More than 50,000 people have signed a
letter calling on United States President Barack Obama to
free Jonathan Pollard. An ongoing campaign to free Pollard
has gone into high gear in light of Obama's plan to visit
Israel in March.
Jonathan Pollard was given a sentence
of life in prison for passing classified defense-related
information to Israel. His supporters say his sentence is
unusually harsh for the crime of revealing classified
information to a friendly state.
The petition states, "Jonathan
Pollard has now served 28 years of a life sentence in
American prisons. A few short weeks from now, he will mark
his 10,000th day in jail. Both he and Israel have repeatedly
expressed remorse. We have learned our lesson and have
been living with the painful consequences for nearly 3
decades." (Jonathan Polard's crime was that he had
provided Israel with information about enemies of the Jewish
state, which the United States agreed to supply but withheld
from Israel. During his trial judge even dismissed a
plea-bargain and gave him a harsh life sentence. Even Soviet
spies were not held in the US prison for so long!)
Food for Thought
by
Steven Shamrak
The old religious hate-conflict
between Shiites and Sunnis has been invigorated again. The
major players, Iran
and
Saudi
Arabia , have been using their Islamic
proxies, like Hezbollah and Al Qaeda , to
wage it. Western democracies should not be involved in
so-called Arab Spring and civil war in
Syria . Regardless of which side wins,
we will be blamed, and already are, for the results of their
idiotic blood-thirsty nature and intolerance!
Iran Accelerates Nuclear Bomb
program
The US slammed as
"provocative" the installment of 180 advanced
centrifuge at Iran's main uranium enrichment site at Natanz.
The UN nuclear atomic agency in its latest report confirmed
that the new IR-2m centrifuges can enrich three to five
times faster than the outdated machines in use at Natanz
until now. The report's findings "prove that Iran
continues to advance quickly to the red line" which
Israel considers intolerable.
Israeli taxpayers laid out tens of
thousands of shekels to transport to hospital by helicopter
a hurt Arab rioter who attacked IDF soldiers. The
number of riots by PA Arabs had climbed significantly, as
had the number of injured Arab rioters. Consequently, the
number of Arab rioters Israel is treating in its hospitals
had also grown considerably. (This hunanitarian act of Israel the international
press does not report!)
Hezbollah's
deputy chief Naim Qassem was killed last Tuesday when Syrian
rebels bombed a convoy consisting of high-ranking Syrian
government officers near the Lebanon border. Qassem
had served as the deputy to Hezbollah leader Hassan
Nasrallah.
Storm in a Cup of Tea - Australia was
Informed
Australia's Fairfax Media quoted a
"well-placed source familiar with the case" as
saying Israeli intelligence had told Australian officials
about the 2010 arrest of Zygier, a dual Australian-Israeli
citizen dubbed Prisoner X. (It
does not matter if he was a traitor, double agent or working
for ASIS. His arrest was kept secret, most likely, to save
Australia from embarrassment - that is probably why the
Australian government maintained a 'plausible deniability'
status in this case!)
An Austrian man, Dominik Neubauer,
kidnapped in Yemen late last year with a Finnish couple said
in a video posted on the Internet that his captors would
kill him in a week if their demands were not met. (And this is not front-page
news!)
Israel Successfully Tested Arrow III
Interceptor
A successfully test of the
next-generation of the Arrow (Hetz) ballistic missile
interceptor represented a powerful upgrade of Israel's
multi-tier missile defense system.
The system is designed to defend against medium-range
missiles that could be fired from countries such as
Iran.
The Pentagon's missile
defense agency and the US company Boeing are partners in
Arrow project. (This is another
example how both the US and Israel benefit from mutual
co-operation.)
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip
(26
February 2013)
has landed in southern Israel - the first such attack since
shortly after a ceasefire ended eight days of clashes in
November, Israeli police say. Meanwhile, a s enior
Hamas leader, Salah al-Bardawil, urged the kidnapping of
Israeli soldiers saying that, "a new Palestinian
Intifada is about to break out in support of
prisoners." Fahd El-Lil (Night's Leopard), Fatah-linked group, issued a
statement claiming responsibility for
the attack . (Hamas and
Fatah are unwilling to change their hateful nature. it is
certain that anti-Semitic idiots, especially in the UN, will
find justification for this attack and will blame
Israel for any retaliation that
follow!)
PA:
"Too Soon" for Soccer Match with
Israel
The head of the PA's soccer
federation said that it is "too soon" for a match
against Israel, as suggested by Barcelona club president
Sandro Rosell. Several months ago Hamas reacted furiously
after the Barcelona soccer team invited Gilad Shalit to
attend a Barcelona-Real Madrid derby. (Not long ago the world was 'infuriated' when fans
of the Zionist soccer club, Maccabee, protested against
inviting an Arab player. Anti-Semites never object to
anti-Israel discrimination! How many Jewish players are
playing in Arab sport clubs?)
A new US
Secretary of State, John Kerry, insisted there is still a
"diplomatic path" to be forged with Iran on its
disputed nuclear program, as world powers and Tehran met for
a new round of talks. (As
usual, as normal people expected, the talks produced no
result but another agreement to meet in two months - see
below.)
A
Cairo court has ruled the
government must destroy all tunnels between
Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
Egypt 's ruling Muslim Brotherhood
has close ties with the Hamas movement that runs
Gaza, but many Egyptians fear the
enclave is a security risk for
Egypt
.
President Mohammed Morsi's national security adviser, Essam
Haddad, has said Egypt will not tolerate the
two-way flow of smuggled arms through the tunnels that is
destabilizing its Sinai Peninsula. An estimated 30 percent of
goods that reach Gaza 's 1.7m Palestinians come
through the tunnels, circumventing a blockade imposed by
Israel and
Egypt for more than seven years.
(This ruling shows that Muslim
countries can fight terrorism effectively when they want!
But, could it be just about tunnel tax which is collected by
Hamas at the moment? And no one complains about the Egyptian
blockade, just the Israeli
one.)
System
does Work when Good Laws are
Enforced
A combination of
the desire to return home and the implementation of the
amendment to the 1954 "infiltrators law" has lead
several hundred asylum-seekers, possibly as many as a 1,000,
to leave Israel for Sudan in the past six or seven months.
(Most of the illegal
infiltrators into Israel are economic migrants - otherwise
they would stay in refugee camps in Africa and would not
take the dangerous and expensive journey through
Sinai.)
Over the years, many of Arab
prisoners have obtained academic degrees, including a
doctorate awarded to prominent Fatah leader Marwan
Al-Barghouti. The Education Committee states that it has
managed to implement the studies project in all Israeli
prisons, including an expansion of available programs and
degrees. According to data recently published by the
Education Committee, 361 high school diplomas approved by
the Gaza Education Ministry were granted to prisoners in the
last two years. Some 25% Of Palestinian Prisoners Receive
High School And College Education In Israeli Prisons. (Some Palestinians deliberately commit
minor offences in order to receive proper education in
Israeli prisons!)
World
powers and Iran have ended their two-day
meeting on the country's nuclear program in the Kazakh city
of Almaty without breakthrough,
according to a Western official.
Saeed Jalili,
Iran 's chief nuclear negotiator
said that all sides agreed to meet in the same city on April
5-6 after first gathering their nuclear experts for
consultations in Istanbul,
Turkey, in
March.
Quote(s) of the Week:
"Anything that is theoretically possible will be
achieved in practice, no matter what the technical
difficulties, if it is desired greatly
enough." -
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of Future" - This viewpoint is applicable to any
aspect of life. The creation and survival of the Jewish
state is one example. Immigration of Jews from the
Soviet
Union , in spite of the fact that it contradicted the
main principle of Communism, equality of the nations, is
another one.
by Aaron Klein (27 Feb,
21013)
President Obama will visit
Israel in March.
Obama's planned visit to
Israel already has
secured Israeli and Palestinian pledges to restart so-called
land-for-peace talks, according to informed Palestinian and
Israeli officials. As usual, the PA is getting ready for the
negotiations by re-activating its terror
apparatus!
The high committee of Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party made a quiet
decision yesterday to stop disarming members of the Al Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades terrorist group. The decision to allow the
Brigades, Fatah's so-called military wing, to bear arms is
in violation of a 2007 amnesty agreement signed with Israel
that requires Brigades members to completely
disarm.
The security source further divulged a
Fatah decision to allow the Brigades and other gunmen to
carry out what is being described as "low-grade"
attacks, meaning stoning throwing and Molotov cocktail
attacks aimed at Israeli forces in the
West Bank .
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in recent
days has held two armed marches, one in the Balata camp in
Nablus and another in
the Askar camp on the outskirts of
Nablus in the northern
West Bank. The marches, the first of their
kind since 2007, also violate the terms of the amnesty
agreement signed with
Israel.
Perhaps as part of the strategy of
violence as a pressure tactic, the PA this week released
from its prisons at least 12 members of the Hamas and
Islamic Jihad terrorist groups who were captured in recent
months. The move comes as the executive committee of the PLO
earlier this month formally endorsed the use of what it
called "popular resistance" - a phrase tacitly
green lighting the use of demonstrations, stone throwing and
Molotov cocktails.
PS: Mahmoud Abbas said a week ago that
he and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal have reached agreement on
the need for a 'peaceful' intifada. (Destruction of
Israel is the only subject Hamas and Fatah are agreed
on!)
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