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Israel in the Middle, Syria, Iran and the Gulf States 27. August 2013 um 11:00 Israel in the Middle, Syria, Iran and the Gulf States by Stephen E Hughes 26 Aug. 2013 Iran & Syria s Bashar Hafezal-Assad are intertwined allies. Yet at one time Assad s major Mid-east ally was the late Saddam Hussein of Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a bitter enemy of Iran. They fought an 8 year war from 1980-88. At one time, Saddam was an ally of America and because of his invasion of Kuwait became an US enemy. Assad s late father Hafez al-assad following the Camp David Accords, Syria,Iraq, and the PLO created the so-called Rejectionist Front against Israel. However,Hafez never trusted and hated Saddam; he sent Syrian troops in support of America s 1991 Gulf War. Yet Hafez Syria was the first Arab country to recognize Khomeini s revolutionary regime. Hafez al-assad sent a telegram of congratulations to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The 1979 Iranian revolution transformed relations between Iran and Syria, which had often been hostile under the shah. What has religion have to do with it? Hafez Al-Assad was an Alawite. Alawite a split off from Shia Islam (Shiites) Alawites are a Muslim minority group that accounts for around 12% of Syria s population. Although Sunni Muslims do not regard them as Muslims, Alawites consider themselves to be Muslims. Throughout their history, they have been hated and persecuted. Assad preached the ideology of the Baath (Renewal) Party, advocating a secular Arab unity across the Middle East. In appearance, it is very western Hafez used Ba athist ideas to justify the Alawite domination over the Sunni majority of Syria.He joined Nasser s Egypt and Ba athist Iraq. Gulf States: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Oman. The Gulf States are mostly Sunni Islamists, howver Iraq is about 75 percent Shina. Iraq in part is still an ally of Syria. The Gulf States fo rthe most part against Syria. Turkey & Jordan non Gulf States are alos against Syria.

Bashar Hafez al-assad Assad is against Muslim Brotherhood his father fought may battles against them. In one infamous event Hafez al-assad wiped out an entire Syrian city (20,000 + or -) to root out the Muslim Brotherhood. Iran is pro-hamas Assad is an ally of Arab Palestinian Hamas, but Hamas backs and is a hardcore ally of the Muslim Brotherhood! Turkey is with Gulf States against Assad; yet Turkey is pro-muslim Brotherhood against ruling Egyptian General Sisi. Qatar is against Iran and Syria but supports Hamas. Jordan who is against the Muslim Brotherhood, Syria and Iran yet supports Hamas. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Oman support Egypt s General Sisi and are against the Muslim Brotherhood. President Obama backs the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and is against Egypt s General Sisi. The Muslim Brotherhood supports Al Qaeda, hates America. Hamas refuses any peace talks with Israel, continually rockets Israeli communities (over 12,000). Supports Al Qaeda, celebrates 9/11 as a great victory for Islam and calls the late Bin Laden, the most HolyWarrior. President Obama waived the restrictions set by Congress recently providing Hamas with emergency cash grant of several hundred million dollars to keep them afloat (Hamas Iran aid been going for Syria). Hamas who for all its intents & purposes is at war with Mahmoud Abbas, the Arab Palestinian Authority. If this was not enough Obama is going to provide them both with 4 billion dollarsin aid. No previous American president has had so strained a relationship with Israel as Barack Obama. As Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren said in 2010, Israel s ties with the United States are in their worst crisis since 1975. Obama was quotedas saying that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu does not know what Israel s bestinterests are and is a political coward. When it comes to Tehran Obama has repeatedly claimed that he will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. But in practice, his actions have enabled Iran vastly expand its nuclear weapons program. Any sanctions that are placed on Iran Obama simply provides waivers to countries to buy all the oil they want. Obama constantly plays down the threat that Iran poses to Israel's existence,as well as the threat a nuclear Iran would pose to the United States and the rest of the world.

We are to accept when the Supreme Leader Khamenei says he does not believe in nuclear weapons but disbelieve him when he says Israel needs to be wiped off the map. The billions of dollars Iran has spent on its proxy wars with Israel through Hamas and Hezbollah was not a crisp picture of deadly intention for President Obama. Israel is the only state in a world where every man, woman and child are issued a gas mask. In a 2008 research study of 115 Iranian school textbooks revealed that Tehran is preparing its children for war and is willing to risk massive casualties for the opportunity to defeat America in a world-wide cataclysmic confrontation. Describing Iran's school system, it is a "Global War Curriculum. Hate indoctrination is a professed goal of Iranian textbooks. Pupils as young as 9 are being conditioned to take part in a global jihad against such "infidel oppressors"israel and the United States. Genocides, unlike hurricanes are predictable,and Iran is following the pattern and Iran has taken six of the eight steps on the path to genocide. Iran has classified and symbolized Israel through exclusionary ideology and hate speech; dehumanized it overcoming the normal human revulsion against murder by portraying the potential victims as a cancer in need of eradication; organized fanatical militias (the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps); polarized the society by repressing dissent and arresting moderates; prepared for the killing by denying a past genocide and by constructing weapons of mass destruction;and, through global terrorism, even begun the seventh of his eight stages:extermination. From -Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, Dr. Gregory Stanton, the world s foremost expert on the matter. Stanton, the founder and director of Genocide Watch, the world s first organization to deal exclusively with the issue of Genocide. The US Treasury Department designated the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) "for its support to terrorist groups as well as its central role in perpetrating human rights abuses against the citizens of Iran and its role in supporting the Syrian regime as it continues to commit human rights abuses against the people of Syria."Al Qaeda and its affiliate, al Qaeda in Iraq are among the terrorist groups supported by the MOIS, which is Iran's chief intelligence agency. Iran has been the number one source of IEDs and has killed and maimed hundreds of US Soldiers. The

Treasury Department has targeted the nexus between Iran and al Qaeda. The State Department announced in 2012 it was offering multi-million dollar rewards for information that leads to the capture of two alleged high-level members of al Qaeda based in Iran. Under its Rewards for Justice program, the State Department is willing to pay up to $7 million for information leading to the capture of al Qaeda senior facilitator and financier Muhsin al-fadhli, and another $5 million for the location of his deputy, Adel Radi Saqr al-wahabi al-harbi. The Islamic Republic holds the world s fourth-largest proven oil reserves and the world s second-largest natural gas reserves. Tehran also has the second largest untapped oil and natural reserves in the world. Investing billions of dollars in nuclear plants does not make sense, when for pennies on the dollar for simply investing in its vast oil and gas resources. There is good reason why the Islamic Republic of Iran has been evaluated as the leader in international terrorism. And in the middle in the tiny country of Israel about the size of the US state of New Jersey, a few million souls surrounded by an ocean of hostiles. There has been a sick twisted psychotic hatred for Jews, for Israel which has become a global pandemic. In the shadows it has released itself upon the Christians of the Middle East and Africa.. However even this genocidal tidal wave of Africa and Mid- East are but a faint whisper in the halls of Obama s Washington. It is the tiny Spartan country of Israel, which is standing against this onslaught at the gates of Jerusalem. 1). Hafez Al-Assad: The Man Who Waited Too Long By HarveySicherman July 2000 Volume 7, Number 1 http://www.fpri.org/peacefacts/071.200007.sicherman.assadwaitedtoolong.html 2). The Sunni-Shi ite Schism is One of the Most InfluentialFactors in Current Middle East Conflicts June 26, 2013 http://www.crethiplethi.com/the-sunni-shiite-schism-is-one-ofthe-most-influential-factors-in-current-middle-east-conflicts/global-islam/2013/ 3). Who Understands the Middle East? August 25, 2013 http://www.crethiplethi.com/who-understands-the-middle-east/the-middle-east/2013/

4). HamasTies to Qatar Have Cost by AdnanAbu Amer April 22 2013 http://www.almonitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/hamas-qatar-relationshipindependence.html#ixzz2d9bls2kq 5). Ba'ath party http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/baath-party.html 6). Jordan sking: Muslim Brotherhood Crescent Developing Mar 21, 2013 http://www.wilsoncenter.org/islamists/article/jordan%e2%80%99s-king-muslimbrotherhood-crescent-developing 7). Obama Ignores Congress Sends $500Million Of Taxpayer Money To Hamas 28 July 2013 http://minutemennews.com/2013/07/obama-ignores-congress-sends-500- million-of-taxpayer-money-to-hamas/#kouuuxshr1tkjxkz.99 8). Obama-Netanyahu relationship is most dysfunctional ever USpresident and Israeli prime minister have never been as deeply at odds and forso long, says former top US diplomat By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF January18, 2013, http://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-netanyahu-relationship-is-most-dysfunctional-ever/ 9). US puts $12M bounty oniran-based al Qaeda money men, freezes their assets By Julian Pecquet - 10/18/12 http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-northafrica/262845-us-puts-12-million-bounty-on-iran-based-al-qaeda-money-men-freezestheir-assets#ixzz2d9huwk00 10). Christian Tragedy in the MuslimWorld by Bruce Thornton (Research Fellow and W. Glenn Campbell andrita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, 2009 10, 2010 11) July 25, 2013 http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/152651