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Israeli councilor faces probe for saying all Arabs must ‘disappear’
Israeli councilor faces probe for saying all Arabs must ‘disappear’
The State Prosecution on Sunday instructed the police to investigate Upper Nazareth City Councilor Ze’ev Hartman on suspicion of incitement to racism.
The move comes after a complaint was filed in April against Hartman, who called for the city’s Arabs to “disappear,” in an Independence Day greeting to local residents.
Councilors had been asked record personal greetings for Israel’s 61st Independence Day to be aired over the holiday.
When the camera reached Hartman, he stated his wish for “all the Arabs to disappear.” The cameraman, reportedly stunned by the statement, asked Hartman if he was being serious, to which he replied “absolutely serious.”
Following Hartman’s remarks, Upper Nazareth’s spokesman for Arab Affairs, George Shahada, took the recording and lodged a complaint of racism and incitement with local police.
The state prosecution said several complaints of inciting racism and violence had been filed against Hartman in the past, but he was never indicted.
In 1998, the Tzomet-Gesher-Moledet party was banned from running in Upper Nazareth municipal elections after a similar complaint was lodged against Hartman, who ran on the faction list.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097920.html
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Israel Murders Unarmed Protestors
Israel’s Heinous Attack On The USS Liberty
Palestine Lawyers Prepare 936 War Crime Suits
Lunatic Israeli ‘Settlers’ Dedicate New Site to Obama
The Washington Child Sex Ring Coverup
UK Supermarkets – Lawsuits Over Israeli Food Labels
Saudi Urges US To Stop Israel Aid
UK Supermarkets – Lawsuits Over Israeli Food Labels
FEMA Web Page Shows Martial Law Exercise With Foreign Troops
IMBROGLIO GEOPOLITIQUE : Idriss Deby pion d’Israël contre le Soudan !
IMBROGLIO GEOPOLITIQUE : Idriss Deby pion d’Israël contre le Soudan !
L’agent israelien Sarkosy et le pantin de la DGSE DebyIls ne sont en tout cas pas nombreux à admettre que l’incendiaire instabilité qui calcine le Soudan depuis près d’une dizaine d’années, ainsi que cet acharnement irréductible d’une certaine « opinion internationale » à l’endroit de son président, ne sauraient uniquement être expliqués par l’explosion des velléités sécessionnistes de quelques groupuscules ethniques militarisés – aussi antagonistes qu’aux motivations échevelées – , ou encore du fait de la gesticulation juridico- terroriste de quelques apprenti-sorciers au service d’une justice internationale en mal d’expérimentation.
La réalité est beaucoup plus effrayante : car il est de plus en plus visible qu’une coalition désormais identifiée veut à la fois la peau du président El Béchir, le contrôle politico-administratif du Soudan, ainsi que la mainmise absolue sur ses énormes richesses minières et énergétiques. En somme, le beurre, l’argent du beurre, la vache, la fermière, et même… la ferme !
De même, les offensives militaires effectuées depuis bientôt six ans contre le régime Tchadien voisin – systématiquement qualifiées « d’agressions du Soudan contre le Tchad » – ne sont, et n’ont jamais été, que la solution du désespoir de patriotes Tchadiens. Des patriotes et non des « mercenaires » – comme on se complait à dire uniquement au palais rose à N’djamena – ayant été contraints à la solution extrême de l’affrontement militaire face au président Idriss Deby qui a verrouillé toute possibilité d’alternance politique, et même du moindre dialogue objectif et sincère avec les acteurs politiques de son pays où, ce n’est un secret pour personne, la dictature et la violation constante des libertés fondamentales sont la seule règle de gouvernement.
La plus flagrante preuve du cynisme politique du président Deby est la démarche absolument absurde qu’il adopte ces temps derniers où il crie à hue et à dia, après la tenue du sommet des États Sahélo-Sahariens, sa volonté de faire la paix avec le Soudan. Il ne fait nullement allusion à dialoguer, ou à faire la paix avec l’UFR qui est le mouvement politico-militaire le plus important, et par voie de conséquence incontournable dans le contexte politique Tchadien.
Cela veut clairement dire que le problème du président Deby ne se situe pas au niveau des politico-militaires qu’il connait bien, et dont il n’ignore rien des nobles motivations ni des objectifs politiques. Sa seule obsession étant de pouvoir se mettre d’accord avec le Soudan, ainsi – pense-t-il – l’UFR, qu’il croit soutenu par le Soudan, n’aura plus de protecteur, et devrait donc logiquement se retrouver hors- jeu.
A la limite, daigne-t-il inviter tout opposant à – non pas dialoguer dans un cadre formel mais – plutôt de venir se joindre à la plate forme du fameux accord du 13 Août 2007 qui est – à l’heure qu’il est – fort décrié par ses malheureux signataires qui n’en finissent pas de le qualifier d’escroquerie politique.
Il serait difficile d’évoquer les rebelles tchadiens sans parler de ceux, Soudanais, qui logent au vu et au su du tout N’djamena à l’hôtel Kempinsky et sont entretenus au doigt et à l’œil par le régime en place. Ces rebelles sans réelle idéologie, et seulement animés par une rigide logique de sécession du Soudan, n’ont jamais reculé devant rien pour atteindre leur principal objectif : la partition de cet immense pays, et au bout du compte l’instauration d’une république islamique.
Pourtant, le président Omar El Béchir n’a jamais hésité à négocier avec ces mouvements, certes sans foi ni loi, mais animés par des Soudanais. D’ailleurs après le succès de la médiation Qatarie avec le MJE il y a quelques mois- suivie de leur offensive d’il ya quelques jours- le président El Béchir est toujours disposé à dialoguer. Contrairement à Idriss Deby !
En dépit de cette positive propension à la normalisation du climat politique dans son pays, le président Omar El Béchir a fort à faire sur d’autres plans. Car depuis près de huit ans, une insidieuse et cohérente stratégie de déstabilisation d’envergure internationale s’est tissée autour de sa personne et de son régime. Elle aura atteint son point d’orgue avec ce mandat international que vient de lancer la Cour Pénale Internationale à son encontre, lui un président de République en fonction.
Cette hallucinante conspiration contre le Soudan a fini par être étalée ces derniers temps au grand jour à la suite de la divulgation de scandaleux documents qui font aujourd’hui le tour des salles de rédactions ainsi que des salons feutrés de certaines chancelleries Africaines.
En effet, dans la cynique et criminelle optique d’envahir le Soudan, mettre son président sur la touche ou en prison – et accessoirement l’exécuter – et surtout assouvir des appétits pétroliers gargantuesques, et couper l’herbe sous les pieds des chinois – ainsi que des éventuels partenaires économiques nouveaux en Afrique – les États Unis ont mis les petits plats dans les grands. L’accusation pourrait sembler excessive s’il n’y avait pas, pour recouper les faits, des documents, des témoignages, des rapports officiels vérifiables.
Et bien évidemment, quand on parle des USA, Israël n’est jamais loin. Israël que l’on imaginerait encore plus enflammé par sa haine atavique contre tout ce qui est arabe, n’a guère hésité à mettre en marche – et les preuves foisonnent à ce sujet – une sorte d’Internationale Juive pour s’occuper particulièrement du Soudan, particulièrement impardonnable à ses yeux d’héberger sur son sol des supposés Palestiniens militants actifs du Hamas.
Et pour régler ses comptes avec Khartoum, l’État Hébreu n’a eu qu’à appuyer sur un bouton pour mettre à contribution deux prestigieuses personnalités, aujourd’hui aux premières loges en France, que sont le juif Nicolas Sarkozy à la Présidence de la République, et le non moins Juif Bernard Kouchner, à la tête de la diplomatie française. Cela pourrait paraitre tout simplement incroyable, mais les agissements de l’un comme de l’autre ne laissent guère beau coup de doutes quant à l’authenticité de cette insolite collusion.
Personne n’a d’ailleurs oublié que, par solidarité politico ethnique vis – à -vis de son frère juif Sarko, Kouchner avait préféré jeter ses convictions socialistes aux orties au lendemain de la dernière élection présidentielle en France afin d’obtenir en contrepartie ce que de nombreux observateurs considèrent comme le plus grand ministère du gouvernement français. La France n’étant rien dans le monde sans sa diplomatie.
Ce lobby juif en question – à la détermination féroce quant à la déstabilisation du Soudan – a néanmoins tenu à avancer à visage couvert, et pour ce faire, il a pu et su trouver un pion en or en Afrique, près du Soudan, tout près du Soudan : il s’agit de l’ogre de N’djamena, le bien nommé Idriss Deby Itno.
C’est ainsi qu’il serait simpliste de penser que tout ce qui se passe aujourd’hui au Soudan ne pourrait s’analyser uniquement qu’à l’aune des turbulences politico sociologiques ayant installé une guerre insupportable ainsi qu’un véritable drame humanitaire sur le sol du pays le plus vaste d’Afrique.
En fait, les malheurs du Soudan proviennent de ce qui fait sa force : l’immensité de son territoire, la multiplicité de ses énormes richesses pétrolières, minières, et énergétiques qui ont suscité d’indescriptibles convoitises de la part des grandes puissances en mal d’hégémonie néo coloniale. Bien entendu, la plus grande force de ce pays n’étant autre que son chef d’État, El Hadj Omar Hassan El Béchir, un homme de fortes convictions et de caractère qui – contrairement à bon nombre de dirigeants Africains – sait ce qu’il veut pour son pays, et surtout n’a jamais accepté la moindre compromission dès lors qu’il est question de la souveraineté de la Nation Soudanaise.
UNE INTERNATIONALE JUIVE CONTRE KHARTOUM.
A en croire donc tout ce qui se dévoile aujourd’hui sur l’opération planifiée de la fragilisation du Soudan, il s’est posé un problème sérieux aux yeux des puissances conjuguées et déterminées à faire main basse sur l’un des sols les plus riches du continent Africain : comment mettre Omar El Béchir à terre en donnant l’impression de rendre service à la communauté internationale ?
C’est ainsi que l’option de désarticulation de ce vaste territoire fut méthodiquement planifiée et mise en marche : des groupuscules prétendument rebelles se formèrent – armés et soutenus par des sponsors identifiés par la suite – montèrent violemment et sauvagement à l’assaut du gouvernement de ce pays qui, jusque là, ne s’était distingué en Afrique que par sa bonne santé économique et le nationalisme indestructible de son leader.
Qu’une certaine presse occidentale hagarde ait tenté de justifier les motivations séparatistes de ces groupuscules rebelles, et même, que certains gouvernements aient – contre toute décence – refusé de condamner les inadmissibles actes de barbarie perpétrés sur les pauvres populations par de prétendus « libérateurs » aux mains rouges de sang, n’ont guère détourné le chef de l’État Soudanais de son obsession à faire face, et même de faire front à cette cabale internationalisée. Une cabale que l’on a scientifiquement saupoudrée de sensiblerie en criaillant sur tous les toits au génocide et à la catastrophe humanitaire.
En fait, la vérité est toute simple : Israël et ses alliés naturels – que sont les États-Unis d’Amérique et la France – s’acharnent en coulisses, depuis près d’une dizaine d’années, à tenter de renverser le régime du président Béchir afin de placer à la tête de l’État soudanais des hommes plus réceptifs à leurs … appétits pétroliers.
Surtout que, pour la commercialisation du pétrole soudanais, le président El Béchir a opté depuis de nombreuses années de traiter avec des partenaires plus sensibles à la notion de commerce équitable comme la Chine, qui est, on le sait, l’antithèse des puissances impérialistes d’occident qui trouvent un incroyable plaisir à dépouiller les pays d’Afrique de leurs ressources minières, pour ne leur offrir en contrepartie que des brimborions et des cacahuètes.
Encore que, par ailleurs, outre le fait de ne penser qu’à dépouiller le Soudan à peu de frais de son pétrole, la coalition israélo-franco-américaine affiche une soif inextinguible à traquer les résistants des mouvements nationalistes palestiniens, notamment ceux du Hamas, ayant trouvé refuge dans ce pays ou ailleurs. On peut donc comprendre la haine viscérale d’Israël pour le Soudan, coupable à ses yeux d’accorder égards et gîte à ses ennemis jurés.
Mais bien avant la mise en marche de la vendetta Israélienne contre le Soudan, il faut dire que depuis au moins l’année 2002, les États Unis d’Amérique poursuivent une vicieuse politique de contrôle géostratégique en Afrique. C’est ce qu’on a appelé au pays de l’oncle Sam : « la nouvelle course à l’Afrique »
En effet, si le grand déploiement économique des pays d’Asie en Afrique est qualifié par les spécialistes de « Grand Jeu », ceux-ci parlent plutôt de nouvelle “Course à l’Afrique” pour ce qui concerne le nouvel intérêt de la part des grandes puissances occidentales, notamment les USA.
Ainsi, selon « The National Security Strategy of the United States de 2002 » – la balise directrice des stratégies globales du gouvernement Américain – le “combat contre le terrorisme mondial et la nécessité d’assurer la sécurité énergétique des USA requièrent des États Unis qu’ils augmentent leur engagement en Afrique. »
En parlant de nouveau « d’assurer la sécurité énergétique » pour justifier un « engagement des USA en Afrique », il est clair que ce sont les pays producteurs de pétrole qui sont visés. Et quand on ose seulement penser que le Soudan possède d’immenses gisements d’or noir, le compte est bon pour le pays d’Omar El Béchir qui, en plus, traine la réputation d’avoir hébergé Ben Laden à une certaine époque.
Ainsi, le prétexte de terrorisme peut tranquillement être accolé au « souci de la sécurité énergétique »pour réserver au Soudan le sort de tous les États étiquetés de « voyous » par les administrations Américaines.
Ce n’est pas gratuit, et de nombreuses études sont menées en permanence au Département d’État Américain pour que les États-Unis occupent désormais une position d’importance sur le continent noir.
Il n’est donc pas surprenant que Richard Haass, actuel président du Conseil sur les Relations étrangères au Département d’État, ait jugé utile et opportun d’affirmer dans la préface de son rapport de 2005, sous le titre « More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa »( Plus que de l’humanitarisme : une approche stratégique US de l’Afrique): « À la fin de la décennie, l’Afrique subsaharienne est susceptible de devenir une source d’importations énergétiques US aussi importante que le Moyen-Orient.»
Et de préciser dans le même rapport que : «l ’Afrique de l’Ouest dispose de quelques 60 milliards de barils de réserves pétrolières avérées. Son pétrole, à faible teneur en soufre, est un brut doux fort apprécié par l’économie US. Les agences et les boîtes à idées Américaines prévoient qu’un baril de pétrole sur cinq entrant dans le circuit économique mondial dans la deuxième moitié de cette décennie viendra du Golfe de Guinée, et que la part provenant du Golfe de Guinée dans les importations US passera de 15 à 20 % en 2010, et à 25% en 2015. Le Nigeria fournit déjà 10% du pétrole importé par les USA. L’Angola en fournit 4%, et sa part devrait doubler d’ici la fin de la décennie. La découverte de nouvelles réserves et l’expansion de la production pétrolière sont en train de faire d’autres pays de la région des exportateurs importants de pétrole, notamment la Guinée équatoriale, São Tomé et Principe, le Gabon, le Cameroun et le Tchad. La Mauritanie deviendra un exportateur de pétrole en 2007. Le Soudan, limité par la Mer rouge à l’Est et le Tchad à l’Ouest, est un important producteur de pétrole. »
Un important producteur de pétrole dont aucun chiffre n’est précisé sur la production ni sur les potentialités, mais qui – à d’autres niveaux – mérite des attentions particulières.
UNE AMBASSADE D’ISRAEL AU SOUDAN.
Des attentions qui ont commencé par la recherche de la maitrise politique de ce pays grand comme cinq fois la France, et dont le président est du genre pas malléable du tout. C’est alors qu’Israël s’engagea jusqu’au cou dans le soutien matériel et logistique des rebelles Soudanais.
En 2008, Abd Al-Wahed Al-Nour, le chef du très sanguinaire Mouvement de libération du Soudan, dans un élan d’enthousiasme irrépressible à cause du soutien qu’apporte Israël à leur mouvement par le biais du Tchad – affirmait sur les antennes de la chaîne de télévision Al-Arabiya : « le Mouvement de libération du Soudan déclare haut et fort que dès que nous arrivons au pouvoir, nous ouvrirons une ambassade israélienne à Khartoum». Ils sont en tout cas nombreux à savoir, de N’djamena à Tel Aviv, que le Tchad reçoit depuis plus de cinq ans des armes fournies par l’État hébreu, et destinées aux différents mouvements rebelles du Soudan, et du Darfour plus particulièrement.
En effet, appuyés par les juifs français, Bernard-Henri Lévy et Bernard Kouchner, le Conseil représentatif des institutions juives, l’Union des étudiants juifs de France, la Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme, entre autres, des orateurs aux yeux injectés de sang avaient exigé « une intervention internationale au Darfour contre le gouvernement de Khartoum, et recommandé à la communauté internationale d’armer les rebelles du Mouvement de libération. »
C’est pourquoi, aujourd’hui plus qu’hier, Israël qui – bien que niant avoir signé des accords de défense avec le Tchad – ne se limite pas seulement à l’envoi du matériel militaire aux rebelles du Darfour du SLA d’Abd Al-Wahed Al-Nour – quoique ces derniers soient jugés ces derniers temps un peu timorés, mais se charge également de leur formation tant en Israël qu’en France.
C’est surtout le cas du MJE de Khalil Ibrahim dont ses éléments sont assimilés aux troupes de Deby. Ce sont d’ailleurs les hommes du MJE entraînés et armés à Am-Djéres et Tiné, puis emmenés à N’djamena par des avions français qui ont combattu, début Février 2008, les forces de l’UFDD dirigées par le Général Mahamat Nouri et les autres dans le cadre de la Coordination Militaire Unifiée (CMU), aux côtés de la soldatesque de Deby et des soldats français d’origine africaine et antillaise.
LE TCHAD AGRESSE LE SOUDAN SOUS LE SILENCE INTERNATIONAL.
Bien évidemment, l’agression tchadienne perpétrée contre le Soudan, au nez et à la barbe du monde entier, qualifiée par N’djamena – de « droit de poursuite » – n’a pas ému le moins du monde les bien pensants de la communauté internationale qui savent jouer très promptement les vierges effarouchées quand il faut condamner « l’agression du Tchad » pour un oui ou pour un non.
Il faut dire qu’en fait le Tchad tire sa petite audace – à laquelle le Soudan aurait répliqué depuis, si de nombreuses personnalités et chefs d’États africains ne lui conseillaient la retenue – au soutien que lui apporte de plus en plus l’armée sioniste.
Le Tchad où le combat des patriotes de l’UFR est présenté à une certaine opinion internationale – et même devant le Conseil de Sécurité – comme une folle cavalcade de mercenaires Soudanais. Voilà un ridicule amalgame qui ne profite à personne, et surtout pas au régime d’Idriss Deby qui s’obstine à vouloir croire qu’il pourrait éternellement faire de la symétrie avec de fausses fenêtres.
Un amalgame qui n’honore pas non plus la France qui connait parfaitement la réalité du contexte politique Tchadien, mais s’obstine à maintenir au pouvoir – au grand dam de tout le peuple Tchadien – un autocrate dénué de toute ambition démocratique pour son pays.
En 1989, la manne du pétrole au Tchad avait suscité les convoitises des multinationales occidentales, notamment ELF Aquitaine, une société française d’extraction pétrolière. C’est ainsi que fut propulsé Idriss Deby par le gouvernement français de l’époque pour servir de pion. La machination a marché sur le dos du peuple tchadien. Une minorité de la population tchadienne avait cru en Deby un temps, quand il est arrivé au pouvoir…par les armes en 1990 avec son fameux slogan : « je vous apporte, ni or ni argent, mais la liberté ». Bluff ! Mais le masque fut tombé trois mois après l’avènement de MPS. Beaucoup de cadres civils et militaires, paysans, commerçants, étudiants et autres ; ont été contraints au maquis et au choix des armes auquel ils ont été acculés par un régime autiste, corrupteur, et criminel qui broie et élimine tous ceux qui s’imaginent que la Démocratie pourrait changer le Tchad.
La lutte des combattants de l’UFR est légitime, et le temps finira par leur donner raison. La France le sait, toute l’Afrique le sait, et tout le peuple Tchadien le sait.
La Rédaction de Tchadvision
http://www.tchadvision.com/Detail2.asp?item_id=467&
Y-a-t-il un lien entre les tensions americano-sioniste aux Emirats et au Bresil sur le nucleaire civil, Areva gene-t-il la diplomatie israelienne ?
Y-a-t-il un lien entre les tensions americano-sioniste aux Emirats et au Bresil sur le nucleaire civil, Areva gene-t-il la diplomatie israelienne ?
La liste des passagers du vol AF 447 devrait etre publiée bientot, elle sera tronquée, mais il vous sera tres facile alors de comprendre que ce vol etait tres sensible. Sarkosy recoit la diplomatie iranienne ce Mercredi et le Bresil est considéré comme la chasse gardée des anglo-saxons. Ce qui est étonnant c’est que Sarkosy n’a meme pas voulu envisager la piste ‘terroriste’, de peur que les francais ne decouvrent reellement ce qu’est sa diplomatie ? On comprend également que ni les autorites ni les journaleux ne se sont defoulés sur les Musulmans comme a l’accoutumé, le syndrome des attentats de Londres peut etre ? La reponse est dans la liste des passagers… et le manque de cooperation des Etats-Unis… la competition entre Areva et l’industrie nucleaire US, du Moyen Orient a l’Amerique du Sud, il vous faut comprendre les tenants et les aboutissements de la strategie ‘Areva’ de Sarkosy pour comprendre que la nucléairisation de certains pays fait dresser les cheveux des israeliens et d’une partie de l’establishment americain et britannique!
Areva -a-t-il plus d’influence sur Sarkosy que la destinée d’Israel ?
Nous avons a ce jour notre idée sur ce qui s’est passé mais nous attendons que Sarkosy accuse certaines personnes pour le griller devant toute la planete, c’est peut-etre pour cela que la racaille de la DCRI n’a pas encore fait sa sortie mediatique sur demande du CRIF ! A mon avis, il vous sera difficile de faire taire Lulla !
Souvenez de l’avion de la Flash Airline en 2004, les israeliens avaient pris les commandes de l’appareil a distance et l’avaient precipité dans la mer rouge, puis il s’en etait suivi des prise d’otages aussi bidons les unes que les autres, de Chenot Malbrunot a Aubenas… Chirac refusait alors de s’engager dans la guerre contre l’Iraq et de soutenir l’effort de guerre israelien, aujourd’hui l’Iran est dans le collimateur, Sarkosy est un farouche supporter d’Israel mais peut-il reellement se ranger a ses cotes sans qu’il ne mette son pouvoir en danger, les militaires suggerant clairement dans l’article ci-dessous que la construction d’une base militaire a Abu Dhabi, gage de garantie de la securité d’installation nucléaire francaise la bas ? entraine de facto la France dans n’importe quel mecanisme militaire au Moyen Orient. La strategie ‘Areva’ est a plusieurs niveaux de lecture, et elle gene incontestablement ses rivaux US, britannique ainsi que la diplomatie de Tel Aviv…
Abu Suleyman
Airbus AF-447 : et s’il s’agissait d’un attentat ?
2 juin 2009
2 juin 2009 (Nouvelle Solidarité) – Si l’hypothèse principale retenue par les médias pour expliquer « la disparition » étrange de l’Airbus A330 d’Air France reliat Rio à Paris est celui de la foudre, de plus en plus de spécialistes s’accordent pour croire que l’hypothèse d’un attentat ne peut être écartée d’un revers de manche.
Ensuite il s’interroge sur le message électronique annonçant une panne de circuit électrique : « Il y a cinq sources d’énergie électrique à bord d’un appareil. Pour qu’il y ait une panne totale, il faudrait que ces cinq sources ne fonctionnent plus. Lorsque tout tombe en panne, une batterie prend de façon transitoire et partielle le relais, ainsi qu’un moteur qu’on utilise généralement au sol. Une sorte d’éolienne est déclenchée pour générer de l’électricité. Pour que le commandant de bord n’ait plus aucune capacité à piloter l’avion, il faudrait que toutes ces sources d’électricité soient endommagées. Ça me paraît difficile. »
Enfin, il n’hésite pas à affirmer que l’on « peut très bien imaginer qu’une bombe a provoqué une dépressurisation de l’appareil, et que l’avion prenne du temps à se démonter en morceaux. De même, ça peut carrément être une grosse bombe qui a fait exploser tout l’avion, ce qui expliquerait que l’appareil n’a pas eu le temps d’envoyer un signal d’alerte. »
« Nous n’évoquons pas cette éventualité pour nourrir une quelconque théorie du complot, d’autant moins que les services spécialisés estiment n’avoir pas eu d’indice d’une particulière montée de tension, ni avoir identifié de menace spécifique. Pour autant, ne laissons pas complètement de côté cette éventualité, à tout le moins tant que des éléments techniques ne l’auront pas exclue. N’oublions pas que des groupes moyens-orientaux sont très implantés en Amérique du Sud, et qu’ils y font d’ailleurs l’objet d’une surveillance attentive des services spécialisés. L’histoire ne manque pas, hélas, d’attentats non revendiqués, non annoncés, et ne faisant l’objet d’aucune explication. Mais la France, très engagée au Moyen-Orient, dans le Golfe, en Afghanistan, et ailleurs, n’aurait-elle reçu aucun avertissement ? Et si c’était le cas, l’aurait-elle dit ? Il ne s’agit que d’une hypothèse parmi d’autres, et rien de plus. Mais ne la balayons pas d’un revers de manche… »
Sans tirer de conclusion, signalons l’inquiétude exprimée par certains de nos militaires depuis le retour de la France dans le commandement intégré de l’OTAN.
D’après Le Canard Enchaîné du 27 mai, parlant de la nouvelle base française d’Abou Dhabi, située à 220 km des côtes iraniennes et que le président Sarkozy vient d’inaugurer, ces spécialistes « décèlent chez Sarkozy ‘un comportement à risque’, car, lors d’une crise majeure, la France pourrait être impliquée dans un éventuel conflit. Et sans qu’elle l’ait voulu, en cas de raids israéliens ou américains contre des sites nucléaires iraniens. »
http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/article5491.html
AREVA strengthens its ties with Brazil in the nuclear and transmission & distribution sectors
December 23, 2008
On the occasion of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Brazil, AREVA announces that it has signed several contracts and agreements which strengthen its longstanding privileged relationship with the country:
Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of AREVA, and Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva, CEO of Brazilian electric utility Eletronuclear, today signed a memorandum of understanding confirming the industrial cooperation between the two groups and underlining their commitment to working together to extend Brazil’s fleet of nuclear plants. AREVA has also indicated its willingness to provide its partner with the expertise it requires to fabricate the nuclear fuel needed for the new reactors.
AREVA and Eletronuclear have also signed a services contract for the Angra 1 plant*.
In the electricity transmission and distribution sector, Anne Lauvergeon and Jorge Palmeira, CEO of electric utility Eletronorte, have signed a contract worth around 20 million euros for the supply of an electricity sub-station.
AREVA has a strong presence in Brazil where it employs 2 700 people. The group built Brazil’s Angra 2 reactor and is supplying many of the components for Angra 3.
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Netanyahu’s new quest: The game is on
Netanyahu’s new quest: The game is on
“We’ve accomplished quite a few things, and I think the most important one is to cement the principle that the path to peace is through negotiations and not through violence.”
These were the ‘encouraging’ words modestly uttered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference with the US president. The president was Bill Clinton, and the date was October 2, 1996.
In the occupied Palestinian territories, the situation then seemed incredibly grim. But there was no Israeli wall. The settlements were smaller in size and in population. Gaza was besieged, but not to the point of total suffocation.
Prime Minister Netanyahu paid a highly anticipated visit to the White House on May 18, 2009, this time meeting with Barack Obama.
One need not emphasize the harm inflicted upon the Palestinian people during those years. The violence, which Netanyahu seemingly decried in ’96, visited Palestinians countless times. Starting December 27, 2008, and for 22 frightening days, much of Gaza was decimated by the Israeli army, using US weapons, killing and wounding thousands. There is now a giant wall, hundreds of miles in length, snaking around the West Bank, separating Palestinians from their land, livelihoods and any possibility of a true state. There are Jewish settlements, joined by Jewish-only roads that hopelessly fragment the occupied West Bank. They all are illegal under international law, as is the so-called Separation Wall, as are the brutal attacks and siege on Gaza, as is the Israeli military occupation altogether.
We are told that Obama is serious about peace in the Middle East. He maybe is. But even such assumed seriousness might not be able to change the disturbing pattern that forced Clinton before him, according to former top Middle East advisor Aaron David Miller to utter the following words: “Who the f*** does he think he is? Who’s the f***ing superpower here?”
In recent meetings between the two leaders, Obama clearly highlighted his country’s commitment to a Palestinian state, and, surprisingly, made mention of “Gaza” during the press conference. But the words of praise of Israel’s greatness were at an all time high. “Obama talked about the ‘extraordinary relationship [with Israel], the special relationship . . . the stalwart ally . . . the historical ties, emotional ties [and] the only democracy in the Middle East . . . a source of admiration and inspiration for the American people,’” observed commentator George Hishmeh.
Following his meeting with Obama, Netanyahu made a visit to the US Congress, where he conferred with the “great friends of Israel.” On his visit to Capitol Hill, he met House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner. The Israeli leader also met members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Jewish legislators. He was given the same exceptional treatment enjoyed by other Israeli leaders. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry was “encouraged by a number of things” Netanyahu had said. Following meeting with congressional leaders, Netanyahu observed, as if breaking some unexpected news: there is “an American consensus” regarding “the special relationship we have between Israel and the United States.”
The game is on. Netanyahu will once again try to overwhelm the president of the United States by rallying the Congress behind him in preparation for any possible confrontation with Obama’s administration. Obama, on the other hand, will attempt, however bashfully, to assert a new direction in US foreign policy — through tempting Israel by embracing harsher Iran policies and pressuring the Arabs to normalize with the Jewish state in exchange for Israel’s mere promise of moving the peace process forward.
In 1996, Netanyahu spoke of the immediate danger facing Israel, in reference to Iraq. Now Iraq — which had no weapons of mass destruction, after all — is no longer an “existential threat” to the state of Israel.
And now the Israeli leader has set his sights on Iran. “The challenge is the potential arming of Iran with nuclear weapons capabilities. That is a great danger to all of us . . . We have to do this in tandem . . . I was very encouraged to learn that this is the American policy. We’re going to try to do it together, because if we do it together we’ll get a lot further, a lot faster.”
It might not take 13 more years before Netanyahu’s wishes come true, before getting a lot further, a lot faster, i.e. unleashing a war against Iran. But mark my words, Netanyahu, as well as those before him, as well as those after him, have no intentions of making peace with the Palestinians. He is simply waving a carrot before Obama to get what Israel wants, an attack on Iran. It’s as simple as that.
If Obama hesitates in confronting the new Israeli agenda, and if the Congress continues to treat Israel’s security obsessions as top American priorities, there is no telling what the Middle East will look like the next time Netanyahu arrives in Washington to meet the new American president.
Ramzy Baroud
is an author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been published in many newspapers and journals worldwide.
His latest book is The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle Struggle” (Pluto Press, London), and his forthcoming book is, “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story” (Pluto Press, London).(Pluto Press, London,) and his forthcoming book is, “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza The Untold Story” (Pluto Press, London).
Robert Fisk: The mysterious case of the Israeli spy ring, Hizbollah and the Lebanese ballot
Robert Fisk:
The mysterious case of the Israeli spy ring, Hizbollah
and the Lebanese ballot
Spying is as familiar in Beirut as it was in post-war Vienna – there’s even a giant “Third Man”-type ferris wheel here – but the events of the last few days are growing more mysterious by the hour. Over the past two weeks, a special unit of Lebanon’s Internal Security Force (ISF) has been arresting a clutch of Lebanese allegedly working as spies for Israel.
There are least 21 men and one woman under interrogation and the ISF has been regaling us all with the highly sophisticated Israeli communications equipment found hidden at their homes.
Those detained include a local journalist in the Bekaa Valley and a senior officer in the Lebanese army, a man who was wounded by Islamist gunmen at the battle of Nahr el-Bared in 2007. They’ve even picked up a retired general and his wife. Colonel Maurice Diab is a much respected soldier, although military officers say that questions were first raised some time ago when he was sent for training to the United States on a government grant but in a photograph taken on the course could be seen standing next to uniformed Israeli officers. He lives in the north Beirut coastal suburb of Antelias, although other arrests are spread across eastern Lebanon and the border village of Rmeish.
So far so good. But it is becoming increasingly obvious that some of the “intelligence” behind these detentions – and more than 50 people in all have so far been questioned – came from the Shiite Hizbollah, who are, of course, Syria’s and Iran’s best friends in Lebanon. This comes just a couple of weeks after four senior pro-Syrian Lebanese security officers were released from jail after being held on suspicion of helping to plan the assassination of ex-prime minister Rafiq Hariri and 21 others in 2005. So are the intelligence authorities in the country back to their old tricks of hooking up with Hizbollah?
This is not an idle question, because Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah’s chairman, is now demanding that Lebanese “collaborators” of Israel be executed. Mr Nasrallah, it should be remembered, is the man who kicked off a war with Israel in 2006, in which more than a thousand Lebanese were killed, and then called it a “divine victory”.
He enraged many Lebanese even more last week by describing the Hizbollah’s temporary armed takeover of West Beirut last year as a “glorious day”, even though dozens of Lebanese were killed.
Indeed for Sunni Muslims and a good many Christians, Mr Nasrallah – who appears on a giant Big Brother screen at Hizbollah rallies, speaking from his various hiding places – is talking as if he is the president of Lebanon rather than the actual office holder, the ex-general Michel Suleiman. Add to this the growing belief that the Lebanese opposition, whose backbone is Hizbollah, might win next week’s national elections, and the arrest of an Israeli spy network takes on a much darker complexion.
The Israelis have indeed been trying to re-recruit some of their former Lebanese collaborators in order to re-establish their intelligence service there after their debacle in the 2006 Hizbollah war. The best sources say that some of these men worked for Israel before the Israeli army left Lebanon in 2000 and that several of them turned the Israeli offer down flat while others actually informed the Lebanese authorities of the approach from Israel and may even have snitched to them on the identity of the men and the woman who have just been arrested.
Now the Americans are gently warning that if Hizbollah and its chums, including the Christian former General Michel Aoun, win the elections, it will have to “re-examine” its aid package to Lebanon which includes substantial, though largely out-of-date, equipment for the Lebanese army. “Why are you worried?” Mr Nasrallah asked another of his interminable rallies last week. “Iran and Syria can give equipment to the Lebanese army.”
The pot has now been further stirred by an incendiary and highly contentious article in Der Spiegel. It reported that the UN Tribunal set up in the Hague to find ex-prime minister Hariri’s killers – the same tribunal that ordered the four generals released two weeks ago – is focusing on Hizbollah as the potential murderers. A lie, says Mr Nasrallah, an “Israeli plot”. The tribunal says it gave no such information to the German magazine. And sure enough, Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak has now warned the world that if Hizbollah and its allies win the elections, Israel will have “greater freedom of action”. Not without more spies it won’t.
Israel’s intelligence performance in 2006 was lamentable. It turned out that Hizbollah had actually got their hands on Israel’s own aerial photo-reconnaissance pictures of Lebanon, clearly showing which of Hizbollah’s bunkers had been identified and which had not. If this latest spy network is real, the Israelis are not going to do much better next time round.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-mysterious-case-of-the-israeli-spy-ring-hizbollah-and-the-lebanese-ballot-1693844.html
Israel lobby commits major blunder in France: tries to silence a comedian
Israel lobby commits major blunder in France:
tries to silence a comedian
Amazing stuff is happening in France. It all began with a relatively well-known French-Cameroonian comedian, Dieudonné M’bala M’bala was invited to participate on a TV show on the channel France 3. The show also featured a Maghrebian artist and Dieudonne decided to impersonate an extremist Israeli settled infuriated by the presence of an Arab on a French show (for those of you who understand French, you can see an excerpt of his appearance that day here).
Dieudonne who, in the past, had always enjoyed ridiculing pretty much every segment of French society clearly had never expected the hysterical uproar that his humor would trigger that day: the huge constellation of French Zionists organizations lead by the notorious CRIF (”Representative Committee of Jewish organization in France” – the French version of AIPAC) immediately attacked Dieudonne, suing him for racists comments and suing him for “anti-Semitism” (a criminal offense in France). This was hardly the first time that the French Zionist mob had decided to crush an outspoken critic of its role in French politics or its unconditional support for the last racist state on the planet: Israel. But this time, the Ziomob miscalculated, badly.
Dieudonne began making the accusations of anti-Semitism made against him a central piece of his shows. Here is a sampling of the kind of the hilarious skits Dieudonne came up with:
Dieudonne et Faurisson au Zenith de Paris
This was not at all what the Ziomobsters in France had hoped to achieve when they attacked Dieudonne for his appearance on France 3. In response to his defiant stance, they then used their total control over the French political class to shut down his shows under the pretext that they would “threaten the public order”. Dieudonne immediately replied that France is capable of providing the security needed for an event like the G8 summit, but not to let one comedian make his show.
Still, while in the past he had filled the biggest concert halls in France, Dieudonne was forced to perform his skits in a rented bus (you can see a report about this here). But Dieudo, has he is known, had one more thing up his sleeve.
His logic was simple: if I cannot use my freedom of speech as a comedian, why not use it as a politician?
Dieudo had already tried one to run for office a couple of times, but he never achieved any measure of success. This time, however, he came up with a stunning argument. Basically, Dieudo claims that the Left-Right chasm is an artificial and meaningless chasm in French politics and that the real issue which separates the parties in France is their attitude towards the Zionist ideology, the state of Israel, and the role of the Israel Lobby in France. Check out his press conference here:
Conference de presse de Dieudonne 1
Conference de presse de Dieudonne 2
Conference de presse de Dieudonne 3
Conference de presse de Dieudonne 4
Needless to say, the French political elites had a total hysterical breakdown at such inpudence. Doubleplusgoodthinking reporters and commentators declared that his political party had to be banned and that Dieudonne was probably mentally insane (the latter reminds me of the old trick invented by Yuri Andropov’s KGB who used to declared that Soviet dissidents were “obviously” insane because how could any mentally sane person oppose the Soviet rule: QED).
Still, Dieudo did not back down and he has recently presented some of the members of his political movement “the Anti-Zionist Movement” running as candidates for the European Parliament. Here is the press conference of this event:
Conference de presse liste UE 1
Conference de presse liste UE 2
Conference de presse liste UE 3
Conference de presse liste UE 4
Candidats du Parti anti-sioniste: presentation
What is most interesting in this list is that its candidates come from every political movement imaginable. Unionists, nationalist conservatives, Roman-Catholics, Muslims, ex-Communists, Socialists, etc. Ethnically, everybody is also present. It appears that the Zionist threat is truly uniting many of those who until recently were virulently opposed to each other.
What is the potential of this political movement?
On one hand, the entire weight of the French political establishment is now coming crashing down on Dieudonne. Every politician, every newspaper, every commentator either completely ignores Dieudonne and his movement or, when they speak of him at all, it is with a vitriolic loathing which cannot be imagined. The French newspaper even calls him a “comedian” in quotation marks, showing that such a hideous figure as Dieudonne cannot be called a comedian or somebody who makes people laugh. The fury of the establishment is such that I find it very likely that Dieudonne’s political movement will be simply banned and declared a criminal organization (in France, the membership in an organization declared illegal is considered a crime in itself). If not, Dieudonne might do very, very well.
The fact is that there are literally millions of French citizens from all parts of the society who are sick and tired of being ruled by a small group of mutually interchangeable elite (all of which is 100% loyal to anything Zionist or Israeli). The fact is that in the French “banlieue” (suburbs) there are hundred of thousands of Muslims who are outraged by the events in Gaza, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the constant threats against Iran. The fact is that the economic crisis had hit France – and the rest of the Eurozone – very badly and that more and more people are making the link between the Israeli-American model of globalization and the economic collapse of the world markets. In fact, I would say tha the potential of Dieudonne’s movement is huge and that it represents a very real threat to the French and, beyond that, USraelien elites in the West.
The fact that Dieudonne himself is (half) Black, and that he succeeded in federating very different currents of the French society under his stance will make it impossible to simply ignore him. Can the French political establishment engage Dieudonne and prevail over him in an open political debate? Not in a million years. Banning Dieudonne’s political party will, at best, be a stop-gap solution as we can be certain that Dieudo will sue the French courts in Brussels and that, if needed, he will simply re-compose his movement under another name.
Under the infulence of the recent immigrants to France, the French society is changing and it appears that while the “native” French did not have the wits and guts to take on the Ziomob in power, those who immigrated to France do have what it takes.
It is amazing to listen to these recent immigrants defending the secular and multi-ethnics nature of the French Republic and denoucing the ethnic and tribal nature of Jewish ortanizations in France. For example, Dieudo was once asked what he thought of the attemps made by such French Blacks to create an organization which woud speak for them. Dieudo rejected this approach, saying that the organization which should speak for them should be the French Parliament. Amazing idea, no?
Thanks to Dieudonne, Zionism is now finally being denounced as a tribal and racist, ideology and suport for Israel is now becoming as morally repugnant as support for Apartheid. The entire intellectual edifice which was carefully built by the Zionists in France for many decades is not coming crashing down because once these issues are out in the open, the Ziomob has already lost the key battle. In fact, Dieudo has said that he has already won the next election.
What will happen next? Dieudonne does not take his participation in the upcoming elections too seriously. As a typical comedian, he can sit there and say “I will bring you all to the light” with a serious face. When asked if he is really serious, her replies that nobody in French politics is serious and that the difference between him the the rest of the French politicians is that they are lousy comedians whereas he is a professional.
Humor as a weapon of liberation can be very powerful. The ridicule which Dieudonne is now heaping on the previously sacred cows of French Ziopropagnda, such as the “The Eternal Memory of the Shoah” (all in caps), and all the rest of the Zionist brainwashing toolkit might well prove to be a formidable weapon for which the Ziomob does not have a standard answer.
It will be very interesting to see what happens between now and June 7th – the next election.
In the meantime, here are some links to Dieudonne’s non-political skits. Enjoy!
Le journaliste premiere partie
Le journaliste deuxieme partie
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2009/05/israel-lobby-commits-maje-blunder-in.html
Irak: The Return of the Resistance
Irak: The Return of the Resistance
At least 20 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq in May, the most since last September, along with more than 50 wounded. Iraqi casualties are, as usual – and in both categories – at least ten times that number.
Attacks against US forces are once again on the rise in places like Baghdad and Fallujah, where the Iraqi resistance was fiercest before so many of them joined the Sahwa (Sons of Iraq, also referred to as Awakening Councils), and began taking payments from the US military in exchange for halting attacks against the occupiers and agreeing to join the fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq. In early April I wrote a column for this website that illustrated how ongoing Iraqi government and US military attacks against the Sahwa, coupled with broken promises of the Sahwa being incorporated into the government security apparatus or given civilian jobs, would likely lead to an exodus from the Sahwa and a return to the resistance.
Slowly, but surely, we are seeing that occur. While US liaison Col. Jeffrey Kulmayer has called this idea, along with the ongoing controversy from the Iraqi government – led by US-pawn Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki – not paying most of the Sahwa members, while continuing government arrests of and attacks on Sahwa members “overblown,” this does not change reality. Let us recall the telling words of the reporter Caud Cockburn, father of journalist Patrick Cockburn, “Never believe anything until it’s officially denied.”
Not surprisingly, in direct contradiction to Kulmayer’s comment, the Sahwa have warned the Iraqi government not to disregard its commitments to the fighters as far as providing them jobs and payment. On May 28, the independent Saudi-owned United Kingdom-based newspaper, al-Hayat, reported:
“A number of the leaders of the awakening councils called on the Iraqi government to honor its commitments towards the members of the awakening councils by paying their salaries which are three months late. They warned that their fighters might rebel against the government if their demands for their financial rights continue to be disregarded which might have an adverse effect on the security situation. Sheikh Masari al-Dulaymi, one of the leaders of the council in Falahat al-Taji to the north of Baghdad, announced that the committee supervising the national reconciliation process warned the leaders of the councils in and around Baghdad that their salaries would be paid and that a form of cooperation will be agreed upon with the tribes to preserve the security in Baghdad.”
The paper added that al-Dulaymi also pointed out that many council fighters abandoned their duties in protecting their areas because of the delays in receiving their salaries, and “we don’t want the crisis to grow any worse because the council members already distrust government promises.” Al-Hayat also reported that Sheikh Khaled Yassine al-Janabi, a leader of the council in al-Latifiyah in southern Baghdad, warned that the “government’s disregard for the issue of the councils and their demands will have an adverse effect on the security situation.”
Simultaneously, the Iraqi Resistance, whose ranks are growing with disenfranchised Sahwa along with other Iraqis joining for the usual reasons: their countrymen and women being detained, tortured, and raped by occupation forces and their Iraqi collaborators, the destroyed infrastructure and the suffering that accompanies this, among a myriad of other reasons (like the fact that one in four Iraqis lives in poverty), are, at least verbally, preparing to resume full operations.
The Los Angeles Times recently reported that a commander in the Iraqi Resistance, who is also a member of the currently besieged Sahwa, said, “If we hear from the Americans they are not capable of supporting us … within six hours we are going to establish our groups to fight against the corrupt government. There will be a war in Baghdad.”
Having relied on the US military to fulfill their promises of assisting the Sahwa into the Iraqi political system, as well as for protection from ongoing attacks from the Maliki government security apparatus, their patience has just about run out.
A former military intelligence general, a resistance commander who heads a group called the Iraqi Liberation Army, and who is also a member of the Sahwa, told The Los Angeles Times in the same article, “If the Americans leave Baghdad in 24 hours, the street belongs to the resistance and the people. The people are boiling.”
Violence has been escalating since January. April was the deadliest month for Iraqis in over a year. Daily we are watching Sahwa members leave their security posts. Rather than safeguarding the areas where they worked as security, many of them, in protest of government attacks and lack of payment, are rejoining the resistance. Simultaneously, they have effectively ceased targeting al-Qaeda operations in Iraq, which was also what the US had created the Sahwa for in the first place. Thus, when al-Janabi warns that the “government’s disregard for the issue of the councils and their demands will have an adverse effect on the security situation,” the “adverse effect” is two-fold. And this does not account for the future ramifications of having 100,000 fighters, who were allied with the occupation forces, turn completely against them again. Today, as aforementioned, we are getting a small, very small, taste of what that might look like.
Rivers of blood continue to flow in occupied Iraq. On May 25 a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a US patrol in Mosul, killing eight people and wounding another 26. The same day, in Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad, a gunman killed a Sahwa fighter who was manning a checkpoint.
On May 21, suicide bombers struck in two cities, killing three American soldiers and nearly two dozen Iraqis in a spasm of violence that took at least 66 lives in two days. That same day saw more attacks against the Sahwa, who in addition to being attacked by Iraqi government forces, are being attacked by al-Qaeda. Seven Sahwa members were killed in Kirkuk on May 21 as they waited in line at a military base to receive their salaries.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade, despite an “agreement” between the US and Iraq that would bring all US troops home by 2012. General George Casey, the Army chief of staff, recently stated that the Pentagon must plan for extended US combat and stability operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, saying, “Global trends are pushing in the wrong direction,” he said, “They fundamentally will change how the Army works.” It is important to note that at the moment, the US maintains 139,000 troops in Iraq, which is still a greater number than that which existed prior to the so-called “troop surge” of George W. Bush.
Many of these troops, along with nationalistic US citizens who blindly supported, and/or continue to support the criminal occupation of Iraq, believe it is a mandate from God that justifies the “might makes right” strategy of US Empire. Let us recall one of the better-known authors from the United States, Mark Twain. Better known for Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Twain was quite anti-war. I certainly was never instructed to read Twain’s “The War Prayer,” part of which sardonically reads:
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle – be Thou near them! With them – in spirit – we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it – for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.”
This is the slaughter and suffering that is being caused by the US occupation of Iraq. This is the death and suffering that is causing the Iraqi Resistance to once again form, gain strength, and prepare to resume full operations.
Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist, is the author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq,” (Haymarket Books, 2007). Jamail reported from occupied Iraq for eight months as well as from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey over the last four years.
http://www.truthout.org/053109Z
Israel Investing In Mind Control Research
Israel Investing In Mind Control Research
Established with lead gift from Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation – largest donation ever given to establish research center in Israel
Israel’s largest institute for brain research will be launched next week at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The new $130 million Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) will be announced in the presence of Mrs. Lily Safra.
The Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation has made a lead donation of $50 million to the project, and the Hebrew University is seeking additional funding from its friends in Israel and around the world.
The decision to invest in a center for brain sciences is based on the findings of an international monitoring committee, whose members include two Nobel laureates, Prof. Bert Sakmann and Prof. Richard Axel. The committee determined that the level of research in the field of brain sciences at the Hebrew University is among the highest in the world and that a newly equipped center will enable the university to be ranked among the top five in the world in this field.
President of the Hebrew University Prof. Menachem Magidor said, “Thanks to the leadership of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation, the university will be able to help solve one of the key scientific questions of the 21st century — how the human brain works — by discovering new medical approaches for treating neurological disorders and applying new technologies that imitate the activity of the human brain.”
According to the acting director of the ELSC, Prof. Eilon Vaadia, “With an increasing aging population and a rise in the prevalence of neurological disorders in old age, brain research should be a key issue in modern society. In another 15 years or so, we as a society won’t have the financial capacity to support all the health problems for the growing ageing population, and so we must quickly find solutions.”
Mrs. Lily Safra, president of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation, said, “Understanding the brain is the premier challenge of our time, and I am confident that the Hebrew University’s investigators and students will make a profound impact. My husband Edmond would have been so proud that his name is linked to an initiative that brings new hope to families around the world suffering from Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other devastating brain diseases.”
The Edmond and Lily Safra Center will pursue five different inter-cooperative fields of brain research. The first will focus on genes, molecules and nerve cells in the brain; the second will focus on research of structure and function of local neuronal circuits; the third will focus on research of electrical activity and the communication between brain areas, with the aim of understanding how senses, movement and thoughts are created; the fourth will research cognitive processes and will focus mainly on aspects of human brain function; while the fifth will focus on theoretical fields, computational aspects and building models of the nervous system, proposing new experiments and predicting their results. The ELSC will recruit an additional 15 members of staff to undertake the research.
To mark the launch of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center, a series of events involving leading researchers from the Hebrew University and overseas will be held as part of the 72nd meeting of the Hebrew University’s Board of Governors:
http://hunews.huji.ac.il/articles.asp?cat=3&artID=980
Arab League Of Cowards
Arab League Of Cowards
The Arab League,a pathetic confederacy of individuals, has called for an immediate halt to the construction of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The Arab League is nothing more of an impotent faction of puppets being used and using others for nothing more than monetary goods. Nothing sustainable has come as a result of the current Arab League assembly,nor shall it ever.
A major sign of the league’s impotence and irrelevance these days,except when the West wishes to put it to use,Arab League members have spent most of their time running around rabid over ‘what to do’ for the Palestinians. Nothing ever gets done for them,and nothing will ever get done – at least,not by the current League of Cowards.
The League is made up of the rich and spineless;Rarely is compassion shown for their brethren unless a travesty occurs (i.e Gaza).
Members have done nothing more than tap Israel on the hand in an attempt to make the Middle Eastern populace believe they are doing something to help.
From its birth,childish rivalry and conflicts,designation of regional Arab councils, and corrupted allegiances have concluded this organization an immaterial, fictional, pseudo-symbol at unity.
When Israel murdered the Lebanese in 2006 they did nothing more than hold meetings whilst the people of Lebanon fought with all their might to survive.
When Israel massacred the Palestinians (most recently) in 2009 they,again, did nothing more than meet with one another and hold discussion in how ‘bad’ Israel was being again.
Bad,bad Israel. How dare you disrupt their shisha and black coffee?!
The Arab people are tired of the facade set before them, and they do not expect the corrupted,spineless cowards of the Arab League to do more than scold Israel time and time again and blame the resistance groups in Palestine and Lebanon for ’starting the problems’.
The Arab League should be dissolved as impulsively as it was fashioned to appease the masses.
Prepackaged madness,pseudo-activism,a monopoly on humanity …
Nothing good comes from convening with a great mass of corrupted leaders who end their meetings with nothing more than blood drenched handshakes and pathetic attempts at diplomacy with an inherent evil.
The Arab League,in all its pathetic charades,should be dissolved.
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