essaydetails.php?eid=16664&amp;cid=274">honored Abu Hussein al-Moussawi</a>&#8230; In addition to the fact that this sincere Sayyed is the father of our beloved and respected leader, teacher, and Secretary General Sayyed Abbas al-Moussawi, he was always present in all the resistance fields,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Despite his age and illness Sayyed Abu Hussein didn&#8217;t miss an opportunity to support the Resistance&#8230; We pledge to the soul of this father that we will preserve his soul as well as his era and we will continue on the path of Sayyed Abbas al-Moussawi,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah vowed.</p></div>
<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://admin.alintiqad.com/uploaded1/New%20Folder/sayyed9.jpg"><img src="http://admin.alintiqad.com/uploaded1/New%20Folder/sayyed9.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="213" align="left" border="0" /></a>Moving to the anniversary, His Eminence reiterated that the three exceptional <a class="zem_slink" title="Martyr" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr" rel="wikipedia">Martyr</a> Leaders shared common features among them.</div>
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&#8220;They were founders of this resistance, this process and this party (Hizbullah),&#8221; he noted adding that &#8220;they were the initiators who contributed and participated and worked on the construction this large and great structure.&#8221;<br />
Stressing that &#8220;Hizbullah was and is still abiding by the martyr leaders&#8217; track,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah clarified that &#8220;these martyrs had a very strong influence in bolstering the foundation, mentality, culture and course of this Resistance.&#8221;</div>
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&#8220;In a country and region that are on a continuous line of military and security quake&#8217;s, we must always establish a strong structure based on firm foundations of so that we preserve our country&#8217;s and people&#8217;s steadfastness and dignity,&#8221; His Eminence affirmed.</p>
<p>He further noted that &#8220;with the blessings of the Martyr Leaders, their sacrifices, struggle, resistance, and blood solid and stable foundations were devoted for the resistance.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><a class="zem_slink" title="Zionism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism" rel="wikipedia">Zionist</a> Plan in Region, Ongoing Occupation of Palestine</strong></div>
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&#8220;Therefore, after 30 years of its inception the resistance is powerful, solid, well-established, and is characterized with a high degree of certainty,&#8221; he added pointed out that &#8220;as our slogan says, the resistance has an invincible will.&#8221;</div>
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Confirming that Hizbullah does not build its alliances based on moods, the Secretary General of Hizbullah explained that the resistance takes into consideration the interests of the nation, country and people.</div>
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&#8220;Among these bases upon which we build our coalitions is the issue related to the stance toward the Zionist plan in the region: First we must understand its truth, measures, dangers, strong points and its current environment,&#8221; His Eminence highlighted.</p>
<p>Recalling that &#8220;we understand that &#8220;Israel&#8221; is the entity usurper of occupied Palestine,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah clarified that &#8220;We understand that &#8220;Israel&#8221; reflects the entity, the tool, and the army of the Zionist plan in the region and we outline our stance based on this belief.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;The danger of the Zionist plan, which is represented by &#8220;Israel&#8221;, involves the entire region. &#8220;Israel&#8221; occupies Palestine and the holy Christian and Muslim sites,&#8221; the Resistance Leader added.</p>
<p><a href="http://middleeastatemporal.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/judaization1_300_0.jpg"><img src="http://middleeastatemporal.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/judaization1_300_0.jpg?w=300&#038;h=250" alt="" width="300" height="250" border="0" /></a>&#8220;The &#8220;Israeli&#8221; project works on Judaizing <a class="zem_slink" title="Jerusalem" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Jerusalem)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">al-Quds</a> and causing all these misfortunes and pains to <a class="zem_slink" title="Palestinian people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people" rel="wikipedia">Palestinian people</a> at home and abroad,&#8221; he confirmed stating that &#8220;Hizbullah adopts such a stance because we believe, and the facts prove this, that the Zionist entity endangers the region and its people regardless of their religious and racial affiliations or even the civilization from which they descend.&#8221;</div>
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Calling to &#8220;confront this danger and bring it down,&#8221; His Eminence pointed out that &#8220;our leaders who became martyrs were defending Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and all Arab and Islamic states in the region.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Every resistance fighter in this region, particularly in the neighboring states who confronts &#8220;Israel&#8217;s&#8221; danger is defending the whole nation,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah added.</div>
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Moving from this primary standard, Nasrallah explained the bases through which the resistance evaluates, corrects and forms its alliances and this is among our most important standards.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Based on this standard i.e. Palestine we evaluate our behavior and others&#8217; (figures&#8217;, parties&#8217;, people&#8217;s, movement&#8217;s, and countries&#8217;) performance,&#8221;</strong> <strong>Sayyed Nasrallah said.</strong> <strong>Advising the rising Islamic movements to evaluate themselves and others&#8217; positions through their stand from the Palestinian cause,&#8221; His Eminence stressed that</strong> <strong>&#8220;No Islamic movement in any Arab or Islamic country can exist without having a clear stance from the Zionist project in the region.&#8221;</strong> The Secretary General of Hizbullah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah moved on to comment on the regional scene.</p>
<p>&#8220;Throughout the 60 years of &#8220;Israeli&#8221; occupation to Palestine, some Arab regimes colluded with the Western and the &#8220;Israeli&#8221; against Palestine and helped in strengthening this entity,&#8221; he clarified.<br />
&#8220;They helped in the survival of this entity and tried to convince Palestinian people and the peoples of the region to accept the settlement according to the &#8220;Israeli&#8221; interests, so that some Arab regimes were sincere and honest to the American and &#8220;Israeli&#8221;.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The Zionist Entity and Arab Regimes </strong></p>
<p>Sayyed Nasrallah also explained that &#8220;when we say that we need to discuss the regional situation from the right perspective, we need to look at the issue of &#8220;Israel&#8221; and its current reality and how it&#8217;s behaving in addition to its location in light of what is happening in the region particularly in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Differentiating between the types of Arab regimes, Sayyed Nasrallah added that</strong> &#8221;there are other sorts of regimes and Arab governments that took a neutral position from &#8220;Israel&#8221; and were busy in their internal issues preoccupied away from this conflict. They are responsibile for Palestine&#8217;s betrayal.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Other Arab regimes stood firm and raised positions of reluctance boring the risk of sanctions and great conspiracies, whether Muslim or Christian, whether Muslim or national, is it right and fair to equate in the perception and attitude between regimes that did everything to preserve &#8220;Israel&#8221; and governments that did the impossible for Palestine and the victorious resistance?&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah wondered.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Arab people and governments are not preoccupied with Palestine. Syria is the leading event and I do not say Bahrain because no one is asking about what is happening in Bahrain&#8230; There is a grave injustice in Bahrain,&#8221; His Eminence added.</p></div>
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Stressing that &#8220;in light of the regional developments, the &#8220;Israelis&#8221; are proceeding with their plan in Palestine,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah provided the examples of &#8220;Judaizing al-Quds, expelling Palestinian people and torturing detainees in prison.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Palestinian detainee Khoder Adnan passed 60 days of hunger strike, where is the Arab League and the Arab World? If Khoder Adnan was an &#8220;Israeli&#8221; would the world and Arabs have behaved in a similar way?&#8221; the Resistance Leader questioned.</strong></div>
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Moving into the &#8220;Israeli&#8221; front, Sayyed Nasrallah viewed that fear, anxiety, and lack of clarity are dominating the minds of the &#8220;Israelis&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the latest Herzliya Conference, &#8220;Israeli&#8221; war minister Ehud Barak warned that the political and security challenges that &#8220;Israel&#8221; is facing are the more crucial than the ones faced by the founding fathers of the &#8220;Israeli&#8221; state,&#8221; Nasrallah clarified.</p></div>
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&#8220;In the time, it was assumed that &#8220;Israel&#8221; is moving towards more power, &#8220;Israel&#8221; is talking about the existential threat as a result of the jihadist resistance sacrifices,&#8221; His Eminence asserted.</p>
<p>Providing another example, Sayyed Nasrallah reminded of &#8220;Israeli&#8221; PM Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s statement prior to the downfall of Egyptian toppled president Hosni Mubarak and the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq: &#8220;After the unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 and the withdrawal from Gaza strip the trajectory changed and it has become clear that &#8220;Israel&#8221; is no more a government that cannot be overcome,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah quoted Netanyahu.</p></div>
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<p>Regarding the &#8220;Israeli&#8221; air force, Nasrallah pointed out that &#8220;after the 2006 July War &#8220;Israel&#8221; became unable to win a battle and same goes for &#8220;Israel&#8217;s&#8221; land military forces. They were unable to stand in the face of the Resistance men in South Lebanon.&#8221;</p>
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&#8220;The Mossad chief Degan says that Hizbullah has a firing and missile power that is 90% stronger than a standard army. Do we own this power or not? God knows,&#8221; he said.</div>
<div dir="ltr">&#8220;Mubarak regime was toppled and went away, so they set up a consolation for Mubarak and the joy of what is happening in Syria,&#8221; Hizbullah Secretary General added highlighting that &#8220;Iraq was a strong barrier that protects the eastern gate to &#8220;Israel&#8221; but today Netanyahu fears that Iraq has turned into an ally of Iran.&#8221;</div>
<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/Media/News/2012/2/2/2012-634637872648143652-814.jpg"><img src="http://english.ahram.org.eg/Media/News/2012/2/2/2012-634637872648143652-814.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="131" border="0" /></a>Addressing the people of the region, His Eminence warned the Egyptian people that the US-&#8221;Israeli&#8221; project is seeking to spread chaos and discord among them.</div>
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&#8220;Dear Egyptians whenever you encounter chaos or a security incident and turmoil search for the &#8220;Israeli and American hands who want either to form a coalition between the military rule and new elected president against the people&#8217;s will or to spread chaos,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah clarified.<br />
<a href="http://wizbangblue.com/images/2009/06/IraqiBomb-thumb.jpg"><img src="http://wizbangblue.com/images/2009/06/IraqiBomb-thumb.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="146" border="0" /></a>To the Iraqis, Nasrallah sent a similar message: &#8220;Chaos and internal fighting is the America&#8217;s opportunity, especially after it failed to stay in Iraq.&#8221;</div>
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<strong>Moving to the conspiracy against Syria, Sayyed Nasrallah affirmed that &#8220;today there is an &#8220;Israeli&#8221; consensus in that any option is better than keeping Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.&#8221;</strong><br />
<strong>&#8220;&#8221;Israel&#8221; hopes that the Syrian regime would collapse because when opposition becomes sponsored by the American, Western and the moderate Arabs, who have well-known histories, then we have the right to worry,&#8221;</strong> Hizbullah&#8217;s Secretary General stated.</p>
<p>Asking about the secret behind the determination to topple the Syrian regime, Sayyed Nasrallah declared clearly:</p></div>
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<div><a href="http://middleeastatemporal.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/unclesamahiri.jpg"><img src="http://middleeastatemporal.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/unclesamahiri.jpg?w=400&#038;h=293" alt="" width="400" height="293" border="0" /></a><strong>&#8220;According to us we stand by the Syrian regime. Can anyone say that the Syrian regime is not a rejectionist regime and did not support the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq? The regime in Syria has stood in the face of the US-&#8221;Israeli&#8221; project in the region.&#8221;</strong><br />
&#8220;Is it not strange that an alignment of the United States, the West, and moderate Arab states, was formed along with al-Qaeda to bring down the Syrian regime?&#8221; Nasrallah wondered.</p>
<p>Not denying the fact that there are negative aspects in the Syrian regime as the latter announced, Sayyed Nasrallah mentioned that &#8220;the Syrian Leadership announced that it is ready to embrace reforms and has started to issue decrees on parties and media and then came the constitution proposal.&#8221;</p></div>
<div dir="ltr">&#8220;There are groups that say that the Syrian did not open the Golan front. You who speak of the Resistance, have you ever stood by the Resistance, opened a front or offered money instead of attacking the resistance&#8217;s funding?&#8221; he asked.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://middleeastatemporal.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/emad.jpg"><img src="http://middleeastatemporal.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/emad.jpg?w=320&#038;h=240" alt="" width="320" height="240" border="0" /></a>Denouncing the Arab League position from the Syrian crisis, Sayyed Nasrallah highlighted that &#8220;these Arab governments said that the solution with &#8220;Israel&#8221; is political and can be achieved through negotiation&#8230;and for 10 years they have been waiting to negotiate with the &#8220;Israel&#8221; and they have been patient.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But in Syria there is no time. Assuming that the regime in Syria is like &#8220;Israel&#8221;, then why do moderate Arab states accept negotiations and a political solution with &#8220;Israel&#8221; and not with Syria? Even in Bahrain why don&#8217;t the Arabs stand by the Bahraini people who are abiding by Resistance?&#8221; Nasrallah wondered.</p></div>
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<p>Noting that they prevented of arms for the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon, Sayyed Nasrallah expressed astonishment that some Arabs called for arming Syrians so that they would fight each other.</p>
<p><strong>Urging for a political solution in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Bahrain and Lebanon so that we take the opportunity away from the &#8220;Israeli&#8221;,&#8221; the Resistance Leader raised the question &#8220;did any emir or sheikh in any Arab regime embrace the reforms which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad adopted? However, the Americans need to destroy Syria and Iraq.&#8221;</strong><br />
On Bahrain, His Eminence considered that &#8220;the first people who took to the streets during the war on Gaza were the Bahraini people&#8230; If there were elections in Bahrain you would have seen that Bahrain stands by the Resistance.&#8221;</div>
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Moving to the internal Lebanese front, Sayyed Nasrallah renewed Hizbullah&#8217;s sympathies to Hariri&#8217;s family and to those who love him in the anniversary of the assassination of former PM Rafiq Hariri.<br />
&#8220;We are people who support dialogue and reason and we respect the sensibility of Lebanese and the other party. We do not seek to eliminate [the other] and we recognize its presence,&#8221; His Eminence emphasized.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Reviewing some of the points that have been raised in &#8220;March 14&#8243; speeches, Nasrallah declared that &#8220;Hizbullah supports any call for a national dialogue without prior conditions and we will take part in any national dialogue that has an agenda which we back.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;However, a call for joining a national dialogue with prior conditions is not an invitation for dialogue,&#8221; he added pointing out that &#8220;there was also an attack that was launched against Hizbullah and Syria.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I hoped that whenever they (March 14) want to review the names of the massacres it is better if Samir Geagea did not do so. It would have been better if national bloc leader Carlos Eddie did so.&#8221;</p>
<p>Regarding the fourth person who spoke [during the February 14 event] and who spoke on behalf of the so-called &#8220;Syrian National Council&#8221;, Sayyed Nasrallah considered that &#8220;if the first appearance of the SNC crescent would be represented by Fares Soueid speaking on behalf of the group, then this is a good start.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A year ago I approached the Bahraini revolution, and they rose against us as former Prime Minister Saad Hariri attacked us. I demand that &#8220;March 14&#8243; alliance has an approach because we have one standard,&#8221; Resistance Leader clarified.</p>
<p>Asking about the reasons and consequences of &#8220;&#8221;March 14&#8242;s&#8221; fighting with money and weapons in Syria and being involved in escalating the fighting in a brotherly country,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah reminded of &#8220;March 14&#8243; verbal campaign upon the arrest of a Hizbullah member in Egypt as he was supporting the Palestinian resistance movements.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you do not want us to send arms to the resistance men who are fighting the enemy of this nation, how do you explain being convicted in a case of temptation and suspicion?&#8221; His Eminence wondered.</p>
<p>Addressing those who linked their fate to the bet of toppling the Syrian regime, Sayyed Nasrallah said that &#8220;there are two expectations: the first is that the Syrian leadership will overcome the conspiracy, the other is that Syria is dragged into civil war.&#8221;</p>
<p>Expecting the 1st hypothesis, Sayyed Nasrallah warned &#8220;March 14&#8243; of the consequences of their bets reminding of similar bets during 2006 aggression.</p>
<p>He further asked these forces about the source of the 3 billion dollars they had received since 2005 and the weapons they are carrying.</p>
<p>&#8220;We say and previously uncovered that we have weapons and that we are becoming increasingly militarized, and that there is an increase in the quality and quantity of our arms in addition to announced and unknown arms, but what about &#8220;March 14&#8243; weapons?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;One of &#8220;March 14&#8243; leaders says that Hizbullah is talking about others weapons to justify his arms. This is a lie, when we talk about weapons of the resistance we have only one justify that our weapons is used to defend Lebanon and to liberate the land,&#8221; Nasrallah explained.</p>
<p>Finally, &#8220;March 14&#8243; leaders are not in a position of setting out the conditions or dictating the terms,&#8221; the Secretary General added that the current government&#8217;s importance lies in the fact that it is providing stability and security.</p></div>
<div dir="ltr"> <strong>Sayyed Assures: Hizbullah Not Related to &#8220;Israeli&#8221; Embassy Bombings</strong></div>
<div dir="ltr">At another context, Sayyed Nasrallah commented o the bombings that it &#8220;Israeli&#8221; embassies in India, Georgia, and Bangkok.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am confident that these bombings have nothing to do with us in Hizbullah,&#8221; His Eminence stressed reiterating that &#8220;Haj Imad&#8217;s blood is to chase them.&#8221;</p></div>
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&#8220;The &#8220;Israeli&#8221; understands where our revenge is. It is not in the recruits or &#8220;Israeli&#8221; diplomats. It is humiliating for Hizbullah to avenge its great leader by killing ordinary &#8220;Israelis&#8221;.&#8221;</div>
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&#8220;We tell them to stay wait because as long as there is blood in the veins of one of us, we would one day avenge for Leader Imad Mughniyeh supervisor and between a close not respected revenge and a decent noble one, we prefer the second,&#8221; Sayyed Nasrallah confirmed.</p>
<p>Denying all leaks that Hizbullah is to resort to the &#8220;Israeli&#8221; if the region moves into the US-&#8221;Israeli&#8221; path, the Resistance Leader recalled how Sheikh Ragheb was martyred for refusing to shake hands with the enemy.</p></div>
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&#8220;All the martyrs were killed because they refused to the bargain,&#8221; Nasrallah asserted noting to Hizbullah&#8217;s 2006 refusal to compromise.</p>
<p>&#8220;Most of the Arab countries were against us, the Lebanese government was against us and the Western countries too. Most of the media attacked us as our people were displaced and places were bombed. We were told that a decision was took to crush Hizbullah, so we were in of two choices either to surrender, deliver the weapon and captives,, and accept f the spread of multinational, or to continue in the battle. At that moment, I really felt ad understood Imam Hussein and Karbala.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Woe unto the wretched!&#8221;</p></div>
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		<title>The Destructive Madness of Extremism: First McCarthyism, Then Radical Zionism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by James M. Wall The right-wing government leaders of the state of Israel, bolstered by their powerful US allies, are trembling with excitement at the prospect of a military attack against Iran. Everything is in place for Iraq Redux. This time the Extremists are determined to get it right. No ground troops, just highly sophisticated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8242134&amp;post=3023&amp;subd=middleeastatemporal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>The right-wing government leaders of <a class="zem_slink" title="Israel" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">the state of Israel</a>, bolstered by their powerful <a class="zem_slink" title="The States" href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" rel="historycom">US</a> allies, are trembling with excitement at the prospect of a military attack against <a class="zem_slink" title="Iran" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.6833333333,51.4166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=35.6833333333,51.4166666667 (Iran)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Iran</a>.</p>
<p>Everything is in place for Iraq Redux. This time the Extremists are determined to get it right. No ground troops, just highly sophisticated bombing runs that will target nuclear targets in Iran.</p>
<p>The American public is being manipulated by Israel’s Zionist extremists to believe that Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear arms which will be able to “wipe Israel off the map”.</p>
<p>Time to choose up sides, folks: Are you with us or against us?</p>
<p>Republican candidates for president, congressional Republicans and conservative Democrats, with the active encouragement of the always predictable Israel Lobby, are all spoiling for a fight for “our side”.</p>
<p>Truth of the matter, as <a class="zem_slink" title="Paul R. Pillar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Pillar" rel="wikipedia">Paul Pillar</a> reported in the website , <em><a href="http://bit.ly/x7K9Nl">The National Interest</a></em>, Israel has already launched its war with Iran through stealth assassinations of Iranian scientists, who may have, or more likely, did not have, a part in developing nuclear military capability. Pillar’s source is a report by <a href="http://bit.ly/ysWQQs">Richard Engel and Robert Windrem</a>, developed for NBC news:</p>
<blockquote><p>Although the assassinations of Iranian scientists have until now been followed by no indication of responsibility other than smug comments of satisfaction from officials of the most likely foreign state perpetrator, now NBC offers something more specific.</p>
<p>According to a report by Richard Engel and Robert Windrem, the assassinations have been the joint work of Israel and the Iranian cult-cum-terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq.</p>
<p>According to the report, the partnership has involved Israel providing financing, training and arms to the MEK to accomplish the hits, as well as to commit other acts of violent sabotage inside Iran. The story tracks with accusations from officials of the Iranian government, who say they base most of what they know on interrogations and captured materials from a failed assassination attempt in 2010.</p>
<p>Such accusations by themselves would be easy to dismiss, of course, as more of the regime’s propaganda. But the NBC story cites two senior U.S. officials, speaking anonymously, as confirming the story. A third official said “it hasn’t been clearly confirmed yet,” although like the others he denied any U.S. involvement. The Israeli foreign ministry declined comment; the MEK denied the story.</p></blockquote>
<p>No one is fooled by the Israeli denials. In fact, as the NBC report suggests, Israel deflects attention away from its involvement in all things nefarious, by suggesting that Iran is the aggressor here with its “attacks” on Israeli diplomats, a case dutifully made by the Washington Post<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-saysthai-bombs-similar-to-those-in-india-georgia/2012/02/15/gIQA0pDkFR_story.html"> here</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/bangkok-blasts-prompt-more-accusations-against-iran-a-day-after-bombing-attempts-target-israelis/2012/02/14/gIQAHqCLDR_story.html">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/indian-investigators-do-not-suspect-iran-in-israel-embassy-blast.html">Juan Cole</a>, a Middle East scholar, writing on his <em>Informed Comment</em> blog, is not persuaded by the Israeli spin. He finds Indian sources more credible than <a class="zem_slink" title="Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel" href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA" rel="homepage">Israeli Foreign Minister</a> Avigdor Lieberman:</p>
<blockquote><p>American media that just parrot notorious thug, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in [these] unlikely allegation are allowing themselves to be used for propaganda. Why not interview Indian authorities on this matter? They are on the ground and have excellent forensic (“CSI”) abilities. Stop being so lazy and blinkered; that isn’t journalism.</p></blockquote>
<p>Deflect attention from reality, create fear, and take the “high road”. This is the way extremists operate. It has always been so. We need only to travel back to the post WWII days of the 1940s and 1950s, when the US public was transfixed by a Washington drama that pitted suspected Communists against the American Way of Life.</p>
<p>The drama was launched in 1947 Congressional hearings.</p>
<p>Looking back to those days,the extremist side of that conflict became known in 1950 as McCarthyism, after Wisconsin <a class="zem_slink" title="Joseph McCarthy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" rel="wikipedia">Senator Joe McCarthy</a>, a Republican who served in the US Senate from 1947 until 1957. He became a media star because he was horribly simplistic as he peddled fear. Finally, the Senator overreached and ran afoul of an honest judge named Joseph Welch. After that he spiraled downward.</p>
<p>But for a time it was the <a class="zem_slink" title="McCarthyism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism" rel="wikipedia">McCarthy era</a>, where the sides were clearly defined, no room for ambiguity. The times demanded good versus evil, darkness against light, the powerful against the weak. This 4 minute film clip below, from the 1947 hearings, shows both “friendly” and “unfriendly”  witnesses. One of the friendly witnesses was an actor named Ronald Reagan, who later became President of the United States.</p>
<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/the-destructive-madness-of-extremism-first-mccarthyism-then-radical-zionism/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/nJzV6-wJ3SQ/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span>Those with the power of the Law behind them asked the question: “Are you now or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party”? It was a question which, with the wrong answer, could send a person to jail.</p>
<p>Ten of those who testified as “unfriendly” witnesses, became known as the “Hollywood Ten.” Because they originally refused to cooperate with <a class="zem_slink" title="House Un-American Activities Committee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" rel="wikipedia">House UnAmerican Activities Committee</a> (HUAC) they were cited for contempt of congress.</p>
<p>They were subsequently fired and blacklisted by the <a class="zem_slink" title="Motion Picture Association of America" href="http://www.mpaa.org" rel="homepage">Motion Picture Association of America</a>. All ten served up to a year in prison, were fined $1,000 and faced great difficulty working in Hollywood again.</p>
<p>Some worked under assumed names. The blacklist was finally broken in 1960 when <a class="zem_slink" title="Dalton Trumbo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" rel="wikipedia">Dalton Trumbo</a>, an unrepentant member of the Hollywood Ten, was publicly acknowledged as the screenwriter of the films <em>Spartacus</em> and <em>Exodus. (Could Trumbo have anticipated that the Israel he celebrated in his script for Exodus, would one day be asking “Are you now, or have you ever been”?)</em></p>
<p>The oppression of the Hollywood Ten operated on a McCarthyite battle of simplistic good versus evil. The battle is repeated whenever extremists hold absolute power, or think they do. Give the “wrong” answer and you are doomed to an indefinite time of incarceration, or at the very least, a permanent banishment from polite society.</p>
<p>Fast forward to the Palestine of 2011-12, where a dying young Palestinian man lies chained to a hospital bed in Israel’s Ofer Prison in Palestine. In an earlier<a href="http://wallwritings.me/2012/02/11/khader-adnan-continues-hunger-strike/"> Wall Writings </a>posting, I examined what happened to bring this young man into the Israeli military prison.</p>
<p>After he was seized on December 17, 2011, Kahder Adnan was asked the contemporary variation of the 1940s’ Communist question, under torture in an Israeli jail nine weeks ago this weekend.</p>
<p>Adnan was asleep with his family when he taken by the Israeli Occupation Forces from his home near Jenin, in Area A, that part of the Palestinian Occupied Terrorities which the <a href="http://amosaicforpeace.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/palestinian-abcs/">Oslo Accords</a> mandated “the Palestinian Authority has sole civil jurisdiction and security control, while Israel retains authority over movement in and out of the area”.</p>
<p>The questions put to the 33-year old baker and Bir Zeit University graduate, are probably not recorded. Israeli officials have made no effort to be specific as to why Adnan had been placed in “administrative detention”, the bland terminology used by Israel for “disappearing” a Palestinian into the darkness of the absolute control of its military prison system.</p>
<p>Israeli occupation forces subsequently have let their friends in the media know that the question put to Adnan was a variation of the old 1940s American “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party”. I am  reasonably certain no one asking that question had ever heard of Joe McCarthy.</p>
<p>For Khader Adnan, the question was more along the lines of, “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of Islamic Jihad”?</p>
<p>From the McCarthy era to the time of Israel’s military occupation, the questions resonate through the decades.  We, the all powerful, the all good, demand that you confess that you belong to a “party” that is evil. How does the public know that the Islamic Jihad is evil?  Because the “only democracy in the Middle East”, declares it to be so.</p>
<p>Communism in the 1940s and 1950s did bad things; the 2012 Islamic Jihad is fighting military occupation by the means it has, none of which are attractive. Extremism from the top of the power pyramid, engenders extremism from below.</p>
<p>In Israel, and indeed, in the United States, where the definition of evil is dictated by Israel, Islamic Jihad is an “illegal terrorist organization”.  But is Khader Adnan a “member” of Islamic Jihad?  He might have answered with a biblical statement, “you say I am”. Or maybe he simply remained quiet, waiting to be charged with membership is an illegal organization, a charge that is yet to come.</p>
<p>Khader Adnan is no stranger to an Israeli jail cell. He has already spent six years in one. He had, however, been a free man until nine weeks ago when he was once again hauled away into “administrative detention”, a colonial means of control the British, the original colonial power, bequethed to Israel, the current colonial power.</p>
<p>Israel has put in jail more than 40% of the male Palestinian population, at one point in their lives. The purpose is to subdue the population. Sometimes they sit for years in administrative detention.  At other times, they serve prison terms, and then reenter society under the watchful eyes of Israeli soldiers and informers.</p>
<p>Khader Adnan responded the only way left to a prisoner whose future rests entirely in the hands of his jailers; he began a hunger strike that could lead to his death. In spite of numerous calls from <a href="http://www.acri.org.il/en/2012/02/14/sami-michael-free-khader-adnan-or-try-him/">Israeli</a> and Palestinian organizations that Adnan be charged or released, the state of Israel remains silent, watching a man dying in one of its military prisons.</p>
<p>Most Americans are ignorant of Adnan’s impending death. If, or when, he dies, the American media may record his death as a small news item that will almost certainly, identify him as a leader of the “radical terrorist Islamic Jihad group”, a charge never leveled against Adnan except by implication.</p>
<p>And most Americans will not see that yet another Palestinian has died because the powerful are in control with the power to ask the question: “Are you now or have you ever been”, a member of whatever group that is not approved by the rulers</p>
<p>Variations of the McCarthy Era question will continue as a part of our national discourse. It crops up even within the American Jewish community, as it did in a strange bit of inter-tribal conflict reported this week by <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/02/right-wing-to-rudoren-are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-zionist.html">Adam Horowitz</a> on his blog,<em>Mondoweiss</em>.</p>
<p>Someone has said that great minds run together.  I don’t know about that, but I say to you that by all things sacred, earlier in the week I was working on this post which links the McCarthy Era to Zionism.</p>
<p>I had even searched for, and found, the short congressional grilling of the Hollywood Ten, including Dalton Trumbo, above. Suddenly, there was Horowitz beating me into on line with the McCarthy connection. The least I can do is permit him to  give the background of the story.</p>
<p>It all started when the <em>New York Times</em> transferred Ethan Bronner, its long-time Jerusalem bureau chief, back to the US. The irony of this personnel shift lies in the fact that Bronner finally may have become too much of a Zionist for even his editors to tolerate. For his part, Bronner says he had requested the transfer.</p>
<p>Bronner had been criticized by peace activists for his softness in covering the Occupation, soft that is, as in not being critical enough of the Israeli IDF tactics. When the story broke that his son had, until last year, served in the Israeli Defense Forces, even the <em>Times</em>‘ Public Editor suggested it was time for a transfer.</p>
<p>Jodi Rudoren, the new Jerusalem bureau chief is, like Bronner, Jewish. But her ethnicity was not enough to satisfy some on the Zionist team. Acting as a journalist should, she had reached out to sources on both sides of the issue in Israel/Palestine.  Talking to the “enemy” immediately triggered a radical Zionist reaction.</p>
<p><a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/02/right-wing-to-rudoren-are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-zionist.html">Adam Horowitz</a> on <em>Mondoweiss</em>, tells what happened next, writing under the headline: <em>“Right wing to Rudoren: Are you now, or have you ever been, a Zionist?”</em></p>
<blockquote><p>Judi Rudoren continues to hold her ground against the right-wing onslaught against her for tweeting <em>Mondoweiss</em> and Ali Abunimah, as well as recommending Peter Beinart’s new book (these are really the charges?). The <em>Washington Free Beacon’</em>s Adam Kredo interviews her and begins in the most (appropriately) McCarthyite way possible:</p>
<p><em>The New York Times</em>’ incoming Jerusalem bureau chief, Jodi Rudoren, won’t say if she is a Zionist.</p>
<p>“I’m going to punt on that question,” Rudoren, who is Jewish, told the<em>Washington Free Beacon</em> in an interview yesterday. “I’m not really interested in labels about who I am and what I think.”</p>
<p>He later presses her on the fact that she retweeted a mention from Sami Kishawiof the “Love Under Apartheid” campaign:</p>
<p>On the issue of her journalistic objectivity, Rudoren said her tweets do not reveal an innate bias against Israel.</p>
<p>Asked if she considers Israel an apartheid state—as critics of the Jewish state so often do—Rudoren declined comment.</p>
<p>“I don’t have an assessment yet,” she said. “I’m not sure I’ll ever answer that question in the way you’ve just framed it.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Adam Horowitz and his <em>Mondoweiss</em> site, along with Richard Silverstein’s <em><a href="http://wallwritings.me/2012/02/11/khader-adnan-continues-hunger-strike/%20%20http://wapo.st/xFu9Cg%20%20wp%20%20http://wapo.st/ylgJmg%20%20wp%20%20http://bit.ly/zNMXSo%20%20Silverstein%20Tikun%20Olan%20%20http://bit.ly/yAITgC%20%20%20cole">Tikun Olan</a></em>blog, have been one of the very few US-based web sites or publications, to provide a day by day account of the Khader Adnan ordeal as he lies chained to an Israeli military bed near Ramallah.</p>
<p>Whether the unjust administrative detention of Khader Adnan ends in his last minute release or in his death by self-starvation, Adnan will have registered his protest against the injustice and humiliation of Israel’s military Occupation, and in his case, especially, its administration detention.</p>
<p>Somehow I have to believe that new <em>New York Times</em> Jerusalem bureau chief will report on the final outcome of Adnan’s protest. She should, because in a much less serious moment in her life, Rudoren has also been asked the McCarthy Era question by her inquisitors.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The drawing at the top of this posting originally appeared on the website of <a href="http://www.acri.org.il/en/2012/02/14/sami-michael-free-khader-adnan-or-try-him/">The Association for Human Rights in Israel.</a> The video of the HUAC hearings is from this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jnussbau">site.</a></em></p>
<p><em>This week’s Wall Writings posting is being released a few days earlier than usual because I wanted to add my voice to those around the world who have demanded that Israel release Khader Adnan before he dies in an Israeli military prison, where he was incarcerated without any charges made against him.</em></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Exposing The Israeli-Mossad False Flag Terror Attacks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In New Delhi, Tbilisi And Bangkok By Feroze Mithiborwala   16 February, 2012  Countercurrents.org &#8220;It would be far more preferable if the USA could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly the outrageous, the more deadly &#38; the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the USA will be. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8242134&amp;post=3020&amp;subd=middleeastatemporal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>By Feroze Mithiborwala   16 February, 2012  Countercurrents.org</p>
<p>&#8220;It would be far more preferable if the <a class="zem_slink" title="The States" href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" rel="historycom">USA</a> could cite an <a class="zem_slink" title="Iran" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.6833333333,51.4166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=35.6833333333,51.4166666667 (Iran)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Iranian</a> provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly the outrageous, the more deadly &amp; the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the USA will be.</p>
<p>Of course, it would be very difficult for the US to goad Iran into such a provocation, without the rest of the world recognizing the game, which would then undermine it. One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even-semi-overtly, which would then be portrayed as an act of unprovoked Iranian aggression.&#8221;<br />
(US Foreign Policy makers, Brookings Institution&#8217;s 2009 report, pages84-85)</p>
<p>&#8220;Attack on Iran imminent this summer&#8221; &#8211; (General Nikolai Makarov, Russian General Staff)</p>
<p>The terror attacks in New Delhi &amp; in Tbilisi (Georgia), Baku (Azerbaijan) &amp; Bangkok (Thailand) are another round of false-flag terror (<a href="http://mailstar.net/ostrovsky.html" target="_blank">http://mailstar.net/ostrovsky.html</a>) being waged by the <a class="zem_slink" title="Israel" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Israeli</a> <a class="zem_slink" title="Mossad" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.144495,34.804344&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=32.144495,34.804344 (Mossad)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Mossad</a> to achieve its strategic objectives by targeting Iran &amp; the Hezbollah, which is a resistance movement. The timing of the false-flag terror attack is very interesting. It comes at the precise moment when <a class="zem_slink" title="India" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333 (India)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">India</a> has refused to enforce the US-Israeli-EU sanctions against Iran &amp; when Indo-Iran ties are witnessing a new strategic rethink in Delhi, where Pranab Mukherjee in a visit to the US, refused to abide by the sanctions. Also both India &amp; Iran have agreed on a Rupee Trade &amp; barter system, thus avoiding the use of the USD regime.</p>
<p>Also the <a class="zem_slink" title="Tbilisi" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.7166666667,44.7833333333&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=41.7166666667,44.7833333333 (Tbilisi)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Tbilisi, Georgia</a> bombings though not of a serious nature, are making international headlines, with Iran &amp; Hezbollah being mentioned by PM Netanyahu. Georgia &amp; Azerbaijan are both US-Israeli satellite states, with a strong presence of CIA-Mossad operatives &amp; security advisers present in both the nations.</p>
<p>The riddle of Bangkok, where Iranians have been injured in the blasts, needs to be understood &amp; it is a very simple matter to comprehend. The Mujahedeen Khalq (MKO/MEK), is a terrorist organization comprising of disgruntled Iranians who are now working for the CIA &amp; the Mossad. The MKO-MEK , is openly supported by the US-Israel as their strategic allies &amp; they are the ones who are responsible for the assassinations of the Iranian nuclear scientists &amp; terror attacks within Iran.</p>
<p>Time &amp; again the <a class="zem_slink" title="Chabad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabad" rel="wikipedia">Chabad Lubavitch</a> members &amp; houses are involved with acts of terror &amp; drug smuggling operations. Chabad Houses, under the guise of religious centres are also dens of espionage &amp; used by Mossad operatives the world over. Thus the Chabad Lubavitch centres across the country need to be probed by the government agencies, as they certainly pose a grave security threat.</p>
<p>There has been increased activity of Israeli &#8220;tourists&#8221;, where a number of them have been caught red-handed with revolvers, live ammunition &amp; satellite phones in the last 5 years. Due to the direct intervention of the Israeli embassy, they are let of by the police within 24 hours, despite the fact that they are foreigners &amp; supposedly &#8220;tourists&#8221;. Recently an Israeli couple Shenor Zalman &amp; Yaffa Shenoi were ordered to be deported from Kochi (Kerala), after being under surveillance by the RAW &amp; the Police authorities &amp; were suspected of being involved in drug smuggling &amp; espionage as Kochi is a sensitive Indian Naval base. They are still to be deported pending a court order. This false-flag attack has once again opened the doors for more Mossad agents to come into India, under the pretext of security considerations &amp; joint investigations.</p>
<p>In the Indian context, the Hindutva-RSS are once again under pressure as the NIA-ATS have arrested another of their activists, Kamal Chauhan from Indore in connection with the Samjhauta train terror attack, previously blamed on Pakistan. These arrests also come at a time when the crucial UP &amp; 4 other state elections are on &amp; in any case the BJP is under pressure due to many other issues of corruption &amp; morality where it stands utterly exposed. Thus this terror attack, surely helps to change the national headlines &amp; priorities.</p>
<p>The terror attack has again been carried out in a high-security area, barely a few hundred meters away for the residence of the PM himself &amp; thus this is not possible without the collusion &amp; support of certain sections of the IB-RAW that are aligned to the Mossad &amp; CIA. Also has the visit of SM Krishna (being probed for a multi-crore iron ore scam) to Israel got some relation with this false-flag attack? Clearly there is a struggle within the Indian government &amp; bureaucracy in terms of our alignment with the Imperial-Zionist powers &amp; the other that represents the <a class="zem_slink" title="Non-Aligned Movement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement" rel="wikipedia">Non-Aligned Movement</a> &amp; Third World Solidarity</p>
<p>But the more crucial point is that, Israel-Mossad will use the strategy of false-flag terror to further demonize-isolate &amp; escalate the warmongering against Iran &amp; the Hezbollah &amp; finally against the Fatah, Hamas, PLO &amp; the rest of the Palestinian national resistance as they continue to unite &amp; forge a common front &amp; strategy against the Israeli occupation, based on collective popular mass resistance.</p>
<p>Israel &amp; its Zionist allies are fabricating false-flag terror attacks, finally leading to another massive 9/11 style false flag on US &amp; possibly European soil, after which we will witness an Israeli attack on Iran, with the backing of the Western powers, who will immediately step in.</p>
<p>Thus it is necessary to expose the Israeli-Mossad-CIA role in the <a class="zem_slink" title="9/11 Attacks" href="http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-attacks" rel="historycom">9/11 terror attacks</a>, as that started a new wave of Zionist-imperial intervention, wars &amp; an ongoing genocidal holocaust of the Third World nations.</p>
<p>A war is on the horizon . . .we are heading towards WWIII &amp; now India is being prepared to fight that war on the side of the Imperial-Zionist powers.</p>
<p><em><strong>Feroze Mithiborwala is a peace activist in Mumbai. He led the Asia to Gaza peace flotilla.</strong></em></td>
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		<title>The Israeli Threat To The World Is Real (And World Leaders Know It)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction.They won’t get in our way.&#8221; &#8211; International terrorist and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel. Source of quote. Let&#8217;s get the big mystery out of the way: Israel did the bombings in India, Georgia, and Thailand. It&#8217;s really not a mystery. Israel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8242134&amp;post=3017&amp;subd=middleeastatemporal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction.They won’t get in our way.&#8221; &#8211; International terrorist and war criminal <a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/02/benjamin-netanyahu-and-barack-obama-are.html">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>, Prime Minister of <a class="zem_slink" title="Israel" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Israel</a>. <a href="http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/cook190710.html">Source of quote</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s get the big mystery out of the way: Israel did the bombings in India, Georgia, and Thailand. It&#8217;s really not a mystery. Israel has no credibility whatsoever. But if you need to be convinced that <a class="zem_slink" title="Iran" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.6833333333,51.4166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=35.6833333333,51.4166666667 (Iran)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Iran</a> did not do the bombings, read these excellent commentaries by <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-Falsely-Charged-with-by-Stephen-Lendman-120215-828.html">Stephen Lendman</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/who-carried-out-the-terrorist-car-bombings-in-india-thailand-and-georgia.html">Washington&#8217;s Blog</a>.</p>
<p>Am I defending the leadership of Iran? Of course not. I want Iran to be de-Islamized and its corrupt leaders hanged in the public square of major Iranian cities for committing high treason and other crimes against the <a class="zem_slink" title="Iranian peoples" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_peoples" rel="wikipedia">Iranian people</a>.</p>
<p>But Israel is playing with fire by waging war against the Iranian nation. The people of Iran will not be kind to Israel. God is not on Israel&#8217;s side. God favours the just and peaceful to be the victor in war, not the cruel and wicked. Israel better re-read scripture and quit messing with peaceful nations.</p>
<p>If you love Israel, pray for it. Pray that the nation of Iran and the people of the Middle East will forgive it for its aggression and acts of terrorism.</p>
<p>Israel cannot hide its true face to the world. Israel&#8217;s false flags and blame games have gone from tragic to comedic. This is like watching a cartoon character blow up the world and then say, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t me,&#8221; as if we&#8217;re all stupid and fearful idiots who are paralyzed by the awesome power of Israel. Well, we&#8217;re not. Israel can go to Hell.</p>
<p>Israel is only scary because it is an insane asylum with nuclear weapons. It does not know how to fight. If Israel did not have its large stockpile of nuclear weapons, it would not dare start wars that it knows it cannot finish. Israel&#8217;s survival plan is blackmailing and threatening the <a class="zem_slink" title="The States" href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" rel="historycom">United States of America</a> to rescue it from the hell of its own making. Pathetic.</p>
<p>Israel has no concept of honour and morality. Israel&#8217;s legacy of terror and lies is extremely well documented. No one is surprised at the depths to which the madmen in Tel Aviv will go. Their blood-soaked hands cannot grasp the levers of sanity and reason. Their delusional minds inhabit a dark and hateful place, and they want the rest of the world to travel to that hellish place with them.</p>
<p>But the world is saying NO.</p>
<p>The global public consensus is that Israel is a persistent menace to international peace and world trade. World public opinion polls show that Israeli policy is considered unjust, irrational, and dangerous. As Noam Chomsky writes in <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175503/tomgram%3A_noam_chomsky%2C_imperial_hegemony_and_its_discontents/">TomDispatch</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let us turn finally to the third of the leading issues addressed in the establishment journals cited earlier, the “threat of Iran.” Among elites and the political class this is generally taken to be the primary threat to world order &#8212; though not among populations. In Europe, polls show that Israel is regarded as the leading threat to peace. In the MENA countries, that status is shared with the U.S., to the extent that in Egypt, on the eve of the Tahrir Square uprising, 80% felt that the region would be more secure if Iran had nuclear weapons. The same polls found that only 10% regard Iran as a threat &#8212; unlike the ruling dictators, who have their own concerns.</p>
<p>In the United States, before the massive propaganda campaigns of the past few years, a majority of the population agreed with most of the world that, as a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has a right to carry out uranium enrichment. And even today, a large majority favors peaceful means for dealing with Iran. There is even strong opposition to military engagement if Iran and Israel are at war.<strong> </strong>Only a quarter regard Iran as an important concern for the U.S. altogether. But it is not unusual for there to be a gap, often a chasm, dividing public opinion and policy.</p>
<p>Why exactly is Iran regarded as such a colossal threat? The question is rarely discussed, but it is not hard to find a serious answer &#8212; though not, as usual, in the fevered pronouncements. The most authoritative answer is provided by the Pentagon and the intelligence services in their regular reports to Congress on global security. They report that Iran does not pose a military threat. Its military spending is very low even by the standards of the region, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/04-0" target="_blank">minuscule</a> of course in comparison with the U.S.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The people of Europe are not informed of the threat that a nuclear Israel poses to their continent because the Western press is afraid of Israel. In November 2010, the website <a href="http://www.aljazeerah.info/News/2010/March/11%20n/Israel%20could%20to%20wipe%20out%20Europe%20with%20nuclear%20weapons%20and%20expel%20all%20Palestinians,%20says%20Israeli%20military%20historian%20Martin%20Karfeld.htm">Al-Jazeerah.info reported</a> that an Israeli historian threatened Europe that Israel would use nukes on European cities if the situation called for it. The article is called, &#8220;Israel could to wipe out Europe with nuclear weapons and expel all Palestinians, says Israeli military historian Martin Karfeld.&#8221; Here is an excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>Noted Israeli military historian Martin Karfeld stated that Israel could find itself one day forced to exterminate the <a class="zem_slink" title="Europe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" rel="wikipedia">European continent</a> using all kinds of weapons including its nuclear arsenal if it felt its demise neared, stressing that Israel also considers Europe a hostile target.</p>
<p>This came in a press interview broadcast by the seventh Hebrew radio and was translated on Wednesday into Arabic by the press information analysis and study center.</p>
<p>“We have hundreds of nuclear warheads and missiles that can reach different targets in the heart of the European continent, including beyond the borders of Rome, the <a class="zem_slink" title="Rome" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.9,12.5&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=41.9,12.5 (Rome)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Italian capital</a>,” Karfeld said, adding that most of the European capitals would become preferred targets for the <a class="zem_slink" title="Israeli Air Force" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force" rel="wikipedia">Israeli air force</a>.</p>
<p>The Israeli historian reiterated Israel’s ability to destroy the whole world whenever it felt its existence would be doomed to extinction.</p>
<p>As for the Palestinians, the historian said that Israel at the present time pursues a specific strategy based on mass deportation of the <a class="zem_slink" title="Palestinian people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people" rel="wikipedia">Palestinian people</a> and has intentions to expel all Palestinians without exception, but it is awaiting the right moment to take this step.</p></blockquote>
<p>You know what this means right? We are all held hostage by the crazed fanatics in Israel. Do not think for a minute that Israel is bluffing. If push comes to shove, Israel will fire rockets into Europe and say Iran did it.</p>
<p>Israeli right-wing terrorists have threatened to use nukes against Europe and Iran. They have America in their sights, too. A <a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/08/next-inside-job-nuclear-911.html">nuclear 9/11</a> is a very real possibility. Israel is desperate. Israel is mad. Israel will do anything it wants, damn the consequences.</p>
<p>Mentally and politically, Israel is not a stable nation. Its demonic and racist leaders keep the people in perpetual fear, brainwash them with lies, and tell them that war is the only method to solve their problems with the Palestinians and their other neighbours.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll say it again: pray for Israel because the spirit of vengeance and justice won&#8217;t be kind to it. Pray that the victims of Israeli terrorism and Israeli aggression will forgive Israel.</p>
<p><a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/02/israeli-threat-to-world-is-real-and.html">http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/02/israeli-threat-to-world-is-real-and.html</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even ex-Mossad chief who opposes an attack on Iran seems to have given up BY LARRY DERFNER Ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan no longer warns against attacking Iran  (Credit: AP/Dan Balilty/Reuters/Baz Ratner) TOPICS:IRAN, ISRAEL JERUSALEM — After bombs went off near Israeli embassies in New Delhi and Tbilisi, and a man with an Iranian passport accidentally blew himself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8242134&amp;post=3014&amp;subd=middleeastatemporal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Even ex-Mossad chief who opposes an attack on <a class="zem_slink" title="Iran" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.6833333333,51.4166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=35.6833333333,51.4166666667 (Iran)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Iran</a> seems to have given up</h2>
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<p>Ex-Mossad chief <a class="zem_slink" title="Meir Dagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Dagan" rel="wikipedia">Meir Dagan</a> no longer warns against attacking Iran  (Credit: AP/Dan Balilty/Reuters/Baz Ratner)</p>
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<div><strong>TOPICS:</strong><a href="http://www.salon.com/topic/iran/" rel="tag">IRAN</a>, <a href="http://www.salon.com/topic/israel/" rel="tag">ISRAEL</a></div>
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<p>JERUSALEM — After bombs went off near <a class="zem_slink" title="Israel" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Israeli</a> embassies in New Delhi and Tbilisi, and a man with an <a class="zem_slink" title="Iranian passport" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_passport" rel="wikipedia">Iranian passport</a> accidentally blew himself up in Bangkok, <a class="zem_slink" title="Prime Minister of Israel" href="http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng" rel="homepage">Israeli Prime Minister</a> <a class="zem_slink" title="Benjamin Netanyahu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" rel="wikipedia">Binyamin Netanyahu</a> couldn’t let the opportunity pass. <a class="zem_slink" title="Yedioth Ahronoth" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/" rel="homepage">Yediot Aharonot</a>, the country’s most widely read newspaper, reported Wednesday<strong>: </strong></p>
<blockquote><p>An updated list of talking points distributed by the national advocacy desk in the Prime Minister’s Office  sought to connect the wave of terror with the international community’s efforts at tightening sanctions on Iran, and also to prepare the ground for a military option to stop <a class="zem_slink" title="Nuclear program of Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran" rel="wikipedia">Iran’s nuclear program</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>According to Yediot, the new talking points read: “Iran and Hizbullah are behind these terror attempts. If this is what Iran is doing now, imagine what it will do if its nuclear arms project reaches the goal.” The tabloid’s story was headlined “Iran’s long arm,” and the subhead read, “Israel to the world: ‘Terror acts show nuclear Iran cannot be allowed.’” The story’s ominous tone meshed perfectly with the talking points.</p>
<p>Israel’s whole body politic – politicians, media, influential public figures and public at large – is  now leaning into a war with Iran. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s recently reported opinion that Israel would likely strike between April and June is shared, give or take a month or two, by countless others.</p>
<p>The consequences of such an attack range from a bilateral missile war and intensified international terror attacks, to a regional war involving weapons of mass destruction. Israel may not pull the trigger, of course. But at this point, that seems the only realistic working assumption.</p>
<p>Israeli talking points are coming faster and sharper. Iran’s nuclear project is marching toward the “zone of immunity,” says Defense Minister <a class="zem_slink" title="Ehud Barak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak" rel="wikipedia">Ehud Barak</a>. “It is our duty to rely on ourselves when we are concerned with a threat to our very existence,” says Netanyahu. Their apparent aim is to create an aura of inevitability around an imminent Israeli strike. Leading the drive, Netanyahu and his one-time army commando unit leader, Barak, want full support at home and no serious opposition from the U.S. if and when they send the jet bombers on their mission. Naturally, they would prefer that the U.S. do the job – inflicting lasting damage on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure could well be beyond Israel’s military capability – but from here, at least, the <a class="zem_slink" title="The States" href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" rel="historycom">American</a> military option looks unlikely, certainly within a time frame Israel accepts.</p>
<p>Some skeptics think Netanyahu and Barak may just be engaging in psychological warfare aimed at keeping Western economic pressure on Iran, the goal being to force or scare the Tehran regime into giving up its pursuit of nuclear weapons, which it denies pursuing. But it’s hard to imagine anything short of visibly destroyed hardware on a massive scale that might convince Israel’s leadership that the nuclear threat had been lifted.</p>
<p>Yet while there is skepticism about the leadership team’s true intentions, there is virtually none being expressed here about the wisdom of going to war. The paucity of dissent is remarkable, not to say depressing, in a country that prides itself on being a “vibrant democracy.”</p>
<p>At the end of last week, the media were talking about which towns had good bomb shelters and air raid sirens and which didn’t. The likelihood that Israel would soon be attacking Iran had begun to sink in. An antiwar demonstration was held across the boulevard from the Defense Ministry compound in Tel Aviv. About 25 people showed up. They held signs that read, “Don’t bomb – talk” to the evening rush hour traffic going past. One driver honked.</p>
<p>I asked a sidewalk passerby, a woman in her mid-20s pushing a baby carriage, what she thought of a possible government decision to bomb Iran. “They sit up there, they’re smarter than me, whatever they decide, I’ll support,” she said. A fellow of about 20 on a skateboard said: “I’m not for war, I’m against war. But if somebody is going to attack you, if your enemy is going to attack, don’t you think you have to attack him first, for the sake of survival?” I asked if he thought Iran would attack Israel first. “I don’t know, I’m not privy to all the information. But good luck,” he said, and skated off.</p>
<p>For all the famous outspokenness of Israeli politicians, not one is speaking out against an attack, not from the moderate opposition nor the “peace camp.” Peace Now, a group that has organized huge demonstrations going back 30 years against the Lebanon War and the occupation, has said not a word about the extraordinarily high-risk war of choice that looms in the very near future.</p>
<p>The news media, with the exception of the liberal <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/" target="_blank">Ha’aretz </a>newspaper, is fully on board. The mainstream media reflect and reinforce public opinion, which shows weariness with settlement-building and settlers, but automatic support for any decision taken in the name of security, especially in the face of a nuclear threat from a regime like Iran’s.</p>
<p>The tone is set by the red-on-black scare headlines in the tabloids and the grim facial expressions and bracing reports from correspondents on Channel 2, which dominates TV news. On the night of the Bangkok bombing, Ehud Ya’ari, dean of the country’s so-called Arab affairs correspondents, reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was expected on Wednesday to inaugurate the uranium enrichment facility in Fordo, a site built deep underground in the side of a mountain. “Thus,” said Ya’ari, “Iran’s nuclear project enters what Defense Minister Ehud Barak calls the ‘zone of immunity.’” Draw your own conclusions, folks.</p>
<p>Except for Gideon Levy at Ha’aretz, no well-known newspaper columnist or TV commentator has come out against a war; nearly all are worried and noncommittal. But one of the most influential columnists, Yediot’s Sever Plocker, a passionate centrist with long-standing contacts around the Israeli establishment, wrote a column Tuesday titled <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4189510,00.html" target="_blank">“Israel won’t blink first.”</a> Declaring that “the State of Israel, as the national home of the Jews, has decided to prevent Iran from possessing nuclear weapons,” Plocker maintained that unless Iran freezes its nuclear weapons program and allows international inspectors into the underground sites and even the “secret” ones, “zero hour” will soon arrive. “No begging will stop Israel at that point. There will be a war,” he wrote.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the literary triumvirate of Amos Oz, David Grossman and A.B. Yehoshua, Israel’s loftiest voices of peace and enlightenment, have remained silent. President Shimon Peres, who has put his days as a peacemaker far behind him, is warning only about the dangers of a nuclear Iran and not at all about those of an Israeli attack.</p>
<p>So what’s going on? What is this lockstep march to war in a country that made peace with Egypt and Jordan; that at times tried to make peace with the Palestinians; that absorbed missile attacks from Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War yet held its fire at America’s behest; that had “warriors for peace” in the Prime Minister’s Office, “peace governments” and a “peace camp”?</p>
<p>It’s all gone. Since the Palestinian intifada ended the “peace process” in 2000, Israelis blame everything that goes wrong, every political dispute, violent or nonviolent, completely on the other side. No politician, commentator or other public figure who seeks mainstream approval can be thought of as “weak on security” or “naïve about the Arabs.”</p>
<p>Yet the reaction to the Iranian nuclear threat has deeper roots than that. While Netanyahu is known for his Holocaust analogies on this issue, his predecessors going back to Yitzhak Rabin 20 years ago have all lobbied the world to stop Iran from going nuclear, which has been marked “unacceptable.” Since Menachem Begin ordered the 1981 attack on Iraq’s reactor (over the opposition of Peres and war heroes Moshe Dayan and Ezer Weizman), Israel has lived by the doctrine that no enemy in the Middle East will have nuclear weapons. After the 1981 attack, it acted on this doctrine a second time in 2007, under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (and defense minister Barak), with the airstrike on Syria’s embryonic nuclear facility.</p>
<p>So the issue for Israel isn’t just the Iranian regime’s jihadist craziness and Holocaust denial. Israel bombed the Iraqi reactor when Saddam Hussein was the Reagan administration’s man in the Gulf against Iran. It bombed the Syrian installation before Bashar Assad started slaughtering Syrians en masse, when he was offering Israel land-for-peace negotiations.</p>
<p>While it’s true that Iran isn’t just any Middle Eastern enemy, the Israeli doctrine applies to all of them.</p>
<p>Only one person has made a real effort to reverse the country’s course, and lately he’s given up, too. At the start of last year, upon finishing his legendary tenure as Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, then the country’s unchallenged supreme warrior, did the unprecedented. He began speaking out openly against an attack on Iran, calling it “the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard,” and warning that afterward, “the regional challenge that Israel would face would be impossible.” He was going public, he explained, because “there is no one to stop Bibi and Barak” from undertaking such a “dangerous adventure” now that he and the other military and intelligence chiefs, who had the clout to rein in the political leadership, were retiring.</p>
<p>Last week, after months of silence, Dagan resurfaced to announce he’s heading a new NGO to change Israel’s parliamentary system – an old chestnut of the good government movement that seems conspicuously irrelevant now. For nearly a year, Dagan raised a flag, and when he saw hardly anyone behind him, he lowered it. A few high-level ex-warriors, including two former army chiefs of staff, warned against the consequences of attacking Iran. But these were isolated remarks that got very little attention; in the public’s mind, the antiwar movement began and ended with one man.</p>
<p>I asked a retired army general who agrees with Dagan’s views why he and the many others like him didn’t get together and sign a letter in a major newspaper, or hold a press conference, or do something that might start a public debate over this fairly fateful matter; after all, Israelis listen to generals. He replied that he and his fellows didn’t have the information that those around the cabinet table had, they didn’t know if the government really intended to order an attack, and they didn’t want to take the chance that this was all “psychological warfare,” which they would be undercutting if they spoke out.</p>
<p>“You have to understand,” he said, “Israel is a small community, everybody knows everybody else’s opinion, so you have to be responsible. That’s the way I was educated.”</p>
<p>No opposition – that’s what Netanyahu and Barak want, and at home, that’s what they’re getting.</p>
<p>As for opposition from the Obama administration, it has been awfully muted. The Republican presidential candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul) have  been gung-ho, which has much to do with the administration’s wariness toward Israel in this election year. But then how strong an argument for restraint can the administration make to the Israelis, after repeating for years that a nuclear Iran is “unacceptable” and that “all options are on the table”?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Priviţi doar ce s-a întâmplat, în perioada premergătoare războiului din Irak, din 2003. Oricine se opunea unui război ilegal de agresiune era acuzat că ar fi un simpatizant al lui Hitler. Vă puteţi imagina aşa ceva ? Holocaustul nazist a devenit principala armă ideologică pentru a justifica războaiele de agresiune. Asta este ironia supremă ! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8242134&amp;post=2990&amp;subd=middleeastatemporal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div>&#8220;Priviţi doar ce s-a întâmplat, în perioada premergătoare războiului din <a class="zem_slink" title="Iraq" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.3333333333,44.4333333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=33.3333333333,44.4333333333 (Iraq)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Irak</a>, din 2003. Oricine se opunea unui război ilegal de agresiune era acuzat că ar fi un simpatizant al lui <a class="zem_slink" title="Adolf Hitler" href="http://www.biography.com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144" rel="biographycom">Hitler</a>. Vă puteţi imagina aşa ceva ? Holocaustul nazist a devenit principala armă ideologică pentru a justifica războaiele de agresiune. Asta este ironia supremă ! Asta este realitatea ! Ori de câte ori Israelul şi Statele Unite doresc să lanseze un război ilegal de agresiune, ce acuzaţii aduc ? Că inamicul lor este Hitler. Ahmadinejad este Hitler. Hezbollah este Hitler. Hamas este Hitler.&#8221;</div>
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<div><strong>The <a class="zem_slink" title="Zionism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism" rel="wikipedia">Zionist</a> Story</strong> este un documentar independent, realizat în 2009 de un fost paraşutist şi actual rezervist israelian, <strong>Ronen Berelovich</strong>, o relatare extrem de onestă şi emoţionantă a epurărilor etnice, colonialismului şi apartheidului practicat de mişcarea sionistă internaţională, în scopul împlinirii prin orice mijloace a unei profeţii străvechi, din vremea demonicului Yahwe, de re-edificare a statului israelian pe teritoriul istoric al Palestinei, în detrimentul ghinionistei populaţii arabe locale, al cărei calvar se apropie de un secol de existenţă.</div>
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<div>Berelovich combină, cu succes, imaginile de arhivă cu propriile comentarii şi interviurile luate unor personalităţi la <a class="zem_slink" title="Ilan Pappé" href="http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/staff/pappe/" rel="homepage">Ilan Pappe</a>, Terry Boullata, <a class="zem_slink" title="Alan Hart (writer)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hart_%28writer%29" rel="wikipedia">Alan Hart</a> şi <a class="zem_slink" title="Jeff Halper" href="http://www.icahd.org/" rel="homepage">Jeff Halper</a>, care au avut curajul de a încerca să prezinte adevărul istoric, în condiţiile actuale ale unui climat politic extrem de tensionat şi favorabil protejării minciunilor învederate ale propagandei sioniste.</div>
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<div>Când am scris articolul dedicat unui om deosebit, un Don Quijote modern, <a href="http://antiiluzii.blogspot.com/2011/12/un-american-radical-necazurile-lui.html" target="_blank"><strong>Norman Finkelstein</strong></a>, ştiam că multe lucruri rămăseseră nespuse, fiindcă istoria reală a iadului prin care trece dârzul popor palestinian, de la 1917 şi până în prezent, este prea puţin cunoscută marelui public, din cauza laşităţii mass media, a propagandei sioniste foarte bine susţinută financiar, a trădării tuturor guvernelor lumii, care s-au raliat punctului de vedere susţinut de guvernul israelian şi, nu în ultimul rând, datorită ferocităţii cu care este atacat orice ne-evreu care îndrăzneşte să se atingă de acest subiect fierbinte, sub umbrela legislaţiilor promovate în multe ţări, inclusiv în România, de marii trădători ai intereselor naţionale.</div>
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<div>Tot atunci, am afirmat:</div>
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<div>&#8220;Şi pentru a calma din start spiritele, care ar putea să se inflameze inutil, la fel cum am procedat în cazul primului articol dedicat imperiului american, voi face o distincţie clară între poporul evreu &#8211; dezrădăcinat şi spulberat prin lume, vreme de milenii şi care a fost sacrificat, cu sălbăticie, în multe momente de răscruce ale istoriei, în numele unor interese meschine &#8211; şi conducerea statului <a class="zem_slink" title="Israel" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Israel</a>, subordonată integral sionismului plătit cu banii familiei Rothschild.&#8221;,</div>
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<div>declaraţie ce rămâne perfect valabilă, pentru a-mi clarifica poziţia, fiindcă nu obişnuiesc să mă dezmint: am avut prieteni evrei, oameni oneşti şi muncitori, care nu aveau nimic de-a face cu sionismul şi crimele statului evreu, care nu poate şi nu trebuie să fie confundat cu populaţia în numele căreia susţine, nejustificat, că vorbeşte şi acţionează.</div>
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<div>Şi chiar îl voi cita, în aceeaşi ordine de idei, pe profesorul universitar Ioan Coja, care, acuzat fiind de Nicolae Corbu că ar fi antisemit, numai fiindcă dorea să afle şi să afirme adevărul în spinoasa problemă legionară, a răspuns elegant:</div>
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<div>&#8220;Cât priveşte antisemitismul meu [...] recunosc: sigur că sunt antisemit, dar nu tot timpul, ci numai atunci când mi se iveşte prilejul. Adică atunci când am de-a face cu evrei neruşinaţi şi proşti ! Dacă nesimţiţii pedepsiţi de Dumnezeu să n-aibă nici minte şi nici obraz se întâmplă să fie români, atunci mă fac antiromân, n-am încotro ! Sunt antimaghiar, antiamerican, antisuedez ş.a.m.d., după cum e cazul.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Ronen Berelovich, tehnicianul de înregistrări al Curţii Supreme din capitala israeliană, a studiat regia de film la Camera Obscura Film School în <a class="zem_slink" title="Tel Aviv" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.0666666667,34.7833333333&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.0666666667,34.7833333333 (Tel%20Aviv)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Tel Aviv, Israel</a>, fiind şi creatorul câtorva scurt-metraje &#8211; unele dintre ele prezentate la festivalurile internaţionale de film &#8211; şi al unei mini-drame &#8220;Shesh-besh&#8221;, de 40 de minute, prezentată la &#8220;Cinemateque&#8221;, principalul cinematograf de artă din Tel Aviv.</div>
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<div>Autorul declara:</div>
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<div>&#8220;Am terminat, recent, un documentar independent, &#8216;The Zionist Story&#8217;, în care am căutat să prezint nu numai istoria conflictului israelo-palestinian, ci şi principale sale motive: ideologia sionistă, scopurile sale (prezente şi viitoare) şi susţinerea sa fermă, nu numai de către societatea israeliană, ci, de asemenea, din ce în ce mai mult, de percepţia democraţiilor occidentale asupra problemelor Orientului Mijlociu.</div>
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<div>Aceste concepte au fost deja demonstrate în excelentul documentar &#8216;<a class="zem_slink" title="Occupation 101" href="http://www.occupation101.com" rel="homepage">Occupation 101</a>&#8216;, în regia lui Abdallah şi Sufyan Omeish, dar în documentarul meu am abordat subiectul din perspectiva unui israelian, fost soldat în rezervă şi cineva care şi-a petrecut întreaga viaţă în umbra sionismului.</div>
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<div>Sper să vă puteţi rezerva câteva momente pentru a privi acest film şi, dacă vă va plăcea, chiar vă rog să-l împărtăşiţi şi altora (cum atât documentarul cât şi filmările de arhivă sunt folosite numai în scop educaţional, filmul poate fi distribuit liber).</div>
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<div>Am realizat de unul singur acest documentar, în întregime, practic fără vreun buget alocat, deşi am făcut tot posibilul pentru a mă ridica la un înalt standard profesional şi sper ca acest documentar &#8216;casnic&#8217; să stârnească interesul spectatorilor.&#8221;</div>
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<div>În ce priveşte distribuţia liberă a filmului, după cum veţi constata şi singuri, nu numai imaginile de arhivă, ci şi interviurile recente au o calitate video slabă, din păcate, ceea ce mă face să cred că s-au depus ceva eforturi, pentru a stopa difuzarea pe internet a variantei originale.</div>
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<div>Deşi li s-a contestat continuu autenticitatea şi chiar şi aici, pe blog, am fost admonestat cu indignare de un &#8220;cunoscător&#8221;, la  modul: &#8220;Oare  dumneata  chiar nu  ştii că  sunt false ?&#8221;, am să revin la <a href="http://fastupload.ro/18fdcf4abacfc0659d5f85286d0f2b0e.html" target="_blank"><strong>Protocoalele Înţelepţilor Sionului</strong></a>, care constau, de fapt, în 24 de procese-verbale încheiate de diferitele secţiuni ale Marelui Congres Masonic, care s-a ţinut în Elveţia, la Bâle (Basel), în 1897 (care este amintit şi în film), şi formează programul masonic de cucerire mondială, program elaborat şi comunicat unor anumiţi &#8220;iniţiaţi&#8221;, pentru a se păstra o urmă scrisă a acelor convorbiri ultrasecrete (alţi autori susţin că a fost doar o reformulare, varianta originală fiind întocmită cu circa 100 de ani mai devreme, în casa lui Mayer Amschel Rothschild).</div>
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<div>Din ce motiv ?</div>
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<div>Fiindcă, lăsând la o parte pentru o clipă dezbaterea legată de autenticitatea lor, în forma în care au fost aduse la cunoştinţa lumii de profesorul rus Serghei Nilus, în 1902, prezintă în clar strategia de dominaţie mondială a sionismului francmasonic şi cele ce sunt scrise în Protocoale coincid aproape la perfecţie cu toate evenimentele importante ale secolelor XX şi XXI, care au ajuns să contureze imaginea terifiantă a unui imperiu mondial masonic.</div>
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<div>Nimeni, niciodată, nu va reuşi să mă convingă că totul se datorează unor simple coincidenţe, atunci când strategia sionistă enunţată pe faţă, explică, de exemplu, foarte convingător, evoluţia tragediei poporului palestinian şi a întregii lumi, sub ofensiva ocultei mondiale globaliste:</div>
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<div>&#8220;În politică trebuie să te pricepi să iei proprietatea altuia fără a şovăi, mai ales dacă poţi obţine, prin acest mijloc, supunerea şi puterea. Statul nostru, în aceasta cucerire paşnică, are dreptul să înlocuiască grozăviile războiului prin condamnări la moarte mai puţin văzute şi mai folositoare, necesare adeseori pentru a întreţine teroarea aceasta, care face popoarele să asculte orbeşte.</div>
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<div>O neînduplecare constantă, dar straşnică, este cel mai mare atu al puterii unui Stat; prin urmare, nu este numai în folosul nostru, este chiar de datoria noastră să ne ţinem de acest program al violenţei şi făţărniciei. O asemenea doctrină, bazată pe calcul, este tot atât de folositoare ca şi mijloacele pe care le întrebuinţează. Nu numai prin aceste mijloace, dar şi prin aceasta doctrină a neînduplecării, vom învinge şi vom robi Guvernului nostru Suprem toate celelalte guverne.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Rabinul Moishe Arye Friedman declara:</div>
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<div>&#8220;Adevăraţii antisemiţi sunt aceia care conlucrează cu sioniştii. Sioniştii au pus în Israel bazele unui stat terorist, de apartheid, care îi urmăreşte pe palestinieni şi îi alungă, iar pe plan internaţional au pus la cale, din interese de afaceri sau de putere, industria Holocaustului.</div>
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<div>Noi, evreii credincioşi, nu vrem nimic altceva decât să trăim conform normelor ţării voastre, ca nişte cetăţeni buni şi paşnici, şi să ne putem exercita religia în libertate. Pentru aceasta nu va găsi nimeni motiv de antisemitism.</div>
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<div>Dar atâta timp cât dreptul la opinie şi exprimare nu este respectat, iar oamenii cu gândire de dreapta sunt reduşi la tăcere prin cele mai odioase şi criminale metode, atâta timp cât mijloacele industriei Holocaustului mai sunt utilizate împotriva unei lumi întregi, se va tăia în continuare în propria carne şi antisemitismul va fi o veşnică poveste.&#8221;</div>
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<div>În 1917 planurile sioniştilor începeau să prindă contur, prin cucerirea Palestinei de către britanici, consfinţită pe plan internaţional prin Tratatul de la Sèvres (10 august 1920), care îngloba, desigur, extraordinar de &#8220;oportuna&#8221; Declaraţie Balfour.</div>
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<div>Să fi fost o simplă coincidenţă această acţiune a britanicilor, de parcă ar fi acţionat la ordinele sioniştilor sau mă încearcă pe mine paranoia ?</div>
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<div>Haideţi să clarificăm !</div>
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<div>Declaraţia a ajuns la cunoştinţa opiniei publice sub forma unei scrisori redactată de ministrul de externe britanic, Lord Arthur James Balfour &#8211; de fapt, aşa cum îi stă bine unui şef, acesta dăduse ordin să fie redactată de către un subordonat, pe atunci, Lord Alfred Milner, figura cheie a războiului anglo-bur (1899-1902) &#8211; la insistenţele lui Chaim Weizmann şi ale lui Nahum Sokolow, care au încercat multă vreme să recruteze Marea Britanie în acţiunea de stabilire a unui stat evreiesc în Eretz Israel, în schimbul garantării controlului asupra zonei de nord a Canalului de Suez.</div>
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<div>Şi cui credeţi că-i era adresată, spre aprobare, această scrisoare &#8220;istorică&#8221; ?</div>
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<div>Unui personaj sinistru, Lord Walter Rothschild (Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron the Rothschild), membru &#8220;de frunte&#8221; (bancher, politician, sionist şi zoolog) al Comunităţii Evreieşti din Anglia.</div>
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<div>Interesant este faptul că Milner, care se subordona lui Balfour, pe linie diplomatică, era, simultan, subordonatul lui Rothschild, în calitate de bancher.</div>
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<div>După cum aminteam în articolul dedicat documentarului <a href="http://antiiluzii.blogspot.com/2011/11/prospera.html" target="_blank"><strong>Thrive</strong></a>, una dintre cele mai importante societăţi secrete ale sec. XX (dacă nu cumva cea mai importantă) era Round Table, cu ramificaţii în întreaga lume, deşi îşi avea sediul în Marea Britanie.</div>
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<div>Round Table este cea care orchestrează acţiunile Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission şi ale Royal Institute of International Affairs.</div>
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<div>În 1917, este fascinant faptul că, în timp ce Balfour era un membru de vază al Round Table, Alfred Milner era de fapt liderul oficial, după moartea lui Cecil Rhodes, iar organizaţia fusese fondată de Lionel Walter Rothschild.</div>
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<div>Hmm&#8230; încurcate sunt căile&#8230; Satanei, nu-i aşa ?</div>
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<div>Poate astfel vă va fi mai clară, totuşi, implicarea directă britanică în punerea în aplicare a planurilor sioniste pentru edificarea Eretz Israel.</div>
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<div>La fel de interesant este rolul celui de-al doilea război mondial (apropo, Protocoalele solicitau obţinerea statului fascist global prin intermediul a trei războaie mondiale) în finisarea planurilor sioniste pe termen lung:</div>
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<div>- lagărele de concentrare au convins evreii europeni &#8220;îndărătnici&#8221; că numai în Palestina se putea edifica raiul, aşa cum susţinea furibund propaganda sionistă;</div>
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<div>- debusolarea postbelică a permis declanşarea războiului din 1948 şi implicit, recunoaşterea de către ONU a noului stat Israel, apărut în urma operaţiunii de divizare, prezentată destul de detaliat în film;</div>
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<div>- acordurile de la Bretton Woods, din iulie 1944, consolidau sclavia financiară mondială, punându-se bazele principalelor instrumente neocolonialiste &#8220;moderne&#8221;, FMI şi Banca Internaţională pentru Reconstrucţie şi Dezvoltare (ce frumos sună demagogia cămătarilor), transformată între timp în Banca Mondială;</div>
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<div>- între 1939 şi 1945 se definitivează ideologia noii ordini mondiale, prin volumele &#8220;World Order&#8221; al lui Lionel Curtis şi &#8220;The New World Order&#8221; al lui H.G. Wells (care abandona literatura ştiinţifico-fantastică în beneficiul celor care-l iniţiaseră în secretele ocultei mondiale, propunând un stat mondial colectivist care să cuprindă, culmea, până şi democraţiile socialiste, pe calea recrutării universale pentru muncă, incriminând cu tărie individualismul naţionalist, descris ca &#8220;maladia lumii&#8221;).</div>
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<div>Ciudat este faptul că Hitler, în corespondenţa purtată cu unul dintre cei mai fervenţi susţinători şi sponsori ai săi, Friedrich &#8220;Fritz&#8221; Thyssen, i se plânge acestuia că evreii din Germania şi din restul Europei ocupate nu înţeleg necesitatea emigrării în Palestina, forţându-l să-i interneze în lagăre de concentrare.</div>
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<div>Nu prea corespunde asta cu imaginea unui monstru iraţional şi coleric, care acţiona numai la impuls, nu-i aşa ?</div>
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<div>Mai degrabă seamănă, din punct de vedere al opiniilor, cu unul dintre liderii sionişti de marcă.</div>
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<div>Să fie iarăşi o simplă coincidenţă ?</div>
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<div>Mă tem că nu !</div>
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<div>Conform unor dovezi de dată recentă, acelaşi rabin menţionat mai sus, Moishe Arye Friedman, împreună cu mulţi alţii, acuză liderii sionismului mondial că au colaborat cu naziştii, pentru a forţa imigrarea evreilor căpoşi din Europa în Palestina, unde prezenţa lor era neapărat necesară pentru a răsturna raportul demografic în favoarea evreilor şi a justifica deportarea sau încarcerarea populaţiei palestiniene, devenită astfel minoritară.</div>
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<div>Şi chiar mai grav decât atât, nu oricărui evreu îi era permis să ajungă în Palestina, ci numai celor înstăriţi, care se putea întreţine singuri şi puteau sponsoriza şi statul israelian aflat în stadiul de proiect, de &#8220;trierea&#8221; săracilor urmând a se ocupa aparatul de stat nazist, ceea ce a şi făcut, cu mare eficienţă, după cum se ştie.</div>
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<div>Aceeaşi nemernici sionişti s-au folosit de roadele crimei lor, de holocaustul imaginat şi ordonat de ei, pentru a culpabiliza întreaga lume, care nu-şi mai putea permite să critice un popor supus unui asemenea martiriu, deşi încă o dată precizez, sioniştii sunt asasinii şi nu victimele holocaustului.</div>
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<div>Toate bune şi frumoase până aici şi chiar logice, dar de ce ar fi acţionat Hitler, atât de activ, în beneficiul politicilor şacalilor sionişti ?</div>
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<div>Un psihoanalist, Walter Langer, în cartea sa &#8220;The Mind of Hitler&#8221;, nu susţinea că Hitler a fost doar sprijinit de familia Rothschild (dar şi de familia regală &#8220;britanică&#8221;, aşa-zisă de Windsor, în fapt Saxe-Coburg-Gotha şi de marele &#8220;erou de război&#8221; britanic, Lord Mountbatten, un Rothschild şi un satanist), ci că Hitler era, de fapt, un <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Rothschild</span>.</div>
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<div>Informaţiile lui Langer provin din investigaţiile desfăşurate de un ofiţer din Gestapo, de rang înalt, Hansjurgen Koehler (publicate în 1940 cu titlul &#8220;Inside the Gestapo&#8221;), efectuate la ordinul paranoicului Obergruppenführer SS Reinhard Heydrich, care întocmea dosare oricui, în scop de şantaj.</div>
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<div>Lui Heydrich, la rândul lui, îi atrăsese atenţia o anchetă mai timpurie ordonată de cancelarul austriac, Engelbert Dollfuss, asupra familiei lui Hitler.</div>
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<div>Koehler a scris:</div>
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<div>&#8220;Tatăl lui Adolf, Alois Hitler, a fost fiul ilegitim al Mariei Anna Schicklgruber. S-a presupus, în general, că tatăl lui Alois a fost Johann Georg Hiedler. Dar documentele austriece dovedesc că Maria Anna Schicklgruber locuia, de fapt, la Viena la momentul conceperii lui Alois, fiind servitoarea baronului Rothschild. În momentul în care familia a descoperit că este însărcinată a fost trimisă înapoi acasă, unde s-a născut Alois şi, cinci ani mai târziu, s-a căsătorit cu Johann Georg Hiedler.</div>
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<div>[...] Al doilea grup de documente din dosarul albastru conţinea documentele colectate de Dollfuss. Cancelarul trebuie să fi ştiut că, având un asemenea dosar personal, l-ar fi putut controla pe Hitler.&#8221;</div>
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<div>În 1837, numai Salomon Mayer Rothschild locuia la conacul din Viena al familiei, despre care propriul său fiu, Anselm Salomon, scria:</div>
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<div>&#8220;[...] înainte de 1840 dezvoltase o pasiune atât de libidinoasă pentru fete foarte tinere, încât aventurile sale au trebuit să fie muşamalizate, cu greu, de poliţie.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Într-un asemenea context, pot fi explicate foarte uşor: ordinul de asasinare al cancelarului Dollfuss, dat de Hitler, obsesia acestuia pentru cucerirea cu orice preţ a Austriei şi, legat de documentarul nostru, obedienţa cu care Hitler a respectat planurile ordonate de oculta sionistă mondială.</div>
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<div>Dincolo de intriga, poate de capă şi spadă, a articolului, rămâne realitatea crudă dezvăluită de documentar, a unui guvern israelian promotor al unui apartheid criminal, creatorul celei mai mari închisori de pe planetă, ale cărui planuri de expansiune ameninţă România cel puţin din două puncte de vedere: în primul rând, planurile de evacuare ale întregii populaţii, imaginate de guvernul sionist israelit în cazul înfrângerii suferite din partea unei coaliţii probabile a statelor arabe, vizează ca zonă de dislocare Dobrogea şi, în al doilea rând, să nu uităm halucinanta decizie a fasciştilor din Uniunea Europeană, de a oferi toate datele personale ale românilor, spre administrare, statului Israel.</div>
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		<title>Tribalism, Racism and Projection – Part 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racism is a big word with some very bad connotations. Being accused of racism is one of the most hurtful and potentially damaging labels around. And yet, how many ‘racists’ really think in ‘biological determinist’ terms? How many ‘racists’ out there really think in terms of ‘genes,’ or even ‘skin colour’? I guess not that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8242134&amp;post=2987&amp;subd=middleeastatemporal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Racism is a big word with some very bad connotations. Being accused of racism is one of the most hurtful and potentially damaging labels around. And yet, how many ‘racists’ really think in ‘<a class="zem_slink" title="Biological determinism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_determinism" rel="wikipedia">biological determinist</a>’ terms? How many ‘racists’ out there really think in terms of ‘genes,’ or even ‘skin colour’? I guess not that many.</p>
<p>While acknowledging that racism had a significant cultural, and politically lethal impact between the late 19th century and the middle of the last century, in today’s politics, the word ‘racism’ is often misused, mistakenly used, or in some cases, consciously used to mislead and even to silence.</p>
<p>Though discrimination against minority groups is unfortunately common and totally unacceptable, it is not necessarily always motivated by crude racism. Islamophobia, for instance, is commonly regarded as a contemporary manifestation of racism but I would challenge such an understanding. Islamophobia, I contend, is not driven by racism, but rather, it is actually a crude symptom of intolerance — xenophobia manifested as hatred, bigotry and discrimination. My English Muslim convert friends are often subjected to abuse by Jewish campaigners (both <a href="http://hurryupharry.org/2011/11/30/laura-stuart-the-leadership-of-the-psc-has-to-firm-up/">Zionist</a> and <a href="http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2010/10/did-age-of-enlightenment-never-occur.html">‘anti’ Zionists</a>) and the <a class="zem_slink" title="English Defence League" href="http://www.englishdefenceleague.org" rel="homepage">English Defence League</a> — but not because of their ‘genes’, ‘biology’ or the colour of their skin, but rather because they are ‘different’; because they challenge Western value system and because they oppose <a class="zem_slink" title="Israel" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Israel</a> and its lobbies. Clearly, they are perceived by some as a ‘public enemy’ but that reaction cannot always be understood solely as ‘racism’ per se.<br />
Similarly, it is beyond doubt that it is not easy to be black in ‘multi cultural’ Britain. Being a jazz musician I see first hand how my black friends are often treated in this country and I see plenty of evidence of institutional anti-black bigotry. I read about black youngsters being stopped and searched by police between one to four times a day. This is unacceptable and clear evidence of discrimination.<br />
But is this really always about racism? Is it driven solely by ‘biological determinism’? Is it really about ‘genes’, ‘blood’ or ‘skin colour’? This is indeed an open question and obviously I would not rule out the possibility of anti- black (biological) racism. However, I tend to believe that in contemporary multi ethnic societies, most cases of anti-black bigotry and discrimination are various manifestations of deep, thuggish xenophobic feelings mixed with some examples of deep, and sinister cultural intolerance. In other words, often enough, the contemporary bigot is not concerned at all with biological matters but rather with social constructs and culturally driven symbolism(1). This is surely a matter of serious concern, and in some case it is driven by <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2012/jan/04/lawrence-ukcrime?newsfeed=true">murderous inclinations</a> and it must be dealt with, but it isn’t necessarily (biological) racism per se.</p>
<p>But if it is not racism, what is it then? I reiterate, that these are better understood as different forms of deep cultural and political intolerance within the context of some severe and troubled ethnic interrelations.</p>
<p>So one might ask, why do we restrict our understanding of what fighting ‘racism’ means, when it is actually more likely to be forms of intolerance, ethnic tension and cultural discrimination which we should be protesting against?</p>
<p>I suggest that the confusion here between ‘deep intolerance’, ‘cultural discrimination’ and ‘racism’ is actually no coincidence – rather it is there to serve a clear Zionist political cause. Peculiarly enough, it is there to maintain a clear racial orientation and segregation at the heart of the multi-cultural discourse. In many cases, those who ‘oppose’ racism must be able to think in <a class="zem_slink" title="Race (classification of humans)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28classification_of_humans%29" rel="wikipedia">racial categories</a> first, otherwise their opposition would be in vain.(2)</p>
<p>Paradoxically then, ‘<a class="zem_slink" title="Anti-racism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-racism" rel="wikipedia">anti racism</a>’ which many of us identify with, may in some cases evolve into a racially driven discourse. Often, it can even jeopardise the process of natural integration and the shift towards harmonious social relationships (3). It may even dismantle true self-reflective and mirroring process amongst both the victim and the aggressor.</p>
<p>For within a public discourse controlled by ‘anti-racist’ ideology, the victim of any racist slur is immediately redeemed. He or she does not have to self-reflect on his or her actions, for there is not much he or she can do about their ‘biologically determined conditions’. Zionists and Hasbara campaigners(4), for instance, tend to dismiss any possible criticism of Jewish politics and Israeli actions as ‘anti-Semitism’. By so doing, they basically ‘switch off’. They are able to ignore their surrounding reality by referring to any possible criticism of their actions as just another example of blind, ‘racially’ driven hatred towards Jews. Instead of taking the criticisms on board and examining them by means of self-reflection, Jewish political discourse has evolved into an insular and window-less discourse.</p>
<p><strong>In the following video Israeli veteran MK <a class="zem_slink" title="Shulamit Aloni" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulamit_Aloni" rel="wikipedia">Shulamit Aloni</a> admits that tossing ‘antisemitism’ is an old Zionist trick: <a href="http://youtu.be/jUGVPBO9_cA">http://youtu.be/jUGVPBO9_cA</a></strong></p>
<p>Equally, the so-called ‘racist’ or ‘aggressor’ can also dismiss the anti-racist call because his or her criticism is largely ignored. The ‘aggressor’ knows that in most cases, the issue is not actually about ‘race’ per-se but rather about some acute political, cultural and ideological issues, so this enables him or her to ignore the issue altogether. In spite of the fact that within the contemporary anti Zionist discourse no one criticises Jews for being Jews or employing any racially driven ideology or terminology, Israeli Hasbara and Zionists agents attempt to silence Israel’s political critics by tossing the <a class="zem_slink" title="Antisemitism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism" rel="wikipedia">anti-Semitic</a> label in the air. This tactic obviously fails to silence Israel’s critics but it certainly maintains an abyss of mutual deafness between Zionists and their critics. So we are left with two parallel discourses that have lost all hope of any future exchange.</p>
<p>I believe that this fact alone emphasises how grave is the prospect of peace. Anti-racist politics is in constant danger of erecting walls of deafness that maintain intellectual, political and ethnic segregation at the heart of our public discourse. Rather than promoting hope, integration, tolerance, harmony, assimilation and dialogue – anti-racism could easily promote deafness and insularity exactly where attentiveness and exchange are most needed.</p>
<p>It took me some time to realise that in many cases it is Zionist and Jewish lobbies that maintain and promote the ‘anti-racism’ political discourse, and they do so for two main reasons:</p>
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<li>Being submerged in a racially driven discourse themselves, they are bound to think in terms of racial political categories.</li>
<li>Racism/anti racism is convenient because it removes any responsibility from the victim. If Jews are hated just for ‘being Jews’, then the <a class="zem_slink" title="Jews" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" rel="wikipedia">Jew</a> is ethically flawless.</li>
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<p>The implications of all this are grave – as long as <a class="zem_slink" title="Jewish identity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_identity" rel="wikipedia">Jewish identity</a> politics and Zionism are shielded by categorical definitions of ’anti-racism’, Jews can avoid any form of self-reflection.</p>
<p>But Jews and Zionists are not alone here: the Left also is interested in an anti-racist discourse because it maintains the Left’s relevance as being in the vanguard of progressive ‘ethical insight’. The Left has set itself up as the defender of the weak, and this is indeed adorable. Through the years the Left has sided with the ‘blacks’, with the ‘Zionists’, with the ‘Jew’, with the ‘Iraqi,’ and even with the ‘Palestinian’. But for some reason, the Left has failed to side with the leading contemporary anti-imperialist force — the Muslim. The Left has also failed to recognise that in Europe, the Muslim is the real oppressed working class and the Left clearly failed to side with the democratically elected Hamas or the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. I suggest that the Left’s failure to side with the Muslim is symptomatic of a deep and inherent Western intolerance: the Left is not racist, but it is fundamentally soaked with cultural and ideological intolerance — possibly a state of mind related to the practicality and pragmatism of being ‘a progressive’ (5). I guess that some people may feel very ‘special’ just because they believe in equality</p>
<p>Naturally, the ’cause’ of ‘anti racism’ binds together some elements within the Left with the Zionists and the Hasbara campaign. Arguably, so-called ‘anti racist’ politics has become just another symptom of the Zionification of the Western political discourse with the supportive Left seen as a mere Zionist instrument. This may explain why the UK’s leading anti-racist campaign group Hope not Hate(6) is an offshoot of the <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_HFyUjren0gJ:www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php%3Flink%3Dtemplate%26story%3D19+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;client=firefox-a">Zionist Searchlight Magazine</a>, it also explains why the same Zionist <a href="http://www.blogger.com/hope-not-hate-reveals-islamophobia/">Hope not hate</a>attempts to censor the freedom of speech of Muslim leaders in Britain. It explains why the alleged ‘anti’ racist Harry’s Place (closely affiliated with Hope not hate) won the UK section of the Islamic Human Rights Commission’s ’Annual Islamophobia Awards’ in 2006. In Germany the ‘anti’ racist <em>Antideutsche –Anti Fa </em>coalition is openly <a href="http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&amp;DBID=1&amp;LNGID=1&amp;TMID=111&amp;FID=625&amp;PID=0&amp;IID=3022&amp;TTL">pro-Israel, pro-Zionist</a> and also anti Islam<em>. </em>My guess is that these rabid Zionist and pro Zionist campaign groups planted themselves at the heart of the so-called Left just to make sure that from there they would be better able to fight Israel’s enemies. But it goes further. In the last UK Palestinian Solidarity Campaign’s AGM, two <a href="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january202012/psc-challenge-ni.php">Jewish campaigners</a> who openly operate within an exclusive ‘Jews only’ political cell (J-BIG) proposed a motion against racism. I guess that the absurdity of the situation is clear and doesn’t need further elucidation.</p>
<p>So, as we can now see, some of the leading supremacist and intolerant forces within our contemporary political discourse have managed to locate themselves directly at the very heart of the ‘anti-racist’ call. Furthermore, as it becomes clear that Israel and its lobbies are the <a href="http://youtu.be/vCpeKpzhLEE">driving force</a> behind Islamophobia, it is pretty astonishing to find out that Zionist bodies also dominate the ‘anti-racist’ discourse. The meaning of it is pretty simple – racism and its opposition has gradually become an internal Jewish affair.</p>
<p>The conclusion is simple. It’s time for us to move on, to admit that racism and biological determinism have no significant role in today’s public and political discourse. We must re-think and redefine exactly what it is that leads towards social discrimination and cultural intolerance. Racism in its crude form largely belongs to the past. Our multi-ethnic universe is not inherently racist and therefore anti-racism cannot be a universal call. In many cases, ‘anti racist politics’ is actually there to divert the attention from some institutional discriminatory policies and ideologies.</p>
<p>It is increasingly obvious that the anti-racism campaign, in its current form, is there to serve some clear political interests, and is largely controlled by racially driven Zionists, Jewish lobbies and Jewish pressure groups. It is there to silence any criticism of the Israeli lobby, Israel, Jewish politics and Zionism.</p>
<p>I began this paper by asking why should any Jew feel guilty for crimes that are committed by other people whom he or she does not know and with whom he or she is not affiliated? The answer should by now be obvious: Rather than liberating the rest of humanity from racism, Zionists, Hasbara campaigners and Jewish ‘anti’ Zionists should first emancipate themselves from their own racially-driven ideologies – And stopping projecting their own tribalism onto their surrounding reality would certainly be a good place to start.</p>
<p><strong><em>Notes</em></strong></p>
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<li>I tend to believe that clashes between ethnic and political groups in Britain are fuelled by social tension and demography rather than by hatred towards skin colour.</li>
<li>One cannot contemplate over the meaning of anti X without obtaining first a certain comprehension of X</li>
<li>Minority groups engaged in varied discourses of victimhood (for instance), may miss some opportunities to integrate into wider social, ethnic and political structures.</li>
<li>Hasbara-Israeli propaganda</li>
<li>Which is in practice not different from Jewish secular sense of ‘choseness’.</li>
<li>According to its official website HOPE not hate is “Searchlight’s campaign to counter racism and fascism.” <a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/about-us/">http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/about-us/</a></li>
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		<title>End of game in the Middle East</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although the armed clashes are not completely over in the beleaguered district of <a class="zem_slink" title="Homs" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.7308333333,36.7094444444&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=34.7308333333,36.7094444444 (Homs)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Homs</a> and that the <a class="zem_slink" title="Syria" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.5,36.3&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=33.5,36.3 (Syria)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Syrian</a> and Lebanese authorities have yet to inform <a class="zem_slink" title="Public opinion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion" rel="wikipedia">public opinion</a> of their recent actions, <a class="zem_slink" title="Thierry Meyssan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Meyssan" rel="wikipedia">Thierry Meyssan</a> appeared <a class="zem_slink" title="NFL Football:" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nfl-football" rel="rottentomatoes">Monday night</a> on the leading Russian <a class="zem_slink" title="Television channel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_channel" rel="wikipedia">television channel</a> to make an initial assessment of the operations, providing first-hand information which he is sharing with the readers of <em><a class="zem_slink" title="Voltaire Network" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/en" rel="homepage">Voltaire Network</a></em>.</p>
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<p>For eleven months, the Western powers and the Gulf States have lead a campaign to destabilize Syria. Several thousand mercenaries infiltrated the country. Recruited by agencies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar within the Sunni extremist community, they came to overthrow the &#8220;usurper Alawite&#8221; Bashar al-Assad and impose a Wahhabi-inspired dictatorship. They have at their disposal the most sophisticated military equipment, including night vision systems, communication centers, and robots for urban warfare. Supported secretly by the NATO powers, they also have access to vital military information, including satellite images of Syrian troop movements, and telephone interceptions.</p>
<p>This has been falsely portrayed to the Western public as a political revolution crushed in blood by a ruthless dictatorship. Of course, this lie has not been universally accepted. Russia, China and the Latin American and Caribbean member states of ALBA repudiate it. They each have a historical background that allows them to readily grasp what is at stake. The Russians are thinking of Chechnya, the Chinese of Xinjiang, and the Latin Americans of Cuba and Nicaragua. In all these cases, beyond ideological or religious appearances, the methods of destabilization by the CIA were the same.</p>
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<p>The strangest thing about this situation is to observe the Western media deluding themselves that the Salafists, Wahhabis and Al-Qaeda fighters are motivated by democratic principles, while they continue to demand on Saudi and Qatari satellite airwaves the head of the Alawi heretics and the Arab League observers. It matters little if Abdel Hakim Belhaj (number 2 of Al-Qaeda and current military governor of Tripoli, Libya) came personally to install his men in northern Syria, and Ayman Al-Zawahiri (current leader of Al-Qaeda since the official death of Osama bin Laden) has called for a jihad against Syria: the Western press pursues its romantic dream of a liberal revolution.</p>
<p>Even more ridiculous is to hear the Western media slavishly disseminating the daily dispatches put out by the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood ranting about the crimes of the regime and its victims, under the signature of the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. Besides, since when has this Brotherhood of putchists been interested in human rights?</p>
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<dt><strong>Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda’s number one following the official death of Osama Bin Laden, reiterated his call for hijad to overthrow the Baasist regime in Syria.</strong></dt>
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<p>All it took to turn &#8220;terrorists&#8221; into &#8220;democrats&#8221; was for Western secret services to arrange for the puppet &#8220;Syrian National Council&#8221; to enter the scene, with a Sorbonne professor as President and as spokesperson the mistress of the former head of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General_for_External_Security" rel="external">DGSE</a>. In a sleight of hand, the lie has become a media reality. Those abducted, mutilated and murdered by the Wahhabi Legion are transformed by the press into victims of the tyrant. Conscripts of all faiths who are defending their country against aggression are painted as sectarian Alawite soldiers oppressing their people. The destabilization of Syria by foreigners is treated as one more episode of the &#8220;Arab Spring.&#8221; The emir of Qatar and the Saudi king, two absolute monarchs who have never held national elections in their countries and incarcerate protesters, have become the champions of revolution and democracy. France, the United Kingdom and the United States, who just killed 160,000 Libyans in breach of the mandate they received from the Security Council, have turned into philanthropists responsible for the protection of civilian populations. Etc..</p>
<p>However, the low intensity war that the Western press and the Gulf have hidden behind this masquerade came to an end with the double veto by Russia and China on 4 February 2012. NATO and its allies were ordered to cease fire and withdraw, at the risk of sparking a war on a regional, or even global, scale.</p>
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<dt><strong>Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov on 7 February in Damascus.</strong></dt>
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<p>On 7 February, a large Russian delegation, including the highest ranking foreign intelligence officials, arrived in Damascus where it was greeted by cheering crowds, aware that Russia’s return to the international scene marked the end of their nightmare. The capital, but also Aleppo, the second largest city, were decked out in white, blue, red, and people marched behind banners written in Cyrillic. At the presidential palace, the Russian delegation joined those of other states, including Turkey, Iran and Lebanon. A series of agreements were reached to re-establish peace. Syria has returned 49 military instructors captured by the Syrian army. Turkey intervened to obtain the release of the abducted Iranian engineers and pilgrims, including those held by the French (incidentally, Lieutenant Tlass who sequestered them on behalf of the DGSE was liquidated). Turkey has ceased all support for the &#8220;Free Syrian Army,&#8221; closed down its facilities (except the one on the NATO base at Incirlik), and turned over its commander, Colonel Riad el-Assad. Russia, which is the guarantor of the agreements, has been allowed to reactivate the former Soviet listening base on Mount Qassioum.</p>
<p>The next day, the US State Department informed the Syrian opposition in exile that it could no longer count on its military aid. Realizing that they have betrayed their country to no avail, the Syrian National Council members went in search of new sponsors. One of them even went so far as to write to Benjamin Netanyahu asking him to invade Syria.</p>
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<p>After a period of two days required for the implementation of the agreements, not only the national armies of Syria, but also Lebanon, stormed the bases of the Wahhabi Legion. In northern Lebanon, a massive arsenal was seized in the town of Tripoli and four officers were taken prisoner in Akkar, in a school abandoned by UNRWA and transformed into a military HQ. In Syria, General Assef Shawkat in person commanded the operations. At least 1,500 fighters were captured, including a French colonel of the DGSE technical communication services, and more than a thousand people were killed. At this stage it is not possible to determine how many among the victims are foreign mercenaries, how many are Syrians cooperating with foreign forces, and how many are civilians trapped in the beleaguered city.</p>
<p>Lebanon and Syria have restored their sovereignty over their entire territory.</p>
<p>Intellectuals are debating whether Vladimir Putin might have made a mistake in protecting Syria at the risk of a diplomatic crisis with the United States. The question is wrongly put. Having reconstituted its forces for years and asserted itself today on the international stage, Moscow has put an end to two decades of a unipolar world order, permitting Washington to expand its hegemony to achieve global domination. The choice was not between siding with tiny Syria or with the mighty United States, but between allowing the first world power to destroy yet another government or upsetting the balance of power to create a more just international order in which Russia has a say.</p>
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		<title>Another War on the Cheap</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“As a former intelligence officer, I am acutely aware of how easy it is to create and spread disinformation. Journalists are frail creatures with big egos who want to get an important story that no one else has.”                                           … by  Philip Giraldi &#160; There has been altogether too much stuff in the media lately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8242134&amp;post=2980&amp;subd=middleeastatemporal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><strong>“As a former intelligence officer, I am acutely aware of how easy it is to create and spread disinformation. Journalists are frail creatures with big egos who want to get an important story that no one else has.”</strong></h2>
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<h2><strong>                       … by  <a href="http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/news/opinion-a-analysis/item/1403-another-war-on-the-cheap">Philip Giraldi</a></strong></h2>
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<p><strong><a href="http://middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=186433" rel="attachment wp-att-186433"><img title="bronner" src="http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bronner.jpg" alt="" width="248" height="205" /></a>There has been altogether too much stuff in the media lately about how <a class="zem_slink" title="Iran" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.6833333333,51.4166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=35.6833333333,51.4166666667 (Iran)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Iran</a> is not really a threat to anyone and how even some prominent Israelis don’t really believe that they have to go to war (or have Washington go to war on their behalf).</strong></p>
<p><strong>It was perhaps inevitable that there would be some pushback to again stoke the fires and make the case that Iran is indeed evil incarnate and on the verge of obtaining an apocalyptic weapon.</strong></p>
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<p>Not surprisingly, some of the latest pushback comes from the redoubtable <a class="zem_slink" title="Ethan Bronner" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Bronner" rel="wikipedia">Ethan Bronner</a> of <a class="zem_slink" title="New York Times" href="http://www.newyorktimes.com" rel="homepage">The New York Times</a> in his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/world/middleeast/israelis-see-irans-threats-of-retaliation-as-bluff.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=2" target="_blank">article</a>“<a class="zem_slink" title="Israel" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Israel</a> Senses Bluffing in Iran’s Threats of Retaliation,” which appeared on the paper’s front page on Jan. 26.</p>
<p><strong>Bronner,</strong> whose son has served in the <a class="zem_slink" title="Israel Defense Forces" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" rel="wikipedia">Israeli Defense Forces</a>, is the Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief and covers much of the Middle East. He lives in Israel, and his objectivity has often been questioned, but the self-proclaimed newspaper of record has refused to consider replacing him with someone less openly tied to Israel and its interests.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=186434" rel="attachment wp-att-186434"><img title="new-york-times" src="http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/new-york-times-320x202.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="202" /></a><strong>As a former intelligence officer, I am acutely aware of how easy it is to create and spread disinformation.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Journalists are frail creatures with big egos who want to get an important story that no one else has.</strong></p>
<p><strong>What could be better than to get something fresh from a well-placed, unnamed government source? Who cares if it is phony?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Bronner, who has been in Israel for four years, is no doubt a confidant of a number of Israeli officials who perceive value in the careful cultivation of a New York Times journalist willing to hew closely to the Netanyahu government’s line.</strong></p>
<p><strong>When Mossad sees Bronner walking their way, it’s like Hanukkah coming early.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>All of that said, Bronner’s current agenda is clear right from the get-go, as reflected in his apparent endorsement of the view that Iran “has called for Israel’s destruction and … finances and arms militant groups on Israel’s borders.”<strong> He reports that:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>“Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set off a catastrophic set of events like a regional conflagration, widespread acts of terrorism, and sky-high oil prices.”</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Thanks to Bronner’s report, the whole world can no doubt breathe a sigh of relief. Attacking Iran will produce few or no consequences. And who is telling us that?</p>
<p>No less than Israel and The New York Times, one an interested party in minimizing concern over the damage that such a war would cause and the other a newspaper that prints all the news that fits its point of view.</p>
<div id="attachment_186464"><a href="http://middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=186464" rel="attachment wp-att-186464"><img title="barak" src="http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/barak.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="192" /></a>Israeli Fear-Mongering about Iran Faces a Barak-lash. Sometimes <a class="zem_slink" title="Ehud Barak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak" rel="wikipedia">Ehud Barak</a> has trouble staying on message. &#8212; Nima Shirazi</p>
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<p><strong>Bronner actually cites</strong> one source by name to make his case. <a class="zem_slink" title="Ministry of Defense (Israel)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defense_%28Israel%29" rel="wikipedia">Israeli Defense Minister</a> Ehud Barak said in a November speech that “the retaliation [from Iran] would be bearable.”</p>
<p>And then Bronner is off to the races with “eight current and recent top Israeli security officials” who are, alas, unnamed.</p>
<p>One opines, “Take every scenario of confrontation and attack by Iran…” before delivering his judgment that Tehran having a nuclear weapon would greatly complicate Israel’s possible responses.</p>
<p><strong>Excuse me, but</strong> even Bronner and his Israeli friend should realize that Iran has not been talking about attacking anyone — the threats to attack have all been coming from the Israeli side for the past five years and more recently from a gaggle of American presidential wannabes.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Any “confrontation and attack” by Iran would be retaliation.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=186469" rel="attachment wp-att-186469"><img title="inss" src="http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/inss.gif" alt="" width="205" height="127" /></a><strong>And then there is the support</strong> provided by the article about to be published by the Institute for National Security Studies at <a class="zem_slink" title="Tel Aviv University" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.1138888889,34.8041666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.1138888889,34.8041666667 (Tel%20Aviv%20University)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Tel Aviv University</a>. An advance copy was graciously given to Bronner.</p>
<p>The piece argues that the Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz is a bluff. Bronner does not mention that Tel Aviv University is state-run, and the Institute he cites advertises itself on its own <a href="http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Communities-and-Partners/Partners/Detail/?lng=en&amp;id=49257" target="_blank">website</a> as having “a strong association with the political and military establishment.”</p>
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<p><strong>The paper is the work of</strong> the former head of military intelligence and the ex-Iran expert from Israel’s National Security Council. So we have government and still more government confirming what the <a class="zem_slink" title="Politics of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Israel" rel="wikipedia">Israeli government</a> itself apparently wants everyone to believe.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Why would Iran not retaliate in the strait? To avoid a confrontation with the U.S. Navy, according to Bronner’s Israeli experts. But what if Iran did not agree with that assessment? Bronner does not go there, but he does cite another think tank, the<a href="http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=the+Begin-Sadat+Center+for+Strategic+Studies&amp;um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;channel=np&amp;biw=1760&amp;bih=872&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbnid=7YR6XuOXNl9DEM:&amp;imgrefurl=http://www.besacenter.org/&amp;docid=8pdXikaYG4z5CM&amp;imgurl=http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/images/Netanyahu140609.jpg&amp;w=347&amp;h=350&amp;ei=q-Y6T6GQOoPmmAXgwsTTCg&amp;zoom=1&amp;iact=hc&amp;vpx=175&amp;vpy=134&amp;dur=634&amp;hovh=178&amp;hovw=177&amp;tx=108&amp;ty=123&amp;sig=105268709540378779477&amp;page=1&amp;tbnh=119&amp;tbnw=118&amp;start=0&amp;ndsp=48&amp;ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0"> Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies</a>.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Begin-Sadat is government-funded and is based at state-supported Bar-Ilan University. The Center <a href="http://www.biu.ac.il/Besa/about.html" target="_blank">conducts</a>“policy-relevant research on strategic subjects, particularly as they relate to the national security and foreign policy of Israel.”</p>
<p><strong>Its non-nonpartisanship</strong> is reflected in its current promotion of a “recent important new study by Prof. Haim Gvirtzman, based on previously classified data, [that] refutes Palestinian claims that Israel is denying West Bank Palestinians water rights.”</p>
<p>It has also published an article titled “Palestinians: Invented People” by Professor Michael Curtis.</p>
<p><a href="http://middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=186470" rel="attachment wp-att-186470"><img title="Netanyahu BESA" src="http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Netanyahu-BESA-e1329269354726-320x250.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="250" /></a><strong>The Begin-Sadat Center obligingly argues</strong> that “The threat to Israel of missile warfare is somewhat exaggerated, and public discourse on this issue should reflect realistic assessments. At this stage, missile attacks would be able to inflict only limited physical damage on Israel.”</p>
<p>Bronner quotes an anonymous retired official who adds that Iran’s reaction “will be nothing like London during World War II.”</p>
<p><strong>That was the German blitz</strong> that killed 20,000 Londoners, so it is perhaps reassuring to believe that it will not be like that, but the analysis is based on what Saddam Hussein did in 1991 and the effectiveness of the 4,000 primitive Katyusha rockets fired by Hezbollah in 2006.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The United States and Israel have both been claiming that Hezbollah <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/haaretz-wikileaks-exclusive/haaretz-wikileaks-exclusive-hezbollah-expected-to-launch-100-missiles-a-day-at-tel-aviv-1.354826" target="_blank">now has</a> nearly 40,000 rockets and missiles, including sophisticated Grads, that can reach any target in Israel with considerable accuracy, so who is fooling whom?</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>To be fair to Bronner,</strong> he does note here and there along the way in his article that some officials and “experts” disagree with the conclusions he is reporting, but the piece overall seems intended to promote yet another war that can be fought on the cheap.</p>
<p>The underlying premises are that Iran can be attacked, that its nuclear program can be seriously damaged, and that Tehran will either not opt to or be unable to retaliate in any meaningful way. And even if it does retaliate, it will not be too bad for Israel, and the United States would be impacted even less.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>To say that this is very dangerous thinking would be to understate the case, particularly as Bronner demonstrates that it appears to be what is driving the Netanyahu government.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Fear-mongering</strong> is the name of the game when citing the underlying concern that Iran might be about to obtain a nuclear weapon and might then be tempted to use it, a “what if” piled on a “maybe” to justify a preemptive war.</p>
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<p><strong>It is not merely coincidental</strong> that Bronner cites Netanyahu’s apparent belief that the so-called Iranian threat is equivalent to “the Nazis who tried to eliminate the Jews.” And the piece concludes with the Israeli prime minister speaking on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, saying,</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>“I want to mention the main lesson of the Holocaust when it comes to our fate. We can only rely on ourselves.”</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Someone should remind Bronner that while he is promoting an Israeli viewpoint he is writing for an American newspaper and audience and should address the serious question of what Washington’s options might be if Netanyahu does take action. Israeli self-reliance is a wonderful thing, if only it were true.</p>
<p><strong>The United States has been</strong> tied hand and foot to Israeli policies and would be drawn inexorably into anything that Tel Aviv starts. The confident assertion that Iran would be unable to retaliate effectively might prove as reliable as the claims made in 2002 that there would be a “cakewalk” in Iraq.</p>
<p><strong>Source : <a href="http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/news/opinion-a-analysis/item/1403-another-war-on-the-cheap">The Council for the National Interest</a>                            Editing: Debbie Menon and Jim W. Dean</strong></p>
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<h3><a href="http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/news/opinion-a-analysis/itemlist/user/64-philipgiraldi" rel="author">Philip Giraldi</a></h3>
<p>Philip Giraldi is the executive director of the Council for the National Interest and a recognized authority on international security and counter terrorism issues. He is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served eighteen years overseas in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain.</p>
<p>He was Chief of Base in Barcelona from 1989 to 1992 designated as the Agency’s senior officer for Olympic Games support. Since 1992 he consulted for a number of Fortune 500 corporate clients.</p>
<p>Mr. Giraldi was awarded an MA and PhD from the University of London in European History and holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the University of Chicago. He speaks Spanish, Italian, German, and Turkish.</p>
<p>His columns on terrorism, intelligence, and security issues regularly appear in The <strong><a href="http://www.amconmag.com/search.html?v&amp;m=2&amp;search=%22philip+giraldi%22&amp;start=0&amp;end=25">American Conservative</a></strong>magazine, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-giraldi"><strong>Huffington Post</strong></a>, and <strong><a href="http://original.antiwar.com/author/giraldi/">Antiwar.com</a></strong>. He has written op-ed pieces for the Hearst Newspaper chain, has appeared on “Good Morning America,” MSNBC, National Public Radio, and local affiliates of ABC television.</p>
<p>He has been a keynote speaker at the Petroleum Industry Security Council annual meeting, has spoken twice at the American Conservative Union’s annual CPAC convention in Washington, and has addressed several World Affairs Council affiliates.</p>
<p>He has been interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Britain’s Independent Television Network, FOX News, Polish National Television, Croatian National Television, al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, 60 Minutes, and other international and domestic broadcasters.</p>
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<h2> <strong>An exclusive interview with Philip Giraldi, former CIA officer:</strong></h2>
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		<title>&#8220;Israelis will yearn for the days when the Assad regime was in power&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the regime change inTunis and Egypt, the Usrael lost their stratgic asset in the ME, Hosni Mubarak. The new Egyptmay cease to be a Usraeli asset willing to oppose the Axis of resitance (Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah). Very worried about the events in Bahrain and Yemen, the USA, moved to contain and control the events [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middleeastatemporal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8242134&amp;post=2977&amp;subd=middleeastatemporal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>After the regime change inTunis and Egypt, the Usrael lost their stratgic asset in the ME, <a class="zem_slink" title="Hosni Mubarak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak" rel="wikipedia">Hosni Mubarak</a>. The new Egyptmay cease to be a Usraeli asset willing to oppose the Axis of resitance (Iran, <a class="zem_slink" title="Syria" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.5,36.3&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=33.5,36.3 (Syria)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Syria</a>, Hamas and Hezbollah).</h3>
<p>Very worried about the events in Bahrain and <a class="zem_slink" title="Yemen" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=15.35,44.2&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=15.35,44.2 (Yemen)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Yemen</a>, the <a class="zem_slink" title="The States" href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" rel="historycom">USA</a>, moved to contain and control the events in inTunis, Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen, and drawn its plans to change of regime in Syria in an attempt to make up for the  Mubarak&#8217;s fall disaster.</p>
<p>Syria has always frustrated the White House, whoafter the fall of Saddam tried to pressure Syria to abandon Hezbollah and palestinian resistance, sever its alliance with Iran.</p>
<p><em>“Syria&#8217;s behavior has not met our hopes and expectations over the past 20 months and Syria&#8217;s actions have not met its international obligations,”</em><em> </em>Clinton told the Lebanese daily an-Nahar, confirming that the US will accept nothing short of complete subservience.</p>
<p><strong>During the 2006 war , Abrams, supported by other neocons outside the administration, urged Israel to expand its bombing campaign to include Syria.</strong></p>
<p>So, the fall of the Syrian regime and the installation of a US puppet in Damascus controlled by the Sunni majority would isolate Hamas in Gaza, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Iran would lose its main ally in the ME, and land access to Hezbollah. Israel has also taken advantage of the Syrian revolt to present Syria as an unreliable partner in any negotiation on the status of the <a class="zem_slink" title="Golan Heights" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.9816666667,35.7494444444&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=32.9816666667,35.7494444444 (Golan%20Heights)&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation">Golan Heights</a>, a piece of Syrian territory that it conquered in the 1967 war.<br />
There are various <a href="http://english.dohainstitute.org/Home/Details/5ea4b31b-155d-4a9f-8f4d-a5b428135cd5/172e428e-3afb-4373-bd5d-211db70465d0">opinions</a> in the media on whether or not the regime change inSyria would be inIsrael&#8217;s interest provide. The second opionion claiming that Israelis would yean for Assad&#8217;s days is nothing more than Zionist hasbra spread to help the Istanbul Council and anti-Assad propaganda.</p>
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<p>Below the anti-Assad Khalid Amayereh is promting the Zionist &#8211; MB&#8217;s hasbra claimg that the Syrian regime is domed and that the post-Assad phase is an Israeli nightmare.<a href="http://www.zimoz.co.uk/news/headlines/zionist-push-for-regime-change-in-syria/">Zionist are not pushing for Regime change in Syria?</a> and <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174438.html">US neocons are not seeking Syria &#8216;regime change&#8217;</a></p>
<p>And Istanbul Council is not calling Israel for <a href="http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2012/02/syrian-national-council-asks-israel-for.html">help</a></p>
<p><em><strong>&#8220;Israel strategists also believe that the chances of Damascus escaping the fate of the regimes of Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak and Zein Al-Abidine bin Ali</strong></em><strong><em> </em></strong><em><strong>is decreasing,</strong></em><strong><em> </em></strong><em><strong>hence it is preparing to deal with the serious consequences of the post-Assad phase.&#8221;</strong></em><strong> </strong>Amayereh wrote.<em><strong>&#8220;Israelis know that they will yearn for the days when the Assad regime was in power because Tel Aviv was largely successful in its power of deterrence towards that regime, forcing Damascus to endure Tel Aviv&#8217;s insults without even attempting to respond.&#8221;</strong></em> he added</p>
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<h1><a href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1084/re4.htm">Deep set targets</a></h1>
<p>While handshakes remain fresh on the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation track, economic conditions could soon derail the Palestinian Authority entirely, writes<strong>Khaled Amayreh</strong> in Ramallah<br />
Although he is more than 65 years old and was busy as a manager of an economic firm, the <a class="zem_slink" title="Israel Defense Forces" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" rel="wikipedia">Israeli army</a> recalled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_Avital">Shay Avital</a>, a retired general who left the army more than a decade ago. This unusual move in Israeli military tradition is seen as vital as army leaders believe Avital would guarantee the success of a new army leadership unit, known as Depth Corp, in charge of special military operations deep in the <a class="zem_slink" title="Arab world" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world" rel="wikipedia">Arab world</a>.</p>
<p>Fast-paced developments in the Arab world in the wake of revolutions for democratic change will result in numerous threats for Israel, which requires it to prepare plans to face these threats. This includes preparing for operations in the heart of the Arab world. Military leaders believe that despite Avital&#8217;s advanced age he is the best qualified to head Depth Corp because of his unique expertise.</p>
<p>During his service in the army, Avital led many elite units in the army specialising in unique operations in the heart of the Arab world, most prominently the Sayeret Matkal unit that specialised in assassination and kidnapping operations. The formation of Depth Corp is part of restructuring the Israeli army to ensure Israel&#8217;s freedom of manoeuvre when necessary.</p>
<p>The main assumption for Israeli strategists is that the Arab Spring will bring with it immense challenges to Israel&#8217;s security, which in time could evolve into existential threats. Israeli military leaders fear that the countries where revolutions for democratic change have taken place could become bases for military operations against Israeli targets. Hence, decision-makers in Israel believe they need to be prepared to carry out operations deep inside states that are far away from Palestine&#8217;s borders, such as Yemen and Iraq.</p>
<p>Although political and military leaders do not give details on the threats, conditions in Yemen are of great interest to Israeli decision-makers. Some 30 per cent of Israeli trade passes through the Red Sea on its way to Southeast Asia, while Israeli navy vessels and submarines also sail through there during military exercises. Hence, Israelis fear that armed groups could launch attacks from Yemen, which overlooks the Straits of Mandab, against Israeli commercial and military vessels. This requires Israel to be prepared to work against any party that could carry out such attacks.</p>
<p><strong>The same applies to Egypt. Although the <a class="zem_slink" title="Supreme Council of the Armed Forces" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Council_of_the_Armed_Forces" rel="wikipedia">Supreme Council of the Armed Forces</a> and Egyptian political parties, including Islamist movements that won the elections, are sending reassuring messages about their commitment to the Camp David Peace Treaty, Israeli decision-makers believe that the rise of Islamists to power in Egypt could foment anti-Israel sentiment there.</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2009/08/mishaal-reassures-jordan-that-hamas.html">We do understand well the international and regional equations,”</a><br />
Mishaal emphasized.</p>
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<p><strong>But Israelis are most worried about future conditions in Jordan. There is consensus inside Israel about the key role Jordan plays in guaranteeing Israel&#8217;s safety by securing the longest border with Palestine.</strong></p>
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<p>Nonetheless, there are serious doubts insideIsraelabout the future of the incumbent regime inJordan. Decision-makers in Tel Aviv are assuming the worst, namely the overthrow of the regime or at least transformation from absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.</p>
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<p>Accordingly, Israelis are preparing to confront the repercussions of the collapse of the Jordanian regime, which would make Jordan a springboard for resistance operations against Israel. This would require the special units operating under Depth Corp to prepare for operations in the heart of Jordan, as stated by former Minister of Defence Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.</p>
<p>Strategic analysts in Israel are also very concerned about the repercussions of the US withdrawal from Iraq, assuming that this would increase incentive for parties hostile to Israel to target Israel in an ideal environment, especially Iran and its instruments in Iraq. Israelis are most worried about Iran being able to establish missile bases in Iraq, especially western Iraq, and using them to attack Israel if the latter bombs Iranian nuclear facilities. Hence, part of the responsibilities of the new military leadership will be to deal with these threats if they materialise.</p>
<p>At the same time, Depth Corp will play a key role in any military attacks by Israel against Iranian nuclear facilities. The Israeli army&#8217;s leadership believes that air strikes alone by Israel&#8217;s Air Force against nuclear facilities would not be enough to ensure serious damage to these facilities. Hence, there is a need for special units on the ground to also take part in the attack to ensure the operation is successful. At the same time, planting these units inside Iran would increase the targets that complement air strikes.</p>
<p><strong>Israel strategists also believe that the chances of Damascus escaping the fate of the regimes of Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak and Zein Al-Abidine bin Ali is decreasing, hence it is preparing to deal with the serious consequences of the post-Assad phase.</strong> <strong>Israeli military leaders realise that any regime that replaces Bashar Al-Assad</strong><strong> </strong><strong>would not be able</strong><strong> </strong><strong>&#8211; at least in the beginning &#8212; to prevent the Golan Heights from becoming a launching pad for resistance operations against Israel. This would be a root change in the strategic environment for Israel, since the Golan Heights overlooks many Jewish industrial and residential centres.</strong></p>
<p><strong>At the same time, instability on the Syrian front means deterioration in security conditions for Jewish settlements built on the Golan Heights,</strong><strong> </strong><strong>which have been safe and quiet throughout the rule of the Assad family.</strong> In fact, this has resulted in a large number of Jews wanting to live on the Golan Heights over the past two decades. Matters are further complicated by the fact that it would be impossible for Israel to deter expected resistance operations by groups and movements inside Syria, especially traditional military operations.</p>
<p><strong>Israelis know that they will yearn for the days when the Assad regime was in power</strong> because Tel Aviv was largely successful in its power of deterrence towards that regime, forcing Damascus to endure Tel Aviv&#8217;s insults without even attempting to respond. Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear research facility in northeast Syria at the end of 2006, Mossad killed several officials in the Syrian nuclear programme, as well as assassinating the leader of the armed wing of Hizbullah, Emad Mughniyeh, in the heart of Damascus, without the Al-Assad regime taking a single serious step against Israel, even in the media.</p>
<p><strong>Strategists in Israel believe that even if the regime in Syria is toppled and civil war breaks out, this development would also carry serious consequences because it would result in the formation of armed groups and militias who would</strong><strong> </strong><strong>later</strong><strong> </strong><strong>turn their attention to attacking Israel.</strong> Accordingly, there is a need for Depth Corp to confront these threats if they materialise. At the same time, Israel assumes that once the Assad regime realises it is standing on its last legs it will transfer its heavy weaponry arsenal to Hizbullah, which would require Israel to intercede and bomb weapons caravans in transit or attack the storage facilities where they will be located.</p>
<p>One can surmise from the debate that took place about forming Depth Corp that Israeli military leaders believe that Arab revolutions increase the ability of Palestinian resistance to obtain weapons, which would change the balance of power between the resistance and Israel. <strong>Israeli decision-makers agree that current conditions in several Arab states where there have been revolutions for democratic change</strong><strong> </strong><strong>will allow the flow of weapons to the Gaza Strip</strong><strong> </strong><strong>&#8211; even if only because the concerned governments are unable to thoroughly monitor theirs precincts and borders.</strong></p>
<p>Choosing targets in the depth of Arab states and operating in the heart of Arab countries will be a key mechanism in Israeli operations to contain the repercussions of, and enhance weaknesses within, revolutions for democratic change in the Arab world.</p>
<p><strong>River</strong><strong> </strong><strong>to</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Sea</strong><strong></strong> Uprooted Palestinian <strong> </strong>  are]�tx��ion: none; color: rgb(0, 101, 156); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; &#8220;&gt;disposed of for ‘medical reasons.  Israel legal system is saturated with <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865696,00.html">discriminatory racist</a> and supremacist laws against the Arab and non-Jewish population.</p>
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<p>To a certain extent then, the fear of anti-Semitism inherent to the Zionist and Jewish secular political discourse is fuelled by the belief that the ‘other,’ i.e. the Goy, may well be equally driven by a similar racist ideology.</p>
<p>Some Jews, it must be said, might offer reasons to reject the above explanation: they might argue that Jewish history (i.e. that endless chain of Shoas), proves that ‘the sons of Israel’ would be justified in being on a constant state of alert. Jews, they might say, should be constantly aware that their neighbours might turn against them at any given moment.</p>
<p>I suggest that we are dealing here with a ‘chicken and egg’ situation: while some Jews would agree among themselves that anti-Semitism is largely an ‘<a href="http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/Irrational_Disease.htm">irrational disease</a>’,  a few historians such as <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/lazare-anti.asp">Bernard Lazare</a> were brave and honest enough to ask why and how exactly, Jews have managed to bring so much pain on themselves.</p>
<p><a href="http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2012/02/after-regime-change-intunis-and-egypt.html">http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2012/02/after-regime-change-intunis-and-egypt.html</a></p>
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