Category Archives: Middle East Politics

Iran’s Supreme Leader publishes new book outlining ‘annihilation’ of Israel, giving Iran full reign in Middle East

From the EU Reporter:

Only weeks after a deal was reached between the world powers and Iran that will lift international sanctions in exchange for some restrictions on and monitoring of its declared nuclear program, which Iran largely developed in secret. in a new published book, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (pictured) outlines a “slow and painful” strategy to annihilate the State of Israel.

He claims that his plan would promote “the hegemony of Iran” while removing “the West’s hegemony” from the Middle East.

Iranian leaders regularly and openly call for the destruction of Israel. Iran has intercontinental missiles apparently capable of striking Israel, and past intelligence has indicated that Iran had researched fitting one of those missiles with a nuclear warhead.

In this 416-page book edited by Saeed Solh-Mirzai, entitled “Palestine,”Khamenei recommends rather than wiping Israel off the map through conventional warfare a plan of terrorism and everlasting chain of low-intensity attacks that will ultimately make life unbearable for Israelis, who would largely respond, Iran’s Supreme Leader hypothesizes, by packing their bags and relocating themselves out of the country.

Khamenei makes his position clear from the start : Israel has no right to exist as a state. He uses three words : one is “nabudi” which means “annihilation”, the other is “imha” which means “fading out’’ and finally there is “zaval” meaning “effacement.”

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry chief: Sunni Arab nations are our ‘allies’

This report from JTA is highly significant:

NEW YORK (JTA) – The director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, called the Middle East’s Sunni Arab nations “Israel’s allies.”

Gold used the term twice in a presentation Wednesday in New York focused on the shortcomings of the Iran nuclear deal.

“What we have is a regime on a roll that is trying to conquer the Middle East,” Gold said of Iran, “and it’s not Israel talking, that is our Sunni Arab neighbors — and you know what? I’ll use another expression – that is our Sunni Arab allies talking.”

Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and a longtime adviser to Israeli prime ministers from the right-wing Likud Party, is also the author of a 2003 book on Saudi Arabia called “Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism.” Saudi Arabia has been one of the most vocal Arab opponents of U.S.-Iran rapprochement and the Iran nuclear agreement.

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An historic meeting

A letter from Canon Andrew White, Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East

Dear Friends,

Greetings from Baghdad. I have been in Cyprus, England, Israel, Jordan and Iraq in the last last ten days so I have been rather busy. Much of the work has been in relation to an historic meeting between Iraq and Israel.

The Naim Dangoor Program of Universal Monotheism is sponsoring a unique and truly historic meeting between some of the most senior religious leaders of Iraq and Israel. The meeting is scheduled to take place next week in Cyprus and will
bring together Iraqi Jews, Christians and Muslims along with Jewish, Christian and Muslim Israelis and Palestinians. This meeting will bring together the leaders of the monotheistic faiths from the most dangerous area in the world.

Never before has there been a meeting between Israeli and Iraqi leaders either religious or secular. The two want to show that there is no way that there can be world peace without working together. We trust that this will just be the beginning of a true working engagement together. Further information will follow though we are afraid that for security reasons we are unable to mention the names of those involved. The event is being organised by me and the FRRME.

So we truly do need your prayers and look forward to giving you more news soon.

Blessings,

Andrew

Mahmoud Abbas and the Arafatian Jesus

by Gerald A. Honigman

On September 23, 2011, Mahmoud Abbas officially demanded that the United Nations create Arab state # 22–the second, not first, Arab state within the original 1920 borders of the Mandate of Palestine. Jordan was carved out of some 80% of the total area after 1922.

Among other fictions Abbas included in his speech was his purposeful neglect to mention any historical Jewish figures connected to the land. While mentioning Muhammad and Jesus, he deliberately left out the people of whom Jesus was a part of. This was no accident; indeed, it is part of a pattern Arabs have displayed for quite some time now. You see, airplanes are not the only thing that Abbas and his earlier Arafatian predecessors have sought to hijack. Follow me closely below to see what I mean…
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The downgrading of the Palestinian UN bid

Herb Keinon, writing in the Jerusalem Post, suggests that Israel is not as isolated as it sometimes seems.

Distinct similarities are beginning to emerge between the “freedom flotilla” that was supposed to set sail for Gaza from Europe this summer with “1,500 activists in 15 ships,” and the Palestinian’s unilateral statehood bid that PA President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to launch Friday at the UN.

Both were accompanied by sound and fury and expectations of what these “dramatic, historic” steps would signify.

Both were accompanied by nightmare predictions, here and abroad, of the damage that would be caused to Israel, and of how it would further isolate our already badly isolated country.

Both were held up as evidence of this country’s impotence and the failure of its diplomacy. Both were used to strike fear into the hearts of the populace that things have rarely been worse.

In the end, the vaunted flotilla ended with a whimper as the Greeks prevented it from setting sail, and only one vessel with a motley handful of radical leftists and journalists took to the seas, easily intercepted by the navy.

And while the Palestinian UN gambit is still a work in progress, there, too, the buildup is shaping up as being much greater than the climax.

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