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Twilight over the "Palestinian Cause"
Twilight over the "Palestinian Cause", Gatestone Institute, Guy Millière, December 21, 2017
(Please see also, Palestinian claims to Jerusalem lose Saudi as well as US support. — DM)
Reports from the West Bank after the Six Day War show that the Arabs interviewed defined themselves as "Arabs" or "Jordanians", and evidently did not yet know that they were "the Palestinian people". Since then, they were taught it. They were also taught that it is their duty is to "liberate Palestine" by killing Jews. The Palestinians are the first people invented to serve as a weapon of mass destruction of another people.
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese." — PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen, interview in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 1977.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the European Union has become the main financier of the "Palestinian cause", including its terrorism. They are also contributing to war.
Iran, strengthened enormously by the agreement passed in July 2015 and the massive US funding that accompanied it, has been showing its desire to become a hegemonic power in the Middle East.
The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, recently issued a fatwa saying that "fighting the Jews" is "against the will" of Allah and that Hamas is a terrorist organization.
For many years, "Palestine" has not stopped aspiring to new heights in the so called "international community". "Palestine" has been present at the Olympic Games since 1996, and, later, became a permanent observer to UNESCO and the United Nations. The vast majority of the 95 "embassies" of "Palestine" are in the Muslim world; many others are in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. In 2014, the Spanish Parliament voted in favor of full recognition of "Palestine." A few weeks later, the French Parliament did the same.
There is no other instance in the history of the world where a state that does not exist can have missions and embassies presumed to function as if that state did exist.
Now the time has probably come for the "Palestinians" to realize that they have lost and fall back to earth, as noted by the scholar Daniel Pipes.
Have "Palestinian" leaders been showing by their speeches and actions that they are ready to rule a state living in peace with their neighbors and with the rest of the world? All "Palestinian" leaders have incessantly incited terrorism, and do not hide their wish to wipe Israel off the map.
Is there a long-standing aspiration by the "Palestinian people" to have a state and to live peacefully within that state? The answer is actually no. The "Palestinian people" were invented in the late 1960s by the Arab and Soviet propaganda services. As PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen told the Dutch newspaper Trouw in March 1977:
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese."
Reports from the West Bank after the Six Day War show that the Arabs defined themselves in interviews as "Arabs" or "Jordanians"; they evidently did not know that they were the "Palestinian people". Since then, they were taught it. They were also taught that it is their duty to "liberate Palestine" by killing Jews. The Palestinians are the first people invented to serve as a weapon of mass destruction of another people.
Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the PLO, at the Arab League summit in Rabat, Morocco, 1974. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Is there at least a historic past that gives legitimacy to the aspiration to create a "Palestinian state"? The answer again is actually no. There is no Palestinian culture distinct from the cultures of the Muslim Arab world, no monument that can be defined as a "Palestinian" historic monument, except by falsifying history.
More basically, would a hypothetical "Palestinian state" be economically viable? Again, the answer is actually no. Territories occupied by the Palestinian movements survive only thanks to international financial assistance from the West.
How then could so many countries wish for so long to create a state whose rulers would likely be regressive, corrupt "Palestinian" leaders; whose inhabitants would be used as killing machines, whose history is non-existent-to-falsified and whose economic potential seems zero?
The answer is simple.
Behind their support for the creation of a "Palestinian state", those countries have been pursuing other goals. For decades, countries of the Muslim world obsessively wanted one thing: the destruction of Israel.
They tried to reach their goal through conventional warfare, then terrorism, then diplomacy, then propaganda. They blamed only Israel for all the evils of the Middle East.
All the while, they know who the "Palestinian" leaders are and what they do. They know that the "Palestinian people" were invented. They know why the "Palestinian" people were invented. They know that a "Palestinian state" will not have a viable economy. Yet they have been committed to a strategy of destabilizing and demonizing a non-Muslim nation, Israel.
They call the "Palestinians" "victims"; terrorism, "militancy"; and incitement to kill, "resisting occupation". They have been trampling rightful history and replacing it with myth.
They press "Palestinian" leaders to "negotiate", knowing perfectly well that no agreement will ever be signed and that negotiations will end in bloodshed.
They propose only "peace plans" they know Israel must reject – those which include the "'49 'Auschwitz' armistice lines" or the "right of return" for "Palestinian refugees", who numbered half a million in 1949, but near five million today.
They recognize a "Palestinian state" while knowing that the "state" they recognize is not a state, but rather a terrorist entity without defined borders or territory, and imbued with a will to spill more blood and create more mayhem.
They have relied on turmoil, blackmail and lies to encourage the rest of the world to think the situation requires drastic international intervention.
They have been saying they want a "Palestinian state", but never that they want this state to renounce terrorism and end the conflict.
Instead, they have been waging a vicious war they have long hoped to win.
For more than thirty years, they benefited from the support of the Soviet Union. It financed wars (1967, 1973), terrorism, diplomacy and propaganda. The Soviet Union made the "Palestinian" enterprise an "anti-imperialist" cause — a means of strengthening Soviet positions and galvanizing the enemies of the West. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, but the effects of its support for the "Palestinian cause" for a time remained. Many countries hostile to the West still support and recognize the "Palestinians" while pretending to ignore that they are recognizing a terrorist entity. They are contributing to war.
Countries of the Western world, subjected to the pressures of the Muslim world and the Soviet Union for many years, have gradually given way, some even before any pressure was applied.
France chose its camp in 1967, when General Charles de Gaulle launched what he called an "Arab policy" after its defeat in Algeria. French foreign policy become resolutely "pro-Palestinian" -– in an apparent effort to deflect terrorism, obtain inexpensive oil and compete with the US — and has remained so to this day. Western European countries have gradually adopted positions close to those of France. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the European Union has become the main financier of the "Palestinian cause", including its terrorism. Western European leaders know what the real goals are, yet they repeat without respite that creating a "Palestinian state" is "essential". They are also contributing to war.
Although a long-time ally of Israel, the United States changed its Middle East policy in the beginning of the 1990s to positions closer to those of the Muslim world. American politicians and diplomats pressured Israelis to negotiate with "Palestinian" leaders and seemed to have lost sight of what the "Palestinian cause" was secretly about. Wishful Israeli leaders agreed to negotiate. The tragic result was the Oslo Accords and the creation of the Palestinian Authority (PA). It quickly became a new base of anti-Israeli terrorism. A wave of lethal, anti-Israel attacks started immediately, with a stepped-up anti-Israel diplomatic and propaganda offensive right after. A "two-state solution" was invoked. American leaders, as if they had slept through several years, started to say that a "Palestinian state" had to exist. Three American Presidents proposed "peace plans", also contributing to war.
An additional "peace plan" is expected soon, but the parameters will be profoundly different. President Donald Trump appears to wish to break with the past.
He recently told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas that "Palestinian" leaders were liars. None of the American negotiators he chose seems to have the slightest illusion about the "Palestinian" leadership or the "Palestinian cause".
The Taylor Force Act, passed on December 5 by the US House of Representatives, plans to condition US aid to the "West Bank and Gaza" on "the actions taken by the Palestinian Authority to end violence and terrorism against Israeli citizens"; the Act could be adopted soon by the Senate. The PA rejected all the requirements in the Act.
The Muslim world is also undergoing change. Iran, strengthened enormously by the agreement passed in July 2015 and the massive US funding that accompanied it, has been showing its desire to become a hegemonic power in the Middle East. The mullahs' regime now holds three capital cities in addition to Teheran: Baghdad, Damascus, and Beirut. Iran attacks Saudi Arabia and supports the war led by the Houthi militia in Yemen; it intends to seize Sanaa and take control of Bab El Mandeb, the gateway to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Qatar and Turkey have established close ties with Iran.
Saudi leaders appear aware of the danger. King Salman chose his son, Mohamed bin Salman, as heir to the throne, and gave him broad powers. "MBS", as he is known, seems intent on leading a real revolution. Militarily, he is head of the 40-member Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition, and has declared his desire to "end terrorism". Economically, he is in charge of an ambitious reform project aimed at making his country less dependent on oil: Saudi Vision 2030. All Saudi leaders in disagreement with the new orientations of the country were placed under arrest and their assets confiscated. Mohamed bin Salman has identified Iran as the main enemy, and recently described its Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, as a "new Hitler." Qatar and Turkey have been subjected to intense Saudi pressure to distance themselves from the Iranian regime. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, recently issued a fatwa saying that "fighting the Jews" is "against the will" of Allah and that Hamas is a terrorist organization.
Mohamed bin Salman has the support of the Trump administration; Vladimir Putin who, while being allied to Iran, may want a balance of power in the Middle East, and Xi Jinping, who is facing the risk of a Sunni Islamic upheaval in China's autonomous territory, Xinjiang.
"Palestinian" leader, Mahmoud Abbas was reportedly summoned to Riyadh, where King Salman and Mohammed bin Salman told him that he had to accept the plan proposed by the Trump administration or resign, and that it would "risky" for him to consider launching an uprising – which he has anyway, although being careful to keep it lukewarm.
During the month of October, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a close ally of Mohamed bin Salman, invited the leaders of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to come to Cairo for a "reconciliation". He apparently demanded control of the Gaza Strip to be handed to the Palestinian Authority. It also seems that the Trump administration and President Sisi told Hamas leaders that they had to approve the terms of the "reconciliation" agreement, and that if they carried out any attacks against Israel, they risked complete destruction.
The "peace plan" evidently to be presented by the Trump administration is provoking the extreme anger of "Palestinian" leaders. The goal of the "plan" seems to be to revive an open ended "peace process", allowing Saudi Arabia and the members of the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition to move closer to Israel and push the "Palestinian cause" toward the back burner.
On November 19, an Arab League emergency meeting held in Cairo strongly condemned Hezbollah and Iran. Moreover, for the first time in fifty years, a meeting of the Arab League did not even mention the "Palestinian" question.
President Trump's recognition on December 6 of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has led to restlessness and acrimony both in the Muslim world and among Western European leaders. Sunni leaders allied to Saudi Arabia, however, as well as Saudi Arabia itself, seem too concerned about the Iranian threat to quarrel with Israel, the United States or really anyone. Western Europe has almost no weight in what is taking shape; all it has shown is cowardice, fear, and continued contempt for a fellow Western democracy: Israel.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, now in the twelfth year of his four year term — and apparently seeing that he is getting little support — appeared to seek divine intervention: he asked the Pope for help. There would be "no Palestinian state without East Jerusalem as its capital," Abbas said. He sounded as if he had begun to understand that the "Palestinian cause" could be fading, and, with other "Palestinian" leaders, called for "three days of rage". A few protesters burned tires and American flags – the usual.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to convene in Istanbul on December 13, and urged leaders of Muslim countries to recognize Jerusalem as the "occupied capital of the Palestinian state". Saudi King Salman stayed well away as did almost all other Sunni leaders. He only sent a message saying that he calls for "a political solution to resolve regional crises". He added that "Palestinians have right to East Jerusalem" – the least he could do; he did no more. Erdogan is mainly supported by Iran, today's foremost enemy of Saudi Arabia and other Sunni countries.
"It will not be the end of the war against Israel," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "but it could be the beginning of the end of the "Palestinian cause".
It now seems a good time for Western European leaders who still blindly support the "Palestinian cause" to cut their losses, both politically and economically. Taking the side of Erdogan and the mullahs in order to support a terrorist entity that will never be a "state" will do nothing to help them fight either terrorism or the increasing Islamization of Europe.
Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.
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Hamas rockets are onset of anti-Israel war of attrition ordered by Iran's Gen. Soleimani
Hamas rockets are onset of anti-Israel war of attrition ordered by Iran's Gen. Soleimani, DEBKAfile, December 13, 2017
Tehran and the Lebanese Hizballah are eager to see Israel trapped in a rising spiral of military tension – and not just from its border with the Gaza Strip, but also at some point, emanating from new war fronts in Lebanon and Syria. At present, they are not looking for a comprehensive conflagration, but rather to subject Israel to a creeping war of attrition, like the couple of rockets which the Palestinians are firing night after night from the Gaza Strip. Like Chinese drip torture, this campaign is intended to torment Israel while gradually escalating. It doesn't matter if they are inaccurate and fail to cause Israel casualties of damage. Indeed, one of the rockets fired Wednesday night exploded in an UNWRA school at Beit Hanoun inside the northern Gaza Strip, wrecking a schoolroom.
The Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza Wednesday night, Dec. 13, were the 12th and 13th since US President Donald Trump's Jerusalem decision on Dec.6.
DEBKAfile's military sources report that the daily rocket assault from Gaza is turning into a war of attrition declared by three Palestinian extremist groups, Hamas, the Jihad Islami and the Popular Resistance Committees, on the orders of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Al Qods external terrorist arm, and supreme commander of Iranian forces in the region. Our sources reveal that the order was given Monday in a phone conversation Soleimani held with Marwan Issa, commander of the Hamas armed wing, the Ezz e-din al-Qassam. It was the first direct, phone conversation between a high-ranking Iranian general and the Hamas commander and it was deliberately overt. The Iranians wanted the Israeli and Egyptian intelligence agencies eavesdropping on incoming and outgoing phone calls to and from Gaza to hear Soleimani pledge full Iranian support for any military action conducted against Israel.
The threat by Israel generals Wednesday night of painful retaliation if the rocket fire continues is therefore ineffective. Hamas and the Jihad Islami are fully prepared for a major war escalation, in the certainty that Iran and Hizballah have their backs.
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Iran Looks to Seize Opportunity as Rivals Fall
Iran Looks to Seize Opportunity as Rivals Fall, Investigative Project on Terrorism, Yaakov Lappin, December 13, 2017
(Please see also, Congress ignores Trump's deadline on Iran nuclear deal. — DM)
Today, the Shi'ite axis is on the move. Iran is the mother ship, and its most prominent agent is Hizballah, which has more firepower at its disposal than most NATO members. The axis has tens of thousands of Shi'ite militia members active across Iraq and Syria. And it is preparing to expand.
The threat to international security posed by Iran far outweighs the one ever posed by ISIS.
As it approaches victory in Syria with the help of Russian air power, Iran and its terrorist axis members are turning their attention to Israel, and trying to ignite fresh Palestinian violence.
Israel's Channel 10 News reported on Monday evening that Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force foreign operations unit, called the leaders Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, urging them to escalate attacks on Israel.
"There is huge Iranian pressure on the Palestinian factions to begin a maneuver," the Channel 10 report said. "And [Hizballah chief Hassan] Nasrallah is calling for a third intifada."
It is a clear sign that, as the ISIS caliphate is erased from the map, another radical Islamist force is gaining strength, this one many times more powerful. Radical Shi'ite forces backed by Iran are moving into the vacuum left behind by ISIS.
With confidence growing due to battlefield victories in Syria and Iraq, Iran and its radical proxies are seeking to take over the Palestinian arena as well, increasing terrorism against Israel.
In a speech delivered from Hizballah's south Beirut stronghold of Dahiya on Monday, Hassan Nasrallah said his organization – which has evolved into a hybrid guerilla-terrorist army – and its allies would renew their focus on the Palestinians, following "victories elsewhere in the region," Reuters reported.
Thousands of followers chanted "death to Israel," as Nasrallah promised assistance to armed Palestinian factions and called on them to keep up their conflict with Israel.
These developments are the latest signs of a regional shift, which has left the Iranian axis as the dominant radical Islamist force in the region.
Only a few years ago, the Middle East was the battleground involving four rival blocs:
1. The Iranian-Shi'ite axis
2. The Salafi-jihadist ISIS camp
3. The Muslim Brotherhood bloc, and
4. The pragmatic Sunni coalition.
Today, only the pragmatic Sunnis and the Iranian-Shi'ite axis remain as major regional forces.
ISIS is reverting back to a decentralized terror network, while the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is decimated.
Saudi Arabia leads the moderate Sunni coalition of states, which are allies of the United States. This bloc views Israel as an ally too, out of a recognition that Iran is its real enemy, not the Jewish State.
In recent days, a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi militia member visited southern Lebanon, where Hizballah provided him with a tour of the Israeli border. The visit signals Iran's intention to direct its regional assets against Israel.
Missiles, a nuclear program, and a growing terrorist influence
The core of the Shi'ite axis is the Islamic Republic of Iran itself, whose regime is guided by Shi'ite Islamist doctrine.
"The Islamic regime in Iran wants to fully implement the Islamic Shari'a. It will be the instrument that triumphs over the enemies of Islam," Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamanei said last month.
Iran's military industries are flush with cash, and they are mass producing powerful weapons. These arms don't just stay in Iran – many are exported to Iran's dangerous clients across the Middle East. . These are the forces moving into the vacuum left by Islamic State's demise.
"I welcome the recent and great victories of the Islamic Revolution front against the front of lies and the destruction of the accursed regime of ISIS," IRGC commander Mohammed Al Jafari said recently.
Iran wants to establish a continuous land corridor linking it to Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. Such a corridor would enable Iran to move fighters and weapons from its border all the way to the Mediterranean coast. It would run parallel to the air corridor used by Iran to traffic weapons and fighters from Iran to Syria and Lebanon.
The Shi'ite axis monopolizes political and military power in Lebanon, via Hizballah, and uses its proxy forces to heavily influence Syria and Iraq.
In addition, it wields heavy influence in Yemen, where the IRGC supports the Ansar Allah radical Houthi group, which recently said it fired a cruise missile at a nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The repeated use of surface-to-surface firepower by the Houthis against civilian targets in Saudi Arabia mimics tactics used by Hamas and Hizballah against Israel.
Terrorism under an Iranian nuclear umbrella?
The idea that the threat posed by the Iranian axis can be limited to the Middle East was recently disproven by Iran itself.
After European criticism of Iran's ballistic missile program, officials threatened to increase Tehran's ballistic missile ranges in order to reach Europe.
Israel, for its part, has vowed to stop the Iranian axis from taking over next-door Syria. A recent surge, according to media reports, of Israeli strikes on Iranian axis targets in Syria would seem to be evidence of Israel's determination to challenge Iranian plans. Earlier this month, the strikes reportedly targeted an Iranian military base under construction south of Damascus, and the CERS weapons development and production site on the outskirts of the Syrian capital.
Yet the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, dormant for now, remains the elephant in the room.
A powerful Shi'ite axis operating under an Iranian nuclear umbrella would pose a new level of threat to global security. Iranian-run terrorist networks and armed forces could operate with impunity if the Iranians reactivate their nuclear sites in the future, which they intend to do.
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Palestinian protests won't swell into mass resistance so long as Arab rulers and Iran see no gain
Palestinian protests won't swell into mass resistance so long as Arab rulers and Iran see no gain, DEBKAfile, December 9, 2017
All the same, it would be premature to completely rule out a major escalation being sparked by some unforeseen event. For instance, a cell of Tanzim, the armed wing of Abbas' Fatah party, may decide to join Hamas, the Iranian-backed Jihad Islami and the extremist Popular Front – all of them with a long record of terrorism – for a spectacular terrorist attack on an Israeli or American target. For the time being, there is no sign of this building up. The ordinary Palestinian man in the street has a job to go to on Sunday and appears to have settled on a moderate demonstration of protest for Trump's Jerusalem strategy.
The Palestinian Hamas finds itself shouting alone for a massive armed uprising, raising only muted echoes in the Arab world and the Palestinian street in protest at the US president's Jerusalem decision. Most adult Palestinians, when asked, admit they see no point in sending their sons in harm's way. Yet Israel's mainstream media astonishingly report with great bombast every Hamas threat as though a world power is threatening World War III.
The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip have it in their power to unleash a barrage of rockets against their Israeli neighbors that would be damaging and lethal enough to trigger a major confrontation with Israel's Defense Forces. They have done this before, but not so far now. In the exchange of blows Friday night, Dec. 8, Hamas clearly pulled its punches, showing that its rhetoric was just that. Smaller factions were allowed to fire off a few short-range rockets of low accuracy in the direction of Beersheba, Ashkelon, Ashdod and Israeli locations next door to the Gaza Strip. Most exploded on open ground or fell short while still in Gazan air space; one exploded harmlessly on a Sderot street and one was intercepted by an Iron Dome battery. Two Hamas activists were killed in Israeli retaliatory air strikes against three Hamas military facilities in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas leaders understand that their leeway for extreme action is narrower than ever before. They are a lone voice, are woefully short of funds, have no real backers in the Arab world and their popularity in the wider Palestinian community is waning.
By the time the anti-US, anti-Israel Palestinian protests reached their third day, Saturday, the following picture was taking shape:
The Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) decided against taking up Hamas' call to arms when together they could have ignited a major conflagration. After all, President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital left in ruins the diplomatic campaign he led for years as his signature for unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood.
In the phone conversation he held with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday, shortly after Trump announced his decision on Jerusalem, Abu Mazen briefly considered joining the Hamas call for an extreme response. He pulled back when he realized that Haniyeh's plan was to use the Jerusalem crisis as his pretext for hanging onto rule in the Gaza Strip. This would have wrecked the "reconciliation" deal in which Egypt invested long months as broker, in the hope of unifying the two Palestinian factions and bringing the Gaza Strip under Palestinian Authority rule. When Abu Mazen saw Haniyeh's game, he backed away. The anti-Trump rallies in West Bank towns Thursday and Friday were consequently modest, compared with so many convulsions in the past.
Iran too pulled back from putting in its oar for inflaming Palestinian ire, because it has bigger fish to fry – even through Hizballah's leader Hassan Nasrallah pushed hard for Tehran to instruct Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip to escalate the anti-Trump protest. Tehran's attention is fixed on the turning-point in the Yemen civil war at Saudi Arabia's back door, generated by the Revolutionary Guards success, in conjunction with Hizballah, to assassinate former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, after he switched sides from the Houthi insurgents to the Saudi-led coalition fighting them. The Houthis were then directed to wipe out the opposition by executing hundreds of officers and commanders loyal to Saleh.
The Palestinians are also small beer in the calculations of most members of the Arab League. Arab foreign ministers convened in Cairo Saturday, Dec. 9, for an "emergency session on Jerusalem." But it was summoned by the Palestinian Authority and one other Arab leader, Jordan's King Abdullah, who has fallen out with most of his colleagues, badly enough for Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, for instance, to cut of financial assistance to Amman.
Abu Mazen found Saudi Arabia and other senior Arab League members otherwise engaged. Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Salman was busy replacing Adel Al-Jubeir as foreign minister with his brother, Prince Khaled bin Salman, and Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi showed no interest in the session. Abbas quickly saw which way the wind was blowing in the Palestinians Arab hinterland.
In New York too, the emergency UN Secretary Council session on Jerusalem, after hearing the PA's complaint against President Trump, ended with a joint expression of "disappointment" by the ambassadors of France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK. "We disagree with the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel," they said. "The status of Jerusalem must be determined through negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians leading to a final status agreement." After that, the "disappointed" powers returned home.
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Islamic Scholars Gather to Discuss Destroying Israel
Islamic Scholars Gather to Discuss Destroying Israel, Washington Free Beacon, Rachel Frommer, November 3, 2017
Children of members of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement hold portraits of Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei / Getty Images
Some 700 Islamic scholars gathered in Beirut, Lebanon this week to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration with a conference discussing the future of the movement to destroy Israel and featuring a message from Iranian leadership to attendees to keep fighting the "Zionist regime," Arab media reported on Wednesday.
This was the second meeting of a group called the "International Union of Resistance Scholars," attended by Shia and Sunni clerics of 80 countries, including the head of Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, according to reports.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, wrote a letter to the congress, urging, "all individuals, who feel the importance of this great responsibility [of freeing Palestine], to continue different methods of fighting against the usurper Zionist Regime."
"Without a doubt, scholarly elites, clerics, and politicians, as well as the officials of Muslim countries carry the heavier part of this responsibility; this is a sacred and well-ending Resistance," wrote Khamenei.
He called it a "holy fight" with certain victory promised against the "enemy Zionist entity."
Khamenei tweeted further thoughts about the conference with the hashtag, in Arabic, #ZionistEntity.
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of terror organization Hamas, spoke in Beirut to assure conference attendees that Israel has no future and that Hamas would continue to attack the country, according to reports.
This comes after Hamas was said to have moderated its stance on Israel when it dropped the call for Israel's elimination from its charter earlier this year.
"The Gaza Strip has turned into a symbol of resistance against the occupying regime," said Haniyeh.
Hamas has launched thousands of rockets and dug a network of "terror tunnels" into Israel from its Gaza base. The terror group has claimed its tunnel system is twice as large as the Viet Cong's during the Vietnam War, with some tunnels extending hundreds of meters into Israel.
Sheikh Maher Hamoud, the chairman of the Resistance Scholars, said the conference should "serve as a turning point to pave the way for liberation of Occupied Palestine and it will echo the voice of oppressed Palestinians worldwide."
"Just as the resistance succeeded in Lebanon and have conquered in Gaza several times so far, all of Israel's other plots against the Resistance are doomed to failure," said Hamoud.
Conference participants have reportedly come from as far as Malaysia and Nigeria.
Thursday marked 100 years since the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, its statement in support of establishing a "national home for the Jewish people" in Israel.
Palestinians and other anti-Israel activist have protested in the West Bank, London, and on collegecampuses, claiming Balfour was the beginning of Israeli "dispossession" of Palestinian land.
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Hamas Rejoins Iran's Terrorist Axis
Hamas Rejoins Iran's Terrorist Axis, Investigative Project on Terrorism, Yaakov Lappin, October 26, 2017
(Please see also, The Iran-Hamas Plan to Destroy Israel. — DM)
One immediate result of the Iranian-Hamas reconciliation is the new Hamas outpost being built in Lebanon.
Lebanon is under the firm control of Iran's proxy, Hizballah. It is now seeing the arrival of Hamas members who have set up a new command center. From there, Hamas could set up terrorist cells in the West Bank.
Hamas' new presence in Lebanon could also be used to create a rocket-firing base, or cross-border terror cells operating from Lebanon, with Hizballah's and Iran's approval.
Hamas is deepening its ties with Iran and its radical Shi'ite axis. Iranian cash is once again expected to fund Gaza's war preparations and arms build-up program.
Before the 2011 outbreak of the war in Syria, Sunni Hamas and Shi'ite Iran were united by their goal to destroy Israel. Iran helped arm and fund Hamas' terrorist-guerilla army in Gaza.
But the two fell out after finding themselves on opposite sides of the sectarian fence in the bloody Syria war. Iran, largely through its Lebanese proxy Hizballah, has committed troops and weapons to prop up dictator Bashar Al-Assad.
Now, out of cash and isolated, Hamas is in search of backing from a major regional power, and it is returning to Iran's orbit.
The Iranians have been indicating that past fall-outs are history, and that Hamas will get all of the help it needs to prepare for future war against Israel. Israel's intelligence community is closely monitoring these developments.
The Islamic Republic will grant Hamas "all assistance that it requests," a senior Iranian official told the Lebanon-based Al Mayadin TV network, according to Israel's Ynet website.
"Relations with Iran are excellent and Iran is the largest supporter of the [Hamas armed wing] Izz Al-Din Kassam Brigades with money and arms," Hamas' chief in Gaza, Yehya al-Sinwar said.
"The relationship today is developing and returning to what it was in the old days," Sinwar told Reuters.
"This will be reflected in the resistance [against Israel] and in the agenda to achieve the liberation," he said. "Liberation" is a reference to Hamas' ideological long-term commitment to destroy Israel and replace it with a Palestinian-Islamist state.
One of the Hamas members seen in Beirut recently is its No. 2 man, Saleh Al-Arouri. He has been responsible for remotely setting up terrorist cells in the West Bank. Until recently, Al-Arouri operated out of Hamas' headquarters in Turkey.
Al-Arouri has been appointed Hamas deputy leader. He took part in a senior Hamas delegation to Iran earlier this month.
Those ties with Iran are one reason why Israel's cabinet rejected recognition of a fledgling Hamas-Fatah unity government. Israel will not recognize the new Palestinian government until Hamas agrees to give up its weapons, recognize Israel, and cut links with Tehran.
"Our presence in Iran is the practical denial of the third precondition — cutting ties with Iran," Arouri said. "Undoubtedly, the Palestinian resistance forces will never give up… their arms," he was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, praised Hamas' stance. Khamenei's representative congratulated Hamas "for declaring that you will not set your weapons aside," according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Renewed Iranian support probably will take the form of suitcases of cash entering Gaza via smuggling tunnels.
Some tunnels linking Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula remain, though many others have been demolished by Egypt.
Iranian know-how in producing rockets, RPGs, mortars, and drones will also, once again, be used to train Hamas engineers, who are in charge of Hamas' domestic weapons industry.
Iranian guerilla combat doctrines, which already have influenced Hamas greatly, could also reappear in Gaza, in updated forms.
Iran might also try to smuggle materials to make weapons into Gaza via small fishing boats.
Hamas has been open and frank about its intentions in renewing Iranian sponsorship. A senior Hamas official said it was about securing "Iranian financial and logistical support," according to the Agence France-Presse.
Hamas' new relationship with Iran will displease Sunni Arab countries who, like Israel, view the Iranians and their regional destructive behavior as a top threat.
But this is a risk Hamas' leadership is prepared to take in its quest to replenish cash supplies for its military and terrorist operations.
Hamas's isolation – the force that drove it into Iran's arms – is also what caused it to enter a reconciliation agreement with its arch Palestinian rival, Fatah.
Seeking to avoid a collapse of its regime in Gaza due to dwindling cash and energy resources, and under pressure from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who had been reducing Gaza's electricity flow, Hamas decided to feign compromise with Fatah.
This is a short-term tactical move designed to serve the longer-term radical vision. Both Hamas and Iran would like to eventually use the Palestinian reconciliation to depose Fatah from power in the West Bank.
Hamas can be expected to use the coming years to build up its political power in the West Bank, Fatah's home turf, and then try to take it over through elections. Hamas's end goal is to create two armed fronts against Israel – from Gaza and the West Bank – with Iran creating the third and most potent third front from Lebanon, in the form of Hizballah.
Hamas and Iran still have their differences, but Hamas's new leadership, and its distress stemming from isolation, have led it firmly back into Iran's orbit. So long as Egypt remains under a government that is hostile to Islamists and jihadists, Hamas will continue to see Iran as its state backer, despite the Shi'ite-Sunni divide.
Meanwhile, a senior Hamas member with a history of funneling tens of millions of dollars from Iran to the organization's military wing has recently been unveiled as a new top-level overseas liaison, according to Israel's Kan television news service.
Maher Salah, a senior Hamas financier, recently appeared at a Turkish rally for the deceased Egyptian former Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef, in which he eulogized Akef as one who "loved jihad fighters and the jihad for Allah."
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Salah, together with Al-Arouri, in 2015.
"The fate of your country is to pass from the world," Salah said, addressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The fate of your kingdom is to be eliminated. I promise him that his country will not live to celebrate 100 years."
Salah could use his ties in Iran to restart large-scale terrorist financing efforts.
The Gaza Strip is the quietest it has been in 30 years, and Hamas today remains deterred by Israel's military might.
But its recent actions and statements show that Hamas is exploiting the ceasefire to gear up for long-term and destructive conflict with Israel. It is returning to Iran's fold to help it in this effort.
Yaakov Lappin is a military and strategic affairs correspondent. He also conducts research and analysis for defense think tanks, and is the Israel correspondent for IHS Jane's Defense Weekly. His book, The Virtual Caliphate, explores the online jihadist presence.
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Article In Saudi Daily Slams Hamas: It Has Founded An 'Iranian Emirate' In Gaza And Is Completely Subordinate To Iran's Ayatollahs
Article In Saudi Daily Slams Hamas: It Has Founded An 'Iranian Emirate' In Gaza And Is Completely Subordinate To Iran's Ayatollahs, MEMRI, October 25, 2017
In an October 23, 2017 article in the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh, Saudi journalist and academic Baina Al-Mulhim leveled scathing criticism at Hamas. The article was written against the backdrop of the recent rapprochement between Hamas and Iran, reflected in a visit by a high-ranking Hamas delegation to Tehran and in statements by Hamas officials on the importance of tightening relations with Iran and of this country's financial and political support of Hamas.[1] Al-Mulhim wrote that Hamas is experiencing a crisis of identity because, despite being a Sunni movement, it follows the Shi'ite Iranian model and has established an Iranian emirate in Gaza, and its leaders are completely subordinate to Iran's ayatollahs. She added that Hamas, like Hizbullah, is not a resistance movement but rather a "contractor" implementing the Iranian agenda, and is exploiting the problems of the Palestinian people for political purposes.
The following are excerpts from her article:
The Hamas delegation meets with Iranian officials in Tehran (image: alray.ps, October 22, 2017)
"It has been only a short while since the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation [agreement] was signed, [during which] I wondered, in another article, if Hamas was really serious, and if the reconciliation would cause it to return to its sanity and Arabhood… [yet] behold, just days ago [a report] was published about a Hamas delegation headed by Salah Al-'Arouri, deputy chairman of Hamas's political bureau, that arrived in Tehran last Friday [October 20, 2017] for a meeting with Iranian officials, as confirmed by a Hamas official… The official, who asked to remain unnamed, disclosed that the high-ranking delegation included several [other] members of Hamas's political bureau, and that it was to meet with several Iranian officials over several days. He stated that the purpose of the visit was 'to inform the Iranian officials about the reconciliation agreement signed by Hamas and Fatah, and about [recent] political developments,' adding that the delegation would also discuss 'ways to strengthen and develop the bilateral relations between Hamas and Iran and ensure Iran's financial and political support of the movement, as well as [its assistance in] weapons.' Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Al-Sinwar, likewise stressed that 'Iran is the greatest supporter of the Al-Qassam Brigades,' Hamas's military wing, 'in terms of weapons, money and training.'
"As is known, Iran is patron, for political purposes, of Sunni movements that maintain views that are radical in nature, among them Hamas. No one disagrees that political support is one thing and sectarian support is another. One of the paradoxes that should give pause to anyone who has tried in the past to justify Hamas is that Iran is supporting the [Sunni] Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt more than it is supporting the Shi'ite Da'wa Party in Iraq.
"In Gaza, Hamas has established an Iranian emirate that is completely subject to the Ayatollah [i.e. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei]. We have not forgotten [Hamas leader] Khaled Mash'al's October 1, 2011 speech at Khamenei's palace, which was basically a reiteration his loyalty and obedience [to Iran]. Mash'al was, after all, no more and no less than a clerk to Iran's ayatollahs!
"The problem of ideological movements, such as Hizbullah and Hamas – which have marketed themselves as resistance movements while, according to the political path both have taken… are nothing but 'contractors' [for Iran] – is that their leveraging of in their people's problems for political, economic, and material purposes is the dominant pattern of behavior in their activity and positions. This is proven by their position on the revolution in Syria – which corresponds to that of their patron, Iran!
"Hamas is experiencing an internal crisis – a crisis more of identity than political – vis-à-vis the Arabs or vis-à-vis several Arab countries, headed by Saudi Arabia and Egypt. [Hamas] fears both these countries, [and] chose Iran not because it [Hamas] is an outcast – as those who defend its [pro-]Iran position try to claim – but because Hamas considers Iran a model it aspires [to emulate] when it establishes an Islamic emirate in Gaza.
"Hamas's return to the [bosom of the] Iranian regime, as evident from its visit [to Tehran] – when it knows full well that the path of return to the Arab [fold] passes only through Saudi Arabia – sends a message, that Hamas is still 'marching in place.'"[2]
[1] On the recent rapprochement between Hamas and Iran, see MEMRI Special Dispatch No.7144, Alongside Reconciliation With Fatah, Hamas Officials Tighten Relations With Iran, Call To 'Wipe Israel Off The Map', October 23, 2017.
[2] Al-Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), October 23, 2017.
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The Iran-Hamas Plan to Destroy Israel
The Iran-Hamas Plan to Destroy Israel, Gatestone Institute, Khaled Abu Toameh, October 23, 2017
Abbas and the Egyptians were probably naïve to think that Hamas would disarm and allow Abbas loyalists to deploy in the Gaza Strip after the signing of the "reconciliation" agreement. It is possible that some of the Hamas leaders had lied to Abbas and the Egyptians by hinting that Hamas would give up security control of the Gaza Strip.
The Egyptians, who played a major role in brokering the Hamas-Fatah deal, are also believed to be worried about Iran's renewed meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians. Both the Palestinian Authority and Egypt see the visit of the Hamas delegation to Iran as a serious setback to the "reconciliation" agreement and as a sign that Hamas is not sincere about implementing the accord.
Iran's goal in this move? For Hamas to maintain and enhance its preparation for war against Israel.
Iran's message to Hamas: If you want us to continue providing you with financial and military aid, you must continue to hold on to your weapons and reject demands to disarm.
Iran wants Hamas to retain its security control over the Gaza Strip so that the Iranians can hold onto another power base in the Middle East, as it does with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In a historic reawakening, Iran is once again meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians. This does not bode well for the future of "reconciliation" between Hamas and Palestinian Authority's Fatah faction run by President Mahmoud Abbas.The re-emergence of Iran, as it pursues its efforts to increase its political and military presence in the region, does not bode well for the future of stability in the Middle East.
The Iranians are urging Hamas to hold on to its weapons in spite of the recent "reconciliation" agreement signed between Hamas and Fatah under the auspices of Egypt. Iran's goal in this move? For Hamas to maintain and enhance its preparation for war against Israel.
A high-level Hamas delegation headed by Saleh Arouri, deputy chairman of Hamas's "political bureau," traveled to Tehran last week to brief Iranian leaders on the "reconciliation" deal with Fatah. During the visit, Iranian leaders praised Hamas for resisting demands (by Fatah) to disarm and relinquish security control over the Gaza Strip.
"We congratulate you on your refusal to abandon your weapons, an issue that you consider as a red line," Ali Velayati, a senior Iranian politician and advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei, told the visiting Hamas officials. "The Palestinian cause is the most important cause of the Islamic world, and after all this time you remain committed to the principle of resistance against the Zionists despite all the pressure you are facing."
During the visit of a high-level Hamas delegation to Iran last week, Ali Velayati (pictured above in 2016), a senior Iranian politician and advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told the visiting Hamas officials: "We congratulate you on your refusal to abandon your weapons…" (Image source: Hamed Malekpour/Wikimdia Commons)
Arouri and his colleagues rushed to Tehran to seek the support of the Iranian regime in the wake of demands by Abbas that Hamas allow the Palestinian Authority to assume security control over the Gaza Strip. The "reconciliation" agreement stipulates nothing about the need for Hamas to disarm, and Hamas officials have stressed during the past two weeks that they have no intention of laying down their weapons or dismantling their security apparatus in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas views the demand to disarm as part of an Israeli-American "conspiracy" designed to eliminate the Palestinian "resistance" and thwart the "reconciliation" accord with Abbas's Fatah. Hamas's refusal to disarm is already threatening to spoil the "reconciliation."
Arouri was quoted during his visit to Tehran as saying that Hamas "will not backtrack on the option of defending the Palestinian people." He specified that the "reconciliation" agreement with Fatah would not affect the weapons of the Palestinian "resistance," including Hamas. Hamas, he added, will "confront the Israeli-American conspiracy through national unity and reconciliation and by continuing the resistance. The Palestinian resistance forces will always stick to their weapons and will not lay them down."
Hamas also sees the visit of its top officials to Tehran as a rejection of Israel's demand that it cut off its ties with Iran. Hamas officials say they continue to see their relations with Iran as "strategic and significant," especially in wake of Tehran's financial and military aid to their movement in the Gaza Strip.
By aligning itself with Iran, Hamas is also seeking to resist any demand that it abandon its ideology and charter, which call for the destruction of Israel and oppose any peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.
Iranian officials apparently do not like Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority and are not keen on seeing them return to the Gaza Strip. Iran considers Abbas a "traitor" because his Palestinian Authority conducts security coordination with Israel in the West Bank and claims that it is committed to a "peace process" with Israel. This position goes against Iran's wish to destroy the "Zionist entity."
Abbas, for his part, has always considered Iran a threat to his regime as well as to stability in the region. In the past, he has criticized Iran for "meddling" in the internal affairs of the Palestinians by supporting Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.
Earlier this year, the Palestinian Authority strongly condemned Iran after a senior Iranian official accused Abbas of waging war in the Gaza Strip on behalf of Israel. The official's statement came in response to a series of punitive measures imposed by Abbas on the Gaza Strip.
Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, accused Iran of meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians and some Arab countries. He said that Iran's actions "encouraged divisions" among the Palestinians. "Iran must stop feeding civil wars in the Arab world," he said. "Iran must stop using rhetoric that only serves Israel and the enemies of the Arabs."
Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are now convinced that Iran is working towards foiling the "reconciliation" agreement with Hamas. They believe that Iran invited the Hamas leaders to Tehran to pressure them not to lay down its weapons.
Some Palestinian Authority and Hamas officials have recently claimed that Israel was not happy with their "reconciliation" agreement and was doing its utmost to foil it. The truth, however, is that it is Iran and Hamas that are working to thwart the agreement by insisting on maintaining the status quo in the Gaza Strip. Iran's message to Hamas: If you want us to continue providing you with financial and military aid, you must continue to hold on to your weapons and reject demands to disarm.
What is in it for Iran? Iran wants Hamas to retain its security control over the Gaza Strip so that the Iranians can hold onto another power base in the Middle East.
Iran wants Hamas to continue playing the role of a proxy, precisely as Hezbollah functions in Lebanon.
The last thing Iran wants is for the Palestinian Authority security forces to return to the Gaza Strip: that would spoil Tehran's plans to advance its goal of destroying Israel.
Iran's continued support for Hamas stems not out of love for either Hamas or the Palestinians, but from its own interest in consolidating its presence in the Middle East.
Many Palestinians see the "successful" visit of the Hamas officials to Tehran as a major setback for efforts to end the 10-year-long Hamas-Fatah dispute. Similarly, the Egyptians are now wary of the sudden rapprochement between Iran and Hamas and are beginning to ask themselves whether they have been duped by Hamas. An Israeli delegation that visited Cairo on the eve of the signing of the Hamas-Fatah deal is said to have warned the Egyptians that the "reconciliation" would not work unless Hamas disarms and severs its ties with Iran. However, the Egyptians reportedly failed to listen to the Israeli warning.
As for Israel, the US and other Western parties, the lesson to be drawn from the renewal of ties between Hamas and Iran is that Hamas has not changed one iota.
Contrary to delusional hopes, discussed on the heels of the "reconciliation" agreement in Cairo and based on lies and thin air, Hamas is not headed toward moderation and pragmatism. By openly supporting Hamas, Iran is once again demonstrating that it aims to fan the fire in the Middle East and continue to sabotage any prospects for peace.
Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist, is based in Jerusalem.
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US in agreement with Israel on PA-Hamas reconciliation
US in agreement with Israel on PA-Hamas reconciliation, Israel National News, Uzi Baruch, October 19, 2017
Netanyahu and GreenblattMati Shtern, US Embassy, Tel Aviv
US Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt on Wednesday issued a statement regarding the Palestinian Authority's (PA) recent reconciliation agreement with the Hamas terror group.
"All parties agree that it is essential that the Palestinian Authority be able to assume full, genuine, and unhindered civil and security responsibilities in Gaza and that we work together to improve the humanitarian situation for Palestinians living there," Greenblatt said.
"The United States reiterates the importance of adherence to the Quartet principles: any Palestinian government must unambiguously and explicitly commit to nonviolence, recognize the State of Israel, accept previous agreements and obligations between the parties – including to disarm terrorists – and commit to peaceful negotiations.
"If Hamas is to play any role in a Palestinian government, it must accept these basic requirements."
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) said, "I thank Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt and the US government for their clear message: A Palestinian government must disarm all terror organizations and recognize the State of Israel."
"I emphasize our government's stance: The State of Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government dependent on the Hamas terror organization, until Hamas disarms, recognizes Israel, and returns to Israel captured citizens and the bodies of fallen Israeli soldiers."
Israel's Diplomatic-Security Cabinet on Tuesday decided that it will not negotiate with a PA-Hamas unity government should it be established, and will not maintain contact with a PA government which rests on Hamas support.
In an announcement released by the Prime Minister's Office, a number of Israeli conditions necessary for negotiations with a PA resting on Hamas were outlined, including adherence to the Quartet conditions.
Additional conditions included the return of soldiers' bodies and civilians being held in Gaza to Israel, complete security control of the PA over Gaza, and the prevention of smuggling and Hamas terror infrastructure in Judea and Samaria.
The cabinet also demanded that Hamas cut ties with Iran, and announced that it will allow the flow of humanitarian aid and supplies to Gaza only through the PA and the bodies established for this purpose.
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Put Iran back on the defensive
Put Iran back on the defensive, Israel Hayom, Amnon Lord, October 13, 2017
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Photo: Reuters
A recent interview with Brig. Gen. (ret.) Uzi Eilam, former director of the Atomic Energy Commission at the Prime Minister's Office, has all but slipped under everyone's radar.
During the interview, Eilam let it slip that in early 2015, when the fight against the nuclear deal with Iran was in full gear, he traveled to Washington to lobby support for the deal among Democratic senators and congressmen. Recently, we also learned that former National Security Adviser Uzi Arad and former Israeli Consul General in New York Alon Pinkas are part of a campaign by the left-wing Jewish lobby group J Street, which purports to be pro-Israel, to preserve the deal.
If the 2015 deal is so good, why is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so eager to amend it? And why did he so vehemently oppose it to begin with? If the deal is solid, why do the moderate Sunni states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia oppose it? Why is U.S. President Donald Trump against it? Does the Israeli public really have to trust the judgment of former defense and diplomatic officials?
The truth is that it is quite bewildering that experts continue to insist on sticking to the deal when, two years in, the results are clear: Iran has massively infiltrated Syria and a new threat to Israel has emerged from the north. Those who supported the agreement apparently failed to fully understand its implications, or they knowingly covered up then-President Barack Obama's rapprochement attempts with Iran at Israel's expense.
Meanwhile, the Iranians have successfully taken over not only Damascus and Beirut, but also Iraq, Yemen and the Bab el Mandab Strait, a strategic waterway between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. A senior intelligence official told me a month ago that there was a clear link between the approval of the nuclear agreement in July 2015 and the Russian invasion of Syria two months later. If anything, there is no doubt that Obama's policy and the nuclear agreement paved the way for an Iranian-Russian takeover of the war-torn country.
The Israeli media all but ignored Obama's moves over Iran. The Israeli and American intelligence agencies conducted effective warfare to sabotage the secret networks through which Iran built its nuclear program, but Obama vetoed these efforts, effectively terminating cyber warfare against Iran and lending international legitimacy to the Islamic republic's nuclearization effort – efforts by a nation that has openly and repeatedly announced its clear intention to annihilate the State of Israel.
Above all, the nuclear agreement lifted the economic sanctions the international community had imposed on Iran. These sanctions, imposed due to American and Israeli pressure, had pushed into a corner, isolated it and placed it under constant international pressure. Obama freed Iran from this yoke and all but launched a campaign that delegitimized Israel, its government and its leader. Yet all of it was covered up by senior Israeli security officials and the Israeli media.
If Trump makes good on his threat and decertifies the nuclear deal, it will be the first step toward rectifying the situation and putting Iran back on the defensive. This would benefit Israel by pushing back the threat of an armed conflict on the northern border.
At this time, the effort to change the 2015 agreement in a way that prevents Iran from pursuing nuclear armament within eight years should be clear to the intelligence and security sages who are so supportive of the deal. North Korea barreled through two nuclear agreements negotiated by Wendy Sherman, the chief American negotiator with Iran, and emerged as a menacing nuclear threat.
Between the cabinet and the battlefield
The meeting between Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin in August, the massive military exercise in the northern sector in early September, the strike on a chemical weapons facility near Damascus last month, and defense officials' publicly-voiced concerns about Iran's military entrenchment in Syria, all made various pundits catch a whiff of napalm in the morning. But contrary to the perceived rise in security tensions in recent weeks, the IDF believes that chances of a flare-up on the Lebanese-Syrian front are waning.
One can argue about the scope of the strategic impact the Russian-Iranian alliance has on Israel. American analysts, who understood early on where Obama was heading with respect to Iran, believe the Russian-Iranian axis is very bad news for the United States as well as for Israel.
But the IDF has a different assessment, at least for the foreseeable future, according to which the Russian presence in Syria is deferring a potential conflict. Moreover, the Iranian presence in Syria appears less menacing when Revolutionary Guard soldiers are replaced by random Shiite militias.
The military says its multi-year work plan continues to evolve according to the dynamic map of threats from the north and it rejects claims that it is leading the IDF down the wrong path. According to a report by the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee's Subcommittee on the Defense Doctrine, which is an important intellectual venture led by Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah, the preparatory work done by the IDF to compose the multi-year work plan and its implementation so far are indeed impressive.
Nevertheless, even the apparently flattering report alludes to the fact that 11 years after the Second Lebanon War, the ground forces have yet to fully stabilize, while the Israeli Air Force has undergone a tremendous process of reinforcement. This is the military arm decision-makers continue to rely on, in conjunction with the IDF's special forces, at the moment of truth.
Still, a critical review of the report reveals a serious problem that has not been resolved in Israel's political reality: the interface between the political leadership and the IDF. The report criticizes the political echelon, saying it fails to provide the military with clear, written instructions and objectives. This makes it difficult for the military to adapt, outline its operational plans and build its strength.
Committees and cabinet meetings will not bring salvation. The IDF's senior echelon must consider the fact that cabinet ministers cannot serve as a collective commander of the IDF's operations in wartime. The cabinet was designed to supervise military moves, and while it can be called upon to decide on various operational alternatives before and during a conflict, it is up to military commanders to assume operational responsibility. The desire by lawmakers who see themselves as military experts to be involved to the point of making the military's decisions for it is very unhealthy.
But there is one thing that can be expected from the political echelon: a decision on the strategic concept with respect to Hezbollah. Is Lebanese infrastructure a legitimate target in a potential future war, or is the IDF required to surgically deal only with Hezbollah elements? The answer to this question is not as simple as the hawks in the government would have the public believe.
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Atsuko Ueno wins major 17th Kosaido Thailand Ladies Open
Hundreds participate in Northern Thailand International School track meet
Chiang Mai Pool League
Term 3 Sports Fixtures for Prem International School
Chiang Mai Saturday Hash House Harriers
Chiang Mai HHH Corner - "On On!"
Atsuko Ueno from Japan was a multiple winner at the 17th Kosaido Thailand Ladies Open. Atsuko was the outright winner of the tournament and was the card leader every day.
From left: Chun Chin Hui from Taiwan, winner in the amateur category, Dr Sukhum, Atsuko Ueno, Lamphun Governor Thawat Satiaranam, and Dr Salai Sukapanpotharam, at the award presentation.
The winners of the tournament and judging committee pose after the award presentations.
Good international entries saw awards going to Sweden, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Thailand.
Lamphun Governor Thawat Satiaranam presented the HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn trophy to the winner Atsuko, who also was presented with a cheque for US$15,675.
The first runner up was Suh Ye-Suhn from South Korea, and she garnered US$10,450. Lisa Hed from Sweden was the second runner up and took home US$7,837.50.
Dr. Sukhum Sukhapanpotharam, chairman of the Chiang Mai-Lamphun Golf Club presented the daily prizes, which also went to Atsuko who was the leader every day during the tournament.
Dr Salai Sukapanpotharam presents a flower bouquet to congratulate Atsuko, Lamphun Governor Thawat Satiaranam is at right.
Japan's Atsuko Ueno was delighted that she was able to win the 17th Kosaido Thailand Ladies Open.
Mana Chobtham, director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Governor's Office presented awards to the two amateur winners, Nontaya Srisawang from Chiang Mai and Chun Chin Hui, the last year's champion who hails from Taiwan.
Ratsamee Kanlayanamit was the top Thai Professional Golf player, and she also won the Order of Merit prize, which was granted by regional manager Hitoshi Seki.
The 17th Kosaido Thailand Ladies open 2003 was held on February 5-7 at Chiang Mai-Lamphun Golf Club. It was the 4th leg of the Ladies Asia Golf Circuit, and was organized by the Thailand Amateur Ladies Golf Association.
The event was sponsored by Kosaido Group of Companies, Japan Airlines, Siew-National Co, Boon Raw Brewery Co, Tourism Authority of Thailand, the Government Lottery Office, Northern Heritage Resort & Spa, Thai Stanley Electric Pub Co, United Broadcasting Corporation Group, Bangkok Insurance Pub Co, Gems Gallery Chiang Mai Co, Thai Tasaki Engineering Co, DANZAS Limited, Chia Meng Marketing Co, and PTT Pub Co.
The golf tournament was launched in 1983 by Mr. Koicho Kato. In 1987 it was officially sanctioned by the Asian Golf Federation as the "Kosaido Ladies Asia". When it was launched the prize money was $US30,000 per venue. Through the years the figures went up to $US120,000. Four tournaments are presently held, one each in Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and now the fourth leg in Thailand with prize money of $US120,000. Lady golfers from all over the world, especially those who just turned professional, join this Asian tour before the start of the Japanese, European and American tours at the end of the winter season.
Last Saturday, 7 International schools in Chiang Mai met for the Northern Thailand International School track meet.
Roughly 350 students and tons of parents came, assembled and took part in the yearly games at the 700 Year Stadium in Chiang Mai.
Close call! This race was only for 5-year olds and under.
The event started at around 8.30 a.m. and the cool air made it a lot easier to compete. From the junior-students, aged 4 until 11, the relay was the most popular and no one dropped the baton!
The 7 International Schools consisted of: Prem Tinsulanonda International School (PREM), American Pacific International School (APIS), Chiang Mai International School (CMIS), Nakorn Payap International School (NIS), Christian German School (CDSC), Grace International School (GIS), Lanna International School (LIST), Cmis Murray (CMIS m), which, due to the size of the school, mostly teamed up with CMIS.
The swimming competition was divided into Junior and Senior, and all in all more than 200 students competed in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle.
In the Seniors swimming meet, which was hosted by Prem, about 250 students competed from 12-19 yr olds (50m free, back, butterfly, breast, 100m free breast, 200m individual medley, 200m free relay, 200m breast relay, kayak races). Certificates were awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each event.
Certificates also awarded to the Chiang Mai age champions (students with the most points for their age group). Melanie Forbes-Harper from Prem, Danielle Ring from Prem, & Yupin Laosue from Prem took home these honors.
Enjoying a well-deserved break and refreshments.
The soccer competition, hosted by Prem, was for students from 12 - 19 years of age and for the 10 girl teams and 16 boy teams it was a long hard day in the sun with loads of games, excellent competition and some games finishing on nail biting penalty.
Girls soccer was won by Prem and the boys soccer by CMIS.
Ultimate Frisbee - a fairly new sport, is proving to be very popular with both students and staff. In this competition a member of staff plays on the team alongside the high school students.
Athletics, hosted by Prem, consisted for the juniors of running (60m/80m/100m/200m/400m/800m), discus, shot put, long jump & high jump. The senior event was the same as the juniors, plus 1500m and 3000m and hurdles. (Results for the seniors are still outstanding.)
The parents (Dad & Mum) races were very well attended and proved that there are some very fit Chiang Mai residents around.
Only one can win! Still friends after all.
All in all it was a day where many helping hands showed terrific support for the children and teenagers because everyone wants to help them achieve their goal in life with a lot of fun and love.
Swimming Results:
Junior meet hosted by APIS, Senior meet hosted by Prem (50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle relays, 25 m backstroke, breaststroke & butterfly)
1st - Prem
2nd - GIS
3rd -CMIS
4th- LIST
5th - APIS
6th - NIS
7th - CDSC
Ultimate Frisbee Results:
2nd - CMIS
3rd - APIS
4th - Prem B
Result Junior Athletic:
1st - GIS
2nd - Prem
3rd - CMIS
4th - LIST
Sat 15th Adult Sports Day at Prem
Wed 19th Girls B. Ball 'A' V CMISM
Boys B. Ball 'A' v CMISM
Fri 21st/ Sat 22nd National B. Ball Tournament at Sea
Wed 26th Girls A + B V Lanna
Boys A V Lanna
Sat 1st Junior B. Ball at GIS 8.30am
Tennis Tournament TBA
Wed 5th Girls middle school B. Ball V CMIS
Sat 8th / Sun 9th National Swim meet at Prem 8.30am
Wed 12th Middle school B. Ball Tournament at Prem
Sat 15th High School B. Ball 'B' Tournament CMIS 8.30 a.m.
Wed 19th Boys B. Ball 'A + B' V APIS
Girls B. Ball 'A' V APIS
Sat 22nd High School B. Ball 'A' Tournament GIS 8.30
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Oh! The Humanity!
This run will forever be remembered by the blood soaked ground, and the wails of despair as HP bounced off the razor sharp concertina, blood spurting from the bridge of his nose, and saying "Nobody move! Don't step on my glasses!" It was only after a thorough search of the area did he remember, "Oh, I wasn't wearing my glasses."
Just how did it get this far? How did this run degenerate into a blood sport spectacle?
It started much earlier, of course. The hares Just Coming and Captain Hook had set the run days earlier, and didn't even have the courage to show up at the car park to set us off. As it turns out, it is no wonder that they didn't want to show their faces. Ironically, it was HP who gave the hare brief to the virgins and visitors. The rest of us have heard his schpiel too many times before, so we all f***ed off before he finished. Pamela led one contingent down left toward the main road, and RO led the other contingent going perpendicular to Pamela's crowd. It turns out no one was right. Paper was eventually found in a totally different direction, and everyone was finally on track. The next thing I knew was that I was following Wombat, off paper, as he did some "parallel running", trying to catch up with the F.R.B's. Needless to say, Wombat succeeded in catching up with Molester and Foot Long, and that was the last I saw of them as they raced away into the distance.
The trail could of have been beautiful. Unfortunately the area is inhabited by real slobs. The woods are not only littered by trash, it was at times knee deep in rotting garbage. Trying to distinguish the blobs of paper from the used condoms and toilet paper strewn about was slowing down the entire pack. It was about at this stage, when HP spied a circle check next to the road. It had been kicked out right, so good old H.P. leaped out onto the road - or so he thought. I looked up and saw him bouncing back like he hit a wall, blood covering the middle of his face. It turns out there was a single strand of barbed wire, eyeball height, stretching across the trail. A barb had hit HP smack dab between the eyes, and then bounced him back two meters. There was no brain damage, though. And luckily, Plugger's peepers are still intact. His greatest concern, though, was his glasses. He didn't want anyone stepping on them, so we all froze in our tracks and searched among the dirt, garbage, and blood for what turns out to be non-existent glasses. He was willing to finish the run, but GM X-Virgin Sister helped him hijack a passing motorbike to take him back to the circle and some medicinal beer.
After that, the run was pretty anti-climactic as it meandered through the woods and brought us back to the cars. About 500 meters from the end, SuperB, Bone Collector and X-Virgin Sister saw B Hur slowly catching up, and the whole gaggle of girls started racing like I've never seen them run before. I guess they'll do anything to stay away from B Hur. The run lasted more than an hour. If it weren't for one little incident, it would have been a great run. Head Hacker
The GM brought the circle to disorder at 18:25. The hares got the circle going by downing two willies for unmarked barbed wire hazards on the run. Just Coming then got a "brain dead" splash, but what to you expect seconds after sucking down a big willy? And Captain Hook got a second "Don't hurt people on the run" splash. The virgins: Will, Dana, Patrick and one other whose name I didn't catch were welcomed into our fold. Returnee A.P.B. got the AH award for a poor excuse for missing so many runs. Helen was exhibited in the circle and gave us a renewed account of her life, in preparation for a naming ceremony. Unplugged was splashed for being thankful HP's gash wasn't below his belt, and offering no help nursing his nose gash.
Plugger finally got into the circle and was given the Dead Chicken for NOT wearing his glasses on the run, yet having everyone waste ten minutes searching for them at the accident site. Square Rooter was caught stealing the Wings from the previous week, so this week he got another award to show the Thapae Gate girls: the [email protected]#t. He got his tail cooled on the ice. Superman and Kiwi B were accused of being Peeping Toms. Footlong got a splash for something or other. Several cheapskates were brought in for not buying shirts, etc. SuperB got a splash for having a genetic advantage, whatever that means. Burrito Butt got a new car splash, and Kiwi B got one for being the official "bumper buffer". B Hur and Bone Collector were caught racing on the On In. Molester and Wombat were perched on the ice together for not marking that dangerous bit of wire as they past it.
Raffle time: Burrito Butt won a T-shirt, and Dyke Converter the chance to go to Yongon. Misfortune was given the circle, but was too brain dead to think of a splash. Wombat was then given the Hash Crash for handing the circle to her in the first place. The Hares and Plugger were asked to give a re-creation of the accident where their height differences became very obvious. RO got a splash for getting more lost than usual on the run. Male Wings were awarded to Plugger (sympathy vote?) and Unplugged the Female Wings. On On On was had at the Mountain Green Restaurant. The Circle was closed at 19:21.
CH3, the oldest hash club (males) in Chiang Mai is picked up from the "ONON" pub (Moon Mueng Soi 1) at 16.00 once every 2 weeks (hence: on 18-11, 2-12, 16-12, 30-12 and 13 01 2003). Pick up can be arranged from Fish and Chips shop as well.
CSH3 is a mixed Saturday hash which is picked up from the H3 Pub on Moon Mueng Road every Saturday at 15.30. Pick up can be arranged from Fish and Chips shop as well.
CUMH3 is a male hash which runs from the "ONON" Pub every consecutive (from CH3) Tuesday. Pick up is at 16.00.
BH3 is a female hash (Harriettes) that runs once a month on the last Sunday of the month.
We also have two so-called outstations coming up: A male hash outstation to Bangkok on 7, 8, 9 December and a mixed outstation to Chiang Dao on 14 & 15 December. All information either from Fish and Chips, H3 or "ONON" Pub. Or look at the websites at: http://www.thai-american.com/hhh/
It's great fun and you surely get value for your money plus you get to meet all the long-time expats here!


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