Saban Center plays zionist wargame attack on Iran
Washington DC, Crescent-online
March 11, 2010 - 11:00 am EST
Hardly a day passes by in the US or Israel without some think tank, organization or individual discussing a zionist strike on Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities. If Muslims were ever to consider attacking Israel or the US, they would be immediately branded as terrorists. Yet, it is virtually a routine matter to talk about Israeli or American strikes on Iran's facilities.
Two members that were involved in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution study last month participated in a discussion at National Public Radio on March 11 during which they explained their findings. Ken Pollack and Suzanne Maloney were ranged on either side; Pollack representing the Israeli side while Maloney reflecting on how the Iranians might react.
The two participants presented hypothetical scenarios based on the assumption that the Israeli strike with about 100 planes would be completely successful. Then they asked: what consequences would ensue? Pollack and Maloney admitted that for Israel to carry out a strike, it would have to fly over Saudi Arabia and Iraq, one a close US ally and the other under direct US military occupation.
Their assumption was that the US would be upset with its close ally Israel but would still rush to its defence. At the same time, the US would immediately approach Iran to assure it that the strike had taken place without its knowledge. Further, Maloney, who speculated on Iran's reaction, said Israel would be subjected to a rocket barrage from Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza as well as missile attack from Iran. But, the US would rush Patriot Batteries as well as other military equipment to Israel to "defend" it.
The two Americans said the matter would die down in about eight to ten days because the US would warn Iran against expanding the war or continuing with attacks against Israel.
Such scenarios are now being played out with greater frequency, all intended to intensify the psychological pressure on Iran as well as prepare their own public for the possibility of such an attack.
What is not brought up in all such discussions is the completely criminal nature of such an attack. But then Israel and its patron saint, the US, have never been constrained by legality or international law. The Saban Center study simply confirms this. There will be no peace in the world as long as the racist ideology of zionism continues to thrive like a virus on the body-politic of the Middle East and create havoc for hapless Palestinians as well as other people in the region.
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European Parliament endorses Goldstone Report
London, Crescent-online
March 11, 2010 - 11:00 am EST
Despite intense pressure from the zionist lobby, the European Parliament adopted on March 10 a resolution backing the findings of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone Report). The EU Parliament urged member states to “demand the implementation of the Goldstone Report’s recommendations and accountability for all violations of international law”. It also called upon all parties to respect international humanitarian law and international human rights law under all circumstances.
In pursuance of the resolution and to ensure its implementation, it called for the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and EU member states to work towards a strong EU common position on the follow-up to the Goldstone Report and to publicly "demand the implementation of its recommendations and accountability for all violations of international law, including alleged war crimes.” Additionally, it called on the EU Representatives for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, together with member states, to "monitor actively the implementation of recommendations included in the Goldstone Report by consulting the EU's external missions and NGOs working in the field."
Aware and taking note of the hurdles placed by the zionist state in investigating such charges, the Resolution expressed concern about pressure placed on NGOs which were involved in the preparation of the Goldstone Report and called upon all sides to refrain from any measures restricting the activities of these organizations.
Finally, the European Parliament welcomed the Resolution of the Council of the European Union of December 8, 2009, that called for "an immediate, sustained and unconditional opening of crossings" along the Gaza-Israel frontier as the blockade has further worsened the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
This is the first such resolution adopted by the European Parliament to actively monitor the implementation of an instrument regarding respect for international humanitarian law and human rights law. It represents a slap in the face of the zionist Israel and its criminal policies.
While mere resolutions will not force the zionists to rectify their obnoxious behavior, it is becoming evident that even their close friends and allies are finding it difficult to remain silent about their egregious crimes.
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Israel's battered image and the International Jewish Lobby
California, Crescent-online
March 10, 2010, 11:00 am PST
Israel is attempting to refurbish its tattered image after a number of credibility-eroding incidents. The European Jewish lobby has blocked the EU Congress from implementing the Goldstone Report, fueling international outrage. In addition, Dubai has announced that they have uncovered more evidence that Israel is forging European passports.
The European Jewish Congress, the European version of AIPAC, has pressured European politicians against implementing the Goldstone Report. That report, prepared by Dr Richard Goldstone, a respected South African jurist and a self-confessed zionist, chronicled Israel’s massacres in Gaza, unhesitatingly declaring that its actions against Gaza civilians "amount to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity."
Since the Goldstone Report was released, Israel has launched a political and diplomatic offensive to contain its disastrous impact. If the EU had adopted the Report's recommendations, Israeli politicians and military commanders would have faced trial at the International Criminal Court.
Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, warned that implementing it would gravely damage EU-Israel relations.
However, while Israel may have been able to evade legislative action, the news has stirred worldwide public indignation, fueling rather than abating perceptions of Israel as a rogue state. The news has confirmed perceptions that Israel’s power rests on its influence on powerful countries through its Diaspora lobbies, rather than on its much vaunted democratic institutions and military. Gaza provided incontrovertible proof of Israel’s brutality despite its well-oiled PR machine. Israeli officials touring universities have been shouted down by students, while Muslims, leftists, and people of conscience from all backgrounds have united in staging protests and demonstrations.
Meanwhile, Dubai’s announcement that Israel is regularly forging European passports has embarrassed European countries standing behind Israel in the Goldstone incident. Dubai Chief of Police Dahi Khalfan declared to the AFP: “I ring alarm bells. Israel is forging Western passports on a large scale. We discover forged passports on a daily basis.” After Mossad’s exposure in the murder of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai, the spy agency’s illegal tracks over the Middle East are becoming increasingly visible. European allies of Israel have been discomfited by the emerging evidence that Israel is flouting their countries’ laws through such forgeries.
Israel has been lobbying for years to be admitted to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), founded in 1961 for wealthy industrialized democracies to meet and co-ordinate their programs. It includes the US and most of Europe. While Israel has been told that its membership is certain, its tarnished reputation is affecting the legitimacy of regimes collaborating with it.
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Kahrizak trial in Iran exposes US hypocrisy
MD-Toronto, Crescent–online
March 10, 2010 – 12:00 noon EST
Iran has put on trial 12 police officers charged with violating detention procedures at the Kahrizak detention center. Allegations of police misconduct surfaced after the US-instigated post-election riots in Tehran last June. While the rioters indulged in wanton destruction of property and arson, some police officers overstepped their lawful limits when dealing with them in detention.
After the revelations of unlawful behavior by the police at Kahrizak detention center surfaced, Iran's Supreme Leader, Sayed Ali Khamenei immediately ordered an investigation. As soon as the preliminary results revealed acts of unlawful conduct by some police officers, the detention center was instantly shut down and those responsible were arrested.
Unlike the US and its allies whose egregious crimes against detainees are not only never punished but often officially supported and justified, Iran has once gain demonstrated that its system of governance is far superior to what the US falsely propagates about it. Muslim detainees have been brutally tortured in the US's illegal gulag at Guantanamo Bay as well as at Bagram in Afghanistan and numerous other ghost prisons worldwide.
One is forced to contrast Iran's scrupulous adherence to lawful conduct with what happens in such US-backed tyrannies as Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. These regimes not only refuse to take legal action against the criminal actions of police and other agencies, they often punish those who report them. In January 2010 a UAE court acquitted Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of the Emirates' ruling family, of torture charges that were confirmed through a video tape. Instead the UAE court sentenced in absentia the person who exposed the sadistic behavior of Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan to five years in prison.
The recent trial of 12 police officers accused of improper conduct at Kahrizak detention center once again exposes the US's fraudulent championing of “democracy” and “freedom”. The US has historically backed some of the most brutal regimes in the world. The US backs the despotic regimes in such places as Azerbaijan, Egypt and Zionist-occupied Palestine while indulging in a vicious campaign to destabilize Iran under the slogan of “freedom.” The latest trial in Iran is another blow to the US propaganda machinary that will further diminish its credibility worldwide.
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Rightwing US think tank outlines Iran destabilization plan
Washington DC, Crescent-online
March 09, 2010 - 11:00 am EST
There is no shortage of US think-tanks urging aggression against Iran. If it is not individuals like Daniel Pipes, a hardcore zionist and Islamophobe as well as his fellow travellers urging the bombing of Iran, there are think-tanks demanding similar action. Every group, think tank or individual that believes in crippling Iran is also, not surprisingly a staunch supporter of the zionist state of Israel and its criminal behavior.
The latest in a series of such attacks has come from the Heritage Foundation, an extreme rightwing American group. In its latest outpouring of venom against Iran, the Heritage Foundation has outlined a 10-point plan, "Ten Steps to a Free Iran", to undermine the Islamic Republic of Iran. It not only calls for sanctions but also support for opposition groups inside Iran as well as financial backing for Iranian opposition media outlets outside to undermine the Islamic Republic.
The Heritage Foundation, of course, would not call this undermining Iran; instead, it says that such media outlets would educate Iranians about "genuine representative democracy". Presumably, the Heritage Foundation has in mind the kind of " genuine representative democracy" practised in the US where two successive elections were stolen by George Bush (2000 and 2004), where Barack Obama was elected through the financial handouts of big corporations to whom he immediately shoveled nearly $1 trillion after they had wrecked the US economy, and where US congressmen and women are in the pocket of the zionist lobby.
Among the steps the Heritage Foundation has urged against Iran are to "help opposition groups communicate privately with each other using Web-based groups outside Iran and Bluetooth technology that can evade government surveillance and censorship;" that "US intelligence services should provide covert financial and material assistance to democratic opposition groups to strengthen opposition to the regime, similar to the help extended to the Polish Solidarity movement during the Cold War;" and "Target covert actions to discredit the regime. Intelligence services should distribute printouts of Iranian officials' foreign bank accounts and other assets and pictures of their mansions and villas outside Iran to drive a wedge between the corrupt regime and the people."
The Heritage Foundation also calls for the US to develop a new generation of nuclear weapons and to aid allies with military hardware to undermine the Islamic Republic. The US already has the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons yet more are being urged despite the fact that the US has been leading a campaign to deny Iran even its legitimate use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
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