Israeli Colonel Caught with IS Pants Down | Nov. 25, 2015

[Helvetic]

Israeli Colonel Caught with IS Pants Down | Nov. 25, 2015
by F. William Engdahl

Source: journal-neo.org

This was definitely not supposed to happen. It seems that an Israeli military man with the rank of colonel was “caught with IS pants down.” By that I mean he was captured amid a gaggle of so-called IS–or Islamic State or ISIS or DAESH depending on your preference–terrorists, by soldiers of the Iraqi army. Under interrogation by the Iraqi intelligence he apparently said a lot regarding the role of Netanyahu’s IDF in supporting IS.

In late October an Iranian news agency, quoting a senior Iraqi intelligence officer, reported the capture of an Israeli army colonel, named Yusi Oulen Shahak, reportedly related to the ISIS Golani Battalion operating in Iraq in the Salahuddin front. In a statement to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency a Commander of the Iraqi Army stated, “The security and popular forces have held captive an Israeli colonel.” He added that the IDF colonel “had participated in the Takfiri ISIL group’s terrorist operations.” He said the colonel was arrested together with a number of ISIL or IS terrorists, giving the details: “The Israeli colonel’s name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade… with the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434.”

Why Israel?

Ever since the beginning of Russia’s very effective IS bombing of select targets in Syria on September 30, details of the very dirty role of not only Washington, but also NATO member Turkey under President Erdogan, Qatar and other states has come into the sunlight for the first time.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that at least a faction in the Obama Administration has played a very dirty behind-the-scenes role in supporting IS in order to advance the removal of Syrian President Bashar al Assad and pave the way for what inevitably would be a Libya-style chaos and destruction which would make the present Syrian refugee crisis in Europe a mere warmup by comparison.

The “pro-IS faction” in Washington includes the so-called neo-conservatives centered around disgraced former CIA head and executioner of the Iraqi “surge” General David Petraeus. It also includes US General John R. Allen, who since September 2014 had served as President Obama’s Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and, until she resigned in February 2013, it included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Significantly, General John Allen, an unceasing advocate of a US-led “No Fly Zone” inside Syria along the border to Turkey, something President Obama refused, was relieved of his post on 23 October, 2015. That was shortly after launch of the highly-effective Russian strikes on Syrian IS and Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front terrorist sites changed the entire situation in the geopolitical picture of Syria and the entire Middle East.

UN Reports cites Israel

That Netanyahu’s Likud and the Israeli military work closely with Washington’s neo-conservative war-hawks is well-established, as is the vehement opposition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Israel regards the Iranian-backed Shi’a Islamist militant group, Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, as arch foe. Hezbollah has been actively fighting alongside the Syrian Army against ISIS in Syria. General Allen’s strategy of “bombings of ISIS” since he was placed in charge of the operation in September 2014, as Russia’s Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov have repeatedly pointed out, far from destroying ISIS in Syria, had vastly expanded their territorial control of the country. Now it becomes clear that that was precisely the intent of Allen and the Washington war faction.

Since at least 2013 Israeli military have also openly bombed what they claim were Hezbollah targets inside Syria. Investigation revealed that in fact Israel was hitting Syrian military and Hezbollah targets who are valiantly fighting against ISIS and other terrorists. De facto thereby Israel was actually helping ISIS, like General John Allen’s year-long “anti-ISIS” bombings.

That a faction in the Pentagon has secretly worked behind-the-scenes to train, arm and finance what today is called ISIS or IS in Syria is now a matter of open record. In August 2012, a Pentagon document classified “Secret,” later declassified under pressure of the US NGO Judicial Watch, detailed precisely the emergence of what became the Islamic State or ISIS emerging from the Islamic State in Iraq, then an Al Qaeda affiliate.

The Pentagon document stated, “…there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition [to Assad-w.e.] want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).” The supporting powers to the opposition in 2012 then included Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the USA and behind-the-scenes, Netanyahu’s Israel.

Precisely this creation of a “Salafist Principality in eastern Syria,” today’s territory of ISIL or IS, was the agenda of Petraeus, General Allen and others in Washington to destroy Assad. It’s what put the Obama Administration at loggerhead with Russia, China and Iran over the bizarre US demand Assad must first go before ISIS can be destroyed. Now the game is in the open for the world to see Washington’s duplicity in backing what the Russian’s accurately call “moderate terrorists” against a duly-elected Assad. That Israel is also in the midst of this rats’ nest of opposition terrorist forces in Syria was confirmed in a recent UN report.

What the report did not mention was why Israeli IDF military would have such a passionate interest in Syria, especially Syria’s Golan Heights.

Why Israel wants Assad Out

In December, 2014 the Jerusalem Post in Israel reported the findings of a largely ignored, and politically explosive report detailing UN sightings of Israeli military together with ISIS terrorist combatants. The UN peacekeeping force, UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), stationed since 1974 along the Golan Heights border between Syria and Israel, revealed that Israel had been working closely with Syrian opposition terrorists, including Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front and IS in the Golan Heights, and “kept close contact over the past 18 months.” The report was submitted to the UN Security Council. Mainstream media in the US and West buried the explosive findings.

The UN documents showed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were maintaining regular contact with members of the so-called Islamic State since May of 2013. The IDF stated that this was only for medical care for civilians, but the deception was broken when the UNDOF observers identified direct contact between IDF forces and ISIS soldiers, including giving medical care to ISIS fighters. Observations even included the transfer of two crates from the IDF to ISIS forces, the contents of which have not been confirmed. Further the UN report identified what the Syrians label a “crossing point of forces between Israel and ISIS,” a point of concern UNDOF brought before the UN Security Council.

The UNDOF was created by a May, 1974 UN Security Council Resolution No. 350 in the wake of tensions from the October 1973 Yom Kippur War between Syria and Israel. It established a buffer zone between Israel and Syria’s Golan Heights according to the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement, to be governed and policed by the Syrian authorities. No military forces other than UNDOF are permitted within it. Today it has 1,200 observers.

Since 2013 and the escalation of Israeli attacks on Syria along the Golan Heights, claiming pursuit of “Hezbollah terrorists,” the UNDOF itself has been subject to massive attacks by ISIS or Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front terrorists in the Golan Heights for the first time since 1974, of kidnappings, of killings, of theft of UN weapons and ammunition, vehicles and other assets, and the looting and destruction of facilities. Someone obviously does not want UNDOF to remain policing the Golan Heights.

Israel and Golan Heights Oil

In his November 9 White House meeting with US President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu asked Washington to reconsider the fact that since the 1967 Six-Days’ War between Israel and the Arab countries, Israel has illegally occupied a significant part of the Golan Heights. In their meeting, Netanyahu, apparently without success, called on Obama to back formal Israeli annexation of the illegally-occupied Golan Heights, claiming that the absence of a functioning Syrian government “allows for different thinking” concerning the future status of the strategically important area.

Of course Netanyahu did not address in any honest way how Israeli IDF and other forces had been responsible for the absence of a functioning Syrian government by their support for ISIS and Al Nusra Front of Al Qaeda.

In 2013, when UNDOF began to document increasing contact between Israeli military and IS and Al Qaeda along the Golan Heights, a little-known Newark, New Jersey oil company, Genie Energy, with an Israeli daughter company, Afek Oil & Gas, began also moving into Golan Heights with permission of the Netanyahu government to explore for oil. That same year Israeli military engineers overhauled the forty-five mile border fence with Syria, replacing it with a steel barricade that included barbed wire, touch sensors, motion detectors, infrared cameras, and ground radar, putting it on par with the Wall Israel has constructed in the West Bank.

Interestingly enough, on October 8, Yuval Bartov, chief geologist from Genie Energy’s Israeli subsidiary, Afek Oil & Gas, told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that his company had found a major oil reservoir on the Golan Heights: “We’ve found an oil stratum 350 meters thick in the southern Golan Heights. On average worldwide, strata are 20 to 30 meters thick, and this is 10 times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities.” As I noted in an earlier article, the International Advisory Board of Genie Energy includes such notorious names as Dick Cheney, former CIA head and infamous neo-con James Woolsey, Jacob Lord Rothschild and others.

Of course no reasonable person in their right mind would suggest there might be a link between Israeli military dealings with the ISIS and other anti-Assad terrorists in Syria, especially in the Golan Heights, and the oil find of Genie Energy in the same place, and with Netanyahu’s latest Golan Heights “rethink” appeal to Obama. That would smell too much like “conspiracy theory” and all reasonable people know conspiracies don’t exist, only coincidences. Or? In fact, to paraphrase the immortal words of Brad Pitt in the role of West Virginia First Lieutenant Aldo Raine in the final scene of Tarantino’s brilliant film, Inglorious Basterds, it seems that ‘Ol Netanyahu and his pecker-suckin pals in the IDF and Mossad just got caught with their hands in a very dirty cookie jar in Syria.

[ghostrider]

I've been blogging on FB for two years now this question , although I already know the answer , Who benefits from a super power going to war against Muslims ??? Israel ... could Israel have done 911 and blamed Muslims ??? could Israel be doing what the CIA does , sneaking around causing wars and getting one side to attack the other so to justify dropping bombs making money for people who own stock in weapons manufacturing companies ???

[Bob]

Posted by Helvetic (here)
Israeli Colonel Caught with IS Pants Down | Nov. 25, 2015
by F. William Engdahl

Source: journal-neo.org

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Interestingly enough, on October 8, Yuval Bartov, chief geologist from Genie Energy’s Israeli subsidiary, Afek Oil & Gas, told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that his company had found a major oil reservoir on the Golan Heights: “We’ve found an oil stratum 350 meters thick in the southern Golan Heights.

On average worldwide, strata are 20 to 30 meters thick, and this is 10 times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities.” As I noted in an earlier article, the International Advisory Board of Genie Energy includes such notorious names as Dick Cheney, former CIA head and infamous neo-con James Woolsey, Jacob Lord Rothschild and others.

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Just as a FYI..

I have months ago talked with a respected petrogeologist personally at length about the "oil discovery", and what is published IS understated. The formations on-shore from the Sinai Peninsula, through that part of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel itself and within Palestinian territory are VAST. OFFshore it is mindblowing all the way up to Cyprus.

I also published ON this forum quite some time ago a map of formations in the region (that are not yet exploited and are targets for regional take-over.

Follow the oil $$.

[ghostrider]

it all makes sense now , they topple middle eastern governments , place their CIA puppets in charge , then enter the major corporations to get the oil and control the flow and prices , enriching the stockholders , strong quarterly statements is the bottom line , the richer getting the richest ...

[Bob]

Posted by ghostrider (here)
it all makes sense now , they topple middle eastern governments , place their CIA puppets in charge , then enter the major corporations to get the oil and control the flow and prices , enriching the stockholders , strong quarterly statements is the bottom line , the richer getting the richest ...

Just think, what would it mean, if the OIL present in the region could be controlled by Israel, deposits LARGER than Saudi Arabia/Persian gulf.. And rival Iran's deposits?

What would that do to the balance of terror(?) in the region. Who would become favored nation? The one controlling the energy maybe?

There is so much oil and gas available (but not being exploited, or drilled on) that could be controlled by Israel if they are able to maneuver into a position..

ATM there are discussions of Egypt selling gas to Israel.. gee... what happens when Israel controls more energy in the region that all of the Arab nations?

[Deega]

As most members here are aware, Israel has a Grand Plan expansion in the Middle-East, see the link from Global Research! No wonder some IDF superior officers are caught with ISIS.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater...e-east/5324815

[Hervé]

Yep! That's what it's all about and why "they" want to have total control over the Mediterranean:

Posted by Hervé (here)
So... what does Greece have they want to get their hands on from Greece's garage sales:

I was reading this article on SOTT.net (The Troika Takes Two More Victims; the Coup Regime sells off Greek Property) about Greece selling properties, etc... but what interested me most was the comment to this article:

Greece Has More Oil Than Iran. By: Highland Fleet Lute

The southern part of Crete apparently has more oil than Iran! Speaking on STEP FM in Canada, Professor Antonis Foskolos from the Department of Mineral Resources and Engineering of the Technical University of Crete. said that "we committed ​​a crime back in 1997 when they stopped investigations."

Foskolos said that the hydrocarbon fields under Crete are immense with at least 22 billion barrels of oil. The Herodotus Basin he said has some 14 to 15 billion barrels of oil, while there are only 400 million barrels in Patras. He also noted that the deposits of natural gas recently found in Cyprus are still "small" because there are at least three other layers that have yet to be investigated. Cyprus has four layers.. said Foskolos... but the aforementioned basin under Crete has "7 layers"!

The Professor said that once the oil begins being exploited it will all be exported, since the whole area Crete has an additional 22 billion barrels of oil totaling some 38 billion barrels! "We are at the level of Iran in relation to stocks," (meaning oil reserves) noted Foskolos and concluded by saying that in 2016-2017 this development, and these riches will change the face of Greece. This "will change the strength of the country. "

In an earlier report on hellasfrappe Foskolos had said that the two areas that in his professional opinion have significant amount of deposits are nine mud volcanoes southeast of Crete, in the Greek Herodotus basin. More precisely, the mud volcanoes in this area contain high amounts of hydrocarbon reserves, primarily natural gas, of approximately 1.5 trillion cubic meters! (Click here for that story)

This is comparable with what has been found in the Nile Delta, the Caspian Sea (deposit Shah Deniz), Norway and elsewhere.

In his expert opinion, the south eastern basin of Herodotus in Crete has reserves that surpass two trillion cubic meter mark. This is a vast amount and can only be compared to what was discovered in the Nile Delta (by SHELL, BP) . He says the sediments are of the same origin and geological formations are very similar. In all so far, it is estimated that there are 3.5 trillion cubic meters of gas located there, which can be equaled to 20-22 billion barrels of oil!

The benefits for Greece are obvious. Foskolos believes that the exploitation of these deposits will create a total of 300,000 jobs. At least 100,000 in the primary sector and 200,000 jobs in the secondary sector, while all revenue can be reaped by the Greek state in 25 years amounts to 437 billion US and this is not counting the profits from the pipeline that will transport the natural gas to Europe ( at a length of 1000 km at a cost of approximately $ 20,000 / km, or 25 billion US dollars.)

Other experts agree with Foskolos as well. A separate report on the Chaniotika nea site said that Professor Giannis Makris says that there are two potential hydrocarbon reserves southwest of Crete, where sediment thickness ranges from 10 to 12 kilometers, and there are hydrocarbon reserves in Western Crete where there are 3 fields of mud volcanoes.

.... and thousands of tons of gold, uranium, osmium and and other rare minerals, apparently.

"Whenever we attempted to start bidding processes that would allow corporations to create infrastructure for the extraction of the resources we received major pressure to abandon the efforts and warnings that 'nothing will materialise' no matter what we do".....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8M-...eature=related

Original article: http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.co.uk/2...adio-that.html

This, together with Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Cyprus...

[Bob]

Posted by Hervé (here)
Yep! That's what it's all about and why "they" want to have total control ..
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This, together with Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Cyprus...

The maps I mentioned in the post above:



Onshore and Offshore shown. Green oil and Red gas prospectivity..

Larger the size the greater the amount of the formations.. who controls that controls energy for the next 50 years.

[PathWalker]

I wish to give some Israeli perspective how the subject looks via the Israeli MSM.


The subject of Israel assisting ISIS is very hot topic, to the point of civil unrest!
The Druzze citizens on the border with Syria ambushed and lynched an army ambulance caravan transporting 'wounded' people from the border to the hospital.
Requesting the state take care for them before the ISIS rebels (there is a point in this argument).
We do not really know who are in those ambulances. And why they are assisted by Israel.
More details and context in this report.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7644302.html


The subject of missing IDF colonel is pure dis-info. There are less then 100 colonels all over the country. People in the defense guild are very intimate. If such a case would happen it would be a big deal that could NOT be hushed. As done with drug smuggler colonel Tennenbaum caught by Hizbulla and Israel paid heavy price to get him back.
To get better perspective of the Tennenbaum affair read this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1923398.stm


The Israeli public is extra sensitive to Israeli POWs and hostages. The solidarity and responsibility is embedded into public psychic. The Israelis will take great measures to release hostages and POW. See the "Antebe" affair and "Gilad Shalit" affair.
You can read more about Israeli Prisoners-of-War and Captive Soldiers Exchanges.
Knowing this, Hammas and Hizbulla top mission is to capture an Israeli soldier alive.


The subject of big oil in the Golan height is true. But there are enormous internal political blocks for Israel to start pumping oil in the Golan. Some of the obvious are:
1. Strong political agriculture lobby.
2. Environment threat to the Sea of Galil, threatening the peace agreement with Jordan.
3. Unstable geological area.
4. Strongest point of all. Dislocate critical IDF training area.
Jordan could start pumping earlier, but the oil price drop might leave it all in the ground.



As for the subject of Israeli interest in the region. It is much simpler. As long as the Arabs are busy killing each other. They will leave Israel alone. And this is practically true with Hizbullah, Israel' arch nemesis. Hizbullah is bleeding his fighters in Syria. It is in Israel's interest to continue so.
One day before the Paris attache 42 people died from a car bomb in Beirut's Hizbullah headquarters - ISIS took responsibility. I am not so sure about this. Did anybody read about this?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/beirut-...anon-1.3315846

Apparently French blood is more thicker than Arab blood.

As for colonial imperialistic Israel, this is also dis-info. If you understood Israeli internal politics and divisions, you will clearly understand that the colonial imperialistic Israel are the ultra extremist nationalists. Those you hear about them in the MSM news, preaching for hate, kill and destruction (I call them Jewish Taliban).
You do not hear about the social division in Israel regarding the Palestinian problem.
Also if you analyses the Israeli policies since 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon, there is no Imperialism. To the contrary.


Another myth is the source of all terror is in the middle east. Just look at the money trail, and other PA threads about Africa, Asia, India, China, USA. I trust Avalon readers to understand where the source is. Israel and the Palestinians are NOT allowed to live peaceful life.

[Apophenia]

Islamic sectarian groups will always engage in infighting, there is no news in that; all groups do that historically.

The point about the Israeli ambulance does underscore the lack of transparency in IDF activities in the region, that is the unstated truth in that overall situation.

The issue of IDF colonels being abducted as being 'propaganda' does not resonate with me, and there could be no mention of it in Israel because it would start to show corruption or self-interest in the Golan Heights, and/or that it is politically embarrassing as it may show that Israel is behaving in a duplicitous way.

Worth mentioning that Israel is on record for supporting Hamas in the past, and its official excuse is that it did so to unseat Yasser Arafat and the PLO... and instead replaced them with more of the same.

Israel does possess an interest in seeing the Arabs continually bicker, because it benefits their overall position, and the Israelis are not shy from fanning the flames whenever the circumstances are beneficial.

Interesting that Hezbollah gets a mention, as the Israelis are in denial about the fact they deliberately shelled civilian areas of Beirut in the 1980s and were a sizable cause in the decline of the state of Lebanon. Instead, they try to pass the buck, claiming the destruction was solely the fault of other groups, and in no way their activities.

Israel is indeed behaving in an imperialistic fashion. The IDF occupies the Golan Heights, and prior to 2000 they were occupying Gaza for well over a decade, and there is the little fact of ~800k Palestinians removed from their ancestral homeland back in 1948. Instead, they hide behind token examples where the IDF withdraws from Lebanon or the Sinai in Egypt in past wars, as if that explains everything.

Eretz Israel is the end game, and it isn't the goal of an 'extremist minority', Netanyahu believes that all of his actions are being conducted in order to bring back the messiah, and that his activities are supported or sanctioned by the Rothschilds, Soros, and others within the powerful billionaire global elite.