IDNS: Assad Has Plans to Give Hezbollah Chemical Weapons
September 19, 2012 16:50 by Pesach Benson
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1. Yup, Hamas is laying the groundwork to declare Gaza’s independence. Mahmoud Zahar told Maan News in no uncertain terms that Israel does not occupy Gaza. (Hey, that’s my line!) He also dissed the one and two-state solutions:
Speaking to Ma’an, Zahhar asserted that “Gaza is free of occupation, and contiguity with the outside world is easier as visitors from all over the world visited the coastal enclave.” . . .
“The bi-national state which (Fatah leader) Ahmad Qurai is promoting, as well as the UN bid thing, UNESCO and negotiations are all indications that the program which Fatah introduced has come to an end.”
If Hamas opposes both the one and two-state solutions this blatantly, we’re left with a de-facto three-state solution I predicted last week.
2. NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s defending herself against charges of anti-Semitism. The topic? Israeli neocons (in this case, Dan Senor) running the Romney campaign’s foreign policy. Dowd’s imagery conjures up images of a cabal of Jews a la the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. But don’t take my word for it:
Ryan was moving his mouth, but the voice was the neocon puppet master Dan Senor. The hawkish Romney adviser has been secunded to manage the running mate and graft a Manichaean worldview onto the foreign affairs neophyte.
See HonestReporting’s response. See also Politico‘s roundup of the reactions.
3. The former head of Syria’s chemical arsenal confirmed that Bashar Assad considered transferring the non-conventional weapons to Hezbollah. Major-General Adnan Sillu, who defected in July, told the Times of London (paywall) that a desperate Assad is capable of incredible recklessness:
General Sillu, who is now in Turkey, said the regime has also considered transferring chemical weapons to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia. “They wanted to place warheads with the chemical weapons on missiles — to transfer them this way to Hezbollah. It was for use against Israel, of course,” he said.
In the past, he added, fear of repercussions had stopped the regime from giving some of its chemical weapons to its allies in the region. “Now, if they have nothing to lose why not share these weapons? If a war starts between Hezbollah and Israel it will be only good for Syria,” General Sillu said.
While we’re on the subject of chemical weapons, witnesses told Der Spiegel that the Syrian military’s already testing chemical weapons systems.
Iranian Atomic Urgency
• Prime Minister Netanyahu talked about Israel, Iran and the US with some American talk shows. David Gregory of Meet the Press tried mighty hard to draw the Prime Minister into commenting on the presidential campaign, but Bibi didn’t bite. (Unable to find something better to write about, The Guardian‘s Chris McGreal fisked the interview.)
The Prime Minister raised similar talking points with CNN‘s Candy Crowley, though he became noticeably feisty when Crowley said at the 3:20 point, “There are legitimate, peaceful purposes for enriching this uranium.”
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• Saboteurs blew up the electrical lines powering the Fordow nuclear facility, prompting Iran’s suggestion that the IAEA is riddled with terrorists. The Daily Telegraph says a sudden cut in power would damage centrifuges buried underneath the mountain. But don’t get too excited:
But IAEA inspectors visited Fordow the day after the incident, on Aug 18. Their report on Iran’s nuclear programme, released on Aug 30, does not mention any damage to the centrifuges.
This suggests that Fordow must have a backup electricity system.
Meanwhile, The Daily Beast‘s Eli Lake assesses whodunnit and why the Iranians went public with the sabotage.
• The US and UK launched a massive naval exercise in the Persian Gulf. More at Reuters.
• Ambassador Michael Oren’s unenviable role in smoothing out Israeli-US ties is raising his profile. The NY Times and the Times of Israel interviewed “the man in the middle.”
• For more commentary/analysis, see Charles Krauthammer.
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m
8:44 pm
Sep 19, 2012
“Hamas is laying the groundwork to declare Gaza’s independence. Mahmoud Zahar told Maan News in no uncertain terms that Israel does not occupy Gaza. (Hey, that’s my line!) He also dissed the one and two-state solutions:”
Does that mean that when the bastards in gaaaaaazaaaaaa lob rockets at Sderot, then the IDF can officially go in and kick their asses?
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Robin Rosenblatt
11:58 pm
Sep 19, 2012
All they know how to do is terrorism. That is a good start for them.
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Neil Robbins
3:20 am
Sep 20, 2012
I am an American Jew. I am an honorably discharged inactive U.S.Marine. you’re picking pepper out of fly shit! Maureen’s comments were IN NO WAY antisemitic. There was no allusion to Senor’s ethnicity but to his ‘neocon bent’ and his proven disastrous previous actions as well as the disastrous conduct of his fellow neocons during geo. bushie’s administration! Do you really think we ‘buy’ your horrendous bulls—. Why haven’t you commented on romney or any other Republicans’ religious affiliations? Because you’d be more asinine than you already are!
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Neil Robbins
3:32 am
Sep 20, 2012
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sport29
7:31 am
Sep 20, 2012
That’s BS.
George W. was Israel’s best friend in the White House, and Barack O. is their worst, even more so than Jimmy C..
If BO’s insistence that Israel return to its ’67 borders shows how supportive he is, then what would he have to do to show his support?
How about appeasing Iran?
It reminds me of Chamberlain in ’38, offering up Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland to Hitler for “Peace in our time.” We know what that led to.
Neil is probably too young to know about that, and he was never taught that in school by his ultra liberal history teachers. He was only taught to hate Republicans.
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Robert Honeyman
12:11 am
Sep 21, 2012
what i see is a sovereign nation, iran, that was let loose by a rogue american president (dubya) when he chose to take out iraq for g-d knows what reason, and then hadn’t the diplomatic skills nor the military breadth to stop them from acquiring the nuclear cycle by 2007 (according to dennis ross). meanwhile, obama’s whitehouse has extended more military aid to israel than any previous administration. plus, they have done wonders slowing down the iranians’ ability to drive towards nuclear capability.
as for “ultra liberal history teachers?” is that what you’re best at, labeling those who disagree with your? g-d love you, sport.
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Robert Honeyman
12:11 am
Sep 21, 2012
ah, but i’m not too young, sport. dubya couldn’t have done the world – and israel – a bigger disservice when he chose to overthrow saddam hussein on a whim. in so doing, he removed the only effective governor keeping the iranian mullahs in some sort of stalemate. even when hussein was crippled by clinton’s no fly zones, iran was too in awe of the possible threat of the madman in baghdad to so openly attempt to acquire nuclear capability.
dubya israel’s best friend? g-d help us from the like.
as for chamberlain and germany: sounds great, sport. nice near-analogy. except, i don’t see the equivalent of sudetenland.
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12:20 am
Sep 21, 2012
Dear Roberta
“meanwhile, obama’s whitehouse has extended more military aid to israel than any previous administration. plus, they have done wonders slowing down the iranians’ ability to drive towards nuclear capability.”
What fucking planet did you say you live on?!
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downtown dave
3:54 am
Sep 21, 2012
Meet the Press. Don’t you understand this is not a political issue? The ideology of Islam is to Islamisize the world. If you are aggressive, they are aggressive back. If you apologize, they see that as weakness and will attack. No matter what you do, they will fight. Why? Because their ideology is to Islamisize the world.
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Tom
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Israel became a nation reborn on May 14, 1948 (Ezekiel 36:24) Major War 1948.
Four red moons followed. (1) April 13, 1949 {Passover blood red moon (2) October 7, 1949 Sukkot Blood red moon (3) April 2, 1950 Passover blood red moon (4) September 26, 1950 Sukkot blood red moon.
June 6 Day War in 1967. (1) April 24, 1967 Passover blood red moon (2) October 18, 1967 Sukkot blood red moon (3) April 13, 1968 Passover blood red moon (4) October 6, 1968 Sukkot blood red moon. (One red moon before the 6 Day War followed by three more red moons) Major War 1967
What will happen in 2013 since Four blood red moons will follow? OR will April 15, 2014 pass with one red moon like what happened in the Six Day War followed by three red moons meaning the Sunni Arabs will go to war against Israel sometime after April 15, 2014 and before October 8, 2014?
(1) April 15, 2014 Passover blood red moon (2) October 8, 2014 Sukkot blood red moon (3) April 4, 2015 Passover blood red moon (4) September 28, 2015 Sukkot blood red moon.
Will 2013 A.D. be the year when Israel crushes the Sunni Arab terrorists living along all her borders in fulfillment of the Psalms 83 prophecy? Or will this prophecy fulfillment take place after April 2014 & before October 8, 2014? Major War either 2013 or 2014.
Syrian president Assad has told his generals should he die he wants his generals to launch their rockets upon Isreal’s cities. Should the Syrian commanders follow Assad’s advice Damascus will be destroyed (Isaiah 17:1)
God used the sun to help Joshua destroy Israel’s ancient enemies. (Joshua 10:12-14) Today, God uses the four red moons to warn the Israelites their enemies plans of attack.
Let us not forget Christians defeated the last Moslem army in Spain in 1492 A.D. Guess what followed?
(1) April 2, 1493 Passover blood red moon (2)September 25,1493 Sukkot blood red moon (3) March 22, 1494 Passover blood red moon (4)September 15, 1494 Sukkot blood red moon
What do you think the Four Blood Moons tell us?
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