MSM: Israel primed for war on Iran: Netanyahu deputy

(Reuters) – Israel is primed for a war on Iran, a deputy to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, in a rare break with his government’s reticence as world powers try to talk Tehran into curbing its nuclear plans.

By spearheading assaults on guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon and Palestinian territories, the Israeli air force had gained the techniques necessary for any future strikes on Iranian sites, Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said.

“There is no doubt that the technological capabilities, which improved in recent years, have improved range and aerial refueling capabilities, and have brought about a massive improvement in the accuracy of ordnance and intelligence,” he told a conference of military officers and experts. Read entire article

MSM: Equating Iran nukes with Holocaust highlights Israel’s isolation

(Haaretz) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the official ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday to warn about the Iranian threat. “The world gradually accepts Iran’s statements of destruction against Israel and we still do not see the necessary international determination to stop Iran from arming,” Netanyahu said, calling on “all enlightened countries” to strongly condemn Iran and act with “genuine determination” to prevent it from building nuclear weapons.

The Lobby v. America

(CoutnerPunch) – As I listened to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address an animated crowed of supporters on March 22, I felt physically sick. The man has already displayed time and again a complete lack of moral sense or ethical framework in his words and actions. In his recent arguments, he once again twisted history, manipulated facts and fabricated his own selective, self-interested and highly questionable narrative. Netanyahu, a colonialist from a faraway land, also had the audacity to convince himself and a few others that he had legal, moral and historic rights over my land. While I am the son of a Palestinian family rooted in Palestine since time immemorial, Netanyahu is the son of an immigrant from Lithuania. While he giddily robs more Palestinian land in Jerusalem, I live in exile.

World War

(RawStory) – Rove denies Bush admin said oil would help pay for war

NBC was the latest stop on Karl Rove’s book tour for ‘Courage and Consequence.’ Revising history has been his main focus recently, and this morning’s interview with Tom Brokaw focused on Iraqi oil revenues. Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran – Pakistani Scientist Khan Describes Iranian Efforts to Buy Nuclear Bombs

The father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program has written an official account that details an Iranian attempt to buy atomic bombs from Pakistan at the end of the 1980s. Read More Here

(HeraldScotland) – Final Destination Iran?

Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Is China’s Politburo spoiling for a showdown with America?

The long-simmering clash between the world’s two great powers is coming to a head, with dangerous implications for the international system. Read More Here

(MSNBC) – Newly powerful China defies Western nations

China’s government has embraced an increasingly anti-Western tone in recent months and is adopting policies across a wide spectrum that reflect a heightened fear of foreign influence. Read More Here

(EarthTimes) – Report: US, Russia account for half of world arms sales

The United States and Russia jointly accounted for more than half of global arms sales between 2005 and 2009, according to a report Monday by a Swedish-based research institute Read More Here

(AsiaTimes) – Obama in more trouble than Netanyahu over Iran

The chess-masters of Tehran have played a single combination for the past five years: threaten America’s flanks in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to gain control of the center of the board, that is, by pushing on with a nuclear program that many suspect is designed to acquire nuclear weapons. Read More Here

(DW-World) – Germany doubles arms exports

Germany doubled the amount of its arms it sold abroad in 2004-2009, compared to that exported during the previous five-year period, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released Monday. Read More Here

(Haaretz) – Netanyahu: Israel will keep building in Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said that Israel would continue to build in Jerusalem in the same way that it has over the last 42 years. Read More Here

(LATimes) – India embraces Russia arms

New Delhi signs five deals, buying fighter jets, an aircraft carrier and nuclear reactors. Read More Here

World War

(TheNational) – Ahmadinejad Expects War Before Summer

The three-party meeting that took place in Damascus on Friday gathering the Syrian president Bashar al Assad, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was a war council to devise counterattack plans and assign tasks in the event of an Israeli offensive on one or all parties, wrote Abdelbari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds al Arabi. Read More Here

(Haaretz) – Haaretz: Israel Is Preparing To Strike Iran

Netanyahu managed to convince the world that Israel is on the verge of a preemptive war to try to foil Iran’s nuclear program. His speeches on a second Holocaust and Amalek, the acceleration of military preparations, the exercises on the Home Front, the distribution of gas masks and even the stockpiling of dollars by the Bank of Israel all suggest that Israel is preparing to strike Iran, as it did when it attacked the nuclear plants in Iraq and Syria. Read More Here

(AntiWar) – Report: US State Dept. Warns Lebanon It Can’t Stop Israeli Attack

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Calls for New Peace Talks as Invasion Looms Read More Here

(PressTV) – Israel urges US to act alone, as anti-Iran bids fail

As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tours Latin America to recruit support for new international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Tel Aviv urges Washington to adopt Cuba-like embargos against Tehran. Read More Here

Israeli PM warns of “runaway” Iranian nuclear issue

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warned that the international community is moving too slowly to follow Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, reported local daily Ha’aretz. Read More Here

(BioPrepWatch) – Israel begins distribution of gas masks

Israel began its distribution of new gas masks to civilians on Sunday, which are meant to protect the nation in the event of a biological or chemical attack. Read More Here

(Haaretz) – Ahmadinejad denounces Israel as ‘origin of all wars, terror’

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continued to deliver incendiary rhetoric against Israel yesterday, the second and final day of a Palestinian solidarity conference in Tehran. Read More Here

Middle East News

(PressTV) – Dutch probe declares Iraq war ‘illegal’

An independent probe investigating the Netherlands’ support for the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq says the US and Britain rushed to war without sufficient legal backing under international law. Read More Here

(Haaretz) – Netanyahu: Israel will never share Jerusalem with Palestinians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday that Israel would never cede control of united Jerusalem nor retreat to the 1967 borders, according to a bureau statement. Read More Here

(Haaretz) – Iran: ‘Zionist’ murder of scientist won’t stop our nuclear process

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it had evidence that a bomb that killed Tehran University professor Mssoud Ali-Mohammadi was planted by “Zionist and American agents”. Read More Here

(AlJazeera) – US denies role in Iran murder

The US has dismissed an accusation by Iran that it was behind the murder of an Iranian nuclear physics professor, who was killed in a bomb blast. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Syria, Iran call for regional cooperation

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called for additional consultations among regional states to devise ways to counter the plots of foreign powers. Read More Here

(MSNBC) – Bomb-rigged motorcycle kills Iran nuke expert

State TV blames West for death of professor who backed opposition leader Read More Here

An Iranian Nuclear Physicist is Murdered

Back in February, 2007, a controversy erupted when University of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds advocated that, in response to Iran’s nuclear activities, the U.S. should be “killing radical mullahs and iranian [sic] atomic scientists” — in other words, have the U.S. Government select religious leaders and scientists it dislikes in Iran and just murder them, despite long-standing domestic and international legal prohibitions on exactly such programs.  Read More Here

(ISM) – Israeli forces demolish 17 buildings in northern West Bank

Israeli military forces have demolished 17 buildings in the Palestinian community of Khirbet Tana for the second time. This is the only the most recent chapter in a long struggle for the small agricultural community to keep their lands. Read More Here

(Uruknet) – Israel’s countdown to another war on Gaza

As the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) highlights the human cost of Operation Cast Lead (War Diaries), Israel has during the last two weeks intensified its air strikes at civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, once again killing a number of Palestinians and causing extensive damage to properties. Read More Here

(Uruknet) – 125,000 Jerusalem residents “could lose residence rights”

The Jerusalem Centre for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) has claimed that over 125,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem could eventually have been stripped of the right to live in their city because of the separation wall and the Judaisation policies adopted by successive Israeli governments. JCSER warns that Jerusalem is being subjected to the most dangerous Judaisation process, which is demographic in nature and is designed to control, as much as possible, what remains of Palestinian citizens’ lands. Read More Here

(Ma’an) – Israel to build wall along Egyptian border

Israel approved on Sunday the construction of a barrier along its border with Egypt, Israeli media reported on Monday. Read More Here

MSM: Netanyahu – Iran’s shipment of arms to Hezbollah – a war crime

(Haaretz) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the ship carrying hundreds of tons of weapons believed to have originated in Iran and meant for Hezbollah, which Israel intercepted early Wednesday, constituted a war crime that should be reviewed by United Nations bodies.

MSM: Israeli military strike more likely after Iran misses nuclear deadline

(Telegraph) – The deal put forward in Vienna would not have ended Iran’s nuclear programme, even if Tehran had given a prompt “yes”.

MSM: Gore Vidal’s United States of Fury

(independent) – The current spasming death of America was foretold at its birth, Vidal says, and it can only be understood by whirling back there. It has been his mission to explain the past to the “United States of Amnesia,” through his novels and essays. When he speaks, he sweeps over two millennia of history – from Caesar to Obama – as if he was there, forever spraying one-liners from the back row.

MSM: Israel names Russians helping Iran build nuclear bomb

(Times) – Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has handed the Kremlin a list of Russian scientists believed by the Israelis to be helping Iran to develop a nuclear warhead. He is said to have delivered the list during a mysterious visit to Moscow.

PM Netanyahu’s UN Speech – The Pathology of Evil

Israeli PM Netanyahu’s speech at the UN is a major insight into the Israeli’s mentality, psyche and logic. In his speech Netanyahu, a prolific and charismatic speaker, gives air to his genocidal inclinations, he brings to light the Israeli supremacy but he also allows us to detect some shaky and vulnerable spots at the heart of the Jewish national narrative.

Netanyahu Uses Ahmadinejad UN Speech to Call for Iran Attack

Brandishing Nazi orders for the extermination of Jews, Israel’s prime minister blasted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday for continuing to deny that the Holocaust occurred, and he rebuked U.N. delegates who had listened politely to the Iranian leader’s speech on Wednesday, demanding, “Have you no shame?”

Iranian bomb greatest threat to world: Netanyahu

(RawStory) – Israel’s prime minister told the United Nations Thursday that Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons is the greatest danger the world faces.

US Missile Defense Halt Is First Signal that War With Iran is Near

The recent announcment that the Obama Administration has canceled plans for a missile defense system in Central Europe is causing careful observers to sit up and think about the global ramifications.

MSM: IAF chief – We must make every effort to stop delivery of S-300s

(JPost) – Israel needs to make every effort to stop the S-300 missile defense system from reaching countries where the air force may need to fly, IAF commander Maj.-Gen. Ido Nehushtan has told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview.

The spark that has triggered rebellion

‘I’m as Mad as Hell, and I’m Not Gonna Take This Anymore!’ This sentiment is being voiced by protesters turning out for Tea Parties and Health Care Town Hall Meetings around the country. People are angry and frightened by the prospect of government running their health care system, but their anger goes far beyond a 1000 page health bill.

Updated and expanded: Dr. Van de Meer predicts monetary collapse of US starting on September 30th

A private but extremely influential silent individual,  Dr. Michael Van de Meer is the person predicting a financial collapse of the United States starting on September 30th. That is the end of the fiscal year and the final date for payments the Federal Reserve Board wants to act, but cannot, because it is in a catatonic state, as the leaders of every state in the world is.

Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the US?

(Paul Craig Roberts) – In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week Netanyahu called for “crippling sanctions” against Iran.

MSM: Israelis shot Gaza civilians waving white flags – HRW

(Yahoo) – Israeli soldiers shot and killed 11 Palestinian civilians who were waving white flags, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday in a report on the Gaza war whose credibility Israel immediately questionned.

MSM: Israel on Iran – Anything it takes to stop nukes

(Yahoo) – Israel hardened its insistence Monday that it would do anything it felt necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, just the ultimatum the United States hoped not to hear as it tried to nudge Iran to the bargaining table.

Stop Obamacare Now! – Campaign for Liberty

The Majority in Congress and the President are promising to change the “status quo” by pushing a government run-medicine plan (HR 3200). The plan would create rationing through government committees, force all Americans to buy over-priced, politically created health insurance, create an economically unsustainable government-run insurance plan and impose economy-crushing taxes.

Destroying Gaza

The recent meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu generated speculation over the future relationship between America and Israel, and a potentially changed US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Analysts on the right and left are commenting on a new, tougher American policy characterized by strengthened US demands on Israel. However, beneath the diplomatic choreography lies an agonizing reality that received only brief comment from Obama and silence from Netanyahu: the ongoing devastation of the people of Gaza.

US Vice President Backs Israel’s Right to Preemptive Military Action

(VOA) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says Israel is entitled to decide for itself how best to respond to Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities. Mr. Biden also says America’s willingness to engage in dialogue with Iran is unchanged, despite Tehran’s violent crackdown on demonstrators following last month’s disputed presidential vote.

Coverage of US Propaganda Against Iran

Dprogram.net’s complete coverage of the Iranian elections regarding U.s. involvement/propaganda – June 2009

MSM: Biden Suggests U.S. Not Standing in Israel’s Way on Iran

(Times) – Plunging squarely into one of the most sensitive issues in the Middle East, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. suggested on Sunday that the United States would not stand in the way of Israeli military action aimed at the Iranian nuclear program.

MSM: Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran

(Times) – The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.

MSM: Israel keeps Mossad chief on for Iran “shadow war”

(Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended the tenure of the Mossad chief to an eighth year on Sunday, a testament to the spymaster’s perceived success in waging shadow wars against Iran and its allies.

The language that absolves Israel

On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that – by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state – ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the quest for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Netanyahu Speaks with Twisted Tongue

In his foreign policy speech, Sunday 6/14 at the religiously extremist Bar Ilan University, the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu did not only put the cart of peace in front of the horse, but he also loaded that cart with tons of heavy rocks.

MSM: Jimmy Carter to meet Hamas leaders after criticising Israeli PM

(Guardian) – The former US president Jimmy Carter will visit Gaza for a rare meeting with senior Hamas officials following his criticism of a key speech by Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, on Sunday night.

MSM: Don’t discount Israel pre-emptive strike, Hillary Clinton warns Iran

(Times) – Hillary Clinton refused yesterday to rule out a pre-emptive Israeli military strike on Iran. It was the first time that a senior member of the Obama Administration had openly discussed such a possibility.

Media Disinformation and the “Iranian Threat”

The great, international, demonic, truly frightening Iranian threat

MSM: Israel’s Barak urges more sanctions against Iran

(Reuters) – Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak called on Monday for further world economic sanctions to force Iran to halt its nuclear programme, insisting that “no option” should be ruled out, an official statement said.

Arabs: Nakba bill means war

The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee sent a letter of protest to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Saturday in which it warns against the passing of a bill proposal that would outlaw marking the Nakba – the Palestinian day of mourning over the creation of the State of Israel.

Netanyahu: If Israel Doesn’t Take out Iranian “Threat”, No One Will

“Israel is not like other countries,” Netanyahu told his Likud faction in a meeting which came one week after his meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House. “We are faced with security challenges that no other country faces, and our need to provide a response to these is critical, and we are answering the call.”

Israel to ignite all-out regional war?

The Israeli military holds its most extensive nationwide drill, signaling its intentions for a possible attack on Iran which they admit can ignite an all-out war in the region.

MSM: Israeli jets practice as tension with Iran grows

Israel’s air force held a large-scale exercise simulating war on several fronts with enemies that include Iran, Israeli defense officials said yesterday. The practice this week involved Israel’s entire air arm and was meant to prepare for an all-out war, including missile attacks aimed at Israeli cities, the officials said.

Obama says Iran war not off the table

President Barack Obama says the US has not taken military action against Iran over its nuclear program off the table ahead of the Israeli premier’s trip to Washington.

MSM: Robert Gates – bombing Iran would not stop nuclear threat

Bombing Iran would fail to stop the Islamic Republic from building nuclear weapons and could only ‘buy time’, according to Robert Gates, the US defence secretary.

MSM: Lieberman – U.S. to accept any Israeli decision

The Obama Administration will put forth new peace initiatives only if Israel wants it to, said Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in his first comprehensive interview on foreign policy since taking office.