It's up to Turkey, the Turkish government, the Turkish leadership, to decide whether they want to be part of any kind of cooperation to fight terrorism. This is not the case so far," he said.
Yaalon’s counterpart, Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, made similar statements, saying that a large part of the Islamic State’s oil trade, as well as the financing of terror, is going through Turkey.
Justin Raimondo, antiwar.com 16 nov 2015: "former Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren has brazenly stated that ISIS is the "lesser evil." They’re all "bad guys," said Oren, but "we always wanted Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who weren’t backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran."
The Paris attacks are the signal for full-scale Western intervention in Syria, a “pitiless war,” as French President Francois Hollande put it, and the US is likely to follow in his wake. This will achieve another longstanding Israeli goal: the interposition of a substantial Western military force between Israel and its enemies. (Although the Israeli far right doesn’t necessarily agree.)
What we are looking at is a Western expeditionary force aimed at smashing the Islamic State, occupying Syria, and imposing a “negotiated settlement” of the civil war.
RAMALLAH, May 25, 2010 (IPS) - On Sunday approximately 150 Palestinians from 20 families were driven out of their homes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza strip, by heavily armed police and soldiers who menaced them with clubs. The difference this time was th
Hans Magnus Norell är ”terroristexpert”. Frågan är hur man blir ”terroristexpert” egentligen? Ämnet kan knappast studeras på högskola. Gör ett tankeexperiment. Du är journalist. Det har hänt något i Pakistan, Östafrika eller England. Du har fått en massa
Shir Hever: "It it shows a lot about how the political situation, the political environment in Europe has developed to create a sort of policy in which Europe is trying to wash their hands from involvement with problematic organizations or problematic political movements. And they are blundering. They are doing so in a very unsophisticated and very hypocritical way." "The timing is not a coincidence. The attack in Bulgaria happened last year. And what's more relevant, what's more urgent is actually the decision of the European Union to put sanctions to prevent any kind of economic deals or funding with Israeli organizations which operate in the occupied Palestinian territory."
Transcript of an interview in March 2010 with Remy Brulin, who recently had finished "his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "The US Discourse on Terrorism Since 1945, and how The New York Times has Covered the Issue of Terrorism" "... there were a couple of conferences, one in ’79 and one in ’84, that were both organized by an organization, an institute, called the Jonathan Institute. It’s called the Jonathan Institute after the name of Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother, Jonathan Netanyahu, and he was killed in the raid in Entebbe in ’76 [...] the first conference that was designed to define or come up with a consensus definition of terrorism" Definition : “terrorism is the deliberate systematic murder, maiming and menacing of innocents to inspire fear in order to gain political ends.” the Dodd (D) amendment, against wich Stevens (R) said "the Contras were freedom fighters" never reported by NYT
The debate about what happened at Masada is conducted with such energy and venom in Israel because it symbolises two views of the country and its present policies. These are as relevant in 1997 as when Josephus wrote 2,000 years ago. One is that Israel is a besieged fortress whose defenders must fight to the end against an implacable enemy. The other, upheld by Professor Ben-Yehuda, is that today, as in the past, the refusal to compromise of such extremists as the Sicarii at Masada and the leaders of the doomed revolt against Rome bring only death and destruction to the Jewish people. -- Patrick Cockburn, Independent March 1997
Jan Viklund: "Framför allt är det viktigt att se ickevåldsmotstånd som en handling, inte som frånvaro av handling. Ickevåld är inte passivitet. Ickevåld är en handling som är ickevåldslig. Därav kommer att ickevåldsmotstånd innebär att ersätta passivitet