by Martin Iqbal.

Updated Saturday 4 February, 2012. Click here to go to the update.

On 31st May 2010, armed Israeli terrorists committed a heinous act of violence that sent shockwaves around the world. It stunned those not familiar with Israel’s history of terrorism, hatred, bloodshed and murder. Others however, including the Palestinians who are intimately familiar with the usurping Zionist entity’s modus operandi, could only look on unsurprised at this macabre reminder of what ‘Israel’ represents.

After the fact, potentially explosive information has surfaced – the implications of which warrant close consideration. There are indications that the Gaza flotilla massacre of April 2010 could have been far from a routine act of violence on the part of Israel, but instead a long-planned operation carried out with the full cooperation of the Turkish government. The aims of the operation were manyfold, but it is thought that the cold-blooded murder of those nine people in international waters was part and parcel of the ongoing war on Syria.

A December 17, 2011 report by Spanish journalist Daniel Iriarte reveals a number of key facts.⁽¹⁾ While in Syria, Iriarte spoke to three Libyans connected to Abdelhakim Belhaj (precious NATO asset and butcher of Tripoli). Illustrating how instrumental he has been to Western intelligence, Belhaj has been linked to the Madrid false flag bombings by none other than ex Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. Furthermore, he has been an indispensable footsoldier of the NATO nexus, shuttling from Libya to Syria⁽²⁾ in servitude of the nefarious Western-GCC-Israeli nexus now tearing away at both nations. When meeting with Iriarte these Libyans, who apparently made no attempts to conceal their identity or nationality, claimed to be in Syria to “assess the needs of the Syrian revolutionary brothers“. One of the men was Libyan-Irish citizen Mahdi al-Harati – commander of the Tripoli Brigade and second in command to Abdelhakim Belhaj, who is leader of the Tripoli Military Council. The Tripoli Military Council is a proxy force of NATO, tasked with the job of unifying the mercenaries fighting NATO’s ground war in Libya, essentially performing the occupiers’ dirty work.

In a very revealing disclosure, al-Harati tells Iriarte that he was “wounded in the assault on the Mavi Marmara, and spent nine days in jail in Tel Aviv“.

NSNBC recently posted a very important piece titled “GLADIO, Bin Laden to Erdogan, Belhadj and Hamas: Mossad´s and NATO´s Dirty Underwear 2012“.⁽³⁾

Christof Lehmann – editor of NSNBC – revealed to this writer that a well-connected Palestinian source of his informed him with confidence that in addition to al-Harati, NATO darling Abdelhakim Belhaj himself was also on board the Mavi Marmara on that fateful night.

Readers should not be surprised that Mahdi al-Harati, who has been living care-free in Ireland with hundreds of thousands of pounds of CIA cash,⁽¹⁾ was released scot-free by the Israeli authorities after the flotilla attack.

After all, al-Harati has been dutifully serving the Western-Israeli agenda, returning to Libya from Ireland at the outset of the counterrevolution in February (just like CIA asset Khalifa Haftar),⁽⁴⁾ in order to command the NATO-aligned ‘rebel’ forces.

Readers should instead be asking what these two Western intelligence assets were doing aboard the Mavi Marmara – an aid ship that was sailing to Gaza, commissioned by the conscience of good-hearted humanitarian and Palestine solidarity activists from around the world.

It is thought that the Gaza flotilla massacre was a huge deception orchestrated by Turkey and Israel in order to facilitate the elimination of certain Turkish figures who had been opposed to Erdogan’s intended war on Syria. These men, thought to be members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other affiliated groups, would have been coaxed into joining the flotilla – not a difficult task considering that they would likely be vehemently opposed to Israel, keeping in mind their opposition to meddling in Syria.

The highly probable presence of NATO assets Belhaj and al-Harati on the ship (to facilitate the murder of the targets by IDF death squads) lends credence to this theory, as does the nature in which the murdered Turkish citizens were killed: summary executions at point blank range.

The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released in September 2010 found conclusively⁽⁵⁾ that six of the victims were murdered ‘execution style’ by the Israeli terrorists.

The report found that not only was Furkan Dogan summarily executed like the other targets of this Israeli violence, but he had been laid on the ground for ‘some time‘, incapacitated, before he was shot in the head at point blank range. This method of execution used by the Israeli operatives suggests that they were under orders to methodically kill certain passengers of the ship.

This idea is strongly corroborated by reports that IDF soldiers were carrying advance target assassination lists⁽⁶⁾ when they boarded the ship.

Another key strategic aim of this operation was to rally Turkish public support for Erdogan, who immediately took a (completely hollow) aggressive stance towards Israel. This public support, it was intended, was to be channelled into a Turkish campaign against Syria – a campaign in which NATO assets Belhaj and al-Harati were and are intimately involved.

Christof Lehmann described the Gaza flotilla massacre as the “most deceptive false flag in contemporary history“. At a time when Hamas – the main faction of Palestinian resistance to Israeli usurpation – is beginning to align itself with Qatar and Saudi Arabia⁽⁷⁾ (who are counted amongst the architects of the wars on Libya & Syria), this possibility seems distinct, compelling, and worthy of close consideration.

Update: Saturday 4 February, 2012

A June 3, 2010 report by Ali Abunimah is highly relevant to this issue. In his article titled, “Did Israel try to assassinate Sheikh Raed Salah on Mavi Marmara but kill a Turkish engineer instead?“,⁽⁸⁾ Abunimah presents some circumstantial evidence that supports the idea that Israel’s boarding of the flotilla was an exercise in targeted murder. Let’s remember – Israel had no real need to board the ship with all guns blazing – its capable navy could have simply disabled the propellers and towed the ship into port.

The information put forward by Abunimah suggests that Israel attempted to assassinate Palestinian citizen of Israel and influential Islamic Movement figure, Sheikh Raed Salah. Turkish citizen Ibrahim Bilgen was murdered by Israeli soldiers who put four bullets into him – in the temple, chest, hip and back. Abunimah theorises that Bilgen was mistaken for Salah by the Israeli death squads due to his extremely close physical likeness. This is apparent when one juxtaposes the images of the two men.⁽⁸⁾

Further, Abunimah’s report references a video of the alleged ‘death list’ found on the flotilla:

The following passage from Abunimah’s report further underscores the notion that the IDF soldiers were there for the express purpose of murdering specific people:

In Friday prayers, according to Aljazeera, Al-Haj Sheikh said that the Israeli soldiers selected which passengers to execute — almost like choosing which livestock to kill.

Who were the persons named on the alleged ‘death list’? Were they the same people who Israel successfully murdered? Keeping in mind the likely mistaken killing of Ibrahim Bilgen, and the death of 19 year old Furkan Dogan (a mere child who could scarcely have been a target of such deep geopolitical wrangling), there is a high likelihood that those killed were not all Israel’s intended targets.

Since Israel had and has a complete monopoly of the video footage, photo evidence, and all physical evidence that left the ship (most probably all now destroyed), we are largely limited to speculation.

Turkey and Israel post-Flotilla: the Myth of Severed Ties

A year on from the flotilla massacre, economic and military links between Turkey and the Zionist entity were booming, putting paid to the myth that the two nations had severed (or even slightly reduced) their ties.

Two reports – one from Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News and one from the New York Times – paint a compelling picture of the close military and economic integration that Israel and Turkey have continued to enjoy despite hollow posturing on the part of Erdogan.

Menashe Carmon, an Israeli businessman who was raised in Istanbul told the New York Times⁽⁹⁾ mere weeks after the flotilla massacre that “No Israeli companies are leaving Turkey,” and that, “It is business as usual and if anything, investment is growing.”

The NYT report also claims that, according to Turkish officials, close cooperation between Israel the Turkish military was continuing behind the scenes in the wake of the flotilla bloodshed:

Within weeks of the flotilla raid, a Turkish military delegation arrived in Israel to learn how to operate the same pilotless aircraft often used by Israel to hunt Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The $190 million deal for the drones was not canceled, even as the Israeli instructors in Turkey were called home after the raid.

Doron Abrahami, staffer at the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul even revealed that an important research and development collaboration between Israel and Turkey was being commissioned only weeks after the assault on the Mavi Marmara. This was only one of 20 similar collaborative efforts:

“Business is business,” he said, showing off an invitation dated July 15, co-signed by economic agencies in Turkey and Israel just weeks after the Israeli raid, inviting Israeli and Turkish companies to bid for a jointly financed research and development project, one of more than 20 such efforts he said were under way.

The Export Manager at Turkish company Necat Yuksel (that imported $40 million worth of plastic chemicals from Israel in 2009), revealed that sales from Israel showed no signs of slowing. In fact, not a single contract had been cancelled.⁽⁹⁾

Approximately a year later an executive from Turkey’s Yakupoğlu spoke to Istanbul’s Hürriyet Daily News in May 2011. The executive revealed⁽¹⁰⁾ that Turkey buys high-tech defence hardware from Israel, while Israel’s army is dressed by Turkish products – mainly army boots. Crucially, speaking one year after the flotilla attack, the executive revealed that there had been absolutely no interruption in his company’s business with Israel.

Trade between Israel and Turkey peaked at $3.442 billion at the end of 2010 (the year of the flotilla massacre), up from $2.580 billion in 2009.⁽¹⁰⁾

Uriel Lynn, president of the Tel Aviv & Central Israeli Chamber of Commerce told Hürriyet, “Turkey and Israel’s business relations are getting stronger despite the political conflicts…Turks and Israelis are not in a fight – the trade boom in both countries proves that…bilateral trade and investments have not been affected by the political situation at all.”

By the second quarter of 2011, Turkey was Israel’s biggest trade partner in the region and its second-biggest in the world, according to Ahmet Reyiz Yılmaz – the head of Yılmazlar Group – which has been involved in large construction projects in Israel for 17 years.

Together, these reports from shortly after the flotilla attack and approximately a year later, clearly demonstrate that there was absolutely no let-up in the intimately close military and economic ties between Israel and Turkey. Any perceived degradation in relations was rhetorical only; the Gaza flotilla massacre had no significant effect on the partnership between the Zionist entity and Turkey.

Notes

(1) ‘Islamistas Libios se desplazan a Siria para ayudar a la revolucion’ – ABC.es
(2) ‘Free Syrian Army commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli’ by Thierry Meyssan
(3) ‘GLADIO, Bin Laden to Erdogan, Belhadj and Hamas: Mossad´s and NATO´s Dirty Underwear 2012′ by Christof Lehmann
(4) ‘A CIA commander for the Libyan rebels’ by Patrick Martin
(5) ‘UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan’ by Gareth Porter
(6) ‘Turkish Sources – Israeli Advance Target Assassination List Found on Flotilla’ – Redacted News
(7) ‘Hamas and al-Jamaa al-Islamiya: The New MB Look’ – Al-Akhbar English
(8) ‘Did Israel try to assassinate Sheikh Raed Salah on Mavi Marmara but kill a Turkish engineer instead?’ by Ali Abunimah
(9) ‘Turkey and Israel Do a Brisk Business’ by Dan Bilefsky
(10) ‘Business as usual between Turkey, Israel’ – Hürriyet Daily News, 30 May, 2011

by Fahmi Howeidi. Friday, 14 January 2011.

Now that we have been unable to defend the unity of Sudan, it might benefit us to understand what has happened there. Perhaps that will alert us to the fact that secession of the south is not the end, but is one of a series of splits intended to dismantle the Arab world surrounding Egypt.

From very early on, Zionists realized that minorities in the Arab world represent a natural ally to their state of Israel and so they planned to build bridges with them. Zionist representatives communicated with the Kurds in Iraq, the people in southern Sudan, the Maronites in Lebanon, Kurds in Syria, and the Copts in Egypt; Zionism adopted the principle of divide and conquer, and saw that the most effective way to fragment the Arab world was to create secessionist movements within it. In doing so, it sought the redistribution of power in the region in such a manner to make a group of marginal countries lacking unity and sovereignty, all the easier for Israel, in cooperation with non-Arab countries to control them one after the other later. All the rebel movements triggered by ethnic and sectarian groups in the Arab world have drawn support and advocacy from Israel, which has adopted these separatist movements, as witnessed by the Kurds in Iraq and the rebel movement in southern Sudan.

This situation helps us to understand Israel’s strategy towards the Arab world, which is designed to encourage minorities to express themselves so that they may eventually seize self-determination and independence from the state. What helps in all of this is that the Arab world, contrary to what the Arabs claim, does not consist of one cultural and civilized unity – the mythical “Arab nation” but it is a diverse mix of cultures, religions, ethnicities and multilingualism. Israel has been used to portraying the region as a mosaic that includes in its midst a complex network of multi-linguistic, religious, nationalism forms between Arabs, Persians, Turks, Armenians, Israelis themselves, Kurds, Baha’is, Druze, Jews, Protestants, Alawites, Sabians, Shiites, Sunnis, Maronites, Circassians, Turkomans, Assyrians and so on.

According to Israel’s view, when a land or part of a land has minority groups within it but no collective history, the real history is the history of each minority. This has the purpose of achieving two main objectives:

First, it rejects the concept of Arab nationalism and the call for Arab unity; Arab nationalism in the Israeli perception is an idea shrouded in mystery, if not irrelevant. Arab unity is a myth because the Arabs pay lip service to one nation, but live within mutually incompatible states. It is true that most are united by language and religion, but that is also the case with people across the English- or Spanish-speaking worlds, but that does not make them one nation.

Second, this is used to justify the legitimacy of Israel’s presence in the region as just one more to add to the mix of nationalities, peoples and languages, for which the perception of unity is an illusion. The logical conclusion of this train of thought is that each group of people (whether calling themselves a nation or not) has its own state; thus does Israel gains its legitimacy as one of many nation-states in the Middle East.

The preceding thesis is taken from a text book: “Israel and the South Sudan Liberation Movement”, published in 2003 by the Dayan Centre for Research on the Middle East and Africa. The author is retired head of Mossad Moshe Faraji. I have referred to him on more than one occasion. He is worth looking at again as the crop sown by Israel and its allies since the 1950s is beginning to bear fruit.

Another senior Israeli, former Minister of Internal Security Avi Dichter, referred to Sudan in his 2008 lecture delivered to the Institute for Zionist National Security Studies. “There have been Israeli estimates since Sudan’s independence in the mid-fifties that this country, although far from us, should not be allowed to become a force added to the power of the Arab world because if its resources continue under stable conditions, it will make it a power to be reckoned with.” Hence, Israel’s attention has been directed towards Sudan, hoping to exploit the situation.

Sudan provides strategic depth to Egypt. This was evident post-1967 when Sudan and Libya provided training facilities for the Egyptian air force and army; Sudanese forces were sent to the Suez Canal zone during the war of attrition waged by Egypt between 1968 and 1970. For these two reasons, Dichter added, Israel had to work on weakening Sudan and prevent it from becoming a strong, unified state. This strategic perspective is necessary, he said, for Israeli’s national security. It is worth noting that Dichter’s lecture took place almost thirty years after the peace agreement signed between Egypt and Israel in 1979.

When asked about the future of southern Sudan, Dichter replied: “There are international forces led by the United States that are determined to intervene in Sudan so that the South will become independent, and the same for the Darfur region, like the independence of Kosovo. The situation in southern Sudan is not unlike that in Darfur and Kosovo, in that the two regions aspire to independence and acquire the right to self-determination after their citizens fought for that.”

Israeli support for the rebels in southern Sudan has gone through five stages notes Colonel Faraji:

Phase 1 started in the fifties. For nearly a decade, Israel focused on providing humanitarian aid (medicines, food and doctors) and was keen to provide services to refugees who were fleeing to Ethiopia. The first attempts to invest in the tribal differences in southern Sudan itself began in order to intensify the conflict and encourage the South to secede from the Arab north. Israeli intelligence officers stationed in Uganda opened channels of communication with the leaders of the southern tribes to study the demographic map of the area.

Phase 2 began in the sixties with Israel providing military training in special centres established in Ethiopia. At this stage, the Israeli government became convinced that keeping Khartoum busy with internal wars was sufficient to make sure that it would be unable to provide any support for Egypt’s struggle with the Zionist state.

Proselytizing organizations active in the south encouraged Israel to send members of its intelligence services under the cover of humanitarian aid; the prime goal was to train influential people to sustain the tension in the region. At this stage, Israel also expanded its support to the rebels by providing weapons through Ugandan territory; the first of such deals was in 1962, with mainly Russian armaments which had been captured by Israel when it took part in the aggressive Suez campaign in 1956. Fighters were trained in southern Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya before being pushed over the border to fight inside Sudan.

Phase 3 extended from the mid-sixties into the seventies, when the flow of arms to Southern Sudan was facilitated by an Israeli arms dealer called Gabi Shafine, who was working for Israeli intelligence. Shipments of Russian weapons won by Israel in 1967 were dropped by Israeli cargo planes. Israel also established a school for infantry officers to train the cadres necessary to lead the rebel factions. Israeli elements were involved in the fighting to lend their expertise to the South. At this stage groups were taken to Israel to receive military training. At the beginning of the seventies another channel for the delivery of Israeli support to South Sudan through Uganda was opened officially.

When it seemed that the rebel movement was about to collapse in 1969, Israel made a tremendous effort to urge the rebels to continue their fight, and used every method available to them to persuade southerners that they were engaged in a national struggle between Arab-Muslims in the north who were dominating a Black-African-Christian-Animist south.

Phase 4 from the late seventies through the eighties saw the African continent witness several major diversions (e.g. drought in Ethiopia) which did not stop Israel from supporting the rebels; indeed, support increased after Ethiopia became a regular conduit for the delivery of weapons to the South. John Garang emerged at this stage as a leader supported by Israel; he was received in Tel Aviv and given money and weapons. Israel was keen to train his men in various martial arts; ten pilots were trained to use light fighter aircraft.

Phase 5 started in late 1990 with expanding Israeli support; shipments reached the south through Kenya and Ethiopia. Israel provided the south with heavy anti-tank weapons and anti-aircraft guns. At the beginning of 1993, the coordination between Israel and the SPLA (the southern army) included funding, training, armament, information and supervision by Israeli technicians of military operations.

It is clear that Israel has been eyeing southern Sudan for more than half a century.

A worthy observation is that the insurgency in the south began in 1955, one year before the Declaration of Independence of the state of Sudan. This illustrates that the oft-cited reason for southern secession – the implementation of Shari’a Law by the government of Al-Turabi in 1989 – is merely an excuse; this is a struggle that has gone on long before such proposals were even mooted.

While Israel was supporting the southern rebels with arms, Western countries were continuing their diplomatic efforts to arrange the division of Sudan through a referendum. The peace accord signed between the Khartoum government and the rebels was reached with British, American and Norwegian sponsorship. For more than fifty years, the people of Sudan have faced armed insurrection on one side and diplomatic pressure and dirty tricks on the other. If just a quarter of such an effort had been applied on the situation in Palestine, the problem would have been resolved decades ago. Self-determination appears to be acceptable, indeed highly desirable, if it will weaken a predominantly Arab state, but off the agenda when it involves the Palestinians obtaining their rights against the Zionist state of Israel.

They have planned for this division of Sudan and look set to get what they wanted. As for the Arabs, they have stood and watched as mere spectators. I hope that this is not a precursor for further disappointments to come.

Source: Al-Khaleej Times

by Martin Iqbal.

With Hillary Clinton, William Hague, and Alain Juppé due at the UN security council in New York tomorrow to press for regime change in Syria, today’s State Department press briefing exposes the sheer desperation of the American position.

In a psychotic display, State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland blames sectarian violence committed by US-Israeli backed terrorists on Assad’s security forces, while regurgitating baseless Free Syrian Army propaganda implicating Iran.

As Russia and Syria discuss the prospect of talks being held in Moscow, Nuland demonstrates that the United States has absolutely no interest in a peaceful resolution, but rather exclusively regime change. Nuland makes clear that the United States will attempt to stonewall any prospect of Assad staying in power, regardless of the will of the Syrian people:

QUESTION: You think there is still a path out?

MS. NULAND: Well –

QUESTION: For the regime.

MS. NULAND: — that’s obviously still on the table. It requires Assad to step aside.

Scott. Still on Syria?

QUESTION: Yes. What are your thoughts on Russia saying it will organize talks in Moscow and that Damascus has agreed to send a delegation? Would you support that process?

MS. NULAND: Again, what we think needs to happen first and foremost is that the violence needs to end and a process of dialogue needs to begin inside Syria. There needs to be peace and security there so that the country can move forward.

QUESTION: So talks outside Syria – not something you support?

MS. NULAND: Again, there have been plenty of talks outside Syria over the last few months. It’s very difficult to see how you address the real dangers and the real concerns unless and until the violence comes to an end.

In the following exchanges the questioner is refreshingly tenacious, pressing Nuland who gives foolhardy and shoddy responses that illustrate how desperate the position of the United States has become.

Sectarian violence – a staple and central pillar of the Zionist destabilisation campaign being waged on Syria – has been unleashed on Syria’s Christian community in the absence of government protection. This is particularly notable keeping in mind the fact that the Zionist war on Iraq has been characterised by Mossad-orchestrated sectarian violence, resulting in the dispossession of a disproportionately high number of Iraqi Christians. Though it is known that the recent anti-Christian violence in Syria was perpetrated by anti-regime forces aligned with the U.S, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel, Nuland inexplicably tries to blame it on Assad’s security forces.

Secondly, Nuland totes an unverified Free Syrian Army propaganda video that apparently implicates five Iranian nationals in firing at Syrian civilians. When pushed by the questioner, she claims to have verification from independent sources, but refuses to reveal them:

QUESTION: A quick follow-up: When the Arab monitors were in Homs, for instance, and there was a call for the Syrian regime to pull out its mechanized units and whatever they’re calling them – militant appearances like half-tracks or whatever – they pulled out. There were actually some militants that attacked very old Christian communities that are in Homs for centuries, and now they are forced to flee because they feel that the government forces are not there to protect them.

Will this – issues like this be raised or discussed?

MS. NULAND: Absolutely, and this is the kind of thing – I mean, the session, as I understand it, will begin with a report from senior Arab League representatives on what the mission showed and their view of the situation in Syria and their strong support for the resolution under the – on the table under Moroccan sponsorship, and then there will be a discussion among ministers.

But as you said, Said, and as the Secretary makes clear in the statement that she issued about half an hour ago, we are gravely concerned that as these Arab League monitors have pulled out, the Syrian regime has taken this as an excuse to just let loose in horrific ways against innocents. I mean, we’ve seen a sharp increase in violence, just in recent days. There have been disgusting statements like that of the interior minister announcing plans to cleanse the country. Local coordinating committees and our other contacts report that some 2,000 Syrian military troops carried out operations throughout the Damascus suburbs beginning on Friday, and at least 66 people have died at the hands of the regime yesterday, and estimated a hundred over the weekend in total.

We’re also hearing reports, interestingly, of large-scale defections of Syrian military officers over the weekend, and it is these Syrian – including taking some of their equipment and their heavy equipment – and it’s these defections that are most rattling the government.

QUESTION: Well, my concern is – or everybody’s concerns is that these minority groups – in particular, Christian communities that’s probably the oldest anywhere in the world – is being actually dislodged from Homs that it has occupied for a millennium or longer. So what kind of provision will it have to protect minorities?

MS. NULAND: Well, again, this is of grave concern, that this is a regime composed of a small minority that is now attacking the majority of Syrians, and they are attacking Christians, they’re attacking Druze, they’re attacking Sunnis, they’re even attacking Allawi communities. And –

QUESTION: But (inaudible) Victoria, it’s regime opponents that are attacking these Christian communities.

MS. NULAND: Said, it is the regime that bears responsibility for the violence. There have been efforts by some Syrians to defend themselves from these attacks, but it is Assad and his cronies who started this, and it is Assad and his cronies who are responsible for the vast majority of the violence.

And the blood is on their hands fundamentally. But you are absolutely right – the goal of the Arab League – the goal, frankly, of the Syrian opposition, whether you’re talking about the SNC outside of the country, whether you’re talking about the local coordinating committees, in all of their statements, in all of the work they’ve been doing, is to try to create a chance to have a Syria for all Syrians. And we have been gratified and encouraging that in the opposition statements, they talk explicitly about protecting the rights of all Syrians, including all minorities. And you’ll hear the Secretary speak about this tomorrow as well. It’s been a reoccurring theme of hers in all of her meetings on this subject, that it has become very, very dangerous.

One more point – or two more points on the side – on this subject with regard to the concerns that we have: We are also seeing increasing reports of Iran playing a nefarious role inside Syria. You may have seen some video that circulated of the Free Syrian Army having captured five senior Iranian nationals who admitted that they were firing on Syrian civilians. We are also seeing that the international sanctions that some of the nations – United States, European Union, Jordan, other countries – have begun to put on Syria are having an effect. They’re beginning to pinch. So you now see an Assad regime that increasingly cannot sell its petroleum. It can’t – its banks can’t access the international financial system. Its currency is in freefall.

So what is Assad doing now? He is funding his violence and paying his military off of the nation’s reserves, using the reserves of the Syrian people to fuel the violence against them. So the Security Council has got to act, and that’s the message that the Secretary will take in strongest terms tomorrow.

QUESTION: Have you seen reports that the Syrian opposition prevented Assad’s wife, the first lady, from leaving Damascus?

MS. NULAND: I’ve seen those reports. We don’t have any way to confirm that, Justin.

QUESTION: Can I ask why you bring up a propaganda video shot by – are you confirming the authenticity of what these people say? It seems very easy in situations like this – Qadhafi’s people were doing it themselves in Libya – for them to get some video of some people that they say have been captured, that they have captured, claiming to be al-Qaida. In this case, you say they’re Iranians. Are you confirming the accuracy of this video that you talk about?

MS. NULAND: We are not in a position to confirm –

QUESTION: Why raise it?

MS. NULAND: — confirm the accuracy. Because it tracks with some of our own reporting about the presence of Iranians in Syria, the efforts that they are making to help the regime in it – with its military tactics, including with equipment.

QUESTION: It doesn’t strike you as at all unusual that five people would admit to being Iranians and say yes, we’re Iranians and we were told to come here and fire on Syrian civilians? That doesn’t strike you at all as suspicious?

MS. NULAND: Suffice it to say that we have our own concerns about Iranian behavior in Syria.

QUESTION: Can you talk about your own concerns and your own evidence and not some propaganda that’s put out by a group that I don’t think that you’ve – you’re not even really supporting them (inaudible)?

MS. NULAND: Our concerns include support for training and equipping of Syrian forces. Our concerns include the fact that some of the tactics being used by the Syrian regime mirror tactics used in Iran against their own population and about increasing evidence of numbers of Iranians in and around Syria.

QUESTION: Well, can you talk about what that evidence is?

MS. NULAND: I think I will not go any further than I’ve already gone. Thanks.

QUESTION: Well, then – okay, so Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, too. We all believed that one. I don’t understand how you can just – what’s the evidence, other than a Free Syrian Army propaganda video which you have no way of knowing whether it’s accurate or not or whether these people were tortured or whatever into saying that they were Iranian-sent?

MS. NULAND: We have –

QUESTION: What’s the evidence?

MS. NULAND: Evidence includes reporting from a number of our Syrian contacts, plus our own information from a variety of sources that I will not get into here.

by Martin Iqbal and Jonathan Azaziah.

NATO’s Bloody Attack On Pakistan: The Motive

In the early morning of Saturday 26 November two NATO Apache helicopters, an AC-130 gunship, and a number of fighter jets perpetrated a sustained and deadly attack on two Pakistani army border posts on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Located high on the Salala mountain ridge, the two army posts were brutally attacked for approximately two hours. In what was evidently a naked act of aggression, the US-led forces bombarded the border posts for forty-five minutes, left for twenty minutes, and subsequently returned – attacking for a further hour. Twenty-four Pakistani soldiers including two officers were murdered in the assault.

The sustained nature of the attack precludes the possibility of it being a mistake, as claimed by the U.S. government. The United States Military would have us believe that, with its world class communications and intelligence infrastructure, it mistakenly mauled an ally repeatedly for two hours, killing dozens. This is an utterly unfeasible theory. Further throwing this theory into question, it has been revealed that Pakistani forces were in constant contact with American forces throughout the attacks – informing them in no uncertain terms that they were attacking a Pakistani military position.⁽¹⁾

As a direct result of the attack, U.S. forces are now facing an unprecedented crisis in Afghanistan.⁽²⁾ Pakistan closed off U.S. supply routes to Occupied Afghanistan, leaving thousands of tonnes of NATO military equipment and fuel stranded in Pakistan, unable to reach its destination across the border. Knowing that this eventuality was not only predictable but inevitable, one has to ask why the U.S. chose to perpetrate the deadly attack.

The brazen and bloody assault on the Pakistani army can only be understood in light of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the CIA’s ongoing war to destabilise the country. The TTP is a militant-terrorist group fostered by the CIA and India’s RAW, being used as a proxy force against the Pakistani nation as part of a ‘fourth generation war’.⁽³⁾ The history of the TTP will be revisited in this piece.

Due to offensives mounted by the Pakistani Army and Air Force in the last 8-9 months the TTP had largely been pushed out of its relatively comfortable position in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas’ villages. As a result, the TTP terrorists fled to neighbouring Afghanistan’s mountainous border region; dwelling in caves and camps in far less favourable conditions. A series of Pakistani border posts were subsequently set up in the border region in order to prevent the TTP terrorists from re-entering from Afghanistan.⁽⁴⁾ Uprooted from their bases in Pakistan and caught up amid Afghanistan’s savage, merciless winter, these precious CIA-RAW assets were being ‘decimated’, according to well-connected Pakistani analyst Syed Zaid Hamid.

Through their strategically-placed border posts, Pakistani forces were holding a line and preventing the TTP from re-entering Pakistan. The calculated and bloody U.S-led attack on these Pakistani border posts was nothing more than a pre-planned attempt to forge a path back into Pakistan for the withering CIA-RAW TTP terrorists.

Just as we have seen in the criminal, genocidal attack on Libya, NATO forces are providing military and logistical support to their ground-based proxy armies – in this case TTP terrorists. This is the essence of the strategy of ‘fourth generation warfare’⁽³⁾ that is being used on Pakistan, in tandem with media manipulation, and the installation and maintenance of a corrupt puppet government.

Less than a month after the bloody 26 November attack on Pakistan’s border posts, NATO’s deadly support of its proxy terror army began to bear fruit. Several serious incidents tied to the TTP occurred in Pakistan’s border region. Notably the TTP bombed a Pakistani Rangers’ vehicle on December 9,⁽⁵⁾ killing three Rangers and wounding four others.

On Friday, December 23, fifteen Pakistani soldiers were abducted from the Mulazi area of the northwestern Tank district. A local Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander confirmed that the soldiers were being held by TTP militants.⁽⁶⁾

The following day the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan carried out a suicide bombing in Pakistan’s north-western border region, wherein it rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into an Army camp. Nine Pakistani soldiers were killed in the attack, and nineteen were wounded when a building collapsed due to the blast. At the time of writing, more bodies are feared to be under the rubble.

On New Years Eve, one week after the abduction of 15 Pakistani soldiers from Mulazi, the TTP carried out one of its most animalistic attacks yet since its NATO-sparked ‘comeback’, blowing up a boys’ primary school in the Shahabkhel area of the Nowshera district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province at dawn. The TTP has launched hundreds of attacks like this one, especially on female institutions, depriving thousands of Pakistani children from getting an education due to their parents’ fear of sending them to school and never seeing them again.⁽⁷⁾ On the same day, taking a page straight out of the (to be discussed shortly) Zionist-Hindutvadi Dragon Policy, masked gunmen on motorcycles shot dead influential Shi’a religious leader Syed Muhammad Askari Raza in Karachi, causing a wave of protests against what demonstrators called “target killings”,⁽⁸⁾ a clear indication that the articulately-awake Pakistani people were cognizant of ‘Israeli’ hands perpetrating the murder. The same motorcycle killers were responsible for the murder of beloved Sunni Mufti Abdul Samad Soomro in Gulbahar, respected Shi’a chief of the Sajjadia Scouts, Nayyar Zaidi in Orangi Town, and Dr. Saleem Kharal of Jinnah Hospital.⁽⁸⁾

Sources close to Syed Raza revealed that the killers and harbingers of chaos were none other than the TTP.⁽⁹⁾ The motive was clearly to trigger sectarian war, a long-time goal of ‘Israeli’ policy-makers in the Knesset and Herzliya. Thankfully, the Pakistani people have rejected these cynical and orientalist attempts by the saboteurs to generate Muslim-on-Muslim bloodshed. Five days after the bombing and its attempts at provoking communal war in and around Karachi, in an act of pure, uncut, inhuman savagery, the TTP monstrously executed all of the soldiers that it had kidnapped on December 23rd, vowing to continue its aggression against the Islamic Republic of Pakistan until further notice.⁽¹⁰⁾

The Afghan Taliban and The Tehrik-I-Taliban Pakistan: Cut From A Completely Different Cloth

Psychological warfare being a central pillar of the ‘fourth generation warfare’ model, is now being unleashed on Pakistan and Afghanistan. Manipulation on the part of the Zionist-dominated mass media skews the facts surrounding these events in order to buttress the Anglo-American-Zionist narrative. This is demonstrated in the coverage of the December 24 attack. The Press Trust of India,⁽¹¹⁾ CNN,⁽¹²⁾ and several other⁽¹³⁾ Zionist news outlets manipulated the facts and attributed the attack to ‘The Taliban‘ rather than the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.

The BBC was even more astounding in its dishonest attempts to mislead readers. A 24 December piece published on the BBC website⁽¹⁴⁾ reported the fact that the suicide attack had occurred, and that nobody had thus far claimed responsibility. The sheer barefaced audacity of the BBC’s disingenuous reportage is revealed when one sees what the editor has chosen to directly connect with this story. Beneath the piece we see a section titled, ‘More on This Story’, wherein the reader is provided with a wealth of hyperlinks pertaining to the Afghan Taliban (including the standard Sunni-Shia sectarian rhetoric).

Startlingly, if the reader follows the link “Who are the Taliban?”, they are taken to a page⁽¹⁵⁾ which unequivocally claims that the Taliban is “active in both Afghanistan and Pakistan“, and it “threatens to destabilise Pakistan, where they control areas in the north-west and have been blamed for a wave of suicide bombings and other attacks.”

This crude method of disinformation serves to delegitimise the righteous resistance in Afghanistan by blurring the line between the Afghan Taliban, and the CIA-RAW Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan – two completely separate groups. In geopolitical terms the Afghan Taliban has only domestic ambitions; it is fighting a war of liberation to free Afghanistan from foreign occupation. Conversely, the TTP is literally a proxy army of the American-Indian-Israeli nexus now seeking to destabilise and ‘soften-up’ Pakistan.

The American government has struggled to publicly justify its illegal, morally inexcusable occupation of Afghanistan due to the fact that ‘Al Qaeda’ – the ostensible enemy – is simply not there. Senior U.S. generals have admitted this in no uncertain terms. By pegging such terror attacks on ‘The Taliban‘ rather than the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, the Zionist media demonises the Afghan Taliban, and portrays it as a terrorist group with extra-territorial ambitions. Thus for the Afghan war theatre the ostensible enemy morphs from ‘Al Qaeda’, into the Taliban resistance movement. This is the only way the criminal and utterly baseless war on Afghanistan can remain politically tenable.

Tehrik-I-Taliban: Monstrous Creation Of Mossad, RAW and CIA

Created in 2004 to coincide with the inauguration of the CIA’s genocidal drone program, the Tehrik-I-Taliban of Pakistan (TTP) is the perfected product of an ongoing, incestuous relationship between the Zionist entity’s Mossad, Hindutvadi India’s RAW and the CIA itself. One month after Mossad’s false flag attack on September 11th, 2001,⁽¹⁶⁾ and just three days after the criminal invasion of Afghanistan, two ‘Israeli’ agents with Mossad and IOF connections were apprehended inside the Mexican Congress building of Mexico City with 9mm handguns, nine grenades, C-4 explosives, three detonators, 58 bullets and fake Pakistani passports. Their mission was to destroy the Mexican Congress.⁽¹⁷⁾ This false flag operation was intended to be phase II of 9/11, triggering a NATO invasion of Pakistan. When the mission failed, the Zionist entity activated its contingency plan: the Dragon Policy, an updated version of the Oded-Yinon-strategy of balkanizing Islamic states on ethno-sectarian lines.

Following the failure in Mexico City, the upper echelons of Zionist and Hindutvadi intelligence erected four new clandestine agencies solely dedicated to the destruction of Pakistan, which would immediately be followed by the originally-intended aggression to denuclearize the bulwark of Islamic Resistance to international Zionism. The highest ranking figures of Pakistan’s financial, political, military and religious sectors were on the hitlist and every successful attack was meant to soften up Pakistan for the imminent invasion. Using funds from the unlimited bank accounts of Mossad and Aman, the Zionism-Hindutva intelligence nexus established 57 training camps across the northern frontiers of India and occupied Kashmir, kidnapping and blackmailing Resistance fighters to fight against their own comrades while simultaneously forging alliances with mafia bosses and narcotics tycoons and training them in the finer arts of black ops. These various elements served as the perfect quislings as any rebellion whatsoever would be punished with imprisonment in the harshest of dungeons. These puppets would be deployed into the field under Mossad-RAW guidance and once an attack was completed, the Zionist media would report as an ‘act of Islamic terrorism.’ If a ‘checkout’ was not secured, senior operatives of the ‘Israeli’-Indian nexus would finish the job.⁽¹⁸⁾

The CIA and its corporate offshoot, Blackwater (also known as Xe and Academi), a festering bubble of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim hatred and deep pro-Israel sentiments, joined the Dragon Policy in 2004. Blackwater agents became integrated with the ordnance units of Mossad and RAW. The CIA took a more proactive role by absorbing past recruits of the Zionist-Hindutvadi intelligence training camps and cultivated them into a powerful proxy force that specialized in guerilla tactics and sectarian warfare: the Tehrik-I-Taliban.
The name was chosen for a very sinister, deceptive and specific reason: to despicably smear the real Taliban in occupied Afghanistan, a Resistance force fighting a ‘7arb el 7uriyeh (war of liberation)’ against NATO invaders. It is classic psychological warfare. The Taliban, not surprisingly, has rightfully maintained its innocence and condemned Blackwater for being behind bombings and other provocations in Pakistan.⁽¹⁸⁾ Since its birth, the Tehrik-I-Taliban has murdered or wounded more than 100,000 Pakistanis and caused more than $50 billion in damage to Pakistan’s economy. The Pakistani army has fought back with vigor and has arrested hundreds of Tehrik-I-Taliban militiamen, revealing the nature of this thuggish group of murderers; proxy agents detained in Waziristan, Karachi and Baluchistan have been caught with sophisticated, military-grade weaponry manufactured by the Zionist entity.⁽¹⁹⁾

Occupied Kashmir: 65 Years Of Barbarity Forgotten By The World

On a relatively small patch of land in one of the most strategically important regions on the face of the planet, there exists a people who have lived under a punishing, criminal occupation for more than six decades. No, it is not holy Palestine struggling against the cruel occupier of Zionism but breathtakingly-beautiful Kashmir, seeking “azadi,” the Kashmiri word for freedom, from Hindutva, the supremacist ideology that guides the political leadership of India. There is a Pashtun proverb that says, “Every man takes his home as Kashmir; the paradise of this earth.” This simple, eloquent language indicates that Kashmir, commonly referred to as ‘Heaven on earth’ even in Western circles, is a gem of a place rooted in the most astounding beauty. Beneath the gorgeousness however, is something violently grotesque: 65 years of barbaric occupation and a plethora of unspeakable human rights abuses that have largely been forgotten by the world.

The Vale of Kashmir, an independent nation with its own language, its own natural resources which provided self-sustaining autonomy for centuries, and its own rich, ancient, distinct and beautiful culture, one completely separate from India, is a bleeding wound of Rothschild-financed British colonialism. Even prior to the establishment of the British Raj in 1858, the colonialists of the Crown had brutalized and occupied vast parts of the Southeast Asia Subcontinent, including Kashmir. The British empire installed alien rulers in Kashmir, the savage Dogra dynasty, ending indigenous governance and inaugurating over 100 years of monarchical oppression, massacres and other atrocities. The goal was to disconnect the Kashmiri people from their strong faith in Islam, strip them of their history, westernize them and absorb them as subjugated peoples of the empire. The collapse of the dynasty and Britain’s imminent partition of the Indian territory left the Kashmiri people wide open to a new form of oppression: military occupation.⁽²⁰⁾

The Dogra dynasty only vanished in title however, as the rulers simply exchanged their puppet kingship over Kashmir for puppet premiership. Britain set up the Radcliffe Commission for the purpose of allotting territory to India and Pakistan and immediately focused on the Vale. Heading it was Britain’s Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, who manipulated the Radcliffe Commission in India’s favor because the Crown did not trust the Pakistan leadership, which was seeking full freedom from colonialism. The Gurdaspur district of the Punjab region should’ve been assigned to Pakistan as it was overwhelmingly Muslim but was nonsensically assigned to India instead. Gurdaspur connected India to Kashmir via an easy-to-reach land route. Without Gurdaspur, India would have no access to Kashmir. Kashmir became a casualty of Lord Mountbatten’s meddling. Dozens of UN resolutions would pass in favor of Kashmiri self-determination after the partition that left Kashmir in limbo but like resolutions regarding Palestine, they would never be implemented. Now, 750,000 Indian troops march through Kashmir at all times, making the Vale the most militarized zone on planet earth.⁽²⁰⁾

The Indian occupation has been even more barbaric and more slaughterous than its Dogra predecessors. The most deranged and sadistic forms of torture, including electroshock and sexual abuse, are a norm in Kashmir and used by the Hindutvadi occupiers often.⁽²¹⁾ Since 1989 alone, Hindutva has murdered at least 93,712 Kashmiri civilians, leaving 22,762 women widowed and 107,434 children orphaned. Indian occupation troops have raped over 10,021 Kashmiri women, arrested 119,752 persons and destroyed more than 105,936 homes and structures.⁽²²⁾ Laws have been institutionalized by the Hindutvadi government to protect its killing machine in Kashmir. The AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) allows the Hindutvadi occupation army to kill with impunity. The PSA (Public Safety Act; an Orwellian name if there ever was one) allows the occupiers to arrest anyone in Kashmir without charge, without warrant. Section 144 bans the gathering of more than 5 persons in a single area, thus outlawing protests and political workshops. In fact, dogs have more fundamental rights than human beings in Hindutvadi-occupied Kashmir.⁽²³⁾

Despite the genocide and draconian laws of the occupation’s rule, the brave Kashmiris have launched numerous intifada-like uprisings over the years and are now on the verge of erupting again after the recent killing of yet another Kashmiri youth, 18-year old Altaf Ahmad Sood, who was gunned down on January 2nd, 2012 by Indian internal security thugs in a protest against the power shortages throughout the Vale that are manipulated by the occupation as collective punishment,⁽²⁴⁾ much like how ‘Israel’ forcibly causes blackouts in the illegally besieged Gaza Strip.⁽²⁵⁾ It is chilling that the young man’s martyrdom came just days before the 19th anniversary of the one of the worst massacres in the history of the Hindutvadi occupation: January 6th, 1993’s Sopore massacre, in which Indian paramilitary forces murdered at least 57 Kashmiris, burning many of them alive, wounding hundreds of others and destroying over 295 shops.⁽²⁶⁾ No different than the Zionist entity is the Hindutvadi regime in its lust for blood.

Hindutva and Zionism: Ideological Twins, Partners In Occupying Kashmir

The real reason why the horrors that are experienced daily by the indigenous in occupied Kashmir aren’t reported by the Zionist media actually makes all of the sense in the world once the veil of ignorance is removed from one’s eyes: India’s occupation of Kashmir has been guided, assisted, financed and supported by the usurping Zionist entity from its inception. Not surprisingly, multiple research studies and polls conducted by the ‘Israeli’ regime’s foreign ministry found India to be the most pro-Zionist country in the world.⁽²⁷⁾

Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna just completed a trip to occupied Palestine, where he met with genocidal war criminals Benjamin Netanyahu (real name: Benjamin Mileikowsky), Avigdor Lieberman (real name: Evet Lvovich Liberman) and Shimon Peres (real name: Szymon Perski) to laud the ties between Zionism and Hindutva and sign a free trade agreement. Due to hundreds of ‘Israeli’ and Indian companies in the fields of security, agriculture, technology, alternative energy, real estate, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications entering partnerships over the last decade, Zionist-Hindutvadi trade skyrocketed to over $5 billion in 2011 and it is expected to triple with the free trade agreement. ‘Israeli’ Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz stated unequivocally that, “Israel views its ties with India as its second most important relationship after the United States.”⁽²⁸⁾ In godfather of the Zionist entity’s criminal nuclear program and butcher of Qana Shimon Peres’ meeting with Krishna, he called India “the greatest democracy on earth.” Additionally, the Zionist entity sells more arms to Hindutva than any other country on earth, and the bilateral defense trade between the two occupations amounted to $9 billion in 2011.⁽²⁹⁾

These nauseating and telling statements however, coupled with the landmark meeting, are mere drops in the bucket. The alliance between ‘Israel’ and India is an abyssal ideological one that began with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, better known as Veer Savarkar, founder of Hindutva, a rabid anti-Muslim, anti-Christian supremacist and agent of British colonialism. Savarkar believed that the entire Southeast Asia Subcontinent belonged to the ‘Hindus,’ and that the nation of Hindutva was preordained to rule over all other groups across the globe for its people were genetically superior. Savarkar was also a Zionist, and his affinity and admiration for international Jewry and its dream of colonizing and cleansing Palestine inspired him to concoct the Hindutvadi ideology to begin with. He and his followers called on the international community to grant ‘the entire restoration of Palestine as a Jewish holy land and fatherland.’ It was the pressure of Savarkar and his vast network of supremacist foot soldiers that forced the Indian nation to switch its initial anti-Zionist stance to the recognition of the Zionist entity on September 17, 1950.⁽³⁰⁾

Like a cancer, Hindutva slowly spread throughout the Indian political sphere, transforming rational foreign policy into radicalized, expansionist extremism over the course of 30 years, finally rising to prominence in the 1980s through the pro-Zionist, pro-US, pro-war and anti-Muslim Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an entity fully funded by ‘Israel’ that established deep, deep military, economic and intelligence ties with the Zionist regime upon taking hold of the Indian government. A Hindutvadi Lobby has also been cultivated in the US with the brotherly guidance of AIPAC, the ‘Israeli’ entity’s subversive foreign policy weapon, for the purpose of cutting out American political opposition to Indian hegemony in the region as well as to mask India’s barbarous occupation of Kashmir as ‘national security’ policy.⁽³⁰⁾ Zionist and Hindutvadi lobby groups are also currently and actively collaborating in silencing voices critical and damning of their respective entities’ crimes on college campuses throughout the US.⁽³¹⁾

The corrosive penetration of Indian military, intelligence and political circles by Hindutva and its need to frame the nation-state world’s view through a Zionist lens was evident as early as 1962 when the Zionist regime came to India’s aid with arms, ammo and military hardware as it fought a war with China. ‘Israel’ would repeat the gesture in India’s wars with Pakistan over occupied Kashmir in 1965 and 1971. Hindutva would reciprocate by sending military equipment to the Zionist regime during al-Naksa (the 1967 war). India’s security forces began getting shipped to the Zionist entity in the 1980s for training with the rise of BJP and multiple times throughout this decade, ‘Israel’ and the Hindutvadi regime worked together to undermine Pakistan’s nuclear facilities. After heavy, covert Zionist lobbying from 1986-1992, India and ‘Israel’ began open relations with the opening of a Zionist embassy in New Delhi and a Hindutvadi embassy in Tel Aviv. Since then, ‘Israel’ has transferred laser guided missiles, tanks, submarines and other naval craft, an anti-ballistic missile system, electronic warfare systems, and hi-tech surveillance equipment to Hindutva, as well as ‘Israeli’-designed Tavor rifles which were given to brutal occupying forces in Kashmir.⁽³²⁾

The Kargil War between India and Pakistan, fought in occupied Kashmir, would not have been a triumph for India without the Zionist entity rushing military support and intelligence to the Indian army at the height of war. Ravager of Qibya and butcher of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, Ariel Sharon (real name: Ariel Scheinermann), and leading Hindutvadi war criminal of Kargil, Prime Minister of India at the time Atal Bihari Vajpayee, signed the ‘Delhi Statement on Friendship and Cooperation between India and Israel’ in 2003 to take cooperation between the two occupiers into a higher dimension, making Zionist training of Hindutvadi paramilitary forces a public spectacle and bringing Mossad and Shin Bet officials to India a year after the Vajpayee-Sharon agreement was inked to train the Kashmir-based Indian army in torture and repression techniques.⁽³²⁾

Nowhere has the Indian-‘Israeli’ relationship been more dangerously and murderously fruitful than the intelligence sector. Mossad and RAW have been in close contact and linked with one another since the early 1970s. ‘Israeli’ tourists that have been visiting occupied Kashmir for decades upon decades have been revealed to be Mossad surveillance squads and just one year after the heinous Kargil War, IOF commander Eli Katzir was sent to occupied Kashmir with an elite Zionist death squad to assist Indian occupation forces in crushing Kashmiri Resistance. Dozens of Mossad-Aman-Shin-Bet-IOF-linked companies are operating in India with the purpose of tracking and oppressing the Kashmiri people, including Ness Technologies, Magic Software Enterprises, Check Point Software Technologies, RAD Data Communications, Veraz Networks and NDS Group. Mossad has also erected an electric barrier fence with thermal imaging devices on the border of the Indian Punjab region and occupied Kashmir, effectively imprisoning people living on the border and cutting them off from family members. RAW and Mossad also deploy ‘journalists’ throughout independent Asian and Western media outlets to misreport, propagandize and outright lie about the happenings in Kashmir.⁽³³⁾

In January 2008, the Hindutvadi-dominated Indian government launched the ‘Israeli’-made Tecsar satellite into orbit at Mossad and RAW’s request. The Zionist entity would use the highly-advanced piece of machinery to spy on Iran while India would use it for further repressive means in occupied Kashmir.⁽³³⁾ The penultimate pinnacle of the Mossad-RAW nexus is the aforementioned Dragon Policy and at the very heart of it is occupied Kashmir. One of the key revelations that emerged from the now-infamous ‘Raymond Davis affair’ was that Davis was attempting to entrap Kashmiri Resistance fighters and link them to the Tehrik-I-Taliban. Davis himself is directly linked to the proxy terror outfit and an exposed agent of the Zionist-Hindutvadi Dragon Policy.⁽³⁴⁾

Azadi activists and fighters in occupied Kashmir have confirmed to these writers that Mossad is “all over Kashmir, like sand in the desert,” according to one 25-year old fighter named Jamal Zaffar Khan of Sopore, who lost his brother, 17-year old Maqbool, in the summer intifada of 2010 to Indian bullets, or rather, ‘Israeli’ bullets from an ‘Israeli’ gun in Indian hands. A Srinagar activist who asked to be identified only as “Zubair Zubair” quipped that, “In the Vale, one cannot tell where RAW ends and Mossad begins.” Another activist, who asked to be identified by his kunya, “Abu Ghulam,” from Kupwara, chillingly stated, “We would rather be killed by the Hindutvadis here. They kill us and drag us into big dirt graves. The Mossad people shoot you, disfigure you and take your organs.” The testimonies mirror those of Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis and others who have faced down the cruel and deranged methods of Zionism.

The absolute summit of the Mossad-RAW confederacy is most certainly, false flag terrorism; the intelligence agencies have launched a plethora of attacks since their working relationship began, with the two biggest game-changers being the heartbreaking Babri Masjid demolition of 1992 and the 26/11 ‘masterpiece’ attack in 2008.⁽³⁰⁾ Both are integral to the hegemonic endgame that the Zionists and Hindutvadis hope will not only bring about the fall of Pakistan as a sovereign nation but the destruction of Kashmir’s autonomy as well.

Operation Kurukshetra: Hindutva’s ‘Nakba’-Style Ethnic Cleansing Plan For The Vale

The NATO bloodshed in the mountains of Salala was an assault that was meant to restart the Israeli-American-Indian 4th Generation Warfare which has ravaged Pakistan for the last 7 years in hopes of eventually leading to denuclearization. There is one more level to this intricate geopolitical plot that has been kept under wraps for years but which will be exposed for the first time in this paper: Operation Kurukshetra, the final phase of India’s ‘Cold Start Doctrine.’ Cold Start is a strategy that is meant to work hand-in-glove with the US Af-Pak doctrine, sending Indian troops into Pakistan as a crushing invasion force while American brigades would form a corridor to Afghanistan by occupying Gwadar Port, thus eliminating a vital Pakistani lifeline and landing a death-blow to Chinese energy interests.⁽³⁵⁾ Cold Start however is not only a directive to launch a surprise offensive war of aggression, it is a directive to launch a war of expansion. It was designed to capture patches of Pakistani land, much like the Zionist entity’s preemptive expansionist-aggression against Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the rest of occupied Palestine in 1967.⁽³⁶⁾

The move towards Cold Start was initiated by then-Chief of Staff of the Indian Army, General Sundararajan Padmanabhan on April 28th 2004, to interlock with the creation of the Tehrik-I-Taliban and the CIA’s drone program. General Padmanabhan’s plan was to essentially eliminate defensive tactics, harnessing the full offensive strength of the Indian army by combining the might of the Indian Navy, Indian Air Force and multiple Indian army battle groups to target Pakistan.⁽³⁷⁾ Militarily, Cold Start was designed to “destroy” the Pakistani army and “enslave” Pakistan, eroding its Islamic character and chaining it to a system of Western-based colonial ‘democracy’. Much of Cold Start was based on the usurping Zionist entity’s strategy for Lebanon, which failed thanks to the efforts and steadfastness of the righteous Islamic Resistance of Hezbollah.⁽³⁸⁾

The US government has pressed Indian political and military officials to renounce the idea of Cold Start and as a matter of Indian ‘national security,’ in New Delhi, Cold Start doesn’t even officially exist. Stephen P. Cohen, a rabid Zionist, anti-Pakistan hasbaranik and anti-Muslim hatemonger that propagandizes for the Brookings Institute, one of the biggest and most powerful Zionist think tanks in the US, has suggested that Cold Start is a myth that the Pakistani army is obsessed with so they can “delay or drag out doing a serious reorientation of their military.”⁽³⁹⁾ This would figure, as Cohen is the one who coined the phrase ‘Cold Start’ and has ‘predicted’ numerous crises on the Southeast Asia Subcontinent that have been all magically come to fruition, all of which of course come from a Zionist-Hindutvadi point of view.⁽³⁹⁾

Adding further fuel to the fire, Wikileaks, the false whistleblower and long-exposed hydra operation of the CIA and Mossad that has been caught time and time again waging psychological warfare against the enemies of Zionism,⁽⁴⁰⁾ published information that stated, “Cold Start is not a plan for a comprehensive invasion and occupation of Pakistan. Instead, it calls for a rapid, time- and distance-limited penetration into Pakistani territory with the goal of quickly punishing Pakistan, possibly in response to a Pakistan-linked terrorist attack in India, without threatening the survival of the Pakistani state or provoking a nuclear response.”⁽⁴¹⁾ In Orwellian Newspeak, it is in fact, just that: a plan of comprehensive invasion and occupation of Pakistan.

Cold Start’s godfather, General Padmanabhan, came to be well-liked by the Hindutvadi extremist portions of Indian society and government because of his role as a commander in occupied Kashmir during the opening years of the (ongoing) major intifada that began in 1989. His brutality and monstrous tactics are legendary to the Kashmiri people, he is known for crushing Resistance of all kinds with any and all means of collective punishment available and is a specialist in mountainous warfare as well as psychological ops.⁽⁴²⁾ Sources close to the ISI have revealed to these writers that the ‘good general,’ a devoted Hindutvadi himself with close ties to BJP and lesser ties with other extremist parties like RSS, is also one of the two architects of Operation Kurukshetra.

Padmanabhan’s counterpart is none other than Eli Katzir, the Zionist ‘counter-terrorism’ commander who has been wreaking havoc on occupied Kashmir for over a decade now. As mentioned earlier, Kurukshetra is the final phase of India’s Cold Start Doctrine. It is named after the Kurukshetra War discussed in the epic Sanskrit poem and Hindu text known as the Mahabharata. This war was an aggressive one, in which cousins fought cousins; in which the ‘righteous’ cleansed the ‘unrighteous’ from holy lands as per the will of ‘the gods.’

Like the Zionists, the Hindutvadis name their military operations according to their religious texts because they genuinely believe that Hindutva will reign supreme over the lands allotted to them by ‘the gods’. When applied to the current geopolitical chessboard, the ‘unrighteous’ to be cleansed from the ‘promised lands’ are the indigenous people of occupied Kashmir. Kurukshetra is the Hindutvadi equivalent of the Zionist entity’s “Plan D”, which was implemented by the Zionist militias and Jewish terror gangs that ethnically cleansed historic Palestine from 1947-1948, driving nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland. The Padmanabhan-Katzir plan would come on the back of Cold Start; as Indian forces are hammering key Pakistani army installations, half a dozen Indian black ops brigades integrated with Israeli paramilitary specialists will sneak into Azad Kashmir, the Pakistani side of the Vale, and begin the terror en masse, ethnically cleansing all persons in sight. The brigades would then split up, with three moving north towards Kupwara, Baramullah and the Kashmiri capital of Srinagar, and three moving south towards Kishtwar, Doda and Jammu.

The terror will continue until Kurukshetra is complete, which won’t be until every indigenous Muslim is removed from Kashmir. Whatever Resistance that assuredly will come into existence with the execution of such barbarous tactics is not only to be crushed and tormented according to the methods of Padmanabhan in the early 1990s, but humiliated and mutilated, to discourage any acts of intolerance to oppression in the future, according to Zionist methods during the Nakba and in occupied Lebanon. It is called the ‘Mughrabi Doctrine,’ and it is not surprising that Eli Katzir is a protégé of ‘Israeli’ Defense Minister and 9/11 false flag architect Ehud Barak,⁽⁴³⁾ the ruthless murderer of Palestinian heroine and legend, Dalal Mughrabi, who Barak maimed, tortured, sexually abused and murdered on live television nearly 34 years ago.

Strategically, Operation Kurukshetra is not only meant to expand the Hindutvadi empire, but to open the doors for its Zionist-run allies in the West to station huge troop deployments in Kashmir to eventually bring about the ultimate endgame: the destruction of Russia and China for the sake of inaugurating the real ‘New World Order’, the ‘Jewish Utopia,’ in which every facet of everyday life on this planet is subject to scrutiny by the Zionists and their Talmudic overlords. Resource-rich Kashmir provides easy access into key ‘hotbed points’ in China, making it the perfect launching point for any future conflict. While he didn’t mention Operation Kurukshetra by name, Indian National Congress President and Hindutvadi extremist Sanjeva Reddy certainly and most blatantly alluded to it in a recent statement meant to intimidate Pakistan, “India will liberate that part of Kashmir not under Indian rule.”⁽⁴⁴⁾ Once again applying the rules of Newspeak, “liberation” in this case, translates to Hindutvadi ethnic cleansing. It is also vital to note that the groundwork for Operation Kurukshetra was laid out long before the Cold Start Doctrine was even born, making its exposure in this paper all the more crucial.

It began with the expulsion of the Kashmiri Pandits, indigenous Hindus of the Vale, at the onset of the 1989 intifada. The Hindutvadi regime blames the “Islamic insurgency” for driving the indigenous from their ancestral homelands but this is mere psychological warfare to fit the Zionist-created ‘War on Terror’ narrative that Islam is intolerant of all other religions and even hostile towards them; this is not the case by any stretch of the imagination as Muslims and Hindus fought together against British colonialism in both India and Kashmir and Islamic scholars even recognized Hindus as “people of the book”, granting them protection under Islamic law.⁽³⁰⁾ What the evidence actually suggests is that the Hindutvadi regime itself, through occupation administrator Governor Jahmohan, encouraged and engineered the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits. Kashmiri eyewitnesses testify that they saw transports of the Indian government forcibly taking Kashmiri Pandits from their homes.⁽⁴⁵⁾

It was Padmanabhan however, who was the real force behind this policy of dispossessing the Pandits. It is well-known amongst the Kashmiri Resistance and Pakistani intelligentsia that the ‘good general’ had an obsession with Zionist literature and a particular favorite of his was ‘Israeli’ foreign policy advisor Oded Yinon’s “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s.” Padmanabhan saw this plan as something that absolutely could be integrated into Indian foreign policy and the perfect place to start with in his opinion was Kashmir, where communal war between Muslims and Hindus could be triggered. Padmanabhan, with help from Mossad assets in Jammu and Kashmir, orchestrated dozens of false flag attacks against the Pandits of Kashmir, including bombings and home-burnings, to incite hatred and distrust of the Muslim majority. Once clearing out the Pandits from the Vale, Padmanabhan then hoped to “cleanse the unrighteous” from the “holy lands of Hindutva” before resettling the Pandits in Kashmir in colonies. But the Kashmiri Resistance, led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and the Pandits themselves who still somehow maintain peace of mind after 23 years of terror and exile that they’ve endured at the hands of the Hindutvadi regime, have rejected this premise entirely,⁽⁴⁶⁾ foiling ‘India’s Yinon Plan.’

This plan was modified in the summer of 2008 when Hindutva concocted a plot to settle Indian Hindus from India in occupied Kashmir under the pretext of ‘protecting religious sites’, no different than what the Zionist entity does on a daily basis in occupied al-Quds and the West Bank. The plot was scrapped when massive protests broke out, which the Hindutvadi regime typically replied to with live ammunition, tear gas and barbarity.⁽⁴⁷⁾ The latest and most dangerous phase of bringing Operation Kurukshetra to fruition is the “Dogra certificate” affair. In the first week of April of 2011, Indian Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla proposed an identification method known as the “Dogra certificate” for the Hindu residents of Jammu Province in occupied Kashmir to make it easier for them to join the Indian occupation army. Interestingly enough, Indian army officials categorically denied this. What is most telling is that Bhalla, in a classic invocation of the Yinon plan, suggested that India introduce Kashmiri, Rajput and Ladakhi certificates to the Valley as well, completing dividing the nation-state on ethno-sectarian lines.⁽⁴⁸⁾ Due to pressure from the Kashmiri people and the Resistance, the Dogra certificate plot was shelved just a few weeks later.⁽⁴⁹⁾

But the damage was already done. Indeed, a subplot of introducing the Dogra certificates was to divide the Vale, making it easier to conquer, if the people were to go along with it, but the real intention was to simply identify those districts, towns and cities that wouldn’t be touched when the hellfire of Cold Start rains on Pakistan and Operation Kurukshetra follows in Kashmir. Cold Start and Operation Kurukshetra are not fantasies festering in the minds of a paranoid Pakistani army and aggravated Kashmiri people as the Zionist media would like the world to believe. They are imminent realities of a complex geopolitical ‘great game’ that looks to remap the entire Southeast Asia Subcontinent in favor of Hindutvadi primacy. The only hope for the region is sustained righteous Resistance and as the Kashmiris have demonstrated over the last century and a half of oppression, colonialism and occupation, their will to fight for liberation is a force that cannot be deterred.

Conclusion: The Resumption Of Drone Strikes, The Zardari Memo Scandal and Cold Start’s Abortive Birth

The plot to paralyse, balkanise and denuclearise Pakistan is a multilayered plan that involves a number of foreign actors employing converging strategies. Israeli interests seek to denuclearise and balkanise Pakistan in line with long-standing Zionist policy to divide all Muslim and Arab states. Converging on this strategy is the Hindutvadi plan to aggressively invade Pakistan under the Cold Start doctrine, and ethnically cleanse Kashmir of its Muslim population through a campaign of terror, murder and intimidation. This mirrors Israel’s murderous past and in fact these Hindutvadi strategies have been developed with the close cooperation of Israeli military and intelligence advisors. The American ‘AfPak’ war effort is equally central to this Israeli-Indo-American ‘endgame’ plot. It is intended that American forces will pressure and distract the Pakistani military from the west (Afghanistan) and south (landing at Gwadar), allowing Indian forces to more easily launch their surprise attack from the east. The final piece to the puzzle is the fourth generation warfare being levied at Pakistan in order to ‘soften it up’. This includes the deployment of weaponised CIA drones and CIA-RAW-Mossad assets such as the TTP. Both of these elements are designed to cause instability and foment division and insurrection, as they have been doing since 2004.

Since NATO’s heinous attack of November 26, the activities of the CIA-RAW-Mossad proxy Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan have accelerated and a spate of terror attacks have occurred. The last few days alone have seen multiple signature TTP attacks in northwest Pakistan – the TTP’s stomping ground. A deadly attack on a police station resulted in 9 being killed,⁽⁵⁰⁾ and in a separate attack 7 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an ambush.⁽⁵¹⁾ If we look to other recent events within and without Pakistan, we can see clear indications of startling attempts to kick-start the endgame plan into action, and eviscerate Pakistan from all sides.

On Tuesday 10th January, CIA drone strikes (the aerial phase of the 4GW operation) resumed after a two month hiatus.⁽⁵²⁾ Prior to this event the last CIA drone strike in Pakistan was carried out on the 17th November. NATO’s subsequent attack on the Salala border posts ushered in a moratorium on drone strikes as Zardari struggled with the CIA to save his Quisling office. The CIA’s resumption of drone strikes on January 10th was characteristically bloody, with at least 4 Pakistanis so far reported killed. Over 2,600 Pakistanis have been murdered in these drone strikes thus far.

On January 13, 2012, corrupt Pakistani President Asif Zardari returned to Islamabad after his second visit to Dubai in quick succession. Previously on Tuesday 6 December, 2011, Zardari had flown to Dubai ostensibly for hospital treatment after suffering a ‘heart attack’.⁽⁵³⁾ His second and most recent visit was, we are told, a private visit for a wedding.⁽⁵⁴⁾ Though Zardari’s office attempts to fool the Pakistani nation into believing nonsensical fantasies about his health and social life, the real reason for these visits to Dubai indicates a much darker and treacherous reality.

In the wake of the staged bin Laden raid of May 2nd 2011, Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani (who subsequently resigned on November 22, 2011) drafted a treasonous memo at the request of President Asif Zardari. In the memo delivered to Admiral Mike Mullen, Zardari requested that the CIA help to eliminate the leadership of the Pakistani military establishment. In return for this act of grave treachery, Zardari assured the U.S. that pliant Pakistani military leaders would be installed, and the U.S. would gain full control of the leadership, and of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. Interestingly within the memo, Zardari also agreed to hand over to India the alleged perpetrators of the 26/11 Mossad-RAW false flag, and to close down a central branch of the ISI.⁽⁵⁵⁾

In an explosive revelation⁽⁵⁶⁾ by Pakistani analyst Syed Zaid Hamid, we learn that Husain Haqqani had actually worked with Washington in order to draw up a list of over 350 targets within Pakistan. These targets consisted of the entirety of the Pakistani military command and control infrastructure structure – targets that would have to be destroyed as part of a three-pronged AfPak/Cold Start/4GW endgame strategy for Pakistan.

In effect, Zardari & Haqqani, in cahoots with the CIA, are actually trying to surrender Pakistan’s sovereignty as they push for one of Cold Start’s central objectives to be realised: the decapitation of the Pakistani military leadership and decimation of the military command and control structure. Working feverishly for the dissolution of Pakistan, Zardari & Haqqani are essentially acting as agents of foreign interests and as such should be arrested and tried immediately.

For the time being, the Pakistani army, air force, and people, have managed to fend off these covert foreign plots. As a further blow to Israeli-Indo-American interests, the CIA has been forced to vacate Shamsi airbase in southern Pakistan – a strategically important base that the CIA had used for drone strikes within Pakistan as well as surveillance on Iran and Pakistan’s nuclear facilities. Shamsi was also used as a base from which to support and surveil CIA-RAW-Mossad aligned separatist groups in southern Pakistan.

The loss of the Shamsi airbase is a rebuff to the United States without precedent, and is a significant blow to Israeli-Indo-American designs. There are dark actors now attempting to crush Pakistan from all sides with renewed vigour; Pakistan must maintain this momentum and remain ever vigilant in order to counter this threat. Despite the perfidiousness of British colonialism that disconnected Pakistan from most of the Vale and with respect to the definitive call of the Kashmiri people for self-determination, Pakistan and Kashmir are intimately linked as one bulwark of Resistance against these dark actors and their strategy for regional dominance. If anything good is to come out of NATO’s crude massacre in the Salala mountains which martyred 24 unsuspecting Pakistan soldiers, taking them away from their families, it will be that this Resistance is stronger and more unified than ever. And this, is very, very bad news for the Israeli-Indo-American nexus and whatever plot for hegemony that it may concoct next.

~ The End ~

Notes & Sources

(1) Syed Zaid Hamid speaking on The Ugly Truth podcast – 16 December, 2011 (57 minutes in)

(2) Game-changing and decisive events unfold at breakneck pace in Pakistan, by Martin Iqbal, Empire Strikes Black

(3) ‘Fourth generation warfare’ – Wikipedia

(4) The Ugly Truth podcast – 16 December, 2011 (55 minutes and 10 seconds in)

(5) Taliban claim revenge for death of propagandist – Dawn.com

(6) Militants attack paramilitary base, 15 soldiers abducted – Dawn.com

(7) Militants Explode School In NW Pakistan by Press TV

(8) Protesters Burn Buses After Attack On Shias In Karachi by Dawn News

(9) Pakistani Shia Leader Askari Raza Martyred By Wahhabi Terrorists in Karachi by Ahlul Bayt News Agency

(10) Pakistani Militants Kill 16 Soldiers by Press TV

(11) Nine killed in Pakistan suicide attack – Press Trust of India

(12) Taliban claim suicide bombing that killed 6 in Pakistan – CNN

(13) Taliban suicide bomber kills 6 Pakistani soldiers – CBS News

(14) Six killed in Pakistan suicide car bombing – BBC News Asia

(15) Who are the Taliban? – BBC News Asia

(16) The 9/11 Delusion: Israel’s False Flag, Jingoism And Inhumanity by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion

(17) Who Did 9/11 – OBL, Bush Or Mossad? The Evidence by Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq, Ascertain The Truth; Zionist Terrorists Arrested Inside Mexican Congress by Ernesto Cienfurgos, La Voz de Atzlan

(18) Israel’s Fission Field Warfare: Pakistan, Iraq And Egypt: Section – Hostile Environment I: Humiliation In Pakistan by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion

(19) How The Weapons From Israel Are Arranged For Karachi by Syed Haroon Haider Gilani and Aaron Lion, HaroonHaider.com

(20) Israel And India: Brothers In Occupation Of Kashmir; Section – Criminal Partition And The Armed Forces Special Powers Act by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion

(21) Israel And India: Brothers In Occupation Of Kashmir; Indian Crimes Against Humanity and US Support by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion

(22) Kashmir Media Service – Violence Update

(23) Dogs Legally Enjoy More Rights Than Humans In IHK by Kashmir Media Service

(24) Student Killed In Power Protest by Altaf Baba and Muddasir Ali, Greater Kashmir

(25) Unexplained Gaza Communications “Blackout” Highlights Israeli Control Of Networks by Benjamin Doherty, The Electronic Intifada

(26) Jan 6, 1993: 57 Killed, 295 Shops Set Ablaze: Sopore Massacre by Ghulam Muhammad, Greater Kashmir

(27) From India With Love by Itamar Eichner, Ynet

(28) Israel, India Present: Economic Love Affair by Aimee Ginsburg, Ynet

(29) Israel Now India’s Top Defense Supplier by Yaakov Katz, The Jerusalem Post; India And Israel Hail Their Warm Relationship by BBC News

(30) 26/11: Mossad Terrorizes Mumbai by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion

(31) Speaking Out On Kashmir And Palestine In The US by Yasmine Qureshi, The Electronic Intifada

(32) Israel And India: Brothers In Occupation Of Kashmir; Section – Israel: India’s Occupation Advisor by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion

(33) Israel And India: Brothers In Occupation Of Kashmir; Section – The Alliance Between Mossad and RAW by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion

(34) 26/11 Revisited: Raymond Davis And A Travesty Of Justice; Section – Conclusion: Another Tragedy and Occupied Kashmir by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion

(35) Game-Changing And Decisive Events Unfold At Breakneck Pace In Pakistan by Martin Iqbal, Empire Strikes Black

(36) Killing India’s Hidden Cold Start Strategy by Pak Alert Press

(37) India’s New “Cold Start” War Doctrine Strategically Reviewed by Dr. Subhash Kapila, South Asia Analysis Group

(38) India’s Cold Start Strategy: Limited Strikes Against Targets Vs Hot War Leading To Nuclear Armageddon by Moin Ansari, Pak Alert Press/Rupee News

(39) Obama Is Not Likely To Push India Hard On Pakistan by Lydia Polgreen and Mark Landler, The New York Times

(40) Wikileaks Is Zionist Poison II: Deconstruction Of The Myth by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion

(41) Wikileaks: US On Indian Army’s Cold Start Doctrine by NDTV

(42) Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan, New Army Chief by The Hindu

(43) India’s Reckless Road To Washington Through Tel Aviv by Vijay Prashad, Peace and Justice Post

(44) Azad Kashmir Is Not Goa, India Warned by Dawn News

(45) Kashmir: The Pandit Question by Azad Essa, Al-Jazeera English

(46) India Trying To Suppress Liberation Movement Forcefully: Syed Ali Gilani by The Nation (Pakistan)

(47) Protests Rock Indian Kashmir Over Fear Of Hindu Settlements by The New York Times

(48) Dogra Certificate: Move To Divide The State by The Kashmir Dispatch

(49) Dogra Certificate Issue Resolved by The Press Trust Of India

(50) Pakistan police station attack kills 9 – Press TV

(51) Militant ambush kills 7 Pakistani troops – Press TV

(52) Drone strikes resume amid U.S.-Pakistan strains – Reuters India

(53) Pakistan president in Dubai for heart treatment – Reuters

(54) Zardari returns to Islamabad; not worried about political crisis: Spokesman – The Nation (Pakistan)

(55) The Buck Stops Here – NDTV report, 22 November, 2011

(56) Syed Zaid Hamid speaking on The Ugly Truth Podcast – 16 December, 2011 (1 hour, 6 minutes and 45 seconds in)

by Kourosh Ziabari.

Jonathan Azaziah is an Iraqi-American Muslim poet, activist, analyst, writer and journalist from Brooklyn, New York, currently residing in Florida. His articles, poems and music predominantly deal with international Zionism and the cruel effect that it has on the world’s oppressed people. He is also a staff writer for Pakistan’s premier alternative media outlet, Opinion Maker, and a frequent guest and co-host of the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement’s Ugly Truth radio broadcast.

Jonathan took part in an enlightening, explosive interview with me and expressed his viewpoints regarding the renewed war threats of Israel against Iran, Tehran’s nuclear program, the new allegations of the White House against Iran, the true nature of Israel as a state and what he feels is the greatest threat facing our world today. An excerpt of this interview appeared in the Tehran Times, Iran’s leading international daily. 

Ziabari: Israel possesses up to 200 nuclear warheads, but it has constantly threatened Iran with a military strike over its nuclear program, warning that Iran should be prevented from acquiring nuclear technology. How is it possible to justify this stance?

Azaziah: The nucleus of the Zionist mindset, the energy source that drives those who think in this manner to behave like the inhuman monsters that they are, is Jewish supremacism; the need to destroy all that it is not Jewish, the goyim, in order for “the Jewish people” to survive. The developer of the neutron bomb, Samuel T. Cohen, was a Zionist with a strong Talmudic-Jewish upbringing, as was Robert J. Oppenheimer, the creator of the atom bomb. The supremacist-need to destroy all non-Jewish peoples and cultures was close to the blackened hearts of the early leaders of the usurping Zionist entity, hence why Ben-Gurion, Dayan, Eshkol and Peres collectively came up with the “Samson Option,” the military plan to unleash ‘Israeli’ nukes upon the world if any nation or every nation attempted to confront Zionist power. The polar opposite of this thuggish outlook on existence, is the Islamic Revolutionary Republic of Iran, a nation whose Persian history is rooted in the very essence of creation. The finest poets, artists, mathematicians, scientists and theologians that the world has ever known originate from this great land.

The Zionist entity, in its twisted collective mind, must destroy Iran because the Islamic Republic represents everything that it is not: tolerant, beautiful, non-destructive, non-aggressive and most importantly, Godwary. Iran does not bow down to the feet of the Zionists and their rabbinical overlords, it only bows before Almighty God and for this, it has drawn the ire of the Zionists and their imperial conduit puppets. From the geopolitical perspective, the Zionist entity must not allow any Islamic nation to acquire nuclear weapons because that would neutralize its domination of the region; the annihilation of Iraq, the demolition of Libya and constant assault on nuclear-armed Pakistan are prime examples of this.

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Those who create the chaos have a plan and in the midst of chaos, they usually are the ones who will win.  Those who wrote the plan of this chaos were affiliated with the Project for a New American Century–read A Clean Break if you already haven’t.

by Cynthia McKinney.

It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya.

For those of you who have not followed closely the situation in Libya, the resistance to the rule of the National Transitional Council is strong.  The National Transitional Council (NTC) cast of characters has about as much support on the ground as did Mahmoud Abbas before the United Nations request for Palestinian statehood or Afghanistan’s regal-looking but politically impotent Hamid Karzai or for that matter, George W Bush after eight years.

The NTC not only has to contend with a vibrant, well-financed, grassroots-supported resistance, but the various militias of the NTC are now also fighting each other.  I believe this “sociocide” of Libyan society, as we previously witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan before it, is part of a carefully crafted plan of destabilization that ultimately serves U.S. imperial interests and those of a Zionist state and its US agents who are bent on Greater Israel’s suzerainty over huge swaths of Arabic-speaking populations.  Pakistan is also on the list for neutering in Muslim and world affairs, saddled with its own unpopular civilian leadership that finds itself in the hip pocket of the United States for survival, often getting sat upon by its fiscal guarantor.

The “Arab Spring” has sprung and the indelible fingerprints of malignant foreign financed operations must be erased if the people are to have a chance to truly govern themselves.  Unfortunately, these foreign-inspired organizations are present and operating in just about every country in the world.The threat is ever-present like sleeping cells–all that is needed is that the right word to “activate” be given.  Both Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez can write tomes on the impact of the National Endowment for Democracy in the political life of their countries.

In other words, those who create the chaos have a plan and in the midst of chaos, they usually are the ones who will win.  Those who wrote the plan of this chaos were affiliated with the Project for a New American Century–read A Clean Break if you already haven’t.  General Wesley Clark told us of the plan to invade and destroy the governments of seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.  “These people took control of the policy in the United States,” Clark continues.  He concludes, “This country was taken over by a group of people with a policy coup:  Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and . . . collaborators from the Project for a New American Century:  they wanted us to destabilize the Middle East.”  Richard Perle, Bill Kristol publicize these plans and “could hardly wait to finish Iraq so they could go into Syria,” Clark goes on.  “The root of the problem is the strategy of the United States in this region.  Why are Americans dying in this region?  That is the issue,” he finishes.

Now, from Libya, reports are that even while the Misrata rebels (NATO allies responsible for the murder of hundreds of Libyans, including Moatessem Qaddafi) attempted to scale the petroleum platforms in Brega (an important oil town in Libya), they were annihilated by the Apache helicopters of their own NATO allies.  A resistance Libyan doctor-become-journalist reported yesterday that all of the petroleum platforms are occupied by NATO and that warships occupy Libya’s ports.  Photographs show Italian encampments in the desert with an announcement that the French are to follow.

Another news outlet reports that Qataris and Emiratees are the engineers now at the oil plants, turning away desperate Libyan workers.  While long lines exist for Libyan drivers to get their gas, foreign troops ensure the black gold’s export.  Libyans lack enough food and the basics, the country has been turned upside down, and contaminated with uranium while the true number of dead and unaccounted for remains high  and unknown.  Thousands of young Libyans, supporters of the Jahamiriya, languish under torture and assassination in a Misrata prison where a humanitarian disaster is about to unfold because Misrata rebels want to kill them all and have already attacked the prison once to do so.  An urgent appeal to contact the International Red Cross was issued yesterday to help save the lives of the prisoners.  And finally, Black Libyans continue to be targeted for harassment and murder in Libya by US/NATO allies on the ground.  Teaching hate, given the images of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan released yesterday, urinating on Afghani dead bodies, is not a difficult thing to do, it would seem.  Videos are posted of Black Libyans being beaten, whipped, threatened, harassed, and humiliated.  These videos remind me of the antebellum South–reminiscent of the days of slavery and The Confederacy.  So, when I use the word “descend”  to describe U.S. anticipated actions, I mean just that:  U.S. troops are about to descend into the hell on Earth created by their President and the leaders of other countries who approved of, aided, or participated in the death of Libyan-owned society.  A report from last night indicates that one militia, fearing other militias even invited foreigners in to protect them.

I hope the report that I’m reading from 12 January 2012 is not true.  I hope our President has not sent 12,000 troops of occupation to Malta destined for Libya.  Lucy Grider-Bradley (of our DIGNITY Delegation) just yesterday reminded me of the words of a high-ranking Libyan Jahamiriya Foreign Ministry representative who just happened to be at the Tunisia/Libya border office at the same time we were waiting there.  He said, “Let the Americans come.  We want them to taste our sandwiches.  We will give them the same serving they got in Vietnam.”

Please write to our President (at www.whitehouse.gov) and ask him not to send troops of occupation (or whatever “euphemism de jour” this Administration chooses to use) to Libya.

To save the lives of the young men in prison, please e-mail the International Red Cross at any or all of the e-mail addresses given below:

in Tripoli  218213409262 / Croix rouge
218919418066 / 218925236582
tri_tripoli@icrc.org

Le président de la croix rouge
41227346001/41227332057
webmaster@icrc.org

Organisation de protection des droits de l’homme
à London
David Mepham
UK Director

Eleanor Blatchley
Associate
Tel: +44 (0) 20-7713-2788
blatche@hrw.org

En Suisse
Geneva
Switzerland
Tel: +41-22-738-0481
fax: +41-22-738-1791

http://www.lrc.org.ly/contactus.html

And then, please view the most recent addition to the extremely valuable work of a young documentarian, Julien Teil, who caught Amnesty International red-handed in proselytizing the lies in the lead-up to this Libya debacle that they tried to take back.  In short, Amnesty admits that the “African mercenaries” was just a rumor from the start.  How many Black Libyans are suffering and have died because this woman and others like her safely ensconced in their seats of authority used them to proffer lies instead of protect the truth?  The video is in both French and English and can be viewed here: http://www.laguerrehumanitaire.fr/english.

Lastly, there is one thing you can do:  refuse to vote for war.  Your vote is your most precious political asset.  When you vote for Congressional representatives who, in turn, vote for war, you allow the people who made the coup–the people that General Wesley Clark talked about–you allow them to win.  Overturn the coup by voting for peace.  Cast your vote for peace.  Ignore the pundits on the Sunday morning talk shows and vote for peace.  Turn off the crap TV and vote for peace.  Don’t even listen to your friends who think you’ve gone crazy, just vote for peace.

Cindy Piester, a documentarian who hosted the last event that I attended with my aunt in Ventura, California, just finished a film, “On the Dark Side in Al Doura – A Soldier in the Shadows” in which Dick Cheney says that the United States has to “work toward the dark side, spend time in the shadows, in the intelligence world.”  He goes on to say, “A lot of what needs to be done will have to be done quietly without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies.”  View her extremely well-done and sad film here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNmerP32xk and please, don’t let this gang of coup plotters take you and this country into the shadows where we don’t need or want to be.

January 2, 2012 – Whiteout Press.

Jerusalem. In one of the most blacked-out stories in America right now, the US military is preparing to send thousands of US troops, along with US Naval anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel, to Israel. It took forever to find a second source for confirmation of this story and both relatively mainstream media outlets are in Israel. With one source saying the military deployment and corresponding exercises are to occur in January, the source providing most of the details suggests it will occur later this spring.

Calling it not just an “exercise”, but a “deployment”, the Jerusalem Post quotes US Lt.-Gen Frank Gorenc, Commander of the US Third Air Force based in Germany. The US Commander visited Israel two weeks ago to confirm details for “the deployment of several thousand American soldiers to Israel.” In an effort to respond to recent Iranian threats and counter-threats, Israel announced the largest ever missile defense exercise in its history. Now, it’s reported that the US military, including the US Navy, will be stationed throughout Israel, also taking part.

Also confirming the upcoming US-Israeli military missile exercises is JTA.org - ‘global news service of the Jewish people’. In their account, they report, ‘Last week, plans for Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, to visit Israel in January were leaked to Israeli media; his visit likely will coincide with the largest-ever joint U.S.-Israel anti-missile exercise’.

While American troops will be stationed in Israel for an unspecified amount of time, Israeli military personnel will be added to EUCOM in Germany. EUCOM stands for United States European Command.

In preparation for anticipated Iranian missile attacks upon Israel, the US is reportedly bringing its THAAD, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, and ship-based Aegis ballistic missile systems to Israel. The US forces will join Israeli missile defense systems like the Patriot and Arrow. The deployment comes with “the ultimate goal of establishing joint task forces in the event of a large-scale conflict in the Middle East”.

The Jerusalem Post reports that US Lt.-Gen Frank Gorenc was in Israel meeting with his Israeli counterpart, Brig.-Gen Doron Gavish, commander of the Air Defense Division. While there, the US General visited one of Israel’s three ‘Iron Dome’ anti-missile outposts. The Israeli Air Force has announced plans to deploy a fourth Iron Dome system in the coming months. Additional spending increases in the Jewish state will guarantee the manufacture and deployment of three more Iron Dome systems by the end of 2012. The Israelis are hoping to eventually have at least a dozen of the anti-missile systems deployed along its northern and southern borders.

In a show of escalated tensions in the region, Iran test fired two long range missiles today. One, called the Qadar, is a powerful sea-to-shore missile. The other was an advanced surface-to-surface missile called the Nour. According to Iranian state news, the Nour is an ‘advanced radar-evading, target-seeking, guided and controlled missile’. Additionally, the Iranian military reportedly test-fired numerous other short, medium and long-range missiles. Yesterday, Iranian authorities reported that they test-fired the medium-range, surface-to-air, radar-evading Mehrab missile. Today is supposed to be the final day of Iranian naval drills in the Straits of Hormuz.

Iran recently made global headlines when it threatened to blockade the Straits of Hormuz if Europe and the US went ahead with their boycott of Iranian oil and the country’s central bank. One-quarter of the world’s oil passes through that waterway every day. President Obama has announced that a closure of the Straits was unacceptable and vowed to take whatever measures are necessary to keep the vital shipping lane open.

In response to the Iranian missile tests this weekend, French authorities were the first to respond, calling it a, “very bad signal to the international community.”We want to underline that the development by Iran of a missile program is a source of great concern to the international community,”the French Foreign Ministry said in a written statement. Israeli officials suggested the flamboyant Iranian military drills this weekend were a sign that international sanctions on the country were taking a heavy toll and that any additional boycotts, on its banks or oil industry, would be crippling.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the large missile tests showed, “the dire straits of Iran in light of the tightening sanctions around her, including the considerations in the last few days regarding the sanctions of exporting petroleum as well as the possibility of sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank.” While the chances of Iran going through with its threat of closing the Straits of Hormuz are slim, the deployment of thousands of US troops and naval ships to Israel shows the US isn’t taking any chances.

by Martin Iqbal.

Read on for breaking analysis from Pakistani luminary Zaid Hamid. Events are fast unfolding, and with potentially dire global implications. In summary:

• The corrupt head of Pakistani puppet regime Zardari flees to Dubai for “treatment” after a “heart attack”. In reality he is meeting with the CIA to try and save his regime;
• Pakistani army claims recent US attacks on Pakistan “deliberate”, “part of a plot” and to support the TTP insurgents;
• US forces forced to vacate Shamsi airbase in southwest Pakistan. Shamsi was being used for spying on Iran and spying on Pakistani nuclear facilities with stealth drones not easily detectable by Pakistan. Iran suspects U.S. drone it shot down recently was flown out of Shamsi;
• Due to blockade by Pakistan, NATO supplies are amassing inside Pakistan unable to enter Afghanistan. U.S. and NATO forces now increasingly more vulnerable inside Afghanistan;
• Thousands of US military vehicles and equipment stuck in Pakistan liable to be seized by Pakistan in light of payments owed to Pakistan by the U.S. Military;
• U.S. Military now entering an utterly desperate situation in the ‘AfPak’ theatre due to a number of developments;
• Cover now blown on a huge and sinister U.S. plan. This involved bombing Pakistani command and control centres, decapitating the army, and landing U.S. troops at Gwadar in order to forge and secure a sea-to-land route to Afghanistan. This risks regional/nuclear conflagration involving Pakistan’s allies Iran & China;
• Indian Cold Start strategy intended to work in tandem with this U.S. plan, wherein Indian troops would invade Pakistan from India;
• Rumours of a coup brewing in Pakistan. The fate of the world literally now rests on how this situation unfolds.

Full text from Zaid Hamid’s Facebook page:

The game changing and decisive events are unfolding at almost breathtaking pace in Pakistan. Pakistan army and the nation have stood up to defy and shock the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Within the country, the corrupt head of the PPP regime Zardari flees to Dubai for “treatment” after a “heart attack”.

Pakistan army is in charge of the country’s national security issues with the PPP government totally in panic and confusion. Pak army has taken most firm and hostile stand against the US calling the attacks “deliberate”, “part of a plot” and to support the TTP insurgents. These are the most damning allegations from the Pakistan army yet against the US forces in last 10 years of “alliance”.

So, it is not just the blockade of NATO supplies that is hurting US tremendously. They have been forced to vacate the Shamsi airbase also which they had been using under a farcical diplomatic arrangement between UAE and Pakistan. This base was not just for the operations within Pakistan but was also being used against Iran and for spying on Pakistan’s nuclear facilities through their newest “stealth” drone which could not be easily detected by Pakistani radars. While the new contract for supplies is being debated, this is an irrevocable damage done already to the entire US war plans against Pakistan and Iran. Iranians are extremely pleased indeed. Iranians suspect that the drone which they had shot down recently was most probably flown out of Shamsi. Ejection from Shamsi is a major setback indeed for the CIA.

The NATO supplies are now choking Pakistan ports and roads with thousands of containers, military vehicles and arms enough to raise many divisions of army vulnerable to attacks from the militants. This is the ultimate nightmare for the NATO. The more these supplies are on the road; the more chances are that they will end up in smoke. Attacks have already begun.

There is another fear which is now eating up the US and NATO planners. In the 90’s, Pakistan had purchased the F-16’s from the US but they were seized under the new laws which prohibited sale of these equipment to Pakistan. Despite the fact that Pakistan has already paid the price in full, these jets were not handed over to Pakistan and Pakistan was even charged for the parking fee into millions of dollars while these jets remained parked on military bases of the US. Now there are thousands of US military vehicles and equipment which is lying all across Pakistan waiting to cross into Pakistan. US have also not paid billions of dollars of Coalition Support Fund which they were supposed to pay to Pakistan for using Pakistan’s roads, ports and infrastructure. Now, Pakistan can actually seize all this military hardware and goods as payment for the arrears or if the relations hit new low, these can be seized as hostile enemy property as well. There is a real possibility that this equipment, if it survives the attacks from the militants, may actually end up in the new formations of the Pakistan army.

US is threatening to cut Pakistan aid. But US are again playing with fire here as well. Pak army can simply move in to help themselves with brand new state of the art NATO military hardware worth billions of dollars.

US know that if Pakistan army gets hostile, it would be the end of the US in Afghanistan. Their entire military and economic strategy for the 21st century now faces the risk of going up in smoke just because Pakistan army has had enough of non-sense frm the US and NATO. US and their lawmakers are now desperate to find ways and means to bring back Pakistan. Pakistan had also boycotted the Bonn conference. That had magnified the US embarrassment and had insult to the injury. There are many US lawmakers demanding aid cut. But the more pragmatic ones realize that they must remain engaged with Pakistan.

It is actually incredible that Pakistan’s just one NO has stunned the US and NATO in so many theatres. The problems and crisis for NATO does not end with Pakistan’s blockade of their supplies. The economy of NATO states is collapsing at home! Euro zone is now dismantling and it will become impossible for NATO states of justify their overseas military operations which remain open ended and without any mission objective.

So, what are the options open to US now? It is a desperate situation no doubt for the Washington and the Pentagon. US had planned a contingency strategy for such an eventuality which envisaged a massive air strike on Pakistan’s command and control systems and the elimination of the military leadership. This exact plan was known to Hussain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to US who is now facing the treason charges in Pakistan and the blowing up of this very scandal has forced Zardari to flee as well under the pretext of health.

But if US do go through with such a sinister and high risk plan, how will it bring troops on ground to secure a nuclear armed state? US cannot control Afghanistan, let alone a Muslim martial nation of 170 million which has around 7 million armed men within tribals and local militias to support the Pakistan army, which is also nuclear armed and allied with China and Iran. US plan was to bomb Pakistan and then land its forces on Gawader to try to cut a land route to Afghanistan. If US want its own terms, it will have to embark on this most dangerous adventure which has all the possibility of getting out of hand into a regional war.

That is where the Indian Cold start military doctrine comes in. The US Af-Pak doctrine was designed to work in tandem with Indian Cold Start strategy. The air blitz was to come from US/NATO. Ground forces would move in from India to “secure” Pakistan while the US would land and cut a corridor to Afghanistan from Gawader.

But the entire strength of this sinister high risk plan was the secrecy. Now the cover is blown, Pakistan army is ready, deployed and armed. Strategic assets deployed and directed towards US and Indian assets. The entire US/India plan of surprise and secrecy is now up in flames.

So, now, either US succumb to demands of Pakistan and find an exit strategy and leave Afghanistan while they still can. Else, they risk a massive regional war which can even go nuclear and would surely also eliminate the entire US/NATO force in Afghanistan and the region, also drawing in Iran, India and China into the conflict.

These are the most difficult times for Obama and his administration. He had come to bring victory to the US in Afghanistan. Now he faces a humiliating defeat as in Vietnam. The US administration can hope to find a slave government in Islamabad but this is not happening now. In the absence of a docile, corrupt and incompetent regime, US is now forced to deal with a tough Pakistan army which is raging with sense if revenge after having lost tens of thousands of finest of officers and men in a war of terrorism and insurgency which was orchestrated by the CIA. The Pakistan’s military leadership is now firm and is determined to undo the mistakes of the past. Even if the military leadership in Pakistan tries to give some concessions to the US at this stage, they cannot due to sheer rage and anger in the armed forces and the nation. The entire nation now stands united behind the army and the PPP regime and the US/NATO can only watch in helplessness and the wretched Indian wait in the desert for the signal from the Pentagon which is not forthcoming.

The future of the world now depends upon “Yes” and “No” from Pakistan, literally! No one is more nervous than Obama these days, apart from Zardari of course, who is meeting the CIA in dubai trying to find out how to save his regime.

If Zardari and CIA cannot find away to “neutralize” the Pakistan army, then Zardari is not coming back to Pakistan. He has been caught along with Hussain Haqqani in the memo scandal and now this is costing him his seat.

Meanwhile, the “rumors” of a coup are red hot in Islamabad. There is no doubt that even the army is fed up of this regime. It is criminal, treacherous and has abandoned the nation in these most difficult times. Army is hoping that Supreme Court will deal will deal with them legally and the army will not have to step in. But if the SC does not deliver, army may just step in as the US/NATO war threats loom. InshAllah great khair for Pak Sarzameen.

by Martin Iqbal.

Updated December 20, 2011: expanded and clarified the section pertaining to the David Ben-Gurion quote.

Israel’s plan to eviscerate the Arab and Muslim states, eyes nuclear Pakistan as the final hurdle. In the wake of NATO’s deadly November 26 attack on Pakistan, the S.I.T.E. Intelligence Group rears its head to carry forward the Zionist deceptions.

In February 1982 an important Hebrew paper appeared in a Jewish journal named KIVUNIM (Directions). Penned by Oded Yinon and titled ‘A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties‘, the essay delineates strategies for Israel to become a regional hegemon in the Middle East. The short and long term strategies discussed involve the dissolution of the surrounding Arab states, and the expansion of Israel beyond its current (undeclared) borders. Over a decade later in 1996, a Zionist study group led by arch Jewish Zionist Richard Perle wrote a paper entitled ‘A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm‘. ‘A Clean Break‘ was largely a rehashing of Oded Yinon’s essay, adapting the same strategies to the contemporary geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.

The Mossad false flag attacks of September 11, 2011 ushered in the Zionist-designed ‘War on Terror’. Before the attacks had even concluded, before any conclusive proof of the perpetrators could possibly have been attained, a prominent architect of the attacks appeared⁽¹⁾ on BBC World in order to name the states that had to be dissolved under Israel’s grand strategy (including Iraq, Libya, Syria and Iran). The U.S. Military was to be used as a mere tool, a ‘host body’ that would act as the American glove protecting the Israeli hand from the blood and treasure that would be spilled and spent. Since that time the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East and Central Asia has changed radically; we have seen the ‘Clean Break’ strategy unfold. In 2011 alone, Israel’s plan has lurched forward to engulf Libya and Syria. A major conflagration looms in the Middle East as Bashar Al-Assad faces a concerted destabilisation attempt mounted by Israel, the U.S, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

Oded Yinon’s plan is centred around the exploitation of ethnic, religious and tribal divisions within the Arab world. He notes that the Arab states have been largely defined by Britain and France, with arbitrary borders drawn that are not faithful to the ethnic, religious, and tribal differences between the different peoples in the region. Likening the Arab world to a house of cards, Yinon surmises that the entire region can be easily broken up into tiny states based on ethnic, religious, or tribal lines. This would preclude any centralised governance, and ensure that power is only localised to these ‘mini-states’. In effecting this strategy, Israel would remove any real opposition to its regional dominance.

Egypt, Libya & Sudan

‘A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties‘ makes clear Israel’s goal of balkanising (or ‘breaking up into smaller states’) Egypt and the surround states of Libya and Sudan:

Egypt, in its present domestic political picture, is already a corpse, all the more so if we take into account the growing Moslem-Christian rift. Breaking Egypt down territorially into distinct geographical regions is the political aim of Israel in the Nineteen Eighties on its Western front.

Egypt is divided and torn apart into many foci of authority. If Egypt falls apart, countries like Libya, Sudan or even the more distant states will not continue to exist in their present form and will join the downfall and dissolution of Egypt. The vision of a Christian Coptic State in Upper Egypt alongside a number of weak states with very localized power and without a centralized government as to date, is the key to a historical development which was only set back by the peace agreement but which seems inevitable in the long run.

The illegal war on Libya has already plunged the country into tribal conflict and chaos, signalling a new phase in Israel’s plan. Sudan, as we have seen very recently, has already been split into two distinct states: Sudan and South Sudan. In a piece⁽²⁾ published by the Al-Khaleej Times, Fahmi Howeidi expertly lays out how Israel has brought about the balkanisation of Sudan by training and cultivating secessionist groups, and provoking internal wars since the nineteen fifties. As Howeidi succinctly writes, “the crop sown by Israel and its allies since the 1950s is beginning to bear fruit“.

Pertaining to Libya, Islamic scholar Sheikh Imran Hosein’s analysis is right on point. He theorises that the Libya war, waged by NATO, an extension of the Zionist entity, is a precursor to the balkanisation of Egypt. Hosein envisages a two-pronged attack on Egypt: NATO and its proxy land forces from the west, and Israel from the east.

Moving to Egypt’s eastern frontier, it is a well known fact that Israel covets the Sinai (the Egyptian peninsula east of the Nile River) for not only ideological reasons (the realisation of Greater Israel), but also economic ones. Yinon makes no secret of Israeli designs on the Sinai:

The loss of the Suez Canal oil fields, of the immense potential of the oil, gas and other natural resources in the Sinai peninsula which is geomorphologically identical to the rich oil-producing countries in the region, will result in an energy drain in the near future and will destroy our domestic economy: one quarter of our present GNP as well as one third of the budget is used for the purchase of oil. The search for raw materials in the Negev and on the coast will not, in the near future, serve to alter that state of affairs.

(Regaining) the Sinai peninsula with its present and potential resources is therefore a political priority which is obstructed by the Camp David and the peace agreements. The fault for that lies of course with the present Israeli government and the governments which paved the road to the policy of territorial compromise, the Alignment governments since 1967. The Egyptians will not need to keep the peace treaty after the return of the Sinai, and they will do all they can to return to the fold of the Arab world and to the USSR in order to gain support and military assistance. American aid is guaranteed only for a short while, for the terms of the peace and the weakening of the U.S. both at home and abroad will bring about a reduction in aid. Without oil and the income from it, with the present enormous expenditure, we will not be able to get through 1982 under the present conditions and we will have to act in order to return the situation to the status quo which existed in Sinai prior to Sadat’s visit and the mistaken peace agreement signed with him in March 1979.

This corroborates Hosein’s theory that an Israeli attack is impending on the Sinai, potentially in concert with NATO-aligned forces in Libya. Recent belligerent posturing⁽³⁾ by an Israeli Member of the Knesset further backs up this idea.

Syria & Iraq

Two other nations earmarked for destruction at the outset of the Zionist ‘War on Terror’ were Syria and Iraq. As Yinon’s paper demonstrates, these nations too are prime targets of Israel’s balkanisation plan.

The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi’ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan. This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today.
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Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north.

Not only is Syria now undergoing the major Zionist destabilisation plot prescribed in Yinon’s strategy, but this plot is being carried out on the ground with major Turkish military, operational, and territorial support. This is something that was recommended in Richard Perle’s ‘Clean Break’ rehashing of the strategy:

(Israel can) Work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain, destabilize, and roll-back some of its most dangerous threats. This implies clean break from the slogan, “comprehensive peace” to a traditional concept of strategy based on balance of power.
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Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.
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Most important, it is understandable that Israel has an interest supporting diplomatically, militarily and operationally Turkey’s and Jordan’s actions against Syria, such as securing tribal alliances with Arab tribes that cross into Syrian territory and are hostile to the Syrian ruling elite.

Readers will most likely be aware of General Wesley Clark’s ‘seven nations in five years’ testimony. Clark, a four star General in the United States Army stated that on September 12, 2001 – the day after Israel’s false flag – the United States had already made the decision to wage war on Iraq in spite of having no casus belli whatsoever. A few weeks after this, shortly after the start of the war on Afghanistan, Clark was shown a memo which named seven countries that the United States was to ‘take down’ in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. This is literally a laundry list of Israel’s targets; the ‘Israeli hand in the American glove’ metaphor becomes disconcertingly fitting and relevant:

Jordan & the Palestinians

‘A Strategy for the Nineteen Eighties‘ recommends a ‘final solution’ to Israel’s ‘Palestinian problem’. After ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their land in 1948, Israel was unable to uproot the indigenous Arabs from the portion of Palestine that is now known as the West Bank. Though Israel occupied it in 1967, they were unable to force the entire population into flight.

Yinon’s plan calls for the native Palestinians of the West Bank to be pushed east over the river into Jordan, where they may establish a state. This, without compromise, is the only solution the Israeli colonists will accept – something which is evidenced by Israel’s continued and accelerated Jewish colonisation of the West Bank.

There is no chance that Jordan will continue to exist in its present structure for a long time, and Israel’s policy, both in war and in peace, ought to be directed at the liquidation of Jordan under the present regime and the transfer of power to the Palestinian majority. Changing the regime east of the river will also cause the termination of the problem of the territories densely populated with Arabs west of the Jordan. Whether in war or under conditions of peace, emigration from the territories and economic demographic freeze in them, are the guarantees for the coming change on both banks of the river, and we ought to be active in order to accelerate this process in the nearest future. The autonomy plan ought also to be rejected, as well as any compromise or division of the territories for, given the plans of the PLO and those of the Israeli Arabs themselves, the Shefa’amr plan of September 1980, it is not possible to go on living in this country in the present situation without separating the two nations, the Arabs to Jordan and the Jews to the areas west of the river. Genuine coexistence and peace will reign over the land only when the Arabs understand that without Jewish rule between the Jordan and the sea they will have neither existence nor security. A nation of their own and security will be theirs only in Jordan.

Within Israel the distinction between the areas of ’67 and the territories beyond them, those of ’48, has always been meaningless for Arabs and nowadays no longer has any significance for us. The problem should be seen in its entirety without any divisions as of ’67. It should be clear, under any future political situation or military constellation, that the solution of the problem of the indigenous Arabs will come only when they recognize the existence of Israel in secure borders up to the Jordan river and beyond it,

The Atlantic boasts of a new Middle East

A 2008 Atlantic article by Jewish Zionist Jeffrey Goldberg contained a very telling map of a possible future Middle East. Readers may recall that it was Jeffrey Goldberg who said in 2002⁽⁴⁾ that Saddam Hussein “could have an atomic bomb within months of acquiring fissile material”, and that the genocidal war on Iraq would be “remembered as an act of profound morality”.

The map makes for very interesting viewing; it is literally a visual representation of the Israeli plan to remake the Middle East and North Africa. On the Horn of Africa we see Somalia split into three states, and Sudan broken into two (something which has actually happened since 2008). Eritrea is occupied by Ethiopia, signified by the striped colour-coding on the map, and the Egyptian Sinai is given the same treatment, presumably indicating an Israeli occupation.

Palestine is merged into Jordan, in line with the plan to push the Palestinians out of the West Bank and into a state on Jordanian territory.

Iraq has been balkanised with the creation of a Shia state, a Sunni state, and a Kurdish state in the north. This outcome is being avidly worked towards by Mossad and elite elements of the Israeli military, who have been fomenting Shia-Sunni sectarian conflict in Iraq for years.⁽⁵⁾ As a result, since the 2003 invasion the U.S. Military has constructed hundreds of miles of concrete walls in Iraqi cities, to separate the Sunni and the Shia from one another. Though most of these walls have since been torn down, their very presence is a manifestation of the Israeli plan to split Iraq on sectarian lines, “So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north.”

Pakistan: Gateway to the Zionist Endgame

In a widely circulated quote reportedly published in the ‘Jewish Chronicle’ on August 9, 1967, the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, elucidated Israeli opposition to Pakistan.

Zionist bloggers have attempted to debunk this quote as bogus by presuming that the ‘Jewish Chronicle’ in question is the London-based paper. Debunkers’ arguments centre around the fact that the London JC archive does not contain this quote and in fact the London JC did not publish on August 9, 1967. This quote is difficult to verify due to the sheer number of ‘Jewish Chronicle’ newspapers that have existed, and which do not have websites or online archives at this time.

I will demonstrate that this quote is in line with historical and current Israeli strategy, as well as the rhetoric that is now peddled by Israeli officials and lobbyists. Because of this, it is this writer’s opinion at the current time that this quote is authentic.

A matter of weeks after Israel’s conquest of the West Bank, Al Quds (Jerusalem), Gaza, and Syria’s Golan Heights – Ben-Gurion reportedly made Zionism’s staunch opposition to Pakistan crystal-clear:

The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for this ideological State is a threat to our existence. And Pakistan, the whole of it, hates the Jews and loves the Arabs.

This lover of the Arabs is more dangerous to us than the Arabs themselves. For that matter, it is most essential for the world Zionism that it should now take immediate steps against Pakistan.

Whereas the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula are Hindus whose hearts have been full of hatred towards Muslims, therefore, India is the most important base for us to work there from against Pakistan.

It is essential that we exploit this base and strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans.

Relatively recent comments from Israel’s repugnant, racist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman corroborate this position, revealing that this Zionist strategy exists as a priority in the modern day. In a 2009 interview with a Russian daily newspaper, Soviet-born Lieberman (born Evet Lvovich Liberman) revealed⁽⁶⁾ that he saw Pakistan as Israel’s biggest threat, as opposed to Iran which is commonly painted as Israel’s arch nemesis:

“Pakistan is nuclear and unstable and Afghanistan is faced with a potential Taliban takeover, and the combination forms a contiguous area of radicalism ruled in the spirit of Osama bin Laden,”

In the same interview Lieberman professed, “Believe me, America accepts all our decisions”, an arrogant but nevertheless valid analysis.

On September 11, 2008, former chief AIPAC lobbyist Douglas M. Bloomfield wrote a panicked tirade against Pakistan,⁽⁷⁾ insisting that the incoming U.S. President must focus on the country. Bloomfield’s article repeats all of the standard Zionist rhetoric, including the complaint that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are at risk of ‘falling into the wrong hands’.

Briefly returning to the ‘Atlantic’ map, you will notice that Afghanistan has been disembowelled; the ethnic states of Baluchistan and Pashtunistan have been created, and the northern region of Afghanistan has been absorbed into ‘Persia’. As a result of the secession of Baluchistan and Pashtunistan (both of which straddle the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, while Baluch territory extends into Iran too), significant chunks of Pakistan have been lost. This is part of a long-standing Zionist policy to cripple Pakistan as a nation.

Pakistan is a proud Muslim nation which not only has an ideological opposition to Zionism and Western colonialism, but possesses nuclear weapons. The nuclear deterrent, partnered with a cohesive and loyal army and air force presents a significant roadblock to Zionist and Indian aspirations of hegemony.

Shahid Siddiqi of Dawn.com muses⁽⁸⁾ that,

“Due to its defiance of Indian diktat, Pakistan is for India an obstruction in its quest for domination of South Asia and the Indian Ocean region. Israel`s apprehension of Pakistan’s military prowess is rooted in the strength Pakistan indirectly provides to Arab states with whom Israel has remained in a state of conflict. Conscious that several Arab states look up to Pakistan for military support in the event of threat to their security from Israel, it is unsettling for Israel to see a nuclear armed Pakistan.

Again, this analysis gives a nod to David Ben-Gurion’s position on Pakistan – echoed by Israel’s Foreign Minister over forty years later. Israel’s deep military-intelligence collaboration with India⁽⁹⁾ is yet another indication of this strategy manifesting.

This strategy was transposed into an overt act of war when in 1984, Israel attempted to destroy Pakistan’s Kahuta nuclear reactor. After becoming aware of the plot, Pakistan spurned the attack by pre-emptively scrambling jets to protect the facility. To this day the strategy continues by overt and covert means.

In the midst of the Zionist ‘War on Terror’ in June 2004, George W. Bush began drone attacks on Pakistan. The deadly attacks, ostensibly launched against ‘Al Qaeda’ and Taliban ‘terrorists’ and ‘insurgents’, accelerated in regularity and intensity from 2004 to 2011 – killing thousands of innocent Pakistanis. The real underlying motive for these attacks is to foment unrest in these regions, with a view to provoking and cultivating militant secessionist groups. The aim is to turn these groups against the collaborationist Pakistani government (which is impotent in the face of naked aggression on the part of its American ‘ally’).

The balkanisation of Pakistan and seizure of its nuclear weapons are the ultimate aspirations of Israel as well as the United States, which aims to preserve its declining superpower status in the face of a growing China. A prominent meme in the Zionist media is the notion that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are unsafe and at risk of ‘falling into the wrong hands’. This is the very justification that will eventually be used to launch an all-out invasion of Pakistan whereby Western powers will seize its nuclear weapons. The drone strikes, NATO provocations, and CIA-Mossad-RAW black ops serve to fan the flames of unrest, creating the necessary climate for military action and eventual dismemberment of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. The close relationship between China and Pakistan is a significant factor in the drive to break up Pakistan. China’s port at Gwadar is known as one of her ‘String of Pearls’, being of huge strategic interest and allowing for an energy corridor through Pakistan.

The latest chapter in the war on Pakistan transpired on Saturday 26 November when NATO helicopter gunships slaughtered 24 Pakistani soldiers.⁽¹⁰⁾ In a naked act of aggression, NATO helicopters attacked a Pakistani army post for 45 minutes, then returned 20 minutes later and attacked for a further hour. Predictably this has triggered furious protests in Pakistan, and intense anger at both NATO and the Pakistani military, criticised for not responding to protect the soldiers during the two-hour attack. In the final analysis however, this event has unified the Pakistani people.

After NATO’s inexcusable attack on Pakistan the Zionist deceptions immediately followed, in a stunningly predictable development.

On Saturday 13 August, 2011 – over three months prior to the recent NATO attack – an American Jewish man named Warren Weinstein, working under the auspices of the U.S. government, was reportedly kidnapped by armed men in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Suspiciously, five days after the NATO attack, the S.I.T.E. Intelligence Group informs the world that ‘Al Qaeda’ have claimed in an audio message to be holding Weinstein. In a profoundly shaky statement a U.S. official was quoted⁽¹¹⁾ as saying, “It’s entirely possible that al Qaeda or one of its militant allies may be holding Mr. Weinstein, and the statement by Zawahiri supports this conclusion”.

Why would ‘Al Qaeda’ wait over three months to tell us?

Is it not convenient that, in S.I.T.E’s audio message, ‘Zawahiri’ also called for the lifting of the siege on Gaza?⁽¹²⁾ Israel has consistently tried to link the global ‘Free Gaza’ struggle to ‘Al Qaeda’. This has been the Zionist entity’s modus operandi ever since the Mavi Marmara was brutally attacked, whereafter Israel claimed the activists were linked to ‘Al Qaeda’.⁽¹³⁾

Why are these ‘Al Qaeda’ audio messages invariably posted on ‘extremist websites’ that no independent person has access to and therefore can never be independently verified? Why is every such ‘Al Qaeda’ tape, without exception, found by S.I.T.E? This bizarre situation becomes clearer when we examine the S.I.T.E. Intelligence Group. Founded in 2002 at the outset of the ‘War on Terror’ by rabid Zionist and former IDF soldier Rita Katz (whose father was hanged in Baghdad for spying for Israel), S.I.T.E. is nothing more than the PR organ of the ‘War on Terror’. It exists to convince the world that the ‘Al Qaeda’ apparition is an eminent threat whenever and wherever it is required.

The invasion of Afghanistan was waged in the name of a number of important interests. It was an attempt to militarise Central Asia in order to counter the growing power of China, Iran, and Russia. It was meant to facilitate the construction of an energy pipeline to transport the rich energy reserves of the Caspian basin through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, southern Pakistan, and from there to Western markets. However, even more importantly the occupation of Afghanistan serves as a precursor to the war on Pakistan. It allows Western forces to learn the territory and develop the necessary tactics. It allows them to become familiar with local groups who can be armed, trained, and used as proxy armies as we’ve seen in the Libya war.

When we read of drone strikes against ‘militants’ and alleged ‘Al Qaeda’ kidnappings in Pakistan, we must view them through an analytical lens; nothing is ever as it seems in this geopolitical hotspot. While kvetching that Pakistani nukes are unsafe and a threat to peace, Israel, the United States, and India are actively working to violently destabilise the country.

The ‘War on Terror’ is an utterly false paradigm shored up by the sea of deception put forth by the Zionist media and groups such as S.I.T.E. We must strip away this veneer to expose the motivations and strategies of the Zionist entity and its American lapdog – the nations which constitute the biggest threat to peace on the face of the planet.

Notes

(1) ‘September 11, 2001: Zionist shock therapy and the birth of the lie’ by Martin Iqbal
(2) ‘Israelis can tell the whole story of Sudan’s division – they wrote the script and trained the actors’ by Fahmi Howeidi
(3) ‘MK: Prepare for War If Egypt Deploys in Sinai’ – Israel National News
(4) ‘Should the U.S. Invade Iraq? Week 2′ – Slate Magazine
(5) ‘Occupied Iraq: New Year, Same Zionism’ by Jonathan Azaziah
(6) ‘Israeli FM sees Pakistan biggest threat’ – nation.com.pk
(7) ‘Iran is bombastic, but Pakistan has the bomb’ – The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
(8) ‘How safe are Pakistan’s nuclear assets’ – dawn.com
(9) ‘Israel and India: Brothers In Occupation of Kashmir’ by Jonathan Azaziah
(10) ‘Pakistan army says NATO attack was blatant aggression’ – Reuters
(11) ‘Al Qaeda Leader Zawahiri Says He Has American Hostage’ – ABC News
(12) ‘Al-Qaida: Israel must lift Gaza ‘siege’ in exchange for U.S. Jewish prisoner’ – Ha’aretz
(13) ‘Israeli Officials Claim Aid Flotilla Had Ties to Al Qaeda, PM Gives Military ‘Full Support” – Fox News

by Thierry Meyssan, 26 September, 2011.

Al-Jazeera – the Qatari news channel that in the space of 15 years established itself in the Arab world as an innovative news outlet – suddenly embarked in a vast intoxication campaign to overthrow the regimes of Libya and Syria through any means. As demonstrated by Thierry Meyssan, this was not a conjunctural shift but one that was planned long in advance by individuals who shrewdly concealed their personal interests to the public. Revelations follow …

The Qatari-based Al-Jazeera channel announced the resignation of its director general, Wadah Khanfar, and his replacement by a member of the royal family, Sheikh Hamad Ben Jassem Al-Thani on September 20, 2011.

Sheikh Hamad is a Qatargas executive, and spent a year at the head office of Total in Paris. He is the former chairman of the Al-Jazeera Board of Directors.

This development is protrayed by the Atlanticist media in three different ways: either as a forced resignation and a takeover of the channel by the State, as a revenge on the part of the Palestinian Authority following the release of the Palestinian Papers and, finally, as the result of the Wikileaks leak exposing some of the connections between Mr. Khanfar and the United States.

While each of these interpretations may contain some truth, they nevertheless obscure the overriding factor: the role of Qatar in the war against Libya. At this point, a flash backwards is called for.

Al-Jazeera’s origins: a desire for dialogue

Al-Jazeera was conceived by two French-Israeli personalities, the David and Jean Frydman brothers, after the assassination of their friend Yitzhak Rabin. According to David Frydman [1], the goal was to create a medium where Israelis and Arabs could discuss freely, exchange arguments and get to know each other, considering this was prevented by the war situation thereby frustrating any peace prospect.

For the creation of the channel, the Frydman brothers benefited from a combination of circumstances: the Orbit Saudi company had reached an agreement with the BBC to set up a news broadcast in Arabic. But the political demands posed by the absolutist Saudi monarchy quickly proved incompatible with the professional independence of British journalists. The agreement was terminated and the majority of Arabic BBC journalists found themselves out on the street. They were then recruited to launch Al-Jazeera.

The Frydman brothers were eager to have their television perceived as an Arabic channel. They managed to enlist the new emir of Qatar, Hamid bin Khalifa al-Thani, who with the help of London and Washington had just overthrown his father, accused of pro-Iranian sentiments. Sheikh Hamad bin-Khalifa soon realized the potential advantages of being at the center of the Arab-Israeli discussions, which had already lasted for more than half a century and were likely to drag on even longer. At the same time, he authorized the Israeli Ministry of Commerce to open an office in Doha, unable to open an embassy. Above all, he saw the interest for Qatar to compete with the wealthy pan-Arab Saudi media and to own a media that could criticize everyone except himself.

The initial financing package included both a down payment from the Frydman brothers and a loan from the Emir of $ 150 million over 5 years. A boycott by the advertisers, organized by Saudi Arabia, and the ensuing scantiness of advertising revenues finally led to the modification of the initial plan. Ultimately, the Emir became the donor of the channel and hence its sponsor.

Exemplary journalists

For years, Al-Jazeera’s audience was captivated by its internal pluralism. The channel took pride in giving free rein to opposing viewpoints. The idea was not to tell the truth, but to have it spring from the debate. Its flagship program – the talk show hosted by the iconoclastic Faisal al-Qassem entitled “The contrary view” – took delight in shaking up prejudices. Everyone could find reason to eulogize certain programs and to deplore others. Regardless, this effervescence prevailed over the monolithism of its competitors and changed the Arab audiovisual landscape.

The heroic role of its reporters in Afghanistan and in the 2003 Gulf War, as well as their exemplary work in contrast to the propaganda of the pro-US satellite channels, catapulted Al-Jazeera from a controversial channel to a acclaimed media outlet. Its journalists paid a high price for their courage: George W. Bush stopped short from bombing the Doha studios, but had Tareq Ayyoub assassinated [2], arrested Tayseer Alouni [3], and imprisoned Sami al-Hajj at Guantanamo Bay [4].

The 2005 reorganization

However, all good things come to an end. In 2004-05, after the death of David Frydman, the Emir decided to overhaul Al-Jazeera completely and create new channels, including Al-Jazeera English, at a time when the global market was changing and all major States were equipping themselves with news satellite channels. The moment had come to leave the excitement and impudence of the early period behind in order to capitalize on an audience now reaching 50 million viewers, and to position itself as a player in the globalized world.

Sheikh Hamad bin-Khalifa called on an international firm that had already provided him with personal training in communication skills. JTrack had especially targeted Arab and Southeast Asian leaders to train them in the language of Davos: how to project an image that the West wants to see. From Morocco to Singapore, JTrack has trained most of the political leaders backed by the United States and Israel, often mere heredity puppets, turning them into respectable media personalities. The important thing is not whether they have something to say, but their aptness to impart the globalized rhetoric.

However, having been assigned to high government positions in North Africa, the CEO of JTrack had to withdraw before completing the transformation of the Al-Jazeera Group. He handed over the rest of the operations to a former Voice of America journalist who had been working for the Qatari channel for several years and who belonged to the same Muslim congregation as him: Wadah Khanfar.

Both professionally competent and politically safe, Mr. Khanfar strove to give Al-Jazeera an ideological tinge. While giving a voice to Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Nasser’s former spokesman, he appointed Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi – whom Nasser had stripped of his Egyptian nationality – the channel’s “spiritual counselor”.

The 2011 shift

With the revolutions in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, Wadah Khanfar dramatically changed Al-Jazeera’s editorial policy. The Group played a central role in lending credence to the “Arab spring” myth, according to which the people – eager to live in a Western-style society – had risen to overthrow their dictatorial regimes and switch to parliamentary democracies. No distinction was made between the events in Tunisia and Egypt, and those in Libya and Syria. As for the popular movements in Yemen and Bahrain, they did not draw enough viewers!

In reality, the Anglo-Saxons tried to take advantage of the popular revolts to replay the same “Arab spring” scenario that they had staged in the 1920s to take possession of the former Ottoman provinces and install puppet parliamentary democracies under Western tutelage. Al-Jazeera’s coverage of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolts was designed to dampen the flames of revolution and to legitimize the governments aligned with the United States and Israel. In Egypt the uprising was harnessed in the interest of a single element of the opposition: the Muslim Brotherhood, embodied by the channel’s star preacher … Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

Outraged by the new editorial policy and the increasingly frequent recourse to lies [5], a certain number of journalists, including Ghassan Ben Jedo, walked out slamming the door behind them.

Who’s pulling the information strings?

Nevertheless, it wasn’t until the Libyan episode that the masks started to fall. In fact, the boss of JTrack and mentor of Wadah Kanfhar is none other than Mahmoud Jibril (the “J” in “JTrack” stands for “Jibril”). This friendly, brilliant yet shallow, manager had been recommended to Muammar Gaddafi by his new American friends to pilot the economic opening of Libya after the normalization of its diplomatic ties. Under Saif el-Islam Gaddafi’s control, he was appointed both Minister of Planning and Director of the Development Authority, thus becoming de facto the number two man in the government, having authority over other ministers. At breakneck speed, he forged ahead with the deregulation of Libya’s socialist economy and the privatization of its public enterprises.

Through his JTrack training activities, Mahmoud Jibril established personal relationships with almost all the Arab and Southeast Asian leaders. He had offices in Bahrain and Singapore. In addition, Mr. Jibril created trading companies, including one dealing with Malaysian and Australian timber in partnership with his French friend, Bernard-Henri Levy.

Mahmoud Jibril started his university studies in Cairo, where he met and married the daughter of one of Nasser’s ministers. He later continued his studies in the United States, where he assimilated the libertarian views that he tried to inject into al-Gaddafi’s anarchist ideology. But, more importantly, in Libya Mr. Jibril joined the Muslim Brotherhood. It was in this capacity that he placed his coreligionists, Brothers Wadah Kanfhar and Yusuf al-Qaradawi, in Al-Jazeera ..

During the first half of 2011, the Qatari channel became the preferred instrument for pro-Western propaganda: it went to great lengths to obscure the anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist aspect of the Arab revolutions and, in each country, it picked the actors it intended to support and those it decided to deprecate. Not surprisingly, it supported the king of Bahrain, a student of Mahmoud Jibril, who had his people gunned down, whileAl-Jazeera’s spiritual counsellor, Sheikh al-Qaradawi, was calling for a Jihad over the air against al-Gaddafi and el-Assad, falsely accusing them of murdering their own people.

With Mr Jibril as prime minister of the rebel government of Libya, the height of duplicity was reached when a replica of the Green Square and Bab-el-Azizia was built in the studios of Al-Jazeera in Doha, where footage of false images was shot portraying pro-US “insurgents” entering Tripoli. Need I mention the insults I received when I denounced this manipulation in the columns ofVoltairenet.org? Yet Al-Jazeera and Sky News broadcasted these false images on the second day of the Battle of Tripoli, sowing confusion among the Libyan people. It was actually only three days later that the “rebels” – almost exclusively from Misrata – entered Tripoli, devastated by NATO’s bombs.

The same goes for the announcement by Al-Jazeera of Saif el-Islam Gadhafi’s arrest and the confirmation of his capture by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo. I was the first, throughRussia Today, to warn against the manipulation. And again, I was ridiculed by some newspapers, until Saif el-Islam turned up in person to wake up the journalists holed up at the Rixos Hotel and led them to the real Bal el-Azizia square.

Questioned about such lies by channel France24 in Arabic, the president of the National Transitional Council (CNT), Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chalked it up to a war stratagem and said he was delighted to have thus accelerated the fall of the Jamahiriya.

What future for Al-Jazeera?

The conversion of Al-Jazeera into a propaganda tool for the recolonisation of Libya was not achieved without the knowledge of the emir of Qatar, but indeed under his leadership. The Gulf Cooperation Council was the first to call for an armed intervention in Libya and Qatar was the first Arab country to join the Contact Group. He funneled weapons to the Libyan “rebels” before sending in his own ground troops, especially during the Battle of Tripoli. In exchange, he obtained the privilege of controlling all the oil trade on behalf of the National Transitional Council.

It is too early to say whether the resignation of Wadah Khanfar marks the end of his mission in Qatar, or if it heralds the channel’s desire to recover the credibility that took 15 years to build and only 6 months to lose.