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US official Rose Gottemoeller calls for Israel to sign non-proliferation treaty

Abraham Rabinovich, Jerusalem | May 08, 2009

A CALL by a US official for Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has raised fears in Jerusalem that the Obama administration may be seeking to block the Iranian nuclear threat by sacrificing Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.

US Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller said this week: "Universal adherence to the NPT, including by India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea, remains a fundamental objective of the United States."

The US has quietly accepted Israel's nuclear ambitions over the years because the Jewish state's perceived vulnerability in the Middle East lent legitimacy to its desire for a "doomsday" weapon that could deter its enemies.

"In the past, there was an informal agreement by which the Americans looked the other way (regarding Israel's nuclear program)," said Uzi Even, a former Knesset member and a scientist who was involved in the program. "Now the US is breaching this agreement."

A senior official in Israel's Foreign Ministry said the ministry was "trying to verify" Ms Gottemoeller's statement, apparently meaning it was attempting to determine whether it meant a departure by the new US administration from previous policy. "In any case, it's baffling."

Under the treaty, only five nations are allowed to hold nuclear weapons - the US, Russia, Britain, France and China. All other signatories are obliged not to develop nuclear weapons.

Those that already have nuclear weapons are required to gradually rid themselves of them.

The only non-signatories in the world are the four countries cited by Ms Gottemoeller. India, Pakistan and North Korea have tested nuclear devices. Israel has not but is reported to have up to 200 nuclear warheads.

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Accusations With Regard to Israeli War Crimes Must be Investigated

by Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Other Occupied Territories

On 23 March Richard Falk, the American Professor of International Law and UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Other Occupied Territories, gave his eagerly awaited oral statement to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on the human rights situation in the Gaza strip during the last war lasting from Dec 27, 2008 to 18 January 2009. In this report he blatantly expounded the gross violation of law by the Israeli Army during the war in Gaza, which had lasted for 22 days. Thereby he questioned the Israeli reasoning that this had been a legitimate war of self defense and he demanded an investigation into the question, whether the assault on Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, had to be assessed as a war crime, for which Israel would be accountable. It is not the first time that an Israeli assault on the Palestinians was entirely disproportional and not at all in accordance with the international law. After Richard Falk’s clear statement the community of states have to ask themselves for how long they want to look on without taking any action against Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians.
Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council, Honoured Representatives of Civil Society Organizations, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
In my previous statement to the Council, I spoke about the desperate situation confronting occupied Gaza. Here, I will not repeat what I already said concerning Gaza, except to take note of two important aspects of the situation not covered in my main report.

First of all, the continuation of the blockade of Gaza, despite its previous impact on the civilian population since the cease-fire was established in January 2009, and despite calls by many prominent international leaders, including by Tony Blair, Special Envoy of the Quartet for the opening of the crossings and the President of the United States. Second, to take note of recent testimonies of Israeli soldiers that add credible confirmation to the allegations of Israeli war crimes associated with the 27 December and 18 January attacks.

An unfortunate effect of recent preoccupations with the desperate humanitarian plight of Gaza has been to neglect developments adverse to the human rights of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. These developments appear to have a serious, and perhaps, a decisive negative bearing on the prospects of achieving peace between the Palestinians and Israelis, and deliberately obstruct the exercise of the right of self-determination on the part of the Palestinian people.

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Leon Panetta's mission to stop Israel bombing Iranian nuclear plant

May 15, 2009

James Hider in Jerusalem

America’s spy chief was sent on a secret mission to Israel to warn its leaders not to launch a surprise attack on Iran without notifying the US Administration.

As Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, prepares to visit Washington, it emerged yesterday that Leon Panetta, the head of the CIA, went to Israel two weeks ago. He sought assurances from Mr Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, the Defence Minister, that their hawkish new Government would not attack Iran without alerting Washington.

Concerns have been rising that Mr Netanyahu could launch a strike on Tehran’s atomic programme, in the same way that Israel hit Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor in 1981. Israel has been preparing for such an eventuality. It has carried out long-distance manoeuvres and is due to hold its largest civil defence drills this summer. The country’s leaders reportedly told Mr Panetta that they did not “intend to surprise the US on Iran”.

Mr Netanyahu will leave for Washington this weekend. He will meet Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, and Mr Obama, whom he will try to convince of the need for tougher action against Iran. Mr Obama favours trying to engage Tehran, but his efforts have been received coolly by President Ahmadinejad.

Mr Netanyahu has held meetings with Arab leaders this week, including President Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah of Jordan. Both Sunni leaders share Israel’s fears of a resurgent Shia Iran.

In Aqaba, Jordan, yesterday King Abdullah told Mr Netanyahu there could be no regional peace without a Palestinian state. So far Mr Netanyahu has refused to commit to a two-state solution. Instead, he has talked about developing the Palestinian economy, with Palestinians having only limited sovereignty. That view is likely to cause confrontation with Mr Obama.

Mr Netanyahu raised the issue of Iran during a private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Nazareth yesterday. “I asked him as a moral figure to make his voice heard loud and continuously against the declarations coming from Iran of their intention to destroy Israel,” he said. .

“I think we found in him an attentive ear.” The Pope, who reiterated his calls for peace yesterday, did not give an account of the meeting.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6289593.ece

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Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS): Study on a Possible Israeli Strike on Iran's Nuclear Development Facilities

March 14, 2009

Abdullah Toukan, Senior Associate

Anthony H. Cordesman
Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy

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http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/090316...istrikeiran.pdf

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Anti-Americanism in Israel

by Justin Raimondo

Global Research, June 13, 2009
Antiwar.com

"In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government over U.S. President Barack Obama’s Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the U.S. in a letter to cabinet ministers on Sunday.

"In the 11-page letter, obtained by the Jerusalem Post from a minister on Monday, Peled recommends steps Israel can take to compensate for the shift in American policy, which he believes has become hostile to Israel."

According to Peled, the Obama administration will eventually come to realize the error of its ways, but for now the U.S. president seems intent on exerting "intensive pressure to stop building in settlements, remove outposts, and advance the formation of a Palestinian state" – all steps previously agreed to by Israeli leaders, by the way, and now thrown in the trash bin by the far-Right nutballs who have captured the Israeli government.

"But in the interim," the Post reports, "the minister suggests reconsidering military and civilian purchases from the U.S., selling sensitive equipment that the Washington opposes distributing internationally, and allowing other countries that compete with the U.S. to get involved with the peace process and be given a foothold for their military forces and intelligence agencies."

The irony of someone "reconsidering military and civilian purchases" which are being made, or will be made, with our money is a real hoot – but the laughs are just starting!

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Iran Jews in “Israel” Prefer Ahmadinejad

Some Jewish Iranians living in occupied Palestine and abroad say life in the Islamic republic is better under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than it would be under defeated presidential hopeful Mir Hossein Mousavi, The Jerusalem Post said on Tuesday.

At a conference of Iranian Jews in occupied Jerusalem on Monday, leaders of the Mashadi Jewish community said that despite Ahmadinejad’s “blustery rhetoric” against Israel, Iran is a safe place for Jews to practice their religion.

"Ahmadinejad speaks badly about Jews, but he is preferable to Mousavi," said Shlomo Zabihi, a Mashadi rabbi. The current government is relatively stable and provides a safe environment for Jews, he said.

Monday’s event marked the first meeting of the Global Mashadi Jewish Federation, an umbrella organization of community and religious groups preserving the historical and cultural identity of Jews from Mashad, Iran’s second largest city, with a population of about 2.5 million.

During the 1979 Islamic Revolution, many Mashadi Jews fled to the United States, primarily New York City - where some 6,000 Jews with ties to Mashad now live. There are almost no Jews in Mashad today, though an estimated 25,000 still live in Iran, concentrated in Tehran.

"They’ve found it very safe and pleasant, no problems," said Bahman Kamali, founder of the federation. "Actually, the regime during [the time of reformist president Mohammad] Khatami and the regime now have been very good with Jewish people. There has not been any problem."

Kamali said Ahmadinejad’s calls for the destruction of Israel were not the same as condemnation or encouragement of violence against Jews in the Diaspora.

"There’s a distinction between the two because Iranians, they respect the religions that have books, Christianity, Judaism," Kamali said. "They respect people freely going to the synagogues and praying there without any problems."

He doesn’t think the Jewish community in Iran will face persecution stemming from political unrest following the elections. "I’m not concerned about that," said Kamali, who downplayed the political involvement of his group. "The purpose of this conference is not political. It’s only our heritage, that we are proud of to be from Mashad, Iran, and we would like to preserve that."

Editor’s Note: “Anti-semitism has never been the general policy of the Iranian government” explains Maurice Mottamed, the country’s sole Jewish MP. There are of course “glaring differences” in treatment between the majority Muslim population and religious minorities. But remarkably most of the time Iranian Jews are “comfortably doing everything they want to do here. We can perform all our religious celebrations.” This is an image very much at odds with fashionable Western opinion.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article160946.html

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Jul 2, 2009 20:17 | Updated Jul 2, 2009 20:23
Iranian Jewish group to meet in J'lem
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS

Article's topics: Iranian Jews, Mashad, Iranian Jewish Federation

A newly formed Iranian Jewish Federation made up of emigrants from the Iranian city of Mashad will meet next week in Jerusalem in an effort to promote and preserve their heritage.
The Ali Reza Mosque in the...

The Ali Reza Mosque in the city of Mashad in Iran. A federation of Iranian Jews from the city is scheduled to meet in Jerusalem next week.
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The mission of the federation, which will hold a one-day conference at a city hotel on Monday, is to ensure the survival of the Mashadi heritage, founder Bahman Kamali said.

"At a time when the Iranian regime is again launching attacks against people who seek the right to live freely and democratically, we feel that it is imperative to remind the world that there is a community of Jews who enjoyed a proud and tradition-filled history in that very place," Kamali said.

The majority of Jews who came from Mashad - Iran's second largest city - now live in Israel, which is home to nearly 15,000 former Mashadi Jews, while other communities exist in New York, Hamburg, London and Milan.

The daylong conference, which will be attended by members of the former Mashadi Jewish communities worldwide, will cover topics such as the assimilation of the Iranian Jewish Community in the United States and Italy, and the creation of a Mashadi archive museum documenting the history, books and artifacts from the region.

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israel national news have taken this page down from their site so there's no active hyperlink directly to it but I found it copied on a blog:

from Israel National News:

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) A conference of descendants of 19th-century Iranian Jews forced to convert to Islam and live as secret Jews will convene in Jerusalem on Monday.

The newly formed Global Mashadi Jewish Federation will officially be launched on Monday, July 6th, with its first-ever conference in Jerusalem. Three generations of Mashadi were forced to live as secret Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries, after having been forced to “convert” to Islam by their Iranian neighbors.

The forced conversions occurred during the period known as “Allah-Dadi,” beginning in 1839 and lasting almost a century. For more information on the community, visit http://mashadirabbi.com/.

The mission of the new federation, founded by Mr. Bahman Kamali, is to ensure the survival of the Mashadi heritage and preserve it in all locations where Mashadis live. Mashad is Iran’s second largest city and capital of an important province in the northeast region of the country.

With the establishment of the State of Israel, many Mashadi Jews immigrated to the Jewish State, and today nearly 15,000 of them live in Israel, comprising the world’s largest Mashadi community. Additional communities were established in New York, Hamburg, London and Milan.
“By strengthening our global ties, we are working towards promoting the survival of our Mashadi heritage as well as Judaism overall,” Kamali said. “This is a group with a particularly unique history and series of traditions that we are proud to embrace, and this gathering will give us the chance to so here in Jerusalem, the center of the Jewish world.”

The day-long conference will be held at the Jerusalem Sheraton Plaza hotel, attended by leaders and individuals from the Mashadi Jewish communities worldwide. It will cover topics such as the alarming assimilation of the Iranian Jewish Community in the United States and Italy, a reaffirmation of the Mashadi traditions, and the creation of a Mashadi archive museum documenting Mashadi history, books and artifacts.#

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Tehran’s leaders braced for renewed violence (LONDON TIMES) Martin Fletcher 07/08/09) Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6670275.ece
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Tehran is braced for renewed violence tomorrow as the regime’s opponents attempt to stage fresh demonstrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the student uprising of 1999.

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The opposition sees the anniversary as a chance to show that it has not been crushed by the regime’s use of overwhelming force, and the demonstrators are planning to thwart the security forces by gathering in eight or nine places before converging on Enghelab (Revolution) Square. Demonstrations are also planned in several other cities.

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However, the authorities are going to great lengths to stop them. They have taken advantage of the dust storms that have smothered the capital this week to close universities, offices and businesses, and to encourage people to leave the city. Residents said that half the city has decamped northwards across the mountains to the Caspian Sea.

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The text messaging system has been shut down. The Basij volunteer militia is on high alert, and opponents have no doubt that the security forces will resort to violence if necessary. “I’m scared,” said one. “To go out on the streets in the present conditions is a bit suicidal.”

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On Tuesday night President Ahmadinejad used his first nationally televised speech since his hotly disputed re-election to send a slightly more emollient message to the opposition.

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He insisted that the ballot on June 12 was “the cleanest and healthiest election in the world”. He said that it had “doubled the dignity of the Iranian nation”, and marked the beginning of a new era for the country. He dismissed charges of electoral fraud, declaring: “No fault was discovered. The whole nation understood this.”

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But he also promised a greater focus on the economy and unemployment during his second term. “We must respect people’s feelings, especially the youth,” he said, and hinted that the reviled ‘morality police’ could be reined in: “Cultural issues should be dealt with through cultural channels, and I am against security confrontations.”

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As Mr Ahmadinejad spoke a moth fluttered around his head. Iranian bloggers joked yesterday that it would soon be arrested and forced to confess.

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Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, his defeated challenger, showed their defiance by shouting Allahu Akbar from the rooftops while the President was speaking. Some also engaged - unsuccessfully - in a new form of civil disobedience: turning on all their electrical appliances to try to overload the power grid when state television broadcasts the speeches by regime leaders or forced “confessions” of demonstrators.

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Before the events of the past month, the student protests of July 1999 were the most serious challenge to the regime in the Islamic Republic’s 30-year history.

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A peaceful demonstration at the University of Tehran against the closure of a reformist newspaper provoked a brutal attack by several hundred police and basiji. The unrest spread to other cities, and by the time it was suppressed a week later hundreds of students had been injured or locked up.

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Mr Mousavi has neither endorsed nor discouraged tomorrow’s planned demonstrations, but increasingly he is seeking to challenge the regime legally and politically rather than through street protests.

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This week he met Mohammed Khatami, the former president, and Mehdi Karoubi, another defeated presidential candidate, and the three men issued their first joint statement demanding an end to the security crackdown and the release of all detainees.

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Jewish Defense League attacks a cultural center in Paris

"Gas the Arabs" painted on the gate outside a Palestinian home in Hebron (al-Khalil) by Jewish settlers. It is signed "JDL" (Jewish Defence League)

On July 3, 2009, members of the Jewish Defense League, wearing masks, attacked and vandalized the cultural center "Résistance" in Paris.

Created by Olivia Zemor, "Résistance" comprises a book store, a documentation center and a conference room, mainly used by the militant group CAPJPO (Coordination Group Calling for a Just Peace in the Middle East), of which Ms. Zemor is the co-founder.

The Jewish Defense League is a jewish supremacist movement which was founded at the end of the 1960s, in the United States, by rabbi Meir Kahane (the Kach movement). Kahane moved to Israel and was elected to the Knesset (1984); however his incessant provocations prompted the assembly to modify the Israeli penal code and be able to prosecute him for inciting racial hatred. Back in the United States, he was assassinated (1990) by an individual who will much later be portrayed by the U.S. Justice as a member of Al Qaeda.

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Disinformation claims: Saudis accept Israeli attack on Iran

F. William Engdahl

On 5 In July it was in the world renowned London "Times": "Saudis see on Israeli Attack on Iran remain." If this is correct, then it meant a dramatic change in the Saudi foreign and defense policy, which in consequence even to the Third World War might lead. A more thorough examination, however, that this malicious elements are at work - forces that military psychologists and intelligence specialists like "disinformation" call. They try, in the oil-producing Arab world to sow discord. The only question is: Cui bono? Who ultimately benefits from this misinformation?

In the London Times, the flagship newspaper of the huge media group from the Australia-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, was to read: "The head of Israel's foreign secret service Mossad, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured of Saudi Arabia will ignore when Israeli warplanes in future attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities durchflögen its airspace. "

Furthermore, the London newspaper reported, Meir Dagan, the head of the Israeli secret service Mossad, had earlier this year to confidential interviews with leading Saudi representatives made, and the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had similar discussions. Relying on unnamed "diplomatic source" from a country not referred to the Times quoted: "The Saudis have tacitly agreed that the Israeli Air Force in a mission that is allegedly in the interest of both Israel and Saudi Arabia is their airspace durchfliegt. «

Would that be an accurate report, then it mean - forgive the expression - an atomic bomb proportions. Because that would make the preparations for war against Iran, after the riots in the context of the elections in Iran, where the conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner, already well advanced. The electoral victory of Ahmadinejad has been massive protests by opposition granted. These protests have been actively supported by non-governmental organizations with close ties to the American government and by the U.S. State Department who are.

A few days ago had Obama's Vice President Joe Biden in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC U.S. television stations on a specific question answered: "Look, Israel can decide for themselves - after all it is a sovereign country - what their interests are and what it is against Iran or any other action. "" Whether we agree or not? "asked the interviewer. "Whether we agree or not," replied the Vice President. That could be a sign that the government of their former Obama "veto" against a possible Israeli military strike against Iran would have changed. For the first time gave a high representative of the Government of Israel to decide on a military strike against Iranian nuclear installations.

Misinformation of the British secret service?
Given the importance of the report in the Times and the fact that there may be a saint of the war with over a billion Muslim population of the scoring countries could mean if the Saudis to "ignore" if Israeli military aircraft on their way to bomb Iran or other targets in Iran, her dream durchflögen air, I pursued the matter. What I found was something different than what the Times had reported.

I have very reliable sources in combination, which with the situation in Saudi Arabia and are very familiar to me in the past could always leave. I have asked whether the report by the Times about a secret agreement with Israel to bomb Iran's true or not. The answer was very revealing.

The Times had a denial of the Saudi Arabian government cited, but done in a way that the impression was that this denial was not serious and should be the truth about the of the Times revealed collusion between the Israeli secret service and the Saudi Kingdom hush.

Contrary to the Times report, the relations between Ahmadinejad and the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah warmly.

According to this confidential source from Saudi Arabia itself ", it was not just a denial. It would be much more absolute political suicide, even to consider the Israelis to open our airspace. "

This is also my knowledge of many years of diplomatic talks between - yes - even Ahmadinejad and the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Reportedly had an agreement on the reduction of tensions between Sunni and Shiite groups in Iraq primarily to one in a personal meeting 2007 in Riyadh agreement between Ahmadinejad from Iran and Saudi King Abdullah attributed. According to the spot was the dramatic decline in murder in Iraq far more to this discussion than to the escalation strategy infamous "surge" of General Petraeus.

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Murdoch has been told to stir the pot. Not a good sign.

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Terrorist attack in Ingushetia: Republic Chief Jewkurow scents U.S., Britain and Israel behind

17 / 08 / 2009

MOSCOW, 17 August (RIA Novosti). The U.S., Britain and Israel are involved in a destabilization of the situation in North Caucasus interested. It said Yunus-Bek Jewkurow, president of the northern Caucasian Republic of Ingushetia, on Monday in the Russian radio station RSN.

In its opinion on the recent terror attacks in the inguschetischen city Nasran, where a suicide bomber on Monday morning with a car mined the building of the police administration of the city rammed, Jewkurow said: "I am far from believing that the Arabs are behind.

There are other, serious, forces. I have stressed again and again now: the West is continuing its efforts, the strengthening of Russia to the power of the former Soviet Union to prevent. The Arabs, in the North Caucasus, are mercenaries. We understand, however, whose interests are behind it: the U.S. and Britain, but also Israel. That is quite real "

President Jewkurow was on 22 June with an attack in the vicinity of Nasran been seriously injured. According to a medical treatment in Moscow, he is currently recovering in a sanatorium.

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It's very strange, I was reading about Ingushetia last night and then saw the report on yahoo this morning. Thanks for this.