- 6 nov 2011
RESTORE THE DRAFT - ISRAEL DEMANDS IT - WORLD WAR III
(1:17) RESTORE THE DRAFT - ISRAEL DEMANDS IT - WORLD WAR III
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Iran Invasion Will Require 4 Million New Troops
The news is reporting, every station, every paper, that America is preparing an invasion of Iran, a country with nearly 100 million citizens. The reason? Israel is demanding it.
We are told that new reports of nuclear weapons in Iran are going to be released as soon as Israel is finished writing them for us.
We support this war but want its costs shared. Thus, we have a plan to protect Israel, win the war and bring Americans together again.
We invaded Iraq for Israel but they declined to participate. This time, we expect the entire Israeli army to move into Iraq and lead the attack themselves.
Israeli Women Are Already Trained and Ready to Go
American units leading the way will be entirely Jewish also, as soon as they have enlisted or are drafted.
Following them will be the sons and daughters of our government, congress, the varying branches, in fact no member of our services that has participated in the Global War on Terror in any way can be allowed to fight another war.
They have given too much.
The new army will be paid like the one that fought in Vietnam. Pay will start at $90 dollars a month with combat pay for non-commissioned officers with families as high as $220 per month.
We are told that congress plans to eliminate veterans benefits, cut military retirement and scrap Tricare. Wasn’t all that just more “socialism” anyway?
As to who will be flying our planes or on our ships, I am not sure. As I have said, those who have served are excluded from this war. They fought one war, some actually three wars for Israel, none of which worked out for America in any way.
Orthodox Jews and Children Also Ready
In order to fight for Israel, we have to define Israel.
As it can’t technically be a nation without borders or laws, things Israel doesn’t actually have yet, it will have to establish a border and adopt a constitution, one that falls in line with normal human rights.
Thus far, this is a problem. There are two sets of laws in Israel, actually 3.
One set is for Jews, the other for Gentiles. Then they have a religious law that oversees all of it, much like Sharia Law in Iran, actually almost identical to it.
America will have to have permanent bases in Israel, 99 year leases, like we have with our other allies.
Thus far, though even Saudi Arabia allows American bases, Israeli law has forbidden Gentile soldiers on their land. Americans can fight and die for Israel but not stop onto Israeli soil, as their religious law lists such an act as “defilement.”
Our first step toward financing the war will be to end all retirement funds for members of congress. All health insurance, really “socialism” to me, will end for government workers. They will have to pay out of their savings. If they didn’t save, they will have to “make do” like other Americans.
Israeli Twins Girls - IDF Trained and Ready
Members of congress will be paid $1 dollar a year.
All legislative and White House staff will be paid an average American wage, $8.25 per hour with no benefits other than Social Security.
The government’s private retirement system will be seized.
Gasoline will be taken to $5.00 per gallon and rationed to 10 gallons a week per family. There will be massive shortages as 40% of the world’s oil supply will disappear overnight.
Oil companies will be nationalized for the duration of the war, their executives paid $1 dollar a year.
There will be no profits allowed for companies selling goods and services to the military and government. All senior management at those companies will also earn only $1 dollar per year.
Medal of Honor - Smedley Butler
If these ideas sound familiar, they are Marine Corps ideas, originating from Medal of Honor winner, General Smedley Butler, America’s greatest hero.
We know American Jews will be the first in line to join, no question about that but, in order to avoid suspicion and difficulty, perhaps even misunderstanding, their units will be separate, they will enter service first. There are reasons for that.
They require a Kosher diet.
Special Diet Needed for Pushups - Shiny Hair- Fighting Spirit
Many, tens of thousands, are already IDF trained and we are certain they, with their extreme patriotism for both America and Israel, will want to put themselves in harms way before anyone else.
I would do nothing to interfere with that.
While Israeli troops, including all Israeli males and females between 17 and 55, move into Iraq to the Iranian border, Americans will take up positions defending Israel from the expected onslaught of rock throwing children in Gaza and other threats.
American National Guard Troops - Stripped Down to the Most Essential Equipment - Will Guard the Israeli Home Front from Stone Throwing Palestinian Children
We accept that risk.
Areas of high risk, such as the West Bank, will have to be evacuated of course.
Our next step will be to escort the Israeli Navy into the Persian Gulf. We will agree to sell Israel for $1 dollar, 3 of our older decommissioned nuclear carriers.
After Israel begins the invasion, a few months later, the newly trained draftees will join them, certainly in less than a year.
With Israel fielding an army of 2.5 million and 4 million American draftees against 13.5 million armed Iranians, I think we have the making of a repeat of the 1980s and the Iraq/Iran War.
But it be one with a more just sharing of risk and America, for the first time since World War II, taking on the real feel of a nation at war.
Eventually America will have to draft 20 million as the permanent occupation of Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan will eventually be a boon to America’s economy, all those new $30 dollar a week jobs.
I remember months in the Marine Corps where my net monthly pay, after dry cleaning and other hidden fees was $50 dollars.
Thank goodness I didn’t smoke, though cigarettes were 10 cents a pack. In Vietnam, we didn’t have much dry cleaning and the bullets were free.
Iranian Special Ops Burka Brigade Will Engage the Advance Israeli Units in Their Traditional Uniform, Designed to Sow Confusion in the Enemy Ranks
Imagine the Ivy League universities emptied, now filled with the veterans of the Global War on Terror, taking the places of the sons and daughters of the bankster elite.
Imagine a thinner and healthier America with garden plots everywhere, no more sugar, no fast food restaurants open, no more traffic jams, no more vacations.
Airlines will only carry essential military personnel.
Anyone with business to do can use Skype. Hotels are for military only, no more vacations, not until every American soldier is returned home.
No country clubs, no fuel for yachts or private planes, if we are going to have a war, then it is going to be a war.
One thing I keep forgetting. Do we get to vote which side we will fight on?
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VT Accused Of Thwarting Israeli Plan
by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Veterans Today Stands Accused, But Not of Enough
As the news fills with stories about Israel’s plan to attack nuclear weapons facilities in Iran, real or imagined, an October 27 story in Veterans Today, Iran and Israel Caught – Partnering in Nuclear Attack Ploy, laid bare their war plans based on a series of highly placed leaks.
There were so many “leakers”, Israel, Iran, Ukraine, US, that we hardly had time to talk to them all.
Why the leaks? Seldom in history has there been a war so few people actually want to fight.
As our initial report indicates, not only does Iran know it’s coming, they have agreed to “paint” the target themselves. They need it more than Israel does.
When we ask why, we descend into the murky world of finance where money disasters, as we have seen in the European Union, reeling from one Greek disaster to another, can be worse than any nuclear attack.
As the news fills with stories about Israel’s plan to attack nuclear weapons facilities in Iran, real or imagined, an October 27 story in Veterans Today, Iran and Israel Caught – Partnering in Nuclear Attack Ploy, laid bare their war plans based on a series of highly placed leaks.
There were so many “leakers”, Israel, Iran, Ukraine, US, that we hardly had time to talk to them all.
Why the leaks? Seldom in history has there been a war so few people actually want to fight.
As our initial report indicates, not only does Iran know it’s coming, they have agreed to “paint” the target themselves. They need it more than Israel does.
When we ask why, we descend into the murky world of finance where money disasters, as we have seen in the European Union, reeling from one Greek disaster to another, can be worse than any nuclear attack.
For Israel, the problem is “oil futures.”
“Futures” aren’t really investments, they’re really bets, gambling, usually based on “insider knowledge” of a market.
The oil market is based on “supply and demand.” Economic circumstances controls supply and world economies are crashing and out of control, particularly in Europe but the United States as well, the two largest oil markets.
There is no demand for oil.
This leaves “supply.” Oil supplies are controlled two ways. Prices are pushed up by threats of war which could include damage or even purposeful attack on oil facilities as in Kuwait.
A more unique situation is Iran’s capability of shutting off supply by closing the Straits of Hormuz, the narrow waterway where oil tankers from the Persian Gulf must pass.
Iran totally controls it and Iran’s only real military capability other than having a 13 million man militia, is the thousands of missiles it has pointed at the Straits. Closing these Straights is a Bullet in the Head for Many Economies
Can war really be “pretend?” Have things gone that far? The answer, of course, is in the leaks. Everyone is doing it, you can’t shut them up.
What were the leaks?
-- Israel had bought billions in oil futures, bets based on secret knowledge of upcoming events that would make oil go up in price, way up, despite all indications otherwise. They knew something nobody else knew. Have we heard this accusation before, perhaps on 9/11, airline stock futures?
-- Sources in Iran, not only confirmed Israel’s investment strategy but admitted as well that factions in Iran were set to share in Israel’s potential massive profits if, for some mysterious reason, an attack on Iran, one doomed to be at best a joke attack, were to go forward.
-- Sources in Iran, in actuality, confirmed that also, that they had knowledge of an Israeli attack and that some in Iran were fully complicit, willing to “stand aside” and allow Israel to fly 1400 miles to Iran under continual radar observation, total “sitting ducks,” for an attack that, considering the size of Iran, that would be like killing an elephant with a grain of sand. Any attack attempt would be reported by Russian satellites, advanced Russian systems in Syria and, of course, by the thousands of Russian radar and satellite technicians working in Iran. The “in air” refueling planes themselves would be seen from as far away as Germany.
-- Iranian sources went further, naming those in Iran who had been offered payment by Israel, part of the oil future proceeds, proceeds that could become a massive debt, hundreds of billions, unless an attack is carried out soon and oil quickly goes above $120 a barrel, way above that, the price set by this round out “futures.”
-- Iran has its own interests. As a nation with little but an oil economy, it is dependent on direct sale of oil for its survival. When this was last discussed but not leaked by everyone, back in 2008, there was a bit of a different world. Let’s take a look at that now:
The initial plan was made in 2008. Real plans for an invasion of Iran by the Bush administration and PNAC, the Israeli run foundation that advised President Bush on all policies and “peopled” his administration with some whose loyalties were “obscure” at best, had failed.
“False Flag” naval attacks in the Persian Gulf had been attempted, phony patrol boats, phony radio traffic, a typical Bush/Netanyahu “Marx Brothers” operation.
Then the Bush administration went to the government of Bahrain and asked them to help blow up a facility killing a few dozen American servicemen.
We had seen a similar “false flag” attack back in the 1980´s prior to the Libya bombing, something we have since learned was entirely “theatrical” and never really happened at all, not without Libyan permission.
No, no 15 month old “daughter of a dictator” was killed in the Tripoli bombings as we have been informed in more leaks, this one by President Reagan’s National Intelligence Coordinator, Lee Wanta.
We caught onto the Bahrain attack as well, another leak, this one from the Bush National Security Council, an assistant to someone named Paul Wolfowitz came forward.
An American general, Special Forces, working directly under Vice President Cheney, was sent to Bahrain to arrange the attack on American servicemen. White House officials who disapproved, flew to Bahrain and warned the Marine and Naval commanders. The attacks, to be staged by the intelligence services of Bahrain, were thwarted.
Some of those involved in stopping the murder of the Americans had their careers ruined, others had friends and relatives arrested and charged with “money laundering” and other spurious Patriot Act violations.
One senior member of the National Security Council actually had to flee the country and seek asylum. We know of one murder, a Turkish national.
Bahrain U.S. Naval Facility
The member of the NSC who went into hiding described a private meeting with Paul Wolfowitz from 1999, prior to his appointment to the NSC, while he was still with PNAC, where he described the plans to rig intelligence to attack Iraq for no other purpose than to stage an invasion of Iran. Of course to do this, it was necessary to rig a presidential election.
Thus, the clock moves forward and the map of the Middle East is in the process of being redrawn.
As to what has changed, the first area we discuss is the issue of “social cohesion.” Both Israel and Iran, at that time, were seen as “cohesive” societies. Israel was all Jews who bought in on Nethanyau’s “boogeyman stories” and Iran was totally under the thumb of the Mullahs.
Netanyahu - One of the Most Dangerous Men in the World
Today, however, nobody believes Netanyahu, his new stories about Iran, published in paper after paper, “parallel nuclear weapons programs” and Iranians sharpening knives in their tents barely gets giggles anymore. In Iran, too much time has passed.
Control of civil government by uneducated religious leaders whose secret police arrest people for “witchcraft” and “consorting with jinns” (genies, a form of demon) has worn thin.
Any country that has a space program or that could build nuclear weapons and still believes these things is pretty silly.
Actually, religious leaders in Israel are almost identical to those in Iran, perhaps even worse and have, under Netanyahu, nearly as much influence as this story from Veterans Today tells us.
Currently rather broad interpretations of the Torah cover all sorts of things, including war based on financial speculation.
Do we look at this “common ground” between Israel and Iran as a positive move toward world peace?
LAST BUT HARDLY LEAST
The last leak we had came from the Ukraine. Sources there, close to the highest levels of the government and military, reminded us of those “heady times” back in 2003.
The Bush administration was on a worldwide crusade against Islam. Bush, now the least popular president in American history, accused by dozens of nations of war crimes, still had acceptable poll numbers, that and 200,000 troops in Iran.
Iran had an active nuclear weapons program at that time and openly admits it.
With 200,000 Americans staring at them, under the command of criminal psychopaths led around by the nose by Israeli agents posing as members of the National Security Council, Iran chose to very publicly scrap its nuclear weapons program.
They were only buying time.
The threat was very real to Iran, Bush planned an attack on Iran and was willing to do anything, including stage another attack on the United States as he had on 9´/11, to justify it.
This was no secret in the Middle East. Osama bin Laden had announced who planned 9/11 early on, while he was still alive before his death in 2001.
A “slam dunk” case for the innocence of bin Laden is made in this article in Veterans Today, Osama bin Laden: Closing the Case on an Innocent Man.
Official CIA transcripts and even broadcasts by Fox News support bin Laden’s innocence.
Unsubstantiated stories indicate that Viktor Yushchenko’s supporters, back in 2003, to help finance his election, sold a weapon of sorts to Iran.
Yushenko Dioxin Poisoning - Why Was It Done, by Whom ?
Yushchenko, himself, had actually reached out to Israel for support during the campaign, pointing out that his mother had hidden 3 Jewish girls from the Nazis during World War II.
Either way, there are those who believe Yushchenko was responsible and was poisoned with dioxin as punishment for this transgression.
There is no proof of this.
However, much more reliable reports do tell of a transfer of a weapon to Iran in 2003.
We must also remember that, in 1995, the Ukraine had entered into negotiations to join NATO. It wasn’t under 2010 that this effort was abandoned when a polling of Ukrainian voters found 40% looked on NATO as more threat than friend.
As for the weapon itself, this is how it was described.
Theoretically, the Ukraine returned its nuclear arsenal to Russia in 1996. Within this arsenal were a number of SS19 missiles, armed with 6 550kt thermonuclear warheads.
Some were returned to Russia and, in accordance with START 2, rearmed with a single 5 megaton warhead, replacing the MIRV (Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle) system.
Some remained behind, armed with the original 5 weapons but in “dry” storage, lacking both fuel and targeting systems.
One of these was flown to Tehran, our Ukrainian sources tell us, giving Iran a missile capable of striking, not only Israel but most of the world, though we are not sure of its condition, and enough nuclear weapons, more appropriately, “thermonuclear weapons” of small size and high reliability to turn Israel to glass.
Any one of them could destroy the entire American fleet in the region.
Why then, would Israel indicate plans to attack Iran when we know that they know Iran has these weapons and could deliver them?
What is confirmation on this?
Our last National Security Assessment by the CIA indicated that Iran has no active nuclear program and is not trying in any way to build nuclear weapons.
In fact, despite continual promises from Israel, coming “fast and furious” in the last few days, nobody has any proof that Iran didn’t dismantle their weapons program nearly a decade ago as claimed.
We would ask Osama bin Laden, if he hadn’t died 10 years ago. This is the nature of the kind of rhetoric we have gotten used to hearing.
Why then are there continual threats against a program that nobody can locate, Iran is certainly filled with spies, and the CIA claims doesn’t exist?
POSSIBLE SOLUTION
“Set piece battles” were all the thing, from ancient times up to the Somme in 1916. It is clear that Israel wants to fight Iran but just can’t get there. Israel has little real navy, no air transport capability to speak of and many of its soldiers, after doing their IDF service, returned to the US where they are working, some on Wall Street.
The map below is from the UK Daily Mail, prepared by friends of Israel that manage that publication. Get a good laugh out of this:
THE MAP, A COMEDY OF STUPIDITY
-- Where do I begin? Israel’s 750 aircraft can’t be refueled to attack Iran. They also can’t fly over Turkey, Iraq or Saudi Arabia legally. The truth? Israel has a few planes in one of the former Soviet Republics, north of Iran. They can use those. They are so poorly protected a group of small children might steal them at any time. Whoever did this map, and we know it was done in Israel, figures everyone is stupid. They are probably right.
-- Problem 2 is the 43,000 troops in Iraq. The “Separation of Forces Agreement” between the US and Iraq prohibits any US troops there to be used against Iran. In fact, Iraq would be obligated to join the war on behalf of Iran. So would Turkey, a long time ally of the US with one of the most powerful armies in the world.
-- The 43,000 Americans are more likely to rekindle a full scale civil war in Iraq, something Israel wants as it has plans to seize part of Kurdistan.
-- Then we have the 98,000 American troops in Afghanistan. They are already losing a war there, 10 years later and the Taliban is kicking their tails. President Karzai would be forced to demand the immediate withdrawal of all American forces from Afghanistan, forcing a US veto in the UN Security Council. The entire nation of Afghanistan would rise against American forces leading to a modern day “Dien Bien Phu.” 98,000 Americans could very well end up POWs.
-- Pakistan would be obligated to cut off all US supplies from the Indian Ocean and Russia would immediately end all US agreements to allow resupply over Russia. The 98,000 American troops in Afghanistan would be out of ammunition, have no fuel for their vehicles or planes and would eventually starve to death or learn to eat the opium poppies they have helped cultivate for the past 10 years.
-- This leaves those ships in the Persian Gulf. Iran, years ago, had 8000 Chinese designed Silkworm missiles dug in to cover the entire Persian Gulf and much of the Southern Indian Ocean. Two years ago, a factory producing these missiles, capable of defeating America’s naval defenses, was completed in Iran. This means current numbers are much higher. These missiles “close” at Mach 2.5 and can be launched by the thousands in a few minutes. The Japanese Kamakazi attacks that devastated US Naval forces off Okinawa in 1945 would be a joke in comparison. Every ship in the Persian Gulf would be underwater in a few hours. Would the US Navy retaliate? Of course, as soon as they built new ships.
-- Just imagine how many of the world’s several billion Muslims would be putting in applications to join Al Qaeda? Is that the plan, overwork Al Qaeda’s recruiting and training staff and make them all quit?
If you think I invented this stupid map, please check the Daily Mail article “Iran ‘is ready for war’: Tehran vows to retaliate if Israel and the West attack nuclear plants”
This pack of clowns, the most shamefully incompetent military minds on earth, actually tried to foist this off on the British public.
IT GETS WORSE, SO MUCH WORSE
Egypt Revolution - The Military Was Trusted in the Beginning - But Now?
Israel is in a hurry to push the US into war because Egypt still has its pro-Israeli army led by Mubarak era stooges.
When they are gone, and an election will eliminate them quickly, Egypt has put Israel on notice that the Camp David Peace Accords will no longer apply.
Israel will have a large American trained and American supplied Egyptian Army on its border for the first time in decades.
With the Persian Gulf a war zone, oil will stop.
Any increase in oil prices will collapse both the dollar and euro, two currencies “on the brink.” The US depends on China to buy its bad debt, the only way of keeping America alive.
However, China is closely aligned to both Pakistan and Iran. Though China may not defend Iran, it will certainly prevent any US pressure against Pakistan to allow troops or supplies to cross Pakistan for an attack on China’s other ally and major supplier of oil, Iran.
China can also dump its treasury bonds, lowering America’s credit rating more and making any further borrowing by the US impossible. America will then be forced to cut back its military, not 25% but 60% and drain the Social Security fund dry.
With this, of course, the auto companies will collapse again, with no money to bail them out, and the rest of the banks will go with them, again with no money for a bailout.
Commercial credit will dry up as will mortgages, inflation will hit, interest rates will be forced up to levels we saw under President Carter and America will enter a full scale depression likely to last a generation.
Other than that, “the plan” seems on solid footing as far as I can see.
CONTROLLED PRESS STARTING A WAR
An Attack on Iran by Israel will be Deemed an Attack by America, also. But Who Will Pay the Most For It?
A minor note. There is no credible intelligence from any source backing claims Israel is making against Iran. Does Israel, in fact, have any credibility at all?
This week, 107 members of the United Nations, by putting the State of Palestine in UNESCO told Israel to “go take a hike.”
With Israel and a carefully orchestrated news campaign demanding the US go to war against Iran, a formidable military power with strong alliances with Russia and China, is American law being violated?
There has been no threat against either America or its interests. No attack has been made on the US though we suspect one may well conveniently occur any day now.
Will people believe it, even after 9/11 has been unmasked?
What do America’s generals say? Two of Israel’s most credible experts have spoken up, the only way they could, by going to the press. They say the entire idea of war with Iran is insanity.
This is from today’s Guardian “Israel PM Orders Investigation into Iran Leak“. It alleged leaks of plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, it has been reported.
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida, the main suspects are the former heads of Mossad and the Shin Bet, respectively Israel’s foreign and domestic intelligence agencies. Netanyahu is said to believe that the two, Meir Dagan and Yuval Diskin, wanted to torpedo plans being drawn up by him and Ehud Barak, the defence minister, to hit Iranian nuclear sites.
Tzipi Livni, leader of the opposition Kadima party, is also said to have been persuaded to attack Netanyahu for “adventurism” and “gambling with Israel’s national interest”.
LET ISRAEL DO IT
America has certainly fought enough wars for Israel, a fact long in evidence. Perhaps, out of a sense of civility, Iran would agree to fight Israel, on Iranian soil.
This would require an agreement by Iran to allow Israel to stage its forces in Iran, open use of commercial air space, Iranian airports, where IDF current and reserve forces, not just from Israel but the US and UK as well, could be “mustered” for battle against Iran, the “mother of all battles” to coin a phrase oft used by Saddam Hussein.
I am sure JP Morgan/Chase would front the airline tickets.
There is little doubt that Israeli/Australian/British/American Rupert Murdoch could get the television rights.
Netanyahu could lead the forces personally.
I think this is something we all would buy a ticket to see.
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Maria 6 nov 2011
Occupation army strafes Palestinian homes east of Khan Younis
GAZA, (PIC)-- IOF troops stationed in watchtowers to the east of Qarara village, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip opened machinegun fire at Palestinian homes on Sunday morning terrifying the residents. No casualties were reported.
Palestinian homes close to the border are often the target of trigger happy occupation soldiers who fire at will at those homes causing material damage, terrorising the people and resulting in casualties sometimes.
The same village witnessed an airstrike Saturday night that left one person dead and three others wounded, one of them in a serious condition.
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US, Israel plan 'largest' war games
US Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro says the US and the Israeli regime are set to hold their 'largest and most significant' joint military maneuvers without offering details about the time and location of the war games.
More than 5,000 US and Israeli forces will take part in the war drills, said Shapiro, in a Saturday speech at the Israeli-sponsored think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). He reportedly did not mention a specific time and location for what observers have described as part of the new US-led publicity campaign aimed at raising the threat level against Iran.
The joint military maneuver will simulate Israel's ballistic missile system and will allow Washington to 'learn from' Tel Aviv's experience in warfare, the senior American official added.
Shapiro also reiterated that the administration of US President Barack Obama would extend unconditional support for the Israeli regime, reported the major Israeli daily Haaretz.
"Our security relationship with Israel is broader, deeper and more intense than ever before," Shapiro said, adding that Israel's military edge was a "top priority" for the administration.
WINEP is widely known as the policy setting arm of the influential Israeli lobby in the US. It often prepares and submits policy papers and legislative drafts to US administrations and foreign affairs committees in the US Senate and House of Representatives. WINEP analysts are often invited to congressional foreign policy hearings to offer testimonies promoting support for the Israeli regime and raising alarms against challenges to Tel Aviv rulers, especially Iran, Syria, and Lebanese resistance movements.
The United States has been annually giving the Israeli regime billions of dollars in military and economic aid packages since its establishment in 1948. Currently, USD 3 billion of American tax-payers money is granted annually to the Tel Aviv regime as part of the US foreign aid package.
Shapiro emphasized that the Obama administration would continue to honor the hefty aid package to Israel over the next ten years, "even in challenging budgetary times."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have been making more vigorous efforts recently to persuade the Israeli cabinet to engage in a militarily strike against Iran, according to reports.
Washington and Tel Aviv have repeatedly threatened Tehran with the "option" of a military strike, based on their repeated but baseless allegation that Iran's civilian nuclear program may include a covert military aspect.
Iran insists that it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Israel is widely believed to possess over 200 atomic warheads and does not allow any inspection of its nuclear program by international inspectors. Moreover, the Israeli regime has refused to join the International Atomic Energy Agency or the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty, boasting its public policy of "nuclear ambiguity."
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/208648.html
Israel Mistakenly Bombed Syrian Textile Factory, Not Nuclear?
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA), May 2011, was reportedly has “formally conclude that the construction site attacked by Israel on September 2007, is a nuclear reactor intended for making fuel for nuclear bombs.” But a new report by Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear policy expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, says that the site “is, and always has been, a textile factory.”
In the past, investigators didn’t believe Syria ever built a nuclear bomb—there was no evidence for that accusation, as the investigators see the complex, in the city of Al-Hasakah, now appears to be used as a cotton-spinning plant. But satellite images have provided U.N. investigators with a clearer view—drawing a link between Syrian government with A.Q. Khan, who had publicly confessed to selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
The satellite-made images revealed that the textile complex, in the city of Al-Hasakah, appears to match Khan’s designs for uranium enrichment plant that were sold Gaddafi’s government in Libya, another report citing an official statement. Meanwhile, the report said, the investigators have also obtained correspondence between Khan and a Syrian government official, who proposed scientific cooperation and a visit to Khan’s laboratories. So, investigators may suspect that Khan had other clients he had not revealed (Syria?.)
Considering the world powers focus on a popular uprising in Syria and the government’s violent crackdown, the first report closed with an assumption that “the IAEA’s examination of Syria’s programs has slowed. If the facility in Al-Hasakah was indeed intended for uranium production, those plans appear to have been abandoned and the path to plutonium ended with the Israeli bombing.”
But Jeffrey Lewis’ report entirely goes to different direction—revealing German journalist, Paul-Anton Krüger who traced the Hasakah textile factory by “narrowing down the dates when the facility had been built and since when it had been used as a spinning factory.”
Having looked at photos of machineries appeared at Arms Control Wonk (ACW), Lewis’ blog, Krüger came with intelligent view to catch the logo attached on the machineries, and was able to locate local textile equipment’s supplier in Germany—who has been verified and positively (by Krüger) as a company that not only supplied the Hasakah spinning project, but also “installed machinery there in 2003”.
According to the local representative, “at that time the factory was running and it was 100 percent a spinning mill.”
But Krüger’s curiosity didn’t end-up there. He eventually met and had an interview with TEXPROJEKT Industrieanlagen GmbH’s CEO, Jürgen P.R. Grobe (62)—who burst out and said “I built that thing!”, after Krüger asked if he knew something about the spinning factory in Al-Hasakah, Syria.
Again, Grobe reconfirmed that he was one and his team who built the Al-Hasakah spinning project, followed by detail description and purpose of each bulding on the picture presented by Krüger.
Grobe claimed that “he worked there as the chief engineer and project manager and was responsible for supervising the construction work and the installation of the spinning machines from March/April 1981 until the facility was handed over to the Syrians in April 1984” Krüger noted on the story.
Krüger also noted that Grobe, in 1991, drove up to Al-Hasakah by car to visit his former landlord. Grobe found “the factory working rather poorly—but it was still spinning. Cotton. And Polyester.”
Having Krüger interview with Grobe, with some helps of his friends, Lewis may have came into a view that “LANDSAT image is hard evidence to confirm Grobe’s recollection that the facility was built between 1981-1984, which is consistent with the timeline provided by the Hasaka Spinning Co”—which was long before “AQ Khan’s first documented approach Libya” that occurred in January 1984.
Having those results, Lewis suggests his reader (or his peers, and the IAEA’s investigator?), “It seems clear that Damascus never intended the Al-Hasaka Spinning Factory to spin anything more insidious than polyester.” And “It is, and always has been, a textile mill.”.
So, has Israel, in 2007, mistakenly bombed Syrian textile factory, not nuclear facilities? “embarrassing for Israeli intelligence if WPost correct ie Syrian factory it bombed not nuke but for spinning polyster,” @petersbeaumont (Observer and Guardian journalist) tweeted “in personal capacity.”
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Maria 7 nov 2011
Islamic Jihad: Israel 'broke' truce
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Islamic Jihad said it would retaliate after Israeli forces killed a member of its armed wing in Gaza late Saturday, hours before the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha began.
"Israel has again broken the truce" agreed by Gaza factions after Israeli strikes killed 12 people in two days last week, spokesman Daoud Shihab said in Sunday's statement.
Shihab warned of Israeli escalation during the Eid holiday, which began on Sunday.
Islamic Jihad will take "revenge" for Israel's firing on the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, which killed a 26-year-old member of the group's Al-Quds Brigades, and injured two others, Shihab said.
All Palestinians reject the killing of their people and the attempt to ruin the festivities of Eid, he added.
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Three Casualties as a result of artillery fire east of Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Three Palestinians were wounded on Mondayas a result of artillery shelling by IOF troops stationed to the east of Gaza.
Local sources told PIC that occupation tanks bombed east Gaza with five artillery shells at least, this is in addition to strafing with machineguns agricultural fields and residential neighbourhoods.
The emergency committee said that the shelling resulted in the wounding of three residents, and the casualty toll is expected to rise.
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Israeli forces shell east Gaza City, 3 injured
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shelled the eastern Shujaiyeh district of Gaza City on Monday, with medics reporting three people were injured.
Witnesses told Ma'an that up to 10 shells were fired from the direction of Israeli crossing Nahal Oz to the east of the city throughout the morning.
Medics said three people were transferred to Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
An Israeli army statement said soldiers fired towards "a terrorist squad planting two explosive devices adjacent to the security fence... confirming a hit."
An Egyptian-brokered truce between Gaza factions and Israeli forces was declared "broken" by Islamic Jihad on Sunday after a 26-year-old member of its armed wing was killed by Israeli forces late Saturday.
The Oct. 30 truce came after Israeli strikes killed 12 people in the Gaza Strip in two days, and Gaza militants fired a volley of rockets and mortars into southern Israel, killing one Israeli in Ashkelon, in the worst flareup on the border in several months.
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Analysis: What is Israel's military strategy on Iran?
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Menachem Begin did not pull his punches. In 1981, as work neared completion on an Iraqi nuclear reactor that Israel believed would produce plutonium for warheads, the Israeli prime minister dispatched eight F-16 bombers to destroy the plant.
Begin later said that the raid was proof his country would "under no circumstances allow the enemy to develop weapons of mass-destruction against our people".
The event defined a strategy that became known as the "Begin Doctrine" and is best summed up by the phrase "the best defense is forceful preemption."
Israel's message is now more guarded. In a civil defense drill of unprecedented scale last June, sirens summoned schoolchildren to shelters, radars searched the skies for computer-simulated missile salvos, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet descended into the Jerusalem foothills to inaugurate a nuclear bunker with a mock war-session.
Why would a country that has long vowed to stop its foes attaining nuclear weapons need a nuclear bunker? The question highlights a new, reluctant restraint that has quietly infused Israeli decision-making in recent years as regional threats have grown more complex and sapped the applicability of classic force of arms. Nowhere is this felt more than in the Netanyahu government's posture toward Iran.
The spin of the Islamic republic's uranium centrifuges stirs mortal fear in Israel. In defiance of western pressure to curb the project's bomb-making potential, Iran has pushed on with its nuclear program, saying it has no hostile designs.
The International Atomic Energy Agency will say this week that Iran now has the ability to build a nuclear weapon, the Washington Post has reported. Israeli officials have long hinted they may launch a preemptive strike.
That threat has taken on fresh intensity in the two years since Netanyahu -- a right-wing ideologue like Begin -- assumed office. Media speculation that Israel might launch a unilateral strike has surged again in the past two weeks.
In October, the dean of Israeli pundits, Nahum Barnea, suggested on the front page of the best-selling Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the government was hatching an imminent attack.
Days later Netanyahu warned of the "direct and heavy threat" posed by Iran's nuclear program and then, on Nov. 2, Israel test-fired a missile. The same day the military said it had completed air exercises in Sardinia, "practicing operations in (a ) vast, foreign land".
Such talk robs Israel of some of the element of surprise if it really is planning an assault on Iran. Could it instead be a loud reminder to the rest of the world of its problem with Iran in the hope that Washington or another power might intercede?
Interviews in recent months with government and military officials -- most speaking on condition of anonymity -- and independent experts suggest that Israel prefers caution over a unilateral strike against the Iranians.
The country has been digging in under sophisticated strategic defenses with at least as much energy as it has been preparing offensive options. Netanyahu's own circumspection is instructive.
As opposition leader in 2005, he told Israel Radio that in dealing with Iran he would "pursue the legacy" of Begin's "bold and courageous move" against Iraq.
But as prime minister he has been less explicit -- both in public and, to judge by leaked US diplomatic cables dated as recently as 2010, in closed-door meetings he and aides held with visiting American delegates. Instead, Israel has pushed its demand that world powers stiffen sanctions on Tehran and that the United States provide the vanguard of any last-ditch military move.
"The military option is not an empty threat, but Israel should not leap to lead it. The whole thing should be led by the United States, and as a last resort," Deputy Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon told Israel's Army Radio.
The Prime Minister's Office declined to comment directly on whether Netanyahu felt bound by the Begin Doctrine regarding Iran.
No silver bullet
Israelis have known for years that an attack on Iran would be much more difficult than their Iraq strike.
Iran is larger, more distant and, perhaps because it learned the lessons of Iraq, has built numerous and well-fortified facilities. Taking these out would require a sustained campaign by the Israeli air force, which is more geared for precision strikes through the use of advanced technology.
"With Iran it's a different project. There is no one silver bullet (with which) you can hit," a senior Israeli defense official told Reuters, in a rare admission of his country's tactical and strategic limitations.
Iran has allies across its borders in Lebanon and Gaza, against whom Israel fought costly wars in 2006 and 2009. With the Netanyahu government facing growing isolation -- its impasse with the Palestinians is deepening; its alliances with Turkey and Egypt fraying -- Israel acknowledges that it is reluctant to go it alone against the Iranians.
"We have to learn that the situation is changing, the region is changing. Not everything that was possible before is possible now and new possibilities open up," said Dan Meridor, deputy prime minister in charge of Israel's nuclear and intelligence affairs.
It was Meridor who recommended "defense" as a fourth pillar of Israeli national security in a secret memorandum he authored on behalf of the government in 2006.
That report added to the three doctrinal "D's" set out by Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, soon after the country's founding in a 1948 war with neighboring Arabs: detect enemies' threats, deter them with the promise of painful retribution and, if hostilities nonetheless ensue, defeat them quickly on their own turf.
"This was something counter-intuitive for Israel, especially for the military. Israelis like to be on the attack, not on the defensive," Meridor said.
While he declined to discuss the prospect of military action against Iran, Meridor distanced himself from the idea that the Begin Doctrine commits Israel to such a course.
"I am not sure what people mean when they use this term. In any event, there is no contradiction between any attack doctrine and a defense doctrine. They are complementary. If the attack doesn't does not solve the problem, then you need to be able to defend yourself."
Limits of shields
The most obvious example of Israel's shifting stance is its pioneering missile shield, which incorporates a network of radar-guided interceptors designed to shoot down everything from the ballistic Shehab and Scud missiles of Iran and Syria to the lower-flying, Katyusha-style rockets of Hezbollah and Palestinian militants.
In artist renditions at Israeli defense conferences, the shield covers Israel in overlapping bubbles, like some huge plexiglass Babushka doll. That sits in contrast to the publicity images of warplanes or tank columns taking the offensive, which used to define Israel's military self-image.
The shield is a work in progress. Its lowest tier, the short-range Iron Dome interceptor, was deployed this year. The top tier, Arrow, is designed to blow up threats above the atmosphere, high enough to safely vaporize a nuclear warhead. The Arrow III upgrade, due for live trials by early 2012, features a detachable satellite that will collide, kamikaze-like, with incoming missiles in space.
Many Israelis rankle at the idea that the shield, which was conceived following Iraq's use of conventional Scud missiles during the 1991 Gulf war, should be relied on to stave off nuclear catastrophe.
"Hermetic protection will be impossible," Colonel Zvika Haimovitch of the air defense corps told Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies in a Sept. 5 speech. "I assess that, in any conflict, rockets and missiles will fall here."
But others, including INSS scholar and retired Israeli general Shlomo Brom, argue for Israel's defensive posture to be expanded, and perhaps even for the secrecy to be eased around the country's own, reputed atomic arsenal.
Aiming to avoid a regional arms race and skirt international anti-proliferation scrutiny, Israel currently neither confirms nor denies having the bomb.
"The answer is mutual deterrence, with the other side knowing the price it would pay for launching a nuclear strike -- mutual destruction," said Brom.
Like Meridor, Brom dismissed the suggestion that the Iraqi reactor strike set a precedent for a potential Israeli strike on Iran. He notes Israel's decision not to take military action against suspected chemical weapons programs of Syria and Iraq has already undermined the Begin Doctrine.
Signals from Syria
Israel did loose its jets on Syria in 2007, to destroy a desert installation that Washington later described as a nascent, North Korean-supplied atomic reactor. Damascus denied having such a facility and Israel has never formally taken responsibility for the raid.
In his memoir, former US President George W. Bush said Israel's prime minister at the time, Ehud Olmert, preferred the reticence "because he wanted to avoid anything that might back Syria into a corner and force (President Bashar) Assad to retaliate".
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney was not surprised that Israel went it alone. "I ... remembered 1981, when the Israelis had ignored world opinion and launched an air strike to destroy a nuclear reactor Saddam Hussein was building at Osirak in Iraq," Cheney wrote in his autobiography. "For the Syrians and the North Koreans ... the private message was clear -- Israel would not tolerate this threat."
But some argue the attack on Syria was designed to send a message to Iran.
"We noted a whole lot of Iranian interest in what happened in Syria -- trips by consultants, intense communication," said a one-time adviser to Olmert, breaking Israel's official silence around the episode.
By tackling Syria, Israel hoped to make the Iranians think twice about pursuing their nuclear program.
To illustrate, the ex-adviser cited "Family Business", a 1989 crime drama in which a veteran jailbird, played by Sean Connery, counsels his grandson on how to survive prison: "You pick out a tough guy, kick his ass right away ... Word gets around, and it makes your time easier."
Of course, the Americans also took note. Visiting Israel last month, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta was asked by a reporter about the possibility that the 2007 sortie augured an Israeli attack on Iran. Panetta did not answer directly. He made clear that Washington disapproved of the idea of unilateral action, but said "a number of countries in this region recognize the threat from Iran," and that concerned countries would "work together to do whatever is necessary to make sure that they do not represent a threat to this region."
Time running out
Israelis often question US President Barack Obama's resolve in the Middle East. But even if he loses power in next year's presidential election to a more hawkish Republican, it may be too late for Israel, which predicted last January that Iran could have its first nuclear device in two years. That forecast was echoed by Britain.
"If they (Israel) feel they could achieve their objective, or at least initiate the kind of conflict that would meet their objective, through a one-off strike, that would be feasible," said Richard Kemp, a retired British army colonel who has studied Israeli strategy.
Israel's military does not comment on prospective operations. But many in Israel's defense establishment have gone out of their way to downplay the feasibility of a unilateral attack. Former Mossad spymaster Meir Dagan has repeatedly ridiculed the idea in briefings to Israeli reporters.
"Attacking the reactors from the air is a stupid idea that would have no advantage," he said in May. "A regional war would be liable to unfold, during which missiles would come in from Iran and from Hezbollah in Lebanon."
The Mossad under Dagan, who retired in January, is widely believed to have been behind the Stuxnet software attack on Iran's nuclear computer systems as well as the assassination of several Iranian scientists. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied those allegations.
And even Netanyahu has shown signs of being gun shy -- certainly when compared to his predecessor, the centrist Olmert, who ordered the Israeli wars in Lebanon and Gaza.
The prime minister's swift deployment of short-range Iron Dome interceptors outside the Hamas-ruled territory of Gaza in April may have helped scotch rocket attacks that might have otherwise drawn an Israeli invasion into the coastal strip.
In January 2010, after the United Arab Emirates accused the Mossad of murdering a senior Hamas arms procurer in his Dubai hotel room, Israeli officials whispered that such skulduggery was preferable to the civilian toll of another Gaza war.
Keeping the world guessing as to how -- and if -- a confrontation might happen is in itself part of Israel's strategy.
"I hope that the Iranians see an Israeli conspiracy in this," said Yaalon of the mixed messages emanating from the Netanyahu government and its detractors, like Dagan. "That could help."
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Israel raids southern Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes raided the southern Gaza Strip early Wednesday injuring one man and damaging greenhouses.
Israeli forces fired two missiles north of Khan Younis which hit greenhouses and cut power to large areas of the city. One man suffered injuries caused by shrapnel from the missiles, a Ma'an reporter said.
An Israeli military spokesman said the raid was in response to a rocket fired at southern Israel late Tuesday.
"The air force targeted a site used for terrorist activities in the south of the Gaza Strip which was hit," he said in a statement.
On Monday, Israeli forces shelled the eastern Shujaiyeh district of Gaza City. Medics said three people were injured.
Low-level unrest has rumbled on in and around Gaza for the past 10 days but has not deteriorated into all-out fighting as it did on October 29-30 when violence left 12 Palestinian militants and an Israeli civilian dead.
Militant groups say they are observing an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement but have reserved the right to reply to any Israeli fire, while Israel has said it will target any militants poised to fire rockets across the border.
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Israeli warplanes attack Gaza Strip
The Israeli military says Israeli warplanes have once again bombarded the impoverished Palestinian territory of Gaza Strip, Press TV reports.
The attack occurred during early hours of Wednesday morning, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The Israeli military claimed that the attack came as retaliation to a rocket fired at southern Israel, although there has been no reported claim of responsibility by any Palestinian group for a rocket attack.
Last week, more than a dozen Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the coastal territory, which has been under a total economic blockade by the Tel Aviv regime since 2007.
The Israeli military frequently bombs the Gaza Strip, claiming that the deadly military attacks are carried out for defensive purposes. However, the Israeli use of disproportionate force, in violation of international law, has always been employed against largely defenseless Palestinian territories, inflicting heavy losses in life and property on the civilian population.
Meanwhile, the Israeli blockade of Gaza has led to a situation that has prompted a severe decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
After Israel's assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters on May 31, 2010, in which nine civilians were killed, Tel Aviv slightly eased the land blockade of Gaza, allowing in more consumer goods.
However, the naval siege of the Gaza Strip remains in place, as exports are banned and imports of raw and construction materials are restricted.
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IOF troops try to storm Eisaweyyah in Jerusalem
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- IOF troops tried on Wednesday evening to storm the Eisaweyyah suburb in occupied Jerusalem, but local youth confronted the invading troops by throwing stones causing the occupation soldiers to withdraw.
The storming attempt started after provocations made by IOF troops to young people participating in the football league match which was given the name of Martyr Samir Dari, to mark the anniversary of his cold blooded murder by occupation police in 2006. Dari, a father of 3 was stopped by occupation police in Jerusalem and as he got out of the car he was shot in the back. In 2009 a Zionist court cleared the culprit of manslaughter.
After failing to enter the neighbourhood to arrest players participating in the game, IOF troops fired teargas and rubber-coated bullets towards the youth. No casualties were reported.
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Israeli occupation gunboats fire at fishing boats opposite Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation gunboats on Friday morning opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats opposite Gaza City coast, no casualties were reported.
Palestinian Naval Police in the Gaza Strip said that Israeli occupation gunboats positioned opposite Gaza City coast opened fire toward Palestinian fishing boats causing no casualties.
The occupation navy on Thursday kidnapped three fishermen. Palestinian fishermen, who are only allowed to fish within three miles of the coast, suffer constant harassment from Israeli occupation navy.
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