Israel fires missiles at Lebanon – Vatican Cardinal: Gaza like Nazi Camp – 38 arrested over Israel-Mossad coup plot to topple the Turkish government
Israel fires missiles at Lebanon
Tel Aviv has launched five missiles at Lebanon claiming the assault was in retaliation to rocket attacks on northern Israeli towns ( is that really true?).
According to Israeli officials four rockets landed on northern Israel early on Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported. Israeli sources said 4 settlers were injured in the attack.
Israeli Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the rockets landed around the town of Nahariya, 8 km (5 miles) south of the Lebanese border. Tel Aviv claims the rockets were launched from southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah, however, says it is not responsible for the alleged firing of rockets at Israel.
An army spokesperson said that following the attack the Israeli military launched missiles onto Lebanon in what it described as ‘retaliatory’ fire.
Hezbollah’s al-Manar television and Lebanese officials announced that five mortar rounds had landed on the Lebanese soil near the southern border with Israel. However, the artillery landed on desert areas causing no damage or casualties, Press TV’s Beirut correspondent, Ali Rizk, reported.
Israeli warplanes breached Lebanon’s airspace following the incident, conducting overflights over southern Lebanon.
Despite Israeli officials’ claims that Tel Aviv is not interested in opening a new front against Hezbollah in the north, Israeli reconnaissance aircraft regularly fly over Lebanon.
On December 28, a day after Tel Aviv launched its bloody airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes conducted overflights at a low altitude over south Lebanon, violating the country’s airspace in breach of UN Security Council resolution 1710.
Meanwhile, Israeli media say the rocket attacks were most likely fired by Palestinian groups in retaliation for the 13-day-long Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.
Radio and television reports cited unnamed military sources saying the incident was likely to be an ‘isolated attack’.
The Islamic Hamas movement has also denied the reports that it was behind the shelling. “We cannot blame any Palestinian faction and we don’t know who fired the rockets,” said Hamas spokesman in Lebanon, Raafat Morra.
“Hamas is pursuing its combat inside Palestine and our principle is not to use any other Arab soil to respond to the occupation. This is our firm policy,” he said.
“Basically what is happening is the fault of Israel because it is impossible to contain the Arab and Islamic world after the Gaza massacre.”
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Vatican Cardinal: Gaza like Nazi Camp
Israel on Wednesday slammed a senior Vatican official for comparing the Gaza Strip to a “concentration camp,” saying the comments were “based on Hamas propaganda.”
“Making remarks that seem to be based on Hamas propaganda while ignoring its numerous crimes … does not bring the people closer to truth and peace,” foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said.
Cardinal Renato Martino, the Vatican’s justice and peace minister, was quoted by the online Italian daily Il Sussidiario as saying the conditions in Gaza “increasingly resemble a big concentration camp.”
On Tuesday Pope Benedict XVI said he wanted to encourage efforts to get Israelis and Palestinians to sit down together in ‘peace talks’ over the Gaza conflict. Benedict was speaking to visitors and tourists in St. Peter’s Square.
The pope said he was following the news of the armed clashes in Gaza with “strong worry.” He repeated his warning that hate and rejection of dialogue only lead to war.
Benedict added he is encouraging all efforts and initiatives by those who want peace, and who are trying to help Israelis and Palestinians to sit down and talk. The Vatican has said the pope would like to go the Holy Land on a pilgrimage this spring, but no concrete plans have been made.
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38 arrested over mossad coup plot in Turkey
More than thirty-eight people have been detained in Turkey in the latest wave of arrests over the controversial Ergenekon coup plot.
Three retired generals, a colonel – who is on active duty – academics and journalists are reportedly among the detainees.
Turkish police, meanwhile, conducted a search of a house belonging to former chief prosecutor, Sabih Kanadoglu. However, Kanadoglu was not detained during their raid.
Turkey’s state-run Anatolia News Agency reported that police raids were conducted simultaneously in twelve provinces across the country.
A court in Istanbul also issued search warrants for the suspects’ homes and workplaces.
The Ergenekon case has been filed against more than 80 people on charges that they sought to establish an unlawful organization to provoke a series of events that would pave the way for a military coup in Turkey.
The shadowy Ergenekon group has been indicted of at least two violent attacks — the bombing of a secularist newspaper in 2006 and an attack on a court in the same year, in which a judge was killed.
Mossad plot to topple the Turkish government
A report alleges that Israel’s national intelligence agency, Mossad has been behind the Ergenekon plot to topple the Turkish government.
A secret investigation of detained Ergenekon group members and other studies outside Turkey indicate that Mossad orchestrated coups against the Turkish government, the Turkish daily Milliyet reported Sunday.
The Ergenekon group is a Turkish neo-nationalist organization with alleged links to the military, members of which have been arrested on charges of plotting to foment unrest in the country. Investigators uncovered evidence that show a Jewish rabbi named Tuncay Guney, who worked for Mossad and fled to Canada in 2004, was a key figure behind attempts to overthrow the Turkish government, the paper said, Fars news reported.
A document uncovered this week by the Sabah daily shows how Guney deliberately infiltrated Ergenekon and another organization known as JITEM, an illegal intelligence unit linked with the police and suspected of hundreds of murders and kidnappings.
Meanwhile, a separate report by Turkish daily Yeni Safak has claimed that Turkish security forces have discovered documents in Guney’s Istanbul house that disclose information concerning suspicious investment and economic activities by certain Jewish businessmen in Turkey.
The businessmen allegedly have significant relations with individuals, political groups and cultural organizations affiliated with the Ergenekon group.
Turkish security forces have detained many members of the Ergenekon group, including retired army generals, politicians, popular lawyers and famous journalists.
The individuals currently face trail on charges of plotting to overthrow Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2008/11/report-mossad-behind-ergenekon-plot.html
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