Iran accuses U.S. Navy of ‘illegal and provocative acts’

Iran has accused the United States of "illegal and provocative acts," including repeated violations of Iranian airspace, in a letter submitted Friday to the United Nations.

The message from Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee, first obtained by the Associated Press, argues that the U.S. Navy has regularly conducted flights over Iranian territory in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman.

The letter was sent to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the U.N. Security Council. It details seven specific incidents in October and November during which American drones entered Iranian airspace, despite radio warnings.

Earlier this month, an Iranian jet shot at an American predator drone in the Persian Gulf. According to the Pentagon, the drone was performing "routine surveillance" over international waters but not ultimately hit.

In December of last year, a surveillance drone crashed in eastern Iran. Iranian officials said then that they were able to bring down the drone via a cyberattack, but according to CBS News, American officials have neither confirmed nor denied that claim.

In the letter to the U.N., Khazaee asks the U.N. to warn Americans ‘‘against the continuation of acts in violation of international law and of the adverse consequences of any provocative and dangerous acts for which the United States government would be held responsible.’’

The White House did not return a request for comment.

Myths of Israeli Invincibility

Israel’s indiscriminate attacks on Gaza have once again raised the issue of Israel’s legitimacy. Muslim rulers decided not to break from the past and have once again undertaken actions which in no way reverses the Israeli occupation.  It’s these rulers who have recycled the invincibility of Israel argument and knowingly or unknowingly pushed that the Muslim world should accept the existence of Israel and negotiate with what remains of Palestine. Here are 10 examples to refute the invincibility of Israel argument.

• Strategic depth – Israel is an artificial nation created by colonial powers. The nation is so small that in any war scenario Israeli territory would suffer from significant loss and damage as it will have to fight from within its own territory. A hostile fighter could fly across all of Israel (40 nautical miles wide from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea) within four minutes.

• Internal cohesion – Domestic stability has always been a problem for Israel as it was established upon a racist basis. The reality of secular Israel is that it practices racism on a state level, even upon the Jews. The close correlation between ethnicity and socio-economic class in Israel remains the main axis along which the Ashkenazi – European Jews – and Oriental – Middle Eastern Jews – division is drawn. The formation of an Israeli ethnic-class divides the Jewish society of Israel from within. This apartheid has now been entrenched into a system of laws, regulations and practices which govern the operation of state institutions.

• Small population – Israel’s biggest problem is its small population relative to the region. Israel has a population of 7.9 million and must have an increasing demography if it is to survive in the region. As Israel is vastly outnumbered by the nations surrounding it, it has a big reliance on migration. In the last decade no other country in the world has had such a large percentage of new immigrants preparing to leave. Due to security fears, growing numbers of Israelis want to leave and Israel is now in a situation where every year more Jews leave Israel for Europe and the US than emigrate to Israel.

• Labour problem – The knock on effect of such a small population is a labour shortage.                     Israel only has a labour force of 3.3 million. Economic development and industrial development are labour intensive and dependent on knowledge and skills retention. With such a small labour force Israel is heavily reliant upon foreign knowledge and expertise.

• Economy – Israel’s economy is worth $245 billion, this is just too small to cater for Israel’s population. This has a knock on effect on how much tax the government collects as it subsidises the world’s Jews to migrate to Israel to normalise its occupation. As a result Israel has focused on key industries for its survival. This means many industries such as mining and manufacturing have been neglected. To compensate for this Israel relies on technology, military and foreign aid transfers. It also relies on influential Jews across the world, especially in the US to manipulate foreign policies of these states in favour of Israel. Israel has a heavy dependency on the goodwill of other states. If it was to lose favour  it is too small a country to be self-sufficient.

• Poverty – One effect of such an economy is poverty in Israel. Twenty-four per cent – over 2 million Israeli citizens – live below the poverty line. The small budget of the Israeli government has led to many to resort to utilizing family links to gain wealth. One report in 2010 highlighted 18 Israeli families controlled 60% of all Israeli companies. Their wealth is concentrated in four of Israel’s largest industries: banking and insurance, chemicals, high tech, and military/homeland security.

• Lack of resources – Israel will never become self-sufficient as it will always have to import energy. Israel relies heavily on external imports for meeting most of its energy needs, spending significant amounts from its domestic budget for its transportation sector which relies on gasoline and diesel fuel, while the majority of electricity production is generated using imported coal. Whilst the region has an abundance of oil and gas, none of this is in Israel.

• Reliance on exports – Foreign markets are critical for Israel. Due to having a very small domestic market (due to its small population) it is forced to search for foreign markets to generate wealth. Industrialised nations generally focus 10% of their economy towards foreign trade (imports and exports). However 30% of the Israeli economy relies on exports, which is very high. Israel’s main exports 10 years ago were Jaffa oranges and other agricultural products. Today an estimated 80% of the products Israel exports are high-tech and electronics components. Forty per cent of Israeli exports end up on US shores even though the US can make the same agricultural goods and computer hardware. A reliance on foreign markets makes an economy dependent on foreigners constantly consuming and ties the fortunes of ones economy with others.

• Agriculture – The geography of Israel is not naturally conducive to agriculture. More than half of the land area is desert, and the climate and lack of water resources do not favor farming. Only 20% of Israel’s land area is naturally arable. Whilst Israel is now able to produce most of what it needs it has to also export produce to earn much needed foreign income. Israel’s Achilles-Heel however is its need to import grain. Eighty per cent of its grain is imported, which is another strain on government tax revenues.

• Water – Israel suffers from a chronic water shortage. In recent years it is feared Israel may find it difficult to adequately supply municipal and household water requirements. Israel’s water sources are considered to be running out with 95% already consumed. New sources for water are considered to be small and will be unable to fully replace its main source when it runs out.

New idea of halting militancy

London: Britain’s House of Lords member Lord Gilbert on Friday advised his government to drop a neutron bomb in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, in order to eliminate the safe heavens of militant outfits.

During a debate over eliminating nukes across the world, the member of the upper house of the UK’s parliament said that the borders could be made safe after dropping ERRB warheads commonly known as neutron bombs in the respective areas.

“Your Lordships may say that this is impractical, but nobody lives up in the mountains on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan except for a few goats and a handful of people herding them. If you told them that some ERRB warheads were going to be dropped there and that it would be a very unpleasant place to go, they would not go there. You would greatly reduce your problem of protecting those borders from infiltration from one side or another

According to reports, the members of the House of Lords were shocked after listening to an unexpected speech from Gilbert. The parliament members heavily criticized Gilbert and rejected his suggestion saying that it was not possible to drop a bomb in the Pak-Afghan border areas.

Labour former defence secretary Lord Browne of Ladyton rounded on Lord Gilbert over his remarks, accusing him of being at his “most challenging and contrarian”.

Cabinet Office spokesman Lord Wallace of Saltaire said the Government did not share Lord Gilbert’s “rumbustious” views on the sensitive issue. “The UK retains a firm commitment to the long-term goal of a world without nuclear weapons,” he said. “Our aim is to build an international environment in which no state feels the need to possess nuclear weapons – an environment that will allow nuclear states to disarm in a balanced and verifiable manner.”

It is to be mentioned here that Taliban and al-Qaeda militants have been using the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan as safe heavens to launch attacks on US, Nato and Afghan forces in Afghanistan and on Pakistani law enforcing authorities inside Pakistan.

Revealed: Military emails show that NO U.S. sailors witnessed Osama bin Laden’s secret burial at sea

Emails describe how Osama bin Laden's body was washed, wrapped in a white sheet and slid into the sea after religious remarks in Arabic

Defense Department says it cannot find any images or videos of bin Laden's aboard USS Carl Vinson 

Pentagon failed to produce autopsy report, death certificate or results of DNA tests

Military officials referred to bin Laden's body as 'package' in coded missives 

Release of emails mark first public disclosure of information about bin Laden's May 1, 2011 death

Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no American sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson, and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the secret ceremony.

The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader's death. The emails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department.

Bin Laden was killed on May 1, 2011, by a Navy SEAL team that assaulted his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

One email stamped secret and sent on May 2 by a senior Navy officer briefly describes how bin Laden's body was washed, wrapped in a white sheet, and then placed in a weighted bag.

According to another message from the Vinson's public affairs officer, only a small group of the ship's leadership was informed of the burial.

‘Traditional procedures for Islamic burial was followed,’ the May 2 email from Rear Adm. Charles Gaouette reads. ‘The deceased's body was washed (ablution) then placed in a white sheet. The body was placed in a weighted bag.

‘A military officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a native speaker. After the words were complete, the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, whereupon the deceased's body slid into the sea.’

Final destination: Bin Laden's body was taken to an unknown location aboard USS Carl Vinson and dropped into the sea, but the Defense Department says that it cannot find any images showing the terrorist mastermind's remains on the ship

Fallen mastermind: In this undated file image from video seized from bin Laden's walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the al Qaeda leader watches TV.


Stronghold: Members of the anti-terrorism squad are seen surrounding the compound where bin Laden was killed by Navy SEAL Team 6 in Abbottabad May 4, 2011

The email also included a cryptic reference to the intense secrecy surrounding the mission.

‘The paucity of documentary evidence in our possession is a reflection of the emphasis placed on operational security during the execution of this phase of the operation,’ Gaouette's message reads

Recipients of the email included Adm. Mike Mullen, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. James Mattis, the top officer at U.S. Central Command. Mullen retired from the military in September 2011.

Earlier, Gaouette, then the deputy commander of the Navy's Fifth Fleet, and another officer used code words to discuss whether the helicopters carrying the SEALs and bin Laden's body had arrived on the Vinson.

‘Any news on the package for us?’ he asked Rear Adm. Samuel Perez, commander of the carrier strike group that included the Vinson.

 

FEDEX delivered the package,’ Perez responded. ‘Both trucks are safely enroute home base.’

Although the Obama administration has pledged to be the most transparent in American history, it is keeping a tight hold on materials related to the bin Laden raid. 

In a response to separate requests from the AP for information about the mission, the Defense Department said in March that it could not locate any photographs or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden's body. It also said it could not find any images of bin Laden's body on the Vinson.

The Pentagon also said it could not find any death certificate, autopsy report or results of DNA identification tests for bin Laden, or any pre-raid materials discussing how the government planned to dispose of bin Laden's body if he were killed.

Historic moment: In this May 1, 2011, image, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden receive an update on the bin Laden mission in the Situation Room

The Defense Department also refused to confirm or deny the existence of helicopter maintenance logs and reports about the performance of military gear used in the raid. 

One of the stealth helicopters that carried the SEALs to Abbottabad crashed during the mission and its wreckage was left behind. People who lived near bin Laden's compound took photos of the disabled chopper.

The CIA, which ran the bin Laden raid and has special legal authority to keep information from ever being made public, has not responded to AP's request for records about the mission.
 

War for Peace, or a plea for real change?

The Zionist experiment in ruling over Palestine has been a summary failure

They say you need war before you can have peace. The same holds true for Palestine, sadly the hundred plus killed in the past week and thousands homeless from Gaza are the targets of this war, to build a scenario where the US, UN and its Israeli ally can manufacture an accord called “peace” which strengthens Israel’s brutal occupation and little else.

The history of this conflict is well known and sadly very one sided. Since Britain occupied Palestine in 1917 they worked diligently to create a new state at the behest of the Zionists with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, only one of many indications that they were prepared to run roughshod over the owners and inhabitants of this blessed land. Following the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948 and the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Muslims from their land, several “scenario” wars ensued, whereby the Arab regimes of principally Jordon, Egypt, Saudi, and Syria acted as though they would expel the occupier, but in reality put little forward in the way of forces or commanded that those forces withdrawal after offering token opposition to Israel. The results of the 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, and 2008 wars and intifada’s were predictable with Israel strengthening its position and taking yet more land.

Sultan Abdul Hameed the Second warned of this very scenario following his rebuff of the overture of the Zionists who wanted to buy Palestine to settle some of the Uthmani state’s debts.

His statement was as firm as the current regimes of the region are spineless:

“Please do tell Dr. Hertzel not to take any serious steps towards this issue. I cannot concede one single hand span of the Palestinian land for it is not mine to concede. Palestine belongs to the Muslim Nation (Ummah) My people have fought hard for this land and irrigated it with their blood. The Jews might as well keep their millions. If the Khilafah State one day fell then you can take Palestine without any price. But as long as I am alive, I would rather be cut to pieces than to see Palestine cut off from the Khilafah State and this shall not happen. I cannot agree to the mutilation of our bodies as long as we are alive.”

The establishment of Israel was indeed made possible in the aftermath of the destruction of the Khilafah and through the complicity of treacherous Muslim regimes who have helped create the myth of Israeli strength and invincibility bringing great shame upon the Muslims. They were in David Ben Gurion’s words “the first line of defence” for Israel and remain so.

Despite victory in these scenario wars Israel wants and needs more. Even with treacherous peace accords involving Turkey, Jordan and Egypt it is not enough. They need the whole of the region to capitulate, recognise the theft of the land they call their own and give formal legitimacy on the world stage. A legitimacy which will ensure greater obstacles for a future sincere Islamic state in returning the land to Islamic authority.

The Two State Solution?

This proposal is not “Two State” and is no “solution”. The proposed Palestinian “state” will have no foreign policy, no military to defend itself and little control over its budget. With no control over its borders as now, there would be scant opportunity to develop a functional economy, with the geographic challenges of managing what is effectively a series of refugee camps dotted around the West bank and Gaza, hardly a serious proposal for an operational state.

It is truly shameful that the international community has consistently and blindly backed Israel, a state which has ruled the region with an iron fist, rekindled the worst of apartheid as they separated Jews from Muslims with the enormous concentration camp fence scarring the centre of the land, and repeatedly boycotted (economically) and attacked (militarily) an occupied population that morally and by all norms of international law should be under their protection.

Israel’s demands can never be met. No right to return for citizens that have had their land stolen, a permanent capital of Jerusalem, protection and peace (signing away permanent rights to the land they have taken), and a weak and subservient Palestinian population with few rights or hope. But of greatest issue is that the Muslims of this region and indeed globally cannot accept such a solution in light of the Shariah injunctions.

The Prophet (saw) said:

“Whosoever gives even one hand span of Muslim Land away, Allah will grant him an equal hand span in Hellfire.”

Allah (swt) commands in Surah Mumtahana:

“Allah forbids you with regard to those that fight you for your deen, and drive you out from your homes, and support others in driving you out, from having any relation with them. And those that do so are wrongdoers”[TMQ 60:9]

The central position of Al-Aqsa Masjid in Islam is well known. The abandonment of the third most holy site in Islam can and will never be tolerated, no matter how many years it takes.

Regime change or the same old story?

With change starting to sweep the region new hope was given that the change of regimes would mean a new determination re Israel. Would Mohamed Morsi take a strong line against Israel, use his forces to defend the Muslims of Gaza, or be promoted as “peace maker” to add weight to US/Israeli aims to fortify Israel’s position in the region?

The recently agreed ceasefire whilst welcome in ending the bloodshed, for now, has deferred the issue. And it is hardly a ceasefire when the Muslim armies are not in theatre, they have never really been available to defend the lives, honour and lands of their brothers over the past 65 years! Consequently the Muslims will never feel secure in Gaza and the West bank with Israel and its apartheid policies and politicians who are ready to wage war prior to their elections to garner electoral support. Nor will the Jews of the region feel secure with a government and system that separates citizens whether Jews from Europe or Africa, or Muslim families that have lived there for hundreds of years.

The Zionist experiment in ruling over Palestine has been a summary failure. Peace, security, rights of ownership and enjoyment of land, fair trading opportunities are but a distant dream, particularly for the Muslims of Gaza and the West bank. The only time in history in which this region functioned fairly for Jews, Christians and Muslims was under Islamic authority (Khilafah), in which all are treated as citizens and oppression of any is a crime.

This was exemplified during Umar’s Caliphate in his contract with the Christians of Jerusalem:

“This is the protection which the servant of God, ‘Umar, the Ruler of the Believers has granted to the people of Eiliya [Jerusalem]. The protection is for their lives and properties, their churches and crosses, their sick and healthy and for all their coreligionists. Their churches shall not be used for habitation, nor shall they be demolished, nor shall any injury be done to them or to their compounds, or to their crosses, nor shall their properties be injured in any way. There shall be no compulsion for these people in the matter of religion, nor shall any of them suffer any injury on account of religion… Whatever is written herein is under the covenant of God and the responsibility of His Messenger, of the Caliphs and of the believers, and shall hold good as long as they pay Jizya [the tax for their defense] imposed on them.”

Obama Supports the Zionist-Controlled Israeli Genocide & Destruction in Gaza

Susanne Posel

Communist-in-Chief and Zionist-controlled,President Barack Obama says that he is “fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself from missiles landing on people’s homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians, and we will continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself.”

This announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began to expand Israel’s “militaryoperations” to punish Hamas. Tanks became the first ground invasion in Gaza with the goal of firing positioned rockets at Gaza.

Last week, Israel assassinated Ahmed Jabari, a Hamas military commander in response to more than 10 years “of terrorist activity”, according to Israeli intelligence. Israel has targeted Palestinian leaders in self-admitted “targeted killings”; using NATO methods against terrorists in an attempt to legitimize killing Jabari.

Zionist violence against Gaza resulted in the murder of 21 people, including women and children, during a missile raid on Sunday. The headquarters of Ismail Haniyeh, Gaza Prime Minister, was attacked with a massive amount of explosions. Israel’s unabashed destruction of this civilian site shows their directive toward genocide of the Palestinian people.

These dead are added to the already 69 counted Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes, tank fire and naval targets.

During a Palestinian compliance with cease-fire efforts, Israel became even more violent, taking advantageof their chance to attack Palestine more aggressively. This attempt to get to a complete negotiation of ending the attacks was spear-headed by Mohammad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood member and US-patsy installed to be president of Egypt.

srael refuses to back down from their attack on Palestine; claiming that militant factions in Gaza would use a ceasefire as an excuse to become more violent. In this instance, the Zionists are asserting a false reality while fulfilling a self-serving prophecy by being the aggressors.

The government of India is “deeply concerned” about the killing in Gaza at the hands of Israel and would like to see leaders come together to talk about the “peace and security of that region.”

Obama believes that since Palestine is to blame for firing the first rocket into Israel, they should stand down. Ben Rhodes, deputy National Security adviser to the President remarked: “These rockets have been fired into Israeli civilian areas and territory for some time now. So Israelis have endured for too much of a threat from these rockets for far too long, and that is what led the Israelis to take action that they did in Gaza.”

Globalists at the Brookings Institute view the “escalation of the conflict” wherein Israel has been attackingPalestine in an obviously unfair military advantage as a credible defense of their land. From a tactical perspective, the Brookings Institute recommends that Israel take advantage of their position and be prepared “for a wider operation to follow.”

Convincing Americans to support the genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel when Zionist-controlledmedia displays children killed in Israel during air raids while intentionally directing the emotional response of US citizens to sympathize with this murderous agenda. In reality, Palestine cannot properly defend itself against the military and technological advancement of Israel’s arsenal.

Israel possesses intelligent and newly developed weaponry thanks to their friendship with the Zionist-controlled patsies seated in the executive branch of the US government. Their missile campaign against Gaza will surely cause more civilian casualties without regard for innocent lives they take.

Israel is also able to use drones for aerial surveillance to set precisemilitary targets and assume greater coordination between intelligence operations and on-the-spot decision making.

Using covert operations, the CIA-sponsored Anonymous took down websites in Israel in response to the destruction of Palestine. Called #OpIsrael, more than 700 websites including Israeli media, the Ministry of Defense and other governmental digital infrastructure were rendered useless by the cyber-attack facilitated by the US government-trained hackers.

Yuval Steinitz, Israeli Finance Minister explained that the cyber-attacks were a war being “waged . . . on a second front . . . against Israel.” This disruption was not causing a serious disruption or other damage because the Israeli government had thwarted most of the attacks. One target was the Central Bank of Jerusalem.