http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Hamas Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:22:12 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Hamas Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:42:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=519_1371637803 Rick Metdedikkepik Hamas is using pictures of dead Syrian children as propaganda against Israel. I really don't understand why people are believing all that propaganda of those Johann von Leers disciples, what is their major malfunction? I can understand why Mohammedans are spreading these lies, 'cause they are born liars and deceivers, but non-Mohammedans, what's their motive to spread this garbage? I've noticed that people who are supporting those ''Palestinians'' are often socialists/communists, catholics, and Nazis. What do they have in common with those Mohammedans? Hate for the Jews! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=519_1371637803 Rick Metdedikkepik <span class="highlight">Hamas</span> is using pictures of dead Syrian children, shame on them! Hamas, lying, scum Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:27:51 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=daa_1371590420 aydeo As has become customary in recent years, this summer will see hundreds of thousands of small children in Gaza enroll in summer camps organized by terrorist groups. Social activities, religious studies and sport competitions aside, the children will engage in what is the undisputed crowning centerpiece of those camps: the semi-military training that includes use of live ammunition and simulated kidnappings of IDF soldiers. Each year the military wings of various Gazan organizations vie for the hearts of the young recruits, eager to ready themselves for fighting Israel. Thus, this year Gazans will be able to send their children to the summer programs offered by Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees. The terror groups take the summer camps very seriously, regarding them both as the ultimate tool of recruitment of future generations of fighters and as means to raise public support for their activities. The summer camps afford children their first encounters with neither live weaponry nor the ideology of resistance, inculcated zealously through Hamas' education system. The camps are rather an extension of that education, where learning to shoot a firearm is part of the curriculum. Senior Hamas officials say some 100,000 children are expected to take part in the various summer camps. The Islamic group's leader in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh said the goal of the summertime activities is to instill children with values, strengthen their moral core and spread the spirit of Jihad. However, busy Gazan parents have non-militant alternatives this summer. UNHCR, UN's refugee agency, offers a summer camp centered on sports. The agency said it expects some 150,000 children to attend its camps spread all along the coastal enclave. In previous years UNRWA's camp facilities were vandalized in protest for their instilling values incompatible with those of terror groups. Chris Gunness UNRWA spokesman said "Our summer fun weeks give a sense of normality, free from politics, to 150,000 kids - still recovering from the November bombardments and trying to survive under the longest blockade in modern history." http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4393995,00.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=daa_1371590420 aydeo <span class="highlight">Hamas</span>: 100,000 children to enroll in summer camps Hamas,Summer camps,Children Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:43:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f7d_1371569931 nutsflopped http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/are-hamas-and-egypt-moving-towards-conflict/ http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2013/06/egyptians-protest-against-and-muslim.html Egyptian security has asked Hamas leaders to change the hotel its delegation is staying in after receiving intelligence that protests will be held outside, sources told Ma'an. Hamas' chief in exile Khaled Mashaal and Gaza premier Ismail Haniyeh, along with a delegation of 24 party officials, were told that demonstrators would be rallying outside the Intercontinental Hotel to protest the Islamist movement's "intervention in internal Egyptian affairs," the sources said. Egyptian security had been asked by protestors to "send Hamas leaders out of Egypt," responding that they were prepared to defend the delegation, the sources added. The sources added that the change in hotel was required because forces did not "have the situation under control." The delegation is in Cairo for emergency talks with the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt Muhammad Badie. The movement has come under sharp criticism in recent weeks after former Egyptian Interior Minister Mahmoud Wagdy said Hamas took part in prison riots during Egypt's revolution. The Muslim Brotherhood praised the terror group Deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party Essam El-Erian says developments in the ongoing crisis in Syria have shown the difference between the Gaza-based Hamas group and Lebanese Shia Hezbollah group, both of which were originally founded to resist Israeli occupation. " Hamas has never pointed a weapon towards any other nation . They withdrew from Syria and did not compromise their principles at the expense of losing support and key establishments in Syria," El-Erian said Sunday in a statement on Facebook. "Hizbullah, however, has directly intervened against the revolutionary people of Syria by supporting a despotic regime (Al-Assad) and pointing their weapons at their fellow Arabs, not the Zionist enemy." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f7d_1371569931 nutsflopped Are <span class="highlight">Hamas</span> and Egypt Moving towards Conflict? Hamas,Egypt,16 egyptian killed, Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:27:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=635_1371280789 Maccabi The Israeli Palestinian conflict is an often misunderstood political battleground where facts are mixed with opinion, perference, and prejudice. There's so much confusion around the conflict that we want to bring light to what is truth and what is myth. What issues are actually standing in the way of bringing peace between the Israelis and Palestinians? How does their fight over land complicate the conflict? And what role to political leaders like Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak play along with organizations like UNRWA? These are questions we uncover in these 10 myths that are preventing peace in Palestine and Israel. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=635_1371280789 Maccabi The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: 10 Myths Preventing Peace 10-myths Palestinian Israel Misconceptions Dilemma Yasser-Arafat Ehud-Barak Peace evacuation Conflict Solution Resolution Hamas Terrorists Suicide-Bombing Public Refugees Syria Lebanon Jordan Egypt PLO Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:12:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=58c_1371161202 euronymus We all like our children to run around with AK47s who pledged allegiance to those who use them. Is this will be show when next time kid with AK will be shot in the face? Source: AFP http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=58c_1371161202 euronymus For Gaza Strip Supporters Jihad, gaza, strip, palestine, children, camp, islam, military, hamas Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:43:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8e4_1371566418 sholom For the better part of 40 years, the Syrian border has been the quietest of Israel's frontiers. Notwithstanding Israel's 1973 capture and subsequent annexation of Syrian territory in the Golan and Bashar Assad's ongoing support for terrorist organizations targeting the Jewish state, the border has been tranquil since the signing of the 1974 armistice. Indeed, the boundary with Syria-a state officially still at war with Israel-has proven even more secure than Israel's lengthy borders with its nominal peace partners Egypt and Jordan. But two years into the popular armed revolt against the Assad regime, this de facto peace along the Israeli-Syrian border seems to be in grave danger. Just consider the past few weeks: On March 2, three Syrian mortars landed outside Moshav Ramat Magshimim in the southern Golan Heights. Then on March 6, Syrian rebels kidnapped 21 U.N. peacekeepers patrolling the Golan Heights; they were held for a week prior to their release. On Monday, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Benny Gantz said that "the threat of the situation in Syria spiraling out if control is quite high." He added: "What we have here is a strategic detonator that could blow up at any moment." Reports from Syria over the past months have indicated that foreign fighters-from Libya to Jordan to Iraq-have been participating in the rebellion against the Assad regime. Now comes word that Saudi jihadis are joining the rebels' ranks as well. The presence of so many jihadis, many of whom are reportedly affiliated with al-Qaida and are threatening to continue fighting against Israel after Assad is vanquished, further increases the possibility of a flare-up in the Syrian-Israeli frontier. All of which explains why, in recent days, Israel has increased its military presence along the Golan border. Today, Syria-not Lebanon or Egypt-is likely to be the next flash point for conflict with the Jewish state. *** As the Assad regime has teetered, it has lost control of large swaths of Syrian territory, including areas in the south adjacent to Israel that as of February 2013 had purportedly fallen to the largely secular Free Syrian Army. At least in part, however, the power vacuum has been filled by militant Islamists and foreign fighters affiliated with al-Qaida. Last month, one of these groups, Jebhat al Nusra, attacked a Syrian military intelligence post near Quneitra in the Syrian Golan Heights. And in the coming weeks and months, the increasing flow of foreign fighters into Syria will likely see even more al-Qaida affiliates operating in the border region. At present, Islamist militias within Syria are narrowly focused on toppling the Assad regime, but some have begun to articulate a more ambitious longer-term agenda. As one Aleppo-based Islamist fighter said in a December 2012 video posted by MEMRI: When Assad is dispatched "we won't stop there. We will continue to the Shebaa Farms and Kafr Shuba, and we will pass through the Golan Heights all the way to Jerusalem." Another video posted this weekend features another rebel proclaiming: "For 40 years, not a single gunshot has been fired on this land. For 40 years, not a single gunshot has been fired toward Israel. We will free the Golan and it will return to the free Syrian people, with the help of Allah." Given the relative strength of the IDF, this goal is obviously more aspirational than realistic. Still, Syria is awash in heavy weapons, and anti-Assad militias-secular and Islamist alike-are capturing more advanced military materiel, including missiles. And even after Assad is gone, Al Nusra, the al-Qaida-affiliated "Victory Front" that has emerged as the leading rebel fighting force, will be loath to disarm. Absent a functioning central government and security apparatus, and with post-Assad Syria likely embroiled in protracted civil war, these well-equipped and battle-hardened Islamist militias could fast become very dangerous for Israel. Of more immediate concern is that Assad will goad Israel into the conflict in an effort to muddy the waters and distract the opposition. To that end, in May 2011 shortly after the uprising began, Syrian authorities dispatched 40 busloads of Palestinians to the border fence, precipitating a violent clash with the IDF that left four Palestinians dead. Then, in November 2012, the regime deployed three tanks in the Golan demilitarized zone, prompting the IDF to raise its alert status on the frontier. Damascus' attempt last month to transfer game-changing surface-to-air weapons to Hezbollah likewise seemed intended to provoke an Israeli military reaction. While Israel's limited airstrike on the Hezbollah convoy generated a lot of grumbling among the opposition, most of the criticism was focused on Assad's non-response to the enemy violation of Syrian airspace. Should Assad endeavor to transfer some of its chemical-weapons stockpiles to Hezbollah, however, the Israeli response would all but certainly be more decisive and-for the opposition, perhaps-divisive. Further threatening the tenuous status quo, according to The Washington Post, Iran is currently in the process of establishing its own 50,000-man militia called Jaysh al Shaab, said to be modeled after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Basij corps, in Syria. While little is known about this nascent paramilitary force, given Tehran's antipathy toward Israel, in addition to targeting Assad regime opponents, it's a safe bet that Jaysh al Shaab will also pursue subversive activities against the Jewish state. Not all the news along the frontier is bad. In early February, Israeli soldiers reportedly provided medical assistance to Syrian rebel troops near the border, transporting five wounded to a Safed hospital. (Alas, the same week, IDF troops fired on another Syrian approaching the fence.) However, not all Israelis see the news as ominous for Israel. According to former head of IDF military intelligence Amos Yadlin, the war in Assad's Syria has "depleted strength, readiness, and morale," diminishing the threat posed by Israel's most capable adversary. In any event, Yadlin said, Assad was "much more dangerous than some Jebhat al Nusra activity in the Golan." Regardless of who succeeds Assad, he added, Israel is "quite efficient in coping" with the cross-border threat and will establish "a similar deterrence" to what the state achieved vis-`a-vis Assad, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Steven Simon, who served as senior director for the Middle East in the National Security Council during the first Obama Administration, concurs. While the IDF may have to contend with some jihadist activity, the deterioration and the potential collapse of the Assad regime does not undermine Israel's security. "Of course," Simon says, chemical weapons transfer to Hezbollah, "would be a different matter." Still, for Washington, which has been preoccupied over the past two years with trying to cauterize the bleeding in Syria and insulate neighboring Arab states from the destabilizing effects of the revolt, the trend line should be of concern. Today, the reverberations of the war in Syria are shaking Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq. If the United States doesn't take steps now to more quickly topple Assad and end the war, the next state to feel the impact of spillover from Syria may be Israel. Bashar defended our nation for decades but Al Qaeda no thanks. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/126975/israels-next-front-syria#undefined http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8e4_1371566418 sholom We really want Bashar Assad to stay instead of Al Qaeda jihadist to take over Syria Syria, Israel Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:20:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db1_1371474713 sixhundredn66 During a recent pro Palestine Protest "German" Youths are hating on a cameraman because his news station was speaking out against Hamas. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db1_1371474713 sixhundredn66 Pro Gaza Youths hate cameraman Germany , Cameraman, Gaza, Conflict, Israel, Palestinians, Muslims, Islam, Europe, Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:26:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db7_1371468232 userkc Summary of events in the provinces of Damascus and Aleppo for June 16 http://86.62.80.156/node/11758 ANNA News http://anna-news.info http://www.youtube.com/user/newsanna On the northern outskirts of the capital of Syria continues a number of army counter-terrorist operation. In today's Barzov air strikes were militants hiding in the streets of Al-mats and al-Suwayda. During the clashes that took place in the eastern district of plantations, eliminated tens of terrorists, they confiscated the weapons, including heavy machine guns, assault rifles and sniper rifles. In response, militants fired mortar shells at an army checkpoint area at the intersection of Barzakh - Hamish, hitting at the same houses, one of which was burned. In the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk there were violent clashes with army units gangs of militants. Artillery bombardment of their positions within the district. In turn, Hamas terrorists fired mortars military crossing point "Bashir" at the entrance of Yarmouk. Injuring four civilians and five soldiers. Around 4.00 am army backed militias simultaneously launched an attack on the terrorists, who have entrenched themselves in areas of Yarmouk, Kadam and Hajar al-Aswad. Army played on an advancing enemy, getting timely information about the militants, who took in these neighborhoods are many deserted houses, plotting attacks on military targets. Advancing infantry is backed by artillery and missile troops. In the area of http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db7_1371468232 userkc Summary of events in the provinces of Damascus and Aleppo for June 16 Syria Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:24:40 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f0_1371360015 AntiPropagaanda World exclusive: Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria US urges Britain and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing Sunni-Shia conflict ROBERT FISK SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2013 inShare4 PRINT A A A EMAIL 1 / 3 Washington's decision to arm Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region. For the first time, all of America's 'friends' in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. Breaking all President Barack Obama's rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East. The Independent on Sunday has learned that a military decision has been taken in Iran - even before last week's presidential election - to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion that has cost almost 100,000 lives in just over two years. Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel. In years to come, historians will ask how America - after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 - could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed. The profound effects of this great schism, between Sunnis who believe that the father of Mohamed's wife was the new caliph of the Muslim world and Shias who regard his son in law Ali as his rightful successor - a seventh century battle swamped in blood around the present-day Iraqi cities of Najaf and Kerbala - continue across the region to this day. A 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbott, compared this Muslim conflict to that between "Papists and Protestants". America's alliance now includes the wealthiest states of the Arab Gulf, the vast Sunni territories between Egypt and Morocco, as well as Turkey and the fragile British-created monarchy in Jordan. King Abdullah of Jordan - flooded, like so many neighbouring nations, by hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees - may also now find himself at the fulcrum of the Syrian battle. Up to 3,000 American 'advisers' are now believed to be in Jordan, and the creation of a southern Syria 'no-fly zone' - opposed by Syrian-controlled anti-aircraft batteries - will turn a crisis into a 'hot' war. So much for America's 'friends'. Its enemies include the Lebanese Hizballah, the Alawite Shiite regime in Damascus and, of course, Iran. And Iraq, a largely Shiite nation which America 'liberated' from Saddam Hussein's Sunni minority in the hope of balancing the Shiite power of Iran, has - against all US predictions - itself now largely fallen under Tehran's influence and power. Iraqi Shiites as well as Hizballah members, have both fought alongside Assad's forces. Washington's excuse for its new Middle East adventure - that it must arm Assad's enemies because the Damascus regime has used sarin gas against them - convinces no-one in the Middle East. Final proof of the use of gas by either side in Syria remains almost as nebulous as President George W. Bush's claim that Saddam's Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. For the real reason why America has thrown its military power behind Syria's Sunni rebels is because those same rebels are now losing their war against Assad. The Damascus regime's victory this month in the central Syrian town of Qusayr, at the cost of Hizballah lives as well as those of government forces, has thrown the Syrian revolution into turmoil, threatening to humiliate American and EU demands for Assad to abandon power. Arab dictators are supposed to be deposed - unless they are the friendly kings or emirs of the Gulf - not to be sustained. Yet Russia has given its total support to Assad, three times vetoing UN Security Council resolutions that might have allowed the West to intervene directly in the civil war. In the Middle East, there is cynical disbelief at the American contention that it can distribute arms - almost certainly including anti-aircraft missiles - only to secular Sunni rebel forces in Syria represented by the so-called Free Syria Army. The more powerful al-Nusrah Front, allied to al-Qaeda, dominates the battlefield on the rebel side and has been blamed for atrocities including the execution of Syrian government prisoners of war and the murder of a 14-year old boy for blasphemy. They will be able to take new American weapons from their Free Syria Army comrades with little effort. From now on, therefore, every suicide bombing in Damascus - every war crime committed by the rebels - will be regarded in the region as Washington's responsibility. The very Sunni-Wahabi Islamists who killed thousands of Americans on 11th September, 2011 - who are America's greatest enemies as well as Russia's - are going to be proxy allies of the Obama administration. This terrible irony can only be exacerbated by Russian President Vladimir Putin's adament refusal to tolerate any form of Sunni extremism. His experience in Chechenya, his anti-Muslim rhetoric - he has made obscene remarks about Muslim extremists in a press conference in Russian - and his belief that Russia's old ally in Syria is facing the same threat as Moscow fought in Chechenya, plays a far greater part in his policy towards Bashar al-Assad than the continued existence of Russia's naval port at the Syrian Mediterranean city of Tartous. For the Russians, of course, the 'Middle East' is not in the 'east' at all, but to the south of Moscow; and statistics are all-important. The Chechen capital of Grozny is scarcely 500 miles from the Syrian frontier. Fifteen per cent of Russians are Muslim. Six of the Soviet Union's communist republics had a Muslim majority, 90 per cent of whom were Sunni. And Sunnis around the world make up perhaps 85 per cent of all Muslims. For a Russia intent on repositioning itself across a land mass that includes most of the former Soviet Union, Sunni Islamists of the kind now fighting the Assad regime are its principal antagonists. Iranian sources say they liaise constantly with Moscow, and that while Hizballah's overall withdrawal from Syria is likely to be completed soon - with the maintenance of the militia's 'intelligence' teams inside Syria - Iran's support for Damascus will grow rather than wither. They point out that the Taliban recently sent a formal delegation for talks in Tehran and that America will need Iran's help in withdrawing from Afghanistan. The US, the Iranians say, will not be able to take its armour and equipment out of the country during its continuing war against the Taliban without Iran's active assistance. One of the sources claimed - not without some mirth -- that the French were forced to leave 50 tanks behind when they left because they did not have Tehran's help. It is a sign of the changing historical template in the Middle East that within the framework of old Cold War rivalries between Washington and Moscow, Israel's security has taken second place to the conflict in Syria. Indeed, Israel's policies in the region have been knocked askew by the Arab revolutions, leaving its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, hopelessly adrift amid the historic changes. Only once over the past two years has Israel fully condemned atrocities committed by the Assad regime, and while it has given medical help to wounded rebels on the Israeli-Syrian border, it fears an Islamist caliphate in Damascus far more than a continuation of Assad's rule. One former Israel intelligence commander recently described Assad as "Israel's man in Damascus". Only days before President Mubarak was overthrown, both Netanyahu and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called Washington to ask Obama to save the Egyptian dictator. In vain. If the Arab world has itself been overwhelmed by the two years of revolutions, none will have suffered from the Syrian war in the long term more than the Palestinians. The land they wish to call their future state has been so populated with Jewish Israeli colonists that it can no longer be either secure or 'viable'. 'Peace' envoy Tony Blair's attempts to create such a state have been laughable. A future 'Palestine' would be a Sunni nation. But today, Washington scarcely mentions the Palestinians. Another of the region's supreme ironies is that Hamas, supposedly the 'super-terrorists' of Gaza, have abandoned Damascus and now support the Gulf Arabs' desire to crush Assad. Syrian government forces claim that Hamas has even trained Syrian rebels in the manufacture and use of home-made rockets. In Arab eyes, Israel's 2006 war against the Shia Hizballah was an attempt to strike at the heart of Iran. The West's support for Syrian rebels is a strategic attempt to crush Iran. But Iran is going to take the offensive. Even for the Middle East, these are high stakes. Against this fearful background, the Palestinian tragedy continues. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f0_1371360015 AntiPropagaanda World exclusive: Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria Syria, FSA, Terrorists, America, Armed, Bashar Assad, Iran, Hezbollah; Israel, Qatar, Saudi, Al-Qaeda Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:44:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bbf_1371354141 userkc Summary of events in Syria for 14 -15 June http://86.62.80.156/node/11746 ANNA News http://anna-news.info http://www.youtube.com/user/newsanna In Damascus, the army closed all entrances to the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk from operating in its territory a few snipers. In the area of http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bbf_1371354141 userkc Summary of events in Syria for 14 -15 June Syria Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:09:51 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4eb_1371332592 nutsflipped I feel he is the last of the real Americans, everyone else in America is zombified. He is like the Omega Man. And Republicans voted for insane McCain and liked Sanatorium. World exclusive: Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria US urges Britain and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing Sunni-Shia conflict Washington's decision to arm Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region. For the first time, all of America's 'friends' in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. Breaking all President Barack Obama's rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East. The Independent on Sunday has learned that a military decision has been taken in Iran - even before last week's presidential election - to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion that has cost almost 100,000 lives in just over two years. Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel.In years to come, historians will ask how America - after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 - could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed. The profound effects of this great schism, between Sunnis who believe that the father of Mohamed's wife was the new caliph of the Muslim world and Shias who regard his son in law Ali as his rightful successor - a seventh century battle swamped in blood around the present-day Iraqi cities of Najaf and Kerbala - continue across the region to this day. A 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbott, compared this Muslim conflict to that between "Papists and Protestants".America's alliance now includes the wealthiest states of the Arab Gulf, the vast Sunni territories between Egypt and Morocco, as well as Turkey and the fragile British-created monarchy in Jordan. King Abdullah of Jordan - flooded, like so many neighbouring nations, by hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees - may also now find himself at the fulcrum of the Syrian battle. Up to 3,000 American 'advisers' are now believed to be in Jordan, and the creation of a southern Syria 'no-fly zone' - opposed by Syrian-controlled anti-aircraft batteries - will turn a crisis into a 'hot' war. So much for America's 'friends'.Its enemies include the Lebanese Hizballah, the Alawite Shiite regime in Damascus and, of course, Iran. And Iraq, a largely Shiite nation which America 'liberated' from Saddam Hussein's Sunni minority in the hope of balancing the Shiite power of Iran, has - against all US predictions - itself now largely fallen under Tehran's influence and power. Iraqi Shiites as well as Hizballah members, have both fought alongside Assad's forces.Washington's excuse for its new Middle East adventure - that it must arm Assad's enemies because the Damascus regime has used sarin gas against them - convinces no-one in the Middle East. Final proof of the use of gas by either side in Syria remains almost as nebulous as President George W. Bush's claim that Saddam's Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.For the real reason why America has thrown its military power behind Syria's Sunni rebels is because those same rebels are now losing their war against Assad. The Damascus regime's victory this month in the central Syrian town of Qusayr, at the cost of Hizballah lives as well as those of government forces, has thrown the Syrian revolution into turmoil, threatening to humiliate American and EU demands for Assad to abandon power. Arab dictators are supposed to be deposed - unless they are the friendly kings or emirs of the Gulf - not to be sustained. Yet Russia has given its total support to Assad, three times vetoing UN Security Council resolutions that might have allowed the West to intervene directly in the civil war.In the Middle East, there is cynical disbelief at the American contention that it can distribute arms - almost certainly including anti-aircraft missiles - only to secular Sunni rebel forces in Syria represented by the so-called Free Syria Army. The more powerful al-Nusrah Front, allied to al-Qaeda, dominates the battlefield on the rebel side and has been blamed for atrocities including the execution of Syrian government prisoners of war and the murder of a 14-year old boy for blasphemy. They will be able to take new American weapons from their Free Syria Army comrades with little effort.From now on, therefore, every suicide bombing in Damascus - every war crime committed by the rebels - will be regarded in the region as Washington's responsibility. The very Sunni-Wahabi Islamists who killed thousands of Americans on 11th September, 2011 - who are America's greatest enemies as well as Russia's - are going to be proxy allies of the Obama administration. This terrible irony can only be exacerbated by Russian President Vladimir Putin's adament refusal to tolerate any form of Sunni extremism. His experience in Chechenya, his anti-Muslim rhetoric - he has made obscene remarks about Muslim extremists in a press conference in Russian - and his belief that Russia's old ally in Syria is facing the same threat as Moscow fought in Chechenya, plays a far greater part in his policy towards Bashar al-Assad than the continued existence of Russia's naval port at the Syrian Mediterranean city of Tartous. For the Russians, of course, the 'Middle East' is not in the 'east' at all, but to the south of Moscow; and statistics are all-important. The Chechen capital of Grozny is scarcely 500 miles from the Syrian frontier. Fifteen per cent of Russians are Muslim. Six of the Soviet Union's communist republics had a Muslim majority, 90 per cent of whom were Sunni. And Sunnis around the world make up perhaps 85 per cent of all Muslims. For a Russia intent on repositioning itself across a land mass that includes most of the former Soviet Union, Sunni Islamists of the kind now fighting the Assad regime are its principal antagonists.Iranian sources say they liaise constantly with Moscow, and that while Hizballah's overall withdrawal from Syria is likely to be completed soon - with the maintenance of the militia's 'intelligence' teams inside Syria - Iran's support for Damascus will grow rather than wither. They point out that the Taliban recently sent a formal delegation for talks in Tehran and that America will need Iran's help in withdrawing from Afghanistan. The US, the Iranians say, will not be able to take its armour and equipment out of the country during its continuing war against the Taliban without Iran's active assistance. One of the sources claimed - not without some mirth -- that the French were forced to leave 50 tanks behind when they left because they did not have Tehran's help.It is a sign of the changing historical template in the Middle East that within the framework of old Cold War rivalries between Washington and Moscow, Israel's security has taken second place to the conflict in Syria. Indeed, Israel's policies in the region have been knocked askew by the Arab revolutions, leaving its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, hopelessly adrift amid the historic changes.Only once over the past two years has Israel fully condemned atrocities committed by the Assad regime, and while it has given medical help to wounded rebels on the Israeli-Syrian border, it fears an Islamist caliphate in Damascus far more than a continuation of Assad's rule. One former Israel intelligence commander recently described Assad as "Israel's man in Damascus". Only days before President Mubarak was overthrown, both Netanyahu and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called Washington to ask Obama to save the Egyptian dictator. In vain. If the Arab world has itself been overwhelmed by the two years of revolutions, none will have suffered from the Syrian war in the long term more than the Palestinians. The land they wish to call their future state has been so populated with Jewish Israeli colonists that it can no longer be either secure or 'viable'. 'Peace' envoy Tony Blair's attempts to create such a state have been laughable. A future 'Palestine' would be a Sunni nation. But today, Washington scarcely mentions the Palestinians.Another of the region's supreme ironies is that Hamas, supposedly the 'super-terrorists' of Gaza, have abandoned Damascus and now support the Gulf Arabs' desire to crush Assad. Syrian government forces claim that Hamas has even trained Syrian rebels in the manufacture and use of home-made rockets.In Arab eyes, Israel's 2006 war against the Shia Hizballah was an attempt to strike at the heart of Iran. The West's support for Syrian rebels is a strategic attempt to crush Iran. But Iran is going to take the offensive. Even for the Middle East, these are high stakes. Against this fearful background, the Palestinian tragedy continues. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4eb_1371332592 nutsflipped Dr. Ron Paul's Speaks Sense About Obama's Policies in Syria, 4000 Iranian Troops to Syria Syria,Obama,arming,the,terrorists,Dr.,Ron,PAul,smackdown,WW3,world,war,three Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:41:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5cc_1371137962 Zurm A UC Berkeley senior who is a venomous supporter of the jihad against Israel and member of several Islamic supremacist groups with links to jihad terror has been nominated to become the University of California student regent for the 2014-15 academic year. The student regent participates in a board that sets policies for the entire University of California system, which consists of ten campuses throughout the state. Sadia Saifuddin is expected to be confirmed as student regent by the full Board of Regents next month. The hijabbed Saifuddin would be the first Muslim student regent. "My faith," she explained, "is a big part of my life. What I love the most about Islam is that it preaches tolerance and love, which is the reason that I have close friends and networks outside of the Muslim community as well." Yet Saifuddin's record at UC-Berkeley is hardly one of tolerance and love. She co-sponsored a BDS resolution in the Berkeley student Senate, calling on the entire University of California system to divest companies that do business with Israel, based on the spurious premise that Israel is "occupying" Palestinian territory. Saifuddin, a member of both Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Students Association (MSA), also spearheaded "A Resolution Condemning Islamophobic Hate Speech at the University of California," which the student Senate passed unanimously. Saifuddin herself wrote the resolution, which claimed that "since September 11, 2001, Islamophobia has become the latest 'hazing' technique across the United States and has created a chilling effect for Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians in their communities, work-environments, and campuses," and that "according to a Gallup Study, 60% of of Muslim Americans say that Muslims face prejudice from Americans." In fact, the very concept of "Islamophobia" is a blunt instrument in the hands of Islamic supremacists, designed to intimidate non-Muslims into thinking that resisting jihad terror is "hateful." And reality does not back up its existence: the British journalist Brendan O'Neill gave the truth behind such claims in the Telegraph last April, in the wake of the Boston Marathon jihad bombings: In the years since 9/11, the American public has been admirably tolerant towards Muslim communities. According to federal crime stats collected by the FBI, in 2009 there were 107 anti-Muslim hate crimes; in a country of 300 million people that is a very low number. In 2010, a year of great terrorism panic following the attempt by Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad to detonate a car bomb in Times Square in NYC, there were 160 anti-Muslim hate crimes. In 2011, there were 157. To see how imaginary the Islamophobic mob is, consider a state like Texas, fashionably mocked as a backward Hicksville full of Fox News-watching morons: there are 420,000 Muslims in Texas, yet in 2011 there were only six anti-Muslim hate crimes there. It simply isn't true that mad racist Yanks are biting at the bit to attack Muslims. No actual hate crimes are ever justified. In light of her hysterical exaggeration of the supposed "climate of hate" against Muslims in America since 9/11, however, clearly Saifuddin is joining Islamic supremacist advocacy groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in using hate crimes to deflect attention from the reality of jihad activity and bully Americans into thinking that it is wrong and bigoted to oppose jihad terror and Islamic supremacism. Hamas-linked CAIR and other Muslims have not hesitated to fabricate "hate crimes." CAIR and other groups like it want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they can use them for political points and as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat. Saifuddin's resolution makes clear its objective to stymie counter-terror efforts when it complains that "Muslim students have been targeted for surveillance by the FBI in Orange County, who said that they are paying particular attention to Muslim students at UC Irvine and UCLA," and that "this surveillance is occurring on the East Coast as well, with the New York Police Department surveillance of Muslim students at Yale, Columbia, Syracuse, Rutgers, New York University, and Brooklyn College." It asserts that "these racist and selective surveillance procedures are justified by figures in mainstream media, such as David Horowitz, who defines the core mission of the MSA to 'advance the Islamic Jihad against the Jews and Christians of the Middle East, and ultimately against the United States.'" Saifuddin offers no evidence to counter Horowitz's assertion or explain why surveillance of MSA members, who are Muslims of all races, is "racist." In reality, Horowitz is correct. In an internal Muslim Brotherhood document, "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America," the MSA is listed as one of the Brotherhood's allied organizations. And the memorandum explains that the Brotherhood's agenda in the U.S. is subversive: the Muslim Brothers "must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." In line with this, it is no surprise that several MSA members have been implicated in jihad terror activity. Tarek Mehanna, an MSA member at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, is now serving a seventeen-and-a-half year sentence for aiding al-Qaida. Omar Hammani, a former president of the MSA chapter at the University of South Alabama, is now waging jihad in Somalia and has a prominent place on the FBI's Most Wanted List. Hasan Akbar, who was a member of the MSA at UC Davis, joined the U.S. Army only to murder U.S. soldiers in a jihad terror attack in Kuwait; he is now awaiting execution. Saifuddin's resolution singled out UC Santa Cruz lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin for particular opprobrium, claiming that she "has been responsible for inciting racist and Islamophobic rhetoric," and demanding that Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) and UC President Mark Yudof condemn her "racist and bigoted language." Saifuddin was enraged by some remarks Benjamin in a June 2012 speech, in which she noted that many MSA and SJP students are "foreign students who come from cultures and countries where antisemitism is how they think about the world." Benjamin added that these student groups often have strong ties to international campaigns to demonize and delegitimize Israel, as well as to organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood - in fact the Muslim Brotherhood founded the Muslim Students Association, the MSA 40 years ago - and other terrorist organizations. Al Awda is one of the main sponsors of the Students for Justice in Palestine. Al Awda is an organization that has ties to both Hamas and Hezbollah. So these are not your ordinary student groups like the College Republicans or the Young Democrats. These are students who come with a serious agenda who have ties to terrorist organizations. It is noteworthy that in her resolution, Saifuddin quoted some other segments of Benjamin's talk, but left out her specific observations about the MSA's and SJP's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hizballah, although she did note Benjamin's assertion that both groups were "tied to terrorist groups." This is likely because Benjamin's information was accurate, and Saifuddin did not want to call attention to that. Ironically, while Saifuddin claimed that Benjamin's speech created "an uncomfortable and unsafe environment for Muslim students," it was actually Saifuddin's resolution and her anti-Israel activities that created an uncomfortable and unsafe environment for Benjamin and pro-Israel students on UC campuses. Benjamin wrote to Yudof in May 2013 that in their attacks on her, the MSA and SJP had "gone well beyond free expression to the point of intolerable and impermissible intimidation, harassment, and defamation." Benjamin noted that the UCSC CJP and affiliated SJP groups on other UC campuses, inspired by Saifuddin's claims, have waged a virulent and harmful campaign to assassinate my character that includes: posting and promoting a defamatory on-line petition accusing me of racism and censorship and calling on you to condemn me; widely posting defamatory flyers about me on the UCSC campus; launching over a dozen videos about me on YouTube that wrongfully accuse me of being "hateful," "dangerous," and "Islamophobic"; instructing SJP students UC-wide to fill out hate/bias reports against me on their respective campuses; passing libelous resolutions condemning me for my "inflammatory, hateful, and racist assumptions" in the UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, and UC Irvine student senates; and, perhaps most egregiously, appearing to collaborate with groups sympathetic to terrorists (e.g. the International Solidarity Movement) and associated on-line publications (e.g. Electronic Intifada and Mondoweiss) to more widely circulate these defamatory materials about me. As a result, Benjamin told Yudof, "the CJP/SJP's targeted and well-orchestrated campaign of intimidation, harassment, and defamation has caused me to feel real concern for my safety and my ability to carry out my responsibilities as a faculty member at UCSC." Even worse, "the disturbing message these students are sending with their actions is that anyone who attempts to speak out against campus antisemitism, as I have, will be vilified, harassed, intimidated, and bullied into silence." That harassment includes the fact that two student senators at Saifuddin's UC Berkeley campus "who voted against the SJP-sponsored divestment resolution were allegedly subject to 'death threats and vitriolic accusations.'" This climate of harassment is in large part the responsibility of Sadia Saifuddin. That the UC Board of Regents would reward her and legitimize her vilification of Israel and all foes of jihad is unconscionable. But given the low state of American academia today, it is not at all surprising. http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/islamic-supremacist-nominated-as-uc-student-regent/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5cc_1371137962 Zurm Islamic Supremacist Nominated as UC Student Regent Islamic,Supremacist,Nominated,UC,Student,Regent