The U.N. Security Council is to meet on March 27 to oppose the growing persecution of Christians in the Middle East, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday.
"We are on the side of the persecuted minorities," Fabius, whose country currently presides over the Security Council, told a press conference in the Moroccan capital.
He said the March 27 meeting, which he would himself chair, would demonstrate an international will not to accept atrocities committed by jihadists who "deny that minorities have the right to exist."
In an interview with BFM TV, Fabius said it was "completely unacceptable what has been done to these minorities."
Referring to the Islamic State group by an acronym in Arabic, he said: "Daesh and terrorists who are with them simply want to eradicate, physically remove, guillotine anyone who doesn't think like them."
In Syria, IS kidnapped some 220 Assyrian Christians last month, prompting 5,000 people to flee the countryside in fear of the jihadist advance.
IS militants have also attacked Christians in neighboring Iraq, where it seized swathes of territory in a lightning June offensive last year.
Saudi Arabia is next in the crosshairs of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), according to one Washington DC think tank.
IS has gone farther than other extremist groups, including al-Qaeda, in its ability to expand into territories and win and keep the support of its sympathizers. It has support throughout the Middle East and elsewhere, and doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down anytime soon – and that’s where Saudi Arabia comes in, according to the Jamestown Foundation.
“In addition to confronting the incumbent regimes in Iraq and Syria and rival militants and insurgents, the Islamic State has an ambitious set of goals that include challenging Saudi Arabia,” the Foundation says.
IS, it adds, is behaving in a more aggressive manner toward Saudi Arabia.
In an audio statement released last fall, the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi talked of expanding into the “lands of al-Haramein” (two holy places), refusing even to call it by the name Saudi Arabia because IS considers the Saudi royal family unworthy of any recognition. Al-Baghdadi instead highlights Islam’s two holiest sites — Mecca and Medina, and proclaims the appointment of regional governors to represent IS — calling on followers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere to recognize and follow their leadership.
Al-Baghdadi also issued a call to arms, telling Saudis to attack the country and “their soldiers.”
The IS leader holds Saudi Arabia in such low regard that he calls the country al-Saloul, a derogatory reference to the al-Saud family, and he implored his followers to attack the country’s substantial minority of Shi’a Muslims, adding that the IS flag will soon “fly over Mecca and Medina.”
It’s not just idle talk, as a group of militants in January infiltrated a northeast Saudi Arabian town and got into a skirmish with the border police. The attackers included a suicide bomber who detonated his vest while surrendering to a Saudi security officer, killing himself and the officer.
IS ostensibly holds such animosity towards Saudi Arabia because they consider the Saudi government to be corrupt and in bed with the US, which the group says is hell bent on controlling the Arab and Islamic world.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has disavowed his 2009 speech supporting an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a two-state solution.
In a statement released by his right-wing Likud party on Sunday, the prime minister explicitly said that Tel Aviv would never withdraw from any part of the occupied territories, rejecting a key goal of the international community as he seeks to challenge hardliners in national elections on March 17.
“Israel will never make concessions, no withdrawals,” he said, “any territory ceded by Israel would fall in the hands of Islamic extremism, and terror groups, supported by Iran.”
Likud Party spokesperson Elie Bennet said Netanyahu’s 2009 Bar Ilan speech that calls for a Palestinian state next to Israel, “is not relevant anymore.”
The statement was strongly rebuked by chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.
"Today Netanyahu revealed his true face," Erekat said. "Since 1993, he worked hard for the destruction of the option of peace and the option of a two-state solution."
"When given the choice between negotiation and dictation he has chosen dictation… Netanyahu's policies are a major threat to peace and stability in the region,” he added.
The statement came after Israeli Ynet News published what it called “a secret list of concessions made by Netanyahu to the Palestinians during his previous term in office,” which it said “completely contradict all positions and stances the Prime Minister currently presents.
According to Ynet, Ron Dermer, Netanyahu’s aid at the time of the speech and now serves as Israel’s ambassador to the US, had said that the Prime Minister vowed commitment to the two-state solution, establishing a Palestinian State along the 1967 borders through peace talks.
Dermer had also informed Quartet Committee head Tony Blair “Israel does not only want to grant the Palestinians a state, but also one along the 1967 border,” Ynet reported. However, the Israeli ambassador denied the report, saying there has been no commitment of any type regarding the issue.
The international community has long pushed for the creation of a Palestinian state within the lines of the 1967 Mideast war.
In 1993, Palestinians and Israelis signed an interim agreement to end the conflict.
Several rounds of peace talks have been held since, with the most recent breaking down last year.
Ahead of national elections, centrist and leftist political parties in Israel have voiced support for the resumption of peace efforts with the Palestinians.
There was no immediate US reaction.
An Israeli unit violated on Tuesday the Blue Line that demarcates the border between Lebanon and Israel, announced the army in a statement.
It said that an eight-member unit crossed the Blue Line near al-Bastra farm in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
It entered 20 meters and tossed a smoke bomb in the area.
Earlier, the National News Agency said that Israeli troops performed maintenance operations on the technical fence near the town of Kfarkila.
A number of soldiers stood watch amid the deployment of military vehicles along the border area.
The Lebanese army and members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon monitored their actions.
Al-Manar television later said that Israeli troops fired 16 shots into the air as one of its units inspected the Blue Line at the Shebaa Farms.
Last week, an Israeli military vessel violated Lebanon's territorial waters and threatened a Lebanese fishing boat.
In late February, Israeli troops and armored vehicles combed the border area, carrying out thorough monitoring of the Lebanese side.
In a separate incident, a 20-member Israeli unit advanced towards al-Wazzani river on the southern border, raising alert among Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers.
Israeli troops regularly cross the electronic border fence and sometimes enter Lebanese territory through the U.N.-demarcated Blue Line, which was drawn up following Israel’s withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation.
The fence runs parallel to the Blue Line.
On January 28, two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven others wounded as Hizbullah waged a missile attack on their vehicles that were traveling inside the occupied Shebaa Farms.
Hizbullah said the operation was in response to a deadly Israeli air raid that killed six of its fighters, including prominent members, in Syria's Quneitra.
thanks nakharnet for erasing my post where i state that israel is desperate to provoke war. it seems my post was sectarian, demeaning to women and minorities, sexist, anti-semitic and smack into hate-speech territory.
Whoever controls this region, will ultimately control the world’s economy. This map also demonstrates, from a military perspective why Russia is obsessed with occupying the North Pole.
Do you remember as a child in elementary school playing games like “Capture the flag” and “King of the hill”? As you grew older you were taught from a military perspective that military commanders want to occupy the high ground. If we go on to learn military strategy, we frequently encounter the admonitions that it is imperative to occupy the high ground. The master analyst of all warfare, Sun Tzu often spoke of this as well:
If enemy camp is on high ground, do not climb to launch attack.
The Ongoing Buildup At the North Pole
Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which was finalized in 1982, countries can lay claim to the ocean floor well beyond their borders so long as they can provide convincing scientific evidence to prove that a particular seabed is an extension of their continental shelf. Already, countries have sovereign rights to resources within 200 nautical miles of their territorial waterways. For a country to determine whether they have economic sovereignty beyond that distance, the UN agreement requires comprehensive mapping that establishes some sort of geologic justification for the claim. And where the Arctic is concerned, Canada, the US, Norway, Russia, and Denmark have been amassing scientific evidence for more than a decade in an effort to increase their piece of this resource-rich pie. From a resource perspective, the wars have been fought for less significant reasons than what we are seeing transpire at the North Pole. However, the major reason to fight over the control of the North Pole is the same reason as we fought for the high ground in our children’s games, namely, military domination over our opponent.
The Military Significance of Occupying the North Pole
Take one more look at the Arctic map at the top of the page. If Russia can complete its task of establishing military dominance over the North Pole, it will be free to attack in any direction against high value targets. These hypothetical military advances coming out of the North Pole will force both NATO and the United States to shift into a defensive posture in order to prepare for a northern invasion coming out of the North Pole.
On any given morning, the Russians could attack into the territories of the Scandinavian countries, thus threatening Europe. The nations of Eastern Europe (e.g. Hungary, Poland), are already living under fear of invasion from the East. Now, they would potentially be caught in a vice from the North. This would make NATO’s defense of Eastern Europe virtually indefensible.
Simultaneously, Russia could sweep down from the North Pole and attack through Northern Canada. And of course, Alaska is fully exposed. In a World War III scenario, Alaska would be a high variety target, unto itself, because of the McKinder Hypothesis which states that historic Russian military strategy is predicated on securing valuable sea ports, because the long Russian shoreline does not have any valuable sea ports to speak of.
In one fell swoop, Russia could launch the military equivalent of the TET offensive attacks (1968) in which the Viet Cong attacked every provincial capital on the same day during the TET cease fire arranged for a Vietnamese holiday. The Viet Cong could not sustain such a widespread front and the attack collapsed but not before American morale and citizen support for the war had eroded. However, the Russians do have the military depth to sustain such a military action.
When I look at a map of the North Pole, I see a chessboard. Not when, but if the Russians fully occupy the North Pole, their mere presence at the top of the world will result in a checkmate kind of move. The troops, supplies and equipment needed to prepare for an invasion from the North, would be troops, supplies and equipment not assigned to engage Ukraine, Syria, Iran, Taiwan and South Korea due to Russian and/or Chinese invasion.
Do the Facts On the Ground Support the Military Hypothesis?
Just since the beginning of 2015, Russia has begun to position its forces in key strategic positions. For example, in mid-January of 2015, the Russians began to move military assets to the Arctic region of the Finish border as they reopened an abandoned military base on the Kola Peninsula in the Russia city of Alakurtti recently, just 60 kilometers from the Finnish border. Checkmate Europe!
Russia Is In War Mode
The Russians are in war mode, Arctic war mode. I do not see how any reasonable person could read the following accounts of Russian military buildup in the Arctic and not conclude that the spark for WW III will not begin here.
Russia has tested the world’s most powerful vacuum bomb, which unleashes a destructive shockwave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said on Tuesday, dubbing it the “father of all bombs”. This is the most powerful non-nuclear bomb on the world. In fact, many experts believe that this bomb does pack a nuclear punch. This would be the weapon of choice in the coming Arctic conflict because it would kill soldiers, dismantle military equipment without destroying the surrounding mineral resources, which is the point of the coming conflict.
Additionally, Russia is adding 40 new naval ships to its nuclear arsenal in 2014. By the end of 2015, Russia will have nearly as many naval ships as the United States. Retrofitted combat aircraft from Russia’s Northern Fleet will extend the ranges of their patrol flights over the Arctic in 2014 using a network of revamped Soviet-era airfields. In 2011, Russia deployed four brigades of combat troops into the Arctic.
Ballistic missile submarines make up one part of Russia’s strategic nuclear triad along with land-based ICBMs and the Russian bomber force. The Borey submarine is Russia’s first post-Soviet ballistic missile submarine class and will form the mainstay of the strategic submarine fleet, replacing aging Typhoon, Delta-3 and Delta-4 class boats. The creation of the Borey signals that the Russian economy is in war mode.
Russia ultimately expects to manufacture eight Borey-class submarines by the year 2020. People constantly are asking me for time frames connected to these events and I dismiss such questions as a fool’s errand. However, the deployment of these submarines by 2020 may provide a clue as to the timetable that the globalists are operating under. Oh yes, make no mistake about it, this coming war will not happen without the blessings of the banksters from Basel.
Additionally, the Russians are commissioning other submarines as well. Russia’s first Project 885M Yasen-class attack submarine, the Severodvinsk, was handed over to the navy at end of 2013. This submarine has been under construction since 1993.
Who do you think these Russian weapons are intended for? And what has all of this got to do with the giveaway of 7 Alaskan Islands and the training of Russian troops on American soil? Islands? Russian troops on American soil? Perhaps you should read on.
Any Military Invasion Will Surely Include Alaska: The Treason Factor
Nowhere have I received more information than I have from Alaska regarding the presence of Russian soldiers, in uniform, on American soil. Further, the F-22 over-flights between Russia and Alaska have been suspended thus, leaving the coastline more vulnerable. The flights were ostensibly canceled because of oxygen uptake issues with the pilots of the F-22’s. These surveillance flights should have been replaced, at least temporarily with the F-16’s. They have been replaced by nothing. Also, according to naval sources, submarine patrols have been greatly reduced and many locals have been reporting seeing fully surfaced Russian subs off of the coast of Alaska in multiple locations.
Giving away these islands constitutes a blatant act of treason.
Obama is not just a traitor for bringing in Russian troops to police Americans, his treason started much earlier. As I have previously reported, but the report went unheeded, Obama has given away seven strategic, oil-rich Alaskan islands to the Russians at a time when we could be going to war with Russia over Syria and Iran. At minimum, the oil, alone, from these Islands should be considered to be a military asset. I remain very concerned that these seven islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea could also be used as a military staging area from which to invade Alaska and defend its new claims of the mineral rich resources at the North Pole.
Was this coming moment foretold on the mural at Denver International Airport near baggage pick-up?
2013 photo of Russian and American troops at Ft. Carson, Colorado.
Russian troops began carrying out joint anti-terrorism drills in America in May of 2012. What terrorists could they be practicing for? The influx of Russian soldiers maybe began just as a trickle with a couple of dozen of Russians stationed at Fort Carson as we are witnessing the insertion of 5th column Russian troops on our soil. The extra-constitutional “agreements”(that means illegal agreements) were inked in Washington, D.C., at the fourth annual meeting of the illegally created “U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission Working Group on Emergency Situations.”This extra-governmental organization, formed under the Obama administration, is one of almost two dozen similar“working groups” bringing together top U.S. and Russian officials. These two bodies are cooperating on everything from the drug war and agriculture to terror, science, “rule of law” (could that be code for martial law?), health, environment, energy, nuclear issues, education, culture, media, business, arms control, and more, according to the U.S. State Department. The Senate has not ratified any of the international deals, as required by the Constitution of the United States. And as such, this is an illegal agreement. However, this is not just an illegal agreement, IT CONSTITUTES TREASON AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
However, with the FEMA bilateral agreement, it is clear the floodgates are ready to burst wide open and Obama’s treachery is fully exposed. The following is in response to the trolls to who constantly write to me and say there are no Russian troops on American soil. As if the above is not enough to convince one of the growing Russian presence which coincides with the Russian military buildup at the North Pole, perhaps, you would like to feast your eyes on the following:
Conclusion
Since I wrote the first account of this preparation of the Russians to occupy this country, nearly two years ago, my fear of a Russian attack and subsequent Russian occupation has been greatly heightened.
When Russia consolidates its Arctic holdings they will surely exploit their military advantage as described in the earlier paragraphs. Again, Putin has outmaneuvered Obama and it has all been by design.
Joe 9 March, 2015, 06:09 “Since I wrote the first account of this preparation of the Russians to occupy this country, nearly two years ago, my fear of a Russian attack and subsequent Russian occupation has been greatly heightened.”
hassan al nass nass i can assure you on the tomb of my son hadi and on the integrity of zeynib an... 28 January 2015, 04:59
pajama.boy Terrorist speaking.... Who's listening? 30 January 2015, 07:39
ex-fpm The 'honorable' resistance should give its weapons to the LAF and make short ... 08 February 2015, 06:31
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