Israeli Airstrike Inside Syria Concerns Russia

An Israeli soldier stands guard next to an Iron Dome rocket interceptor battery deployed near the northern Israeli city of Haifa, January 28, 2013.

Russia is expressing concern about an alleged airstrike by Israeli warplanes inside Syria.

The Russian Foreign Ministry says such action, if confirmed, amounts to "unprovoked attacks" against a sovereign nation, in violation of the United Nations charter.

Differing accounts of the Wednesday airstrike have emerged, with Syrian authorities saying Israeli jets fired on a military research facility near Damascus, killing two people.

Israeli and Western news media reported an Israeli airstrike at a different location, close to the Syrian-Lebanese border.  They say the target was a convoy delivering missile parts to Hezbollah, the strongly anti-Israel Shi'ite militia based in Lebanon.

Hezbollah condemned the attack in a statement Thursday and expresses its "full solidarity" with Syria.

The conflicting reports could not be resolved or independently confirmed by early Thursday and it remains unclear whether one or two separate strikes occurred.  Israel routinely declines to acknowledge preemptive military actions and refused all comment Wednesday.

In recent weeks, Israeli officials have warned that they will not tolerate any transfer of Syrian weapons to militants such as Hezbollah.

The former head of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, Amnon Sofin, says Israel's greatest concern is that Syrian chemical weapons could come under control of Hezbollah militants dug in along the Lebanese border.

Sofin told reporters Wednesday that Hezbollah already has rockets and launchers and there are fears that such missiles could be fitted to carry chemical warheads.

A statement from Syria's military command describes the early-morning Israeli attack as "a direct strike on a scientific research center." It says the strike followed months of "botched attempts" to seize control of the facility by "terrorist groups" - the government's label for rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad. The Israeli pilots are said to have flown into Syria at low altitude, to evade detection.

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Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World."

Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns

The UN Arms Trade Treaty that has been identified by observers as a flagrant threat to the second amendment and which Barack Obama is determined to sign has its roots in a 1961 State Department memorandum which explains how the United Nations will oversee "complete disarmament" of the American people under the ruse of preventing war. The UN Arms Treaty has caused so much controversy because it outlines a plan to target "all types of conventional weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons," according to Forbes' Larry Bell.

Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton also warns that the agreement "is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there is no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control."

A letter sent last month by 130 Republican House members to President Obama argued that the treaty should be rejected because it infringes on the "fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms". The letter adds that "...the U.N.'s actions to date indicate that the ATT is likely to pose significant threats to our national security, foreign policy, and economic interests as well as our constitutional rights."

Using the rhetoric of the threat post by terrorists, insurgents and "international crime syndicates," the UN is busy trying to imply that all weapons are somehow involved in illegal activity on a global scale and should therefore be controlled and regulated by a global authority.
This is precisely the same language used in a 1961 U.S. State Department briefing which outlined a long term agenda to carry out a "Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World."

Invoking the threat of nuclear warfare, the document spells out a plan to create a "United Nations Peace Force" that would "enforce the peace as the disarmament process proceeds."
While the document initially focuses on scrapping nuclear weapons, it later makes it clear that the only groups allowed to own weapons of any kind would be governing authorities, "for the purpose of maintaining internal order," and the UN "peacekeeping" force itself, which would require "agreed manpower."

"The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order. All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes," states the document. While the memorandum outlines a broader mandate to destroy national sovereignty, eviscerate national armies and institute the UN as the planet's supreme authority with a world army, the document serves as a stark reminder that the plan for the United Nations to oversee the abolition of the second amendment has been in the works for decades.

As Bell points out in his Forbes article, the threat of the Obama administration relying on a UN treaty to do what successive administrations have tried but failed to accomplish -- taking a huge bite out of the second amendment -- is by no means far fetched.

After all, a plethora of UN treaties and international agreements have already stripped the United States of its sovereignty and its power to decide its own laws. The power to authorize U.S. involvement in wars and conflicts has now been almost completely stripped from Congress and handed to the United Nations.

Congress is irrelevant? Armed Services Committee

Congress is irrelevant.

 listen to what these guys are saying. Armed Services Committee SD=106 

Saudi-Funded UN Agency Seeks to Edit Textbooks Worldwide

Saudi-Funded UN Agency Seeks to Edit Textbooks Worldwide

The UN agency that promotes education and which is heavily funded by Saudi Arabia, is seeking to edit school textbooks worldwide

By Rachel Hirshfeld  10/18/2012, 10:44 AM

Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

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The UN agency that promotes education and which is heavily funded by Saudi Arabia, is seeking to edit school textbooks worldwide.
Saudi Arabia, along with much of the Arab world, is notorious for publishing grade-school textbooks that advocate hate and aggression against Jews, Christians and all “non-believers”.

Yet, experts from 21 countries met in Paris last month at a meeting financed by a $29,000 Saudi donation and focused, in part, on "ways to ensure that content aimed at students systematically reflects cultural and religious diversity, and avoids gender stereotypes," according to the website of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Then, last week, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah donated $20 million to UNESCO's emergency fund, Fox News reported.

Author of the upcoming book "Saudi School Books: Objective Education or Extremist Indoctrination?", Ali AlAhmed affirmed that, "Saudi textbooks are extremely hateful and full of xenophobic texts."
Saudi funding "shows how xenophobic governments like [that of] the Saudis are able to buy influence," Al Ahmed said, according to Fox News.

He said UNESCO was failing to uphold "value and standards of education and tolerance" and warned that UNESCO and the UN system as a whole are "susceptible to financial buyouts from countries like Saudi Arabia."

Saudi Arabian children are taught, among other things that, “Adhering to Islam is the only path to enter heaven, and escape hellfire” and "It is from Islam to love Muslims, and to hate the unbelievers and not to imitate them." The textbooks also indoctrinate children to believe that "Examples of false religions [include] Judaism, Christianity."
Nonetheless, a UNESCO official has said that the financial support of all members, including Saudi Arabia, is welcomed.

"Each country has the ultimate responsibility for the content of its national textbooks," said Qian Tang, UNESCO's assistant director general for education, according to Fox."UNESCO's aim is to encourage and support those responsible (in ministries of education) for the writing and production of textbooks to reflect on how textbook content should promote respect and tolerance for diversity and eliminate all forms of negative stereotypes. "

However, Brooke Goldstein, director of The Lawfare Project, a non-profit legal think-tank based in New York asserted that, "Posturing as though Saudi Arabia's contribution to UNESCO is somehow going to better reflect cultural and religious diversity and avoid gender stereotypes is an outright lie."

"By working with Saudi Arabia to revise its children's curriculum, UNESCO is not only legitimizing the Kingdom's hate-education system, but abetting the premeditated murder of innocent Muslim children and fomenting educational conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism," he said, according to Fox. "It should be no surprise, but is nonetheless of utmost concern, that the Saudis are actively working to influence UNESCO's education curriculum."

In a scathing editorial in The Daily Beast on Wednesday, major American publishers—including a former Random House chairman, a CEO of Time Warner Book Group and publisher at Amazon, a publisher of Simon and Schuster, among others—denounced Saudi textbooks for inciting hatred and promoting intolerance.

“As current and former heads of major American publishing houses, we know the value of words. They inform actions and shape the world views of all, especially children. We are writing to express our profound disappointment that the Saudi government continues to print textbooks inciting hatred and violence against religious minorities,” the editorial stated.

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/161061#.UH_QWcXA-55

UN Chief Moon Demands The Jews Give Up Jerusalem, Calls Israel ‘Occupiers’

UN chief urges end to Israeli occupation

By Rana Moussaoui (AFP) 

  When the bible says that in the end times the whole world will come against Jerusalem, it speaks truth.

BEIRUT — UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for an end to Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, saying the illegal building of settlements worked against a two-state solution.

"The Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories must end. So must violence against civilians," Ban said in a keynote address at a conference in Beirut on democracy in the Arab world.

"Settlements, new and old, are illegal. They work against the emergence of a viable Palestinian state," said the UN secretary general.

"A two-state solution is long overdue. The status quo offers only the guarantee of future conflict."

Ban arrived in Beirut on Friday to attend a conference entitled "Reform and Transitions to Democracy" organised by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).

Among the conference speakers are Egyptian presidential hopeful and former Arab League chief Amr Mussa and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, whose country has emerged as a key regional player in the Middle East.

The Israeli foreign ministry responded to Ban's comments by saying ongoing talks between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators were the best way to address the concerns raised by the UN chief.

"The only thing I can say at this point is that the most important thing is to keep negotiations going in view of solving all of the issues including those mentioned by the secretary general," said ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.

"The most important thing now is not to jeopardise the talks that are under way."

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators have so far held three rounds of "exploratory" talks in Jordan to discuss the possibility of resuming negotiations that have been on hold since late September 2010.

But a deep divide continues to separate the two sides in the talks, held under the auspices of Jordan and the peacemaking Quartet.

"There is still a wide gap between us on all positions because the Israeli side has not presented anything new and continues to hinder the resumption of negotiations," a Palestinian official close to the negotiations told AFP in Ramallah.

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  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attends the "Reform and Transition to …

Israel accused the Palestinians of trying to scupper peace talks.

"The Netanyahu government has always said that it is ready to sit at the table and discuss these subjects," strategic affairs minister Moshe Yaalon told Israeli public radio on Sunday.

Yaalon said Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was "endlessly adding preconditions".

"Of course we are not ready to start with the border and security arrangements," he added.

The Quartet, comprising the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia, has urged both sides to present comprehensive proposals on borders and security before January 26 with a view to resuming talks shortly afterwards.

While only the Palestinians have done so so far, Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was considering submitting proposals on borders and security in March.

But the plan is unlikely to win favour with the Palestinians, who have made it clear they will not continue meeting beyond January 26 without a settlement freeze and clear parameters for talks.

Abbas is currently seeking full state membership at the UN and at the weekend said he would press on with the campaign no matter the outcome of the talks. source: