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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• February 22, 2016 at 5:00 am
- This
"intifada" is simply a further phase in a larger plan to
destroy Israel. When the plan began officially, with the
establishment of the PLO in 1964, there were no
"settlements" -- not until after the June 1967 War -- so
what exactly were the Palestinians planning to "liberate"?
- The current
conflict is not about "defending" any mosque from being
contaminated by the "filthy feet" of Jews: it is about
seeing Israel forced to its knees. Abbas and others seek to reap
delicious political fruits from this "intifada."
- Here is a novel
idea: Kerry could put pressure on the Palestinian and Jordanian
leadership to cease anti-Israeli incitement and indoctrination. Now
that would be pressure well applied.
- Abbas is expected
to become a partner in the fight against ISIS and radical Islamist
groups. All well and good. Why then is he not expected to stop
cheering on and glorifying young Palestinians who attack Jewish
Israelis?
Palestinian Authority leaders, official television,
schools and media outlets often display maps showing Palestine stretching
from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea. The maps do not show the
existence of Israel.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is back in town. This time he is
meeting with Jordanian and Palestinian leaders about "ongoing
security issues in the region and continued tensions between Israel and
the Palestinians."
For those not involved in political newspeak, here is a translation:
"Ongoing security issues" = the Islamic State terror group
(ISIS).
"Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians" = the
ongoing wave of Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks
that began in October 2015.
Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) fighting ISIS? Now that's
an idea! Jordanian King Abdullah and PA President Mahmoud Abbas ending
"tensions" between Israel and the Palestinians? Let's think
about that.
by Jagdish N. Singh
• February 22, 2016 at 4:00 am
- "The
destruction of Israel is non-negotiable." — Mohammad Neza
Naghdi, Commander of Iran's Basij paramilitary force.
- Sanctions
relief will mainly benefit Ayatollah Khamenei and members of the
Revolutionary Guards: they control up to one-third of Iran's
economy.
- Part of the
Iranian regime's grand strategy is to inflict "death to
America" and replace it with its own radical version of Islamic
governance. Ayatollah Khamenei himself called for America's
destruction amid nuclear negotiations.
- Officials also
believe Iran is indirectly funding the Islamic State (IS) in the
Sinai. "Suitcases of cash" are sent directly to Hamas
officials in the Gaza Strip; part of the money is then transferred
to IS.
- Iran now poses
an even greater threat. If democracies today continue their present
policies towards Iran, it will only embolden Iran's regime to
continue its quest to obtain nuclear weapons as well as its
terrorism and human rights violations.
Humanity seldom seems to learn its lessons. The governments of the
world's leading democracies appear to be suffering from this predicament
in their nuclear dealings with the Islamic Republic of Iran. To avoid
catastrophe, democracies need quickly to correct their course.
One of the fatal blunders of Western democracies is their repeated
commitment to appeasing and delaying action against aggressive regimes.
Between the two World Wars, despite plenty of evidence of the
widely-declared global racist agenda of Germany's Adolf Hitler,
democratic powers waited to take action until it was too late. Hitler was
able to carry out a genocide that continues to haunt many nations.
Today, Western democratic governments, with their Eastern
counterparts such as India, seem on a similar course in dealing with the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
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