Sivan 22, 5770, 04 June 10 06:37, by Dr. Arash Irandoost
(Israelnationalnews.com) Ever since you decided to trade in the Secularism of Ataturk for the Islamism of Erdogan, you also seem to have decided to forego your willingness to coexist with non-Muslims on a peaceful basis. These days all we ever seem to get from you, is video clips of your leader, Prime Minister Erdogan, behaving erradically and barking like a dog that its owner carelessly let off the leash. And if you don't know that Erdogan's master lives in Riyadh, then you don't know very much of what goes on in your own country.
But your affairs are your own. If you want to let a fanatic in a cheap suit destroy Turkish nationalism in the name of Islam, that's your business. But when he gets into business with terrorist organizations that attack, rape and murder our mothers and sisters (Iranian pro democracy women demonstrators), then it becomes our business. And when a country that persecutes its Kurdish, Assyrian and Armenian citizens, treat Iranian refugees like 3rd class citizens and hands them over to IRI thugs at every opportunity, and works tirelessly to appease a criminal regime, she must remember that we will not forget her erroneous ways.
You say you want an international investigation into the flotilla raid? Sure. Right after you allow an international investigation into that minor matter of Armenian genocide that you've been ducking for quite a while. As the new "standard bearer" in fighting for human rights, I'm sure you will agree that it's only fair that Turkey should undergo the same scrutiny it demands for other countries.
And then we can move on to the more than 10,000 political prisoners in your jails. A number that at times has topped 100,000. An independent investigation could also begin by looking into the torture and murder of political activists such as Engin Ceber. They could meet with representatives of TAYAD, the organization representing the families of prisoners. And they would no doubt be fascinated by the more than 1500 children in your prisoners who are there on "terrorism" charges. Like that 12 year old you arrested in 2008 for singing a Kurdish folk song. So by all means wrap yourselves in the banner of "Human Rights" and it will surely turn it into a noose and strangle you with it.
In Israel, Arabs are a legally recognized minority. Arabic is taught in schools and used as a legally recognized language. Meanwhile Kurdish identity is all but banned in Turkey and Iranian heritage and nationalism is under attack by the Islamist invaders. Kurdish names, folk songs and even the Kurdish language itself has been repressed. Your regime has actually prosecuted and removed officials for simply incorporating a Kurdish phrase into a greeting. You screech self-righteously about the "Palestinian children"-- perhaps we should talk about the hundreds of Kurdish children arrested for throwing stones at protests. Arrested and charged with terrorism. Just more of the thousands of political prisoners of oppressed minorities in your prisons.
And perhaps next time your dog Erdogan gets up to bark up about human rights and gets through lecturing us on the use of force against Islamic terrorists, shall we discuss how many times you used jets to bomb Kurdish rebels who were lightly armed at best. Including in 2008 when you invaded sovereign Iraqi soil in order to continue your genocide of the Kurdish people in cooperation with criminal mullahs of Iran.
You talk about stolen land, when your entire country is stolen land, from Cyprus to Istanbul. Your regime is a racist illegitimate entity based on the oppression of the Kurds, the Armenians, the Assyrians, Iranians, and numerous others. You went directly from being Imperialists to Fascists to Islamists, a truly dubious achievement for any nation. Your history is filled with slavery, ethnic cleansing, genocide and invasion. And that's just in the last century alone. If you had any sanity or shame, you would dig a hole, crawl into it, and hope that no one mentions words like "Minority Rights" or "Territorial Legitimacy" in your presence, instead of trying to use them as a club against Iranians and Israelis (Two nations whose national history predates yours by thousands of years).
But let us get back to your precious Islamist flotilla, decorated with Turkish flags that used to be more than just red versions of the Saudi flag. That ship you filled up with Muslim Brotherhood members and Islamist radicals bound for Gaza. Over in your wonderful nation of boundless freedom, reporters have been put on trial for even interviewing leaders of terrorist groups. You sentenced the head of a Kurdish party to six months in prison for calling the head of the PKK, Mr. Ocalan, instead of just Ocalan. He joins the more than 800 Kurdish politicians you imprisoned in the last year alone. And after all that you actually have the nerve to pretend to be "outraged" when Israel intercepts your flotilla full of political terrorists?
But of course we know how strongly you feel about blockades. Like the time you blockaded Armenia for Sixteen Years. Very well then. If you insist on sending vessels flying the Turkish flag to aid Hamas, perhaps Israel should begin sending tanks flying the Israeli flag to aid the PKK. And when a new democratic Iran is established, we surely will cut the flow of gas and oil to your arid, natural resource starved and useless land. We're not big fans of the PKK, but since you've decided to friend Hamas and IRI murderers, then what's good for the turkey, just might be good for the gander. Or perhaps for every boat flying the Turkish flag that is sent to Gaza, Israel should donate a million to the Iranian pro democracy movement and PKK. I wonder how along IRI could last with direct financial help form Israel.
And then there's the Republic of Cyprus. They might benefit from significantly upgraded air defenses. While the US insists on equalizing weapons sales to Turkey and Greece, Israel just might have something tastier to offer to one side. And the citizens of the Republic of Cyprus might actually be able to sleep peacefully in their beds, instead of being intimidated by savages showing off their F-16's over their heads.
Oh I know, what you're going to say. This means war. But you might want to reconsider. And what exactly was the last war you won single-handedly? And no, bombing starving Kurdish rebels from the air, or occupying Cyprus doesn't count. And how long could you fight that war, before a domestic Kurdish insurgency overthrows your little empire. If that doesn't happen, you might want to think about the big Russian bear at your back. The bear has been eyeing you for a long time now. And with your military engaged in a disastrous war for the Great Caliphate, your borders would be temptingly open. And who exactly would bail you out then?
Oh I know you've made many great news friends, such as Ahmadinejad and that fat king in the Arabian Desert, who tells your Erdogan when to jump and how high., but if you think mullahs care about their Sunni brethren, you've got another surprise coming. Meanwhile old Abdullah in the desert can't even protect himself without the US Marines. And if you think Obama would send them in to save your asses, you've got another thing coming. I'm sure if there were Russian tanks headed to Ankara, he'd make a vocal statement about it. And Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would pretend not to laugh while hanging up the phone.
There is of course the European Union. Last time Russia pulled that trick, it was Britain that bailed you out in the Crimean War. But these days Her M(N)ajesty's Empire isn't quite in the same shape it used to be. Sure Cameron, Clegg and Harman will lick Erdogan's feet. But none of them want to be the next Tony Blair either. Germany doesn't like you very much anymore. Perhaps that time when it got enmeshed in WW1 to protect your Ottoman Empire may have put them off. Or your internal campaign of subversion exploiting Germany's horde of Turkish laborers. What are you left with then? France, Italy or perhaps Austria will forget that whole pesky Gates of Vienna thing and this time ride to your rescue.
No, when Russian commandos are ripping off your wife's head scarf-- there will be no one left to save you. Not your newfound allies, or Erdogan who will take the first plane to Riyadh, with as much of the 18 billion in gold and cash he stole from Iran as his sweaty hands can shove into the pockets of his cheap suit. And just think of it, as the Hagia Sophia church that you turned into a mosque, will become a church again. Istanbul will once again be Constantinople, which means a certain catchy 20's song will require a rewrite. Of course it may not happen exactly that way. But something close to it might happen. Erdogan's plan to change Turkey into a Muslim country will not succeed if alert pro democracy and secular Turks who have seen the human rights violation under Islam in Iran, have something to say in the next elections.
So when that day of reckoning comes, you will find that you have made enemies of former allies such as pro democracy Iranians, Israel and the US-- and that the new allies Erdogan has found for you in Islamic Republic and Syria would prefer a Russian controlled Turkey, that has no chance of ever reverting to a Kemalist government. And Erdogan's godfather in Saudi Arabia commands oil money, not troops. And while he might be willing to sink Turkey for the sake of Islam, perhaps there are Turks who value their nation, more than Islamism. If not, you can look forward to Erdogan "reforming" your country, until it has the military might of Pakistan, the literacy level of Saudi Arabia and the poverty rate of Egypt and rapist reputation of Iran’s mullahs. It is of course your choice.
People have the right to choose their destiny, for good or ill. And if you find that this letter is filled with contempt, it is a contempt fully merited by a regime that seeks to cloak its shameful betrayal of a former allies in the guise of human rights, when it brutally suppresses the rights of its own minorities. You may wish to go on dancing to the tune being played by Erdogan, to sheet music composed in Riyadh and Tehran. It is a very good tune. Filled with hate, violence and religious fanaticism. That also is your choice. But know that whatever you have was bought and paid by your ancestors who understood that Turkey would either modernize out of the gutter of Islam, or it would be washed away by the colonial tide. Your power does not come from Islam, it comes from the bread crusts of civilization that fall from the table of Europe and ineptitude of the corrupt mullahs of Iran. Abandon them for the red hued madness of the Jihad, and you will not rule over an empire, but over a wasteland. If you doubt that, look to the south and to the east. Look to the desert. You came from there once. And if you throw away your once secular and democratic country for the fanatical madness of Islam-- you will return there again.
Sincerely,
Your Secular Pro Democracy Iranian Former Friend
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Dr. Arash Irandoost
Dr. Arash Irandoost is a pro-democracy activist who advocates regime change in Iran. He denounces those who have corrupted the religion of Islam, make war with all free nations and intend to dominate the world with their theocracy. Dr. Irandoost's work has been published in numerous magazines around the world, as well as in hundreds of Internet magazines, websites and blogs. He is also a researcher and literary translator. He blogs at hakemiat-e-mardom. blogspot. com/
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New Yorkers Plan to Fight Mosque Near Ground Zero
Sivan 12, 5770, 25 May 10 11:15, by Hana Levi Julian
(Israelnationalnews.com) A growing rage is gripping New Yorkers over plans to build a 13-story mosque just two blocks away from the site of the worst terror attack ever perpetrated on U.S. soil.
“What could be more insulting and humiliating than a monster mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Center buildings that were brought down by an Islamic jihad attack?” said Pam Geller, who heads a protest group called Stop the Islamicization of America. “Any decent American, Muslim or otherwise wouldn't dream of such an insult. It's a stab in the eye of America,” she told The Times.
The group is calling for a massive protest on June 6.
The plans by the American Society for Muslim Advancement call for construction of the mosque and community center at the former Burlington Coat factory, badly damaged in the attack by radical Muslim terrorists on September 11, 2001. The building has stood empty since “9/11” – but the group now wants to rebuild it as a major Islamic center instead.
Daisy Khan, director of the Society, explained that the group wants to “create a platform by which the voices of the mainstream and silent majority of Muslims will be amplified. A center of this scale and magnitude will do that.”
The center, to be located at 43-45 Park Place, would include a mosque on the top floor, large enough to accommodate some 2,000 Muslims for Friday prayers, overlooking Ground Zero. It would also would feature a 500-seat theater, a swimming pool and a basketball court.
Project director Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said the mosque and Muslim-led community center would be called Cordoba House. According to Geller, who also writes the blog Atlas Shrugs, the name refers to the historic period in which the Islamic Caliphate in Cordoba, Spain, ruled much of Europe and non-Muslims lived as second-class citizens under Islamic rule. Rauf has reportedly stated he wants to attract converts to the Muslim community with by exploiting the proposed center's proximity to Ground Zero.
Another group, the “9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America” (9/11 FSSA) has also expressed its opposition to the plan. An outraged Debra Burlingame contended that the same imam blamed “9/11” on America's treatment of Muslims immediately after the attack. Burlingame, whose brother was a pilot on the flight that was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, is the co-founder of 9/11 FSSA.
Regardless, New York City's Community Board 1 gave the $100 million project a thumbs-up at its financial district committee meeting on May 5, albeit not with a unanimous vote.
Board member Paul Sipos told the New York Post he thought the project was “insensitive,” pointing out that “If the Japanese decided to open a cultural center across from Pearl Harbor, that would be insensitive. If the Germans opened a Bach choral society across from Auschwitz even after all these years, that would be an insensitive setting.
“I have absolutely nothing against Islam,” he added. “I just think: why there?”
Geller's group noted that Islamic clerics often make a point of building mosques upon the ruins of other religious sites in order to proclaim its dominance. The Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem was one of several examples she cited.
Geller, as well as columnist Rabbi Shmuely Boteach, suggested that the group instead build a Muslim center devoted to “expunging the Koran and all Islamic teachings of the violent jihad that they prescribe, as well as all hateful texts and incitement to violence.”
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Ground Zero Mosque Sponsor Unmasked as Free Gaza Donor
Sivan 24, 5770, 06 June 10 10:23, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(Israelnationalnews.com) The Muslim cleric behind the proposed giant mosque near Ground Zero is none other than a major donor to the pro-Hamas Free Gaza movement, the New York Post reported. The cleric, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf also is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organization.
The Free Gaza group has been behind several attempts to break the Israeli sea embargo on Hamas. The latest attempt, under the guise of sending humanitarian aid, was foiled Saturday when the Israeli Navy intercepted the “Rachel Corrie” ship before it could approach the Gaza Coast.
The Perdena organization has donated $366,000 to Free Gaza, which has organized several attempts to break the Israeli sea embargo on Hamas-controlled Gaza. Earlier in the week, the Mavi Marmara ship’s terrorist "activists" opened fire and brutally beat Navy commandos, despite Free Gaza promises that there would be no violence. Free Gaza spokeswoman Greta Berlin has charged that the IDF edited and falsified videos clearly showing that the passengers on the ship initially assaulted commandos before they reached the decks.
“We have two Imam Raufs," Deborah Burlingame, the sister of the American Airlines pilot whose hijacked plane struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, told the New York Post. "We have the anti-Israel, anti-democratic imam, and we have the smiling, soft-spoken moderate Muslim who says, 'Why can't we all get along?' "
The proposed 13-story mosque and community center, to cost $100 million, has been met with outrage in New York, despite Rauf’s focusing on peace. "We must fight those who are against us with peace and our assurance that we have peace in our hearts,” he recently told Muslims at a Friday prayer service.
Tea Party Express chairman Mark Williams called the project a monument to 9/11 attackers, and the “9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America” calls the proposed project “a gross insult to the memory of those who were killed on that terrible day.’’
However, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg supports it, and zoning officials have approved the plan.www.IsraelNationalNews.com
The flotilla delivered truths about the Pax Americana
Sunday, 06 June 2010 Al-Arabiya
‘We’re the only ones who believe them,” a U.S. official was quoted as complaining last week in response to Israel’s account of its attack on the Gaza aid flotilla.
The bloodshed on the high seas and the resulting diplomatic fallout is a reminder of just how far U.S. influence has fallen in the region, and the grim prospects for the U.S. President Barack Obama reversing that trend as long as the United States continues to accord Israel special status.
Indeed, in a statement that would have evoked howls of protest had it been made on Capitol Hill, the Mossad chief Meir Dagan last week told a Knesset sub-committee that Israel is turning “from an asset to the United States to a burden.”
The drama of last week has forced the United States and its European partners to concede that the Israeli blockade on Gaza is untenable, as is its underlying policy – shared by Washington and the Europeans – of refusing to engage with Hamas as an intractable fact of Palestinian political life.
The fact that a group of defiant civil society activists – backed by the Turkish government – has forced that acknowledgment is a sign of how far the balance of power in the Middle East has shifted.
How We Became the Proxies of Islam
By Daniel Greenfield Sunday, June 6, 2010
The Romans started out using barbarians in their armies, until eventually the barbarians became their emperors. So too the Ottoman Empire began by using non-Muslims as Janissaries in their armies, only to have them nearly take over. Similarly there was a time when we tried to use Muslim countries as proxies in our wars. Today Muslims use us as proxies in their wars.
There was a time when things seemed very clear and simple. Nuclear weapons and the memory of the devastation that WW2 had brought, made a direct war between the US and the USSR too prohibitive to be seriously considered. So instead we used proxies to fight our wars for us. We needed to protect our oil supply, which meant that both the US and the USSR tried to form alliances with Muslim countries in the Middle East. But then the Soviet Union fell, and in that same year, US forces found themselves engaged as proxies in a war between Saddam Hussein and the Saudi Royal Family.
Of course we were protecting our oil supply, but who were we protecting it from? Russia was backing our actions. China was not involved. Instead we were fighting for one Muslim power against another. And what we were actually doing was the same thing that Westerners had been doing for a while. Serving as Janissaries, non-Muslim troops for the Saudi Royal Family. To provide some perspective on this, in 1979 when Islamists connected to Bin Laden seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Saudi Royal Family imported French Commandos, had them convert to Islam, and then storm the mosque. In the last two decades, Bin Laden didn’t try a doomed mosque takeover, instead he carried on a war against America and Europe. And once again we found ourselves fighting a proxy war for the Saudi Royal Family.
Muslim terrorists attacking Westerners in order to force them to do their dirty work for them.
This was hardly the first time that Muslim terrorists had attacked Westerners in order to force them to do their dirty work for them. The PLO had made that the linchpin of their strategy, hijacking airplanes and setting off bombs, in order to force Europe and America to pressure Israel into giving them a state. And what’s more is that the strategy worked. By now, it has become routine for Islamist groups to target foreigners, whether it is Australians in Bali or Israeli tourists in Egypt or American tourists in Israel or French tourists in Mauritania. The pattern is the same. The wannabe Bin Ladens murder Westerners, knowing that their governments will eventually get around to helping them achieve their goals either through diplomatic pressure, or another proxy war that will rally other Muslims to their side.
And how it got this way is very simple. The balance of power shifted, just as it did in the Roman Empire, and the rulers became the ruled. It didn’t happen through overwhelming force. It happened because we let it. It happened because our politicians were too cowardly to stand up to medieval tribal leaders in burnooses, until a generation later, those same tribal leaders now controlled their entire economy. And immigration plus demographics adds the second potent threat of a voting base that doesn’t mind torching cars when they don’t get their way, or even when they do. This is the game we’ve been playing, or rather the game that’s been playing us.
After Israel stopped a Gaza bound ship funded by an Islamist group, Labor’s Harriet Harman demanded of UK PM David Cameron, what he intended to do about the British detainees. Cameron of course took the Londonistan line, as has every British PM in quite some time now. Now mind you, the British citizens imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and Dubai had not occasioned that kind of firm response. Rachel Thaler, a British subject who was murdered in Israel, did not receive it. But then she was a Jew murdered by Muslims, which just made her hopelessly inconvenient. No questions were put to Brown over the arrest of a British citizen in Dubai for reporting her own rape. No high profile condemnations or concern for the British couple sentenced to jail in Dubai for reportedly kissing in public. And there were no angry denunciations of Sudan after it arrested a British schoolteacher for naming a teddy bear Mohammed. Which only stands to reason, no dog will bite his master’s hand.
The latest round of European denunciations of Israel are nothing more than Western governments acting like proxies of Islam
The latest round of European denunciations of Israel are nothing more than Western governments acting like proxies of Islam. Which is exactly what they are. And when Muslim immigrants treat European countries as their new colonies, those same governments react by treating them as their new masters, and like good native rulers, they silence all domestic dissent. After all who knows what the masters might do to them, if they spoke up. Who knows. Certainly not them.
The left enjoys accusing America and Europe of colonialism in regard to the Muslim world, but the reality is of course completely backward. How many Westerners are moving to Muslim countries, vs how many Muslims are moving to Western countries. And while Westerners in the Muslim world are expected to abide by the most repressive and sexist laws of the region, Muslims who come to the West bring their own laws with them, and expect us to abide by them. Which means that not only had you better not liquor up in Riyadh, but you had better not do it in parts of Minnesota either. Or anywhere in New York where Muslims decide to open up their mosques.
When the Saudi Royal Family decided to seize the assets of the US oil company that had made them wealthy, the United States Government did not send over a small fleet to explain to the burnoosed thugs living under US protection, just what belongs to whom. Instead the US government nodded its head, and repaid the shareholders using taxpayer money. And since then, that same oil company has gone on to become the invisible Saudi lobby with a number of Secretaries of State coming from its board. Ask yourself if this is how a colonizer or a colony does business?
The homelands of civilization have become colonies of the Muslim world, accepting and caring for their surplus populations. Our businesses and our economy depend on them. And we go off every now and then to die for them. And at their hands. Of New York City’s three tallest skyscrapers, two, the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, are partially owned by Muslims. The third no longer exists. It was known as the World Trade Center. I ask you again, is this how colonizers or colonists live?
Every major war we have fought since Vietnam has been a proxy war for Muslims
Every major war we have fought since Vietnam has been a proxy war for Muslims. Whether we were bombing Saddam on behalf of the royals of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, or bombing our former allies in Yugoslavia on behalf of Muslim Albanians, or dying in order to provide electrical generators to downtown Baghdad and ferry schoolteachers into Kabul. We have not fought a single significant war since Vietnam that was not on behalf of, or intended to benefit Muslims. Not a single one. The Ottoman Empire had a name for this. It was Janissary.
It is only common sense to say that people who act like slaves, are slaves. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, eventually it’s going to end up on the menu of a Chinese restaurant. Or in this case a Kebab House. Those who have the power give the orders, and those who follow the orders are not the ones with the power.
By giving up our power, we became the proxies of Islam. We allowed ourselves to be subjugated politically, economically and culturally. The kids wearing their keffiyahs on the street are just acknowledging the new reality. The mosque loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer, where they will thank Allah that they are not Jews or Christians. The mosque going up near Ground Zero. The European leaders outraged that a few of their own Dhimmis might spend an extra hour in Israeli custody. The shrugged shoulders as the Muslim world develops nuclear weapons that will make all of 9/11 seem merciful by comparison. All of these are symbols of our colonization.
We have been colonized at the top. Our politicians have bowed to what they consider to be the inevitable. Many of our business leaders have done the same. In a time of crisis, it is usually the appeasers at the helm, because otherwise there would be no crisis. And the helm these days is so full of appeasers that there is no hope of ever seeing daylight in their midst. By comparison to them, Chamberlain was a man of courage and Petain was a roaring lion.
Oh we still have armies. And when the Saudi Royal Family needs us to fight a war for them, or entangles us in one, we’ll be sure to use them. We still elect our own governments, we just don’t have the power to tell them to stop the Muslim immigration flood or to ban a mosque at Ground Zero. We can even buy newspapers, so long as they don’t publish any Mohammed cartoons in them. Why we’re as free as India under the British Raj.
When did all this happen? It happened when we gave up control of our own destiny and our own economy. And then the Muslim countries stopped being our proxies, and we became theirs instead. The tail began to wag the dog, until it eventually it was the dog. Now the tail barks, and our elected officials ask, “How High?” We don’t have a terrorism problem, an immigration problem or an energy independence problem. We have a problem because we’ve become the dog’s tail. We stopped giving orders, and we began taking orders. We act as proxies of our Muslim overlords. We fight their wars. We enforce their policy for them. Our money goes into their hands. Our people go off to do their work for them. Their people come here at our expense.
It is hard for the human mind to spot change because it is trained to look for discontinuities. A radical transformation is hard to see if it happens gradually. So too a power shift can be invisible, until it is simply the way things are. That is what a wake up call is for. It’s the finger that points your attention to how bad things have gotten. It forces you to look at how high the water has risen. And asks you, how much more will you let it rise. 9/11 was a wake up call. Not the first or the last of them. Our leaders have chosen defeat. We must choose resistance.
Hurriyet, a large Turkish daily, published pictures of some of the commandos beaten after boarding the Mavi Marmara at the Gaza blockade.
Israel Supports Russia’s Efforts to Preserve Truth about World War Two
URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/111616-israel_russia-0, 12.01.2010
Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Israeli President Shimon Peres played a significant role in recent Russian-American agreement regarding Europe-based missile defense shield system. In his phone conversations with Obama and during their personal meetings he insisted that abandoning the idea of basing missile defense in Europe was necessary. Why did he have to make efforts that would result in strengthening of Russia’s positions?
Avigdor Eskin, Israeli political analyst, shared his comments on the matter:
“The decision of OSCE that equates Soviet soldiers with Nazi monsters, revengeful attitudes and encouragement of a new wave of Nazism at the state level in Ukraine and Baltic countries, along with the USA’s intentions to locate missile defense near the Russian borders, is a new and dangerous round of attempts to destabilize the situation in the region. It is also an attempt to try new methods in shaping borders and spheres of influence.
The specific role that Israel took up in its eagerness to persuade Obama’s administration not to aggravate a conflict reflects the state strategy of Israel. In recent years, Peres revisited his old role of a recognized master of diplomacy. It is not surprising that he started the project of preventing basing a missile defense shield system in Poland and the Czech Republic and went through with it.
The question of the reasoning behind Israel’s attempt to stop the spread of the American influence in the former CIS countries is very appropriate. The processes associated with the attempts to create a blockade situation for Russia and build a new order in the region do not coincide with Israel’s interests.
In order to understand the essential differences between the interests of Israel and the USA in the post-Soviet region, let us imagine a possible continuation of Bush’s policy. Active revival of Nazism in Ukraine and the Baltic countries at some point started to gain momentum. Americans came to a conclusion that there was nothing good they could expect from these nations and that the only choice the said nations had was between the color of red (getting close with Russia), and the color of brown.
Washington considers the second option to be the lesser evil. A US ambassador in Kiev personally awarded graduates of the Security Service of Ukraine with stripes knowing very well that he was encouraging the supporters of the Nazi ideology. The Academy was recently named after Shukhevych, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The US Department of State and CIA not only condone the spirit of revengefulness in Ukraine and in the Baltic countries, but consciously encourage it guided by the intentions not to allow Russia to return to these lands.
A possibility of further unification and consolidation of Ukraine and the Baltic countries on the basis of rehabilitation and revival of Nazism is encouraged externally by similar tendencies in Romania that can spread to Moldavia up to an attempt of aggression against Transdniestria.
Yet, as it often happens with the Americans, their fosterlings have a tendency to get out of control. It cannot be ruled out that these post-Soviet tendencies will become the third power in Europe between the liberal West and Russia.
Israel is concerned with the American project in Eastern Europe because the Russophobia implanted there is immediately interwoven with Judaeophobia. Regardless of instantaneous rewards that can be tempting for the Israeli government, the spread of Nazism across the post-Soviet territory will always remain a direct threat not only for Jewish communities, but for Israel itself.
As for Russia, today it serves as a stabilizer not only in the Western regions of the former USSR, but also in the Caucuses and Central Asia.
If we look at separatist tendencies within Russia from Jerusalem, we will come to a conclusion that any scenario of Russia’s separation or collapse would cause strengthening of the anti-Israeli forces.
All these tendencies are dangerous for Israel. The enhancement of a popular attitude suggesting that every national group that declares itself a nation should create an independent country is also dangerous. “Right for a state” is a direct result of the liberal view of the world currently selectively used by the West, promoting double standards.
In the context of the Israeli-Russian relations, the struggle against the attempts to falsify the history of World War II is particularly important.
Mocking and hypocritical decision of OSCE that equated Soviet soldiers with killer monsters removed the scales from eyes of many Russians, revealing the real face of Western politicians who followed their Baltic colleagues. The basis for claims against Russia by Baltic revenge seekers and other supporters of Nazis is being prepared. Israel is concerned with these tendencies . Dr. Yehuda Bauer, a leading Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust, fiercely rebuffed historians revising the history.
The Israel Foreign Ministry is gradually placing more importance on diplomacy with Russia as the relationship with Washington undergouse a reformation under the Obama administration. Foreign Minister A. Lieberman, in his trip to Moscow this wek, will try to balance out Israel's overriding reliance on American diplomatic, financial and military support by strengthening its ties to Russia (The Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2009)
US Asked to Look into American Backers of Gaza Flotilla
Sivan 25, 5770, 07 June 10 08:04, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) The United States should investigate the American backers of activist flotillas that challenge Israel's naval closure off the coast of Gaza, an Israeli human rights group said Monday. Shurat Hadin (Israel Law Center) chairwoman, attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner has sent a letter asking US Attorney General Eric Holder to look into the “Free Gaza” movement (FGM).
Free Gaza is a US-based group which aims to undermine Israel's control of waters off the Gaza coast.
The Free Gaza organization is providing military assistance to Hamas by attempting to break the Israeli blockade while Hamas continues its attacks on Israeli civilians, Darshan-Leitner said. In doing so, it is taking part in attacking a state friendly to America – a violation of the U.S. Neutrality Act (18 U.S.C. 960).
The Neutrality Act states, “Whoever, within the United States, knowingly begins or sets on foot or provides or prepares a means for or furnishes the money for, or takes part in, any military or naval expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominion of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States is at peace, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
"Nevertheless," Darshan-Leitner wrote, "despite the clear unequivocal policy of the United States to support Israel's right to control the security of the territorial waters around Gaza and to isolate Hamas from external support, the FGM and the American Educational Trust are attempting to undermine the foreign policy of both the United States and Israel, and attempting to aid and abet the Hamas terrorist organization, by raising money to smuggle in weapons and supplies in direct violation of the Interim Agreement regarding foreign vessels and to undermine Israel's sovereign authority."
She also drew U.S. attention to what appears to be a violation of American tax law. The Free Gaza organization is not recognized as a non-profit organization in America, and thus cannot give tax exemptions on donations. However, the group's website states that donors may make tax-deductible donations to the American Educational Trust – a recognized group – and earmark them for Free Gaza, thus allowing the group to provide tax deductions without proving its non-profit credentials.
Darshan-Leitner pointed out that Israel's right to impose a naval blockade in Gaza was affirmed in agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement of 1995 stated that Israel has “the responsibility for defense against external threats, including for defense against external threats from the sea,” while another passage states that foreign vessels will “not approach closer than 12 nautical miles from the coast” except with the approval of joint Israel-PA regulations.
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Increased Violence in Turkish-Occupied Kurdistan
Sivan 25, 5770, 07 June 10 10:54, by Avi Yellin
(Israelnationalnews.com) Three Kurdish resistance fighters were killed over the weekend during clashes with Turkish military forces currently occupying Northern Kurdistan (often referred to as South East Turkey). Two of the rebels were killed near Uludere in Sirnak province, close to the border with Iraqi Kurdistan, when soldiers pursued a group of fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who had allegedly detonated explosives on a road as a military vehicle passed. The blast had failed to claim any casualties.
A third rebel was killed in Beytussebap, also in Sirnak, in a battle that erupted after a group of PKK guerrillas opened fire on a Turkish police checkpoint.
Last Friday, PKK spokesman Ahmed Denis announced that the rebels had ended a unilateral truce with Turkey – in place since April 2009 – "because of Turkey's continuing hostility towards the Kurdish people."
The statement came against a backdrop of rising violence between Turkish forces and the PKK. In one of the bloodiest attacks in recent months, the PKK fired rockets at a navy base last Monday, killing six soldiers and wounding seven.
Since 1984, the PKK has been engaged in a war of liberation for the mainly Kurdish populated territories that make up the north of historic Kurdistan but currently exist as Turkey’s southeast. The war for Kurdish independence has since claimed roughly 45,000 lives, with Kurds making up the vast majority of casualties.
As a non-Arab Middle Eastern minority, the Kurds hold positive attitudes towards Israel and generally view Zionism as a model to follow in their quest for independence. The PKK has demanded an end to all discrimination in Turkish laws against ethnic Kurds, hoping instead to be granted full political freedoms. The party has also demanded Turkey's recognition of the Kurds' identity in its constitution and of their language as a native language along with Turkish in Kurdish populated areas. Most Kurds currently living under Turkish occupation openly sympathize with the PKK despite it being considered a 'terrorist' organization by both Ankara and Washington.
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Shalit Supporters Launch Their Own Flotilla
Sivan 25, 5770, 07 June 10 10:54, by Yoni Kempinski
(Israelnationalnews.com) A new flotilla set sail near the Gaza coast Monday morning. Unlike recent activist ventures, these boats were not aimed to challenge the IDF, but rather, to raise awareness of the humanitarian plight of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
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MK Orit Zuaretz of Kadima organized the event along with the organization 18 Mothers. The purpose was to call on the international community not to differentiate between the rights of Gaza residents and those of Shalit, and to call for Shalit's freedom and human rights just as they would for an Arab resident of the area.
The flotillas that headed to Gaza in a public display of disregard for Israel's naval blockade were not truly interested in human rights, Zuaretz said, because they had no interest in Gilad Shalit. Activists aboard the ships refused to bring anything to Shalit.
"This is the way that a peace flotilla is supposed to look,” she said of the ships launched Monday. The Shalit flotilla seeks peace not only for Israel, but for the entire world, she added.
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