Saturday, 20 August 2011

Lebanon Blocks UN Statement Condemning Eilat Attack

Lebanon, which is currently a member of the United Nations Security Council, prevented early Saturday a condemnation of the recent heroic resistance attack in Eilat in the southern occupied territories.
Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron Prosor expressed his disappointment with Beirut’s move, noting that Lebanon is itself “a state controlled by a terrorist organization.”
The UN envoy said that the latest fiasco proved that the UN has become “blind and deaf” when it comes to condemning “terror attacks against Israeli citizens”. “The UN secretary general condemned it, the Americans condemned it, the European Union condemned it, yet the bottom line is that the Security Council again failed as a body,” he said. “Every time an issue pertains to Israel, we see deafening silence. They become blind and deaf.”

A draft proposal for a presidential statement was distributed to the Security Council’s 15 members Thursday. The United States, Europe and India vigorously supported a harsh UN denunciation of the attack in “Israel”, yet the Arab representative in the Council, Lebanon, announced Friday that it will endorse such censure only if it is “balanced” with a condemnation of Israel’s barbaric strikes in the Gaza Strip.
Europe, the US and Israel rejected the Lebanese equation, in essence burying the condemnation and demonstrating yet again that the UN is unable to address some of the most vital issues on its agenda.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council in an effort to halt Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said in a statement Saturday morning Palestinian media reported.
According to the statement, Abbas instructed Palestinian representative at the United Nations Riyad Mansour to call for an urgent session of the Security Council to discuss the airstrikes on Gaza.
ARAB LEAGUE EMERGENCY SESSION
On the other hand, the Arab League is to discuss the latest Israeli airstrikes on Gaza strip in an emergency meeting on Sunday.

"The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday, at the request of Palestine, to examine the repercussions of the dangerous situation following Israel's continuous aggression on Gaza," the deputy leader of the group, Ahmed Ben Helli told AFP news agency on Saturday.

Ben Helli said the meeting would be attended in Cairo by the permanent delegates of the 22-member pan-Arab organization.
Source: Websites

River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian

WINEP/AIPAC to Obama: 'This is how you oust Assad!'

Via FlC


Seriously, after reading Schenker's 'recommendations' & weighing their effectiveness, one gets the feeling that Dabid Schenker secretly hearts Bashar Assad & wishes his regime well!
"... short of dropping bombs on Damascus, to hasten Assad’s fall... there’s no need to wait before implementing:
If the United States were to be joined in its energy sanctions by the EU...there is no guarantee that these measures—even in place for years—would be successful in bankrupting and dislodging the regime...Energy sanctions, in other words, are perhaps the best arrow in the U.S. policy quiver, but, to mix metaphors, they are not a silver bullet...
In addition, when it comes to aiding the Syrian opposition, the Obama administration should elevate and routinize its contacts with key leaders in the movement, both at home and abroad. If asked, Washington should assist the opposition to better organize its ranks, as well as to develop a publicly articulated vision for Syria’s future that is tolerant, pluralist, and democratic. U.S. support for the opposition might also include the provision of modest funding for Thuraya satellite phones, which can help regime opponents on the ground in Syria to better communicate with each other and with the outside world. At the same time, to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to Syria’s future, President Obama himself should consider an Oval Office meeting (and photo op) with respected Syrian opposition figures.
Towards the Syrian regime, meanwhile, the administration should establish a declaratory policy targeting the Syrian military in order to encourage more desertions. The message from Obama should be that Syrian military officers will be held accountable for war crimes committed against the Syrian people.
Within the United Nations, the administration should move forward on a broad range of initiatives, including pressing the U.N. Security Council to level sanctions against Syria for the regime’s ongoing violation of its commitments to the International Atomic Energy Agency. While China and Russia may be loathe to sanction the Assad regime for its human rights violations (Russia this week announced it would continue to sell weapons to Syria), they might prove more amenable to abstaining from—rather than vetoing—a resolution hitting Damascus for its efforts develop nuclear weapons.
The administration’s best potential source of leverage against the Assad regime, however, resides in the Middle East. The Gulf States—and Qatar, in particular—have been an important source of foreign direct investment in Syria in recent years. Washington should work with its Gulf allies to ensure that that spigot is turned off. (Since April, Qatar, promisingly, has been featuring the Syrian opposition and its officials on the air on Al Jazeera).
Most important, in this regard, is swaying Syobria’s immediate neighbors, all of which have complicated relationships with the Assad regime...If Turkey joins the growing coalition of states that have written off the Assad regime—and also levies sanctions—it would undermine support for the regime among the country’s Sunni business elite, a critical pillar of regime stability. Regrettably, relations between Washington and Turkey are not what they once were. But that doesn’t mean that Obama shouldn’t make every effort to bring Ankara in line with the growing international consensus on the Assad regime..."
Whoa!
River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian

Events in Syria – Which side are you on? / Les événements en Syrie – Quel camp avez-vous choisi?

By Sara Flounders

When U.S. imperialism engages in an attack on any government or movement, it is essential that the workers’ and progressive political movements for change gather as much information as is available and take a stand.

It is cowardly to be neutral and rank betrayal to stand on the same side as the imperialist octopus, which seeks to dominate the world.

This has been an ABC for workers’ movements through 150 years of class-conscious struggles. It is the very basis of Marxism. It is reflected in union songs that raise the challenge “Which side are you on?” and by labor organizers who explain again and again: “An injury to one is an injury to all.”

A social explosion is shaking the Arab world. U.S. imperialism and all the old regimes tied to it in the region are trying desperately to manage and contain this still unfolding mass upheaval into channels that do not threaten imperialist domination of the region.

The U.S. and its collaborators are also trying to divide and undermine the two wings of the resistance -- the Islamic forces and the secular nationalist forces -- which together overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia. There is now a concerted U.S. effort to turn these same political forces against two regimes in the region that have opposed U.S. domination in the past -- Libya and Syria.

Both Libya and Syria have their own development problems, which are exacerbated by the general global capitalist crisis and decades of compromise imposed on them as they tried to survive in a hostile environment of unrelenting attacks -- political, sometimes military and including economic sanctions.

The U.S./NATO bombing of Libya has clarified where imperialism stands regarding that country. The transnational exploiters are determined to totally seize hold of the richest oil reserves in Africa and cut off the billions of dollars that Libya was contributing toward the development of much poorer African countries.

Syria is also targeted by imperialism -- because of its heroic defense of Palestinian resistance over decades and its refusal to recognize the Zionist occupation. Syria’s assistance to Hezbollah in their struggle to end the Israeli occupation of Lebanon and their strategic alliance with Iran cannot be forgotten.

Even if a great deal of Syria’s internal situation is difficult to understand, it is important to note that in this unfolding struggle clear statements of support for the Syrian government and against U.S. destabilization efforts have come from Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon and several exiled leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian organization that was elected by the people of Gaza.
These political leaders have experienced first-hand U.S. destabilization campaigns that used corporate media fabrications, externally financed opposition groups, targeted assassinations, special ops sabotage and well-trained Internet operatives.

On the side of the supposedly “democratic opposition” are such reactionaries as Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chair of the powerful Senate Homeland Security Committee, who called on the U.S. to bomb Syria next, after Libya. Outspoken supporters of the opposition in Syria include James Woolsey, former CIA Director and advisor to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign.

Wikileaks exposes U.S. role

An article entitled “U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups” by Craig Whitlock (Washington Post, April 18) described in great detail the information contained in U.S. diplomatic cables that Wikileaks had sent to news agencies around the world and posted on its web site. The article summarizes what these State Department cables reveal about the secret funding of Syrian political opposition groups, including the beaming of anti-government programming into the country via satellite television.

The article describes the U.S.-funded efforts as part of a “long-standing campaign to overthrow the country’s autocratic leader, Bashar al-Assad,” which began under President George W. Bush and continued under President Barack Obama, even though Obama claimed to be rebuilding relations with Syria and posted an ambassador to Damascus for the first time in six years.

According to an April 2009 cable signed by the top-ranking U.S. diplomat in Damascus at the time,
Syrian authorities “would undoubtedly view any U.S. funds going to illegal political groups as tantamount to supporting regime change.” The Washington Post article describes in some detail the links between the U.S.-funded opposition Barada TV and the role of Malik al-Abdeh, who is on its board and distributes videos and protest updates. Al-Abdeh is also on the board of the Movement for Justice and Democracy, which his brother, Anas Al-Abdeh, chairs. The secret cables “report persistent fears among U.S. diplomats that Syrian state security agents had uncovered the money trail from Washington.”

Role of Al Jazeera

Perhaps the most revealing challenge to and exposé of the destabilization campaign in Syria came with the resignation of Ghassan Ben Jeddo, the best-known journalist with Al Jazeera’s television news programs and chief of its Beirut bureau. Ben Jeddo resigned in protest of Al Jazeera’s biased coverage, especially noting a “smear campaign against the Syrian government” that has turned Al Jazeera into a “propaganda outlet.”
Al Jazeera favorably covered the unstoppable mass upsurge of millions in Egypt and Tunisia. However, this satellite news channel has also extensively reported every claim and political charge, regardless of how unsubstantiated, made by the political opposition in both Syria and Libya. It became the strongest voice in the region, watched by millions of viewers, to call for U.S. “humanitarian” intervention, no-fly zones and bombing of Libya. So it is important to understand the position of Al Jazeera as a news corporation, especially when it claims to speak for the oppressed.

Al Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, never reports that 94 percent of the work force in Qatar is made up of immigrants who have absolutely no rights at all and exist in conditions of near slavery. The brutal repression of the mass movement in the absolute monarchy of Bahrain, which is just next door to Qatar and is now occupied by Saudi troops, also receives little coverage on Al Jazeera.

Is this censorship because Al Jazeera TV News is funded by the absolute monarch of Qatar, the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani?

It is especially important to note that Al Jazeera never mentions the huge U.S. Central Command military air base right there in Qatar. Drones on secret missions throughout the region regularly take off from this base. Qatar has also sent planes to participate in the U.S./NATO bombing of Libya.

Qatar works closely with the U.S. State Department in supporting U.S. intervention in the area. Qatar was one of the first Arab states, and the first among the Gulf States, to establish relations with Israel. During the 2009 Israeli bombardment of Gaza, it canceled these relations but has since offered to renew them.

Facebook and counter-revolution
The CIA and National Endowment for Democracy have become expert at utilizing a barrage of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to overwhelm targeted governments with millions of fabricated messages, wild rumors and images.

Fabricated alerts about struggles and splits among rival factions in Syria’s military leading to resignations turned out to be false. For example, Major Gen. al-Rifai (Ret.) denied as baseless news broadcasts over satellite television that he was leading a split in the military. He added that he had retired 10 years ago.

Izzat al-Rashek of the Hamas Politburo and Ali Baraka, Hamas representative in Lebanon, denied published claims that the leadership of this Palestinian resistance organization was relocating to Qatar from Damascus. Ali Baraka explained that this was a U.S. fabrication to pressure Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and obstruct Palestinian reconciliation while raising conflict between resistance movements and Syria.

The Syrian government has charged that snipers fired into demonstrations, shooting army and police in an effort to have police open fire on demonstrators.
Rumors, anonymous Internet postings and satellite television reports aimed at heightening sectarian differences are part of the destabilization campaign.

Dual character of Syria

It is not difficult to see why U.S. imperialism and its pawns in the region, including Israel and the corrupt dependent monarchies of Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, would want to see “regime change’ in Syria.

Syria is one of the few Arab states that have no relations with Israel. Several Palestinian resistance organizations have offices-in-exile in Syria, including Hamas. Syria is allied closely with Iran and with Lebanon.

Syria today is not socialist nor a revolutionary country. Capitalism with its resulting inequality has not been overturned. There is a capitalist class in Syria; many within it have benefited from “reforms” that sold formerly state-owned industries to private capital.
However, the Syrian state represents contradictory forces. It has been a bulwark to protect the gains won in the anti-colonial struggles and upheavals by the Arab masses in 1960s and 1970s. During that period many important social gains were made, major industries and resources that had belonged to foreign capital were nationalized, and big advances were made in guaranteed health care, living standards and education.

Syria under the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party is fiercely secular. It has maintained religious freedom for all while allowing no one religious grouping to dominate or be promoted by the state.

But the regime in Syria has also harshly repressed efforts of mass movements based in Lebanon and Syria that wanted to take the struggle further. It has defended its repression of past movements by pointing to its precarious position right next to Israel, the impact of two Israeli wars in 1967 and 1973, and the resulting Israeli occupation and annexation of the important Golan Heights region of Syria for 44 years.

Years of U.S. sanctions and past destabilization efforts have also had a cumulative effect. The state apparatus, ever fearful of continuing outside intervention, has become fearful of change.

It is essential to recognize this dual character and not apologize for or ignore all the problems that flow from it.
Syria has had the added burden of providing for more than 500,000 Palestinian refugees and their descendants for the past 63 years. Their conditions are better than in any surrounding countries because, unlike in Lebanon and Jordan, healthcare, education and housing are accessible to Palestinians in Syria.

Impact of Iraq war

The massive U.S. invasion and destruction of neighboring Iraq, the Bush-Blair discussion of a similar attack on Syria in 2003, and the harsh new sanctions on Syria have added intense pressure.

But the most dislocating factor is never discussed in the corporate media: More than 1,500,000 Iraqis have flooded into Syria to escape the last eight years of U.S. occupation.

This was a huge influx for a country with a population in 2006 of 18 million. According to a 2007 report by the office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Refugees, the arrival of 2,000 desperate Iraqis per day had an extreme impact on all facets of life in Syria, particularly on the services offered by the state to all its citizens and all refugees. Syria has the highest level of civic and social rights for refugees in the region. Other surrounding countries require a minimum bank balance and ban destitute refugees.

The unexpected arrival of these Iraqi refugees has had a dramatic impact on the infrastructure, on guaranteed free elementary and high schools, on free healthcare, on housing availability and other areas of the economy. It has led to a rise in costs across the board. The prices of foodstuffs and basic goods have gone up by 30 percent, property prices by 40 percent and housing rentals by 150 percent.

Iraqi refugees also benefited from Syrian state subsidies in gasoline, food, water and other essential goods provided to everyone. Such a large mass of unemployed people led to the lowering of wages and increased competition for jobs. The impact of the global economic downturn during this difficult period added to the problems. (Middle East Institute, Dec. 10, 2010, report on Refugee Cooperation)

The U.S. created the refugee crisis, which left more than 25 percent of the Iraqi population displaced by sectarian violence. Yet it accepts the lowest number of refugees and has donated less than the cost of one day of the war in Iraq toward U.N. relief costs. U.S. sanctions on Syria have increased the economic dislocations.

All this has increased the awareness of the Syrian government and people about the dangers of U.S. occupation and the internal destabilization and bloodbath that can come with U.S.-instigated sectarian violence.

Washington claims it is worried about instability in Syria. But U.S. imperialism as a system is driven to create instability. The overwhelming dominance and power of military and oil corporations in the U.S. economy and the enormous profits of military contracts endlessly reinforce the drive to seek military solutions.

Every statement made by the Syrian government has recognized the importance of making internal reforms while maintaining national unity in an extremely diverse country that has historic differences in religion, tribes and regions and now contains almost 2 million refugees.

The diverse nationalities, religions and cultural groupings in Syria have every right to be part of this process. But what they need most is an end to constant, unrelenting U.S. intervention.

U.S. hands off!


12 mai 2011

Quand l’impérialisme américain s’engage dans une agression contre l’un ou l’autre gouvernement ou mouvement, il est essentiel que les mouvements ouvriers et les mouvements politiques progressistes en faveur du changement puissent collecter le maximum d’informations disponibles et prendre position.

Il est lâche de rester neutre et c’est une trahison à l’égard de sa classe que de se ranger dans le même camp que celui de la pieuvre impérialiste qui cherche à dominer le monde.

C’est le b a ba des mouvements ouvriers depuis un siècle et demi de lutte des classes. C’est la base même du marxisme. Cela se retrouve dans les chants syndicaux qui posent la question : « Which side are you on ? » (De quel côté êtes-vous ?) et chez les organisateurs ouvriers qui ne cessent de répéter « En blesser un, c’est les blesser tous. »

Une explosion sociale ébranle le monde arabe. L’impérialisme américain et tous les anciens régimes qui lui sont liés dans la région tentent désespérément de gérer et de contenir ce soulèvement de masse incessant dans des voies qui ne mettent pas en péril la domination impérialiste sur le Proche et Moyen-Orient.

Les États-Unis et leurs collaborateurs essaient également de diviser et de saper les deux ailes de la résistance – les forces islamiques et les forces nationalistes laïques – qui, ensemble, ont renversé les dictatures soutenues par les États-Unis en Égypte et en Tunisie. On assiste actuellement à un effort américain concerté en vue de dresser ces mêmes forces politiques contre deux régimes de la région qui, dans le passé, se sont opposés à la domination américaine : en Libye et en Syrie.

Ces derniers pays ont tous deux leurs propres problèmes de développement, lesquels sont exacerbés par la crise capitaliste mondiale en général et par des décennies de compromis qu’on leur a imposés du fait qu’ils tentaient de survivre dans un environnement hostile d’attaques incessantes – politiques et parfois militaires, le tout comprenant également des sanctions économiques.

Les bombardements de la Libye des œuvres des États-Unis et de l’Otan ont clairement montré où en est l’impérialisme vis-à-vis de ce pays. Les exploiteurs transnationaux sont bien décidés à s’emparer totalement des réserves pétrolières les plus riches de l’Afrique et de mettre un terme au flux de milliards de dollars par lequel la Libye contribuait au développement de pays africains beaucoup plus pauvres.

La Syrie est également visée par l’impérialisme – en raison de sa défense héroïque de la résistance palestinienne des décennies durant et de son refus de reconnaître l’occupation sioniste. L’aide de la Syrie au Hezbollah dans sa lutte pour mettre un terme à l’occupation israélienne du Liban et dans son alliance stratégique avec l’Iran ne peut être oubliée non plus.

Même si une grande partie de la situation interne de la Syrie est malaisée à comprendre, il convient de faire remarquer que, dans la lutte qui se déroule actuellement, des déclarations claires de soutien au gouvernement syrien et d’hostilité aux efforts américains de stabilisation ont été prononcées par Hugo Chávez au Venezuela, par le secrétaire général du Hezbollah, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, au Liban et par plusieurs dirigeants en exil du Hamas, l’organisation Palestinienne élue par les habitants de Gaza.

Ces dirigeants politiques ont vécu aux premières loges les campagnes américaines de déstabilisation, qui recouraient à l’invention de mythes par les médias traditionnels, à des groupes d’opposition financés de l’extérieur, à des assassinats bien ciblés, à des opérations spéciales de sabotage et se servaient d’agents bien entraînés travaillant sur Internet.

Du côté de ce qui est censé être « l’opposition démocratique », on trouve des réactionnaires comme le sénateur Joseph Lieberman, président de la puissante Commission sénatoriale pour la sécurité intérieure, qui a lancé un appel pour que les États-Unis bombardent la Syrie, après la Libye. Parmi les partisans déclarés de l’opposition en Syrie, on trouve également James Woolsey, ancien directeur de la CIA et conseiller de la campagne électorale du sénateur John McCain.

Wikileaks dénonce le rôle des États-Unis
Un article intitulé « Les États-Unis ont soutenu secrètement les groupes d’opposition syriens » et rédigé par Craig Whitlock (Washington Post, 18 avril) décrivait par le menu les informations contenues dans les câbles diplomatiques américains que Wikileaks avait adressés aux agences d’information du monde entier et publiés sur son site Internet.
L’article résume ce que ces câbles du ministère américain des Affaires étrangères révèlent à propos du financement secret des groupes syriens d’opposition politique, y compris la transmission dans le pays d’émissions antigouvernementales et ce, via la télévision par satellite.

L’article décrit les efforts financés par les États-Unis comme faisant partie d’une « campagne de longue haleine visant à renverser le dirigeant autocratique du pays, Bashar al-Assad », qui a fait ses débuts sous le président George W. Bush et a poursuivi sa carrière sous le président Barack Obama, même si ce dernier a prétendu qu’il reconstruisait les relations avec la Syrie et qu’il a installé un ambassadeur en Syrie pour la première fois depuis six ans.

Selon un câble d’avril 2009 signé par le diplomate le plus élevé en grade à Damas à l’époque, les autorités syriennes « considéraient sans aucun doute tout financement de groupes politiques illégaux comme équivalant à appuyer un changement de régime ».

L’article du Washington Post décrit plus ou moins en détail les liens entre la chaîne de TV de l’opposition Barada, financée par les États-Unis, et le rôle de Malik al-Abdeh, qui fait partie de son conseil d’administration et diffuse des vidéos de protestation. Al-Abdeh fait également partie de la direction du Mouvement pour la justice et la démocratie, présidé par son propre frère, Anas Al-Abdeh.

Les câbles secrets « font état de craintes persistantes, parmi les diplomates américains, que les agents de la sécurité d’État syrienne n’aient découvert que la piste de l’argent remontait jusqu’à Washington ».

Le rôle d’Al Jazeera

Peut-être le défi de la campagne de déstabilisation en Syrie, ainsi que sa dénonciation, sont-ils venus avec la démission de Ghassan Ben Jeddo, le journaliste bien connu des nouvelles émissions de télévision d’Al Jazeera et le responsable de l’agence d’Al Jazeera à Beyrouth. Ben Jeddo a démissionné pour protester contre la partialité d’Al Jazeera, mettant tout spécialement en exergue une « campagne de diffamation contre le gouvernement syrien » qui a transformé la chaîne de TV en « vulgaire organe de propagande ».

Al Jazeera a couvert favorablement l’incontrôlable soulèvement de masse de millions de personnes en Égypte et en Tunisie. Cependant, cette chaîne d’information par satellite a également fait état par le détail de toute revendication et accusation politique, sans égard pour la façon dont elles pouvaient n’être pas fondées, qui ont été exprimées par l’opposition politique, tant en Syrie qu’en Libye.

Al Jazeera est devenue la voix la plus forte de la région – elle est captée par des millions de spectateurs – pour réclamer l’intervention « humanitaire » des États-Unis, des zones d’exclusion de vol et le bombardement de la Libye. Ainsi donc, il est important de bien comprendre la position d’Al Jazeera en tant que société d’information, et tout particulièrement lorsqu’elle prétend s’exprimer en faveur des opprimés.

Al Jazeera, dont le siège est au Qatar, ne fait jamais état du fait que 94 pour 100 du travail au Qatar est effectué par des immigrés qui n’ont absolument aucun droit et qui survivent dans des conditions proches de l’esclavage. La répression brutale du mouvement de masse dans le royaume à monarchie absolutiste de Bahrein, voisin immédiat du Qatar et actuellement occupé par les troupes saoudiennes, ne reçoit que peu de couverture non plus de la part d’Al Jazeera.

Cette censure est-elle due au fait qu’Al Jazeera TV News a été fondé par le monarque absolu du Qatar, l’émir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani ?

Il est particulièrement important de faire remarquer qu’Al Jazeera ne mentionne jamais l’énorme base aérienne militaire du Commandement central américain, installé au Qatar précisément. Des drones en mission secrète dans la région décollent régulièrement de cette base. Le Qatar a également envoyé des avions pour participer aux bombardements en Libye des États-Unis et de l’Otan.

Le Qatar travaille en étroite collaboration avec le ministère américain des Affaires étrangères pour appuyer à fond l’intervention des États-Unis dans la région. Le Qatar a été l’un des premiers États arabes, et le premier des États du Golfe, à établir des relations avec israël. Lors des bombardements de Gaza par Israël, en 2009, il a suspendu ces relations mais, depuis, a proposé de les renouer.

Facebook et la contre-révolution
La CIA et le NED (National Endowment for Democracy – Fondation nationale en faveur de la démocratie) sont devenus des experts dans l’utilisation des barrages des médias sociaux tels que Facebook, Twitter et Youtube pour submerger les gouvernements visés de millions de messages fabriqués, de rumeurs et d’images incontrôlées.

Les alertes fabriquées sur les luttes et les scissions entre les factions rivales de l’armée syrienne, lesquelles auraient abouti à des démissions, étaient fausses. Par exemple, le général de division al-Rifai (retraité) a nié comme dénuées de fondements les informations par TV satellite prétendant qu’il dirigeait une scission au sein de l’armée. Il a ajouté qu’il était retraité depuis dix ans.

Izzat al-Rashek, du Bureau politique du Hamas, et Ali Baraka, représentant du Hamas au Liban, ont infirmé publiquement des allégations prétendant que la direction de cette organisation palestinienne de résistance quittait Damas pour se réinstaller au Qatar. Ali Baraka a expliqué que c’était un bobard monté par les États-Unis pour exercer des pressions sur Mahmoud Abbas, du Fatah, et entraver la réconciliation palestinienne tout en attisant le conflit entre les mouvements de résistance et la Syrie.
Le gouvernement syrien a accusé des snipers d’avoir tiré sur des manifestations, sur l’armée et sur la police dans l’intention de voir la police ouvrir à son tour le feu sur les manifestants.

Les rumeurs, les messages anonymes sur Internet et les rapports émis par TV satellite dans l’intention d’exacerber les divergences sectaires font partie de la campagne de déstabilisation.

Le caractère dual de la Syrie

Il n’est pas difficile de comprendre pourquoi l’impérialisme américain et ses pions dans la région, y compris Israël et les monarchies corrompues et dépendantes que sont la Jordanie, le Qatar, les Émirats arabes unis et l’Arabie saoudite, aimeraient voir un « changement de régime » en Syrie.
La Syrie est l’un des rares pays arabes à n’entretenir aucune relation avec Israël. Plusieurs organisations de résistance palestinienne ont des « bureaux en exil » en Syrie, y compris le Hamas. La Syrie est alliée de façon étroite à l’Iran et au Liban.
La Syrie aujourd’hui n’est ni un pays socialiste, ni un pays révolutionnaire. Le capitalisme - et l’inégalité qui en résulte - n’y a pas été renversé. Il existe une classe capitaliste, en Syrie : nombreux sont ceux qui, en sont sein, ont bénéficié des « réformes » au cours desquelles des industries anciennement aux mains de l’État ont été vendues à des capitaux privés.

Toutefois, l’État syrien représente des forces contradictoires. Le pays a été un bastion de protection des gains obtenus lors des luttes et soulèvements anticoloniaux des masses arabes dans les années 60 et 70. Au cours de cette période, de nombreux gains sociaux importants ont été réalisés, des industries et ressources majeures ayant appartenu au capital étranger ont été nationalisées et d’importants progrès ont été enregistrés dans la garantie des soins de santé, dans le niveau de vie et l’enseignement.

La Syrie sous le parti socialiste arabe Ba’ath est résolument laïque. Elle a maintenu la liberté religieuse pour tous tout en n’autorisant aucun groupement religieux à dominer l’État ou à être promu par ce dernier.

Mais le régime syrien a également réprimé sévèrement les efforts des mouvements de masse basés au Liban et en Syrie et qui voulaient poursuivre la lutte. Il a justifié sa répression des mouvements passés en insistant sur sa position précaire à proximité d’Israël, sur l’impact des deux guerres contre Israël, en 1967 et 1973, et sur l’occupation et l’annexion par Israël de l’importante région syrienne que sont les hauteurs du Golan, et ce, depuis 44 ans.

Les années de sanctions de la part des États-Unis et les efforts de déstabilisation du passé ont également eu un effet cumulatif. L’appareil d’État, craignant depuis longtemps les perpétuelles interventions de l’extérieur, craint désormais le changement.

Il est essentiel de reconnaître ce caractère dual et de ne pas excuser ni d’ignorer tous les problèmes qui en découlent.
La Syrie a assumé le fardeau supplémentaire de nourrir et d’héberger plus de 500.000 réfugiés palestiniens et leurs descendants ces 63 dernières années. Les conditions sont meilleures que dans n’importe quel pays avoisinant parce que, contrairement à ce qui se passe au Liban et en Jordanie, les soins de santé, l’éducation et le logement sont accessibles aux Palestiniens vivant en Syrie.

L’impact de la guerre en Irak

L’invasion et la destruction massive par les États-Unis du pays voisin, l’Irak, la discussion entre Bush et Blair d’une semblable agression contre la Syrie en 2003 et les nouvelles sanctions très dures contre la Syrie ont encore accru l’intensité des pressions.

Mais le facteur le plus destructeur n’a jamais été discuté dans les médias traditionnels : plus de 1.500.000 Irakiens ont afflué en Syrie afin d’échapper à l’occupation américaine de ces huit dernières années.

Ceci a eu une importante influence sur un pays dont la population était de 18 millions d’habitants en 2006. Selon un rapport sorti en 2007 par le bureau du haut commissaire américain pour les Réfugiés, l’arrivée quotidienne de 2000 Irakiens désespérés a eu un impact extrême sur toutes les facettes de la vie en Syrie, particulièrement sur les services proposés par l’État à tous ses citoyens et à tous les réfugiés. La Syrie a le plus haut niveau de droits civiques et sociaux pour les réfugiés, dans toute la région. D’autres pays des alentours exigent un minimum de solvabilité bancaire et expulsent les réfugiés nécessiteux.

L’arrivée inattendue de ces réfugiés irakiens a eu un impact dramatique sur les infrastructures, sur les écoles primaires et supérieures à la gratuité garantie, sur les soins de santé gratuits, sur la disponibilité des logements et sur les autres domaines de l’économie. Elle a provoqué une hausse des prix dans toute l’alimentation. Les prix des denrées alimentaires et des biens de première nécessité ont augmenté de 30 pour 100, les prix des propriétés de 40 pour 100 et les prix des loyers de 150 pour 100.

Les réfugiés irakiens ont également bénéficié de la part de l’État syrien de subsides pour le carburant, la nourriture, l’eau et autres produits essentiels pour tout le monde. Une telle masse de personnes sans emploi a amené une baisse des salaires et a augmenté la concurrence autour des emplois. L’impact du ralentissement économique mondial durant cette période difficile a encore aggravé les problèmes. (Middle East Institute, 10 décembre 2010, rapport sur la Coopération au profit des réfugiés).

Les États-Unis ont créé la crise des réfugiés, qui a amené le déplacement de plus de 25 pour 100 de la population irakienne en raison des violences sectaires. Pourtant, ils acceptent le nombre le plus bas de réfugiés et ils ont contribué aux frais des secours des Nations unies pour une somme moindre que le coût d’un seul jour de guerre en Irak. Les sanctions américaines contre la Syrie ont encore accru la désorganisation économique du pays.

Tout cela a accru la conscience du gouvernement et du peuple de Syrie à propos des dangers de l’occupation américaine et de la déstabilisation interne et du bain de sang qui pourraient venir de la violence sectaire attisée par les États-Unis.

Washington prétend être ennuyé à propos de l’instabilité qui règne en Syrie. Mais l’impérialisme américain en tant que système est amené à créer l’instabilité. La domination et le pouvoir débordants de l’armée et des sociétés pétrolières sur l’économique américaine et les énormes profits résultant des contrats militaires renforcent cette motivation à rechercher des solutions militaires.

Chaque déclaration faite par le gouvernement syrien a reconnu l’importance de réaliser des réformes internes tout en maintenant en place l’unité nationale dans un pays extrêmement diversifié présentant des différences historiques sur le plan de la religion, des tribus et des régions, et qui héberge actuellement près de deux millions de réfugiés.

Les diverses nationalités, religions et groupes culturels en Syrie ont absolument le droit de faire partie de ce processus. Mais ce dont ils ont le plus besoin, c’est que soit mis un terme à l’intervention constante et sans relâche des États-Unis
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USA, bas les pattes !

Traduction : JMF / Investig'Action
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"Palestine is the heart of Arab countries" - PalestineFreeVoice
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Criminal Zionism will bring about lasting disaster unto Jews

[ 19/08/2011 - 11:12 PM ]


By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East
Some of the victims of occupation airstrikes on Gaza

Israeli leaders have nearly lost their composure, reacting to a rare resistance attack originating from the Sinai Peninsula near the southernmost town of Um al Rushrash, renamed by the Zionists as Elat.

Appearing existentially anxious and morbidly hypochondriac, Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu was behaving in a conspicuously convulsive manner.

He vowed to murder Palestinians, saying "we must kill those trying to hurt Jews." Netanyahu, an inherently dishonest and racist politician, thought that the only way Israel could prove her military might was by ganging up on nearly helpless and virtually undefended Gazans who are languishing under a lingering blockade that has made the coastal enclave very much a modern-day version of the Warsaw Ghetto.

But like the rest of the Zionist establishment, Netanyahu is living in a state of denial. He easily forgets or ignores the fact that Israel itself is a gigantic crime against humanity if only because that state happens to be the effect of the grandest land theft in history.

In fact, Israel not only occupies the ancestral homeland of another people, the Palestinians, but is also trying rather incessantly to ethnically cleanse the native Palestinians and obliterate the Arab-Islamic identity of their patrimonial homeland from time immemorial.

The resistance operation in southern Palestine was not thunder on a clear day. The brutal occupation of Palestine by East European Jews, shipped to the Holy Land in order to compensate them for the German holocaust, created a quagmire of problems that won't go away until the slate is wiped clean.

No one is against the principle of Jews living peacefully in Palestine. However, Jews or any other people have no right to lord it over the truly native people of the land or worse, enslave, torment, oppress, and murder them as Israel has been doing ever since its misbegotten birth sixty-three years ago.

The Palestinians are an integral part of the awakening Arab and Muslim world. They would never ever allow themselves to become the aboriginals of Palestine, nor the Seminoles, Cherokees, or Navahos of the region. Their attachment to the land is umbilical and their memories don't succumb easily to oblivion.

Hence, the latest incident near Elat should be viewed as a mere reminder to all concerned that no matter what level of insolence and arrogance of power Israel is maintaining or aspiring to reach, Zionists will continue to live a life of anxiety, insecurity and instability.

Israelis can't and won't have peace if the Palestinians are not granted justice. But true justice for the Palestinian people would effectively spell the end of the state known as Israel . In fact, this summarizes the conflict in Palestine in one small nutshell.

So, let the Zionist establishment not go euphoric about Jewish control over U.S. Congress, politics and policies, because even the mighty American empire will have to meet its days of demise sooner or later.

The Nazi-like Israeli state (Nazi-like because when Jews or anyone else think, behave and act like the Nazis, they effectively become Nazis themselves) is unlikely to change course until it is too late. This is why they will continue to murder Palestinians, steal their land, destroy their homes, and banish them away from their families and beloved ones. Israel will also continue to try to consummate Jewish fascism in the same manner the German Nazis had tried to consummate theirs. And, certainly, the Zio-Nazis will meet their ineluctable fate more or less the same way the German Nazis had met theirs.

One would have hoped that the voices of wisdom and reason would prevail among the Jewish community in this land. However, with Zionism, which is nothing less than Jewish Nazism despite efforts to portray a different image through its vast network of propaganda and hasbara, succeeding in transforming most Jews from basically decent people with a special concern for justice and fairness into land thieves, child-killers and hate-mongers, the face of world Jewry seems to have irreversibly changed to the worse.

This is certainly a bad omen for Jews, especially those who wouldn't stand up for justice, and opt just to go with the flow because Zionism represents the Zeitgeist or spirit of the time.

Jews had experienced such episodes several times when they incurred the disastrous consequences of their insolence, vanity, arrogance of power and criminality. But this time, they most likely will meet the mother of all disasters because the modern-day Golden Calf, which is Zionism, has succeeded in blinding the eyes and obliterating the senses of most Jews..

When the Roman Jewish historian Josephus, author of the "Jewish War," described the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans more than 2000 years ago, he spoke of a city that "deserved these terrible misfortunes on no other account than that she produced a generation such as brought about its ruin."


I am certain that future historians, Jewish and otherwise, would write more or less the same thing about the arrogant and conceited generation of Zionists who are going to bring about a lasting disaster to the Jewish people, thanks to their corruption, immorality and evil deeds.

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Libyan Rebels: Fighters Sieze Strategic Towns, Ex-PM Defects to Opposition

Local Editor
Libyan rebels kept up their fight, saying they had captured strategic towns. Meanwhile, a former prime minister defected from embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and fled to a rebel-held town.

Rebels claim they had seized towns of Zawiyah and Zliten. They have been seeking to sever Tripoli's supply lines from Tunisia to the west and to Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte in the east in a move they hope will cut off the capital, prompt defections and spark an uprising inside Tripoli.

"Zawiyah is free," rebels said Friday as they took up positions in its hospital hours after pounding the centre of this oil refinery town, the last major barrier as they try to advance on Tripoli from the west.
The key refinery is the only source of fuel to the capital, and could leave it without critical supplies.

Hundreds of rebels armed with assault rifles had marched from the central square, a stronghold of forces loyal to Gaddafi, to the hospital decorated with portraits of the veteran leader, an AFP journalist said.
Gaddafi snipers were staked out on rooftops as the battles raged, with buildings and streets in the town centre showing signs of massive damage from the warfare.

Fighters also said they seized Zliten, hours after saying they were in the town's centre, 150 kilometers east of Tripoli.
"Zliten is now under the control of our fighters, but the fighting is not finished," the Information Centre for Misrata Military Council said, adding that 40-50 Gaddafi forces were dead and 12 African mercenaries were captured.

FORMER PM DEFECTS TO REBELS
Meanwhile, rebel sources said Friday that former Prime Minister Abdessalam Jalloud has fled Tripoli to Zintan, a rebel-held town southwest of the capital.
"He has left Tripoli. He has joined the rebels. For security reasons, we can't disclose his exact location for the moment", rebel military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani told AFP news agency.

"Commander Jalloud has managed to flee Tripoli with his family and arrived Friday in the town of Zintan”, another senior rebel said on condition of anonymity.

On Saturday Jalloud was said to be in the rebel headquarters of Benghazi.
"He has gone to Benghazi yesterday night (Friday). I don't know who he met there. He left by car," said rebel spokesman Juma Ibrahim speaking in Zintan.

Jalloud was a member of the officers who grabbed power with Kadhafi in 1969 and was long considered the regime's second-in-command before being gradually sidelined in 1990s. He served as prime minister from 1972 to 1977.
Source: Agencies

Will Obama pull the plug on NATO’S “Imminent Liberation of Tripoli”?
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Egypt to Withdraw Envoy to Israel, Demands Official Apology

Egypt has decided Saturday to withdraw its ambassador from Tel Aviv to protest the killing of five policemen on the border during attacks on Palestinian resistance fighters, state television said Saturday.

"Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israel until there is an official apology," it said.

The Egyptian government had asked "for an official apology from Israel" at the end of a crisis meeting overnight, the state-run MENA news agency reported in a statement.

Information Minister Osama Heykal was quoted as saying by MENA that five policemen were killed "inside Egyptian territory as a result of an exchange of fire between Israeli forces and armed elements inside Israeli territory."

Egypt's military chief of staff, Sami Enan, headed to the Sinai on Friday to probe the deaths of the policemen killed a day earlier. There have been conflicting reports from the Egyptian military and police about how they lost their lives.
  
A military official told Egypt's official MENA news agency on Thursday that they were killed by stray Israeli helicopter fire aimed at the fleeing gunmen. But on Friday, the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper quoted a military official as saying the policemen were killed by gunmen trying to slip in from “Israel”.

Enan's visit was announced shortly after another policeman was declared dead following a border gunfight on Friday, which left one of his comrades gravely wounded with a bullet in the head.

Friday night hundreds of people demonstrated outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and denouncing the Zionist entity for the attacks.
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has said in a message published on his Facebook page: "Egyptian blood is too precious to be spilled for no reason." "Our glorious revolution took place so that Egyptians could regain their dignity at home and abroad. What was tolerated in pre-revolution Egypt will not be in post-revolution Egypt," he said.

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Homophobia rampant among Jewish Army

Israel proudly market itself being a friendly country towards gay and lesbian communities. Gays and lesbian openly serve in the Jewish Army and same sex couples even receive some extra privileges. Israelis boast Tel Aviv the Pink City. Jerusalem holds an annual gay parade. Israel even has a ‘religious Jewish gay’ group called Havruta which celebrated Purim festival in Jerusalem in March. They read Jewish Megillah, the traditional scroll read on this Jewish religious holiday – reminding themselves how Jews were persecuted in Persia which forced Persian Jewish Queen Esther to order the genocide of 72,000 non-Jewish Persian.

Israel even have gay rabbis too – though Jewish Bible (OT) forbids sex between same genders as a great sin punishable with death. Though both Jesus and St. Paul never married – they too, considered homosexuality as sin. Islam, on the other hand, sees homosexuality as ‘unnatural’ and ‘sickness’ which carries punishment after death.

Israeli hasbara idiots never spare a chance to blame Muslims and Iranians for putting gays and lesbians to death in Muslim countries – which is as big lie as the ‘Six Million Died’ hoax.

Israeli daily the Jerusalem Post reported on August 16, 2011 that half of the gay and lesbian soldiers in the Jewish army suffer violence and homophobia – according to a survey released on Monday by the Israeli Gay Youth movement.

The survey was conducted among soldiers who profess to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). Following results were reported by the survey:
- 40 percent of soldiers were verbally abused due to their sexual orientation.
- 20 percent claimed to have been physically or sexually assaulted due to their sexual orientation.
- 49 percent of soldiers who hear homophobic comments in military bases ignore them and do not respond.
- 37 percent participate and join in making fun of the gay soldier.
- Only 13 percent reprimand soldiers who are making fun of a gay soldier.

Last week, Israeli company commander ‘Captain A’ resigned after being accused of molesting Jewish soldiers under his command. His boss, brigade commander Col. Amir Baram has refused to take punitive action against him.

There is no official record but some sources say 10-15% of Jewish army could be gay or lesbian. There are over 18,000 gay and lesbian households and over 3,000 children are raised within LGBT families with two mothers or two fathers ( Enfants Quebec magazine, September 2010).
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Ten Zionists injured in rocket attack -Thousands participate in funeral of leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees

 

[ 19/08/2011 - 08:33 PM ]   

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The IOF has announced on Friday morning that ten Israelis were injured as a result of a rocket which fell on the city of Asdod in 1948-occupied Palestine.
Israeli media said that a rocket hit a building in Asdod injuring ten people, one of them seriously.
Israeli radio said that ten rockets fell on Askalan, Beersheba and Keryat Gat, with most of them falling in open areas causing no damage.

On Thursday, the Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, said that they fired two Grad missiles at Askalan as an initial retaliation to the assassination of its leaders on Thursday by the Israeli occupation.

Yedot Ahronot, on Thursday, confirmed that three missiles fell on Askalan without causing any casualties.


Thousands participate in funeral of leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees

[ 19/08/2011 - 06:37 PM ] 

GAZA, (PIC)-- Tens of thousands of people on Friday participated in the funerals, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, of the leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday.
Participants performed the funeral prayers after the Friday prayers. The funeral then proceeded with the six victims Kamal Nairab, Secretary General of PRC, Imad Hammad, head of manufacture department of PRC, Khaled Sha’ath and his son Malek (2 years) and the two leaders Khaled al-Masri, Imad Naser.

Representatives of Palestinian factions participated in the funeral, in which participants called on the Palestinian resistance to retaliate to occupation crimes.

Spokesman for the PRC said that the Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the PRC, promised “an unprecedented retaliation.”

Meanwhile, in the city of Gaza thousands participated in the funeral of 13-year-old Mahmoud Abu Samra who was killed Friday morning in an Israeli occupation airstrike.
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Hariri-Court: 'Data, data, data, ...bla, bla, bla...!'

Via FLC

"... The probe into the cellphone networks was first revealed in October 2005 in the initial report of a U.N. commission investigating the assassination. The cellphone evidence does beg a question, however. The indictment acknowledges that the conspirators were aware that the locations of mobile phones can be traced — that's why, it argues, they sought to disguise their tracks by activating the "red network" in a stronghold of Sunni Islamists in north Lebanon where few Shi'ites are found. But if they were that diabolically clever, it's puzzling that the conspirators would use their carefully camouflaged "red network" phones while also carrying not only other operational color-coded phones, but even their personal cellphones which can still be traced even when not being used. Hizballah's highly secretive and technologically profficient personnel would have known that the only way to avoid a trace is to remove the battery and sim card from the phone. Yet, according to the indictment, it was the proximity of the four men's personal phones to the color-coded secret phones that helped identify them.
Another surprise is the apparent lack of supporting evidence in the indictment. Although the tribunal's pre-trial judge assessed that the accumulated evidence was sufficient to indict the four accused, it was widely assumed that after six years of investigations the tribunal would have amassed evidence beyond just the telecoms records.
The reliance on the cellphone data for the prosecution case suggests that Nasrallah will soon make another of his periodic televized addresses to sow doubt on the tribunal's credibility. Hizballah accuses Israel of killing Hariri, arguing that only the Jewish state stood to benefit from the assassination. A year ago, Nasrallah broadcast what he said was footage from Israeli reconnaissance drones intercepted by Hizballah technicians showing the routes taken by Hariri's motorcades in and around Beirut. He said that this demonstrated Israel had been monitoring Hariri's movements.
Nasrallah's effort to demolish the tribunal's case in the public mind will have been assisted by the arrest in June last year of a senior employee of Alfa, one of two state-run mobile phone operators, on charges of collaborating with Israel. Charbel Qazzi, a senior technician, admitted under interrogation that he had been spying for Israel for 14 years. His position within Alfa reportedly granted the Israelis the ability to track and monitor individuals and tamper with telecoms data.
Meanwhile, the four accused Hizballah men are rumored to be living openly and without fear of arrest in areas under the Shi'ite party's control. It is highly unlikely that Hizballah would hand over any of them to a tribunal it says was established as a means of attacking the organization. ...Judging from the comments and relaxed attitude of the accused Hizballah member interviewed by TIME, it's a safe bet that the dock will be empty when the trials finally begin."

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Israel: 'The group gets Hezbollah backing!'

Who is the Palestinian group blamed for the attacks?

The Popular Resistance Committee is an umbrella group made up of militants from different armed factions.
By Reuters
Israel has blamed a Palestinian faction, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), of launching attacks along its border with Egypt that killed seven Israelis on Thursday.
Within hours of the assault, the IAF struck back at the PRC, which is based in Gaza, killing five of its members, including the leader and his lieutenant.


Following are some details on the organization, which denied involvement in the attack in southern Israel:
PRC - Reuters - June 26, 2011Popular Resistance Committees militants in southern Gaza, June 26, 2011
Photo by: Reuters



The PRC is an umbrella group that draws together former armed activists of different factions. It was formed in the Gaza Strip in 2000 at start of a Palestinian uprising for statehood.

It counted numerous former security men from the Palestinian Authority's various security agencies among its ranks, including many disaffected members of Fatah, which has since renounced violence against Israel. It operates independently from the Islamist rulers of Gaza, Hamas.

However fighters from the two groups have staged joint coordinated attacks in the past years and the PRC's leaders took similar political positions to that of Hamas regarding the Palestinian Authority's peace moves with Israel.

The group staged dozens of attacks against Israeli troops and Jewish settlers during its early years. Among the attacks it claimed was a 2003 strike against a U.S. diplomat, that killed three security guards, and the 2004 fatal shooting of a pregnant settler and her four young daughters.

In June 2006, the IAF killed PRC founder Jamal Abu Samhadana in a targeted strike in Gaza. Shortly afterwards, the PRC was one of three groups that claimed responsibility for the cross-border abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. He is still believed to be in captivity in Gaza.

The design of their emblem is very similar to that used by the Iranian-backed, Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, with a fist holding up a Kalashnikov. Israel believes the group gets backing from Hezbollah.

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World War III, 9/11, and Chabad of Wall Street

By Richard Edmondson

Financial analyst Max Keiser says we are now essentially in World War III, a conflict he describes as a war of fiscal plunder being waged by Wall Street against the sovereign nations of the world. It is a war in which the key financial institutions—the investment banks and the ratings companies—have joined together and actually enjoy the upper hand because collectively they “are bigger than any of these countries.” Watch the video below and listen as Keiser describes how the bankers zero in on autonomous, independent nations and deliberately destabilize them, using financial derivatives, debt accumulation, and ratings downgrades. The goal, he says, is not to lessen volatility in the global economy, but to actually create more of it.


This is part of a new era on Wall Street...This is a war. This is World War III…

Of course, what Keiser leaves unspoken is that by and large the dominant players in this war waged by Wall Street are Jewish. In a post last week I included a very telling quote from Menachem Mendel Schneerson, an orthodox Hasidic rabbi who upon his death in 1994 was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, an action sponsored by New York Senator Chuck Schumer and unanimously approved by both houses of Congress. Schneerson, the much celebrated leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, was a firm proponent of the belief that God created the heavens and the earth for the sake of Jews, and that the Jewish soul is of a higher order than the Gentile soul. The quote I supplied in my post of last week reads: “The main avodah of this generation is to go out to the final war of the golus, to conquer and to purify all the gentile countries.” The quote can be sourced here. A brief explanation on the terminology may be in order. Golus is a Hebrew word meaning “exile” and usually refers to the exile of the Jewish people from “their” homeland, while avodah means “work” and is traditionally used in the context of work performed in service to God. What Schneerson was saying in other words is that the present generation of Jews—the “last generation of exile and darkness” (i.e. those born since the establishment of the state of Israel)—should go out and “conquer and purify” the Gentile nations, and that this is God’s wish. At the time Schneerson made the statement, he probably realized that Israel, despite its arsenal of nuclear weapons, was in no position to militarily conquer every single Gentile country, at least not without annihilating a good portion of the planet in the process. So did “the Rebbe,” as he was fondly called, have some other means of conquest in mind?

Chabad of Wall Street

Schneerson was of course highly revered. Here he is described as “a major phenomenon in modern Jewish life,” while others have gone so far as to claim he was the long-overdue Jewish messiah. What are the implications of all this? Chabad, despite its racist doctrine, is an extremely powerful and influential organization. According to Wikipedia, there are an estimated 3,300 Chabad institutions in 70 countries around the world. So how many movers and shakers on Wall Street are Chabists, and should we be surprised to learn that a Chabad of Wall Street actually exists and is listed among a total of 16 Chabad centers located in the city of New York alone?

Directed by Rabbi Shmaya Katz and his wife Rachel Katz, Chabad of Wall Street’s activities include teaching Torah classes, hosting communal Shabbat meals, and “wrapping tefillin around the arms of those who hold Wall Street in their hands.” So how, we might wonder, have these folks fared since the country’s economic collapse? An article at Lubavitch.com gives us the following:

Situated on Fulton and Nassau streets, Chabad of Wall Street is in the heart of the financial district. Nowhere is the impact of the economic crisis more pervasively felt than here, say Chabad representatives to the area, Rabbi and Mrs. Shmaya and Rachel Katz.

“We are in daily contact with friends, community members and businesspeople who’ve been devastated by the downturn and are holding on for dear life,” says Rabbi Katz.

“Devastated”—or enriched beyond their wildest dreams? Ever hear of Larry Silverstein? Larry is the Jewish businessman who acquired the entire World Trade Center complex on July 24, 2001, at which time he took out a whopping insurance policy, a move which was to garner him $4.5 billion in claims payouts after the towers were hit a month and a half later. It seems Silverstein not only was on a lucky streak, but he also has a soft spot in his heart for Chabad—a trait he shares in common with a number of other prominent New Yorkers:

Rabbi Katz maintains a dawn to midnight schedule of classes and tefillin regulars in some of New York City’s most high-powered corner offices. His Chanukah menorah lighting venues have become something of a legend.
Before 9/11, Larry Silverstein, billionaire leaseholder of the World Trade Center, lit Chabad of Wall Street’s menorah. Last year, Rabbi Katz led a lighting ceremony with philanthropist George Rohr in the New York Stock Exchange boardroom. On another night of Chanukah 2007, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg hosted a menorah lighting ceremony with Chabad. Rabbi Katz dreams of bringing the light of a Chanukah menorah to NYSE closing bell.

As Chabad of Wall Street spreads its wings to cover more of downtown New York, Rabbi Chaim Drizin, Rabbi Katz’s assistant, is reaching different pockets of Manhattanites.

In Tribeca, film industry movers and shakers: agents, entertainment lawyers, directors and writers are in Rabbi Drizin’s private classes unfolding the mystical side of Judaism that’s way beyond wearing a snippet of red embroidery floss as a bracelet.
He also reaches a core group of 100-plus financial wizards, bringing them the inner meaning of the weekly Torah portion in 30-minute chunks.

We also must ponder the irony of Silverstein taking out such a large insurance policy on a building that was worth considerably less than the amount he had it insured for. In fact, according to the Information Underground, the World Trade Center towers were “filled with asbestos” and deemed “nearly worthless” at the time. Coincidentally, also, Silverstein, who normally held business breakfasts each morning at “Windows on the World” restaurant (North Tower, floor 107), just so happened to have been absent the morning of September 11. His two children, who worked at the WTC, had taken the day off as well.

One of the WTC buildings, Building 7, collapsed even though, curious to say, it was never struck by an airplane. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth have said this edifice, as well as the two taller buildings, were all brought down not by the impact of planes, but by means of controlled demolition.


Building 7, again coincidentally, was rebuilt in “near record time,” according to Silverstein’s company website . The new structure, constructed at a cost of $700 million and named “7 World Trade Center,” is a 52-story, 1.7 million square foot office high-rise that opened its doors in May of 2006. One of its major tenants is the Moody’s credit rating agency, which signed a 20-year lease to occupy a total of 15 of the building’s floors. In entering into the lease agreement, Moody’s sold its former headquarters at 99 Church Street in downtown Manhattan for $170 million. Who was the purchaser? None other than Silverstein. According to the New York Times, the 7 World Trade Center project was extensively subsidized by taxpayers at both the state and local levels.

Another prominent Chabadist who seems suspiciously linked to 9/11 is Ronald Lauder, of the Estee Lauder cosmetics company. According to Information Underground, Lauder was chairman of New York Governor George Pataki’s commission on privatization and was “the key individual who lobbied for the privatization of the WTC.” The site also informs us Lauder founded, in Herzliya, Israel, the “Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy,” which IU describes as “a school for the Mossad.” A description of the school can be found here.
Currently president of the World Jewish Congress, Lauder also oversees investments in real estate and media, including Israeli TV, and has close ties to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His daughter Jane is married to Kevin Warsh, who was appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2006 by George W. Bush. Lauder’s connections to Chabad, particularly a Chabad center in Austria, are discussed here, where we learn of his founding of not only a Chabad elementary school, but also a Jewish university which includes a heritage center directed by a Chabad rabbi:
Following the day’s events, Lauder said at a dinner in his honor that he owes all of his accomplishments in establishing Jewish education to the merit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

“Without me meeting his emissary, Rabbi Biderman, 20 years ago in this city (Vienna),” said Lauder, “all of that I have done would not have happened.”

Merry Christimas, and
OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!

Over the past three weeks I have posted several articles (see here, here, and here ) in which I discussed Noahidism, the Talmudic religion for Gentiles, and its striking similarities to Christian Zionism—both being about worshipping Jews as the “chosen people” of God. Based upon the so-called “seven laws of Noah,” Noahidism has been heavily promoted, and with some considerable degree of success, by Chabad, which has assisted in establishing Gentile/Noahide communities in a number of cities and countries. (For examples see here, here, here, here, here, and here. ). Chabad and Noahidism—and their possible tie-ins to 9/11—are also discussed by Carol A. Valentine in a rather amazing article entitled Merry Christimas, and OFF WITH YOUR HEAD! It is a definite must-read. Valentine highlights additional Chabad ties that are well worth noting, by a number of prominent Jews both in and out of government, including Senator Carl Levine, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush. Though written in May of 2002 (concurrent with the siege of the Church of the Nativity), Valentine’s analysis remains largely as true today as it was then, if not more so. Gentiles are being used as laborers in a war for Jewish supremacy, while Noahidism, she says, is “a synthesized religion invented for a servant class.” But what is truly amazing about this article is that Valentine, just eight months after the 9/11 attacks, seems to have adduced with near exactitude what much of the rest of the world, ten years later, is only now beginning to understand: that 9/11 was a false flag attack carried out by Israel.
The article is extremely long, covering a sizeable compendium of material, though well-written and not without a dose of wit and humor (Valentine refers to the noahide laws as the “naugahyde laws”), and I would recommend people take the time to visit her site and read it in its entirety. However, here are a couple of (relatively) small excerpts, the first one starting out with a quote from the odious Noahide.com website:
"In simple terms, we are at war. It is not a struggle merely for power, wealth, or some other material advantage; it is a titanic clash over the future of world civilization . . . This war has already spread into every nation, ever social institution, every human activity. It has thus become a world war in the ultimate sense," say the Lubavitchers. http://www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-finalwar

Well, that clears matters up. Jews are going to wipe out all other civilizations in the world and replace them with one of their own design. They intend to rule the world.

The Jewish people have the unique power of victory, to liberate the world from its current road to complete self-destruction. Since we are now in the last generation of the Jewish exile and the first generation of Moshiach our actions are guaranteed to produce miraculous success.
But there is not a sufficient number of Jews to bring about global victory of the Jews over others. Weenies are needed to help. Now we see the purpose of the Naugahydes:
And as the Lubavitcher Rebbe has explained, by transforming the gentiles we can quickly create a vast army of supporters who will help us reveal Moshiach [Messiah: that is, the Jewish people] and bring all Jews back to the Torah.

Specifically, the Rebbe has emphasized that the 'peace process' in Israel will be defeated only through our influence on the gentiles — especially through the campaign to teach the Noachide Laws (see Sichos in English, vol. 16, [19 Kislev 5743]).

Note, above: The Reeb [Schneerson-ed.] demanded the Middle East peace process must be "defeated." Allan Brownfeld Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 2000 says:
Rabbi Schneerson always supported Israeli wars and opposed any retreat. In 1974 he strongly opposed the Israeli withdrawal from the Suez area. He promised Israel divine favors if it persisted in occupying the land. After his death, thousands of his Israeli followers played an important role in the election victory of Binyamin Netanyahu. Among the religious settlers in the occupied territories, the Chabad Hassids constitute one of the most extreme groups. Baruch Goldstein, the mass murderer of Palestinians, was one of them.
http://www.public-action.com/x/nh-wrmea-brownfeld/

As you will see below, two prominent Jews in the Department of Defense -- Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and DoD Comptroller Rabbi Dov Zakheim, pay public homage to the Lubavitchers and share public podiums with them at their events. Does that help to explain why there is no peace in the Middle East? On the basis of this admonition from Schneerson, who is the aggressor?

Clearly stated, then, the synthetic Naughahyde religion has another practical advantage: It ensures Gentile Americans are politically motivated to endorse the genocide of the Palestinians.

Valentine also notes that in the official version of events, 9/11 had nothing to do with Israel, but that in reality “the dream of the Reeb and his followers for Jewish world domination had everything in common with Bush’s war on Islam.” The game plan seems to be for Christianity to be undermined and destroyed from within, while Islam is attacked from without:

How will this Final War for Jerusalem be fought? First, the opposing forces will disappear.
The Messiah [the Jews] will teach the Word of G-d to all nations, causing Christianity and other religions to disappear. The bible says that everyone will become a Hasidic Gentile . . .

“Who is the Son of G_d?”http://www.noahide.com/son.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-sonofgod

Now we see what role the Gentiles in the US military will play in the “Final War for Jerusalem.” The US military will help Islam to “disappear.”

On September 11, 2001, remote-controlled planes were used to crash into the WTC and Pentagon sites. The hits were carried out with the full knowledge and consent of the North American Aerospace Command and blamed on Muslim terrorists.


Know that the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin (D.-Mich.) is a supporter of Chabad Lubavitch. http://levin.senate.gov/floor/052501fs1.htm
cached at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-levin-loves-lubavitch

We can now understand why, on September 13, 2001, just two days after the catastrophe, Levin allowed Gen. Richard B. Myers, Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on September 11, 2001, and a former NORAD commander, to bob and weave and lie about events that day. After watching him so perfrom, Levin and his committee confirmed Myers as the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We can understand why, on October 25, Sen. Levin allowed Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, commander of NORAD on September 11, 2001, to bob and weave and lie about events that day. Levin was protecting, and will continue to protect, the two treasonous American generals who helped forward the cause of world Jewish domination.

Without presenting any evidence or granting due process in any recognized court of law, Bush & Company declared the terrorist acts were committed by Muslims, and bombed Afghanistan. Meanwhile, in Palestine, the Israelis began to move their tanks into the West Bank. The significance of the 9-11 terror becomes more obvious each day. The purpose of the 9-11 terror was to springboard the “Final War for Jerusalem.”

Jewish Lightning

In the two-part video below, George Hunt discusses the term “Jewish lightning,” (i.e. the practice by New York Jewish property owners of setting their buildings on fire and collecting the insurance), and he also labels Chabad of Wall Street a “pit of vipers.”


Conclusion
Apparently Chabad of Wall Street does not go in for posting videos online in a big way. The only video I could find was this one, consisting solely of still images (with no sound track) apparently captured at a Hanukkah celebration. What you see in it does not in any way resemble a “pit of vipers.” In fact they look like rather nice, normal people. Looks of course can be deceiving. If, as Keiser maintains, Wall Street bankers—the “financial terrorists” as he calls them—are deliberately creating financial havoc on a global scale, and thereby destabilizing whole countries, we have to ask ourselves: is the sole motive personal financial enrichment or are there other objectives? If other objectives are in play, could one of them be “softening up” the European and North American populations in an effort to make them more receptive to coming changes? After all, if the Gentile countries prove incapable of self-governance, many of the people in these countries will not only be more receptive to a Jewish-Hasidic world order that promises stability and a semblance of prosperity, some will actually beg for it.

Yes, affable, apparently pleasant human beings are what we see in the Chabad video. But we have to remember, these are people brought up on the holocaust narrative. From early childhood it is drummed into them, quite literally as a religious credo. Six million…six million…six million. They were very nearly wiped out, says the narrative. And hostile Gentiles the world over, in growing numbers, are simply waiting for the right moment, the right hour, to strike again, to usher in and initiate the latest chapter in a history of persecution stretching back thousands of years, a long segmented chain of victimizations perpetrated by irrational anti-Semites who spread blood libels about them and never seem to tire of repeating history. This is the narrative. And while it is believed to varying degrees, for some it becomes a central part of their self-identity. Am I overstating things? Perhaps. But if I’m not, we must inquire to what lengths such people, such self-identified victims, would go to thwart the presumed machinations of the anti-Semite masses, and would this include the carrying out of a false flag attack?—which could of course be construed as another blood libel, but at some point the narrative and reality, the real and the unreal, the imagination and the substantive, begin to fuse and merge with one another.

If the above-mentioned “softening up” is indeed one of the objectives, then a key function, either consciously or unconsciously, of the various AIPAC-type lobbies situated in Western countries would be ensuring that the most honest and qualified—in essence the most competent—people are excluded from holding public office of any kind. Such individuals would represent a serious threat to the game plan of deliberate destabilization. The “He doesn’t stand a chance of getting elected” refrain then becomes an important psychological underpinning for the new Jewish world order, and with each disappointing election cycle, the refrain becomes more ingrained in public consciousness, reinforced by a rapidly growing recognition that money is the Achilles heel of democracy.

Conveniently, Chabad is there, not only with a solution to these many ills—Jewish control of the world—but even a religion—Noahidism—for the Gentiles to follow and thereby reap the blessings of God as servants of the Jews. The message is: surrender your national sovereignty to the bankers and peace will come. Thus the history of the world progresses…from Pax Romana, to Pax Americana, to Pax Judaica. It is an advancing juggernaut of sorts, and I’m not sure conventional protests such as we’ve seen them in the past, or even rioting such as recently occurred in Britain, are capable of stopping it. What does have the power to derail it, in my view, is an awakening to a strong spiritual faith—though one far different, of course, from Talmudic Judaism or its bastardized “noahide” offspring.

Call me mad if you like; regard me as a lunatic religious fanatic if that’s what pleases you, but the only thing that can halt the juggernaut in my view is a powerful spiritual force among the people, one that would function not instead of, but in addition to, the aforementioned protests, and which would become a key and necessary component of them; a force that is both near and far, within and without, dwelling in every heart, and beyond darkness. Such a force exists. It is called God. It is a God who is infinitely merciful and loving. A God who invites the poor, the crippled, and the blind—or the “blemished” as they were regarded by the Judaic Pharisees—and who responds like a lover, who fills our seven spiritual centers, or “chakras”, when we offer ourselves. It is a God who lives inside us, and who rejoices when, in the words of Paul, we no longer “conform to the pattern of the world.”

Additional material of interest…
Merry Christmas, and OFF WITH YOUR HEAD! by Carol A. Valentine—again, an absolute must read
Additional article by Valentine entitled Senator Carl Levine, NORAD, and Chabad Lubavitch
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth has just produced this new, 15-minute video, narrated by Ed Asner. The video contains comments by various people, some of whom call for a new “independent, unbiased investigation” into 9/11, though without specifying who would conduct such an investigation. (Our AIPAC-controlled Congress? The FBI?) Neither does the video itself seem to offer any answer to this. But aside from this flaw, what is presented is not only “compelling evidence,” as it were, but in actuality rock-solid proof that Building 7 was indeed brought down by controlled demolition. Literally, there can be no other conclusion than that this is what happened that day.
Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg employs ridicule to try to deflect suspicion of global financial manipulation
A somewhat speech-challenged Chabad rabbi stumbles through a prayer before the California state Senate.
“Joy to the Jews.” Slick Chabad promo aimed at American Jews. (Join us! And don’t advertise your racism in mixed company! )
Additional information on Chabad which includes the following:
Ari Fleischer: Reform Lubavitch, by James Besser,
Baltimore Jewish Times, 10/26/2001, V.262, N.8, p. 30
"Like that of most high-ranking White House officials, press secretary Ari Fleischer's life has been an exhausting blur since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But he took a few hours off last week to pick up an award from American Friends of Lubavitch, and to help boost the group's extensive Jewish outreach efforts on Capitol Hill -- efforts that Mr. Fleischer, a former congressional staffer, has supported from the beginning. He was given the group's Young Leadership award and Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) was the night's honoree at a dinner that drew hundreds of Washington political bigwigs, Capitol Hill staffers and Washington money people. Mr. Fleischer was an early leader and co-president of Chabad's Capitol Jewish Forum, which brings together lawmakers and congressional and administration staffers for Jewish events study ... In a show of bi-partisanship, both Mr. Fleischer and Mr. Lieberman lavished praise on the active Chabad effort that emphasizes the army of young staffers in government and political jobs."

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