Tuesday, 18 June 2013


IsraPundit


Obama Doctrine: Alliance with Muslim Brotherhood to Promote M.E. Stability  

Here is what I wrote in October 2010. The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad al-Badi, had just given a sermon calling for the overthrow of Egypt’s government, which happened four months later, and a jihad against the United States, a country he considered weak, foolish, and retreating from the Middle East. I declared that this was:
    “One of those obscure Middle East events of the utmost significance that is ignored by the Western mass media, especially because they happen in Arabic, not English; by Western governments, because they don’t fit their policies; and by experts, because they don’t mesh with their preconceptions.”
Two and a half years ago, who would ever have thought that the United States would enter an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood? There were hints in President Barack Obama’s Cairo speech, yet now it is clear that this is the new basis for regional security sought by the Obama Administration.
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Panic in Washington  

By Barry Rubin, RUBIN REPORTS
Introduction:
A case can be made that the Syrian rebels must not be defeated because it would be an Iranian victory. But what is disturbing is that even if one could argue that the rebels must be helped it is a policy being conducted dishonestly. People do not know that the weapons given by the United States will almost all end up in the hands of pro-Muslim Brotherhood units. How would the American people feel if they knew that truth? At this point, almost 100 percent of the fighters on the front lines–are radical Islamists. The exiled political leadership is overwhelmingly Muslim Brotherhood. This is a choice of Sunni anti-Christians, anti-Americans, and antisemites rather than Shia anti-Christians, anti-Americans, and antisemites. The United States–after Egypt and Tunisia–is now promoting the Muslim Brotherhood as regional hegemon. This is not a good idea and certainly not one to be made by honestly debating whether the United States wants to do this.
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New Palestinian Poll  

PSR poll of Palestinians:55%:40% support eventual confederation with Jordan, 61% Reconciliation with Hamas requires ending security coordination with Israel
PSR poll 48 – June 2013
While a majority supports the appointment of Rami Al Hamdallah as Prime
Minister, 40% believe the Palestinian Authority has become a burden on the
Palestinian people and only 30% believe that it is an accomplishment. And
while Ismail Haniyeh wins against Abbas in presidential elections in the
Gaza Strip, half of the public believes that the Palestinian have a failed
leadership
13-15 June 2013
These are the results of the latest poll conducted by the Palestinian Center
for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
between 13-15 June 2013. The period before the poll witnessed the
resignation of the government of Salam Fayyad and the appointment of a new
government headed by Rami Al Hamdallah, President of Al Najah University.
The period also witnessed the re-election of Khalid Mishaal as head of
Hamas’s political bureau for a new term and the postponement of the
formation of a reconciliation government. This press release covers public
evaluation of the general West Bank and Gaza conditions, elections,
reconciliation, public evaluation of the performance of the government of
Ismail Haniyeh, public satisfaction with the performance of President Mahmud
Abbas, the internal balance of power between Fateh and Hamas, and the views
of the public on the most vital Palestinian goals and the main problems
Palestinians confront today. Total size of the sample is 1270 adults
interviewed face to face in 127 randomly selected locations. Margin of error
is 3%.
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Canada Gets Tough on Anti-Semitsim  

Huffington Post
By Avi Benlolo, President and CEO, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, Canada
The government of Canada took an historic step yesterday by signing the Ottawa Protocol to Combat Anti-Semitism. By doing so, it recognized anti-Semitism as a pernicious evil and a global threat against the Jewish people, the State of Israel and free, democratic countries everywhere. As Prime Minister Stephen Harper has noted, “Those who would hate and destroy the Jewish people would ultimately hate and destroy the rest of us as well.”
The protocol is a declaration that hatred of this nature will not be tolerated in this country. It sets out an action plan for supporting initiatives that combat anti-Semitism and provides a framework for other nations to follow.
It also sets out a vibrant definition of anti-Semitism which, for the first time in history, links anti-Semitism to the denial of the right Jewish people have to their ancestral home land — the State of Israel. This, in fact, is what sets post-World War Two anti-Semitism apart from its historic roots. Today’s anti-Semitism is all about denial: denial of the legitimacy of Zionism as a Jewish movement to reclaim the land of Israel; denial of a Jewish history in connection to the holy land and, in particular, the centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish people; denial of the Holocaust (while at the same time accusing Jews of Nazism); and denial of Jews to live free of anti-Semitism, hate and intolerance.
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BREAKING NEWS  

Probably the Israeli Air Force attacked the Syrian airport?!

IDF not commenting
June 17th, 2013
 
The TV station reported that Israel bombed advanced weapons and radar systems that were recently brought to the airport, according to Israel Radio.
Eye witnesses said that the explosions were large and that neither the Assad regime nor the rebels had the capability to create explosions of such a magnitude.
Prior to the attack……………… Residents of the north, reported heavy IAF activity in the area. specifically in the Kiryat Shmona region, reported receiving text messages from security forces in which they were urged to lock their doors and windows…
The explosion is thought to have killed or injured around 20 members of President Assad’s forces.

SYRIAN FORCES TRAINING TO STORM ISRAEL’S BORDER  

Comment by Jack Golbert. This job calls for napalm but my guess is that they will follow a swarm of women and children, like they did in Lebanon when they overran the lines of the Army of Southern Lebanon. The Moroccans used the same tactic successfully against the Spaniards when they overran the Western Sahara. Will the IDF open fire on women and children? Or will they give up the Golan? Of course, if it works in the Golan, it will be used again in the Galilee and again in the Triangle, etc.It’s a problem because dead women and children make devastating propaganda.
TEL AVIV – Thousands of Syrians are currently training in Iran to serve as a force ready to storm Israel’s northern Golan Heights, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials.
The officials said between 3,000 and 5,000 Syrian men were being trained in the event Syrian President Bashar al-Assad decides to open a front against the Golan Heights, which borders Syria.
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Erdogan Goes to War; Police Wound Hundreds, Attack Drivers  

See also: Turkey unions strike over crackdown
About 800,000 workers abstain from work on Monday, following police action against protesters in Istanbul park. Al Jazeera
By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, Jewish Press
Erdogan goes berserk. One hour after delivering an ultimatum to protesters to leave Taksim Square, police attacked them with rubber bullets and tear gas, injuring drivers as well.
Published: June 16th, 2013Protesters in Istanbul Taksim Square reel from police rubber bullet and tear gas attacks
Protesters in Istanbul Taksim Square reel from police rubber bullet and tear gas attacks
Photo Credit: Hurriyet
Turkish police went to war against protesters Saturday night, using rubber bullets and tear gas to clear thousands from Taksim Square and on pedestrians trying to cross a foot bridge, where drivers also suffered the effects of the gas. (Read more…)

US Passes Bill to ‘Remove Existential Threats’ From Israel  

The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act on Friday, which would make it U.S. policy to take “all necessary steps” to ensure Israel is able to “remove existential threats.”
The amendment, initiated by Representative Peter Roskam, a Republican from Illinois, states that, “It is the policy of the United States to take all necessary steps to ensure that Israel possesses and maintains an independent capability to remove existential threats to its security and defend its vital national interests.”
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Danon’s Transgression: Telling the Truth  

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell.
    Prime MInister Netanyahu prefers the politically correct lie that he is eager to negotiate with Mahmoud Abbas to the uncomfortable truth that the “two state solution” is dead.
Several of Israel’s most important politicians experienced dyspepsia when Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon gave an interview in which he plainly stated that there is no majority in Israel’s government in support of the “two state solution.”
Danon indicated that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s professed support for the creation of a Palestinian state is for public consumption only, as the Prime Minister knows the Palestinian Authority will never agree to accept a demilitarized state, an Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley, Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, no right of return, or even recognition of Israel as the Jewish state.
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Israel’s right to negotiate has been greatly compromised  

By Ted Belman, AMERICAN THINKER
Israel National News had a  breaking news item this week under the title “Kerry Expects Israeli Concessions to PA down the Line.” We were  told,
    The US has requested the EU give them sole responsibility for brokering peace with the PA, and Secretary John Kerry will soon present a two-stage negotiation program.

    According to Kerry’s proposal, negotiations with the PA without preconditions, pertaining to PA statehood and Israeli security guarantees. Following an agreement on these points in principle, The PA will receive hefty financial reinforcement as a reward, in addition to a bonus Israeli construction freeze.
That’s diplomacy for you. Abbas drops preconditions and Israel agrees to a settlement freeze as a bonus. Thus Israel will satisfy one of his previous preconditions.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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