Who needs Gadhafi or Ahmedinajad when we have our very own security forces? As warned repeatedly, the beasts would eventually use live fire against us. Also, "Peace" activists at work in Judea.

Compliments of Honenu

CLINTON IN GENEVA: 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-28/clinton-says-u-s-exploring-all-options-on-libya-warns-qaddafi-on-thugs-.html
“Mercenaries and thugs have been turned loose to attack demonstrators,” Clinton said, according to a prepared text of a speech today in Geneva. “As we move forward on these fronts, we will continue to explore all possible options for action -- as we have said, nothing is off the table so long as the Libyan government continues to threaten and kill Libyan citizens.” 

...Oops, I thought she meant the Israeli government against Havat Gilad: I guess there is a double standard when you are dealing with Jews, isn't there... Maybe it is time to raise hell internationally: government-sponsored THUGS ARE THREATENING ( I wish that were all it is ) AND KILLING ( wounding for sure, we do not know the condition of the wounded) ISRAELI CITIZENS...

Police Shoot at Protestors in the Shomron

Shots Fired at Havat Gilad Protesters

Adar 24, 5771, 28 February 11 08:00

(Israelnationalnews.com) The Samaria Residents' Council reports that a number of protesters were wounded Monday morning, when security forces fired massive rounds of rubber bullets during the razing of a structure and a tent in the Samarian Jewish outpost community of Havat Gilad (Gilad's Farm). The condition of the victims was not immediately known.
The Women in Green and Judean Action Committees vehemently protested the use of rubber bullets against the Havat Gilad residents. In a statement to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, they said, "Bibi, the wounded are your responsibility! Stop hiding behind [Defense Minister Ehud] Barak. The end of regimes that fire on their citizens can be seen in the countries around us."

Clamor Increases to Investigate Police Violence at Gilad Farm

Adar 24, 5771, 28 February 11 01:17

by Hillel Fendel

(Israelnationalnews.com) MKs Zevulun Orlev (Jewish Home) and Uri Ariel (National Union), the Land of Israel Legal Forum, and the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria – all demand an investigation into the extreme police violence at today’s destruction at the Gilad Farm - Havat Gilad, a private farm in the Shomron, near Kedumim.

The police denied using rubber bullets – and the residents confirmed. “They used pneumatic bullets, which are much worse,” said one resident; see photo (red background, below) showing samples of projectiles shot by the police.


The end of the video above [provided by the Shomron Residents Committee] shows a policeman shooting at a resident from “three meters away,” according to Ilana Shimon, Community Director and member of the town council. "My husband was protesting how they shoved me and tore off my sister-in-law's head kerchief, so they pushed him away and then shot him from short-range... There was tremendous violence of all kinds - violence, violence, violence. They took our adopted son and arrested him – and then, even after he was on the floor, they continued beating him!”

Destroyed were a home, the foundations of two homes, a tent above one of them, and the village gate.
Shimon said the residents of the farm – 28 families, most with young children – plan to immediately begin building three additional buildings as their response to today’s events. “Though we are short on funds, and we have had to raise funds for soler fuel just to heat our homes, we are embarking on this campaign because the only answer to these tribulations is to keep on building! For those who want to help, our bank account number is Mizrachi-Tefachot 483-188835.”
Yesha Council Chairman Danny Dayan has already written to IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz and Israel Police Chief David Cohen, demanding that they investigate the source of the orders to open fire at residents during the demolition operation.
"It is completely unthinkable,” Dayan wrotes, “that soldiers and police officers would point a weapon at the inhabitants, and it doesn't matter what kind of ammunition is being used."
Residents of Havat Gilad said that in addition to dye bullets, police also used gas grenades and stun grenades.
The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel called for the Police Investigation Unit to open an immediate inquiry into today’s events. Forum Director Nachi Eyal said that the 13 wounded and the level of violence shows that security forces acted savagely. “It must be ascertained who gave the orders to be overly violent,” he said, “and the Forum will do what it can to bring those responsible to trial… Any soldier or policeman who doesn't understand that enforcement of construction laws does not justify shooting at citizens should be banned from serving in the security services of the State of Israel."
MK Zevulun Orlev said he was “astounded” by the level of violence displayed by security forces. "We will demand a thorough investigation and prosecution of security forces," he said. Earlier, MK Uri Ariel (National Union) said he expected to see the violent police officers and those who gave them their orders brought to trial.

Complaint on Havat Gilad Filed with Police

Adar 24, 5771, 28 February 11 12:50

(Israelnationalnews.com) Manager Orit Strook of the Yesha Human Rights Organization filed a complaint Monday with the Police Investigation Unit, demanding an investigation of the use of rubber bullets - by those who fired and those who gave the orders - against people who protested the demolition of a building and a tent in the Samarian Jewish hilltop community of Havat Gilad (Gilad's Farm).
The complaint says that photographs and other evidence show that police used new weapons to fire ammunition directly - and at times at point-blank range - at Havat Gilad residents. Strook said an incident as serious as this demands that the field investigation be immediate, given the fact that civilians were targetted.

Dayan: Unthinkable that Weapons by Pointed at Yeshans

Adar 24, 5771, 28 February 11 12:15

(Israelnationalnews.com) Chairman Danny Dayan sent letters Monday to Chief of Staff Benny Gantz of the Israel Defense Forces and Police Chief David Cohen with a demand that they investigate who gave the order to use serious weapons fire during the demolition of a building, a tent and the gate to the Samarian Jewish outpost community of Havat Gilad (Gilad's Farm) during the early-morning hours.
Dayan wrote, "It's completely unthinkable that soldiers and police officers would point a weapon at inhabitants [of the area], and it doesn't matter what kind of ammunition is being used." Police denied anti-demolition protesters' charges that rubber bullets were used, but said dye bullets were used.

Police Deny Using Rubber Bullets at Havat Gilad

Adar 24, 5771, 28 February 11 11:39

(Israelnationalnews.com) Police vehemently denied, on Monday, claims by residents of the Samarian Jewish community of Havat Gilad (Gilad's Farm) that police were violent toward them during the demolition of a building and a tent in the community, and said that it was, in fact, the anti-demolition protesters who were out of order.  Residents of Havat Gilad told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service that in addition to dye bullets, rubber bullets, gas grenades and stun grenades were used.
The spokesman for the Samaria and Judea police said that police used permitted disturbance-control measures after the throwing of rocks and violent disturbances directed at security forces. The spokesman added that the violence followed the arrest of invdivuals suspected of having knives, spikes and other attack weapons. The spokesman stressed that only dye bullets were used and not rubber bullets.

Police Fire Rubber Bullets, Wound 15, in Outpost Destruction

Adar 24, 5771, 28 February 11 09:23

(Israelnationalnews.com) Hundreds of security forces fired rubber bullets and wounded 15 civilians while destroying a home and tent at an outpost on Jewish-owned land.

Eyewitness: Police Shooters at Havat Gilad Wore Masks

Adar 24, 5771, 28 February 11 08:40

(Israelnationalnews.com) An eyewitness to the pre-dawn demolition of a structure and a building in the Samarian Jewish community of Havat Gilad (Gilad's Farm) told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service Monday morning that the police who shot rubber bullets at anti-demolition protesters wore masks.
A number of protesters were wounded. Their conditions were not immediately known.

Why am I not surprised? I have personally witnessed such things in a government-owned facility I worked at ( which I protested, and which got me fired). And don't forget the Yemenite children.

  AP IMPACT: Past medical testing on humans revealed

By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer Mike StobbeATLANTA – 

Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.

Much of this horrific history is 40 to 80 years old, but it is the backdrop for a meeting in Washington this week by a presidential bioethics commission. The meeting was triggered by the government's apology last fall for federal doctors infecting prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala with syphilis 65 years ago.
U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar experiments in the United States — studies that often involved making healthy people sick.
An exhaustive review by The Associated Press of medical journal reports and decades-old press clippings found more than 40 such studies. At best, these were a search for lifesaving treatments; at worst, some amounted to curiosity-satisfying experiments that hurt people but provided no useful results.
Inevitably, they will be compared to the well-known Tuskegee syphilis study. In that episode, U.S. health officials tracked 600 black men in Alabama who already had syphilis but didn't give them adequate treatment even after penicillin became available.
These studies were worse in at least one respect — they violated the concept of "first do no harm," a fundamental medical principle that stretches back centuries.
"When you give somebody a disease — even by the standards of their time — you really cross the key ethical norm of the profession," said Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics.
Some of these studies, mostly from the 1940s to the '60s, apparently were never covered by news media. Others were reported at the time, but the focus was on the promise of enduring new cures, while glossing over how test subjects were treated.
Attitudes about medical research were different then. Infectious diseases killed many more people years ago, and doctors worked urgently to invent and test cures. Many prominent researchers felt it was legitimate to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society — people like prisoners, mental patients, poor blacks. It was an attitude in some ways similar to that of Nazi doctors experimenting on Jews.
"There was definitely a sense — that we don't have today — that sacrifice for the nation was important," said Laura Stark, a Wesleyan University assistant professor of science in society, who is writing a book about past federal medical experiments.
The AP review of past research found:
_A federally funded study begun in 1942 injected experimental flu vaccine in male patients at a state insane asylum in Ypsilanti, Mich., then exposed them to flu several months later. It was co-authored by Dr. Jonas Salk, who a decade later would become famous as inventor of the polio vaccine.
Some of the men weren't able to describe their symptoms, raising serious questions about how well they understood what was being done to them. One newspaper account mentioned the test subjects were "senile and debilitated." Then it quickly moved on to the promising results.
_In federally funded studies in the 1940s, noted researcher Dr. W. Paul Havens Jr. exposed men to hepatitis in a series of experiments, including one using patients from mental institutions in Middletown and Norwich, Conn. Havens, a World Health Organization expert on viral diseases, was one of the first scientists to differentiate types of hepatitis and their causes.
A search of various news archives found no mention of the mental patients study, which made eight healthy men ill but broke no new ground in understanding the disease.
_Researchers in the mid-1940s studied the transmission of a deadly stomach bug by having young men swallow unfiltered stool suspension. The study was conducted at the New York State Vocational Institution, a reformatory prison in West Coxsackie. The point was to see how well the disease spread that way as compared to spraying the germs and having test subjects breathe it. Swallowing it was a more effective way to spread the disease, the researchers concluded. The study doesn't explain if the men were rewarded for this awful task.
_A University of Minnesota study in the late 1940s injected 11 public service employee volunteers with malaria, then starved them for five days. Some were also subjected to hard labor, and those men lost an average of 14 pounds. They were treated for malarial fevers with quinine sulfate. One of the authors was Ancel Keys, a noted dietary scientist who developed K-rations for the military and the Mediterranean diet for the public. But a search of various news archives found no mention of the study.
_For a study in 1957, when the Asian flu pandemic was spreading, federal researchers sprayed the virus in the noses of 23 inmates at Patuxent prison in Jessup, Md., to compare their reactions to those of 32 virus-exposed inmates who had been given a new vaccine.
_Government researchers in the 1950s tried to infect about two dozen volunteering prison inmates with gonorrhea using two different methods in an experiment at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta. The bacteria was pumped directly into the urinary tract through the penis, according to their paper.
The men quickly developed the disease, but the researchers noted this method wasn't comparable to how men normally got infected — by having sex with an infected partner. The men were later treated with antibiotics. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, but there was no mention of it in various news archives.
Though people in the studies were usually described as volunteers, historians and ethicists have questioned how well these people understood what was to be done to them and why, or whether they were coerced.
Prisoners have long been victimized for the sake of science. In 1915, the U.S. government's Dr. Joseph Goldberger — today remembered as a public health hero — recruited Mississippi inmates to go on special rations to prove his theory that the painful illness pellagra was caused by a dietary deficiency. (The men were offered pardons for their participation.)
But studies using prisoners were uncommon in the first few decades of the 20th century, and usually performed by researchers considered eccentric even by the standards of the day. One was Dr. L.L. Stanley, resident physician at San Quentin prison in California, who around 1920 attempted to treat older, "devitalized men" by implanting in them testicles from livestock and from recently executed convicts.
Newspapers wrote about Stanley's experiments, but the lack of outrage is striking.
"Enter San Quentin penitentiary in the role of the Fountain of Youth — an institution where the years are made to roll back for men of failing mentality and vitality and where the spring is restored to the step, wit to the brain, vigor to the muscles and ambition to the spirit. All this has been done, is being done ... by a surgeon with a scalpel," began one rosy report published in November 1919 in The Washington Post.
Around the time of World War II, prisoners were enlisted to help the war effort by taking part in studies that could help the troops. For example, a series of malaria studies at Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois and two other prisons was designed to test antimalarial drugs that could help soldiers fighting in the Pacific.
It was at about this time that prosecution of Nazi doctors in 1947 led to the "Nuremberg Code," a set of international rules to protect human test subjects. Many U.S. doctors essentially ignored them, arguing that they applied to Nazi atrocities — not to American medicine.
The late 1940s and 1950s saw huge growth in the U.S. pharmaceutical and health care industries, accompanied by a boom in prisoner experiments funded by both the government and corporations. By the 1960s, at least half the states allowed prisoners to be used as medical guinea pigs.
But two studies in the 1960s proved to be turning points in the public's attitude toward the way test subjects were treated.
The first came to light in 1963. Researchers injected cancer cells into 19 old and debilitated patients at a Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in the New York borough of Brooklyn to see if their bodies would reject them.
The hospital director said the patients were not told they were being injected with cancer cells because there was no need — the cells were deemed harmless. But the experiment upset a lawyer named William Hyman who sat on the hospital's board of directors. The state investigated, and the hospital ultimately said any such experiments would require the patient's written consent.
At nearby Staten Island, from 1963 to 1966, a controversial medical study was conducted at the Willowbrook State School for children with mental retardation. The children were intentionally given hepatitis orally and by injection to see if they could then be cured with gamma globulin.
Those two studies — along with the Tuskegee experiment revealed in 1972 — proved to be a "holy trinity" that sparked extensive and critical media coverage and public disgust, said Susan Reverby, the Wellesley College historian who first discovered records of the syphilis study in Guatemala.
By the early 1970s, even experiments involving prisoners were considered scandalous. In widely covered congressional hearings in 1973, pharmaceutical industry officials acknowledged they were using prisoners for testing because they were cheaper than chimpanzees.
Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia made extensive use of inmates for medical experiments. Some of the victims are still around to talk about it. Edward "Yusef" Anthony, featured in a book about the studies, says he agreed to have a layer of skin peeled off his back, which was coated with searing chemicals to test a drug. He did that for money to buy cigarettes in prison.
"I said 'Oh my God, my back is on fire! Take this ... off me!'" Anthony said in an interview with The Associated Press, as he recalled the beginning of weeks of intense itching and agonizing pain.
The government responded with reforms. Among them: The U.S. Bureau of Prisons in the mid-1970s effectively excluded all research by drug companies and other outside agencies within federal prisons.
As the supply of prisoners and mental patients dried up, researchers looked to other countries.
It made sense. Clinical trials could be done more cheaply and with fewer rules. And it was easy to find patients who were taking no medication, a factor that can complicate tests of other drugs.
Additional sets of ethical guidelines have been enacted, and few believe that another Guatemala study could happen today. "It's not that we're out infecting anybody with things," Caplan said.
Still, in the last 15 years, two international studies sparked outrage.
One was likened to Tuskegee. U.S.-funded doctors failed to give the AIDS drug AZT to all the HIV-infected pregnant women in a study in Uganda even though it would have protected their newborns. U.S. health officials argued the study would answer questions about AZT's use in the developing world.
The other study, by Pfizer Inc., gave an antibiotic named Trovan to children with meningitis in Nigeria, although there were doubts about its effectiveness for that disease. Critics blamed the experiment for the deaths of 11 children and the disabling of scores of others. Pfizer settled a lawsuit with Nigerian officials for $75 million but admitted no wrongdoing.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general reported that between 40 and 65 percent of clinical studies of federally regulated medical products were done in other countries in 2008, and that proportion probably has grown. The report also noted that U.S. regulators inspected fewer than 1 percent of foreign clinical trial sites.
Monitoring research is complicated, and rules that are too rigid could slow new drug development. But it's often hard to get information on international trials, sometimes because of missing records and a paucity of audits, said Dr. Kevin Schulman, a Duke University professor of medicine who has written on the ethics of international studies.
These issues were still being debated when, last October, the Guatemala study came to light.
In the 1946-48 study, American scientists infected prisoners and patients in a mental hospital in Guatemala with syphilis, apparently to test whether penicillin could prevent some sexually transmitted disease. The study came up with no useful information and was hidden for decades.
The Guatemala study nauseated ethicists on multiple levels. Beyond infecting patients with a terrible illness, it was clear that people in the study did not understand what was being done to them or were not able to give their consent. Indeed, though it happened at a time when scientists were quick to publish research that showed frank disinterest in the rights of study participants, this study was buried in file drawers.
"It was unusually unethical, even at the time," said Stark, the Wesleyan researcher.
"When the president was briefed on the details of the Guatemalan episode, one of his first questions was whether this sort of thing could still happen today," said Rick Weiss, a spokesman for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
That it occurred overseas was an opening for the Obama administration to have the bioethics panel seek a new evaluation of international medical studies. The president also asked the Institute of Medicine to further probe the Guatemala study, but the IOM relinquished the assignment in November, after reporting its own conflict of interest: In the 1940s, five members of one of the IOM's sister organizations played prominent roles in federal syphilis research and had links to the Guatemala study.
So the bioethics commission gets both tasks. To focus on federally funded international studies, the commission has formed an international panel of about a dozen experts in ethics, science and clinical research. Regarding the look at the Guatemala study, the commission has hired 15 staff investigators and is working with additional historians and other consulting experts.
The panel is to send a report to Obama by September. Any further steps would be up to the administration.
Some experts say that given such a tight deadline, it would be a surprise if the commission produced substantive new information about past studies. "They face a really tough challenge," Caplan said.

This article shows clearly how the Left's interests in Israel correspond exactly to the goals of Rome. No wonder they work so well together! And the perfect bridge between them is Shimon Peres.

 

The Political Solution: By Moshe Feiglin

20 Shvat, 5771 Feb. 24, '11 "And what is your solution?" the leftist asked me. "I don't have one," I answered. "You don't have one?" "I do not have a solution for your problem, but I do have a solution for mine." When we outline a political program, we must first of all honestly define what the program is supposed to achieve. In other words, how do we understand the strategic objectives of the State of Israel? Current Israeli consciousness dictates that the most important objective is peace. Both Right and Left claim that peace is their desire and that their program will bring the longed-for peace more efficiently. But both sides are not telling the entire truth. For the Left, peace is a means to an end; the achievement of "normalcy." For the faith-based public, peace is a result and not an objective. It is the result of the achievement of the Jewish goals that our ancestors dreamed of. Strange as it may sound, the National Camp has never clearly defined its strategic objectives. As a result, it never managed to present a political program and to stand behind it. If you do not define where you want to go, you will never be able to explain how to get there. The definition of the strategic objective is not the definition of the borders of Israel or the status of the Arabs. That is part of the program. The definition of the strategic objective does not answer the question, "How should we conduct ourselves here in Israel," but rather, "Why do we have to be in Israel?" The Left answers: So that we can be like the rest of the nations of the world. The faith-based public says: So that we can be holistic Jews. The truth is that the faith-based public does not dare reveal its real strategic objective - but at least it has one. Nevertheless, the only objective left on the table - the objective that dictates all of Israel's tactical plans - is the objective of the Left. That is the reason that the Left always rules. Neither the media nor the justice systems are to blame for that. We are - because we never placed an alternative to the Left's agenda on the playing field. Let us explore the strategic objectives and dreams of the Left. The Left's objective is for Israel to be a state of all its citizens that conducts itself by Western, liberal standards and that is not committed to Jewish values. "For me, the Oslo Accords mean forgetting that I am a Jew." (Authoress Dorit Rabinian, in an interview to Israel's Channel 1 on the first anniversary of Rabin's assassination). We can say that the strategic objective of the Left is to blur our Jewish identity and to make us forget it by fashioning a liberal state of all its citizens. All the tactical solutions and political programs proposed by the Left are the logical conclusion of its strategic objective. This is the only way to understand the apparent lack of logic of its plans. The Left strives to achieve its strategic super-objective and to detach the State of Israel from its Jewish identity. Our return to our Biblical landscape and the ideological, faith-based settlement of Biblical Israel are obstacles in its path. The Left does not desire to uproot the settlements and retreat from Hebron and Jerusalem in order to achieve peace. It desires to make peace so that it can uproot the settlements and retreat from Hebron and Jerusalem - the flagships of our Jewish identity. What then, is the strategic objective that will dictate the tactical solutions of the faith-based public? The objective of the faith-based public is to establish a Jewish State of freedom based on the eternal values of the Nation of Israel: a state that will restore sovereignty to the Jewish Nation that was expelled from its Land, will ingather its exiles, will be a tool to develop its authentic culture, will build its Holy Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and will establish an exemplary society that will sanctify G-d's Name. In short, to create a culture and society for all humanity to emulate. Do we think that we can achieve this entire lofty goal by tomorrow morning? That would be great, but even if there is a long road ahead of us, we will not be deterred. Our strategic commitment is to continue to march in this direction and certainly not in the opposite direction - by surrendering sovereignty on the Temple Mount to the Moslem wakf, for instance, or by surrendering parts of our Holy Land to foreigners. We do not strive to erase our Jewish identity but rather, to strengthen and develop it. This also requires that we do not surrender the Biblical Land that ties us to our identity. On the contrary, we must do all that we can to strengthen our hold on our Land. Now that we have clarified our objective and priorities, we can outline policies that will deal with foreign claims on our Land. But first, a question: Is the strategic objective of the Arabs clear to us? Can we embark on a political plan without examining the objectives of the Arabs? After all, if we wish to adequately respond to the challenge with which they confront us, shouldn't we examine what they want? The person who most accurately defined the strategic objectives of the Jews and Arabs was the (anti-Semitic) Foreign Minister of Great Britain, Ernest Bevin. In February, 1947, in his speech before the United Nations in which he transferred the mandate over Palestine from Britain to the UN, Bevin shared some of the insights he had gained from thirty years of British rule over the Land of Israel: Remember - Bevin did not like the Zionists. But he did not deceive himself, as we are wont to do. He astutely observed the following: "For the Jews, the main point is the establishment of a sovereign Jewish state. For the Arabs, the main point is to oppose Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine to the very end." We like to deceive ourselves into thinking that the Arabs and Jews share the same objective. But that is not true. The Jews want a state. And the Arabs want to make sure that the Jews do not have it. Nothing has changed in the 63 years that have passed since Bevin's speech. If the Arabs would have wanted a state, it would have been established long ago. Never has an ethnic group received such generous international aid to establish its state - and the state has not been born. Their objective is not to build their own state - but to destroy ours. The last thing that interests them is a Palestinian state. Now that we understand the objectives of both sides within our nation and the objective of the Arabs, we can go to the drawing board and design our political plan. Believe it or not, the Likud constitution clearly states the starting point for a political plan dictated by the faith-based strategy. Not only that, but it deeply understands the Arab strategy: "The preservation of the right of the Jewish Nation over the Land of Israel as an eternal, inalienable right, persistence in the settlement and development of all parts of the Land of Israel and the application of the sovereignty of the State upon them." (From the Likud Constitution, Chapt. 4, "The Goals") It's as simple as that. Just as we applied Israeli sovereignty to Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, so we must do for all parts of the Land of Israel that are in our hands. If we do so with confidence, if we do not leave any doubt as to our firm belief that this is our Land, if we stop nurturing the hopes of the Arabs to succeed in their strategic objective to destroy our sovereignty here - then peace will be at hand. As a result - not as an objective! And what about the demographic problem? The Land of Israel is the strategic foundation around which we solve the tactical problems. Herzl understood this when the Jews made up merely a few percent of the total population in the Land. Ben Gurion understood this when he declared the independence of the tiny state of Israel, with a 50% Arab population. Today, we have a solid Jewish majority in Israel of over 60% from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. According to realistic forecasts, the demographic scales are tilting in our favor. Of course, we must encourage the Arabs who live in Israel to emigrate to any one of the 22 Arab countries or to any other place in the world. These Arabs have developed a culture of work in a modern, Western society. They have professional knowledge in many important areas. Western states are desperate for this type of immigration because they are in the throes of a negative growth pattern. The question is not "Who will build in Canada?" but rather, "Will the builders in Canada be Sudanese, who specialize in building huts, or Arab immigrants from Israel who specialize in building skyscrapers?" A simple calculation shows that if Israel takes the money that it continues to spend on the Left's false solutions of retreat and spends it instead on encouraging Arab emigration, it will have over a quarter of a million dollars per Arab family that chooses to emigrate over the next decade. What about those Arabs who remain? Will we give them the right to vote? An Arab who is a loyal resident and completely accepts Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel will enjoy full human rights and permanent resident status. He will not have voting rights. Today, there are American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan who do not have voting rights in the US. The automatic connection that we are used to making between human rights and political rights is false. Every country must honor human rights, protect the life, property and honor of any minority that accepts and respects it sovereignty and power. Actually, what Israel did to its loyal citizens in Gush Katif would be forbidden to do to any foreigner or citizen in any country. Political rights, however, are a different issue. Some countries grant unchecked citizenship while other Western countries, like Japan and Switzerland, do not necessarily grant residents citizenship even if they are third generation residents of those countries. The State of Israel is both a Jewish and a democratic state. Not the opposite. We did not return to our Land just to establish another democracy. For that, we could simply have emigrated from Russia to America. We returned to the Land of Israel to establish a Jewish state. Around this principle, a democracy was formed to serve - not eliminate - the Jewish State. In addition, voting rights should be given to Diaspora Jews who have tied their fate to the State of Israel. For after all, we are the State of the Jews - the state of all the Jews - not just the Israelis. Will the world accept this plan? The existing Jewish identity-blurring plan has convinced the world, and it no longer recognizes the legitimacy of the Jewish State that even the Israelis do not want. The world expects us to be our authentic selves and to conduct ourselves in accordance with our Jewish strategic objective. When that happens, it will ultimately accept this plan. And what about the Left? I do not have the solution for the Left's problem. I do not know how to flee my identity and I have no desire to do so. Other than continuing to love them, I have no answers for the identity crisis plaguing the leftist minority. But there certainly is a solution for the large Jewish majority in the Land of Israel.  Contributed by Jack.

Is the Holtzberg family aware of this intense CIA-ISI cooperation? So, WHO was REALLY behind the sadistic murder of the young Holtzberg couple?

 Pakistan's intelligence ready to split with CIA

By KATHY GANNON and ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press Kathy Gannon And Adam Goldman, Associated Press Thu Feb 24, 7:40 am ET

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan's ISI spy agency is ready to split with the CIA because of frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert U.S. operation involving hundreds of contract spies, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with U.S. and Pakistani officials.
Such a move could seriously damage the U.S war effort in Afghanistan, limit a program targeting al-Qaida insurgents along the Pakistan frontier, and restrict Washington's access to information in the nuclear-armed country.
According to a statement drafted by the ISI, supported by interviews with officials, an already-fragile relationship between the two agencies collapsed following the shooting death of two Pakistanis by Raymond Davis, a U.S. contracted spy who is in jail in Pakistan facing possible multiple murder charges.
"Post-incident conduct of the CIA has virtually put the partnership into question," said a media statement prepared by the ISI but never released. A copy was obtained this week by the AP.
The statement accused the CIA of using pressure tactics to free Davis.
"It is hard to predict if the relationship will ever reach the level at which it was prior to the Davis episode," the statement said. "The onus of not stalling this relationship between the two agencies now squarely lies on the CIA."
The ISI fears there are hundreds of CIA contracted spies operating in Pakistan without the knowledge of either the Pakistan government or the intelligence agency, a senior Pakistani intelligence official told the AP in an interview. He spoke only on condition he not be identified on grounds that exposure would compromise his security.
Pakistan intelligence had no idea who Davis was or what he was doing when he was arrested, the official said, adding that there are concerns about "how many more Raymond Davises are out there."
Davis was arrested Jan. 27 in Lahore after shooting two Pakistanis. A third Pakistani was killed by a U.S. Consulate vehicle coming to assist the American. Pakistan demanded the driver be handed over, but the AP has learned the two U.S. employees in the car now are in the United States.
Davis has pleaded self-defense, but the Lahore police upon completing their investigation said they would seek murder charges. The ISI official told the AP that Davis had contacts in the tribal regions and knew both the men he shot. He said the ISI is investigating the possibility that the encounter on the streets of Lahore stemmed from a meeting or from threats to Davis.
U.S. officials deny Davis had prior contact with the men before the incident, and CIA spokesman George Little said any problems between the two agencies will be sorted out.
"The CIA works closely with our Pakistani counterparts on a wide range of security challenges, including our common fight against al-Qaida and its terrorist allies," he said. "The agency's ties to ISI have been strong over the years, and when there are issues to sort out, we work through them. That's the sign of a healthy partnership."
The CIA repeatedly has tried to penetrate the ISI and learn more about Pakistan's nuclear program. The ISI has mounted its own operations to gather intelligence on the CIA's counterterrorism activities
The ISI is now scouring thousands of visas issued to U.S. employees in Pakistan. The ISI official said Davis' visa application contains bogus references and phone numbers. He said thousands of visas were issued to U.S. Embassy employees over the past five months following a government directive to the Pakistan Embassy in Washington to issue visas without the usual vetting by the interior ministry and the ISI. The same directive was issued to the Pakistan embassies in Britain and the United Arab Emirates, he said.
Within two days of receiving that directive, the Pakistani Embassy issued 400 visas and since then thousands more have been issued, said the ISI official. A Western diplomat in Pakistan agreed that a "floodgate" opened for U.S. Embassy employees requesting Pakistani visas.
The ISI official said his agency knows and works with "the bona fide CIA people in Pakistan" but is upset that the CIA would send others over behind its back. For now, he said, his agency is not talking with the CIA at any level, including the most senior.
To regain support and assistance, he said, "they have to start showing respect, not belittling us, not being belligerent to us, not treating us like we are their lackeys."
NATO and U.S. operations in Afghanistan could be adversely effected by a split between the ISI and the CIA. Washington complains bitterly about Pakistan's refusal to go after the Pakistani-headquartered Haqqani network, which is believed to be the strongest fighting force in Afghanistan and closely allied with al-Qaida.
The ISI official said Pakistan is fed up with Washington's complaints, and he accused the CIA of planting stories about ISI assistance to the Haqqani network.
Relations between the CIA and ISI have been on a downward slide since the name of the U.S. agency's station chief in Pakistan was leaked in a lawsuit accusing him of killing civilians in a drone strike.
Fearing for his safety, the CIA eventually pulled the station chief out of the country. ISI leaders balked at allegations that they outed the CIA top spy in their country. Former and current U..S. officials believe the station chief fell out of favor, but the Pakistanis say this is not the case
Those accusations and the naming of ISI chief Shujah Pasha in a civil lawsuit in the United States — filed by family members of victims of a November 2008 attack in Mumbai, India, by insurgents — started the downslide in relations, the ISI official said.
To help repair the crucial relationship, the CIA earlier this year dispatched a very senior officer to be the new station chief who was previously the head of the European Division, one of the most important jobs in the National Clandestine Service, the agency's spy arm.
The spy agencies have overcome lows before. During President George W. Bush's first term, the ISI became enraged after it shared intelligence with the United States, only to learn that the then-CIA station chief passed that information to the British. The incident caused a serious row, one that threatened the CIA's relationship with the ISI and deepened the levels of distrust between the two sides. At the time Pakistan almost threw the CIA station chief out of the country.
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Adam Goldman reported from Washington. Kathy Gannon is AP special regional correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Hashem works in strange ways, specially in His holy places.....about the Vatican, Hevron, and "Spanish" - financed terror.

 Which one of these came to Hevron undercover yesterday? By the way, look at Shear Yashuv Cohen in this sea of cardinals - how could he? What a disgrace: he should stay away from this den of wolves in sheep's clothing!

I was sick last week and therefore unable to post. Am still not recovered fully, so I will keep it short. But today I have a really interesting story to tell you:

I didn't have use of my car yesterday, yet I needed to go down to Mearat Hamachpelah, the Cave of the Patriarchs, in Hevron, so as is the custom in this neck of the woods I caught a ride with some generous driver from Kiryat Arba to Hevron, a few minutes' ride away; a large, comfortable "Transit" passenger van picked us up - myself and one more person also in need of a ride.The driver of the van happened to be a Spanish-speaking tour guide who had obviously been hired by one single, well-heeled individual to drive the latter to Hevron. The driver, upon questioning by my fellow hitchhiker,  mentioned that his passenger was from Spain. So the hitchhiker, a bearded religious Jew, commented: "Why don't you tell him about the $100 million the Spanish government is spending to develop a building project for Arab terrorists right in our midst? Why don't you tell him to go see the project?" The driver replied: " My passenger speaks Hebrew and he loves Israel; he is opposed to this project." Thinking this man, whose face I could not see, to be a friend of Israel, or maybe even one of the many Anusim,  - after all, he spoke Hebrew, right? - I interjected in wobbly Spanish, then in Hebrew: "Maybe the Spanish government is paying for the project, but for sure the idea, the concept, came straight from Rome, came straight from the Vatican. The Vatican, and particularly this pope, are big Reshaim, big Jew haters, and they will do everything they can to cause us harm, any chance they get."

Imagine my surprise when the driver replied:

"My passenger HAPPENS TO BE FROM THE VATICAN. So please, let's try to keep this conversation friendly!"

So you see, the Vatican, and a Spanish representative of the Vatican to boot, is coming to Hevron, just as all the hoopla is going on: the persecution of Rav Lior of Kiryat Arba, a terror city being built in our midst compliment of "Spain", a visit by a Spanish official last week, Shimon Peres and his antics with Spain, etc. Interesting, isn't it? Didn't I just tell you that the Vatican is neck deep in the muck being stirred here? Yes, for sure, in typical wolf in sheep's clothing fashion, they come professing great love of Israel. But meanwhile what are they REALLY up to?

Significantly, as this Vatican guest and I were crossing paths at the Gutnick restaurant and shop, I looked at him straight in the eyes, but he could not look at me straight back, averting his gaze instead, as devious or guilty people usually do. And by the way he was dressed as a CIVILIAN - since when do Vatican cardinals, archbishops and bishops walk around dressed that way ( who else would be "from the Vatican"? The Vatican is made up of church officials only!!)?

 (I did see a couple of them dressed in civilian clothing at the Foreign Ministry in 2009, when I was demonstrating against their activities during the Har Zion episode: they were doing their best not to draw attention to themselves, but no matter what they did, they were utterly recognizable. All seem to have a sickly, spiritually very unhealthy look, they are either pockmarked, or have a washed-out look: they are simply very bad, unnatural looking.)

This Spanish Vatican person was quite an unpleasant character despite his hypocritical smile and contrived, obsequious and fake demeanor.

God works in strange ways. I am sure this man was not too happy to have been found out! I wonder what kind of report he will bring back to Rome. This was typical Vatican modus operandi : love the Jews 'to death' while literally killing us; always use a cover, always use a front for deadly activities, but never, ever admit to be involved. But this time, the link was impossible to miss.

Let them know we know what they are up to: Rome, we got you figured out! 

Incidentally, Spain is broke, while Rome is loaded; WHO do you think is really paying for the terror project, I ask you???

See also:

http://israeltruthtimes.blogspot.com/2011/02/government-of-israel-is-sick-in-head.html

 to understand what this is all about. 

NB: A bit of history below, since apparently the neighborhood being built by "Spain" is ( not surprisingly, is it?), the "CRUSADER NEIGHBORHOOD" of Hevron.

"...Crusader Rule. The crusader rule (1100-1260) brought a temporary end to the Jewish settlement in Hebron. In 1100 the Crusaders captured the city, turned the mosque and the adjoining synagogue into a church and monastery, and expelled the Jews. There was probably no Jewish settlement in Hebron after that time--at any rate, there is no mention of the existence of Jews in Hebron. Maimonides, who visited Hebron (1166), as well as Benjamin of Tudela (c. 1171), Pethahiah of Regensburg (1176), and Jacob b. Nethanel (second half of 12th century) make no mention of a Jewish settlement or of the existence of Jews in Hebron. It is possible that Jews began to settle again in Hebron toward the end of the period of crusader rule, and by the beginning of the 13th century (1210) mention is made of a Jewish dyer "and his group" in Hebron (cf. A. Yaari, Iggerot Erez Yisrael (1943), 7 83).

Mamluk Rule. The Mamluks (1260-1517), who expelled the Crusaders finally from Palestine, made Hebron their district capital (c. 1260), at which time the Jewish settlement apparently began to be perceptibly renewed. Nahmanides, who immigrated to Palestine in 1267, wrote to his son that he could 'go to Hebron to dig a grave for himself there" (Yaari, op. cit., 84). Such an action would have been unthinkable had there not been a Jewish settlement in Hebron...."

 

Still wondering whether there is a church connection here??? Remember, this pope, Benedikt, is THE CRUSADER POPE par excellence; as he has proven repeatedly through his many hostile acts.

"Conspiracy theory", right?!? I hope people will now understand what is truth, and what is fiction. (First few minutes of the interview).

Regarding Rabbi Dov Lior: this outrage is reminiscent of the Romans and Rabbi Akiva, reminiscent of the Inquisition, of the Nazis, of the Soviets, etc; of course! It comes from the same source. And see what Shimon Peres has been busy with these days; any wonder, then?

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• Large Shows of Support for Rabbi Lior

Adar 4, 5771, 08 February 11 01:47

by Elad Benari

(Israelnationalnews.com) Jewish groups and leaders in Israel expressed their outrage on Monday following the issuing of an arrest warrant by Israel Police against Rabbi Dov Lior.
Rabbi Lior is wanted for questioning for having given his approval to the book “Torat HaMelech.” The book, which was written by Rabbi Yitzchak Shapira, discusses the legal aspects of life-and-death issues between Jews and non-Jews, especially in times of war. It speaks of the importance of a Jewish soldier saving his life or the life of a fellow Jew, even if the consequence is killing those who threaten Jewish lives.
Rabbi Shapira, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Shomron town of Yitzhar, was himself arrested over the book in July. 30 copies of his book were confiscated by police at the time.
Rabbi Lior was summoned for questioning as well over the book, which police claim incites to violence against non-Jews. He has refused to appear for questioning, leading the police to issue the arrest warrant against him.
A show of support was expressed towards the rabbi on Monday evening. MK Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz, chairman of the National Union party, expressed his shock over the arrest warrant and said: “The people of Israel are ashamed of [Minister of Internal Security] Aharonovitch and the police leadership whose hatred of the Torah puts them out of their minds. They would not arrest any dean of a faculty or a Muslim or Christian cleric for writing an agreement to a book. The warrant is a reminder of dark regimes in the history of Israel.”
Katz added that should Rabbi Lior be imprisoned, “the entire party will join him in prison along with the public.”
MK Aryeh Eldad said that “the arrest warrant issued against Rabbi Lior is a step up in the fight of the prosecution against freedom of expression of rabbis and authorities. Vile racist expressions against Jews are tolerated and are considered ‘free speech’. But when rabbis and authorities write an approval for a book of halakha it is considered racist and justifies persecution.”
Eldad noted that when police summon for questioning professors who preach for an attack in Israel or against serving in the IDF, only then could the same be done to rabbis. “Until then, this is political persecution,” he said.
The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel also condemned the warrant. As Director Nachi Eyal said, those who issue an arrest warrant over a consent given by a rabbi to a book are lacking a basic understanding of Israeli society, and violate every basic rule of decency and freedom of expression.
Eyal added that the reality in which lecturers and academics boycotting Israel and those who call to harm Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria are not arrested, while an arrest warrant is issued against a rabbi, is a disastrous provision regarding public confidence in law enforcement.
The Mattot Arim organization reminded of an incident in which left-wing activists distributed stickers in which they called to shoot Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria in the head, since “a good settler is a dead settler,” as they said.
Mattot Arim pointed out that a criminal complaint against the sticker was ignored by the Israeli police, and as such “there is no possibility to all of a sudden arrest and prosecute Jewish residents (not to mention rabbis) who did not even do one hundredth of what it says on that sticker.”
Rabbi Lior’s supporters have announced a demonstration in support of him in his home on Tuesday. Leaflets which were distributed throughout Israel on Monday evening read:
“The rally will be for the purpose of strengthening the rabbi and protesting the disrespect shown for the Torah. We were shocked to hear the malicious intention to arrest Rabbi Dov Lior Shlita. This is the same pursuit of the Torah which in the past has been done by the enemies of Israel, now being conducted by the State Attorney's Office under the leadership of Deputy Attorney General Shai Nitzan.”
The flyers call for everyone – “Rabbis and their students, Beit Midrash goers, housewives, craftsmen and teachers of both young and old,” to gather on Tuesday morning outside Rabbi Lior’s home for a protest of support.
“We will tell Israeli rabbis say that arresting them is the same as hurting the entire public,” say the supporters. “We will not be silent in the face of the evil coming out of the State Attorney's Office, to destroy and corrupt the faith of Israel.”

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• Rabbi Lior: "Gov't Clerks Can't Tell Rabbis what to Say'

Adar 4, 5771, 08 February 11 11:40

by Gil Ronen

(Israelnationalnews.com)

About 1,000 people congregated outside Rabbi Dov Lior's home in Kiryat Arba Tuesday morning in a show of support for the venerated rabbi, against whom police have issued an arrest warrant. Numerous bodies and personages have come out in support of the rabbi since news od the arrest warrant was published Monday.

Rabbi Lior addressed the crowd and said: "If a rabbi is asked on a Torah matter, he is bound to answer, even if it involves a risk. I have no doubt that those who care about the dignity of the nation and the Land of Israel will give voice to Torah opinion even if they are threatened with all kinds of threats. That is why they were chosen - it is not like the politicians."

"Unless the state declares that the Rabbis may not voice opinions on politics, sort of like what happened under the Bolsheviks, who dictated what to say and what to think," the Rabbi said, "it is inconceivable that some little clerk in a government office will dictate to rabbis what to say."

"We call upon the Prime Minister, who is responsible for everything, to give  clear instructions  to stop stop all these stupid persecutions," the rabbi told the throng. "I did not hear that they interrogated professors or 'cultural luminaries.'  and academics from southern Israel who are in league with the haters of Israel - we did not hear that they were questioned. But rabbis who express Torah opinion - they come and investigate them. This needs to be stopped! No threat will deter us from saying the truth and the Word of G-d."

The state of Israel is a Divine creation, said Rabbi Lior, in keeping with the basic tenet of religious Zionism. There is "a problem in the way [the state] is being run," he explained. He expressed hope that the state would soon be run in accordance with the Torah of Israel. 

MK Yaakov Katz (National Union) called the Minister of Public Security Monday evening to express his outrage over the arrest warrant. Minister Yitzchak Aharonovich admitted there had been an "error of judgement" by the Hevron police but would not promise to rescind the warrant.

... And this, at a time when Rome is actively meddling in Hevron affairs, as usual - see my many articles about the Catholic Church's direct meddling in the life of Hevron Jews; I have a strong feeling that both events, the persecution of Rav Lior, and the establishment of a terror city right in our midst,  are related, and come from the exact same source:

So the pope wants to send terrorists right to our doorstep, "better to eat you with, my dear" ? So what if on the surface it looks like Spain is doing it? We know full well that Spain is a proxy for the Vatican: if Spain is encouraging and funding this project, you can be 100%  sure that Benedikt is behind it!

We are not scared of you, Benedikt! You are just one sick, devious, murderous, hypocritical practitioner of the black arts; there is a Higher Authority than you running the show, watching over us every minute of every day! 

And as for you, Shimon Peres, you are barely recovering from losing your wife, and here you are again, already running all over Spain, promoting your goal of expelling Jews from the Land of Israel, helping Benedikt in all his murderous plans. You will meet your Judge soon "derech Hatevah" , according to the natural order of things; at your age you should be VERY careful: you will have a very heavy price to pay for everything you did to the Jewish People,  for all the Jews who got savagely murdered because of you and your 'peace' process. And now you want to add even more crimes to your long list???

From Anonymous:

I know your site made note of the article where Spain recently created an ambassador position for a non-existent PA State. 

Shortly after this the Spanish King went to the Ibero-America summit in Argentina (in Dec/2010) and within days of this summit one after another Spanish speaking countries have been coming out calling for a PA State. There was to be an Arab League/S. America summit in mid-Feb which most likely will be cancelled due to the unrest in Egypt....it looked promising there would be a special announcement at that summit if it were to take place.

Peres has always been supporting the creation of a PA State. The outcome of his 5-day visit to Spain in a couple of weeks may be worth watching. I know the Spanish FM is presently in Israel and caused much concern for the settlers.

Take care and may God bless you in all that you do.

Anonymous

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPol...aspx?id=207276

• Peres meets with Spanish FM ahead of visit to Spain

Trinidad Jimenez, Spain’s newly appointed foreign minister, arrived in Israel on Monday for a three-day visit to mark the beginning of 25th anniversary celebrations of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Jimenez met with President Shimon Peres on Monday evening. She told Peres that Spain – especially former prime minister Filipe Gonzalez , with whom the president maintained close ties in the Socialist International – was looking forward to his arrival. Peres is scheduled to begin a five-day visit on February 21.

The two countries forged diplomatic ties on January 17, 1986, despite the unhealed, centuries-old scars of the Spanish Inquisition, which drove Jews out.

In March 1992, then-president Chaim Herzog travelled to Spain to mark the nullification of the edict of expulsion signed on March 31, 1492, by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. On the 500th anniversary of the edict, Herzog and King Juan Carlos attended prayers at a Madrid synagogue.

“We still have many things to do together,” she said.
Jimenez, who was in Washington two weeks ago discussing developments in the Middle East with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, was particularly keen to hear Peres’s views on what he anticipated would happen in the region.

She did not want to limit the discussion to peace endeavors between Israel and the Palestinians, but was much more interested in the wider picture.

She will discuss the same issues with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Opposition leader Tzipi Livni, whose last ministerial post was that of foreign minister.

• Hevron Jews Furious at Spanish FM's Visit

Adar 4, 5771, 08 February 11 01:04

by INN Staff

(Israelnationalnews.com) Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Trinidad Jiménez, visited Hevron Tuesday morning, in order to view a construction project in an Arab neighborhood that her country is partially underwriting.

The area lies between Kiryat Arba and Ma'arat Ha'Machpela (the Tomb of the Patriarchs) and is to house the families of terrorists.

Jiménez did not coordinate her visit to the so-called “Eastern Casbah” neighborhood with Israeli officials, a detail that raised the ire of the Jewish community. Jewish officials said the visit was not coordinated with Israel's Foreign Ministry.

When Kiryat Arba - Hevron officials got wind of the impending visit, however, they promptly fired off a protest letter to Jiménez, in which they said the construction was neither "humanitarian nor cultural," but rather aimed at creating “a hostile demographic buffer, with a potential for terrorism, which could erupt at any moment, at the heart of the tiny Jewish area, near the holy site - the Tomb of the Patriarchs." 

Recalling Spain's expulsion of it's Jewish population 519 years ago, the letter chided Jiménez, saying “Spain is remembered in Jewish history as a country that brought about a great national disaster, betrayed its Jewish citizens and expelled them. A small number of those expelled reached Hevron, where they found refuge and built a Jewish community." 

“Does the government of Spain intend to bring about yet another expulsion of Hevron's Jews – the City of the Patriarchs of the Jewish People?” the letter read.

Hevron spokesman David Wilder told Israel National News that community leaders, including Noam Arnon, held a brief meeting  with Jiménez in Beit Hadassah. 

“She said she was familiar with Jewish history and said she was only visiting to try to help so all can live here peacefully,” Wilder said.

“We are, of course, upset that she met with us for five minutes, and didn't visit the museum," Wilder said, adding that the Jews of Hevron would “appreciate a public declaration of support for the Jewish community.” 

Wilder added, though, that “Jiménez did say specifically that the Spanish government does not support expelling Jews from their homes in Hevron.” Wilder added that “It's very unfortunate that Spain sees fit to participate in such activities and, and the same time – essentially, to ignore us.”

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The Stuxnet Secret

The Stuxnet Secret, by John Loftus

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=194950 Originally published at http://www.amimagazine.org The Stuxnet Secret, (1800 words) By John Loftus Coprighted January 23, 2011 Atty. John J. Loftus, author of America’s Nazi Secret, previously held a Q clearance for nuclear Top Secrets while working for the US Government. First of all, America did not invent the Stuxnet software that recently crippled Iran’s uranium enrichment factories. Stuxnet is the electronic equivalent of a Swiss army knife, each knife contains several different software tools, each of which can turn one specific valve, gauge, or switch on and off. With the right combination of Stuxnet software tools, you can even make certain factory machinery speed up and then slow down. Do this often enough, and you can wreck an entire factory by remote control, as the Iranians are finding out to their chagrin. So who made it? Not the Americans. They were the first victims, not the creators of this brilliant software. One of the best software tools in the Stuxnet switchblade is its ability to inject its infection into a computer using just a UBS thumb drive. These key chain sized devices are so inexpensive, they are often given away as souvenirs. The Stuxnet infection takes place as soon as it is plugged in, even when the UBS drive in the computer is completely shut off. This unusual trick was never even seen before 2008 when someone left a basket full of free thumb drives in the men’s room at CENTCOM Headquarters in Tampa, Florida. Predictably, one of the curious soldiers took a UBS drive and plugged it into his computer at work, which then launched an infection. To this day, CENTCOM does not know who did it. It certainly was not t the US Government, which spent a lot of money trying to figure out whodunit and what they had done to CENTCOM’s vaunted computer security. I suspect it was the Chinese Government who attacked CENTCOM in 2008 as a dry run for their 2009 attack on Iran’s computers. Let me explain. In 2008, the UN’s nuclear inspectors, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) informed the Chinese Government that Iran was developing a nuclear plant using Chinese designed equipment. This caused a bit of an uproar. Now you have to understand that China is run by two different mafia-like gangs. The civilian gangs (the Communist party bureaucrats) make their money by stealing western technology, copying it, and then selling cheaper products back to the west. Eighty five percent of the non-edible goods at Wal-Mart, including the electronics, are made in China. The military gang (the People’s Liberation Army or PLA) runs it own little empire of factories, plants, and industries that have nothing to do with military defense. The PLA even owns its own country, North Korea, which the PLA uses as a black market storefront to sell drugs, guns, missiles, and recently nuclear technology. The PLA’s gang leaders were perfectly willing to risk world peace by trading pieces of the Islamic bomb in return for access to Arab and African oil. When Col. Quadaffi turned his blueprints for nuclear warheads over to the Americans, the documents were written in Chinese. The PLA also sold blueprints for a nuclear processing plant to Pakistan. To China’s horror, the enterprising Pakistanis went into the nuclear black market business for themselves. They renamed the Chinese centrifuge the Pakistan -1 and began selling the P-1’s to Iran. In their defense, the PLA explained that the army only sold obsolete nuclear designs to Pakistan. It was crude and almost unworkable technology that predated China’s signing the Nuclear Non-proliferation Agreement. It was an extremely flimsy and wholly illegal excuse. The Civilian gang leaders were outraged. If word got out, it would ruin China’s peaceful marketing image, and threaten their underwear sales to the west. The US State Department was already banging on Beijing’s door, as a Wkileaks Secret Cable revealed: “In March 2009, the U.S. raised with you our concerns that Pakistans Intralink Incorporated had sought a quote from the Chinese firm Suzhou Testing Instrument Factory for a vibration test system. Intralink Incorporated appears to be closely associated with the Project Management Organization (PMO), the developer of Pakistans Ghaznavi short-range ballistic missile.” Strangely enough, Julian Assange never published this particular cable, perhaps part of an unusual pattern of self-censorship to avoid antagonizing the Chinese leadership. One internet blogger claims that Assange had over a million documents provided by the Chinese before he opened Wikileaks. Whether Assange is a witting or unwitting dupe for Chinese intelligence, is purely a matter for speculation at this point. It is interesting, though, that this particular cable that mentions Suzhou also contains information about China’s illegal deals with Iran. Instead, a disgruntled Wikileaks employee went behind Assange’s back and gave a complete set of the Wikileaks cables to a Swedish newspaper, which promptly released the Suzhou cable without knowing its significance. http://www.aftenposten.no/spesial/wikileaksdokumenter/article3988319.ece The City of Suzhou (formerly Suchow) mentioned in the ballistic missile deal with Pakistan, was also the same place where the Vacon company manufactured controllers for Iran’s illegal centrifuges. The Stuxnet Swiss Army knife was brilliantly and precisely tooled to take over only the Vacon machines and wreck only the centrifuges in Iran. Here’s how it was done. American law forbids the export of certain electronic controllers that run at 600 Hertz or higher because that is the frequency at which uranium centrifuges spin. The Chinese made Vacon controllers in fact operate at 800 hertz to 1200 hertz, so the Stuxnet Swiss Army knife had to be designed to include a sniffer that searched only for gear that ran at the same frequency as a Vacon controller. Since the Vacon was made in a factory in Suzhou, it was not hard for Chinese to get access to the Vacon parts and identify its weaknesses. Once identified, the Chinese could speed up and slow down the Iranian centrifuges and wreck them, while spoofing the gauges in the Iranian control room into reporting that everything was normal. But how to get Stuxnet software past Iranian security? Once again, the Suzhou scientists had an answer. Suzhou’s several industrial parks were the Chinese home for many foreign high tech companies, among them the branch office of RealTik. Apparently, someone in Suzhou stole Realtik’s genuine authentication password and added it to the Stuxnet tool roster. That’s more than a coincidence, that’s three strikes for Suzhou, a city which, it should noted was the high tech research site of the former nuclear defense ministry of the PLA. Why would the Chinese defense industry engage in nuclear proliferation and then reverse course to sabotage Iran’s nuclear weapons program when Iran was China’s second largest oil supplier? Oil is the answer. China’s number one oil supplier is Saudi Arabia, and the Saudis allegedly made it very clear to China that if they continued to help Iran attain a nuclear weapon, not another drop of Arab oil would ever reach China’s shores. The Chinese already knew that the Iranian military and navy was almost strong enough to blockade all oil tankers coming through the narrow Straits of Hormuz, choking off more than 40% of the world’s oil supply. If Iran went crazy, China would go dark. Instead, Saudi Arabia offered China a deal they could not refuse. The Saudi solution was to ship the oil over land, rather than by sea. The Saudis (and all the other Gulf States) were frantically building a network of pipelines to carry their oil to Iraq. From Iraq, another pipeline ran across Syria to the Mediterranean Sea where the Russians were building a giant port. Russia had a lot of oil to sell, but the problem was their supertankers could not fit through the Panama canal. It was costing the Russians a fortune to send their tankers west past Gibraltar, down around the continent of Africa, and then back up to the Asian oil consumers. The Russian solution was Israel. The Israeli government had an existing unused pipeline that ran from Eilat on the Red Sea up to Ashkelon on the Mediterranean Coast. The Israelis reversed the flow, and unloaded Russian tankers at Ashkelon, and piped the oil to the Red Sea, where other tankers could sail to China without ever sailing near Iran’s chokepoint. The Saudi offer to China was simple: China would get a cut by building the world’s largest oil refinery in Deir as Zour, Syria, just across the border from the Iraqi pipeline. Whatever Iran did in the future with the Straits of Hormuz, the Gulf States could ship China all the oil it would ever need through Syria, which would then ship it down the coast to Ashkelon and through the Israeli pipeline to the Red Sea. It meant that in the long run China would sell out Iran and have to side with her Arab enemies. China was agreeable in principal. But first, there was a little problem of cleaning up the PLA’s nuclear mess. In 2007, Israel bombed a secret Syrian nuclear plant in Deir as Zour, Syria, wrecking Iran’s plans to build hundreds of dirty bombs for its proxies to attack Israel. Surprisingly, the Syrian government praised Israel for their discretion in handling the raid. Once the Deir as Zour nuclear plant was rubble, the Chinese government signed the deal to build the world’s largest oil refinery in Deir as Zour Syria in April 2008. To finish cleaning up the last part of the PLA’s proliferation mess, China launched their Stuxnet attack on Iran in June 2009. At first the Iranians blamed the Jews, but then in the Middle East, everybody blames the Jews for everything anyway. This time, it seems the Iranians may have been partly correct. In order to get the Stuxnet Swiss army knife into Iran, someone would have to wrap the Chinese Stuxnet worm inside another software package for infiltration. Experts have confirmed that this separate software wrap around the Stuxnet payload was written in a rushed manner by a second group of programmers who were not the original authors of Stuxnet. It is very possible that the Israeli encryption team of Unit 8200 was responsible for the second software wrap and for the actual delivery. Using the Realtik safety certification stolen in Suzhou, the Stuxnet virus spread slowly but surely throughout the civilian sector of Iran, and slowly infected the government computers without being noticed. Even when it was eventually discovered (by a Byelorussian company) Stuxnet was dismissed as a harmless piece of malware that really didn’t do anything damaging. The reason was that Stuxnet was patiently searching for the Vacon trigger frequency, and then all hell broke loose. By the time the Iranians realized that China was behind the attack, it was too late. The damage had been done. Many centrifuges were wrecked outright. Worse the worm seemed to reinfect the new centrifuges as soon as they were brought online. The embarrassed Russians then had to tell Tehran that the Stuxnet virus had been found in the Busher reactor, and that it could not be started for fear of a meltdown. Iran ordered a cyber counterattack, not against Israel or America, but against China. At midnight on January 12, 2010, the “Iranian Cyber Army” took over China’s biggest internet service, Baidu, and planted the Iranian flag on their website. It was an extreme loss of face for the Chinese leadership. By 11 am, China’s more formidable cyber Army had repulsed the attack, and Chinese hackers began to attack Iran, putting the Chinese flag on Iranian websites, and warning them not to intrude again on China’s cyber turf. Iran backed down. The first battle of the cyber war was over. China had won. Israel didn’t stop fighting. On October 15, 2010, the Israelis used Stuxnet software to cause three separate explosions inside Iranian missile facilities. The press reported that virtually the entire stockpile of Iranian Shehab-3 medium range missiles was destroyed. What was not publicly reported was that the Mossad had timed the blasts to coincide with a visit from Iran’s nuclear weapons team. Most of them were killed in the blast, but five more surviving scientists were assassinated over the next month. This time, Iran blamed Israel instead of China, and they were right. In an usual postscript, Israel is believed to have shared the Stuxnet secret with the American government, so the threat is neutralized. Still, one is left wondering what else the Chinese cyber division has up its sleeve.

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Egypt follow-up: thought you'd find this interesting; I do!

(Israelnationalnews.com) For days now, the mainstream and leftstream media have been telling us that the Muslim Brotherhood is not dangerous, not radically Islamist—but that even if they are Islamist that they are popular amongst the people. Western leftists view the Brothers as engaged in a Hamas-like form of soup kitchen social work/theocratic totalitarianism, but who nevertheless have earned the right to be democratically voted into power by the people. They have been invited to join the negotiations with Mubarak's regime.
Short-sightedly, they claim that if we are serious about standing for democracy and the vote, that we have no choice but to support what may turn out to be an even worse tyranny than that of Mubarak’s.
Such journalists also claim that the Egyptian people in the streets are not “political,” that they are impoverished, broken, barefoot warriors who have heroically risen up for jobs, food, and an end to corruption and tyranny. Indeed, the people may not be “political”—but their heroism may end up benefiting those who, unlike themselves, are already organized militarily, economically, and ideologically—like the Muslim Brotherhood.
On the other hand, unorganized though they may be, the people may still have views and beliefs. According to a June, 2010 Pew opinion survey of Egyptians:
Fifty nine percent said they back Islamists. Only 27% said they back modernizers. Half of Egyptians support Hamas. Thirty percent support Hizbullah and 20% support al Qaida. Moreover, 95% of them would welcome Islamic influence over their politics….Eighty two percent of Egyptians support executing adulterers by stoning, 77% support whipping and cutting the hands off thieves. 84% support executing any Muslim who changes his religion…When this preference is translated into actual government policy, it is clear that the Islam they support is the al Qaida Salafist version.
When given the opportunity, the crowds on the street are not shy about showing what motivates them. They attack Mubarak and his new Vice President Omar Suleiman as American puppets and Zionist agents. The US, protesters told CNN’s Nick Robertson, is controlled by Israel. They hate and want to destroy Israel. That is why they hate Mubarak and Suleiman.
Is this Pew Center survey really true? What other indicators might we rely upon?
In the last week, we have seen massive coverage of the street uprising in Cairo on every major television channel and in print and Internet media of all political persuasions. No one has commented upon what the photos are showing us. Some say that a picture speaks a thousand words—and so it does. Follow along with me.
First, view these photos of Cairo University graduates in 1959, 1978, 1995, and 2004. Clearly, there is a progression—a regression really, in terms of women’s rights. Former women's gains have, increasingly, been washed away.
As you can see, despite the size of the picture, the female graduates in 1959 and 1978 had bare arms, wore short sleeved blouses,  dresses, or pants, and were both bare-faced and bare-headed. By  1995, we see a smattering of headscarves—and by 2004 we see a plurality of female university graduates in serious hijab: Tight, and draping the shoulders.
Class of 1959

Class of 1978
 
Class of 1995

Class of 2004


Now, let’s look at the recent Cairo uprising photos through my eyes. No one has, as yet, commented upon the photos that they have chosen to run.

First, most photos show us mobs of mainly men marching, men at prayer, men shooting, running, falling, wounded in hospitals, standing atop tanks.  These could be scenes from Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan. I am not suggesting that women rush out to join a promised American Nation of Islam style “Million Man March”—as women, they are horribly endangered among groups of men, which is why Muslim men argue that “their” family women must be veiled, sequestered, kept in purdah, strictly supervised, accompanied wherever they go by a male protector.

Muslim men know how licentious they truly are, what their view of all women (who are not their mothers) truly is, and how sexual repression, forced marriage, polygamy (a shortage of available wives for poor men), affects men who have been fired up by a mosque sermon or by a holy war to seize state power.
Women are also shorter, weigh less, and have rarely been trained in boxing, martial arts or weapons training compared to most men; most women cannot hold their own against one angry and determined man, certainly not against thousands of such men.
Yes, there are some female faces in the Cairo mob scenes, but understandably, they are in the minority.

While there are some—very few—female faces that are bare-faced and bareheaded, most women are wearing serious hijab: Pulled low and tight on their foreheads, tied under their chins, covering their necks, draping down to their shoulders.


And, yes, we also see women in niqab, face masks, dark, heavy-looking, with only a slit for their eyes. Were it not for that mere slit, she would be wearing an Afghan burqa or chadri, or a full Saudi covering.

My reading of these photos suggests that Egyptian women have already been Islamified. Whether they have done so to please their loving (or abusive) families or a favorite mullah, whether it was peer pressure from girlhood on that did it; or whether it was the teachings of the Muslim Brotherhood being preached in every mosque, on every media channel, and in school that did it, the fact is:
It is done. Women are veiled. Such women—and their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, will vote for the Muslim Brotherhood to run their country.

I wonder why no media have looked—really looked—at what the photos they themselves are running really tell us about who the “people” in the streets really are.
Prof. Chesler  is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York. She is the author of 15 books and appears often in international media interviews. She lives in New York City.

 Some commentators' remarks on the situation in Egypt:

• From Emanuel Winston:

  Was the attack against the Sinai gas pipeline done by Terrorists, the Muslim Brotherhood or the Egyptian Security Services?

       Who attempted to assassinate Egypt’s newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman?  He was in a motorcade last Monday, January 31st.  He was unharmed but 2 of his bodyguards were killed. 

       Mubarak’s government has been fired or quit but, the protesters across Egypt are still in the streets for the 12^th day.  They say that it is time to turn up the pressure.  People on the streets are only able to continue by donations of food.  Who is busing them in from outlying areas.

       Now there are organized protests in American cities as well as Europe and South America. 

       We saw the organized calls by Facebook for demonstrations in the other Muslim countries circling the Mediterranean.   They have laid out their plans precisely in “Facebook” with ‘pretty pictures’:  DAYS OF RAGE to be held in YEMEN, February 3 and 11; BAHRAIN: February 14; LIBYA: February 17; ALGERIA: February 4 and 17.  The “Social Networks” have done a good job for their purposes of creating chaos.   They are correct historically.  From out of chaos they expect to overturn governments. 

       Who will take over?  Right now it seems that the Muslim Brotherhood is in the background.  But, are they the puppeteers?   Or will they march to power when the ordinary brave protesters are worn out, starved out or beaten up and go home?

• From A.M., who contributed the following articles:
  

It’s starting already!

Either unnoticed – or deliberately unreported – by the Western “news” media, the change in Egypt from an autocratic citizen of the world, to a “democratic” islamic totalitarian system, is in full swing.

The signs of implementation of the Ikhwan’s repeatedly-stated platform are all there: kill the infidels who reject Allah (Christians, Jews, Animists, etc.); break all binding  international treaties which do not improve the position of the jihadis; create the world-wide caliphate; and so on.

Israeli leaders fear that Obama might “sell out” Israel as they did Mubarak, and that Washington might find that Mubarak’s replacement is someone with whom they can’t deal at all. Others opine that Obama actually WANTS an “uncontrollable power” to run Egypt and eliminate Israel, so that no blame for the destruction of the hated Jews can be placed on our amateur president hisself. Cover your tracks at all costs!

For some shocking unreported news and analysis, please read the DEBKAfile report, below. Wonder why it’s “unreported?”

Christians Slaughtered In Southern Egypt

Sunday, February 06, 2011 | Ryan Jones  |  IsraelToday.Co.Il

Last week, just days after the demonstrations to reform or overthrow the Egyptian government got underway, Muslims in the south of the country took advantage of the general chaos to break into two homes belonging to local Coptic Christians and butcher every man, woman and child they could find.
The Muslim assailants massacred eleven people and seriously wounded four others. Two whole families were destroyed.
According to survivors of the attack who spoke to AINA, the Assyrian International News Agency, the attackers were aided by the Christians’ Muslim neighbors. Killed in the attack were a 15-year-old girl, an 8-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy and a little girl only three years old.
There is spreading fear that if Egypt falls into the hands of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, godfather of extremist groups across the region, the 10 million Coptic Christians in Egypt will face severe persecution, or worse.
There is already evidence that the Christians of Egypt are in for a very bumpy ride going forward. On Sunday, the Muslim Brotherhood-led opposition agreed to sit down and talk with newly-appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman. The Christians were not invited to the table, despite being part of the original demonstrations demanding reform.

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Egypt's Western-assisted slide toward Islamic Revolution

Sunday, February 06, 2011 | Ryan Jones   |  IsraelToday.Co.Il
 
It seems 40+ years and a lifetime of diplomatic headaches have not been enough to teach the West its lesson when dealing with uprisings and democracy in the Middle East.
In 1979, Iranians rose up against the repressive but stable rule of the shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. America and Europe felt it was in the best interests of everyone involved to move the shah out of the way and throw open the doors to Western-style democracy. What they did was lay the groundwork for the Islamic Revolution and the rise to power of an even more repressive regime that now threatens the entire region.
And they are repeating the same mistake in Egypt.
When the demonstrations first began in Cairo on January 25, they were led by a large group of students with a list of specific demands. Having himself clearly learned the lesson of the shah’s overthrow, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak subsequently agreed to most of those demands, most importantly the demand that this be his last term in office and that he not establish a dictatorial dynasty with his son taking over next.
A Christian source in Cairo (whose name is being withheld for his own safety) says the uprising should have died down then and there.
“As we followed the unfolding of events including the announced change in government and president Mubarak’s speech, we wondered why the international news media is focusing only on the thousands in Tahrir Square who are escalating their demands and refusing dialogue,” said the source.
According to this man, something changed in the uprising after the first few days, after Mubarak had already agreed to most of the reforms demanded by the original protestors.
“What is happening now has nothing to do with this original protest. What is happening right now is a conspiracy to topple Mubarak from outside the country,” he said. That change coincided with the more visible participation in the uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamic group with ties to extremists across the region.
But this Christian source suggested the situation is far more grave, and more methodical than just a handful of Brotherhood provocateurs entering the crowds.
“Only a few people (hundreds?) are still there from the original protesters,” he noted. “They have been slowly replaced by other highly organized groups that all carry the same model of cell phones and have the same blankets.”
There are even reports that these groups may not be Egyptians at all, with some eye witnesses saying they clearly do not speak Arabic with an Egyptian accent or in the local dialect.
“This is typical of the Muslim Brotherhood, and everybody on the streets of Cairo knows this. We heard people on the streets saying that the plot to take over the country is now clear,” revealed the source. “The escalation of violence…is because of this. Egyptians who love Egypt, the millions that took to the streets yesterday, want this to end.”
The West is afraid of the “Arab street” and is only being fed in that approach by the mainstream media. After all, violence and revolution make a much better story than compliance and smooth reform. In the meantime, average Egyptians like this Christian man and his family are ignored while the radical Islamists are given a global podium.
“Where are those, like myself, that want change and reform, but accept the changes that Mubarak is proposing, and want a peaceful transition through elections in September?” he wondered fruitlessly.
This man reported that over a million people had gathered last week in Cairo expressing acceptance of Mubarak’s proposed reforms and dialogue regarding the outstanding issues. And he said similar demonstrations had been held around the country. Over the weekend, the Mubarak government further complied with protestor demands when the old corrupt leaders of the president’s party all resigned.
“The cry of the people of Egypt is being totally ignored by the international news media,” he said, questioning, “Is this on purpose?”
If the Muslim Brotherhood does take over in Egypt (and it would do so by installing a sympathetic puppet like Mohammed ElBaradei), Israel would find itself direct neighbors with a new Islamic Republic that would dwarf the threat of Hizbullah rule in Lebanon.
Israeli officials are furious at the way the US and Europe are handling the situation.
“I think the Americans still don’t realize the extent of the catastrophe into which they have pushed the Middle East,” Labor Party leader and former Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer told Army Radio.
Ben-Eliezer slammed the Obama White House’s inability to learn from the past:
“We learn from history. We remember what was said when Carter proposed that the Shah of Iran give up nicely and allow Khomeini to take his place. In Gaza, too, when the Americans came in, they supervised the democratic elections [via which Hamas came into power]. If there are elections in Egypt the way the Americans want, I will be surprised if the Muslim Brotherhood does not win. This will be a new Middle East - radical, Islamic and extremist.”
Likud lawmaker Ayoub Kara told visiting Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee that “it needs to be understood that if the Egyptian government will fall, the Muslim Brotherhood will take its place.” Kara said that Obama should also be learning from the mistakes in Iraq, where an American-style democracy has led to a “saturation of terror.”
A leading columnist for Israel’s largest daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, was even harsher, blasting Obama for “selling Mubarak for a pot of lentils,” and “not understanding the Middle East.”
“Our conclusion in Israel needs to be that the man sitting in the White House is liable to ‘sell’ us over night,” concluded the columnist. “The thought that the US might not stand by our side in the day of need causes chills. God help us.”
Former Mossad chief Danny Yatom lamented that the Obama Administration had actually missed a golden opportunity. Yatom told Israel Radio that the situation was ripe for pressure on Mubarak to finally implement real reform, but the US should have worked with the Egyptian leader, not pushed him out of the way and opened the door to chaos. Now, said Yatom, Washington is going to get someone they can’t work with at all.

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Sinai Gas Pipeline Blast. Cairo Diverts Supplies To Israel, Jordan For Domestic Use
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis February 5, 2011, 6:11 PM (GMT+02:00)

                                      Egyptian-Israel gas pipeline sabotaged

         Egypt's suspension of gas supplies to Israel after the North Sinai pipeline was blown up Saturday, Feb 5 has suddenly cut Israel off from 25-30 percent of its gas needs and 80 percent of Jordan's. A few hours after the blast, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq announced the gas supplied to both countries under contract would henceforth be diverted to domestic requirements.

With Egyptian gas cut off for the foreseeable future, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu went into hasty non-stop consultations with ministers and energy military and security officials. Alongside the emergency declared by Israel's electricity corporation, those consultations centered on three additional facets of the crisis: The expanding occupation of North Sinai by Palestinian Hamas extremists from Gaza and anti-Egyptian Bedouin tribesmen, culminating in the gas pipeline explosion; the failure of joint Israeli and Egyptian military efforts to contain it and, thirdly, concerns that Hamas may cross into Israel and sabotage Israeli power stations or fuel reservoirs to bring about the collapse of Israel's electrical power system.
                                        debkafile reported earlier Saturday.

         The pipeline supplying Egyptian gas to Israel and Jordan was blown up near the North Sinai town of El Arish early Saturday Feb. 5.  Egyptian state TV reported "terrorists" had carried out the attack which caused a huge explosion and fire. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu conferred urgently with Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau and energy firms over the abrupt cutoff of 25 percent of Israel's gas needs and ordered security beefed up at energy installations.

      The Egyptian and Israeli accounts are contradictory.

       An Israeli official spokesman said the explosion was nowhere near the Israeli section of the pipeline and closer to the Jordanian branch. The Egyptian spokesman spoke only of supplies to Israel which he said had been suspended as a precaution because there had been several smaller explosions along the pipe.

      The Israeli Infrastructure Ministry spokesman reported that Egyptian gas, which covers 25 percent of Israel's needs, had been cut off at 0900 Saturday morning. He did not foresee regular power supplies being disrupted. 

      debkafile's counter-terror sources report that the attack on the El Arish gas facility was planned on military lines by a special Hamas team which infiltrated Sinai from Gaza last week. It was a major Hamas operation against on Israel (which incidentally supplies most of the Gaza Strip's power), and blatant Palestinian interference in Egypt's domestic unrest. It was also a fiasco for the joint IDF-and Egyptian military effort to police Sinai during the turbulence in Egypt and secure this strategic peninsula against destabilization by terrorists.

       Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen in Cairo were quick to attach responsibility for the pipeline attack on disaffected Bedouin – a clumsy attempt, say debkafile's sources, to clear their offshoot, Hamas, of blame for a well-planned act of which they must have had prior knowledge.

       Jordan is badly hit by the loss of Egyptian gas which covers 80 percent of its energy consumption. The Hashemite kingdom will have to resort to the far more expensive heavy oil and diesel to keep its power supply running and raise fuel prices after the king yielded to Islamist-back protesters' demands to reduce prices.

       The close rapport between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist organizations came to light earlier in the Hezb’Allah-led operation to release Lebanese Hezb’Allah, Palestinian Hamas and Egyptian Brotherhood convicts from Wadi Natrun jail north of Cairo Sunday, Jan. 30, first revealed by debkafile.

       While the Hamas and Hezb’Allah escapees headed for Sinai and Gaza, the MB activists made straight for the hubs of disturbance in Egypt. (Click here for this story.)

The embattled Mubarak administration in Cairo may well find it politic to indefinitely put off repairing the pipe and restoring supplies to Israel for two reasons:

      1. The incident will support Mubarak's argument that his immediate departure as demanded by Obama would throw Egypt into chaos – and not only Egypt, but resonate devastatingly across the entire region. Not just Israel, but its second peace partner, Jordan, is badly hit too by the loss of Egyptian gas which covers 80 percent of its energy consumption. Amman will have to convert to the far more expensive heavy oil and diesel to keep its power supply running. Fuel prices will have to be raised shortly after the king dropped them to quell the Islamist-back protests shaking the kingdom.

      2. Some of the opposition factions backed by the US for a role in future government, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, are fiercely opposed to Egypt's peace relations with Israel which he has promoted for 32 years. The sale of Egyptian gas to Israel has come under constant attack in the street, which has accused the government of undercutting world prices and defrauding the Egyptian treasury.

      The Mubarak regime and Egyptian army may want to show they respect popular opinion and are not American or Israeli pawns by not repairing the pipeline and keeping the gas supply to Israel cut off.

      debkafile reports that the Israeli Infrastructure Ministry's assurance that no power disruptions were foreseen glosses over the serious repercussions of the loss overnight of a quarter of Israel's gas consumption for manufacturing electricity and its lack of gas reserves.

      Israel's power stations will have to switch immediately from gas to heavy oil or coal, a complicated technical process that will have a bad effect on the environment. Energy officials told debkafile Saturday that the power stations affected are Hadera, Haifa (which is partly gas-fueled) and the Tel Aviv Reading facility which was only recently converted to gas. All Israel's emergency electricity stations are also powered by gas

        Therefore, the Infrastructure Ministry's assurance may have been premature.

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