IDNS: Outrageous PA Stipends For Jailed Terrorists and Families of “Martyrs”
September 4, 2012 14:47 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
• Washington Denies it Made Back-Channel Deal to Avoid Conflict With Iran. And Israeli officials who talked to Reuters dismissed the allegations.
• CNN‘s Fred Pleitgen looks at the US-Israel disconnect. For related commentary, see Bret Stephens (Wall Street Journal, via Google News).
• Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah threatened Hezbollah attacks on American bases — even if the US had no role in an attack on Iran. Reuters picked up on his latest interview:
“The response will not be just inside the Israeli entity – American bases in the whole region could be Iranian targets,” he said, citing information he said was from Iranian officials. “If Israel targets Iran, America bears responsibility.”
Nasrallah also denied possessing chemical weapons, piously declaring them forbidden.
• Iran claims it has developed 30 percent of a missile defense system replacing an S-300 system Russia refused to sell. The Independent reports that it’s part of an upcoming large-scale Iranian air defense drill.
Arab Spring Winter
• What prevented Iran from proposing an expected Syrian peace initiative at the Non-Aligned Movement summit? Asharq al-Awsat editor Tariq Alhomayed draws the following conclusion:
Tehran has failed with regards to the Syrian issue, and that its position now is very similar to that of Russia. Both – Iran and Russia – are capable of disrupting [international efforts], but they are not able to change the reality in Syria.
• CNN: More than 103,000 Syrians fled their country in August, “almost doubling the total number of refugees from the previous 17 months combined.”
• For the first time, the Assad regime is calling up Syrian army reservists. Reuters says the reservists are in a terrible bind:
“We have two choices: Stay and kill fellow Syrians, or desert, and be on the run from military courts,” said a legal assistant summoned for duty in Damascus.
• LA Times: Syrian rebels are targeting airbases. Russia’s worried.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• The Cyprus Mail updates the latest on Israel-Cyprus energy cooperation.
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jeb stuart
5:54 pm
Sep 04, 2012
A quick overview of Australia’s persistent problems and cultural attacks on its own Aboriginal peoples is chilling. Child abuse as a result of aboriginal drinking is epidemic and the Australian government which has pursued a policy of integration has failed in many respects. That Australian tabloids should make so many false and baseless claims against Israel sounds more like global scape goating to distract from its own failings.
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7:29 pm
Sep 04, 2012
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Moll
7:29 pm
Sep 04, 2012
Islamic “Jizyah” to the tune of U.S.$11M — paid to NONstate tribal arabs in admission we in the west are Islam’s second-class slave-citizens! More “Jizyah”, to the tune of forgiving U.S.$1 billion of Egypt’s debt as part of an American and international package to the new Morsi government in Egypt in acknowledgement that we in the west are Islam’s second-class slave citizens! Where does it end? Remember, we are communicating ALL the time, 10% in words, 90% in behavior! The message being sent by the nonmuslim western world to the muslim world is: we accept our position as 2nd class servant-slaves to your muslim supremacy. If this is NOT the message, then cut off all $$$ funds – NOW.
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Frank Adam
1:10 pm
Sep 05, 2012
Big oil has too many political friends in DC – remember the Bush admins till forced by the Bin liners to take a swipe at the Arab parties.
The current situatio is not coming apart till the fracked gas in US and Europe replaces oil imports and also cuts the petrosheikhs’ handouts to salafi Moslem congregations in the West.
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