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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Czech, EU Politicians Pressuring Israel
Czech politicians, acting on behalf of the European Union, have been pressuring Israel to accept suicidally indefensible borders.
The pressure is coming from the Czech Republic's Prime Minister, Mirel Topolanek, and Foreign Minister, Karel Schwarzenberg.
The Czech Republic holds the European Union's six-month rotating presidency.
The EU has suspended upgrading of Israel's relations with the organization over the Palestinian issue.
Translation: the EU, obsessed with creating a Palestinian state, wants Israel to withdraw from the disputed--and strategically important--West Bank (of the Jordan River) territories that Israel captured during the defensive Six-Day War of June 1967.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can be counted on to resist the Czech/EU pressure. He insists that the Czechs, of all people, should appreciate Israel's security concerns. Seventy-years ago, in March 1939, Nazi Germany marched into Czechoslovakia and occupied most of it. The invasion nullified the infamous Munich Pact, also known as the Munich Dictate--or the Great Betrayal--which Germany, England, France, and Fascist Italy signed in September 1938.
'Peace for Our Time'
The agreement, which was concluded without Czechoslovakia being present, ceded the country's German-speaking, Sudetenland territory to the Nazis under the principle of self-determination. The area had great strategic importance. The Sudeten mountains bordered Germany and guarded the access to the Czech heartland and to the capital city of Prague only miles away. Moreover, a system of fortifications and fortresses had been built in the mountains over many years.
No matter. England and France aimed to appease Germany. In sacrificing a piece of Czechoslovokia, they sought to preserve peace on the European continent--"peace for our time," in the words of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (commonly misquoted as peace in our time). But the policy of appeasement actually made war inevitable--on Germany's terms. On September 1, 1939, less than one year after he signed the Munich Pact, Hitler invaded Poland, mistakenly believing that Britain and France would not intervene. Both countries, however, immediately declared war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II.
A Matter of Intentions
The appeasers misread Hitler's intentions; he was not a petty tyrant with limited ambitions, someone who could be satisfied with one or two territorial concessions. Rather, he was bent on conquering Europe--for starters. 
Today's appeasers aim to abandon Israel in order to avoid war with the Palestinians' clerical fascist ally, nuclear-arming, Islamist Iran, which intends to destroy the Jewish State and dominate the Middle East--for starters.
The pro-appeasement politicians should be compelled to study the history of the run-up to World War II. They could begin by brushing up on the Munich Pact. The text--a product ofdirect diplomacy with a power-mad dictator--appears below.
Remarks made by one of the signers, French Premier Edouard Daladier, are worth recalling. He had serious misgivings about the pact but could not resist the arguments of government members still traumatized by the devastation of the First World War and overwhelmed by the economic crisis. "Today it is the turn of Czechoslovakia," Daladier warned Britain some five months before the signing of the agreement. "Tomorrow it will be the turn of Poland and Romania. When Germany has obtained the oil and wheat it needs, she will turn on the West."
Agreement concluded at Munich, September 29, 1938, between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy
GERMANY, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, taking into consideration the agreement, which has been already reached in principle for the cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory, have agreed on the following terms and conditions governing the said cession and the measures consequent thereon, and by this agreement they each hold themselves responsible for the steps necessary to secure its fulfilment:
(1) The evacuation will begin on 1st October.
(2) The United Kingdom, France and Italy agree that the evacuation of the territory shall be completed by the 10th October, without any existing installations having been destroyed, and that the Czechoslovak Government will be held responsible for carrying out the evacuation without damage to the said installations.
(3) The conditions governing the evacuation will be laid down in detail by an international commission composed of representatives of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia.
(4) The occupation by stages of the predominantly German territory by German troops will begin on 1st October. The four territories marked on the attached map will be occupied by German troops in the following order:
The territory marked No. I on the 1st and 2nd of October; the territory marked No. II on the 2nd and 3rd of October; the territory marked No. III on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of October; the territory marked No. IV on the 6th and 7th of October. The remaining territory of preponderantly German character will be ascertained by the aforesaid international commission forthwith and be occupied by German troops by the 10th of October.
(5) The international commission referred to in paragraph 3 will determine the territories in which a plebiscite is to be held. These territories will be occupied by international bodies until the plebiscite has been completed. The same commission will fix the conditions in which the plebiscite is to be held, taking as a basis the conditions of the Saar plebiscite. The commission will also fix a date, not later than the end of November, on which the plebiscite will be held.
(6) The final determination of the frontiers will be carried out by the international commission. The commission will also be entitled to recommend to the four Powers, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, in certain exceptional cases, minor modifications in the strictly ethnographical determination of the zones which are to be transferred without plebiscite.
(7) There will be a right of option into and out of the transferred territories, the option to be exercised within six months from the date of this agreement. A German-Czechoslovak commission shall determine the details of the option, consider ways of facilitating the transfer of population and settle questions of principle arising out of the said transfer.
(8) The Czechoslovak Government will within a period of four weeks from the date of this agreement release from their military and police forces any Sudeten Germans who may wish to be released, and the Czechoslovak Government will within the same period release Sudeten German prisoners who are serving terms of imprisonment for political offences.
Munich, September 29, 1938.
ADOLF HITLER,
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN,
EDOUARD DALADIER,
BENITO MUSSOLINI.Friday, April 24, 2009
Did North Korea Sell Nuclear Warheads to Iran?
Intelligence experts in Japan and South Korea are convinced that North Korea has nuclear warheads, contrary to assurances by the United States that the Stalinist/Kimist state has yet to develop these weapons.
Some experts even believe North Korea may have already sold--and smuggled--one or two warheads to its Islamist ally, Iran.
China Confidential analysts say the North Korean-Iranian threat is much more serious than Western governments have acknowledged.
While the Obama administration leaks and releases damaging documents about harsh interrogation methods used against Al Qaeda operatives--including the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 mega-attacks--America's worst enemies are making major advances with respect to their offensive capabilities.
Given North Korea's escalating rhetoric and Iran's Holocaust denial and campaign to demonize Israel and the Jewish people, the worst imaginable sneak attacks are possible--against the U.S. and Israel.Times Confirms China Confidential Reporting and Analysis: North Korea Can Nuke Japan, S. Korea
In related news, North Korea is making good on its threat to bolster its "nuclear deterrent." Reuters reports:North Korea said on Saturday it had started reprocessing nuclear fuel rods at its plant that produces arms-grade plutonium after quitting international nuclear disarmament talks earlier this month.
"The reprocessing of spent fuel rods from the pilot atomic power plant began as declared in the Foreign Ministry statement dated April 14," North Korea's official news agency KCNA quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying.
"This will contribute to bolstering the nuclear deterrence for self-defense in every way to cope with the increasing military threats from the hostile forces," it said.Notwithstanding the Handshake, Hu's on First
A photograph of Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez grinning and gripping each other's hands caused alarm bells to ring in the United States and eyebrows to raise in China.
Understand (as Candidate of Change Obama was fond of saying throughout his Presidential campaign) that China is a major investor in Venezuela and that its anti-American, populist president--an ally of nuclear-arming Iran--is determined to turn Venezuela into one of China's top oil suppliers.
“All the oil China needs for the next 200 years, it’s here," Chavez said in February. "It’s in Venezuela.”
He's right. Venezuela is sitting atop huge heavy oil resources that have been known to Americans for decades, since the catastrophic Carter administration, but dismissed by an unholy alliance of Middle East-oriented big oil companies and environmental extremists fanatically opposed to "fossil fuels."
China Need Not Worry
China need not worry about the U.S. changing its view of Venezuelan heavy oil. Washington will continue to overlook the resource--for political reasons. And this reporter is not referring to Venezuela's support for Iran or suspicious dealings with the Islamist nation's terrorist proxy, Hezbollah. Obama, in the clutches of global warming fear mongers led by the charlatan Al Gore (who parlayed a slide show into a Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award) is simply not interested in hearing about heavy oil, regardless of whether it is produced in Caracas or California. Instead, the President is promoting uneconomical and nonexistent green energy solutions, which, in the midst of a recession, will cruelly push energy prices higher for all Americans and American businesses while failing to significantly reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Venezuela, in the meantime, will sell more oil to China. In 2008, the South American nation sold 380,000 barrels per day of petroleum and petroleum derivatives to China.
Venezuela sold 1.13 million barrels a day of oil to the United States in 2008--about 10% of total U.S. oil imports. But Chavez, notwithstanding his headline-making photo-op with Obama, would like to increase oil sales to China at America's expense.
During his recent visit to China--his sixth visit there since 1998--Chavez promised to boost Venezuela's total annual exports to China to one million barrels by 2013.
With that goal in mind, Venezuela is expanding its oil tanker fleet, and China is dedicating more and more refining capacity to Venezuelan crude.
Saturday, 25 April 2009
Click here for the story--confirmation of years of reporting and analysis by China Confidential. For humanity's sake, we wish we were wrong.
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