(Hürriyet Daily News) – Umut Oran submitted a written parliamentary question over the phone records between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his son Bilal Erdoğan, and a number of ministers and businessmen, asking whether Erdoğan had instructed his minister Binali Yıldırım to tell a group of businessmen to buy the Sabah newspaper and the ATV television station.
The head of Turkey’s Telecommunications Directorate (TİB) sent the warning to Oran to remove the parliamentary question after he published it on his personal website, referring a law regulating online publishing and fighting against crimes committed via publishing.
100. The facts brought to the attention of the Mission indicate that the State of Israel has had full control of the settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) since 1967 and continues to promote and sustain them through infrastructure and security measures. The Mission notes that despite all the pertinent United Nations resolutions declaring that the existence of the settlements is illegal and calling for their cessation, the planning and growth of the settlements continues both of existing as well as new structures.
101. The establishment of the settlements in the West Bank including East Jerusalem62 is a mesh of construction and infrastructure leading to a creeping annexation that prevents the establishment of a contiguous and viable Palestinian State and undermines the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.
102. The settlements have been established and developed at the expense of violating international human rights laws and international humanitarian law, as applicable in the OPT as notably recognised by the 2004 ICJ Advisory Opinion.
(JPost) - Most people in Israel paid no attention to paragraph 4 of the conclusions issued by the European Union's foreign ministers following their meeting on 10 December 2012 in Brussels, chaired by Catherine Ashton.
The paragraph read: "The European Union expresses its commitment to ensure that - in line with international law - all agreements between the State of Israel and the European Union must unequivocally and explicitly indicate their inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, namely the Golan Heights, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip."
International law caught up with Israel, its binding economic package with the European Union and illegal occupation/annexation of Palestinian Territory. It's not the old testament that establishes states or boundaries. Years ago, Secretary Panetta warned Israel is becoming 'Isolated'.
Generate publicity by playing up its “too risqué” status, SodaStream is attempting to milk that tactic for the second year in a row with its Super Bowl Ad. Perhaps it bit off a bigger chunk than expected as stocks tanked on Nasdaq.
Scarlett Johansson has been politically active for the Democrats since Kerry in 2004 and wants to be a voice for disadvantaged people. In a 2012 campaign TV ad for MoveOn.org she took a stance on women's issues. For 2016 she has already indicated to throw her support behind Hillary.
“If you already have the spotlight shining on you, it’s great to direct that toward a cause you believe in and that you can stand behind. It’s nice to be a voice for people who don’t have a voice.”
Scarlett's statement about her ambassadorship for Sodastream certainly didn't provide any clarity and was taken apart. Her decision to cut ties with Oxfam indicates her new political activism.
Daniel Birnbaum, CEO of SodaStream, said in a video produced by a pro-Israel group Stand With Us that “we give them an opportunity to not only have a job and health insurance, but also social benefits. And a very high pay-scale which they could never achieve in the West Bank.” A report issued by the Israeli activist group Who Profits? [January 2011] outlined major labor rights concerns at SodaStream’s factory in Mishor Adumim can be found here.
"their insignia was in fact seen hanging in a conference that was encouraging people to support general sisi for presidency …"
Is this your very own handle, the Egyptian blogger wa7damasrya from Alexandria? Do you have a source for above statement? I understood the jihadists of Ansar Beyt Al-Maqdis [Partisans of Jerusalem] are located in the Sinai Peninsula and were involved in attacks along the Israeli border. The IDF killed four jihadists in a drone attack. In December, the Egyptian army killed a senior leader of AQ linked group in North Sinai, Ibrahim Mohamed Freg [aka Abu Suhaib], in an ambush in Sheikh Zuweid city.
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis reveals the jihadi responsible for South Sinai Security attack
The video also featured Sinai demos and protestor being shot, in addition to the police dispersal of pro-Morsy Rabea al-Adaweya and Nahda sit-ins. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis criticized the Secretary General of the Nour Party Galal al-Morra for supporting the "coup" against Morsy, and Salafi-leader Yasser Borhamy for standing next to a pastor. The video displays the image of the car used in the attack, loaded with a number of butane cylinders.
A young commander Arik Sharon formed Unit 101 to operate across the green armistice line of 1948 in Jordanian territory. He participated in the Qibya massacre and later boasted about it as Ben-Gurion shut his eyes for the atrocities.
Prof. Cole, I just watched your interview on Al Jazeera about the Cairo protest. Reading your column, there were no surprises. I picked up some information that Morsi is not always his own man but is seen as a puppet of MB leader Khairat El-Shater. Perhaps that weighs in on the severity of the protest. Two of Morsi advisors have stepped down today. Zaghloul El-Balshi, the general secretary of the supreme committee on the constitutional referendum, announced his resignation in a televised interview:
“I will not participate in a referendum that spilled Egyptian blood,” he said as cited by Ahram Online daily. “I call on Morsi to cancel the constitutional declaration immediately.”
A massacre by any means, however to make a statement of the use of (hydrogen) cyanide is not substantiated. Could you provide any legitimate source? Perhaps these are the granades transported out of Saddam’s Iraq by the Russians!? Saddam’s use of chemical warfare in Halabja can still be proven by measurements today and the witness accounts.
“The main debate in Egypt still pivots around the shaky relationship between religion and politics, expressed by the insistence of Salafi parties that the basis of legislation in Egypt be the “provisions” of Shari’a law, rather than the “principles.” The debate extends to include the nature of the state and its civility. While some call for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate, others want the foundation of a radical secular system.”
Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, cameramen for the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV, were covering events in the Al-Shifaa neighborhood of central Gaza when a missile hit their vehicle at around 6 p.m., according to a statement by Al-Aqsa TV. The statement said the journalists' car was marked "TV" with neon-colored letters. The journalists suffered severe burns and died in a nearby hospital.
A third journalist was killed when his car was hit by a missile, The Associated Press reported citing a Gaza official. Initial local news reports identified the journalist as Mohamed Abu Aisha, director of the private Al-Quds Educational Radio. The reports said his vehicle was hit while he was driving in the Deir al-Balah neighborhood, but did not say whether Abu Aisha was reporting at the time.
Clinton Rushed to the Side of Netanyahu, Not the Palestinian People!
I wrote this in a diary @Booman after observing the daily developments in Gaza and watching the Netanyahu press conference in Jerusalem upon the arrival of Clinton. I was astonished how Clinton passively became complicit in any next move by the far-right regime in Israel due to the war rhetoric by 'statesman' Netanyahu. Clinton strong endorsement of Israel and its policy, appreciating how well the Iron Dome missile shield had performed. On her way to an irrelevant PA president Abbas in Ramallah ...
Bombing and shelling of Gaza by sea, air and land with artillery fire coming from IDF tanks. See photo. These targeted strikes have numbered far beyond the retaliatory rockets fired from Hamas and militant positions in Gaza. The ugly face of war has just escalated further with a bus bombing in Tel Aviv. Why did Hillary Clinton travel to Ramallah?
South Africa turned to Israel after West froze nuclear ties in 1976 over development of military nuclear program. In September 1979, a United States intelligence nuclear detonation detection source, a Vela type satellite, which covered the Indian Ocean, detected a flash several hundred kilometers off South Africa's coast.
Even worse, both countries joined forces in R&D of biological and chemical warfare (BCW). The Truth and Reconciliation commission uncovered many documents in trial and judgement of Dr. Wouter Basson, see Project Coast. In 2002 the bacterial strains and research documents were offered to USAMRIID at Fort Detrick (anthrax experiments included). The GW institute and SAIC already employed SA researcher Steve Hatfill.
Apparently the rhetoric has escalated beyond the labeling of goods origin from illegal settlements to a call for a boycott of visits to Israel. How farfetched is the claim Hamas and Hezbollah are operating throughout Africa in conjunction with AQIM fighters firebombing christian churches in Nigeria (Boko Haram). Pure falsehoods or at least obfuscating Israel’s real enemies.
(The JC) - Dr Goldstein said the minister was endangering his country’s “international credibility” yet at the same time remaining too quiet on attacks in Syria. “It is indeed the ideological allies of Hamas and Hizbollah — Israel’s sworn enemies — who have also launched a terror campaign against Christian communities throughout Africa,” he said. “Nigeria, one of our key African partners, has borne the brunt of some of the worst attacks.”
'Substantive and Rigorous' Galilee Trip Paid for by AIPAC
Each year members of U.S. Congress perjure themselves by denying AIEF is the same foreign agent as AIPAC and thus they are free to travel to the Jewish part of Israel, all expenses paid.
(Mother Jones) – The original language from the Hyde Amendment—which bans federal funding for abortions through Medicaid except in cases of rape, incest, or to save a mother's life—will replace the "forcible" provision.
As for the incest exception, the bill would only allow federally funded abortions if the woman is under 18. The bill hasn't been carefully constructed. The term "forcible rape" is not defined in the federal criminal code, and the bill's authors don't offer their own definition.
Teaching survival to young girls in Ethiopia, a moving documentary by France24. In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, half of the girls are married before they come of age. Some are as young as 12. Married to older men, they are often subjected to sexual and domestic violence. Photos of Amhara region and Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
Great admiration for her! Gender or race. Must have been an impossible choice for her in the ’08 race: Hillary or Barack. She chose Hillary but is backing President Obama once the decision was made. Nice interview. Freedom is an environment where each person has the opportunity to develop his or her talent. Bigotry comes with narrow-minded people, can be exploited by politicians. Wealth, men and power is a deadly mix.
(Matzav) - Sheldon and Dr. Miriam Adelson have donated $500,000 to a SuperPAC supporting the campaign of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Rabbi Boteach is running for Congress as a Republican in New Jersey's 9th Congressional district. Author of “Kosher Sex” and host of the television show “Shalom in the Home,” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach made Newsweek’s list of the 50 most influential rabbis in the U.S.
So the Revolution missed him? On sovereign power from the Deity, infallability of the Pope and then such a quote after the decade of the guillotine. An interesting article Joseph de Maistre: An Unusual Reactionary. “Physical evil exists only because there has been, and there is, moral evil. All wrong must he expiated. So humanity which has always believed in the necessity of this expiation, has had recourse, to accomplish it, not only to prayer, but to sacrifice, that is, the shedding of blood, the merits of the innocent being applied to the guilty - a law as mysterious as it is indubitable, and which, in the opinion of the author, explains the existence and the perpetuity of war.” A new age of revolution with mob justice of the guillotine and martyrdom under authority of the evangelical church … sounds like right-wing militancy.
In the past months I have diaried quite extensively over Adelson – Koch – Wynn and the tens of millions being wastefully invested in the Republican political campaign. Doing some search WhoIs behind the 'Swift Boat ' attack ad, there is a link with an IP address 64.203.98.212. This is favorite for quite some right-wing funded websites linked to the billionaires. Yesterday while reading a nice article about “My Amsterdam” in the Jerusalem Post a reader from California wrote a comment with negative connotation linking “The Third Jihad”. Indeed another propaganda site registered to Clarion Fund Inc. with backing from Adelson or Koch [RightWeb].
Wealth, men and power: the war game they play. I’m so sorry for all forms of abuse on women. Women are always in a position of vulnerability, their strength of character is due to the fact they bear our next generation and care. Where military conflicts are fought, women and children will be the main victims. The charges have been trumped up in Sweden due to the fact a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) was needed. The process by the prosecution had many flaws from the start. Just google "ofredande" or misconduct (misleadingly translated as molestation) - Anna Ardin and her blog Rebella – the role played by their lawyer Claes Borgstrom, Sweden’s former equality ombudsman. To be clear I do not condone Assange’s forcefull sex acts and should face a court for a ruling on the accusations. The Supreme Court ruling in legal terms had to take the prosecutor’s EAW at face value due to new European law dealing with states. Earlier extradiction law is much more critical of the case put forward by the prosecution.
Extradiction from UK and Sweden may be difficult because the alleged crimes need to be a violation of British or Swedish law. In another incident, a Swede born in Lebanon was picked up at Prague airport while traveling from Stockholm to Beirut. The suspect was previously tried in Sweden and set free due to lack of evidence (not tainted by torture). It took two years to extradite him to the US and a court in West-Virginia. He was convicted by jury (verdict within 6 hours) and serves a life sentence.
(LA Times) July 12, 1985 - Botha was attempting to dampen growing outrage in the Netherlands over De Jonge's original arrest and his recapture, when several security policemen took him from the Dutch Embassy here after he had escaped from custody and sought asylum.
Botha asserted that the police, who were taking De Jonge around Pretoria to get him to point out the hidden arms caches, did not realize that he had entered the embassy, which is housed on the second floor of a bank building.
"As he was all the time legally in custody, … the police escort pulled him back into the passageway," Botha said, adding that South Africa respects the inviolability of diplomatic premises under international conventions.
Klaas de Jonge stayed in the Netherlands Embassy in Pretoria and took refuge there for two years after which he was released in exchange for the release of Wynand du Toit, and departed to Holland. In legal terms this was a unique study of asylum, immunity of consulate or embassy grounds.
Heiress money is peanuts, the French authorities will be looking at party funding in the hands of Sarkozy in the '90s. Sarkozy's party is under fire for alleged kickbacks of around $2m in Pakistani sub deal. Timeline Karachi bombings and kickbacks. Latest report provides a new twist after the French judge visited the United States and got access to past hearings of Omar Sheikh. Karachi bombings linked with Daniel Pearl murder.
The happy Irish archbishop of New York reminds me of the jolly pastors of a different era. An era where their teachings only met approval and were in harmony with the town's notables: the well educated, wealthy few (1%). I figured, let's see what kind of political statements does a new President of the USCCB make.
I beg your pardon reverend, you missed a few lines the late pope John Paul II wrote in his papal letter. He spoke of the totalitarian Marxist state, not about a liberated Western Europe. It's about leadership, fraternal love and being there in person to get the unemployed, poor and abused back on track in society so the provider earns an honest wage and can care for his/her family. I'm thinking along the lines of community assistance, neighbours, buddies and the nuns (sister Theresa) who devote their lives in service of the meek, poor and sick. What you say about a universal coverage of the sick through health care? The elderly bishops of the Vatican do make some gaffes and attack the social work of American nuns.
Bright fellow Mitt Romney with his shiny credentials as business CEO just released a new ad expressing himself in terms of the wealthy being in harmony with the late pope en a recent endorsement by Lech Walesa. Affordable Health Care is an attack on religious freedom.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the pardon and release of Jihadists added fuel to SCAF struggle with civilian administration. At least three of the released Islamists had been condemned to death, others include members of al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, jailed during the group's armed insurrection against the state in the 1990s, and Islamic Jihad, the movement behind the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat. President Morsi relented to the Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood to release more prisoners with blood on their hands. Releasing Islamists and fight the same groups in the Sinaï does not make much sense. The attack and death of 12 soldiers presented a great opportunity for Mursi to move and replace the military brass.
(Egypt Independent) - The Gulf emirate said on Saturday it would deposit $2 billion in all. The latest pledge from Qatar is one of several disbursements by the emirate to help out governments across the Middle East and North Africa since the Arab Spring.
Finance Minister Momtaz al-Saeed said officials had also discussed with a Libyan delegation that Tripoli might support Egypt’s depleted finances. Saudi Arabia stepped in with financial support in June, approving $430 million in project aid for Cairo and a $750 million credit line for oil imports.
The prosecution accused Tawfiq Okasha of libel, defamation and inciting people to murder President Mohamed Morsy. Al-Dostour Editor-in-Chief Islam Afify was accused of spreading false news, data and rumors that insulted the president, thus disturbing public peace, harming public interesting, destabilizing the country and causing people to panic, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Adel al-Saeed.
MB reported in early stage suspicion of a Mossad operation. Reminds me of the Reagan years and one of many false flag operations in the Middle-East.
With its new authority, the CIA set up 'counterterrorism units’. Casey quickly funded the “Foreign Work and Analysis Unit” (FWAU) inside Lebanon which had the assassination of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah as its first priority. Others targeted for death were Lebanese former Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss, Imad Mughniyeh and Walid Jumblatt, then supporting the PLO. The FWAU conducted a car bombing campaign in Muslim areas of Beirut and targeted the Cinema Salwa, Beirut’s Raouche Market, Sabra Street, the Abu Nawwas restaurant, and the Druze Social Centre, among others, killing at least 280 civilians and wounding nearly 1,150.
(Times of Israel) - Raed Attar, who heads Gaza’s Qasam Brigades, is one of trio accused by Cairo of ‘indirect role’ in assault that killed 16 Egyptian troops and smashed into Israel at Kerem Shalom crosing.
Al-Quds reported that the request to extradite the trio was sent to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh through Mahmoud A-Zahar, a Hamas official in Gaza. An unnamed security source told the daily that the three men are not suspected of perpetrating the attack, but of providing “indirect logistical support” to an extremist group in Sinai that carried it out.
The source would not give Al-Quds the names of the three men, but security sources in Ramallah told the daily that they are Raed Attar, Ayman Nofal, and Muhammad Abu-Shamalah, all of whom are well-known tunnel smugglers in Gaza. The daily reported that Hamas agreed to hand over the men to the Egyptians, but they refused to go voluntarily, citing a fear of being tortured by the Egyptians. The men did agree to be questioned by the Egyptian intelligence inside the Gaza Strip.
Picking Paul Ryan from Wisconsin is a clear signal how presidential nominee Mitt Romney wants to operate in a partisan Washington D.C. Remember, U.S. Congress shows the lowest ratings by voters!
(TNR) - Paul Ryan has carefully nurtured his deficit hawk image by expressing his Randian ideology in the high-minded language of the establishment. His favorite attacks on President Obama have revolved around failure to lead and a refusal to openly embrace the fiscal commission report. The work of that fiscal commission passed into the hands of the Gang of Six, which has commanded strong Senate support and might have a chance in the House if its deficit-cutting recommendations were embraced by a figure with the right-wing fiscal credentials of Ryan. Instead Ryan "dropped what one Republican Senate adviser called a 'bomb' on the Gang of Six," snuffing out any chance of success.
Does Ryan's plan cut taxes for the rich? No, no, he says -- he simply "reforms" the tax code.
In my opinion it’s a poor ad, swirling too much controversy especially as the same person was in another ad about GS Industries Inc. in Kansas City. An excellent video was made to illustrate the loss of jobs, health insurance and pensions at the Kansas City plant. Bain Capital ripped off the company with high fees and left it with a debt burden, see also their HQ at Charlotte, NC.
(Wisconsin Star) - "I was in Chicago earlier today. We had a moment of silence in honour of the people who lost their lives at that sheikh temple," the daily quoted Romney as saying.
"I noted that it was a tragedy for many, many reasons. Among them are the fact that people, the sheikh people are among the most peaceable and loving individuals you can imagine, as is their faith."
Populist Wilders will lose seats in coming election as Dutch voters move towards the opposition, left wing parties. Wilders party PVV has influence on foreign policy through Dutch minister Uri Rosenthal who has vetoed European policy towards Israel on settlements in Judea and Samaria and the Palestinian issue.
The present Dutch government has been one of the country’s friendliest to Israel in a long time.
The possibility of a new government led by Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer including Labor, the small Green Party and the left-wing liberals of D66 cannot be excluded. It is likely to be strongly anti-Israel. SP says in its election program that The Netherlands will support a two-state solution.
In the Labor Party program the entire section on instable regions was devoted to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, with a substantial anti-Israeli slant. The platform says more vaguely that The Netherlands will stop its pro-Israeli Dutch policy and align itself with the European Union one.
Wow! Without ally Geert Wilders, the Dutch wil become anti-Israel, for a moment I felt a trembling ... a choice between xenophobia and anti-semitism.
The Southern Poverty Law Center described Page as a “frustrated neo-Nazi” who in 2005 led a “racist white supremacist” rock band called “End Apathy”. The Montgomery, Alabama-based organization, which monitors hate groups, said it has been tracking Page for a decade.
Army veteran Wade Michael Page, 40, lived in Centennial, Englewood, Littleton and Denver at various times from the 90s to 2007. He was discharged from the Army in 1998. Link to map Greater Denver Area. Awfully close to Columbine massacre of 1999 and recent Aurora attack.
Norway and The Netherlands were shocked a shooting spree with an assault rifle was possible in their country. The statistics are found under health concern in a nation. Too often a mental health issue (schizophrenia) plays a role and perpetrators are male.
The Syrian Support Group was established earlier this year to lobby for U.S. backing for the Free Syrian Army. It includes Syrian expatriates and works with retired Syrian military officers, Louay Sakka, a Syrian-Canadian co-founder of the group, said in a June interview. Brian Sayers, its director of government relations, is a former Political Officer Operations and Missions at NATO HQ.
U.S. Nonprofit Wins License to Supply Free Syrian Army “Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the License, the Syrian Support Group, Inc. (the “Licensee”) may export, sell, or supply to the Free Syrian Army (“FSA”) financial, communications, logistical, and other services otherwise prohibited by Executive Order 13582 in order to support the FSA…”
According to Treasury License No. SY-2012-294747-1, dated 23 July 2012, the Syrian Support Group, Inc. (SSG) will be providing “otherwise prohibited” services to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) under the supervision of the Office of Terrorism Finance and Economic Sanctions Policy at the U.S. Department of State. The license was announced on the SSG website syriansupportgroup.org after a copy was leaked to the public.
Orit Gadiesh was part of Romney's gubernatorial transition team. She joined Bain & Company (the precursor company to Bain Capital) in 1977, at the tender age of 26. Before that, she was the assistant to Ezer Weizman, the Israeli Minister of Defense and later President. During fighting in the early 1970's, Ms. Gadiesh worked in the war room, a bunker where Gen. Moshe Dayan was in charge. She is the daughter of Israeli Brigadier General Falk Gadiesh.
Turkish directorate orders MP to remove parliamentary question from his personal website
(Hürriyet Daily News) – Umut Oran submitted a written parliamentary question over the phone records between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his son Bilal Erdoğan, and a number of ministers and businessmen, asking whether Erdoğan had instructed his minister Binali Yıldırım to tell a group of businessmen to buy the Sabah newspaper and the ATV television station.
The head of Turkey’s Telecommunications Directorate (TİB) sent the warning to Oran to remove the parliamentary question after he published it on his personal website, referring a law regulating online publishing and fighting against crimes committed via publishing.
EU Court decision plus UN Report makes B-Divestment-S for large European corporations, banking and pension funds imperative.
International law caught up with Israel, its binding economic package with the European Union and illegal occupation/annexation of Palestinian Territory. It's not the old testament that establishes states or boundaries. Years ago, Secretary Panetta warned Israel is becoming 'Isolated'.
Generate publicity by playing up its “too risqué” status, SodaStream is attempting to milk that tactic for the second year in a row with its Super Bowl Ad. Perhaps it bit off a bigger chunk than expected as stocks tanked on Nasdaq.
Seltzer Wars: SodaStream Exec Reveals How Scarlett Johansson Signed On for Controversial Super Bowl Campaign (Q&A)
Scarlett Johansson has been politically active for the Democrats since Kerry in 2004 and wants to be a voice for disadvantaged people. In a 2012 campaign TV ad for MoveOn.org she took a stance on women's issues. For 2016 she has already indicated to throw her support behind Hillary.
“If you already have the spotlight shining on you, it’s great to direct that toward a cause you believe in and that you can stand behind. It’s nice to be a voice for people who don’t have a voice.”
Scarlett's statement about her ambassadorship for Sodastream certainly didn't provide any clarity and was taken apart. Her decision to cut ties with Oxfam indicates her new political activism.
Daniel Birnbaum, CEO of SodaStream, said in a video produced by a pro-Israel group Stand With Us that “we give them an opportunity to not only have a job and health insurance, but also social benefits. And a very high pay-scale which they could never achieve in the West Bank.” A report issued by the Israeli activist group Who Profits? [January 2011] outlined major labor rights concerns at SodaStream’s factory in Mishor Adumim can be found here.
Looking at the bright side, there is yet hope for the Middle East. Love pushes back frontiers. Yair lost some of his own racist feathers?
"their insignia was in fact seen hanging in a conference that was encouraging people to support general sisi for presidency …"
Is this your very own handle, the Egyptian blogger wa7damasrya from Alexandria? Do you have a source for above statement? I understood the jihadists of Ansar Beyt Al-Maqdis [Partisans of Jerusalem] are located in the Sinai Peninsula and were involved in attacks along the Israeli border. The IDF killed four jihadists in a drone attack. In December, the Egyptian army killed a senior leader of AQ linked group in North Sinai, Ibrahim Mohamed Freg [aka Abu Suhaib], in an ambush in Sheikh Zuweid city.
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A young commander Arik Sharon formed Unit 101 to operate across the green armistice line of 1948 in Jordanian territory. He participated in the Qibya massacre and later boasted about it as Ben-Gurion shut his eyes for the atrocities.
The unit was merged into the 890th Paratroop Battalion during January 1954, on orders of General Dayan, Chief of Staff. By chance came across the reference in Jewish Virtual Library, for a moment my heart stopped beating … Reserve Police Battalion 101.
Living in The Netherlands, should I feel uncomfortable with the The Hague Invasion Act, enacted by US Congress in 2002? Both the International Court of Justice (Israeli security separation wall) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) are located nearby. The ICC (permanent tribunal) is not just for African leaders (Charles Taylor), but the basic concept is used in separate tribunals for Lockerbie Bombing, Rwanda massacre, Hariri assassination and the very broad Yugoslavia Tribunal. Fortunately the UN-OPCW is in the news and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The International Court of Justice, located in the Peace Palace funded by the Carnegie Foundation, celebrating its 100 year history in 2013.
Prof. Cole, I just watched your interview on Al Jazeera about the Cairo protest. Reading your column, there were no surprises. I picked up some information that Morsi is not always his own man but is seen as a puppet of MB leader Khairat El-Shater. Perhaps that weighs in on the severity of the protest. Two of Morsi advisors have stepped down today. Zaghloul El-Balshi, the general secretary of the supreme committee on the constitutional referendum, announced his resignation in a televised interview:
“I will not participate in a referendum that spilled Egyptian blood,” he said as cited by Ahram Online daily. “I call on Morsi to cancel the constitutional declaration immediately.”
A massacre by any means, however to make a statement of the use of (hydrogen) cyanide is not substantiated. Could you provide any legitimate source? Perhaps these are the granades transported out of Saddam’s Iraq by the Russians!? Saddam’s use of chemical warfare in Halabja can still be proven by measurements today and the witness accounts.
Typo: since Ansar al-Islam denied carrying out the attacks …
I still found the witness account of Sofian Kadura in France24 article quite accurate - “The extremist Islamists were yelling that they wanted to kill everyone in the consulate” (Sept. 12, 2012). There followed a second wave of attack a few hours later in the night which killed the CIA security guards in a firefight.
Terrorist Designations of Ansar al-Sharia (AAS) as an Alias for Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Defining Egypt in its new constitution – A secular or Islamic state.
“The main debate in Egypt still pivots around the shaky relationship between religion and politics, expressed by the insistence of Salafi parties that the basis of legislation in Egypt be the “provisions” of Shari’a law, rather than the “principles.” The debate extends to include the nature of the state and its civility. While some call for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate, others want the foundation of a radical secular system.”
Warning signs by blogger Sandmonkey and Haaretz on Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power.
Israel’s answer to RT news … Three journalists killed in two separate airstrikes in Gaza
Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, cameramen for the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV, were covering events in the Al-Shifaa neighborhood of central Gaza when a missile hit their vehicle at around 6 p.m., according to a statement by Al-Aqsa TV. The statement said the journalists' car was marked "TV" with neon-colored letters. The journalists suffered severe burns and died in a nearby hospital.
A third journalist was killed when his car was hit by a missile, The Associated Press reported citing a Gaza official. Initial local news reports identified the journalist as Mohamed Abu Aisha, director of the private Al-Quds Educational Radio. The reports said his vehicle was hit while he was driving in the Deir al-Balah neighborhood, but did not say whether Abu Aisha was reporting at the time.
Clinton Rushed to the Side of Netanyahu, Not the Palestinian People!
I wrote this in a diary @Booman after observing the daily developments in Gaza and watching the Netanyahu press conference in Jerusalem upon the arrival of Clinton. I was astonished how Clinton passively became complicit in any next move by the far-right regime in Israel due to the war rhetoric by 'statesman' Netanyahu. Clinton strong endorsement of Israel and its policy, appreciating how well the Iron Dome missile shield had performed. On her way to an irrelevant PA president Abbas in Ramallah ...
IDF tank artillery fire
Bombing and shelling of Gaza by sea, air and land with artillery fire coming from IDF tanks. See photo. These targeted strikes have numbered far beyond the retaliatory rockets fired from Hamas and militant positions in Gaza. The ugly face of war has just escalated further with a bus bombing in Tel Aviv. Why did Hillary Clinton travel to Ramallah?
Fact sheet: Operation Cast Lead – a 22 day assault on the Gaza Strip. Today Israel has amassed more troops (75,000) at the border and are prepared to do more damage to Gaza infrastructure and impose more hardship the civilian population in Operation Cast Lead 2.0.
South Africa turned to Israel after West froze nuclear ties in 1976 over development of military nuclear program. In September 1979, a United States intelligence nuclear detonation detection source, a Vela type satellite, which covered the Indian Ocean, detected a flash several hundred kilometers off South Africa's coast.
Even worse, both countries joined forces in R&D of biological and chemical warfare (BCW). The Truth and Reconciliation commission uncovered many documents in trial and judgement of Dr. Wouter Basson, see Project Coast. In 2002 the bacterial strains and research documents were offered to USAMRIID at Fort Detrick (anthrax experiments included). The GW institute and SAIC already employed SA researcher Steve Hatfill.
South African Rabbi Dr. Goldstein and Hasbara
Apparently the rhetoric has escalated beyond the labeling of goods origin from illegal settlements to a call for a boycott of visits to Israel. How farfetched is the claim Hamas and Hezbollah are operating throughout Africa in conjunction with AQIM fighters firebombing christian churches in Nigeria (Boko Haram). Pure falsehoods or at least obfuscating Israel’s real enemies.
'Substantive and Rigorous' Galilee Trip Paid for by AIPAC
Each year members of U.S. Congress perjure themselves by denying AIEF is the same foreign agent as AIPAC and thus they are free to travel to the Jewish part of Israel, all expenses paid.
GOFFSTOWN (NH) - Sheriff Candidate Frank Szabo OK With Deadly Force To Stop Abortions. In an interview on with local television station WMUR, Szabo said he believed sheriffs were granted special powers under the Constitution.
Can’t even Google “GOP dropout” anymore, too many candidates have applied for this title.
Todd Akin and Rocket Science
Akin is a mathematician of sorts as he sits in the Committee on Science, Space and Technology in Congress. He is also christian and goes to church in Westwood and is a member of Mission Gate Prison Ministry. This is what Christian Life Resources teaches: Rape Pregnancies Are Rare. Of course this was a vision from the year 1999, god moves in strange ways and may have amended his scientific opinion. Not Todd Akin though! Akin may be on his way out of the Senate race: Crossroads GPS Pulling Missouri Ads.
Teaching survival to young girls in Ethiopia, a moving documentary by France24. In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, half of the girls are married before they come of age. Some are as young as 12. Married to older men, they are often subjected to sexual and domestic violence. Photos of Amhara region and Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
Great admiration for her! Gender or race. Must have been an impossible choice for her in the ’08 race: Hillary or Barack. She chose Hillary but is backing President Obama once the decision was made. Nice interview. Freedom is an environment where each person has the opportunity to develop his or her talent. Bigotry comes with narrow-minded people, can be exploited by politicians. Wealth, men and power is a deadly mix.
Adelson Just Bought a Seat in 9th District New Jersey
So the Revolution missed him? On sovereign power from the Deity, infallability of the Pope and then such a quote after the decade of the guillotine. An interesting article Joseph de Maistre: An Unusual Reactionary. “Physical evil exists only because there has been, and there is, moral evil. All wrong must he expiated. So humanity which has always believed in the necessity of this expiation, has had recourse, to accomplish it, not only to prayer, but to sacrifice, that is, the shedding of blood, the merits of the innocent being applied to the guilty - a law as mysterious as it is indubitable, and which, in the opinion of the author, explains the existence and the perpetuity of war.” A new age of revolution with mob justice of the guillotine and martyrdom under authority of the evangelical church … sounds like right-wing militancy.
In the past months I have diaried quite extensively over Adelson – Koch – Wynn and the tens of millions being wastefully invested in the Republican political campaign. Doing some search WhoIs behind the 'Swift Boat ' attack ad, there is a link with an IP address 64.203.98.212. This is favorite for quite some right-wing funded websites linked to the billionaires. Yesterday while reading a nice article about “My Amsterdam” in the Jerusalem Post a reader from California wrote a comment with negative connotation linking “The Third Jihad”. Indeed another propaganda site registered to Clarion Fund Inc. with backing from Adelson or Koch [RightWeb].
Two informed sources on Assange’s predicament in Sweden and in Australia. Australian FOI request that would reveal internal legal deliberations over Assange’s extradition to the United States. Link to AG response here [large PDF file].
Expressen.se of August 18, 2010 – key word is “ofredande” and its legal meaning in a sexual crime varies from annoyance to molest. "Avgörande skillnaden är om det finns sexuella inslag" .
Wealth, men and power: the war game they play. I’m so sorry for all forms of abuse on women. Women are always in a position of vulnerability, their strength of character is due to the fact they bear our next generation and care. Where military conflicts are fought, women and children will be the main victims. The charges have been trumped up in Sweden due to the fact a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) was needed. The process by the prosecution had many flaws from the start. Just google "ofredande" or misconduct (misleadingly translated as molestation) - Anna Ardin and her blog Rebella – the role played by their lawyer Claes Borgstrom, Sweden’s former equality ombudsman. To be clear I do not condone Assange’s forcefull sex acts and should face a court for a ruling on the accusations. The Supreme Court ruling in legal terms had to take the prosecutor’s EAW at face value due to new European law dealing with states. Earlier extradiction law is much more critical of the case put forward by the prosecution.
Extradiction from UK and Sweden may be difficult because the alleged crimes need to be a violation of British or Swedish law. In another incident, a Swede born in Lebanon was picked up at Prague airport while traveling from Stockholm to Beirut. The suspect was previously tried in Sweden and set free due to lack of evidence (not tainted by torture). It took two years to extradite him to the US and a court in West-Virginia. He was convicted by jury (verdict within 6 hours) and serves a life sentence.
Here is a link to early developments in the case and some oddities including the red notice lodged by Interpol. Prosecutor Marianne Ny: Swedish law and sex by surprise. Earlier in August 2010 the sex abuse charge was dropped, Julian Assange still being investigated over one charge – prosecutor Eva Finne.
Thank you Professor Cole for extensive coverage. The US Justice Dep’t has a sealed indictment on Julian Assange according to this report.
A famous asylum case in the Dutch Embassy of South Africa from 1985-1987.
Sarkozy and Kickback Pakistan Submarine Order
Heiress money is peanuts, the French authorities will be looking at party funding in the hands of Sarkozy in the '90s. Sarkozy's party is under fire for alleged kickbacks of around $2m in Pakistani sub deal. Timeline Karachi bombings and kickbacks. Latest report provides a new twist after the French judge visited the United States and got access to past hearings of Omar Sheikh. Karachi bombings linked with Daniel Pearl murder.
Summertime in Paris (video)
I did a recent write-up about Archbishop T. Dolan, Paul Ryan and Catholic Teachings.
The happy Irish archbishop of New York reminds me of the jolly pastors of a different era. An era where their teachings only met approval and were in harmony with the town's notables: the well educated, wealthy few (1%). I figured, let's see what kind of political statements does a new President of the USCCB make.
I beg your pardon reverend, you missed a few lines the late pope John Paul II wrote in his papal letter. He spoke of the totalitarian Marxist state, not about a liberated Western Europe. It's about leadership, fraternal love and being there in person to get the unemployed, poor and abused back on track in society so the provider earns an honest wage and can care for his/her family. I'm thinking along the lines of community assistance, neighbours, buddies and the nuns (sister Theresa) who devote their lives in service of the meek, poor and sick. What you say about a universal coverage of the sick through health care? The elderly bishops of the Vatican do make some gaffes and attack the social work of American nuns.
Bright fellow Mitt Romney with his shiny credentials as business CEO just released a new ad expressing himself in terms of the wealthy being in harmony with the late pope en a recent endorsement by Lech Walesa. Affordable Health Care is an attack on religious freedom.
Some background about the Mursi coup
Wouldn’t be surprised if the pardon and release of Jihadists added fuel to SCAF struggle with civilian administration. At least three of the released Islamists had been condemned to death, others include members of al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, jailed during the group's armed insurrection against the state in the 1990s, and Islamic Jihad, the movement behind the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat. President Morsi relented to the Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood to release more prisoners with blood on their hands. Releasing Islamists and fight the same groups in the Sinaï does not make much sense. The attack and death of 12 soldiers presented a great opportunity for Mursi to move and replace the military brass.
Morsy grooms a new rank of officers, experts say
GCC States Offer Billions, Don’t Insult MB or Morsy
From my comment above:
Edition of Al-Dostour confiscated for inciting sectarian strife in the case of the village of Dahshour. Latests news: Copts postpone protest after Christians return to Dahshour.
MB reported in early stage suspicion of a Mossad operation. Reminds me of the Reagan years and one of many false flag operations in the Middle-East.
Gaza: 3 Hamas Commanders Wanted By Egypt
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Al-Dostour's issue confiscated for inciting sectarian strife in the case of the village of Dahshour
The Romney-Ryan Ticket A Partisan Embrace
Picking Paul Ryan from Wisconsin is a clear signal how presidential nominee Mitt Romney wants to operate in a partisan Washington D.C. Remember, U.S. Congress shows the lowest ratings by voters!
Obama's website repeatedly refers to Ryan's "extreme budget plan" as favoring the rich over the middle class (the president's core argument against Romney). The first line of its biographical sketch reads "Paul Ryan is a career Washington DC insider."
[BTW Bill Clinton at highest favoribility rating (66%) since start of 2008 primaries battle]
Obama Campaign and Health Insurance Ad
In my opinion it’s a poor ad, swirling too much controversy especially as the same person was in another ad about GS Industries Inc. in Kansas City. An excellent video was made to illustrate the loss of jobs, health insurance and pensions at the Kansas City plant. Bain Capital ripped off the company with high fees and left it with a debt burden, see also their HQ at Charlotte, NC.
Egyptian writers’ protest: why they left their columns blank in yesterday’s daily papers.
America's GOP Hope: Willard Remembers the Peace Loving Sheikh People
Heading to the desert, charging camels have been replaced by police copters in Egypt. A fine instrument to restore security – think Aleppo.
See first link in item (2) above. On the FBI domestic terror most-wanted list are left-wing terrorists such as communists, members Animal Liberation Front (AFL) and even the Last Fugitive Vietnam Era [pdf]. Right wing groups criticize FBI’s attempt to criminalize them, see discussion in 2009 - Why is homeland security calling US vets 'terrorists'? There was a FBI undercover operation which helped overthrow two domestic-terrorism groups in Central Florida.
Islamophobe Geert Wilders is funded by Daniel Pipes et al
Populist Wilders will lose seats in coming election as Dutch voters move towards the opposition, left wing parties. Wilders party PVV has influence on foreign policy through Dutch minister Uri Rosenthal who has vetoed European policy towards Israel on settlements in Judea and Samaria and the Palestinian issue.
Wow! Without ally Geert Wilders, the Dutch wil become anti-Israel, for a moment I felt a trembling ... a choice between xenophobia and anti-semitism.
SPLC tracked Page for a decade
Gunman Identified As Former PsyOps specialist at Fort Bragg
The Southern Poverty Law Center described Page as a “frustrated neo-Nazi” who in 2005 led a “racist white supremacist” rock band called “End Apathy”. The Montgomery, Alabama-based organization, which monitors hate groups, said it has been tracking Page for a decade.
Suspected temple gunman lived in metro Denver for 15 years
Army veteran Wade Michael Page, 40, lived in Centennial, Englewood, Littleton and Denver at various times from the 90s to 2007. He was discharged from the Army in 1998. Link to map Greater Denver Area. Awfully close to Columbine massacre of 1999 and recent Aurora attack.
UN Homicide Statistics
US Treasury Grants Arms License to SSG
Romney: Jewish People a Superior Race
His opinion does not come by accident, it's part of his bedrock belief on his 4th visit to the Holy Land.
Covered in an earlier article - Romney Can't Help It - His Faith and Social Darwinism
Concerning secret police snooping:
Egypt's Internet Spying on Bloggers with U.S. Support