Muslims killing Muslims as Fear twixt Mid-East Islam Sects Spreads
Excerpt Exposition of the Massive Confusion Existing in the Mid-East
Which is leading to start of the final inevitable war of the Gentile Age
June 15, 2013
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June 14, 2013
Report: 73 Syrian officers flee to Turkey
Though it seems tide turned in Assad’s favor, Turkey reports mass defection, including 20 colonels, 7 generals. In Beirut, Hezbollah leader stays committed to Syrian fighting
Roi Kais
Turkey’s state-run news agency says 73 Syrian military officers – including seven generals and 20 colonels – have crossed the border with their families “seeking refuge” in Turkey.
The Anadolu Agency said Friday that the group totaled 202 people. It said they arrived in the town of Reyhanli and were taken to a Turkish refugee camp that houses military officers who have defected from the Syrian army.
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At the same time, the Assad regime got a welcome boost from Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah, who made it clear he will not be deterred by internal Lebanese criticism of his group’s support for Damascus.
Nasrallah, who gave a speech on Friday marking “Lebanese casualty day,” announced the Shiite organization does not intend to abandon its Syrian ally or the Syrian fighting.
“We’ll be were we should be, and will keep shouldering the responsibility until the end,” he committed.
Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syrian crisis, especially in the battles over the border-town of Qusair, caused an uproar in Lebanon and raised concerns that violence may spill across the border.
But Nasrallah insisted: “We’re the last ones to intervene in Syria. There are those who want to see the Syrian regime deposed as if the alternative is a different regime. But the alternative is anarchy.”
Commenting on the possibility that foreign nations will supply the Syrian rebels with arms following reports of chemical weapons use by the regime, Nasrallah declared that “they were armed long ago.”
“Against this international attack, we take part in the existential struggle which wants to see to whole region fall, not only Syria. This is the heretic American-Israeli project,” he accused.
Hezbollah’s leader said his organization’s involvement was completely transparent: “We declared it openly. It’s not as if we sent our men to Syria and said we’re delivering milk and blankets, and it’s not as if we buried our men in Syria and silenced their relatives in Lebanon.”
According to Nasrallah, “The story of a people and a regime is long over. There’s a rift – some of the people support the regime and we’re backing that part, and there’s another part that we’re for with regards to reforms, but we don’t support those who call for the destruction of Syria.”
His speech was broadcast on massive screens in a ceremony in Beirut, and was aired on the Al-Manar TV channel, owned by Hezbollah.
During the ceremony, Nasrallah commended the “Lebanese resistance which acted to defend the holy places.”
“This resistance liberated Lebanon from the occupation,” he said. “Without it, Lebanon’s water would have gone over to the settlements and the original inhabitants wouldn’t be able to use them, just like in the West Bank.
“Without the resistance, our oil our oil reserves would have been transferred to the Tamar deposit, and our government would have had to answer to Israel like in Tyre and Sidon.
“And who was it who drove them out? Who fought and who remained silent? Who fought the occupier and who shook his hand?” Nasrallah said.
The news agencies contributed to this report
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Fear twixt sects will cause Islam to unite under the Mahdi who rises from Greater Syria to fight against Israel, their common enemy.
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U.S. Citing Use of Chemical Weapons by Syria, to Provide Direct Military Support to Rebels
Karen DeYoung and Anne Gearan
The United States has concluded with “high certainty” that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in its fight against opposition forces, and President Obama has authorized direct U.S. military support to the rebels, the White House said Thursday.
The expanded military support is expected initially to consist of light arms and ammunition.
The chemical weapons assessment closes an awkward chapter for the Obama administration, in which it lagged behind two key European allies in reaching the same conclusion. (Washington Post)
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The U.S. is loading up Israel to the hilt with high tech weapons to fight the prophesied Middle which must eventually come to place.
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Israel To Seek U.S.-Backed Loan for Mega Arms Deal, Are Strings Attached?
Barbara Opall-Rome
Israel’s Defense Ministry (MoD) is asking the U.S. government to guarantee billions of dollars in low-interest bridge loans for a Pentagon-proposed package of V-22 Ospreys, F-15 radars and precision-strike weaponry that it ultimately intends to fund with future military aid from the U.S.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon aimed to advance the issue in meetings with lawmakers and Jewish leaders on Capitol Hill on Thursday. On Friday, Ya’alon is scheduled to fly to the Pentagon aboard an Osprey.
U.S. officials were loath to link the pending response to Israel’s irregular financing request to Jerusalem’s readiness to resume long-stalled Palestinian peace talks. All underscored Washington’s unconditional commitment to Israel’s security.
Nevertheless, a senior U.S. source noted that the unprecedented uptick in security support from the Obama White House was part of larger confidence-building efforts aimed at “encouraging the Israeli government to take those risky, yet necessary steps toward peace.”
When asked if U.S. strings would be attached to the multibillion-dollar funding package under review, the source replied: “It’s not a matter of quid pro quo. There won’t be strings, but there are expectations.” (Defense News)
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U. S. House Commnittee Triples Missile Funding to Israel
The U.S. House of Representatives Armed Service Committee tripled President Barack Obama’s request for missile defense collaboration with Israel and sought to include the United States in Iron Dome development. The increase in the National Defense Authorization Act from $96 million to $284 million referred from the committee in a 59-2 vote June 6 to the full House includes an additional $15 million in funding for Iron Dome, the short range anti-missile program.
The stipulation in that increase, in an amendment proposed by Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.), is that it “may be obligated or expended for enhancing the capability for producing the Iron Dome short-range rocket defense program in the United States.”
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War Info on Assad, Hizbullah, Iraqi, and Iran troops against Syrian Rebels
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Syrian Death Toll Approaches 93,000, U.N. says
David Jolly
Civilians are bearing the brunt of the fighting in Syria, Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said Thursday, with 92,901 killings documented there through the end of April, a number that may understate the magnitude of the violence that has devastated cities and villages across the country for 25 months. Ms. Pillay cautioned that the estimate was conservative, and that “the true number of those killed is potentially much higher.”
The UN was unable to state definitively what proportion of those killed had been combatants. Ms. Pillay said the killings of “at least 6,561 minors, including at least 1,729 children under 10 years old” were documented,and that there were “well-documented cases of individual children being tortured and executed, and entire families, including babies, being massacred – which is a terrible reminder of just how vicious this conflict has become.” (New York Times)
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Hariri: Hizbullah Dragging Lebanon into the Abyss
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri launched a scathing attack on Hizbullah leader Hasan Nasrallah Thursday, accusing him of endangering Lebanon. “What Lebanon is facing at present approaches the brink of existential danger and threatens Lebanon’s message and the values of cultural and religious diversity. This has made me sound the alarm,” Hariri said in a written address to the Lebanese people.
“Hizbullah has unilaterally decided to breach every tradition, law and rule that govern national life among the Lebanese; it has arrogated to itself, as a party and an armed sectarian group, the rights of states in taking fundamental decisions without any consideration for the sensitivities of the groups it lives amongst.” Hariri said Hizbullah had over two decades polarized the Shiite sect, “drowning it in the delusion of power over others in order for it to serve as an armed auxiliary for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard” and spearheaded an Iranian-led policy aimed at a number of countries in the Levant.
“To accept Hizbullah’s project simply means that there will never be a Lebanese state. And that this state will remain hostage to the party and above it, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, forever and ever,” Hariri said. (Daily Star, Lebanon)
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Iran Nuke Policy “Unchangeable” No Matter Who Wins
Ali Akbar Dareini and Brian Murphy
In Iran, the overall decisions are firmly in the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the hugely powerful Revolutionary Guard. That message was reinforced after the final presidential debate last week when Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi thanked the candidates for their “perspectives” but noted they “will not impact Iran’s foreign policy after the election.” What Iran’s next president can potentially influence, however, is the tone and tactics with world powers if stalemated nuclear talks resume at some point after a successor is picked for the firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AP/Time)
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The Palestinian Authority’s Reign of Terror
Khaled Abu Toameh
Until recently, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank used to arrest Palestinians who criticized its leaders, especially Mahmoud Abbas. But now the Palestinian Authority has resumed using thugs to break the bones of its critics. The thugs are often members of Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction. However,they do not belong to Palestinian Authority security forces or any government-related agency in the West Bank.
This allows the Palestinian Authority to distance itself from the thugs each time they perpetrate a crime. But the thugs, who are referred to by Palestinians as “Shabbiha,” are known to act on instructions from top Palestinian Authority leaders. The last time the Palestinian Authority used its thugs was after a conference last weekend at Bethlehem University. A 34-year-old activist, Nizar Banat, who had asked a provocative question of PA Minister of Economy, Jawad Naji, was intercepted by seven thugs, who dragged him out of his car and beat him severely.
By resorting to this policy of terror and intimidation against its critics and political opponents, the Palestinian Authority leadership in the West Bank is once again showing that it is not much different from other Arab dictatorships. It is these measures that have driven many Palestinians away from the Palestinian Authority and straight into the open arms of Hamas and other extremist groups. (Gatestone Institute)
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