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Al-Faisal Woos Zionists: Imagine If I Could Fly Directly from Riyadh to Al-Quds

Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal has sent a letter to the so-called “Israel Peace Conference”, calling on the Zionist entity to adopt the Arab peace initiative.

“Arab 48 Website” reported on Sunday that al-Faisal was talking in the letter about the profits which the Zionist entity could attain if it agrees to consider the initiative.

The Website said that al-Faisal was wooing the Zionist entity in his letter, as he mentioned the name of Palestinian city of Hebron in its both Arabic and the Hebrew languages.

Al-Faidal also voiced readiness to visit al-Aqsa Mosque’s Western Wall and the Yad Vashem Museum which is considered as a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the Palestinian website noted.

“Imagine if I could fly directly from Riyadh to al-Quds. Imagine if I could ride a bus or a taxi to go to the Sakhra (Rock) Mosque or al-Aqsa Mosque,” al-Faisal said in the letter reportedly.

“Imagine the developments which would take place on the levels of trade, medicine, sciences and culture between the people,” al-Faisail said, adding: “I hope the efforts of the Peace Conference will lead to clarify the view of peace which can be achieved when the Arab initiative becomes a cornerstone.”

The Saudi prince also hoped that he can “take part in such conference, and that the Israelis can also take part in similar meetings in Riyadh which tackle the possibility to work together in order to solve the controversial issues which we face.”

The letter comes at a time the Zionist entity launches a violent crackdown on Palestinians, killing at least 12 of them and detaining many others.

Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, is one of the latest Palestinian martyrs. He was kidnapped and burned alive by the Israeli occupation forces last Wednesday.


Source: Websites	06-07-2014 – 18:08 Last updated 06-07-2014 – 18:14

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Donbass: Russians Subject to Unparalleled Ethnic Cleansing

Olga CHETVERIKOVA | 06.07.2014 | 00:00

The Ukrainian army continues a large-scale offensive against the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. Indiscriminate shelling results in more civilian deaths. Grad, Uragan and Smerch multiple launch rocket systems were used in Nikolaevka to practically wipe this populated area out from the earth. There is no connection with the town so it’s impossible to know exactly what the death toll is. Semionovka and Slavyansk living quarters are regularly subject to regular bombing. Life support systems in Slavyansk are out of order; the city is encircled and blocked. Cars trying to get out are shot at.

The details of the bloodshed are to be studied before they become known to public. In late January 2013 when former President Yanukovych still was in power, the Ukrainian government and Royal Dutch Shell inked the country's first major shale gas 50 year profit sharing agreement. Shell plans to develop the Yuzov field in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. In June 2014 the company confirmed its intention to go on with the agreement as soon as the conflict gets de-escalated and the situation stabilizes. The information about the deal is classified. The Ukrainian government allegedly cannot refuse the extension of its term. The territory to be explored is 7886 square kilometers, including Slavyansk (situated right in the heart of deposit), Izium, a major part of Kramatorsk and a large number of smaller populated areas like, for instance, Krasny Liman, Seversk, Yasnogorsk, Kamyshevka etc.

In accordance with article 37.2 of the agreement, the local residents have to sell their land and property. In case of refusal they are to be coerced to do it to serve the Shell’s interests. The company’s expenditure is to be compensated by Ukraine at the expense of produced gas.

The government takes on responsibility for finding a solution to all the problems with local authorities.

There are other actors involved in shale gas projects in Ukraine:

- Eurogas Ukraine, some of its shares are owned by British Macallan Oil & Gas (UK) Ltd, which belongs to US Euro Gas;

- Burisma Holdings, with Hunter Biden, the son of US Vice President being a member of board of directors.

That is the main goal of those who launched the “anti-terrorist operation” or the Donbass slaughter. They want to establish total control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to clear the way for shale gas extraction (80-140 thousand wells). Arable lands would not be used for agricultural purposes, houses and churches will have to be destroyed to erect gas production infrastructure. Ukraine boasts 27% deposits of black earth. It’ll have to sell it abroad. It’s hard to do it in peacetime, but war time changes a lot of things. It’s important to reduce the population leaving only those who are needed to extract gas. The new Mayor of Krasny Liman appointed by Turchinov after the Ukrainian troops took the town has already promised local dwellers to create new working places instead of the ones they have lost as a result of industrial facilities damaged in war.

Many believe that if the resistance is quelled, the control over the Donetsk and Lihansk regions will allow isolating Russia from a major part of European gas market. Experts believe the situation will get clearer in the autumn of 2014.

The issue blew up earlier this month after comments from an unlikely source, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The normally low-key official, who rarely comments on energy matters, told the London-based think tank Chatham House on June 19 that Russia was, as he put it, secretly backing some Europeans anti-fracking environmentalists in order to stop Europe from joining the U.S.’s shale-gas revolution—and hence keep the continent dependent on Russian gas exports. Rasmussen claimed NATO allies had detected Russian manipulation at work in the “sophisticated information and disinformation operations” within Europe’s well-organized anti-fracking groups.

The Russian Aggression Prevention Bill of 2014 went to the US Senate on May 1 in an election-year broadside against administration policy, eight Republicans led by GOP Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled a package of penalties on Russia, assistance for NATO and exportation of U.S. natural gas. The senators said they hoped to secure Democratic support and, at a minimum, force the White House to develop a cohesive strategy rather than its ad hoc response. It means that the goal of establishing control over the Donetsk-Dneprovsk region deposits turned the war against the local people into an operation of extermination. Mass slaughter, spreading fear around turning local dwellers into refugees have become the main tools of implementing the policy of Kiev authorities who came to power after the coup. They serve the interests of transnational companies by being involved in ethnic cleansing of Russian population of Donbass. Human lives, the norms of international law and rules of waging contemporary wars don’t mean anything for those who are responsible for bloodshed. Some experts (E. Gilbo, for instance) say the estimations on how many people should remain in the regions have already been done.

On July 4 the head of Donetsk self- defense formations of Donetsk People’s Republic Igor Strelkov said that if Russia will not achieve an agreement on ceasefire and will not launch a peace making operation, the Slavyansk with its 30-thousnad population will be wiped from earth in a week or two.

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P.S. For many weeks the self-defense formations have distracted large forces of Ukrainian army keeping them concentrated around the besieged Slavyansk. Later on June 5 the militia units broke through the encirclement to gain freedom of action outside the limited battle area.

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Having Murdered Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and the US Constitution, Washington is now Murdering Ukraine

USA Murders Countries, the US Constitution, and the Presstitute Media Makes Americans Complicit

Having Murdered Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and the US Constitution, Washington is now Murdering Ukraine.

Thanks to Op-Ed News contributor Eric Zuesse, I can bring to your attention these photographs (URL below) of what the Nazi Government in Washington is doing to Ukrainians who protest the Washington Nazis’ theft of their country. On this Fourth of July Americans need to ask themselves just how much horror, how much evil, and how many lies they can accept from a government in Washington that has established itself independently of any input from citizens to which government in the US is allegedly accountable. Before you wrap yourself in the flag this July 4th, realize that “your” government under Clinton, Bush, and Obama has destroyed in your name, in whole or part, eight countries, murdering, maiming, and displacing millions of civilians, and now is at work on Ukraine. These massive crimes against humanity rival Hitler’s and have been completely covered up by the presstitute American media, a collection of whores who lie for money. How can you be a human when you sit in front of CNN, Fox News or read the New York Times and submit to the brainwashing? Think about how you are propagandized, lied to, disinformed, and led into accepting “your” government’s murder of millions of peoples. Consider, isn’t it treason for Washington to so dishonor the flag that we love? Why do we tolerate it? What is wrong with us? Our duty is to the Constitution, not to the criminals in Washington. A patriot is a person who defends the Constitution against enemies “foreign and domestic.” While we sat sucking our thumbs, shaking in our boots in fear of nonexistent “terrorists,” our Constitution was murdered by Washington.

Turn your backs and walk away from the militarist poison that will be spewed in July 4th speeches. Do you really want to support the Washington Nazis in their campaign to become known as the worst mass murderers in world history? Is mass murder to be America’s legacy to the world?

Here are the photos of Washington’s ruin of Ukraine. The evil demons in Washington and Washington’s whore media tell you that these devastated people are “terrorists.” If you believe that, you are not human.

Here is Erik Zuesse’s article about the Washington sponsored murders.

Read it and be so ashamed. Everything American has been totally dishonored by “our” government, which has become the epitome of total evil.

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ANTHONY LAWSON: ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS — IT'S ABOUT MIND OVER MATTER

SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 AT 9:22AM GILAD ATZMON

Ever since the three Israeli teenagers went missing, police and army units have besieged Palestinian towns and villages in the area; their houses and shops have been ransacked and atrocities have been committed; Gaza has been bombed, and the death toll is still rising, yet international leaders have remained largely silent, when they all know that such reprisals amount to collective-punishment which is a War Crime.

A young Palestinian boy, 16-year-old Mohamed Abu Khdeir, was abducted and killed in a suspected revenge attack by Israelis, on July 2nd. See how Britain's prime minister reacted to his death.

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35 Palestinians Killed By Israeli Fire Since The Beginning Of 2014

http://imemc.org/article/68351

The Ahrar Center for Detainee’s Studies and Human Rights stated in its report on Israeli violations in the first half of 2014, that Israeli soldiers have killed 35 Palestinians, in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Photo By Ahrar Center

January 2014:

1. Mohammad Adnan Abu Khater, 18, killed by Israeli bullets in Gaza.
2. Mohammad al-‘Ejla, 32, assassinated by an Israeli missile in Gaza.
3. Ahmad Za’anin, 21, assassinated by an Israeli missile in Gaza.
4. Mohammad Za’anin, 23, assassinated by an Israeli missile in Gaza.
5. Bilal Oweida, 20, killed by Israeli fire in Gaza.
6. Mohammad Mubarak, 20, killed by Israeli fire in Ramallah.

February 2014:

1. Mo’taz Washha, 25, killed by Israeli fire in Ramallah.
2. Ibrahim Mansour, 26, killed by Israeli bullets in Gaza.

March 2014:

1. Amna Qdeih, 57, killed by Israeli fire in Khuza’a, near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
2. Mos’ab az-Za’anin, 21, assassinated by an Israeli missile in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
3. Sharif Nasser, 31, assassinated by an Israeli missile in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
4. Raed Z’etar, 37, lawyer; killed by an Israeli soldiers at the al-Karama Crossing between Jordan and the West Bank.
5. Saje Darwish, 18, killed by army fire near Ramallah.
6. Ismael Abu Jouda, 23, assassinated by an Israeli missile in southern Gaza.
7. Shaher Abu Shanab, 24, assassinated by an Israeli missile in southern Gaza.
8. Abdu-Shafy Moammar, 33, assassinated by an Israeli missile in southern Gaza.
9. Yousef Shawamra, killed by Israeli bullets in Hebron.
10. Hamza Abu al-Haija, 21, assassinated by army fire in Jenin.
11. Mahmoud Abu Zeina, 21, assassinated by army fire in Jenin.
12. Yazan Jabbareen, 23, assassinated by army fire in Jenin.

May 2014:

1. Nadim Nuwwara, 17, killed by army fire near Ramallah.
2. Mohammad Abu Thaher, 20, killed by army fire near Ramallah.

June 2014:

1. ‘Ala Mohammad Odah, 30, killed by army fire at the Za’tara roadblock, near Nablus.
2. Emad Salem, 52, fisherman killed by Israeli Navy fire in Gaza waters.
3. Mohammad Ahmad al-‘Aawoor, 30, assassinated by an Israeli missile in northern Gaza.
4. Ali Abdul-Latif al-‘Aawoor, 7, killed by the same missile that assassinated his uncle, Mohammad.
5. Arafat Sabbarin, 23, killed by Israeli bullets in the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, Ramallah.
6. Jihad Mohammad Doudin, 13, killed by Israeli fire in Hebron.
7. Sakher Abu Mohsen, 16, killed by Israeli landmine in the Jordan Valley.
8. Ahmad Sa’id Abu Shannon, 30, killed by army fire in Nablus.
9. Mahmoud Ismael Tarifi, 30, killed by army fire in Ramallah.
10. Mohammad Aslan, 24, killed by army fire in Ramallah.
11. Osama al-Hassoumi, 29, assassinated by an Israeli missile in Gaza.
12. Mohammad al-Faseeh, 24, assassinated by an Israeli missile in Gaza.
13. Mohammad Zayed Obeid, 26, assassinated by an Israeli shell in Gaza.

The Ahrar center said that the Israeli assaults, crimes and targeted killing are all direct and serious violations of International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and all related international agreements regarding the protection of people under occupation.

It added that, encouraged but outrageous international silence, Israel continues to escalate its crimes against the Palestinians people, their lands and their holy sites.

According to detailed data by the Ahrar Center, the army has kidnapped 911 Palestinians including legislators and former political prisoners in June.

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Ahrar: “12 Killed In First Quarter Of 2014, 1059 Kidnapped”
http://www.imemc.org/article/67434

Ahrar: “Two Palestinian Killed, 370 Kidnapped By The Army In May”
http://www.imemc.org/article/67980

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Barzani: Disintegration of Iraq No Longer Possible to Stop, US Won’t Oppose It

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The president of autonomous Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, said that the division of Iraq is no longer possible to stop, noting that the United States will not stand against it.

In an interview with German newspaper Bild am Sonntag said that the disintegration of Iraq is no longer possible to stop, adding, "We have here Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite identity and a fourth Christian, but we do not have an Iraqi identity.”

“Kurdistan Parliament is trying to start the procedure for the referendum and I believe that International community including United States won’t be against us,” said Barzani.

He also added that independence is a right of every nation.

“Before becoming independent, we will ask our people,” stated Barzani.

He described the current situation in Iraq as "a threat" due to the progress of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and the “wrong policy” of the government in Baghdad.

Earlier on Thursday, the head of Kurdistan Region called on Kurdistan Parliament while attending a hearing at his request, to pave the way for legal and constitutional ground for the referendum on the independence of the citizens of the region.

Meanwhile, Barzani pointed out that the relationship between Kurdistan and Turkey have improved during the past ten years dramatically, and is now in a very good relationship, noting that Turkey can be described as a "good neighbor”.


Source: Websites	06-07-2014 - 17:21 Last updated 06-07-2014 - 17:21

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Beaten Palestinian youth is U.S. citizen, cousin of murdered kidnap victim

Video shows the boy being beaten by three policemen; U.S. State Department calls for a 'credible investigation and full accountability for any excessive use of force.

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The Palestinian youth who was caught on video earlier this week being beaten by members of the Israeli Border Police is a United States citizen from Florida, the U.S. State Department confirmed on Saturday.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki named the youth as Tariq Khdeir, 15. He was a cousin of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old Palestinian whose burned body was found Wednesday in the Jerusalem Forest. Khdeir was visited by a U.S. consulate official, the statement said.

"We are profoundly troubled by reports that he was severely beaten while in police custody and strongly condemn any excessive use of force," Psaki said. "We are calling for a speedy, transparent and credible investigation and full accountability for any excessive use of force."

"We reiterate our grave concern about the increasing violent incidents, and call on all sides to take steps to restore calm and prevent harm to innocents," it added.

Khdeir, according reports in Orlando, Florida, is a high school sophomore in Tampa, who was visiting his Palestinian relatives in Shuafat, Jerusalem, for the first time in over a decade when he was beaten and detained.

The incident took place on Thursday outside the home of the murdered teenager, said to be his cousin. The Forward quoted the Council on American-Islamic Relations as saying that he suffered serious injuries in the beating and is being held under police guard at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.

Khdeir is due to be brought before a judge in Jerusalem on Sunday, Ma'an news agency reported.

Two videos of the incident were posted online. One was shot by a neighbor and distributed to family and a television station, while the other was shot from the other side of the street and posted to YouTube.

Both show three Border Police officers hitting a Palestinian detainee who is cuffed and lying on the floor. One of the officers appears to be sitting on the youth while his colleague is kicking and punching him. One of the videos shows the officers dragging what appears to be an unconscious detainee away.

After seeing the video, Khdeir's parents told CNN that the victim was their teenage son. Relatives released pictures of the teenager with bruises and swollen lips and nose.

The Police Investigation's Unit said it has launched an investigation into the matter, after viewing the video allegedly showing the teen's beating.

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Iraq seeks to recover over $40 billion from US .

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‘The US is not serious and is deliberately delaying the arming of the Iraqi army to combat terrorism in the country.’

Iraq is trying to recover nearly $41 billion after the US has refused to deliver the F16 aircrafts the Iraqi government had paid for, Anadolu news agency quoted an Iraqi official as saying.

A member of the Security and Defence Committee in the Iraqi parliament, Hakim Al-Zamli, said: “The US has not complied with the agreement concluded with the Iraqi government to prepare and deliver the F16 aircrafts and Apache helicopters, as well as other weapons and materiel to combat terrorism, despite receiving more than $41 billion from the Iraqi government.”

He added, “The US is not serious and is deliberately delaying the arming of the Iraqi army to combat terrorism in the country.”

Al-Zamli denied US intelligence reports claiming that ISIS militants in the Islamic State impose a significant threat to Baghdad and described the claims as “exaggerated”. “The US security chiefs know that ISIS elements have tried to enter Baghdad, but their attempts have been foiled,” he said.

The Iraqi government had contracted Washington to purchase 18 F16 aircrafts and 24 Apache helicopters on its behalf within a strategic framework agreement concluded between the two sides in 2008.

The US justifies the delay citing fears that the weapons might fall into the hands of ISIS militants.

Iraq bought Sukhoi fighter jets from Russia last month; ten of them already arrived in Baghdad and have begun implementing sorties in preparation to participate in supporting the Iraqi security forces in their battles against the Islamic State.

Sunni groups led by the Islamic State have seized large areas in northern and western Iraq since 10 June, in addition to the areas they control in the north and east of Syria.

While Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki describes these groups as extremist terrorists, Sunni figures marginalised by Iraqi politics describe what is happening as “a Sunni revolt against Al-Maliki’s unfair and sectarian Shiite government”.

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At least 40 UK politicians complicit in alleged Westminster 'pedophile ring' – report

The Palace of Westminster (Reuters / Kieran Doherty)

Published time: July 05, 2014 18:25

A whistleblower who kicked off UK police pedophile probe Operation Fernbridge believes as many as 40 British MPs and peers were involved in or turned a blind eye to child abuse.

Peter Mckelvie, a retired child protection team manager, who has spent more than 20 years compiling evidence of alleged child abuse by people in authority, believes ten current and former politicians are on the list and that there is enough evidence to arrest at least one senior politician, reports the Daily Telegraph.

MPs and peers from all three main political parties are on the list including Cyril Smith and Sir Peter Morrison, who are now dead.

McKelvie was behind bringing Peter Righton, a notorious pedophile, to justice when he worked for Hereford and Worcester child protection team and believes that up to 20 MPs and Lords should be investigated.

“I believe there are sufficient grounds to carry out a formal investigation into allegations of up to 20 MPs and Lords over the last three decades, some still alive and some dead. The list is there,” he said.

And in a letter to his local MP Tony Baldry last month, McKelvie suggested that a further 20 may be implicated in covering up child abuse.

Although he does not suggest that any of the public servants either MPs or Lords colluded with each other.

It was Tom Watson MP who first raised the issue of child abuse by MPs and peers at Prime Minister’s Questions in October 2012 as a result of information that McKelvie had passed to him.

Members of Parliament are seen attending a session of Parliament in the House of Commons (Reuters /UK Parliament via Reuters TV)

Watson spoke of “clear intelligence suggesting a powerful pedophile network linked to parliament and number 10.”

It was after Watson’s intervention that the Metropolitan Police began Operation Fernbridge, an ongoing investigation about alleged child abuse at the Elms Guest House in Barns, South London.

It is understood that a Tory MP abused a child under the age of 10 at the guesthouse in the 1980s, but the alleged victim has so far refused to give a sworn witness statement to police.

Earlier this week it emerged that a separate file on an alleged Westminster pedophile network, which had been put together by the now deceased MP Geofrey Dickens, mysteriously gone missing after he handed it to the then Home Secretary Lord Brittan in 1983.

Labor MP Simon Danczuk, along with six other MPs, has written to the Home Secretary Theresa May demanding a public inquiry into the missing dossier and the people who had been named in it.

Mrs May said she has not ruled out an inquiry after the police finish their investigations and Prime Minister Cameron also tried to give reassurance that the issue would not be swept under the carpet.

“I’ve asked the permanent secretary at the Home Office to do everything he can to find answers to all of these questions and to make sure we can reassure people about these events. Its right these investigations are made. We mustn’t do anything, of course, that could prejudice or prevent proper action by the police,” he said.

Separately it was reported Friday by the Telegraph that a senior Tory who is being investigated as part of Operation Fernbridge, was stopped by customs officials with child pornography in the 1980s but was never arrested.

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Two al-Qaeda Suspects Blow Themselves Up in Saudi Gvt’ Building

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Al-Arabiya quoted unnamed sources as saying the militants blew themselves up in the Sharurah area near the Wadia border post with Yemen.

The militants had put up "stiff resistance" to security forces surrounding them, firing automatic weapons and hurling grenades at security forces.

There were no reports of casualties among Saudi security forces.

Saudi security forces had been searching buildings for militants who had fled after the attack, in which six people, including one suicide bomber and two security personnel, were killed.

On Friday, gunmen killed the commander of a border patrol on the Saudi side of the Wadia border post, where three of the attackers also died in an ensuing firefight, Saudi state news agency SPA said.

The agency said security forces had arrested one of the gunmen and were searching for one or two others believed to be hiding in the area.

Earlier, Yemen's state agency Saba reported that a suicide bomber drove a car laden with explosives into the Yemeni side of the Wadia border crossing, killing himself as well as one soldier, and wounding another.

Saba said, citing a military source, that after the attack, Yemeni security forces chased militants who fled from the scene in two cars into the desert.

However, a Yemeni official, apparently referring to the same incident, earlier told Reuters the gunmen had escaped into Saudi Arabia after attacking the Yemeni border post. In addition, the official said the attackers were al-Qaeda militants.

Saudi Arabia said in May it had detained 62 suspected al-Qaeda militants with links to extremists in Syria and Yemen who it said it believed were plotting attacks on government and foreign targets in the kingdom.

Sources: News Agencies, Edited by website team

05-07-2014 | 11:55