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Bibi Bets Wrong

Posted on November 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rather arrogant and considers himself to be an authority on the Middle East and the United States of America. During the past two years in order to show clearly to President Obama that he is not in love with the Middle Eastern policy of Hillary Clinton, the man whose brother is arrogance decided to ignore reallity and bet on a Romney victory. Bibi met with Repubublican leaders on visits to the United States which is a flagrant interference in American politics by a foreigner. He has challenged President Obama, he has insulted the president and now must confront reality.

Most probably, the morning of November 7 is not the most welcome one for the Israel leader. Over in the wings is Ehud Olmert who has proposed intelligent peace plans  with Palestine leaders and his ideas will be in accord with Hillary Clinton and the president. There are reports that Bibi ordered his staff to shut up and not insult the American president.

Ah, Bibi, it is too bad the Mormon guy lost!

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Is The United States Guilty Of Violating Laws?

Posted on October 27, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The United Nations has decided to initiate investigations into whether or not use of drone planes violates international law. There is no question that drone attacks have not only led to the death of militants, they have caused the death of hundreds of innocent civilians. Earlier this year, Ben Emmerson, a UN special  rappoteur, in a speech at the Harvard Law School said killing of civilians who were attending funerals could be construed as an example of a war crime. “together with my  colleague Christof Heyns(Un special rappoteur on extra-judician killlings), I will be launching an investigation unit withint he special  procedures of the Un Human Rights Council to inquire into drone attacks.”

Mr. Emmerson also noted;

Secret detention is unlawful as a matter of international law.

Waterboarding is always  torture. Torture is an international crime.

When  will the United States accept the concept of international law?

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No To Attack On Iran

Posted on October 27, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The Conservative government of  Prime Minister David Cameron has made clear to the United States government that it does not believe military action against Iran is appropriate at this juncture in time. Downing Street said: “we are working closely with the US with regard to UK bases but the government does not think military action is the right course of this point in time.” David Cameron made clear to the government of Israel it is important to display restraint and avoid rushing into military action.

The UK  government has bluntly told the United States that it will not allow any of its miltary bases to be used in conjunction with an attack on Iran. There is some evidence the Cameron government does not want to  be told if Israel or the US launches an attack. The British people were sucked into an American expedition in Iraq which turned out to be based on lies and there is no desire to repeat that mistake.

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Rumors Of Talks Abound

Posted on October 23, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Rumors are flying of a  possible American and Iranian discussion regarding solving the issue of nuclear weapons for the nation of Iran. A New York Times story insists that US and Iranian diplomats have agreed to discuss possible compromise solutions to this problem. President Obama has made clear that sanctions will continue unless Iran agrees to allow UN inspection and return to serious discussions of how to avoid the spread of nuclear weapons.

We expect Mitt Romney will take a stand against such discussions. We can expect at the Monday debate  that Mitt will insist he opposes compromise and wants to draw red  lines in the sand of time. Mr.Romney knows as much about foreign policy,about compromise as he does regarding what he said a few years ago about abortion or gun control or health care.

The great leader of England during WWII, Winston Churchill, once said: “jaw, jaw, not war, war.” Sound advice!

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Death Of Innocent

Posted on October 17, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Western nations are determined to enforce severe economic sanctions on Iran or until that country decides to allow international inspectors to check for nuclear weapons. The Iranian economy is in free fall, it is difficult to obtain goods from foreign nations and the unintended consequence is growing concern upon the elderly and sick who are deprived of medicines and necessary equipment for hospitals. Fatemeh Hashemi, head of a charity foundation, points out, “more than anything else we have a lack of medicines for patients suffering from cancer and multiple sclerosis.”

Iran’s central bank has problems transferring money abroad. Members of the academic community can not take money outside the nation of find their credit cards invalid in other nations. During the period when sanctions were imposed on Iraq, it is estimated that thousands of children died due to lack of food and medicine.

We punish evil, but in the process behave in an evil manner.

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Wither Iran, Will They Contaminate?

Posted on October 15, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Iran is working on producing an atomic bomb even as Western nations enforce one sanction after another. Israel is raising fears of an attack upon Iran in order to wipe out its nuclear facilities. On the left is fear of an air attack, on the right is the prospect of destroying Iran’s economy through economic pressure. So,what is a nation to do? General Mohammed Ali Jaffari, commander of the Revolutionary Guard has decided to find a way that will prevent any assault on his homeland.

His Revolutionary Guards, the Passadran, are being prepared to launch an environmental catastrophe which would contaminate the Straits of Hormusz despite the fact his nation uses this waterway in order to export oil. “Murky Waters” is the name of this lunacy and, although it makes scant sense, Jafari is more consumed by ideology than common sense.

We inhabit a world in which the lunatics are in charge of the asylum!

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It’s You, Not Us!

Posted on October 11, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran is an important person in his nation so when he speaks about life, the world, other nations, this religious man is essentially informing those who are ignorant as to the truth. He is somewhat upset at western nations for imposing sanctions on Iran until there is a cease in developing an atomic bomb. The Ayatollah interprets such a viewpoint as insulting to his “nation’s pride” and he does not intend to budge one iota. Who cares about a few garbage cans set on fire, most probably that was done by Mossad or its agents. The important thing is that no sanction, no collapse of the Iranian economy will bother this man o f God.

As far as he is concerned, Western attitudes toward his nation derive from “spite and hatred” which, of course, is what western nations always say about those with whom they differ. This is a man who is convinced he represents Truth! On the other hand, there is a minor problem about the collapse of Iran’s monetary system. I suspect that problem will be handled by praying to God.

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Blasphemy Is It?

Posted on October 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The Un General Assembly is meeting and one can expect a discordant conflict between Muslim nations and the rest of the world over what is, or should, be termed as –blasphemy. A trio of Muslim leaders-PM Recept Erdogan of Turkey, the mouth President Ahmadinejad of Irana and newly elected President Morsi of Egypt a re determined to have the UN come out against allowing people to make nasty remarks about the Prophet Muhammad. They desire international legal regulations as to making comments about what others deem to be sacred. In simple English this means no one is allowed to make any negative comment about anyone who claims to be speaking as a Muslim.

I wonder if it is illegal to make anti-religious remarks about Muslims does the same apply to making anti-Semitic remarks about Jews? After all, in most Muslim nations “The Protocols of the Elders Of Zion” are openly sold even though this is a false document which is very anti-semitic. Most Muslim nations do not deem it anti-religious to depict Jews as monkeys.

Let’s begin this control of speech by ending anti-semitic comments by Muslims!

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Go Slow Says Israel Leader

Posted on October 7, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Voices of war and violence in Israel and in the United States urge an attack on Iran. Mitt Romney, who conveniently skipped the Vietnam war because he had more important things to do like spreading word of the Mormon religion is hot to trot about bombing. Yair Lapid, head of Yesh Atid in Israel is urging the government to slow things down about war with Iran. He notes by constantly talking about red lines, Netanyahu has altered world views about the situation.

“Netanyahu has created a situation in which it became an Israel-Iran problem and not a world-Iran problem.” In  other words, “he is leading Israel too soon” into war before it is necessary. Latest news from Iran depicts angry mobs who want changes in government policy because sanctions are ruining their lives. Bibi, calm down.

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It’s Not Us, It’s Them!

Posted on October 7, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Chaos is spreading throughout Iran as sanctions increasingly cripple the economy and reduce the rial currency to a level not seen in decades. Riot police clashed with protesters,with businessmen, and with those involved in currency exchange. Many businesses in the bazar simply closed their doors even though warned by security forces to remain open. Some openly called President Ahmadinejad a traitor who has mismanaged the economy and caused unnecessary conflict with the outside world.

Gholam  Ali Haddad Adel, an adviser to the president argued it was not the fault of Iran’s government but a “conspiracy” by western powers. “The arrogant powers, in their crude way, think that the nation of Iran is ready to led go of the Islamic revolution through economic pressure” but we will not give in.

The only outcome of continued defiance of the United Nations is economic misery for the people of Iran. They can have the Islamic revolution and they can have economic prosperity, just make rational decisions.

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