United States were warned about the Nakba

By Dallas Darling

Even alleged terrorists have authentic complaints, obvious truths that cannot be denied with regard to State-sponsored terrorism. This old security was again revealed when isrælske soldiers shot and massacred more than 20 Palestinian demonstrators and injured several hundred more. Their crime was commemorating the Nakba, an event when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were killed or militarily forced to flee from their homes, while Israel was a new State. the Palestinian demonstrators, killed along with steel barricades in Lebanon and occupied the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip and West Bank, not only requires the attention of the Palestinian Nakba, also known as day disaster and a tragic memories, as Israel has outlawed and tried to remove, but they also demonstrated on behalf of Palestinian refugees and their right to return to their home countries.

In 1948, when the Truman administration and much of the United States the creation of Israel even before the United Nations did and immediate aid and military support recognised, was Palestinian survivors of the Deir Yassin spread naked, were loaded on open trucks and paraded through Jerusalem where they were spat on, beaten and stoned. Zionists lo and stroked by women was cut over their chest. A passing Palestinian mother pulled quickly his young child away from the horror-filled scene, but not before he shouted, "Momma's House, looking at blood." His name was Sirhan Sirhan.(1) following the murder of Robert f. Kennedy in 1968 and at his trial, Sirhan delivered a grievance, a warning to the United States on its unwavering support for Israel at the expense of Palestinian refugees.

"Well, sir, when you move-when you move a whole country," said Sirhan, "whole body people from their own home, from their own country, from their companies, sir, outside their country, and to introduce a foreign people, sir, in Palestine-Jews and Zionists-it is quite forkertsirand it is unfair and the Palestinian Arabs did a thing, sir, to justify the way they were treated by the West. "He explained how forced relocations and massacres deeply affected him asks," where is the Justice involved, sir? Where is the love, sir, are fighting for the underdog? Israel is not the underdog in the Middle East, sir. It is these refugees who are underdogs. And because they have no way of fighting back, sir, sir, Jews, Zionists, just keep marketing plan away on them. than roasted hell out of me. "(2)

In its final storage media and just before his murder, warned Osama bin Laden, the United States and the Americans that they would not live in safety until the Palestinians fine in security. A sickly and pale-looking bin Laden declared, "America will not be able to dream of security until we live in safety in Palestine. It is unfair that you live in peace while our brother in Gaza live in insecurity. " Just as Sirhan thought bin Laden back to 1982 when he saw the United States and its warships bombing, killing and wounding many Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, while others fled in horror. In "The Towers in Lebanon," bin Laden wrote: "I still remember the appalling scenes: blood, torn limbs, women and children were massacred. Everywhere, houses destroyed and tower blocks hide, crush their bebøre, while bombs spread mercilessly on our homes. "(3)

And just as Sirhan, bin Laden wondered how "the entire world" could hear and see what had happened but still do nothing. In another letter, this one entitled "to The Americans," explains bin Laden why he fights United States and its military and he wants. The very first reason he expresses is: "because you attacked us and continue to attack us. You attacked us in Palestine. "(4) according to bin Laden, "Palestine, which have wrecked military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with their help and their support for the Jews, who have occupied for more than 50 years; years is overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killings, displacement, destruction and devastation …The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally avenged. "(5)

United States and Americans must one day realize that Arab Palestinians not weep alone; their women are widowed alone; their sons are orphans alone; and their peaceful demonstrators slaughtered by isrælske soldiers do not die alone.

(Note: while abhorring violence perpetrated by both Sirhan and bin Laden, the Palestinians should be commended for their non-violent Intifada uprisings.)

-Dallas Darling is the author of the policy 501: an A-Z readings on conscientious political trøde and action, some Nations against God: 52 weekly reflections on modern imperialism, militarism and consumerism in context John apocalyptic Vision and other Side of Christianity: Reflections on faith, politics, spirituality, history and peace. He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com. You can read more in Dallas ' writings by www.beverlydarling.com. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.

Notes:

(1) Smith, Michael k. portraits of Empire: Unmasking hake share illusions from the "American century" to the "war on Terror." Monroe, Maine: Common courage press: 2003., p. 32.
(2) Ibid., p. 137.
(3) Lawrence, Bruce, messages to the world: the Statements of Osama Bin Laden. New York, New York: Verso publishers., p. 239.
(4) Ibid., p. 240.

 

The trial in the United States, Iran claims to have helped plan the September 11 attacks (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters)-11. victims of the September 2001 attacks on the written documents, to the families of the Federal Court this week, in response to a request for subsequent verification, Iran had role in terrorist attacks, even if the u.s. Government, the decision of the Executive Committee of inquiry in 2004.

New documents filed in the current proceedings in the United States District Court, Manhattan, to lay the blame for the Iran and Hezbollah, helping plot the attacks on the al Qaida terrorist ties to Iran, the Lebanese militant group.

"Iran and the upper was in advance of the information on the 9/11 attacks in the planning," said the documents that accuse Iran of direct aid ", and the United States of America and the history of the most deadly act of sponsorship of terrorism."

From a strictly legal point for families, Thomas Mellon Jr., told Reuters on Friday that a new application based on his firm's former Chief of staff of the United States and Iran has drawn up the intelligence officials.

Iran's involvement in the issue examined in the light of the existing 9/11 Commission in its decision to initiate the formal investigation after the terrorist attacks in the United States Government. It was released in 2004, the report found "strong evidence" of Iranian helped some of the 9/11 hijackers and out of Afghanistan to the terrorist attacks. It was found that the "evidence of Iran or Hezbollah was aware of what later became the 9/11 attacks."

Mellon said, the latest legal move is intended to prove that Iran helped the movement, because it was aware of and supported their hijackers.

Mellon said some of his company's testimony gathered showed that Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyah, a senior officer met al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden in 1993 between Iran and al Qaida terrorist attacks served to draw, and traveled to Saudi Arabia to help coordinate the al Qaida terrorist attacks.

MUGHNIYAH, who was killed in 2008, it was for a long time also the 1983 bombing attacks that killed more than 200 Us Marines, Us armed forces from Lebanon terror watch list.

Ellen Saracini, United Airlines, the pilots were flying the plane, the husband, who was abducted and the World Trade Center crashed, said the terrorist attacks on the participation of the Iranian allegations are not new. They were filed in court this week because the have not made themselves known, the United States Government had fully examined by them.

"It is a little worrying that our Government has taken more responsibility for locating, which has been involved in the terrorist attacks," he said.

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United States and Bahrain: how to talk just hard enough with an ally (Time.com)

Tuesday-met just seven days after his country lifted 13 weeks of emergency-Bahrain's Crown Prince, Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, separately with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington. White House statement said President supported al-Khalifa "ongoing efforts to initiate a national dialogue" and that "Bahrain stability depends on the universal rights of the people of Bahrain, including the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly."

Come after Obama lashed in Bahrain violent punishment on peaceful demonstrators in a speech on May 19, his support was a public change of course, that appear to repair ties with a key Middle East ally. It also appeared to signal that America will stop his public criticism of Bahrain Government itself as it invites the Sunni-dominated regime to initiate talks with opposition leaders. (See photos of the demonstrators sent from Pearl Square).

Meetings are "a shift in tone and indicate a softening of the U.S. approach to Bahrain," said Shadi Hamid, Research Director of the Brookings Doha Center, "and show that the United States is not only seriously putting real constant pressure on the regime right now. The impact of Tuesday's visit has been to put a band aid on the tensions between the two countries and is, Hamid says, "green light" to the Bahrain Government to go about his business without criticism or interference by the United States. Business includes both the reopening of the country to international trade, fear of unrest in the spring, and the closing stages of a months long violent punishment on the demonstrators, who this week as security forces repeatedly attack Shi'a enclaves with rubber bullets and tear gas.

Since March 13 when Saudi tanks rolled in Manama and security forces began arresting any connection with anti-Government movements-including journalists and health workers-the US Government has faced a conundrum. How snub Obama an ally, which houses the Navy's fifth fleet in a geopolitical arena, which includes its regional nemesis, Iran? (See photos of penalty in Bahrain).

"Bahrain has always been ground zero America's inability to reconcile interests and ideals in Arab spring," said Hamid. "It is difficult for Management to handle and they really have not found a way yet. Obama has also come under fire from international rights groups and Bahrain's Shi'as, which has repeatedly said his and Clinton's sporadic criticism was just lip service and that both should have taken a public stance against the tougher regime's violent tactics.

The White House said Tuesday that al Khalifa urged Obama to follow up on "the Government's obligation to ensure that those responsible for violations of human rights will be held responsible," a marked shift in tone from May 19, when he lambasted the regime's destruction of more than 30 Shi'a mosques.

"We have called on the Obama administration to highlight strongly and publicly and in no uncertain terms about the violations of human rights that occurred," says His Hogrefe, Chief policy officer at Physicians for human rights, which this week refers to the conviction of 48 doctors and nurses if ministering to wounded demonstrators led to their prosecution for participating in the protests. "We hope that there would have been a more public discourse-it is important for the region to see that we measure human rights with the same standards everywhere, that we are not just condemning Syria, Libya constantly but let our friends from easy." (See if Obama speech help Bahrain reformists).

The u.s. Government the goal this week was to stress the need for immediate talks on the reform between the Bahrain Government and opposition officials. Although the Crown Prince said he would be open to meeting with Shi'a leaders, repeating Obama, in his speech may activists frustration that it was impossible to open negotiations, when most of the opposition leadership was in jail. "What is driving this visit to D.C., is that [Obama and Clinton] tries to tell Shi'a actually negotiate. And tell the Royal family to negotiate, "said Thomas Ferguson, senior researcher at the Roosevelt Institute. "The phrase was blunt." Obama solidarity is crucial for the relatively moderate Crown Prince, whose influence in Bahrain has fallen as he fights the growing number of harsh extremists within its own Government.

Is U.s. relationship not only with Bahrain but Saudi Arabia, if soldiers allied with the Bahrain security officers in quelling ønations revolution in March on the games moving forward. Many see the conflict in Bahrain as a proxy war between the Saudis and Iran, with the latter seeks to seize on any perceived weakness in the relationship between oil-rich Saudi and America. (See how Bahrain sits between Saudi Arabia and Iran).

"The United States has a fundamental interest in keeping its relations with the Saudis on an angle and Bahrain is its biggest problem," said Joost Hiltermann, Middle East, Deputy Director of the International Crisis Group. Obama "that Iran will take advantage of instability in the region. The current situation of the Iranian interests, feeding because the more you suppress the Shi'a, the more they radicalize and seek external sponsors. So it is important for the United States to put pressure on the regime to open up political space and to permit the participation of all its people. " This week, "they insist on the need for dialogue without preconditions as an inclusive exercise that leads to genuine political reform."

"Rights groups can say it is not doing enough to publicly criticise its close ally" Hiltermann continues. "But the Government believes that private conversations are more useful in this situation than public scorn." Before Clinton meeting Tuesday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner alluded to the possibility of criticism-and repeated the Government's months-long position on its public treatment of its island ally. "We will, of course, increase our concerns," he told journalists. "Bahrain is a friend and partner, but we can be honest with you, as well as". Although opposition leaders has long shake stronger public rebukes from the Americans, most now side with Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the official opposition party al Wefaq, which said last month that the Group was ready for negotiations. After months of violence, it is likely the country's Shi'a majority not fault U.S. leaders to keep their discussions with the largely private-as long as the promises of the conversations are kept, Crown Prince and tear gas to stop counting on Manama.

 

What should do the United States on the Middle East?

Is it possible America is about to reap what it has sown in the Middle East? There is no sense discussing or non-Iraq war was a stupid war started by a President with an axe to grind. It is the past, this is what it is.

Instead, America had better quickly get its act together and develop a plan that deals with how to handle the current unrest and the overthrow of the dictatorships in the Middle East. This response plan should be prepared without emotion, finger pointing or along party lines, we may be fighting for our existence.

United States brought down the dictatorship of Saddam, good or bad, that it is passed and with it the only deterrence and threat to the Iran gaining complete control over the Middle Eastdominated Muslims.

Overthrow of the Tunisia of his ' dictatorship has led to political unrest and violence throughout the region with the Egypt being the most recent and the most dangerous situation for the interests of the United States. It is quite possible a dominated Islamic radical Middle East could quickly begin a complete takeover of America by turning off the oil tap.

Hatred United, American, Muslim Middle East with the Iran handle the scenario together behind the scenes would not cave and turn back oil that it is a Jihad and their foot on our throat.

There is little debate that should be members of the force to obtain concessions from the enemy to return the flow of oil. Based on this hypothesis we will look at the current military situation, in that we find ourselves.

Our army in Iraq is poorly prepared counter a whole attack from outside forces surrounding the Iraq. Troops, although the best in the world, are exhausted from years of war and endurance of several rotations.

Our Forces in Afghanistan, which should have been removed years before we have repeated the error of the Russia, is unqualified and ill-equipped to fight the war of desert. It is not so the troops could not be reequipped and adapt to the war of the desert, but logistics is huge and sparse time.

We have thousands of soldiers stationed in Korea separating the crazy North Korean dictator, but of South Korea. South Korea is a great economic power which should be able to fight his own case of attack. Why continue to play the nurse? If the South Koreans need help, let them turn to the Japan, which also has much to lose if the North Korea operates the war such as the South.

Organize, equip and recycling of these troops in a fighting force deserted effective would not attainable unless we were engaged in a prolonged war. The immediate effects of a complete oil embargo on the United States of still not a conflict long term on our part. As our soldiers, our army mechanized fuel (petroleum) running would be fighting without water. It cannot last long.

Then, how America should respond to this new threat? Initially, our leaders had better stop bickering about health care and give the case urges the attention it deserves.

The troops of the Afghanistan should be taken as soon as possible, but as orderly as possible to ensure the safety of our soldiers. Withdrawal of type Viet Nam would be catastrophic, we are not running, we will redeploy.

Korea troops should pull down to numbers Advisor original of the 1950s. Korea of the North should go crazy and return to the war, it would quickly lead to a nuclear holocaust, because it would be folly for saber rattling in actual conflict. The North Koreans would destroy rather on both sides of the country suffer defeat in a conventional war, our troops have, therefore, no useful purpose except to increase the number of body.

The United States should immediately Institute a project. Immediately, when talking about Washington D.C., means in the future, as a red band, government bureaucracy and political manoeuvring would delay the effective implementation of the programme.

However, the announcement of a such action would show for Middle Eastand the rest of the world, the United States provides the plan to destroy America and is ready to implement all the means it considers necessary to protect our country.

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Iran-Venezuela ties, the United States, which is the subject of the (Christian Science Monitor)

Caracas, Venezuela – Libya Muammar Qaddafi has received in recent weeks, Venezuela, Hugo Chávez attention seems to have left his other best friend, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of Iran forever, Feeling a little left out.

This week underlines his koulutetumpi closer relations with Iran, Fars Province, according to the News Agency of Iran, Tehran's Ambassador to Venezuela, met with the radical Civic Union (UCR).

Mr. Ahmadinejad "in Iran-Venezuela ties in all domains on the expansion will help peace, stability and security in the world," said.

Two of the "brother" of Nations pledged to strengthen their State of the News coverage of the match, but did not mention publicly, at least in the billions of dollars in the previous year inked energy contracts that are now in US-Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the US House of representatives Foreign Affairs Committee recently, that the United States of America to consider punitive actions if it was found that Venezuela, USA, the fifth largest oil supplier, had violated the sanctions against Iran.

Think you know that in South America? Test your geography.

Iran's export of Venezuelan questionMs. Clinton's comments were in response to Rep. Connie Mack (R), Florida, that the documents provided by the claim, the national oil company PDVSA, the Venezuelan is by sending gasoline to Iran in violation of the comprehensive Iran sanctions, accountability and property, the Act of 2010 (CISADA).

Mr. Mack, is the most vocal critics of USA: n in Venezuela. Earlier this year he called for President Chavez ' thugocrat, "the calling", less than any full-scale economic embargo. "

Venezuela exported barrels at places and also mix with petrol for the parts of the 2009 and 2010, if not millions, of Iran. But PDVSA President and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez has consistently denied the sanctions busting, saying shipments occurred before July 2010, prohibit actions to support the development, production and export of crude oil and refined oil, Iran tightened CISADA arguments.

What, then, make a visit to Iran, Chávez's ninth last October? In the course of the 11 agreements signed, one provided for in the plans to establish a joint oil shipping company, to build two petrochemical plants and natural gas in the Iranian South Pars, tap the name of the field.

Agreements were more symbolic than substantive, some analysts believe that in such a way as to violate the sanctions, and, as the case may be. No action has been taken, and Chávez, please see the following article in the history of the corresponding agreements failed.

Obama's reaction to Chavez, "we believe that the State Department response to this, by the time of the sanctions and to propose the purchase of all diplomatic channels, rather than Blunt tool uses to restrict support for the Iranian regime in Venezuela – which seems at this stage, the more symbolic than substantive in our view, locate the" J.p. Morgan research, wrote in the recent Note to investors.

Clinton said the United States would require a relatively high burden of proof to take action, which some say the Foreign Relations Committee of the Republican Guard, in a speech made by the documents do not meet the.

"The [Files] don't appear genuine, or at least before the sanctions, the old," says Russ Dallen, a bond trader in Caracas is based on the financial services of the BBO. "Does not mean it does not take place, only shows these are not necessary to prove that the smoking guns."

Less-than-airtight evidence is not likely to deter Chávez is the most vehement critics Havana on the northern side. And with us quickly approaching elections, the motion of censure on him to pressure could grow.

JP Morgan said, cannot be excluded that some of the investors ' moves against the sort of Venezuela as the administration of the courts of the Latino voters in Florida, in the sourthern the Cuban Fidel Castro and his ideological heir, is a way of life of Chavez.

“...Elections in the United States also is approaching (and continues to be one of the most important battleground in the Florida State), we believe in the Republican Guard under the control of the House of representatives is likely to continue to press for the time being "too soft" management administration, Chavez, and we cannot rule out some of the reaction to the Obama administration to carefully crafted before 2012. "

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