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Benny Gantz Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces

We are not witnessing inner wars in the Israeli leadership, but a conscious effort to create disinformation on the plans of the State of Israel. The sharp inversion of the typical roles (warring generals, cautious politicians) is a further attempt to create confusion.

by Roy Tov

On April 25, 2012, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz gave a rare interview to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. As it invariably happens in recent years when Israeli leaders are interviewed, a possible war between Israel and Iran was at the center of the interview.

Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon

Oddly enough, the general indirectly admitted Israel is bluffing Iran; this interview sums up to several others given recently by Israeli leaders into a very disturbing picture.

Israel has not only disclosed the true message behind its public declarations, but also has heavily hinted at the result of any future negotiation.

“The military option is the last chronologically, but the first in terms of its credibility. If it’s not credible it has no meaning.We are preparing for it in a credible manner. That’s my job, as a military man,” said General Gantz.

This is a remarkably vague statement, especially by his inexplicable need to incessantly repeat the word “credible.” Judging his words from the point of view of a Hebrew speaker, such a statement is highly dubious.

I wouldn’t buy anything from this man; he probably means Israel will not attack Iran, but wants Iran to believe it will. Afterwards he added: “[Iran] will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided whether to go the extra mile,” and “as long as its facilities are not bomb-proof, the program is too vulnerable, in Iran’s view.”Here, he awkwardly admitted an error recently committed by Israel’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon on February 2 at the Hertzliya Conference. He said then that “the West has the ability to strike [Iran],” (see Israel Bluffs Iran for more details).

Unluckily, Ya’alon was bluffing and got caught; one week before Ya’alon’s belligerent remarks, the Wall Street Journal reported remarks by US defense officials according to which the Pentagon is not in possession of conventional arms strong enough to destroy all of Iran’s nuclear facilities, due to their being too deep for bunker-buster bombs. As commented upon in the past, Israel gets its GBU-28 Bunker Buster bombs from the USA. Thus, Israel cannot perform better than the USA on such an attack, especially taking into account the IDF limitations. Ya’alon bluffed.

In a wikileaks cable, Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs at the Israel Ministry of Defense, Maj. General Amos Gilad, told American government officials, ‘we don’t do Gandhi very well’ in reference to unarmed demonstrations taking place throughout the West Bank…

Are these inner wars in the Israeli leadership?

This in-congruence was so odd, that I made a shortlist of the main Israeli leaders opinions on the topic of a war with Iran. On October 28, 2011, I analyzed the situation in Israeli Defense Ministry Acknowledges Defeat. The article followed a comment on Israel’s incapability of defeating Iran in an interview given by Major General Amos Gilad, Head of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Diplomatic-Security Bureau. The surprising comment was made in a “Friday’s Cathedra” event in Ashkelon. It was later cited by Yedihot Ahahronot, the largest Hebrew newspaper. This couldn’t have been done without the silent support of the establishment. Gilad said that Netanyahu was the first to hear about a prediction of the Israeli intelligence services that Iran has decided to pursue the path of missiles and nuclear technologies development. He added that Netanyahu sees that as a “great threat,” and that this view is shared by Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The war plans of the latter were recently thwarted by the USA, at least until the November Presidential elections. Netanyahu’s support of the war is openly broadcast on an almost continuous basis by the Hebrew media: “Hold Me Back,” shouts Netanyahu. The support of a war on Iran is true also for Shimon Pereswho openly supports an attack on Iran in all the relevant interviews he gave in recent months.

Yet, Nahum Barnea—a leading Yedihot Ahahronot journalist—said on that Friday that the IDF Head of Staff Beni Gantz, Mossad Director Tamir Pardo, Head of Aman (IDF Military Intelligence Corps) Aviv Kochabi, and the Head of Shin Beth Yoram Cohen—in other words, Israel’s leading generals—oppose an attack on Iran. In the past Meir Dagan—Pardo’s predecessor as Mossad Director—defined such an attack as a “foolish idea” in several interviews. In the Israeli media conventions, the former Mossad Director is the closest one gets to a formal statement by this secretive organization. All these points of view were supported in all open interviews appearing in the Hebrew media.

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Let me further summarize: Leading Israeli politicians support war with Iran. Leading Israeli security services personnel oppose it. This is very odd. In the Israeli (and Western) reality, one expects the opposite: generals want war, politicians want industrial silence. Is this additional incongruence a sign of Jewish wisdom, or something else?

The hint to the truth is in the deed itself. General Gantz cannot give a free interview. IDF officers must get an approval for such an event; in the case of the IDF’s chief general, the approval must be given by the Minister of Defense himself. It is unlikely that Ehud Barak would have given such an approval without asking what General Gantz was planning to say on the issue of a war with Iran. Similarly, it is unlikely that General Gantz would utter an opinion contrary to the one of his boss without getting previous approval from Barak.

In other words, we are not witnessing inner wars in the Israeli leadership, but a conscious effort to create disinformation on the plans of the State of Israel. The sharp inversion of the typical roles (warring generals, cautious politicians) is a further attempt to create confusion.

To war or not to war?

The truth is that probably even Netanyahu doesn’t know for sure if Israel will attack Iran. The USA has imposed a veto on such an action until November, but after November Israel may be tempted into a nuclear attack on Iran, as it has been analyzed inIs this Israel’s last Independence Day? Netanyahu wants to keep an ambiguous position on the issue, as he does on Israel’s nuclear capabilities. Yet, inadvertently, Netanyahu disclosed a bigger secret. Israel has lost its right to be considered an honest partner to any talks.

Shimon Peres—Israel’s president—may seem active, but his political career was finished in 1981, when he and Menahem Begin competed against each other in what became the hottest campaign in Israel’s short history. Labor was trying to return to power after it lost it for the first time to the Likud Party in 1977. Following two racist events during his campaign, a comedian working for the Likud, Sefy (nickname for Yosef) Rivlin, was invited to run the Likud television campaign. He conducted a successful personal campaign against Peres. Its motto was “Ken VeLo,” namely “Yes and No” in Hebrew. Peres was presented answering “yes and no” to everything he was asked (“Do you want sugar in your coffee?” “Yes and No! Yes and No!”). The combination of Peres’ shaky reputation with the funny voice used by Rivlin and his very disturbing eyes transformed Peres into a clown forever. Peres never won an open political campaign again.

In 2012, the Israeli leadership is repeating Peres’ error on a larger scale. “Yes and No; Attack and Don’t Attack,” it is saying. “Credibility” was repeated time and again by General Gantz in yesterday’s interview. Yet, he and Israel’s leadership lost their credibility forever.

Source : Roytov.com

Editing: Debbie Menon

ABOUT THE AUTHOR— Roy Tov is an Israeli dissident who converted to Christianity. Having had a career at Israel’s highest scientific institution and having served in top-secret military units provided Tov with unique insights. This made Tov a marked man when he tried to leave Israel. An attack by Israel left him with permanent damage in his throat. Personal grudges and grievances aside,  like Norman Finklestein, Noam Chomsky, Gilad Atzmon , Phil Weiss and so many others, he has the mind and the intellectual reasoning qualities of a typical well-educated and logical Jewish scholar. He is an effective researcher and writer on anti_Zionist and Israeli matters.

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Was the notorious “Islam Bomb” cartoon, published across Europe in 2006, part of an aborted false flag world war plan?

By Captain Eric H. May

The article below is my revision and republication of an article by Dr. James H. Fetzer, originally published in Scholars for 9/11 Truth on February 2, 2008. Its many qualities are his, and any deficiencies are mine.

In 2006 a former Army intelligence officer detected evidence that a false flag nuclear operation would be carried out against the British Petroleum refinery in Texas City, Texas, part of Ron Paul’s Congressional district, on January 31, 2006.

Captain Eric H. May, a former NBC editorial writer whose political and military essays had appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Houston Chronicle and Military Intelligence Magazine, issued a series of warnings through alternative media interviews and articles. The mainstream media at first ignored them, but were compelled to report them when a day-after nuclear response team arrived and set up operations in Paul’s district on February 1, 2006 – the day after Captain May’s predicted attack date.

Galveston County Daily News reporter T.J. Aulds had long been suspicious of the repeated explosions at the BP refinery, the nation’s most toxic industrial site. In Nuclear attack warning story dismissed, published on February 2, 2006, he wrote:

If you are reading this, you survived a predicted nuclear attack on Texas City.  Recent weeks have seen the city mentioned as the subject of rampant Internet and e-mail claims suggesting that emergency management officials were preparing for some form of attack.

Officials with several agencies said those reports are false. Shauna Dunlap, a spokesman for the FBI, said that there are “no credible or corroborated threats to the area.”

That attack was to have taken place Tuesday, based on those reports. A report filed on the Arctic Beaconweb site as well as the site owner’s Internet radio show had warned of a pending nuclear attack on the city — not from terrorists, but the federal government.

Basing his information on a report from a man claiming to be a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, show host Greg Szymanski reported that the area was likely the target for a government-led nuclear attack. The report quickly made the rounds via e-mail and blog sites.

Despite the headlined dismissal, Aulds’ own reporting seemed to confirm the nuclear attack warning story:

On Wednesday, people driving along Galveston’s Seawall Boulevard could see unmarked black trucks and sport utility vehicles bearing government license plates near crews setting up what appeared to be satellite or radar gear on the beach. . . . The crews were wearing shirts embossed with the words, ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team,’ a branch of the U.S. Defense Department. It was enough to get even the most timid conspiracy theorist thinking something was up.

Greg Szymanski, a noted investigative journalist, wrote a gripping series of articles about May’s false flag forecast for The Arctic Beacon, beginning the week before events bore him out. Rather than rely on Bush administration officials, he turned to reputable Texas City insiders, especially a British Petroleum employee and a local minister.  He wrote

Jan. 25, 2006: All Signposts Lead To Imminent Nuclear Attack In America — Intel Army Capt. Eric May Issues ‘Red Alert’ For Next 9 Days For Texas City-Houston Area.  Capt. May claims to have broken the Illuminati and Bush Cabal’s “embedded code” in an effort to beat the neocons at their own nasty game. Ca pt. May may have thwarted one attempted nuclear attack last July, but says the Bush Cabal is coming back again for a second try.

Jan. 26, 2006: Houston PD Running Nuclear Disaster Drills — As Build-Up Of Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies Seen In Nearby Texas City.  Army Intel Capt. Eric May warns Bush cabal days away from a nuclear strike. Texas City resident “opens up a hornet’s nest” as he warns local law enforcement about the possibility of nuclear strike.

Jan. 28, 2006: Texas City British Petroleum Claims No Foul Play — In 2005 Explosion Killing 15; BP Sets Aside $1 Billion For Upgrades Amid Rumors Neocons Plan To Nuke Plant In Upcoming Days.  Some Texas City citizens taking nuke warning seriously as local law enforcement build-up seen and at least 400 employees moved out of BP to different office building.

Feb. 3, 2006: Texas City British Petroleum Employee Heard “Strange Abort Signal” on Local Radio Station –The Morning Army Intel Officer Predicted Nuclear Strike At Plant.  BP employee also said “other strange events” occurred, leaving her “nervous and on edge.” Galveston Daily News follows up with story, finding WMD military support team was conducting a training session at a location near Texas City.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and New York City New York suggest that BP in Texas City, Texas and Wiillis (Sears) Tower on the Chicago River, Chicago are terror targets.

Citizens who read Captain May’s articles about false flag attempts in the East Texas oil patch urged him to contact Ron Paul with the details.  Some tried to contact the congressman themselves, but thus far to no avail.  A fair number of them believe that it was the Bush administration’s design on Texas City that prompted Paul’s 2008 presidential bid, while others believe that Paul is a part of the false flag plan.

May has noticed a pattern in the selection of targets for attacks, including New York City in New York, Oklahoma City in Oklahoma, and now Texas City in Texas

“Anticipating what they are going to do next is not rocket science,” he observed, “but it requires patience and attention to detail.  Let’s hope that we will be as successful in thwarting other attacks by our own government as we were in this instance.”

Dr. Jim Fetzer has featured Captain May as his guest on “The Dynamic Duo” several times and takes his analyses seriously.

“I wish I could tell you that he’s wrong,” Fetzer said, “but the evidence we have discovered about 9/11 suggests that this administration has no scruples when it comes to sacrificing innocent lives to advance its political agenda.”

Dr. Kevin Barrett, who has closely followed May’s research, also believes that these signs have to be taken seriously.

“In the Texas City, Texas, case, even the mainstream media reported indications that strange events were in the works,” Barrett said, “including unmarked black trucks and sport utility vehicles bearing government license plates near crews setting up what appeared to be satellite or radar gear on the beach, and the crews were wearing shirts that said, ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team.’  We may have been very lucky that Captain May sounded the alarm,” Barrett said.  “My impression is that Captain Eric May is one of the bravest and most eloquent intelligence analysts in the United States today. It is regrettable his state of health has deteriorated to the point that we are not going to be able to count on his research much longer.”

The timing of the apparent false flag attempt, which May supposed would occur in the hours before Bush’s January 31, 2006 State of the Union Address, explains an otherwise inexplicable series of events:

February 1-2: A dozen cartoons attacking Islam are published across Europe. According to prolific scholar James Petras, in January Mossad activated media sayanim (helpers) to reproduce the cartoons on February 1-2. The cartoons, especially one linking Islam to a bomb, were probably designed to be wartime propaganda to follow a false flag nuclear attack against Texas City.

February 1: The Synthron petrochemicals plant explodes and burns in what could have been a large-scale catastrophe. Katherine Torres’ article, North Carolina Workers Alive Because of Possible Pre-Explosion Warnings, has all the clues necessary to infer that Synthron, like BP, was a target in the aborted false flag operation.

February 6-10: The first international, inter-agency and industry-wide Internet terrorism exercise, and Cyber Storm occurs, and was probably intended to support the Global War plan. The difficulty in finding articles about it is disquieting, with the upcoming National Level Exercise, 2012 taking cyber operations to the highest level yet, and presenting the same danger of going live to support a war on Iran.

February 14: The Washington Times runs a scathing editorial, Arab-owned American ports?, condemning the Bush administration’s bizarre decision to turn over the management of several U.S. ports to a United Arab Emirates company, Dubai Ports World. The fiasco is attributed to presidential bungling, but a more plausible explanation is that the UAE was to provide key logistical support for the intended war on Iran.

February 21: Bush threatens to veto any Congressional attempt to block the Dubai Ports World deal. It will be his first veto, and his determination sets him against public opinion and the legislative branch.

February 22: An alleged Al Qaeda bombing destroys the Mosque of the Golden Dome, one of the most important sites to Shiite Muslims. In Iraq the act of terrorism sparks internecine conflict between Shiites and Sunnis, while in the U.S. it allows the Bush administration to shift public scrutiny away from its shady dealings with the UAE.

In 2008 military intelligence operatives Commander Brian Klock and Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Fowkes posted a Houston-area nuclear attack on a billboard, a strong suggestion that Big Oil still has its headquarters city in its cross-hairs.

To learn about Captain May’s first interdiction of a Texas City false flag, (March 30, 2004), read How Ghost Troop Stopped a BP Nuke, by Major William B. Fox.

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Arabic Shoah Editor in Chief

جريدة الصباح

كشفت مصادر لجريدة  ”الصباح”   في لجنة العلاقات الخارجية النيابية ان بغداد ستطرح في اجتماع 5+1 مع ايران الذي ستضيفه الشهر المقبل، مقترحات لتسوية الخلافات بشأن برنامج ايران النووي.ووافقت الدول دائمة العضوية في مجلس الأمن الدولي وألمانيا على عقد الاجتماع الخاص بالملف النووي الإيراني في العاصمة بغداد في 23 من الشهر المقبل.واضافت المصادر ان “العراق يسعى للتقريب بين ايران والقوى الكبرى، حيث سيطرح مقترحات ترضي الجانبين”.وكان وزير الخارجية هوشيار زيباري قد اعلن الاسبوع الماضي، استعداد العراق لإقامة هذه المباحثات على أكمل وجه وسيكون دوره أكثر من مضيف، إذ أنه سيعمل على تسهيل تلك المباحثات والسعي لإيجاد تفاهمات مرضية لجميع الأطراف على اعتبار أن هذه القضية تهم العراق أيضاً.ونقلت”الصباح” الشهر الماضي عن مصدر مطلع تأكيده وجود امكانية ان يلعب العراق دور وساطة بين ايران والدول الغربية، لاسيما الولايات المتحدة.وقال المصدر لـ”الصباح”: ان العراق لديه علاقات جيدة مع ايران والولايات المتحدة ويمكن ان يخطو خطوات في هذا المجال، لاسيما ان بغداد ضيفت قبل اعوام لقاءات بين الطرفين.واستضافت بغداد في 6 اب من العام 2007 اجتماعا بين مسؤولين أميركيين وايرانيين بهدف تعزيز التعاون بشأن امن العراق بين الدول الثلاث، حيث دعا رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي انذاك الى ضرورة التعاون لضمان امن العراق واستقراره.

وتنص المادتان 25 و26 من اعلان بغداد على مايلي: “الترحيب بالخطوات العملية التي أقرها مؤتمر 2010 لمراجعة معاهدة عدم انتشار الأسلحة النووية وخاصةً ما يتعلق بإقامة مؤتمر 2012 والمقرر عقده في فنلندا حول إنشاء المنطقة الخالية من الأسلحة النووية وغيرها من أسلحة الدمار الشامل في الشرق الأوسط، والتأكيد على ضرورة أن يتحمل المجتمع الدولي والأطراف المعنية بإعداد مؤتمر 2012 مسؤولياتهم للخروج بنتائج عملية تقود بوضوح إلى إنشاء المنطقة الخالية، وأن إخفاق مؤتمر 2012 في تحقيق أهدافه سيدفع الدول العربية للبحث عن خطوات لضمان أمنها، تأكيدنا على حق الدول غير القابل للتصرف في استخدام وامتلاك وتطوير التكنولوجيا النووية للأغراض السلمية طبقاً لمعاهدة عدم انتشار الأسلحة النووية، ورفض محاولات تضييق هذا الحق وفرض القيود عليه، بينما تُمنح التسهيلات لبعض الدول غير الأطراف في معاهدة عدم انتشار الأسلحة النووية”.

وبحسب بيان صادر عن وزارة الخارجية امس، فان زيباري تطرق خلال لقائه في العاصمة اوسلو، نظيره النرويجي يوناس غارستورا، الى الاجتماع المقبل 5+1 لمناقشة الملف النووي الايراني الذي سيعقد في بغداد الشهر المقبل، والذي قال: انه “يمثل اقرارا بدور العراق الاقليمي والدولي بعد مؤتمر القمة العربية في بغداد”.كما بحث وكيل وزارة الخارجية لبيد عباوي امس مع وزير مفوض للشؤون السياسية في السفارة الاميركية في بغداد دوغلاس اي سليمان الجولة الثانية من المحادثات بشأن ملف ايران النووي.ونقل بيان للوزارة عن عباوي قوله: “ان العراق وخصوصا بعد نجاح عقد القمة في بغداد مستعد لاستضافة المؤتمر وتوفير جميع مستلزمات عقده وضمان نجاحه”.من جانبه اكد سليمان ان الجانب الاميركي يعول كثيرا على نجاح هذه الجولة من المحادثات، معربا عن ثقته بأن العراق قادر على القيام بدور مهم لانجاح المفاوضات.في غضون ذلك، ذكر اعضاء في مجلس النواب ان بحث ملف ايران النووي في اجتماع يعقد في بغداد دليل على عودة العراق الى الساحة الدولية.واشار النواب لـ”الصباح” الى ان العراق عازم على حل هذه الملف الضروري بحكم علاقاته الطيبة مع ايران.فقد ذكر النائب عن لجنة العلاقات الخارجية عماد يوحنا ياقو ان “الاجتماع المرتقب في بغداد نهاية الشهر المقبل لبحث الملف النووي الايراني تم بحثه قبل انعقاد قمة بغداد، وان نجاح القمة اضاف رصيداً للعراق لعقد هذا الاجتماع وهذا دليل على ان العراق يقوم بدوره الاقليمي على اكمل وجه”.

واضاف ياقو ان “العراق سوف يعمل جاهداً من اجل حل هذا الملف الضروري، خاصة ان رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي قام بزيارة لايران وبحث فيها هذا الملف.كما اكدت النائبة عن القائمة العراقية ندى محمد ابراهيم ان “الاجتماع المرتقب لبحث الملف النووي الايراني جاء بعد نجاح قمة بغداد وهو دليل على ان العراق بدأ يعود الى مكانته الطبيعية بين الدول بعد عزلة استمرت لمدة طويلة”.وتابعت: ان “الملف النووي الايراني ملف مهم وسيكون للعراق دور في حله بحكم العلاقات التي تربطه مع الجميع”.وفي سياق متصل، اشادت النائبة عديلة محمود حسين بعقد اجتماع 5+1+ ايران في العراق لان ذلك اشارة واضحة انه بدأ باستعادة وضعه بين جيرانه وهذه دلالة على ان العراق متمسك بعلاقات حسن الجوار.واضافت حسين ان “العراق سيحاول خلال هذه الاجتماع التوصل الى حلول بشأن هذا الملف“.

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Arabic Shoah Editor in Chief

موقع الجمهورية

صرّح رئيس الوزراء الاسرائيلي بنيامين نتانياهو انه يجب اخذ التهديدات الايرانية بتدمير اسرائيل مأخذ الجد والاستعداد لمواجهتها.

واتهم نتانياهو ايران بانها تسعى من خلال برنامجها النووي الى “ابادة ملايين اليهود” مثلما فعلت المانيا النازية في الماضي، مشيرا الى ان اختلاف الحالتين يتمثل في الدوافع فقط.
وأعلن نتانياهو “إن تعلمنا شيء من التاريخ اليهودي، فهو ضرورة أخذ التهديد بالإبادة مأخذ الجد”.

واعرب رئيس الحكومة الاسرائيلية عن امله بان تؤدي العقوبات الى تغيير طهران لسياستها، مضيفا انه لن يبقى امام اسرائيل سوى الخيار العسكري في حال لم تقم الجمهورية الاسلامية بذلك.

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Arabic Shoah Editor in Chief

جريدة الزمان الدولية

رئيس الوزراء يلتقي خامنئي ولاريجاني بختام زيارته لطهران
إتفاقيات جديدة في مجالات الصناعة والتجارة طهران – رزاق نامقي

توصل العراق وإيران إلى اتفاقيات جديدة في مجالات الصناعة والتجارة تمهيدا لإقامة شركات مشتركة للفولاذ والصلب والأنابيب وفتح خط لإنتاج المولدات الكهربائية بطاقة 15 ألف مولد، فيما أكدت إيران أن وفدا من وزارة التجارة العراقية سيزور إيران خلال الأيام المقبلة لإعداد مسودة نهائيةللاتفاقية.

ونقلت وكالة الإنباء الإيرانية عن وزير الصناعة والمناجم والتجارة الإيراني مهدي غضنفري قوله إنه اجتمع (بثلاثة وزراء عراقيين هم التخطيط علي يوسف الشكري والصناعة والمعادن احمد ناصر الكربولي والتجارة خير الله حسن بابكر)، مؤكدا انه (توصل معهم إلى اتفاقيات جديدة لتعزيز التعاون بينالبلدين).

فيما أكد المرشد الايراني الاعلى علي خامنئي، امس ان عقد القمة العربية في بغداد وضع العراق في طليعة العرب ومثلت انجازا لاظهار قوة العراق وقدراته، فيما اعرب رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي عن امله بأن يشهد التعاون بين البلدين مزيدا من التطور في المجالات كافة. وقال خامنئي في تصريحات خلال استقباله المالكي في طهران امس ونقلتها الوكالة الإيرانية الرسمية للانباء إن (انعقاد القمة العربية في بغداد يمثل السبيل لإظهار قوة العراق وقدراته كما وضعت العراق في رأس الجامعة العربية ورئيس الحكومة العراقية رئيسا للجامعة العربية)، مضيفا أن (هذا حدث بالرغم من محاولةبعض الاطراف بأن يقف العراق خارج العالم العربي).

وعد خامنئي (البعض لايروق له أن يشاهد العراق قويا)، ولفت إلى أن (القوة المتنامية للعراق في العالم العربي والمنطقة هي من دواعي سرورالجمهورية الاسلامية).

واوضح خامنئي ان (قوة اي بلد تأتي من خلال توفير بعض عناصر القوه واهمها التطور العلمي والبناء والاعمار وتقديم الخدمات الي ابناء الشعب)، داعيا (المثقفين والاكاديميين العراقيين الي العمل لتحقيق نهضه علمية توفر افضل الظروف لتقديم الخدمات لابناء الشعب العراقي كافة، من خلال الاستلهام من التجربة الايرانية الناجحة). من جانبه اعرب المالكي عن امله بأن يشهد التعاون بين البلدين مزيدا من التطور في المجالات كافة.
واكد أن (العلاقات بين العراق وايران في تطور متواصل)، معربا عن (ارتياحه للاجتماع بخامنئي). الى ذلك بحث المالكي مع رئيس مجلس الشورى الايراني علي لاريجاني امس التعاون البرلماني وسبل تعزيزه من خلال تبادل الزيارات بين المسؤولين في البلدين. واكد المالكي حسب بيان حكومي (ضرورة عقد اللقاءات الثنائية بين وزراء التخطيط والصناعة والتجارة مع نظرائهم الايرانيين والبحث في ايجاد السبل الكفيلة في الاسراع بتنفيذالاتفاقات الموقعة بين البلدين). 

من جهة أخرى أكدت القائمة العراقية رفضها التدخل الإيراني في الشأن العراقي ووصفت زيارة المالكي إلى طهران بأنها (محاولة لضمان دعم إيرانلبقائه في موقعه).

وقال النائب نبيل حربو في تصريحات امس ان (جميع القوى السياسية تدرك أبعاد هذا التدخل في شؤوننا الداخلية، وفي ظل استمرار الأزمة السياسية الحالية وبعد صدور دعوات لسحب الثقة عن المالكي تأتي زيارته إلى طهران للحصول على مزيد من الدعم للبقاء في السلطة بعد أن أعلن معظم حلفائهمؤخراً رغبتهم في إجراء تغييرات جديدة). 

وقال ممثل العراقية في الولايات المتحدة ايهم السامرائي ان (زيارة المالكي الى طهران في الوقت الذي تمر فيه البلاد بأزمة سياسية متجذرة تثير تساؤلات عدة في حين حصل اجماع شمل كل الأطياف السياسية ومكونات المجتمع العراقي على الرأي بأن السبب الرئيس لهذه الأزمات يعود الى سياسة التفرد بالسلطة والدكتاتورية التي ينتهجها رئيس الوزراء ومن لف حوله من زملائه).

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New York Times

WASHINGTON — Iran claimed on Sunday to have extracted secret intelligence information from an advanced American drone aircraft that crashed in the country in December, seeking a propaganda victory over what has been an embarrassing intelligence failure for the Central Intelligence Agency.       

 

The air force commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, suggested in remarks to the country’s semiofficial news agency that Iran had or would soon reverse-engineer the aircraft, known as the RQ-170 Sentinel, though American intelligence officials and experts have discounted the country’s ability to do so.       

General Hajizadeh cited as evidence data that he said was extracted from the drone’s computer hard drives revealing its operations in the months before it went down in Iran — either because it was shot down, as Iranian officials have claimed, or because it experienced a technical failure, as the Americans have said.       

The drone, he said, had undergone repairs in California in October 2010 and returned to Afghanistan in November 2010, where American officials have acknowledged it operated, though without specifying where its missions took it. He added that the drone’s computer memory revealed that it had flown over the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed in an American raid in May 2011.       

“Had we not accessed the plane’s softwares and hard disks, we wouldn’t have been able to achieve these facts,” General Hajizadeh said, according to the news agency Fars.       

The White House and American intelligence officials declined Sunday to comment on the new claims, though independent experts expressed skepticism. They noted that the information about the drone’s activities — including its use in the Bin Laden raid — could have been drawn from public reports about the sophisticated aircraft. It was not clear what record of previous flights would have remained on the drone’s systems.       

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut and a member of the Senate’s Armed Services Committee, also suggested that Iran’s claims were probably overblown, though he said the drone’s loss was embarrassing.       

“I think there is a history here of Iranian bluster, particularly now when they are on the defensive because of our economic sanctions against them,” he said on “Fox News Sunday,” referring to the increasingly punitive restrictions on Iran’s oil industry and central bank imposed by the United States and Europe because of the country’s nuclear program. “But, look, it was not good for the U.S. when the drone went down in Iran, and not good when the Iranians grabbed it.”       

Mr. Lieberman called the drone “a very sophisticated piece of machinery” that he assumed had operated in Iran, “particularly at areas where we have reason to believe that they are working on a nuclear weapon.”       

American officials have said that the drone’s onboard computers were programmed to destroy important information if it stopped responding to radio signals from its base. They said, however, that such security systems do not always function properly and that intelligence and military officials of other countries, including China and Russia, would undoubtedly try to persuade Iran to share any data or allow their experts to study it.       

Dennis M. Gormley, an expert on drones and cruise missiles at the University of Pittsburgh, said Sunday that Iran’s claims strained credibility. “It’s hard for me to imagine no self-destruct or erase mechanism was embedded in the drone to destroy sensitive systems, including software.”       

He added: “As someone who does monitor Iranian aerospace and missile claims closely, let me simply observe that they are preternaturally disposed to exaggeration.”     

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by Sherwood Ross

The U.S. should end all aid to Israel if it attacks Iran, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk says.

It should “tell Israel outright that both American money and American political and military support will end should it decide to drag America into another Middle East war as it did in Iraq,” Abourezk wrote in an article published by the Council for the National Interest.

The former Democratic senator, now practicing law in Sioux Falls, S.D., wrote, “if Israel attacks, America will be blamed for it…because we furnish money and weapons and protection in the U.N.for Israel, such collaboration would be difficult for us to deny.”

“We are talking here about saving American lives, and saving our economy, which will surely go deep into the tank when crude oil prices spike to unheard-of levels as a result of such an attack,” Abourezk wrote in an article distributed on Internet site Information Clearing House.

“It is my view,” he continued, “that (Israeli Prime Minister) Bibi (Benjamin) Netanyanu would drop the question of an Iranian threat once he has to consider the greater threat posed by the U.S. cutting off the gift of billions of dollars each year.”

Abourezk concluded, “It’s a question of whether our elected leaders will protect Americans or Israel. Surely it’s not too much to ask that they put their own country first.” Abourezk was the first Arab-American to serve in the Senate. First elected to the House of Representatives, his term in the Senate spanned the 1973-79 period.

An eloquent argument for terminating aid to Israel even if it does not start a war of aggression against Iran has also been made by American philosopher Todd May of Clemson University, S.C. He argues for an aid cutoff based on Israeli treatment of Palestinians.

“There are several simple, but compelling reasons, for Americans to support such a proposal,” he wrote on the website Mediamediators.net, a decade ago. “First and foremost, by squandering the aid we have given Israel over the years (nearly five billion dollars a year, including incidentals) in the massive violation of the human rights, autonomy, and dignity of another people, Israel has forfeited any claim it might have to that aid.”

“Regardless of the individual acts of desperation and terrorism that some Palestinians commit,” May continued, “the overwhelming destructiveness that Israel has performed on the Palestinian people for the last thirty-five years demonstrates that its goal has always been, and remains, the dominance of another people.”

“The U.S. should not be aiding Israel no more than it should have been aiding South Africa under apartheid, Iran under the Shah, Iraq’s Saddam during his war with Iran, Cambodia under Pol Pot, or Indonesia during its campaign against the East Timorese,” May said.

May concluded, “Given that aid to Israel supports a policy that runs afoul of basic human rights, wastes billions of dollars a year in taxpayer money, and is inimical to U.S. interests, we ought to end it.”