updates on the Israeli Palestinian conflict

[morguana]

this thread has been opened for pathwalker, so i will duck out now and let pathwalker do an opening post
blessings
m

[PathWalker]

This thread aims at venting frustration on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. That is never ending, perpetuated, divide and conquer skim. To divert public opinion from the real conflicts and issues going on.
Many of us awakening to the frustration that the reality is not what is told to us. Nor the media reports.
Please vent here your frustration and I will try to enlighten you where underline conflicts are. Maybe to get better perspective on the situation.
The current news reports are endless stream of brutality, suffer, lies and propaganda on both ends. Let try to look behind the screen.

[PathWalker]

This collection of observations was compiled to help Jews and Arabs understand why the Middle East conflict continues to fester. The intention is to promote the realization that these two peoples are not each other’s worst enemy; a third player, the Foreign Elite (FE), is why the Middle East remains unstable.

A truly objective analysis of this subject, without the baggage Jews and Arabs have been fed via their national leaderships, reveals that the Middle East conflict would have ended decades ago had foreigners not kept it alive. The continuation of the conflict serves their interests- i.e., oil supplies, recycling petrodollars, or multi-billion dollar weapons sales. The Palestinian-Israeli “situation” is thus merely a fig leaf for the FE, allowing their other agendas can be pursued undetected.

We need to devise a solution based on the actual cause for the continuation of the conflict, and not accept solutions presented via the mainstream media.

The hatred between the two peoples doesn’t come from the hearts of Middle Eastern Arabs and Jews; it is created and stoked from abroad. Arabs and Jews must see through the propaganda and understand that this conflict is being created for them. Every time it looks like it is coming to an end, foreigners breathe new life into it by insisting that they have a “new peace initiative” which they claim will bring peace. It never does.

The FE’s intervention in the affairs of the Middle East has been a tragedy for the Arab peoples - socially, economically, and politically. Arabs and Jews of the Middle East need to admit that they are both victims of the foreigners. By working together, they can remove the cancer of foreign intervention that keeps the conflict alive.

Please read the full article here: http://www.joelbainerman.com/articles/me_report.asp
The same report in Hebrew is here: http://www.joelbainerman.com/hebrew/a11.htm

[Richard]

Great Idea, lets hope this thread stays informative and balanced.

[greybeard]

The moment one takes sides it fuels the conflict.
Nothing is ever solved at the same energy level that it was created.
Look at the success of Gandhi in India
Nelson Mandela in Africa
Gorbachev in being the main instrument in bringing to an end the cold war.
They all had spiritual power, force not required.
These are major things and were brought about by statesmanship of the highest order.
None were brought about by force but conciliation.
Some one had to let go of the rope in the tug of war.
All news reporting of events in this conflict are by their very nature biased and therefore propaganda.
Propaganda fuels war it does not fuel peace.
We do not need propaganda well intentioned though it may be, it does nothing to promote peace, if it did we would have had peace long ago.

Regards Chris

[morguana]

absolutly chris, here is a few words i would like to share with you all.......

Wolf Wisdom

An old Cherokee told his grandson
about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.

One is Evil.
It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,
self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority and ego.

The other is Good.
It is Joy, Peace, Love, Hope, Serenity, Humility, Kindness, Benevolence, Empathy, Generosity, Truth, Compassion and Faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute
and then asked his grandfather:

"Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

;)

[rhythm]

thanks for that remimder morg
how true ...
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd64/junebug63/wolfs/wolfs.jpg

[Gita]

Don't even get me started!!:shout::rant:

And that's all I've got to say on the matter. :)

[777]

absolutly chris, here is a few words i would like to share with you all.......

Wolf Wisdom

An old Cherokee told his grandson
about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.

One is Evil.
It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,
self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority and ego.

The other is Good.
It is Joy, Peace, Love, Hope, Serenity, Humility, Kindness, Benevolence, Empathy, Generosity, Truth, Compassion and Faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute
and then asked his grandfather:

"Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

;)

That is absolutely bloomin fantastic. Thankyou M.......and also Chris for both your wisdom as always.

[PathWalker]

Israeli official spokesman accuse Hamas in sabotage to the relief transportation to the Ghazza strip

Read the details here (http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2010/DFM-Ayalon-briefs-diplomatic-corps-on+tour-of-Kerem-Shalom-1-Jul-2010.htm)

This is cheap propaganda war at its best.
The poor people of Ghazza are puppets of both sides. Both sides use the same tricks on the media.
The aim is in fueling the media, therefore perpetuate the conflict.
We are sick and tired of this.

[PathWalker]

Israeli air force attack Ghazza strip weaponry producing targets in retaliation to mortar shelling Israeli settlements.

IAF hits terror targets in the Gaza Strip
IAF aircrafts hit a weaponry manufacturing site and two smuggling tunnels in the Gaza Strip, following a number of mortar shells and a rocket fired at Israeli territory

Read more here (http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/06/2701.htm)

Then later today another fire exchanged

Air Force Targets Palestinian Militant Firing RPG.

In a joint IDF-ISA activity, the IAF targeted a Palestinian militant who fired an anti-tank missile at IDF soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip; No IDF soldiers were harmed.

Read more here (http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/06/2803.htm)

The heat/hit is on, all the time on low intensity. It is a war game to all involved.
BTW the people involved do not perceive this as a game.

[Deega]

absolutly chris, here is a few words i would like to share with you all.......

Wolf Wisdom

An old Cherokee told his grandson
about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.

One is Evil.
It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,
self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority and ego.

The other is Good.
It is Joy, Peace, Love, Hope, Serenity, Humility, Kindness, Benevolence, Empathy, Generosity, Truth, Compassion and Faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute
and then asked his grandfather:

"Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

;)

Great Morguana!, love this!

My guess is, we would have a gene of violence and a gene of love and compassion, don't we ?

[scanner]

no post for now

[shiva777]

the israeli-palestinain conflict won't be solved anytime soon,these are galactic soul groups battling each otrher that are being mirrored down here on earth,as are so many things happening now...as above,so below...it's all about shadow(ignorance) being brought in to the light(awareness)..spiritual people and new-agers are going to have to face their shadows soon...the longer they deny them the bigger the shadows get...it's all about awareness and the new-age lie that we should only focus on what "feels" good is one of the biggest traps that most of them fall in to,.it's denial and avoidance that rots souls and has mainstream new-agers clamouring after "love and light" channelings to avoid their inner work...we are in a FINAL CONFLICT time and there is no avoiding many things...best to get comfortable with the REALITY of things and find that space of neutrality where we don't cling to any outcome or situation but we focus on awakening our own Divinity instead...where we end up is where we have opened the space to be,no one and NO DATE will do it for you...time to get real

[PathWalker]

Signs of political maturity or public awakening in the middle east

Hamas and Hezbollah 'beginning to embrace non-violent tactics'

Wall Street Journal reports that Hamas and Hezbollah see civil disobedience, protest marches, lawsuits and boycotts as productive tactics in their fight against Israel.

Read more here (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-and-hezbollah-beginning-to-embrace-non-violent-tactics-1.299814)

This is main stream media report in Israel from a socialistic news paper. I wonder what is behind this report and the timing.
There is a public anger and despair in the Israeli public with the dealing of Gilad Shalit the Israeli soldier prisoner, in the Hamas hands for 4 years.
And the mainstream leadership is trying to deliver some accomplishments.

[PathWalker]

Another war is planned this summer

A New Date
It was decided that Israel would launch its coming war on Lebanon between mid-September and the beginning of October. This was relayed by American researchers, quoting Israeli officials who visited Washington in the last few weeks.

Read more here (http://www.daralhayat.com/portalarticlendah/158920)

This was published yesterday in an Arab newspaper that is the voice of the western Illuminati controlled Arabs.
Certainly they are planning something for US.
But we are awakening and growing in number.
I believe the real global threat now is the BP oil spill (even to the middle east) and they are trying to create divergence.

[HORIZONS]

The David Icke Newsletter, July 4th 2010


ISRAEL: BULLIES TO THE WORLD ...

http://projectavalon.net/israeliran.jpg

... IRAN MUST NOT HAVE WHAT ISRAEL HAS HAD FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS
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(And offered to the fascist apartheid regime in South Africa)

Hello all ...

There have been a series of reports in recent weeks about 'mass movements' of American and Israeli warships close to Iranian waters.

The aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S Truman, is reported to be in the north Indian Ocean, not far from the Strait of Hormuz which stands at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. It has joined the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower which was already in the area.



The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz said on June 19th that twelve US and Israeli warships were seen moving through the Suez Canal (disgustingly with Egyptian permission) from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia has also allowed Israel to use its airspace for an attack on Iran, according to mainstream media sources.

All this has naturally led to gathering speculation of an imminent strike by Israel against Iranian nuclear facilities, something they and the United States have been desperately trying to justify since the Boy Bush administration.

As I said in my newsletter of two weeks ago, Goodbye Arabia?, the Rothschild cabal, working through Israel and the United States, among others like Britain, is seeking to control all the countries between Israel and China.



If you look at this map you can see the countries I am talking about ... Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

All of them are either already occupied by the United States (Iraq and Afghanistan); being undermined by terrorism and chaos covertly orchestrated by the US and Israel (Pakistan); being targeted for a direct attack (Iran); or being isolated by the takeover of other countries in preparation for their absorption into the US/Israel (Rothschild) web of control (Jordan, Syria and Lebanon).

Crucial to this agenda is the control of Iran and that's why they have peddled the cover story about Iran getting nuclear weapons and being a threat to the world (see 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq).

It is simply a manufactured excuse to do what they want - pick a fight with Iran and take the place over, as they have in Iraq.

The hypocrisy of the world's biggest nuclear power (America) and the only nuclear power in the Middle East (Israel) seeking to use the potential possession of nuclear weapons by Iran as a reason to send the boys in is almost beyond the imagination.

Also, America has been involved in war after war after war all over the world and is the only country to drop an atomic bomb, two in fact, on another. Israel goes to war on average every couple of years and has a permanent war against the Palestinians.*The*maniacs controlling both countries (for the Rothschilds) are psychopaths with their finger on the button. Comforting isn't it?

In contrast, how many wars has Iran ever started in the last 100 years and more? None.

That is not to say I agree with its leadership or its religious imposition - I don't - but it is clear who is the real threat to the world and it's not Iran.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin 'Yes sir, Mr Rothschild' Netanyahu: 'Iran is a danger to Israel, a poor little country that only wants peace.'

'Do what I say, not*what I do' is the catch-phrase of all bullies and those that control Israel and America (the Rothschilds and their lackeys) are bullies to the world.

Look at the size of Israel, it is tiny, and yet it manipulates and threatens the entire Middle and Near East through its vicious and merciless enforcers, the Mossad, and through its vast conventional and nuclear arsenal accumulated and constantly updated by the taxpayers of the United States via their Rothschild-controlled Republican and Democrat governments.



One hand of the Rothschild cabal, America, gives the money and weapons to another hand - Israel.

They work as one unit and answer to the same masters, and thus Israel can do what it likes without any condemnation or sanctions from the United States. It's the same with Britain and so many other countries. That's why this slither of land called Israel has so much global power and influence.

Most relevant, of course, to the current hypocrisy over Iran is the Israeli nuclear capability. Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has said that 'Israel is the number one threat to the Middle East' because of its nuclear weapons.

He said that the Israeli government has refused to allow inspections of its nuclear installations for 30 years. How do they get away with it? The Rothschilds own Israel and its nuclear arsenal and they own the US government.

Astonishingly, Israel and the United States have a long-time policy agreed by successive governments that Israel never says if it has got nuclear weapons and the US never asks. They both know they have, of course, it's just a pathetic game.

President 'dark eyes' Obama, who was funded and manipulated into power by Rothschild Zionists and is now surrounded by them,* announced that he would continue this no-say-no-ask policy while at the same time he condemns anyone else that refuses to allow official nuclear inspections.

The hypocrisy, and bare-faced bias, is breathtaking.



Israel built its nuclear reactor at Dimona in the Negev desert with help from the French government of Charles de Gaulle. Work started in the late 1950s and the reactor 'went critical' in 1964.

The Israel government has lied from the start. As Dimona was being constructed they said it was a textile plant, an agricultural station, and a metallurgical research facility.

When it became obvious what it really was, Israeli leader and terrorist, David Ben-Gurion, admitted in 1960 that Dimona was a nuclear centre but said it was built for 'peaceful purposes'. This was yet another lie.

The American-Israel Cooperative Enterprise organisation says in its Jewish Virtual Library:

'As early as 8 December 1960, the CIA issued a report outlining Dimona's implications for nuclear proliferation, and the CIA station in Tel Aviv had determined by the mid-1960s that the Israeli nuclear weapons program was an established and irreversible fact.

United States inspectors visited Dimona seven times during the 1960s, but they were unable to obtain an accurate picture of the activities carried out there, largely due to tight Israeli control over the timing and agenda of the visits. The Israelis went so far as to install false control room panels and to brick over elevators and hallways that accessed certain areas of the facility.

The inspectors were able to report that there was no clear scientific research or civilian nuclear power program justifying such a large reactor - circumstantial evidence of the Israeli bomb program - but found no evidence of "weapons related activities" such as the existence of a plutonium reprocessing plant.'


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President John F. Kennedy had realised by June 1963 that Israel's assurances about 'peaceful purposes' was a lie as usual and he sent a letter to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion demanding proof 'beyond reasonable doubt' that Israel was not developing nuclear weapons via Dimona.

The letter was cabled to the US embassy, but Ben-Gurion resigned (for 'personal reasons' never explained) before it could be delivered to him. He knew what it was going to say and took avoiding action. A few months later Kennedy was assassinated and replaced by the rabid Rothschild Zionist, Lyndon Johnson.

It seems that Israel produced its first nuclear weapon in the early to mid 1960s and their nuclear arsenal today is estimated at between 200 and 400 warheads - with absolute crazies deciding if they are fired and in what direction.

Israel's nuclear programme was exposed in 1986 by Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technical assistant at Dimona, who talked to a journalist on Britain's Sunday Times.




Vanunu was then lured to Italy by a Jewish-American woman called Cheryl Bentov, drugged and kidnapped by Mossad, the Rothschild 'intelligence' agency, and jailed for 18 years for 'treason and espionage' - 11 of them in solitary confinement. Bentov now uses the name Cheryl Hanin and works as a real estate agent in Florida.

Vanunu was jailed for 18 years for telling the truth - the truth that the global establishment already knew - but his 'crime' was telling the people what was going on. To the Israeli government that is the worst crime anyone can commit if it undermines the interests of Israel (the Rothschilds).

Mordechai Vanunu remains a political prisoner and is denied freedom of speech and movement by 'the Middle East's only democracy'. He is not allowed to leave the country nor talk with journalists from outside Israel.

He has been rearrested a number of times for giving interviews to foreign journalists and trying to leave the country and in 2009 he was arrested for having a Norwegian girlfriend which these callous and vindictive people said broke his ban on having contact with foreigners.



What if any other country in the Middle East did this? They would be condemned from the rooftops, dubbed a tyrannical regime, and there would be calls for sanctions and much else. If Vanunu was an Arab exposing a nuclear programme in Iran he would be a hero according to the Israeli, American and European governments.

Instead these hypocrites, like Obama, just look the other way and stay silent about the plight of a thoroughly decent and courageous man as he is grotesquely abused by the grotesque government of Israel.

These are the same people who have the nerve to point the finger at Iran.



But Israel doesn't just develop nuclear weapons for itself, it offers them around the world to those that the Rothschilds and their network of families want to have a nuclear capability.

South African documents came to light a few weeks ago which proved that Israel had offered to sell nuclear warheads to the racist, fascist apartheid regime in South Africa (likes clearly attract) in 1975. *

We should not be surprised at this connection between the two regimes given that South Africa was running a white minority racist dictatorship in South Africa and Israel is the most fundamentally racist regime on earth.

The Rothschild-created Anti Defamation League (ADL) in the United States was exposed for spying on anti-apartheid activists and passing the details to South African intelligence. Yes, this is the same organisation that screams 'racist' at anyone who dares to criticise Israel about anything.

There was also the Rothschild connection again with regard to South Africa. They created, never mind just control, Israel, and the apartheid regime in South Africa was run by the Rothschild subordinates, the Oppenheimer family (as the country still is today under black majority 'democracy')

The South African documents reveal that Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, offered the nuclear warheads in 'three sizes'. He signed an agreement with South African defence minister, P W Botha, which included a clause that 'the very existence of this agreement' would be secret.

In turn, South Africa supplied much of the yellowcake uranium that Israel needed to develop its own weapons.



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The nuclear agreement in 1975.

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Peres and Botha - made for each other.


I met Botha for nearly two hours at his request in the late 1990s when I was speaking in South Africa. I found him to be a broken and bitter man who was incredibly ill-informed about the forces that dictate world events.

The documents show that the apartheid regime in South Africa wanted the missiles as a 'deterrent' and for potential strikes against neighbouring African states. This is yet more confirmation of how the Rothschild government of Israel and its military intelligence arm, Mossad, supplies dictatorships all over the world with weaponry, including nuclear weaponry, to wreak death and destruction.

In yet another massive irony in the light of current events, documents found by Iranian students at the US embassy in Tehran after the revolution of 1979 revealed that the deposed Shah of Iran had been talking with Israel about developing nuclear weapons.

Israel, America via Israel, and the Rothschild Zionist networks have been the biggest suppliers of nuclear technology and know-how since the Manhattan Project produced the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It was Rothschild Zionists in the United States who provided the technical ability for Israel to become a nuclear power and, as I said in ... And The Truth Shall Set You Free, this also involved the infamous Lord Victor Rothschild, the notorious manipulator of British intelligence.

Maidhc Ó Cathail, a Japan-based writer and researcher, wrote in response to the Israel-South Africa revelations:

'How did Russia get the bomb?*Americans gave Russia the technologies, not just Americans but Zionists: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Morris Cohen, Martin Sobell,*David Greenglass, Klaus Fuchs and Harry Gold.*This was a couple of years before the establishment of the State of Israel or we would have called them all Israeli-Americans.

They believed that America couldn't be trusted and that infamous mass murderer Josef Stalin could.*From this point on, spying against America, everything from secret weapons to defense plans, everything America depended on to stay safe was stolen and sold to Russia, China or North Korea by spy organizations run out of Israel.'



So this is the background to what is happening to Iran. Those who are saying that Iran's potential for nuclear weapons is a danger to the world are the same people who have supplied country after country with the bloody things.

I am sick of being lectured about terrorism by terrorists, and about the danger of nuclear weapons by those who own and supply them.

Successive Rothschild-controlled American and Israeli administrations have been the world's playground bullies, doing what they like, saying what they like, and threatening others for doing what they do.

This week the US State Department, led by Rothschild Zionist Hillary Clinton, expressed 'concern' that Iran had supplied early-warning radar technology to Syria for greater defence against Israeli air attacks and to give Iran an early warning of possible Israeli strikes.

The 'concern' is apparently the suggestion that Syria would give the technology to Hezbollah in Lebanon so they could have better warning of Israeli air attacks.

Syria is causing 'concern' because Israeli President Shimon Peres says that it is supplying Hezbollah with Scud missiles that could cause major damage to Israel - yes, the very same Shimon Peres who signed an agreement with apartheid South Africa to supply them with nuclear weapons for use against other African states.

The real reason for this mock 'concern' is the desire to connect Syria to Iran and 'terrorism' and thus demonise it in preparation for when the Israel-US bully boys seek to add Syria to their list of occupied countries.



Meanwhile, as the Rothschild Zionist psychopaths seek to trigger yet another war on their ever-expanding list, it is reported from the Gaza strip concentration camp, guarded by Israeli troops, that more than half of the Gaza children are suffering from malnutrition and severe vitamin deficiency because of the Israeli blockade.

Hospital patients are dying through lack of medical supplies and the world watches as an entire people are systematically destroyed. While Israel's poodle, Barack Obama, stays silent on this genocide, he announced further economic sanctions against Iran this week and 'individuals' who commit 'human rights abuses'.

The man is a narcissistic disgrace.

The mentally-disturbed lunatics behind the mass murder of the Palestinian nation are those who lecture the world about terrorism and the dangers posed by 'tyrannical regimes'. When it comes to tyrannical, when it comes an utter disrespect for human life, no-one does it better, or worse, than Israel which, in league with the United States, is the most dangerous country on the planet.

And not just because of what it does directly - also for the way it is the hidden force behind tyrannies across the world, including many in the Middle East, as I outlined two weeks back.



These bullies think they can do what they like and have no consequences. Yesterday Iran marked the 22nd* anniversary of a US missile attack on an Iranian passenger airliner over the Persian Gulf that killed all 290 passengers on board, 66 of them children.

The US claimed - ludicrously - that its naval officers had mistaken the Iranian Airbus A300 for an F-14 Tomcat fighter and America has refused to even apologise.

We can do what we like - get used to it.

And what did the United Nations do? Nothing.

On May 31st, Israeli commandos killed nine people on a peace flotilla in international waters trying to take supplies to the tragic people of the Gaza Strip and Israel has refused to even apologise or accept it was an unlawful act.

We can do what we like - get used to it.

And what did the United Nations do? Nothing.

The United Nations do nothing of substance to stop the bullies of Israel and America because the UN was created by the same Rothschild cabal that imposes its will via Israel and America.

But, don't worry, there is no conspiracy or coordinated agenda. It's just a theory. Ask CNN or the BBC, they'll tell you.

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Israel is stealing Palestinian gas reserves in Gaza


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Click here to watch ...
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Governments Stealing Children at Secret Family Courts

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How long are we going to stand for these heartless fascists stealing children from their parents?

Silence and inactivity - 'it's not*my problem' - is supporting this outrage against the most basic humanity by the deeply sick minds of the Social Services Mafia.

Child kidnapping by the State is now an epidemic and many are ending up in the Satanic and paedophile rings that control the social service criminal cabals.

Click here to watch ...

Please circulate this video far and wide to everyone you know short of spamming*-*what is described here*is going on all over the world in extraordinary numbers.

The link to send*is: http://www.davidicke.com/component/content/article/35813
See also the chapter 'Stealing the Children' in Human Race Get Off Your Knees.

[PathWalker]

More winds of war from the Arab media

Fears over Lebanon confrontations

A spate of clashes between the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon and local residents has sparked fears that Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia political party, is unhappy with military exercises being carried out in the area.

Read more here (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/20107491356649453.html)

Certainly something is boiling.
The media in Israel is quiet about the above incidents. I wonder why, the Israeli media is quoting Arab media many times. And often times the Israeli media is war mongering. As it was in the Lebanon war of 2006. And the Gazza war in 2009. While the Israeli media is not fully controlled by the security forces, it is extreme patriotic and senseless.

The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon is perceived in Israel as a political excuse to leave Lebanon. By all factors of UN official reports, it failed all it missions. Now it is forced out. This remind me of the days before the 1967 war when Egypt wanted to banish the UN from Sinai desert.

[PathWalker]

Israel expands flotilla inquiry

Israel has expanded the mandate of a commission investigating a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, enabling the panel to compel witnesses to appear and testify under oath.

read more here (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/201074105655769216.html)

This is a political maneuver by the Israeli elite to avert the public rage against the political leader that sent the Israeli Navy with commands overriding the professional commanders that where on site.
The public opinion in Israel is that this is one more useless commission with ignorable recommendations. The commission is used as a political leverage tool for internal Israeli politics. Do not expect any substantial truth disclosure.

[PathWalker]

Israeli Parliament members wake up call to warn against the Elite taking over Israel from the government

MK Gafni "scared" of concentration in economy
MK Shelly Yacimovich: You're not paranoid. You really have something to fear.

Adrian Filut 5 Jul 10 15:57
"There's a very small group of people who own most of the economy. One day, the state will go out of the picture, and these families will run it, because any decision by them would shock everyone," said Knesset Finance Committee chairman MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) today in the committee's second meeting on the issue of concentration in the economy.

"It won't be possible to control them, because these families also own the media. I'm very afraid," added Gafni.

Read more here (http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000571849&fid=942)

Is this awakening or what.

Israel Elite was controlled for 50 years by the 4 security forces . And they controlled Israel policy behind the scenes as the CIA, NSA, DHS, ... does to the US.
The security forces themselves have internal politics and animosity.

Now since security issues no longer at the center, TPTB are taking over with international financial control.
The people are waking up.

[PathWalker]

IDF soldiers face penalty after uploading Hebron dance video to YouTube

WATCH: Video of soldiers, armed and wearing bulletproof vests, patrolling as a Muslim call to prayer is heard. Then the music changes and they break into a Macarena-like dance.


A number of Israel Defense Forces soldiers could face disciplinary action after they uploaded to YouTube a video of themselves stopping a patrol in the West Bank to dance to American electro-pop singer Kesha's hit Tick Tock.

The video "Batallion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah" shows six dancing Nahal Brigade soldiers, armed and wearing bulletproof vests, patrolling as a Muslim call to prayer is heard. Then the music changes and they break into a Macarena-like dance.

Read and see more here (http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/idf-soldiers-face-penalty-after-uploading-hebron-dance-video-to-youtube-1.300205)

Very good sign the Army is losing the fear grip on the soldiers. Or the soldiers are simply stupid. Or both.
Israeli PTB do no have full control over the Internet yet. But there are plans to as in the EU and USA.

[HORIZONS]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/l-ssd063010.php

[PathWalker]

Study shows devastating impact of 2009 Israel attack on Gaza Strip
Excerpt from the link in the previous post.

The devastating impact of the 2009 Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip is detailed by one of the Abstracts published Online by The Lancet this week, written by Dr Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, Institute of Community and Public Health-Birzeit University, West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory, and colleagues.

The authors analysed health-related quality of life in terms of health before and after the invasion, and factors associated with poor quality of life; and the most urgent needs of a representative sample of adults living in the Gaza strip. They collected data using a randomly selected survey of oPt households, which consisted of questions in three sections about demographic, socioeconomic, and health information about all members of the household; housing characteristics, amenities, access to basic services, and events taking place during and after the attacks; and quality of life, distress, insecurities, and threats (with focus on adults ≥18 years). Some questions were specifically about the periods 6 months before the invasion, during the invasion, and 6 months after the invasion. The prevalence of all injuries and disabilities irrespective of the cause were extracted from different questions.

A representative sample of 3017 households (1% of total households within the Gaza Strip) were visited, with a response rate of 97%. Almost a third of the sample population was displaced during the war, while 39% of these 3017 homes were completely (1%) or partly (38%) destroyed. Three quarters of these homes had yet to be repaired at the end of the study (by August 29, 2009). 137 (0•7%) household members had injuries from various causes: Three-quarters of these were caused by the war (from the start of the attack until the time of the survey [July 14, to Aug 29, 2009]); and 4% of 321 disabilities were caused by the attack. More than seven in ten homes were reliant on food aid.

Quality of life was rated as less than good (out of five categories very good, good, neither good nor poor, poor, very poor) by half of respondents at the time of the survey compared with 39% during the period before the war. 52% of men rated quality of life as less than good versus 48% of women. Other factors also came into play in respondents' answers on quality of life. 69% of respondents with no one working at home rated quality of life as less than good versus 41% with one or more household members working full-time; 60% of respondents with damaged homes rated quality of life as less-than-good versus 43% of those with intact homes. Finally 57% of respondents whose families received food aid versus rated quality of life as less-than-good versus 30% of respondents whose families did not.

Furthermore, 85% of respondents had moderate or high levels of insecurities, fears, and threats, whereas half reported moderate or high levels of distress. Respondents were also assessed for their level of suffering in a number of categories on a scale of 0 to 10 where 10 was the worst. 92% of respondents rated their suffering as 8 or higher due to the siege at the time of the survey (Jul to Aug 2009); 90% rated their suffering as eight or higher due to the Israeli occupation, 85% as 8 or higher due to the latest war, and 83% rated their suffering as 8 or higher due to internal Palestinian fighting.

A number of crucial needs were identified by the survey: home repair was urgently needed by 58% of households with homes damaged during the war; a source of livelihood* by 2249 (75%); and utilities (water, electricity, cooking gas) were urgently needed by 56%.

The authors conclude: "The Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip has had a negative effect on the quality of life of adults in the general population, and has resulted in high levels of reported distress, human insecurity, and social suffering. The siege on this region continues to be the main obstacle for improvement of the living conditions and quality of life of the population, and is a priority for action."

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Dr Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, Institute of Community and Public Health-Birzeit University, West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory. T) +972-2-2982020 E) nrmeileh@birzeit.edu

Full Abstract: http://press.thelancet.com/optaftermath.pdf

PathWalker comment
I read the above report with awe and amazement.
Assuming the report is genuine and not cooked. 50% of Ghazzans fill good or better. While 61% felt good or better before the war in 2009 (there was siege than as well).
I would expect the people moral under siege to be in much worse.
This report contradicts the mainstream media viewpoint (both Arab and Israeli)
Maybe there are worse suffering populations on earth after all

[PathWalker]

IDF soldier charged with killing woman during Gaza war
After more than 400 officers and fighters questioned, military Advocate General decides to file criminal indictment.

An Israel Defense Forces soldier has been officially charged with killing a woman in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead in early 2009. The indictment against the soldier, a member of the Givati brigade, was filed on Tuesday following a military hearing.

Military Advocate General Avihai Mandelblit furthermore has taken legal action against soldiers who allegedly deviated from explicit orders in three additional incidents during Israel's winter offensive in Gaza.

The advocate general also decided to close the proceedings on all the other incidents that were mentioned in the Goldstone Report, a report commissioned by the United Nations to investigate Operation Cast Lead. The report mentioned 23 incidents of alleged war crimes perpetrated by Israeli soldiers. Mandelblit arrived at these decisions in light of the findings of the military probe in which more than 400 officers and fighters were questioned over the last 18 months.

Read more here (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-soldier-charged-with-killing-woman-during-gaza-war-1.300373)

PathWalker comment
Never before the IDF indicted its soldiers on war crime.
We are in a new territory here.
The Goldstone report does have and effect on Israel. As does the Turkish flotilla to Ghazza.
After all Israel is taking action in response to world media opinion.
Two questions left.
1. Why now?
2. Is this an awakening process?

[PathWalker]

Egypt / Hamas politics, why Egypt persist in the Ghazza siege

Hamas is leveling for influence, and Egypt is getting fed up. Amid the broader regional issues, this shaky relationship has a trajectory of its own.

Egypt is fed up with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policy of stalling and the caprices of Hamas, which for more than six months has been refusing to sign the reconciliation document with Fatah that Egypt has formulated, thereby delaying Egypt's "liberation" from the burden of Gaza.

Egypt has informed Hamas that "[the Rafah crossing] will be opened when the occupation ends" and that Egypt is prepared to discuss fully opening the crossing point only when PA representatives show up on the Palestinian side, as stipulated in a 2005 Quartet agreement. Hamas is opposed to this agreement and considers it as part of the system of Israeli influence. Egypt itself did not sign that agreement. It has adopted it, but it is free to do whatever it wants on its side.

Since the flotilla incident, Egypt has indeed opened the crossing to Gaza Palestinians, and about 10,000 civilians were recorded passing through. However, it is not allowing free passage of goods. "This crossing point was never intended as a crossing point for goods," explained Aboul Gheit. Egypt does allow the passage of close associates of Hamas and delegations visiting the movement's leadership.

Fatah and Hamas received copies of the reconciliation agreement back in October 2009. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed it, while Hamas has been insisting on changes to some provisions on the integration of Hamas into the Palestine Liberation Organization and how elections are held in the territories. Egypt is not prepared to have the document changed, and blames Hamas for the delay.

Read the full article here (http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/week-s-end/fear-and-loathing-on-the-gaza-border-1.300931)

PathWalker comments:
It is fairly unpublished that Egypt is taking active role in the Ghaza siege.
While Israel is taking all the public heat. It is fairly understandable why Egyptian role in the siege is kept on low note.

Meanwhile Hamas local leaders are doing what ever they can to block any reconciliation with their people and the Israelis. There are the explicit political interest that push to Hamas to the extreme, while there are implicit undercover forces that maintain the extremist pressure (not Islamic religion - religion is a cover story). My personal belief is that sunlight purify pain.

Therefore my solution is, public exposure to the hidden forces that perpetuate more extremism, and feed fanaticism (into all involved stakeholders - not just Iran). When the real interest are revealed the people in the street will cease to comply. The street people are the guns feeds for TPTB larger picture.

[PathWalker]

Israel's master plan to take over East Jerusalem and disperse its Arab population

Instead of reversing decades of neglect to meet the needs of Jerusalem's Palestinian residents, the plan backs up the local and national governments' apparent desire to relocate as many Arabs as possible to the margins of the municipal boundaries; to promote overcrowding in East Jerusalem in the hope that Palestinians will leave the city of their own accord, by developing new neighborhoods on the margins of the city and by making proposed construction in the heart of East Jerusalem impossible; and to accelerate evictions and house demolitions.

The Master Plan, the first in 50 years, was created by the Jerusalem municipality over the past decade, and is intended to shape the city for at least the next 25 years. The plan must be approved at the national level by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee and pass public muster before becoming official policy.

Read the full report in here (http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-jerusalem-master-plan-for-destruction-1.300935)

PathWalker comments
At last Israel is publicly revealing the implicit policy in East Jerusalem, taking place since 1967.
I truly believe that this disclosure is a good sign. Especially when it comes from Israeli officials. I am quite confident there is more to come.

[PathWalker]

MESS Report / Israel exposes valuable intelligence to warn Hezbollah

Israel is planning for the next round of fighting in the north by publicizing that Hezbollah has moved most of its facilities into southern Lebanon's Shi'ite villages.
By Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel

Four years after the end of the Second Lebanon War, the Northern Command of the Israel Defense Forces did something unusual on Wednesday: A great deal of valuable intelligence information about the Lebanese town of al-Hiyam, presumably gathered over a long period of time, was sacrificed for a much greater purpose. The command presented to the media, in great detail, Hezbollah military preparations in the southeast Lebanon town, including accurate maps, photographs and information about Hezbollah military installations situated near civilian buildings such as schools and hospitals.

The move was not solely in the service of Israel's public relations. The head of the Strategic Division of the IDF Planning Branch, Brig. Gen. Yossi Hayman, presented it in June at United Nations headquarters. This is a battle for political legitimacy and credibility. Israel is planning for the next round of fighting in the north and assumes that it will involve hard combat with Hezbollah, which has moved most of its bunkers, command centers and rocket stores in southern Lebanon out of fields and into the 160 Shi'ite villages and towns in the area. In doing so the organization is implementing lessons that came out of combat in Lebanon in 2006 and the Gaza Strip in 2008.

The publication of detailed information about Hezbollah's intentions sends the organization a clear warning of what it can expect to face if it starts a war while preparing the international community for the measures the IDF is likely to take. The optimists believe that Hezbollah will think twice before starting a provocation (in part because it is now aware of the extent of Israeli intelligence penetration of its ranks ).


Read full report in here (http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/mess-report/mess-report-israel-exposes-valuable-intelligence-to-warn-hezbollah-1.300655)

PathWalker comments
Apparently Israel is taking action to chill the winds of war from the Arab nations I reported last week. Therefore we are assured that there are counter balances to the war mongering parties.

[Rocky_Shorz]

One of the last Shiite leaders in Lebanon standing against Iranian control just passed away...


During the '90s, Fadlallah had a falling out with Hezbollah and Iran. The sticking point was the concept of Velyat-e Faqih, or guardianship of the jurist, which held that the supreme religious and political authority for Hezbollah was Iran's Supreme Leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Pride played an issue for Fadlallah, who was a true scholar—a marja al-taqlid, or source of emulation—for millions of Shiites around the world. Khamenei was a mid-level cleric whose stature rested on his ability to maneuver among allies and adversaries in Tehran.


full story (http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20979:iran-and-hezbollahs-spiritual-leader-&catid=33:iran-in-the-world-press&Itemid=32)

[Gita]

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For Propaganda to Work, It Must First Be Believable: The Captured Palestinian Missile Launching Garbage Truck
posted by [Redacted] on Friday, July 9, 2010

I received a wonderful piece of racist propaganda today by email from a dupe, someone who is obviously Pro-Israeli War Crime, a proponent of the genocide of an occupied people, the original inhabitants of Palestine or maybe just a paid shill, an internet troll mouthpiece paid by AIPAC for this type of PR work.

The email in this instance is entitled, "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS ON OUR NEWS ??????" and only an uneducated zionist-friendly tard could believe something so stupid and would definitley not do any type of research to see if it was true, taking it at face value and forwarding it as the gospel truth!

After the war crimes charges following USrael's Cast Lead war operation on women and children in United Nations schools and hospitals, raining down death in the form of white phosphorous to kill all, the disastrous military attack and targeted assassinations on the Gaza Flotilla- of civilians and members of European parliaments on US and other NATO flagged ships - and now their push for the US to send our teenaged sons and daughters to die in a war against Iran for USrael, Iran being a country that has not attacked anyone in 200 years in contrast to USrael's wars of aggression since their inception, they will keep pumping the net full of this really poor attempt at propaganda. I used to do so much better when I worked in US intelligence overseas during the Cold War for all of the alphabets, creating anti-Soviet propaganda for use behind the Iron Curtain - and that was during the paste-and-layup days before we had the use of computers, long before the wonderful world of Adobe and their Creative Suite - when Photoshop was still a noun, before becoming a verb and was still a place to buy photographic artwork in frames, but I digress.

Here's the context of the viral email in all of its horrible formatting, probably to look like it came from just some bad typing American rather than out of some PR agency:

Captured Palestinian "garbage truck" from Gaza .
http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/July20103/truck.jpg

This is a captured Palestinian garbage truck from Gaza .

The truck is set up to fire 9 Kasem rockets and then drive off innocently.

The note pasted on the drivers door says In case of traffic violations, please contact The Palestinian Authority.


The Israelis have evidence of ambulances and emergency vehicles set up the same way.
Doesn't it make you all "warm and fuzzy" that Obama just gave
the Palestinians 400 million dollars from your taxes?

This is a system to direct exhaust gas from a matching manifold under the cab. Notice that you’ve never seen the lower back/bottom of the cab in ANY of the pictures. These same pictures were addressed in 2002, and these same trucks are still being used today, but not to launch rockets. This type of exhaust configuration is common on various types of dump trucks used around the world, to keep the contents hot, and/or keep the wet contents from freezing to the steel bed.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZOwnzvDYQ40/TDkVLOr80RI/AAAAAAAAA7E/9EFuguUhhlk/s320/Truck-Body-and-Method-of-Heating-Same-pg-1.jpg
As you'll notice here, in this patent PDF entitled "Truck Body and Method of Heating Same," filed January 2, 1932 by Ray Ferwerda and given the patent number 1,942,207 on March 12, 1934, it states "...I have developed a truck body, the end, sides and bottom of which are so constructed as to permit heating thereof by the exhaust gases from the vehicle on which the body is mounted, such heating being wholly reliable efficient and inexpensive..." So there is nothing special about the technology being used almost a century later, the same type of mechanism that the ancient wealthy Romans used millennia ago to heat their floors using hot water pipes beneath the floor.

Also, as posted on this site, you find an additional image of the truck with both the Israeli text boxes absent. In this instance on a Pro-War Crime fetish site, they are showing this same truck that was forwarded around the net as being a captured Palestinian truck now being shown earlier as a captured Iraqi truck from 2008. So which is it?


I guess brown people in a war torn sandy area of the mid-east make for easy insurgent or terrorist claims, a bit of racist profiling. Even on this fetish site pointed out by an AIPAC sympathizer, (AIPAC being a non-registered agent of a foreign government being a Mossad front, the same thing the recent supposed 10 "Russian spies" were charged with and not espionage in that FBI comedy), is vague in proof to the claims of it being a missile launcher.

Unquote

Continued here. (http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2010/07/for-propaganda-to-work-it-must-first-be.html)

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"It's a Trick, We Always Use It." (calling people "anti-Semitic")

jUGVPBO9_cA

[JoshERTW]

This song is a pretty good summation of official Israeli/US Foreign Policy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I&feature=related

[PathWalker]

The sound of war and the business of war are not the same

Turkey expects 4 more Israeli UAVs - report

While demanding an Israeli apology for the flotilla interception which turned violent, Turkey looks to complete an Elbit Systems deal from 2004.
Globes' correspondent11 Jul 10 11:38
Turkish daily "Today's Zaman" reports that remaining four Heron unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) out of ten that Turkey ordered from Israel are expected to be delivered in August. The Herons are manufactured by Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT) and Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI)

Read more here (http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000573147&fid=942)

PathWalker comments:
It seems like complete Hypocracy. No it is not, it is the way business is done in the middle east. It is common practice among the natives to sound one way and act the other. All in favor of divergent political interests. This practice was acceptable as long as there was absolute control on the media and there was no freedom of speech. Guess what. The word pass as fast as the internet. And the internet is under attack as well.

The Turks buy weapons from Israel in order to massacre the Kurds and accuse Israel for massacre the Palestinians. This is how business works in the region.

[PathWalker]

Israeli navy on alert as Libyan aid ship heads for Gaza

A Libyan ship carrying aid and activists is heading for Gaza in a mission that Israel has described as an "unnecessary provocation".

The Israeli navy is monitoring the vessel's progress and preparing to intervene if it continues on a course to Gaza.

"I say very clearly, no ship will arrive in Gaza. We will not permit our sovereignty to be harmed," the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said in a radio broadcast.

The ship, Amalthea, sailed from Greece at the weekend. It is carrying up to 15 activists and 2,000 tonnes of food and medicine, according to the organisers, a charity chaired by a son of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.

Read more here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/11/libyan-ship-heads-for-gaza)

PathWalker comments:
I wonder what is the true goal of this voyage. The Turkish flotilla more then achieved its political goals: put great pressure on Israel, and release the siege on Ghazza. The Israelis will not be as stupid for the second time. Or would they?

[PathWalker]

Limitation to freedom of speech in the mainstream media

A Shia cleric dies in Lebanon and a CNN journalist gets fired for her tweet praising him while a British ambassador is made to apologise for eulogising him on her blog.

It could be yet another story about the pitfalls of new media but it is really about the complexity of Middle Eastern politics, the passion it stirs and the nuances that get lost in the debate.

For Shias in Lebanon, Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah was a revered cleric and he is being mourned by thousands who saw him as their religious reference, or marjaa'.

Condolences also poured in from the region, from Jordan's King Abdullah - a Sunni - to Iraq's prime minister and the ruler of Kuwait.

But Ayatollah Fadlallah was also named in 1995 by the US treasury department as a Specially Designated Terrorist under a presidential executive order.

Read more here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10584585.stm)

PathWalker comments:

Think what is the difference with totalitarian (china, Russia, Egypt) media control from the western media control (US, UK, EU)

[PathWalker]

Iranian fighter turned US spy: Tehran will attack Israel

Former Revolutionary Guard member who relayed its secret operations to CIA for 10 years says Iran will commit 'most horrendous suicide bombing in human history' if not stopped

A former fighter in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) turned US spy offered a rare glance into one of the most complex countries in the Middle East.


During a conference held at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Friday, Reza Kahlili (pseudonym) estimated that Iran will eventually attack Israel, Europe and the Persian Gulf states. He called for a preemptive strike on the regime in Tehran, but not on the Iranian people or the country's infrastructure.

Read more here (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3917748,00.html)

PathWalker comments:
I do not believe a word, but let the reader decide. This is a war on conscious perception. TPTB try to create a war perception as they did in the Iraqi war 2002.

[morguana]

Iranian fighter turned US spy: Tehran will attack Israel

Former Revolutionary Guard member who relayed its secret operations to CIA for 10 years says Iran will commit 'most horrendous suicide bombing in human history' if not stopped

A former fighter in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) turned US spy offered a rare glance into one of the most complex countries in the Middle East.


During a conference held at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Friday, Reza Kahlili (pseudonym) estimated that Iran will eventually attack Israel, Europe and the Persian Gulf states. He called for a preemptive strike on the regime in Tehran, but not on the Iranian people or the country's infrastructure.

Read more here (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3917748,00.html)

PathWalker comments:
I do not believe a word, but let the reader decide. This is a war on conscious perception. TPTB try to create a war perception as they did in the Iraqi war 2002.


please pathwalker can you supply us with a couple of other news sources covering this issue? i have had a quick look and couldnt find anything other than forum talk regarding this one artical.
always good to check around things, would be much apprectiated
cheers

[Samarkis]

Pathwalker!

I would like to request:
Can you put the articles in small print and your comments in big print???

Otherwise, which wolf are we feeding???
Many Thx!!

[PathWalker]

please pathwalker can you supply us with a couple of other news sources covering this issue? i have had a quick look and couldnt find anything other than forum talk regarding this one artical.
always good to check around things, would be much apprectiated
cheers

The previous source was from Israeli news site, but here are some more links from the controlled media. From my perspective the syndicated media is controlled.
CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/09/pol.us.iran.defector/?fbid=eW2bLQQUhNk)

And there is development on this issue.

Iran: CIA conducting 'psychological warfare' against us (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3911907,00.html)
Medvedev: CIA Iran report 'worrying' (http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=179730)
US: Iran Threatens Family of Nuclear Defector Shahram Amiri (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/iran-threatens-family-nuclear-defector/story?id=11034885)

I also wish to remind your of the old report from 2007 U.S. report: Iran stopped nuclear weapons work in 2003 (http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/03/iran.nuclear/index.html)

I collected all from google news.

PathWalker comments:
It is all war on your perception. It is all a game of make believe. Connect the dots you wish to connect then, follow your heart. All sides in the game have a honorable role to play.
I wish out of the game. I believe that my way out is by changing the game rules. Exposure change the game rules. It worked with the swine flu, it worked with climategate.

[PathWalker]

Most Palestinians Believe Proximity Talks To Fail: Poll (http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=512979)

RAMALLAH, July 12 (Benama) -- Most Palestinians believe the US-led indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) would fail, a poll showed on Monday.

According to Xinhua news agency, the survey, conducted by the West Bank-based Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO), said 53 percent of the surveyed expected the negotiations that started in May would fail, 37 percent said the proximity talks would be successful and 10 percent refused to answer the question.

Meanwhile, 53 percent of the 1,002 samples blamed Israel for the failure of the talks, saying the Jewish state "was not interested in peace." Only 11 percent said Israel wants to make peace.

The study showed the Palestinians shared pessimistic views on the possibility of reaching a peace deal with Israel next year.

Only 4.4 percent said the peace agreement was possible and 49 percent said it was impossible. However, 47 percent were less certain and said there "might be" a deal.

The poll also indicates the ceiling of expectations for US as 77 percent ruled out that the US supports a Palestinian plan to declare a statehood within two years regardless Israel's position.

The poll was conducted between June 17 to July 2 and samples were randomly selected from Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

PathWalker comments:
I believe as long as TPTB are involved and there are preconditions to communication. There is no sincerity. Both sides' leaders are corrupt. And the leaders are reflection of their people. We get what we deserve here in the hot pot.
There is great disillusionment on both side. Both are exhausted and very righteous. The mutual hate and pain are great.

[Steven]

...It is all war on your perception. It is all a game of make believe... I wish out of the game. I believe that my way out is by changing the game rules. Exposure change the game rules...

I totally agree, exposure does change the game rules because the game they play with us is based upon 'ignorance' in its litteral meaning.

Namaste, Steven

[PathWalker]

U.S. threatens to stop financial aid to Jordan over nuclear dispute (http://www1.albawaba.com/en/main-headlines/us-threatens-stop-financial-aid-jordan-over-nuclear-dispute)
The United States is threatening to stop providing financial assistance to Jordan if the country continues developing its nuclear program without coordination with Israel.

Following six months of talks, Jordan continues to refuse Israeli demands to be included in the extraction of uranium and has failed to secure American approval for its nuclear reactor project. Last month, the government in Amman accused Israel of undermining its efforts to create a peaceful nuclear program. At the time, King Abdullah II effectively told Israel to "mind own business."


PathWalker comment:
[I]Very delicate issue. I wonder how it slipped into the controlled media and why. It seems as if Israel PTB are not happy with the development.

[morguana]

The previous source was from Israeli news site, but here are some more links from the controlled media. From my perspective the syndicated media is controlled.
CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/09/pol.us.iran.defector/?fbid=eW2bLQQUhNk)

And there is development on this issue.

Iran: CIA conducting 'psychological warfare' against us (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3911907,00.html)
Medvedev: CIA Iran report 'worrying' (http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=179730)
US: Iran Threatens Family of Nuclear Defector Shahram Amiri (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/iran-threatens-family-nuclear-defector/story?id=11034885)

I also wish to remind your of the old report from 2007 U.S. report: Iran stopped nuclear weapons work in 2003 (http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/03/iran.nuclear/index.html)

I collected all from google news.



thank you pathwalker for providing the links, much appreciated, do you know of any sources from other countries? just curious :)
m

[PathWalker]

Greetings morguana,

The 1st link is from CNN (USA), the 3rd link is ABC (USA), the 4th link is (CNN).
You can try in google news search query here http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=en_il&hl=en&q=cia+iran+. This query result updates every few minutes. When I post this there is new article on the subject in the Washington post.

All the links are coming from US sources and Israeli sources. Connect the dots.

Take it easy it is a game (with our life in the hot pot). Expand your awareness and you changed the game.

[Samarkis]

Thank you Pathwalker! Much appreciated! (larger comment text)

Most Humans are very tired of the 'game'.....I hope you are correct that by exposing the games.....they will stop.....I think the most important part is to realize there are games at Humanity's expense.......

In Light!

[morguana]

Thank you Pathwalker! Much appreciated! (larger comment text)

Most Humans are very tired of the 'game'.....I hope you are correct that by exposing the games.....they will stop.....I think the most important part is to realize there are games at Humanity's expense.......

In Light!

spot on samarikis, tired of the continuous pain and fear, my heart goes out to all that suffer regardless of who they/we are, one day peace has to be found, as the pendulum swings away from chaos.
blessings and love
m

[MariaDine]

ART AND SOCIETY - OTHER VISIONS OF THE CONFLIT

http://colunistas.ig.com.br/monadorf/2010/07/12/israel-pelas-lentes-do-cinema/

THE LINK ABOVE IS FROM BRASIL. A COOPERATION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND BRASIL IN THE AREA OF CINEMA.

BELLOW ISTHE TRAILER OF ONE OF THE FILMS FEATURE IN THE FESTIVAL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atG9ta5foM4&feature=player_embedded#!

Essential viewing for anyone engaged in the ongoing drama of the Middle East, Ajami is a brave, apolitical look at Jews and Arabs in Jaffa's multi-ethnic Ajami neighborhood - a searing debut by Israeli and Palestinian co-directors, whose balanced perspective and use of non-professional local actors lend a palpable authenticity to a complex, cross-cultural drama.

[MariaDine]

Payvand Iran News ...

07/12/10

How Hezbollah Founder Fell Foul of Iranian Regime
By Shahryar Sadr, Tehran

NEWS ARTICLE

http://www.payvand.com/news/10/jul/1102.html

[PathWalker]

Gazans find themselves locked in despair (http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/gazans-find-themselves-locked-in-despair-37495)

...
The Palestinians of Gaza, most of them descended from refugees of the 1948 war that created Israel, have lived through decades of conflict and confrontation. Their scars have accumulated like layers of sedimentary rock, each marking a different crisis -- homelessness, occupation, war, dependency.

Today, however, two developments have conspired to turn a difficult life into a new torment: a three-year blockade by Israel and Egypt that has locked them in the small enclave and crushed what there was of a formal local economy; and the bitter rivalry between Palestinian factions, which has undermined identity and purpose, divided families and caused a severe shortage of electricity in the middle of summer.

There are plenty of things to buy in Gaza; goods are brought over the border or smuggled through the tunnels with Egypt. That is not the problem.

In fact, talk about food and people here get angry because it implies that their struggle is over subsistence rather than quality of life. The issue is not hunger. It is idleness, uncertainty and despair.


Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/gazans-find-themselves-locked-in-despair-37495?cp

PathWalker comments:
Excellent balanced true article - no propaganda, I suggest you read it fully.
It reflects excellent viewpoint into the Ghazzan harsh day life, morals and way of thinking.
My heart goes to the women more then any others. They bear the most.

If you read the article to the bottom you will understand despair and the young culture.

I believe the spiritual problem is in lack of compassion among all. From my private perspective the Palestinian tragedy is inability to reconcile. Long time ago Shimon Peres (now the President of Israel) said: They (the Palestinians) never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. From the article is seems that even among the Palestinians themselves, they cannot reconcile.

Maybe that is their cultural Karma. And they must reconcile among themselves in order to reconcile with Israel.

I am also reminded of the female energy role as the bearer of legacy and empowerment. The female energy is awakening all over the world. I hope for Ghazza as well. Because I personally believe the change will come from the women who will create a silent cultural change for reconciliation and self empowerment. This cultural process has already started in Jewish ultra orthodox society, that share many similarities to the patriarchal Arab culture. Since the ultra orthodox women started to work and provide the family, they are empowered and the control power of the fundamentalist Rabies is dwindling fast.

I suggest all to see the movie The Shawshank Redemption here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption . In Hebrew it was named "walls of hope", much better name.

Joy and happiness
PathWalker

[PathWalker]

Israel Tests Anti-Rocket System Designed to Repel Rockets of Hizbullah, Hamas

Israel has carried out "successful" tests on its "Iron Dome" anti-missile system, designed to provide a response to the rockets fired at Israel by Hizbullah and Hamas, Radio Israel said Wednesday.
"A series of tests on the anti-missile system for short-range missiles have been successfully carried out," the radio said.

The system can intercept short-range rockets and artillery shells. Israel hopes it will provide it with a means to dealing with rocket fire from Lebanon and from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Palestinian militants have fired thousands of home-made rockets into southern Israel, prompting Israel's devastating assault on the Gaza Strip on December 27, 2008.

Hizbullah also fired some 4,000 rockets into northern Israel during the 2006 war.

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/8D1E31CF61E6257AC22577600036CE18?OpenDocument

PathWalker comments:
As long as it is really defensive missiles, I am supportive. It is poor joke on the never ending innovation of weaponary.
It was once said that the current human culture evolved with the innovation in weapons technology - well I do not know about that, maybe.
One thing I am sure it is time for change of evolution direction. From destruction to enlightment

[Steven]

...The intention is to promote the realization that these two peoples are not each other’s worst enemy; a third player, the Foreign Elite (FE), is why the Middle East remains unstable...

Very true, and certainly not exclusive to Israel and Palestine. I really enjoy your thread, very informative and the little that I am aware of about this long lasting issue is right in line with your presentation.

Namaste, Steven

[PathWalker]

Very true, and certainly not exclusive to Israel and Palestine. I really enjoy your thread, very informative and the little that I am aware of about this long lasting issue is right in line with your presentation.

Namaste, Steven

Thanks you Steven, I take your encouragement very dearly.
My goal and style in posting here is to penetrate beyond the mass media propaganda. I quote news from all sources (since this is about news and updates). I enjoy your kind blessing. While I have massive bad reputation.
I suggest I got such massive bad reputation since I am a provocateur in my ego. Since I was a child I was a provocateur in order to attract attention. I got into many troubles with this provocateur role. Maybe it is my path to jolt people in order to reconsider.

I am moved from your post.:o

[PathWalker]

Don’t believe the nuclear hype about Iran: ElBaradei

Former IAEA director general Mohamed ElBaradei says that certain elements are intentionally exaggerating the possibility of threats emanating from Iran, adding that Iran is not producing nuclear weapons.

In an interview published in the July 12 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel, the Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize laureate also discussed the desire for change in his homeland, the possibility of cooperation with Islamists in the next presidential election, and the prospect of driving President Hosni Mubarak out of office.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=222989

PathWalker comments:
I believe the person and the report. May the awakened reader make his educated judgment

[PathWalker]

Water is more valuable than oil in this region

The water challenges in the Arab world are well known, well studied and well researched. Water security is disappearing. About half of people already live under conditions of water stress and with the population expected to grow from about 300 million today to about 500 million in 2025, per capita water availability is expected to be cut in half by 2050. Increasing affluence, economic growth and diversification will also place new demands on water.

Unsustainable and inefficient use means countries are using more water than is available. Already at least seven countries in the region are using more water than their renewable supplies and many use water wastefully. The Gulf countries have the highest per capita consumption of domestic water in the world and leakages in urban systems are often at 50 per cent. More than half of the water designated for agricultural use does not reach the plants as intended. Subsidy programmes provided by governments mask the real cost of water and can encourage waste.

There are growing new, complex connections between water, climate change and food security. Global projections for climate change actually indicate a drop in rainfall of between 20 to 40 per cent. But it is in agriculture that we will see the biggest impact. Eighty-five per cent of the water in the region is used for irrigation — often to grow crops that countries would be better off importing. While there is some potential for more efficient irrigation practices, there is no getting around the need to restrict the amounts of water used for agriculture. This will be institutionally and politically very difficult.

read full article here: http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/water-is-more-valuable-than-oil-in-this-region-1.654865

PathWalker comments:
Well studied article. Eventually resources scarcity will shape the regional politics. Nationality and religion are only excuses. From the dawn of known human history the ruler was in control of water land and air. Now look at TPTB. The master plan is to destroy the environment as much as possible in order to subdued the public as much as possible. It looks very coincidental, that the water infrastructure is destroyed. What about the other prosperous infrastructures.

Well the master plan is failing this time. People are awakening and demanding change. What really changes the game is the speed of communication. People have more resource to collect and distribute information, and they can travel as well. I am quite optimistic. But let the gloom and doom pass, before we see the change.

[PathWalker]

Lebanon postpones talks on native Palestinian rights

BEIRUT — Lebanon's parliament on Thursday postponed to next month talks on the controversial issue of granting employment, social security and property rights to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees.

"We have postponed the talks until August 17 in order to grant legislators more time to study the draft bill and to find a solution that suits everyone concerned," MP Robert Ghanem told AFP after the parliamentary meeting.

Dozens of Palestinians staged a protest outside the house of parliament as legislators debated whether to accord them the right to employment, social security and medical care, and ownership of property.

A deep divide over the motion has emerged between Christians and Muslims in the 128-strong parliament, which is equally split between the two confessions.

Christian parliamentarians -- normally bitter opponents -- unanimously refuse to grant Palestinians property rights, fearing the move would be a slippery slope to permanent settlement and giving the mainly Sunni Muslim refugees full-fledged citizenship.

But Palestinians have consistently said they refuse Lebanese citizenship.

"We just want to live in dignity until we go home and we refuse any nationality other than the Palestinian nationality," refugee Youssef Sabbagh, who was participating in the demonstration, told AFP.

read more here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hsBhir9IVWxymlwSr2v0VJr3PLHg

PathWalker comments:
It was said the human virtues were dispersed equally among the people. That include the bad and ugly virtues as well.

The poor Palestinians deserve more sympathy for themselves. It was said somewhere that: in order for a person to love another. The person must love himself.
It is clear that the Palestinians do not love them selves and receive the reflection from their Arab nations brothers.
Very sad.

[PathWalker]

Commander, soldier convicted in shooting of Palestinian

An IDF battalion commander who ordered a soldier to fire a rubber bullet at point-blank range at a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian was convicted of violating behavioral norms Thursday in a Tel Aviv military court.

read more here: http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=181600

PathWalker comments:
There is a new publishing stream of IDF soldiers indictments about war crimes. I wonder if this is a wind change indicator. Not long ago IDF was great at covering up any "inconvenient" event.

[PathWalker]

FM presents: 2nd disengagement from Gaza

Plan aimed at ridding Israel of any responsibility for Strip calls to lift blockade entirely, rehabilitate Hamas-ruled territory with European assistance
Five years after Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has proposed a new plan aimed at ridding Israel of any responsibility for the coastal enclave, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported Friday.

read more about this controversial news here: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3920724,00.html

PathWalker comments:
It is preffered to be wise, then righteous. The Turkish flotilla event has political internal ramifications in the Israeli politics.
It is said somewhere that when one exert force there is always the opposite force coming back. Not in Newtonian physics but rules of Karma.

An indicator of spiritual awakening is fast repercussions from the rules of Karma.
It took Israel 3 years to take political action for the 1973 war. And now we see 3 months action.
The Israeli political back lash is extra quick.

I could argue 3 statements:
1. The timeline is getting much quicker.
2. Thre is an indicator of spiritual awakening.
3. I chose to see the positive, therefore feed the wolf of love and compassion.

[Fredkc]

What you have is two peoples, so dedicated to hating each other, they've really given up on anything else in their lives.

They really don't care who that destroys, even themselves.

Finding a "good guy" in this disaster is akin to the notion you really can "pick up a turd, by the clean end."

A shame the world isn't adult enough to calmly wall them off until such time as they can behave as adults.

The rest is just a game of what my mother called "Let's you and him fight!"

You can always tell when two people are tired of hating and killing each other.

They simply stop.

[PathWalker]

What you have is two peoples, so dedicated to hating each other, they've really given up on anything else in their lives.

They really don't care who that destroys, even themselves.

Finding a "good guy" in this disaster is akin to the notion you really can "pick up a turd, by the clean end."

A shame the world isn't adult enough to calmly wall them off until such time as they can behave as adults.

The rest is just a game of what my mother called "Let's you and him fight!"

You can always tell when two people are tired of hating and killing each other.

They simply stop.

I would like to point the spiritual aspect of Israel.

1. Israel is reflection of the Jewish people.
2. The Jewish people are considered the root Chakra of humanity.
3. Watch the spiritual track the Jews take, there is where the world is going.

The state of Israel is the state of pure conflict. The Israeli-Arab conflict is only one of many, believe me you do not want to learn more about the conflicts in Israel.
The city of Jerusalem is the city of intensified conflict. All the conflicts of Israel (ethnic, national, religion, social, race, gender, health, wealth) are concentrated and exaggerated in the city of Jerusalem.

Therefore living in Israel is like living in the hot pot of duality.
Once the reader take side in the polarity game (arab/israeli), the reader is caught in the game.
Israel is reflection of the worst and best of humans, in all camps. The reader chose which side to look at.

Only when the Israeli natives (all camps) will evolve beyond the polarity game. There is chance to peace.
And it was prophesized that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the last one to be resolved, before global world peace.

So choose which wolf to feed. The angry, hateful or the compassionate loving.

[Fredkc]

1. Israel is reflection of the Jewish people.
Sad as that seems, I'm inclined to agree with you. Personally, I think they should aim higher.

2. The Jewish people are considered the root Chakra of humanity.
Then it's time we tore that chakra out by the root, and planted something useful. Better for them. Better for the rest of us.

3. Watch the spiritual track the Jews take, there is where the world is going.
See answer to item 1.

[shiva777]

all in the name of "love " and :god;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB01U_v5byw&feature=player_embedded

[Ross]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB01U...ayer_embedded#!

all in the name of "love " and :god;

The URL contained a malformed video ID.

Ross

Ok clicked agin and is working...

[Rimbaud]

From my point of view I've been following this situation for a very long time. Pathwalker, it's extremely difficult to answer your original post as any answer is guaranteed to deeply offend someone somewhere. I do have extremely strong views over this subject; and for sure I absolutely abhor what is going on down there. I don't think that either side is blameless, but when you start to see U.N. compounds being blown up then something is bloody wrong in this World.

More than anything, I hate seeing kids being victimised and murdered by troops using western made weapons..and Christmas before last, there was obviously murder going on in Gazza which sickened me to the very roots of my soul.

I don't feel inclined to say more than that in this forum as there are more pertinent places to comment about this awful situation. I'm not afraid to give you my honest views here, it's just that I see no purpose in doing so. Mans inhumanity to man is self evident in that region..and others...I wish I could wave a magic wand and stop it..but obviously I can't

Rimbaud

[Samarkis]

Pathwalker.........

I understand that you love your country.... However!! The State/Govt./country is NOT a reflection of the Jewish people......2/3 of the world Jewish community do not live there....Jewish exile since 2nd temple was destroyed has been @ 2000 yrs.....which is interesting as no other peoples have sojourned so long without a country...which means they do not need land....The Jewish treasure is Spirituality....NOT land........(or money)

As a matter of fact there are factions of the Jewish coommunity in Israel that get beaten when they protest(I actually saw very pregnant jewish women being hit over the head & belly for peacefully protesting & heard from people within the community that teen boys were beaten so badly that they will never be fathers)......That never gets on major media......

Here are some links that will awaken you to some of the sad truths behind much of the(Israeli or any otrher) Govt. actions.......they are being coerced or bribed to do the things they do......

http://www.vaticanassassins.org/2009/12/black-popes-freemasonic-adl-attacked-by-former-jewish-insider/

I also suggest reading the Book "Perfidy" By Ben Hecht....The Israeli Govt had it censored......

What I would REALLY like to make most clear.....Israel (country) is NOT synonomous to Jews......
And what matters more than anything....is the Golden rule....applied thru the heart energies of each of us......not by race,country,creed,gender......
It is past time to cause peace............

[greybeard]

Its a very emotive subject and to credit Pathwalker at least there is a balanced view of that which is un-blanced.
The root chakra is a survival instrument so of necessity it looks to get its own needs seen to very often at the expense of others needs wants and desires.
Thats what happens in all conflict small or big, in the relationship between two people or the world at large.
The heart chakra has no needs or wants but a desire and intention for love to motivate self.
When the wants needs and desire of the first three chakras are met then spiritual progress is possible and only then it is seen that wants needs and desire will be automatically met by the Divine. Its a spiritual evolution process.
chris

[Samarkis]

What I am saying in my above post.....is that there are external forces causing the havoc that lead to anger,hate ,revenge.......this is what must be addressed if the fighting is to be stopped............I keep telling people....who gets rich off this conflict??? Not the Israelis and not the Palestinians......That is where you will find the answer........and it needs to be looked at and truth & disclosure demanded.....no matter how painful......if not for our sakes...then for the children coming into this .......Humanity must look into it's wounds to heal......to clean it ,heal it......There are actually bigger issues at hand......Like world economy.......there are 6 billion people that need abundance.....and it is possible if we look to bold,swift,correct answers........such as La Rouche reccomends along with many leading economists,scientists & engineers.......
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2010/2010_20-29/2010-27/pdf/08-39_3727.pdf

Here is a whole bunch of articles,videos,interviews explaining these bold changes.....

http://larouchepac.com/node/15167

Let there be abundance for all Humanity.....It is endless, just as creativity is.....if we ALLOW and be flexible for bold changes......

[greybeard]

An enlightened view of all conflict and the solution is give in the excellent book by Dr David Hawkins "Power vs Force"
Saint Mother Teresa wrote a comment on the book, in the book.

The level of spiritual consciousness sets up an attractor field and those at a lower level promote violence as a means to an end.
They also attract violence in equal proportion to that which they create.
At that level they cannot see any other way of surviving.
As long as that level of consciousness prevails we will never see an end to conflict.
Till a statesman says "Enough is enough" and lets go the rope in the tug of war it more of the same unfortunately.
The ultimate answer is a raising of consciousness.

War is just not possible with unity consciousness.

If the Mayan calender is true and correct over the next few years we have a unique opportunity to raise consciousness.
its up to us individually NOW to set a spiritual intention for unity consciousness, an intention for peace to prevail, its always there when war is removed.

The time for talking about 2012 and world peace is over. Its time to commit to an intention as mentioned above,
We are the people we have been waiting for.
We as lower dualistic consciousness created the problem we as unity consciousness will solve it very quickly.
Chris.

[PathWalker]

I agree with all the above from greybeard, except..

Till a statesman says "Enough is enough" and lets go the rope in the tug of war it more of the same unfortunately.
I would have replace a statesman with the inhabitants.
greybeard share with me the view of the situation.

I have few more statements to make.
1. The US controlled media is extremely Israeli biased and anti Arab (CNN + FOX).
2. The EU controlled media is extremely Arab biased and anti Israeli (BBC + FRANCE1).
3. It is hard to get the actual facts from the controlled media. It is better to look in both camps to get a clearer picture.
4. The Israeli influence over the USA is dwindling fast as is the influence of the USA over Israel.
5. The Israeli democracy and the USA democracy are both illusions. Actually all democracies are controlled by TBTP.

The media reports the worst of Israel, and there are also great positive kindness and innovation in Israel (all camps).
I am optimistic because I notice a cultural change/awakening in Israel (all camps).
The Israel/Palestine conflict is only the most published but not the most critical to the state of Israel.
This tread is about the Israel/Palestine conflict and I will stay there.

[greybeard]

I agree with all the above from greybeard, except..

I would have replace a statesman with the inhabitants.
greybeard share with me the view of the situation.

I have few more statements to make.
1. The US controlled media is extremely Israeli biased and anti Arab (CNN + FOX).
2. The EU controlled media is extremely Arab biased and anti Israeli (BBC + FRANCE1).
3. It is hard to get the actual facts from the controlled media. It is better to look in both camps to get a clearer picture.
4. The Israeli influence over the USA is dwindling fast as is the influence of the USA over Israel.
5. The Israeli democracy and the USA democracy are both illusions. Actually all democracies are controlled by TBTP.

The media reports the worst of Israel, and there are also great positive kindness and innovation in Israel (all camps).
I am optimistic because I notice a cultural change/awakening in Israel (all camps).
The Israel/Palestine conflict is only the most published but not the most critical to the state of Israel.
This tread is about the Israel/Palestine conflict and I will stay there.

I agree that the people have to change --- unfortunately people tend to attract the level of leadership that is concordant with the prevailing level of consciousness in a country.
I dont have enough knowledge to comment on the actual conflict.
Regards chris

[Samarkis]

Pathwalker, pls continue to enlighten people of the conflict and to shine a light upon the issues......

However, the main reason it exists at all is when a group controls the money.....they play both sides against each other.....selling weapons to both sides.....in an attempt to cause order and control out of the chaos......many incidents are engineered in order to cause more control to be allowed.....we have seen this big time in the USA for the last 10 years.....however, people here have started waking to the huge game....and are actively working on solutions......

here is my response at the Glass-Steagall reform thread.....


Dear Pathwalker, do you know me?? I love people enough to have spent over two yrs of my life organizing meditations to create the reality we prefer from a higher consciousness.....
Nexus Thread:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?9-2012-Nexus-Global-Meditation...All-Welcome!!!
If it were by my intention alone....we would already have moved into peace & abundance with heavy cleanups environmentally by changing our homes into green and geometry correct spaces.....

I will not give up trying to educate & guide people to higher consciousness........(my favorite site is www.michaelsharp (http://www.michaelsharp) .org-free e-books)

I am not an angry person,as you might think.....(internet land is so hard to get someone's nuance) I love Israel...I spent 6 years there.....and met some of the most amazing humans that ever walked the earth at this time......Leaders that had started over from unbelievable destruction.......true compassion & self responsability.....amazing kindnesses......I wanted to share those wisdoms with the world....not just a select group.....I left Israel with that intention and it has been beating in my heart ever since......I have raised my children on those qualities and with consciousness.....I expect them to add positively to the world in which they live and interact......[My own edit: The above people I met while in Israel were no part of the govt there....they were scholars]

What I am TRYING to do is cause a peaceful, practical, swift change that is do-able at everyone's consciousness level RIGHT now which will lead to the kind of abundance that will allow for reaching higher consciousness.......We have all levels of consciousness right now......

I love people, Humanity.....I prefer EASY lessons for all.....(Yes it is their choice) and will continue to guide, cajole,coach,insist on what I see as the most practical,down to earth solutions that will have far reaching positive impacts for all 6 Billion humans without taking things away from them(their dignity as sovereign beings, their creativity,their customs,their family & friends)

I may be just a nobody to most of you....however, I see practical,swift positive change across the entire board with La Rouche's Economic Plans....
I have to say what I SEE.....if only to know I am fulfilling my true purpose on Earth at this hour.......

I have to say what I see & feel in my heart of hearts.......6 BILLION people deserve abundance.....are we man enough,flexible enough, creative enough, compassionate enough to see it thru???

My heart says yes!!!!!!! RESOUNDING YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Samarkis]

Here is more info for the hyper-conscious aware folks....


Here is more info for those that are conscious(More sacred geometry & PI ratio's in regards to economic applications.....)......Enjoy!

http://larouchepac.com/basement

[PathWalker]

Gas field threatens fresh Lebanon-Israel dispute

Trouble is brewing in the waters off the coast of Lebanon and Israel about the future of one of the largest discoveries of natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean.

A field known as Leviathan might contain 16 trillion cubic feet of gas – enough to serve Israel’s domestic needs and make the country a substantial exporter.
But Lebanon is eyeing some of that income, badly needed to pay off its $50bn national debt. Some Lebanese politicians say the field may extend into their country’s as yet undeclared maritime zone.
read the full article here: http://cachef.ft.com/cms/s/0/f80d4142-90eb-11df-85a7-00144feab49a.html

PathWalker comments:
Again winds of war. This is another opportunity to wage war. Now for explicit economic gains.
I personally believe these are only wind blowing, and saber rattling for domestic political reasons.

[Samarkis]

Here is an awesome article in regards to Mayan Calendar & the Conscious Convergence of Today/tomorrow.........the 9th wave has started!
It is upon all of Humanity to step up and demand the quickest,brightest ,most common sensical path forward for all................This article discusses how this change is a REQUIREMENT from Humanity.....

http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/ninth_wave.htm

[Studeo]

Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army

In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem

The dark-haired 22-year-old in black T-shirt, blue jeans and red Crocs is understandably hesitant as he sits at a picnic table in the incongruous setting of a beauty spot somewhere in Israel. We know his name and if we used it he would face a criminal investigation and a probable prison sentence.
The birds are singing as he describes in detail some of what he did and saw others do as an enlisted soldier in Hebron. And they are certainly criminal: the incidents in which Palestinian vehicles are stopped for no good reason, the windows smashed and the occupants beaten up for talking back – for saying, for example, they are on the way to hospital; the theft of tobacco from a Palestinian shopkeeper who is then beaten "to a pulp" when he complains; the throwing of stun grenades through the windows of mosques as people prayed. And worse.
The young man left the army only at the end of last year, and his decision to speak is part of a concerted effort to expose the moral price paid by young Israeli conscripts in what is probably the most problematic posting there is in the occupied territories. Not least because Hebron is the only Palestinian city whose centre is directly controlled by the military, 24/7, to protect the notably hardline Jewish settlers there. He says firmly that he now regrets what repeatedly took place during his tour of duty.....

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/our-reign-of-terror-by-the-israeli-army-811769.html

[PathWalker]

Israel Defense budget to be sliced for first time in years

The most contentious portion of the nation’s second two-year budget involved defense − the Finance Ministry fought bitterly to decrease defense spending, while the Defense Ministry pushed for an increase.

Ultimately, the matter was put on the table of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who decided to cut the defense budget by NIS 2.7 billion over the next two years. Defense had sought a NIS 6.76 billion increase.

Netanyahu also made a decision on another contentious matter − retirement age for non-combat career soldiers will be gradually increased to 50, up from the current 45. The move is expected to save NIS 600 million over the next two years.

read more in here: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/defense-budget-to-be-sliced-for-first-time-in-years-1.302579

PathWalker comments:
This sounds very good news, like music to my ears.
The Israeli PTB which are the 4 security forces are losing their grip.

As I stated in an earlier post. The existential problem to Israel is not the Palestinian conflict. And the leadership understand this. The myth of a small country on the brink of extinction, and fear mongering from the security forces: Do not match to the more social critical issues.

This is the second time the Netanyahu government cut the defense budget which is practically a black budget. Not abiding to the state accounting and regulations.
We had 2 wars in the last 4 years, in 2006 and 2009. The Israeli defense budget inflated after each war.

Now they disclosed the new 'Iron Dome' defense weapon (http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_israel0656_07_15.asp) that was promised to be ready 2 years ago. And cost billions NIS.

If this defensive weapon is effective, (which I hope) then: it is possible to reduce the spending on offensive weapons.
Also if this defensive weapon is effective then there is no military reason for the Ghazza siege, only political. That also explains the FM political move I posted last week.

So these are signs of awakening on the Israeli leadership side. We have to wait to see what is going on the Palestinian side. Because it takes two to tango.

On the other hand if the Israeli undercover PTB are pressed to hard, expect unprecedented violence to erupt. In order to gain the expected budget. Who knows maybe the power broker are changing. Lets create our reality.

[PathWalker]

Arabs reject unconditional talks

The head of the Arab League has said that Palestinians cannot move into direct peace talks with Israel unless "written guarantees" are given beforehand.

Amr Mussa, the secretary general of the 22-member pan-Arab organisation, spoke in Cairo as Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, held meetings aimed at breathing new life into the stalled peace process.

Read more in here: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/201071814158908126.html

PathWalker comments:
There is no genuine readiness for peace in the middle east.
1. As long the foreign PTB are involved there will no peace only talks.
2. A Palestinian prerequisite for peace, is internal conciliation.
3. The interest in preserving and inflaming the conflict are still very much the same. Read bout this here: http://www.joelbainerman.com/articles/me_report.asp

Genuine peace will arise for the following reason.
1. Complete defeat and or annihilation of both sides (annihilation of one side will start internal war).
2. A disruptive event that will completely change the current equilibrium those the political interests.
3. Spiritual awakening. Personal empowerment. Raise in conscious in all sides.

The new Israeli 'Iron dome' could be the disruptive event.
I see awakening in the Israeli culture, this awakening is percolating to the leadership. Last week the Israeli government decided to cut its military budget.
I see awakening in the Palestinians culture in the west bank, reverting to non violent, economic, political protest.

In general I am optimistic, the peace drops of hope are here. The people start to mature. Both parties are exhausted and disillusioned, about their aspirations.

Joy and happiness to all

[PathWalker]

Iron Dome passes tests, but how much will it cost Israel?

The "Iron Dome" short- and medium-range rocket-defense system successfully completed its last round of tests Monday, the Defense Ministry and the IDF said.

The question of costs becomes all the more pressing in view of the government's decision last week to cut 2.7 billion shekels from the defense budget, although the IDF already said it would oppose the use of its budget for purchase of the units. Some of the generals believe the units should be kept in air force bases even in the case of war, arguing the top priority in such a scenario would be allowing the continuation of IAF attacks and protecting strategically important sites.

The widespread deployment of the Iron Dome is not without political ramifications. The U.S. assistant secretary of State for political-military affairs, Andrew Shapiro, said in a lecture in Washington last week that missile interception systems would allow Israel to make tough decisions required for lasting peace - in other words, that Israel would be able to retreat from more territories, without fearing an increased threat from missiles.

Read more here: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mess-report-iron-dome-passes-tests-but-how-much-will-it-cost-israel-1.302887

PathWalker comments:
The Iron Dome technology could serve as disruptive equilibrium breaking event.
My assumption is that there are massive under currents to avoid its mass deployment (in the article above). In order to conserve the power structure.

My personal believe, is that technology usage reflect the users level of awareness. Following the principles of Karma.
I am optimistic. The game rules are changing slowly.

[Studeo]

Demands for release of nuclear whistleblower as Israel holds Vanunu in solitary confinement

18 Jul 2010

There were demands last night for the release from prison of the man known as the Israeli nuclear whistleblower after it emerged he was being held in solitary confinement in the same section of prison as some of Israel's most notorious criminals.

Mordechai Vanunu, who spent 18 years in jail for revealing details of Israel's nuclear arsenal in 1986, was sent back to prison for three months in May after being found guilty of unauthorised meetings with foreign nationals. Vanunu, who became a cause celebre for human rights activists around the world and was elected rector of the University of Glasgow in absentia, is being held in Ayalon Prison in central Israel.

Amnesty International is calling for Vanunu's immediate release and his brother, Meir, contacted the Sunday Herald to express fears over Vanunu's wellbeing after being the first person to visit him in seven weeks.

In an email, Meir Vanunu said: "I found him to be all right in general, but it was a depressing experience. The disturbing main fact is he is held in the hardest prison section there is in all Israeli prisons. It has the most notorious criminals in the country, well known hard murder cases and so on. Of course, there is no justification for doing this to Mordechai and it is only a continuous vindictiveness and harassment by the secret services and not serving any so-called `security' interests."

The harsh conditions of the dangerous criminals unit in Ayalon Prison means Vanunu can leave his cell for only one hour every day to walk in the prison courtyard. He cannot make telephone calls unless he submits information to the prison authorities about the person he wishes to call – something he refuses to do on principle.

Mordechai Vanunu should not be in prison, let alone be held in solitary confinement in a unit intended for violent criminals.

Malcolm Smart, director, Amnesty International, Middle East programme

Meir added: "On one hand my impression was that of course his spirits are down, as a result of being put to such harsh, inhumane and cruel conditions, and on the other hand from his words I could feel he continues fighting this reality to keep well and hopeful and sees the day of his freedom coming in six weeks."

The Israeli Embassy in London said Vanunu had received a fair trial. A spokes*man said: "When it comes to Israel, Amnesty International becomes politically motivated. Amnesty International campaigns for people around the world to receive fair trials and that is exactly what Vanunu got, so it is difficult to see their logic. We are a democracy with a fair legal procedure and a court made a fair ruling on the Vanunu case."

Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East programme director, said: "Mordechai Vanunu should not be in prison, let alone be held in solitary confinement in a unit intended for violent criminals. He suffered immensely when he was held in solitary

confinement for 11 years after his imprisonment in 1986 and to return him to such conditions now is nothing less than cruel, inhuman or degrading."

Vanunu has strong support in Scotland and the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has been vociferous in campaigning on his behalf.

In December 2004, Vanunu was elected rector of the University of Glasgow and in 2008 Glasgow City Council passed a motion calling for his release. First Minister Alex Salmond has also voiced support for him and shares his opposition to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Mick Napier, of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: "After the Mavi Marmara [the Gaza-bound ferry raided by Israeli forces on May 31] massacre, when nine Turks were murdered at sea, it is clear Israel needs to be stripped of its nuclear weapons. Glasgow City Council has already passed a motion supporting the liberation of Vanunu and so it is a Scottish political issue."

After Vanunu, a former *technician at Israel's Dimona nuclear plant, revealed details of the country's nuclear arsenal to the Sunday Times in 1986, he was subsequently abducted by Mossad agents in Italy and secretly taken to Israel, where he was tried and sentenced to 18 years, the first 11 of which he spent in solitary confinement.

In the mould of other famous political prisoners of conscience, such as Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, Vanunu became a symbolic figure for human rights activists around the world who argued he had been persecuted by the Israeli government for merely alerting the international community to its growing nuclear stockpile in the most volatile region on earth.

Vanunu was released from prison on April 21, 2004. Since then the Israeli authorities have subjected him to police supervision under a military order, which is renewed every six months. Under the order, he is banned from communicating with foreigners, including journalists. He cannot leave the country and is forbidden from approaching foreign embassies. He must also inform the authorities if he wishes to change his address.

He was arrested in Jerusalem and charged with violating the conditions of his release three days after giving an interview to our sister paper The Herald in March 2005. He was arrested and charged with 21 violations of his parole by speaking with foreigners and of trying to leave Israel. Vanunu faced the possibility of a two-year sentence.

In April 2007 he was convicted of meeting foreigners, including journalists and his girlfriend, and was sentenced to six months. That was reduced to three months on appeal and he was given the option of community service in West Jerusalem. Vanunu said he feared being attacked and would only do the service in Arab East Jerusalem, where he lives. The court refused and jailed him on May 23 this year.

For years, Vanunu has been portrayed by some Israeli media and politicians as a traitor and an enemy of the state for disclosing Israeli efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Vanunu has twice said he has received death threats.

Israel's hardline attitude to Vanunu has been roundly condemned for years. His more famous supporters include Bishop Desmond Tutu, linguist and political thinker Noam Chomsky, and the late playwright Harold Pinte

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/demands-for-release-of-nuclear-whistleblower-as-israel-holds-vanunu-in-solitary-confinement-1.1041966

[Humble Janitor]

I would like to see a global condemnation of Israel's antics followed by harsh sanctions and a demand that they give up their nuclear weapons.

In fact, ALL nations should give up their nuclear weapons!

[PathWalker]

Vanunu is the most famous political prisoner in the region.
And he make every effort to keep his imprisonment active, while the Israeli defense force and riding his tail. Both play mouse cat game, both seems to enjoy the drama. The actual scandal case are not in the focus any more.
Vanunu human rights are in the focus, Vanunu moved from nuclear arms whistleblower to human-rights fighter.

The law of attraction is distinctively reflected in the Vanunu scandal.

[PathWalker]

Israel shelling kills Palestinian 'militant' at Gaza border

A Palestinian militant was killed today when the Israeli military fired a shell at what it described as a group of suspects approaching the border between Gaza and Israel.

Seven more people were injured, several seriously. According to Palestinian medical workers, the injured included a 10-year-old girl.

read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/21/israeli-shell-kills-palestinian

PathWalker comments:
The bloodbath never ends.
We are trapped in this killing games.
It is all young people killing and killed. (18-25).
The burning ideology and mind control.
We deserve better then this. But we receive an in your face reflection - this is who we are.

[greybeard]

Dear Path Walker I find your posts on the subject very even handed, not biased.
I am sure there are many of your countrymen with similar attitude, therefore sanity will eventually prevail.
My heart goes out to you and all involved in needles conflict throughout the world.
Regards Chris

[PathWalker]

Thank you graybeard,

I am following my emotion and moral values.
Using the spiritual tools I acquired.
Yet it is hard. It tried once to leave Israel and found that I must return to serve somehow. I still do not know what is my mission, and possibly will never know.
Once a teacher told me that a lightworker service is more effective when interacting with creation. I am trying to do that. Attracting the awakening like minded.
I am doing what I can.

Joy and happiness
May the light shine into you and through you.

[PathWalker]

New voice of reconciliation from Israeli foreign minister are to be silenced and dismissed.

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN, Israel’s foreign minister, has asked European countries to consider building a power station, a desalination plant and a harbour in the Gaza Strip, promising Israel’s full co-operation in bringing in the necessary raw materials. The aim, says Mr Lieberman, is to end Gaza’s residual dependence on Israel and let the territory’s 1.6m Palestinians fend for themselves.

Read more here http://www.economist.com/node/16646272?story_id=16646272&fsrc=rss

PathWalker comments
History lessons reveal that those who are at extreme, are those who bring the change.
The current Israeli foreign minister, is very nationalistic and xenophobic and brutal person.
Yet from his current position he takes opportunistic views on the condition.
An unforgivably sin the in the current political environment.

But in order to look for hope and reconciliation, listen to the extremist. In the heart of darkness there is light and vice versa.
I am amazed and at awe at this person. Smart slick and genuinely authentic (or say brutal?).

[PathWalker]

People of the battle zone know how to rejoice as well.

Ra Ra Ramallah booms to Boney M
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Arabs and Israelis boogeyed ecstatically together in the occupied West Bank late into the night as 70s band Boney M belted out their nostalgic disco tunes at an open-air concert.

Tuesday's event in Ramallah, headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, was part of a six-day music and dance festival taking part across the West Bank to highlight water shortages in the Israeli-occupied territory.

Boney M, which won global fame with their catchy disco numbers, drew a crowd of several hundred, among them Israeli citizens who travelled to the West Bank in defiance of an official ban.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i3IIqsIs0LzhtRz3vRs3BIBK53Aw

Thousands of Gaza kids set unofficial record for basketballs bounced
(CNN) -- More than 7,200 children in Gaza dribbled their way to an unofficial record Thursday night at an airport in Rafah, officials from a United Nations agency said.

"It was a fantastic day today," John Ging, head of the U.N. Relief Works Agency said of the event. "Children of Gaza once again show they have fantastic abilities, fantastic talent, and all we need to do is help them to realize their potential."
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/22/gaza.basketball.record/#fbid=HSHqI4EbrS2

PathWalker comment
Reading the above news from the mainstream media I was shocked, to reveal good pleasant news as well.
Signs of change in the tune as well.

[PathWalker]

The rift in the Palestinian politics is growing, fighting themselves to oblivion

Abbas warns Fatah to get organised or die
RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned the Fatah party he leads that its days are numbered unless it puts its house in order.

His remarks underscore the troubles facing a party in decline since the death of Yasser Arafat, its co-founder, in 2004. The movement's weaknesses have contributed to the rise of the Islamist group Hamas, which has governed the Gaza Strip for three years.
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE66L2NL20100722

National reconciliation beyond reach, says Hamas
RAMALLAH: A senior Hamas official on Wednesday said that achieving a national unity agreement between Palestinian factions, mainly the rival Fatah movement, is “beyond reach.”

Ismail Radwan, a Gaza-based Hamas spokesman, said in a press statement that “national reconciliation is beyond the reach in these days or in the near future due to the American interference, the issue of direct peace talks (with Israel) and the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to send thousands of passports to residents of the Gaza Strip who needed to travel abroad.”
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article87931.ece

PathWalker comments
The Palestinian Jews at 1948 before the war of independence. Were as divided and fighting each other.
Maybe Israel made it too difficult to act against it, with: the wall, siege, access restrictions. So that the frustrated Palestinian left to fight themselves. Venting the anger and frustration internally.

Hope there will come a game changing event soon. We need it in both camps.

[PathWalker]

A mysterious Epidemic sweeps Syrian army

Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - A mysterious epidemic has paralyzed Syria’s army, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Thursday.

So far, 14 Syrian soldiers have died from the unidentified disease and thousands more have been hospitalized, forcing the army to cancel training exercises, the channel reported.

The report added that the epidemic began in army camps in the north and has slowly spread south, with no indication yet of the cause.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=301784
Assad orders to stop military exercises due to mysterious virus
http://www1.albawaba.com/en/lebanon-syria/assad-orders-stop-military-exercises-due-mysterious-virus
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_syria0629_07_08.asp

PathWalker comments
It is easy to digress into conspiratorial ideas, about biological warfare. But it is summer now, and they refrigeration might not be as effective.
In addition it is more interesting to think about the spiritual aspects of illness, weakness, army.

[PathWalker]

Lebanon in turmoil again, this time the Hizbullah announce involvement in the prime minister Hariri assassination

BEIRUT — Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's disclosure that his party is likely to be implicated in the assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri could send the country sliding back to chaos, analysts warn.

"This new situation is very alarming," said Paul Salem, head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Centre.

"Hezbollah is in a very worrisome position and the tribunal is just one symptom of this position," Salem told AFP in reference to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), a UN-backed court tasked with finding and trying Hariri's killers.

"If there is movement towards peace in the region, then Hezbollah has a problem," he added. "If there's movement toward war, Hezbollah has a problem. And now if the tribunal moves forward, they will also have a problem."

Oussama Safa, who heads the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies, estimates Lebanon has a "50-50 chance" of descending into yet another round of violence in the light of Nasrallah's surprise announcement late on Thursday.

REad more in here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iamDrRWfdW0R9uV6DBFb6Snky2Bg

PathWalker comments:
This is a very serious situation that can spiral out of control.
The truth cannot be silenced, nor escaped. That is why Hizbullah disclosed this message.
Times are changing fast, lets see who officially disclose next.

I believe they will try to instigate some false flag attack or some other public attention diversion.
This is as bad as declaring war on the state of Lebanon.
This is as serious as the pentagon disclosing 1.3 trillion missing in 2001-9-10. And the next day we had the 911 event.
Expect some big event to enroll, lots of violence and headlines.

Sorry I am not optimistic about this one.
I hope I am wrong.

[Celine]

i must agree with you...

this doesnt feel good.

but...

i do think balance will be the outcome..

[Humble Janitor]

I see this conflict as getting to a point to where our brothers in the galaxy may have to step in to teach the people involved in this conflict a lesson of sorts (non-violently of course, perhaps by disabling nuclear weapons, etc).

I refuse to support either side and I believe this conflict can be resolved peacefully without inviting the invasion of yet another country (Iran).

[PathWalker]

Settlers, Palestinians hurt in West Bank clash
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jewish settlers clashed with Palestinians after entering their West Bank village on Monday and at least six people were hurt in the fistfights and stone-throwing, police said.

The violence followed the demolition by Israeli authorities of a shack that settlers built at an outpost erected without Israeli government approval.

Some settlers in the occupied West Bank have adopted what they term a "price tag" policy of attacking Palestinians whenever the Israeli government moves against unapproved construction in their settlements.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said settlers entered the village of Burin, where clashes with Palestinians ensued. He said four settlers were hurt, one of them seriously, and two Palestinians were injured.

Ahmad Dar Eid, who lives in Burin, said about 70 settlers came into the village and damaged a newly built house. Its owner and his sons scuffled with the Israelis.

Other villagers joined the melee before Israeli troops restored order.
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE66P2IU20100726

PathWalker comments:
Never a dull moment in the middle east.
It seems as if the natives (both sides) are looking for action. Striving by violence.
It was told by few political analysts that extreme groups identify themselves with violence. I believe this is true in this very masculine zone. There are many of us who manifest their power with exerting violence. And there are those who respond, with the opposite reflective power.

So we have a Karmatic cycle. This cycle is intensified with the inciting media coverage in the middle east.

[PathWalker]

US to fully fund Arrow 3 system

Israel and the United States signed an agreement on Sunday under which the Defense Ministry will receive full funding for the development and production of the Arrow 3 ballistic missile defense system.

Cost of ballistic missile defense system likely to reach $100 million.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=182562

PathWalker comments:
Do not be fooled for a moment to think this move is about promoting the security of Israel.
This another smart move in promoting the US + Israel weapons industry. Also a leveraging stick the US creates, in order to control the rogue bold state of Israel that is showing intensifying signs of sovereignty and independence.
Despite the massive US foreign aid to Israel. The state of Israel is disobedient and uncontrollable.

So who is really in control here?
My belief is the same cabal powers behind the US federal system, operate Israel.

[PathWalker]

Israel gives way on UN inquiry into raid on Gaza aid flotilla

JERUSALEM: Israel has signalled its willingness to co-operate with a proposed United Nations inquiry into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla two months ago, opening up the incident to international scrutiny for the first time.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/israel-gives-way-on-un-inquiry-into-raid-on-gaza-aid-flotilla-20100726-10snh.html

PathWalker comments:
Sound like good news. Do not get excited, this is about internal Israeli politics. Some politicians try to bash others with this inquiry. Do not expect much. No truth is expected to revealed from any UN committee.

[Studeo]

George Galloway Savages SKY NEWS!

George Galloway on his usual warpath, this time about the Israeli / Palestine Battle. Sky News is the current target.

This guy doesn't hold back. Sky news made a big mistake putting this fellow on. Very entertaining.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249JaIaubVw[

[PathWalker]

Hamas slams UN over aid deliveries

Hamas has said the United Nations call for aid groups to send supplies to the Gaza strip over-land rather than by sea amounts to "collaboration with the Israeli occupier".

"The UN call to international organisations to use the over-land road to Gaza instead of the sea is unacceptable and illegal," Sami Abu Zahri, a Hamas spokesman, said on Saturday.

On Friday, the UN said groups delivering aid to Gaza should send it over land, after Israel warned that it would continue to intercept ships trying to break its naval blockade of the Palestinian enclave.

Read more details here: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/2010724131734805626.html

PathWalker Comments:
The war mongering powers, make their best to keep the conflict alive, the more violence the better.
It is wrongly thought that the media is the weapon of the weak. Well the truth is that the media is controlled by the war mongering powers.

[PathWalker]

Israel demolishes Bedouin village

Israeli authorities have demolished the homes of about 300 Bedouins in a village in the southern Negev desert.

The entire village of al-Arakib was bulldozed on Tuesday, with many of the former residents' cattle, trees and belongings lost.

Al-Arakib, which had about 40 homes, is one of 45 Bedouin villages not recognised by Israeli authorities.

Read more gruesome details here: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/2010727133151458970.html

PathWalker comments:
The Israeli Arabs which are 20% of the Israeli citizens. Are oppressed and discriminated.
The Israeli Arabs social unrest is more problematic then the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. No one dare put the plate on the table. Only the late prime minister Ytzhak Rabin, who was assassinated for addressing the real problems.

TPTB do not want the real problems solved. Remember the pattern, Problem, Reaction, Solution.
So the next cycle will be the next blood bath.

[PathWalker]

Israel state archives to stay classified 20 more years
JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities have decided to extend from 50 to 70 years the time state archives remain classified, the head of the archives said.

The classified material includes documents about the armed forces and secret services, and key events such as the 1967 Six-Day War.

"These documents will remain classified out of concern for the private lives of people, or those close to them, who are mentioned," National Archives head Yehoshua Freundlich told AFP.

The Haaretz daily said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the decision two weeks ago following pressure from security services.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hx6GXdBz-0sCvlZfz7tAFt9I5OkQ

PathWalker comments:
After 70 year, the involved element are expected to be gone.
Apparently there are juicy details that incriminate TPTB. Never the less I am optimistic, the truth will shine sooner or later.
We are waiting to the Israeli wikileak. I wonder what a great timing to release such a PR.

[Studeo]

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle ... all » East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported. Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one. The documentary also explores the ways that U.S. journalists, for reasons ranging from intimidation to a lack of thorough investigation, have become complicit in carrying out Israel's PR campaign. At its core, the documentary raises questions about the ethics and role of journalism, and the relationship between media and politics.

part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCL6WdnuNp4
part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo2HW4T7wK4

[PathWalker]

Some up lifting news from the war zone

Gaza children 'break' kite flying record

Thousands of children in Gaza appear to have broken their own world record for the number of kites flown at the same time, the UN says.

More than 6,200 children taking part in a summer programme organised by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) gathered on a beach to fly a kite each.

UNRWA's Gaza director, John Ging, said the achievement had lifted the spirits of the entire population of Gaza.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10812015

Israel No. 8, U.S. 14th among happiest countries
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Israel was tied for eighth among the happiest countries in the world, according to a new survey.

In a Gallup World Poll of 155 nations, the Jewish state tied with Canada, Switzerland and Australia.

Forbes, which posted the list Thursday, said the richest countries were by and large the happiest. Scandinavian countries dominated -- Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands took the top five spots.

The United States ranked 14th, three spots ahead of Britain, in a survey that asked thousands of respondents to give a "life evaluation" score from 1 to 10. The survey, taken between 2005 and 2009, catalogued their daily feelings to decide what percentage of people in each country were "thriving, struggling or suffering."
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/07/29/2740264/israel-no-8-us-14th-among-happiest-countries

PathWalker comments:
After all life is flowing on, and people of all nations and colors find time to appreciate life and express gratitude.
The more we (the whole humanity) express gratitude the faster we evolve and co-create our reality. 2010 is approaching in fantastic speed of 60 sec per minute :dance:.

[PathWalker]

More of the war winds, signs of approaching disclosure.

Hamas slams Israel talk backing
DOHA (Qatar) - HAMAS supremo Khaled Meshaal slammed Arab leaders for endorsing the resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, in comments published by Al-Jazeera on Friday.

Mr Meshaal described the Arab Peace Initiative committee's decision to support negotiations with Israel as an 'attempt to mitigate the negativity of Arab political positions.'

'It seems that the embarrassment Arab leaders are feeling at this time is greater' than before, the Doha-based satellite channel's website quoted the exiled Hamas leader as saying.

'They do not want to show that they're shying away from their decisions, so they came up with a vague result, saying neither 'yes' nor 'no' to an immediate resumption of direct negotiations' with Israel.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_560017.html

Abbas: Recent Arab summit discussed war against Israel
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said in remarks published by the Egyptian press on Friday that participants in the recent Arab summit held in Sirte, Libya thought about the idea of going to a war against Israel, but backed away immediately. He said that the Arab leaders though during the summit whicg was held last March about war against Israel and even counted the number of tanks and planes they have but then retracted immediately,
http://www1.albawaba.com/en/main-headlines/abbas-recent-arab-summit-discussed-war-against-israel

PathWalker comments:
This is the facade at its best. TPTB creating a false peace negotiation. While all the involved parties has no real interest in any progress, to the contrary the involved parties would enjoy greater power by escalating the conflict (contemplating war).
So we get a reflection of the internal conflicts within TPTB (above the Israeli/Palestinian parties). The involved parties reflect the same PTB, and apparently something is changing.

As for political analysis, nothing will change soon with the current leadership. All parties leaders (Israeli/Palestinian) enjoy the current status quo.

[PathWalker]

Ghazza violence cycle continues with rockets in Israel and retaliations air strike attack
Israeli air raids have killed a Hamas rocket maker and wounded 13 other people in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian faction that rules the territory told Al Jazeera.

Issa Batran, a commander of Hamas' armed wing, was killed overnight after a missile hit his trailer in central Gaza.

A Hamas training camp in Gaza City and smuggling tunnels along Gaza's southern border with Egypt were also hit.
Israel carried out the air strikes "in response" to a rocket attack on the city of Ashkelon on the Mediterranean coast, the Israeli military said in a statement.

Windows of an apartment block were blown out and parked cars were damaged by the rocket, which landed in a residential area, but no one was injured by the blast.

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said "Israel takes the firing on Ashkelon very seriously".

A police spokesman said the rocket fired was a 122mm, Chinese-made Grad, with a heavier payload and greater range than the crude, homemade rockets armed Palestinian group were launching almost daily until Israel's three-week military offensive into Gaza 18 months ago.

No one was injured in the Ashkelon attack but windows were shattered [Reuters]

The rocket attack ended over a year of calm for the Israeli city closest to Gaza.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/201073175722233189.html

PathWalker Comments:
This is the begining of the next violence round. As commented earlier the involved parties have clear interest in intensifying the violence.
Both side of the conflict are committed to the other side violence. They seems to enjoy it on top of the suffering civilians.

It is a clear karmatic cycles playing here infront of our eyes in fast forward.
Once a cycle is broken by a compassionate act from any of the sides there will be a hope.

[PathWalker]

Palestinian cause is misrepresented due to focus on Israeli conflict
Media hostility toward Israel has been mainly focused on its military operations and, in more quiet times, on the living conditions of the Palestinians in Israel.

Amazingly enough, the international media, and particularly the Western ones, pay very little attention to the conditions of the Palestinians living in Arab countries, despite the extreme oppression they have been enduring for decades in most Arab countries.

These Palestinians do not have someone to speak for them in the global media, possibly because a news story about countries other than Israel is less interesting or “sexy” by media standards. This tendency to blame Israel for everything has lead to the development of numerous myths about the situation of the Palestinian there that have provided an excuse to purposely ignore and compromise the human rights of the Palestinian in many Arab countries.

Read full article here: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=183252

PathWalker comments:
Very vivid example how the controlled media is a tooling for TPTB. Creating a problem and focus on intensifying the problem. While the Palestinian refugees are segregated and discriminated in their hosting countries. Denying any permanent solution, education, citizenship, earnings.
With the rational that their home is in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Therefore TPTB make sure there is no solution, and the problem intensifies for 60 years.
No other refugee people are intentionally kept in refugee status and state for 60 years.

[Studeo]

Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Serve in War

part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1bRdPRSyZU
part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh-PvDfNh9c
part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd5AaxPw8gM
part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBSbtMu2HiA
part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGtIujHQSq0
part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5F8_KzVxWQ

[PathWalker]

Fire clash between Israel and Lebanon is a provocation
UNIFIL: Israel didn't act in Lebanese territory

UNIFIL military spokesperson Lt. Col. Naresh Bhatt said Wednesday that the tree that was the core of a deadly gunbattle between the Israeli and Lebanese armies is located inside Israeli territory. Lebanese and Israeli soldiers exchanged fire Tuesday in a fierce battle that killed an Israeli officer, two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist. A number of people on both sides were hurt.

The shooting started when Israel tried to cut down a tree that both sides claimed was in their territory.

Posted in Arab media: http://www1.albawaba.com/en/main-headlines/unifil-israel-didnt-act-lebanese-territory

PathWalker comments:
Israeli media claims the fire clash was a planned provocation, because the action was coordinated with UNIFIL.
I believe the internal PTB in Lebanon are on the verge of a civil war. They will do what ever they can to divert the tension from internal disputes. Israel is an excellent excuse.
Strange that Hezbollah tried to disassociate itself from the event. With the normal saber rattling.

The way the event was silenced and managed by Israeli media was exceptionally low tone and calming.
This is one more sign to the winds of peace overcoming the winds of war. :-)

[PathWalker]

Weekend Rockets attacks on Israeli city Eilat and Jordanian city Aqaba addressed to Hamas from Ghazza.

Arab media report that the deadly rocket attack was launched from Egypt and sourced by Hamas.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/201084143347410954.html

PathWalker comments
Unlike other rocket attacks, this one was fired from Egypt. Israel did not retaliate with the normal war game on Egypt.
The war lords are trying all they can to start the war this summer and it is not happening. Yet.
I wonder what is the plan, and are we in a new mode of operation now? I think we are not, Israel is responsible and care to pick its response timing and means.
The war game is still playing, but the moves are changing. How sad.

[PathWalker]

UN and Hamas disagreement on the needs of the Gazzan civil.

In an Arab op ed, the journalist interviews representatives from the UN, Hamas, Israel about the humanitarian crisis in Gazza.
It seems that the "humanitarian" crisis is debatable and political among the Gazzans themselves.

Read more here: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=90073

PathWalker comments:
Sad reflection in micro scale how the world economy is controlled by TPTB.
There is no scarcity in food, water, shelter and energy. It is all part of the politics and power straggle.

I suggest the reader watch the V for Vendetta film http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=90073
A soften disclosure of the secret government.

It was said before that Israel is the country of conflicts and Jerusalem is the city of conflicts. We see this manifesting daily.
Wish to learn how the world is controlled, observe how Israelis and the Palestinians are controlled.

[PathWalker]

Sudan bars aid groups from huge Darfur camp: UN

KHARTOUM — Sudan has barred aid groups from the huge Kalma refugee camp in Darfur in the wake of clashes between groups for and against the peace process, the United Nations said on Friday.

"No humanitarian (groups) have been allowed to Kalma and Bilal," the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) spokesman Sam Hendricks in Khartoum told AFP.

Read more here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hDpTmLFemfvsZ4RPnkwFJtelt-vA

PathWalker comments:
These news are much more serious and life devastating then the Israeli Palestinian boiling pot.
Yet no one really cares, not in the news and absolutely ignored. While this is another humanitarian crisis that is political. It was not created by TPTB. Therefore is out of focus.

Personally I do care.

[lightblue]

PathWalker comments:
These news are much more serious and life devastating then the Israeli Palestinian boiling pot.
Yet no one really cares, not in the news and absolutely ignored. While this is another humanitarian crisis that is political. It was not created by TPTB. Therefore is out of focus.

Personally I do care.

pathwalker, i symphatise wiith your feelings, but you're off topic :wacko2: - see the thread title..,you may want to start a new thread..

best wishes l

[PathWalker]

More about life in Gazza

Israeli blockade eased, but Gaza blackout remains
GAZA, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The road next to Gaza city's seaside was jammed with vehicles. An increasing hours of blackouts amid horrible heat and high humidity are forcing more and more people to go out of their homes.

"We really don't know what to do amid the rising heat and humidity," said Abu Anas, a 45-year-old Gaza resident, who took his wife and six children to the beach, in order to be away from the heat and the noise of electric generators.

The 1.8 million residents of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, still under a relaxed Israeli blockade, have been suffering from an increasing hours of electricity disconnection over the past five days, which coincided with an unusually high temperature in the region.

The residents attributed the recent power cutoff to disputes between the Hamas movement and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), instead of the Israeli blockade which has been in place for about four years.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/08/c_13435644.htm

Gaza electrical station stops operating
Financial dispute between Hamas, PA causes cut in fuel supply.
An electrical power station in the Gaza Strip stopped operating due to lack of fuel, Israel Radio reported Saturday.

A financial dispute between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority caused the lack of fuel supply, the station's manager said.

The PA is unable to purchase fuel since Hamas is not transferring funds from the taxes it takes from electricity users.

The station supplies one third of the electricity used in Gaza.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=183957

PathWalker Comments:
Again a political struggle on the back of the population. Israel tried to coerce the population to release Gilad Shalit and failed, now the Palestinians try the same on their own population.
I wonder how long it takes to get it.

[PathWalker]

The Lebanese internal conflict intensify, while Israel is the scape goat

A new arm race between Hezbollah and Lebanese army.
Lebanon said Saturday it was committed to building up its armed forces after complaints by Israel about Western assistance to the military following a deadly border clash between the two countries.

Two Lebanese soldiers, a Lebanese journalist and a senior Israeli officer were killed in a rare cross-border skirmish on Tuesday, the worst such violence since a 2006 war between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas.

The clash -- in which Lebanon and Israel gave different accounts of what happened -- raised fears of wider conflict. Both countries have since worked to calm tension at the border.

Speaking in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh where the clash occurred, President Michel Suleiman said the cabinet would meet to ratify a three- or five-year plan to arm the military "so that it can protect the nation's dignity."

"The government will put forth a plan to arm the army regardless of the position of some countries," Suleiman was quoted as saying by the National News Agency. He did not say when the plan would be approved.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6760LV20100807

Hezbollah blames Israel for PM Hariri assassination
Hezbollah: We have evidence linking Israel to Hariri assassination.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is to reveal evidence implicating Israel in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, a spokesman for the militant group told the Palestinian news agency Ma'an on Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hezbollah-we-have-evidence-linking-israel-to-hariri-assassination-1.306715

PathWalker comments:
The people of the region are not blinded by the controlled media rhetoric.
And the arms race for civil war in Lebanon is inevitable. Hezbollah has 20,000 well trained mercenaries, sponsored by Iran. Lebanon army is unequipped and powerless. Representing the crumbled Lebanese sovereignty. While the effective ruler in south Lebanon (1/2 the country) is Hezbollah.
The political situation there is very dangerous. In any violent clash, Hezbollah will take over the country. While it is against Hezbollah interests to exert power on Lebanon (its host), it might do that as it did 6 months ago in Beirut.
Hezbollah need to retain its image as Lebanon defender against Israel (while occupying parts of Lebanon), while maintaining its power supply from Iran. A power change in Iran will be devastating to Hezbollah as well as to Lebanon politics.

It is all so intricate with lies and deceptions, very much in accordance to stereotype of the middle east.

[PathWalker]

The life in Gazza are more totalitarian then imagined

Distressed Hamas in midst of massive hunt for collaborators, spree of executions in Gazza strip.
News stories about bodies found at sea are occasionally published by Gaza newspapers. The number of such bodies isn't huge, yet not all those drowning victims chose to go swimming voluntarily. The Gazans who found their death at sea include mid-level officials at sensitive government ministries, the Interior Ministry for example, alongside police and security officers.

Some of them were shot in the head before being sent on their swim.
...
This huge manhunt is not a sign of strength, says a senior Israeli security official – the opposite is true. These are clear signs of distress for Hamas' regime.
...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3932819,00.html

PathWalker comments:
Hope you saw the film V for Vendetta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta which is very realistic Orwelian society.
As I wrote before:
This melting hot pot is a pristine distilled reflection of our world, the ugly and the beatifull. In all its glorious extremes. You will find it the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

It is not they, them nor us. It is we. We are all together including you the reader, in this boiling pot.

[PathWalker]

Good will and gestures in Gazza
PA, Hamas release prisoners ahead of Ramadan.

Palestinian news agency Maan reports gesture of good will entailing Palestinian Authority release of eight Hamas-affiliated lecturers, Hamas government release of 100 'security' prisoners

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3934350,00.html

PathWalker comments:
We wish we could have more positive news. But lets rejoice what we have already.

[PathWalker]

Gazza strip on brink of another civil war

debkafile's military sources, however, call the situation in the Gaza strip "explosive" thanks to the extreme steps the two feuding Palestinian factions have set in motion:
1. Their two armed forces have called up reserves, corralled them inside towns across Gaza and are holding them ready to step into flare-ups as reinforcements;

2. The two armed groups are under orders not to rest: they must stay in uniform, hold their side arms ready and keep awake.
3. Both Hamas and Jihad have broken open their weapons stores and are distributing arms around neighborhoods they regard as loyal bastions.
4. Both threaten to use against each other the missiles they have stocked up for attacking Israel;

Our sources are holding tight in the hope that outbreaks of violence building up in the Gaza Strip do not spill over the border into Israel.
http://www.debka.com/article/8960/

PathWalker comments
Those who believe violence and terror as the mean, have opened the karmatic door for another violent cycle.
I truly hope this is just another of those fear mongering media reports.

[PathWalker]

Arab world 'disgusted' by IDF Facebook photos

Arab media outlets expressed outrage Tuesday over at the publication of controversial Facebook photos showing an IDF female soldier posing next to cuffed and blindfolded Palestinians.

Al-Jazeera said the soldier, Eden Abergil, "intentionally degraded the detainees on Facebook," while the Syrian press condemned "the sadist culture of the occupation army."

http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/24012010/2715436/face&91;1&93;_wa.jpg
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3938504,00.html

PathWalker comments:
This morning I listened to radio interview with the female soldier (now retired).
She is 20 years old, childish, does not understand the issue. And completely insensitive to the Palestinian side. The interviewer tried to ask how if she cared to be pictured with reversed role (as the blind folded detainee). She refused to answer.

Further the article and other media sources, it seems that this is a common practice with check points guards. Kind of hunters/fishermen trophy.
It seems that this is a kind of bragging act to show, see we are doing our job.
This practice of pic taking: of abuse and violence. Is very common practice in the Arab countries to seed terror and fear. I am sorry it peculated into the Israel as well. But after all it is a reflection of the people.

To make one thing clear, the pic taking act was a personal act that is officially condemned by the army authorities.

[PathWalker]

Two Israeli soldiers wounded by Gaza fire
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ipTokB1qLJMMhoGmprQiAYpy25Rg

PathWalker comments
As long as the army is dealing with fighting and violence, while the rest of the population is safe. I am content.
Being wounded in fire is part of professional risk of being in the army. Even though army service is mandatory for 3 years, many young Israeli volunteer to combat missions. Combat mission has glory and risk with it.

[PathWalker]

Israeli Court: Israel responsible for Arab girl's death

JERUSALEM — A Jerusalem court decided in a ruling made public Tuesday that the Israeli state was responsible for the death of a 10-year-old Palestinian girl killed by gunfire more than three years ago as she stood some distance from a demonstration.

The case gained wide attention because the girl's father, Basam Aramin, was a Palestinian militant turned advocate for Israeli-Palestinian coexistence. He helped found Combatants for Peace, a group of former Israeli and Palestinian fighters who work for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD9HLA1G80

PathWalker Comments:
Very surprising and encouraging news.
The Israeli justice system is not taking part in the cover up. Usually cops and soldiers find their way to avert any criminal justice. There are signs that the trend is improving. After all the security forces are not above the law (at least officially).

I hope this is not just a single sample case to silence the public, and more cases abuse will come infront as well.

[PathWalker]

Israel's new stealth fighter / The air force always gets its way

The F-35 deal changed gears yesterday. Over the past two years the negotiations had their ups and downs, but the Israel Air Force believed that its arguments would prevail. This belief was well-founded: It has never happened that the air force pointed to a model and was declined. It won't happen this time, either.

The political leaders accepted the IAF's main argument: retaining the technological advantage in the Middle East. There's no argument that the F-35, which is yet to receive a name in Hebrew, is an excellent fighter jet.
Read more here: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-s-new-stealth-fighter-the-air-force-always-gets-its-way-1.308239

PathWalker Comments
This is probably to be sponsored by the USA military aid (I wonder if the USA will exist till next year).
The billions USA spend on Israeli army is a subsidy to the US weapons industry. Because Israel is allowed to purchase only US products with with US aid funds.
While the USA cut the military aid to the Lebanese army, the Lebanese army is begging for donations. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100810/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebanon_us


This is another example of TPTB control over Israel and USA. Yet I am optimistic things and public trends are changing fast.

[PathWalker]

Nuclear inspection of Israel sought
Arab nations have urged Washington and several other nuclear powers to push for inspections of Israel's nuclear programme, diplomats have told the Associated Press news agency.

In a letter sent ahead of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting scheduled for September, the Arab League also sought support for a resolution that calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/201081516228402597.html

PathWalker Comments:
This is another public agenda diversion. From the real issues of the regional conflict.
Who build it, why it is sustained and how.

[PathWalker]

Good news in the middle east, never heard before:

Settlement rabbi arrested on suspicion of incitement to racism
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/settlement-rabbi-arrested-on-suspicion-of-incitement-to-racism-1.308976

Lebanon: Palestinian refugees can work
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=185101

Military Police arrest another soldier on suspicion of involvement in looting Turkish flotilla ships
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3939827,00.html

Israel, Lebanon oppose border escalation: UN force
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jGuzNFjWjPQQ-kin4rSYs_LYEP8Q

PathWalker comments:
This items above collected from Israeli media, are positive signs that compassion and justice is on the rise.
Or it is just a more fear mongering and deception by TPTB.

[PathWalker]

4 Palestinians to be tried for violating settlement boycott

Merchants may face prison sentences; meanwhile, Hamas says PA not tough enough with Israel
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3938564,00.html

PathWalker comments:
History repeats itself.
Israel had discrimination and gag laws against the Palestinians. Now we see the law of Karam in action.
Hope this situation will not escalate and resolve itself. Unless there is compassion the law of Karma take effect.

[PathWalker]

UN releases latest Goldstone probes



The United Nations has released the latest results of Israeli and Palestinian investigations into alleged war crimes committed during Israel's war in Gaza in 2008 and 2009.

Israel has carried out roughly four dozen investigations into alleged war crimes, according to a report provided to the UN. The investigations are being carried out by the army, however, not by an independent panel.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian report to the UN was submitted by the Palestinian Authority. The results make no mention of any investigation by Hamas.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/201081981440149309.html

PathWalker comments:
This is another public media diversion.
The effect of the Goldstone report has peculated into the Israeli side. With 4 indictments.
If the Israeli army was as righteous as it claims, it would have investigated itself and has the indictments before the Goldstone report. And therefore gaining creditability in the Israeli public. The current army creditability by the Israeli public is low. And diminishing with new scandals daily.

[Celine]

Israel lifts whistle-blower gag

http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images//2010/4/8/20104816301313621_5.jpg
Officials said Kamm tried to harm national security, but her lawyer said her motive was moral [AFP]






Israel has lifted censorship on reports that a former soldier is under house arrest for leaking more than 2,000 classified military documents to an Israeli newspaper.

An Israeli court had ruled that local media could not report Anat Kamm's detention since December for allegedly taking the documents when on mandatory military service between 2007-9.

However, information concerning the 23-year-old's arrest had been reported in international newspapers and websites over the past couple of weeks prompting the easing of the ban on Thursday, subsequently raising discontent over press freedom in Israel.

Authorities have accused Kamm of giving the copied documents to a journalist at the Haaretz newspaper, which subsequently published information in 2008 that a top army officer authorised the assassination of Palestinian fighters in violation of a Supreme Court ruling.

About 700 of the documents were classified as "top secret".

Moral cause

Kamm, now a journalist, is accused of intending to harm national security by leaking the information, although this is denied by her spokesman who said that Kamm's motivation was moral.

"Anat is not a member of any political group and she does not want anyone to use her plight to further their cause," Nissim Dwek, the spokesman, told Israel's Channel 10 TV.

"State security has not been harmed and there was no intent to harm state security," Dwek said.

Kamm could face up to life in prison if convicted of espionage.

The Justice Ministry said that the gag order was necessary in order that the documents could be recovered. Yet, they added they were only partially reclaimed as Uri Blau, the Haaretz journalist who received the material, had left the country.

That journalist was assigned to London to avoid Israeli prosecutors, while the newspaper has said it is talking with legal authorities to allow for his return.



Press freedom

Gideon Levy, a journalist with Haaretz, told Al Jazeera: "Israel is now in turmoil over a women who couldn’t be silent.

"I think that the main issue should be what were those secrets. One should look at the content of what was published, about who was assassinated. We don’t know enough at this stage," Levy said.

"We shouldn’t look at the messenger but the message.

"The penalty might be life. This is really out of proportion while we are dealing with a naive and good intentioned soldier who couldn’t keep silent about what she knew."

Critisism has been aimed at the gag order as international reports are easily available in Israel on the Internet, and many were referred to by local media regarding the case

'Illegal killing'

Israel has used a policy of targeted killings against Palestinians since the second Palestinian intifada began in 2000 to prevent attacks.

Yet, the policy has been criticised as illegal, with the Supreme Court ruling in 2006 that such assassinations in the occupied West Bank must be limited to extraordinary cases.

The military in turn officially stopped the practice. But Haaretz reported a 2007 document including an order from Yair Naveh, a then commander, allowing firing upon three top Palestinian fighters even if they were not viewed as posing a clear and present danger.

Haaretz then quoted legal experts who said that the subsequent killing of one of the Palestinians was illegal, although Naveh, now retired, disputed this.

Kamm was serving in Naveh's office at the time of the memos.

Eitan Lehman, Kamm's lawyer, said that punishing her for this would be "a mortal blow to the state of Israel as a democratic country that believes in the freedom of the press.

"This trial is not a trial against Anat Kamm or against this journalistic source or another but rather against the entire Israeli press,'' Lehman said.

[PathWalker]

Hamas: Palestinians will gain nothing from direct peace talks with Israel
The Palestinian people will gain nothing from direct Middle East peace talks with Israel, Gazan Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told the Palestinian Ma'an news agency on Monday, a little less than a week before the planned launch of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-palestinians-will-gain-nothing-from-direct-peace-talks-with-israel-1.309748

PathWalker comments:
Absolutely correct. The conflicting parties are coresed into a fake negotiation bounded to fail.
There is no sincerity nor change in the parties interest. We get what we deserve and we cannot escape it. The natives still insist on violent solution. Even though the natives are sick and tired from this conflict that is perpetuated on them by TPTB. There is no real desire to end it. Yet. But I am hopeful, because public perception is changing and people learn to look beyond the dogma. Slowly but surely.

[PathWalker]

Israeli army's female recruits denounce treatment of Palestinians
Facebook images of an Israeli servicewoman posing with blindfolded Palestinians have caused a storm. Now two former female conscripts have spoken out about their own experiences
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/22/israel-female-soldiers-gaza-occupation

PathWalker comment
Fascinating true stories told by female soldiers.
I still believe the change will come from the awakening female power (I am male). So we just wait and watch it happening in front of our eyes. Read the female story above about Anat Kamm.

[PathWalker]

Pro Palestinians rage: BBC’s flotilla film slammed as ‘biased’
Anti-Israel groups outraged at 'racist' documentary; plan protests.

LONDON – A BBC documentary screened this week that investigated the Gaza flotilla incident on May 31 is causing a storm of protest – from critics of Israel, who are furious that the program was not as hostile to Israel as they thought it should be.

The critics, including an activist from the Free Gaza movement who was aboard the Mavi Marmara, are organizing demonstrations on Sunday outside the BBC’s London headquarters and other BBC offices, and are calling for a mass campaign of complaints to the BBC in general and the program makers in particular.
http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=185381

Watch part 1 BBC documentary film here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXrzF0IOQYE&feature=player_embedded#!
Watch part 2 BBC documentary film here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfo91FQVr7M&feature=player_embedded#!

PathWalker comments
Very good investigative journalism. You can never get the full pic from the main stream media. It is peculiar that the BBC film is quite to the point. While the BBC is very pro Palestinian (as the US Fox news is pro Israeli).

The more interesting are the response in the Arab world to the documentary, shattering the myth of victim-hood, heroism and martyrdom.

[rosie]

PathWalker, thank you for this very informative thread. I especially appreciate your comments , it's good to have someone here on this forum who is keeping track of the propaganda from the news media. I had stopped reading up on this vital area for peace, when I could not trust the sources who were reporting on it.

You are doing vital work here, looking forward to your posts! :thumb:

in love & light :wub:

[PathWalker]

You are doing vital work here, looking forward to your posts! :thumb:


Thanks you rosie,
Your comments inspire me and motivate me. Though people do not like my style and viewpoint. I still have negative reputations - and I am not obstructed by that reputation.

Thanks
Joy and happiness
May the light shine into you and through you.
Joy and happiness

[PathWalker]

Violence related news quotes from the controlled media

Security forces beat Palestinians in Ramallah against negotiations.
Palestinian Authority security forces on Wednesday used force to prevent dozens of Palestinians in Ramallah from voicing their opposition to the US-sponsored direct talks with Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=186004

Lebanon Army deploys in tense Beirut after deadly clash
BEIRUT — Lebanese soldiers deployed in force in tense Beirut on Wednesday as funerals began for three people killed in a clash between Shiite Hezbollah and a Sunni faction.
The clash between Hezbollah and Al-Ahbash -- both close to Damascus -- broke out late on Tuesday in the mainly Muslim west Beirut district of Burj Abi Haidar, a stronghold of parliament speaker Nabih Berri's Shiite movement Amal, which is allied with Hezbollah.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hs107AY8iuhsoOgyZu6MoaE5u1aQ

Nonviolent West Bank protester guilty of incitement
(CNN) -- An Israeli military court has found the leader of a West Bank protest movement guilty of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations.
In a move strongly criticized by the European Union, the court convicted Abdallah abu Rahmah of organizing weekly protests against the route of what Israel calls its security barrier and what Palestinians call the apartheid separation wall.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/08/26/israel.protest.case/#fbid=IrhsabL1Ku6&wom=false

Palestinians clash with settlers, Border Police in East Jerusalem
Arab residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan clashed with Border Police forces early Thursday, setting four cars and two motorcycles on fire and hurling stones at firefighters summoned to the scene.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/palestinians-clash-with-settlers-border-police-in-east-jerusalem-1.310339

PathWalker comments
Violence is a norm and part of animal kingdom. We call any human aggression violence and condemn violence. But violence is embeded in our reptilian brain, violence is our natural mean to exercise power.

Indeed Israel is the land of conflict. Never the less violence is required as part of our regional evolution.

When we judge and condemn violence we take part in the violent game. We were all got hurt from violence abuse as children, female, worker...
We do not like it, we also do not like growing old, so what. Violence is natural integral part of life, it change forms and shapes, it is here and it will stay. The only way I know to avoid violence is to resolve personal Karma. If you have other please post your idea.
And we never know (unless we are masters) if the current violence is new Karma generation or an old Karma resolution.

[PathWalker]

Some good, optimistic news about conflict resolutions in the hot put

Lebanon moves to address widespread use of weapons
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j6Y9opaDSzSCGddDY8Xu0B8tH3nAD9HQMPJ00

Arabic studies to become compulsory in Israeli schools
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/arabic-studies-to-become-compulsory-in-israeli-schools-1.309941

Gaza power plant reopens after Hamas does deal
GAZA CITY — The Gaza Strip's sole power plant resumed generating on Wednesday after the territory's Hamas rulers reached agreement on fuel payments to the rival Palestinian Authority, both sides said.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iwsecOOm3eMrkV9mF7QH3JN50ZTw

PathWalker Comments:
We learn and grow mostly with painful lessons. And when we have suffered enough then and only then we are ready to grow. Not a moment earlier. So in order to keep my optimistic view I gather sparks of conflict resolutions and conflict mediation.

[PathWalker]

Israel and Lebanon, More saber rattling

'Israel ready to destroy LAF in 4 hours'
The US warned Lebanon that if it did not prevent any recurrence of the border-fire incident that occurred earlier this month, the IDF would destroy the Lebanese Armed Forces within four hours, Israel Radio cited a report by Lebanese newspaper A-Liwaa on Friday.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=186197

UN report backs Israeli claim over killing (From FT.COM very anti Israeli source)
The UN has found that an Israeli commander killed during clashes with the Lebanese army earlier this month was some distance away from the fighting.

The report is believed to add credibility to the Israeli claim that he was deliberately targeted.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/80263360-b20a-11df-b2d9-00144feabdc0.html

Iran ready to sell arms to Lebanon
Iran's defence minister has said his country is prepared to sell weapons to Lebanon should it ask for help to equip its military.
General Ahmad Vahidi on Wednesday said Lebanon "is our friend" and that Iran is ready to offer military aid.

"If there is a demand in this respect, we are ready to help that country and conduct weapons transactions with it," he was quoted as saying by the official Irna news agency.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/20108262224483563.html

US lawmaker urges France not to arm Lebanon army
WASHINGTON — A US lawmaker on Friday warned France not to sell anti-tank missiles to Lebanon, saying they could end up being used against Israel amid pro-Iranian influence in the Lebanese government.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?p=46492&page=13#post46492

PathWalke comments:
Sounds and winds of saber rattling, as the hot summer is passing by. TPTB are struggling to torch the whole region, and there are internal forces to block them. It was not like that 30 years ago. TPTB are fragmented and divided as never before. Seems as the wheels of Karma are turning.

We can expect sporadic clashes and skirmishes that are put down quickly.

While the internal Lebanon hot pot is boiling to the point where Hizubulla will have to reveal its truth. What it really wants from Lebanon. There is a tangible danger of coop by Hizubulla. There is no power in Lebanon to stand against Hizubulla. That is the factual reason for the internal arms race in Lebanon.

[PathWalker]

More hopeless Palestinian struggle on low intensity

Palestinian Authority busy harassing Hamas in Occupied West Bank
Ramallah, 27 August - Palestinian Authority security forces forcefully prevented Nayef al-Rajoub, a parliamentarian elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in January 2006 as representative of Hamas, from holding a Friday sermon at a mosque in the area south of Hebron. After attending Friday prayers in the Doura al-Kabir Mosque, he had been scheduled to deliver a sermon, but as he got on his feet to step forward to do so, he was forcefully seized by a number of security forces in plainclothes and forced to exit the mosque. He was then prevented at gun point from entering a second mosque, the Al-Kabir, where he also was attended to deliver a sermon. Nayef al-Rajoub told the Maan news agency that the plainclothes PA security also arrested a number of worshippers as they exited the Al-Kabir Mosque. Maan was told by a source in the PA that they had arrested ten “troublemakers”.
http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=31493&lang=en

Hamas 'considering response' after MP barred from mosque
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas is considering its response to what it described as assaults against party leaders by Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank, a senior official said Friday evening.

Salah Bardawil told Ma'an that his party was determining how to exert pressure on the PA to bring an end to intimidation against affiliates in the West Bank after Hamas-affiliated lawmaker Nayef Ar-Rajoub was bared from delivering his Friday sermon in a mosque south of Hebron.

The official said 10 other Hamas supporters were detained following the incident, which he was was "greater than political disagreement."

"PA security services in the West Bank treat Hamas lawmakers and dignitaries rudely," he said, noting that Ar-Rajoub is a former minister.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=311275

Violence at separation wall protests
Violence was seen Friday at various locations in the West Bank as Israeli activists, Palestinians and foreign peace activists took part in protests against the separation barrier.

In the village of al-Masra, south of Bethlehem, an Israeli citizen was moderately injured from a rubber bullet and an American protester was lightly injured from a stun grenade.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=186210

PathWalker Comments:
In the land of conflict, the flames are dimming into coal. It seems that the conflict is not resolving but the intensity is dying. There are no headlines and the divided Palestinians are struggling among them selves. Seems as if their cause is hopeless.

But trust TPTB to keep the flames on as long as possible, it was prophecised in several places that the Israel/Arab conflict will be the last conflict to be solved before world peace is reached. That will be the indicator for the beginning of the golden age. Till then all the Karma needs to be purged, like puss. Seems as we are having a pause now.
I personally enjoy it while it last.

[Studeo]

Leading rabbi: Abbas should perish

Former Israeli chief rabbi calls Palestinians "evil, bitter enemies of Israel".
Last Modified: 29 Aug 2010 16:33

The spiritual leader of Israel's Shas party denounced upcoming talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and wished for the death of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli chief rabbi, called Palestinians "evil, bitter enemies of Israel" during his weekly sermon on Saturday.

"Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this world," he said, using Abbas' common nickname. "God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians."

Saeb Erekat, the chief negotiator for the PA, said Yosef's remarks were tantamount to a call for "genocide against Palestinians".

The 89-year-old Yosef is a respected scholar among Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent.

He has made similarly offensive comments before: He has referred to Arabs as "vipers," and in a 2001 sermon during the Jewish holiday of Passover, he called for Israel to "annihilate" Arabs.

"It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them," he said. "They are evil and damnable."

Yosef's provocations are not limited to Arabs, either: In 2005, he blamed Hurricane Katrina on the "godlessness" of New Orleans, and on former US president George Bush's support for Israel's disengagement from Gaza. And last year, he criticised women who pray at the Western Wall as "stupid".

'An insult' to talks

Erekat also called Yosef's comments "an insult to all our efforts to advance the negotiations process".

Abbas is scheduled to meet this week with Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, for their first direct negotiations in more than 18 months. Both men will attend a dinner in Washington on Wednesday hosted by US president Barack Obama, and then will meet on Thursday for talks.

Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that other PA officials were dismissive of Yosef's remarks.

Netanyahu's office issued a short statement distancing the Israeli premier from Yosef's remarks.

"These comments do not reflect prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu or the Israeli government's stance," the statement said. "Israel is engaging in negotiations out of a desire to reach an agreement with the Palestinians."

Yosef is the spiritual adviser of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, which holds 11 seats in the Israeli Knesset. Eli Yishai, the head of the party, is the current interior minister.

Yishai said on Wednesday that he would not support an extension of Netanyahu's 10-month West Bank settlement freeze, which is due to expire on September 26. Shas party officials said earlier this month that Yishai would do "everything possible" to persuade Netanyahu not to extend the freeze.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/201082913280929137.html

[Fredkc]

Nothing could possibly be clearer....

You become what you hate.

Fred

[PathWalker]

More hate crimes in Israel/Palestine

Police: Teens lynched American in Jerusalem
Two Arab teens from Jerusalem, aged 14 and 15, are suspected of beating a 60-year old American Jew to death in the city center a week ago, police said Tuesday.

The man, Lance Wolf, was hospitalized and died of his wounds a few days after the attack.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3946830,00.html

4 Israelis killed in shooting attack
Murderous terror attack on eve of peace talks: Four Israelis killed in West Bank shooting attack Tuesday evening; pregnant woman apparently among victims, officials say. Security forces nationwide ordered to go on high alert
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3947089,00.html

Jewish 'Price tag' responses to shooting attack in West Bank
Security forces in the West Bank are trying to prevent "price tag" responses by settlers to the terrorist attack which killed four people Tuesday.

Stones have been hurled at Palestinian vehicles in the Havat Gilad, Givat Assaf and Silwad areas. In Yitzhar, Security forces blocked a group of settlers who approached an isolated Palestinian home. A Molotov cocktail was hurled at a Palestinian vehicle near Naalin. No injuries have been reported as of yet. (Aviel Magnezi)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3947239,00.html

Palestinians crack down on Hamas after shooting
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian security forces arrested more than 150 Hamas members in an overnight sweep throughout the West Bank after the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for shooting dead four Israelis on the eve of new Mideast peace talks.

With the Wednesday crackdown, the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appeared to be trying to send a stern message to both its Hamas rivals and to Israel that it is committed to the new peace talks.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD9HV2VJO0

PathWalker Comments:
It seems that hate driven actions are trying to steer the pseudo peace talks, into violent blood bath.
My private opinion is that, it is all too late. The haters are dwindling, TPTB are fragmenting, the public is exhausted and apathetic.

The public on both sides lost faith in the talk, we the public is very young and cynical.
It seems that there is no real change in personal political interest (elections?), nor major shift in political landscape (regional event).
It is late summer, kids return to school today. Kind of a lethargic atmosphere.
It is low intensity conflict as it was for the last year.

I am still waiting for the event that will flip the rocking, licking, political boat (it may be non-violent).

We deserve what we have, it is a reflection on our beliefs as a society. When we change our collective belief the situation will change as well (simple Karmatic principal).

[PathWalker]

Analysis: More about the Palestinian split

(Reuters) - A lethal attack by Hamas militants on Jewish settlers in the West Bank is as much a challenge to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority as it is to Israel, and seems bound to deepen the Palestinian divide.

The armed wing of the Islamist group threw down the gauntlet to President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday by killing four Israelis in the occupied territory where his security forces, retrained with U.S. support, have worked to prevent such violence. The attack was proof Hamas has survived what it describes as Abbas's efforts to "uproot" it from the West Bank.

It immediately exacerbated tensions between him and the militant rival movement, whose stronghold is the Gaza Strip, vacated by Israeli forces five years ago.

On the eve of peace talks in Washington, Abbas's security forces rounded up Hamas activists in the West Bank. The Iranian-backed Islamists called this an act of treason.

"The operation will deepen the divide," said Palestinian commentator Hany al-Masri, who has played a role in efforts to reconcile the two groups despite their fundamental differences over the future with Israel and their rival foreign allies.

The Hamas armed wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, promises more attacks. A senior security official in Abbas's administration promises more arrests.

Some 250 people associated with Hamas in the West Bank were rounded up Wednesday, the group said.

SECURITY SHATTERED

The shooting was the deadliest attack on Israelis in the West Bank in four years. It jolted a security situation which Jewish settlers had said was never better. The Palestinian Authority says stability is in the Palestinian interest.

"The aim of the operation is to send a message to Israel, Abu Mazen and others that Hamas does exist and it can disrupt your plans," a senior Hamas official in the West Bank told Reuters, using Abbas's popular name.

"The other message is to say that Abu Mazen cannot protect the security of the Israelis and the settlers, despite arrests."

The chasm between the Palestinian rivals was reflected in their rhetoric. Naming its operation "The Flood of Fire," the Qassam Brigades said the attack was a "continuation of the jihad and resistance project against the Zionist enemy until the liberation of the land."

Abbas was due to launch direct peace talks in Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking a treaty that would end the six-decade old conflict by creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza at peace with Israel.

Hamas, part of an alliance including Iran, Syria and Lebanon's Hezbollah, has long opposed the negotiation process.

The group says it backs creation of a Palestinian state on lands occupied by Israel in 1967, but will only sign up to a long-term truce, not a permanent peace. Its charter calls for Israel's destruction.

Salam Fayyad, Abbas's prime minister, said bloodshed was "incompatible with Palestinian interests" and warned the Palestinians against being "sucked into a spiral of violence."

"Renouncing violence is the path to salvation, not exploiting the suffering of the Palestinian people in the service of factional and regional agendas," said Fayyad, who promotes non-violent activism against Israeli occupation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6803OX20100901

[PathWalker]

Analysis: Hamas Faces New Threats As It Tightens Grip On Gaza
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129530952

PathWalker Comments
Very informative article about the achievements and struggles of the Hamas goverments.
This article provides very good perspective about the political dynamics of the region.

[PathWalker]

PM Netanyahu urges West Bank settlers: Respect the rule of law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged settlers in the West Bank to exhibit restraint and respect the rule of law in Israel in the wake of a deadly shooting attack near Hebron that left four Israeli civilians dead.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-urges-west-bank-settlers-respect-the-rule-of-law-1.311518

PathWalker Comments:
This article implicitly claims that the West Bank settlers are not law abiding.
Well the elephant in the room is that the West Bank settlers are above the law. They abuse the army soldiers that protect them, they terrorise the native Palestinians, and they are not bothered by Israeli law.

When the Israeli authorities try to assert the law enforcements (destroy illegal settlements) there was great violence and the authorities lose, 3 times now.

I believe this is situation is intentionally created by TPTB in order to assert force without being directly responsible, and as part of the negotiations cards.

[PathWalker]

Winds of peace in the hot pot.

Many obstacles to a final Middle East peace deal
If you go by past history - and almost every Israeli and Palestinian I spoke to on a trip to the region last week did - then you will expect the talks to come to nothing. After all, it has been almost 20 years since the first of several peace processes started. All the years of failure have turned this into a long-running Middle Eastern saga of lost hope.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11173461

Lebanon, Israel vow to avoid Blue Line scuffles
BEIRUT: Senior officers in the Lebanese and Israeli armies vowed to refrain from future Blue Line scuffles during an extraordinary meeting Thursday, which discussed the results of a probe into last month’s deadly clashes between the two.

In tripartite talks chaired by United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) commander Major General Alberto Asarta Cuevas at the Ras al-Naqoura crossing, the findings of the force’s investigation into the fighting that killed two Lebanese soldiers, a Lebanese journalist and an Israeli Army officer was “a topic for discussion,” a UNIFIL statement said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=118934#axzz0yRYM2z14

Mubarak urges Netanyahu to act on peace chance
WASHINGTON — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to make good on his vow to forge peace with the Palestinians and reiterated a plea for Israel to halt settlement activity.

On the eve of Thursday's first direct Israeli-Palestinian talks in 20 months in Washington, Mubarak said the Israelis should "seize the current opportunity" and "not let it slip through your fingers."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hB05q6g5e_kqdtJaUF4aAL7wr5Fw

PathWalker Comments:
Oh I wish these are the winds or change and autumn.
Since all involved have very low even negative expectations from these political saga. Maybe there is hope for something fresh and sincere to come up. The parties involved are coerced into the talks, by TPTB. And there is no real motivation to do more then talking, PR and finger pointing.

I hope these meeting will open the hearts, and just change the winds of war into winds of conciliation. Just that.
Next week Israel is celebrating the Jewish New Year. It cannot be more symbolic then that.

May we get what we deserve.

[PathWalker]

Lebanon backtracks on calls for 'arms-free' Beirut
BEIRUT — A chorus of calls for an "arms-free" Beirut triggered by a deadly battle outside a mosque last week is fast fading after Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement warned against any attempt to disarm it.

After an August 24 gunfight between supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah and those of Sunni faction Al-Ahbash -- two loosely allied Syrian-backed parties -- Western-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri launched a campaign calling for Beirut to be stripped of its omnipresent weapons.

But Hezbollah has cautioned the Hariri camp against raising the issue of its huge arsenal.

"As usual, the situation is very, very precarious on all levels," said Sahar Atrache, Middle East and North Africa analyst at the Brussels-based think-tank, the International Crisis Group.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ilmzDXXduJtRBV2igFWceilbZxyQ

PathWalker Comments
It is clear that Hizbullah is the actual ruling power in Lebanon to the dismay of the Lebanese public. But hey we are responsible for what we get. Every nation deserve its leadership.
There will be no real change in the power stalemate in Lebanon as long as power sources of Hizbullah remain out of Lebanon. The Hizbullah movement is now a BIG organization that is far away from the guerrilla movement it was 15 years ago. They need to address pragmatic corrupt politics with funding and regional power brokers. Maybe it is for the good.
In my perception the worst nemesis are those who are doing the courageous bold conciliation moves. You do peace with enemies. It is impossible to make peace with allies.

[PathWalker]

Jewish Settlers vow to break building freeze
JERUSALEM, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The settler council said it would break the building freeze in response to the slaying of four Israelis by terrorists near Hebron Tuesday night.

A statement issued by the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza said construction will resume in all West Bank settlements at 6 p.m. Wednesday evening.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/09/01/Settlers-vow-to-break-building-freeze/UPI-97971283341401/

PathWalker Comments:
The extremest from both sides will do what ever they can to stop the winds of conciliation. This is just another move.

In addition the Israeli PTB close eyes to the outlaw settlers. For the following reasons.
1. Use them as a leverage card in the negotiation.
2. Their violent move is against the native Palestinian, other then that they are very peaceful and law abiding.
3. The authorities have no real enforcement power, nor motivation to build the required power.
4. The religious national Jews, consist the back bone of the Israeli army middle command. The IDF leadership (strong PTB) will do its best to avoid ideological conflict for them.

Who knows, maybe the time arrived for some truth and disclosure in the Israeli PTB. The 10 day from Jewish new year eve (next week) and Yom-Kipur (the atonement day), are called the 10 horrible days of self reflection.

[PathWalker]

Violence escalation in order to stop the peace talks

Report: 2 projectiles land in western Negev
TEL AVIV (Ma'an/Agencies) -- Two projectiles reportedly landed in the western Negev on Sunday, officials from the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council told Israeli daily news site Ynet.

The report said projectiles landed near an orchard, while the second had not been located by police. No injuries were reported.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=314488

Israel troops kill Palestinian grandfather, grandson: medics
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Israeli troops on Sunday shot dead three Palestinians, including a 91-year-old man and his teenage grandson, in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, a Palestinian medical official said.

A spokeswoman for the Israeli army confirmed the shooting.

Troops "opened fire at a group of terrorists preparing to fire an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade)" at Israel, she told AFP, but she was unable to say how many suspects were hit or give further details.

The army spokeswoman said the incident was the second one at the border on Sunday and that earlier troops had fired warning shots at a group of men approaching the frontier fence.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g6QPTnXi_LaNnElMznPaZ5Gv94wg

Shin Bet: Hamas determined to foil Mideast peace talks with terror
Yuval Diskin, speaking at weekly cabinet meeting, says intelligence shows Islamist militant group ordered Gaza, West Bank operatives to raise terror threat.
Hamas has ordered its operatives to foil the recently relaunched direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority by increasing the threat of a terror attack, the head of the Shin Bet told cabinet members on Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/shin-bet-hamas-determined-to-foil-mideast-peace-talks-with-terror-1.313398

PathWalker comments:
The peace talks do not receive major headlines in the Israeli media. This is a very good sign. Since the media is mostly controlled by TPTB, it means that the talks are serious and there are sincere efforts not to sabotage them.
We sea some political intimidation with serious threats from extremists on both sides.

I am not optimistic about the result of the talks since they are compulsory and double faced. I am very optimistic about the dynamic of the talks, to generate seeds for dialog. I believe other leaders will have the courage and the spirit to make peace (both people are not ready, very judgmental from me to point this - if you disagree please post your ideas).

[PathWalker]

Israeli navy tests new defense system
JERUSALEM, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Israel's navy is testing a missile defense system to counter the growing anti-ship capabilities of Hamas and Hezbollah, a report says.

The missile systems will be fitted in the navy's small patrol boats tasked with enforcing the blockade on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon during war, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/09/12/Israeli-navy-tests-new-defense-system/UPI-41501284297083/

PathWalker Comments:
Very good news.
Defensive weapons goody goody - Offensive weapons worse and worst.

I believe the thriving smart Israeli weapons industry is providing/donating this weapon next to free to the Israeli Navy Force (INF). In order to promote sales.
The real stuff is never revealed. And it is still possible to learn a lot about modern Israeli weaponry, by studying the offerings of the Israeli weaponry industry.
My small research in to this area revealed almost science fiction. If this innovative force was used to the benefit of the population we would have solved the resource scarcity of the region. To the dismay of TPTB.
But we are controlled by fear therefore the weaponry industry is thriving.

[wynderer]

Hi PathWalker -- are you familiar w/Barry Chamish & his writings/p.o.v?

http://www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com/

[PathWalker]

Hi PathWalker -- are you familiar w/Barry Chamish & his writings/p.o.v?

http://www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com/

Thanks wynderer,
I did not know about Barry Chamish, since he is not covered in the Israeli / Palestinian controlled media.
I humbly point you to somewhat congruent POV I am quite sympatyize in here: http://www.joelbainerman.com/articles/me_report.asp

Joy and happiness
May the light shine into you and through you.
PathWalker

[wynderer]

Thanks wynderer,
I did not know about Barry Chamish, since he is not covered in the Israeli / Palestinian controlled media.
I humbly point you to somewhat congruent POV I am quite sympatyize in here: http://www.joelbainerman.com/articles/me_report.asp

Joy and happiness
May the light shine into you and through you.
PathWalker

Hi Pathfinder -- i read the intro to the Joe Bainerman article & skimmed the rest -- that is how i see it also -- that this conflict is being engineered by what J Bainerman calls the Foreign Elite, & what i call the NWO -- thanks for the link

i have studied a lot of the early history of Israel, & can understand why Israel is kind of nervous about aggressive neighbors -- you can't learn about early Israeli history w/o learning about the Holocaust, & the entire world's indifference to that -- turning away the 'coffin ships,' for instance, & the ignoring of the early stories about the camps from escapees -- then there is the Brits allowing Israels' neighbors to have weapons, but not the Jews/Israelis --

may there be peace on Earth, especially in Israel & all the countries around her

[PathWalker]

i have studied a lot of the early history of Israel, & can understand why Israel is kind of nervous about aggressive neighbors -- you can't learn about early Israeli history w/o learning about the Holocaust, & the entire world's indifference to that -- turning away the 'coffin ships,' for instance, & the ignoring of the early stories about the camps from escapees -- then there is the Brits allowing Israels' neighbors to have weapons, but not the Jews/Israelis --

Beloved wynderer,
Now that you know more about the history from one prespective, see if you can learn it from the other (Arab?) perspective.
I am quite confident that the "Facts" you learned will be changed and colored differently. Please do not get discouraged. It is another view on life that is as valid as any other.
What is most important is to make your active choice on the view point from more then one alternative.

Joy and happiness
PathWalker

[PathWalker]

Analysis: Hamas stuck between peace talks and the IDF
Terror group has made strategic decision to increase attacks against Israel, but doesn't want to go too far and lead to IDF ground operation.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=188269

PathWalker Comments
These are somewhat amazingly good news. I would suggest a transforming moment.
As long as I remember the region it was kept on low intensity and high intensity by markginal extermist. Now the extermists are moderated.
Or are they really awakening?

[Zook]

Hi Pathwalker,


Analysis: Hamas stuck between peace talks and the IDF
Terror group has made strategic decision to increase attacks against Israel, but doesn't want to go too far and lead to IDF ground operation.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=188269


I hate to be cynical, but if the associated press took those photos, I wouldn't put much stock in them. For all we know, those masked bogeymen slash "terrorists" could easily be Mossad agents in Arab drag. How many times has the associated press given us fake photos/news? Who owns AP? Ever hear of Adam Gadahn? How about Tim Osman?

And who are the real terrorists in the region? Once you read the history of modern Israel, from Rothschild funding of the Zionist movement, to the Balfour Declaration, to the assassination of Folke Bernadotte, to the Irgun and Stern death squads (from which several Israeli leaders, most notably, Yitzhak Shamir and Moshe Dayan, jumped to positions at the top of Israeli's political helm), to the King David Hotel false flag event, to the USS Liberty attack, to the Lavon affair, to major involvement in the 9/11/2001 attacks, etc. ... I mean, I'm just giving you the free stuff that's readily available on the internet ... once you have adequately studied the history of this Rothschild/Illuminati/Zionist/Bilderberger beachhead on the sands overlooking the beautiful Middle Earth Sea, there's just the one available conclusion.



PathWalker Comments
These are somewhat amazingly good news. I would suggest a transforming moment.
As long as I remember the region it was kept on low intensity and high intensity by markginal extermist. Now the extermists are moderated.
Or are they really awakening?


The extremists all belong to the same camp, Pathwalker. Sure they play different roles in the camp, and some may not even realize they're playing a role. Compartmentalization ensures that. Some play Hamas guerillas; others play IDF bootsoldiers, yet others play Palestinian Authority potentates; then you have your Likud potentates, your Labor potentates, your pinheaded ADL potentates and your pointheaded AIPAC potentates, etc. etc. etc.

My basic approach is this: if it looks like a duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck, and goes "Quack! Quack! Moooo! Quack!" ... then a cow may enter my mind for a fractured second ... but then, I'm turning on the spotlight, point my finger at the lighted party, and in my most stentorian voice, exclaim, "Sir, you are a duck!"

Cheers
Uncle Zook

[PathWalker]

The hot potato is on the table again.

Israel says it will not extend settlement curbs
JERUSALEM — Israel reiterated on Friday its refusal to extend curbs on settlement building that expire this month, despite US pressure and Palestinian threats to walk out of peace talks.

Meanwhile, US envoy George Mitchell met Lebanese President Michel Sleiman as part of Washington's target of forging a comprehensive Middle East peace.
"The prime minister has not changed his position on this issue, there is no question of extending the moratorium," a senior Israeli government official told AFP, asking not to be named.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=187868

PathWalker comments:
I assume this how the peace talks are going to end.

But I hope the talks were conductive in generating future communication channels.
All involved are/were pessimistic, and there is no real catalyst for change. YET.

In addition I was noticing the winds of war silenced. The Iran nuclear, the Lebanon internal turmoil.
Nothing has really changes only the controlled media.

Sometimes it is useful to notice what is off focus to learn about what is in focus.
Therefore maybe TPTB are preparing another WW3 for us, since the Iran/ Flotila/ Gazza wars failed to deliver.
I heard doctor Bil Deagle (In Kery's radio show) about fatal virus H5N1 for the autumn. I do not buy it again.
Elevated awareness and awakening is happening and TPTB are helpless.

[PathWalker]

Update about the Israeli PTB

IDF seeks to make infantry units more lethal
The IDF has completed a review of the structure of its infantry battalions and is adding new capabilities aimed at making them more lethal in urban and guerrilla warfare.

The decision to conduct the review was made by IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.- Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi following Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip in early 2009 and after several new weapons systems were inserted into battalions to assist troops in counter-terror operations, particularly in urban settings like Gaza and villages in southern Lebanon.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=188615

Barak (Israeli defense minister): US will supply Israel with bunker busters
Defense minister to meet with top US security officials in DC; Jerusalem believes Washington will agree to supply Israel with advanced cruise missiles, bombs designed to penetrate underground facilities

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3956902,00.html

PathWalker comments
These war winds are part of the psychological warfare. Nothing really to consider.
The more important the traveling defense minister. Never before a defense minister traveled so much abroad in duty. To my humble opinion this powerful person is the top PTB agent for the Rockefeller/Zionist party. He was prime minister not long ago, and was able to get Israel out of Lebanon. Then get Israel into the 2nd uprising, after failing to push the Palestinians into the negotiation table.
He said that time (2000) that we now an have an opportunity to identify who is sincere in the peace quest. The saga of those failed peace talks is classic textbook PTB manipulation.

Never the less we are not victims. We are part of the game and we take a role. Once we stop playing our role the game will end, and TPTB will be exposed.

Therefore the set of mind should be OK, we see you, we understand, find your war game player somewhere else.
Anger, fear, resentment is just what they need and the fuel to the conflict.

[PathWalker]

Righteous women take the law into their hand

A handful of courageous Israeli women have started smuggling Palestinian families across checkpoints so that they see the ocean for the first time.
According to this inspiring story, a handful of Israeli women have been driving into the occupied West Bank and smuggling Palestinian women and children across the checkpoints so that they can enjoy day trips in Tel Aviv.

The women and children are taken to the beach for the day, where they can enjoy the sun, sea and sand. Seeing that Palestinians need a permit to cross the Green Line – which is very hard to come by – most of these women have never seen the ocean, despite living only a few miles from it.

The article quotes Riki, a 63 year-old Israeli working woman who says: "I was resistant to breaking the law. But then I realised that civil action is the only way to go forward, that breaking an illegal law becomes legal."

This is an example of how women on both sides try to bridge a cultural and political gap by defying unjust laws.

What can we, as SA women do, to bridge the various gaps between the multitudes of cultures here to help promote peace and understanding?
http://www.women24.com/Wellness/BodyAndSpirit/Israeli-women-break-the-law-for-the-greater-good-20100917

PathWalker Comments:
Women are bringing the change.
Women are the bearer of power (that is the reason for their oppression - while men are bearer of repressed emotion). The more serving to others women leaders we have the more empowered we are.

30 Years ago in the 80ies there was a law in Israel banning contact with the PLO. Abby Nattan (recently died) was prisonned twice for initiating public dialog. Then there was the Oslo accord (also an outlaw action of the time) and they had to silently retroactively change the law.

So renegade outlaw political action is many time the bearers of the change. I am very optimistic about this.

[Eric J (Viking)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Zo5Pn9vuk&feature=related

viking

[PathWalker]

Riots erupt after Silwan man shot to death
Jewish security guard opens fire at Palestinian after being pelted with stones in east Jerusalem village; 35-year-old Israeli moderately hurt after being stabbed in back during funeral procession; others injured from stones. Police storm Temple Mount as dozens of worshippers barricade themselves in al-Aqsa Mosque
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3958525,00.html

[PathWalker]

Bill Clinton claims Russian immigrants obstacle to peace
Russian immigrants in Israel could be one of the main obstacles to achieving peace with the Palestinians, Bill Clinton told reporters in New York on Tuesday, according to Foreign Policy magazine.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=188958

PathWalker Comments:
Very smart move by the controlled media. We remember the Clinton is member of TPTB. Most do not.
This is a classic divide and conquer move. Trying to divert the public opinion from the real painful issues.

It is as smart as stating that the Hispanic immigrants to the US (which are now the majority ethnic group in the mainland), are threat to the economic recovery.

[PathWalker]

Under the gun: how the people of Gaza feel about Hamas
It would be hard to find a better metaphor for life in Gaza than this walkway at Erez: a scorching hot concrete slab that’s hard to enter and harder to leave, littered with rubble and jammed uncomfortably between Israel and Hamas. Despite a long and proud history of resilience, the people of Gaza – who have endured for decades against their own leaders, against Israel’s policy of collective punishment, and against the apathy of the international community – appear today to have given up any hope that life will return even to the semblance of normalcy enjoyed by their still-occupied cousins in the West Bank.
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100917/REVIEW/100919850

PathWalker Comments:
Very interesting political review of the Hamas regime, written in the controlled Arab media. Describing the sad chasm in the Palestinian society.
It is sad, that these people do not deserve better then what they get. This is harsh Karma playing here. The Karma is not releasing it is intensifying.
We find other places with conflicts like this in sub Sahara, and east Africa. These places are so remote that they are not reported.
The personal Karma is intensifying for many of us. I personally have my share as well.

[PathWalker]

Palestinians are taking responsibility for their cause
The Palestinians Are Taking the Initiative to End the Occupation
The novelty is that ending the occupation is no longer being left to Israel – as stated in the Oslo Accords – which has proven that it was not in a rush to put an end to it. The novelty is for the Palestinians to take the initiative by putting forward recommendations, timeframes and state-building measures without those being contingent on prior Israeli approval of them. The novelty is that it is the international community which will be responsible for ending the Israeli occupation, not Israel.
http://www.alarabiya.net/views/2010/09/25/120264.html

Fatah, Hamas in reconciliation talks
DAMASCUS — Leaders of the two rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas held reconciliation talks in the Syrian capital and said they wanted the discussions to continue.

Exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal and Fatah representative Azzam al-Ahmad met in Meshaal's Damascus office "in a fraternal and friendly climate with the aim of ending their divisions," a joint communique said after the meeting.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hV6J2pW2bBQ3Mqiog1-H30QwKixw

PathWalker Comments:
A prerequisite for the regional reconciliation is the sub regional reconciliation.
The process has started.
I am confident TPTB will do their best to obstruct, yet the Palestinians are progressing.

[PathWalker]

Jordan's Abdullah: Peace talks failure will drag U.S. into new Mideast war
Lack of progress on Israeli-Palestinian peace weakening moderates across the region, Jordanian king tells The Daily Show.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/jordan-s-abdullah-peace-talks-failure-will-drag-u-s-into-new-mideast-war-1.315467

PathWalker Comments:
I wonder, is this fear mongering?
This was published in Israeli controlled media, now I am positive these talks are going to fail.
There are many plans to start WW3, is this another? Maybe these talks are part of the plan.

When the previous talks failed in 2000, the 2nd Palestinian uprising started (about the autumn). Maybe they want to start the 3rd uprising. It will not happen this time, the peoples are tired and awakened.

[PathWalker]

Jewish activists who sought to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza say they were treated harshly when Israeli forces seized their vessel.

Yonatan Shapira, an Israeli air force pilot turned peace activist, said he was shocked with a Taser gun while passively resisting arrest.

And a British journalist said he was "ambushed" and "almost strip-searched" by commandos on board the vessel.

Israel's military had said the vessel was seized peacefully on Tuesday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11433836

[PathWalker]

Hamas airport in Gaza Strip back on track after delay in foreign aid
Hamas sources said the Islamic regime has begun preparing infrastructure for an airport that could accommodate light aircraft and helicopters.

They said the airport, located in the southern Gaza Strip, would be completed in mid-2011.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_hamas0954_09_29.asp
BTW this news post was published in Arab controlled media.

PathWalker comments:
This is a clear sign the Ghazza siege is no more.
During the blockade the Gazzans had no building material to reconstruct the ruins from the 2006 war.

Apparently all the "blockages breaking" campaigns are political PR stunts. Since the blockage is over.

Never these are excellent news of hope and prosperity.

[PathWalker]

U.N. council endorses report accusing Israel of executions aboard aid flotilla
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Wednesday to endorse the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission that accused Israeli commandos of summarily executing six passengers on a Turkish aid flotilla last May, among them a 19-year old Turkish-American dual citizen who was shot five times, including once in the face.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092907857.html

PathWalker comments:
There is a short discussion thread with my comment about this topic.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?5772-Israeli-raid-on-Gaza-aid-flotilla-broke-law-UN-probe

Dear friend,

The UN is a useless, organization. Driven by TPTB to voice their political agenda.
While most of the African population is hungry, and thousands of people die daily from famine and infectious diseases. The UN is occupied about that hot spot. That is marginal in the scope to the world civil rights problems.

The UN is very occupied with the issues that are under the political agenda. With some capital to gain.
There is no discussion in the UN about human rights violation in the US, Iraq, Turkey, Russia, China, N.Korea and others.
The spot light is on Israel and the Arabs. Which are not hungry and not dying daily from infectious diseases (see the current official Palestinian agenda in here: http://www.maannews.net/eng/).

If you want to learn something about human rights then study Amnesty International reports about the Israeli Arabs hot spot (Page 254 - http://thereport.amnesty.org/sites/d...N.pdf#page=254)
You can learn that these days Palestinians are oppressed mostly by Palestinians, despite the 2006 war in Gazza and the siege.
Amnesty International is not friendly to Israel by no means.

If you really care about civil rights, the UN is not the place.

In general it is nothing to do with human rights nor the benefit of the Gazzans.
It is about self boasting Arab politicians in the UN need to show they are political active, to their home countries.

[PathWalker]

Mideast crude battles to recoup lost ground in Asia
SINGAPORE: Middle East producers will struggle over the next year to recover Asian market share as rivals from Russia to Latin America encroach on the top oil-consuming region while demand growth elsewhere remains slow.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=119808#ixzz10ziRWGBv
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

PathWalker comments:
These are devastating news to the Palestinian leaders, and excellent news the the Palestinian people.
The Palestinian cause was and is heavily controlled by TPTB oil reach countries. Making sure it is always active on low intensity.
TPTB are losing their power by the minute, and the local people are gaining their power and awakening by the minute.
Note the the Arab PTB are and where controlled by the collapsing Rockefeller/Zionist Illuminati faction.

I am very optimistic, if this news post is correct.

[PathWalker]

Egypt president warns of 'global terror' if Mideast peace talks fail

PM Netanyahu to convene inner cabinet Tuesday to discuss two-month extension of settlement, in bid to save peace talks.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/egypt-president-warns-of-global-terror-if-mideast-peace-talks-fail-1.317285

PathWalker comments:
Now on the brink of imminent talks peace failure. All involved turn to threats.
I was reading EU is prepared for devastating Terror attack, the middle east as well.
TPTB are pushing the public perception into war mood. That is the old technique of fear mongering, divide and conquer.
Apparently is it not working as well as in the past and the public response to the broadcasting media is mostly apathy.

I am very optimistic about TPTB failure and distress.
We probably will have some events, but I forecast they will fail to escalate to the planned war.

I was never so amazed from the mature public response to the hauling media.

[PathWalker]

More low intensity clashes in the occupied territories

Israeli soldier dances around handcuffed woman prisoner
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/israeli-soldier-dances-around-handcuffed-woman-prisoner-57220

Settlers demonstrate against Nablus village mosque
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320877

PA says Jerusalem shooting 'too familiar'
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320823

PathWalker comments
The caravan is passing the the dogs bark.
The local Karma is rolling out, and we better pay attention to the intensity levels.

The violent events are not reported to the public media, but stored in the military logs. There was expectation to intensifying violence during the talks, expectation that failed to materialize.

And the violence, is an indicator of public frustration / exhaustion. So the indicators are stable and that is good surprise.
Note that the military is attributing the stable indicators as successful oppression.

[PathWalker]

Covering the media coverage of one violent incident

Watch the following youtube violence incident video coverage bellow (broadcasted in Israeli TV), then read the headlines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QvMW7abxGg


Try to identify the political alignment of each headline.


Palestinian boy run over by Jewish settler in East Jerusalem
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/8051813/Palestinian-boy-run-over-by-Jewish-settler-in-East-Jerusalem.html
Rock-throwing Palestinian boys hit by car in Jerusalem
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/298722
Video shows settler leader run over Palestinian children
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=322140
Jewish settler runs over three Palestinian children in Jerusalem
http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=208031
Car hits Palestinian boy who had been throwing rocks - picture
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/10/09/car-hits-palestinian-boy-who-had-been-throwing-rocks-picture-115875-22620324/
Illegal Israeli Settler Hit Two Palestinian Children with his Car in Silwan, Other Settlers Attack Farmers in Burin During Olive Harvest
http://www.aljazeerah.info/News/2010/October/9%20n/Illegal%20%20Israeli%20Settler%20Hit%20Two%20Pales tinian%20Children%20with%20his%20Car%20in%20Silwan ,%20Other%20Settlers%20Attack%20Farmers%20in%20Bur in%20During%20Olive%20Harvest.htm

Watching the video then reading the articles, providing us in your face demo: how news are delivered and controlled.
If you took care and read some of the article, very few sources really gave context background to the incident and why it happened. Those articles who provided context to the incident are reliable sources.

BTW this is a common incident that happens daily, this special time the media was summoned (or the whole event was generated for the media by the media). Therefore generating headlines.

The media is just another weapon in the waging war (by both sides). And as such is heavily manipulated. To the dismay of the natives.

[bluestflame]

propaganda an age old tactic in the history of wars , modern electronic news gathering methods just makes it so much more convincing

[PathWalker]

UN: Shattering the Palestinian myth

UNRWA official Andrew Whitley calls on Palestinians to prepare refugees for near certainty that they will never return to Israel.
WASHINGTON – A senior UNRWA official broached two largely taboo topics at a conference in Washington on Friday, saying governments across Europe and the world have had contacts with Hamas and that Palestinian refugees should acknowledge that they will almost certainly not be returning to Israel.

Andrew Whitley, due to soon leave his post as director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s New York Representative Office, told the National Council for US-Arab Relations’ annual conference that contacts with Hamas were commonplace.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=192485

PathWalker comments
It seems that awakening is upon us, form all angles. Even the poor self defeating Palestinians.
In recent public poll published in the Israeli controlled public TV:
71% Israelis believe the peace talks are futile.
60% Palestinians believe the peace talks are futile.

If the polls are correct (which I doubt). Then there is no public readiness for the peace talks. While there is great exhaustion there is as much hopelessness.

[PathWalker]

'No' to UNRWA school ‘near Hamas base in GAzza'
Defense sources say Israel committed to UNRWA education system, will not allow Hamas to use schools, children in terror war against Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=192368

PathWalker comments:
Very revealing, how deep is the Israeli army involved in the Gazza government.
The Israeli eviction from the Gazza strip, was just physical. Mentally and economically the Gazzans are tied to the Israeli rulers. Despite the Hams rule and the "open border" with Egypt - since the siege ended.

The secret government pattern in action. In small scale. It is easy to extrapolate to the world secret government operation tactics from the Gazza case.

[PathWalker]

The Gazza siege is attracting media coverage again
Aid convoy reaches Gaza without George Galloway
Pro-Palestinian activists have driven more than 130 donated vehicles into the Gaza Strip in an overland aid convoy aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade.

The convoy set off from London last month, driving across Europe before finally entering Gaza via the Rafah crossing with Egypt.

It was organised by Viva Palestina, an aid group headed by former British member of parliament George Galloway.

Egypt banned him from the trip due to previous clashes with security forces.

The Lifeline 5 convoy, made up of 137 vans filled with humanitarian aid supplies, was accompanied by around 340 pro-Palestinian activists of various nationalities, Egypt's official Mena news agency said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11605780

PathWalker comments
The political gains from the deadly Turkish flotilla are gone.
The siege is eased somewhat, but now any political provocation to attract attention to the subject is intercepted and redirected.
So the real agenda of the political activists against the siege is neutralized. Since there is no conflict there is no news.
This is the smart Egyptian policy to the siege. the Egyptian are more strict and aggressively enforcing the siege, then ever. Yet it is all quite, while the focal point is on Israel. The Israeli government have no desire to change the scene.

[PathWalker]

IDF probes top officers on Gaza war strike that killed 21 family members
Former Givati commander and others probed for authorizing air strike despite warnings of civilians in the area.
Senior army officers are under investigation for authorizing an air strike in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead that killed 21 members of the same family despite possibly receiving warnings from subordinates that there could be civilians in the area.

One of those involved in authorizing the strike was then-Givati Brigade commander Col. Ilan Malka.
A security source told Haaretz that the Military Police probe into the incident turned out to be particularly complex, and added that this is "explosive and highly sensitive material,"
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-probes-top-officers-on-gaza-war-strike-that-killed-21-family-members-1.320505

PathWalker Comments
Very revealing and refreshing news.
The IDF investigating itself? And come up with intriguing answers.
Something is changing in regional PTB grip, and they cannot conceal the truth as they did before. There is bombardment (word pun intended) of unpleasant news to deal with, the IDF is struggling to hide.
Times are changing, it seems the information central control is disintegrating.
If this is the case for Israel, that is a reflection of the world conflicts. Then the world central control is disintegrating as well.
I am hopeful.

[PathWalker]

More Palestinian internal conflict
PA says uncovered Hamas arms cache
Security organizations locate large weapon warehouse in Ramallah, estimate arms were intended for attacks against Palestinian Authority and Israel.
he Palestinian Authority security organizations' spokesman Adnan Damiri said Friday morning that his men have uncovered a huge Hamas weapon warehouse in Ramallah. Many shells and arms where found on site.



Damiri said the weapons were intended for terrorist attacks against the PA, its leaders and officials, as well as against Israeli targets, in order to hinder peace negotiations.


Over the summer, Egyptian security forces uncovered many arms caches in the Sinai peninsula. A month ago they located 11 weapon, arms and explosives caches, during a wide-scale operation alongside their border with Gaza.



Egyptian security officers found many kinds of weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles and half a ton of TNT explosives in the Rafah region and in near by villages and cemeteries.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3973335,00.html

PathWalker comments:
It is sad again, to see how deep is the rift in the Palestinian public.
As said before: the Palestinians can reach peace with Israel, only after they achieve internal peace.
Somewhat similar situation happened when the Israel state emerged and the conflicting Jewish parities integrated into a single army. In order to fight for the life of the new Jewish state.
The Palestinian people are not fighting for their life, they fight oppression. Self inflicting and Israeli.
Regional and national Karma is playing out. Hopefully it is purging.

[Zook]

Hi Pathwalker,


More Palestinian internal conflict
PA says uncovered Hamas arms cache

[...]
It is sad again, to see how deep is the rift in the Palestinian public.
As said before: the Palestinians can reach peace with Israel, only after they achieve internal peace.
Somewhat similar situation happened when the Israel state emerged and the conflicting Jewish parities integrated into a single army. In order to fight for the life of the new Jewish state.
The Palestinian people are not fighting for their life, they fight oppression. Self inflicting and Israeli.
Regional and national Karma is playing out. Hopefully it is purging.


It is all propaganda, friend. In any two-body system, the center of mass lies much closer to the larger body. The IDF is much larger than Hamas and PA combined. Keep that in mind.

The Hamas is a front organization of the western intelligence agencies in much the same way that Al Qaeda is (google gallop the origins of Hamas and follow the money). The PA is yet another front. Arafat, when he was alive, was a mere lapdog, not unlike bin Laden. Arafat was a corruptible man; he was corrupted and ordered to play the part of Spartacus against Rome, which he did efficiently (do the research). Hanan Ashrawi, a prominent PA spokesperson, is a Council on Foreign Relations shill (here, let me help you do the research):

http://www.palestinehistory.com/biography/palestine/palbio22.htm
http://samsonblinded.org/news/?s=golan

The IDF is the front and military arm of Israel proper. Whenever the intelligence agencies require violence (in the duty of their geopolitics, e.g. to scuttle peace accords (which are largely scams themselves)), they enlist Hamas on one side, and the IDF and PA on the other side; or the PA on one side, and the IDF and Hamas on the other side; or the PA and Hamas on one side, and the IDF on the other side; or internally, within the occupied territories, the PA and Hamas on opposing sides. Divide and rule. The people are left divided and the elites rule through their network of shills.

To wit, there is no organization that commits violence in the Levant (e.g. PA, Hamas, IDF) that is truly independent of the western intelligence Cerberus, e.g. MI5/CIA/Mossad. Hezbollah may be an exception to this rule (but I'm not sure even that is the case, after all, the bastards that be (TBTB) have got the game so confused with false flag events and associations that one really has to spend the clock, 24/7, in order to make the correct dot connections.

Which brings us back to the center of mass. Let us freeze the facts for a moment and assume that the apparent game is the only game in town, e.g. with the PA, Hamas, and the IDF each being reported correctly by the western media. But then the center of mass resides much closer to the IDF. If we define the metaphorical mass in terms of violence, then the IDF is the largest portion of that violence. If we define it as corruption, then the IDF is the largest portion of that corruption. If we define it as money/power/aggression/blame/etc., then the IDF is the largest portion of that money/power/aggression/blame/etc.

Given that the center of (negative) mass is much closer to the state of Israel than to the nonstate of Palestine, it defies logic and fairplay that the criminal acts of the Palestinian side and of the Israeli side, should be treated with either equation or equanimity. Righteous people should be outraged by the acts of the Israeli state a hundred-fold more than by the acts of the Palestinian nonstate. Center of mass demands it. Of course, in the real game, as opposed to the apparent game being played out in the western media, righteous people should be outraged by the general manipulations of the elites and their carrot-fed shills. The victims are real and plenty, mostly in the Palestinian nonstate, but also in the Israeli state ... and these victims are the general populations of both the established nation and the aspiring nation.

MHO, OC.

:typing:

[PathWalker]

Of course, in the real game, as opposed to the apparent game being played out in the western media, righteous people should be outraged by the general manipulations of the elites and their carrot-fed shills. The victims are real and plenty, mostly in the Palestinian nonstate, but also in the Israeli state ... and these victims are the general populations of both the established nation and the aspiring nation.


Absolutely correct observation, regarding TPTB divide and conquer technique.
That is the way we operate and evolve in the 3rd density, polarized/duality reality.

Once we the population awaken and learn compassion to self and other (myself not there yet).
That each every one of us is sacred. And every one has a divine role in the duality game - the evil and the cruel are as sacred as the good and compassionate.
So to make a long post short, I would replace in the quote above outraged with compassionated.

[PathWalker]

No real hope for Palestinian reconciliation, but there is hope for change.

In Gaza, rise of Hamas military wing complicates reconciliation with Fatah
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/1104/In-Gaza-rise-of-Hamas-military-wing-complicates-reconciliation-with-Fatah

Gaza City, Gaza

Abu Khaled has been a member of Hamas's military wing for 11 years and he looks the part. His thick beard, black clothes, and serious face bear witness to his rise through the ranks to become one of the leaders of the Ezzedine Al Qassam Brigades in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, near Israel's border.

But at this moment, as he softly sings along with popular Arabic pop singer Elissa in a deserted Gaza restaurant, it's hard to believe he fought in the fierce 2007 battle that expelled Fatah, Hamas's secular rival, from Gaza.

When asked about reconciliation with Fatah, however, he snaps back into the role of tough militant leader.

"There is no reconciliation," he says sharply. "How can I reconcile with someone who killed my brother?"

Most Gazans are not optimistic that Hamas – considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel – will end the divide with Fatah, which dominates the internationally backed Palestinian Authority (PA) in charge of the West Bank.

But they want such reconciliation, because it would not only improve their standard of living and pave the way for overdue elections, but also enable Palestinians to present a united front in negotiations with Israel on a future Palestinian state.
Al Qassam members don't see reconciliation as an option

But reconciliation is not an option for Al Qassam members, who make up a large part of Hamas security forces. Their bitterness toward Fatah still runs deep over the 2007 battle, and their victory brought a sense of ownership for Hamas power in Gaza that they will not easily give up.

"Al Qassam led the battle against Fatah and gave the victory to Hamas," says Abu Khaled. "The Hamas government was weak until Al Qassam took the power and handed it to Hamas. Without us, there wouldn't be a Hamas government."

That is part of the reason that Hamas is not likely to sign, much less implement, the Egyptian-sponsored reconciliation agreement that would restructure the security apparatus, giving Fatah a hand in Gaza security.

"[Al Qassam fighters] are the ones who kicked Fatah out of the Gaza Strip; they are the ones being hunted and tortured in the West Bank," says Mkhaimar Abusada, a political science professor at Al Azhar University in Gaza. "Qassam is against reconciliation and they will stand against even if it means a big split within Hamas."

The Egyptian document also calls for dissolving militias – understood to include Al Qassam – and incorporating them into the security apparatus. Dissolving the force that is considered the resistance against the Israeli occupation is out of the question for most Palestinians, not to mention for Al Qassam itself.
Qassam seen as more powerful than Gaza's Hamas government

Al Qassam militants, whose role in fighting Israel during the 2009 Gaza war added to the clout they'd gained two years earlier, are perceived as being more powerful than the Hamas-run government.

Hamas security forces are largely drawn from Al Qassam members – Abu Khaled says two-thirds of Hamas policemen are police by day and Al Qassam by night. Many Hamas government leaders are former or current Al Qassam members, or have sons in the armed brigades.

Many in Gaza tell stories of jailed Al Qassam militants who are sprung overnight by their comrades, with the police unable or unwilling to intervene. Some accuse members of the brigades of burning down Crazy Water, a restaurant and water park accused of having looser social strictures.

"All the government, especially the security apparatuses, are derived from Al Qassam," says Abu Mohamed, the leader of the cell in the Jabaliya refugee camp. "They belong to Al Qassam."

That sense of ownership is firm. If reconciliation were to happen, says Abu Mohamed as he idly pulls his pistol from his waistband and sets it on the floor, "Fatah must be under [Hamas] control in Gaza. We must control Gaza."
Talks conducted by Hamas political leaders

The reconciliation talks are conducted by the Syria-based political leadership of the Hamas movement, however, not the Gaza government. Al Qassam leaders stress that they have sworn allegiance to the leadership and will obey its orders. They are confident, however, that those orders will not include reconciliation.

Ahmed Yousef, deputy foreign minister in the Hamas government, dismisses such talk with a wave of his hand. "They respect their political leaders and they abide by the regulations, and they are restricted to what the political leaders are telling them," he says. "Those guys are smelling guns and bullets all the time. Don't count on what they say. The people who will decide are the politicians."

Dr. Yousef says the time is ripe for reconciliation, and the two sides will find a way to agree on restructuring the security apparatus. But distrust runs deep.

Early in October, Al Qassam leaders in Gaza held a press conference to denounce the PA's arrest of militants in the West Bank and threatened to retaliate against Fatah members in Gaza. "How could Palestinian reconciliation succeed if we still hear this language of threatening and incitement?" asks Mr. Abusada.


PathWalker commetns:[I]
Hope is scarce, but it is said that the fighters battle veterans are those who create a desire for conciliation.
Those who where military leaders are the leaders for peace and prosperity. They know the war atrocities.
I believe these fierce men from the article will be the men to lead the Palestinian reconciliation. They know what is war and know the price of the rift. It will take them some time to mature.

[PathWalker]

Opinion form aljazeera: Who will value Palestinian rights?

Fatah-Hamas reconciliation must begin with a vow to stop violating the human rights of those they compete to represent.

Hamas and Fatah have resumed reconciliation talks in a bid to heal the rift that has led to the Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip being governed by two separate bodies.

Previous meetings have failed to unite the two groups, whose differences have brought about the most serious schism in Palestinian history. There is nothing so far to indicate that this latest round of talks, taking place in the Syrian capital Damascus, will be any different.

But the suspension of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), as the latter continues to demand that Israel stop building illegal Jewish settlements, has provided an opportunity for the gap between Hamas and Fatah to be bridged.

The Hamas/Fatah split has served to polarise the Palestinian people, with no other force emerging either to unify the feuding parties or to replace them.

Both movements have historically achieved their claim to legitimacy through armed resistance to Israel. That legitimacy was reinforced through election processes in 1996 and again in 2006, when Hamas won the majority of seats in the legislative council, with Fatah, despite losing its leading status, showing that it remained an important player.

New elections must now be held to reflect the new power balance in the court of public opinion. But before elections can take place, unity must be achieved so that a situation which is conducive to a free and fair vote can prevail.

Holding a mirror

But even before the two groups reach an agreement on a political agenda, which is of utmost importance, they must make a serious commitment to respect the human rights of the Palestinian people. For while Israeli occupation represents the most flagrant violation of basic human rights, Hamas - through the deposed government in Gaza - and Fatah - through the PA - have also inflicted their share of abuses on Palestinians.

Hardly a month passes without Palestinian and international human rights organisations complaining of abuses being committed by one or both sides of the feud. Hamas can justifiably accuse the PA of suppressing its members in the West Bank to appease Israeli security demands, while Fatah can rightly accuse Hamas of repressing its members in Gaza. But neither security concerns, nor claims to represent the Palestinian resistance can justify human rights violations.

Hamas, just like the PA, has arrested people for engaging in resistance against Israel, although it argues that its case is different because it has no security agreements with Israel. But suppression is suppression regardless of who carries it out and it is clear that Hamas is trying to send a message to Israel that it, not Fatah, controls security.

All but a few Palestinian writers and bloggers have failed to hold both parties accountable for these abuses, focusing instead on exposing one while ignoring the other. But an activist or writer should be able to fully support Hamas or Fatah, depending on their own political standing, while remaining committed to human rights and holding a mirror to their own party.

Both parties are participating in a process of self-destruction as long as they continue to ignore the human rights of the people they are competing to represent.

Deep scars

Palestinian human rights organisations are now forced to keep a long record of complaints by Palestinians against Israel, Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-dominated security forces in the West Bank.
Both have been guilty - to different extents on different occasions - of preventing or disrupting protest rallies or meetings, either concocting a justification or simply offering no reason at all.

Most worryingly, both have resorted to torture - leaving lasting scars on the bodies and the consciousness of the Palestinian people.

This ongoing power struggle - for this is largely what it is - over an authority that has no authority, has increased the violations, with each afraid of the challenge the other poses.

The sanest voices in all of this have been those of the Hamas and Fatah detainees in Israeli prisons who have been at the forefront of calls for unity and the formulation of unity platform proposals.

Palestinians have been urging the world to look into Israeli crimes and human rights abuses. They are victims of a colonial apartheid system, which is why participating in the abuse of their own people is not only unacceptable but a crime that must stop.

If the Hamas/Fatah talks are to have any real meaning they must begin with a vow to respect and cherish Palestinian human rights.

Lamis Andoni is an analyst and commentator on Middle Eastern and Palestinian affairs.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2010/11/201011992230645235.html

PathWalker comments:
The article is very deep insight and painful for the Palestinians to read. And is posted in the controlled Arab media.
I wonder if this is a hopeful sign.
Healing starts with introspection. It is if the poor Palestinians do not have enough problems with the Israelis, and the Israelis "refuse" to openly battle with them. So the Palestinians open a new battle front within themselves.

I personally believe this is a national karma playing out here. And we need to let it consume the players or enlighten them to the next stage.

[PathWalker]

Egypt 'not doing enough' to stop Gaza arms smuggling

TEL AVIV — Egypt is not doing enough to stop arms smuggling into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli intelligence official said on Sunday, in a rare criticism of Cairo.

"There is a problem with Egypt -- they are not doing enough to block the smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Israel is usually cautious about directly criticising Egypt, one of only two Arab states to have signed a peace deal with the Jewish state.

Egypt has also been key in maintaining a blockade on Gaza which was imposed in June 2006 after militants there kidnapped an Israeli soldier, then tightened a year later when Hamas seized power in the tiny coastal strip.

continued here http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iuMJVknwjRoDRXnfeSlZOCmkPLmQ?docId=CNG.abcbb510a5c046dbf43a74a8c92b43c3.f1

PathWalker comments:
This statement is serious, there is a lot of quiet communication Israel-Egypt that is better kept quiet. While Israel is taking the blame as the bad guy. Putting a siege on Gazza, Egypt actually do the dirty job. This game is playing out since 2006.

The mutual discontent and animosity (Israel/Egypt) is set aside in order to oppress the mutually hated, troubling, inciting, rebellious, Palestinians.

If Israeli official come out with accusing statements to Egypt! one can interpret the following.
1. Stupid and incompetent official (Most likely).
2. Secret conversation that was leaked to the media - now damage control is taking place.
3. An Israeli offensive is tarting to brew around Gazza, and these are the public rattle signs in the regional political arena.

[PathWalker]

More impasse in the Israeli/Palestinian negotiation

A Talk with Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=23079

[Asharq Al-Awsat] So, there is no use in continuing the negotiations that seem to have reached an impasse and the alternative is to continue to build the infrastructure and the institutions to expedite Palestinian readiness to convince the various countries in the world of the importance of establishing the state and ending the occupation.

[Fayyad] Who is saying that the negotiations have reached an impasse?

[Asharq Al-Awsat] You are saying it and so am I.

[Fayyad] But what are the influential forces on the international stage that are convinced of this? My assessment is that the international consciousness has not reached this stage of maturity because until this very moment our efforts are being exerted in Europe and the United States to re-activate the negotiating process. For this reason I say that talking about going to New York might repel people at a time when we need them to rally around us and around the readiness and establishment of the state. I do not wish to cause the moves and attempts on the ground to fail in order to gain international consensus by talking about going to New York. Proceeding from this premise, the Palestinian-Palestinian dialogue for national reconciliation should not focus on the political issues because a day will come when the visions will come together. But what is more important - compared with the establishment of the Palestinian state, which is our basic unifying goal - is the subject of security. It is security and not political thinking. I am prepared to promote it as one of the manifestations of political plurality and the degree of progress is measured by political plurality. What exhausts matters is not political plurality - that, if managed well, may in fact be a source of strength - but security plurality. Security plurality is killing us and killing our national project. Security plurality is not in harmony at all with the goal of establishing the state, which is the basic determiner of the state. Is the state the sole decision-maker when it comes to the issue of security or is it not? Let us Palestinians agree only on this concept.

Then on the Israeli side:
Government sources say Jerusalem, Washington close to agreement on American incentives package aimed at convincing hard-liners to back settlement construction moratorium. 'Pressure on Bibi increasing daily,' official says
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=3539

The crucial document from the US is meant to persuade government hard-liners to renew a ban on settlement construction so that the stalled Mideast peace talks could resume.

PathWalker comments:
If you read between the lines in the Palestinian PM interview. The language is very twisted and entangled. The responsibility is sent out of the region to TPTB. We are all pawns in this game.
The same message is arriving from the Israeli side as well.
Summing up. There is no rush and no real political motive to progress on any solution. To the opposite, both parties do their best to leverage their righteous position and stand. In order to gain benefits from TPTB.

Sad and hopeless, but this is the situation. Till the big change arrive.

[PathWalker]

Parliamentary speaker says despite Israeli pullout from disputed border village, resistance to neighbour must continue.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/11/20101118133429610900.html

The parliamentary speaker in Lebanon has said that Israel's withdrawal from a disputed border village will do little to assuage "resistance" against the country.

Nabih Berri made the comments on Thursday, after Israel pulled out of the northern half of Ghajar which it had occupied in 2006.

Israel's security cabinet agreed to the move on Wednesday to end a long-standing dispute between the two countries.

The word "resistance" is often used by politicians in Lebanon to refer to the military wing of Hezbollah, the political and military group primarily based in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah was created in opposition to Israel in 1982, and the pair fought a deadly war in 2006.

Israeli forces captured Ghajar from Syria in 1967, during the Six Day War. At the time the village lay on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

At the end of Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000, the UN allocated half of Ghajar to Lebanon and half to Israel, however in the 2006 war with Hezbollah, Israel re-took the northern half of the village.

PathWalker comments:
As one can understand from the above news article the somewhat informative. The issue here is not territory nor occupation. The people of Ghajar prefer to live and prosper Israel rather then crumbling Lebanon. They are not part of the equation.

The real issue here is political legitimacy for struggle and military power. Hizzbulah define itself by the Israeli conflict as the Syrian regime does. It needs Israel as an enemy. It cannot survive politically without the Israeli enemy.

But as the Hizzbulah grew from a guerrilla organization to a state size organization, the political arena is more important then the operational combat. As such the Hizzbulah is facing some existential defining moment in the coming moths.

The truth will come out in a way that the Hizzbulah will have to redefine itself and its role in Lebanon. Maybe take over Lebanon as well.
In any case the critical day is arriving. And all the divisions in Lebanon are in a frenzy to build military power and arms. It is going to be interesting.
Hopefully peaceful.

[PathWalker]

comment: The Midle East is not delivering the goods

Lately I am scanning the controlled media for post that make some difference about what is going the the Israeli/Palestinian region.
There is no news. Very much auto pilot bashing and clashing.

It seems as if TPTB are disappointed from the middle east and going elsewhere to generate tension.
Wikileaks post are rigged, another clever divide and conquer scheme.

The region natives are too tired/afraid of war games, even in Lebanon. Is seems as the region is too quiet for the last month.

I wonder if TPTB accept the release of free energy solution. Since conflicts related to energy control are subsiding. The current world conflicts are about economic might and military dominance.
I believe these types of dominance conflicts are going to escalate into the middle east soon. With the EU collapse.

[PathWalker]

Pragmatic Hamas leader change tone
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=337878
Haniyeh also reiterated that Hamas would accept the creation of a Palestinian state in in the West Bank and Gaza.

"We don't have a problem with establishing a viable Palestinian state with sovereignty on the land that was occupied in 1967, with a just solution for the refugees, including the release of all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and with elections as the only way to transfer authority from one party to another."

Haniyeh said that his government's program was the same as that laid out in the 2007 Mecca agreement that established the Hamas-Fatah unity government.

Referring to the unity platform, he said: "These respective documents granted President Abbas and the PLO full control over the negotiations, allowing them to come back with the results if there are any, to call for a referendum, to call on the Palestinian people if they agree with what has been achieved in the negotiations and the establishment of a state."

"Hamas and the Palestinian government would respect the results of any referendum."

PathWalker comments
This is big surprise. Why now and what is the context.
Hamas vowed to fight liberating the occupied territories, and builds its political agenda on resisting Israel (very much like Hizbullah).
Such remarks are undermining its official political line. Haniyeh is the Gazza prime minister and such statements can put his life in danger. He is a pragmatic and shrewd political survivor.

I wonder what changed and why. Maybe transforming from leading a guerrilla organization to a government changed his view.

Also he retroactively accept Palestinian referendum result about peace agreement. That is also a provocative move again the Hamas leadership in Damascus.

So there are new after all. Even good news.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Abbas: Last resort I'll ask Israel to take over


RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned he may dissolve his self-rule government and ask Israel to resume full control of the West Bank if troubled peace talks fail.

Dismantling the Palestinian Authority would be a last resort, Abbas told Palestine TV in an interview broadcast late Friday. However, his comments marked the most explicit warning yet that he's considering a step that could crush lingering hopes for a Mideast peace deal.

If Abbas were to take such a step, Israel, as a military occupier, would have to assume full responsibility again for 2.2 million Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel was relieved of that financial burden with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994, as part of interim peace deals.

full story (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-12-04-abbas-west-bank_N.htm)

[PathWalker]

International aid for Israel's biggest forest fire ever

Israel Gets Firefighting Aid From Abroad to Help Quell Deadly Haifa Blaze
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-04/israel-gets-firefighting-aid-from-abroad-to-help-quell-deadly-haifa-blaze.html
...
Since the blaze started two days ago, Israel has received 13 firefighting planes and helicopters from the U.S., U.K., Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Turkey, France, Russia, Italy and Jordan. Another six planes and three helicopters are expected to arrive today from the U.S., France, Russia and Switzerland, and tomorrow nine more planes from the U.S., Spain and Germany.
...

The fire fighting aid from Turkey is not a sign of conciliation
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B24IE20101203

Palestinians help to tame huge Israeli inferno
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i6N1b2YUatx5Tr_B2_PpGUcx7Mtg?docId=CNG.f20a47ac6b3d8a573abdfa41c0b1c9ad.7f1

PathWalker comments:
On a personal note, the fire was very close to our home. And is still not controlled.
There are many arsonists taking advantage of the situation. Some youth arsonists were caught and said they wanted to see the fire fighting aircrafts in action.

There is assistance in fire fighting from the international community despite diplomatic animosity with some of the aid providers. The reason is another level of international politics, there are disasters nations cannot handle alone and require international assistance (of course with price tag attached).
National states cannot afford to risk isolation in case of such mega disaster and this behavior is more then an act of generosity. It is an act of mutual dependence for a case of need.

Personally I am quite impressed from the aid offered.:israel:
Even from the Palestinian Authority.

[PathWalker]

Abbas: Last resort _ I'll ask Israel to take over
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/04/AR2010120401706.html

...
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned he may dissolve his self-rule government and ask Israel to resume full control of the West Bank if troubled peace talks fail.
...

PathWalker comments
This seems to appear like a stupid act of despair from a burnt politician.
It might be.
I hear/read a sincere despair, and help call for the Israeli side to assist his political survival in the PA.
The mutual blame throwing in the stalled peace process is just an act. If and when it will progress the leaders will need to adept to new political reality. Abbas is longing to a change in the game. Israel will not play for him. The political condition is the same.

All 3 parties involved are played by TPTB. So we still wait for the game changing event.

[Rocky_Shorz]

THE rift between Israel and Turkey may be on the way to resolution.

This is according to a report yesterday on the US-sponsored Arabic-language television network al-Hura.

The report said an Israeli negotiator, meeting this week with a senior Turkish diplomat in Geneva, had agreed to Istanbul's demands that Israel apologise for the killing of nine Turkish activists last May when a flotilla of civilian vessels attempted to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. Israel had also agreed, the report said, to Turkey's demand that it pay compensation to the families of the dead. Both sides have confirmed a meeting of their representatives in Geneva.

The Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz quotes Turkish diplomatic sources as saying the discussions have been "very positive"...

Full Story (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/israel-to-apologise-for-flotilla-killings/story-e6frg6so-1225967236110)

[Rocky_Shorz]

one step forward, two steps back...


Dozens of Israel's municipal chief rabbis have signed on to a new religious ruling that would forbid the rental of homes to gentiles...

story (http://drratatoskr.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/07/5604608-dozens-of-top-israeli-rabbis-sign-ruling-to-forbid-rental-of-homes-to-arabs-haaretz-daily-newspaper-israel-news)

I guess a retirement home in Israel is out of the question for all of us now...

[PathWalker]

Wikileaks: Saudis urge force to destroy Hezbollah
Saudi Arabia proposed an Arab-led military force to destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon two years ago, a US diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks suggests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11945514

PathWalker Comments:
The Wikileaks is considered by many intelligence agencies as a CIA false flag operation. ALA 911 for the internet freedom.
Take the recent 'diplomatic cables' leaks with a grain of salt. Most of the information is known, some of it is fear mongering and the rest is conflict mongering between US 'allies'

There is a theme in the recent wikileaks cables. Hope you can identify it.

[PathWalker]

Ban on selling homes to non-Jews under fire. Ruling gravely twists Torah, says rabbi
Religious figures and politicians are slamming a statement banning the selling or leasing of assets to non-Jews, endorsed by some 50 municipal rabbis Tuesday.


Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger's office issued a statement stressing that the matter is not merely halachic, as political and security considerations must also be made before undertaking such ruling. For that reason, Rabbi Metzger decided not to bring the issue up at the Chief Rabbinate's Council and will not be endorsing the statement.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3995877,00.html

PathWalker Comments:
What comes around goes around.
The Jews are no better then the gentiles, they get full reflection for the racism in the diaspora not long ago.

Fanatics are devoid of most moral values they stand for. In all religions and ideologies.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Benjamin Netanyahu condemns rabbis over property advice


About 40 rabbis, many employed by the state, signed the statement, citing concerns about potential mixed marriages and falling property values.

Mr Netanyahu denounced the advice as "undemocratic" and discriminatory.

The move has fuelled charges of racism at a time of mounting friction between Israeli Arabs and Jews.

Arab Israeli lawmaker Ahmad Tibi said the rabbis should be fired and have criminal charges brought against them "because we are talking about incitement or racism according even to Israeli law"...

story link... (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11950352)

I guess the Rabbis haven't heard yet... King David II is a gentile...

[irishspirit]

Israel launches strikes, warns on Gaza

JERUSALEM — Israel launched retaliatory air strikes on the Gaza Strip Thursday hours after its top soldier warned troops to be prepared for possible "wider action" on the enclave's volatile border.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the strikes were aimed at three separate targets, two of which Gaza militants confirmed were sites they used for training. No casualties were reported.

The air strikes were launched overnight after a mortar fired by Gaza militants wounded an Israeli man at a farm.

"The situation on the Gaza Strip border is fragile these days," Israeli armed forces chief General Gaby Ashekenazi told troops based near the Gaza border, according to the Maariv daily.

Ashekenazi cited a large number of explosive devices on the border and rising activity against Israel at the northern edge of Gaza, predicting more incidents.

"We may need to be prepared for wider action. The next round will be big and it needs to end in a way that leaves no doubt who won. We are significantly stronger than the other side," the commander said, according to Maariv. Militants in the enclave ruled by the Islamist Hamas faction have fired some 200 rockets and mortars at Israel this year, the Israeli army says.

They fired about five mortar rounds late Wednesday and fragments from one wounded a man. He was taken by helicopter to hospital in Beersheba, but his injuries were not life-threatening, the army spokeswoman said.


He was the first casualty since March, when a Thai farm laborer was killed by a mortar shell.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39549929/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/?

[PathWalker]

Poll: Israel's Arabs don't want to be part of Palestinian state
Saban Center survey shows 58% of Israeli-Arabs against annexation of Arab cities to future Palestinian state as part of territorial exchanges; 47% of Israel's Jews believe peace will never be achieved

While Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman continuously discusses the possibility of territorial exchanges as part of a future peace agreement with the Palestinians, it seems that Israel's Arabs are simply not interested: A survey published by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution on Thursday indicated that 58% of Israeli-Arabs are against the annexation of Arab cities to a future Palestinian state in the framework of a peace agreement and territorial exchanges.


The poll, conducted in light of the failed negotiations between the US and Israel on another settlement construction moratorium, further showed that 62% of Israeli Jews believe the government should do more to achieve peace with the Palestinians. Some 43% believe peace will be achieved within five years, while eight percent said it would take even less time. However, 47% speculated that a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians will never be signed.


The survey showed that 40% of Israel's Jews are in favor of a peace agreement based on a return to the 1967 borders and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, while 27% are against an Israeli withdrawal and a Palestinian state.


According to the poll, 63% of Israeli-Arabs do not believe peace is attainable, and two-thirds of them are not willing to forgo the "right of return" demand. Half of the Arab-Israelis polled said they would not be willing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state under any circumstance.


And what do Israelis think of the US' involvement in the peace process? According to the survey, 51% of Israel's Jews have a negative opinion of President Barack Obama, and 43% are not encouraged by Washington's Mideast policy. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the most popular foreign leader among Israeli Jews, followed by former US President Bill Clinton, the survey showed.


The survey also showed that half of Israel's Jews define themselves firstly as Jewish and only secondly Israel; 75% of them support Israel's definition as a Jewish state to prevent the return of Palestinian refugees to the country ("right of return").


The survey indicated that 36% of Israeli-Arabs define themselves firstly as Arabs, as opposed to only 22% who consider themselves Palestinians first and foremost. In addition, more Arab-Israelis define themselves as Arab (34%) than Muslim (27%).


A survey of the American public's attitude toward the peace process showed that two-thirds of US citizens believe a solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict is one of America's five most important interests; 72% support Obama's mediation efforts.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3997051,00.html

PathWalker comments:
Assuming these polls are correct (I am not a believer in controlled media polls). There is more support to my analysis that we get what we deserve, all parties involved in the conflict receive their Karma.

This conflict is perceived unsolvable, by the controlled media. And that is the message sent into the public. Another form of people programming.

It is correct (that the conflict is unsolvable) as long as we are controlled by TPTB, this staged unsolvable conflict would not be allowed to be solved.

So we wait to the game changing event. Hope sooner then later.

[PathWalker]

Heavy Rains, Strong Winds Batter Middle East

Heavy rains and fierce winds pummeled countries across the Middle East over the weekend, sinking a ship off Israel's coast and killing a woman in Lebanon whose car was crushed when a tree fell on it.

The storm brought unusually cold temperatures, below freezing in some spots. It ended weeks of unseasonably warm and dry weather that contributed to dozens of forest fires in Lebanon and helped feed a massive blaze in Israel that destroyed thousands of hectares of forest.

It whipped up sandstorms in Jordan and Egypt, which closed its largest Mediterranean port. In Syria, snow blanketed the streets of Damascus for the first time this winter. Schools sent students home early and children ventured outside to play in the streets.

Syrian authorities closed their main port of Tartous. In Egypt, 12-foot waves forced shut the port of Alexandria — the country's largest — as well as another in the town of Nuweiba along the Red Sea coast of the Sinai Peninsula.

Heavy rains flooded the streets in Beirut and snow forced some road closures in remote mountain towns in Lebanon. A woman died Saturday night when an uprooted tree fell on her car in the northern port city of Tripoli, authorities said. Flights in and out of Beirut's international airport were delayed.

Off the Israeli coast, a Moldovan cargo ship sank in stormy weather about seven miles (11 kilometers) off the port city of Ashdod, and a Turkish ship was safely towed two miles to shore after sending out distress calls.

An official from Israel's shipping and ports authority, Yigal Maor, said the Moldovan vessel's 11-member crew scrambled onto lifeboats and was rescued by a nearby Taiwanese ship. The Israeli military said its sailors arrived safely ashore.

The storm briefly disrupted operations at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport. Spokesman Adar Avisar said two flights — one each from British Airways and Lufthansa — were diverted to Cyprus in the afternoon. By evening, their passengers were on their way to Israel. Departing flights were also delayed for about an hour in the afternoon, Avisar said.

Elsewhere in Israel, rain and hail pounded the country while strong winds toppled trees and traffic lights, flooding streets and knocking out electricity to hundreds of homes. Local media reported that a pier at the ancient port city of Caesarea collapsed, a breakfront at another beach cracked and towering waves washed over the shore of Eilat, a Red Sea port city.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said northern Israel was hit hardest by the storm, and that extra police patrols were dispatched to divert traffic because of downed trees. Two police officers were lightly injured when a tree fell on their patrol car, Rosenfeld said.

In the Gaza Strip, strong winds and lashing rains caused cracks in the pier and the breakfront at the harbor local fishermen use. No one was hurt, but civil defense workers and the Gaza maritime police were hauling boats out of the water and moving them and other fishing equipment to safer ground.

Egypt was hit by rain and winds up to 37 miles (60 kilometers) per hour in Alexandria on the northern Mediterranean coast.

Sandstorms blanketed Cairo for a second day Sunday, choking the air with dust and turning the sky a tepid beige. Doormen and shopkeepers tried in vain to keep the swirling dust at bay, sweeping sidewalks and dusting off parked cars.

Jordan also wrestled with sandstorms kicked up by winds up to 55 miles (90 kilometers) per hour, police said. Visibility was severely limited, and authorities closed major highways in the eastern desert linking the country with neighboring Iraq and southern roads leading to the ancient city of Petra, a major tourist attraction.

A police statement said low visibility caused a 10-car pileup in a district south of the capital Amman, which injured 16 people.

Cairo airport remained open while Amman airport reported up to two-hour delays in domestic and international flights.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132008453

PathWalker comments:
More signs of climate change.
The weather is extra violent. Last week we had the most devastating forest fire. Now the river in our town is flooding the farms.
Crazy weather. The winter just started 2 days ago, with vengeance.
The more sophisticated and modern the infrastructure the more our life is disrupted by Gaia.

We learn some lessons in humbleness. Who is in control.

[Fredkc]

Question for Pathwalker;

what, in your opinion, is the reason Israel, & Turkey are not more prominently mentioned in the latest WkiLeaks release?

Thanks,
Fred

[Rocky_Shorz]

King David II...

He has to answer to the big guy who is pissed that peace is being derailed...

a God fearing man that has watched over a million die from disasters of biblical proportions following messages he delivered...

[PathWalker]

Answer to Fredkc

Question for Pathwalker;

what, in your opinion, is the reason Israel, & Turkey are not more prominently mentioned in the latest WkiLeaks release?
1. It is not over yet, the real juice is not out yet.
2. The theme of the leaks is to incite conflicts among 'peaceful' friendly nations. Israel and Turkey are already having an hostile relationships.
3. The leaks are 80% known info, 15% new info, 3% factual leaks, 2% disinformation.

The current diplomatic leaks are very clever skim by one faction in the pentagon, fighting for power and dominance among the others.
One can clearly identify lots of: truth, half truth, lies and hints.
Myself Identified the following aims in the recent leaks:
1. Discredit WikiLeaks
2. Backfire on the internet pseudo freedom, in order to put the American internet under control ala China and Iran.
3. Harm the opposition warring factions in the Pentagon
4. Divert attention from the internal affairs in the USA (on the verge of revolution).
5. Divert world attention from TPTB actual takeover actions, and economic wars. Hot economic leaks about Europe, Russia, India, China are not serving this aim. Delicious gossip and petty corruption do.

Note there is no leaks about rigged science, alternative energy, ufo, swine flu ... And more issues that dominate Avalon forums.
I wonder who edit the daily leaks and how the decisions are made.

May we have what we deserve, gently.

[PathWalker]

Israel refuses entry to Palestinian firefighters being honored for Carmel fire assistance
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-refuses-entry-to-palestinian-firefighters-being-honored-for-carmel-fire-assistance-1.330580

Ceremony forced into cancellation after only 7 out 10 granted permits; PA: How could the same men be allowed in to fight the fire but not to be honored for their assistance?; IDF: It was a bureaucratic mistake.

PathWalker comments:
It is all 'cause and effect', there is no mistakes in the cosmos. All is well planned and perfect.

[Rocky_Shorz]

any idea what happened to this guy?


Regime envoy to Switzerland disappeared with intelligence


NCRI - A former regime ambassador to Switzerland, who was also a senior member of the regime’s negotiating team for nuclear talks, has not returned to Iran and taken loads of information with him, a state-run media has reported.

The state-run Jahan News said Sirous Naseri “who was part of the Hassan Rohani team, has never returned to the country and has taken intelligence with him.”

It added that another official, “Moussavian, is also accused by the intelligence ministry of handing over nuclear intelligence to westerners.”

Jahan News derided Hassan Rohani’s negotiating team and said, “The achievements of this team was to accept all of the West’s conditions. It accepted to close Natanz and UCF, suspended nuclear activities and according to statements by the western side, it even accepted to suspend nuclear activities for 10 years.”

story link (http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/nuclear/9451-regime-envoy-to-switzerland-disappeared-with-intelligence)

[Rocky_Shorz]

From Today's Wiki release...


In 2006 and 2007 Swiss diplomats tried to usher the Americans and Iranians to the negotiating table. Recently published US diplomatic cables show how deeply the Swiss initiative irked Washington -- and how Bern refused to give up despite repeated requests from the US.

That US diplomats posted in Bern were upset by the efforts of Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to intervene in the conflict surrounding Iran's nuclear program in 2006 and 2007 and force themselves on the United States as an intermediary is well known. But just how upset has now become clear from the confidential diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.

In February and March 2007, Calmy-Rey dispatched Michael Ambühl, a high-ranking Swiss diplomat, on several visits to Tehran in an attempt to persuade the Iranians and the US to engage in bilateral talks. As part of the same effort, she hosted Iran's then chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, for talks in Bern. Washington had vehemently tried to dissuade Calmy-Rey from assuming such an active role; but that didn't stop her.

The concern over an active Swiss role arose from the 1979 hostage crisis in Tehran, which saw Iranian students and militants raid the US Embassy in Tehran and take 66 Americans hostage. Since then, Switzerland had been representing US interests in Iran. Washington was concerned that, when it came to the nuclear dispute with Iran, Tehran might mistakenly assume that Switzerland was acting as its proxy in this case as well...
full story (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,734392,00.html)

are the Swiss sitting down with the envoy to go over details of the enrichment program to help defuse...

[PathWalker]

Dear Rocky
I found only 1 cable in wikileaks from Bern and it was not on the subject you mentioned.
1. Please provide link into the leaked cable from wikileaks. http://www.wikileaks.ch/cablegate.html
:offtopic: 2. Please post in the wikileaks sub forum, it is off topic to this thread. There is also a thread about Iran war in this forum.http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?609-Future-Events-The-Iran-War&p=80910&highlight=iran+war#post80910

This thread is about the Israel Palestinian conflict.

[PathWalker]

Palestinian negotiator says peace process in 'deep coma'
BEIT SAHUR, Palestinian Territories — A Palestinian negotiator late Saturday said the peace process with Israel was in a "deep coma" and that US proposals for resuming talks were "totally useless".

"I don't think we are to resume the negotiations soon," Nabil Shaath told journalists at Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem in the West Bank.

"The peace process is in a deep coma.... I don't think anyone wants to continue this negotiation," he said.

"There is no more credibility to this negotiation process. This is an exercise in futility, ridiculous...," he added.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gIOG4WuYfVIGuwRyBQAjQ6mNseOw?docId=CNG.0d88c40a839cc859c748793101909f78.13c1

PathWalker comments
This is the reality for the last 10 years.
There will be no change till there is big change in regional politics. As an outcome of a universal change or consciousness change.

[PathWalker]

Lebanese television shows pictures of 'spy equipment' with Hebrew writing
Lebanese television channels yesterday broadcast close-up pictures of the alleged Israeli spy equipment the Lebanese Army discovered on Wednesday. The pictures showed Hebrew words printed on the devices, as well as the words "made in Israel" in English.

Also yesterday, a Lebanese radio station claimed that an explosion heard in Lebanon late Wednesday was an Israel Defense Forces operation aimed at destroying an espionage device the IDF had installed off the coast of Sidon. The day before, the Voice of Lebanon had reported that Israeli fighter jets and helicopters were seen firing flares over Sidon and that Israeli battleships had been spotted in the area.

The pictures of the espionage devices, which included photographic equipment and laser and broadcast equipment, showed the Hebrew inscription "Mini Anan" ("Mini cloud" ), a serial number and the English words "Beam Systems Israel Ltd."

Media reports in Lebanon said these devices, located in mountainous areas overlooking Beirut, were laser pointers intended to direct Israeli aerial bombardments.

This is the third time in a year that Israeli intelligence-gathering equipment has reportedly been discovered on Lebanese territory. On the other two occasions, the Lebanese found equipment designed to tap into Hezbollah's independent communications network.

In each case, the Lebanese Army acted on intelligence information provided by Hezbollah itself.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah praised the Lebanese Army yesterday for finding the devices despite difficult conditions in the snow-covered mountains. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman reciprocated by commending Hezbollah's cooperation with the Lebanese Army in this matter.

Nasrallah also said yesterday that the international tribunal in The Hague that is investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will be "gone with the wind." He called the tribunal "a conspiracy" and urged his countrymen to thwart its efforts to accuse Hezbollah operatives, or anyone else, of Hariri's murder.

Finally, he urged all Arab states to stop peace talks with Israel and join Hezbollah's "resistance" against Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/lebanese-television-shows-pictures-of-spy-equipment-with-hebrew-writing-1.331028

PathWalker comments:
The Israeli media interpreters explain this as PR stunt of the Hizzbula to divert attention from the elephant in the room.
The equipment was found few years ago, and the pics where taken in the summer. Now the area is covered with thick snow.
The interpreter said the espionage equipment was found in very remote and difficult to access mountain tops. The exposure of the equipment means that there is construction activity on the mountain tops. Probably by Hezbollah. Building with alternative equipment for the same goals.
The Lebanese government is trying to leverage an international conflict on this event.

[PathWalker]

Israeli airstrike kills 5 in Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - An Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. It was the deadliest attack against the coastal strip in months.

The Israeli military said in a statement that the men were about to launch a rocket attack against southern Israeli communities when they were struck. Palestinian hospital officials confirmed that the five dead were militants.

Militant groups identified the men as members of the Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committees.

Israel has for years routinely targeted rocket launchers from Gaza, but such incidents have been scaled back dramatically in the two years since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza concluded.

The Hamas Islamist group, which dominates the Gaza Strip while the rival Palestinian Authority governs the West Bank, says that it has tried to curb rocket fire directed at Israel but that smaller groups continue to carry out such attacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/18/AR2010121802929.html

PathWalker comments:
What is special about this incident is that is only reported by the Israeli side media and completely ignored by the Palestinian side media.
I wonder why.
The official Palestinian site is Maan http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx
Aljazeera covered it: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/12/2010121823546201234.html

[heyokah]

A campaign was launched in the beginning of 2009, at the time of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, to promote the concept of taking pride in Palestinian resistance, and to focus on Palestinian rights not victimhood. Called the Never Before Campaign, it is based in Beirut, Lebanon, and has produced a series of videos to convey its message.

http://palsolidarity.org/2009/05/6856/


In this time of year, people around the world celebrate. They celebrate the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem Palestine. They celebrate a birth that was meant to propagate a set of ideals to make the world a better place. 2010 years later, that same birthplace is plagued by a regime that practices the exact opposite of those ideals. Bethlehem is surrounded by a racist wall of biblical proportions, by regime which is racist to biblical proportions. Yet people celebrate.

But that is OK. The people of Palestine also celebrate. They need to, as any other people would need to celebrate. After all it is the season to make exceptions. In this season, people make exceptions when it comes to their spending, to their diets, to the way they treat each other. So it is only logical to make an exception by putting an effort for the land, the homes and people of the birthplace of Christmas... for justice in Palestine...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wpyhHFOTg

[PathWalker]

The Israeli weapon industries conspiracies are on the verge of disclosure
Behind the scenes of IDF's decision to deploy a Rafael-developed tank along Gaza border, company's rival Israel Military Industries is fighting for survival.
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/mess-report/as-tensions-on-its-borders-grow-so-do-rivalries-among-israel-s-defense-industry-1.332673

Concurrently, the State Comptroller's Office has received inquiries from concerned citizens about these two projects, and seems inclined to launch an investigation about how decisions were made with respect to their development. Despite the IDF and Defense Ministry argument that the Windbreaker is ready for use and better suited for conditions in the field (a controversial claim ), it's hard to dismiss the time factor involved: The process of outfitting tanks with Windbreaker is gradual and protracted. At that rate, it will take years before the IDF infantry will benefit from comparable sorts of defense systems. Senior retired officers claim that the fact that it takes so long to install the Windbreaker will cost the army lives during the next round of warfare. Officials in the Defense Ministry disagree.

PathWalke comments
It is a known secret that the IDF budgets and deals are off the radar from the state monitoring mechanism.
Israel is mostly controlled by general and IDF post leaders.
So there is intense hand washing concerning the IDF budget. The latest scandals are intensifying the focus on the corruption and lies.

[PathWalker]

The Israeli army is not for defending Israel but the army
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htada/articles/20101221.aspx
December 21, 2010: The Israeli military revealed that its new Iron Dome anti-rocket system was not meant for defending towns and villages, but military bases. For years, politicians touted Iron Dome as a means of defending civilians living close to rockets fired from Gaza in the south and Lebanon in the north. But it turns out that it takes about 15 seconds for Iron Dome to detect, identify and fire its missiles. But most of the civilian targets currently under fire from Gaza are so close to the border (within 13 kilometers) that the rockets are fired and land in less than 15 seconds.

This explains why, after Iron Dome was declared ready for action six months ago, it was surprisingly placed in storage. The air force said they would prefer to save money and put the Iron Dome batteries in storage, to be deployed only for regular tests (and for training) and for an actual emergency (an expected large scale attack on southern or northern Israel.) Politicians demanded that at least one battery be deployed along the Gaza border. But the military sees Hamas and Hezbollah stockpiling larger numbers of longer range rockets. This would enable large numbers of rockets to be fired at military bases. The generals believe it's more important to protect the military forces, who ultimately defend Israel, and that's what Iron Dome will now be used for. Since the military bases are far from the borders, longer range rockets, with longer (than 15 seconds) flight times, would be used. Iron Dome would knock down many of these rockets, as it has already done in tests.

Israel has bought seven batteries of Iron Dome, to be delivered over the next two years. Each battery has radar and control equipment, and four missile launchers. The first battery has been delivered. Each battery costs about $37 million, which includes over fifty missiles.

During tests, the system detected and shot down BM-21 and Kassam rockets. The manufacturer, Rafael, was offered a large bonus if they got the system working ahead of schedule. When Iron Dome was first proposed four years ago, it was to take five years (until 2012) to get it operational. In addition to the cash incentive, there's also the rockets still coming out of Gaza, and being stockpiled by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. But the current low rate of rocket attacks are more of a political and psychological danger, than a real one.

Iron Dome uses two radars to quickly calculate the trajectory of the incoming rocket (Palestinian Kassams from Gaza, or Russian and Iranian designs favored by Hezbollah in Lebanon) and do nothing if the rocket trajectory indicates it is going to land in an uninhabited area. But if the computers predict a rocket coming down in an inhabited area, a $40,000 guided missile is fired to intercept the rocket. This makes the system cost-effective. That's because Hezbollah fired 4,000 rockets in 2006, and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza have fired over six thousand Kassam rockets in the past eight years, and the Israelis know where each of them landed. Over 90 percent of these rockets landed in uninhabited areas, and few of those that did caused few casualties. Still, a thousand interceptor missiles would cost $40 million. But that would save large quantities of military equipment and avoid many dead and injured troops. Israel already has a radar system in place that gives some warning of approaching rockets. Iron Dome will use that system, in addition to another, more specialized radar in southern Israel.

The rocket attacks had been around since 2001, but got much worse once Israel pulled out of Gaza in August of 2005. This was a peace gesture that backfired. From 2001 to 2005, about 700 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. Since the 2005 withdrawal, over 3,200 more rockets were fired into Israel. The rate of firings increased after Hamas took control of Gaza in June, 2007.

Hamas has been bringing in more factory made Iranian and Chinese made BM-21 and BM-12 rockets. Israeli intelligence officials believe Hamas currently has, in Gaza, some factory-made BM-21 rockets, each with a range of 20-40 kilometers. They also have some shorter range (six kilometers) , Russian designed B-12 rockets. These are not smuggled in much, because the locally made Kassam II has about the same range. However, the B-12 is more reliable (more reliable trajectory and fuze, so more are likely to land where aimed and explode.)

The B-12 is a 107mm, 19 kg/42 pound, 107mm, 84 cm/33 inch long rocket that is very popular with terrorists. This rocket has a range of about six kilometers and 1.35 kg/three pounds of explosives in its warhead. Normally fired, from a launcher, in salvoes of dozens at a time, when used individually, it is more accurate the closer it is to the target. This 107mm design has been copied by many nations, and is very popular with guerillas and terrorists because of its small size and portability. There is a Chinese BM-12 variant which has a smaller warhead and larger rocket motor. This version is supposed to have a range of about 12 kilometers.

The 122mm BM-21s weigh 68.2 kg/150 pounds and are 2.9 meters/nine feet long. These have 20.5 kg/45 pound warheads, but not much better accuracy than the 107mm model. However, these larger rockets have a maximum range of 20 kilometers. Again, because they are unguided, they are only effective if fired in salvos, or at large targets (like cities, or large military bases or industrial complexes.) There are Egyptian and Chinese variants that have smaller warheads and larger rocket motors, giving them a range of about 40 kilometers.

The rocket attacks from Gaza have been remarkably ineffective, killing only 40 people (half from rockets, the rest by mortars) in eight years. Hamas has had to fire about 270 rockets or mortar shells for each Israel soldier or civilian they have killed. Israeli counterfire killed or wounded a Palestinian for every three Palestinian rockets or mortar shells fired. One Israeli was killed or wounded for every 40 rockets or mortar shells fired. Israeli fire was much more accurate, with most of the Palestinian casualties being terrorists or others involved in building or firing the rockets and mortars. Hamas has tried to get civilians killed, by storing rockets in residential areas, and firing them from those neighborhoods as well. Although Hamas believes in the concept of "involuntary martyrdom" (getting civilians killed for the cause, even if the victims are not willing), many of its chosen candidates are not eager to die. So civilians stay away from areas where the rockets are launched, and try to conceal the fact that rockets are hidden under their homes.

Meanwhile, up north in Lebanon, Hezbollah have stockpiled over 40,000 factory-made rockets, mainly BM-21s brought in from Iran via Syria. This is three times as many rockets as they had in the Summer of 2006, when over 4,000 rockets were fired into northern Israel, killing about fifty people, most of them civilians. Over a thousand Lebanese died from Israeli counterattacks. Hezbollah and Hamas plan to launch a joint rocket attack on Israel eventually. The Israelis have been planning more effective countermeasures, which they have not been discussing openly. There is also the option of installing Iron Dome in the north, but that has not been assured yet.

Meanwhile, the only known weapon that can stop the short range rockets is the American Centurion, a U.S. Navy Phalanx autocannon designed to knock down anti-ship missiles. Centurion has been successful in shooting down mortar shells and short range rockets in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Israel has not bought any yet.

[PathWalker]

Hamas 'still committed' to Israel truce (despite renew barge of mortars on Israel)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gMHzf_U4g6V2aM70LNA86y3PFY1g?docId=CNG.d098c347831522dec5fb7fd9eb073ef0.511
GAZA CITY — Hamas remains committed to its truce with Israel, a senior leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Mahmud Zahar, said on Friday, despite the increase in rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.

"We declare our commitment to respecting the truce between us and the occupier," Zahar told a gathering in the Gaza town of Khan Yunis.

"Despite the sacrifices, we announce that we continue to respect the truce," said Zahar, who is considered the most influential Hamas leader in Gaza.

And he called on Israel to reciprocate and "stop incursions (into Gaza), halt killings of Palestinians and lift the blockade" imposed on the coastal enclave.

Hamas which controls Gaza says it has observed a de facto truce with Israel since the January 2009 end of a 22-day Israeli offensive on the strip aimed at halting rocket fire by Palestinian militants.

Attacks have since been considerably reduced but more than 200 rockets and shells, most of them homemade, have been fired into Israel since early 2010, according to the Israeli military.

More radical groups have since last Sunday targeted southern Israel with 23 rounds of mortar fire and three rockets, one of which slightly wounded a small girl, the military said.

On Friday, a Palestinian farmer was shot and wounded in the legs by Israeli army fire in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said.

The Israeli army confirmed opening fire, saying that its soldiers had targeted "several suspects" near the border with the Gaza Strip after warning shots.

Israel, which holds Hamas to account, has urged the UN Security Council to issue a "clear and resolute" message to Palestinian militants against firing rockets into its territory from Gaza, in a letter made public on Wednesday.

In a tit-for-tat move, Hamas said it would appeal to the international body to act against the "threat of further aggression against the Palestinians."

[PathWalker]

The Israeli military-industry power is sourced in the Pentagon (rings a bell)
Follow up to former post #200 http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3539-updates-on-the-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict&p=84796&viewfull=1#post84796


U.S. allocates $205 million for Israel's Iron Dome anti-rocket system
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-allocates-205-million-for-israel-s-iron-dome-anti-rocket-system-1.329668
Funds come atop another $200 million designated for joint U.S.-Israel anti-missile projects, David's Sling and Arrow.
Barack Obama's administration has allocated $205 million dollars toward funding Israel's advanced anti-rocket system, the Iron Dome.

The House of Representatives made the decision 212-206 after it passed a continuing resolution regarding funds for the 2011 fiscal year.

"This was a priority of Congress and President Obama, and it is the first funding of its kind for this important short-range rocket and artillery shell defense system," said Representative Steve Rothman (D-NJ), a member of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.
The funds are in addition to the more than $200 million allocated for the Arrow and David's Sling, joint U.S.-Israel anti-missile systems.

"This funding sends a strong message, to both our enemies and allies, by providing more total dollars than ever before toward these rocket and missile defense programs," said Rothman. "This is only the latest example that when it comes to defense, military, and intelligence cooperation, the relationship between the U.S. and Israel has never been stronger."

"Given the scrutiny that our nation is appropriately giving to every dollar expended for all purposes – including the defense of the United States and its allies – it is a mark of the great importance of these projects that they were included in this funding bill," Rothman added.

The U.S. Congress passed last week the Obama administration's initiative to provide Israel with the grant to procure Iron Dome batteries just before the system aced its final test over the summer.

To date, the Defense Ministry has bought two batteries. Several months ago, the ministry's top brass estimated the sum the Americans allotted would be sufficient for procuring eight or nine batteries, half of what is necessary to protect the Negev and the Galilee from short- and intermediate-range rockets and missiles.

The defense establishment is still weighing the balance between the number of radars for the systems to the number of intercept missiles necessary. Different estimates suggest that each intercept missile will cost $40,000.

PathWalker comments:
The lie is different at every level.
I am sure the lies to the Israeli population, Israeli leadership. US congress, US pentagon .... Are all very different and might be contradicting.

[PathWalker]

Iran claims: Iranian general abducted by Israel
http://www.africasia.com/services/news_mideast/article.php?ID=CNG.8d56f60ee58ac6fb007da9c473e7efb0.771

Iran has asked UN chief Ban Ki-moon for help on the fate of a former deputy defence minister who disappeared in Turkey in 2007, media said Friday after reports that he may have died in an Israeli jail.

PathWalker comments:
Very convenient coincidence, that an Israel whistleblower site published related article.
Accusing Israeli prison authority for holding a prisoner without identity, that is held for years. The prison guards are not allowed to contact him.
The blog writes that this mysterious prisoner is the deputy to the Iranian security minister. That was kidnapped in 1997 by the Mossad.
(Hebrew text- you can use Google translate to English) http://alllies.org/blog/archives/4124

[PathWalker]

Gazza siege: Egyptian clearance for Gaza aid convoy from India
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_egyptian-clearance-for-gaza-aid-convoy-from-india_1488945

PathWalker comments
This has nothing to do with humanitarian aid and all to do with inter Palestinian politics. Hama vs Fatah.
The Egyptian government is taking an active role in this conflict.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Hey Pathwalker,

you disappeared when the 33 showed up, lots going on over there right now, hope you have time soon to come back and fill us in...

[PathWalker]

Secret papers reveal slow death of Middle East peace process
• Massive new leak lifts lid on negotiations
• PLO offered up key settlements in East Jerusalem
• Concessions made on refugees and Holy sites

• Israel spurned offer of 'biggest Jerusalem in history'
• Palestinian leaders weak – and increasingly desperate
• The story behind the Palestine papers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/palestine-papers-expose-peace-concession

The story behind the Palestine papers
The revelations from the heart of the Israel-Palestine peace process are the product of the biggest documentary leak in the history of the Middle East conflict, and the most comprehensive exposure of the inside story of a decade of failed negotiations.

The 1,600 confidential records of hundreds of meetings between Palestinian, Israeli and US leaders, as well as emails and secret proposals, were leaked to the Qatar-based satellite TV channel al-Jazeera and shared exclusively with the Guardian. They cover the period from the runup to the ill-fated Camp David negotiations under US president Bill Clinton in 2000, to private discussions last year involving senior officials and politicians in the Obama administration.

http://cdn.theguardian.tv/bc/281851582/281851582_757980985001_110121BlackMilne-16x9.mp4?videoId=757980084001&lineUpId=&pubId=281851582&playerId=26396137001&affiliateId=

PathWalker Comments:
Interesting times for the truth to come out.
I wonder why the Israeli controlled media quite ignores these news, while the Palestinian get into the streets.
After all it is the time for TPTB to be exposed and the real interests are reveal.
All parties engaged are corrupted and bought by the TPTB.
I wonder about the timing and interests of the reveal.

Kerry Casidy said that TPTB are getting fragmented by the day, and the factions are losing their control. This is clear by the the master Illuminati chief Tony Blair dissatisfaction from the release. "Blair says leak of Palestine papers 'destabilising' for peace process (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jan/28/tony-blair-palestine-papers-peace-process)"

[PathWalker]

Israeli righteousness investigation exonerated Israel in the Turkish flotilla tragedy

(Reuters) - Paintball guns used by Israeli marines who stormed a Gaza-bound Turkish activist ship in May were wrong for the job and may have contributed to rather than stemmed the ensuing bloodshed, experts said on Wednesday
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/26/us-israel-flotilla-paintballs-idUSTRE70P6QE20110126

Legal expert: Turkel panel interpreted laws correctly
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=205245

PathWalker comments:
Right now, no one really cares in the regional politics.
The Hammas gained beyond their imagination from the tragedy, and now things are the same as they were before the tragedy. All gains lost. Due to stupid internal politics.
The Israeli and the Egyptians endured the crisis gracefully, and with smart moves.

[MariaDine]

When Blair speaks of «egyptyan popular opinion » he is only refering to a small percentage of that «popular opinion». Egypt has very active fundamentalists, unlike Tunisia.

[PathWalker]

Israeli media is fear mongering about the revolution in Egypt

Israeli government decided today to raise the price of fuel and fresh water by 25%. In an utter disconnection to the global events.
The controlled Israeli media is quoting Islamic extremists from the Muslim brotherhood. "Close the gas pipe line to Israel and start a holy war to liberate the holy temple".
I believe many Muslims believe in the hate message that the Israeli-Arab conflict is religious. Therefore wiping the infidel Jews from the holly land will solve their misery and problems. Their controllers know better. And they cannot afford to solve the Israeli-Arab conflicts.

It seems that prominent Illuminati in the EU and US are showing Mubarak the way out. And the visible outcome of the Egyptian government paralysis, looks to me very restrained and not natural as we so previous crack downs. With extensive brutality.
I assume this revolution is orchestrated by the controllers in Egypt and elsewhere.

In addition I wish to remind you of Edgar Cayce prophecy that the hall of records under the sphinx is to be revealed soon (2012). I assume revealing the hall of records is not possible under the Illuminati control.
I am really looking forward to the revelations to come out.

[Transdimensional Bean Pod]

Not for nothing, it's my understanding that the leading opposition parties in Egypt are decidedly less 'pro-Israel' than the current regime in Egypt. I can't say what amounts to 'fear mongering' in the Israeli press, but it seems from here that their fears are not ENTIRELY unfounded. I assume they are exaggerated for political purposes, but that true of pretty much everything under the sun.

That said, fingers crossed for the Egyptian people...

[Lord Sidious]

The moment one takes sides it fuels the conflict.
Nothing is ever solved at the same energy level that it was created.
Look at the success of Gandhi in India
Nelson Mandela in Africa
Gorbachev in being the main instrument in bringing to an end the cold war.
They all had spiritual power, force not required.
These are major things and were brought about by statesmanship of the highest order.
None were brought about by force but conciliation.
Some one had to let go of the rope in the tug of war.
All news reporting of events in this conflict are by their very nature biased and therefore propaganda.
Propaganda fuels war it does not fuel peace.
We do not need propaganda well intentioned though it may be, it does nothing to promote peace, if it did we would have had peace long ago.

Regards Chris

Mandela was a terrorist that specialised in blowing up bridges and stuff.
Gorbachev is not what you think either.
Perhaps someone with exceptional skills could find the info I am going to speak of, as I could never find it on the net.
Before the ''collapse'' of the soviet union, there were complaints within the politburo and central committee that he was going too far with his ''reforms.''
He made a statement that perestroika and glasnost were for external consumption only and things would not change within the soviet union.
What they did was split their communist party of the soviet union into many smaller parties whilst retaining the party itself as well.
Now, they have more votes within their democracy than they had and would have had, should they not done this.
The british did this too. They split their empire up and gave people ''sovereignty'' so that they could have many, many votes at the un.


absolutly chris, here is a few words i would like to share with you all.......

Wolf Wisdom

An old Cherokee told his grandson
about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.

One is Evil.
It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,
self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority and ego.

The other is Good.
It is Joy, Peace, Love, Hope, Serenity, Humility, Kindness, Benevolence, Empathy, Generosity, Truth, Compassion and Faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute
and then asked his grandfather:

"Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

;)

Thanks for that gem, much appreciated.


This collection of observations was compiled to help Jews and Arabs understand why the Middle East conflict continues to fester. The intention is to promote the realization that these two peoples are not each other’s worst enemy; a third player, the Foreign Elite (FE), is why the Middle East remains unstable.

I agree. Once the paradigm is broken, then both groups, the jews and the palestinians can then know peace, finally and work together to create a new paradigm.
I wish them both the best of luck and many blessings so that they can bring this about.



1. Israel is reflection of the Jewish people.

Possibly a section of them, but not the majority, I hope.


2. The Jewish people are considered the root Chakra of humanity.

Never seen this before. Considered this by whom?


3. Watch the spiritual track the Jews take, there is where the world is going.

This I can agree with, as they wield much power at this point.



PathWalker comments:
There is no genuine readiness for peace in the middle east.
1. As long the foreign PTB are involved there will no peace only talks.
2. A Palestinian prerequisite for peace, is internal conciliation.
3. The interest in preserving and inflaming the conflict are still very much the same. Read bout this here: http://www.joelbainerman.com/articles/me_report.asp

Genuine peace will arise for the following reason.
1. Complete defeat and or annihilation of both sides (annihilation of one side will start internal war).
2. A disruptive event that will completely change the current equilibrium those the political interests.
3. Spiritual awakening. Personal empowerment. Raise in conscious in all sides.

The new Israeli 'Iron dome' could be the disruptive event.
I see awakening in the Israeli culture, this awakening is percolating to the leadership. Last week the Israeli government decided to cut its military budget.
I see awakening in the Palestinians culture in the west bank, reverting to non violent, economic, political protest.

In general I am optimistic, the peace drops of hope are here. The people start to mature. Both parties are exhausted and disillusioned, about their aspirations.

Joy and happiness to all


Again, I find I agree with all you say.
IF either side had genuinely wanted peace, we would have it, taking into account that it takes two to tango, but you are correct, they don't want peace, they want dominance over their foe.
The people may not, but their ''leaders'' do.
Until this changes, the paradigm continues on, like a rolling stone.


i must agree with you...

this doesnt feel good.

but...

i do think balance will be the outcome..

Yes, balance will be achieved, but not whilst the current paradigm that runs on this planet is intact.
Once that is broken and people can think AND feel, then balance will be achieved, but maybe not like we think.
Look at how balance was achieved in the Star Wars universe.



PathWalker Comments
This is probably to be sponsored by the USA military aid (I wonder if the USA will exist till next year).
The billions USA spend on Israeli army is a subsidy to the US weapons industry. Because Israel is allowed to purchase only US products with with US aid funds.
While the USA cut the military aid to the Lebanese army, the Lebanese army is begging for donations. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100810/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebanon_us


This is another example of TPTB control over Israel and USA. Yet I am optimistic things and public trends are changing fast.


You know a lot of people say that jews control America? I say yes, they do and no, they don't.
TPTB does have people who identify as jews amongst their players, but they aren't all jews, as you would probably know.
From what I understand, they don't have anything about them that is particularly jewish other than bloodlines and they care not a jot for the religion or people outside their bloodlines, much like the other players in what we call TPTB.
This would include all racial/cultural groups that TPTB consider important enough to take part.


Nothing could possibly be clearer....

You become what you hate.

Fred

As you put out, so shall ye receive.
The universal law of attraction, as a lot of us know.

PathWalker, I gather you are of the jewish side, not the palestinian?
If that is so, do you get into trouble for your even handed approach to the middle east issue?

[PathWalker]

Lord Sdious
PathWalker, I gather you are of the jewish side, not the palestinian?
If that is so, do you get into trouble for your even handed approach to the middle east issue?

Dear sidi Lord Sdious (arabic word pun intended http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidi)

I am humbled to be judged "even handed approach to the middle east issue?". I am from Jewish origin, my parents were holocaust survivors, I am second generation.
I am not balanced as I am not biased, I am trying to be detached. (I apologize if that sounds patronizing. I am not patronizing.)
My views are from a more spiritual perspective and analysis rather then political view.
I am sensitive to human suffering. While I accept that human suffering is required for growth.
There is great suffering that in not related to political, social condition that is related to personal life. That is personal Karma. And there is the social+national Karma people play out.
My belief is that participating in the national/social Karma is a personal choice a person make (most of us are culturally programmed and the choice is not conscious).

All parties involved require each other for their evolution, as a youth requires its peers to learn its power and limitations.

We grow and learn by struggling against limitation (physical and virtual). That is the essence of the physical duality reality.

[PathWalker]

More Jewish building on Palestinian territory in a despite gesture

13 Jewish homes approved in Sheikh Jarrah
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4025141,00.html

PathWalker Comments:
I do not know if this move is creating more Karma of resolving Karma.
I believe it will be for the involved warring parties to decided by their emotional response.

The beauty of this virtual reality game is that we do not remember the Karma and we play it with our current ideals. If we remembered we would not grow, nor serve others growth.

[Lord Sidious]

Lord Sdious
PathWalker, I gather you are of the jewish side, not the palestinian?
If that is so, do you get into trouble for your even handed approach to the middle east issue?

Dear sidi Lord Sdious (arabic word pun intended http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidi)

I am humbled to be judged "even handed approach to the middle east issue?". I am from Jewish origin, my parents were holocaust survivors, I am second generation.
I am not balanced as I am not biased, I am trying to be detached. (I apologize if that sounds patronizing. I am not patronizing.)
My views are from a more spiritual perspective and analysis rather then political view.
I am sensitive to human suffering. While I accept that human suffering is required for growth.
There is great suffering that in not related to political, social condition that is related to personal life. That is personal Karma. And there is the social+national Karma people play out.
My belief is that participating in the national/social Karma is a personal choice a person make (most of us are culturally programmed and the choice is not conscious).

All parties involved require each other for their evolution, as a youth requires its peers to learn its power and limitations.

We grow and learn by struggling against limitation (physical and virtual). That is the essence of the physical duality reality.

I never took you to be the type to patronise anyone.
If you were, then the stance you take is contrary to that outlook.
I agree that suffering is how people learn and progress, but there is a limit to how that should occur.
I think the main reason things are like they are is because not enough people will say no.
Fairly simple concept, but that is the deal. ''They'' can't run this world against our will, there are way more of us than them.
And I thank you for the arabic pun, I get the joke that isn't a joke.

[PathWalker]

Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory halted

Israel freezes plan to pull out of border village of Ghajar as result of toppling of Lebanese government, tensions over Hariri report, official in Jerusalem says. 'We won't be giving Hezbollah free gifts,' he says
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4024810,00.html

PathWalker comments
The game is playing on. As Hezbollah mature into a statehood. It become more pragmatic and moderates its rhetorics. Losing its effective military power, relying on deterrence.

Israel and Hezbollah need each other in order to define their military power.
TPTB created them both, since the cold war dissipation required the creation of a new regional conflicts. In order to rule by divide and conquer.

[PathWalker]

NATO head to make first official visit to Israel today
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is to meet separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/nato-head-to-make-first-official-visit-to-israel-today-1.341908

PathWalker comments:
Very interesting, first time this is published.
I wonder why, maybe Israel is a regional power broker and Nato is preparing for the power change in the region.
I am quite positive the Nato official are TPTB controlling arm.
I wish I could hear the meeting.

[PathWalker]

Report on massive public unrest among the young Gazzans
As Egypt's unrest continues, in neighbouring Gaza, an online manifesto for change has struck a chord with the young population.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12398354

PathWalker Comments:
This is not surprising as the Hammas regime is as oppressive as the Israeli regime.
Most of the population in Gazzah are young. It is very difficult to control desperate and hoples public.
Israel gave up and pulled out, pseudo democracy is not working for the Palestinian people as well.

The people will eventually revolt as they did when ruled by Israel. I believe it is a Karmic cycle rolling out fast.

[Lord Sidious]

NATO head to make first official visit to Israel today
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is to meet separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/nato-head-to-make-first-official-visit-to-israel-today-1.341908

PathWalker comments:
Very interesting, first time this is published.
I wonder why, maybe Israel is a regional power broker and Nato is preparing for the power change in the region.
I am quite positive the Nato official are TPTB controlling arm.
I wish I could hear the meeting.


I hear that the deal now is that israel wants to be admitted to nato.
That would not be good for anyone except them as they could drag a whole lot of people into the wars there. Sort of like a crusades, but with modern day weapons.

[PathWalker]

I agree that suffering is how people learn and progress, but there is a limit to how that should occur.
Suffering is personal, the limit to the suffering is the unique soul choice (per each soul). Earth, Animals and plants suffer as well.



I think the main reason things are like they are is because not enough people will say no.
Fairly simple concept, but that is the deal. ''They'' can't run this world against our will, there are way more of us than them.

We all get what we deserve, personal, national, regional. It is part of the suffering/teaching. We need this in order to evolve.
The change is coming on a personal level awakening. There is and there will be no gallant leader.



I get the joke that isn't a joke.

I was trying to be courteous and respectful. I am sorry if I went out of bound. I clumsily stepped into cultural zone I do not know.

[PathWalker]

Israeli parliament comity take over civil defense decisions making from the army

Member of Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee say first batteries of missile defense system must be stationed in Gaza vicinity; defense establishment seeks fewer batteries
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4026242,00.html

PathWalker Comments:
This is a dramatic change in the power structure of Israel.
Not long ago I posted about Iron dome defense missiles technology, and that the stupid army general said that Iron Dome was develop to protect the army not the civilians. These really made some political waves in the parliament.

The parliament took back its sovereign role from the Army. While the army is #1 power broker in the 4 PTB governing Israel (like an internal state inside the state), the army was put into its place in the Israeli pseudo democratic game. First time ever as I can recall in Israeli history.

The Iron Dome significance is critical, because it is a disruptive technology that changes the power balance in the region. TPTB would prefer to conserve the status-quo, at the expense of the civilians.

The parliament comity has just recommendation power, but it controls the budgets. Some of its members are retired army generals.

Regardless if the parliament move is correct or incorrect. To me it looks like the people are taking back their sovereignty from TPTB. It is just a small step but remarkable precedent. I believe the power brokers are noticing this very closely and they are loosing their grip. The people are awakening.

[Ba-ba-Ra]

Do we need pain and suffering to grow or is that more programming by TPTB to get us to accept suffering. There has been much suffering in many regions for centuries and I don't see much growth. Let's shift to New Paradigm thinking, shall we. Let's agree to grow through joy, love and unity.

Regarding Israel/Palestine issue. I agree, it's to keep the fighting going for two reasons: 1) to keep us divided as a human race so we don't unite against them 2) to sell weapons to keep TPTB wallets full

Let's join hands, minds and hearts and change the course of our futures. I'm now holding out my hand - will you join?

[PathWalker]

Do we need pain and suffering to grow or is that more programming by TPTB to get us to accept suffering.

We need the suffering and pain in order to grow (health issues, emotional issues and personal relationships as well). Also we have great Karmic imbalances that require balancing. All over the planet.
The only way I know to avoid Karmic balances, is to release the Karma with forgiveness. Very much as thought by Tibetan Buddhism and gnostic Christianity.

[Lord Sidious]

I was trying to be courteous and respectful. I am sorry if I went out of bound. I clumsily stepped into cultural zone I do not know.

Don't panic, you misunderstood me. There is no disrespect, I got the joke, I was saying that the pun revolves around my name, but that you are paying me a compliment, for which I am grateful.

[Ba-ba-Ra]

Do we need pain and suffering to grow or is that more programming by TPTB to get us to accept suffering.

We need the suffering and pain in order to grow (health issues, emotional issues and personal relationships as well). Also we have great Karmic imbalances that require balancing. All over the planet.
The only way I know to avoid Karmic balances, is to release the Karma with forgiveness. Very much as thought by Tibetan Buddhism and gnostic Christianity.

I prefer to believe that we don't have to grow that way. I also believe that whatever your belief system is, will effect how your life unfolds. But I honor your belief system. I do agree that Karma can be instantly released through forgiveness and love.

I do appreciate your posts on what is happening in your world. Thank you for that.

[PathWalker]

Egyptian unrest undermines Gaza tunnel business

GAZA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Unrest in Egypt has slowed the smuggling of some commercial goods into the neighbouring Gaza Strip through border tunnels, a Palestinian smuggler said on Thursday.

Stores in Egypt's northern Sinai peninsula that supply Gaza shops have run out of merchandise such as refrigerators, washing machines and computers due to a disruption of supplies from Cairo and other cities, said Abu Mahmoud, a Gaza-based smuggler.

The tunnel network has helped Palestinians in Gaza contend with an Israeli blockade to which Egypt also has subscribed.

"Unless stability is restored in Egypt, I am afraid the goods will completely stop and the tunnel business will die maybe in a week," he said.

Fuel and construction material, Abu Mahmoud said, continue to reach the Gaza Strip through the underground passages, but in limited amounts and at higher prices since protests erupted last month in Egypt against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule Gaza supermarket owners said there has been no significant increase in the price of food staples, such as flour and sugar, because they do not come in from Egypt.

It was unclear, however, whether the turmoil in Egypt has affected the smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip, territory run by Hamas Islamists who oppose Western-backed efforts to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Abu Mahmoud said Israeli air strikes on tunnels and the high prices charged by Egyptian merchants for some goods such as cement had led many Gaza businesses in recent years to cut back on new orders.

Israel eased the blockade last June in the wake of an international outcry over its deadly raid on a Turkish ship in a Gaza-bound flotilla. Israeli troops killed nine pro-Palestinian Turkish activists in violent confrontations on the vessel.

Only a few of the 250 tunnels that had been operational before the unrest in Egypt last month are still open, Abu Mahmoud said.

"Tunnels are clinically dead," he said. "Workers and tunnel owners come to the area to chat and drink tea and smoke cigarettes."

PathWalker comments:
Whitewashing illegal business is always bad to TPTB and good for the people (for examples drugs, alcohol, pornography).
Once the siege will be released the Hamass will have less controll over the goods transportation. Becuase the Hammass operation mode is working with family gangs that have local control.

One important hidden item in the article above is that there is no food shortage. At least that, next is liberty and goods transportation.
There are more subtle social reasons for the Egyptian siege on Gazza. Therefore I hope a change in Egypt will reflect on Gazza as well.

Hammas is in outright in panic, and the Gazzans are not in the streets due to the weather.

[PathWalker]

Israel removing prominent road block in the Palestinian territories

IDF to remove major West Bank checkpoint to enable Palestinian movement
Dismantling of infamous Hawara checkpoint will allow almost completely unimpeded travel between Nablus and Ramallah.

The Israel Defense Forces yesterday advised the Palestinian Authority that it is removing the Hawara checkpoint, near Nablus. The measure, which is to go into effect next week, will enable the nearly unrestricted movement of Palestinians between the West Bank cities of Nablus and Ramallah.

During the years of the second intifada the Hawara checkpoint came to symbolize Israeli restrictions on the movements of Palestinians; every day, thousands of Nablus residents waited in line for hours in order to be allowed to leave the city. It was at the Hawara checkpoint, too, that an IDF paratrooper - who was sentenced to six months in prison as a result of his actions - was filmed beating a Palestinian man, in the presence of the victim's wife.

But it was also at this checkpoint that quantities of explosives and other weapons were confiscated from would-be smugglers and terrorists. In 2004 a 12-year-old boy wearing an explosives belt was apprehended. Conditions at Hawara were eased in 2009, in the context of the relaxation of other restrictions on West Bank Palestinians. Since then, Palestinian vehicles have sometimes faced only random inspections from Israeli soldiers.

Raya Yaron of Machsom Watch, a group of Israeli women who monitor IDF checkpoints in the West Bank on a daily basis, yesterday welcomed the removal of the Hawara checkpoint as a victory for her organization. Jewish settlers, however, were angered by it. Samaria regional council chairman Gershon Mesika called the measure irresponsible and said Israeli soldiers and civilians on both sides of the Green Line would pay the price in their reduced security.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-to-remove-major-west-bank-checkpoint-to-enable-palestinian-movement-1.342612

PathWalker Comments
These are good news.
I hope this is a sign of change, but I am pessimistic. To me it smells like a political trick, of some sort. The context of which will be revealed in the future (I do not know).

[PathWalker]

Jordanian citizenship for Palestinian leaders stirs controversy, angers opposition
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2011/me_palestinians0130_02_10.asp

AMMAN — Jordan has quietly supplied citizenship to leaders of the Palestinian Authority and the ruling Fatah movement in the West Bank.

Government sources acknowledged that King Abdullah has approved requests by at least a dozen Fatah and PA leaders for Jordanian citizenship. They said the Palestinians sought to ensure that they and their families could enter and leave Jordan at any time.

"The king felt this was a friendly gesture to the Palestinian leadership," a government source said. "It does not have policy implications."

The London-based Al Quds Al Arabi newspaper reported that Fatah dissident Mohammed Dahlan also acquired Jordanian citizenship. The newspaper identified other Palestinians who gained Jordanian citizenship as former PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and PA spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh.

"This is shameful for them because they and their families should be proud of their Palestinian citizenship," Al Quds Al Arabi said in an editorial. "If they don’t believe in their own citizenship and are not proud of it, this means that they are not loyal to the Palestinian Authority and don’t deserve to speak on its behalf."

Abdullah's approval has angered the opposition in the Hashemite kingdom. Deputy parliamentary speaker Atef Tarawneh said the issuing of citizenship to the West Bank leadership belies a decision by the kingdom to revoke the citizenship of thousands of ordinary Palestinians who have been living abroad.

"This is harmful," Tarawneh said.

The Jordanian deputy speaker, who said he spoke to the king, cited some of those Palestinians granted citizenship. He said they included PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his two sons, both of them leading businessmen in the West Bank.

In a related development, an opposition statement has accused Jordan's Queen Rania of facilitating citizenship for her family and 78,000 Palestinians between 2005 and 2010. A statement by 36 Bedouin tribal leaders said the Hashemite kingdom was in danger unless the royal family halted corruption.

"The queen is building centers to boost her power and serve her interests, against the will of Jordanians and Hashemites," the tribal leaders said.


PathWalker comments
A news article absent in the Palestinian and absent in the Israel controlled media.

Very interesting hidden development.
Since 1989 Jordan disengagement with the Palestinians west bank http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_periods9.html. There was no alternative citizenship left for the Palestinians born after 1989. Before 1989 it was possible to gain Jordanian passport (not the in the official channels).
The Palestinians where considered a royal threat on the Jordanian royalty (consisting 60% of the population), providing only political trouble with civil unrest.

Now this disclosure with the leaks of the Peace talks protocols, creates a trend. There is a change in the Palestinian PTB and it is more difficult to hide the corruption.

There is also corruption disclosure in the Israeli army leadership. The nominated IDF chief of staff was disgraced and demoted with lots of mud throwing and corrupted decision influencer revealed.

These are all good signs of awaking and truth.

[Corncrake]

Slightly off topic but for those interested I have just been to see Reading Hebron by Jason Sherman (currently at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey, UK) on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - excellent production and - if you can't get to a live show - a thought provoking and stimulating read.

[noxon medem]

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[jackovesk]

This thread aims at venting frustration on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. That is never ending, perpetuated, divide and conquer skim. To divert public opinion from the real conflicts and issues going on.
Many of us awakening to the frustration that the reality is not what is told to us. Nor the media reports.
Please vent here your frustration and I will try to enlighten you where underline conflicts are. Maybe to get better perspective on the situation.
The current news reports are endless stream of brutality, suffer, lies and propaganda on both ends. Let try to look behind the screen.

Why could'nt this Thread Stopped right here, with the above comment? We all know that the Palestinians are always getting the raw end of the Stick!

Why? Because the PTB including the Israel Govt. want it that way! Nothing Else to Report. I'm sorry!!!

[PathWalker]

This thread aims at venting frustration on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. That is never ending, perpetuated, divide and conquer skim. To divert public opinion from the real conflicts and issues going on.
Many of us awakening to the frustration that the reality is not what is told to us. Nor the media reports.
Please vent here your frustration and I will try to enlighten you where underline conflicts are. Maybe to get better perspective on the situation.
The current news reports are endless stream of brutality, suffer, lies and propaganda on both ends. Let try to look behind the screen.

Why could'nt this Thread Stopped right here, with the above comment? We all know that the Palestinians are always getting the raw end of the Stick!

Why? Because the PTB including the Israel Govt. want it that way! Nothing Else to Report. I'm sorry!!!

Thanks for the comments, it is not as simple.
One needs to learn more about the region and the local PTB.

[PathWalker]

Israeli defense minister Ehud Barrak: Egypt uprising different from Iran's revolution of '79
Defense Minister Ehud Barak told ABC's Christiane Amanpour that he does not believe that "something similar to the Iranian events 30 years ago is happening now. I think that the Egyptians, they have their own way."

Barak also said that election in Egypt should not take place immediately, because if a ballot is held within the next few months, the only movement that has a chance of winning is the Muslim Brotherhood. "That should be avoided in Egypt because that could be a catastrophe for the whole region," he said. (Ynet)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4027988,00.html

PathWalker comments:
I tend to agree with this prime iluminati. I believe him to be among the top NWO leaders of Israel.
The revolution in Egypt was a controlled demolition perpetrated by TPTB. The evidence is the zig zag in the USG response to the events.

As such I assume Egypt is going into martial rule for long time (2012?).
It will take awhile for the people to realize that the name is different the system is the same. All over the globe.

Hope for the liberty of Egypt.

[PathWalker]

Palestinian government disbanded
The Palestinian Authority has taken steps to ensure domestic stability, and President Mahmoud Abbas has announced long overdue elections by next September.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad dissolved his cabinet on Monday, a gesture that appears to be inspired by unrest rocking the Arab world.

President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he had accepted Fayyad's decision. The cabinet met just before to discuss a possible reshuffle, or even resignation, in a bid to stave off the demonstrations that had led to the ouster of leaders in both Tunisia and Egypt.

Fayyad hopes to form a new Cabinet dominated by technocrats who can build up Palestinian institutions, an aide said. He has up to six weeks to name the Cabinet.

The decision is the latest in a series of dramatic moves by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority as mass protests spur calls for democracy throughout the Middle East.

The PA has taken other steps as well to ensure stability in light of the public's thirst for change, and Abbas has announced long overdue elections by next September.

Based on initial plans, presidential elections should have been held in early 2009 and parliamentary ones in 2010. However, the Palestinian president has had difficulty bringing about elections on time due to the Gaza- West Bank split.

Hamas, the Islamist movement currently controlling the Gaza Strip, has long been at odds with Abbas and his secular Palestinian party Fatah. This power struggle came to a head in 2007 when Hamas seized control of the strip.

The Islamist movement had previously beaten Fatah in a 2006 parliamentary poll, one year after Abbas won in separate presidential elections.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinian-pm-dissolves-cabinet-in-to-stave-off-unrest-gripping-arab-world-1.343324

Hamas opposes PA elections (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=359384)

PathWalker comments:
Interesting timing and synch with Egypt.
To me there is strong smell of TPTB from the pentagon pulling the strings all over.
I am pessimistic about these facades, pseudo democratic, and hope they will be exposed.

[PathWalker]

Report: Military says Nablus checkpoints to stay
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=359729

Saying these post #227 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3539-updates-on-the-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict&p=134356&viewfull=1#post134356) was an Israeli propaganda and wishfull thinking.
We have once more being shown who is the real leader.

[PathWalker]

The leaked self demolition papers from the PA

I finally found the access to the Palestinian papers in here: http://www.ajtransparency.com/en/search_english
It seems very much like a controlled demolishing of the top leadership. Keeping intact the corrupted establishment that support it.
Therefore I assume the leaks are not just for the public to know. It is more about the first line PA control structure that collapsed yesterday.

TPTB will provide some means for the people to express, but till there is a massive outbalancing event we will have the same substance with different coating.
I believe only when the public spirit will awaken, TPTB will not be able to controlled us as they do. A change will sweep the politics on all sides and new voices will be heard.

Joy and happiness
PathWalker:fencing:

[kinnypa]

Interesting thread. I have to give credit to the citizens of Isreal - they are their own harshest critics. Thankfully they at least have a voice, something difficult to find in the areas controlled by Hamas or Hezbollah. Some of you readers may learn something new reading the following site:
http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/

Michael has a large blogroll of friends and contacts in the middle east from all sides of the political spectrum.

Additionally, for those of you who think there isn't a solution to the constant warring between Israel and the Arabic countries in the middle east, there are actually two solutions.

You can find them both here (http://www.mega-genius.com/editorial_no_09.htm).

That's as far into a middle east debate as I should go with anybody, as most people have their own minds made up and will do anything possible to defend their positions even if they are proven wrong. I can't force anyone to change their opinion, or accept mine (whatever that may be) so I'll just keep any opinions to myself.

:tape2:

Either way, there will eventually be peace in the middle east. I just hope there's still a middle east remaining in the middle east.

[PathWalker]

Commercial ties are the strongest Peace / War indicators

Israel annual apples delivery to Syria commenced today.
Beginning today, apples grown by Druze villagers in the Golan Heights will be exported to Syria, in accordance with the directives of the Israeli government and at the request of the International Red Cross (IRC). 30 trucks, carrying 12,000 tons of apples will cross into Syria every day over the coming weeks.

The apples will be transported via the "Quneitra" crossing, normally used for the crossing of United Nations personnel. Red Cross representatives in Israel and Damascus will coordinate the export of the produce, in cooperation with and under supervision of UN officials and the IDF. The IDF is responsible for escorting and securing the crossing of trucks alongside the Syrian border.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000623573&fid=1725

Egypt delays gas supply to Israel (20% of Israeli demand)
Busted pipe and court order keep Cairo from supplying Israel with 20% of its natural gas needs
Cairo has postponed once again the renewal of gas supply to Israel, due to an explosion that occurred in the pipe leading from Egypt to Jordan.

Eleven days have passed since supplies were halted due to damages that occurred in the system. Earlier this week Egypt announced that it would renew the flow on Thursday.


But the Israeli partner of EMG, the Egyptian gas company, announced Wednesday morning that the delay would last until an undisclosed date "sometime this month".


In addition, and Egyptian court order against transfer of gas to Israel still stands, though it had been ignored by President Hosni Mubarak's government, which has since been overthrown. Jordan's gas supply has not been renewed either.


Egypt has been Israel's main gas supplier since 2007, accounting for 20% of the total electricity production in the state. Due to an agreement signed in 2005, Egypt has been supplying the gas at much lower rates than those of the global market.


But an Egyptian court ruled recently that the agreement must be reworked to allow for steeper costs. Following the overturning of the Mubarak government and his resignation, opposition forces have called on the new regime to honor the decision.


It remains unclear how the interim military regime will react to the calls, or if the ongoing halt in supply is really due to systematic malfunctions.


The rest of Israel's natural gas supply comes from Yam Tethys, a reservoir expected to last until 2013. If Egypt continues to withhold supplies, however, expectancy will be shortened to 2012. Tamar, another reservoir, may be able to replace it, but is only expected to be operational in 2014.


Thus, 2013 may be a problematic year for gas consumers such as the electric company and privately-owned power plants, which may have to use diesel oil. An additional problem may occur if the Israeli Delek Fuel and American Novel Energy companies become the sole suppliers of natural gas, monopolizing the market.


In order to prevent this from occurring, Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau has decided to spur the foundation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, and the government has already approved its construction in Hadera. If all goes as planned, the plant will be ready in 2012.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4029443,00.html

PathWalker Comments
Eventually all political actions are manifested and reflected in commercial ties.
So one can observe the business connection (follow the money) in order to see where the winds are blowing.

[PathWalker]

Palestinians are awakening as well

Palestinian PM: Hamas can keep Gaza if it joins unity cabinet
In appeal to join forces with West Bank-ruling Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad says Hamas must preserve ceasefire with Israel in order to join unity government.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinian-pm-hamas-can-keep-gaza-if-it-joins-unity-cabinet-1.344612

Palestinians plan 'day of rage' after US vetoes resolution on Israeli settlements
US decision to use UN security council veto sparks furious reaction in West Bank and Gaza.
Palestinians are planning a "day of rage" on Friday in response to the US wielding its veto against a UN security council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

The US decision to use its veto has sparked a furious reaction in the West Bank and Gaza.

Anti-US rallies took place in the West Bank towns of Bethlehem, Tulkarem and Jenin this weekend after the 14-1 vote on the resolution, in which the US stood alone against the rest of the security council, including Britain, Germany and France. It voted in contradiction of its own policy.

In Gaza, Hamas described the US position as outrageous and said Washington was "completely biased" towards Israel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/palestinians-day-rage-us-veto

Erekat: PA should examine peace negotiations, land transfer
Senior Palestinian Authority official Saeb Erekat has called for a renewed examination of the Palestinian Authority and also of the transfer of lands to Israelis, Israel Radio reported Sunday.

Erekat commented that the Palestinian Authority has become inefficient in light of ongoing occupation by Israel of the West Bank, and that the Palestinian leadership should examine all pending issues, including negotiations, with Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=208996

PathWalker comments:
Note that the tone is changing, and I recognize signs of introspection and accountability withing the Palestinian leadership (or I am fooled by the media/propaganda).
I assume violence and death is unavoidable, for those who believe in martyrdom and death. Yet there are other who understand TPTB control structure and the bigger game. Yet it is not in the controlled media.
I noticed some PA members from Palestine as well. I take that as signs of awakening sweeping the region across the geographical disputes.

I am more optimistic then ever for the long run, I am less for the short run. The voices of extremist are growing, in proportion to the voices of the awakening people.

[PathWalker]

More fear mongering about the unsustainable geopolitics of the region
What does the Arab world do when its water runs out?

Water usage in north Africa and the Middle East is unsustainable and shortages are likely to lead to further instability – unless governments take action to solve the impending crisis.
Poverty, repression, decades of injustice and mass unemployment have all been cited as causes of the political convulsions in the Middle East and north Africa these last weeks. But a less recognised reason for the turmoil in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and now Iran has been rising food prices, directly linked to a growing regional water crisis.

The diverse states that make up the Arab world, stretching from the Atlantic coast to Iraq, have some of the world's greatest oil reserves, but this disguises the fact that they mostly occupy hyper-arid places. Rivers are few, water demand is increasing as populations grow, underground reserves are shrinking and nearly all depend on imported staple foods that are now trading at record prices.

For a region that expects populations to double to more than 600 million within 40 years, and climate change to raise temperatures, these structural problems are political dynamite and already destabilising countries, say the World Bank, the UN and many independent studies...
Read more here.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/20/arab-nations-water-running-out
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2011/2/15/1297776647831/Camel-drinking-Jordan-Pet-007.jpg

PathWalker comments:
Worth reading article about the unsustainable region politics. That is a reflection to the global politics. (note that the bottle in the camel mouth is probably imported)
Actually all the power structure are unsustainable due to the awakening of the masses.
So, technology will not save us nor oppression. Humility, integrity and compassion are the magic.

[Rocky_Shorz]

there already is an answer...

Vertical farming and desalinization.


The world's largest desalination plant is the Jebel Ali Desalination Plant (Phase 2) in the United Arab Emirates. It is a dual-purpose facility that uses multi-stage flash distillation and is capable of producing 300 million cubic metres of water per year. By comparison the largest desalination plant in the United States is located in Tampa Bay, Florida and operated by Tampa Bay Water, which began desalinating 34.7 million cubic meters of water per year in December 2007.[4] The Tampa Bay plant runs at around 12% the output of the Jebel Ali Desalination Plants. A January 17, 2008, article in the Wall Street Journal states, "World-wide, 13,080 desalination plants produce more than 12 billion gallons of water a day, according to the International Desalination Association."

complete story (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination)

too bad the ones with money don't care and those without can't build what is needed...

[PathWalker]

Israel tests Arrow 2 anti-missile system
During experiment, interceptor missile successfully destroyed target missile. 'Test contributes to protection against Iranian threat,' defense establishment official says
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4032297,00.html

PathWalker comments:
Again sabre rattling. Another propaganda spin.
But I am positive. As long as TPTB invest in defensive weapons, I am supporting.
But we do not know the truth. If it will ever work? Will it ever be deployed... ETC

Unlike Iron Dome technology, this not a disruptive technology that change the balance.
Keep trying though.

[Rocky_Shorz]

with Mubarak out of the way, it only leaves Jordan for a friendly neighbor...

forget the saber rattling, every country that voted against attacking Israel is falling...

story link (http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/02/22/israel_iranian_naval_vessels_major_provocation/)

http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/AP_Photo/2011/02/22/1298406099_8349/539w.jpg


JERUSALEM—Two Iranian warships sailed from the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on Tuesday, the first such trip in at least three decades, eliciting Israeli charges that Tehran is seeking to dominate the Middle East.

The vessels headed toward Syria, but were expected to remain in international waters as they passed the Israeli coast.

The voyage took the frigate Alvand and the supply Kharq close to NATO's southern flank and could further destabilize the Middle East, a region already reeling from an unprecedented wave of anti-government rebellions.

In Tehran, the deputy commander of the Iranian navy said that Iran has "suprised the Zionist regime" with the journey to the Mediterranean.

"The world arrogance (U.S.) should know that the army of the Islamic Republic is fully prepared to defend the holy ideals of the Islamic Republic and this readiness grows day by day," Brigadier-General Abdolrahim Mousavi told the official Iranian news agency IRNA.

In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley refused to say whether the transit in and of itself, or the Egyptian decision to allow it, were provocations.

"We will be watching carefully to see where these ships go and the implications of that," he said.

Egypt is the gatekeeper of the strategic canal which links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

Egypt's new military rulers, who took power from ousted President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, appeared to have no choice but to allow the passage. An international convention regulating shipping says the canal must be open "to every vessel of commerce or of war."

Iranian warships have not passed through the Suez Canal since 1979.

[jasontorque]

There's an old expression which says "Follow the money". Depending on your interpretation of 'money', maritime-law and currency, isn't money actually a form of water? If you are able to accept this proviso, and understand the geography of the region then perhaps we should be saying "Follow the water"?

Perhaps you say that one could live without religion, but you can't live without water.

Rather more simple when you look at it like that, don't you think?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11101797

[PathWalker]

Jewish settler against law enforcement, something new
Jerusalem court indicts 17 pro-settlement protesters
A Jerusalem court indicted on Tuesday seventeen pro-settlement protesters who had demonstrated against the tearing down of a West Bank outpost the previous day, seven of whom are minors.

The protesters were charged with disturbing the peace, attacking police and damaging police vehicles.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/jerusalem-court-indicts-17-pro-settlement-protesters-1.346488

Israel vows to raze all illegal outposts built on private Palestinian land
The decision, which will be submitted to High Court of Justice in response to 15 petitions demanding the outposts' demolition, will apply to at least three outposts inhabited by about 100 families.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-vows-to-raze-all-illegal-outposts-built-on-private-palestinian-land-1.346329

Settlers plan 'Day of Rage' over outpost clash
Angry settlers told AFP on Tuesday they were planning a 'Day of Rage' later this week over police action during the demolition of a caravan in a settlement outpost.

Plans were taking shape a day after police and settlers clashed during an early-morning operation to remove a caravan, a tent and the framework for a second structure in the northern outpost of Havat Gilad, some five kilometres (three miles) southwest of Nablus.

It was not immediately clear what form the protest would take, but media reports suggested it would involve sit-down protests at major junctions across the country, as well as attempts to block Palestinian traffic in the West Bank.

The settlers routinely react when police and soldiers demolish structures in settlements or wildcat settlement outposts -- those which have been set up without government approval -- but what angered them on Monday was police use of stun grenades and paint ball guns.

Stun grenades are normally reserved for Palestinian demonstrations, while recalcitrant settlers tend to be handled with tear gas and truncheons.

Five protesters were injured during the Havat Gilad operation, settler sources said on Monday, prompting a furious reaction which saw hundreds of demonstrators blocking main roads in Jerusalem with burning tyres.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gLi5VQVQ9U-ZPaOE5IZ8Zt41YsrA?docId=CNG.4633d09e43b19b31d6b5fb4eb63f2bd4.4e1

PathWalker comments
This is new, in previous cases when authorities tried to enforce law on the Jewish settlers. They authorities always lost.
It was quite clear to all in the state that the Jewish settlers are somehow magically above the law.
This time, it was the police not the army and well prepared. So there is a different approach.
I wonder what made the change.

[Rocky_Shorz]

as I said the saber rattling is over, I see a window of less than 6 months for Israel to work out final details for the peace settlement before anger rises too high to turn back the tide...

Iran wants them removed from Islamic lands and they are quietly taking over every country standing in the way...

[Rocky_Shorz]

the police turning on settlers goes along with this release today...


Israel might seek interim Palestinian peace deal
(Reuters)

1 March 2011
JERUSALEM - Israel is considering pursuing an interim peace agreement with the Palestinians, a senior official said on Tuesday, signalling the government might abandon efforts to secure a single, comprehensive accord.

The official, who declined to be named, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might seek a “phased path” towards a permanent deal rather than a treasty that resolved all the core issues as envisaged by the United States and European allies.

“Obviously Israel would prefer (negotiations on) a final-status agreement, but the consistent Palestinian refusal makes that difficult,” the official said...

full story (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=&section=middleeast&xfile=data/middleeast/2011/March/middleeast_March22.xml)

[PathWalker]

Israeli media reporting that Aljazera is reporting Israeli involvement in the Libyan civil war
Al Jazeera: "Gaddafi has promised licenses champion oil reserve for mercenary army"
Arabian Nights? Al Jazeera: "Gaddafi has promised licenses champion oil reserve for mercenary army"

Arab propaganda works: Arabic television network website is reporting that Israel set Gaddafi 50 thousand mercenaries from Africa in return for $ 5 billion network's bull**** ■ inciting against Israel for years? Probably, but that the talk among the millions of information consumers in the Arab world.

Network Al Jazeera continues to provide reports of reliability, well, is questionable, but attempts to teach something about the world around one common opponent, the face of governmental earthquake in Arab countries.

. Al Jazeera released yesterday that a senior official in the Israeli media disclosed that information to her and Israeli security officials are behind sending groups of African mercenaries who had infiltrated and joined Libya's defensive forces of Muammar Gaddafi . Al - Jazeera also claims that its source is a journalist and one of the most widely read newspapers in Israel.

The journalist, according to Al Jazeera, told her that was exposed to information security that Israel is concerned that the fall of the Gaddafi regime could open the door to "Islamic bill" in Libya. The Israeli source also reported, apparently, Al-Sharq Al Jazeera on another trilateral meeting on 18 February between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman , which was decided to recruit mercenaries from Africa to fight alongside al-Gaddafi.

Under the heading "Sources: Israel behind the mercenaries to Gaddafi," This news has sent the mail Article ranking second in Arabic Web site called the "Al - Jazeera.


read more the translated report...
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=iw&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globes.co.il%2Fnews%2Farticle.aspx%3Fdid%3D1000627135

PathWalker comments:
Absolutely there is a propaganda war in the Arab media. The hate to Israel and the Jews is a useful incitement tool. It happens all the time.
It is also proved by Jordan Maxwell few time that Israel/Zionism/Jews are used to covert Vatican operations. So I do believe there are under currents by TPTB, including the Vatican.

The odd point here is the double report on the Israeli media. As if preparing the Israeli population for something (god forbid - fear mongering). We hear this kind of reports in the radio news and the newspapers. Another effort to play on the extinction fears.
I must admit this is very effective in uniting the individualized society under one goal. Israeli scale "blue beam" project.

Do not fall to the controlled media. Israeli, Arab, US media are all under the same controllers.
The special

[PathWalker]

More war mongering for the summer.
http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-benny-gantz-calm-before-storm-2011-3
The Israeli Defense Force is expected to clash with Palestinians in the West Bank around September this year, before the start of UN discussions on the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Terrified by civil unrest in the region and losing Western support, Israel is unclear on what to do next. Caught in the middle is IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-benny-gantz-calm-before-storm-2011-3#ixzz1GH4iOPEK
PathWalker comment:
This is a yearly reptilian ritual. We hear each winter about the expected summer war.
All parties are absolutely exhausted.
Israel has lessen its spatial control on the ground, but gained its political control on the whole area.
Yet the Israeli army is not as well staffed as before to combat 3rd uprising.

Indeed the area is heating up. The Palestinians have more to lose then gain. It is a zero sum equation to all parties. None is willing to make any concession.

[PathWalker]

Israel intercepts armed Gaza-bound ship
http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2011/03/15/17625991.html
JERUSALEM - Israeli naval commandos on Tuesday seized a cargo ship in the Mediterranean carrying what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said were Iranian-supplied weapons intended for Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

A military spokeswoman said Israeli forces met no resistance when they intercepted the German-owned "Victoria" some 200 miles (320 km) from Israel and were taking the vessel to the Israeli port of Ashdod.

Israel maintains a land and naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, a coastal enclave controlled by Hamas, an Islamist movement opposed to peace with the Jewish state.

The military said the vessel had set off from the Syrian port of Latakia and stopped in Mersin, Turkey, before heading towards Alexandria in Egypt. Turkey has no involvement in the arms shipment, the military said.

Palestinians use a network of tunnels to smuggle weapons and other goods from Egypt into the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu said he personally approved the operation, which he told reporters was carried out “on the high seas in accordance with international law”.

“Many weapons were found on board, intended for terrorist forces in the heart of Gaza,” Netanyahu said. “Iran is the source of the weaponry.”

PathWalker comments:
I assume this incident was published only because it is international and cannot be suppressed.

The important aspect is exposure of the intelligence penetration into Iranian and Hammass routes.
Delivering a message to the decision makers that they are exposed.
Beside of that the normal fear mongering to the Israeli people, with operation success boasting.