Muslim youth society calls for refusing summonses from PA security services

Muslim youth society calls for refusing summonses from PA security services

[ 23/10/2011 - 04:12 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The association of Muslim youth in the West Bank urged the Palestinian ex-detainees recently released from Israeli jails to refrain from answering the summonses issued against them by the Palestinian authority's security apparatuses.

In a press release, the association called for responding to the call made earlier in this regard by Palestinian lawmaker in Tulkarem city Fathi Al-Qaraawi and stand strongly in the face of the PA security services' practices.

Qaraawi had encouraged, in a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC), the ex-detainees, especially the ones released following the recent swap deal between Hamas Movement and Israel, to turn down the summonses from the security services and not to go to their headquarters.

In separate incidents, the PA security forces in Jenin on Friday evening stormed some homes that celebrated the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails and threatened to disturb their joy if they did not remove the banners of Islam from the roofs.

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Imperial Massacres

by ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Denied post mortem imagery of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, the world now has at its disposal photographs of Muammar Qaddafi, dispatched with a bullet to the head after being wounded by NATO’s ground troops outside Sirte. Did the terminal command, Finish Him Off, come via cell phone from the US State Department whose Secretary, Hillary Clinton, had earlier called for his death, or by dint of local initiative? At all events, since Qaddafi was a prisoner at the time of his execution, it was a war crime and I trust that in the years of her retirement Mrs Clinton will be detained amid some foreign vacation and handed a subpoena.

My friend and neighbor in Petrolia, Joe Paff, wrote a response to a dreadful story about Qaddafi’s killing on Yahoo’s site, commenting “This kind of gloating is bound to come back and bite your butt. Imagine how many people in the world would like to see Netanyahu or Obama dragged from their hiding holes and tortured. It will take about six months for everyone to regret the ‘new’ Libyan ‘democrats.’”

Yahoo’s initial electronic response was to write to Joe, “Oops! Try again”. So he checked “post” a second time. Yahoo then rewrote his comment, complete with misspellings, stripped of any mention of Netanyahu or Obama, and “posted” it, as “This is the kind of gloating that comes back and bites you on the butt. Just imagine how many peopel in the world would like to see Americans dragged through the streets and tortured to death.” As Joe wrote me, “Just another small episode in artificial intelligence and the present taboos.”

On October 9th,1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was put to death
by Bolivian soldiers,trained, equipped and guided by U.S.
Green Beret and CIA operatives

I suppose the first triumphalist imperial post mortem photo of such an execution in my lifetime I can recall is that of Che Guevara, killed on the CIA’s orders at La Higuera in Bolivia on October 9, 1967. Perhaps Che’s finest hour came with his leadership of the Cuban anti-imperial forces deployed in Africa, defeating South African and white mercenary forces in one of the greatest acts of revolutionary solidarity the world has ever seen.

Qaddafi, even in his latterday accomodationist phase, was always a bitter affront to Empire – a “devil” figure in a tradition stretching back to the Mahdi, whose men killed General Gordon in the Sudan in 1885. I remember fondly the leftists and Republicans who trekked to Tripoli in the 1960s to appeal to Qaddafi for funds for their causes, some of them returning amply supplied with money and detailed counsel.

Dollar for dollar I doubt Qaddafi has a rival in any assessment of the amount of oil revenues in his domain actually distributed for benign social purposes. Derision is heaped on his Green Book, but in intention it can surely stand favorable comparison with kindred Western texts. Anyone labeled by Ronald Reagan “This mad dog of the Middle East” has an honored place in my personal pantheon.
Since we’re on the topic of imperial executions, let us not forget October 17, 1961. Last week saw the fiftieth anniversary of the massacre in Paris of hundreds of Algerians by the French riot police. Called by the FLN, the Algerians had mustered from their neighborhoods and bidonvilles to central Paris in support of the Algerian war of liberation, then six years old. Algeria, remember, was, in formal terms, a French department.

Centering on the Charonne metro station, the French riot police attacked with lethal savagery, battering and shooting peaceful demonstrators to death and throwing their bodies into the Seine. Corpses were later dragged from the river as far downstream as Le Havre. These days the death count is reckoned as at least 300, some of the victims murdered in detention centers around Paris. The French Interior minister of the time in De Gaulle’s government was Maurice Papon. In 1981 , the French weekly newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné published an article accusing Papon of having collaborated with the Germans during World War II. Papon was officially charged with crimes against humanity in 1983. His trial for overseeing the deportation of 1,690 Jews to a detention camp in the Paris suburb of Drancy did not take place until 1997. Papon’s role in the massacre of October 17, 1961, and indeed details of the massacre itself – long suppressed in French public memory — surfaced during his trial.

In February 1962 there was a huge protest demonstration about the October 17 massacre in Paris. Joe Paff and his wife Karen were recently in Paris, staying in the 20^th at a hotel owned by French Algerians. The owner pointed to a photo of himself in the vanguard of the demo, remembering how he was astonished at the number of photographers eager to take his picture. Only years later did he realize that the man with whom had linked arms was Jean-Paul Sartre.

The massacre has now been reconstructed in a documentary by Yasmina Adi, Ici on noie les Algériens, “Here one drowns Algerians,” words painted in red on the parapet of one of the bridges over the Seine.
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Israel’s Gilad Shalit got off lightly

Considering a Palestinian kid throwing stones gets imprisonment and mashed testicles!

By Stuart Littlewood

24 October 2011

Stuart Littlewood views the hypocrisy of Western civic leaders who are falling over one another honouring Gilad Shalit for “sitting behind his armour plate picking out soft targets among the women and children packed into the Gaza Strip” while ignoring the vilest crimes committed by Israel against civilians, including children.

While the whole world, it seemed, was in ecstasy over the freeing of Gilad Shalit, I was amazed to discover that the Israeli tank-gunner had been made an honorary citizen of Rome, Paris, Baltimore, Miami, Pittsburgh and New Orleans.

Knowing what we know, that’s pretty sick stuff.

Europe’s and America’s hypocrites

Rome's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, said that honouring Shalit in this way was "a gesture of high symbolic value, with which Rome chooses to salute the values of life, of solidarity and of respect for the human rights." He added: "You cannot win using violence, kidnapping and ransom."

Has he told that to the Israeli government?

And how on earth does Shalit embody the values of life and respect for human rights?

Has Mayor Alemanno any idea of the death and destruction a 105mm or 120mm tank round can inflict? Tank gunner Shalit was deployed on the Gaza border to implement Israel's criminal policy and to terrorize the Gazan population into submission. Those tanks make frequent incursions into Gaza to shell civilian targets. When Shalit was captured in June 2006 the Israelis were already tightening their illegal blockade on Gaza.

“Shalit ... was implicated in an appalling crime against humanity and he paid the price – not to the proper authority, the International Criminal Court ... but to the victims of Israel’s military aggression.”

 Shalit, like his comrades, was implicated in an appalling crime against humanity and he paid the price – not to the proper authority, the International Criminal Court, which should have nailed his superiors long before now, but to the victims of Israel’s military aggression.
Paris City Council and its mayor voted unanimously to honour Shalit. And President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote to the tank-gunner: "It is time that those responsible for your detention make a decision and end your intolerable and outrageous imprisonment."

Weren't any of these civic dignitaries the slightest bit concerned about the thousands Palestinian prisoners rotting in Israeli jails, many without charge and many having been in captivity far longer than Shalit.

 Nael Barghouthi, a Palestinian, had been imprisoned by Israel for 33 years and was probably the longest serving political prisoner ever. His incarceration began on 4 April 1978. Wouldn’t the City Council of Paris like to make him an honorary citizen? What about the good councillors of Baltimore, Miami, Pittsburgh and New Orleans? Aren't they fair-minded enough to honour Barghouti?

I doubt it, for the simple reason Barghouti was (shock-horror!) a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, forerunner of Hamas. And Hamas (shock-horror!) is listed as a terror organization. Obnoxious as Hamas is, isn’t the terror organization Shalit belongs to, the Israeli army of illegal occupation, far worse?

Hamas is branded a terrorist group only because it suits the purpose of a gang of Zionist psychopaths in the White House and in Whitehall. The definition of terrorism is set out in Executive Order 13224, Section 3, signed on 23 September 2001 by George W Bush. It's an activity that:

(i) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure; and
(ii) appears to be intended
(a) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(b) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(c) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, kidnapping, or hostage-taking.

You have to laugh. The dummies are describing exactly what they themselves do.

Israel – world-class pioneer of terrorism

Another laugh is a “roll-call” of who introduced terrorism to the Middle East – Israel! Nevertheless these are the claims. Can anyone refute them? (Also, take a look at this video – ” Who were the first terrorists in the Middle East?”

• Bombs in cafes: first used by Zionists in Palestine on 17 March 1937 in Jaffa (actually grenades)

• Bombs on buses: first used by Zionists in Palestine Aug. 20-September 1937

• Drive-by shootings with automatic weapons: IZL and LHI in 1937-38 and 1947-48 (Benny Morris, Righteous Victims, page 681)

• Bombs in market places: first used by Zionists on 6 July 1938 in Haifa. (delayed-action, electrically detonated)

• Bombing of a passenger ship: first used by the Zionists in Haifa on 25 November 1940, killing over 200 of their own fellows

• Bombing of hotels: first used by Zionists on 22 July 1946 against the British administration in the St David Hotel, Jerusalem (Menachem Begin went on to become prime minister of Israel).

• Suitcase bombing: first used by Zionists on 1 October 1946 against the British embassy in Rome

• Mining of ambulances: first used by Zionists on 31 October 1946 in Petah Tikvah

• Car-bomb: first used by Zionists against the British near Jaffa, 5 December 1946

• Letter bombs: first used by Zionists in June 1947 against members of the British government, 20 of them

• Parcel Bomb: first used by Zionists against the British in London, 3 September 1947

• Reprisal murder of hostages: first used by Zionists against the British in Netanya area on 29 July 1947

• Truck-bombs: first used by Zionists on 4 January 1948 in the centre of Jaffa, killing 26

• Aircraft hijacking: world-first by Israeli jets in December 1954 on a Syrian civilian airliner (random seizure of hostages to recover five spies) – 14 years before any Palestinian.

You reap what you sow.

The only form of violent terrorism not introduced into Palestine by the Zionists was suicide bombing, the desperate last resort of people fighting illegal occupation of their homeland.

Mashing testicles for stone-throwing

Those who confuse freedom-fighters with terrorists are given valuable advice in this extract from Mhara Costello's splendidly powerful poem:

Show me the man who will not fight, to save his child, his home, his right!
You can call him what you like, you’re not in his sorry plight
Cowards stay and martyrs go, I know not where, but this I know
Speak your truth and stand your ground, fight your corner
When all around point the finger, purse the lips, pin the label "terrorist"!

Standing his ground against evil invaders like Shalit – if caught this youngster can expect imprisonment and mashed testicles Photo: Musa Al-Shaer

So here’s a question for the great and the good in Rome, Paris, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and so forth: Don’t you think the lad in the photo standing his ground and throwing stones at the advancing invader shows a lot more guts than the Israeli tank gunner sitting behind his armour plate picking out soft targets among the women and children packed into the Gaza Strip?

Wouldn’t they like to honour that youngster instead?

I said in an earlier article that 8,000 Palestinians were still in Israeli jails. But the figure differs in every report I see. The Voice of Palestine says its 5,300, including 22 lawmakers and nine women. Twenty-two have spent more than 25 years behind bars, which puts Shalit's piddling five years into sharper context.

Want to hear something that’s even more disgusting? According to figures released by the Israeli Prison Service and Defence of Children International-Palestine, at the end of September 2011 there were 164 Palestinian children (aged 12 to 17 years) detained by Israel, including 35 between the ages of 12 and 15 years.

Probably for throwing stones at their tanks.

By all accounts Shalit was returned in good condition. He can thank his lucky stars he wasn't treated like the Israelis treated 15 years-old Benan Oudeh, whose testicles had to be amputated after he'd been badly tortured on suspicion of throwing stones at Israeli troops occupying his West Bank home town of Qalqilya in 1989. There are countless reports of how Israelis enjoy inflicting physical abuse such as sleep deprivation and suspending prisoners – even children – for long periods in agonizing positions; and countless complaints from victims who say they were severely beaten and deprived of food, water and medical treatment or access to bathrooms.

If the sentence for throwing stones at invading troops is imprisonment and mashed testicles, what should you get for firing tank shells at innocent civilians?
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Sayyed Nasrallah: Hezbollah Against STL Funding, Syria Overcomes Danger

Marwa Haidar

As his eminence assured Hezbollah’s absolute and final refusal to fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the party‘s Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah voiced confidence that Syria has overcome the danger, stressing that Syria has been targeted because of its resisting identity. In a special interview with al-Manar Channel, Sayyed Nasrallah praised the prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel as a big victory, ruling out the occurrence of an Israeli offensive against Lebanon. On the Arab spring, Sayyed Nasrallah said that all the revolutions have been evolved from the people desire, and they were not an American project. His eminence congratulated the Libyan people for being liberated from Muammar Gaddafi’s rule, and talked about unjust treatment of the revolution in Bahrain. As he stressed that the relation with President Michel Suleiman was good, Sayyed Nasrallah said the relation with the party allies was excellent, noting that Hezbollah was keen to preserve a good relation with Head of the Struggle front MP Walid Jumblatt. His eminence talked about the dangers that have been threatening the region, starting from the Israeli existence, passing by the American one and ending by the presence of extremist groups and movements who authorize killing. SYRIA OVERCOMES MOST OF DANGER On the Syrian conflict, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that the regime in Damascus has been targeted because of its resisting identity, saying that Syria has overcome the danger. “Because of the serious efforts made by the Syrian leadership, Syria successfully crossed most of the dangerous period. We say it clearly, we don’t want the ouster of the Syrian regime, for the sake of some of the Syrian people, and another regime will not be safe for them”,Sayyed Nasrallah said during “Baina Qawsain” program. “What’s happening in Syria is not a call for reform and change; it’s a bid to oust the regime, the regime who has been fighting US and Israel”. His eminence ruled out any military interference in Syria, noting that Syria’s events have repercussions on Lebanon, and adding that most of the Syrian people were backing the resisting regime. “The West would not wage any military war against Syria, because it is neighboring Israel, and they fear this would affect the security of Israel. External interference will not achieve any goal in Syria now because of the majority's support to the regime”. “What happens in Syria has repercussions on Lebanon. Syria is not an enemy state unlike Israel, and the Syrian people backed the regime that supported the resistance... and are supporting it and its reforms now”. Sayyed Nasrallah also denied as lies the reports that had said Hezbollah has sent fighters to Syria, noting that President Bashar Assad wasn’t week. “Most of the media reports about Syria are false, all the claims that we have sent fighters to Syria to support the regime are lies. We haven't sent even one fighter to Syria because we don’t interfere in such a way, and the leadership in Syria is not weak so that it asks Hezbollah for fighters “. STL FUNDING Hezbollah S.G. said that the party was against STL funding, saying the issue would be discussed by the government. “Hezbollah is against STL; against funding it, yet this issue is discussed by Cabinet”. His eminence voices appreciation for Prime Minister Najib Miqatis’ government and its achievement. However he stressed that “Miqati is head of executive power, not US property”. Sayyed Nasrallah was referring to Miqati’s stance at the United Nations when the PM said that Lebanon was committed for STL funding. Although the S.G was reserved about Miqati’s stances, he said: “PM Miqati did not commit to us unwillingness to fund STL, but we did not discuss his resignation”. “Big efforts have been exerted to highlight the STL probe attitude and emptied the indictment of any content”. RELATION WITH ALLIES, SULEIMAN, JUMBLATT Asked about Hezbollah relation with political figures, Sayyed Nasrallah said that the relation with President Suleiman was good, ruling out any disagreement with the party’s allies. “Relationship with president is good and communication is ongoing” the S.G. said adding: “Talk about tension with our political allies baseless”. On the relation with MP Jumblatt Sayyed Nasrallah said: “We agree with MP Walid Jumblatt on certain things and we disagree on others, but this does not mean that we fully disagree with him”. GOVERNMENT ACHIEVMENTS On the cabinet issue, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that the government was a national one representing parliamentary and popular majority. His eminence described the cabinet decisions as rare achievements. “What we have is a national government that represents a parliamentary and popular majority, and alla allegations that Lebanon's government is a Hezbollah government did not last because they were not true”. “Of the best accomplishments of the government is preserving stability at the security level. In less than 100 days the government took 1100 decisions, and this is rare in Lebanon's history”. HEZBOLLA VISIT TO RUSSIA Sayyed Nasrallah also condemned the attack on Patriarch Bechara Ra’I, and talked about the visit paid by Hezbollah delegation to Russia. “Attack on Patriarch Al-Ra'i after his positions on Syria, Hezbollah, is unfair”. “We had received the invitation by the Duma a year ago, it was postponed until the right time, which was now”, Sayyed Nasrallah said on the Russain visit, adding that the “most important point discussed in Russia was Lebanon and Syria's stability; Russia can play major role in this regard” On the electoral law, his eminence said that Hezbollah “has no problem with any electoral law in Lebanon”, and it “is always open to dialogue”. In a nice gesture to the tourism in Lebanon, Sayyed Nasrallah urged the Lebanese to vote in favor of Jeita Grotto in order to be one of the seven wonders in the world. “I call on all the Lebanese to vote for the Jeita Grotto because it is really one of the wonders of the world”. NO ISRAELI WAR Hezbollah S.G. ruled out an Israeli war on Lebanon, stressing on the importance of people-army-resistance formula in order to defend Lebanon against Israeli aggression. “I cannot say that Israel won't wage war but given preparations in Lebanon by people, army, and resistance, I can rule out war on Lebanon”. “Arms, culture, and presence of resistance plus people-army-resistance formula are our power factor”. EXTREMISTS MAJOR THREAT IN REGION Meanwhile, Sayyed Nasrallah talked about the dangers that have been threatening the region. “The first threat in the region is the existence of Israel especially that Israel wants to be a pure racist Jewish state. The second threat is the presence of the United States in the region”. “The third threat is the presence of extremist groups and movements who authorize killing”. His eminence elaborated in talking about this third threat, saying these extremists have targeted all sects in many countries, and stressing that this issue needed unity and agreement. “Such movements have killed Shiites and Sunnis, bombed mosques, public places, and “Hussainiahs”. Religious men of all sects in Iraq have been targeted by suicide bombs”. “These movements are not targeting the Western and the NATO’s presence in Afghanistan, but the Sunni religious figures there, and so is the case in Pakistan and Somalia”. “In conclusion, we don't need a minorities' and majorities' agreement to solve these problems, we need a Christian, Muslim, and national agreement to solve them, and we all hold the responsibility of that”. “If we speak about this, they will turn it into a sectarian issue, therefore the Sunni figures are the ones who should talk against such matters”, Sayyed Nasrallah added. US CLAIMS BECAUSE OF IRANIAN REFUSAL TO HOLD TALKS On the US claims that the Islamic Republic of Iran attempted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in America, Sayyed Nasrallah said it was because of Iranian refusal to talk with the American. “The Americans aim at pressuring Iran, and forcing it to negotiate with them, while the Iranians have never accepted holding bilateral talks with the Americans, and so the US made up this issue to push for more sanctions against Iran”. “This is not a preface for a war against Iran, because the Americans don't have the ability to engage in any war now”, Sayyed Nasrallah concluded. US PULLOUT OF IRAQ Sayyed Nasrallah also tackled the American withdrawal from Iraq. His eminence considered the withdrawal at the end of this year a great victory, and stressed that the US has paid expensive losses since the 2003 US-led invasion. “The US withdrawal from Iraq is a great victory to the Iraqi people and a defeat to the Americans. : I congratulate the Iraqi people for this historic victory”. "The US is leaving Iraq after it has become unbearable for them to stay there. If Iraq was safe for them, neither Obama nor anyone else would have announced any withdrawal”. US INTERFERENCE IN ARAB REVOLUTIONS On the Arab Spring, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that all revolutions in the region evolved from the Public's desire”, and “not an American project”, noting that the US “started interfering in the revolutions to minimize their losses and preserve a role for them”. “We confront this US plan with public awareness”, his eminence added. TUNISIA Starting from Tunisia which has witnessed its first-ever free elections since the uprising toppled Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali last January, Sayyed Nasrallah urged Tunisians to “impose their desires politically”. They “should know that the US is not their friend, it has supported cruel regimes and it still does”. LIBYA TRIUMPHED On the Libyan case, his eminence voiced happiness that the Libyans have gotten rid from Gaddafi’s rule, calling them to unite against any foreign interference. “On the Libyan situation, we are glad that the people have triumphed in Libya. The Libyans should preserve their unity and make sure that there is not external interference in the Libyan affairs, they should be politically aware.” Concerning the fate of Imam Sayyed Mousa As-Sadr, Sayyed Nasrallah said: “Serious work should be done to search for Sayyed As-Sadr now”. BAHRAIN UPRISING UNJUSTLY TREATED Moving to the Bahraini uprising, Sayyed Nasrallah said that the regime has been treating the revolution unjustly, noting that this revolt wasn’t paid enough attention. “The revolution in Bahrain is being treated unjustly. When the Arab revolutions are mentioned, the Bahraini one is not among them, as if they live in a democratic state”. “The Bahraini protestors are facing a media blockade as no satellite allows them to go on air. They have great faith, power, and determination, and they will keep on protesting for years to fulfill their demands”. SWAP DEAL VICTORY On the other hand, Hezbollah S.G. considered the prisoners swap deal clinched between the Zionist entity and Hamas, a great victory. “Capturing Shalit alive, keeping him away from Israelis for 5 years, the steadfastness of the Palestinians constitutes remarkable victory”. “The most important thing is that this victory strengthened the resistance choice”, Sayyed Nasrallah said, adding that the “timing of the swap deal has no political background”. His eminence also stressed that “Israel is getting weaker day after day, and the Palestinians are getting closer to regaining their land and rights”.

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Why did´nt the Crusaders think of it ??

FAD

Qaddafi´s own ex-minister
becomes the "champion-of-democracy"


Now that Libya is " liberated "

Afghanistan shall offer it expertise in (opium) agriculture
and civic-society .

Italy shall give assistance in the
anti-government-corruptions-programs.

The UK shall reactivate the prisons for Irish-fighters.

The USA shall set up a plan for full democratisation
of the Oil industries.

France shall train the new recruit for mercenaries.

Saudi Arabia shall recruit more fanatics.

Israel shall introduce the
" Peace of the braves".

The PLO offices shall be converted
as Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.

Spartacus and Qaddafi
shall enter the history-books as Dictators.

Nelson Mandela and Hugo Chavez
shall miss a friend.

Foreign-interventions and Assassinations
shall get another meaning.

and finally :
Neo-colonialism shall be re-baptised
as "democratisation".

Why did´nt the Crusaders think of it ??

Raja Chemayel
 

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Nasrallah: ‘Tel Aviv will be first target in next war’

Posted on October 23, 2011 by rehmat1| 

On Friday, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese Islamic Resistance Hizbullah, warned the Zionist regime that if it dared to attack Lebanon – Hizbullah’s first rocket barrage will target Tel Aviv. The warning came during an interview Nasrallah gave to Arab newspaper Al-Akhbar on Friday.
“Any war Israel decides to wage in the future will center on Tel Aviv and not Israel’s northern settlements,” said Sheikh Nasrallah.

“I address you from the position of someone who is fully aware of the capabilities of the resistance, and I promise you, next time, we will not stop at just ‘breaking the bones’ of the Israeli army, we will ‘pulverize their bones’ until there is nothing left.” He also insisted that the resistance has many cards up its sleeve and holds “many, many surprises” that will “change the political map of the Middle East.”
Middle East analyst Nader Ezzeddine says that before US occupation forces leave Iraq by December 31, 2011 – The CIA, Mossad and MI6 will begin secret bombing and assassination campaign to destablize the region.

“The battlefield will be the Mediterranean from Lebanon across Syria to Iraq. The phase is going to be hard and extremely dangerous at the security level, however, the choice of the resistance will prevail as it enjoys popular support in the region. On the other hand, the creative chaos project will remain alien in this region and its peoples. Perseverance is going to be in favor of the resistance in this decisive war to finally put an end to deceit and marking time with the American project in the region so that the peoples would be left to choose their own future and their own relations among them,” says Nader.
During the 2006 war, the Zionist regime claimed that Hizbullah had 15,000 Katyusha rockets and now it says Hizbullah has boosted its rocket stockpile of 24,000-36,000. However, Israel’s military intelligence did know before July 2006 war that Hizbullah had the C-802 Anti-Shipping Cruise Missile, which hit the Israeli ship Hanit, crippling the ship’s propulsion system and killing four sailors.
Last year, Israeli president Shimon Peres also claimed Hizbullah has received scud missiles. In September 2011, US Presidential hopeful, Israel-Firster Zionist Christian Michele Bachmann claimed: “Hizbullah, could soon have missile sites in Cuba“.

Last year, Franklin Lamb PhD, in an article Can Israel defeat Hizbullah in the coming war? , wrote:
“Increasingly during the 33 day July 2006 War, Israeli forces refused orders to advance against Hezbollah fighters, happily opting for 14 day jail sentences for failure to obey orders. Concerning IDF recruitment and AWOL problems, according to IDF Captain Arye Shalicar of the IDF Recruitment Fraud unit, it is US taxpayers who foot the bill for eight companies of private investigators recently hired to track down Israeli draft dodgers.

Israel with all manner of support and political cover”, the White House has informed Israel that the days of ‘green lights’ for trampling and carpet bombing Lebanon are over. Secretary of State Clinton reportedly told PM Netanyahu during his recent visit to basically ‘forget about it’ when Israel’s Prime Minister repeated ad nausea the mantra that “Lebanon is now Hezbollah and Hezbollah is now Lebanon” so Israel can exercise “blanket self defense.”

Hezbollah, has smashed the myth of Israel’s invincibility, broken the barrier of fear, increased the popular demand for resistance, exposed the fake peace process and rejected appeasement, acquiescence and surrender. Hezbollah forces taught the world that Arabs can and will liberate Palestine because they possess the qualities and acumen to do it. The kings and the presidents in the region, who for six decades chose their thrones over Jerusalem quake as does Israel,” wrote Dr. Lamb.

Sheikh Nasrallah also said the US-Israel-EU plot to bring regime changes in Damascus and Tehran have failed. Syrian Bashar has gained control of the situation and now there are only 10% of chances that US-Israel will dare to attack Iran.

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Eye on The Enemy: Shalit Deal Verifies Hassan Nasrallah’s “Spider web” Theory

Shalit Deal Verifies Hassan Nasrallah's "Spider web" Theory

Ron Ben-Yishai - Yedioth Ahronot

The deal that brought Gilad Shalit back home was internally and politically unavoidable and it is probably also reasonable in relation to the security risks it holds.

Nonetheless, in its essence and strategic meaning it was a capitulation. The capitulation of "Israel" to the extortion of a radical Islamic terrorist organization, which exposed the weak spot of the "Israeli" society, and struck with cruelty and firmness until it got all what it had asked for.

But "Israel" isn't only capitulated. It also celebrated a humiliating festival the "IDF" gave a hand to organize.

Capitulation is not a bad word. Sometimes, it cannot be avoided in a drawn out war against a determined, fanatically-driven enemy. It is a humiliating act, yet it can be tolerated so long as it does not create an irreversible situation.

That is, as long as this act does not endanger our physical existence as a nation and as a people, and enables us to preserve our strength in preparation of the next round where there is a good chance to be victorious.

The Shalit deal is a capitulation of this kind, the tolerated kind, for the "IDF" and the Shin Bet have the tools to successfully deal with security ramifications, and because it helps us to preserve our strength. To be more exact - it boosts up the motivation of "IDF" soldiers and "Israeli" citizens as a whole, to fight and face the threats, while recognizing that mutual camaraderie is a meaningful expression in the "Israeli" society.

Mutual camaraderie, to who have forgotten, is not just a perception that a state and its citizens would do everything they can to free someone who is abducted. That is only one side of the story. The other side is that Shalit deal strengthened our internal recognition that in "Israel" every citizen counts. That's why, both the state and citizens should carry this burden, and we'll sacrifice our soul and body for their sake.

But this is the truth, it's important to our future and so as it may be to our national might; it is only one part of the whole picture. A realistic estimate of what is expected must take into account the impact and outcomes of the deal on the other side. Not only on Hamas, but on all of "Israel's" enemies, starting from Iran and Hizbullah to the most extreme Arab "Israelis".

"Israel's" Enemies: Kidnappings Come Off

Judging the reactions to the deal, it can be determined that it proved to our enemies that "Israeli" society knows how to endure losses, up to a point, but it cannot stand up to emotional and psychological dilemmas.

Not only abductions - any use of violence that "Israel" does not have a good military response for, causes weakness and hysteria in the "Israeli" society, thus it's an effective procedure that will lead to tactical capitulation and perhaps even strategic one to the Jews and their state.

In fact, the Shalit deal provided a renewed Hassan Nasrallah's "spider web" theory.

In his opinion, the "Israeli" society symbolizes a spider web, which is easy to disentangle through imposing emotional damage, while taking advantage of the
humanitarian values of Western society that force "Israel" to restrain its response - without directly confronting the IDF's superior military power.

As far as he concerned, the "IDF's" withdrawal from southern Lebanon is proof of this theory, and Hamas reached the same conclusions after the "Israeli" withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

According to this theory, kidnappings almost come off, and should be continued, whether it was bodies of "Israelis" or living "Israelis". This is proved by Hizbullah's only achievement in the Second Lebanon War, which was the release of hundreds of prisoners - including the odious murderer Samir Kuntar -in return of two bodies.

Such deals, including the Tennenbaum one, verified for the masses in the Arab world that Islamists, whether Sunnis or Shiites, are genuine when they claim that ""Israel" only understands force".

As such, it is obvious that the Shalit deal strengthens Hamas and the armed struggle it believes in, whereas it weakens Abou Mazen, who supports the non-violent struggle that aims to make "Israel" surrender through international pressure.

Hamas' success forces Abo Mazen to bolster the reconciliation with Hamas. But even if the Hamas leadership in Gaza will lean towards some sort of arrangement with "Israel", as some experts claim, the released prisoners will not allow it to moderate its stance, at least not soon.

Many of them enjoy great prestige and influence over the movement's political leadership and its armed wing, and would do anything to outwit an arrangement with "Israel". The Shalit deal, therefore, makes an "Israeli"-Palestinian agreement doubtful in the near future.

Nevertheless, there are some positive aspects to the deal from "Israel's" viewpoint. The deal very much improved the relationship with Egypt. The success of the Egyptian mediation made it clear to the Supreme Military Council that the relationship with "Israel" is valuable and significant.

The agreement set by Egypt also allowed its military leadership to prove to the Egyptian and Arab masses that Cairo is capable of looking out for the Arab-Palestinian interest, and put "Israel" down if necessary.

The deal also enabled Egypt to prove to the US, Europe, and to moderate Arab states, that it is the curbing factor that knows how to defuse regional mines. All of this rebuilds and boosts Egypt's prestige as a leader in the region, which also supports Egypt's demand from the US and Arab leaders to provide it with needed economic and financial aid, necessary as oxygen is to breathe.

However, the deal also brought Egypt and Hamas closer. It is logic to assume that this firm bond would limit "Israel" actions against Hamas in the future.

Another positive aspect related to the deal's conditions. The exile of scores of major vandals to Gaza or foreign countries not only minimizes the security threat they pose, it is also heavy punishment for the deportees.

Disconnecting from their families and their environment causes the released detainee psychological hardships, which not many can overcome. This Experience proves that many view exile as a kind of social isolation, which saddens and afflicts them for an extended period of time.

Another positive point associated to the government, or Netanyahu to be exact. Anyone who claimed that the "Israeli" prime minister is unable to be pragmatic and make painful concessions must admit he was wrong. Pay attention, Abo Mazen, the American administration and European leaders.

The red lines

It is now a must that "Israel" learns its lessons from the Shalit case. It can be assumed that the next kidnapping is already on its way and therefore these lessons must be carried out rapidly.

The main lesson is that "Israel", in case of abduction, must immediately take action on three levels: first, establish a special intelligence task force which only mission is to deal with all the aspects of freeing the kidnapped citizen, starting with gathering intelligence info on his whereabouts, then develop operational options to free him, to support and consultations of negotiations.
This task force must immediately be operated by "IDF", Shin Bet and Mossad personnel. For instance, if an "Israeli" is kidnapped overseas, the Mossad would be in control, while the "IDF" and Shin Bet would take the lead in other instances.

The second lesson is that the "IDF", with the help of the intelligence systems, must carry out operations that would pressure the kidnappers. If the "IDF", immediately after Shalit's kidnapping, had entered Gaza and divided it up into three parts while announcing that the condition for leaving would be to free the kidnapped soldier - perhaps the negotiations with Hamas would have been easier and faster.

Instead, the "IDF" entered the Strip and carried out a series of useless operations, which eventually did not create any effect.

A targeted assassinations campaign would probably have resulted in a more desired outcome had it been properly planned, otherwise they wouldn't have feared rocket barrages. These operations would not only help secure the kidnapped person's release, it would also increase the prevention ahead of future abductions.

In addition to this, "Israel" must specify in advance its "red lines", which the government won't cross unless legislated. It needs to be stressed that these red lines must be realistic and take into account the precedents set in previous deals as well as "Israeli" society's sensitivity to the lives of its people.

But they must be established after prolonged, meaningful public discussion, and full knowledge of the other side - any potential kidnappers and their controllers.
The fourth lesson is that "Israel" must stand behind its statements and threats. If the prime minister said after Shalit was released that the delinquents who return to their previous activity would be abolished, he, and those who follow him in office, must apply what they say.

If "Israel" takes decisive and practical steps to implement these lessons and proves it to the families of those who were kidnapped, the extensive media festivals that prolonged Shalit's captivity and upped his price could be avoided in the future.

They would also make the disgraceful capitulation festival that we witnessed, extraneous, with the help of the PM's bureau and the "IDF" wonders.

A capitulation deal should be accepted with restraint as one accepts a bitter outcome that is unavoidable. Only here ("Israel's") humiliation turns into a celebration, without considering how such a celebration is perceived on the other side and the damage it may cause.

Source: Hebrew newspapers, Translated by moqawama.org

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The End of History

By Paul Craig Roberts Prisonplanet.com, 21-10-2011 Now that the CIA's proxy army has murdered Gadhafi, what next for Libya? If Washington's plans succeed, Libya will become another American puppet state. Most of the cities, towns, and infrastructure have been destroyed by air strikes by the air forces of the US and Washington's NATO puppets. US and European firms will now get juicy contracts, financed by US taxpayers, to rebuild Libya. The new real estate will be carefully allocated to lubricate a new ruling class picked by Washington. This will put Libya firmly under Washington's thumb. With Libya conquered, AFRICOM will start on the other African countries where China has energy and mineral investments. Obama has already sent US troops to Central Africa under the guise of defeating the Lord's Resistance Army, a small insurgency against the ruling dictator-for-life. The Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, welcomed the prospect of yet another war by declaring that sending US troops into Central Africa "furthers US national security interests and foreign policy." Republican Senator James Inhofe added a gallon of moral verbiage about saving "Ugandan children," a concern the senator did not have for Libya's children or Palestine's, Iraq's, Afghanistan's and Pakistan's. Washington has revived the Great Power Game and is vying with China. Whereas China brings Africa investment and gifts of infrastructure, Washington sends troops, bombs and military bases. Sooner or later Washington's aggressiveness toward China and Russia is going to explode in our faces. Where is the money going to come from to finance Washington's African Empire? Not from Libya's oil. Big chunks of that have been promised to the French and British for providing cover for Washington's latest war of naked aggression. Not from tax revenues from a collapsing US economy where unemployment, if measured correctly, is 23 percent. With Washington's annual budget deficit as huge as it is, the money can only come from the printing press. Washington has already run the printing press enough to raise the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) to 3.9% for the year (as of the end of September), the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) to 4.4% for the year, and the producer price index (PPI) to 6.9% for the year. As statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) has shown, the official inflation measures are rigged in order to hold down cost of living adjustments to Social Security recipients, thus saving money for Washington's wars. When measured correctly, the current rate of inflation in the US is 11.5%. What interest rate can savers get without taking massive risks on Greek bonds? US banks pay less than one-half of one percent on FDIC insured savings deposits. Short-term US government bond funds pay essentially zero. Thus, according to official US government statistics American savers are losing between 3.9% and 4.4% of their capital yearly. According to John Williams' estimate of the real rate of inflation, US savers are losing 11.5% of their accumulated savings. As retired Americans receive no interest on their savings, they are having to spend down their capital. The ability of even the most prudent retirees to survive the negative rate of interest they are receiving and the erosion by inflation of any pensions that they receive will come to an end once their accumulated assets are exhausted. Except for Washington's favored mega-rich, the one percent that has captured all of the income gains of recent years, the rest of America has been assigned to the trash can. Nothing whatsoever has been done for them since the financial crisis hit in December 2007. Bush and Obama, Republican and Democrat, have focused on saving the 1 percent while giving the finger to the 99 percent. Finally, some Americans, though not enough, have caught on to the flag-waving rah-rah "patriotism" that has consigned them to the trash bin of history. They are not going down without a fight and are in the streets. Occupy Wall Street has spread. What will be the fate of this movement? Will the snow and ice of cold weather end the protests, or send them into public buildings? How long will the local authorities, subservient to Washington as they are, tolerate the obvious signal that the population lacks any confidence whatsoever in the government? If the protests last, especially if they grow and don't decline, the authorities will infiltrate the protestors with police provocateurs who will fire on the police. This will be the excuse to shoot down the protestors and to arrest the survivors as "terrorists" or "domestic extremists" and to send them to the $385 million dollar camps built under US government contract by Cheney's Halliburton. The American Police State will have taken its next step into the American Concentration Camp State. Meanwhile, lost in their oblivion, conservatives will continue to bemoan the ruination of the country by homosexual marriage, abortion, and "the liberal media." Liberal organizations committed to civil liberty, such as the ACLU, will continue to rank a woman's right to an abortion with defense of the US Constitution. Amnesty International will assist Washington in demonizing its next target for military attack while turning a blind eye to the war crimes of President Obama. When we consider what "Israel" has got away with, being as it is under Washington's bought protection-the war crimes, the murders of children, the eviction in total disregard of international law of Palestinians from their ancestral homes, the bulldozing of their houses and uprooting of their olive groves in order to move in fanatical "settlers," the murderous invasions of Lebanon and Gaza, the wholesale slaughter of civilians-we can only conclude that Washington, "Israel's" enabler, can get away with far more. In the few opening years of the 21st century, Washington has destroyed the US Constitution, the separation of powers, international law, the accountability of government, and has sacrificed every moral principle to achieving hegemony over the world. This ambitious agenda is being attempted while simultaneously Washington removed all regulation over Wall Street, the home of massive greed, permitting Wall Street's short-term horizon to wreck the US economy, thus destroying the economic basis for Washington's assault on the world. Will the US collapse in economic chaos before it rules the world? Iron Fist Captures Russia, Installs "Alexander Rockets" in Syria River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is Alive and Free, Libya to Declare Full Liberation, Leaders Vow Probe to Gaddafi Death

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is alive and free

DNA reports:

Saif al-Islam has been captured 'alive and uninjured' Libyan officials claimed.

 Saif al-Islam, one of the sons of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has vowed to take revenge for his father's death. Gaddafi was killed Thursday by the National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters near his hometown of Sirte.

Al-Islam appeared on the Syria-based Alrai TV channel on Saturday night with an appeal to his supporters, saying he was alive and staying in Libya and intended to fight to the bitter end against the rebels.

"We are continuing resistance. I am in Libya, I am alive and free and willing to fight to the end and take revenge," the TV channel loyal to the Gaddafi regime quoted him as saying.

A website of Gaddafi's supporters earlier posted a statement that Seif al-Islam had been named an heir to the Libyan dictator and charged with the command of forces fighting the rebels.

Libya to Declare Full Liberation, Leaders Vow Probe to Gaddafi Death
Local Editor

Mutstafa Abdul Jalil, the NTC Head

Libyan news regime is to declare the liberation of whole Libya, following the death of Muammar Gaddafi, paving the way for an interim government and then a free vote after 42 years of autocratic rule.

National Transitional Council (NTC) officials said the declaration would be made in the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the revolution that saw Tripoli overrun in August.

The NTC had promised to proclaim the country's liberation once Sirte, Gaddafi’s home twon and last bastions, had fallen.

Under the NTC's roadmap, an interim government would be formed within one month of the declaration, followed within eight months by elections for a constitutional assembly -- the first democratic vote in Libya since Gaddafi seized power in a coup 42 years ago.
Parliamentary and presidential elections would be held within a year.

GADDAFI’S KILLING CONTROVERSY

Meanwhile, the controversy o Gaddafi’s death was still raging, as Interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said an investigation was being conducted into the killing after several foreign governments and human rights watchdogs posed questions.

Gaddafi's body in Misrata

"We are dealing with the subject with transparency," Abdel Jalil told Al-Jazeera television.

Mobile phone videos showed Gaddafi, injured in his legs and shoulders, captured by NTC.
However, a second footage showed the strongman killed.
NTC leaders said he was shot in the head when he was caught "in crossfire" between his supporters and new regime fighters soon after his capture.

Interim Prime Minister Mahmud Jibril told the BBC he preferred Gaddafi had survived.
"To be honest with you at the personal level I wish he was alive. I want to know why he did this to the Libyan people," he said. "I wish I were his prosecutor in his trial."

Jibril added that it would be "absolutely OK" to carry out a full investigation under international supervision into the killing, as long as Islamic burial rules were respected.
Gaddafi’s body has been stored in a vegetable market freezer in the eastern city of Misrata, drawing large crowds wanting to view the remains of the despot who ruled Libya with an iron fist for decades.

Source: Agencies

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