tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786218813246630182024-03-13T14:19:10.503-07:00House of Lords Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-65389608297096923612022-04-19T14:47:00.002-07:002022-04-19T14:47:29.035-07:00Terrorism <p><br /></p><div class="article-content" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 50px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Terrorism is a complex phenomenon—in its motivations, its modus operandi, and its outcomes. In addition to attributes that are common to terrorism all over the world and throughout history, it evolves to adjust itself to changes in the political, social, economic, and technological environment. When we are dealing with a serious disease, it is unreasonable to expect that a single drug can cure it. This is the case with cancer, which involves genetic factors, but is also influenced by the environment. Various means can reduce our chance of becoming ill, but there is no way to guarantee immunity.</p><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Similarly, completion of the security fence between Israel and Judea-Samaria and more effective monitoring of entry into Israel from the territories might lower the odds of incidents similar to that in Bnei Brak, but, unfortunately, would not necessarily prevent attacks such as those in Beersheba and Hadera committed by terrorists who come from the Arab sector in Israel.</p><div id="gpt-passback" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/3933714/TOI_Video/TOI_VideoPlayer_Test_0__container__" style="border: 0pt none; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stepping up the efforts to find and confiscate illegal weapons could reduce the probability of attacks such as those in Bnei Brak and Hadera, but would not necessarily curtail knife attacks, like that in Beersheba, or vehicle rammings. An expansion of the criteria for allowing soldiers to take their personal weapons with them when on leave could increase the chances of their intervening and foiling an attack; but such a policy might well increase thefts of guns from soldiers’ homes and thus undermine the efforts to reduce the number of illegal arms in circulation.</p><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some of the methods to thwart terrorism being weighed today focus on potential terrorists; for instance, the use of advanced technology and monitoring of social networks in order to obtain advance warning of a person’s intention to carry out an attack. This approach helped Israel counter the wave of terrorism in 2015. We can assume that the Israeli Security Agency is investigating why no red lights flashed before the recent attacks.</p><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another technique of this sort is administrative detention. Administrative detention is a harsh method that deprives individuals of their liberty on the basis of an assessment of what they might do in the future, usually on the basis of confidential information that the detainee cannot challenge or call into question. Unlike criminal proceedings, which lead to punishment for an action already committed, administrative detention is intended to avert an assault on national security by the person in question when there is persuasive intelligence information of such a danger, but it does not constitute evidence that is admissible in court. Even though this method deals a severe blow to human rights, in the crisis situation of Israel’s struggle with terrorism it is a necessary evil.</p><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We also are hearing calls for more severe punishment of security offenses, in light of the fact that three of the recent attacks (in Beersheba, Hadera, and Bnei Brak) involved individuals who had been released after serving time for security offenses. Note, though, that criminology research has not found that harsher sentences have a deterrent effect, whereas a greater likelihood of being caught does. It is obvious that a security prisoner cannot perpetrate an attack while behind bars, but in this context, it may well be more effective and efficient to devise a mechanism for tighter supervision of released prisoners for a longer period after their release. With the appropriate modifications, the mechanism for tracking sex offenders could be a model for legislation of this sort. It would include an assessment of the threat posed by the individual and the imposition of restrictions for up to five years after release from prison, with the possibility of extension.</p><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other means whose use has been proposed would have a broader impact but are more problematic. The security cabinet decided to “strengthen deterrence and raise the price paid by those who are close to the perpetrators of attacks” by canceling work permits and implementing swift home demolitions. There is nothing new here. The underlying idea is deterrence – the idea that potential terrorists, even if willing to die themselves, might hesitate if they knew that their family would lose its home; and that relatives would pressure them not to do it or would report them to the authorities, so as not to be left without a roof over their heads.</p><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the years, the homes of hundreds of terrorists have been leveled, but the question of whether this serves as a deterrent or, on the contrary, encourages terrorist activity, remains undecided. What is certain is that a direct assault on the rights of those who have not committed any crime, merely because they are related to a terrorist, and with no proof that they were accomplices to the attack in any way, is unacceptable collective punishment and a moral stain. Revoking the work permits of terrorists’ relatives does not deprive them of any basic right, inasmuch as non-Israelis have no inherent right to enter the country, whether for work or for any other purpose. Still, even if this is not legally invalid, it remains a form of collective harm that may make us uneasy; not to mention the question of whether it is an effective means to deter terrorist attacks.</p><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For now, the government has avoided measures that would impact the entire Palestinian population, such as imposing a lockdown on all the territories or on specific localities. We may assume that this is due to the insight, acquired the hard way, that punishment that affects all Palestinians merely ignites the terrorist flame; whereas drawing a distinction between terrorists and those not involved in their actions, helps calm the situation. We should hope that domestic political pressures will not drag the government into harmful measures of this sort. The war on terrorism requires not only determination – but also a cool head.</p></div><div class="about-the-author article-module" readability="43" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; float: left; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 45px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px);"></div>Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-86436636753336184562022-04-19T14:36:00.002-07:002022-04-19T14:36:21.207-07:00My story<p> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Halfway through my daily walk, I pass a memorial to those from our city who gave their life for our Land. It is on the edge of a path which hugs a valley where our ancestors once lived. If you look up, you see the cranes that define the skyline of my young city. I often stop at the memorial to look at the names listed. I stop there to remind myself that this home that I live in does not come to us simply and to say a silent thank you. Today, I chose to walk in a different direction, but something compelled me to go back to my usual route.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As I looked at the memorial, I saw a woman walking through it. She was dressed in workout clothes and walking purposely. My initial thought was that her pace didn’t mesh with the sanctity of this place. Then I saw her bend down and reach for some stones. Gently, she laid one down by every single memorial. She wasn’t crying but, on her face, she wore her sadness. As she passed by me, I gave her a hug. I wanted to ask her who it was that she loved and whose memory lived here. But, it was not a moment for words. Instead, I retraced her steps and imagined which name had drawn her to this place. As I stood there, I reflected on how our city, that was so young had produced so many names.</p><p style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My city is a city of the future. Not only because it was built with vision and the most detailed of planning but because, in my opinion, it is a city that embraces its children. Every few steps there is another park, another sports field or a youth center. It is also a city that sends its future in great numbers to serve. If you want to feel a surge of national pride, stop by the Central Bus Station on a Sunday morning and see the giant tour buses waiting to collect our sons and daughters dressed in green and khaki. They are laughing and joking and carrying the heaviest of loads. Our <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">chayalim</em> climb on the bus with freshly washed uniforms and, in their hand, a fresh danish from a box of pastries left each week by a woman, who I am sure has her own story</p>Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-49843059563220870822022-04-17T16:13:00.005-07:002022-04-17T19:22:43.350-07:00Iran Israël <p> <span face=""Playfair Display", sans-serif" style="color: #142233; font-size: 16px;">The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force has said the country will “accelerate the destruction of Israel and all its enemies”, according to the semi-official Nour News Agency.</span></p><div class="left__description" id="article-content" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #142233; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 30px; width: 330px;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Quds commander Esmail Qaani is reported to have said Itan will harshly confront Israel "wherever it feels necessary".</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">In March, Tehran targeted what it called "secret Israeli bases" during a missile attack on Iraq's northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil. The assault was meant to avenge Israeli air strikes that killed Iranian military personnel in Syria.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">"Wherever we identify a Zionist threat, we will harshly confront them, they are too small to confront us," said Qaani, whose unit is in control of the Revolutionary Guards' foreign operations.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">The commander pledged to support any group that fights the "Zionist regime" and added that "the destruction of this regime is gaining ground."</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Tensions deepened at a time when Iran and world powers were engaged in talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, which Israel opposes.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Ghaani was speaking on Thursday (April 14) - the first anniversary of the death of Mohammad Hejazi , the deputy of the Quds Force of the IRGC in Tehran.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Two days earlier, Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei had said "the expansion of Iran’s strategic depth and spiritual influence in the region have turned the Islamic Republic into an attractive role model.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">The comments prompted more than 500 prominent Iranian American scholars to sign an open letter to US President Joe Biden calling on the administration to keep the Iranian regime’s IRGC on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">This initiative was spearheaded by the Iranian Professionals’ Ad Hoc Committee on Iran Policy. Most of the signatories are supporters of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the ten-point plan of the Iranian opposition leader and NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">The letter emphasizes that the IRGC is Tehran’s instrument to fuel and expand terrorism abroad while imposing harsh crackdown measures on the Iranian people across the country. </p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Prominent Iranian American scientists, scholars, professors, physicians, industry executives professionals, and successful entrepreneurs, highlight the fact that “removing IRGC from the FTO list will project blatant disregard for the hope and legitimate struggle of Iranians for freedom and dignity.”</p><div><br /></div></div><div class="right__description" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 85px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 330px;"><div class="read__side" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 65px; margin-top: -50px; width: 330px;"><div class="head__next" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: center; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 35px;"></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript"> var infolinks_pid = 3363490; var infolinks_wsid = 0; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//resources.infolinks.com/js/infolinks_main.js"></script>Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-91947335424686295412022-04-17T16:06:00.003-07:002022-04-17T16:06:39.330-07:00Together <p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This should be a joyous time for many around the world. For Jews getting ready for Passover. For Muslims preparing meals for the Ramadan fast. For Christians anticipating their holiest day of the year, Easter. Yet, instead of peace, ISIS supporters and terrorists have murdered nine innocent Israelis and two beautiful souls from Ukraine – Jews, Christians and Druze, shocking a world that is already reeling from the weekslong Russian invasion of Ukraine. One of those murdered specifically touches us deeply here in metropolitan Detroit. Amir Khoury was a Christian Arab from Nof Hagalil, which is in our partnership region. Even from thousands of miles away, we will not forget his sacrifice.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">We in the Jewish community, one which feels bonded to the State of Israel, are heartened by the support and solidarity of dozens of countries throughout the world in light of the attacks. Arab countries such as Jordan and the UAE have spoken out on behalf of Israel and its people who are heartbroken by these horrible killings. We call on more countries to join in our collective outrage and demand a month of peace for Israel. Let Hamas, who has openly endorsed and celebrated these killings, know the whole world is watching.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It also is a comfort that Mansour Abbas, who leads the United Arab List, part of the governing coalition in Israel, has called out these terrible murders, as he has in the past with other terrorist incidents, and issued the powerful truth: “Israeli cities are filled with Arab and Jewish citizens alike, and those who embark on a vicious killing spree do not notice or differentiate between them.” Yes, the supporters of ISIS, Hamas, and terror are celebrating Arab-Israelis and Palestinian-Israelis as their victims, as well as Israeli-Jews and the Druze. Those who allow hate to manifest their ambitions will do anything to spread their venom – at any time.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">We are heartened that Israel is being seen as a significant resource by her neighbors with whom she has recently created breakthrough partnerships, in many different fields. Just this week, ministers from four Arab countries gathered in Ben Gurion’s home of S’de Boker with Secretary of State Blinken and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in a beautiful illustration of a new Middle East that is looking forward to advancing peace, friendship and mutual protection.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Locally, we at the Jewish Community Relations Council/American Jewish Committee (JCRC/AJC) – Detroit, will continue to rally Israel’s friends in the interfaith community to be ready to add their voices to ours. We are deeply grateful to Michigan’s elected officials, including Representatives Levin, Stevens and Upton, who have both expressed their horror at the 11 lives recently lost and their solidarity with the people of Israel. Furthermore, we are taking the lessons we learned last Ramadan, especially during Israel’s Guardian of the Walls conflict with Hamas in May, to be more vigilant and vocal as we stand up for Israel. Currently, our organization is gathering pro-Israel groups in Detroit, as well as several that are national, to strategize ways we can collectively advocate for Israel. Together, we will use every method we can to get the word out.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Let us not only pray but also commit ourselves to work hard to defend our Jewish State and people wherever they may face those who want to destroy them. Let us be strong with our allies and with each other so that Israel will continue to be a beacon of hope, diversity and peace for our world. “Am Yisrael Chai” – Israel is alive and strong.</p>Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-39259437710536181592022-04-16T21:04:00.003-07:002022-04-16T21:04:28.305-07:00Israel Egypt <p> <i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Two vast and trunkless legs of stone</i></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">Stand in the desert …<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">And on the pedestal, these words appear:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">My name is</i></span> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ozymandias, King of Kings;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">Nothing beside remains. …”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">From </i></span><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">Ozymanidas</span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818</i></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">D</span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">avid Schey was amazed rather than in despair. He and his wife, Doris, were in Luxor during a trip billed as “the first ever kosher tour of Egypt through the eyes of the </span><span class="s3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tanakh</i></span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Jewish Bible)” — and he was looking at two enormous trunkless legs of stone that made him immediately recall Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ode written more than two centuries earlier.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">He was even more amazed when their tour guide told them that Ozymandias was the Greek name of Ramesses II, the Egyptian pharaoh at the time of the Exodus — the one who enslaved the Israelites and tried to prevent them from leaving. For Schey, it was a highlight of a recent 10-day trip to Egypt.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Inveterate travelers who need kosher food and Shabbat-friendly itineraries, the Scheys, of Huntington Woods, had taken several tours and river cruises with Kesher Tours, which works with an Israeli company, Shai Bar-Ilan Geographical Tours.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Scheys booked the trip many months ago but weren’t sure until Jan. 17, the day they left, that it would actually happen.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">While the tour was conducted in English, only three couples among the 33 travelers hailed from the United States. The rest, though originally from the U.S., Canada or the U.K., lived in Israel.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The tour was led by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman of Israel’s Bar-Ilan University and an Egyptian Coptic Christian man with a deep knowledge of Egyptian history, including the ability to read hieroglyphics.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The group visited Aswan, Cairo and Luxor; and in each area, they saw sites related to Jewish history.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Near Aswan, they visited Elephantine, an island fortress in the Nile River and the site of the oldest known Jewish diaspora community.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Cairo, they saw the synagogue where Moses Ben Maimon, the Rambam, worshipped, as well as his home and medical clinic. They saw the Ben Ezra Synagogue, where the Cairo Geniza was found by two Scottish women in 1896; the documents buried in the geniza dated back to the 11th century and provided great insight into Jewish life in the area.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The group planned to hold Shabbat services at the Sha’ar Hashamayim synagogue, the only one still functioning in Egypt, but for security reasons they prayed at their hotel instead.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the Cairo Museum, they saw a </span><span class="s3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">stele</i></span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, an upright, engraved stone slab, dated to pre-Exodus times, that mentions the Israelites. Their guide pointed out the location of the Biblical Land of Goshen.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Luxor, a hieroglyphic inscription named sites conquered by Ramesses II, including some, like Bet Shean, in Israel. At a temple in Luxor, they saw more inscriptions that related to the Exodus.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Scheys also enjoyed the non-Jewish sights on the tour, including several pyramids and temples. David was particularly impressed by a painted statue of Ramesses II that he described as “the most beautiful statue I’ve ever seen. It was very realistic; the skin tones were so lifelike!”</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">While in Cairo, the group met with Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, Amira Oron, whose parents came from Egypt. She told them that the relationship between the two countries is better than it has been in years, and that Egypt is interested in Israel’s high-tech achievements, especially in water conservation.</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Another highlight of the trip was a hot air balloon ride over the Valley of the Kings, the fertile area fed by the Nile.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Though theirs may have been the first kosher tour to Egypt, it was obvious that Israelis were no strangers to the locals. Wherever they went, David said, vendors would shout, “Shalom, shalom! We love Jews. We love Israel!”</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What’s next for David, 81, a retired social worker, and Doris, 77, a retired teacher?<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>They had signed up for a cruise to Scotland, Norway and Iceland, originally scheduled for last July. It has been rescheduled for August. They had also planned a river cruise to Vietnam and Cambodia in 2020 that was canceled. They’re hoping it might happen this December. <span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Click to continue </span></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: border-box;">https://cutt.us/xnIe6</span></span></p>Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-15985298715577857102022-04-16T20:28:00.005-07:002022-04-16T20:31:43.162-07:00Le conflit <p> </p><div class="bbc-19j92fr e57qer20" dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / span 6; grid-template-columns: repeat(6, 1fr); margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5rem; width: initial;"><p class="bbc-ph03xj e1cc2ql70" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3f42; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">La dernière fois que le Ramadan pour les musulmans, la Pâque pour les juifs et Pâques pour les chrétiens ont eu lieu en même temps, c'était il y a trente ans.</span></p></div><div class="bbc-19j92fr e57qer20" dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / span 6; grid-template-columns: repeat(6, 1fr); margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5rem; width: initial;"><p class="bbc-ph03xj e1cc2ql70" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3f42; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.5rem;">Cette semaine, les fêtes religieuses qui se chevauchent promettent d'attirer des dizaines de milliers de fidèles israéliens et palestiniens, ainsi que des pèlerins étrangers, dans la vieille ville de Jérusalem.</p></div><div class="bbc-19j92fr e57qer20" dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / span 6; grid-template-columns: repeat(6, 1fr); margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5rem; width: initial;"><p class="bbc-ph03xj e1cc2ql70" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3f42; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.5rem;">Mais elles ont également accru les tensions autour des sites sacrés contestés. Il y a visiblement beaucoup plus de policiers israéliens dans Jérusalem-Est occupée, et ils sont en état d'alerte après la série d'attentats la plus meurtrière en Israël depuis des années.</p></div><div class="e1gggypo0 bbc-oa9drk e57qer20" dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / span 6; grid-template-columns: repeat(6, 1fr); margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5rem; width: initial;"><ul class="bbc-1uk1heq e1drcs2w1" dir="ltr" role="list" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375rem; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><li class="bbc-acwcvw e1drcs2w0" role="listitem" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; position: relative;"><a class="bbc-n8oauk e1cs6q200" href="https://www.bbc.com/afrique/monde-58479656" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(184, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">Evasion spectaculaire de six Palestiniens d'une prison de haute sécurité israélienne</a></li><li class="bbc-acwcvw e1drcs2w0" role="listitem" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; position: relative;"><a class="bbc-n8oauk e1cs6q200" href="https://www.bbc.com/afrique/monde-57127706" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(184, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">Qu'est-ce que le Dôme de fer israélien ?</a></li><li class="bbc-acwcvw e1drcs2w0" role="listitem" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; position: relative;"><a class="bbc-n8oauk e1cs6q200" href="https://www.bbc.com/afrique/monde-57243165" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(184, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">A combien s'élève l'aide militaire américaine à Israël ?</a></li></ul></div><div class="bbc-19j92fr e57qer20" dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / span 6; grid-template-columns: repeat(6, 1fr); margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5rem; width: initial;"><p class="bbc-ph03xj e1cc2ql70" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3f42; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.5rem;">"Pour nous, musulmans, il est essentiel de prier à la mosquée al-Aqsa pendant le ramadan. C'est un moment spirituel et je suis toujours impatient d'y aller", déclare Ziad, qui porte un tapis de prière sur l'épaule lorsqu'il se dirige vers le troisième site le plus sacré de l'islam.</p><p class="bbc-ph03xj e1cc2ql70" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3f42; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.5rem;">Cliquez pour suivre </p><p class="bbc-ph03xj e1cc2ql70" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3f42; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.5rem;">https://cutt.us/xnIe6</p></div>Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-86278602817601911972015-04-24T18:06:00.002-07:002015-04-24T18:06:45.366-07:00Israël doit reconnaître le génocide arménien<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Il
est temps pour les autorités les plus représentatives d’Israël, son
président, le chef de son gouvernement, la Knesset, de reconnaître le
génocide dont ont été victimes les Arméniens de l’Empire ottoman.</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Dans
moins de vingt-cinq ans, ce sera au tour du centenaire du génocide des
juifs d’être célébré dans le monde entier, et – nous l’espérons – y
compris dans le monde musulman. Comment cultiver cette espérance
d’unanimité si l’Etat des juifs se refuse encore à cette reconnaissance
formelle pour ne pas indisposer son puissant voisin turc ?</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Le
génocide arménien a été reconnu par de nombreux pays, et le président
de la République, François Hollande, s’est engagé à ce qu’une loi
sanctionne la négation du génocide arménien comme la loi Gayssot
sanctionne depuis un quart de siècle la négation du génocide juif.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">En
un temps ou les massacres des chrétiens d’Orient se multiplient, la
voix du pape s’est fait entendre pour le déplorer et pour, enfin,
proclamer que les Arméniens ont été victimes d’un génocide.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Ce
n’est pas pour condamner la Turquie moderne, pas plus qu’à Nuremberg on
a voulu condamner l’Allemagne qui naîtrait des ruines du IIIe Reich.
D’ailleurs, l’Allemagne fédérale dès sa naissance, la République
démocratique allemande peu avant sa chute et l’Allemagne enfin réunifiée
ont reconnu le génocide commis par l’Allemagne hitlérienne et, en en
assumant les conséquences sur tous les plans, ont libéré le peuple
allemand d’une partie de son fardeau moral.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Les
dirigeants de la Turquie doivent suivre cet exemple. Tant qu’ils
nieront la vérité historique, tant qu’ils essaieront d’échapper à leurs
responsabilités et qu’ils continueront à prétendre que les Arméniens les
ont trahis pendant la première guerre mondiale et qu’eux ont seulement
riposté, ils seront tenus à l’écart par la communauté internationale, et
en priorité par l’Union européenne. Tant qu’Israël ne reconnaîtra pas
le génocide arménien, la Turquie se refusera à le faire.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">L’Etat
juif sait que les nazis ont pu se risquer à commettre au XXe siècle un
second génocide parce que les auteurs du premier n’avaient pas été
punis. Aucun argument ne peut s’opposer valablement à la reconnaissance
que nous demandons à Israël en ces jours ou nous commémorons Yom HaShoah
(la Journée du souvenir de l’Holocauste en Israël).</span></div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-77791386210794580132015-04-24T17:58:00.002-07:002015-04-24T17:58:33.029-07:00Krakow for Holocaust Remembrance Day: my journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In Krakow, Poland the sun was shining, the wind blew pleasantly and a
large group of Charedim pushed passed me as I disembarked the plane,
ready for what one organiser had already promised was going to be ‘a
deeply personal journey that would change my life’.<br />
Here we go; already a stranger talking to me about 'my journey' in
connection to what I’ve heard cynics refer to as ‘Holocaust tourism’.<br />
As one of 250 British delegates taking part in this year’s March of
the Living – an annual educational programme, which brings students from
all over the world to Poland in order to study the history of the
Holocaust – I was not sure what to expect.<br />
It’s a subject I’ve written about, a history that was taught to me, but a reality always too unimaginable to grasp.<br />
We were split up and put on one of six buses accompanied by an
educator and survivor. I met my group who were all on the same but
inevitably different ‘journey'.<br />
Mine started at baggage reclaim when survivor Zigi Shipper 85, shuffled up to me and said: "You are the reporter from the JC? <br />
“You are more beautiful than any of the other ones I’ve met." <br />
He winked and as he continued to tell the group this is his third trip to Poland this year.<br />
Zigi was 14 when he arrived at Auschwitz. He told us how he spent
days in a cattle truck so crowded there was only room to sit down once
several passengers had died.<br />
He said: “I didn’t feel human I was so desperate to hope that someone would die so I could just sit. <br />
“I didn’t understand how I could think that.”<br />
All that before lunch. We got on to our bus with two destinations ahead.<br />
First stop was a restored synagogue in Dabrowa Tarnowska, once home to 2500 Jews and a building surrounded in controversy.<br />
Many locals opposed the restoration of the building after the war and
the Polish money that went into doing it. Our tour guide told us:
“There were posters that went up saying ‘the Jews have a synagogue but
we have no money. "A lot of people did not want it." <br />
Under the decorative ceilings that looked more Italian church than
synagogue to me, youth groups gathered together to sing, others walked
around looking at artefacts in glass cases, quietly reflecting. <br />
I noticed instantly nowhere were there descriptions (in English at
least) of what happened to the shul or the Jews in the war, in fact
there was no mention of Jews or Holocaust at all. <br />
This quite remarkable building that said something, on the outside,
wasn’t actually saying much at all. Even stranger the synagogue, or The
Centre for the Meeting of Cultures as it is called, makes no reference
to it being a synagogue at all.<br />
And with it serving no local Jewish community because all were
killed, its presence has an eerie irrelevance, a reminder of what was
once. But sadly no longer is, because there are literally no Jews left
in the town.<br />
Its irrelevance was visible on the faces of locals who sat at the bus stop outside it too. <br />
Their eyes scanned me up and down as if I might be another species and their gaze was far from welcoming. <br />
We got back on the bus with a warning the next part wasn’t going to be so easy.<br />
"You're like a naughty school boy at the back of the bus,” I say to
Zigi as he commanded the attention of his audience punch line after
punch line.<br />
And as if we never joked, he answered: "I wouldn't know what that's like; I didn't get to go to school."<br />
A sobering reminder of how my own childhood experience was totally
lost on a man who grew up seeing many of his friends shot in front of
him.<br />
We drove to a forest with trees twice the height of the toy-like
houses surrounding it and are told the ground we are walking on is where
800 children were taken on the same day and killed along with their
parents and 2000 Polish who opposed the Nazis. <br />
As we stood where fathers were forced to dig pits for the bodies of
their own children, my stomach turned as my boots sunk into the muddier
parts of the ground.<br />
All that marked the children's graves were the odd candle and drawing of a Disney character. <br />
‘My journey’ so far has had some unexpected laughs and some very expected sorrow. <br />
It’s only day one. </div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-20289918144476667222015-04-24T17:53:00.001-07:002015-04-24T17:53:20.133-07:00Biden: No deal with Iran<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
President Barack Obama would reject any Iran deal that does not
increase its breakout time to a nuclear weapon to a year, Vice President
Joe Biden told Israelis.
<br />
Biden, addressing the Israeli embassy’s Independence Day festivities,
also said the United States will deliver F-35 fighter jets to Israel
next year to help maintain its military edge regionally.<br />
Biden said Obama’s minimum requirement for a deal between the major
powers and Iran would be to increase Iran’s breakout time from the
current 2-3 months where the United States estimates it currently stands
to a year.<br />
“If it doesn’t, no deal,” Biden said. A final deal is due June 30.
Biden said it would include verifiable reductions of Iran’s stock of
enriched uranium and guarantees that Iran could not manufacture
plutonium.<br />
The pledges come as the Obama administration is seeking to improve
ties frayed with Israel over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
expressions of opposition to the talks, including his speech to
Congress last month organized without consulting the White House.<br />
Biden also said there would be a phased reduction of sanctions on
Iran, measured against Iranian cooperation with a regimen that would
keep it from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iranian Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said he wants immediate sanctions relief.<br />
Biden described the F-35 as “our finest, making Israel the only
country in the Middle East to have this fifth-generation aircraft” and
said the United States would maintain Israel’s qualitative military
edge.<br />
“You protect our interests like we protect yours, so let’s get
something straight in this moment of some disagreement, occasionally,
between our two governments,” Biden said. “No president has ever done
more to protect Israel’s security than President Barack Obama.”<br />
Likening Israel and the United States to “family” he said:
“Sometimes, we drive each other crazy, but we love each other and we
protect each other.”<br />
Israel’s Defense Ministry announced in mid-February that it had
signed a deal with the United States to purchase 14 more F-35 planes for
the Israel Air Force at $110 million each, bringing the total to 33.
Israel in 2010 said it would acquire 19 of the aircraft.</div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-4884319738820578792015-04-24T17:45:00.001-07:002015-04-24T17:45:40.511-07:00Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles! Topol wins top honour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black;">Chaim Topol has received Israel’s highest civilian honour.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Nine distinguished Israelis were
awarded this year’s Israel Prizes in a state ceremony held on Thursday
night in Jerusalem attended by Benjamin Netanyahu.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Two Lifetime Achievement Awards for
special contributions to society and the State of Israel were given to
Chaim Topol, who played milkman Tevye in the much-loved 1971 movie <em>Fiddler on the Roof</em>.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">The acclaimed star is also the founder of the Jordan River Village for children suffering from life-threatening diseases.</span></div>
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Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-47413775251600211632015-03-17T16:30:00.001-07:002015-03-17T16:30:20.065-07:00PM Netanyahu declares victory<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu celebrated what he called a “<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">major </span>victory” in Tuesday’s elections.<br />
<br />
“Against all odds: a great victory for the Likud. A major victory for the people of Israel!” he wrote on his official <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">Twitter account</span>.<br />
Soon after the election exit polls were announced at 10:00 p.m. Tuesday,<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">Jewish Home</span>
Chairman Naftali Bennett called Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and
congratulated him. “They agreed to begin accelerated negotiations for
establishing <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">a national</span> government and working in cooperation for the security of the state of Israel and the nation of Israel.”<br />
In an <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">interview</span> with <em>Arutz Sheva</em>
earlier in the day, Bennett urged supporters not to fall into the
complacency trap – and not to give their votes to Netanyahu, as anxious
as they might be to ensure that he, and not Yitzhak Herzog, is chosen by
President Reuven Rivlin to form the next government.<br />
Although the
polls showed Jewish Home losing support over the past several weeks,
Bennett was optimistic that the party could beat the polls, which showed
Jewish Home receiving</div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-42418898036034563352015-03-17T16:27:00.001-07:002015-03-17T16:27:59.095-07:00Federal Government lists Evangelical Christianity as a top terrorist threat.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ron Trowbridge, undersheriff of Prowers County Colorado,
attended a training session in La Junta, Colorado which was hosted by
the Colorado State Patrol (CSP) and funded by the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS). The training was on sovereign citizens and Outlaw
Motorcycle Gangs, but also on the agenda was <strong>the subject of Christians who believe the U.S. was founded on Godly principles and who interpret the Bible literally</strong>. This describes many in the sovereign citizen movement but it is also indicative of many mainstream right-of-center Americans.<br />
Trooper Joe Kluczynski, who conducted the training, said he got his
training materials from the DHS. Many will recall back in 2011, the DHS
released the controversial publications,<strong> “Domestic Terrorism and
Homegrown Violent Extremism Lexicon” and “Countering Violent Extremism
(CVE) Training Guidance and Best Practices.”</strong> Both documents provided the impetus for the type of training tools government agencies across the country are using.<br />
Todd Starnes, writing for Fox News, reports that during a U.S. Army
training event, an Army instructor cited Evangelical Christianity and
Catholicism as examples of religious extremism—along with Al Qaeda and
Hamas.<br />
<strong>Not only was it implied that Evangelical Christianity is as
dangerous as a terrorist organization, but it was at the top of the list
of threats. And, here is that list:</strong><br />
Evangelical Christianity<br />
Muslim Brotherhood<br />
Ultra-Orthodox Jews<br />
Christian Identity<br />
Al Qaeda<br />
Hamas<br />
Abu Sayyam<br />
Ku Klux Klan<br />
Sri Ram Sene<br />
Catholicism<br />
Kamane Movement / Kach<br />
Army of God<br />
Sunni Muslims<br />
Nation of Islam<br />
Jewish Defense League<br />
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints<br />
Hutaree<br />
<strong>“<em>Islamophobia” was also listed as a form of religious extremism.</em>”</strong><br />
<strong> “We find this offensive to have Evangelical Christians and the
Catholic Church to be listed among known terrorist groups,” Ron Crews,
executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, said.
“It is dishonorable for any U.S. military entity to allow this type of
wrongheaded characterization</strong>.”<br />
Army spokesman George Wright told Fox News that the presentation of the
extremist threats list was an “isolated incident not condoned by the
Dept. of the Army.” Wright said that the, “slide was not produced by the
Army and certainly does not reflect our policy or doctrine.” He added
that, “it was produced by an individual without anyone in the chain of
command’s knowledge or permission.”<br />
But, the incident was made public by a soldier who had attended the
briefing. He requested copies of the presentation which he subsequently
sent to the Chaplain Alliance. “He considers himself an evangelical
Christian and did not appreciate being classified with terrorists,”
Crews explained to Fox News. <strong>“There was a pervasive attitude in the presentation that anything associated with religion is an extremist.”</strong><br />
The Archdiocese for the Military Services was stunned upon learning that
the Army considers Catholicism to be an example of extremism: “The
Archdiocese is astounded that Catholics were listed alongside groups
that are, by their very mission and nature, violent and extremist.”<br />
Wright had the opportunity to speak with the officer who did the
presentation and she told him that she got her information from the
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). To this Crews responded with: “Why
is there such dependence upon the work of the SPLC to determine hate
groups and extremist groups.”<strong> He added that, “it appears that
some military entities are using definitions of ‘hate’ and ‘extreme’
from the lists of anti-Christian political organizations. That violates
the apolitical stance appropriate for the military.”</strong><br />
According to Mark Potok, Senior Fellow & Editor-in-Chief at the
SPLC, the SPLC has never labeled Evangelical Christianity or Catholicism
as extremist groups. But, they have labeled a number of conservative
Christian organizations as “hate groups” due to the organizations’
stance on homosexuality.<br />
A handful of domestic Muslim hate groups, such as the As-Sabiqun
movement were not tallied by the SPLC, even though disapproval of
homosexuals is prevalent among Muslims. Jonathan Brown, an Assistant
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Washington
in Seattle, writing for Patheos reports that while a group of liberal
Muslims in the West argue that homosexuality is in fact allowed in
Sharia law, almost all traditional Muslim scholars reject this argument.
But, the SPLC chose to zero in on Christians instead of Muslims.<br />
<strong>The SPLC does have a ‘General Hate’ category into which
people like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are placed. Accusing
Spencer and Geller of ‘anti-Muslim’ sentiment would be inaccurate
because much of the material produced by the two is in defense of
Muslims (i.e. women and children) who are oppressed by other Muslims. In
as much as the SPLC claims to be monitoring hate, there are no ‘Muslim
Fundamentalist’, ‘Jihadist’, or ‘Anti-Christian’ hate groups listed.</strong><br />
Both the SPLC & federal government agencies such as the DHS and
FBI harbor an interest bordering on obsession with Christians and “right
wing extremists” while ignoring the following findings from a U.S.
Senate Intelligence Committee report titled “Terrorist Arrests and Plots
Stopped in the United States 2009-2012″:<br />
<strong>Ninety-eight terror suspects/defendants from the 2009-2012
time period revealed 17 who were not Muslim and not connected to Islamic
terror plots.</strong><br />
<strong>Nearly 83% of the terror suspects involved in U.S. terror plots from 2009-2012 were Muslim</strong><br />
A report issued by the Department of Justice in 2011 relating to
“National Security Division Statistics on Unsealed International
Terrorism and Terrorism – Related Convictions 9/11/01 – 3/ 18/10″
identified, after analysis, more than 80% of all such convictions tied
to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism involved
defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda.<br />
The Senate Intelligence Committee report, that overlaps by 2009 and
early 2010 with the noted DOJ statistical conviction report, clearly
validates and continues the 80+% finding related to the post-9/11 case
conviction analysis.<br />
These reports confirm that while the vast majority of Muslims in America
are not terrorists, the clear and significant majority of terrorist
plots and cases identified within the United States involve radicalize
Muslims.<br />
(<em>Via The Investigative Project on Terrorism</em>)<br />
<strong>To be sure, government agencies need to be vigilant in regard to
all terrorist threats. But, as is the case with the politically
motivated SPLC, the DHS and FBI appears to be not as focused on the
groups representing 83% of domestic terrorist plots as they are on
groups far less likely to present a threat.</strong> In both the case of
the law enforcement training in Colorado and the Army training,
uneasiness with viewpoints deemed to be outside of the mainstream was
evident. Entire groups of people are being singled out for having
ideologies that some find offensive. It would behoove those offended to
read the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.<br />
<h2>
<strong>Note from Mario:</strong></h2>
<strong>Once again a well-meaning but uninformed believer asks why I
am speaking out in these blogs. I believe Obama is deliberately trying
to dismantle America and pull our nation under the thumb of government.
I believe he also has Islamist sympathies that reveal themselves in
incidents such as the one that I have posted above. It would be sin
for me not to pray for him. I bear no malice toward him as a person but
I recognize that right now, he is an instrument for destruction.</strong><br />
<strong>It is the height of naivete to ignore the signs of a national
take over. The steps have been clearly outlined for years by experts
and Obama is going by the book. Here are the official rules:</strong><br />
<strong>1. Seize control of healthcare and you will control the economy.</strong><br />
<strong>2. Bring division, distraction and demonize your opposition
by creating false crisis and the people will blindly give you more
power.</strong><br />
<strong>3. Undermine core values and discredit constitutional laws that block your takeover.</strong><br />
<strong>4. Disarm law abiding citizens.</strong><br />
<strong>There are of course many more steps but these are the 4 that are the most glaring.</strong><br />
<strong>Should a man of God involve himself in these matters?
Hebrews 13:17 says, “Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive,
for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let
them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable
for you.</strong><br />
<strong>As a man of God I must warn those entrusted to me about
anything that will harm them or bring disaster. I must do this
especially if I see that there is still hope to avert the danger.
However, my greatest motivation is that I will stand before God to
answer for what I did in this moment in history.</strong><br />
<strong>I would that my brethren who remain silent would see that
last part. To be sure there is a short term benefit to silence. The
masses may still like you, your tithers may not leave you but in the end
you will be listed among those who abandoned their post in America’s
darkest hour. You will stand before God and He will ask you why you
buried your prophetic gift when it was so desperately needed.</strong><br />
<strong>It is possible to tell the truth without love but it is impossible to love without telling the truth.</strong><br />
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Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-5067718940202391582015-03-14T17:40:00.001-07:002015-03-14T17:40:42.942-07:00 Senate panel probing possible Obama administration funding of effort to unseat Netanyahu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A US Senate investigatory committee has launched
a probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts to oust Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the State Department of US President
Barack Obama gave the nonprofit taxpayer-funded grants, Fox News
reported on Saturday. <br />
<br />According to the news outlet, a source
with knowledge of the panel's activities told it that the probe was
underway and was bipartisan in nature. <br /><br />According to the source,
the probe is looking into “funding” by the OneVoice Movement – a
Washington-based group that has received $350,000 in recent State
Department grants, Fox News reported. <br /><br />A spokesperson for Sen. Rob Portman, (R-Ohio), the chair of the committee, refused comment on the report to Fox. <br /><br />“The
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations does not comment on ongoing
investigations,” Caitlin Conant, spokeswoman for Portman, told Fox.<br /><br />Earlier this week, Netanyahu <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Netanyahu-There-is-a-worldwide-effort-to-topple-Likud-rule-393468" target="_blank">suggested to a meeting of Likud activists</a> in Kiryat Gat that there is an international effort to remove him from power.<br /><br />In
a recording of the meeting obtained by Army Radio, Netanyahu is heard
saying of the current election campaign, "This is a very close battle.
Nothing is ensured because there is a great, worldwide effort to topple
Likud rule."<br /><br />According to Fox, the Israel-based Victory 15
campaign which seeks to “replace the government” in Israel is a
"subsidiary" of OneVoice.<br /><br />OneVoice defines itself as an
"international grassroots movement that amplifies the voice of
mainstream Israelis and Palestinians, empowering them to propel their
elected representatives toward the two-state solution."<br /><br />One
expert told Fox earlier this month that the State Department grants
constituted "indirect Obama administration funding of the anti-Netanyahu
campaign by providing OneVoice with the $350,000 – even though State
Department officials said the funding stopped in November, ahead of the
announcement of the Israeli election." <br /><br />OneVoice is barred from
directly targeting Netanyahu by US law regulating its tax-exempt status,
and doing so would threaten that status, Fox News wrote in the report.
<br /><br />Last month, Central Elections Committee chairman Justice Salim Joubran <a href="http://%20http//www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Joubran-Likud-did-not-prove-connection-between-V15-and-Zionist-Union-391827" target="_blank">ruled that the Likud was unable to prove a connection</a> between V15 and other organizations to the Zionist Union and Meretz. <br /><br />Joubran
rejected the Likud’s petition to block activity by organizations V15,
One Voice and Molad and by strategist Eyal Arad on grounds that they are
indirectly campaigning for the Zionist Union and Meretz, and required
the party to pay NIS 48,000 in legal fees.<br /><br />The Likud accused the
Zionist Union and Meretz of illegally accepting donations from
non-Israeli citizens and organizations with foreign funding via V15,
which seeks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s defeat in the election,
and other left-wing organizations. V15 is partly funded by S. Daniel
Abraham and Daniel Lubetzky, who are not Israeli citizens.<br /><br />Joubran
also said that the party would have to prove that V15 was campaigning
for a specific party for it to be illegal, and not the organization’s
stated purpose of changing the country’s leadership, or even support for
the Center-Left.</div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-50415622749006718652015-03-14T17:37:00.000-07:002015-03-14T17:37:43.656-07:00Likud bigwig rules out Netanyahu-Herzog power-sharing arrangement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not agree to share the
premiership with Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog in a "rotation
government" following the election, Communications Minister Gilad Erdan
(Likud) told a town hall meeting in Tel Aviv on Saturday.<br /><br />The
latest polls show Zionist Union with a four-seat lead over Likud,
prompting speculation that if the results are borne out in this week's
election, Netanyahu will have no choice but to invite Herzog into a
unity government in which both men will share power.<br /><br />"[Netanyahu] will not be prime minister in a rotation arrangement," Erdan said.<br /><br />The
minister said that he doesn't believe Herzog and his running mate,
Tzipi Livni, will accept the Likud's governing guidelines in the event
that Netanyahu is tasked with forming the next coalition.<br /><br />Erdan
said that the Likud would first seek to invite its natural ally, the
religious Zionist Bayit Yehudi party, into the coalition before
negotiating with other parties.<br /><br />The minister repeated a Likud
accusation that foreign donors are bypassing Israeli election laws and
funding campaigns aimed at toppling the ruling party. The specific
reference was to the V15 movement, whose wealthy backers are known to
support liberal causes in Israel.<br /><br />"Non-profits spring up right
before elections, and a lot of foreign money flows into the country in
order to bypass campaign finance laws with the intention of removing the
Likud from power," Erdan said.<br /><br />The veteran Likud power broker said that the ruling party is on track to form the next coalition.<br /><br />"There
is no significant drop-off in the number of Knesset seats the Likud
will win, and that's natural because we are the ruling party," he said.
"We've led the State of Israel in the proper fashion. We've been
responsible and careful, and while it is clear there are problems, when
you examine life here in the face of our neighbors, and when you look at
the economy compared to that of other Western countries, then you will
see that good work has been done here."<br /><br />Erdan said he was concerned over the possibility that Likud could lose power in a last-minute development.<br /><br />"We
are in danger of seeing the Likud and the nationalist camp lose the
ability to form the next government," he said. "That would mean Bouji
(Herzog's nickname) and Tzipi will do it with the support of Ahmed Tibi,
who apparently will be a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee."<br /><br />"Assuming that Netanyahu forms the next
government, I prefer [Bayit Yehudi's] Naftali Bennett, the
ultra-Orthodox, [Moshe] Kahlon, and [Avigdor] Liberman in the coalition.
I'm not ruling anyone out on condition that they accept the government
guidelines as spelled out by Likud."</div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-2773952310578005292015-03-14T17:34:00.003-07:002015-03-14T17:34:48.007-07:00obama and israel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Obama administration stands by its rejection of <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Report-Senate-panel-probing-Obama-administration-ties-to-effort-to-unseat-Netanyahu-393905" target="_blank">claims that it has worked to influence</a> the outcome of Israel's March 17 election.<br /><br />Since
January, the State Department has questioned the veracity of reporting
on a connection between its funding of OneVoice, an organization
committed to the two-state solution, and the work of its subsidiary
known as Victory 15, which has campaigned against the government of
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since December.<br /><br />In November
2014, the same month Netanyahu called for new elections, payments to
OneVoice from the State Department ended as scheduled.<br /><br />Roughly
$350,000 in funds were transferred between September 2013 and November
2014 from the US embassy in Tel Aviv " to promote dialogue and support
for peace negotiations and a two-state solution," State Department
spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on January 28. The embassy approved an
implementation plan for the funds by OneVoice, and monitored its
performance, "before the advent of V15," she said.<br /><br />"As is routine
for such a grant, final payments are disbursed after the grantee
provides documentation showing completion of the grant terms," Psaki
continued, noting that reports to the contrary stem from "inaccurate
reporting – and a lack of reporting, perhaps I should say."<br /><br />Nevertheless,
Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas sent a letter to US President
Barack Obama at the end of January asking for an explanation of the
reported connection. And on Saturday, Fox News <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Report-Senate-panel-probing-Obama-administration-ties-to-effort-to-unseat-Netanyahu-393905" target="_blank">reported </a>that
the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has opened a formal
investigation into OneVoice's funding of V15. The inquiry has support
from Democrats and Republicans, according to anonymous sourcing to Fox
News.<br /><br />No committee member has confirmed the authenticity of
report, but Fox notes that the office of the committee chairman, Senator
Rob Portman of Ohio, did not deny the opening of a probe.<br /><br />“The
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations does not comment on ongoing
investigations,” Portman spokeswoman Caitlin Conant told Fox</div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-76919629678844775062015-03-10T03:35:00.000-07:002015-03-10T03:35:46.207-07:00Attentats islamistes en Europe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Je ne crois pas du tout aux larmes de
crocodiles et aux mines contrites des leaders européens sur
l’antisémitisme alors qu’ils financent par milliards – avec l’argent de
leurs contribuables – les ONG de la haine contre Israël et contre le
peuple juif qu’ils tentent de détruire de l’intérieur en corrompant des
Israéliens et des juifs. Ils s’indignent de l’émigration de leurs
concitoyens juifs quand ils ont tout fait pour créer la culture
antisémite/antisioniste actuelle. En fait ils veulent les empêcher
d’aller en Israël pour ne pas irriter leurs alliés arabes.<span id="more-28679"></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Pour pallier les déficiences des analyses
géopolitiques et à l’indigence du débat d’idée des grands médias, nous
avons demandé à notre amie Bat Ye’or, historienne et spécialiste de
l’histoire de la dhimmitude des chrétiens et des juifs dans le Moyen
Orient islamique, de porter son regard sur les récents attentats qui ont
déchiré la France et le Danemark.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Pour rappel, et selon l’analyse de Bat
Ye’or, la dhimmitude ne peut se comprendre que dans le cadre du djihad –
Jean-Patrick Grumberg</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Les accords Eurabia ont-ils été rompus unilatéralement par les musulmans ?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Qu’est-ce que vous entendez par « accords
Eurabia » ? Si ce sont des documents officiels ponctuels signés entre
chefs d’Etat, ces accords n’existent que partiellement et sont relatifs à
Israël. Pour simplifier, Eurabia représente deux stratégies connexes et
inséparables conçues par l’Europe avec ses partenaires de la Ligue
arabe: 1) la création de la Palestine qui remplacera Israël, et 2) le
projet méditerranéen de fusion euro-arabe, projet fondateur d’une
civilisation commune méditerranéenne. Les deux stratégies sont liées.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ces accords euro-arabes concernant Israël cités dans mon livre <a href="http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/2865531899/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1642&creative=6746&creativeASIN=2865531899&linkCode=as2&tag=drzzfr-21&linkId=WZ3YBFI6DEH57CO6" target="_blank">Eurabia</a>*, sont :</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Bruxelles 6 novembre 1973 résolution conjointe de la CEE.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Copenhague 15 décembre 1973, sommet de la
CEE entérinant son alignement sur les conditions énoncées par le VIe
Sommet arabe tenu à Alger le 26-28 novembre 1973 soit : recul d’Israël
sur les lignes de 1949, reconnaissance de la Palestine avec Jérusalem
comme capitale arabe, reconnaissance d’Arafat comme seul représentant de
la Palestine, arrêt du soutien militaire et économique de l’Europe à
Israël.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
New York, Assemblée générale de l’ONU 26
septembre 1977, déclaration d’Henri Simonet, ministre belge des Affaires
étrangères et président du Conseil de la CEE énonçant la position des
Neufs conforme à celle de la Ligue Arabe.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Venise, 13 juin 1980, Déclaration du
Conseil européen sur le Moyen-Orient qui entérine toutes les exigences
arabes et impliquent l’Europe dans un processus pro-palestinien et
anti-israélien.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Des sanctions contre Israël pour l’obliger à remplir les promesses faîtes par les Européens aux peuples arabes</div>
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Ces accords sont les premiers et
postulent la position de l’Europe, d’autres suivirent. Or une lettre du
10/12 2010 adressée par d’anciens leaders, ambassadeurs et
fonctionnaires de l’UE exhorte leurs remplaçants actuels à contraindre
Israël par tous les moyens pour qu’il exécute les obligations pris par
les Européens envers les Arabes relatives au territoire israélien, à sa
population et à sa capitale. Ceci indique que l’UE, non seulement a
adopté une position anti-israélienne dans un conflit qui ne la
concernait pas, mais s’est engagée directement auprès de ses partenaires
arabes à obliger Israël à s’exécuter. (<a href="http://www.usmep.us/usmep/wp-content/uploads/2010-12-10-EFLG-letter-to-EU.pdf" target="_blank">usmep.us/2010-12-10-EFLG-letter-to-EU.pdf</a>). Ces réclamations des pays arabes envers l’Europe ressortent de nombreux documents que j’ai examinés.</div>
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La stratégie du projet méditerranéen relève d’une autre structure. Il n’y a pas « d’accords» stricto sensu.</div>
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Elle consiste en un ensemble de lobbies
et de réseaux officieux regroupant des parlementaires représentant tous
les partis européens de la gauche à la droite, et leurs collègues arabes
délégués par les parlements arabes. Ces parlementaires arabes et
européens travaillaient ensemble dans divers comités spécifiques sous la
double présidence de la Commission européenne et de la Ligue arabe.
Michel Jobert, ministre français des Affaires étrangères nomma cette
structure en 1974 le Dialogue euro-arabe. Saleh A. al-Mani, professeur
saoudien à l’université King Saoud, la définit comme « une diplomatie
associative » titre de son livre édifiant : <a href="http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/0312266901/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1642&creative=6746&creativeASIN=0312266901&linkCode=as2&tag=drzzfr-21&linkId=RZR2UAI5ESZJMHMN" target="_blank">The Euro-Arab Dialogue: A Study in Associative Diplomacy</a>* (1983).</div>
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Ces réseaux établirent les fondations de
la civilisation euro-arabe basée sur l’immigration, le multiculturalisme
et l’antisionisme</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dès 1974 ces réseaux établirent au niveau
européen et dans tous les secteurs d’activités les fondations
idéologiques, politiques, culturelles, économiques, médiatiques,
universitaires de la civilisation euro-arabe méditerranéenne basée sur
l’immigration, le multiculturalisme et l’antisionisme. Une profusion de
documents attestent l’existence et les activités de ces réseaux
efficaces jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Le Dialogue euro-arabe, le Processus de
Barcelone (1995), la Fondation Anna Lindh (2003), le Parlement
euro-méditerranéen, l’Union méditerranéenne, Medea et bien d’autres
instruments financiers, culturels et stratégiques démontrent l’existence
de cette politique. Eurabia est tout cet ensemble qui repose sur un
nombre très variés de documents.</div>
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Un projet antisémite sorti des cartons du nazisme</div>
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Cette politique fut conçue par la France
dans les années 60. Après plusieurs années d’efforts infructueux pour y
associer les pays de la Communauté Européenne rebutés par ce projet
antisémite sorti des cartons du nazisme, la France obtint l’adhésion à
son projet en 1973. Sous les coups de boutoir du terrorisme
international palestinien et du terrorisme économique de la Ligue arabe
qui menaçait de boycott tout pays ami d’Israël, les neuf pays de la
Communauté européenne adhérèrent à la politique française.</div>
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Un nouveau facteur est apparu : l’Etat islamique qui s’inscrit dans la pérennité théologique et juridique du jihad</div>
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Pour répondre à votre question, si « les
musulmans ont rompu les accords », mot confus dans ce contexte, je ne le
crois pas. Un nouveau facteur est apparu : l’Etat islamique qui
s’inscrit dans la pérennité théologique et juridique du jihad et de la
guerre contre les mécréants.</div>
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Compte tenu qu’il n’y a jamais eu un
aggiornamento théologique de l’islam et que les pays musulmans ont
reconnu dans la charte de l’OCI (2008) s’enraciner dans les principes de
l’islam, on doit pour comprendre la situation de l’Europe,
l’interpréter selon le cadre juridique et idéologique dans lequel la
situe le jihad qui n’a jamais été abrogé. On pourrait dire qu’Eurabia
instaurait un état de trêve conditionnelle qui n’excluait pas le
terrorisme pour obliger l’Europe à exécuter à la fois ses obligations
contre Israël, et sur le plan intérieur la promotion de l’immigration
musulmane, clé de voûte du projet méditerranéen.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Maintenant, l’Europe et l’Amérique ont
donné un coup de pied dans la fourmilière, prodigué des armes aux
islamistes qu’elles ont poussé à la rébellion contre les anciens
dictateurs. L’Ummah a éclaté en tribus et clans hostiles les uns aux
autres et manipulés par les financiers de la guerre.</div>
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La présence en Europe de millions
d’immigrants qui refusent de s’intégrer et affiliés à leur pays
d’origine importera en Europe les conflits et les divisions de ces pays</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dans certaines régions, il n’y a plus
d’Etats, les frontières héritées de la colonisation après la Ier Guerre
mondiale n’existent plus. L’Etat islamique qui règnent sur ces régions
agit conformément aux règles du jihad, il se considère en guerre contre
les Etats occidentaux qui combattent les mouvements islamistes en
Afrique et au Levant. Il a donc ordonné à ses cellules dormantes en
Europe de tuer ses citoyens et de les terroriser. Cela n’a rien à voir
avec une soi-disant discrimination sociale de racistes blancs. Il est
clair que la présence en Europe de millions d’immigrants qui refusent de
s’intégrer et affiliés à leur pays d’origine importera en Europe les
conflits et les divisions de ces pays.</div>
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Ont-ils perdu le contrôle de leurs éléments les plus radicaux qui déclenchent des attentats « spontanés » ?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ces éléments obéissent à l’Etat islamique.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Mais on ne peut s’empêcher de penser que
peut-être d’autres pressions utilisent le terrorisme pour obtenir de
l’Europe les atouts qui ont toujours été exigés par la terreur depuis
les années 1960 :</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
la reconnaissance de la Palestine obtenue de plusieurs états européens sous une très forte menace terroriste ;</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
l’aggravation des sanctions en Europe
contre l’islamophobie et un renforcement de la censure culturelle contre
la liberté d’opinion ;</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
une plus grande représentativité
musulmane à des postes politiques importants et dans les médias. Cet
argument d’ailleurs a été repris par la presse et des politiciens pour
exonérer les coupables, culpabiliser la société européenne et promouvoir
une plus forte influence islamique à tous les niveaux sociaux. Ce sont
des demandes constantes formulées par l’Organisation de la Coopération
Islamique.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Est-ce l’effet de la division entre
l’Etat islamiste et les pays du « statut quo » qui rejailli sur des
musulmans incontrôlés nés en Europe, et dans ce cas l’avenir proche
promet d’être cauchemardesque ?</div>
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Les musulmans d’Europe ne sont pas
incontrôlés. Les terroristes sont organisés et agissent rationnellement
dans la logique du jihad et du dar al-Harb. Ce sont les Européens et
leurs leaders qui sont fautifs d’ignorer leurs principes et leurs
croyances.</div>
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La division est devenue un chaos de
guerres et de barbarie qui n’épargnent personne. Mais les musulmans
d’Europe ne sont pas incontrôlés. Les terroristes sont organisés et
agissent rationnellement dans la logique du jihad et du dar al-Harb. Ce
sont les Européens et leurs leaders qui sont fautifs d’ignorer leurs
principes et leurs croyances. Ces leaders ont fait preuve de leur
incroyable incompétence pour n’avoir pas prévu ce désastre en s’étant
installés dans le déni depuis quarante ans alors qu’ils ont l’obligation
d’assurer la sécurité de leurs concitoyens.</div>
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S’agit-il d’un prélude pour exiger de
l’Europe plus de soumission, plus d’acceptation de l’Islam, et un rejet
plus offensif d’Israël ?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Oui c’est exactement cela, et les concessions ont déjà commencé.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
En fait ils veulent empêcher les juifs d’aller en Israël pour ne pas irriter leurs alliés arabes</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Je ne crois pas du tout aux larmes de
crocodiles et aux mines contrites des leaders européens sur
l’antisémitisme alors qu’ils financent par milliards – avec l’argent de
leurs contribuables – les ONG de la haine contre Israël et contre le
peuple juif qu’ils tentent de détruire de l’intérieur en corrompant des
Israéliens et des juifs. Ils s’indignent de l’émigration de leurs
concitoyens juifs quand ils ont tout fait pour créer la culture
antisémite/antisioniste actuelle. En fait ils veulent les empêcher
d’aller en Israël pour ne pas irriter leurs alliés arabes.</div>
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Comment analysez-vous le futur ?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Catastrophique pour tout le monde. L’UE
ne changera pas de politique, elle s’est trop engagée pour reculer. Elle
a menée trois politiques parallèles et connexes :</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
l’affaiblissement d’Israël pour lui substituer la Palestine qu’elle a soutenue, financée et formée dans ce but</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
la destruction des nations européennes pour construire l’UE</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
la construction de la civilisation
euro-méditerranéenne, c’est-à-dire euro-arabe par l’immigration, la
mixité des populations, la suppression du judéo-christianisme afin de
rendre les populations européennes islamo-compatibles.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Eventuellement l’UE pourrait mener des
actions militaires contre Israël si la campagne BDS qu’elle préconise et
soutient en sous-main s’avérait insuffisante.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Et avec cela, comme si ce n’était pas
assez, Obama pousse à la confrontation avec la Russie, rêvant de recréer
la guerre en Europe et le chaos qu’il a semé dans les pays musulmans.</div>
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Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-8731416512979829252015-03-10T03:33:00.000-07:002015-03-10T03:33:43.154-07:00TREASON: BREAKING News :Obama gave $500 MILLION For Weapons To Al-Qaeda Terrorist Used On Our Four Dead Americans In Benghazi.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Benghazi attack could have been prevented if US hadn’t ‘switched
sides in the War on Terror’ and allowed $500 MILLION of weapons to reach
al-Qaeda militants, reveals damning report.<br />
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Citizens Committee on Benghazi claims the US government allowed
arms to flow to al-Qaeda-linked militants who opposed Muammar Gaddafi<br />
Their rise to power, the group says, led to the Benghazi attack in 2012<br />
The group claims the strongman Gaddafi offered to abdicate his presidency, but the US refused to broker his peaceful exit<br />
The commission, part of the center-right Accuracy In Media group,
concluded that the Benghazi attack was a failed kidnapping plot<br />
US Ambassador Chris Stevens was to be captured and traded for ‘blind
sheikh’ Omar Abdel-Rahman, who hatched the 1993 WTC bombing plot<br />
The Citizens Commission on Benghazi, a self-selected group of former
top military officers, CIA insiders and think-tankers, declared Tuesday
in Washington that a seven-month review of the deadly 2012 terrorist
attack has determined that it could have been prevented – if the U.S.
hadn’t been helping to arm al-Qaeda militias throughout Libya a year
earlier.<br />
‘The United States switched sides in the war on terror with what we
did in Libya, knowingly facilitating the provision of weapons to known
al-Qaeda militias and figures,’ Clare Lopez, a member of the commission
and a former CIA officer, told MailOnline.<br />
She blamed the Obama administration for failing to stop half of a $1
billion United Arab Emirates arms shipment from reaching al-Qaeda-linked
militants.<br />
‘Remember, these weapons that came into Benghazi were permitted to
enter by our armed forces who were blockading the approaches from air
and sea,’ Lopez claimed. ‘They were permitted to come in. … [They] knew
these weapons were coming in, and that was allowed..<br />
‘The intelligence community was part of that, the Department of State
was part of that, and certainly that means that the top leadership of
the United States, our national security leadership, and potentially
Congress – if they were briefed on this – also knew about this.’<br />
The weapons were intended for Gaddafi but allowed by the U.S. to flow to his Islamist opposition.<br />
The White House and senior Congressional members,’ the group wrote in
an interim report released Tuesday, ‘deliberately and knowingly pursued
a policy that provided material support to terrorist organizations in
order to topple a ruler [Muammar Gaddafi] who had been working closely
with the West actively to suppress al-Qaeda.’<br />
‘Some look at it as treason,’ said Wayne Simmons, a former CIA officer who participated in the commission’s research.<br />
Retired Rear Admiral Chuck Kubic, another commission member, told reporters Tuesday that those weapons are now ‘all in Syria.’<br />
‘Gaddafi wasn’t a good guy, but he was being marginalized,’ Kubic
recalled. ‘Gaddafi actually offered to abdicate’ shortly after the
beginning of a 2011 rebellion.<br />
‘But the U.S. ignored his calls for a truce,’ the commission wrote,
ultimately backing the horse that would later help kill a U.S.
ambassador.<br />
Kubic said that the effort at truce talks fell apart when the White House declined to let the Pentagon pursue it seriously.<br />
‘We had a leader who had won the Nobel Peace Prize,’ Kubic said, ‘but who was unwilling to give peace a chance for 72 hours.’<br />
In March 2011, Kubic said, U.S. Army Africa Commander General Carter
told NBC News that the U.S. military was not actively targeting Muammar
Gaddafi. That, Kubic revealed, was a signal to the Libyan dictator that
there was a chance for a deal.<br />
Gaddafi responded by ‘verifiably … pull[ing] his forces back from key rebel-held cities such as Benghazi and Misrata.’<br />
Gaddafi wanted only two conditions to step down: permission to keeo
fighting al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and the lifting of
sactions against him, his family, and those loyal to him.<br />
The Obama administration’s unwillingness to help broker a peaceful
exit for the Libyan strongman, ‘led to extensive loss of life (including
four Americans)’ when al-Qaeda-linked militants attacked U.S.
diplomatic facilities in the city of Benghazi,’ the commission told
reporters.<br />
The White House and the National Security Staff did not immediately respond to questions about the group’s findings.<br />
‘We don’t claim to have all the answers here,’ said Roger Aronoff,
whose center-right group Accuracy in Media sponsored the group and its
work.<br />
‘We hope you will, please, pursue this,’ he told reporters. ‘Check it out. Challenge us.’<br />
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Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-23226267672132566592015-03-06T15:46:00.002-08:002015-03-06T15:46:32.673-08:00 Quds force leader, commanding Iraqi forces against ISIS, alarms Washington<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Twice designated a terrorist by the United States government,
considered responsible for up to 20 percent of American casualties in
the Iraq war, Major General Qasem Suleimani, the legendary Iranian
spymaster and leader of the Quds Force – the elite special operations
wing of the hardline Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – is now stirring
alarm in Washington for doing something the Obama administration would
ordinarily cheer: taking the fight to ISIS in Iraq.<br />
Photographs circulating on social media show Suleimani operating
alongside senior Iraqi officials in the theater in and around Tikrit,
the Sunni ancestral home of Saddam Hussein that is located almost
equidistant between Mosul, the ISIS-controlled city 120 miles to the
north, and Baghdad, the capital of the Iraqi government 100 miles to the
south.<br />
The presence of Suleimani at the forefront of Iraqi forces’efforts to
reclaim Tikrit from ISIS control underscores both the expanding
influence of Iran on the central Iraqi government and the increasingly
critical role that Shi’ite militiamen, thought to be operating under
Quds command, are playing in the Iraqi fight against ISIS. Neither
development brings pleasure to senior U.S. officials or lawmakers in
Congress.<br />
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., raised the issue of the Iranians
with President Obama’s new defense secretary during a House
Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing on Wednesday. “I know we're
keeping our distance physically from them in Baghdad,” Frelinghuysen
said. “Have we ceded most of the governance of Iraq to Iranians?...And
will the military operations that are undergoing, which we are watching,
divide the country and require us in some ways to spend more of our
resources?”<br />
“I absolutely share your concern about the role of Iran in Iraq and
the wider region,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told the panel.<br />
Among those concerns is a fear about what may happen if and when ISIS
fighters surrender or flee Tikrit, which is presently said to be
encircled and witnessing combat. Of the advancing forces, two-thirds are
believed to be Shi’ite militiamen loyal to Iran, with the remainder
belonging to Iraqi security forces, and officials worry that the Shi’ite
troops may seek to avenge ISIS’ massacre of 1,700 Iraqi troops, almost
all Shi’ites from nearby Camp Speicher, last June.<br />
“The killings that were perpetrated in the time after we left Iraq would never be forgotten,” Frelinghuysen said.<br />
“I completely agree with you,” Carter replied. “And sectarianism is
one of the things that concerns me very much. And of course, it's the
root of the Iranian presence in Iraq.”<br />
“We're watching carefully,” added U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who appeared alongside Carter at
the hearing. “If this becomes an excuse to ethnic cleanse, then our
campaign has a problem and we're going to have to make a campaign
adjustment.”<br />
An additional reason the battle for Tikrit bears close watching at
the Pentagon is because it may serve as an indicator of how well the
Iraqi forces and their Shi’ite comrades can perform when the larger
contest for Mosul is engaged. Analysts who have examined recent Iranian
casualty reports said the data show the Islamic regime deploying more
rank-and-file troops to Syria, but higher-level commanders to Iraq, to
oversee the Shi’ite militia groups.<br />
Ali Alfoneh, an Iranian-born scholar at the Foundation for the
Defense of Democracies, cast the involvement of the Quds Force in the
ISIS conflict as reflecting a larger trend in Iranian society: its slow
transformation from a radical Islamic theocracy to a military
dictatorship, with the IRGC assuming ever greater powers.<br />
“This is an organization which has engaged in spreading sectarian
terror in Iraq. And now, this is the force that the Iraqi government has
turned to for help in order to liberate Tikrit from Islamic State
terrorists,” Alfoneh told Fox News. “In other words, we have one
terrorist organization which is helping the Iraqi government get rid of
another terrorist organization.”<br />
Such tangled lines of authority and influence are exactly what
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had in mind on Tuesday, when
he told a joint meeting of Congress: “When it comes to Iran and ISIS,
the enemy of your enemy is your enemy.”</div>
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Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-75484171690049963542015-03-03T16:13:00.002-08:002015-03-03T16:13:56.912-08:00Obama Leaks Info On Israel’s Nuke Program To Iran<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Officials from the Islamic Republic of Iran claim they have documents
that prove the United States assisted Israel in its development of a
hydrogen bomb, which they claim is a crime according to international
laws, according to the Iranian news media. And there is suspicion that
President Barack Obama declassified the documents and released them to a
left-wing think-tank to hurt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<br />
The Iranians published a copy of a 129-page memorandum they claim is
one of about 100 copies distributed by the Institute for Defense
Analysis (IDA) while under contract with the Pentagon in 1987. The
Iranian press reported that Israeli nuclear facilities that were built
independently were similar in structure to U.S. nuclear facilities such
as Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories which are key
facilities for creating and testing nuclear weaponry, Iranian-controlled
news agencies reported.<br />
But according to Veterans Today, there are rumors in the Pentagon
that President Barack Obama was the person who ordered his minions to
release the documents claiming the United States had allowed Israel to
conduct not only nuclear espionage and openly sell nuclear weapons
technology, but they received illegal American financial aid to build
the nuclear weapon. VT claims that Obama’s release of the documents was
in reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the
U.S. Congress in March. Not surprising is the fact that few, if any,
American news media outlets covered the story.<br />
“What we see here is a possibility that Obama and the Iranians
conspired to hurt Netanyahu and Israel since they oppose a U.S.-Iran
nuclear agreement. It’s a possible conspiracy and the right hand, the
U.S., doesn’t have to know what the left hand, Iran, is doing and vice
versa for there to be a conspiracy,” Lyle Kaplan a former
counterterrorism unit operative and a prosecutor. “It’s a mysterious
paradox that most American Jews hold Ronald Reagan in low-regard after
he, right or wrong, helped to make Israel a safer nation in a sea of
enemies, while they appear to love Barack Obama who has disrespected
Israel and favors the Jewish State’s enemies,” Kaplan noted.<br />
The report titled, “Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO
Nations,” claims that Israel’s nuclear facilities were advanced enough
for them to formulate, design and build nuclear weapons. The Israelis
were “developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make
hydrogen bombs. That is, codes which detail fission and fusion processes
on a microscopic and macroscopic level,” the report states.<br />
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Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-70006831186334985252015-03-01T11:59:00.002-08:002015-03-01T11:59:21.480-08:00US Senator Feinstein <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Diane Feinstein, the Democratic senator from
California, told CNN on Sunday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
contention that he is speaking for all Jews in lobbying against an
agreement between the US and Iran is “arrogant.”<br /><br />Netanyahu, upon
boarding a plane to Washington for what his office says will be a
historic address to Congress, said Sunday that he is going as an
"emissary of all the citizens of Israel, even those who don't agree with
me, and the entire Jewish people."<br /><br />Netanyahu, whose speech has
triggered a great deal of friction with the White House said, "I am
greatly concerned about the security of the citizens of Israel and I
will do what is necessary in order to ensure our future."<br /><br />“He
doesn’t speak for me on this," Feinstein told CNN's State of the Union.
"I think it’s a rather arrogant statement. I think the Jewish community
is like any other community. There are different points of view. I think
that arrogance does not befit, Israel, candidly."<br /><br />The senator
said that she will attend Netanyahu's speech, even though some of her
Democratic colleagues plan to stay away in protest to what they feel is
the Israeli premier's overt undermining of President Barack Obama and
his administration.<br /><br />"I intend to go, and I’ll listen respectfully," she said. "I don’t intend to jump up and down."<br /><br />US
Secretary of State John Kerry pressed the case on Sunday for completing
nuclear diplomacy with Iran despite Israeli opposition, saying the
United States deserves the benefit of the doubt on getting a deal that
would prevent any need for military action to curb Tehran's atomic
ambitions.<br /><br />Two days before Netanyahu is due to address the US
Congress to warn against an Iran deal, Kerry delivered a stout defense
of talks that are entering a critical phase with a key March 31 deadline
looming.<br /><br />Kerry said he hoped Netanyahu's speech does not turn
into "some great political football" but said the Israeli leader is
"welcome to speak in the United States, obviously."<br /><br />Six powers -
the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - are
negotiating with Iran toward an agreement to restrain Tehran's nuclear
program in exchange for easing economic sanctions. Netanyahu has spoken
scathingly about a possible deal and says a nuclear-armed Iran would
pose an existential threat to the Jewish state.<br /><br />Netanyahu was
invited to speak by Republican congressional leaders, but they did not
inform President Barack Obama's administration about the speech in
advance. Signs are growing that the speech could damage Israel's
country's broad alliance with the United States.<br /><br />In an interview
with the ABC program "This Week," Kerry said of the Iran negotiations:
"It is better to do this by diplomacy than to have to do a strategy
militarily which you would have to repeat over and over again and which
everybody believes ought to be after you have exhausted all the
diplomatic remedies."<br /><br />Kerry said he could not promise that a deal
can be reached, but said that "we are going to test whether or not
diplomacy can prevent this weapon from being created."<br /><br />"We have said again and again, no deal is better than a bad deal. We're not going to make a bad deal," Kerry said.<br /><br />Kerry,
who said he spoke with Netanyahu on Saturday, is heading to Switzerland
and is due to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
this week just as the Israeli leader comes to Washington.<br /><br />"Our
hope is diplomacy can work," Kerry added. "... Given our success on the
interim agreement, I believe we deserve the benefit of the doubt to find
out whether or not we can get a similarly good agreement with respect
to the future."</div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-44016045359069895342015-02-28T15:50:00.002-08:002015-02-28T15:50:43.505-08:00Susan Rice Forbids Israel from Criticizing Kerry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Who the hell does National Security Advisor Susan Rice
think she is? Does she believe in freedom of speech? How else to explain
her disdainful <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbassadorRice/statuses/430509527910195202" target="_blank">tweet</a>:
“Personal attacks in Israel directed at Sec Kerry totally unfounded and
unacceptable.” Unacceptable? Is it only Israel that has no right to
criticize him? Has Rice forgotten that Israel, like the United States,
is a democracy that enshrines the freedom of speech?</div>
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There has been a penchant of late by those in the Obama
Administration to treat Israel like an errant schoolboy. When Israel
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said, according to media reports, that
John Kerry is “obsessive and messianic,” State Department spokeswoman
Jennifer Psaki said that Ya’alon’s remarks, if accurate, are “offensive
and inappropriate, especially given all that the U.S. is doing to
support Israel’s security needs.”</div>
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Aha. So, it would follow that any country that the US is
similarly doing a great deal for would come under similar condemnation
by the State department were they to criticize American leaders.</div>
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Let’s see. I would assume that most of us would agree that
the United States, in seeing its brave soldiers die to stop the Taliban
from taking over Afghanistan, not to mention spending a trillion-odd
dollars in the war there, has done a great deal more for Afghanistan
than Israel. Yet, here is President Hamid Karzai’s official
pronouncement about the United States, just this past January 17:</div>
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“As a result of bombardment by American forces last night …
in Siahgird district of Parwan province, one woman and seven children
were martyred and one civilian injured. The Afghan government has been
asking for a complete end to operations in Afghan villages for years,
but American forces acting against all mutual agreements … have once
again bombarded a residential area and killed civilians.”</div>
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This follows a pattern of Karzai of attacking American
troops—who have saved his country from Taliban Neanderthals—as killers,
rapists, marauders, etc. Just two days ago this wretched ingrate
actually had the temerity to say that in the 12 years NATO troops have
been in Afghanistan his country has gone backward. Yet, I have searched
in vein on Susan Rice’s Twitter feed for a condemnation of Karzai for
his absolutely disgusting remarks about our heroes in uniform.</div>
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Less so have I found a State Department spokesman
condemning the Afghan president as having no right to falsely accuse
American troops.</div>
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No, it seems that Israel alone is prevented from offering a dissenting opinion from the United States.</div>
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But there is another reason Susan Rice deserves special
opprobrium from her condemnation of Israel, and that is the unique
insensitivity she is famous for when it comes to genocide.</div>
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Susan Rice was part of Bill Clinton’s National Security
Team that in 1994 took no action whatsoever during the Rwanda genocide,
leaving more than 800,000 men, women, and children to be hacked to death
by machete in the fastest genocide ever recorded.</div>
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Not content to insist on American non-involvement, the
Clinton administration went a step further by obstructing the efforts of
other nations to stop the slaughter. On April 21, 1994, the Canadian UN
commandeer in Rwanda, General Romeo Dallaire, declared that he required
only 5000 troops to bring the genocide to a rapid halt. In addition, a
single bombing run against the RTLM Hutu Power radio transmitting
antenna would have made it impossible for the Hutus to coordinate their
genocide.</div>
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But on the very same day, as Phillip Gourevitch explains in his definitive account of the Rwandan genocide, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wish-Inform-Tomorrow-Killed-Families/dp/0312243359" target="_blank"><em>We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will Be Killed With Our Families</em></a>,
the Security Council, with the Clinton Administration’s blessing,
ordered the UN force under Dallaire reduced by ninety percent to a
skeleton staff of 270 troops who would powerlessly witness the slaughter
to come. This, in turn, was influenced by Presidential Decision
Directive 25, which “amounted to a checklist of reasons to avoid
American involvement in UN peacekeeping missions,” even though Dallaire
did not seek American troops and the mission was not peacekeeping but
genocide prevention. Indeed, Madeleine Albright, then the American
Ambassador to the UN, opposed leaving even this tiny UN force. She also
pressured other countries “to duck, as the death toll leapt from
thousands to tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands … the absolute
low point in her career as a stateswoman.”</div>
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In a 2001 <a href="http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/BystandersToGenocideRawanda.pdf" target="_blank">article</a> published in <em>The Atlantic</em>, Samantha Power, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Hell-America-Age-Genocide/dp/0465061516" target="_blank"><em>A Problem from Hell</em></a> and
arguably the world’s foremost voice against genocide and who is now
Rice’s successor as America’s Ambassador to the UN, referred to Rice and
her colleagues in the Clinton Administration as Bystanders to Genocide.
She quotes Rice in her 2002 book as saying, “If we use the word
‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the
November congressional election?” That Rice would have brought up the
midterm elections as a more important consideration than stopping the
fastest slaughter of human life in all history – 330 dying every hour –
is one of the saddest pronouncements ever to be uttered by American
public official.</div>
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But she did not stop there.</div>
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Rice then joined Madeline Albright, Anthony Lake, and
Warren Christopher as part of a coordinated effort not only to impede UN
action to stop the Rwanda genocide, but to minimize public opposition
to American inaction by removing words like “genocide” and “ethnic
cleansing” from government communications on the subject.</div>
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In the end, eight African nations, fed up with American
inaction, agreed to send in an intervention force to stop the slaughter
provided that the U.S. would lend them fifty armored personal carriers.
The Clinton Administration decided it would lease rather than lend the
armor for a price of $15 million. The carriers sat on a runway in
Germany while the UN pleaded for a $5 million reduction as the genocidal
inferno raged. The story only gets worse from there, with the Clinton
State Department refusing to label the Rwanda horrors a genocide because
of the 1948 Genocide Convention that would have obligated the United
States to intervene, an effort that Susan Rice participated in.</div>
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It was painful enough to watch Kofi Anan elevated to
Secretary General even though as head of UN peace-keeping forces
worldwide he sent two now infamous cables to Dallaire forbidding him
from any efforts to stop the genocide (the cables are on display in the
Kigali Genocide Memorial).</div>
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It’s nearly as painful watching Rice lecture the Jewish
state, which lost one third of its entire people in a genocide of four
short years, lecture the Jews about how unacceptable it is for them to
criticize those who claim to know how to protect them better than they
know themselves.</div>
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Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-82764541136223753522015-02-25T03:41:00.000-08:002015-02-25T03:41:01.089-08:00US national security advisor Rice says Netanyahu address 'destructive' <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Susan Rice, US President Barack Obama's national security advisor, said
on Tuesday night that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's acceptance of
an invitation to address Congress next month is "destructive of the
fabric of the relationship" between Israel and the United States.<br /><br />"We've
been fortunate that politics have not been injected into that
relationship," Rice said to American journalist Charlie Rose. <br /><br />But
"what has happened over the last several weeks, by virtue of the
invitation that was issued by the Speaker and the acceptance of it by
Prime Minister Netanyahu on two weeks in advance of his election, is
that on both sides, there has now been injected a degree of
partisanship."<br /><br />Those decisions from both men were "not only unfortunate," Rice continued, but "destructive."<br /><br />"It's
always been bipartisan," she said. "We need to keep it that way. We
want it that way. I think Israel wants it that way. The American people
want it that way. And when it becomes injected or infused with politics,
that's a problem."<br /><br />Netanyahu accepted the invitation in late
January, originally scheduling him to speak in mid-February. He
requested the speech be delayed until March 3, when he will already be
in Washington for the annual conference of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee.<br /><br />Both of his speeches, to AIPAC and to
Congress, are expected to focus on a pending international deal on
Iran's nuclear program, which he vehemently disapproves of. In a letter
to Senate Democrats on Wednesday, Netanyahu said he planned to "voice
Israel's grave concerns about a potential nuclear agreement with Iran
that could threaten the survival of my country."<br /><br />Negotiators from
Iran, the US, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany seek to
clinch a political framework agreement on the nuclear issue by the end
of March.<br /><br />As first reported in <em>The Jerusalem Post </em>in
November, US officials are suggesting a deal with a sunset clause in
roughly ten years, during which Iran would gradually be granted the
rights and privileges of fellow signatories of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty.<br /><br />All five permanent members of the
United Nations Security Council, Arab powers and Israel believe Iran has
been in violation of its international obligations under the NPT,
growing its nuclear program in size and scope while experimenting with
weaponization techniques.<br /><br />"They're not going to be able to
convince anybody on day one that they have stopped enrichment," Rice
said to Rose, speaking of a possible deal.<br /><br />"They're going to have
to prove over time through their actions which will be validated that
they are, in fact, upholding their commitments. So this will be a phased
process any way you slice it."<br /></div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-76043997754880212922015-02-22T04:16:00.004-08:002015-02-22T04:16:47.145-08:00Israel asks UN to condemn Iran Holocaust cartoon contest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Israel called on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and on
UN member countries to condemn an international cartoon contest on
Holocaust denial hosted by Iran which is set to take place in two
months.
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“The contest legitimizes Holocaust denial and encourages those
who deny the Shoah to continue with their incitement,” Israeli
ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, wrote in a letter released Saturday.<br />
The competition is organized by Iranian organizations that have said
it comes in response to the controversial depictions of the Prophet
Muhammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last month.<br />
Iran’s House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex are
organizing The Second International Holocaust Cartoons Contest, Masud
Shojaei-Tabatabaii, the contest’s secretary, announced in a press
conference earlier this month, <a href="http://www.tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/121284-iranian-institutions-to-hold-cartoon-contest-on-the-holocaust-" target="_blank">according to the Tehran Times</a>.<br />
Shojaei-Tabatabaii, who is also the director of Iran’s House of
Cartoon, added that contestants will be asked to submit their drawings
before April 1.<br />
The winner will receive a cash prize of $12,000, with those in second
and third place taking home $8,000 and $5,000, respectively.<br />
The announcement marks the second time such a contest is being held.<br />
After the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Postens caused controversy
throughout the Muslim world in 2005 by publishing cartoons depicting the
Prophet, the two organizers held a competition calling for contestants
to draw cartoons denying the Holocaust or comparing it to the plight of
the Palestinians.<br />
According to the organizers, the contest was meant to challenge perceived Western double standards on free speech.<br />
“Why is it acceptable in Western countries to draw any caricature of
the Prophet Muhammad, yet as soon as there are any questions or doubts
raised about the Holocaust, fines and jail sentences are handed down?”
Shojaei-Tabatabaii said to the Observer in 2006.<br />
The winner of the <a href="http://irancartoon.com/120/holocaust/index.htm" target="_blank" title="http://irancartoon.com/120/holocaust/index.htm">previous contest</a>,
Abdellah Derkaoui of Morocco, drew an Israeli crane erecting a wall
around the Dome of the Rock. The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
is featured on the wall.<br />
Top works from the upcoming competition will be displayed at the
Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran and several other
locations throughout the Iranian capital.</div>
Akhbar rifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218696608471563864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978621881324663018.post-89307242186696728372015-02-19T16:27:00.000-08:002015-02-19T16:27:12.100-08:00Obama administration: Israel must quit distorting details of Iran talks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Israel is distorting the U.S. negotiating position in nuclear talks
with Iran and must stop, Obama administration officials said.
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“The United States is mindful of the need to not negotiate in public
and to ensure that information that is discussed at the negotiating
table is not taken out of context and publicized in a way that does not
distort the negotiating position of the United States and our allies,”
Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman, said Wednesday when asked to
comment on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/world/fear-of-israeli-leaks-fuels-distrust-as-us-and-iran-hold-nuclear-talks.html?_r=0">reports</a> that the Obama administration was withholding details of the talks from Israel.<br />
“There’s no question that some of the things the Israelis have said
in characterizing our negotiating position have not been accurate,
there’s no question about that.”<br />
Neither Earnest, who was addressing the daily media briefing, nor Jen
Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, would give details of which
details they think the Israelis are distorting. But a New York Times
report on Wednesday said U.S. officials are angered that the Israelis
seem to be leaking the number of centrifuges that the Iranians would be
permitted to operate under an agreement while omitting details of other
means of keeping at a minimum Iran’s uranium enrichment.<br />
“Its safe to say that not everything you’re hearing from the Israeli
government is an accurate reflection of the details of the talks,” Psaki
said at her own daily briefing. “There’s a selective sharing of
information.”<br />
Psaki and Earnest each emphasized that U.S. negotiators continue to brief their Israeli counterparts.<br />
“There is no country that is not participating in the negotiations
that has greater insight into what’s going on at that negotiating
table,” Earnest said.<br />
Netanyahu, meeting Wednesday in Jerusalem with Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), said he was aware of the details of the proposal.<br />
“The Iranians of course know the details of that proposal and Israel does too,” the Times of Israel <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-rebuffs-report-israel-kept-in-dark-on-nuke-talks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">quoted</a>
him as saying. “So when we say that the current proposal would lead to a
bad deal, a dangerous deal, we know what we’re talking about, senator.”</div>
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