Showing posts with label Syria. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Notes on the Conflict in Syria

Written on July 18th, 2012



   Mainstream media sources are saying the Assad regime could be toppled within days. Last year, Webster Tarpley reported that the events in Syria do not resemble a civil war, and that he had spoken to people who claim that death squads are sniping at civilians only for the purpose of destabilizing the country.

   Tarpley says the squads are backed by American, British, French, and Israeli intelligence agencies; funded by the Saudis, the U.A.E., and Qatar; and managed by former Syrian foreign minister Abdul Halim Khaddam, who Tarpley described as “groomed by N.A.T.O. as a new dictator”, and who has been described as having been a loyalist of Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez. Even Fox News has reported that the U.S. is secretly funding the opposition in Syria in order to topple the Assad regime.

   Tarpley says Syria is “the most tolerant society in the Middle East”. Haaretz describes Assad as “an outspoken critic of Israel”, reporting that he attributes his regime’s strength to its opposition to that country. Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. recently said, “We do see a possible ouster of Mr. Assad as affording an opportunity to us”.

   YouTube reporter Rys2sense says that last year, there was a $10 billion deal for an Iran-Syria oil pipeline, that rival pipelines cannot be built if there are ongoing conflicts, that the goal is a complete cut-off of the flow of oil, and that Turkish mercenaries are also helping to destabilize Syria.

   This month, Syria, Iran, China, and Russia are coordinating a 90,000-troop military exercise in Syria; it is the largest joint exercise in Middle East history. In September, U.S. naval forces will be conducting mine-sweeping activities in the Persian Gulf (some media figures have conjectured that the U.S. may send a decommissioned aircraft carrier to the Gulf to be destroyed in a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran).

   Russia has warned the N.A.T.O. countries not to attack Iran, and accused the Western powers of stirring up trouble in Syria; China and Russia have shown support of Syria in the U.N.; and China and Pakistan have said that they would consider an attack on Iran as an attack on themselves, and have suggested that they would retaliate as such. China and Russia have nearly twice as many nukes combined as the U.S..

   Iran recently confirmed that its plan to close the Strait of Hormuz is ready to be put into action. This could triple – or even quadruple – crude oil and gas prices. Some reports claim that Obama and / or Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu want to attack Iran's nuclear facilities in early October, around the beginning of the U.S. presidential debates.

   In my opinion, the world is closer to an international nuclear exchange and / or World War III than any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I expect this threat to ratchet-up exponentially over the next 3 ½ months.


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Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Syria Debate in Congress

Created in September 2013,
Originally published 2-27-2014






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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Response to Andrew Klavan's Video "Klavan's One-State Solution: Give the Middle East to the Jews"

1. President Obama does not want the State of Israel to consider being “annihilated by its enemies” in its negotiation terms.

2. It is not Barack Obama who wants the State of Israel to return to its 1967 borders, it is the United Nations. The Israelis rejected the U.N. plan that the state have these borders, but with Jerusalem as an international city, so the Israelis are violating international law.

3. Hamas and other anti-Zionist groups are not “bent on Jewish genocide” and “extermination”; they are against Israeli occupation of their home territory, and Israeli meddling in the internal affairs of their governments.

4. Hamas was democratically elected in Gaza after the Israelis encouraged the Palestinians to hold elections between Fatah and Hamas.

5. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not “subtly indicate his displeasure with” other world leaders; he is a hard-liner who has a reputation as one of the toughest negotiators in world politics.

6. A one-state solution is not “the only plan likely to bring tranquility, freedom, and justice to the region”; nor are the one- and two-state solutions the only solutions. There is also a three-state solution which would have Gaza under Egyptian control, and the West Bank under Jordanian control. There is also a no-state solution which rejects outright the concepts of statism and territorial government.

7. The claims that “turning the entire Middle East into one big Israel will secure religious freedom for everyone in the area” and “Muslims and Christians have full freedom of religion in the Jewish state” are false. Israelis spit on Christians, the Zionist regime has been accused of attacking Christian worshipers, and many Israeli schoolchildren are taught that ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews are crazy.

8. The claim “Muslim states either ban other religions completely, or torment their practitioners to the point of extinction” is misleading. The U.S. and the State of Israel are currently trying to cast Syria and Iran as the most dangerous places for Westerners and non-Muslims, although Syria has a reputation as the most religiously diverse country in the Middle East, and there are Jews who say Iran is tolerant of its Jewish community.

9. Jimmy Carter is not an anti-Semite. Anti-Semitism is not the same as anti-Judaism, and neither is the same as anti-Zionism. There are Arab Semites, and 2/3 of the world's Jews (the Ashkenazim) are not Semitic, but rather Eastern European. Also, there are Jews who oppose Zionism.

10. The claim that Muslims and Christians “can and do volunteer in the Israeli Defense Forces” is false; service in the Israeli military is compulsory (i.e., selective service / draft), not voluntary.

11. The claim that “Only under the Jews are the religious sites of the Holy Land open to all” is false.
     Although Muslim Israelis are normally allowed to enter and pray at al-Aqsa Mosque, for security reasons the Israeli government restricts the prayer of certain groups of Muslims - depending on their age and where they are from – at the mosue, due to customary times and dates of prayer.
     Since 1967, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel has prohibited Jews from walking on the Temple Mount, because they may step on the site of the Holy of Holies; only the High Priest (the Nasi) may enter the Tabernacle, and only on Yom Kippur.
     Some Jewish religious and political leaders have demanded that Jews be permitted to pray at the site on Jewish holidays. The Israeli Supreme Court has supported individual prayer there, but Israeli police prohibit Jews from praying on the Temple Mount in any overt manner. Overt prayer is strictly regulated, but visiting rights as tourists are less strict.
     Also, the Jordanian Islamic Waqf permits and denies the right to pray to certain individuals and groups at certain dates and times, but some Jews and Christians in Israel interpret the prophecy that the Temple will become a house of prayer for all nations as urging that members of any religion whom are living today should attempt to pray on the Temple Mount.
     Some Jews believe that prayers on the Temple Mount by people of all nations should only take place once the Third Holy Temple has been built and Mashiach has arrived. This is because it is only after Mashiach arrives that all of humanity will be converted to Judaism, which means that the people of all nations would then become Jewish, and all the prayers they would make on the Temple Mount would share the same significance.

12. The State of Israel has a much lower quality of human development if one includes the occupied Palestinian territories, which suffer from water shortages and pollution, lack of education and economic opportunity, and from having their communities cut off from one another by Israeli walls and road checkpoints.

13. Women in the State of Israel are not given full human rights. Israeli women are subject to selective service (the draft) and must serve two years in the Israeli Defense Forces.

14. “If the Jews ran America, we wouldn't be $14 trillion in debt” appears questionable in light of the fact that the Federal Reserve has not had a non-Jewish chairman since 1987, when the national debt was $2.4 trillion.



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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Seeds of World War III Being Sown in Syria


Mainstream media sources are saying that the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad could be toppled by rebel forces within days, three officials in his inner circle having been killed in a recent explosion. Last year, Webster Tarpley reported that the events in Syria do not resemble a civil war, and that he had spoken to people who claim that “death squads” are sniping at civilians only for the purpose of destabilizing the country.
Tarpley claims that these squads are backed by American, British, French, and Israeli intelligence agencies; funded by the Saudis, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar; and managed by former Syrian foreign minister Abdul Halim Khaddam. Tarpley described Khaddam as “groomed by N.A.T.O. as a new dictator”. Khaddam has been described as having been a loyalist of Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez.
Tarpley says Syria is “the most tolerant society in the Middle East”, and calls Assad “a humanitarian”. Israeli newspaper Haaretz describes Assad as “an outspoken critic of Israel”, reporting that he attributes his regime’s strength to its opposition to that country. Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. recently said, “We do see a possible ouster of Mr. Assad as affording an opportunity to us”.
Fox News has reported that the U.S. is secretly funding the opposition in Syria in order to topple the Assad regime. Webster Tarpley claims that the C.I.A. has extended an “open invitation” to criminals and terrorists in the region to come to Turkey to be trained to fight the Syrian army.
According to YouTube reporter Rys2sense, last year there was a $10 billion deal for an Iran-Syria oil pipeline, rival pipelines cannot be built if there are ongoing conflicts in Syria, the goal is a complete cessation of the flow of oil between Syria and Iran, and Turkish mercenaries are also helping to destabilize Syria.
This month, Syria, Iran, China, and Russia are coordinating a military exercise in Syria. Comprised of 90,000 troops, 900 tanks, 400 planes, and 12 naval ships – and taking place “at sea, air and land on Syrian soil” – it is the largest joint exercise in Middle East history. In September, U.S. naval forces will be conducting mine-sweeping activities in the Persian Gulf. Some media figures have conjectured that the U.S. may send a decommissioned aircraft carrier to the Gulf to be destroyed in a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran.
Russia has warned the N.A.T.O. countries not to attack Iran, and accused the Western powers of stirring up trouble in Syria; China and Russia have shown support of Syria in the U.N.; and China and Pakistan have said that they would consider an attack on Iran as an attack on themselves, and have suggested that they would retaliate as such. China and Russia have nearly twice as many nukes combined as the U.S. does.
Iran recently confirmed that its plan to close the Strait of Hormuz is ready to be put into action. This could triple – or even quadruple – crude oil and gas prices. Some reports claim that Obama and / or Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu want to attack Iran's nuclear facilities in early October, around the beginning of the U.S. presidential debates.
The King of Jordan has called for Assad to step down, and today the United Nations voted on a new resolution threatening non-military sanctions against Syria, which Russia and China vetoed. Additionally, yesterday, at least seven Israeli tourists were killed in a bus explosion in Bulgaria, for which Israel blamed Iran, and vowed revenge. Hezbollah was also blamed for the attack, but denied that tourists would be worthwhile targets.
What may play out – in a worst-case scenario – over the next three to twelve months is the following:
1) Israel retaliates against Lebanon and / or Iran over yesterday’s Bulgarian bus bombing; and / or the U.S. stages an attack on one of its warships, and blames it on Iran; and / or Israel stages an attack by Iran.
2) the N.A.T.O.-Israeli alliance increases meddling and destabilization efforts in Lebanon, Syria, and / or Iran, and / or simply goes ahead and bombs Iran’s nuclear facilities.
3) Either of the aforementioned actions will provoke a response from Iran, Syria, and / or Lebanon, but the former action would be enough to provoke such a response, which would easily excuse Western destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
4) Being that an attack on Iran will be construed by Pakistan and China as an attack on themselves, those countries’ forces would be deployed against whichever Western powers are perceived to have led the attack. Additionally – given the signals it has made so far – it wouldn’t take much for Russia to become even more vociferous and threatening in asserting its support of Iran.
         Being that Iran is nearly three times as populous as Iraq, occupation seems impossible, even in a concerted effort by all major Western powers. However, considering that Iran is virtually surrounded by U.S. military bases – most notably in Iraq and Afghanistan – as well as a recent call by retired U.S. General Stanley McChrystal to reinstate the draft, there remains the possibility that the U.S. could declare an emergency, and invoke various PATRIOT Act and continuity-of-government authorities to enact martial law, putting the country in a state of all-out total war of occupation against Iran and its would-be allies. Even if such an occupation never occurs, the difficulty of invasion – and the fact that the nation’s capital of Tehran is home to over a sixth of its population – suggests that nuclear or other heavy weaponry could be used against Tehran and other major cities.
All in all, the divide between N.A.T.O. and Israel; and Syria, Iran, Pakistan, China, and Russia; is sharpening at a frightening pace. In my opinion, the world is closer to intercontinental nuclear exchange and / or full-scale multinational military conflagration than any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I expect this threat to ratchet-up exponentially over the next 3 ½ months, leading to a cataclysm in the month of October which could very well be virtually irreversible.



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