Palestinians go beyond murdering enemy civilians such as the Fogel family, whose children were knifed to death in their beds by a Palestinian terrorist.They cannot even restrain themselves from kidnapping, torturing, and murdering foreign nationals who are trying to help their cause. Vittorio Arrigoni was seized by Salafist radicals, an Islamist movement itself that considers Hamas as too moderate, BBC Gaza correspondent Jon Donnison says. …In a video posted on YouTube, Mr Arrigoni appeared to have been beaten and his eyes were covered with thick black tape. A caption on the video read: “The Italian hostage entered our land only to spread corruption.” The video called Italy “the infidel state”. It is to be remembered that the International Solidarity Movement knowingly, willfully, and recklessly endangered the life of peace... This interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deserves close analysis for a reason that neither I nor anyone else noticed before. “QUESTION: But, I mean, how can be worse than what has happened in Syria over the years, where Bashar Asad’s father killed 25,000 people at a lick? I mean, they open fire with live ammunition on these civilians. Why is that different from Libya? “SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I – On one hand, what Clinton says is quite logical. It doesn’t make sense for... There’s a bit of a mystery regarding Syria. First, who is the opposition? Second, what will happen? Having been the first to warn about the threat and power of Islamists in Egypt, I think that’s earned me some credibility to say that Syria may well be a different case. There is a possibility of an Islamist takeover and of an ethnic conflict in Syria, make no mistake, but a number of factors suggest that those things might not happen. The golan is an asset and not a liability. Ted Belman Population growth and water supply are on a collision course. Hunger is set to become the main issue I totally disagreed with McCain’s remarks when he returned from Libya recently. He decried NATO’s Timid Approach. When Palin recently tweeted “Listen to McCain”, I commented on C4P that he was wrong and she is wrong. So this article was welcomed . He was also wrong when he returned from Serbia and gave his support to the Kosovo Muslims. Ted Belman McCain calls the Libyan rebels his “heroes.” A year and a half earlier, in Tripoli, he described Gaddafi as America’s friend. by John Rosenthal, PAJAMAS MEDIA Senator John McCain’s description of the Libyan rebels as his “heroes” has raised numerous eyebrows. PJM editor David Steinberg has had the excellent idea of seeking comment from the senator’s office on the extensive video evidence of atrocities committed by some of the senator’s newfound “heroes.” While one is at it, the senator should probably also be reminded about this: namely, his cordial handshake with Muammar al-Gaddafi in Tripoli in... The Goldstone Report presented itself as facts and legal conclusions based on an investigation that included interviews, documents, videos, photographs, and “field visits.” The Report claimed that Israel’s campaign against Hamas “was a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize [Gaza's] civilian population.” It added that “while the Israeli Government has sought to portray its operations as essentially a response to rocket attacks in the exercise of its right to self-defense, the Mission considers the plan to have been directed, at least in part, at a... Saturday, April 23 saw the constantly mounting uprising against the Assad regime finally reaching the Syrian capital Damascus where debkafile reports 300,000 – 15 percent of the city’s dwellers – took the streets shouting: “Bashar Assad you are a traitor!” That day too the Syrian ruler unleashed his security forces for the harshest crackdown yet in order to break the back of the five-week civil uprising. The result: 350 dead, tripling the number of Friday’s bloodbath and thousands of injured. Assad may feel he... I am astonished by the report in the Guardian of April 14 that, in response to Judge Richard Goldstone’s recent oped in The Washington Post, the remaining members of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Gaza, namely Hina Jilani, Christine Chinkin and Desmond Travers, have “turned on him,” accusing him of misrepresenting facts in order to cast doubt on the credibility of their joint report. It is regrettable that they did not explain what facts he misrepresented.
Palestinians Torture and Kill International Solidarity Movement Activist
Who Makes U.S. Policy? UN, Arab League, international community of U.S. Government
Syria: Who Is the Opposition and When Is The Moment of Truth?
Assads poisoned Mideast’s atmosphere, engaged in multi-front war on Israel
This will be the Arab world’s next battle
John McCain Has a Lot To Answer For on Libya
There Was No Goldstone Investigation
Syrian deaths rise to 350. Thousands arrested in Damascus
Assad regime threatened by Syria protests
Monday, 25 April 2011
International Solidarity Movement activist Vittorio Arrigoni tortured and executed by Palestinians
by Bill Levinson
“QUESTION: This is a friend of Iran, an enemy of Israel.
“SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, if there were a coalition of the international community, if there were the passage of Security Council resolution, if there were a call by the Arab League, if there was a condemnation that was universal – but that is not going to happen, because I don’t think that it’s yet clear what will occur, what will unfold.”
First, ironically, in Syria as in Tunisia the tough repression against radical Islamists by the regime has weakened those forces. It is easy to forget that Mubarak’s Egypt was a relatively tolerant country. The Muslim Brotherhood was allowed to operate, spread its propaganda, build a large membership, and control institutions. In Syria, there was a bloody suppression of the Brotherhood in the 1980s. Islamists are a lot less organized.
Second, while this might seem a paradox, while Islamists opposed the Egyptian...
Even in our world colored with grays and not only blacks and whites, the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus would be a great blessing for the Middle East and the world. Nonetheless, for some Israelis this would be a hard blow to suffer, because it might signify that Israel will be stuck with the Golan Heights for the long future.
The list of Syria’s misdemeanors and crimes is legion. From belligerent Soviet ally to godfather and patron of Palestinian terrorism, Hafez the father and Bashar the son crafted a policy strategy that demonized Israel, betrayed the Arab world, consolidated the regional hegemony of Iran, and perpetuated an Alawite sectarian regime in defiance of the Sunni Muslim majority in the country. Acting against their countrymen, the Assads persecuted the Kurds, intimidated the Druze, and despoiled the tiny Jewish community.
The quest for power whetted the ambition of the...
Long after the political uprisings in the Middle East have subsided, many underlying challenges that are not now in the news will remain. Prominent among these are rapid population growth, spreading water shortages, and growing food insecurity.
In some countries grain production is now falling as aquifers – underground water-bearing rocks – are depleted. After the Arab oil-export embargo of the 1970s, the Saudis realised that since they were heavily dependent on imported grain, they were vulnerable to a grain counter-embargo. Using oil-drilling technology, they tapped into an aquifer far below the desert to produce irrigated wheat. In a matter of years, Saudi Arabia was self-sufficient in its principal food staple.
But after more than 20 years of wheat self-sufficiency, the Saudis announced in January 2008 that this aquifer was largely...
It’s too early to tell how Richard Goldstone’s decision to reverse the key claim of the controversial 2009 Goldstone Report on the 2009 Gaza War will play out. But so far, observers have missed a vital point. Goldstone’s reversal and subsequent comments demonstrate there was no real Goldstone investigation.
Early Sunday, secret service thugs hauled thousands of protesters out of their homes. They broke down doors in the Harasta and Ghouta districts of Damascus, dragged their victims out and dumped them on covered trucks which drove off to unknown destinations. Ghouta is the ancient garden quarter of Damascus.
The growing number of injured are condemned to being treated privately or not at all. The authorities have commandeered ambulances...
MESS Report / Assad regime threatened by Syria protests
If Assad does not use the same murderous force against the protesters that his father Hafez Assad used against tens of thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama 30 years ago, he will not survive.
After weekend riots in Syria saw more than 100 dead, the highest number of casualties since the beginning of the unrest in the country, President Bashar Assad’s regime seems to be increasingly unstable. The more film clips that leak, documenting the killing of demonstrators, the more questions arise about Assad’s ability to stop the wave of protest against him.
The iron fist policy of the Syrian security forces seems to have failed. Protest is growing gradually stronger and is spreading to other cities, in quite a precise imitation of the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and of the one that slid into civil war in Libya.
By MAURICE OSTROFF, JPOST
I trust they will agree that every intellectually honest person will willingly review previously held convictions if and when relevant new evidence becomes available. To his credit, that is exactly what Judge Goldstone has done.
By contrast, their evidently inflexible belief in the immutability of every sentence of their 500-plus page report reflects an attitude reminiscent of those who refused to look at the evidence presented by...
Ted Belman
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