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In a live televised speech at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York on Tuesday, Barack Obama said the troops would be deployed in the first part of 2010.
“As commander in chief, I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan,” he told the cadets.
He stated that the fresh troops, who will increase the number of US forces in Afghanistan from 68,000 to 100,000, would focus on targeting the resurgent Taliban, securing key population centers, and training military personnel.
In a very emphatic tone, he warned that the United States would end its eight-year mission in the next 19 months. He said that a drawdown would begin in July 2011.
However, he gave no deadline for a full US withdrawal but tried to imply the given date for the start of the pullout indicated that his administration was not pursuing an “open-ended escalation” of the war effort.
“Our troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended… the nation that I am most interested in building is our own,” he said, reasoning that an open-ended military campaign would get the US tangled up in “nation building project of up to a decade” in Afghanistan.
Obama then went on to revive the arguments that Washington has tried to provide as justification for the invasion of Afghanistan since the beginning of the 2001 occupation, by recalling the September 11 incidents.
“It is important to recall why America and our allies were compelled to fight a war in Afghanistan in the first place… On September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked four airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people,” he said.
“They struck at our military and economic nerve centers. They took the lives of innocent men, women and children.
“As we know, these men belonged to al-Qaeda — a group of extremists who have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the world's great religions, to justify the slaughter of innocents,” he added.
There are no estimates available on the number of civilians who have been killed in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion, but according to UN figures, over 1,500 Afghans have been killed just in the first half of 2009.
Furthermore, countless reports by international press, including leading US media, indicate that the top al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders such as Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar all reside in Pakistan, not Afghanistan.
During the past eight years, the US has made no substantial effort to detain these top leaders in Pakistan, while Britain even presented an initiative for dialogue with the militants for a possible compromise.
On his Tuesday speech, Obama also acknowledged that the situation in Afghanistan had deteriorated over the last several years as the Taliban had gained ground.
He also said that now the Afghans must take responsibility for their own country, without explaining how this could happen considering the significant US military buildup in Afghanistan.
The president said the US must pay attention to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, adding that the same "cancer" of terror that hampered Afghanistan had taken root along the border with Pakistan.
Pakistan and the United States have a common enemy in extremism, he claimed.
Obama also leaned heavily on NATO allies and other countries by calling on them to help escalate the war by sending more soldiers, and said, "We must come together to end this war successfully.”
NATO diplomats said Obama was asking alliance partners in Europe to add 5,000 to 10,000 troops to the separate international force in Afghanistan.
NATO allies and other countries have about 40,000 troops on the ground in the war-torn state.
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama Wednesday signed the fiscal 2010 National Defence Authorization Act during a ceremony at the White House.
Obama hailed the act, which contains $680.2 billion in military budget authority, as transformational legislation that targets wasteful defence spending.
The authorization act contains $130 billion to fund overseas contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and it also provides $6.7 billion for thousands of all-terrain, mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles now arriving in Afghanistan.
The president was accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, congressional leaders and other senior officials, including Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“There’s still more waste we need to cut; there’s still more fights that we need to win,” Obama said, noting he and Gates will continue to seek out unnecessary defence spending.
Obama said he has ended unnecessary no-bid defence contracts and signed bipartisan legislation to reform defence procurement practices so weapons systems’ costs do not spin out of control. “Even as we have made critical investments in equipment and weapons our troops do need, we’re eliminating tens of billions of dollars in waste we don’t need,” Obama said.
“As commander in chief, I will always do whatever it takes to keep the American people safe to defend this nation,” Obama said. “That’s why this bill provides for the best military in the history of the world.”
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Money also is budgeted to fund programs that address “real and growing threats,” Obama said. Such systems, he said, include the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter, the littoral combat ship, and more helicopters and reconnaissance support for deployed U.S. forces.
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United States to send ‘up to 45,000 more troops to Afghanistan’
James Kirkup and Andrew Hough
Telegraph
October 15, 2009
President Barack Obama’s administration is understood to have told the British government that it could announce, as early as next week, the substantial increase to its 65,000 troops already serving there.
The decision from Mr Obama comes after he considered a request from General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, to send tens of thousands of extra American troops to the country.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said: “I don’t want to put words in the mouths of the Americans but I am fairly confident of the way it is going to come out.”
An announcement next week could coincide with a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Bratislava, Slovakia, due next Thursday and Friday.
Biden Comments Signal Possible Iran Attack
Infowars
July 6, 2009
Vice President Joe Biden, appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” said that the Obama administration would not stand in the way if Israel chose to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. “Look, Israel can determine for itself — it’s a sovereign nation — what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else,” Biden said. He added that the Obama administration “cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do.”
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Reminded that the U.S. could impede an Israeli strike on Iran by prohibiting it from using Iraqi air space, Biden said he was “not going to speculate” beyond saying that Israel, like the U.S., has a right to “determine what is in its interests.”
On Monday, Iran’s Press TV reported that Israel has denied reports that suggest Israeli bombers have been allowed to use Saudi airspace for an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, thus bypassing Iraq airspace. The denial came after unnamed Israeli diplomatic sources told The Sunday Times that Saudi officials have secretly agreed to allow Israeli fighter jets to fly over the kingdom to strike Iran’s nuclear sites.
“The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia,” the The Sunday Times quoted an Israeli diplomatic source as saying.
An Israeli defense source recently confirmed that the Mossad spy agency maintained “working relations” with Saudi Arabia.
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said it was “entirely logical” for the Israelis to use Saudi airspace to attack Iran.
Bolton said he had discussed the possibility with Saudi officials in closed-door meetings. “None of them would say anything about it publicly but they would certainly acquiesce in an overflight if the Israelis didn’t trumpet it as a big success.”
“Israel’s decision of whether to use military force against Tehran’s nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever,” Bolton told the Washington Post last week.
Israel held a major long-range military air exercise – involving more than 100 F15 and F16 fighters – as a rehearsal for a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Independent revealed in June, 2008. The fighters, along with refuelling tankers and helicopters able to rescue downed pilots, were mobilized during the first week of June over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece in an exercise monitored by foreign intelligence agencies.
Late last month, as the CIA and NGO spawned “color revolution” unfolded in Iran, former Secretary of State and Rockefeller minion Henry Kissinger said if the western orchestrated coup against Ahmadinejad and the mullahs failed, an outside alternative would have to be used in the name of “regime change.”
Iran’s leadership dispatched hundreds of riot police and Basij militiamen to put down demonstrations. Iran has detained over 1,000 demonstrators and the initially large protests have been scaled down due to the repressive measures of the government. Analysts say many Iranians who believe that fraud swayed the presidential election in favor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will have to find new means to challenge the hard-liners in power, The Christian Science Monitor reported over the weekend.
In February of 2007, it was revealed that the U.S. has a “fallback plan” in place for an attack. “US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure,” the BBC reported. “It is understood that any such attack — if ordered — would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centers.”
Obama ordered Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to update the plans for the use of military force against Iran in May, according to Israel News.
Iran deployed missile batteries in the Persian Gulf after the Islamic Republic received secret information that the United States and Israel were planning to attack it, the Saudi newspaper al-Watan reported in May. The deployment of the missiles indicates that Iran believes an attack against its nuclear facilities will be conducted from the air or the sea.
The commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard said last June that the government would shut down vital oil lanes through the Persian Gulf if the country were attacked by the United States or Israel. “Naturally every country under attack by an enemy uses all its capacity and opportunities to confront the enemy,” said Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari. “Iran will definitely act to impose control on the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz.” More than 17 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz every day.
Jafari also warned of possible reprisals against countries that allow the U.S. or Israel to use their territory or airspace to launch attacks against Iran, a reference to Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
In addition to the obvious global economic implications of shutting down the oil lanes in the Persian Gulf, an attack by Israel or the United States would inflame tensions in the Middle East, especially among Shi’ite populations. An attack would incite Shi’ites in Lebanon — namely Hezbollah — and in Iraq and elsewhere in the region, including Saudi Arabia. Hezbollah is positioned to attack Israel if it attacks Iran.
“The most horrific impact of a US assault on Iran, of course, would be the potentially catastrophic number of casualties. The Oxford Research Group predicted that up to 10,000 people would die if the US bombed Iran’s nuclear sites, and that an attack on the Bushehr nuclear reactor could send a radioactive cloud over the Gulf. If the US uses nuclear weapons, such as earth-penetrating ‘bunker buster’ bombs, radioactive fallout would become even more disastrous,” Heather Wokusch wrote for Common Dreams in 2006.
Iranian Interior Minister: Western Intelligence Behind Riots And Unrest
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Iran’s interior minister, Sadeq Mahsouli has accused Western intelligence of backing the riots in Iran following the controversial election results.
Mahsouli’s comments were given very little mainstream media coverage, but were picked up by AFP and Reuters.
Mahsouli has claimed that U.S., U.K., and Israeli interests are behind the unrest.
“Britain, America and the Zionist regime (Israel) were behind the recent unrest in Tehran,” the Interior Minister was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars News Agency.
“Many of the rioters were in contact with America, CIA and the MKO and are being fed by their financial resources,” he said.
Of course, the Iranian government has its own axe to grind, but Mahsouli’s statement increases the focus on claims that Western intelligence agencies are stoking civil disobedience in the hope of fomenting regime change in Iran.
You do not have to take the Iranian government’s word as evidence for this.
There is no debate over the fact that a CIA Covert destabilization campaign inside Iran has been ongoing for over two years.
US Military, intelligence, and congressional sources say a secret war is being vamped to bring down the current Iranian leadership. This involves funding anti-government terrorist groups inside Iran, such as Jundullah and the MEK/MKO.
While president Obama has been quick to denounce such suggestions as “patently false”, arch globalist geopolitical manipulators Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski have both hinted that US interests are currently operating to advance their own agendas with regards to Iran and the middle east.
South Korea-U.S. Combined Command Forces Raise Attack Warning Level
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
May 28, 2009
According to news sources in Asia, the South Korea-U.S. Combined Command Forces raised the watch level against North Korea by one notch on Thursday. South Korean defense spokesman Won Tae-jae told South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency the Combined Forces raised the WATCHCON system from Level 3 to Level 2. WATCHCON is the process of changing the reconnaissance posture for strategic and tactical warning of attack operated by ROK and US military forces.
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The Watch Condition hierarchy is characterized by four stages: WATCHCON 4 (normal peacetime position), WATCHCON 3 (important indications of threat), WATCHCON 2 (vital indications of threat), and WATCHCON 1 (wartime situation). The WATCHCON is normally raised by the agreement of ROK and US military intelligence authorities, according to a GlobalSecurity writeup on OPLAN 5027, the United States and Republic of Korea’s operational plan for defense of South Korea in the event of a North Korean invasion.
The last time WATCHCON was elevated was in October 2006 when North Korea conducted its first nuclear test.
China Daily notes that the DEFCON level remains at four. Standard peacetime protocol is DEFCON 5, descending in increasingly severe situations. DEFCON 1 represents expectation of actual imminent attack. During the Cold War, DEFCON 1 was feared because it would precede all-out nuclear war. It is not known if DEFCON 1 has ever been declared. DEFCON 2 was declared during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, although the declaration was limited to Strategic Air Command.
Earlier today, Infowars posted an article by Jim Rawles theorizing that U.S. forces in South Korea have gone to DEFCON 1. There is currently no evidence DEFCON 1 is in effect.
A number of blogs are linking to an article posted on the Macedonia International News Agency website claiming DEFCON 2 was declared in response to North Korean saber-rattling.
General George Casey, the current Chief of Staff, told the Associated Press this evening United States could fight an “old-fashioned war against North Korea if necessary.” Casey said “it would probably take us a little bit longer to shift gears” away from the type of “counterinsurgency fighting that now occupies the Army” (a reference to the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and increasing military provocations in Pakistan’s tribal areas).
The “gear up” in response to a North Korean attack on South Korea would take 90 days, said Casey.
North Korea currently has more than 11,000 artillery weapons pointed at over 10 million citizens in Seoul. North Korea’s 1.2 million-man Army is the world’s fourth largest fighting force and two-thirds of those soldiers are stationed within 60 miles of the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ), along with thousands of tanks and armored personnel carriers.
North Korea currently has ballistic missiles capable of hitting Japan and the United States. Earlier this week the Stalinist regime claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear weapon as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
State Of War Between Two Koreas After Armistice Ended
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
A state of war officially exists again between North and South Korea for the first time since the end of hostilities in 1953 following North Korea’s announcement that they would henceforth refuse to abide by the terms of the peace armistice.
“The Korean People’s Army will not be bound to the Armistice Agreement any longer,” the official Korean Central News Agency said in a statement today. Any attempt to inspect North Korean vessels will be countered with “prompt and strong military strikes.” South Korea’s military said it will “deal sternly with any provocation” from the North, reports Bloomberg.
As we have highlighted, any North Korean attack on South Korea will be countered by the United States, which is allied with South Korea. North Korea is allied with China, and Chinese military forces will support North Korea in any conflict just as they did in the 1950’s before the armistice was signed.
North Korea’s renouncement of the peace armistice follows yesterday’s threat by a Japanese ruling party minister that Japan should change the terms of its pacifist constitution in order to conduct cruise missile strikes on North Korea.
Meanwhile, Russia has warned that the conflict could go nuclear and has made preparations to safeguard its far eastern regions.
An interesting back story to this crisis is the fact that, as we reported in October last year, the RAND corporation has been intensely lobbying the Pentagon to become embroiled in a new war. Although North Korea was ruled out as a target because RAND demanded a bigger conflict, the eventual consequences of a war between the Koreas could lead to a global military confrontation involving Russia and China.
The origins of this whole crisis lead back to the question of how North Korea obtained its nuclear weapons in the first place, and for that we have to thank the usual suspects - the U.S. military industrial complex.
In 2004, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atom bomb program, admitted sharing nuclear technology via a worldwide smuggling network that included facilities in Malaysia that manufactured key parts for centrifuges.
Khan’s collaborator B.S.A. Tahir ran a front company out of Dubai that shipped centrifuge components to North Korea.
Despite Dutch authorities being deeply suspicious of Khan’s activities as far back as 1975, the CIA prevented them from arresting him on two occasions.
“The man was followed for almost ten years and obviously he was a serious problem. But again I was told that the secret services could handle it more effectively,” former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers said. “The Hague did not have the final say in the matter. Washington did.”
Lubbers stated that Khan was allowed to slip in and out of the Netherlands with the blessing of the CIA, eventually allowing him to become the “primary salesman of an extensive international network for the proliferation of nuclear technology and know-how,” according to George W. Bush himself, and sell nuclear secrets that allowed North Korea to build nuclear bombs.
“Lubbers suspects that Washington allowed Khan’s activities because Pakistan was a key ally in the fight against the Soviets,” reports CFP. “At the time, the US government funded and armed mujahideen such as Osama bin Laden. They were trained by Pakistani intelligence to fight Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Anwar Iqbal, Washington correspondent for the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, told ISN Security Watch that Lubbers’ assertions may be correct. “This was part of a long-term foolish strategy. The US knew Pakistan was developing nuclear weapons but couldn’t care less because it was not going to be used against them. It was a deterrent against India and possibly the Soviets.”
In September 2005 it emerged that the Amsterdam court which sentenced Khan to four years imprisonment in 1983 had lost the legal files pertaining to the case. The court’s vice-president, Judge Anita Leeser, accused the CIA of stealing the files. “Something is not right, we just don’t lose things like that,” she told Dutch news show NOVA. “I find it bewildering that people lose files with a political goal, especially if it is on request of the CIA. It is unheard of.”
In 2005, Pakistani President Pervez Musharaf acknowledged that Khan had provided centrifuges and their designs to North Korea.
With this history in mind, the shock, condemnation and indignation being expressed by the U.S. government in response to North Korea’s second nuclear bomb test is tinged with hypocrisy to say the least. Through their policies in aiding North Korea to build light water reactors, and via the CIA asset AQ Khan who was protected at every step of the way while he helped provide North Korea with the means to build a nuclear arsenal, the U.S. government itself is directly complicit in providing North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il with the nuclear weapons that they are now condemning him for testing.
North Korea Threatens to Attack U.S. Warships
May 27, 2009
The Associated Press is reporting that North Korea is threatening to attack U.S. warships.
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“Now that the South Korean puppets were so ridiculous as to join in the said racket and dare declare a war against compatriots,” North Korea is “compelled to take a decisive measure,” the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement carried by state media.
The Stalinist regime said it could no longer promise the safety of U.S. and South Korean warships and civilian vessels in the waters near the Korea’s western maritime border, according to reports.
North Korea has bolstered its live artillery fire exercises and fighter jet training near the western sea border with South Korea since it declared an “all-out confrontational posture” against the South in January. North Korea is said to have deployed thousands of weapons hidden in mountain caves and tunnels near the inter-Korean border. The artillery puts South Korea’s capital area within target range, according to The Korea Times.
On May 25, North Korea conducted a nuclear test in violation of U.N. violation of Resolution 1718.
On March 9, South Korea and the United States kicked off their annual joint military exercises on despite strong oppositions by North Korea. According to the Chosun Daily, 26,000 U.S. troops and over 50,000 South Korean troops will participate in the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercise all over South Korea, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
It is unknown if the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier and a total of seven U.S. Aegis destroyers that participated in the joint exercise are still in the area.
Russian air defence systems for Iran
Vladimir Radyuhin
The Hindu
December 19, 2008
MOSCOW: Russia has begun deliveries of its most potent air defence systems to Iran, a Russian news agency reported.
Russia is currently fulfilling a contract to deliver S-300 air defence systems to Iran, RIA news agency reported quoting confidential sources in the Russian Defence Ministry.
The move has rattled Israel, which has immediately dispatched a senior Defence Ministry official to Russia to thwart the sale.
Moscow earlier met its obligations on supplying Tor-M1 systems to Iran and is currently implementing a contract to deliver S-300 systems, RIA said. Russia supplied 29 Tor-M1 short-range air-defence complexes to Iran a year ago under a $1.4-billion contract.
The S-300 is a long-range air defence system. Earlier defence sources said Moscow was planning to sell Iran five batteries of 300PMU-1 launchers at a price of $800 million. A typical S-300 battery contains 48 missiles on 12 mobile launchers. The S-300PMU can intercept missiles and aircraft from more than 120 km away.
The powerful combination of advanced short-range and long-range air defence systems will enable Iran to counter any Israeli or U.S. attacks. Israeli Defence Ministry official Amos Gilad arrived in Moscow on Wednesday to try and persuade the Russians to cancel the deal on the grounds that it could upset the balance of power in West Asia. Russia has rejected the Israeli protest.
Russia’s military and technical cooperation with Iran has a positive impact on stability in this region,” deputy head of Russia’s Federal Military Technical Cooperation Service Alexander Fomin told RIA.
We have developed, are developing and will continue to develop this cooperation further. The region’s security to a large extent depends on this, he added.
Iran Is Helping Taliban in Afghanistan, Petraeus Says
Henry Meyer
Bloomberg
February 15, 2009
Iran is helping Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, said General David Petraeus, who is in charge of U.S. forces in the Central Asian nation and Iraq.
“There is a willingness to provide some degree of assistance to make the life of those who are trying to help the Afghan people difficult,” Petraeus told a conference today in the Qatari capital, Doha.
Petraeus gave no details of the Iranian assistance, which he described as taking place at “a small level.” The U.S. and its allies are watching Iran’s actions in Afghanistan “very, very closely,” he said, adding that the Persian Gulf state continues to train and equip Shiite Muslim militias in neighboring Iraq.
The Obama administration is preparing to commit as many as 30,000 more troops over the next year to beat back a renewed Taliban insurgency. Petraeus’s comments come as the U.S. is seeking to start a dialogue with Iran amid a continued standoff over its nuclear program.
Shiite Muslim Iran cooperated with the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled the militant Sunni Muslim Taliban, noted Petraeus.
“It’s not in their interests to see the Taliban, a Sunni ultra-conservative, extremist element, return to take control of Afghanistan,” he told the conference on the U.S. role in the Islamic World.
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Channel 4 UK Report From Gaza
Channel 4
January 9, 2009
Meet the children left to die among the bodies of their parents and families.
Israel Sends Ground Troops into Gaza
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
January 3, 2008
On Saturday, Israel graduated from its murderous bombing raids on Gaza to sending soldiers into the locked-down territory. “For the first time since the start of Operation Cast Lead, IDF ground troops entered the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, exchanging fire with Hamas gunmen,” reports the Jerusalem Post. “The IDF said that a large amount of troops from the Armored Corps, Engineering Corps and Infantry Corps entered the territory with the purpose of destroying Hamas infrastructure… The IDF warned that terrorists using civilians as human shields would bear full responsibility for their fate.”
Al Jazeera report on the second week of Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Earlier in the day, Israel dropped leaflets over the sprawling open-air prison where 1.4 million Palestinians live, most on less than two dollars a day. “Leaflets signed by the commander of the Israeli military were dropped over northern Gaza on Saturday morning, warning residents to ‘leave the area immediately’ to ensure their safety,” reports CNN.
CNN did not note that this is at best a sadistic joke because the “residents,” or gulag inmates, have nowhere to go to escape the onslaught as the whole of Gaza is a free-fire zone. In essence, the leaflet is a flaccid attempt to make an excuse for the slaughter that will soon take place. Israel will claim it had warned the “residents” of Gaza, so they cannot be held responsible for the mass murder that is about to take place.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak admitted as much when he declared the bombardment of Gaza is “war to the bitter end.”
“Due to the terrorist actions undertaken by terrorist elements from the region of your residences against the state of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces are compelled to respond immediately in the region of your residences. For your safety, you are ordered to leave the area immediately,” the leaflets say.
In fact, the state of Israel, run by fanatical nationalists, considers all Palestinian Arabs as little more than terrorists. In 1969, Golda Meir, the prime minister of Israel, declared there “is no such thing as a Palestinian people.” Instead of a people, the state of Israel considers the Palestinians a motley assemblage of terrorists who are to be slaughtered, not negotiated with.
On December 30, four leading Israeli rabbis sanctioned the high-tech murder of the civilian population of Gaza. “The ruling seems to give a free hand to Israeli commanders to attack Gaza’s civilian population and persuade those troops who have reservations to kill civilians due to humanitarian considerations,” reported Press TV. “The rabbis argued that the army should announce that it would bomb any civilian community from which a rocket is fired to force the local residents into confronting those who fire rockets or mortars at Israeli targets.”
In other words, the Palestinians are not allowed to defend themselves against saturation bombing and invasion.
As usual, the excuse provided for this barbarism is that Hamas fired first with their puny rockets.
“Conscientious Israelis acknowledge that the Hamas rockets rationale is fraudulent,” Dennis Rahkonen wrote on January 1. “Israeli apologists have presented absurd propaganda about those devices…. At any point during the past six decades, Israel could have had peace, simply by assenting to the great moral imperative of our time, namely the Palestinians’ right to their own, unitary, sovereign homeland.”
Conscientious Israelis, however, seem to be in short supply. According to a Haaretz-Dialog poll released on January 1, “52 percent of respondents favor continuing the air campaign. Nineteen percent say the Israeli army should send in troops on the ground.” Only 19 percent of Israelis say the government should negotiate an immediate cease-fire, reports VOA News. Moreover, the indiscriminate bombing campaign has provided Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a popularity boost. More than half of Israelis are satisfied with Barak’s performance compared to just 34 percent six months ago.
Meanwhile, in the United States, those who naively believed the election of Obama would change the situation are discouraged. Obama’s selection of “Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff, have raised doubts that much will change,” reports Reuters. “The Arab world was largely enthusiastic about Obama’s election victory in November, in the belief that a fresh face in the White House must be better than outgoing President George W. Bush, who invaded Iraq and gave strong support to Israel.” Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Institute’s Middle East Center in Beirut, noted that Obama “will not put large amounts of pressure on the Israelis” and “will not force Israel (into concessions).”
In fact, support for Israel’s genocidal actions against the Palestinians is part of the ongoing globalist “divide and conquer” strategy designed to sow discord among Muslims and bring Islam into disrepute, as Peter Meyer notes. Hamas is part of this “clash of civilizations” campaign, a fact unrealized by most Palestinians.
Hamas was founded in 1987 by the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.”The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. Moslem Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times,” states the Hamas Charter (see How Britain Helps Hamas And The Muslim Brotherhood).
At its core the Muslim Brotherhood consists of “secretive bankers and financiers who stand behind the curtain, the members of the old Arab, Turkish, or Persian families whose genealogy places them in the oligarchical elite, with smooth business and intelligence associations to the European black nobility and, especially, to the British oligarchy,” writes Robert Dreyfuss. “By allying with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Anglo-Americans are not merely buying into a terrorists-for-hire racket; they are partners in a powerful and worldwide financial empire that extends from numbered Swiss bank accounts to offshore havens in Dubai, Kuwait and Hong Kong.”
Hamas’ ludicrously ineffective and crude rocket attacks on Israel are designed to villainize the Israeli intelligence spawned terrorist group. As exit polls conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Public Opinion during the election revealed, Fatah received 42 percent of the vote and Hamas 35 percent. “Palestinian pollsters were at a loss to explain the discrepancy between the exit polls and the result,” the Associated Press reported at the time. “The concern is that the victory by Hamas means there will be an all-out Palestinian war with Israel since Hamas will not only control its own forces but will also yield authority over the 50,000 police that belong to the Palestinian Authority. Hamas does not recognize the State of Israel and is sworn to its destruction,” writes J. Adams (see previous link).
Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip is but another chapter in the global elite’s “clash of civilizations” agenda, the ultimate result being the establishment of a world government under the dictatorial control of the banking elite. Israel, of course, has its own agenda, but it is merely a subset of a larger globalist plan. It was, after all, Baron Edmond de Rothschild who nurtured Zionism in the 1880s. Between 1884 and 1934, Rothschild donated about $6 million, an enormous sum at the time, to the project that ultimately resulted in the creation of the state of Israel.
Bolton: Gaza raids precursor to Iran war.
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:28:56 GMT
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Former top US diplomat John Bolton
Former top US diplomat John Bolton says Israeli strikes on Gaza have ignited a multi-front war which could lead to a US attack on Iran.
Bolton, a former US ambassador to the UN, accused Iran of supplying arms and equipment to Hamas and making efforts to develop a nuclear bomb.
"I don't think there's anything at this point standing between Iran and nuclear weapons other than the possibility of the use of military force possibly by the United States, possibly by Israel," Bolton told FoxNews.
"So while our focus obviously is on Gaza right now, this could turn out to be a much larger conflict," said the hawkish US official, adding, "We're looking at potentially a multi-front war."
Bolton made the allegations about Iran's nuclear program after the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which represented the consensus of the 16 US intelligence agencies, concluded "with high confidence" that Iran halted its "nuclear weapons program" in 2003 and that the program remains frozen.
The controversial intelligence contradicted longstanding claims that Tehran was "working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb" and came as a blow to advocates of a military strike against Iran like Bolton.
When asked if Israel would be capable of taking out Iran's nuclear facilities, Bolton said he believed "Israel could destroy enough of Iran's program to give us three, four years, which puts time back on our side to look for a longer term solution."
Israel continues to mass its forces along the Gaza border in preparation for a ground offensive. More than 370 Palestinians have so far been killed in the assaults among which at least 62 were women and children.
Bolton's remarks came as speculation has been rife that an Israeli go-it-alone strike on Iran is in the offing. However, many analysts believe an Israeli attack on Iran would not be possible without a US green light.
Despite Israeli pressure for a military option against Iran, many US foreign policy experts have advised the President-elect Barack Obama to engage Iran with diplomacy -- a move which would not be well-received among powerful pro-Israeli lobbies in Washington.
Israel after five straight days of air attacks, on Wednesday rejected a proposal for a temporary ceasefire in its military onslaught in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli military is also gathering its gunboats near the Gaza port and its ground forces along the border in preparation for a possible ground offensive.
Earlier on Monday, a senior Iranian commander floated the idea that the time has come for Muslims to militarily stop Israeli crimes in Gaza.
"Only the military aid can save Gaza," said Brigadier General Mir-Faisal Baqerzadeh, Head of the Foundation for the Remembrance of the Holy Defense.
Israeli Aircraft Target Hamas
Sky News
More than 200 people are said to have been killed after the Israeli airforce fired at Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Israel said it was part of an operation against terror. Hamas has called on its fighters to avenge the attacks. Rachel Younger reports.
Obama: No Comment on Gaza Slaughter
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
December 27, 2008
Obama no longer has to placate pro-Israel voters, including no shortage of Christian Zionists, so his lack of comment on the premeditated slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza should send us a message — an Obama administration will continue the long-standing U.S. policy of allowing Israel to wantonly kill Palestinians and pay the Israeli government handsomely to do so. In 2008, the U.S. gave $20.27 billion to Israel, more than a 12 percent increase in foreign aid from 2007.
An AlJazeera video report on Israel’s slaughter on the Gaza Strip.
In fact, it would seem Obama is dedicated to supporting Israel, no matter how many Palestinians it slaughters or starves. “All of us are concerned about the impact of closed border crossings on Palestinian families. However, we have to understand why Israel is forced to do this,” Obama wrote in a letter to ambassador Khalilzad. “Israel has the right to respond while seeking to minimize any impact on civilians.”
According to the logic of Obama — or rather his neoliberal handlers — Israel was forced to bomb the densely populated Gaza and kill so far over a 150 people. As Richard Silverstein noted on January 24th of this year, Obama’s letter to the neocon and former senior political scientist at RAND, Zalmay Khalilzad, may as well have been penned by an AIPAC staffer. “In fact, that’s a very strong possibility in this instance,” as Obama, the Democrats, and no shortage of Republicans have incessantly paid tribute to the political pressure organization.
Obama had no comment on the wounding of this Palestinian child.
On cue, Israel’s foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, issued profuse excuses for the carnage. “The international community understands that Hamas is an extreme Islamist organization that spreads its hatred in the entire region, which is being supported by Iran,” she said. “And the international community needs to understand that this is the translation of the right of Israel to defend itself, that there is no other alternative and we are doing what we need to do in order to defend our citizens.”
In fact, Hamas became the “threat” it is today thanks to Israel’s Mossad. “Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO),” notes Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, was eagerly supported by Prime Minister Golda Meir and the Israeli government. Yassin, after he had served his usefulness, was blown to bits by an Israeli missile.
In 2002, Richard Sale, a UPI correspondent, filed a report detailing the Israeli connection to Hamas. “The thinking on the part of some of the right-wing Israeli establishment was that Hamas and the others, if they gained control, would refuse to have any part of the peace process and would torpedo any agreements put in place,” an anonymous U.S. official told Sale. The original report has since found its way to the memory hole, although it lives on elsewhere.
Democrats who thought an Obama administration would bring some balance to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are probably saddened by Obama’s apparent lack of concern for the mass murder now taking place. But then what did they expect? Obama is nothing if not window dressing for the New World Order and obviously the NWO wants the carnage to continue in Palestine. Of course, the global elite have no special love for Israel, either, and its people will be sacrificed when the time is right. Israel’s elite will do so willingly, as they have in the past, including collaborating with the Nazis, as Lenni Brenner has documented.
Israel Sends Ground Troops into Gaza
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
January 3, 2008
On Saturday, Israel graduated from its murderous bombing raids on Gaza to sending soldiers into the locked-down territory. “For the first time since the start of Operation Cast Lead, IDF ground troops entered the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, exchanging fire with Hamas gunmen,” reports the Jerusalem Post. “The IDF said that a large amount of troops from the Armored Corps, Engineering Corps and Infantry Corps entered the territory with the purpose of destroying Hamas infrastructure… The IDF warned that terrorists using civilians as human shields would bear full responsibility for their fate.”
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| Al Jazeera report on the second week of Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip. | |
Earlier in the day, Israel dropped leaflets over the sprawling open-air prison where 1.4 million Palestinians live, most on less than two dollars a day. “Leaflets signed by the commander of the Israeli military were dropped over northern Gaza on Saturday morning, warning residents to ‘leave the area immediately’ to ensure their safety,” reports CNN.
CNN did not note that this is at best a sadistic joke because the “residents,” or gulag inmates, have nowhere to go to escape the onslaught as the whole of Gaza is a free-fire zone. In essence, the leaflet is a flaccid attempt to make an excuse for the slaughter that will soon take place. Israel will claim it had warned the “residents” of Gaza, so they cannot be held responsible for the mass murder that is about to take place.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak admitted as much when he declared the bombardment of Gaza is “war to the bitter end.”
“Due to the terrorist actions undertaken by terrorist elements from the region of your residences against the state of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces are compelled to respond immediately in the region of your residences. For your safety, you are ordered to leave the area immediately,” the leaflets say.
In fact, the state of Israel, run by fanatical nationalists, considers all Palestinian Arabs as little more than terrorists. In 1969, Golda Meir, the prime minister of Israel, declared there “is no such thing as a Palestinian people.” Instead of a people, the state of Israel considers the Palestinians a motley assemblage of terrorists who are to be slaughtered, not negotiated with.
On December 30, four leading Israeli rabbis sanctioned the high-tech murder of the civilian population of Gaza. “The ruling seems to give a free hand to Israeli commanders to attack Gaza’s civilian population and persuade those troops who have reservations to kill civilians due to humanitarian considerations,” reported Press TV. “The rabbis argued that the army should announce that it would bomb any civilian community from which a rocket is fired to force the local residents into confronting those who fire rockets or mortars at Israeli targets.”
In other words, the Palestinians are not allowed to defend themselves against saturation bombing and invasion.
As usual, the excuse provided for this barbarism is that Hamas fired first with their puny rockets.
“Conscientious Israelis acknowledge that the Hamas rockets rationale is fraudulent,” Dennis Rahkonen wrote on January 1. “Israeli apologists have presented absurd propaganda about those devices…. At any point during the past six decades, Israel could have had peace, simply by assenting to the great moral imperative of our time, namely the Palestinians’ right to their own, unitary, sovereign homeland.”
Conscientious Israelis, however, seem to be in short supply. According to a Haaretz-Dialog poll released on January 1, “52 percent of respondents favor continuing the air campaign. Nineteen percent say the Israeli army should send in troops on the ground.” Only 19 percent of Israelis say the government should negotiate an immediate cease-fire, reports VOA News. Moreover, the indiscriminate bombing campaign has provided Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a popularity boost. More than half of Israelis are satisfied with Barak’s performance compared to just 34 percent six months ago.
Meanwhile, in the United States, those who naively believed the election of Obama would change the situation are discouraged. Obama’s selection of “Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff, have raised doubts that much will change,” reports Reuters. “The Arab world was largely enthusiastic about Obama’s election victory in November, in the belief that a fresh face in the White House must be better than outgoing President George W. Bush, who invaded Iraq and gave strong support to Israel.” Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Institute’s Middle East Center in Beirut, noted that Obama “will not put large amounts of pressure on the Israelis” and “will not force Israel (into concessions).”
In fact, support for Israel’s genocidal actions against the Palestinians is part of the ongoing globalist “divide and conquer” strategy designed to sow discord among Muslims and bring Islam into disrepute, as Peter Meyer notes. Hamas is part of this “clash of civilizations” campaign, a fact unrealized by most Palestinians.
Hamas was founded in 1987 by the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.”The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. Moslem Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times,” states the Hamas Charter (see How Britain Helps Hamas And The Muslim Brotherhood).
At its core the Muslim Brotherhood consists of “secretive bankers and financiers who stand behind the curtain, the members of the old Arab, Turkish, or Persian families whose genealogy places them in the oligarchical elite, with smooth business and intelligence associations to the European black nobility and, especially, to the British oligarchy,” writes Robert Dreyfuss. “By allying with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Anglo-Americans are not merely buying into a terrorists-for-hire racket; they are partners in a powerful and worldwide financial empire that extends from numbered Swiss bank accounts to offshore havens in Dubai, Kuwait and Hong Kong.”
Hamas’ ludicrously ineffective and crude rocket attacks on Israel are designed to villainize the Israeli intelligence spawned terrorist group. As exit polls conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Public Opinion during the election revealed, Fatah received 42 percent of the vote and Hamas 35 percent. “Palestinian pollsters were at a loss to explain the discrepancy between the exit polls and the result,” the Associated Press reported at the time. “The concern is that the victory by Hamas means there will be an all-out Palestinian war with Israel since Hamas will not only control its own forces but will also yield authority over the 50,000 police that belong to the Palestinian Authority. Hamas does not recognize the State of Israel and is sworn to its destruction,” writes J. Adams (see previous link).
Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip is but another chapter in the global elite’s “clash of civilizations” agenda, the ultimate result being the establishment of a world government under the dictatorial control of the banking elite. Israel, of course, has its own agenda, but it is merely a subset of a larger globalist plan. It was, after all, Baron Edmond de Rothschild who nurtured Zionism in the 1880s. Between 1884 and 1934, Rothschild donated about $6 million, an enormous sum at the time, to the project that ultimately resulted in the creation of the state of Israel.
Bolton: Gaza raids precursor to Iran war. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:28:56 GMT http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=80067§ionid=3510203 | ||
Bolton, a former US ambassador to the UN, accused Iran of supplying arms and equipment to Hamas and making efforts to develop a nuclear bomb. "I don't think there's anything at this point standing between Iran and nuclear weapons other than the possibility of the use of military force possibly by the United States, possibly by Israel," Bolton told FoxNews. "So while our focus obviously is on Gaza right now, this could turn out to be a much larger conflict," said the hawkish US official, adding, "We're looking at potentially a multi-front war." Bolton made the allegations about Iran's nuclear program after the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which represented the consensus of the 16 US intelligence agencies, concluded "with high confidence" that Iran halted its "nuclear weapons program" in 2003 and that the program remains frozen. The controversial intelligence contradicted longstanding claims that Tehran was "working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb" and came as a blow to advocates of a military strike against Iran like Bolton. When asked if Israel would be capable of taking out Iran's nuclear facilities, Bolton said he believed "Israel could destroy enough of Iran's program to give us three, four years, which puts time back on our side to look for a longer term solution."
Despite Israeli pressure for a military option against Iran, many US foreign policy experts have advised the President-elect Barack Obama to engage Iran with diplomacy -- a move which would not be well-received among powerful pro-Israeli lobbies in Washington. Israel after five straight days of air attacks, on Wednesday rejected a proposal for a temporary ceasefire in its military onslaught in the Gaza Strip. Israeli military is also gathering its gunboats near the Gaza port and its ground forces along the border in preparation for a possible ground offensive. Earlier on Monday, a senior Iranian commander floated the idea that the time has come for Muslims to militarily stop Israeli crimes in Gaza. "Only the military aid can save Gaza," said Brigadier General Mir-Faisal Baqerzadeh, Head of the Foundation for the Remembrance of the Holy Defense. |
Israeli Aircraft Target Hamas
Sky News
More than 200 people are said to have been killed after the Israeli airforce fired at Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Israel said it was part of an operation against terror. Hamas has called on its fighters to avenge the attacks. Rachel Younger reports.
Obama: No Comment on Gaza Slaughter
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
December 27, 2008
Obama no longer has to placate pro-Israel voters, including no shortage of Christian Zionists, so his lack of comment on the premeditated slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza should send us a message — an Obama administration will continue the long-standing U.S. policy of allowing Israel to wantonly kill Palestinians and pay the Israeli government handsomely to do so. In 2008, the U.S. gave $20.27 billion to Israel, more than a 12 percent increase in foreign aid from 2007.
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| An AlJazeera video report on Israel’s slaughter on the Gaza Strip. | |
In fact, it would seem Obama is dedicated to supporting Israel, no matter how many Palestinians it slaughters or starves. “All of us are concerned about the impact of closed border crossings on Palestinian families. However, we have to understand why Israel is forced to do this,” Obama wrote in a letter to ambassador Khalilzad. “Israel has the right to respond while seeking to minimize any impact on civilians.”
According to the logic of Obama — or rather his neoliberal handlers — Israel was forced to bomb the densely populated Gaza and kill so far over a 150 people. As Richard Silverstein noted on January 24th of this year, Obama’s letter to the neocon and former senior political scientist at RAND, Zalmay Khalilzad, may as well have been penned by an AIPAC staffer. “In fact, that’s a very strong possibility in this instance,” as Obama, the Democrats, and no shortage of Republicans have incessantly paid tribute to the political pressure organization.
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| Obama had no comment on the wounding of this Palestinian child. | |
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On cue, Israel’s foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, issued profuse excuses for the carnage. “The international community understands that Hamas is an extreme Islamist organization that spreads its hatred in the entire region, which is being supported by Iran,” she said. “And the international community needs to understand that this is the translation of the right of Israel to defend itself, that there is no other alternative and we are doing what we need to do in order to defend our citizens.”
In fact, Hamas became the “threat” it is today thanks to Israel’s Mossad. “Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO),” notes Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, was eagerly supported by Prime Minister Golda Meir and the Israeli government. Yassin, after he had served his usefulness, was blown to bits by an Israeli missile.
In 2002, Richard Sale, a UPI correspondent, filed a report detailing the Israeli connection to Hamas. “The thinking on the part of some of the right-wing Israeli establishment was that Hamas and the others, if they gained control, would refuse to have any part of the peace process and would torpedo any agreements put in place,” an anonymous U.S. official told Sale. The original report has since found its way to the memory hole, although it lives on elsewhere.
Democrats who thought an Obama administration would bring some balance to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are probably saddened by Obama’s apparent lack of concern for the mass murder now taking place. But then what did they expect? Obama is nothing if not window dressing for the New World Order and obviously the NWO wants the carnage to continue in Palestine. Of course, the global elite have no special love for Israel, either, and its people will be sacrificed when the time is right. Israel’s elite will do so willingly, as they have in the past, including collaborating with the Nazis, as Lenni Brenner has documented.
