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Hillary Clinton ‘At Real Disadvantage’ In Israel

Hillary Clinton’s appearance in Jerusalem may be little more than a show of solidarity.

Starting with the fact that she cannot even talk to both sides. The U.S. Government has labeled Hamas a terrorist organization, and as the saying goes, heads of state do not negotiate with terrorists.

That leaves Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah party and elected Palestinian President; though the title doesn’t earn him much clout in Gaza.

PBS newshour recently hosted Khaled [...]

BREAKING: Panetta says US Has Lost Track of Syria’s Chemical Weapons! Maybe on Way to Hezbollah!!

This is Obama’s Red Line.

He’s says its “limited”; let’s see how far it goes.

(CNN) — The United States has intelligence that the Syrians have moved chemical weapons at various sites for security reasons, the U.S. defense secretary said Friday.

There has been “limited movement” at Syria’s major chemical storage sites, Leon Panetta said in response to questions from CNN’s Barbara Starr.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/28/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html

Syrian officials are reportedly moving their stockpiles of chemical weapons to [...]

A disturbing look into the minds who control the U.S. government today

From Alt-Market:

What is interesting about this discussion by the Washington Institute For Near East Policy is that its primary purpose is not necessarily to debate the current political elements of the Iranian question.

They aren’t contemplating the viability or morality of a war with Iran.

Instead, they are attempting to devise strategies by which the government could CONVINCE the American public and the world that a war with Iran is the “right [...]

Israel Lobbyist suggests False Flag attack to force the US into a war with Iran.

His name is Patrick Clawson.

How to Build U.S.-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsvDWZTVP3E&feature=youtu.be&a

Last Friday, during question time at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy policy forum luncheon on “How to Build US-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout,” the director of research at the pro-Israel think tank hinted that a Pearl Harbor-type attack might be necessary to get the United States to go to war against [...]

Lobbyist: Launch Staged Provocation To Start War With Iran

“We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians”

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 26, 2012

A member of the influential pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) think tank has brazenly suggested that the United States should launch a false flag provocation in order to start a war with Iran.

Speaking at a Washington Institute for Near East Policy policy forum luncheon on “How to Build US-Israeli Coordination on [...]

State Dept alerts travelers

U.S. embassies in at least seven countries in the Middle East, Africa and the Caucuses are warning of possible anti-American protests following an attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, the Associated Press reports.

The killings in Libya followed demonstrations in front of Cairo’s U.S. Embassy Tuesday, where protesters tore down the U.S. flag and scaled the embassy’s wall. That protest was planned [...]

War With Iran Appears More Imminent

Raven Clabough
New American
Aug 21, 2012

There has been ongoing speculation on the possibility of an Israeli-U.S. strike on Iran for quite some time. Publicly, the Obama administration has indicated that while military action was not off the table, it was also not the first choice of the administration. President Obama had hoped Israel would delay an attack on Iran until after the presidential election in November, but the Israeli government is [...]

WAR DRUMS: Panetta Heads to Middle East as Iran Dominates Israel Talks

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta heads today to the Middle East where tensions are rising over the democratic transition in Egypt, turmoil in Syria and Iran’s suspected advances toward nuclear weapons.

His trip to Tunisia, Egypt, Israel and Jordan has a security agenda, including new concerns about Syrian chemical weapons, along with election-season political stakes. Panetta is scheduled to arrive in Israel on the heels of a visit by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has appealed to Jewish voters by attacking [...]

FSA soldiers: “Many Assad soldiers we caught had Iranian ID’s. We’re officially in war with Iran”

Using Google Translate:

Opposition sources speaking to Zaman, the last two days about the identity of persons killed and taken prisoner gives an overview of the dramatic. That the vast majority of them Iranian nationals, some of them say that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards came identities. ”Now we are fighting with Iran formally”!

http://zaman.com.tr/haber.do?haberno=1321503

Stymied at U.N., U.S. Refines Plan to Remove Assad

“You’ll notice in the last couple of months, the opposition has been strengthened,” [...]

Prelude to the Destruction of Syria: Another Fake Massacre

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
July 16, 2012

The “massacre” of Tremseh, Syria, reported with standard sensationalistic fanfare over the weekend by the establishment media is another war propaganda fabrication.

Billed as “Syria’s Bloodiest Massacre” by Newsweek and Bloomberg, the event supposedly occurred on July 12 in the Sunni Muslim village of Tremseh in Hama province. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) – an Israel-centric neocon operation that specializes in hysterical anti-Muslim, pro-war propaganda – mentioned [...]

Mysterious blasts, slayings suggest covert efforts in Iran

Iranian students break into the British Embassy in Tehran late last month, where they started a fire and removed the British flag. (Abedin Taherkenareh, European Pressphoto Agency / November 29, 2011)

By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles TimesDecember 4, 2011, 7:29 p.m.

Reporting from Washington—

At an Iranian military base 30 miles west of Tehran, engineers were working on weapons that the armed forces chief of staff had boasted could giveIsrael a “strong punch in the mouth.”

But then a huge explosion [...]

Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense system hits 85% of targets

By Eli Lake – The Washington Times

Israel’s cutting-edge missile defense called Iron Dome scored an 85 percent success rate in knocking out rockets launched against Israel’s southern cities in recent clashes with Gaza.

“Iron Dome in April became the first anti-ballistic missile system to be used in combat,” said Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.

Israeli officials said the country’s two batteries of Iron Dome missile interceptors shot [...]

More Libyan bloodshed could prompt U.S., NATO military intervention…

After 10 days of protest, Moammar Gadhafi has lost control of the eastern portion of Libya.

(CNN) — If the U.S. military were to intervene in an increasingly chaotic Libya, it would most likely be part of a NATO action in which Libyan bloodshed has reached a humanitarian crisis, analysts said Thursday.

As reports emerged Thursday about deadly clashes between leader Moammar Gadhafi’s forces and anti-government protesters [...]

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