Zionism – Features

Israels secret war with Iran

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Ronen Bergman

(source: Wall Street Journal)

Those who leaf through the secret files of any intelligence service know what grave mistakes bad intelligence can lead to. But they also know that sometimes even excellent intelligence doesn’t change a thing.

The Israeli intelligence community is now learning this lesson the hard way. It has penetrated enemies like Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Hezbollah and Hamas. Yet despite former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s willingness to authorize highly dangerous operations based on this intelligence, and despite the unquestionable success of the operations themselves, the overall security picture remains as grim as ever.

In 2002, then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appointed his friend and former subordinate, Gen. Meir Dagan, director of the Mossad. Gen. Dagan found the organization lacking in imagination and shying away from operational risks. Mr. Sharon, who knew Gen. Dagan from his days as head of a secret assassinations unit that acted against Fatah in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s, told the general that he wanted "a Mossad with a knife between its teeth."

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Abu mazen his bantustan

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

Will Fatah challenge Israel’s ghetto policies?

By Iqbal Jassat – Chairman, Media Review Network

How do you define a geographic location whose borders, security, natural resources, public planning, public works and infrastructure, trade, industrial development, air and cyberspace are not in its own control?

To name it a “Bantustan” would be being polite to those who retain effective or empirical authority over all these matters.

For in the South African context the concept of “Homelands” which resulted in ethnic autonomous zones known as “Bantustans”, while having many parallels with the Israeli model of a Palestinian “state”, is somewhat tame!

Stay away from sa al qaida warned

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Zohra Mohammed Teke

(source: Daily News, 18 May 2010)

South African Muslims will not allow al-Qaeda or any other terrorist group to turn this country’s World Cup into their political battlefield, warns the country’s top Muslim representative body, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC).

The warning from the body’s national president, Moulana Ighsan Hendricks, comes amid reports of the arrest of a 30-year-old Saudi army officer and al-Qaeda operative in Iraq, for allegedly planning attacks on South Africa’s World Cup next month. Welcoming the arrest, Hendricks has lashed out at the planned attacks, saying al-Qaeda was a terrorist organisation that did not have the support of the vast majority of Muslims in South Africa.

Israels nukes harmUSnational interests

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By John Mearsheimer

(source: AntiWar.com)

Transcript of John J. Mearsheimer’s remarks at the IRmep conference at the International Spy Museum "Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal: Espionage, Opacity and Future" Washington, DC, 7/7/2010

What I want to do is ask four questions, and then answer them.

The first is, "why did Israel develop nuclear weapons to begin within the 1950s and 1960s?" Second, "does it make sense today for Israel to have a nuclear deterrent?" Third, "does opacity make good strategic sense for Israel?" "Does it matter for the United States?" And four, "is it in America’s interest for Israel to have nuclear weapons?"

Those are the four questions I want to answer.

You want to remember, when I answer those first two questions about why Israel developed nuclear weapons I’m going to approach it from Israel’s point of view. This will become clear as I go along, but Israel and the United States are separate countries. And sometimes what’s good for Israel is not good for the United States.

On the question of Israel and nuclear weapons, let me start with a general point. The reason that states want nuclear weapons in almost all cases is because they are the ultimate deterrent. They make it almost impossible for an adversary or an opponent to attack your homeland and threaten the survival of your state for the obvious reason that if you have nuclear weapons and your survival is at risk, that’s one clear circumstance under which you’re likely to use those nuclear weapons. Many people now argue, here in Washington especially, that nuclear weapons have offensive capability, and if Iran were to get nuclear weapons it could use those weapons to dominate the Gulf and establish hegemony in the region.