Ex-Jordanian Spy Says Jordan Regime is Anti-Israel
A member of the Jordanian opposition, who used to be a senior level intelligence agent, claims that the Hashemite dynasty in Jordan supports the Muslim Brotherhood and is no friend of the State of Israel.
Ouni Abed Botrous Hadaddeen is a former senior level Jordanian agent who is Christian. He defected from Jordan because he objected to the Jordanian monarchy’s practice of assassinating Jordanian citizens who have protested against the current regime. Ouni was born to the tribe of Hadadeen, which is supportive of the Hashemite dynasty that has traditionally filled significant positions within the Jordanian government and armed services. While he worked as a senior level Jordanian intelligence “collaborator” (spy), Ouni was ordered by the Jordanian government to confront anti-government protests and to lead counter protests in support of the Jordanian monarchy. In addition, he was told to write articles within the Arab media in support of the Jordanian government to prevent Jordan’s power base from collapsing, as was the case in Egypt during the “Arab Spring”.Hadaddeen claims that supporting the current Jordanian regime is not in the best interest of Israel and has accused Jordan’s King Abdullah of manipulating the Jordanian people to have negative views and even hatred of Israel.
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Islam Vs. Islamism: A Case for Wishful Thinkers
- “Our killer question is ‘How do you propose to defeat Islamism?’ Those who make all Islam their enemy not only succumb to a simplistic and essentialist illusion but they lack any mechanism to defeat it.”
This is what historian and Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes asks in his recent Washington Times article.
To support his argument, Pipes makes an unsubstantiatedclaim that a majority of Muslims are moderate and that Islamism is only, supported by 10-15 percent of Muslims…
So how and why did he come up with such numbers? Pipes uses different studies and surveys about which he himselfconfesses: “These ambiguous and contradictory percentages lead to no clear, specific count of Islamists.” Why then use such statistics? It is only to serve the major argument he made in my first paragraph.
Is There an Interfaith Movement in the Muslim World?
In the UK, non-Muslims have created a massive “interfaith movement” which a small number of media-savvy Muslims have taken full advantage of. We’re always hearing about “community cohesion” and the necessity of “embracing diversity” from this movement. When an Islamic bomb goes off or yet another Muslim terrorist is arrested, the Church of Interfaith gets into full swing. When there’s another case of Muslim grooming, the C of I assures us that there are also many gangs of Anglican groomers. When there’s a protest against a super-mosque, yes, you’ve got it, the Interfaith zealots will be there begging the builders to make the mosque bigger and higher.
So how’s the Interfaith Movement doing in Muslim countries? (Read more…)
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Government pushes seaport reform, braces for backlash
Transportation minister takes page out of Reagan’s 1981 anti-union moves, threatening to replace strikers with soldiers
By ASHER ZEIGER TOI, May 19, 2013,
Illustrative photo of a container ship at the Ashdod port (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
As the government seeks to implement reforms in Israel’s docks, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz is preparing for an all-out battle against expected strikes at the seaports of Haifa and Ashdod. (Read more…)
Qatar’s two-faced Israel policy
For an in-depth look at Qatar, read these:Qatar’s takeover of Europe by Giulio Miotte
Tiny Qatar casts a giant shadow By Ted Belman
Qatar is more active than you know
Just recently, the Qatari prime minister stood in Washington, D.C. and declared that the Arab world is ready for land swaps between the Palestinians and Israel when a peace deal is reached. Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani made the declaration while flanked by foreign ministers from Arab countries.
His words have been praised to high heaven by opinion makers. He has become the darling of MKs from Israel’s opposition parties, who view this declaration as an unprecedented historical step.
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When will the IDF get tough with rioters
With each passing day the Arab rioters are getting more bolden and brazen.
In response to this, two days ago I read,
- As sporadic clashes continue between Palestinian rioters and security forces in the West Bank, the IDF’s Central Command announced the introduction of nonlethal sponge-tipped bullets as a riot dispersal tool, that should replace rubber bullets by the end of the year.
How lilly-livered can you get.
But today I read,
Security Chief: IDF Taking Off the Silk Gloves
Security Chief: IDF Taking Off the Silk Gloves
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Very Good News Israel
In the 19th May 2013 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
· An Israeli discovery can protect fertile women from the effects of chemotherapy.
· Israeli heart doctors saved the life of a 4-year-old Syrian girl.
· A Turkish zoo has received a shipment of 40 rare animals from Israel.
· Thanks to Einstein, Israeli scientists have found a new planet.
· The Israel Water Authority is opening the Kinneret dam to replenish the Jordan River.
· Israel has begun the building of a new International airport in the South.
· The Israeli government is subsidizing conversion to solar heating.
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The times of London published a report that Israel prefers Assad survive Syria conflict;
- The scenario that Syrian President Bashar Assad would survive his country’s bloody conflict, yet would hold a lesser role, would be preferred by Israel in contrast to a takeover by rebel factions with Islamic extremist inklings, The Times of London cited an Israeli official as saying Friday.
“Better the devil we know than the demons we can only imagine if Syria falls into chaos and the extremists from across the Arab world gain a foothold there,” one senior Israeli intelligence officer was quoted as saying.
Yet Amos Yadlin thinks otherwise.
Amos Yadlin: Assad’s fall is good for Israel
Amos Yadlin: Assad’s fall is good for Israel
- Syrian President Bashar Assad’s fall is an Israeli interest, former Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin told Israel Radio on Sunday.
“He is much more dangerous to Israel than any regime that would follow him, because he allows Iran to smuggle missiles and weapons into Lebanon,” Yadlin said.
The World’s Sophisticated Hypocrisy Mechanism
The world seems to have begun saying that there is something fundamentally illegitimate about Israelis, Israeli institutions and the State of Israel in its entirety.
By Ron Jager
Winston Churchill has been quoted as saying “Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are beyond question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.”
A huge proportion of shapers of the modern mind were Jewish, from Marx, Freud, and Einstein to Sergey Brin of Google and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
Jews have had an influence out of all proportion to their numbers, because they believe in the individual and his or her power to change the world for the better. Believing that G-d has high expectations of the Jews has resulted in great accomplishments for all of civilization throughout history.
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Ted Belman
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