Wednesday, May 04, 2011

EU GETS MORE UN POWER FOR WORLD CONTROL

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
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DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Yesha Leaders Write UN, Bible Records Israel as Jewish Land
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu MAY 4,2011


A letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from Yesha Leaders explains that the Bible, the Quran, and international agreements document Israel as being the Land of the Jewish People.The signatories threatened to sue Ban if he continues to ignore the historical and legal facts enclosed in this letter and continues with the present unjust and illegal policies of the United Nations.Citing the Bible as recording for all time the awarding of the Land of Israel to the forefathers of the Jewish People by the Creator of the world,the letter tell Ban it gives him the opportunity to correct the deviation of the nations from international law in accordance with the responsibilities of your position and thus obviate the measures undoubtedly to be inflicted on those who act contrary to the Covenant of the Almighty with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.It was signed by Shomron (Samaria) Regional Council chairman Gershon Mesika, Beit El mayor Moshe Rosenbaum, Ariel Mayor Ron Nachman and other leaders.

They also wrote Ban, The entire Land of Israel was promised and granted to the Jewish People…as recorded time and again in the opening Five Books of the Hebrew Bible (e.g., Genesis 15:21; Deuteronomy 1:8 et al.), accepted by the adherents of the Christian faith whose Bible encompasses the aforementioned Books, and confirmed in various places in the holy book of Islam, the Quran (e.g., Sura 2 et al.).The document states,The letter attached herewith also expresses the expectation of its signatories that you, as Secretary-General of the United Nations, lead your organization to reaffirm the already recognized and eternally valid rights of the Jewish People as the sovereign over all parts of the Land of Israel presently under the control of the State of Israel – especially those sections of the Land – Judea and Samaria, mistakenly known also as the West Bank – liberated in June 1967 from the illegal occupation of the Kingdom of Jordan from 1948.Documents presented to Ban include the Balfour Declaration of 1917, that stated British policy of establishing a National Home for the Jewish People in Israel, then known as Palestine;The San Remo Resolution of April 25, 1920, by which the Principal Allied Powers of World War I recognized the sovereignty of the Jewish People over Palestine, just as they recognized the sovereignty of the Arab peoples over the territories of present-day Syria, Lebanon and Iraq; and The Anglo-French Boundary Convention of December 1920, demarcating the border between French-mandated Syria-Lebanon and British-mandated Palestine.The letter states that repeated references by the U.N. to the territories liberated by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War – territories until then illegally occupied by the Kingdom of Jordan – as occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) conceals from the public the true legal status of the lands to which you refer and causes the Jewish people unwarranted anguish.

Detailing the proof that all of Israel belongs to Jews, the latter points out that the United Nations General Assembly ignored Article 80 that guarantees Jewish legal rights in Israel, and instead recommended the Partition Plan of 1947, which the Arab League rejected by going to war against the fledgling State of Israel.The letter asserts that the Partition was never legal, was never of an obligatory nature, has been dead for over 63 years and cannot be resurrected.The signatories added, The very opposite is what is required of the U.N. at this time: to recognize the continuity of Jewish legal rights to the entire Land of Israel under Article 80 of the UN Charter.The time has undoubtedly come – in fact, it is long overdue, Mr. Secretary-General – for the international community as represented by the U.N. to recognize the fact that the Arabs of the Land of Israel do not want their own state, nor do they want to conclude a peace agreement with the State of Israel; all they desire is the destruction of Israel; the time has indeed come to reaffirm international recognition of the immutable rights of the Jewish People to all of their historical homeland.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

OK THE EU IS STARTING TO CONTROL THE UN WHICH WILL GIVE THEM THE WORORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS.

EU wins new powers at UN, transforming global body
LEIGH PHILLIPS 03.05.2011 @ 22:03 CET


EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy will now be able to address the United Nations no differently from US President Barack Obama, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez or Russia's Dimitri Medvedev.In order to win the vote, the EU had to agree to changes to the global organisation that transforms the UN from an assembly of nation states into a body that also offers representation rights to regional blocs as well, including potentially the African Union, the Arab League and the South American Union.The EU on Tuesday was given almost all the rights in the global chamber that fully-fledged states enjoy after the General Assembly backed 180 to two a resolution giving the bloc, which until this week only maintained observer status at the UN, the union the right to speak, the right to make proposals and submit amendments, the right of reply, the right to raise points of order and the right to circulate documents.There will also be additional seats put in the chamber for the EU's foreign policy chief, High Representative Catherine Ashton and her officials.Ashton and her team have lobbied heavily over the last six months, according to her representatives, with a major offensive in the last 48 hours by the high representative herself in New York, to push through the changes after the EU was dealt a surprise defeat last September when other regional blocs voted against a similar resolution.She declared herself delighted at the win, which, she said: "will in future enable EU representatives to present and promote the EU's positions in the UN.

Last year, two groups in the chamber resisted the move. The first, some of Brussels' closest allies in the world, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, consulted with each other and agreed to abstain on the original motion, according to one Commonwealth diplomat, as they were annoyed by the presumption of the EU, who had delivered the resolution for consideration the night before the vote. After half a year of consultations, the Commonwealth allies appear to have had their procedural concerns dealt with.But the second group, led by Caricom, the Carribean's regional integration bloc inspired by the EU, felt that it was unfair that Brussels should win additional rights but not themselves or other similar bodies, from the Gulf Co-operation Council to the Pacific Islands Forum.In order to win over these refuseniks, the EU had to back an amendment to the resolution, put forward by Hungary - currently at the helm of the bloc's six-month rotating presidency - that gives these other blocs the same rights Brussels has won, should they ask for them.
Following the request on behalf of a regional organisation which has observer status in the general assembly and whose member states have agreed arrangements that allow that organisation's representatives to speak on behalf of the organisation and its member states, then the general assembly may adopt modalities for the participation of that regional organisation's representatives,read the amendment.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Advisor to Abbas: Hamas Has No Need to Recognize Israel
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu MAY 4,2011


An aide to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is set to sign a unity pact with Hamas on Wednesday, says the terrorist organization does not have to recognize Israel because Jerusalem does not recognize Hamas.Nabil Saath told Voice of Israel government radio Wednesday morning that Quartet demands that Hamas renounce violence and recognize Israel are unfair, unworkable and do not make sense. The Quartet is comprised of the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia.Concerning Hamas terrorist attacks, Naath reasoned that it is enough for the Quartet to know that Hamas will refrain from violence. The Gaza terrorist organization announced Tuesday at a preliminary signing of a unity agreement with Fatah that it will uphold a ceasefire with Israel. Dozens of announced ceasefires in the past have not lasted more than several weeks, if that long.Hamas hammered home the contradiction of its joining a unity government with Abbas, who is promoted by the West as a peace partner with Israel, by insisting it will never recognize Israel so long as it occupies land claimed by the Palestinian Authority.The definition of Palestine is questionable because the Palestinian Authority, while telling the West that it wants to live side by side with Israel, continues to disseminate maps in Arabic showing its proposed state to include all of Israel, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River and from the Lebanese border to Egypt in the south.

Separately, the Palestinian Authority stated Wednesday that it will stop all terrorist attacks on Israel. Officials did not explain how the PA security forces could prevent rocket and patrol road bombings originating in Gaza. Hamas staged a terrorist coup there four years ago, ousting Abbas’ Fatah-led faction from the region and in effect creating a separate Palestinian Authority besides the one based in Ramallah.The proposed unity pact calls for the Hamas army to be integrated into the new Fatah army, trained by American generals at a US-funded military base in Jericho.The unity agreement, despite Hamas’s hard-line stance and condemnation of the elimination of Osama Bin Laden, indicates that Abbas’s strategy is to promote unity at all costs. He apparently is banking on his drive to gain United Nations recognition of the Palestinian Authority as a new Arab country, based on all of the conditions in the 2002 plan proposed by Saudi Arabia.The 2002 initiative would result in Israel returning to what were supposed to be temporary Armistice Lines in 1949 and are erroneously called 1967 borders by the media, by ceding all of the land restored to the Jewish State in the Six-Day War in 1967, including the Old City in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. These are indefensible borders, leaving Israel only several kilometers wide at Netanya. The Saudi plan also calls for Israel’s accepting the immigration of several million Arabs from foreign countries.(Israel National News.com)

EU exploring better relations with Hamas
ANDREW RETTMAN Today MAY 4,11 @ 08:13 CET


EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Some EU countries are open-minded about working with the new Palestinian unity government despite the fact Hamas advocates armed resistance against Israel.Rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas are to sign the unity agreement in Cairo on Wednesday (4 May).A Fatah-linked Palestinian diplomat told this website last week the deal includes renouncing the use of violence against Israel. But speaking to EUobserver from Gaza on the eve of the Cairo ceremony, Gaza spokesman Ghazi Hamad said this is not the case.Hamad said the unity pact will focus on internal Palestinian problems, such as Gaza reconstruction, while leaving the Arab-Israeli conflict to one side. He noted that Hamas is becoming more moderate, but said there is no question of altering its official 1988 charter, which calls for the obliteration of Israel.Palestine is still under occupation and we will use all means necessary to liberate our people. If things can be solved by non-violence, we have no problem with that. But until now we have no reason to trust Israel or to believe that Israel is willing to end the occupation, he said.People talk about the Quartet conditions and the rights of the Israelis all the time. But they forget about the rights of the Palestinians. We are the victims here, he added. The Quartet's - the EU, Russia, the UN and the US - official position is that Hamas must renounce violence before being invited to talks.

Israeli diplomats are urging the EU to boycott the unity government on its existing terms. We're not asking for the world. Just for them to renounce violence. In European eyes, it should be more than natural to ask for that,an Israeli diplomat said. Meanwhile, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's statement on Tuesday denouncing the US killing of Osama Bin Laden did nothing to help the group's image in Brussels.
When asked if there is a prospect of the EU removing Hamas from its register of terrorist entities, a senior EU official said:With Haniyeh yesterday criticising the killing of Bin Laden there isn't going to be anyone arguing for taking them off the list.EU diplomats are waiting to see what the Fatah-Hamas unity document says in detail and who the new government appoints before taking a formal position at a foreign ministers' meeting on 23 May. Friends of Israel inside the union, such as the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, are against any flexibility on the Hamas charter.But an EU source noted that several other countries - including France, Spain and the UK - are more open on the issue. The contact pointed to EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton's cautious statement on the unity pact last week, recalling that Palestinian diplomats at the time remarked:You were the only ones who didn't condemn this agreement.A diplomat from a Nordic EU country added:It's important that we are not being negative. The key is to keep the peace process going on, and the unity government could contribute to that.Remarking on Haniyeh's Bin Laden statement, the source added: It doesn't have any deep value. It had to be said.
Khalid Turaani, a Palestinian activist with the Brussels-based group Inform, said it is unrealistic to expect Hamas to scrap its charter as a prerequisite for talks.
Hamas was created to resist the Israeli occupation. If you ask it to take out resistance you are effectively asking it to disintegrate itself. This could only happen as part of a final settlement,he said.The Arabic idea of hudna or temporary peace could be a way out for them for now.

Turaani added that Haniyeh's statement on Bin Laden was widely mistranslated. Haniyeh used the words muijahid Arabi which was reported as Arab holy warrior but means simply Arab fighter.Hamas in Gaza is battling a Salafist [Islamic extremist] movement which is gaining some traction. I disagree with it, but I think that's part of the reason he made the Bin Laden statement - to prevent the Salafists from exploiting Bin Laden's death.

Avoiding Double Standards on Osama Bin Laden
by Chana Ya'ar MAY 4,11


Former IDF chief of staff and foreign minister Shaul Mofaz has some advice for the United States, now that international al Qaeda terror chief Osama Bin Laden is dead.
Following Bin Laden's assassination last weekend by U.S. special forces in Pakistan, Mofaz has suggested the U.S. refrain in future from criticizing Israel for taking similar action.Mofaz, currently head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, added he would like to see targeted killings used more often.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu praised the U.S. for its determined war on terror, calling the successful operation a resounding victory for justice.In the past, U.S. leaders and international heads of state have frequently criticized Israel when it has eliminated terrorists responsible for major attacks against its citizens.One of the most recent examples of such criticism came after the January 2010 targeted killing of senior Hamas terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the group's founders and its top weapons buyer.Israel was vilified by numerous countries around the world for the killing, although its foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, has neither confirmed nor denied any connection with the operation. Two Israeli diplomats were expelled from London over the incident, due to claims by Dubai police the Mossad used forged British passports to carry out the assassination.

Other UK and commonwealth members who expelled Israeli diplomats over the issue included Ireland and Australia.Several terrorist cells in Gaza, including a number linked to the ruling Hamas terrorist organization, have ties to al-Qaeda, according to a U.S. document leaked earlier this year by WikiLeaks.Moreover, Bin Laden and his senior commanders have repeated expressed their support for the Palestinian Authority Arabs, particularly PA groups who dedicate themselves to the destruction of Israel.One report from the U.S. prison on Guantanamo Bay revealed a senior al-Qaeda terrorist incarcerated at the facility raised funds for attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
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JESSE VENTURA POLICE STATE
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False flag-From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and can be used in peace-time.(NOTICE EVERY TIME THERES A REAL TERRORIST ATTACK,THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS IS DOING A FAKE DRILL WHICH MEANS THEY CAN SAY IT WAS ONLY A DRILL IF THE ATTACK DOES NOT GO OVER WITH THE PUBLIC OR IF THE GOVERNMENT MUFFED UP THEIR OWN FALSE FLAG CONTROL FREAK,GET MORE CONTROL OF PEOPLES RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.)

Top Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 A False Flag -Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations Steve R. Pieczenik says he is prepared to tell a federal grand jury the name of a top general who told him directly 9/11 was a false flag attack Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com May 4, 2011


Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, shockingly told The Alex Jones Show yesterday that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001 and that he was prepared to testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11 was a false flag inside job.Pieczenik cannot be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. A former US Navy Captain, Pieczenik achieved two prestigious Harry C. Solomon Awards at the Harvard Medical School as he simultaneously completed a PhD at MIT.Recruited by Lawrence Eagleburger as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Management, Pieczenik went on to develop,the basic tenets for psychological warfare, counter terrorism, strategy and tactics for transcultural negotiations for the US State Department, military and intelligence communities and other agencies of the US Government, while also developing foundational strategies for hostage rescue that were later employed around the world.

Pieczenik also served as a senior policy planner under Secretaries Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker and worked on George W. Bush’s election campaign against Al Gore. His record underscores the fact that he is one of the most deeply connected men in intelligence circles over the past three decades plus.The character of Jack Ryan, who appears in many Tom Clancy novels and was also played by Harrison Ford in the popular 1992 movie Patriot Games, is also based on Steve Pieczenik.Back in April 2002, over nine years ago, Pieczenik told the Alex Jones Show that Bin Laden had already been dead for months, and that the government was waiting for the most politically expedient time to roll out his corpse. Pieczenik would be in a position to know, having personally met Bin Laden and worked with him during the proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan back in the early 80′s.

Pieczenik said that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001,Not because special forces had killed him, but because as a physician I had known that the CIA physicians had treated him and it was on the intelligence roster that he had marfan syndrome, adding that the US government knew Bin Laden was dead before they invaded Afghanistan.Marfan syndrome is a degenerative genetic disease for which there is no permanent cure. The illness severely shortens the life span of the sufferer.He died of marfan syndrome, Bush junior knew about it, the intelligence community knew about it,said Pieczenik, noting how CIA physicians had visited Bin Laden in July 2001 at the American Hospital in Dubai.He was already very sick from marfan syndrome and he was already dying, so nobody had to kill him,added Pieczenik, stating that Bin Laden died shortly after 9/11 in his Tora Bora cave complex.Did the intelligence community or the CIA doctor up this situation, the answer is yes, categorically yes,said Pieczenik, referring to Sunday’s claim that Bin Laden was killed at his compound in Pakistan, adding, This whole scenario where you see a bunch of people sitting there looking at a screen and they look as if they’re intense, that’s nonsense,referring to the images released by the White House which claim to show Biden, Obama and Hillary Clinton watching the operation to kill Bin Laden live on a television screen.

It’s a total make-up, make believe, we’re in an American theater of the absurd….why are we doing this again….nine years ago this man was already dead….why does the government repeatedly have to lie to the American people,asked Pieczenik.Osama Bin Laden was totally dead, so there’s no way they could have attacked or confronted or killed Osama Bin laden, said Pieczenik, joking that the only way it could have happened was if special forces had attacked a mortuary.Pieczenik said that the decision to launch the hoax now was made because Obama had reached a low with plummeting approval ratings and the fact that the birther issue was blowing up in his face.He had to prove that he was more than American….he had to be aggressive, said Pieczenik, adding that the farce was also a way of isolating Pakistan as a retaliation for intense opposition to the Predator drone program, which has killed hundreds of Pakistanis.This is orchestrated, I mean when you have people sitting around and watching a sitcom, basically the operations center of the White House, and you have a president coming out almost zombie-like telling you they just killed Osama Bin Laden who was already dead nine years ago,said Pieczenik, calling the episode,the greatest falsehood I’ve ever heard, I mean it was absurd.Dismissing the government’s account of the assassination of Bin Laden as a sick joke on the American people, Pieczenik said, They are so desperate to make Obama viable, to negate the fact that he may not have been born here, any questions about his background, any irregularities about his background, to make him look assertive….to re-elect this president so the American public can be duped once again.Pieczenik’s assertion that Bin Laden died almost ten years ago is echoed by numerous intelligence professionals as well as heads of state across the world.

Bin Laden, Was used in the same way that 9/11 was used to mobilize the emotions and feelings of the American people in order to go to a war that had to be justified through a narrative that Bush junior created and Cheney created about the world of terrorism,stated Pieczenik.During his interview with the Alex Jones Show yesterday, Pieczenik also asserted he was directly told by a prominent general that 9/11 was a stand down and a false flag operation, and that he is prepared to go to a grand jury to reveal the general’s name.They ran the attacks,said Pieczenik, naming Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, Elliott Abrams, and Condoleezza Rice amongst others as having been directly involved.It was called a stand down, a false flag operation in order to mobilize the American public under false pretenses….it was told to me even by the general on the staff of Wolfowitz – I will go in front of a federal committee and swear on perjury who the name was of the individual so that we can break it open, said Pieczenik, adding that he was furious and knew it had happened.I taught stand down and false flag operations at the national war college, I’ve taught it with all my operatives so I knew exactly what was done to the American public, he added.Pieczenik re-iterated that he was perfectly willing to reveal the name of the general who told him 9/11 was an inside job in a federal court, so that we can unravel this thing legally, not with the stupid 9/11 Commission that was absurd.Pieczenik explained that he was not a liberal, a conservative or a tea party member, merely an American who is deeply concerned about the direction in which his country is heading.
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BESA Expert: US May Pressure Israel After Bin Laden's Death
by David Lev MAY 4,2011


The elimination of arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden is of course a blessed event for the entire world – but the removal of Bin Laden from the ranks of Al Qaeda terrorists has in no way reduced the threat from that group, or any other terror group – quite the opposite, says Prof. Eitan Gilboa of Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.The elimination of Bin Laden by the U.S. has increased the motivation of Al Qaeda to conduct a high-profile attack, which is what they specialize in,says Gilboa,preferably in the U.S. or Europe.Of course, that assumes that Al Qaeda is still capable of carrying out such attacks.We have to remember that even though Bin Laden managed to survive for nearly a decade after 9/11, the U.S. has been looking for him and many other Al Qaeda terrorists since at least 1993 – after the failed first attack on the World Trade Center. During that time, and especially since 9/11, Al Qaeda's ability to conduct high-profile attacks has been significantly compromised, because the Americans have been picking off the organization's leadership little by little.Gilboa compares the Al Qaeda threats of revenge to those of Hizbullah, which for three years has vowed revenge on Israel for the death of top terrorist Imad Mughniyah.Israel never admitted that it had taken out Mughniyah, who was responsible for many terror attacks. Nevertheless they blame Israel and have vowed revenge – but so far, thank G-d, they have not undertaken the major attack they promise.Of course they would like to carry out such an attack, but apparently they are unable to – and it remains to be seen if this is the situation with Al Qaeda. Bin Laden's organization is much bigger than Hizbullah and still has several strong branches – notably in North Africa.

An Al Qaeda affiliated group was behind the attack at a coffee shop in Marrakesh, Morocco last week, as well as in Sudan, Yemen, and other countries.In addition, the defenses in Egypt and other countries have lightened, in the wake of the civil uprisings there, Gilboa added.That means it will be easier for Al Qaeda to infiltrate those places and cause mayhem.Obviously, the terrorist group would prefer to carry out an attack in the West, says Gilboa, but if conducting a terror attack in an friendly Arab country is their only option, they – or a sympathetic group that also wishes to make a name for itself – will take that opportunity, he adds.
While Israel and Jewish targets around the world are also on Al Qaeda's short list of terrorist targets, a perhaps more immediate concern is the pressure Israel is likely to face to come up with a new peace plan.U.S. President Barack Obama is now on a roll, and he will want to keep the momentum going,says Gilboa.The U.S. is just as concerned as Israel about the threats by the PA to take their case for statehood to the UN in September, and Washington is looking to Netanyahu to come up with a substantive plan to convince the PA to back down from that plan. There's no question Obama will be tougher on Israel.However, in line with the old saying by President Shimon Peres – that the Palestinians never lose an opportunity to lose an opportunity - Gilboa says that the American pressure may be somewhat mitigated by the planned reunification of Fatah and Hamas.This caught the U.S. by surprise as well, and they are not happy about it,he says. Although, as far as Washington is concerned, Al-Qaeda and Hamas are in two completely different leagues when it comes to terror, It would be very embarrassing for President Obama to have to work with an organization that condemns his greatest achievement, as Hamas did when it slammed Obama for murdering the martyr Bin Laden.On the other hand, the deal between Fatah and Hamas may fall apart,he says. There are too many unknown factors – but if things do work out between the two groups, and Hamas gets a major representation in the PA-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria, the U.S. will be less likely to put strong pressure on Israel.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

HAMAS-FATAH GET HERO BISCUITS OF UNITY

Palestinians say end division at Cairo ceremony
By Marwa Awad - MAY 4,11 10:59AM


CAIRO (Reuters) – Palestinian leaders formally ended a four-year rift between secular Fatah and the Islamist Hamas at a ceremony in Egypt on Wednesday, a reconciliation their people see as crucial for their drive to set up an independent state.Israel, which in 1967 captured the territories -- the West Bank and Gaza Strip -- where the Palestinians seek statehood, decried the deal as a blow to prospects for peace.We announce to Palestinians that we turn forever the black page of division, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah's leader, said in his opening address.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to London: What happened today in Cairo is a tremendous blow to peace and a great victory for terrorism.Hamas, whose founding charter calls for Israel's destruction, seized the Gaza Strip from Fatah forces in a brief Palestinian civil war in 2007. It has opposed Abbas's quest for a negotiated peace with the Jewish state.In what appeared a sign of lingering friction, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal did not share the podium with Abbas and the ceremony was delayed briefly over where he would sit. Against expectations, neither signed the unity document.Hamas leaders will meet Abbas next week, possibly in Cairo, to start work on implementing the accord, deputy Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk said after the ceremony.

In his speech to the gathering, Meshaal said Hamas sought a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza devoid of any Israeli settlers and without giving up a single inch of land or the right of return of Palestinian refugees.Israel withdrew soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005. It has kept up settlement activity in the much larger West Bank.Hamas has stated in the past that it would accept as an interim solution in the form of a state in all of the territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, along with a long-term ceasefire.The unity deal calls for forming an interim government to run the West Bank, where Abbas is based, and the Gaza Strip, and prepare for long-overdue parliamentary and presidential elections within a year.In his speech, Abbas repeated his call for a halt to Jewish settlement construction as a condition for resuming peace talks with Israel that began in September but fizzled within weeks after it refused to extend a limited building moratorium.The state of Palestine must be born this year, he said.Abbas is widely expected, in the absence of peace talks, to ask the U.N. General Assembly in September to recognize a Palestinian state in all of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel and the United States oppose such a unilateral move.

DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS

Palestinians view reconciliation as an essential step toward presenting a common front at the United Nations and a reflection of a deep-seated public desire to end the internal schism amid popular revolts that have swept the Arab world.But the deal presents potential diplomatic problems for Abbas's aid-dependent Palestinian Authority. Much of the West shuns Hamas over its refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept interim Israeli-Palestinian peace deals.The United States has reacted coolly to the reconciliation accord. A State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, said the United States would look at the formation of any new Palestinian government before taking steps on future aid. The Cairo ceremony was greeted with celebrations in the Palestinian territories. But the public displays were less enthusiastic in the West Bank, where Abbas's Fatah movement holds sway, and some doubted the deal was genuine.We have decided to pay any price so that reconciliation is achieved,said Meshaal.Our real fight is with the Israeli occupier, not Palestinian factions and sons of the one nation.Meshaal later went to meet Abbas where he was staying in Cairo to discuss the deal, Palestinian sources said. A spokesman for Abbas, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said the deal was signed on behalf of Fatah by Azzam al-Ahmad and for Hamas by Marzouk. It was not immediately clear why Meshaal and Abbas did not put their own signatures to the deal.What we heard was that Abbas said he was the president of the Palestinian people of Fatah and of Hamas and not a leader of one faction only,said the Palestinian source on the signing. Egypt has set up a committee to oversee implementation of the accord.(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza and Ali Sawaftah in Ramallah; Writing by Sami Aboudi and Edmund Blair; Editing by Crispian Balmer and Mark Heinrich)

Palestinian premier Fayyad hails unity deal
MAY 4,11


RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad on Wednesday welcomed a surprise unity accord between Fatah and Hamas but stressed the deal must be implemented on the ground immediately.It's a very happy moment, the signing of the the agreement by the Palestinian factions, he told reporters in the West Bank town of Ramallah of the deal, under which an interim government of independents is to be selected paving the way for elections in a year's time.But he acknowledged that the deal was only a first step.We've been waiting a long time for this to happen because the unity of the nation is one of the basic issues to prepare for a Palestinian state, the premier said.Fayyad said the world would be watching the results of the agreement and it was key that both sides began to implement its terms straight away.All the world will see that the Palestinian Authority is going forward in one direction and this issue is very important,he said.It's very important now to begin immediately to have a procedure on the ground.The US State Department said on Tuesday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called both Fayyad and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the reconciliation deal.But a State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Clinton had not threatened to cut off aid to any new Palestinian government.

Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior Palestinian official, on Wednesday said Clinton's phone call largely concerned Israel's decision to withhold its transfer of Palestinian tax revenues in the wake of the unity deal.If things move in the right direction, we believe there won't be any justification for any international party to take a negative position against the reconciliation,he told Palestinian radio.Our peaceful struggle to end the occupation will continue, so I cannot see why the United States or any other international party would take punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

Palestinian deal a blow to peace: Israel PM
MAY 4,11


LONDON (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday condemned a reconciliation deal between the leaders of the main Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas as a tremendous blow to peace.What happened today in Cairo is a tremendous blow to peace and a great victory for terrorism, Netanyahu told reporters in London where he is due to hold talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron.Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal buried the hatchet at a reconciliation ceremony in the Egyptian capital on Wednesday that ends a nearly four-year feud.Netanyahu pointed to Hamas's recent statement condemning the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US forces in Pakistan as proof that the deal would harm chances of a peace deal in the Middle East.Three days ago terrorism was dealt a resounding defeat with the elimination of bin Laden. Today in Cairo it had a victory,he said.

Because when Abu Mazen (Mahmud Abbas), the head of the Palestinian Authority, embraces Hamas, an organisation that two days ago condemned the American action against bin Laden, praises bin Laden to the gills as some great martyr for emulation, when he (Abbas) embraces this organisation which is committed to Israel's destruction... this is a tremendous setback for peace and a great advance for terror,the Israeli premier said.The only way we can make peace is with our neighbours who want peace. Those who want to eliminate us, those who practise terror against us, are not partners for peace.

Blair: Palestinians must recognize Israel
MAY 4,11


JERUSALEM – Mideast envoy Tony Blair says the international community supports Palestinian reconciliation but will demand that the new unity government recognize Israel's right to exist and renounce violence.Wednesday's announcement could signal trouble for the new alliance between the Islamic militant group Hamas and the Western-backed Fatah movement. Hamas says it will never recognize Israel.Blair represents the Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., the EU, U.N. and Russia. He told The Associated Press the Quartet wants to see who is chosen Palestinian prime minister before passing judgment, but Hamas must have a change of heart for the government to succeed.Similar Quartet demands four years ago led to the collapse of a previous unity government.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

CAIRO (AP) — Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday proclaimed a landmark, Egyptian-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift. The Palestinian president seized the occasion to deliver a scathing criticism of Israel, saying he would not succumb to its blackmail over the future of Mideast peacemaking.We forever turn the black page of division,the Western-backed Mahmoud Abbas said at the declaration ceremony in the Egyptian capital Cairo, promising to soon visit Hamas-held Gaza Strip.The pact, long in the making, provides for the creation of a joint caretaker Palestinian government ahead of national elections next year but leaves key issues unresolved, such as who will control the Palestinian security forces, and makes no mention of relations with Israel.Israel had denounced the pact in advance of the Cairo ceremony because of the militant Hamas' long history of deadly attacks against Israeli targets. It also equated the deal with a renunciation of peacemaking.Like the U.S. and the European Union, Israel considers Hamas a terrorist organization and says it will not negotiate with a future Palestinian government that includes the Iranian- and Syrian-backed group.

Abbas rejected Israel's opposition to the pact, saying the reconciliation with the militant Islamic group was an internal Palestinian affair.They are our brothers and family. We may differ, and we often do, but we still arrive at a minimum level of understanding,Abbas said of Hamas.In a message to Israel, Abbas added: We reject blackmail and it is no longer possible for us to accept the occupation of Palestinian land.Abbas said Israel cannot continue to act as a state above the law and called for an end to the construction of new Jewish settlements on lands the Palestinians want for a future state.Mr. Netanyahu, you must chose between settlements and peace,he said, addressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Abbas also reasserted his intention to win recognition of an independent Palestinian state in the U.N. General Assembly in September.Hamas leader Kahled Mashaal also addressed the ceremony, saying his group was prepared to do anything to translate the text of the pact to facts on the ground. Our battle is with the Israeli enemy and not with Palestinian factions.Egypt's intelligence chief Murad Mewafi asserted the right of the Palestinians to have their own state. The pact opens the way, not only for re-arranging the domestic Palestinian home, but also for a just peace,he said.It's not clear whether Western powers would deal with the new government that is to emerge from the unity deal. So far, they've said they are waiting to see its composition.The Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., the EU, the United Nations and Russia — has long demanded that Hamas renounce violence and recognize the principle of Israel's right to exist.But Abbas aide Nabil Shaath told Israel Radio ahead of Wednesday's ceremony that these demands are unfair, unworkable and do not make sense.

The only thing the Quartet needs to know, he said, is that Hamas would refrain from any violence ... and be interested in the peace process.Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions in Gaza have agreed to abide by an unofficial truce with Israel, largely in place since Israel's January 2009 war in the territory. But it is unclear how long that truce will last, and Hamas has consistently rejected negotiations with Israel.The reconciliation deal is designed to unify the dueling Palestinian governments that emerged after Hamas violently wrested control of Gaza from security forces loyal to Abbas in June 2007 and left his Fatah controlling only the West Bank.In a symbolic step, Hamas allowed Fatah-controlled Palestine TV to broadcast from Gaza for the first time since the 2007 takeover. The station's Gaza correspondent, Adel Zaanoun, discussed the excitement that Gazans felt about unity and invited Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader, onto the program.Today we end a dark chapter in our recent history,Radwan said.It's time now to work together ... With the support of our people and the Arab brothers, we will make this agreement work.
Also for the first time, Hamas permitted Gaza residents to wave yellow Fatah banners along with the green Hamas flags. Fatah displays had been banned by Hamas police in the past.Some Gazans greeted the impending deal with a mixture of hope and caution, the last failed attempt at unity fresh in their minds.Hope is all we have. We have suffered a lot from the political split,said Yousef Ali, a 22-year-old law student in Gaza.But fear is there. Failure is possible and this is something we need to keep in mind ... I think the people will not show mercy this time for anyone who will try to sabotage this unity.Ibrahim Qassem, a 45-year-old driver, said he did not trust the Palestinian leaders. I saw the same atmosphere in 2007. What's the difference now? Associated Press Writers Amy Teibel in Jerusalem and Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, contributed to this report.

Jimmy Carter urges support for Palestinian deal
- MAY 4,11


WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former US president Jimmy Carter on Wednesday urged the international community to support a new Palestinian unity deal, saying it would improve the chances for Middle East peace.Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party and its rivals in the Islamist Hamas penned the deal on Tuesday to end years of infighting, but Israel has called the agreement a blow to the peace process.Carter, writing in an op-ed for the Washington Post, urged the United States and the international community to look past Hamas's pledge to destroy Israel and argued for the potential benefits of a unified Palestinian democracy.If the United States and the international community support this effort, they can help Palestinian democracy and establish the basis for a unified Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza that can make a secure peace with Israel,Carter wrote.If they remain aloof or undermine the agreement, the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory may deteriorate with a new round of violence against Israel.

Israel has ruled out dealing with any Palestinian entity that includes Hamas, which is also blacklisted as a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union because of its commitment to armed struggle.But Carter insisted that Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, with whom he has met on a number of occasions, told him that Hamas would accept a two-state agreement provided it was approved in a Palestinian referendum.Such an agreement could provide mutual recognition -- Israel would recognize an independent Palestinian state and Palestine would recognize Israel, Carter wrote.In other words, an agreement will include Hamas's recognition of Israel.
Representatives of Fatah, Hamas and 11 other Palestinian factions, as well as independent political figures, inked the reconciliation deal on Tuesday following talks with Egyptian officials.It provides for the formation of an interim government of independents to lay the groundwork for presidential and parliamentary elections within a year.

Hamas to work for state in West Bank, Gaza: Meshaal
-MAY 4,11


CAIRO (AFP) – Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on Wednesday that his Islamist movement would work to achieve the Palestinian national goal of a sovereign state on the Gaza Strip and West Bank.Meshaal said Hamas sought the establishment of an independent sovereign Palestinian state on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with Jerusalem as its capital and without giving up an inch nor the right of return.

Israeli PM takes Hamas fight to Europe
by Steve Weizman - MAY 4,11


LONDON (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to convince his British counterpart David Cameron on Wednesday that a deal between the two Palestinian factions would be disastrous for Middle East peace.As Israel tries to fight off UN recognition of a Palestinian state, Netanyahu is to meet Cameron on Wednesday evening and on Thursday will fly to Paris to present his case to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.Netanyahu is fiercely opposed to the militant Islamist Hamas movement having any role in a caretaker Palestinian government being formed by Palestinian Fatah president Mahmud Abbas.The rapprochement has already been welcomed, albeit cautiously, by British Foreign Secretary William Hague, although Hague later criticised Hamas for mourning the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.Before travelling to Britain on Tuesday, Netanyahu told Britain's former premier Tony Blair that Abbas must completely cancel the agreement which seeks to end years of bad blood between Abbas' Fatah movement and its Hamas rivals.The agreement between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is a hard blow to the peace process, Netanayhu told Blair, the Middle East envoy for the diplomatic Quartet of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia.How is it possible to achieve peace with a government, half of which calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and even praises the arch-murderer Osama Bin Laden,Netnyahu said.

A statement from Netanyahu's office said he will make similar remarks during his meetings in London and Paris with British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.Hamas's reference to bin Laden as a holy warrior on Tuesday sparked a sharp response from London as well as from the US State Department, which described the Islamists' response as outrageous.Even so, Netanyahu looks set to face a sceptical audience in both London and Paris, with Sarkozy giving the clearest indication yet that France may recognise an independent Palestinian state if peace talks do not resume soon.If the peace process is still dead in September, France will face up to its responsibilities on the central question of recognition of a Palestinian state,he said in an interview with L'Express magazine.

Netanyahu wants European leaders to oppose, or at least abstain, if the Palestinians seek United Nations recognition of a unilateral declaration of statehood when the body's General Assembly convenes in September.Analysts expect Cameron and Sarkozy to listen politely to his arguments but reserve immediate judgement.Netanyahu has said he will outline a new political initiative when he addresses a joint session of the US Congress in May, but so far he has kept his cards close to his chest.Israel and the United States oppose a unilateral statehood bid, saying a Palestinian state can only be achieved through negotiation.But Britain and France see things differently, with their UN envoys indicating last month they may back the Palestinian campaign as a way to relaunch the peace process.

Netanyahu to lobby UK, France over Palestinian state
by Steve Weizman – Tue May 3, 6:19 pm ET


JERUSALEM (AFP) – When Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu visits Britain and France this week, he will point to a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal as part of his fight to head off UN recognition of a Palestinian state.Hours before arriving in Britain, Netanyahu called on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to completely cancel the agreement which seeks to end years of bad blood between the secular Fatah movement and its Islamist Hamas rivals.The accord, signed on Tuesday, will see the two factions work together to build a transitional government of independent candidates, while leaving the issue of peace negotiations in the hands of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, headed by Abbas.But Netanyahu will tell his French and British counterparts that Israel cannot negotiate with the agreement in place, pointing in particular to Hamas's outspoken condemnation of the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by US forces on Sunday.The agreement between Abu Mazen (Abbas) and Hamas deals a hard blow to the peace process, Netanyahu said shortly before leaving.How can we make peace with a government when half of it calls for the destruction of Israel and glorifies the murderous Osama bin Laden? Hamas's reference to bin Laden as a holy warrior on Tuesday sparked a sharp response from London as well as from the US State Department, which described the Islamists' response as outrageous.But in Israel, the comments -- described by one paper as inconceivable stupidity on the part of Hamas -- were seen as playing squarely into Netanyahu's hands.The response by Hamas, which condemned bin Laden?s assassination, only strengthens Israel?s position and sends the responsibility rolling towards Abu Mazen,a political official told the Israel Hayom newspaper.Even so, Netanyahu looks set to face a sceptical audience in both London and Paris, with President Nicolas Sarkozy giving the clearest indication yet that France may recognise an independent Palestinian state if peace talks do not resume soon.

If the peace process is still dead in September, France will face up to its responsibilities on the central question of recognition of a Palestinian state, he said in an interview with L'Express magazine.Analysts expect British Prime Minister David Cameron, whom Netanyahu will meet on Wednesday, and Sarkozy, whom he meets on Thursday, to listen politely but reserve immediate judgement.There's so much going on in the Middle East of real dramatic import that the endless dance of the Israelis and Palestinians is struggling a little bit to get the attention that it once perhaps deserved,said Jonathan Spyer, a political analyst at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre.Netanyahu has said he will outline a new political initiative when he addresses a joint session of the US Congress in May, but so far he has kept his cards close to his chest.In the meantime, he is seeking to head off European support for a Palestinian bid to win UN recognition for a state within the 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as its capital, in a move expected to take place at September's annual General Assembly.Israel and the United States oppose such a move, saying a Palestinian state can only be achieved through negotiation.But Britain and France see things differently, with their UN envoys indicating last month they may back the Palestinian campaign as a way to relaunch the peace process.

Spyer sees no breakthrough for Netanyahu on this trip, but he does believe that drawing attention to Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority's new relationship with Hamas -- which is blacklisted by the European Union as a terrorist organisation -- will carry some weight. Israel will have a case for saying:As long as these guys are on board what do you expect us to do? That case will be challenged, but the case is makeable,he said. But the Jerusalem Post suggested that many Europeans would see the unity deal between the rival Palestinian movements as a sign Hamas was moderating its position.For months there have been voices proclaiming that ... Hamas can be tamed by being brought into the political tent,diplomatic correspondent Herb Keinon wrote at the weekend.Rather than be put off, like most Israelis were, by the fact that the PA is on the verge of incorporating into its unity government an organisation calling for Israel's destruction, many in Europe will see this move as an indication that Hamas has become pragmatic and more moderate as a result of the apparent loss of its patron in Syria.

Gaza demonstrators condemn death of bin Laden
By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press – Tue May 3, 5:40 pm ET


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Some two dozen Palestinians gathered in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to pay tribute to slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.About 25 people holding pictures and posters of bin Laden rallied outside a Gaza City university. The crowd included al-Qaida sympathizers as well as students who said they opposed bin Laden's ideology, but were angry at the U.S. for killing him and consider him a martyr.

Hamas police did not interfere in the demonstration.

In the weeks ahead of bin Laden's death, a survey in the Arab world by the Pew Research Center found support for the al-Qaida leader had dropped dramatically in recent years — though it remained the highest among Palestinians.The survey said about a third of Palestinians believed bin Laden would do the right thing in world affairs, which still represented a dramatic drop from a few years ago when overwhelming numbers approved of him.On Monday, Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of Gaza's Hamas government, condemned the U.S. operation against bin Laden, whom he hailed as a Muslim and Arab warrior. Still, the Islamic Hamas has always distanced itself from al-Qaida's militant Islamic ideology, saying its battle is against Israel, not the West.Al-Qaida's supporters have often accused Hamas of being too moderate and clashed with them.Israel's Channel 2 TV broadcast video Tuesday from Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third-holiest site, showing a Palestinian preacher mourning bin Laden, calling him a hero and a lion of Islam, cursing President Barack Obama, and hurling insults at Pope John Paul II.The video showed him preaching to a few dozen listeners.In Israel, police said they beefed up security around sensitive sites, including the airport, the U.S. Embassy, the U.S. consulate and areas where U.S. officials live, in case of revenge attacks.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld characterized the reinforcements as precautionary.

Latest developments in Arab world's unrest
By The Associated Press – Mon May 2, 5:50 pm ET


LIBYA-Libyans shouting for revenge bury Moammar Gadhafi's second youngest son to the thundering sound of anti-aircraft fire, as South Africa warns that the NATO bombing that killed him would only bring more violence.Libya's leader does not attend the tumultuous funeral of 29-year-old Seif al-Arab, but older brothers Seif al-Islam and Mohammed pay their respects, amid several thousand mourners.Fierce battles continue to rage in Misrata, the besieged rebel-held city in western Libya that has been shelled daily by Libyan forces in recent weeks. At least eight people die and more than 50 are injured on Monday, according to records at one hospital in the city.

SYRIA-Syrian troops go door-to-door in cities and towns across the nation, arresting scores of people in a campaign of intimidation aimed at crushing an uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime, activists say.Rami Abdul-Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says hundreds of people have been arrested over the past two days alone.

YEMEN-Thousands of protesters take to the streets of cities across Yemen to press the embattled president to step down after he balks at signing a deal by Arab mediators to end the impoverished nation's spiraling political crisis.Security forces fire gunshots to disperse a crowd of protesters in the southern city of Aden, killing a bystander watching the march from his balcony. A woman on the street is hit in the shoulder and injured.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-An activist says authorities cracking down on a small reform movement dissolve the board of a teachers association after its members signed a petition calling for an elected parliament.The step appears linked to the government's efforts to silence calls for democratic reforms in the oil-rich Gulf nation. Five democracy advocates were arrested last month and the board of a lawyers group was dissolved last week, also for signing the petition.

Jordan hopes bin Laden's death ends terror era
– Mon May 2, 2:46 pm ET


AMMAN (Reuters) – Staunch U.S. ally Jordan said on Monday it hoped the death of Osama bin Laden would end an era of terror by radical groups in the region that damaged global support for the Palestinian cause.A Jordanian source told the state news agency Petra Amman now looked toward a period where terrorism that had distorted the fairness of the Palestinian cause would end.The official source said it was now crucial to end the decades-old conflict that had been used by al Qaeda to justify its terror.Jordan, which is a key U.S. ally in the Middle East and Israel's peace partner, has been pursuing al Qaeda aggressively for years. It cooperates closely with U.S. and other intelligence agencies.The source said bin Laden's death could help ease anti-Islam phobia in the West and promote Muslim-Christian reconciliation.The Arab moderate kingdom has often been targeted by al Qaeda and other Islamic militants. It regularly arrests radical Islamic suspects and puts them on trial.(Writing by Suleiman al-Khalidi)

Palestinian unity deal is setback for US-led peace effort
by Lachlan Carmichael – Sun May 1, 4:28 pm ET


WASHINGTON (AFP) – Obama administration moves to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have hit a new snag with a Palestinian unity deal, as US clout in the Arab world wanes, analysts said.The deal between the secularist Fatah and radical Islamist Hamas factions, due to be signed on Wednesday, has drawn Israeli ire and prompted US lawmakers to warn the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority it risks losing US aid.Israel and the United States both consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization.

However, analysts said, rising popular pressure forced US-backed Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas to clinch a deal under which the bitter rivals agreed to form a transitional government ahead of elections within a year.
Palestinians, emboldened by pro-democracy revolutions sweeping the Arab world, have for weeks been demanding unity between Fatah, which dominates the West Bank, and Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip coastal enclave.This (deal) really does cast the die in a way that reflects the almost irrelevance of America as an actor in their (Palestinian) issues, according to Aaron David Miller, a former US Middle East peace negotiator.Miller, now a public policy scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said Abbas is not thinking about how his actions play in Israel and the United States.Instead, Miller said, he is focused on broadening and legitimizing his domestic base" and eventually winning recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September -- a route to statehood opposed by Washington.The Palestinians have gone and done something which really makes our position untenable. It's even questionable whether we will be able to deal with a government in which Hamas ministers sit, Miller told AFP.National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor warned last week that any Palestinian unity government must renounce violence, abide by past peace agreements, and recognize Israel's right to exist.Hamas has long rejected those principles endorsed by the Quartet of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.The Palestinian move, Miller said, hands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a major propaganda victory before he visits Washington next month to address Congress.

And it makes it harder for President Barack Obama's administration which relaunched peace talks last September only to see them grind to halt when a partial freeze on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank ended.The right-wing Netanyahu will feel less pressure to make concessions to the Palestinians as he will be better able to portray Abbas as not serious about peace, he said.Meanwhile, he said, Obama, who is due to give a speech soon on Middle East policy, will be wary of proposing US ideas for a settlement on borders and Jerusalem, for example, that could be perceived as rewarding the Palestinians.Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert at the University of Maryland, agreed that the reconcilition deal strengthened Netanyahu's hand and put the (Obama) administration in a bind.It is indeed likely to change the content of their speeches, he added.However, he said events were still unfolding and it may be possible for a Palestinian unity government to be formed that continues to negotiate with Israel on the basis of accepting the Jewish state and renouncing terrorism.That's separate from what position that they (Hamas) may or not have as a party. I think that's a little bit difficult for a lot of people to accept. It's going to take a lot of diplomatic skill to manage it,he said. Telhami said US policy makers were contending with a new Arab reality.The rise in the importance of public opinion makes governments in the Middle East somewhat less sensitive to the US and more sensitive to the public and in that sense it reduces the degree of immediate influence the US has,he said.Analysts said Egypt, after president Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February, is also now steering a more independent diplomatic course by brokering the Palestinian deal, planning to open the border with Gaza and warming up to Iran.Robert Danin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs under president George W. Bush, said Washington can no longer count on Egypt as the steadfast ally it was under Mubarak.A post-Mubarak Egypt is going to be much more independent...of the United States and more challenging to work with as a partner to advance the peace process,Danin told AFP.