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Putin to meet Iran's Ahmadinejad in China: Kremlin


Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of a summit in Beijing next week as tensions rise over Tehran's nuclear drive, a Kremlin official said.


"Meeting Ahmadinejad will let Putin personally feel the tension around the Iranian issue and how it is perceived in Tehran," Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov told reporters last week in comments that were embargoed for release until Sunday.


Putin and Ahmadinejad agreed to meet over the phone and the initiative came "from both sides," Ushakov said.


The meeting will come as Russia prepares to host the latest round of talks on June 18 and 19 between world powers and Iranian negotiators in a bid to find a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear programme.


The Moscow talks will follow a meeting last month in Baghdad where the six world powers -- the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany -- confronted Tehran over its intention to enrich uranium despite fears it was building a nuclear bomb.


The talks achieved little in two days of intense discussions besides setting up the next meeting in Moscow.


Like Western capitals, Russia "was not too happy" with the outcome of the Baghdad talks, but "understood the main thing, which is readiness of both sides to continue talks," Ushakov said.


"Only in dialogue is it possible to get a sense of any sort of compromise, which is crucial to unblock this situation... and leave out the most scary scenarios."


Russia has repeatedly warned against using military action against Iran -- an option never ruled out by Israel or the United States -- and said that this could cause a catastrophe in the Middle East.


Putin will meet Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. He is also scheduled to speak with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in a bilateral meeting.


The meeting with Ahmadinejad will be Putin's first since his return to the Kremlin for a third term after a four-year stint as prime minister.


During his second term as president, Putin met Ahmadinejad in Tehran in 2007 in a rare visit to the country by the Kremlin chief.


The Russian delegation to the China summit is a show of force with "all the major names of Russian business in attendance," said Ushakov.


Putin is also due to meet China's President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.


With China preparing for a stage-managed leadership change, Putin will also meet Vice Premier Li Kequiang, who is set to be the next premier, and Xi Jinping, who is tipped as the next president.

‘A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY’: SYRACUSE FILM STUDENT KILLED IN SYRIA WHILE DOCUMENTING VIOLENCE

   
A graduate film student at Syracuse University was killed in Syria while filming a documentary about the ongoing violence ravaging his homeland, The Associated Press reports.


Bassel Shahade, 28, a well-known Syrian activist,died Monday in the city of Homs, Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor told The AP. She did not have details of his death.


“This is a terrible tragedy for Bassel’s family and friends in Syria and for all his fellow students, faculty and friends here in Syracuse who knew him,”she wrote in a message to students. “His death is also a tragedy for the Syrian people, who have suffered many months of tragic violence as they seek greater freedom for their nation.”


Amer Mater, a friend of Shahade, told The AP that the student filmmaker was in Houla filming the aftermath of the massacre that claimed the lives of 108 people, including 32 children, last week.


The United Nations estimates that around 9,000 people, mostly civilians, have been slaughtered since the uprisings against President Bashar Assad began in Syria about 14 months ago.

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network taken Saturday, May 26, 2012, purports to show shrouded dead bodies following a Syrian government assault on Houla, Syria. The U.N. says 32 children under 10 were among the dead. (AP Photo)

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network taken Saturday, May 26, 2012, purports to show shrouded dead bodies following a Syrian government assault on Houla, Syria. The U.N. says 32 children under 10 were among the dead. (AP Photo)




In addition to filming his own documentary, Shahade was also training other videographers to document the violence in Syria, Mater said.



(Related: CNN Analyst Predicts ‘Turning Point’ After Syrian Massacre That Included Families, Children (Graphic))


Friends and supporters of Shahade took to Facebook to mourn Shahade and a group has already been created in his name titled, “Bassel Shahade Singing For Freedom.” The page had 1,221 likes as of 10 a.m. on Wednesday.


“Thousands of Syrians have lost their lives and this young man sought to bring this to the attention of the world. Are you listening World? We failed to hear him shout in life, perhaps we can hear his whisper in death. We must help the people of Syria,” Brad O’Neill posted on the Facebook page.


Deborah Jordan posted, “Bassel Shahade was an incredibly brave filmmaker. My heart goes out to his family and friends, and to the besieged Syrian people he was helping when he was killed.”


Prior to his death, Shahade appeared via a live audio feed on the show Democracy Now! in December. With guards possibly right outside the door, he spoke in a quiet voice while hiding in an apartment and explained to the hosts that the situation in Syria is deadly. Shahade’s segment starts at around 14:50:

“Thousands of detainees are still in the prisons,” Shahade said. “Among them are tens of my friends. They are not terrorists. They are filmmakers, journalists, doctors, lawyers. They are very high intellectual people and activists.”


Shahade said the country needed protection in the form of observers and journalists to document the atrocities being carried out by Assad’s security forces.


“This is the protection we need, ” he said.


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HARVARD, UCLA DISALLOW ARGUMENT FOR LEGITIMACY OF JEWISH STATE

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Recently I posted about how UCLA hosted a "debate" between Islamic supremacist Jew-haters Reza Aslan and Hussein Ibish arguing over the "one-state solution" or the "two-state solution" -- that is, whether Israel should be destroyed by "Palestinian" jihadists working from within or from a "Palestinian" state. There was no discussion of the legitimacy of the Jewish State. Atlas reader Wallace Edward Brand ("Salubrius") posted this comment:

I have been trying to offer the students at UCLA a view of a one lawful Jewish state West of the Jordan River. One of the UCLA faculty members told me it was impossible. All the faculty members who could sponsor a conference on that topic were too politically correct.

I had the same problem at the Harvard Conference on March 3. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11323

I tried to get the Harvard Crimson to run an op ed with my view. No reply. I finally ended up buying a quarter page ad in the printedition and the on-line edition with the facts. So I tried to do the same at UCLA. They didn't even reply to my request for a quote for a quarter page ad.

I asked him for more information and he sent me this:

Dear Pamela,

As you requested, here is the story of my trying to get on the panel in the March 3,4 conference at Harvard. It was written up by Arutz Sheva, a very conservative Israeli paper, in their English language edition: Op-Ed: "Harvard Had no Room for a One Jewish State Solution" http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11323 I was surprised at this because Ms Drew Faust, the President of Harvard is a historian. I thought she would like my presentation on the 1920 San Remo grant, the basis for my one Jewish State Solution because it is principally the history of the Middle East that has been obscured by time (and by anti-semites and anti-Zionists).

She didn't give me any help either in getting on the panel, or with getting an op ed published in the Harvard Crimson. All I got, from her aide, was a copy of a press release saying that Harvard did not endorse the conference and that "it was a free and open marketplace of ideas". Not free for my idea. I finally bought a quarter page ad in the Harvard Crimson. Arutz Sheva had agreed to my writing an op ed with the facts on the San Remo grant so a quarter page was enough to list the links to that op ed, and to an article on the three possible solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and then an article entitled: Remember the Qurayza that criticized the two state solution -- because HLS Professor Alan Dershowitz would probably sponsor a conference on that topic and I had reason to believe from a friend who knows him, that he would NOT agree to my participation. In an article he had written, he had said that the one state solutions, either from the left or the right were solutions of extremists.

So with my small ad, I finally got into the Harvard marketplace of ideas, but it wasn't free and all I got with one expensive [expensive for me] insertion in their print edition and their online edition was a small dimly lit stall in one corner.

Here is my ad:

ONE LAWFUL STATE WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER AS A SOLUTION TO THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

Students at Colleges and Universities should know that there are actually three solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict. First there is a "one [Arab majority] state" solution, in which the Jewish Israelis would become unwelcome guests in their own National Home, and the Jews in the Diaspora, such as in Toulouse, lose the only place on earth they could go to and not be in a minority. In a conference at Harvard on March 3,4 a one [Jewish majority] solution was excluded. The panel was limited to Arab intellectuals and Israeli history "revisionists". Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard described it in Newsmax as an "Anti-semitic and Anti-Zionist Hate Fest". The second is a "two state [temporary] solution" in which the interim solution would result in the loss of much Jewish and Christian heritage and in the long run would end up as the one [Arab majority] state solution. The third is one lawful Jewish state based on the San Remo Agreement of 1920 that established the British Mandate for Palestine. It granted the Jews exclusive collective political rights to Palestine, in trust, to vest when the Jews had attained a population majority.

These three solutions are outlined at: http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2012/03/salubrius-three-possible.html

The details of the San Remo agreement are also on line in a two part op ed that can be seen at:

Part 1: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11408

Part 2: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11412

Debunking the Palestine Lie" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U

It is likely that a conference at Harvard will also be held on a two state temporary solution. Will a discussion of the third option be permitted at such a conference? Harvard issued a press release stating that it did not endorse the March 3,4 conference and that it was " a free and open marketplace of ideas". The three solutions are like the three legs of a stool. With only the first two, it is likely that you will get strong arguments in favor of both, but they won't provide any balance.

Here is a critical review of the two state temporary solution: http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2012/03/remember-quraysh.html Also, it would be helpful to look at what Dr. Daniel Pipes has uncovered about Yassir Arafat and the treaty of Hudibyah, a two-tribe solution that went sour. http://www.danielpipes.org/316/al-hudaybiya-and-lessons-from-the-prophet-muhammads and http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/1999/09/arafat-and-the-treaty-of-hudaybiya-updates

If Colleges and Universities are free and open marketplaces of ideas, demand a conference where all three solutions are discussed by genuine proponents and opponents.

Wallace Edward Brand, UCLA '54 HLS '57

I tried to do the same at UCLA. One of the professors there whose name I have been asked not to mention, told me that it would be impossible to present the one lawful Jewish State solution there because all of the professors who would be able to sponsor a conference on that topic, and Chancellor Block, were politically correct. He was right. The head of Hillel wasn't any help either. I learned later that he had physically attacked a woman journalist, Rachel Neuwirth, who is pro-Zionist. VIOLENCE AND LEFT-WING POLITICS: What's Going On At UCLA's Hillel? http://www.think-israel.org/hes.hillel.html So I tried to see if the Daily Bruin would accept an op ed. No reply from it either. So I asked their advertising department for a rate for a quarter page ad, thinking to duplicate what I had done at Harvard. No reply to that either. I couldn't even buy my way into the UCLA free marketplace of ideas.

No reply from Chancellor Block or the trustees of the University of California either.

So that all occurred before the Hussein Ibish -- Reza Aslan alleged debate at UCLA on May 15. Cinnamon Stillwell at Campus Watch had warned that there would be a "son-of-Harvard" conference at UCLA. Here is what my friend Salomon Benzimra had to say about Hussein Ibish http://jdlcanada.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/it-was-most-regrettable-that-professor-derek-penslar-a-professor-of-jewish-history-and-an-expert-on-zionism-and-the-state-of-israel-did-not-see-it-fit-to-raise-his-voice-and-remi/ I had found your comment on Aslan. It appears that Ibish and Aslan are a good match. And that was followed up shortly after by another alleged debate at the Temple Israel in Los Angeles between Peter Beinart and David Suissa. Op-Ed: Beinart-Suissa Debate: Two Legs of a Stool, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11675

Keep up your good work,

Wallace Brand
Atlas Shrugs

TERROR TWEETS CALL FOR THE "SLAUGHTER" OF ZIONISTS AND DEATH TO THE WEST

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Twitter is allowing the devout Muslim terror faction Al Qassam Brigades to tweet a continuous stream of genocidal and annihilationist messages on the the social media site.

@AlqassamBrigades has Tweeted calls for the "slaughter" of Zionists, among other things. Al Qassam Brigades, the paramilitary wing of Hamas, has been responsible for some of the bloodiest terror attacks in recent history, including the 2001 Jerusalem Sbarro attack that killed 15; the infamous Dolphinarium attack in 2001, in which 21 young people were murdered at a Tel Aviv night club; and the 2002 Passover attack in Netanya that left 30 dead.


"Twitter’s terror handle" The Times of Israel, Ashley Rindsberg, May 29

The last thing you’d expect to find beneath Twitter’s cute little blue bird is an @ sign followed by the name of one of the world’s bloodiest and most ruthless terror groups. But to my surprise (and disgust) while searching for new streams on Twitter, a handle called @AlqassamBrigade was suggested to me by the social media platform.

Incredulous, I clicked the link. What I discovered is a Twitter stream that bills itself as “The official website of the Al-Qassam Brigades in Palestine.” Al Qassam is the paramilitary wing of Hamas, the Iran-backed Islamist political organization that has controlled Gaza since 2006.



Hamas is classed as a terror group by the US and the EU, as well as a number of other nations. As its “military wing,” the Al Qassam Brigades are directly responsible for carrying out terror attacks — including some of the deadliest attacks on Israeli civilians, like the August 2001 attack at a Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem that killed 15 people and injured 130, the Dolphinarium attack in Tel Aviv in 2001 which killed 21 young partygoers and the 2002 Passover festival attack in Netanya, which took the lives of 30 people.

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas in Gaza and prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority, made headlines last year for praising Osama bin Laden as a “martyr” and “Arab holy warrior” and condemning his killing by the US. (Here’s a more complete rundown of the terror group and its activities.)

So what are the Al Qassam Brigades doing on Twitter, complete with a slick illustrated background of two terrorists at work (ostensibly targeting more civilians)? For the terror group, which enjoys a fairly robust following of nearly 2,500 people on Twitter, the motivation is clear: the dissemination of anti-Israel Islamist agitprop.

Though showing a good deal of sophistication and discipline by Tweeting headlines and links to news stories in a polished English, the group also seems to be using Twitter to give itself a sheen of credibility and even legitimacy. Aware of the rules of perception in our age of media warfare, the administrators of the handle also show restraint in most Tweets.

But dig a little deeper, and you come across @AlqassamBrigades Tweets openly calling for the “slaughter” of Zionists, as in the April 16th Tweet:



There are also calls for the destruction of Israel, as in another Tweet from that date which reads:



This raises some serious questions for Twitter, a social media platform that relies on its reputation as a forum for fair, tolerant and, presumably, non-genocidal ideas. Twitter has so far not responded to my emailed request for comment.

Read the rest.

FARRAKHAN LAMENTS: ‘SAD THAT MEXICO LOST CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO‘ THROUGH AMERICAN ’TRICKERY’; SOON WHITES ‘WILL BE THE MINORITY’ IN THE COUNTRY THEY ‘TOOK’

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The day before Memorial Day, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan lamented that Mexico had lost territory to America due to the Mexican-American War and disparaged American military action around the globe.


(Related: Farrakhan Slams Obama’s Gay Marriage Endorsement: ‘He’s the First President That Sanctioned What the Scriptures Forbid’)


The poorly-timed rant took place in San Diego in front of a partially Hispanic audience. Theoft controversial minister began by disparaging “White Mexicans” of Spanish decent before announcing that “Africans were in that part of the World [Mexico] maybe before [Mexicans] got there.” The minister lamented that illegal Mexicans are called “aliens” and declared that Americans “ought to be praising the Mexicans because we living on land that was once theirs.”


Farrakhan went on to declare that he was “sad that Mexico lost California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado” after the Mexican-American War “trickery.” This led to the minister generalizing about the American people as “a people that make war and blame the person they makin’ war on and then take your land.”


However, The minister sounded overjoyed that minority births outnumber white births in America, according to recent US Census reports. Given the news, Farrakhan noted that white people will soon “be the minority in their own country that they took from the native people.” He also projected that minorities will soon “become governor of every state.”

Watch the astonishing Remarks Below:

Key Farrakhan Quotes:

“They make you think that the original Mexicans are all white Mexicans. I don’t have anything against a white Mexican, but you’re not the original. What language did the original Mexicans speak? Why are you speaking Spanish? You’re not Spain. You’re not Spanish.”

“Where did you get that name you have? Sanchez. Ramirez. Look at you. ‘My name is Sergio Sanchez. I’m not one of those black ones.‘ But, Africans were in that part of the world maybe before you got there.”


“And now you’re an alien. That‘s terrible that Americans can call Mexicans ’aliens.’You know, we ought to be praising the Mexicans because we living on land that was once theirs, San Diego. Or maybe it should be ‘San Diablo.”


“Brothers and sisters, it’s sad that Mexico lost California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado — all of this was once Mexico. And through trickery, a war was started. You see, this is a people that make war and blame the person they makin’ war on and then take your land. That’s a modus operandi all over the world.”


“A racist, white supremist must be going crazy, you know, because for the first time, Hispanic, black and Asian babies outnumbered white babies. An ominous sign for the future. Now listen now, in the next 30 or 40 years, white people will be the minority in their own country that they took from the native people.“


“That must be a terrible feeling, to know that in just a few short years, the majority’s gonna be the minority. And one man, one vote. So, we become governor of every state — ah, we give ‘em a few.”

PLOT TO KILL AMERICANS TRACED BACK TO IRAN

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U.S. officials have linked a plot to kill Americans – including U.S. embassy officials – to Iran, TheWashington Post reports.


The assassination plot was originally uncovered in November when officials at the U.S. embassy in the Central Asian country of Azerbaijan were made aware of the threat. However, many of the details were not made public.


Investigators from four different countries have been probing the plot for months. Now, new evidence has surfaced in recent weeks that ties the assassination attempts to either Hezbollah militants backed by Iran or operatives based in Iran, U.S. and Middle Eastern Security officials explained to WaPo.


An official report in March revealed that evidence compiled by investigators included phone records, forensic tests, coordinated travel arrangements and cellphone SIM cards bought by many of the would-be assassins, two officials who have seen the report said.


From the Washington Post report:


The plot had two strands, U.S. officials learned, one involving snipers with silencer-equipped rifles and the other a car bomb, apparently intended to kill embassy employees or members of their families.


Both strands could be traced back to the same place, the officials were told: Azerbaijan’s southern neighbor, Iran.


Precisely who ordered the hits, and why, was never conclusively determined. But U.S. and Middle Eastern officials now see the attempts as part of a broader campaign by Iran-linked operatives to kill foreign diplomats in at least seven countries over a span of 13 months. The targets have included two Saudi officials, a half-dozen Israelis and — in the Azerbaijan case — several Americans, the officials say.


Iran has certainly made no efforts to disguise its deep-seated hatred for the United States, however, should it be determined the country’s government was involved in the assassination plots, it could cause further damage to already strained relations between the U.S. and Iran.


“The idea that Iran and Hezbollah might have worked together on these attempts is possible,” a senior U.S. official who has studied the evidence explained to The Washington Post. “But this conclusion is not definitive.”


The report claims a foreign spy agency was able to intercept electronic messages seemingly describing plans to smuggle weapons and explosives from Iran into Azerbaijan. Messages were linked to an Azerbaijani national, Balagardash Dashdev, who has a long criminal history and ties to intelligence networks and militant groups in Iran.


(Related: Feds Foil Massive Iran-Linked Terror Plot on U.S. Soil)


WaPo explains that some experts argue that a covert war is actually being waged between the United States and Iran.


So far, four scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear program have been killed by unidentified assassins in the past three years. Further, the county’s websites have been hit by a barrage of cyberattacks. Iran has accused the U.S. of taking out their nuclear scientists but continue to deny any involvement in assassination plots involving foreign diplomats.





Iranians carry the coffin of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, who was killed in a brazen daylight assassination when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car in Tehran. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Mojtaba Heidari)


But officials said the Iran-linked attempts stopped abruptly in the spring after the nation agreed to resume negotiations regarding its nuclear program with six world powers, including America, according to the report.


“There appears to have been a deliberate attempt to calm things down ahead of the talks,” a Western diplomat briefed on the plots told The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the intelligence. “What happens if the talks fail — that’s anyone’s guess.”


President Obama has not directly accused Iran’s government of being involved in the Azerbaijan plot.


While the evidence doesn’t prove with certainty that the Iranian government was involved in the attempt, some say the regime’s consistent pattern of reckless behavior should not be ignored.


“There is not yet a smoking gun,” a Western diplomat briefed on the evidence told The Washington Post. “But the pattern is clear, and each day the volume of evidence grows.”


Iran in a statement denied any involvement in the Azerbaijan plot and suggested the plot was made up by the “Zionists.”


“We believe that the glorious people of Azerbaijan understand that this part of the script of Iranophobia and Islamophobia is organized by the Zionists and the United States,” the statement said.


Read all of WaPo’s analysis here.

Syria / Damascus - Perry Stone