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holen", fordert Linken-Vize Sahra Wagenknecht nach dem Studium der
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1. PA Rejects Vatican Status at UN without EU Recognition
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Palestinian Authority once again has refused any compromise on its demands and insists it will not settle for a United Nations status similar to that of the Vatican.
Foreign Minister Riyad Malki has denied claims that the Palestinian Authority had received an offer from the European Union that it receive observer status similar to that of the Vatican.
He told Voice of Palestine radio that Palestine could easily get an observer, or non-member, status at the United Nations without any need for an official offer since it has a majority of votes that are needed to achieve that in the General Assembly.
Malki said the “Vatican option” is meaningless without European Union recognition of the Palestinian Authority.
However, the Quartet – the European Union, United States, United Nations and Russia’ – are divided among themselves.
Russia, and several European countries, are strongly against any Jewish presence in all of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and also are not enthusiastic about Israel's being recognized as a “Jewish state.”
While Western diplomats shuttle back and forth between Jerusalem and Ramallah trying to work out a diplomatic face-saving agreement, senior Palestinian Authority official Nabil Shaath was quoted in The New York Times Sunday as saying, “Whatever is to be offered, it is too late.”
Comment on this story
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Palestinian Authority once again has refused any compromise on its demands and insists it will not settle for a United Nations status similar to that of the Vatican.
Foreign Minister Riyad Malki has denied claims that the Palestinian Authority had received an offer from the European Union that it receive observer status similar to that of the Vatican.
He told Voice of Palestine radio that Palestine could easily get an observer, or non-member, status at the United Nations without any need for an official offer since it has a majority of votes that are needed to achieve that in the General Assembly.
Malki said the “Vatican option” is meaningless without European Union recognition of the Palestinian Authority.
However, the Quartet – the European Union, United States, United Nations and Russia’ – are divided among themselves.
Russia, and several European countries, are strongly against any Jewish presence in all of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and also are not enthusiastic about Israel's being recognized as a “Jewish state.”
While Western diplomats shuttle back and forth between Jerusalem and Ramallah trying to work out a diplomatic face-saving agreement, senior Palestinian Authority official Nabil Shaath was quoted in The New York Times Sunday as saying, “Whatever is to be offered, it is too late.”
Comment on this story
2. US Desperate to Resurrect Peace Process
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Obama administration is making a desperate last-minute attempt to return to the “peace process” and stop the Palestinian Authority from going to the United Nations for recognition, The New York Times reported Sunday morning.
It said that the United States has presented a new proposal to bring PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas back to direct discussions with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but while ”the Israelis have so far responded positively to the draft… the Palestinian position remains unclear.”
Details of the proposal are not known, but it generally reflects President Barack Obama’s new “roadmap” he stated in May, including a return to old borders with the possibility of “land swaps.”
Abbas has rejected the idea, and there is a near-zero chance that Arabs with Israeli citizenship would agree to give up their rights and become citizens of a Palestinian Authority country.
Abbas also has refused to recognize Israel as a “Jewish state,” a statement that would preclude fulfilling his desire to flood Israel with several million foreign Arabs claiming the right to live in the country.
The State Department has appealed to approximately 70 countries to vote against a General Assembly non-binding resolution that would recognize the Palestinian Authority as an independent state based on its unilateral territorial demands.
The pro-Arab General Assembly is almost certain to back the resolution, but the United States is trying to narrow the margin if it cannot convince Abbas to return to talks with Israel.
The resolution, if passed, would change the Palestinian Authority’s status from a non-voting observer to that of a “state” although it would not have full membership.
However, the PA would be able to join United Nations committees and run to the International Criminal Court with charges against Israel.
Formal membership would have to go through the United Nations Security Council, where the United States would probably exercise a veto.
The Times said that the Obama administration is afraid that the symbolic recognition and/or an American veto might spark violence throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
Comment on this story
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Obama administration is making a desperate last-minute attempt to return to the “peace process” and stop the Palestinian Authority from going to the United Nations for recognition, The New York Times reported Sunday morning.
It said that the United States has presented a new proposal to bring PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas back to direct discussions with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but while ”the Israelis have so far responded positively to the draft… the Palestinian position remains unclear.”
Details of the proposal are not known, but it generally reflects President Barack Obama’s new “roadmap” he stated in May, including a return to old borders with the possibility of “land swaps.”
Abbas has rejected the idea, and there is a near-zero chance that Arabs with Israeli citizenship would agree to give up their rights and become citizens of a Palestinian Authority country.
Abbas also has refused to recognize Israel as a “Jewish state,” a statement that would preclude fulfilling his desire to flood Israel with several million foreign Arabs claiming the right to live in the country.
The State Department has appealed to approximately 70 countries to vote against a General Assembly non-binding resolution that would recognize the Palestinian Authority as an independent state based on its unilateral territorial demands.
The pro-Arab General Assembly is almost certain to back the resolution, but the United States is trying to narrow the margin if it cannot convince Abbas to return to talks with Israel.
The resolution, if passed, would change the Palestinian Authority’s status from a non-voting observer to that of a “state” although it would not have full membership.
However, the PA would be able to join United Nations committees and run to the International Criminal Court with charges against Israel.
Formal membership would have to go through the United Nations Security Council, where the United States would probably exercise a veto.
The Times said that the Obama administration is afraid that the symbolic recognition and/or an American veto might spark violence throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
Comment on this story
3. Netanyahu Says UNג€™s Palmer Report Exposes IHH Motives
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The United Nation’s Palmer report, leaked last week, exposes the IHH’s flotilla last year as having no humanitarian motives and clearly shows that there is no “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office stated Saturday night.
The report said that Israel was within its legal rights to stop the Mavi Mamara ship that carried IHH terror activists who brutally assaulted Navy commandos who boarded the ship. The Palmer report charged that the commandos used unnecessary force to defend themselves, an accusation Prime Minister Netanyahu said is wrong.
He noted, “Israeli soldiers boarded the vessels with non-lethal means and with no intention of causing any harm. When they were brutally attacked by dozens of violent IHH activists armed with clubs, knives and steel pipes, the Israeli soldiers were forced to defend themselves. After many soldiers were injured during the operation, nine of the IHH members who were endangering IDF soldiers were killed.
“It should be emphasized that beyond ratifying the legality of the blockade, the report determines that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and that anyone interested in sending humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip must do so in coordination with Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and must transfer the aid via the land crossings.
“This naval blockade {on Hamas-controlled Gaza] was put into place to prevent the smuggling of missiles and other weapons to Hamas, a terror organization which controls Gaza and is supported by Iran. Over the last few years, Hamas has fired over 10,000 rockets and mortar shells with the objective of striking Israeli civilian targets.”
The Prime Minister also stated that the manner in which the commandos boarded the vessel was not “excessive and unreasonable,” as claimed in the Palmer report.
Joseph Ciechanover, an Israeli representative on the Palmer committee, added, “The Report rightly finding serious questions about ‘the conduct, true nature and objectives of the flotilla organizers, particularly IHH,’ notes that they planned ‘in advance to violently resist any boarding attempt’ and classifies the decision to breach the blockade of Gaza as a ‘dangerous and reckless act,’ which ‘needlessly carried the potential for escalation.’
“The Panel confirmed that video footage showed that passengers were wearing ‘bullet proof vests, and carrying metal bars, slingshots, chains and staves’ and that this information ‘supports the accounts of violence given by IDF personnel to the Israeli investigation.’
“The Panel further confirms that ‘two soldiers received gunshot wounds, three soldiers were captured, mistreated, and placed at risk’ and that ‘seven soldiers were wounded by passengers, some seriously.’”
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad expressed “deep concern” over the report Saturday night. He said that calling the naval blockade legal is “appalling” and “encourages Israel to continue to violate the rights of our Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip.”
Comment on this story
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The United Nation’s Palmer report, leaked last week, exposes the IHH’s flotilla last year as having no humanitarian motives and clearly shows that there is no “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office stated Saturday night.
The report said that Israel was within its legal rights to stop the Mavi Mamara ship that carried IHH terror activists who brutally assaulted Navy commandos who boarded the ship. The Palmer report charged that the commandos used unnecessary force to defend themselves, an accusation Prime Minister Netanyahu said is wrong.
He noted, “Israeli soldiers boarded the vessels with non-lethal means and with no intention of causing any harm. When they were brutally attacked by dozens of violent IHH activists armed with clubs, knives and steel pipes, the Israeli soldiers were forced to defend themselves. After many soldiers were injured during the operation, nine of the IHH members who were endangering IDF soldiers were killed.
“It should be emphasized that beyond ratifying the legality of the blockade, the report determines that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and that anyone interested in sending humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip must do so in coordination with Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and must transfer the aid via the land crossings.
“This naval blockade {on Hamas-controlled Gaza] was put into place to prevent the smuggling of missiles and other weapons to Hamas, a terror organization which controls Gaza and is supported by Iran. Over the last few years, Hamas has fired over 10,000 rockets and mortar shells with the objective of striking Israeli civilian targets.”
The Prime Minister also stated that the manner in which the commandos boarded the vessel was not “excessive and unreasonable,” as claimed in the Palmer report.
Joseph Ciechanover, an Israeli representative on the Palmer committee, added, “The Report rightly finding serious questions about ‘the conduct, true nature and objectives of the flotilla organizers, particularly IHH,’ notes that they planned ‘in advance to violently resist any boarding attempt’ and classifies the decision to breach the blockade of Gaza as a ‘dangerous and reckless act,’ which ‘needlessly carried the potential for escalation.’
“The Panel confirmed that video footage showed that passengers were wearing ‘bullet proof vests, and carrying metal bars, slingshots, chains and staves’ and that this information ‘supports the accounts of violence given by IDF personnel to the Israeli investigation.’
“The Panel further confirms that ‘two soldiers received gunshot wounds, three soldiers were captured, mistreated, and placed at risk’ and that ‘seven soldiers were wounded by passengers, some seriously.’”
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad expressed “deep concern” over the report Saturday night. He said that calling the naval blockade legal is “appalling” and “encourages Israel to continue to violate the rights of our Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip.”
Comment on this story
4. Social Justice May Boomerang at the Polls
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
A new poll shows that the reaction at the polls could be a slap in the face to center-left Kadima and the left-wing Labor party without hurting nationalist and religious parties and clearly illusrates that the protest movement has not made a political dent in the government coalition.
The results of the Panorama poll, released on Voice of Israel government radio last week, are a blow to the ”social justice” protest movement that has tried to set up the Netanyahu government as the source of most of Israel’s social and economic problems.
If elections were held now, the Likud party would maintain its 27 seats, the strongly nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party would gain one seat and win 16 mandates, the Shas religious party would also add one seat and have 12 Knesset Members, and the national religious parties would maintain their strength. The hareidi religious United Torah Judaism party would win six seats, one more than the present five.
On the other hand, Kadima’s strength would plummet from 28 to 18, and Labor would lose three of its 13 MKs, despite those parties having an active presence at the "tent cities." The benefactors would be the new Independence (Atzmaut) party headed by Ehud Barak, the Green party, which never has succeeded in gaining Knesset representation, and the left-wing Meretz faction, which would double its Knesset membership from three to six.
The Arab parties also would maintain their present strength if elections were held now.
Voice of Israel, which along with center-left newspapers has been promoting the social justice movement and providing day-to-day and sometimes hour-to-hour coverage of minor activities at demonstrations, did not post the results of the poll on its website, an indication that the findings were not according to its desires and expectations.
Comment on this story
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
A new poll shows that the reaction at the polls could be a slap in the face to center-left Kadima and the left-wing Labor party without hurting nationalist and religious parties and clearly illusrates that the protest movement has not made a political dent in the government coalition.
The results of the Panorama poll, released on Voice of Israel government radio last week, are a blow to the ”social justice” protest movement that has tried to set up the Netanyahu government as the source of most of Israel’s social and economic problems.
If elections were held now, the Likud party would maintain its 27 seats, the strongly nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party would gain one seat and win 16 mandates, the Shas religious party would also add one seat and have 12 Knesset Members, and the national religious parties would maintain their strength. The hareidi religious United Torah Judaism party would win six seats, one more than the present five.
On the other hand, Kadima’s strength would plummet from 28 to 18, and Labor would lose three of its 13 MKs, despite those parties having an active presence at the "tent cities." The benefactors would be the new Independence (Atzmaut) party headed by Ehud Barak, the Green party, which never has succeeded in gaining Knesset representation, and the left-wing Meretz faction, which would double its Knesset membership from three to six.
The Arab parties also would maintain their present strength if elections were held now.
Voice of Israel, which along with center-left newspapers has been promoting the social justice movement and providing day-to-day and sometimes hour-to-hour coverage of minor activities at demonstrations, did not post the results of the poll on its website, an indication that the findings were not according to its desires and expectations.
Comment on this story
5. Golda Meir Sought Bombing of Auschwitz, New Research Shows
by Dr. Rafael Medoff
Seventy years ago today, the first gassing of prisoners was carried out in the Auschwitz death camp. Now researchers have found evidence that Golda Meir, future prime minister of Israel and an American citizen, tried to persuade the United States government to bomb the camp.
On September 3, 1941, the Nazis gassed to death 850 prisoners in Auschwitz. During the next three years, an estimated 1.75-million prisoners, most of them Jews, were murdered in the gas chambers there.
A number of Jewish leaders asked the Roosevelt administration to bomb the camp, or the railways leading to it, in 1944. What was not known until now is that one of those who sought the bombing was a young Zionist leader in Palestine who would later become Israel's most renowned prime minister: Golda Meir.
Researchers from The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C., recently discovered documents in American and Israeli archives revealing the role of Mrs. Meir in the bombing controversy.
A report on the documents, "Golda Meir and the Campaign for an Allied Bombing of Auschwitz," has been posted on www.WymanInstitute.org.
The documents have been provided to the TALI Education Fund in Israel, for inclusion in its forthcoming curriculum on Israel-Diaspora relations, "Friends Across the Ocean." The curriculum will be used in 90 Israeli public schools, with 40,000 students, as part of a new educational track emphasizing the responsibility of Jews in Israel and abroad to help each other.
Prof. Henry Feingold, author of The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945, and president emeritus of the Labor Zionists of America, provided the following statement to the Wyman Institute: "These documents shed new light on efforts by Labor Zionists in Europe and Palestine to bring about the bombing of Auschwitz. This information needs to be included in accounts of the Jewish response to the Nazi genocide."
In the 1940s, Mrs. Meir, known as Goldie Myerson, was a senior official of the Histadrut, the powerful Jewish labor federation in British Mandatory Palestine. She and her colleagues received many harrowing messages from their Labor Zionist colleagues in Europe about Nazi atrocities. The authors of one such message located by the Wyman Institute described themselves as "separated from you by a sea of blood and continents heaped with corpses."
In an exchange of correspondence uncovered by the Wyman Institute, Mrs. Meir forwarded one of the European messages to the Histadrut's U.S. representative, Israel Mereminski, in July 1944 together with an appeal to ask U.S. officials to undertake "the bombing of Oswienzim [Auschwitz] and railway transporting Jews" to the death camp [Typographical error in the original telegram. "Oswiecim" was the Polish name for Auschwitz].
Meir's appeal was cosigned by another Histadrut official, Heschel Frumkin.
Mereminski replied that he contacted the U.S. government's War Refugee Board, which in turn submitted "to competent authorities" the Meir-Frumkin request for "destruction gas chambers, crematories, and so forth."
The August 1944 issue of Jewish Frontier, the U.S. Labor Zionist journal, featured an unsigned editorial calling for "Allied bombings of the death camps and the roads leading to them..." The editorial was highly unusual; almost all appeals for bombing the death camps were made through private channels. Although Mereminski is not known to have been involved in writing editorials for Jewish Frontier, he was a senior figure in Labor Zionist activity in America and was closely acquainted with its editors; it seems likely that his contacts with Meir, Frumkin, and the War Refugee Board on this issue played a role in bringing about the editorial.
Jewish leaders who requested the bombing of Auschwitz invariably received a stock reply from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy, claiming it was "impracticable" because it would require "diversion of considerable air support essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisive operations." Research by Prof. David S. Wyman later revealed that, in fact, U.S. planes in 1944 repeatedly bombed German oil targets adjacent to Auschwitz--some of them less than five miles from the gas chambers--so it would not have been a "diversion" to have them strike the mass murder facilities. (See Prof. Wyman's The Abandonment of the Jews [1984], pp. 288-307.)
Dr. Rafael Medoff is Director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
Comment on this story
by Dr. Rafael Medoff
Seventy years ago today, the first gassing of prisoners was carried out in the Auschwitz death camp. Now researchers have found evidence that Golda Meir, future prime minister of Israel and an American citizen, tried to persuade the United States government to bomb the camp.
On September 3, 1941, the Nazis gassed to death 850 prisoners in Auschwitz. During the next three years, an estimated 1.75-million prisoners, most of them Jews, were murdered in the gas chambers there.
A number of Jewish leaders asked the Roosevelt administration to bomb the camp, or the railways leading to it, in 1944. What was not known until now is that one of those who sought the bombing was a young Zionist leader in Palestine who would later become Israel's most renowned prime minister: Golda Meir.
Researchers from The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C., recently discovered documents in American and Israeli archives revealing the role of Mrs. Meir in the bombing controversy.
A report on the documents, "Golda Meir and the Campaign for an Allied Bombing of Auschwitz," has been posted on www.WymanInstitute.org.
The documents have been provided to the TALI Education Fund in Israel, for inclusion in its forthcoming curriculum on Israel-Diaspora relations, "Friends Across the Ocean." The curriculum will be used in 90 Israeli public schools, with 40,000 students, as part of a new educational track emphasizing the responsibility of Jews in Israel and abroad to help each other.
Prof. Henry Feingold, author of The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945, and president emeritus of the Labor Zionists of America, provided the following statement to the Wyman Institute: "These documents shed new light on efforts by Labor Zionists in Europe and Palestine to bring about the bombing of Auschwitz. This information needs to be included in accounts of the Jewish response to the Nazi genocide."
In the 1940s, Mrs. Meir, known as Goldie Myerson, was a senior official of the Histadrut, the powerful Jewish labor federation in British Mandatory Palestine. She and her colleagues received many harrowing messages from their Labor Zionist colleagues in Europe about Nazi atrocities. The authors of one such message located by the Wyman Institute described themselves as "separated from you by a sea of blood and continents heaped with corpses."
In an exchange of correspondence uncovered by the Wyman Institute, Mrs. Meir forwarded one of the European messages to the Histadrut's U.S. representative, Israel Mereminski, in July 1944 together with an appeal to ask U.S. officials to undertake "the bombing of Oswienzim [Auschwitz] and railway transporting Jews" to the death camp [Typographical error in the original telegram. "Oswiecim" was the Polish name for Auschwitz].
Meir's appeal was cosigned by another Histadrut official, Heschel Frumkin.
Mereminski replied that he contacted the U.S. government's War Refugee Board, which in turn submitted "to competent authorities" the Meir-Frumkin request for "destruction gas chambers, crematories, and so forth."
The August 1944 issue of Jewish Frontier, the U.S. Labor Zionist journal, featured an unsigned editorial calling for "Allied bombings of the death camps and the roads leading to them..." The editorial was highly unusual; almost all appeals for bombing the death camps were made through private channels. Although Mereminski is not known to have been involved in writing editorials for Jewish Frontier, he was a senior figure in Labor Zionist activity in America and was closely acquainted with its editors; it seems likely that his contacts with Meir, Frumkin, and the War Refugee Board on this issue played a role in bringing about the editorial.
Jewish leaders who requested the bombing of Auschwitz invariably received a stock reply from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy, claiming it was "impracticable" because it would require "diversion of considerable air support essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisive operations." Research by Prof. David S. Wyman later revealed that, in fact, U.S. planes in 1944 repeatedly bombed German oil targets adjacent to Auschwitz--some of them less than five miles from the gas chambers--so it would not have been a "diversion" to have them strike the mass murder facilities. (See Prof. Wyman's The Abandonment of the Jews [1984], pp. 288-307.)
Dr. Rafael Medoff is Director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
Comment on this story
6. Turkey Declares Diplomatic Cold War on Israel
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Turkey has unofficially declared a diplomatic cold war, recalling its ambassador and threatening to charge Israel in the International Court.
Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu announced on Friday that Ankara was not only recalling its ambassador but also “will reduce its level of diplomatic representation in Israel to that of second secretary, a lower rank than consul.
The action was taken in response to a United Nations report stating that the Israeli naval blockade on Hamas-controlled Gaza is legal and that the Turkish-based and financed IHH flotilla last year was a “reckless” act. Nine IHH terror activists were killed when they brutally assaulted Israeli Navy commandos who stopped the boat from continuing en route to Gaza.
Davutoglu also said Turkey is suspending all military agreements with Israel, which has refused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demand for an apology for the incident.
His government worsened tensions on Saturday with a threat to take Israel to court.
"What is binding is the International Court of Justice," Davutoglu said. "This is what we are saying: let the International Court of Justice decide. We are starting the necessary legal procedures this coming week.”
Although the United Nations issued the report on the flotilla clash, the international body did not endorse the findings of the Palmer Commission, meaning that the conclusions are not binding and thus leave open the path of challenging Israel in the International Court.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon responded, "The problem here is on the Turkish side... They were not ready for a compromise and kept raising the threshold. I think we need to say to the Turks: as far as we are concerned, this saga is behind us. Now we need to cooperate. Lack of cooperation harms not only us, but Turkey as well."
Israel’s Foreign Minister is preparing for the possibility that Turkey might send its navy to escort another flotilla effort to reach Gaza.
Comment on this story
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Turkey has unofficially declared a diplomatic cold war, recalling its ambassador and threatening to charge Israel in the International Court.
Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu announced on Friday that Ankara was not only recalling its ambassador but also “will reduce its level of diplomatic representation in Israel to that of second secretary, a lower rank than consul.
The action was taken in response to a United Nations report stating that the Israeli naval blockade on Hamas-controlled Gaza is legal and that the Turkish-based and financed IHH flotilla last year was a “reckless” act. Nine IHH terror activists were killed when they brutally assaulted Israeli Navy commandos who stopped the boat from continuing en route to Gaza.
Davutoglu also said Turkey is suspending all military agreements with Israel, which has refused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demand for an apology for the incident.
His government worsened tensions on Saturday with a threat to take Israel to court.
"What is binding is the International Court of Justice," Davutoglu said. "This is what we are saying: let the International Court of Justice decide. We are starting the necessary legal procedures this coming week.”
Although the United Nations issued the report on the flotilla clash, the international body did not endorse the findings of the Palmer Commission, meaning that the conclusions are not binding and thus leave open the path of challenging Israel in the International Court.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon responded, "The problem here is on the Turkish side... They were not ready for a compromise and kept raising the threshold. I think we need to say to the Turks: as far as we are concerned, this saga is behind us. Now we need to cooperate. Lack of cooperation harms not only us, but Turkey as well."
Israel’s Foreign Minister is preparing for the possibility that Turkey might send its navy to escort another flotilla effort to reach Gaza.
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7. Arab MK Praises Turkish Defiance of Israel
by Gil Ronen
MK Ibrahim Sarsoor, chairman of the Raam Taal faction, published praise on Friday for Turkey's belligerent stance toward Israel following the Palmer report on the 2010 Gaza flotilla incident.
"Autopsies of the bodies of those killed proved that they had come under massive fire from the Israeli commandos, who fired at their backs and abdominal areas" he wrote. "This means [that they committed] cold blooded murder of civilians who did not pose a threat to the Israeli soldiers."
Sarsoor went on to say that "Israel's ongoing attempts to evade Turkish demands, through its suggestion to merely express regret for killing Turkish civilians, is not helpful in light of the Turkish position that is unwilling to accept bargaining at the expense of the Turkish nation and the [Muslim] Ummah."
Waxing poetic, Sarsoor said: "There is no doubt that Turkey's strong stance will be a model for future Arab positions, and so the [Muslim] Ummah shall begin to write its history anew, and so history shall return to us the taste of pride of the great Muslim historical epics."
Sarsoor went on to incite Egypt to imitate Turkey: "The Turkish leadership's stance in defense of its positions despite American attempts and mediation that served Israel, as they always do, is a lesson to the Arab leadership, and especially to the Egyptian one, after Israel recently cold bloodedly killed five Egyptian soldiers without paying any price for it."
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by Gil Ronen
MK Ibrahim Sarsoor, chairman of the Raam Taal faction, published praise on Friday for Turkey's belligerent stance toward Israel following the Palmer report on the 2010 Gaza flotilla incident.
"Autopsies of the bodies of those killed proved that they had come under massive fire from the Israeli commandos, who fired at their backs and abdominal areas" he wrote. "This means [that they committed] cold blooded murder of civilians who did not pose a threat to the Israeli soldiers."
Sarsoor went on to say that "Israel's ongoing attempts to evade Turkish demands, through its suggestion to merely express regret for killing Turkish civilians, is not helpful in light of the Turkish position that is unwilling to accept bargaining at the expense of the Turkish nation and the [Muslim] Ummah."
Waxing poetic, Sarsoor said: "There is no doubt that Turkey's strong stance will be a model for future Arab positions, and so the [Muslim] Ummah shall begin to write its history anew, and so history shall return to us the taste of pride of the great Muslim historical epics."
Sarsoor went on to incite Egypt to imitate Turkey: "The Turkish leadership's stance in defense of its positions despite American attempts and mediation that served Israel, as they always do, is a lesson to the Arab leadership, and especially to the Egyptian one, after Israel recently cold bloodedly killed five Egyptian soldiers without paying any price for it."
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8. Egypt Denies it will Destroy Gaza Tunnels
by Gil Ronen
As Egyptian military forces entered the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt's representative in the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Asman, denied reports that they intend to destroy the tunnels that help smugglers cross the Egyptian-Gaza border.
He was reacting to a report in the Egyptian Al-Sharook newspaper, which said that four heavy machines that (literally) have earth-shaking capabilities have been brought to the Egypt-Gaza border area in order to destroy the tunnels.
Speaking to Quds.Net, Asman said there was no truth in reports that the Egyptian army will destroy the tunnels. The only purpose of the military deployment in Sinai, he said, is to supervise the border with Gaza and prevent the smuggling of weapons and drugs.
Egypt will not participate in the blockade of Gaza, he said. What is more, he said, Cairo "will support all of the positions that demand the Israeli blockade be removed."
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by Gil Ronen
As Egyptian military forces entered the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt's representative in the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Asman, denied reports that they intend to destroy the tunnels that help smugglers cross the Egyptian-Gaza border.
He was reacting to a report in the Egyptian Al-Sharook newspaper, which said that four heavy machines that (literally) have earth-shaking capabilities have been brought to the Egypt-Gaza border area in order to destroy the tunnels.
Speaking to Quds.Net, Asman said there was no truth in reports that the Egyptian army will destroy the tunnels. The only purpose of the military deployment in Sinai, he said, is to supervise the border with Gaza and prevent the smuggling of weapons and drugs.
Egypt will not participate in the blockade of Gaza, he said. What is more, he said, Cairo "will support all of the positions that demand the Israeli blockade be removed."
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L’avenir de la Libye selon les plans de l’OTAN
par Manlio Dinucci
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Le 4 septembre 2011
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 Dans la représentation médiatique de la guerre de Libye, les « rebelles » dominent la scène, tandis que l’OTAN s’est mise à l’abri en coulisses. Mais c’est pourtant depuis sa cabine de régie que la guerre a été préparée et dirigée et que se décide le futur arrangement du pays.
La
mission de l’OTAN est « efficace et encore nécessaire », a déclaré la
porte-parole Oana Lungescu. Personne n’en doute : en cinq mois de «
protection unifiée », ont été effectués 21 mille raids aériens, dont
plus de 8 mille d’attaques avec bombes et missiles, pendant que des
dizaines de navires de guerre ont attaqué avec des missiles et des
hélicoptères et contrôlé les eaux territoriales libyennes pour assurer
l’embargo des forces gouvernementales et les approvisionnements de
celles du Cnt de Benghazi. En même temps, des agents et des forces
spéciales des Etats-Unis, Grande-Bretagne, France et autres pays, ont
joué un rôle clé sur le terrain, en signalant aux avions les objectifs à
frapper, en plus de préparer et conduire l’attaque contre Tripoli.
L’OTAN a joué un rôle décisif sans lequel les rebelles n’auraient jamais
pu entrer à Tripoli, comme le confirme le général allemand Egon Ramms.
Notre
mission, a déclaré le secrétaire général de l’Alliance, Anders Fogh
Rasmussen, continuera tant que continueront les attaques et les menaces
(sic). Cela signifie-t-il que, une fois la « mission » accomplie, l’OTAN
laissera aux Libyens la possibilité de décider de l’avenir de leur pays
? En aucune manière. Elle passera à la phase 2 de la « mission ». Il n’existe simplement pas de solution militaire
à cette crise, souligne un communiqué de l’Alliance, mais nous avons
besoin d’un processus politique pour une transition pacifique à la
démocratie en Libye. Et l’OTAN, assure Rasmussen, est prête à jouer un
rôle de soutien.
Le secrétaire général de l’Alliance, Anders Fogh RasmussenOn ne spécifie pas de quelle manière, mais un plan général -décidé fondamentalement à Washington, Londres et Paris- est déjà prêt. Des détails ont filtré à travers les déclarations de quelques fonctionnaires. Formellement à la demande du futur gouvernement (dirigé par des hommes politiques garants des intérêts des plus grandes puissances occidentales), l’OTAN continuera à contrôler l’espace aérien et les eaux territoriales de la Libye. Officiellement pour assurer les aides humanitaires et protéger le personnel civil sous bannière Onu. Cela nécessitera le libre accès aux ports et aéroports libyens, qui seront de fait transformés en bases militaires OTAN même si on y déploiera le drapeau rouge, noir et vert -celui-là même du régime du roi Idris qui, dans les années 50, concéda à la Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis l’usage du territoire pour y implanter des bases militaires, comme celle de la base aérienne de Wheelus Field aux portes de Tripoli. Un emplacement idéal, aujourd’hui, pour le quartier général du Commandement Afrique des Etats-Unis.
L’OTAN
ne cesse de répéter qu’elle n’a pas l’intention d'envoyer des troupes
en Libye, mais n’exclut cependant pas que des alliés, de façon
singulière, le fassent, ou bien l’Ue, qui a déjà ses groupes de combat à
déploiement rapides prêts.
En
même temps, l’OTAN entraînera et armera les « forces de sécurité »
libyennes. Concept tout relatif. Le responsable de la sécurité à
Tripoli, nommé avec placet OTAN,
est Abdel Hakim Belhadj, qui, à son retour de la jihad anti-soviétique
en Afghanistan, forma en Libye le Groupe combattant islamique. Il fut
capturé par la Cia en Malaisie en 2004 mais, après la normalisation avec
Tripoli, renvoyé en Libye, où (sur la base d’accord entre les deux
services secrets) il fût remis en liberté en 2010. C’est lui qui
garantira, en habit de président du conseil militaire de Tripoli, la
transition pacifique à la démocratie en Libye.
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