Sunday, 2 January 2011

GORDON DUFF: WHY WIKILEAKS DIED

January 2, 2011 posted by Gordon Duff · PHONY UFO SCARE WIKILEAK’S ‘COUP DE GRACE’

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

“…it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs.”

When CFR Director, Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the most feared power brokers in Washington or anywhere else, openly attacked Wikileaks as an intelligence operation, siding with Jeff Gates, Dr. Alan Sabrosky, William Engdahl, Lila Rajiva, Gordon Duff and so many others of the independent alternative media, Wikileak’s days were numbered.  The failed UFO scare, whatever it was supposed to do, has backfired, putting a bullet in the heart of Wikileaks.

After a “bang up” start, the Iraq helicopter video, Wikileaks spent its credibility supporting Israel and attacking, not only the Islamic world but the United States as well, in a clearly biased and “ham-handed” manner.
As Dr. Alan Sabrosky puts it:
“The one striking exception in all of this global tour de farce <sic.> is the Middle East. Certainly, even aside from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s fulsome praise of Binyamin Netanyahu, what is said and what is not, represent the message Israel and its partisans in the US Government (itself heavily Zionist and “Israel First” in orientation) want the world to hear, believe and accept. The message coming across in the US diplomatic cables could have been designed and drafted by Avigdor Lieberman, and who knows? It may have been…”
BETTER A WIKILEAK THAN “WIKI-TERROR”

This year’s holiday drama was the “wiki-fiasco.”  Last year it was the “crotch bomber” and the “Times Square Fizzler.”   In the end, both disappeared into the shadows, exposed, “debunked, ” phony as a “three dollar bill.”  The Detroit “crotch bomber” and the “fizzler,”  as with the FBI’s “exploding Christmas tree” “skit” in Oregon, staged “media events,” patsies, all with the same smell, “false flag” theatre timed to influence world events.
Our only questions about Assange, failed “leaker” and over-exposed “celeb” is whether  he was ever real.  If he was, and he may well have been, what happened to Wikileaks is a crying shame.

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Three weeks before, Zbigniew Brzezinski had said that Wikileaks was a deception operation by an intelligence agency.  Assange named the mechanism for the deception, admitting in fact that what was leaked had, in reality, nothing to do with Wikileaks.  Wikileaks was, in Assange’s own words, the New York Times.
23 year old Jonathan Azaziah in his exhaustive analysis, Wikileaks is Poison:  Deconstruction of the Myth, not only closes the case on Wikileaks but on those in the media who have been complicit in the deception.  The deception program, you can’t call it anything else, running interference for Wikileaks has two edges, defense by “shills” and attacks by “assets.”  Not only articles and broadcasts in defense of Assange but “half-hearted” attacks from the hated and discredited like Joseph Lieberman, Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh, are also part of the defense of Wikileaks, part of the “game warfare” used to sell deception as fact, myth as truth.

ATTACKS ON BRZEZINSKI

As Council on Foreign Relations Director,  Zbigniew Brzezinski,  too big a target for Abe Foxman’s infamous “Antisemitism” smears, had to be discredit,a campaign in the “alternative media” was begun.  In this piece by Alexander Cockburn, whose online blog “Counterpunch” has been suspiciously oblivious to Wikileak transgressions, we see attempts to blame Brzezinski, who left public service in 1981, nearly 30 years ago, for today’s debacle in Afghanistan.
“The U.S. began the destruction of Afghanistan in 1979, when President Jimmy Carter and his National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, started financing the mullahs and warlords in the largest and most expensive operation in the CIA’s history until that time. Here we are, more than three decades later, half-buried under a mountain of horrifying news stories about a destroyed land of desolate savagery, and what did one hear on many news commentaries earlier this week?”
When Brzezinski “outed” Wikileaks as a government spy organization, defending Wikileaks as an “intelligence asset” required discrediting Brzezinski, a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, the CFR.  No “mainstream media” is safe in attacking the all powerful CFR, the epicenter of the world’s power establishment, headed by David Rockefeller.
The orchestrated aspect of this attack and the litany of carefully timed attacks on Wikileak “debunkers” and Assange accusers by supposed members of the alternative media, particularly those whose “muckraking” manages to secure mainstream media exposure, sites and blogs that are uniquely well financed and sponsored while others less “sensitive” to Israel’s “needs” are boycotted and hacked  and “spammed” continually.
FOXMAN “LEAPS” TO THE WIKI-DEFENSE

The saddest part of all, ADL (Anti-Defamation League) head, Abe Foxman, issued a personal press release accusing Wikileaks critics of “Antisemitism.”  Foxman really shot himself in the foot on that one.  Only a week before, Julian Assange tried explaining the painfully obvious pro-Israel slant of Wikileaks.  He blamed the press, claiming that they censored Wikileaks.  This is the good part.  He didn’t say they censored their own reporting but that they censored the Wikileaks “dumps’ themselves out of “sensitivity” to the needs of Israel.
By that time, the stories about the Assange arrest had began to look a bit theatrical, the articles attacking Assange’s accusers, stating they were tied to CIA plots, Illuminati groups and Freemasons got wilder and wilder.  Then the ADL stepped in, hoping to spend their last shred of credibility to save what Brzezinski named, an intelligence operation.  All that the ADL and Foxman accomplished was to convince any doubters that Wikileaks was managed from Israel, something Assange, in his own statements and writings had made pretty obvious by then.
The ADL’s attempt at throwing its “credibility” behind Assange failed as the ADL has no credibility.  One of the primary activities of the ADL is suppressing news stories of Jewish Americans caught spray painting Antisemitic slogans on synagogues. The number of such reports can’t be cataloged, as they are purged from the internet and even newspaper archives.  The tactics used are infamous, the ADL playbook.

“WIKI-ROSWELL,” THE UFO “CRASH” THAT KILLED WIKILEAKS

In December, Wikileaks “leaked” to the press that they held “cables” discussing UFOs.  Soon after, they “leaked” that that other documents, some proving that America was, not only using adapted UFO technology but was engaged in large scale military operations against “fleets” of UFOs over the “Southern Sea” were going to be made public.
In fact, in an interview with the Guardian, Assange said the following
“…it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs.”
A quick check of “Yahoo” results for “Wikileaks UFOs” yields 153,000 results, including promises of UFO releases by Wikileaks published by the UK Telegraph, MSNBC, India Times, CBS News, Guardian and many more.
When expanded on, however, in usual “wiki-fashion,” selected emails and calls to media “favorites,” the claim by Assange of “references to UFO” became something more sinister, references to a wide scale invasion of earth, a UFO takeover of human civilization.
As with the reputed UFO invasion itself, the Wikileaks “space alien” material has also failed to “materialize.”  Instead, Assange, with the assistance of Abe Foxman and others, “select” others, have mounted a defense of Wikileaks, attempting to deflect the deluge of skepticism that has developed with revelations about Assange and his “sensitivities” for Israel.
What kind of insanity would have driven this exhibition of bad judgement?
One day Julian Assange tells the world to hide under their beds from fleets of flying saucers and the next day he pretends it was all a joke?
CHEAPER THAN BOMBS

The unreported and unspoken message of Wikileaks has always been justification for a war on Iran.  Whatever curiosity one could find in the material, the crux of Wikileaks always comes back to that same point.
If as Brzezinski and so many others imply, that Wikileaks is psychological warfare, in reality, a new form of global terrorism, aimed at destabilizing governments, perpetuating conflicts, justifying increasing world tensions, exploiting well known duplicity, not to inform but with calculated bias, is Assange more a “combatant” than a spy?  If, as we are seeing, Wikileaks is a form of military attack by, not a group of “truth tellers” but a nuclear armed state, such as Israel, one with a history of using deception and worse, can Wikileaks be called “terrorism?”
Truth is truth.  Partial truth told with bias to influence world events leading to destabilization, leading to war, encouraging terrorism, done on behalf of an intelligence agency is not even propaganda, it is war, as much as a car bombing of a church or a video of a sniper’s bullet killing an American soldier in Iraq.   In fact, Wikileaks, if you think about it enough, has the smell, the odor and flavor of those bin Laden video and audio tapes, the ones released years after this death in December 2001.
The end purpose of all these things, these acts of war, all the same.


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More Condemnations to “Cowardly” Egypt Church Attack, Authorities Arrest 17

02/01/2011 Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has condemned an apparent suicide bombing that killed 21 people at a church in Alexandria, Egypt, a government statement released on Sunday said.

Al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate has said it attacked a Baghdad church because two women who allegedly converted to Islam were being held hostage by Egypt's Coptic Church, and threatened Christians in the region, including in Egypt.

"This awful crime targeted both Christians and Muslims, both innocent," the statement quoted a message from Maliki to Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif as saying. "It demonstrates again the criminal nature of the terrorists. "We in Iraq, government and people, find ourselves on the side of our brothers in Egypt in standing against this heinous attack, and we are fully confident in the ability of the people of Egypt and their wise leaders to overcome this ordeal," it said.

An Egyptian health ministry official said 21 people were killed and 79 wounded in the bombing early on Saturday that targeted worshippers emerging from New Year's Eve mass. The Egyptian interior ministry said eight of those wounded were Muslims.

Egyptian police say they have arrested 17 people over the bomb attack. The arrests came as authorities deployed heavy security forces, including riot police backed by armored vehicles, outside the Coptic Al-Qiddissin church on Sunday, al-Jazeera reported.

Meanwhile dozens of congregants returned to the blood-spattered church to condemn the deadly attack. The attack sparked angry street protests in the Mediterranean port city among Christians who accuse authorities of not doing enough to protect the minority group in the country.

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday condemned the "cowardly" New Year's Eve suicide attack. "This cowardly gesture of death, like that in which bombs were left near the homes of Christians in Iraq to force them to leave, is an offense against God and all humanity," Benedict told hundreds of pilgrims in St Peter's Square.

"Faced with this strategy of violence targeting Christians, and the consequences for all the population, I pray for the victims and their loved ones," the pope said during his Sunday Angelus address.

Hezbollah also offered its condolences to the families of victims who died in the bombing in Egypt on Saturday. According to a statement issued by Hezbollah’s press office on Saturday, the party voiced hope that the related authorities find out who the criminals behind this bombing are. The most dangerous conspiracies are those that target religious co-existence to serve US-Israeli interests, the statement added.

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And Israelis wonder why Palestinians want to throw them in the Mediterranean?

Israel forces Palestinians to demolish their own homes

“families were faced with the decision either to demolish their own home and pay a fine of 60,000 shekels (approximately $17,000 US) “or refuse, and watch as soldiers demolish their house and punish them with a fine of 120,000 shekels ($34,000)”

Palestinian women from Lyd sit on top of the rubble of their home after it was destroyed by Israel, December 2010. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)

These NaZionist scum wonder why Palestinians wanted to throw them into the Sea? Just like Israeli Nazis expel Palestinians now, the day Palestinians will reciprocate and expel these thugs, is not too far! Justice will prevail and the Holy Land will be CLEANSED from the terrorism of the Jewish religion!
EI, December 31, 2010

More than 100 Palestinian protesters and their supporters blocked a main street in the city of Lyd on 28 December, demonstrating against the recent demolition of Palestinian homes and what residents say is a rise in racism and police brutality.

On 13 December, officials with the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), the government agency that manages and leases state land, entered the Palestinian section of the segregated city flanked by bulldozers and hundreds of municipal, riot squad and border police forces. The bulldozers then demolished seven homes all belonging to the Abu Eid family in Lyd.

The demolition, which took several hours, subsequently displaced 67 members of the entire family, including dozens of children, during one of the worst rainstorms of the season. Dozens of other Palestinian homes have been demolished over the years in Lyd, which is a few miles east of Tel Aviv inside the state of Israel.
Lyd is a so-called “mixed city,” as is the neighboring city of Ramle, with significant Palestinian minority [after being the majority before being ethnically cleansed] communities living alongside the Jewish majority. Palestinian residents of these communities have been chronically discriminated against and brutalized by police.



Oren Ziv, a photojournalist with Israeli-based photography collective ActiveStills, witnessed the demolitions of the Abu Eid homes and told The Electronic Intifada that the family knew that the ILA had issued demolition orders against their homes, but they were given no notice of exactly when the destruction would take place.

“During the destruction, I climbed onto the roof of a neighboring house and I saw several bulldozers demolishing the fourth house,” Ziv said. “Many neighbors and a few activists were watching it all happen. I’ve been documenting [home demolitions] for seven years and this was one of the biggest demolitions I’ve ever seen.”

Ziv added that when the bulldozers finished demolishing the seventh house, children were starting to come back from school only to find their homes reduced to rubble.

“People were trying to salvage their papers and belongings from underneath the destroyed homes,” he said. “It was hard to find a solution for the family, especially during the terrible weather. They built a protest tent and a tent camp.”

Ma’an News Agency reported that the homes were among more than 100 in the city “under immediate demolition orders” following a decision in the Israeli parliament to destroy an estimated 4,000 “illegal” housing structures “in a plan said to cost millions of shekels” (“Family takes stock after mass Lod demolition,” 13 December 2010).

The ILA claims that the homes and structures that were demolished, or are facing demolition, were built in an “agricultural” zone, and have therefore denied retroactive building permits to residents of Lyd.

Members of the Abu Eid family told Ma’an that they had “paid rent for decades to a state-owned company to use the land, but [were] only allowed to build up to 100 square meter homes since it was zoned as agricultural … As the family grew, it requested but was declined approval to expand their houses.” After they lost a series of appeals, the family was told by the local court to expect demolitions.

Ziv said that after the destruction, the Abu Eid family placed a banner alongside the tents declaring it the “Abu Eid refugee camp.”

He added that the presence of the Israeli border police, usually designated to areas along checkpoints and during demonstrations in the occupied West Bank, was a stark indication of how the Israeli government views Palestinian communities — whether inside Israel or in the West Bank and Gaza strip.
“In the last few years, Israel has been bringing in the border police to deal with Palestinian communities, or poor communities [in Israel],” he said. “I think it shows where the real borders are inside Israeli society — they’re not where you would expect. Israel brings them to guard the borders between Tel Aviv and Jaffa, and within communities in Lyd.”
Ziv added that Israeli police returned to the area a week later, with the clear intention of destroying the Abu Eid family’s tent camp, but residents and solidarity activists blocked the police forces and prevented the destruction.

Following the 28 December protest, residents and activists in Lyd vowed to stage similar demonstrations on a weekly basis.

Arafat Ismayil, a leader of the popular committee in Dhammash, a Palestinian village beside Lyd that is under constant threat of home demolitions, told EI that the recent activism has strengthened solidarity between his community, Lyd and Ramle.

“What happened in Lyd is the same as what will happen in Dhammash,” Ismayil said. “We feel that the homes that were demolished in Lyd were our homes, and the Abu Eid family are our family too. If we are together in solidarity, hopefully the Israeli government won’t demolish another home. We’re hoping to inspire more activism within our communities.”

Meanwhile, home demolitions continued in the Negev region, and in numerous places around the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Negev

On 29 December, Israeli forces bulldozed several homes belonging to one family in the “unrecognized” Bedouin village of al-Sadir, according to Ma’an News Agency (“Israel continues Negev home demolitions,” 29 December 2010).

More than 80,000 indigenous Palestinian Bedouins live in dozens of so-called “unrecognized villages” in the Negev region, communities that the Israeli government refuses to acknowledge despite the fact that they have existed before the state’s establishment in 1948. People living in such villages are denied social services, including running water and electricity, and face regular home demolitions.

Less than a week earlier, the Bedouin village of al-Araqib was destroyed for the eighth time since July 2010. Arab News reported that Israeli bulldozers returned to al-Araqib on the morning of 23 December, flanked by dozens of police officers who “acted violently” towards villagers who attempted to prevent the destruction of their homes (“Israeli Bedouin village razed for the 8th time,” 24 December 2010).

Police declared the area a “closed military zone” and prevented access to journalists. Afterwards, residents and solidarity activists working with the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, a political representative body for Palestinian citizens of Israel, once again helped rebuild the homes and structures that were destroyed, Arab News reported.

The Jewish National Fund (JNF), an Israeli land institution, has been a driving force behind the destruction of al-Araqib and many other Bedouin communities in the Negev.

The JNF plans to build a forest on the village land, continuing a historic policy of cutting off indigenous populations from their land since Israel’s establishment in 1948.

As The Electronic Intifada has reported, international human rights organizations have openly condemned the repeated destruction of al-Araqib and Israel’s policies of violent dispossession of indigenous populations.

Occupied West Bank

Jerusalem

The Palestine News Network (PNN) reported that Israeli forces destroyed an agricultural storehouse, a gas station and other industrial structures in the village of Hazma, near Jerusalem, on 29 December (“Israel Demolishes Industrial Buildings North of Jerusalem, Settlers Uproot 30 Olive Trees,” 29 December 2010). PNN added that at the same time, Israeli bulldozers razed sections of land in the Sheikh Anbar district near the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.



In the at-Tur neighborhood, also on 29 December, Ma’an News Agency reported that several structures were demolished by Jerusalem municipality police as bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive trees ([Arabic only], 29 December 2010.)

Several days earlier, two Palestinian families were forced to demolish their own homes in Sur Bahir village. The families had received demolition orders from Jerusalem Municipality officials three days before, citing “illegal construction” (“Two Palestinian families demolish own homes under municipal orders in Sur Bahir,” SILWANIC, 25 December 2010).

Maryam Iraqi, a member of one of the families, told the Wadi Hilweh Information Center (SILWANIC) that they were forced to destroy the homes themselves, or would face a huge bill if the municipality demolished it. “When they would come to demolish [our home],” Iraqi added, “we would not be able to take the furniture out. The municipality gave us a one-week period in which to destroy our home ourselves.”
SILWANIC added, “The Israeli state does not provide alternative housing or financial compensation to Palestinian families whose homes are ordered to be demolished, going so far as to actually charge families for demolition costs.”
According to Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem are faced with discriminatory housing and building policies, forcing residents to build homes without obtaining building permits — thereby designating the homes as “illegal” and subject to demolition (“East Jerusalem: Policy of discrimination in planning, building and land expropriation“).

In Ras al-Amoud, 13 Palestinians were left homeless after being forced to demolish their own home on 21 December, following a demolition order posted on their door by Israeli police. The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) reported that the families were faced with the decision either to demolish their own home and pay a fine of 60,000 shekels (approximately $17,000 US) “or refuse, and watch as soldiers demolish their house and punish them with a fine of 120,000 shekels ($34,000),” ISM stated. “Soldiers showed up outside with a bulldozer. Finally, on 21 December, they tore down their own house” (“13 homeless after home demolition in Ras al Amoud,” 24 December 2010).

After their home was razed to the ground, the family constructed a few tents with their possessions stacked to one side.

United Nations officials visited areas of occupied East Jerusalem last week, and condemned Israel’s ongoing policies of home demolitions in the city, according to Agence-France Presse (“UN envoys criticize Israel home demolitions,” 23 December 2010). Barbara Shenstone, a field worker with the UN Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), which oversees services for Palestinian refugees, admonished Israel’s policies as “cruel and distressing.”
“While children around the world are enjoying the holiday season in their homes, these children have suffered the trauma and indignity of watching their homes destroyed in the presence of their parents,” Shenstone added.
The day before, Maxwell Gaylard, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories, said that “The government of Israel must take immediate steps to cease demolitions and evictions in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem.”

The United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) released a report documenting the destruction of 49 homes and structures over a one-week period in the West Bank’s “Area C,” which includes East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, encompassing nearly 60 percent of the West Bank (“Report: Protection of Civilians,” December 8-14, 2010 [PDF]).

Under the Oslo accords signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the mid-1990s, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were carved up into areas A, B and C, the latter of which indicates full Israeli control. Under the Oslo regulations, Area C, which includes East Jerusalem, is administered and controlled by the Israeli government and its military. Approximately 40,000 Palestinians live in Area C.

In its report, UNOCHA said that between 8 and 14 December, 29 buildings, including homes, animal structures and an elementary school, were demolished in Khirbet Tana, near Nablus in the northern West Bank. The demolitions resulted in the displacement of 61 Palestinians, including 13 children. “This is the third time this community has suffered extensive demolitions since 2005,” UNOCHA stated.

The report added that 14 water cisterns were destroyed in the Bedouin communities of Umm ad Daraj, Khashem ad Daraj, both near Hebron, and eight trees were uprooted as four vegetable stalls were destroyed in one area of the Jordan Valley.

In addition, UNRWA released a similar report on 23 December stating that there has been an increase in demolitions in the West Bank including East Jerusalem.

In all of 2010, states the report, “396 Palestinian structures were demolished in East Jerusalem and other areas under full Israeli control in the West Bank. This compares to 275 in the previous year — an increase of almost 45 percent. As a result this year, 561 people have been displaced, including 280 children, and the livelihoods of over 3,000 people have also been affected” (“The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, condemns Jerusalem home demolitions and assists affected families,” 23 December 2010).

Days earlier, leading international human rights advocacy organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a 166-page report documenting the effects of Israeli policies of dispossession and discrimination, and called on Israel “in addition to abiding by its international legal obligation to withdraw the settlements, to end these violations of Palestinians’ rights (“Israel/West Bank: Separate and Unequal,” 19 December 2010).”

HRW stated in its press release on the report that it “looked at both Area C and East Jerusalem and found that the two-tier system in effect in both areas provides generous financial benefits and infrastructure support to promote life in Jewish settlements, while deliberately withholding basic services, punishing growth, and imposing harsh conditions on Palestinian communities.”
“Such different treatment on the basis of race, ethnicity, and national origin that is not narrowly tailored to legitimate goals violates the fundamental prohibition against discrimination under human rights law,” HRW reported.

Al-Baqaa

East of Hebron in the southern West Bank, four commercial structures were destroyed in the of al-Baqaa valley on 20 December, according to the Alternative Information Center (AIC) (“Israel Demolishes 2 East Jerusalem Homes, 4 Hebron District Commercial Centers,” 21 December 2010). Al-Baqaa is near the illegal Israeli settlement colony of Kiryat Arba in Hebron.

In the same report, the AIC stated that Israeli forces destroyed a home in the Numan village, between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, on 21 December.

Settlements expand

As the US-brokered peace talks remain dead in the water, illegal Israeli settlement colonies continue to expand in the West Bank including East Jerusalem.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on 15 December that construction began in a new settlement near the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem (“E. Jerusalem apartment construction begins,” 15 December 2010). Twenty four housing units are being built for students attending a nearby orthodox Jewish yeshiva named after American millionaire Irving Moskowitz, who has bankrolled numerous right-wing settler movements and financed settlements in and around Jerusalem.

In a front-page article in the New York Times, Hagit Ofran of the Israeli settlement watchdog group Peace Now stated that there are 2,000 new housing units currently under construction since the ten-month settlement moratorium officially ended at the end of September, while an additional 13,000 are “in the pipeline” that do not require special government-issued building permits (“After freeze, settlement building booms in the West Bank,” 22 December 2010).

The Palestinian Authority (PA), led by Mahmoud Abbas, drafted a resolution to the United Nations Security Council, demanding that the international body formally declare Israeli settlements to be illegal and call for a halt in construction and expansion, according to the Associated Press (“Palestinians target Israeli settlements in UN resolution,” 29 December 2010).

The PA called the settlements an obstacle to peace, but did not demand sanctions be placed on the Israeli state for its violations of international law. The Associated Press added that the United States, for its part, “has already balked at the resolution and might veto it.”

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Bibi: Release Pollard, or else!

Posted on January 2, 2011 by rehmat1|

The Vos Iz Nieas, the Voice of Orthodox Jewish Community, on December 30, 2010 reported that the Zionist-regime’s leader, Benji Netanyahu is “expected to officially and publically appeal to Obama to release Pollard 56, whose spying caused a severe rift between Israel and the United States, following his arrest November 22, 1985″. Jonathan Pollard, an US Jewish citizen, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for passing-on 800,000 pages of American secrets over 18 months between 1984-85 to Israeli secret service, Larkam, run by the Israel’s Prime Minister’s office. Larkam was created to help Israel in its secret nuclear program and was known as a “theft contractor” for Israel’s security industry.
The release of the US national traitor has special significance for Bibi Netanyahu, as during his first term as prime minister, he recognized Pollard as an Israeli agent and gave him Israeli citizenship. He later visited him in his jail cell.
On the request of Israel’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yonah Metzger, special prayers were held in Synogouges across the Zionist entity on Saturday for the health and deliverance of Yehonatan, son of Malka.
How subverted nation America has become can be judged by the fact that former US Attorney General, Rabbi Michael Mukasey (as a federal judge, he ordered the release of several dozen Israelis arrested in the aftermath of 9/11 on flimsy excuses), recently wrote a letter to Ben Obama asking him to commute the sentence of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. Earlier, Lawrence Korb, an assistant secretary of defense at the time of Pollard’s arrest in 1985 along with a handful of American lawmakers and several Jewish organizations – asked Obama in a public letter to commute Pollard’s sentence to the time he has already served.
Oh! Did I mention Pastor John Hagee also gave his ‘holy support’ for the release of the convicted Jewish spy?
Now compare this Jewish spy with Muslim Dr. Aafia Siddique, a Pakistani mother of three children who was handed down a sentence of 85 year in jail by a Jewish judge – for not stealing American secrets for Pakistan.
Interestingly, while the sell-out politicians are bending backward to please their masters in Tel Aviv, some former US intelligence officials such as former FBI and Navy lawyer M.E. “Spike” Bowman, are against the release of the convicted Jewish traitor.

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Iran to Turkey: Name Mossad Abductors of Deputy Defense Minister

02/01/2011 A senior Iranian MP called on Turkey to expose the "Zionist kidnappers" of a former deputy defense minister who went missing in Istanbul in 2007, Fars news agency reported on Sunday.

"Turkey is expected to release the name of the terrorists from the Mossad spy agency," the head of parliament's national security and foreign policy commission Alaeddin Borujerdi said. "Those who had a role in kidnapping (Ali Reza) Asghari in Turkey should be introduced so the Zionists' crime is fully exposed," he added.

On Friday, acting foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, following reports that Asghari may have died in an Israeli jail, asked UN chief Ban Ki-moon for help in discovering his fate. Asghari went missing in February 2007 after checking into a hotel in Istanbul during a private visit.

At the time of his disappearance, Iran accused Israel of snatching Asghari, and media in Israel reported that the Jewish state's intelligence agency, Mossad, had abducted him.

Salehi's appeal to the UN chief came after Iranian officials and media cited reports posted on Israeli news websites which alleged that Asghari had committed suicide in an Israeli prison. Iranian officials and media said the website reports were later removed.

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Canadian Boat to Gaza campaign is legal, ethical, and necessary

December 31, 2010

By David Heap and Derrick O'Keefe

The Canadian Boat to Gaza initiative continues to be a target for a smear campaign that has little regard for law or facts. Rather incredibly, the executive of the University of British Columbia’s Alma Mater Society has subjected a routine donation for our campaign from the student Social Justice Centre to an “investigation” into potential “links to terrorism” A final decision on this so-called investigation is expected at the January 12 AMS meeting.

This episode in part reflects the growing desperation of those who seek to justify Israel’s ongoing collective punishment of Gaza. Exactly two years ago, the world’s eyes were opened to Israeli brutality during a three-week attack on Gaza that claimed more than 1,400 lives.

The question as to whether bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza can be viewed as legally constituting “support for terrorism” was resolved earlier this year by the Canadian Federal Court. On September 27, Mr. Justice Richard Mosley ruled unequivocally that it cannot: to consider humanitarian aid as “terrorism” would be to void the term of all meaning.

More importantly, our campaign follows the imperatives of international law, which our politicians have conveniently forgotten. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a very clear statement on the subject: “The hardship faced by Gaza's 1.5 million people cannot be addressed by providing humanitarian aid. The only sustainable solution is to lift the closure.”

We have no illusions about the amounts of aid we can bring to Gaza, nor the amount of trade goods our modest vessel will be able to export, yet this aid will still have a significant impact on the suffering of the Palestinians of Gaza.

The significance of the international Freedom Flotilla movement is not in the amounts or types of goods we manage to bring in or out of Gaza, it is in challenging the blockade itself. Because it collectively punishes a civilian population, the blockade is clearly illegal under international law, specifically the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Because the blockade is illegal, opposing it is a moral duty for people of conscience everywhere. Our campaign involves over 100 grassroots groups from across Canada and thousands of large and small individual donations, responding to the cry for help from the Palestinians of Gaza to take decisive action, where government and state agents have failed them.

We join with like-minded flotilla delegations from many different countries focused on the same goal: ending the illegal and cruel blockade of Gaza.

Representatives of the Canadian Boat to Gaza recently met in Rome with a dozen other such projects. In Gaza, we work with nongovernmental partners through a network of Palestinian NGOs.
We neither seek nor require support from any state agency or government—be it Stephen Harper’s Conservatives or Hamas.

The ICRC goes on to clarify that “all states have an obligation to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of all relief consignments” to Gaza. This means all consignments, not just those that arrive via land routes approved by Israel.

There is no justification in international law for stopping ships bearing humanitarian aid to Gaza.
In our national political context, where groups like the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism seek to criminalize support for Palestinian human rights, we refuse to be intimidated by the twin hysterical allegations of “terrorism” and “anti-Semitism”. Canadian and international law are clear: these smears are both equally baseless, and support for the Palestinians of Gaza is an ethical imperative.
People of conscience are voting with their donations to support the Canadian boat to join the Freedom Flotilla in the spring of 2011. Our holiday fund appeal has received a generous response, perhaps in part spurred on by the spurious attacks we have faced.

With international law and, more than ever, world public opinion on our side, we will not let slander or bullying steer us off course. The words of the captain of the Mavi Marmara to the rest of the Freedom Flotilla when they were violently boarded last May still ring in our ears: Carry on!

David Heap is a London, Ontario based activist. Derrick O'Keefe is a writer and activist in Vancouver and the cochair of the StopWar.ca Coalition. Both are members of the national steering committee for the Canadian Boat to Gaza.

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Arouri announces freeze on Hamas reconciliation efforts

[ 02/01/2011 - 11:34 AM ]

DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Hamas politburo member Saleh al-Arouri said Palestinian reconciliation efforts kicked off between his party and the West Bank-governing Fatah party in the West Bank have been frozen, adding that Hamas worked harder than the other side to achieve it. He called Fatah's recent threats to exile Hamas leaders from the West Bank "ridiculous."

"Matters relating to reconciliation are now frozen in place. We were more optimistic than the other party, because we were serious and sincere about reconciliation, and we believed that there was an atmosphere that would allow for progress in reconciliation, especially since they closed the door in the face of the Israelis at that period. But they should have opened the door to national unity and internal strengthening," Arouri said in an interview with the PIC.

"But now because of the dangerous rise in the PA's West Bank arrests, torture, and persecution of the resistance, the situation has unfortunately become very complicated."

"The movement's position is firm. We want reconciliation. It was we who mobilized this file. But at the same time, we cannot be expected to ignore the persecution of our people and go into frivolous marathon talks. I don't expect reconciliation rounds to resume in light of the present condition. There must be a real change on the ground."

In response to the notion of contacting Fatah to solve the crisis, Arouri said: "There was recently contact between Fatah and Hamas concerning resuming rounds. Hamas told Fatah that there must be an atmosphere for reconciliation to succeed, because the atmosphere in the West Bank is intolerably perturbed, so the topic was put off to an indefinite period."

Arouri said about the options available to Hamas as alternatives to reconciliation: "Our choice is firm. It is the choice of our people, the choice of resistance and unity, and preventing any civil war. We have shouldered this option since the first day not to let this choice cause an outbreak in civil war, and we are unfortunately paying a high price for this, because the second party is escaping responsibility."

Arouri, an ex-captive who was exiled from his land, called the recent threats by PA officers to exile Hamas leaders from the West Bank "ridiculous and foolish." He said: "As we know that they are unable to do that, we do not take it into account...In any case, they have denied the threats."

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...Only Jawaher Abu Rahmah didn’t escape. She protested, dignified and unwavering for hours. She refused to yield and for that she died. She was 36

Ahmed Moor

Jawaher Abu Rahmah is laid to rest next to her brother Bassem Abu Rahmah, who was also killed during a peaceful protest in Bil'in. Photo: Joseph Dana via twitter
Bilin was cold yesterday. It rained and the wind and damp got to everything.

About a thousand of us showed up – Palestinians, Israelis and internationals – to protest the apartheid barrier in the village. The Israeli army knew we were coming so flying checkpoints were thrown up on the main road into town. Most of us hiked around the apartheid abscesses and made it to the village where I was surprised (not really) to see Salaam Fayyad. I assume he applied in advance for an entry permit.

The march got underway after the Old Guard finished posturing for the cameras. We advanced about fifty or sixty meters when Fayyad abruptly stopped, shook a few hands, and bowed out. I heard a few jokes and sniggers as we marched on.

It wasn’t long before the Jewish People’s Liberation Army began to gas people. Sorry: It wasn’t long before the Israeli Defense Forces employed riot dispersal methods.


Photo from the Bil'in protest (Photo: Ahmed Moor)
The Israelis used two types of gas canisters. The first, which you can see in this short video I took (below), is a fist-sized bulbous rubber projectile. It begins to dispense gas in air, causing it to spin wildly and change directions before it hits the ground. Its trajectory is very hard to predict.



The second type of canister is the more deadly kind – the kind that killed Bassem Abu Rahmah in 2009. It’s also used liberally by the young supremacists in uniform. Yesterday the steel canisters, about fifty percent larger than a neat stack of quarters, were fired directly at protesters. Their trajectory is more or less straight, but they come at you much faster.

And the gas. Well, ‘tear gas’ is a bad name for it. It feels like a million blue shards of glass tearing at your alveoli and shredding your eyes. You can’t see and double over, trying not to breathe. Acid tears are streaming down your face, but the overwhelming sensation is of being bombarded and suffocated. You’re ensconced in darkness and your thoughts are disrupted – you only want to get away. And every breath tears at your insides; vicious animals live in your lungs. I’d rather not breathe than take one more anguished, searing, charred breath. Then, you don’t have a choice; you can’t breathe. You’re struggling to run and are overcome by dizziness. Other people help you escape.

Only Jawaher Abu Rahmah didn’t escape. She protested, dignified and unwavering for hours. She refused to yield and for that she died. She was 36 and was killed for peacefully protesting The Jewish People’s Right to Self-Determination in Palestine. Her body now rests in the cold, red earth they deify.

We exchanged a few words of encouragement before I snapped her picture, when she was still someone’s mother.

I wish I had known how distressed she was.

Hamas MPs: Murdering unarmed civilians reveals Israel's savagery
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Israel allocates $563m for settlement activity - Suspicious groups discovered purchasing land in Jerusalem


[ 01/01/2011 - 04:29 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu has allocated 563 million dollars budget for the settlement activity in the next two years, a Hebrew paper reported.

Ha'aretz said on Friday that the budget was mainly earmarked for extending services to Israeli settlements, rehabilitating their infrastructure, and providing security for the settlers in addition to building new suburbs and roads leading to them.

The Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem had witnessed an upsurge lately in a bid to impose a de facto situation on the ground in any future settlement in the region.

Suspicious groups discovered purchasing land in Jerusalem

[ 01/01/2011 - 04:52 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Suspicious groups have been creeping into the predominantly Arab Jerusalem district of Silwan and offering residents to purchase land and claim to be sponsored by Arab and Islamic funds, the Wadi Halwa Information Center said, adding that locals uncovered that the would-be buyers were working to leak land into the hands of Jewish settlers.

Unidentified persons began a few weeks back handing out cards to register Jerusalemites who wished to sell property, some of the agents disguised as tool repair technicians who would enter homes and offer legal aid in cases involving Jewish settlers.

A local real estate agent known by Wadi Halwa residents for buying property was quoted as saying he planned to build after being issued a permit by Israel's Jerusalem municipality. But the municipality has zoned the neighborhood as a green section and does not issue building permits there.

The Wadi Halwa Information Center reported two separate incidents in Wadi Halwa and Wadi Batn al-Hawa of agents constructing there and leaking the property over to Jewish settlers.

Israel has made obvious moves to take full control of east Jerusalem, placing special emphasis on the targeted Silwan section. Authorities have announced plans to convert the area into a national historic park that would become part of the Jerusalem settlement known as David's City.

The occupation authorities had also taken significant steps in 2010 to separate east Jerusalem from the West Bank while violating the internationally recognized rights of the Palestinians, the Israeli rights group B'Ttselem reported to open the new year.

According to the report, Israeli troops killed a total of 67 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last year. In another context, Israel's military prosecutor has yet to indict the soldiers who lethally fired at civilians.

Israel leveled 39 Palestinian homes and 90 more structures in 2010 mostly in the Issawiyya, Silwan, and Suwar Baher sections of the holy city, the Jerusalem Land Research Center reported Saturday. 280 citizens were ejected from their homes in the process and 242 more homes were ordered to be demolished.

The report reads that Jewish settlers erected 543 residential units that year, while 6,732 units were approved to be built. There are currently at least 5,458 Jewish settler homes spread over 17 settlements constricting the holy city of Jerusalem.
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WikiLeaks: Israel Preparing for “Large Scale War” in Middle East

02/01/2011 Israel's army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Sunday.

"I am preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite," Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi was quoted as saying in a cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv.

The document, dated November 15, 2009, was quoted Sunday in Norwegian by Oslo-based daily Aftenposten, which said it had obtained WikiLeaks' entire cache of 251,187 leaked US embassy cables.

"The rocket threat against Israel is more serious than ever. That is why Israel is putting such emphasis on rocket defence," Ashkenazi told the US delegation led by Democrat Ike Skelton, the cable showed.

Ashkenazi is also quoted saying Israel next time will not accept "any restrictions on warfare in populated areas," and insisted the occupation army had allegedly never intentionally attacked civilian targets.


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MasterCard Hosted Mossad Assassins, Blocked WikiLeaks

The Israeli assassins using false Australian passports, used the U.S. MasterCard credit card company to pay bills


The U.S. credit card company MasterCard, has hosted murderous Israeli intelligence agents from the terrorist state's MOSSAD secret service. The wanted criminals had used passports from other countries including Australia whilst carrying out the murder of an Arab leader in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in the Arabian Gulf.

Australia has not retaliated against Israel for the regime's crime of using Australian passports to carry out murder.

U.S. diplomatic cables leaked by Australian editor Julian Assange's WikiLeaks web site, reveal that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had asked for U.S. government assistance in finding out more about the owners of the MasterCard credit cards used by the assassins.

Prior to this cable release, MasterCard had cut off the handling of any donations toward the legal defense of Julian Assange, who was languishing in a London jail at the time, in violation of international norms since no crime had been committed and he was being held by British police for his own protection, pending bail and in solitary confinement at the request of his lawyers.

WikiLeaks has faced mounting criticism over the past year for its failure to reveal any documents of files damaging to the zionist (jewish extremist) state of Israel whilst many Arab regimes have faced embarrassing revelations through the U.S. diplomatic cable leaks.

This week WikiLeaks for the first time addressed the issue by giving a link to the zionist defamation front's "Anti-Defamation League" web page on "conspiracy theories" linking WikiLeaks to Israel.

At the same time it released the following cable, marked "NOFORN" (not for viewing by non-U.S. authorities) from the U.S. embassy in Dubai, UAE to Washington, relaying an official request for assistance in tracing the Israeli assassins.

*****************************
VZCZCXYZ0007
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHAD #0103 0551051
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
O 241051Z FEB 10
FM AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0361
INFO RUEHDE/AMCONSUL DUBAI IMMEDIATE
RUEHAD/AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI

S E C R E T ABU DHABI 000103

NOFORN
SIPDIS
FOR NEA/ARP

E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/02/24
TAGS: PREL PINS CJAN AE
SUBJECT: UAE REQUEST FOR USG ASSISTANCE IN INVESTIGATION OF KILLING
OF MAHMOUD AL-MABHOUH

CLASSIFIED BY: Doug Greene, DCM; REASON: 1.4(D)
1. (C/NF) On the margins of a meeting with visiting
Secretary Chu, on Feb 24 MFA Minister of State Gargash made a
formal request to the Ambassador for assistance in providing
cardholder details and related information for credit cards
reportedly issued by a U.S. bank to several suspects in last
month's killing of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
According to a letter Gargash gave the Ambassador (which
transmitted details of the request from Dubai Security authorities
to the UAE Central Bank), the credit cards were issued by
MetaBank, in Iowa. Embassy LEGATT is transmitting the request and
associated details to FBI HQ. Gargash asked that Embassy pass any
reply to the director of the General Directorate of State Security
(GDSS) in Dubai.

2. (S/NF) Comment: Ambassador requests expeditious handling
of and reply to the UAEG request, which was also raised by UAE
Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed in a February 23 meeting with
Secretary Clinton in Washington.

3. (C/NF) Text of letter from GDSS to the Governor of the UAE
Central Bank:


Excellency Sultan Al-Suwiadi

UAE Central Bank Governor


Subject: Credit Cards

MC 5115-2600-1600-6190

MC 5115-2600-1600-5317

MC 5301-3800-3201-7106

General Management of The State Security offers greetings, and asks
your Excellency to direct the money laundry and suspicious
transactions unit at the Central Bank to urgently obtain details of
the above credit cards, in addition to details for purchases,
accounts, and payments on those cards, as the users of those cards
were involved in the murder of Mahmoud Mabhouh. Those cards were
issued by META BANK in the state of Iowa, USA.

Thank you for your kind cooperation.

END TEXT

(Letter is accompanied by a chart with identifying data for alleged
credit card users - scanned and emailed to NEA/ARP.)
OLSON
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Palestinians condemn Alexandria Church bombing

[ 01/01/2011 - 11:49 PM ]
From Khalid Amayreh

Palestinians from all political orientations have strongly condemned the Friday night bombing outside a Coptic church in Alexandria , describing the perpetrators as cowardly terrorists and criminals.

Some Palestinian factions hinted that the Israeli Mossad or al-Qaeda may have been responsible for the bombing which killed 22 people and injured many others.

Hamas, the Islamic Liberation movement, lambasted the bombing as a barbarian act targeting innocent people. Aziz Duweik, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, called the bombing "a criminal and sinful act."

"I condemn this criminal and sinful act in the strongest terms and without any reservation."

He called the perpetrators and their abettors and supporters "enemies of Egypt , enemies of Islam and enemies of humanity."

Another Palestinian Islamist leader, Muhammed Jamal Natshe, said Islam would never ever justify "such barbarian acts."

"This is a murderous act that is totally unacceptable. It is rejected religiously, morally and humanly," said Natshe, who is an Islamist lawmaker in the Hebron region.

Natshe, who spent many years in Israeli jails for peacefully resisting the occupation, said whoever committed this "sinful act" didn't represent Islam in any way. "Islam stands for the preservation of the human soul, not killing it. Killing a single human being is like killing the entire humanity," said Natshe, quoting some Quranic verses.

Earlier, Fatah issued a formal statement, calling the Alexandria bombing a "terrorist crime targeting Egypt and its cultural heritage."

"We in Fatah consider this a terrorist act targeting Egypt and its status in the region." The statement voiced the hope that "the Egyptian people's consciousness, along with the wisdom of the Egyptian leadership would eventually defeat the terrorists and prevent them from achieving their nefarious goals."

Many Palestinians think that undermining Egypt's stability and security would be highly detrimental to the Palestinian cause.

It is widely believed that one of Israel's main strategic goal in Egypt is to trigger a communal civil strife between the majority Muslim population and the Christian Coptic minority, the largest in the Arab world.

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As Hundreds Mourned Gassed Woman’s Death, Israel Gunned a Palestinian

02/01/2011 At the time hundreds of Palestinians and anti-barrier activists have attended the funeral procession of a Palestinian protester who died after inhaling the gas fired by Israeli forces quelling a protest in the occupied West Bank, the occupation forces have shot dead a Palestinian man near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, in yet another flare up of violence in the volatile region.

The victim, identified as Mohamed Daraghme, was killed at the Hamra checkpoint early Sunday, the Palestinian Red Crescent told AFP. The 21-year-old was gunned down after Israeli soldiers refused to let him pass through the checkpoint, prompting a quarrel. Daraghme was reportedly unarmed. He was killed almost instantly.

The killing comes two days after a Palestinian woman named Jawaher Abu Rahma was fatally tear-gassed during a protest in the city of Ramallah.

"What happened yesterday, there were too many forces from the occupation, guarding the apartheid wall, and they started shooting, so many, so many gas (canisters) mixed with smelly water. And this large amount of gas caused many protesters a fealing of suffocation, and it killed Jawaher. And immediately we moved her to the Palestinian medical centre," said family member Rateb Abu Rahme.

"This death was caused by their brutality, by the fact that they are using tear gas that was banned in Europe in the 60s and 70s, because it is lethal. But here, on Palestinians, they continue using it," said anti-barrier activist Jonathan Pollak.

Jawaher Abu Rahme's brother Bassem, in his 20s, was killed in 2009 after a tear gas canister struck him in the chest.

Israel Radio, quoting Palestinian sources, said Israeli troops had fired an unusual amount of tear gas at dozens of demonstrators during a weekly protest against the barrier Palestinians in Bilin say cuts them off from some of their land.

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US says Hariri trial must go ahead regardless

Maura Connelly (R) presents her credentials
 to Lebanese President Michel Sleiman
(AFP) – 1 day ago

BEIRUT — The US ambassador to Lebanon insisted on Friday that any trial of suspects in the murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri should not be affected by rivalries between his regional supporters and opponents.

"The special tribunal is an independent judicial entity, established in response to a terrible time in Lebanon's history by an agreement between the Lebanese government and the United Nations," ambassador Maura Connelly said.

"Its work is legitimate and necessary, and cannot be stopped by any bilateral or regional agreement," her statement added.

"The... indictments, when they are released, will mark a new stage in a transparent, independent judicial process -- a process that has the backing of the United Nations."

The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is reportedly set to charge high-ranking operatives of Shiite militant group Hezbollah, Lebanon's most powerful military force, in connection with the 2005 bombing which killed Sunni ex-premier Hariri and 22 others.

Regional powerhouses Saudi Arabia and Syria, both influential in Lebanon through their support for its two rival political blocs, launched a series of diplomatic efforts months ago aimed at containing rising tensions over the STL.

Talks between the two countries, the details of which have not been made public, are aimed at ensuring that Beirut's frail national unity government does not collapse.

Hezbollah, which fought a devastating 2006 war with Israel, accuses the court of being a US-Israeli ploy and has warned any charges might trigger renewed violence in the troubled Middle Eastern country.

But Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of the slain ex-premier, has vowed to see the investigation through.
Western countries have sought to boost support for the troubled STL over the past month, with the United States donating 10 million dollars, and Britain and France making additional contributions.

Copyright © 2011 AFP. All rights reserved.

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Poll: Americans worry for Iranian threat to Israel

Poll: Americans worry for Iranian threat to Israel

Posted on December 31, 2010 by rehmat1
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How much American public has been duped by the pro-Israel mainstream media lies about Israel’s fear of Iran’s civilian nuclear program – can be judged by results of a recent poll conducted by the Angus Reid Public Opinion.

The results of the poll taken among 1,005 Americans and released on December 29, 2010 – show that a great majority of them have ‘unfavorable’ opinion of Iran (75%) while a very ‘favorable’ opinion of Canada (83%) under anti-Iran Stephen Harper Zionist government.

The results also show that Americans’ distorted opinion about Iran’s nuclear program has not changed during 2010.

“Americans also continue to be highly suspicious of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, with 70 per cent of respondents agreeing with the notion that the Government of Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons. Only 11 per cent of Americans do not believe that Iran is pursuing a nuclear program, while one-in-five (19%) are not sure. These findings are consistent with a similar poll conducted by Vision Critical/Angus Reid Public Opinion at the start of 2010,” says the poll report.

The results also show that Republicans are more loyal to Israel than the Democrats when it comes to dealing with Iran. Republicans (40%) want US military strikes against Iran while Democrats (56%) want more sanctions but no military strikes.

However, the good news is that only one out of four Yankee would like Ben Obama to attack Iran to stop Iranian nuclear program and save the Zionist-regime – which reminds me of the good-old Zionist Jewish reporter and ‘political adviser’ at The Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, famous for yelling in support of the Zionist-regime on top of his lungs and bashing Islamic-regime in Tehran. In his December 27, 2010 article, the poor chaps seems to have accepted the truth: “Israel is doomed to be a civilized and democratic society”.

Jeffrey Goldberg, unlike other Israeli hasbara authors such as Daniel Pipes or David Horowitz or Robert Spencer or Michael Savage or Rev. Pat Robertson or Mark Steyn – is a very powerful voice in the Jewish Lobby. His iportance could be viewed by the fact that in order to improve US-Cuban relations – Fidel Castro invited him for an interview in Havana a few months ago. Jeffrey Goldberg quoted Castro being critical of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s views on Holocaust and, like Rupert Murdoch said: “no one has been slandered more than the Jews”. Benji Netanyhau and Shimon Peres were so pleased with Castro’s anti-Ahmadinejad rant that both Zionazis thanked Castro in public for his ‘moral support’ for Israel. Their actions were so laughable that Israel’s most-circulated English daily Ha’aretz in its September 27, 2010 editorial “Israel’s flirtation with Castro smacks of desperation”, called that “Castro remains Castro – and Bibi and Peres remain liars”.

Jeffrey under the heading “What if Israel cease to a democracy?”, wrote:

“Is it actually possible that one day Israelis — Jewish Israelis — would choose to give up democracy in order to maintain Israel’s Jewish voting majority? Some people, of course, argue that Israel has ceased to be a democracy, because there is nothing temporary about the 43-year-old occupation of the West Bank. I believe it is premature to talk about the end of Israel as a democratic state — mainly because the disposition of the West Bank is still undecided — but I can’t say that the thought hasn’t crossed my mind that one day Israelis will make the conscious, active decision to preserve the state’s Jewish character instead of its democratic character (I use the word “Jewish” in the demographic sense, not the moral sense, obviously)”.
Interestingly, an American Jew, Jack Bernstein who lived and got married in Israel – and gave his life for exposing the myth of Israel being a ‘democracy’, several decades ago.
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