Obama’s
House of Fallen Cards.
DEBKAfile's
1. Iranian sources report
that circles in the US administration have begun to entertain serious doubts
about the wisdom of entering into negotiations with Iran after its government
deceived the secret US envoys acting for the release of US journalist Roxana
Saberi. When the affair first broke US intelligence watchers assumed the arrest
had been drummed up by Iranian ultra-extremists in the Revolutionary Guards and
clergy to sabotage the forthcoming dialogue with the US. But Washington has
since discovered it was a conspiracy hatched at the highest level – spiritual
ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's bureau – to falsely incriminate Saberi by
planting on her a classified document.
2. Syrian president Bashar
Assad has sidestepped every effort by Obama's special envoys to Damascus to
persuade him to keep his hands off Lebanon. He is clearly helping Iran's stooge
Hizballah and its Christian ally Gen, Michel Aoun, to rig the election for
removing the pro-Western government. A debacle in Beirut would put the United
States at a disadvantage in talks with Iran.
3. If direct US-Iranian
diplomacy fails to deter Tehran from uranium enrichment, the US cannot fall
back on sanctions tough enough to stifle the regime economically and
strategically, because Russia, China and Berlin will not play ball. Obama will
be left with only one trump card, a military option whether American or
Israeli.
4. US administration
strategists are also disenchanted by the Turkish-Syrian axis they promoted.
Turkish Prime minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan and Assad are happy to team up –
but not in the US interest in Iraq or any other Middle East arena. By fostering
the Turkish-Syrian alliance Obama did more harm than good
5. While the US president
has not abandoned the two-state formula, he is not blind to the fact that the
unending feud between Palestinian factions leaves the Palestinians with no
representative body able to put the formula into effect. He is therefore likely
to follow George W. Bush's tactic – another policy reversal which will be
unpopular in his own party – of leaving Palestinian statehood on the table as
an option while focusing on economic and security shots in the arms for the
West Bank. This is an option that Netanyahu can live with.
Has Iran put the US on its Knee Again? According to Iranian
sources, US journalist Roxana Saberi was released as part of an exchange deal
under which Washington agreed to free four senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards
intelligence officers captured in Iraq in January 2007.
Election in Iran
will Change Nothing – Time to Strike is Now! Former Revolutionary Guards chief and
presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai warned on Sunday that he could stop Israel
with “one strike”.
Useless Resolutions – Policy
of Failure!
North Korea's second nuclear
bomb test reverberated around the world Monday, with the U.N. Security Council
condemning it as a "clear violation" of international.
(What is next, nuclear Iran?)
Food for Thought. by Steven
Shamrak
Shouldn’t the Pope pray at the
Mexico-USA border at the wall, which the US government has built, for the souls
of poor Mexican Christian migrants hundreds of whom are dying in the desert
each year due to this wall? Instead, the bigot has prayed for ‘poor
Palestinians’ at the wall, which saves Jewish lives from Arab terror!
Another Reason to Let Them Go. 70 percent of prisoners
incarcerated in the Israeli correctional system are Arabs. Out of those, 3,419
Israeli Arabs are in prison for criminal offences, while 370 are in prison for
security related reasons. 7,720 Arabs from Judea and Samaria are in prison for
security reasons, while 2,015 are in prison for criminal acts.
Israel Must Make Terrorist Busters Pay for Their
Crime. A
United States court rejected the PA’s request not to compel them to pay damages
to the family of Americans Yaron and Efrat Ungar, who were murdered in a terror
act near Beit Shemesh in 1996. The PA is ordered to pay US $116 million in
damages to their family.
‘Public
Opinion’ is used to Cover Hypocrisy. Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak said on Monday, ''Public opinion in Egypt does not allow me to invite
foreign affairs minister Avigdor Lieberman to Cairo.'' (Since
when do Muslim leaders care about public opinion, especially of their own
people?)
Israel the Best
Ally of the US. The Obama administration secretly warned Emir Sheikh Hamad
bin Khalifa al-Thani of Katar that he risks losing the three big American bases
located in the emirate if he persists in promoting Iran's radicalizing
influence over Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians. (In
spite of betrayals and constant unfair pressure the US has been putting on
Israel, the Jewish state is still the best political and security ally of the
USA!)
Make Jerusalem Truly United. Knesset speaker Reuven
Rivlin believes that Israel must take action now in order to make “united
Jerusalem” a reality, and not merely a slogan. “The flowery speeches about a
complete, united city must not remain empty words.” (The
Arab population of East Jerusalem must keep their Jordanian citizenship)
Quote of the Week: "Israel has always, and today more than
ever, striven to reach full peace with the entire Arab and Muslim world." - Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu – Can any Arab or Muslim
leader say the same about their own country? So, who does not want peace,
‘right-wing’ Netanyahu or ‘peace-loving’ Islamists?
Solar Farm in Israel. Israeli scientists have
discovered a way to harvest 50 percent of the sun's radiation, compared with the
standard 10 percent. The technology has been put into use in the creation of
the world's first commercial thermal-electric solar farm.
World Leaders Must Drop Slogans. Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman kicked off a four-nation European tour by saying, "This
government does not intend to produce slogans and pompous declarations but
concrete results." The "main problem" in the Middle East is
"Iran, which is going nuclear and is a destabilizing factor for the region
and the entire world." The 'Palestinian' issue is "deadlocked"
despite the best efforts of a series of dovish Israeli governments.
"Israel has proved its good intentions, our desire for peace."
Iran Must Be
Stopped. The world's intelligence agencies and defence experts
are quietly acknowledging that North Korea has become a full nuclear power,
with the capacity to wipe out entire cities in Japan and South Korea. North Korea has
miniaturised nuclear warheads to the extent they can be launched on
medium-range missiles. "North Korea has nuclear weapons, which is a matter
of fact," IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei said. (This international failure is a direct result of ineffective
negotiations, unenforceable economic sanctions and empty threats which are now
being used against Iran with the same results!)
Do
it, but not in Israel. Deputy (MK)
Alex Miller from the Israel Beitenou Party, for people of Soviet Union origin,
has submitted a draft law that would outlaw the celebration of the Naqba by
Israeli Arabs. It would be punishable by up to three years in jail. “Those who
want to support our enemies will do so from Gaza” (Compulsory
deportation with the loss of Israeli citizenship would be a better punishment.)
Vatican is Silent Again!
During the Papal visit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to Pope Benedict XVI
"to make his voice heard" and use his moral authority to condemn the
harsh anti-Israel rhetoric voiced by Iran's hard-line president. But Pope Benedict XVI deflected the request by saying that he
believes that the moderate elements in the region should be strengthened and
the extremist ones should be fought. Benedict
has never directly spoken about Ahmadinejad’s statements on Israel and his
denials of the Holocaust. However, Vatican spokesman Father
Federico Lombardi said on Thursday, “We have made objections in the
past." (The same behaviour was exhibited
by the Vatican before and during Holocaust. No lesson has been learned - the
same policy of hypocritical posturing!)
Anti-Semitic Church
or/and the Church of Inhumanity? According to an Irish government commission,
thousands of children suffered sexual abuse, beatings, malnutrition and
emotional abuse for decades, if not generations, in the Catholic clergy ran the
vast majority of the reformatories and orphanages where the abuse allegedly
took place. There were institutions where sexual abuse was a "chronic
problem". Boys were far more likely to be sexually abused than girls.
"Complaints were not handled properly and the steps taken by the
congregation to avoid scandal and publicity protected perpetrators of
abuse," the report says. "The safety of children was not a priority
at any time…” The turning point in exposing the inhumane system came only in 1996, when state broadcaster RTE aired a
documentary detailing abuse suffered by former pupils.