Sunday, 18 November 2012


Sunday, November 18, 2012

 

Calls for Calm as Sierra Leone Braces for Poll Results

 

Hamas Aiming High in Aerial War



The Gaza-based, Iran-backed, Islamist terrorist group believes it has sufficient strength and support to demand an end to the Israeli blockade, which, Israel fears, would open the floodgates for full-scale, Hezbollah-like armament. Read more.

Iran and its secular ally, Syria, could not be happier with the conflict, as it diverts international attention  away from Iran's atomic advance and Syria's massacre of civilians.

The Hamas-Gaza mini-war also again illustrates Israel's self-defense dilemma. On the one hand, Israel cannot tolerate missiles raining down on its territory--no nation can. On the other hand, reacting with air strikes invariably leads to civilian deaths in enemy territory, which, in the age of instant international communications and nonstop media coverage--from 24/7 satellite/cable news to opinion-shaping social media--could have serious political ramifications. Imagine a full-blown war with Iran/Hezbollah/Hamas (with or without Syria). Israel would have to resort to World War II rules of engagement. But it's one thing to threaten to flatten, say, a village that is the source of missile strikes; another, to make good on the threat--on TV and YouTube.

It would be a gross understatement to say that Israel is in a difficult position. Borderline impossible is more like it. But Israel and the Zionist movement that founded and built the State have historically specialized in the impossible.

Related Report: Obama Supporting Israel's Right to Defend Itself While Pressing Bibi and Barak to Delay Gaza Ground Operation

 

Benghazi in a Nutshell


The United States, having learned nothing from decades of disastrous, covert assistance to rightwing political Islam--a policy that blew back most horrifically on 9/11--was clearly collaborating with Al Qaeda sympathizers in Libya and Syria, sending arms from the former country to the latter, among other actions.

Something went wrong--and four American citizens, including an American ambassador, were killed by the devil with which their government had been dancing.

The Obama administration, fearful that its Al Qaeda-has-been-decimated story was on the verge of being exposed as an obvious lie, deliberately misled the American people.

And, to be fair, the Republican establishment, having been complicit in the unnecessary intervention in Libya in the first place--the  increasingly irrelevant John McCain continues to insist that the U.S. and its NATO allies intervened on the side of "freedom fighters"--was hopelessly conflicted and ineffective in its criticism.


POSTSCRIPT: Regarding the Petraeus affair, it is illogical to assume that some foreign intelligence services were not aware of the general's relationship with his biographer. Nobody is suggesting blackmail occurred or was attempted; but a CIA director should not be spending time and energy thinking about his need to hide his secret life.

 

B'nai Brith Canada Slams Hamas-Israel Media Moral Equivalency

B'nai Brith Canada writes:
Terrorism is a threat to democracy. The terrorist organization Hamas may have been elected in Gaza but that does not change the fact that it is a terrorist group. 
Here are the facts:
1. Hamas was designated as a banned terrorist entity under Canadian law in 2002 by the Liberal Government.

2. Hamas seeks the destruction of Israel, not peace. The Hamas Covenant states, "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.' 
There can be no equivalency drawn between Israel's right to defend its citizens on one hand and attacks carried out by terrorists on the other.
The executive director of B'nai Brith Canada, Dr. Frank Dimant, is one of the most capable and experienced professional leaders of the organized Jewish community. Every communication emanating from the organization that he heads is well worth reading--and publishing. 

Saturday, November 17, 2012

 

Iran Attempting to Islamize Conflict

Iran is moving, somewhat cautiously, at first, toward intervening in the Hamas-Israel conflict with a goal of widening--and Islamizing--the war. Read more.

The Iranian role cannot be overlooked. The Islamist regime will try to exploit the situation to the maximum possible degree; imagine the result should members of an Iranian delegation die in an air attack.

As previously noted, the fighting foreshadows the likely war to come--a war of missiles in which civilians in Israeli cities and towns will be on the front lines.

Related: Israel Shoots Down Iran-Made Tel Aviv-Bound Rocket

Also Related: Hitlerian Hezbollah Hails Rocket Attacks on Israel