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UN Replaces Notorious Richard Falk -- Don't Expect Changes
For over a month, the U.N.'s top human rights body has been struggling with a major dilemma. How much prior Israel-bashing experience is necessary to be appointed U.N. "independent expert" on Israel?
On Wednesday we found out. Indonesian Makarim Wibisono has just the right mix of confirmed anti-Israel bias and diplomatic cover to replace outgoing U.N. "expert" Richard Falk.
Falk was a notorious anti-Semite, infamous 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and Boston Marathon apologist. But at the U.N., a six-year time limit forced his retirement -- and not a matter of principle.
Former Indonesian U.N. ambassador Wibisono is from a country that does not recognize Israel's right to exist. He served as the president of the U.N. Human Rights Commission in its last year of operation in 2005 – a body that even U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said "cast a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system as a whole."
For More: article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on FOX News.
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But they don't care about all the massacres happening in all Muslim Lands of Catholics and other Christians..Neat Indeed!
perhaps they hope to make the Jews forget how they persecuted the Jews throughout many Generations. classic case of transferring of your own guilt onto your victim ....
Hypocrisy
Catholic Church demands action on 'price tag' attacks, prepares to campaign
After vandalism of Catholic site in Jerusalem, Church is planning international campaign to put pressure on Israel to stop rising wave of hate crimes.
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Report Faults Obama Administration For Ignoring Persecution Of Christians
A new report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan group, asserts that the Obama administration is turning a blind eye to persecution of Christians by Muslims in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, as well as persecution of Christians in North Korea.
Dwight Bashir, the commission's deputy director of policy and research, told FoxNews.com:
While the Obama administration should continue to shine a spotlight on abuses through public statements, it also should impose targeted sanctions to demonstrate that there are consequences, too. By not utilizing an existing legislative tool, the United States risks sending the message that it prefers a nuclear deal to standing up for the rights of the Iranian people. The United States should not be confronting such a scenario in the first place.
The worst 16 countries that violated religious freedom were listed in the report. Iran, the report stated, had gotten even less tolerant after "purportedly moderate President Hassan Rouhani" ascended to the presidency last year. Of Iran, the report added, "As of February 2014, at least 40 Christians were either in prison, detained or awaiting trial because of their religious beliefs and activities."
Morad Mokhtari, an Iranian human rights researcher who is Christian, stated that Rouhani "has not been effective in changing the judicial system" and there is no way to ascertain if he will challenge Iran's sharia law.
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If Only Arab Terrorists Just Sprayed Graffiti
Published: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 6:21 PM
The problem in the Middle East is not over-zealous Israelis with spray cans of graffiti, who are angered at the political situation.
Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5WPR
The author is CEO of 5WPR, 1 of the 25 largest PR Agencies in the US.
For anyone growing up in the Bronx in the 1970's, and 1980's, graffiti were visible every single day. And while the Middle East is a very different neighborhood, there's nowhere in the world where graffiti artists – and vandals – can be deemed terrorists.
Which leads me to ask why all the media brouhaha about supposed price-tag attacks by "Jewish settlers?" Graffiti and vandalism do not equate to terrorism.
The US State Department 2013 anti-terrorism report which focuses on "extremist Israeli settlers" is completely un-balanced, and biased. Jews are not allowed in nearly every single Arab country – and the real extremists are Jewish youth who write graffiti on walls?
Rock-throwing Palestinian Arabs are referred to as "non-violent", Arab youth gather to throw Molotov cocktails – and graffiti is a UN Crime?
Surely, the majority of Israeli Jews would wish, pray and hope that the Arabs "terrorism" consisted of vandalism and graffiti, apalling as it is – rather than the violence they perpetuate daily. This is simply upside down morality.
More@ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14961
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London's Former Mayor in Hot Water Again for Anti-Semitism
Not for the first time, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone courts controversy by claiming Jews 'vote Conservative because they are rich
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone
Reatuers
London's former mayor Ken Livingstone has once again hit headlines for peddling anti-Semitic stereotypes, after he claimed that Jews tend to vote for the right-wing Conservative party because they are wealthy.
The comments were made Tuesday night in an interview with BBC Newsnight, in which Livingstone, who also served as a Labour MP in the past, claimed that income, rather than ethnicity, was the single biggest factor in determining how people vote.
More@ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180399
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Terror Victim Group Blames Livni, Aharonovich for 'Price Tags'
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· Ariel: Price Tag Isn't Terrorism, Rocks and Firebombs Are
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The Real Apartheid John Kerry Won't Name
The Secretary of State slanders Israel — but when will he speak of infidels' fate under Islam?
This week's Glazov Gang was joined by Civil Rights Activist Ernie White, Hollywood Actor Basil Hoffman ("Rio I Love You") and Orestes Matacena, a Filmmaker, ("Two de Force").
They joined the show to discuss The Real Apartheid John Kerry Won't Name, The Declassified White House Benghazi Emails, John Kerry's Jewish Best Friends, Is Holding Lois Lerner in Contempt Un-American?, How Conservatives Must Fight, and much, much more:
Muslim Brotherhood Ties To White House Resurface
The controversy that developed in 2012 when Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and four other GOP members of the House sent letters to the inspector generals at the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State asking for an investigation of the influence played by the Muslim Brotherhood on U.S. government officials in the Obama administration took on new light last week.
On the distribution list of the "smoking gun" email released in the Benghazi probe last week was a figure with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Medhi Alhassani, who shares a similar background with Huma Abedin, the longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, reported former PLO-member and Arabic-speaking researcher Walid Shoebat.
As WND reported, Abedin had been a particular concern of Bachmann and other GOP congressmen who were calling for further investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood influence on the White House.
The email released last week in a FOIA request by Judicial Watch was from Ben Rhodes, a White House special assistant in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the National Security Council.
"It is obvious that as a Muslim Brotherhood operative, Alhassani wanted to blame the video for the violence that erupted in the Middle East," Shoebat commented, referring to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound at Benghazi.
"This aligned the Muslim fundamentalists with the Obama administration in at least one respect – each had a stake in blaming the video."
An Open Letter to John Kerry
by Daniel Greenfield
It's not us — it's you.
Dear John,
Every few years a messiah arrives in Jerusalem, shakes hands, makes demands and promises to make peace in our time. Then when the whole thing blows up in his face, he throws up his hands and flies back blaming the ungrateful Jews for not embracing his vision.
So many false messiahs have come before you, squinting against the bright sunshine, pounding the table at meetings, downing martinis and fantasizing about the Nobel Peace Prize that they were sure was waiting for them at the end.
And they left with nothing except sunburn and simmering rage.
Did you really think you would be any different? Were you so delusional that you imagined you could succeed where career diplomats with a lifetime of experience in the region had failed?
Russia to Begin Moon Colonization in 2030 – Report
08/05/2014
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Israel Worried Obama Will Cave to Iran Before Midterm Election
Israel is concerned that U.S. President Barack Obama will reach a bad nuclear deal with Iran ahead of the midterm elections in November, an Israeli official toldReuters on Wednesday.
"We would be happy to see July 20 pass without a deal," an Israeli government adviser told the news agency, referring to the deadline by which Iran and the West are aiming to reach a permanent deal on Iran's disputed nuclear program.
The official added that there was worry in Israel that Obama, facing possible gains by Republican rivals in the midterm elections, might be tempted to accommodate Iran now.
The official, who spoke as National Security Adviser Susan Rice visited Israel and met local leaders, said that Israel insists Iran be denied uranium enrichment capabilities under the potential deal.
"Are we going to agree on enrichment? No," the adviser told Reuters.
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PLA monitoring foreign submarines in South China Sea
After Vietnam received its first Kilo-class submarine in November, China has adopted an underwater strategy to monitor the activities of foreign submarines in the disputed South China Sea, writes US defense expert Harry Kazianis for the Tokyo-based Diplomat magazine.
Quoting an article written by Lyle Goldstein and Shannon Knight for the United States Naval Institute's Proceedings magazine, Kazianis noted that China has deployed fixed ocean-floor acoustic arrays off its coastline, while research suggests that China is deploying the new system for anti-submarine warfare.
Kazianis praised the work of Goldstein and Knight, which cited several Chinese-language journals such as Shandong Science, China Science Daily, Naval and Merchant Ships and Ship Electronic Engineering. He added that their research has shown that China is now hard at work deploying ocean-floor surveillance systems in its proximate waters.
By foraying into this important area of military technology, China is attempting for the first time to address its weakness in conducting anti-submarine warfare, according to Kazianis
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Russia and China to Conduct Joint Naval Drills
The Russian Pacific Fleet and the Chinese navy will conduct a joint large-scale cooperative training exercise scheduled for mid-May, a military spokesman told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
"In the middle of May, Russian ships will head towards Shanghai, where they are to take part in the large-scale Naval Cooperation-2014 drill with the navy of China's People's Liberation Army, to take place in the South China Sea," said Capt. 1st Rank Roman Martov.
This will be the two countries' third such joint training exercise, aimed at strengthening the cooperation of their fleets and the ability to withstand various threats in open water.
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More News from the past days
Negotiations were rigged from the start
Ted Belman
Israpundit,
The mask is off. The US officials sympathize with Abbas and blame Israel's settlement construction as the cause of the failure of the talks. They warn that Palestine will rise 'whether through violence or via int'l organizations' which is another way of saying that the US won't veto the recognition of Palestine in the SC and will recognize them as a state contrary to the requirements of the Montevideo Conventions.
We knew the game was rigged the moment Obama agreed with the Arab position that the borders were to be based on the '67 lines plus swaps. Although Netanyahu made his position very clear on security, the Obama administration gave it only lip service and wanted Israel to have a time frame not exceeding 5 years on Israel's remaining presence in "Palestine". This wasn't remotely what Israel wanted or needed and Yaalon made that amply clear.
Also Israel adamantly refused t o enter negotiations based on '67 lines plus swaps even though both Abbas and the US had agreed to do so. Their acceptance of Netanyahu's rejection of this formula, meant that Netanyahu had no obligation to negotiate on that basis. But now they blame him for it. They must have thought they could force him to negotiate on this basis....
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Why [Israeli-Palestinian] Negotiations Collapsed
Alexander H. Joffe
The Times of Israel
Effective foreign policy requires a balance between the predictable and the unpredictable. Alliances require careful maintenance and no surprises while adversarial relationships sometimes require unpredictable responses. It is the unique gift of the Obama administration to have reversed this equation.
The collapse of peace negotiations was wholly predictable and has finally taken place. Efforts are now being made to assign blame and exert pressure on the parties. In a series of off the record interviews with Israeli newspapers, unnamed American officials involved in the negotiations have quite predictably put most of the blame on Israel. Careful reading, however, reveals more about America than it do es Israelis or Palestinians.
In a wide-ranging interview with veteran Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea, blame was systematically assigned to Netanyahu and his government and a single, overarching cause: "people in Israel shouldn't ignore the bitter truth – the primary sabotage came from the settlements."
"Settlements" are indeed a primary issue, both for peace negotiations and for Israeli politics. But "settlements" have become a kind of deus ex machina for both domestic and international critics of Israel, the first and last explanation for why bad things happen....
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Does Israel Have a Plan B?
Jonathan S. Tobin
Commentary Magazine
Last week, I wrote about Israel's lack of attractive options now that Secretary of State John Kerry's peace initiative has collapsed in the wake of the Fatah-Hamas unity agreement. Among the possible options being floated is the one that Michael Oren, Israel's immediate past ambassador to the U.S. calls "Plan B," which advocates for Israel to attempt to unilaterally determine its borders. In that piece, I said that Oren's idea involved "a withdrawal to the security fence that would remove some settlements and make it clear that the settlement blocs and Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem will forever be part of Israel." He has written me to say that this is untrue and asserts that his idea specifically rejects a retreat to the fence and instead says:
At this stage, Plan B is about principles, not specific borders. Maximum security capabilities for Israel. Maximum number of Israelis within Israel. And maximum degre e of international–especially American—backing.
I'm happy to correct the record on this point. However, while I was wrong to specifically tie his Plan B to the fence, his eschewal of specifics makes it easy to imagine that any such unilateral move is likely to come pretty close to the current position of the fence in much of the West Bank. Yet even if we leave the fence out of the discussion, I'm afraid I can't help being skeptical about the scheme. Oren—a brilliant historian and COMMENTARY contributor who ably represented Israel in Washington for four years—believes that it is in Israel's interest to withdraw settlements, though not the Israel Defense Forces, from parts of the West Bank. He thinks that doing so will mean that the definition of Israel's borders will be set by Israelis rather than being held hostage to the whims of a Palestinian leadership that seems incapable of making peace. While this is not as reckless as Ariel Sharon's bold gamble for peace in which he pulled every last soldier, settlement, and Jew out of Gaza in 2005, it would still be a mistake.
Oren is right that his Plan B has the virtue of being in the best traditions of Zionism. Rather than waiting for others to decide where Israel should be, the Jews would act on their own and then wait for the world to accept their actions. It would balance the justice of Israel's rights to the land against the pragmatic need to separate from the Palestinians and to grant them the right of self-determination. And by leaving the IDF in place, it will not lead to a repeat of Sharon's fiasco in which Gaza was transformed into a terrorist base/independent Palestinian state in all but name that rained down missiles on Israel with impunity....
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from last Month
Surprise Attack on Iran: Can Israel Do It?
Thomas Saether
nationalinterest.org, April 16, 2014
...The Defensive Preparations Dilemma
Since the Iranians are expecting an operation, it would be impossible for Israel to achieve strategic surprise like they did with the attack on the Iraqi reactor in 1981. However, operational and tactical surprise may be achieved with regards to how the operation will be conducted and the specific date and time of the operation. One of the major problems will be how to achieve operational surprise when preparations will need to be undertaken to counter the threat of missiles from Iran, Hezbollah, and Palestinian groups in Gaza. One solution to this defensive preparations dilemma is to conduct exercises and distribute personal protective gear continuously for a long time, so as to make it impossible for Iran to determine when an attack will be launched. This has indeed been done. In recent years, Israel has conducted numerous large home-front exercises (in part also as a result of the Syrian civil war and potential fallout). It has also distributed gas masks to a large portion of the population (although it has recently been scaled back).
Mobilization of the reserves is a complex issue in Israel that also touches on the decision-making process. The mobilization would risk being delayed if it takes place under a massive missile attack from Iran and Hezbollah. A recent report from Israel's state comptroller questioned the reserves' ability to mobilize under fire. As such, the order needs to be given prior to the initial Israeli attack. However, mobilizing the reserves would be a signal to Iran that an attack is impending. It is possible that the Israeli leadership's preferences for operational secrecy induce it to delay the mobilization until the day of the attack (to the risk of higher casualty numbers). According to Israeli law, mobilization of the reserves requires the approval of the Knesset Committee on Defense. Time could be saved with obtaining the committee's approval in the months preceding the attack. Begin obtained an approval for the operation against the Iraqi reactor in the full ministerial cabinet in October 1980, which then outsourced the timing decision to the security cabinet. To protect secrecy after a series of domestic leaks, the security cabinet later decided to leave the decision on the date of the operation to Begin, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, and Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan. A similar procedure could be implemented with regards to the decision to mobilize the reserves.
Offensive Preparations
Complex military operations require lengthy preparations that cannot be concealed. However, although an adversary might know about the intention to attack, the timing and conduct of the operation are more difficult to dissect. In recent years, the Israeli military has conducted numerous offensive exercises to prepare for a potential green light from the political l eadership. Two recent exercises demonstrating the capabilities of the Israeli air force took place in December 2013 and January 2014. Such exercises do not only prepare the pilots for a potential mission, it may also serve as part of a deception strategy. For several years prior to the Six Day War in 1967, Israeli aircraft could routinely be seen in the mornings hovering over the Mediterranean. As the Egyptians became familiar with the flight pattern, its air force did not pay much attention when Israeli planes followed the same route on the morning of June 5, 1967. The Israelis then launched a surprise attack. The trick used was to manipulate the adversary's perceptions and expectations. Although Iran is not neighboring Israel and does not have significant satellite surveillance assets, it does have some intelligence capabilities that it uses to monitor Israel. For example, an Iranian radar is stationed in Syria. Iran is also known to be studying Israel's military c onduct in past campaigns. The head of the Iranian Civil Defense Organization Gholam Reza Jalali recently stated that it had sent a team to Lebanon after the 2006 war to study the effect of Israeli munitions on destroyed buildings. Apparently, Iran is also monitoring Israeli intentions and decision making. On January 26, 2013—four days prior to an Israeli attack on a convoy carrying missiles from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon—Supreme Leader Khamenei's close advisor Ali Akbar Velayati stated that Iran would perceive an attack on Syria as an attack on Iran itself. Velayati might have known about the transport in advance and attempted to increase its chance of reaching its destination by creating a deterrent against an Israeli attack. This suggests that the Iranian regime have some understanding of Israeli intentions and redlines. Two Israeli signals are typical of an impending attack: deployment of Iron Dome batteries in areas of likely fallout and unscheduled m eetings in the security cabinet. However, since the Israelis know they are under surveillance, they can also use it for deception. As long as the Syrian civil war continues, it would be difficult for Iran to know whether Israeli preparations are intended for the Syrian or Iranian arena. If Iran gets used to the Israeli behavioral pattern, then a surprise attack would be easier to achieve....
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