Arab mainstream and social media say the target of an alleged Israeli strike on the T4 air base in Homs province was a gathering of Revolutionary Guards officials • Israel threatens “harsh response” to any Syrian forces in demilitarized Golan Heights.
Lilach Shoval, Erez Linn, Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
A satellite image of the T4 air base in Homs province, Syria
The latest Israeli strike on a Syrian air base in Homs province targeted Iranian officials, the Saudi-owned pan-Arab television station Al Arabiya reported Monday.
Nine people were reportedly killed in a strike on the T4 air baseovernight Sunday, Syrian media said.
Damascus accused Israel of the strike on the base, known to be used by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the war-torn country. Israel has not corroborated the reports.
An official with the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Al Arabiya that the fatalities in the strike were “Iranian officials or fighters affiliated with the Syrian regime.”
”This was most likely an Israeli strike,” the official said.
Arab social media said the target was an IRGC gathering on the base. Some posts said a drone control unit and anti-aircraft defense systems were also destroyed in the strike.
Also on Monday, Israel threatened a “harsh response” to any attempt by Syrian forces advancing against southern rebel areas to deploy in a Golan Heights frontier zone that was demilitarized under a 44-year-old U.N. monitored truce between the neighboring foes.
Syrian government forces backed by Russia have launched an offensive in the southern Daraa province and are widely expected to move on rebel-held Quneitra, which is in a part of the Syrian Golan covered by the armistice.
Israel worries that Syria’s President Bashar Assad could let its enemies Iran and Hezbollah move forces into the area, giving them a foothold near its border.
”For our part, we will observe the 1974 agreement, and there, too, we will insist that every last letter is upheld, and any violation with meet a harsh response from Israel,” Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday.
Commenting on the alleged strike in Syria, Lieberman said, “I read about it in the newspapers and I have nothing to add. Or perhaps just one thing – that our policy has not changed. We will not allow Iran’s military entrenchment in Syria and we will not allow Syrian soil to be turned into a vanguard against the State of Israel. Nothing has changed. There is nothing new.”
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Hezbollah has 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel and the “Islamic army in Syria” is ready to fight it on the Golan Heights, Revolutionary Guard Corps Deputy Commander Hossein Salami asserts • “Zionist regime is fearful, delusional and worried,” he says.
Israel Hayom Staff
Revolutionary Guard Corps Deputy Commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami
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Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy in the Middle East, is a ”mighty power” with an arsenal of over 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel, Revolutionary Guard Corps Deputy Commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami said in a recent speech.
According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, Salami used recent Qods [Jerusalem] Day events in Iran to explain the rationale for destroying the State of Israel in Islamic revolutionary thought, saying, “We are creating might in Lebanon – because we want to fight the enemy from there with all our strength.”
Hezbollah is a powerful player in Lebanese politics. The Shiite terrorist group is also doing Iran’s bidding in Syria, where its forces are fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad’s army in the waning civil war.
Salami also named “the Islamic army in Syria” as an instrument Iran plans to use against Israel on the Golan Heights, where Syria and Israel share a border.
He further claimed that Iran has armed the Palestinians with missiles, saying that all of Iran’s regional allies were “awaiting orders to eradicate the evil regime.”
”Seventy years have passed since the policy of England and America planted in the Islamic world an accursed and criminal tree [Israel]. For 70 years, this poisoned dagger has been embedded in the body of the Islamic nation, and all the problems of the Islamic world stem from the existence of the false, counterfeit, historically rootless, and identity-less regime named Israel,” Salami asserted.
”Israel has caused the Palestinian nation to be stripped of a homeland and to roam here and there, subject to serious aggression. … This historic and ongoing crime is being carried out before the eyes of the world. This is the most obvious sign of the crimes of America, Israel, and England in human history.
”In addition to the threat to Palestine’s existence, the Zionist regime constitutes a threat as well to the entire Islamic world. That is the philosophy of the establishment of this regime,” he explained.
”America, thousands of miles away, and behind oceans, transferred its geographical, political, and security territory to an Islamic land, in order to create a secure political and military bridge and also to create an ammunition storehouse [for it]. [Israel] brings the range of America’s missiles against the Islamic world 12,000 kilometers [7,500 miles] closer, and becomes a tool for imposing America’s policy against the Islamic world,” he was quoted by Memri as saying.
”In 1948, 1956, 1973, and 1982, America supported this regime against the Arabs, who did not manage to triumph, and despair prevailed in the Arab world, until the light of pride appeared in the world and the imam [Ruhollah Khomeini] transformed the heart of Iran with the great [Islamic] Revolution, [and set] a new power against the evil of the arrogance [U.S.], against the supporters of the Zionist regime, and against this regime itself. ”The imam [Khomeini] spread the rationale of eradicating Israel as a new notion in the world’s political discourse. Thus, Palestine renewed its soul and came alive,” Salami declared.
”Since then, the Zionist regime is fearful, delusional, and worried. After [Khomeini], Supreme Leader [Ali] Khamenei united the Islamic world, supported the jihad groups, and thus launched fear upon the occupied lands. Since then, the Zionists have not succeeded in triumphing over the Muslims in any war.”
Iran, he said, has “not allowed the Zionist regime to spread politically in the Islamic world, and stood against the dangers of this regime. Thus, America suffered a great defeat in its Middle East scheme. The Islamic Revolution created a mighty power called Hezbollah, which today, as the Zionist regime itself acknowledges, has over 100,000 missiles ready for launch. Hezbollah has tremendous might on the ground that can on its own break the Zionist regime.”
Iran “invites the Muslims to jihad. … Young Muslims who care are proud of fighting the Zionists, the Americans, and their allies, and becoming a martyr is an honor for them. This is our main might.
”The more time passes, the weaker this [Zionist] regime and its allies become [and] the enemies of the Zionist regime became stronger. Against them, the Zionists are paralyzed,” he proclaimed.
”I say to the Zionists that the Americans’ coming to your rescue is like an ambulance coming after the patient has already died. You must submit to [your] sealed fate.”
The Islamic republic, he said, has “a duty to defend the Palestine movement that is now fighting [Israel]. We must squeeze the throats of the enemies from afar. We must give them no chance to come near us, or to focus on us. We are monitoring them from afar, and grabbing them by the throat in other places.
”We and the Islamic world are all in the same boat, and our security is interconnected. We are defending Syria because this is in defense of the oppressed as well as defense of Iran. We are creating might in Lebanon because we want to fight our enemy from there with all our strength. ”The enemy is spread throughout the Islamic world, and the uniform of jihad is an honor for Muslims,” Salami said.
There was seemingly nothing new about the IDF’s alleged strike on the T4 air base in southern Syria, Sunday night. According to foreign media reports, Israel has targeted the base more than once in the past year and in some instances, Jerusalem assumed responsibility for the airstrikes.
As with previous attacks, it seems the airstrikes were targeting components for the air defense capabilities Iran insists on establishing in Syria.
Yet nothing about the attack was routine, and not just because it was carried out in such close proximity to Russian forces stationed in Syria. If the reports are correct, Israel knowingly insisted on enforcing its red lines in Syria at a very significant point in time – three days ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and one week before Putin is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Helsinki.
Since there are no coincidences in this world, the alleged Israeli attack likely sought to send an unequivocal message to both leaders. While Netanyahu will likely reiterate this message in his meeting with Putin, and his emissaries will do the same with Trump, there is nothing like an airstrike to get a point across. What Israel wants to make clear is that it does not intend to compromise on Iran’s presence in Syria and that if world powers do not act on the matter, Israel will continue to act on its own.
It is reasonable to assume Israel is not operating in a vacuum but out of the understanding that the current situation is a convenient one. The Trump administration is very sympathetic to Israel and very hostile to Iran. The Putin regime wants quiet in Syria and Iranian involvement anywhere always spells potential chaos. The Syrian regime wants to complete its takeover of Syria and begin the process of rehabilitating the country. The last thing President Bashar Assad wants is a new conflict, especially with Israel.
Under these circumstances, Israel understands there is nothing stopping it from acting and moreover, that now is the time to shape clear boundaries.
One can link Sunday’s alleged strike to the raid some two weeks ago on an Iranian weapons convoy on the Iraq-Syria border – the farthest attack attributed to Israel in recent years, which also clearly showed that Iran is looking for alternative land routes to the aerial route that are routinels attacked. This was also a demonstration of the unequivocal statements from the heads of the diplomatic-security establishment that any Iranian attempt to establish itself in the Golan Heights would be met with force.
For the time being, Israel appears to have the upper hand in this arena. Unlike in the past, Iran has not responded, even though several of its men were wounded and killed in the attack. Syria has also avoided unnecessary provocations. And yet, one must not infer from this about the future. Israel now has some good cards to play, but the Middle East is a dynamic and volatile place, and Iran will continue to try to use this to its advantage.
{In anticipation of a fast getaway, Mullah accounts in Swiss banks must be filling up with Iranian cash as we speak. – LS}
Iranians take to the streets to protest the regime and say “No to Gaza.” “No to Lebanon.” “Palestine and Syria make us miserable.”
Unlike Obama who did NOTHING to support the Iranian protesters, Trump’s actions against Iran have given the people the courage to speak out against the tyrannical government and hopefully start a revolution that will oust the radical mullahs.
After the ruling class, the highest respect and wealth is given to the jihadist class or military leadership class. Otherwise, the jihadist or military class might turn against the leadership and Islamic system itself. That is one reason why the highest pensions in most Muslim countries, as in Gaza and the West Bank, go to widows, parents and children of jihadists and military retirees.
“We [the Muslim world], don’t work and if we work, we don’t do it professionally. We do not produce . . . and we import everything from the needle to missiles… Muhammad ordered us to excel in everything ‘if you kill, do it properly, and if you slaughter, do it properly…’ How come the Zionist gang has managed to be superior to us? They have become superior through knowledge and technology and work ethics.” — Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.
Today, as Muslims are escaping their vast, poverty-stricken Islamic territories in 54 Islamic nations for the greener lands of Europe and America, Westerners seem to think they are rescuing refugees. Many times they are, but other times this is just the latest version of a story that has been repeating itself for 1,400 years.
Recently, the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, dismissed President Trump as just a “tradesman” who lacked the qualifications to handle political and international affairs. At face value, the criticism might sound similar to that of an opposition party alleging that Trump lacks political experience. Coming from an Islamic leader, however, it reflects a much deeper meaning: on how differently the Islamic culture views the work ethic and the means of acquiring wealth.
Although there are many Muslims who work tirelessly and are immensely successful, Islamic culture in general has little respect for manual labor and even for business owners. People who engage in legitimate “trade” for a living are often viewed with scorn or as “having” to labor for a living.
Historically, Islamic society has given the highest respect and wealth not to the innovators or hardest workers; rather, is usually been bestowed on the ruling class, their families and associates. After the ruling class, the highest respect and wealth is given to the jihadist class, or military leadership class.
According to the Koran and the example of Muhammad, the spoils of war (acquired wealth through jihad) is to be given to the jihadists. Jihadists need to be kept busy against the outside world at all times to expand or maintain the power of Islam. Otherwise, the jihadist or military class might turn against the leadership and Islamic system itself. Congress recently pulled more than $300 million a year from the Palestinian Authority that the US was paying in a “pay to slay” arrangement that incentivized murder — a “jobs program”.
Muhammad rewarded Muslim fighters who died with Paradise; these are the only people guaranteed admittance. Those who survived jihad were given wealth:
“Allah guarantees that He will admit the ‘mujahid’ in His cause into Paradise if he is killed, otherwise He will return him to his home safety with rewards and war booty” (Bukhari 4:52:46).
The example of Muhammad and his Muslim fighters rests in stark contrast to the example of the pre-Islamized Meccan merchants who rejected Muhammad, and to the Jews who lived in Medina, who engaged in trade and earned their living from hard labor.
The contrast between the lifestyle of Muhammad and his fighters and that of the Jewish tribes probably alarmed the Jews — with good reason. Muhammad’s eyes were set on taking the power, wealth and control from the Jews and from the Arab leaders of Mecca — and he succeeded.
“Spoils of war” — also the name of a chapter in the Koran, Al-Anfāl, mostly about the Badr war — became the lure used to attract more and more fighters to the side of Islam against wealthy Jews and the merchants of Mecca.
Spoils of war or booty, or taking the wealth of Muhammad’s enemies after killing them became a big business. Anyone who was caught stealing booty was punished by Muhammad gave his fighters four-fifths of the spoils and one fifth was given to Muhammad and Allah. Anyone caught stealing booty was punished by Muhammad
Capturing wealth from others, rather than creating wealth, became an Islamic value, established as an honorable and holy legal right of Muslims. As Muhammad said in the hadith, “Booty has been made legal for me” (Bukhari 53:351).
This has been, in general, the Muslim economic model, set by the example of Muhammad, for building wealth. The most prestigious and privileged position in society for any Muslim man is the position of the jihadist. Islam became an ever-expanding machine of conquest that could not stop — or else it would run out of money. It took as the spoils of conquest the wealth of many great civilizations including Persia, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Coptic Christian Egypt, and the Biblical lands in and around Jerusalem — demonstrating why manual labor and those who work in both farming and trade are looked down upon in Muslim culture as not putting jihad as number one to earn a living.
Today, as Muslims are escaping their vast, poverty-stricken Islamic territories in 54 Islamic nations for the greener lands of Europe and America, Westerners seem to think they are rescuing refugees. Many times they are, but other times this is just the latest version of a story that has been repeating itself for 1,400 years.
Muslim clerics today are still advocating jihad for the acquisition of wealth. For example, the prominent Egyptian Sheikh, Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni, is still lecturing at Al Azhar University on how Muslims’ financial difficulties are due to the fact that they have abandoned jihad and the wealth and slaves that could be acquired from it.
At least one Muslim leader — the Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — has noticed the lack of a work ethic in Islamic society. He tried to recommend a solution to the lack of a work ethic in Muslim society, but he could not find one quote in the Quran regarding the subject except in doing jihad well. Referring to the Muslim world, he said: “We don’t work and if we work, we don’t do it professionally. We do not produce… and we import everything from the needle to missiles.” He gave the only Islamic reference he could find regarding proper work ethic:
“Muhammad ordered us to excel in everything ‘if you kill, do it properly, and if you slaughter, do it properly…’ How come the Zionist gang has managed to be superior to us? They have become superior through knowledge and technology and work ethics.”
The lack of a proper work ethic in Islamic culture is possibly a large cause behind the refugee movement and helps to explain why Muslims’ eyes are always focused on the outside, non-Muslim world, the greener pastures, for more and more to conquer or expand into.
Islam’s long history of wealth creation through acquisition continues today. In 2013, the British Muslim cleric, Anjem Choudary, who was sentenced prison for “urging support” for ISIS, called it a “Jihadi allowance,” as if it were, or should be, an entitlement. By the age of 45, and with four children, Choudary said that according to Islamic law, this is the way it is supposed to work.
Reported by both the U.K. Sun and Telegraph, Choudary said:
“We are on Jihad Seekers Allowance, we take the Jizya [protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims] which is ours anyway.”
“The normal situation is to take money from the [non-Muslims] isn’t it? So this is the normal situation.”
“They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money. Hopefully there is no one from the DSS [Department of Social Security] listening.”
“Ah, but you see people will say you are not working. But the normal situation is for you to take money from the kuffar [non-believers]. So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.”
Only the West, still in denial, seems to have trouble believing it.
British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, who was sentenced prison for “urging support” for ISIS, called unemployment and welfare benefits for Muslims a “Jihadi allowance,” as if it were, or should be, an entitlement. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Nonie Darwish, born and raised in Egypt, is author of “Wholly Different; Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values”.
The famous Israeli undercover journalist Zvi Yehezkeli slips for his reports to other identities. The Arabian powerful, allowing him deep insight into the Muslim world. For his five-part series “wrong identities” he was touring Germany. he meets German extremism experts, government employees and Muslims under the title “The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany and Turkey”. They all confirm that Islam had already deeply taken root in Germany – The Muslim Brotherhood should be even in the highest government circles penetrated and sit with Angela Merkel at a table.
“Islam will return and rule over Europe and the West. Does the conquest take place by the sword? No, that’s not necessary. There are something like the silent conquest “these are the words of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. He is regarded as the most influential Muslim clerics and his message is public to hear worldwide. Still, distributed in the underground, the Islamic Caliphate is growing by the soft jihad in the West. The Objective: The introduction of Sharia laws throughout the world.
His army is the Muslim Brotherhood, which has an enormous impact in the West. The relations between it and Turkey are currently the greatest threat to the Western world. “In order to reveal the hidden power, you can not work with the usual journalistic means. I have to cross borders. I have to stop Zvi Yehezkeli be. I have to be to Abu Hamza. I change my identity, become a Muslim Sheik Abu Hamza, “says Israeli journalist. With the help of the secret service he gets false papers that make him the Syrians for his trip to Turkey.
“In Turkey, the gentle Jihad has already won. The country, once a secular state, enduring the silent revolution by political Islam. It took a few decades, but today Islam is engaged in all areas of life. The construction of mosques that face veiling of women, to eliminate the secular state founded by Turkey Ataürk. For all this is is a man responsible. He calls himself sultan or caliph: Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As president, he ruled Turkey in line with the Muslim Brotherhood. He greets with the message of brotherhood, the “Fabia” – a hand einkrümmt the thumb and four fingers showing. Erdoğan million refugees in the country. He controls who continue to travel to Europe and who is not. And it is he who sends them Islam to Europe, and they show him their gratitude. I’ll take you to Europe and you behave loyal to me. Here I design the country after the Islam of the Muslim Brotherhood and you take these rules to Europe and verbreitest them there – that’s the deal. The refugees and in particular the Turkish population in Germany are useful tools against the EU. The cooperation of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) with Turkey is currently the largest threat to the West …. “.
The Syrian Pass is the ticket to Europe, who owns it, is recognized as a refugee in Germany and gets political asylum. Zvi Yehezkeli goes to Istanbul to search for a Syrian passport. He is not there as an Israeli, but as Jordanian traders and enters one of the many mobile phone shops of the city, known for the pass trade.
The seller told him about his good life in Turkey enthusiastic: “In Germany, the women separated because of quarrels of their men. They think they have rights. There, you can not beat your wife. If you raise the voice against them, they will coincide with the police … Here in Turkey, you can do it all. Here the man is protected, in Germany the woman, “says the pass dealer.
For a sum of around $ 1,000 he gets his new identity three days later after a little back and forth. He is now the Syrians “Abdullah Alatrash” born 1958th
Asylum in Germany – a matter of minutes
Shortly after landing the 47-year-old Yehezkeli alias Abdullah Alatrash in Berlin-Tempelhof, a former airport, now the largest initial reception of the German capital. He was to report in “Hangar 1”, told him the security guard at the entrance. There, waiting in a small cabin, a government official at him. “The first time here?” The older man asks him wearing glasses. “Yes, the first time”, “Abdullah” confirmed. “Do you have a passport?”. He hands the man over his fake identity card. From now on, it goes fast. Yet the message, “Abdullah” a short five-minute medical examination would have to undergo some papers to be filled out, “Abdullah” has another question. What about my family? My wife and children are still in Syria … “replica” You must live in Germany three years before you are entitled to family reunification “replies the man in the blue shirt. “But if I want to get them now,” the Arabic-speaking staff knows what to do: “There is the possibility to smuggle ago. You may come across Greece. Smuggling them over Greece, “said the officials. “With a bit of coordination can arrange that,” he is sure. The German officials, paid by German taxpayers, says the alleged Syrian, as he does it to deceive the German system. “With a bit of coordination can arrange that,” he is sure. The German officials, paid by German taxpayers, says the alleged Syrian, as he does it to deceive the German system. “With a bit of coordination can arrange that,” he is sure. The German officials, paid by German taxpayers, says the alleged Syrian, as he does it to deceive the German system.
former Tempelhof airport -now known as focal point for Refugees (Photo: From Mozo Productions / Shutterstock)
One last signature, a quick photo with the phone for identification, the authority staff handed out the documents. His asylum application is being processed and he has “ok” with the authorities immediately access to any government support. The new Islamic life can beginnen.Ab now running “Abdullah” as Syrian refugees through Berlin without anyone knows who he really is.
The employees come from Gaza, “Abdullah” experiences. Little jokes are made, there is agreement. “Abdullah” leaves happy smiling space – the reporter Zvi Yehezkeli, however, is noticeably shocked at how easy it make the Germans with the review of identities.
Neukölln – Arab district of Berlin
Zvi Yehezkeli then goes to Berlin in the footsteps of the Muslim Brotherhood. He meets with two Syrian refugees. Ahmed and Yusuf came last year via Turkey-Greece route. Now they live in Neukölln, the Arabic center of the city. “We got help from a Muslim British organization.” Most of the members were Muslims, they tell willingly.
The two left Syria as a secular Muslim and did not show much interest in their religion. On their way to Berlin they lived for a year in a warehouse in Pristina in Kosovo. There, the MB are active, they formed to pious Muslims. When they arrive in Berlin, they pray five times a day and fast course in Ramadan. “Do you think that Islam will rule here? All Germans are Christians? “Asks the” Syrians “. “I’m going to make me one by one. I start with those around me. You will listen to me. If any Muslim makes it so is the go equipped with no problems, “is the convincing answer.
Sonnenallee in Berlin Neukölln is now called “Arab street” (Screenshot: YouTube)
“? Do you think there is a violent reaction by the Germans against the Muslims give” The Refugee replies: “You pray but with them, you do not compel yes. You do not confront with force. You’re doing so slowly. I tell you, it will happen. There will be clashes, but will subside, and people will accept the reality. There is no way out. Each change brings clashes with them. What is the dream of every Muslim? This is the Islamic state. An Islamic society. Muslims prefer Sharia law. The goal is that in 20 years, the Sharia will be a part of Germany. That Sharia has become part of the state … We build a good Islamic society. ”
Ahmed and Yusuf are not the only ones who dream to establish a Sharia state in Germany, says the Israeli reporters after a visit to Neukölln: “Do you want a Muslim rather live under European law or the Sharia,” he asks Men in a Neuköllner main road that gives the impression of long, she would lie in the Middle East and not in the former working-class district of Berlin. “Sharia, we are Muslims … This street is called not in vain Arab street. Here are not only Germans, no more blond people, only Muslims … Sharia – what I have to do with their laws? Which is better Da’wah or violence? – Da’wah … We want to live without meddle by our rules. We will be their teacher. We will carry out our religion, that they may lay joy ” are the clear announcements of the “German” Muslims. (N. D. Red .: Da’wah is a popular phrase of the Muslim Brotherhood and means “call to Islam”. )
Extremism expert: “There is not a meeting with Merkel without the Muslim Brotherhood”
It goes to Schöneberg, a popular especially with gay district in the old West Berlin. On the metro station of the idyllic Auguste-Viktoria Square waiting for a Extremism expert who wishes to remain anonymous.
“Why do we meet here. There are death threats against you? ”
“Unfortunately, yes. I have dealt for years with Islamic extremism. For different media in Germany and Europe. Of course I have criticized elements of Islam that lead to radicalization. That’s why I was threatened with death. “The threats come from all sides, so the informant.
“But you live in a free society?”
“Free for those who keep his mouth shut … Daesh here (IS) … Ikhawan (MB), al Qaeda are here … Ikhawan says,” we do not need explosives to introduce Islam in Europe. No, they are aimed at the media and try to propagate the acceptance of religion. “The mass media, the Internet and the political system they gain influence, the man claimed.
“There is not a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel, where the Muslim Brotherhood is not participating and sitting in the front row. We are talking about people who have studied in the past four years in the world’s largest campaign in order to convince European society that violence that takes place in the name of religion has nothing to do with religion, “said the controversial statement of experts.
“Daesh will eventually cease to exist. But the greatest threat to Germany represent people whose approach is the political attitude in Islam. They identify with Mursi, with Erdogan and Qatar. They are busy every day in order to spread the Islamic faith on the Internet and in the mosques. This is the greatest danger. Not in the next one to two years, but in the next 20, 30, 40 years. In the next generation there will be a growing number of young German, who were born in Germany, but oppose all that is German, as the political approach, rules, laws. That is the danger. This is initiated by Qatar and Erdoğan process that takes place in Germany under the surface instead. ”
To look into the future, it is necessary to direct a look at Turkey.
“The quiet revolution taking place in Turkey under Erdogan, goes into its active phase. Erdogan is on the home straight. He goes against the political opposition before, cleans the media, and eliminates other distracting elements. It is an ongoing, strategic and slow march … But in this country, the dream of the Muslim Brotherhood met. The targeted Islamic Caliphate we find here in Chershamba, a district in Istanbul. An old and growing district in the heart of the city, where only the law of Islam prevails. Here, everyone knows everyone, “said the undercover journalist.
“In this place, the rules and restrictions prevail under the laws of Sharia. The sale of alcohol is prohibited. Earlier swarmed here by tourists from all over Europe. Today, this road looks like a the Middle East. Without alcohol and with many Arab signs … The new tourists come from Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Egypt, Lebanon, etc. The Arab booming. Across the country, Arab Islamic schools open. It is a return to Islamic culture … The Turkish state promotes Islamic physical education … Erdoğan has built soccer fields in poor areas. The coaches are all Islamic and attract a new generation approach. ”
Turkish President waving the “Fabia-hand” the symbolic greeting of the Muslim Brotherhood (screenshot YouTube)
“We do not teach just football. If I train them, then they also respect me and my way of life. How to follow the laws and fast … For us, this is a mission “, the football coach says proudly.
The observance of Islamic laws and rules, the return to the Arabic language, the sport as an entry to the “true” Islam, the prohibition of alcohol. All this belongs to the classical methods of the Muslim Brotherhood, white Zvi Yehezkeli.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a nest of extremists. Not Qatar, but Ankara is now centered. The cooperation of the Muslim Brotherhood with Turkey is currently the greatest threat to the Western world, because the Muslim Brotherhood “to gain through Turkey legitimacy, provides an informant clear with blackened face.
“Because they have failed in the Middle East, they are now trying the great experiment, this land that lies between the Middle East and Europe, slowly turning into a Islamic state,” Zvi Yehezkeli notes at the end of his nearly one-hour documentary.
With the help of a determined leader like Erdogan, who likes to present itself to the greeting of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Fabia, succeeds the Muslim Brotherhood to spread their Islamic faith not only in the East but in the West, in Europe. This was the conclusion of the journalist.
It is one of the world’s oil “choke points,” which sees around 5% of the world’s oil supply and 10% of world trade float past every day.
The Bab el-Mandab strait that links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean is one of the most important waterways in the world. It is also surrounded by weak and failing states, including Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, and most importantly, Yemen.
Yemen has been threatened by the growth of extremist terrorist groups for decades. In 2000 al-Qaeda members plotted the USS Cole bombing in the Port of Aden. Later al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was able to penetrate large sections of the country.
Yemen strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down in 2012. Two years later Houthi rebels, made up of a Shi’ite religious minority and their allies, took over part of Aden. The US embassy was closed and foreigners fled the port city. The spread of the rebellion and fears it would take over most of strategic parts of Yemen bordering the Red Sea prompted Riyadh to lead an intervention.
Alongside the UAE and other allies such as Bahrain and Egypt, Saudi Arabia has been fighting the Houthis for three years. Riyadh is allied with the president of Yemen, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who returned to Aden in June after spending much of the war in Saudi Arabia.
Increasingly the conflict in Yemen has taken on greater regional and strategic significance. Eighty-three ballistic missiles were fired at Saudi Arabia from Yemen in 2017 and dozens have been fired this year, some of them flying over 800 km. In addition the Houthis have increasingly spoken in regional terms, bashing Israel and the US in their speeches and seeking ideological link-ups with Hezbollah. They have used drones and fired on ships in the Red Sea. In January 2017 a missile fired by the Houthis struck a Saudi warship near islands south of Hodeidah. Iranian influence is seen as a key to their success and defeating them would be a blow to Tehran. The amount of oil transiting the Red Sea has declined to 4 million in 2015 from 17 million barrels a day in 2009. The Red Sea is also a key point of transit for imports to Israel.
The battle for Hodeidah on the Red Sea, which began last month, is now a key to pushing the Houthis back into the mountains and away from the Red Sea. The UAE has been helping coordinate the battle to retake Hodeidah and it is a major test of the Riyadh-led coalition. Hodeidah is located 900 km. south of Mecca and is Yemen’s largest port on the Red Sea. It was taken over by the Houthis in October of 2014.
In early July Iran threatened to harm oil exports around the world if it was threatened. The possibility of Iran’s threats to the Red Sea are now a serious issue. But it is a complex battle because freedom of navigation on the Red Sea is only part of the matrix. There is also a major humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The UN has called for the port of Hodeidah to be kept open even as the battle unfolds because of the need to keep supplies heading inland for civilians. UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths is also seeking to lead talks between the warring factions in Yemen.
The UAE’s strategic view of the battle for Hodeidah is bigger than just the port. The UAE has also been working in Somalia and Eritrea. On July 3 Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nayan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, welcomed President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea during a visit to the UAE.
Some of this has brought controversy for Abu Dhabi as it seeks to expand its influence in the region, becoming more involved in security infrastructure and training. The Houthis by contrast are portrayed as a weak force being opposed by the most powerful Gulf countries and the West. But if they are so weak, critics wonder, how did they obtain ballistic missiles, anti-ship missiles, radio-controlled IEDs and drones. Conflict Armament Research showed that the drone technology the Houthis used was derived from Iran. In late June eight Hezbollah fighters were allegedly killed fighting with the Houthis in Yemen. In addition, the UAE’s The National reported on July 8 that the Iranian-backed Katab Sayyed Al-Shuhada militia in Iraq had declared its support for the Houthis.
The Katab Sayyed Al-Shuhada militia is part of the Iraqi Security Forces after Shi’ite militias like it were incorporated officially into Iraq’s security forces last year. Developments like this show that Tehran and its allies see Yemen as a regional or global conflict. As the Syrian conflict winds down, Yemen, which Saudi Arabia and the UAE see as a key security issue, may be the next central conflict of the region.
The battle for Hodeidah has gone on for several weeks but was paused in the first week of July to allow for a potential diplomatic solution. Elizabeth Dickinson, a senior analyst for the Arabian Peninsula of the International Crises Group, noted that the anti-Houthi coalition was keeping up the military pressure even as the talks go on.
Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy visited several important front lines in Yemen and wrote in March that the conflict is not well understood in the West. “Mistakes were made, but they were corrected much faster than was the case in many US-led interventions over the years.” He points out that although the Houthis try to focus attention on civilian casualties that it is they who has sowed the land with mines and disguise themselves as civilians. “As long as the Houthi rebels control the Yemeni capital and the country’s largest port they have no incentive to negotiate.”
The battle of Hodeidah has showcased the UAE’s ability to train local forces. Members of the Yemenite Tihama brigade returned to Yemen on July 7 after receiving training in Eritrea with UAE forces, according to The National. These are one three Yemeni brigades fighting alongside the UAE to defeat the Houthis. In a sense the UAE is employing the tactics the US has used in conflicts around the globe, partnering with local forces to advise and assist them while deploying air power to aid the battle. This has helped hone the UAE’s military as well, increasing their air force’s capabilities and giving them experience at deploying an expeditionary force 2,000 km. from home.
Unsurprisingly the battle for Hodeidah has come in for criticism by voices that tend to be sympathetic to Iran and Syria’s Bashar Assad in the region. A “ruthless attack” led by Saudi Arabia, says PressTV in Tehran. “A deliberate act of cruelty by the Trump administration,” says an article at The Independent in the UK, highlighting US support for Riyadh. Turkish and Qatari media have also been critical of the battle, highlighting civilian suffering.
{Seems Iran is still looking for a proxy to do the dirty work. – LS}
Hizbullah has over 100,000 missiles “ready for launch,” said the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who vowed Iran would fight Israel from Lebanese soil.
IRGC deputy chief Hossein Salami said the “problem” of the State of Israel’s existence could be solved primarily by using the “mighty power” of Hizbullah, Iran’s terror proxy in Lebanon, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported.
“Seventy years have passed since the policy of England and America planted in the Islamic world an accursed and criminal tree [i.e. Israel],” Salami said at the recent Iran Quds Day event. “For 70 years, this poisoned dagger has been embedded in the body of the Islamic ummah, and all the problems of the Islamic world stem from the existence of the false, counterfeit, historically rootless, and identity-less regime named Israel.”
“In addition to the threat to Palestine’s existence, the Zionist regime constitutes a threat as well to the entire Islamic world. That is the philosophy of the establishment of this regime: … [Israel] brings the range of America’s missiles against the Islamic world 12,000 kilometers closer, and becomes a tool for imposing America’s policy against the Islamic world.
“The Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] spread the rationale of eradicating Israel [from the world] as a new notion in the world’s political discourse… Since then, the Zionists have not succeeded in triumphing over the Muslims in any war.”
Salami said that “In some places, the breadth of this regime is barely 34 km, and in order to destroy it, it will take only one ‘Jerusalem operation’ to destroy it.”
The “Jerusalem Operation” was Iran’s name for its operation against Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Salami also vowed that Iran “will not disarm,” even though the world wants to “weaken the foundations of our might.” {Nukes? – LS}
“Today, we have changed the balance of might, but we will not settle for that… In today’s global order, either you have might, and thus honor, or you must surrender,” he said. “We must squeeze the throats of the enemies from afar. We must give them no chance to come near us, or to focus on us. We are monitoring them from afar, and grabbing them by the throat in other places,” Salami said. {Yet more baloney from Salami. – LS}
“We are creating might in Lebanon because we want to fight our enemy from there with all our strength. The Iranian people pursues the enemy everywhere in the world, and does not allow this country to be in danger.”
British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, who was sentenced prison for “urging support” for ISIS, called unemployment and welfare benefits for Muslims a “Jihadi allowance,” as if it were, or should be, an entitlement. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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