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by Kafir ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama at January 28th, 2009 - 8:06 am

Iran calls for US to end support of Israel

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president called Wednesday for “profound changes” in U.S. foreign policy including an end to support for Israel and an apology to the Islamic republic for past misdeeds.

Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also urged Washington to withdraw its troops stationed around the world. He said Iran would be closely watching what President Barack Obama’s new administration does and would welcome a real shift in its approach.

“Change means giving up support for the rootless, uncivilized, fabricated, murdering … Zionists and letting the Palestinian nation decide its own destiny,” Ahmadinejad said. “Change means putting an end to U.S. military presence in (different parts of) the world.”

His comments come as Obama was reaching out to Muslims. He has stressed the importance of engaging Iran, a country the Bush administration often singled out as the most dangerous in the Middle East. In his inaugural address, Obama addressed leaders of hostile nations by saying “we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

And if they are not willing?

A Contiguous Palestinian State?

by WrathofG-d ( 6 Comments › )
Filed under Gaza, Israel, Palestinians at January 27th, 2009 - 3:30 pm

A ”CONTINGUOUS ‘PALESTINIAN’ STATE”, MR. OBAMA?

In Obama’s first interview as President of The United States  (see thread below) he states that his final solution to the Arab/Israel conflict would include a “contiguous Palestinian State”.

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Let’s go to a map.

ISRAEL

map-of-israel

On the bottom left of the map, near Egypt, is “the Gaza Strip”, on the right side of the map in red lettering is ” Judea and Samaria (mistakenly referred to as “The West Bank”).  These two area consist of what is often referred to as “The Palestinian Territories”, and what the Arabs demand to make a part of their supposedly desired State.  Obama, parroting the Arab argument, stated that any future Palestinian State would be contiguous.

What he didn’t mention however is that the only way this “contiguous Palestinian state” can be accomplished is to split Israel in half, and effectively create two separate cantons.  Beyond the obvious inequity of this suggestion, it would only further destabilize the area, and contribute drastically to a decease in Israel’s security.  I am sure this is what is intended by the Arabs when they make this suggestion, but I question President Obama.

What the Obama Administration seems not to recognize is that they are actively assisting the Arabs in moving forward with their stated goal of destroying Israel by using what is known as the P.L.O. Phased Plan.  This is not surprising however as all so-called “peace” negotiations are being made with Abu Mazen/Mahmood Abbas, who co-founded the P.L.O. with Yassir Arafat.

These are the three main points of the Phased Plan:

  • Through the “armed struggle” (i.e., terrorism), to establish an “independent combatant national authority” over any territory that is “liberated” from Israeli rule. (Article 2)
  • To continue the struggle against Israel, using the territory of the national authority as a base of operations. (Article 4)
  • To provoke an all-out war in which Israel’s Arab neighbors destroy it entirely (“liberate all Palestinian territory”). (Article 8 )

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Any deal which allows the creation of a “contiguous Palestinian State” will per the Phased Plan, reset the clock all the way back to the original 1947 Partition Plan when the Arabs (NOT “Palestinians” however) initially rejected a State, and instead chose a war of annihilation against Israel.  The Arabs will through negotiations, get what they were incapable of achieving through Terrorism alone.  The problem however, as stated in their Phased Plan, and as was evidenced by their response to Israel’s peace gesture of its 2005 expulsion of all Jews from Gaza,  is that a contiguous Palestinian State will only be the beginning of the next phase, and not and end to the conflict.

U.S. Navy Intercepts Iranian Weapons Headed To Hamas

by WrathofG-d ( 14 Comments › )
Filed under Iran, Military at January 26th, 2009 - 10:33 am

Despite their public proclomations that their children are “impoverished” and starving, Hamas still seems to be spending all their available funds on weapons which they are getting from Iran.

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us-navy-2U.S. Navy intercepts Iranian arms vessel

(c/o: World Net Daily)

“HERZLIYA, Israel – The U.S. Navy is conducting covert operations aimed at intercepting Iranian ships carrying weapons to rearm Hamas in the Gaza Strip, informed defense officials told WND.

The setup, which has already halted a vessel carrying Iranian munitions in recent days, acts on intelligence information provided by Israel, Egypt and Cyprus, the defense officials said.

The U.S. Navy refused to comment, but informed sources said the U.S. last week intercepted an Iranian-owned vessel found to be carrying weapons, including rockets, mortar and artillery shells. It is suspected the ship was attempting to reach the Egyptian Sinai area. If successful, the delivery would have represented a major escalation by providing Hamas with artillery, something the terrorist organization is not thought to possess.”

The new naval patrols and U.S. presence along the Gaza border comes in line with a memorandum of understanding signed between Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The deal aims to curb Hamas rearmament and also includes patrols of the Persian Gulf, Sudan, and neighboring states.

One of Israel’s main goals for its offensive was to halt Hamas’ ability to smuggle weapons across the Egypt-Gaza border.

Israel is negotiating an international monitoring mechanism it hopes will stop Hamas from smuggling weapons from neighboring Egypt into Gaza. But previous international monitors stationed along the Egypt-Gaza border fled their duty and repeatedly failed to stem Hamas’ weapons smuggling.

The monitors were stationed at the border following Israel’s 2005 evacuation of the Gaza Strip.”

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I hope that Obama, and the Israeli Government remember that last part.

(Thank You:  Revparadigm)

Israeli war against Hamas scars Gaza’s children

by bar ( 28 Comments › )
Filed under Islamists, Israel at January 25th, 2009 - 3:59 pm

JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip – Surrounded by mountains of rubble that were once their homes, two dozen children sat on a rainbow-colored blanket and drew with crayons.
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Psychologists say Israel’s three-week offensive inflicted more severe trauma than previous conflicts in Gaza because civilians in the crowded sliver of territory had no safe place to run. A wartime study among hundreds of Gaza children showed a rise in nightmares, bedwetting and other signs of trauma, said psychologist Fadel Abu Hein.
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Counselors and aid workers fear that Gaza’s children, who make up 56 percent of the 1.4 million people here, will grow up hating Israel and become easier prey for extremists.
By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer

This is nothing but apologist for terrorist propaganda.

The Israeli “war” was only in response to daily Hamas rocket attacks directed against only non-combatant Israeli children.

Israeli children and the effect daily terrorist rocket attacks have on them is not of any concern for the world at large, only the children of terrorists are worthy of mass media concern, what a sick group of amoral reporters we have in this openly anti-Semitic world.

If this reporter was truly concerned or even slightly cared about the children of Gaza they would speak out against the Islamic terrorists and force them to stop attacking Israel, then the children of Gaza could live with Hamas and Islam being their only fears.