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  • Shingo August 4, 2012 at 6:16 am

    Not true. There is a lot of demand for aircraft that achieve the planned F-35 parameters.

    Rubbish.

    First of all, the F-35 does not achieve them, and secondly, the parameters were always going to be inadequate anyway. The F-35 promised to be a bomber, an air to air combat plane and maintain stealth - and as such, it has fallen short all of these areas.

    The high wing loading of the F-35 makes it inherently less agile than current fighter aircraft, including Russia’s MiGs and Sukhois, and Europe’s Rafale and Typhoon. Moreover, the F-35’s thrust loading is significantly inferior to that of the F-15, F-16 and F-22. The F-35 is inferior in visual-range combat in terms of acceleration, climb and sustained-turn capability. It also has a lower top speed.

    You know you have a lemon when the plane is inferior to another proven lemon (ie. F-22).

    Even it’s stealth capabilities are useless. I spoke to a member of the Australian Navy who participated in exercises to determine the stealth of the JSF and he told me the Australian Navy radar was able to detect the planes over the horizon.

    There are many reasons for the production of the aircraft getting pushed back. First of all, the USAF can no longer fund the delays.
    link to flightglobal.com

    It is failing to meet specs and expectations such as it’s non existent vertical take-off capability. Thirdly, it is also experiencing many functional shortfalls. Last year the Air Force suspended operation of its fleet of 20 Joint Strike Fighters after they experienced malfunctions, and that was already the third time the program was put on hold. And not only is the budget for the F-35 ballooning, but the projected maintenance costs are also sky rocketing accordingly.

    The US publicized in February that it was going to postpone plans for a fleet of 179 F-35s (citing budget concerns), and now other countries like Australia and Britain, are delaying or reconsidering their orders.

    Many countries don’t want to wait 8 years to buy stealthy 5th generation multipurpose fighter aircraft

    What the hell are you talking about? The feasibility studies and tender process for such planes can take decades.

    The F-35 is orders of magnitude better than the Gripen and a lot more expensive.

    Based on what head to head comparisons?

    You might want to pull your head out of whatever hole it is stuck in an look up the summary of a simulated war games exercise (Pacific Vision) held at a Hawaiian Air Base in August 2009. 5 Australian Defence personnel took part in the exercise. The results of that exercise were scathing of the JSF. In the mock battle, two teams were pitted against one another. The Blue Team, comprised F35s. F22s and F/A - 18E/F fighters, had to defend an attack by the Red team comprised of Russian built Su-27SMs, Su-30s and Su-35s. One of the participants wrote to the Australian defence ministers that the results were disastrous for the JSF and wrote the following:

    “Red Force dominated the exercise going up against two versions of Blue Force, both of which were roundly defeated. One way the Red Force summation of events has been described is that “…it was like clubbing baby seals””

    “In addition to this rather blunt Red Force summation, the war gaming exercise demonstrated the JSF aircraft were next to useless, while the Super Hornets of both Blue Forces were seriously and significantly overmatched””

    “Hundreds of Blue Force aircraft were lost in the first 20 minutes”

    This is correct. The F-35 is taking longer and costing more in one time R&D development costs to bring to mass production.

    It is taking longer because it is a lemon. Google F-25 failure and you get more than 2 million hits. The navy spec'd version is an absolute disaster and it has yet to successfully conduct a vertical take off - as per it's spec.

    The Rand Corporation did a study into the F-35 and it's ability to match Russian and Chinese jets in close range combat. The results were an embarrassment to say the least. It states that the JSF is :

    "Doubly inferior' relative to modern Russian/Chinese designs in visual range combat"
    "Inferior acceleration, inferior climb, inferior sustained turn capability"
    "Can't turn, can't climb, can't run"

    link to f-16.net
    link to defenseindustrydaily.com

    One of Australia’s advisors, Dr Carlo Kopp stated that:

    "If Australia goes ahead with the JSF purchase, the RAAF will be inefecctive for the next 30-40 years"

    The F-35 is still one of only two Generation 5 aircraft ever produced.

    Generation 5 is just a buzzword. As I already explained, there is nothing the F-35 can do that current generation planes cannot.

    There is nothing in the world remotely as good except for the F-22.

    LOL. The F-22 is such a disaster that Lockheed can’t even give them away. The F-22 Raptor is shaping up to be the Sturmvogel of the 21st century: a dazzling piece of technology that fatally ignores some of the unbending realities of aerial combat.

    Pierre Sprey -- father of the A-10, co-father of the F-16, said that ““The Raptor is a horrible failure on almost every one of those criteria”. He also says that the stellar attribute of the F-22 — its invisibility on enemy radar due to a computer-aided stealth design — is a “myth,”

    There are also real questions about what the life cycle operations costs for the F-35 will turn out to be.

    That’s only part of the equation. As Sprey also pointed out, Sustainability and the number of aircraft available to fight on any given day are “vastly more important” than the quality of the F-22. “You have to have numerical superiority to win.”

    Because the F-22’s and F-35’s are so obscenely expensive, states will only be able to afford a fraction of the aircraft they need. This, along with the complexity of these planes and the maintenance regimes, will also mean that pilots will get to spend precious little time in the cockpit becoming adopt at flying and operating them.

    The F-22 was a major success. It is by far the best aircraft ever produced.

    Too funny. In June, a mock battle was held at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska as part of an American-led Red Flag exercise. German pilots flying the latest Typhoon fighters shot down the F-22s in mock combat. Eight times during the two-week war game, individual German Typhoons flew against single F-22s in basic fighter manoeuvres meant to simulate a close-range dogfight.
    link to wired.com

    In terms of maintenance, a Pentagon study revealed that for every hour the F-22 spends in the ait, it requires 30 hours of maintenance. It experiences a critical failure for every 1.7 hours in the air. The stealth skin on the plane has what has been describes as a “vulnerability to rain”. It’s outer surface is so frail it cannot even withstand small arms fire, so they cannot be used in low altitude attack runs.

    It doesn't even have regular aviation band radios to speak with other American aircraft or aircraft from allied countries, which makes it utterly useless in a support capacity. It's so expensive and so specialized, they don't dare let it out of the country and certainly not to a place where it could be damaged
    That’s a recipe for disaster.

    Only 187 operational aircraft were ever manufactured. The assembly line has been shut down.

    And for a very goof reason. It will never see combat and will be obsolete before before it needs air in it's tires. US pilots don’t want to go anywhere near the F-22. It’s a death trap. Congress simply couldn’t ignore the fact that the F-22 was an embarrassment and a lemon.

    Google F-22 raptor failure and you get 1.6 million hits.

    Seriously Anan, I have to wonder what universe you reside it. Everything you post here is an example of turning reality on it’s head.

  • Shingo August 2, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    The reader comments below are interesting, too.

    Yes, the one and only reader - Ruth. I guess that makes his blog more successful than Witty's anyway.

  • Shingo August 2, 2012 at 4:35 am

    Some people here don’t understand F-35s and its affect on Lockheed Martin. Demand for F35s exceeds supply.

    The demand is entirely artificial. For example, the US State Department fought tooth and nail for the tendor to supply Norway with F35s. The Norwegians were about to purchase from Saab in Sweden, but Hillary stepped in and did a number of dirty deals to win the sale.

    The reason more F-35s are not being built right now is because of supply constraints.

    The supply constraints are based on the fact the F35 cannot meet the spec it promised to deliver. It's going to turn out ot be a failure, just as the F22 was.

  • Shingo August 1, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    Keith,

    You stil haven't addressed the fact that the US defense industry lost out on the world's biggest arms deal in history becasue of the Israeli lobby.

    Look up the Al-Yamamah arms deal

  • Shingo July 30, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    I fail to see how this even remotely demonstrates serious conflict with either Wall Street or the MIC in which either one suffers serious consequences as a result of support for Israel.

    Here's a blatant one.

    Durign the Thatcher years, US earms manufactureres were denied permission to bid for the biggest arms sale in history to the Saudi's, dur to pressure from the Israeli lobby. As a conseqeuenc, Britain's BAE Systems, walked in an snatched the deal.

  • Shingo July 29, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    They don’t need to be convinced with bribes, the situation must only worsen in regard to Israel and they will be kicked out with one way ticket (at best).

    Iranian Jews have been offered $50,000 cash per person to move to Israel and they said thank but no thanks.

  • Shingo July 28, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    Jews don’t refuse to live in Israel, but Israel is small, and as long as Jews can live in peace where they are, and anti-Semitism doesn’t force them to leave, they are also content to love and help Israel from a distance.

    Yes they do. As was the case before 1948, most Jews woudl rather not live there and moret thna half admit they woudl leave if they could afford to. Even the 25,000 Iranian Jews turned out largel cahs bribed to move to Israel.

  • Shingo July 28, 2012 at 3:11 am

    I’m the one asking for both sides to understand each other. You only want to believe the Palestinians suffered and ignore any injustices perpetrated by Arabs against Jews. My damn point is there are no shortage of injustices to dredge up on both sides.

    I bet the Nazi leades are kicking themselves for not using that argument when they were in the doc at Nuremberg. There's no shortage of injustices and seeing as there is plenty to go around, they should have been let off with a fine and a warning.

  • Shingo July 28, 2012 at 1:31 am

    Settlers are Zionists doing today what the other Zionists did in 1948.

    Exactly. The cancer has simply spread to other parts of the body - so to speak.

  • Shingo July 27, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    and i suppose you could scratch an anti-Zionist and find what? A terrorist? An anti-Semite?

    And when you scratch a liberal Zionist you find a right wing Zionist.

  • Shingo July 27, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    Hamas rockets are almost always a feeble attempt at retaliation for Israeli rockets fired from aircraft at Gaza or other acts of violence by the IDF.

    Exactly. How is it that 8,000 relatively harmless and useless rockets are an outrage but the 30,000 bombs and shells (which are infinitely more deadly and destrcutive) Israel have dumped on Gaza in the same period goes unmentioned?

  • Shingo July 27, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    Who occupied the West Bank and Gaza between 1948 and 1967. Hint: it wasn’t Israel.

    How many homes were dmolished during that time? Hint: None. Another thing you have no idea about is the fact that the annexation of the West Bank were per a referrendum.

    Regardless, plenty if not most Israelis are open to compromise and leaving the West Bank.

    No they're not. Any reference to the 1967 borders is taboo in Israel.

    But you think Hamas launching rockets from Gaza after Israel left there is an incentive for Israel to leave the West Bank, yes, you are crazy.

    If you thnk firing 7,700 shells into Gaza as Israel withdrew from Gaza was any kind of incentive for Hamas to be nice to Israel, especially when Israel then imposed a vice like siege?

    All I’m saying and all I’ve been saying is there is no shortage of blame and stupidity to go around on both sides.

    Yes you do, but you you keep ignoring is that the overwhelming share of it belongs to Israel. You keep avoiding that detail, obviously hoping that you will be allowed to get away with the unspoken suggestion that this is a 50/50 proposition.

    You’re two sides of the same coin.

    At the end of the day, when all your liberal face is stripped away, you and the Zio crazies are one and the same.

  • Shingo July 27, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    Jews had no problem in Islamic societies as long as they shut their mouths and knew their place. If Jews had it so good in Arab countries, why didn’t they all stay?

    If Jews have it so good in Israel, why do half the world's JEws refuse to live there?

  • Shingo July 27, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    Yes, no Palestinian ever blew up a bus or or shot a Jew, or killed an Israeli athlete. So innocent.

    Yeah, and no Jews ever killed a Nazi. Are you seriously going to suggest that is a credible line of argument?

  • Shingo July 27, 2012 at 12:37 am with 36 replies

    You would all rather attack each other than accept the reality of past injustices (on both sides!) and try to find a compromise.

    Yes, we just have tpo plead with those Zionists to let bygones be bygones and let go all of all those injustices perpetrated against them. While we're at it, let's free all the murderers and rapists from prison, because of the injustices perpetrated by their victims against them.

    Presto - perfect world!!

    Hey Terry, try sticking your head a little further into sand - you might just hit oil.

  • Shingo July 26, 2012 at 8:11 pm

    As for all your historical regurgitations, you neglected the mention the part about the 2/3 of Palestine that was stolen from the Palestinian people and renamed Jordan, where 70% of the population is Palestinian.

    Talk about regurgitating Hasbra. This has been exahsutively covered and there was no theft of the West Bank. No home demolitions, no ethnic cleasing, no evictions. The annexation was passed to a vote adnthe majorioty of Palestinians agreed to it.

    So until Israel do the same thing and allow the Palestinians in the WB and EJ to to decide if they want to be annexed or occupied, there is no equivalence whatsoever.

    Let’s have an Arab spring in Jordan, overthrow the Hashemite king, rename the country for what it is, and then transfer the West Bank back to the East Bank.

    Great idea, but why stpop there? Why not an Arab Spring in all of Palestine? After all, teh Hashemite king is little more than a Western lackey anyway.

  • Shingo July 26, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    You can’t blame the mess of countries they’ve created on Zionism.

    Not entirely no. Zionism is just another complonent of colonialism and Western domination.

    In the 1950’s Eisenhower was concerned about the image of the US in Arab world - not among the governments, but among the people. The National Security Council issued a memorandum in 1958 , since declassified, that there is a perception in the Arab world that the United States supports brutal dictatorships, that the US blocks democracy and development, and that the US does it because it wants to control their resources. The report concluded that the perception were accurate, but that the US should be pursuing these policies regardless.

    link to history.state.gov

    The conclusion also said that as long as the Arab population remained obsequious, there was no price to pay. As long as the dictators back us, it doesn’t matter what the population thinks.

    In 2001, the Defence Science Board came to the same conclusion.

    BTW. 25,000 Iranians prefer to live in Iran than Israel.

  • Shingo July 26, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    I think Israel’s supporters hate Obama because they know that when someone backs down from a confrontation and grovels to them in as humiliating a fashion as Obama has done it is clearly insincere and they don’t know if he will remain in their pocket if he is re-elected.

    Yes, I think it's compounded by the fact that they know that without their blakmail, he wouldn't be on board. I think on one hand, the lobby loves wielding thsi power, but having to do so publicly and in such a messy way reminds them of the delegitimacy of their agenda.

    It's kind of an odd situation the way Obama is handling it. He's not going to get their support, no matter what he does, so why grovel the way he is doing?

  • Shingo July 26, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    Yeah, after the Germans slaughtered them, they just chose this neighborhood.

    Yes they did, someone else's neighborhood. They stole someone's land and wonder why there was no welcomming commitee.

  • Shingo July 26, 2012 at 7:53 pm with 1 replies

    it’s done an amazing job in a tough neighborhood

    That's a bit like saying that the Mafia does well in spite of organzied crime.

  • Shingo July 26, 2012 at 7:46 pm with 4 replies

    "This time I am going to vote for a Republican for president"

    For which country? Israel or the US?

• Susan Abulhawa demolishes Itamar Marcus
  • Shingo July 29, 2012 at 4:20 am

    Before that we really don’t have great data.

    Wrong as usual

    link to israelipalestinian.procon.org

  • Shingo July 25, 2012 at 8:32 am

    Many non Jewish immigrants moved to Palestine 1900-1918. Not as many non Jewish immigrants as Jewish immigrants, but many.

    What does many mean? According to the figures I've seen, less than 10% of the non Jewish population were immigrants.

    When they moved to Palestine, they became patriotic local citizens.

    Patriotic to whom? Ben Gurion adnteh Zionist leadership were already talking about the need to expell the locals before 1900.

    Any crimes committed were committed solely by England. Any punishment should to applied solely to England.

    So the terror attacks carrid out by the Irguna and Stern were commited by the British?

    Israel is only accountable for her actions after the 1948 partition.

    Rubbish. Israel's founders were behind the expulsion fo 300,000 Palestinians and destroyed hundreds fo villages before Israel declared independence. The Hanganah's onw arvhives confirms this. Isael is responsible for this crime.

    I realize that these views are highly controversial and might be deeply offensive to many.

    Neither controversila, not offensive, just incredible stupid.

  • Shingo July 25, 2012 at 8:24 am

    While this piece was amusing in a perverse way, it would have been better if RT could have found a non-shill to represent the Israeli viewpoint.

    Being shill seems to go hand in hand with representing the Israeli viewpoint. Even the guy from the Jerusalem Post was refting his pathetic arguments.

  • Shingo July 25, 2012 at 3:08 am

    Yes, a secodn that you Tree,

    I knew that from the minute he made that claim that it was going to be either BS or that he was misrepresenting the findings of the poll.

    Just like when these guys wave around San Remo without ever being able to quote the explicit passages from San Remo that say anything about a Jewish state or all of Palestine.

  • Shingo July 25, 2012 at 3:07 am with 1 replies

    If everything was as beautiful as Itamar Marcus suggests, why was there an Infitada?

    According to Itamar Marcus, it all started with violence being taugh in Palestinian schools, though other than beign utterly rediculous, woudl not explain why those who participated in the intifada were adults and wouldhn't have been subjected to such indoctrination.

    If everything was as beautiful as Itamar Marcus suggests, why was there an Infitada?

    According to Itamar Marcus, it all started with violence being taugh in Palestinian schools, though other than beign utterly rediculous, woudl not explain why those who participated in the intifada were adults and wouldn't have been subjected to such indoctrination.

    Lately I’m beginning to think no one can reconcile Jewish State with the dis-regard for the basic tenets of Judaism

    No one can reconcile Jewish State with the dis-regard for human rights period.

  • Shingo July 25, 2012 at 3:03 am

    And Israel, as a sovereign state, is both entitled and obligated to create and enforce an immigration policy as they see fit All sovereign states possess this right, which completely supersedes any human or moral right that an individual might feel they possess.

    I don;'t knwo of any other sovereign states that impose immigration policies beyind their own borders. This would be like Washington setting the immigration policy of Mexico.

  • Shingo July 25, 2012 at 2:42 am

    They hire experts in various fields to devise a plan or an image to counter israels transgressions, then they spread and regurgitate that message over and over again.

    So true.

    I can't think of a single Israeli aplogist who does no come off sounding like a 3rd grade idiot when they debate - even Michael Oren.

  • Shingo July 24, 2012 at 11:43 pm

     If and when the Palestinians every get serious about creating their own state, they too will be able to create an immigration policy that will allow the return of their entire diaspora to the state of Palestine. 

    That's a bit like a rapist saying that  when a woman get's serious about "no" meaning "NO", she will have a say as to whom gets to have sex with her.  

  • Shingo July 24, 2012 at 8:04 pm with 5 replies

    BTW. Does anyone know about this poll that Itamar Marcus kept referring to?

    BTW. The journalist from the looks la lot like Mark Regev, only more intelligent and far more honest. ;-)

  • Shingo July 24, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    She did a pretty good job but I don't think she destroyed him. He got away with far too much BS.

    The fundamental points that he never addressed were that:

    1. Rabin, who signed Olso, was killed by an Israeli. So who rejected Oslo?
    2. Netenyahu fiercely opposed Oslo and is on tape boasting about sabotaging it. IN fact, Rabin's family told Netenyahu to stay way from the funeral because they hold him repsonsible for inciting the assassination.
    3. Israel would never have become Jewish majority without expulsion
    4. The lie that 242 allows Israel to remain in the West Bank until a negotiated settlement is finalized
    5. That the ICJ , the US State Department, the UN and every international body has rejected his arguments.

• Netanyahu seeks war with Iran so he can ethnically cleanse the West Bank -- Machover
  • Shingo August 1, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    is irrelevant to the fact that in 1948 there was no “Palestinian-Arab” national consciousness of any consequence

    That is Zionist myth. “Palestinian-Arab” national consciousness was alive and well before any Jewish national consciousness. The Huseeing McMahon treaty was made 2 yeras before the Balfour Declaration.

    On the contrary, the original meaning of “Nakba” was applied some 30 years earlier when Britain and France divide Palestine from Syria.

    That's simply Nakba denial and you wil be banned if you continue with this argument. The Nakba terms is a word which like the Hebrew word Shoah, but both are accepted as terms which refer to specific events in history.

    Most of the Arabs living in Palestine considered themselves Syrians

    Another Zionist myth aliong with the claim that most Palestinians immigrated to Palestine. This has all been debunked repeatedly.

    I am writing in for the sake of possible other readers.

    You are merely spouting decades old lies that have been repeatedly debunked, so don't waste your time recycling this hasbra.

    Yes, it was war, and yes, atrocities are common in wars.

    That's a fmailiar defense, but as we saw at Huremberg, it didn't hold water. The Zionist leadership made it clear from the beginning that these atrocities were planned well in advance and that they were considered necessary to achieve particular aims.

    None of that, however constitutes a genocide, as per definition, as no whole nation, or tribe was killed.

    That would make the Holocasutr less than a genocide as many Jews were spared.

    You are clearly and intellectual midget who is not only ignorant, but hasn;t thought through his arguments.

    I will be reporting you to the moderators for Nakba denial.

  • Shingo August 1, 2012 at 4:56 pm

    In 1948 the term “Palestinian” was referring exclusively to the Jews from Palestine.

    False. Everyone in Palestine was referred to as Palestinian. Bem Girioon noted that Palestinian Nationalism was alive and well in 1914.

    Secondly 1948 was a war. People died on both sides, more Jews were killed than Arabs in that war.

    That's like saying both sides died in WWII witout accepting that Germany were the perpetrators.

    Now mister moderator, show some intellectual courage and publish this comment.

    Yes Mister moderator, please ban vivarto for Nakba denial.

  • Shingo July 23, 2012 at 7:19 pm with 1 replies

    Israelis are focused on economic growth and technological innovation.

    All Neteneyhu talks abotu is Iran and announcing new settlements. Obviously, he's not too concerned with economic growth and technological innovation.

• It's a lie that Ahmadinejad took responsibility for Bulgarian attack
  • Shingo February 13, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    Where are the MW defenders of Hezbollah and their Iranian backers now that investigations have implicated two members of the terrorist organization in the Bulgarian bus bombing?

    Laughing at your gullibility.

    1. The Bulgarian opposition party is calling BS and saying that the conclusions are politically motivated and were pressured by Israel and Washington.
    link to reuters.com

    2. A few weeks before the Bulgarian government came out with the latest accusation, it was publicly denying any such link.
    link to algemeiner.com

    It was only after the Bulgarians presented their findings to Israel that they changed their story.

    How much evidence does one need before admitting to being wrong?

    What evidence are you referring to? No evidence has been made public.

  • Shingo July 24, 2012 at 2:57 am

    Anyone who objects to racist comments by Ahmadinejad or Rahimi (per my comment below) can only be one of "them."

    No, it's when some examined vague statements searchign for a reason to be offended, they come across as one of "them."

  • Shingo July 24, 2012 at 2:51 am

    Similarly, you should also reconsider your oversensitivity to statements by Israeli officials that are disparaging of Muslims or non-Jews.

    As Nnima Shirazi explained, Amadinejad's statement was made in context of Jews and Chrisitians belonging to the same religion, where as Israeli officials'statements are clearly exclusionary.

  • Shingo July 23, 2012 at 6:56 pm

    “suggesting that Islam is the one true religion could easily be deemed offensive. But this has nothing to do with nuclear development or terrorist attacks, so apparently it’s

    Indeed Roya,

    I suppse the point subconscious was tring to get across was that insults to Judaism and Christianity are suffient reasons to go to war.

  • Shingo July 23, 2012 at 1:39 am

    Shouldn’t there be a name for Iranian propaganda efforts in the West.

    We call it hasbra debunking.

• Syria watch
  • Shingo July 29, 2012 at 11:01 pm

    Still the FSA is very close to defeating him. They just need a tiny bit of help.

    Delusional rambling. The FSA don't have a chance unless NATO steps in, and the FSA have backed themselves into a corner.

    Experts agree that the FSA's vitories have been hyped if not entirely non existent.

    link to blogs.channel4.com

• NY Times 'confirms' Hezbollah/Iran connection to Bulgaria attack by quoting unnamed American 'officials'
  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 8:08 pm

    I'm surprised that they haven't fingered the kid for teh batman shootings as a Hezbollah opertive also - he did it to distract world attention from the Burgas terror attack.

• Netanyahu adopts Facebook strategy to claim sovereignty over Jerusalem for the Olympics
  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 8:19 am

    The worst country on earth, hands down is North Korea

    And right alongside it is Israel, according to polls.

    link to haaretz.com

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 8:16 am

    1. UNGA Res 181 is not binding, nor was it ever implemented.

    Israel wrote UNGA Res 181 into it's declaration of idenepndence, so yes it is.

    2. 181 does not define the borders of Israel.

    Yes it does. Israel's letter to Truman states that the state of Israel was being decalred according to the agreed ferontiers as per UN181.

    3. The Palestinians have never had sovereignty of Jerusalem, so they could not “give it away”.

    Israle has no sovereignty of East Jerusalem - it occupies it illegally.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 8:13 am

    The UN 1947 Corpus Separatum was a dead letter when the UN never came to the city’s defense.

    I know you hasbrats love to make up your own laws as you go along, but that one you;'ve just invented does not exist.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 8:12 am

    Every country has the right to decide its capital. Its one of the attributes of sovereignty.

    In which case, the Palestinians have the right to decide that East Jerusalem is it's capital.

    Jerusalem IS Israel’s capital no matter what the rest of the world thinks.

    East Jerusalem IS NOT Israel’s capital no matter what Israel thinks.

• Bulgarian Foreign Minister: Mistake to blame 'any country or organization' for Burgas attack at this point
  • Shingo July 24, 2012 at 10:11 am

    To claim that the Iraq war was based on a “lie” is not completely truthful.

    What are you talking about? It was entirely based on lies. The fact that you can't even bring yourself to elaborate as to what it not "completely truthful" only proves it.

    At the time, I did support the liberation of Iraq. In hindsight, I think Iran was a greater priority and that Bush’s biggest mistake was not liberating Iran before Iraq. With Iran, the populace would have supported it.

    What are you talking about? Bush had to lie to the American public to support the attack in Iraq. Most of the public beleved that Iraq was inked to 911 becasue of those very lies. He would have had to lie about Iran to win that support, seeing as the public was focused on going after the perpetrators of 911.

    Simply put that Islamic Arabs would not have been able to infiltrate into Iranian society to commit the post-war terror attacks for two reasons. 1) Ideological, 2) Islamic Arabs would not have been able to infiltrate into Iranian society.

    Absolute rubbish. There are attacks comming from Balochistan, which spans both Iran and Pakistan. Jundulla have had no problem carrying out such attacks in Iran.

    As for Iran, I hope that military intervention can be avoided but I am not so sure.

    Why would military intervention even be considered? Iran is not making nukes and has not attacked or invaded anyone in 300 years. They pose no threat to anyone.

    One thing history has taught us is to take the ideology of evil madmen seriously.

    One thing we know about you is you know nothign about history or intelligence assessments. Both the US and Israeli ontelligence community have stated that the Iranian leaders are rational actors and not suicidal.

    As for the Israeli settlements etc, I do not support the illegal settlements. BUT, what you fail to realize or mention is that the majority of Israeli society doesn’t either.

    Who are you trying to kid? The Israeli government, who enjoy a healthy majority support the settlements, and polls show that most Israelis do in fact, support the settlements.
    link to haaretz.com

    BTW. Your glorious liberation of Iraq is going swimmingly. 145 were just killed in the recent spate of violence.

  • Shingo July 24, 2012 at 3:34 am

    I’m hoping he sticks around long enough for us to put together a ‘greatest hits’ compilation.

    He won't have to stick around long to compile one of those. He tends to be a one trick pony. He's pretty much used up his repetoire here already.

  • Shingo July 24, 2012 at 3:33 am

    It’s ridiculous of him to do so. Wilders’ mother was Indonesian and his father’s Dutch. He’s a product of multiculturalism.

    Even funnier is that Sassan, who claims to be an Iranian living in Califorinia, is denegrating multiculturalism. These hasbrats have no sense of introspection do they?

  • Shingo July 23, 2012 at 3:08 am

    And MEMRI offers a great service and should be applauded.

    MEMRI is a dissinfomamtion and propaganda service.

    Their translations have been exposed as flawed repeatedly ansd have their lies
    MEMRI’s Doctored Mickey Mouse-Hamas Story and How It Suckered the MSM
    link to richardsilverstein.com

    MEMRI Nazis
    link to normanfinkelstein.com

    All they do is provide translation services for the rest of the world to know the truth about evil ideologies.

    And then those traslations are debunked such as the famous BS about wiping Israel off the map.

  • Shingo July 23, 2012 at 2:57 am

    I support a democratic Israel against terrorists who glorify martyrdom and jihad

    Do you support terrorism, mass murder and ethnic clensing that was impemene to create Israel?

    have great respect for the late Shah

    So you love tyrants who live like KIngs at teh expemse of their contiuents. What about Mossadegh?

    I simply don’t see them as the enemy when we have one enemy all of us Iranians need to unite against, and that’s the Islamic Republic of Terror.

    So you DO support the MEK, even though every Iranians despises them.

  • Shingo July 22, 2012 at 10:45 pm

    It’s quite funny he says this, because what led to the revolution was a universal desire to overthrow the Shah among various opposition groups regardless of their different political and ideological beliefs.

    Mossadeg h not only had Iran's best interests at heart, but he was also popularly elected, unlike the Shah, who was put on the throse by the US and Britain. But Hassan loves the Shah but has no reagrd for Mossadegh.

    A typical Liberal Zionist and a seriously anti intellectual one at that.

  • Shingo July 22, 2012 at 10:43 pm

    Nonsense. Many hasbarists reign free on this site.

    He obviously broe therules fo teh forum and engaged in Nakba denial.

  • Shingo July 22, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    As for “no one believing me”. That is obviously going to happen on a site like this in which everyone is anti-Israel and automatically anyone who disagrees with your cliche is “Hasbara” or “Mossad” or “MEK”.

    No one agreed with you over at the Foreign Policy blog eitehr Hassan, except for that right wing Islamophobic Pam Glellar wannabe.

    And if you read what I wrote, I support a two-state solution but not with terrorists in Hamas.

    The rebels in Syria and Lybia were terrorists and you support them don't you?

    I have always said this but the Palestinians won’t have peace until they start to love their children more than they hate the Jews

    Right from the mouth of Golda Meir. Does anyone dispute thsi guy is a Likudnik plant?

    I think it;'s pretty obvious that Sassan is the love chiold od Forrest Gump and Caroline Glick.

    And to close, you bring Trita Parsi, an individual shunned upon in the Iranian-American community.

    You mean the Shah loving Iranian-American community who enjoyed privelage under a murderous and corrupt dictatroship.

    You don;t czre about the interests of a free Iran. You want to see an Iranian puppet subordinate itself to America/Israel.

    You shoudl really quit while you can Sassan. You've already cponcemend yourself as a rabbid, derranged neocon.

  • Shingo July 22, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    According to Fars news agency, Ayatollah Nuri-Hamadani stated in a discussion of religious texts: “One should fight the Jews and vanquish them so that the conditions for the advent of the Hidden Imam may be met.” He added: “Crazy ideas such as secularism, liberalism, and humanism are part of our enemies’ plans to sow disunity”.

    This is truly hillarious. Sassan has cur this stright from the necon web site MEMRI. MEMRI claims that this quote comes from the Fars news agency, but are unable to link to the report and no Google Search shows this quote from Fars.

    The MEMRI paper then claims this was reported by 2 other web sites who's links don't work. How pathetic is that?

    The Sassan says he provided the quote and demands I go back and re-reasd that, but no sich quote exists - let alone a link.

    As for the “hidden imam” video, read this article: link to guardian.co.uk

    This takes the cake. So according to Sassan, proof that the video was made by the Iranian government is the fact that Khamenei ordered the arrest of those that were accused of producing the video. That along with the statement that the video is apostasy to Iran's religious decrees proves it was a cover up.

    His argument is that the rejection of the vide proves it was made by the regime.

    I think the reason Sassan's eyes are so droopy is becasue he spends far too much time smloking weed.

  • Shingo July 22, 2012 at 7:34 pm

    And the Shah was a great leader we can be proud of.

    Yes, the man who resided over what Manesty Intentaional described as the worst human rightss violator in the world at the time is someone Sassan is proud of. The man who was never elected, but was installed by a CIA backed coup and who put tens of thousands of Iraniasn to death is someone Sassan is proud of. The man who gave away Iran's assets to foreign intersts and lived an ibscenely exceessive existence at the expense of Iranians is someone Saddan is proud of.

    These, according to Sassan, are all consistent with his liberaa and pro democratic values. These actions, according to Sassan, demonstrates how much the Shah loved Iran. Evidencelty, giving away the countrys resources to foreign intersts is in the best intersts of the country.

    Hassan is pretty much a Bill Krystol wannabe.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 10:37 pm

    Great ersponse Roya,

    You absolurly decimate this lying shrills case from A to Z. If he has any self respect, he'll either be gone or admit he's wrong. But as we know with neocons, being wrong is but a minor glitch and can be safely dismissed as irrelevant.

    Sassan's arguments mirror those of Porat. He favours create destruction of Iran in order to give birth to the pro western, liberal Pheonix that will surely arise from the ashes.

    Thanks for mentioning Shirazi's demolition of Porat's pathetic piece.

    And for reasons known only to Sassan, he supports the MEK as a potentially legitimate political party in a free and democratic Iran.

    You'll have noticed that Sassan didn't even address or deny my point that he's a devoted fan of the Shah.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    The world is still a better place without Saddam Hussein.

    If you want to argue that, tehn you also have to aergue that the world is better off without the million Iraqis who died asa result of the invation of Iraq - one based on lies no less. But it is interesting to note that on one hand, you supported the invasion and attack on Iraq (based on lies) while condemning the Iraninans for not accepting Saddam's ceasefire.

    The US were not interested in any ceasefire with him, and they ended up killing more people. Just abnother ecxample fo your biggotry, racist and fanaticism.

    I believe getting rid of Saddam, led directly to the freedom movements in the Middle East.

    You believe wrong. The freddom movements in the ME began with Tunisia.

    Particularly in that of Ghaddafi as Ghaddafi gave up his nuclear program because of Saddam’s demise

    Another BS neocon talking point. Firs of all, there was no nuclear program to speak of, onlyh remenants of an abandoned attempt and secondly, Ghaddafi had been making this offer since the Clnton years, but had been repeatedly rebuffed. It was only when the Iraq war was turning out to be a disaster that the Bush gang seized on the offer and spun it as an example of one success from an otherwise failedc campaign.

    And the Libyan people then consequently rose and were successful in their revolution.

    No it was johadist mecernaries and most fo the deamage being inflicted by NATO.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    For the FINAL TIME and I am done with you, the video was LEAKED by Mr. Kahlili, not “produced”.

    Like I said, ther was no Kahlili and the video was clearly done by some hack with no access to the footage that the Iranian government would have had.

    The regime even admitted that people inside of Ahmadinejad’s camp produced

    Yeah, you said that before as well and when I asked you to produce evidence of that admission, you refused.

    go read back all the quotes instead of briefly skimming through it to see the very “hidden imam quotes” you are saying there is none of.

    There are no “hidden imam quotes” and npo statement about hastenign the return of th 12 Imam. You hasbrats alwasy play this game. When you can't provide quote to support your claims, you insist you laready have or that the meaning is hidden.

    The only fanattic is you.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 10:40 am

    We are historical friends and allies.

    Yeah sure, which makes it souble sad that Netenyahu is so obsessed with attacking Iran.

    The fact is that most Iranians ask themselves, why is it that the Islamic Republic supports militants and extremist groups instead of supporting the Iranian people?

    If it's a fact, then you shoudl be able to provide evidence, but you won't because you can't.

    Go talk to Iranians of all stripes (apparently your Shahist friends don’t like Israel) so in L.A. walk into a local Starbucks and start a random conversation with Iranians in the diaspora) and you will realize that the issue of Israel is a non-issue for Iranians.

    Yeah, that's the place to go and talk to Iraniams, in a Starbucks in Santa Monica. I've been to Iran, and I have spoken to real Iranians, not you Shah and MEK Fanboys. It is true they have no problem with Israel (other than it's brutal and illegal occupation of Palestine). Speaking of Palestine, I seem to recall you're a big fan of greater Israel (ie. Eretz Yisrael).

    Vut Iranians in Iran want no outside interference in their affairs. The only group that wants the US to intervene is the MEK.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 10:33 am

    Quickly (if this is posted) Michele Bachmann is a loon. Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are conspiracy loons as well.

    That's funny, bcause as I recall, you were fawning all over that Pamela Geller wannabe, who was a big supporter of Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller. You described her as a strong woman with wonderful values.

    David Horowitz is an intellectual who one must read to be intellectually honest (although not always agree with).

    Horowitz is a sick pathological liar, but we get that you're a fan.

    And Mr. Wilders should be applauded for standing against the failed policies of multiculturalism.

    So you are a facuist after all, and a racist who despises other cultures. That much is obvious.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 10:28 am

    I am not against Arabs as a people. I am not even against Muslims as a people.

    You are against Islam, and osessively so, therefore you are against Muslims as a people.

    I completely support the plight of the Syrian people.

    Whnich peopel are you referrign to? The Shia? teh Allawites? The Chrisitians? Or are you refering to the suciide bombers who call themselves teh FSA?

    My qualms is not with not only Islamic fascism but totalitarians and fascists of all stripes.

    No it isn't. You're one fo teh Shah's biggest fans, who was a totalitarians dictator.

    But Islamic fascism poses the gravest threat to civilization.

    How so? Islamic fascism has not come close to threatening civilization. It has not threatened the US, South America, Europe or Asia.

    But even the Arab spring in which some Islamicists are popping out such as in a limited fashion in Egypt must not be shunned upon.

    Iagree, but sadly, Washington is dong that. Washington has fought hard to suppor the counter revolution, so that their sock puppet tyrants remain in power. They contine to send billion so teh military junta in Egypt. They are backing th Saudis and Bahrain in their supppression of the protests in those countries.

    We must simply ensure that a system is put in place of regular elections.

    Really? Why not let the people of those countries worry about that? Does't that make you a fascist for deciding what's best for them?

    You;re all for fascism and dicattorships, you just don't like some of them.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 10:14 am

    Shingo, this is the last time I will reply to you since you seem to be very childish with your remarks.

    Don't flatetr youerself Sassan. I could care less if you replie to me or not. I am just going to be wathcing you and exposing you for what you are - an extremist right winger, a proagandist and an liar.

    As for you ignoring the evil ideology of the Islamic Republic regime, here are some quotes by the regime henchman.

    Yeah we kow all about the insults Ahmadenijad and his gang have directed at Israel.

    Booohooo. Are you suggesting hurting ISrael's feelings is reason to go to war? Yeah, you probably are, because that's the kind of sociopath you revealed yourself to be on other blogs.

    In addition, similar slogans and signs are present at every Friday prayer.

    I keep hearing this claim from right wing neocons, but no one has ever presented any evidence to support it. They can't even cite a credible report that makes this claim, otehr than other right wing blogs.

    But gettin back to what I asked you, where is the statement by Iran's leaders of the 12 Imama and how they believe they have to create teh circumstances to usher in his return? Like the crap you guys spread about every Friday prayer, you never seem to be able to come up with a statement by Iran's leadership to support this.

    No, all you;ve produced is every insult that Iran has directed at Israel, and suggested that this proves Iran is a threat to humanity. And you wonder why you're regarded as a Zionist stooge?

    Khomeini has NEVER declared he would destroy Israel or that “reconquering” of Jerusalem is necessary for the “return of the hidden imam”.

    How about a documentary produced by the regime in which Khamenei, Hassan Nasrallah, and Ahmadenijad are portrayed as key members of the Hadith whom will usher in the return of the “Hidden Imam”

    Oh not that crap again. I alreayd debunked this BS for teh joke it was. You were unable to explain why it is that the State of Iran, with all it's resources could produce it's own footage, bur had to use footage from other news sources?

    This is a piece of BS that was produced out fo some neocon's basement, probbably with you sitting alonside him.

    This hillarious video BTW, was produced by the phaton knows as Reza Kahlili, who claims to have been a CIA agent embedded in the Iran Revolutionary Guard. He won't show his face, he won't reveal his true indentity.

    He's no doubt another MEK marketing gimmick, who you cites as the source for all your anti Iranian BS.

    You're an absolute joke.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 9:59 am

    “Iranians Have Democratic Values

    Thenkeep your ISlamophobic nose out of their bunsiness.

    There have been signs, on the streets and over the Internet, of a battle raging between the country’s Islamic fundamentalists and the proponents of freedom.

    You know there is noting scientific about a paper when it presents such 2 dimensional arguments as this. The proponents of freedom are not ever mentioned, because in reality, the opposition party still holds many of teh same values as the ruling party. The imge they are tryign to give us is that there are a bunch of progressives who want to turn Iran into a mirror image of the US.

    our research team conducted telephone interviews in late 2011 and earlier this year with nearly a thousand Iranians.

    What's particularly funny about this is that Sassan disapraiaged another study that was conducted in the same way. His argument was that this methodology cold not be trusted becasue the Iranian government listens in on everyone's phone conversations and that the Iranian public are aware of this, so they don't give an honest answer.

    In other words, when the stufy produces an outcome he agrees with, the methodology is sound. When it doesn't, the methodology is unreliable.

    Therefore we used a psychological questionnaire that measures the basic values of society without posing a single question in political terms.

    In other words, the study posed questions that were deliberately vague and allowd the researchers to read what they wanted into the responses, even if they were not literal.

    In comparison to 29 countries surveyed In the European Social Survey, Iran was found to have higher tendencies toward liberal democracy than Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia and Romania.

    So Sassan has taken this result to try and argue that Iranians want to be invaded and have an Iraq type do over - even though any true expert on Iran will tell you that any kind of Western internvention or interference would play into the hands of hard liners.

  • Shingo July 21, 2012 at 7:03 am

    1. Do you support or oppose Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Geert Wilders, Melanie Phillips, David Horowitz, Steven Emerson and Daniel Pipes on Muslim issues?

    Yes, Hassan is a huge fan of all of the above.

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    My priority is with science and reason and being against totalitarianism and Islamic fascism.

    Hassan claims that hsi priority is with science and reason, yet in spite fo tall the sciene and evidence refuting that Iran is working on nukes, he insists otherwise.

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    Thanks for the direct and forthright response. I share quite a few of your views.

    Don;t fall for this guy Sean,

    He's a con man and a pathological liar and propagandist. The anti Islam and anti Rianin bile that he poster at Foreign Policy sounds like the kind fo crap David Horowitz would vent.

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    We didn’t bring the “clash of civilizations” upon us. 9/11 Islamic fascism declared war on us

    So Saddan is blaming Iran for 911 eventhoguh 1 million Iranians came out in protest against the attacks and the leadership condemend the attacks.

    Bottom line: the enemies of human civilization must be defeated.

    Gt that folks? The US started aw ar based on lies in Iraq, which claimed 1 million lives, but the enemies of human civilization are the Iranians. They are the ones who want to bring an end to humanity, in spite of the fct that they have not attacked or invaded anyone in 300 years.

    Remember, it was Khomeini who refused to end the Iran-Iraq war twice when he had the chance

    Notice the double standards. Iraq atatcked, but it was Iran's fault for not accepting a ceasefire on Saddam's terms.

    This is a regime that believes at their core that they must “create the conditions” for the “return of the hidden imam” in a global war in which 2/3rd of humanity perishes.

    This BS is stragith from the neocone playbokok of the American Enterprise Instititure and the Weekly Standard. No Iranian leades has ever said anything of the kind, but that doesn't stop Bill Kristol and hassan telling us about it.

    the difference is that this regime believes that they must “create the conditions and worldwide havoc” for this to take place!

    Which is exactly wwhat Israel's largest support base in the US believes. That the cfreation of a gretare Israel will hasten the rapture.

    This regime poses grave threats to not only the Iranian people but to humanity at large.

    No sources or course, just hyperbole.

    It's pretty lcerar that the real madmen are the cult that Hassan belongs to.

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    First and foremost I believe in human dignity and human freedom

    Which uis why Hasan suppots the bombing of Muslim countries. He's a big fan of the Iraq "liberation" you see, becasue he knows all the Iraqis in the diaspora who wre in favor of shock and awe.

    He considers Iran his homelabnd but has never lived there.

    His regard for human dignity and personal dignity is why he has such a huge man crush on the Shah, who he insists was a well meaning man who was just misunderstood. Never mind that Amnesty INternational described Iran as the worst human rights violator in the world under the Shah - he still insists he cares about human dignity and personal dignity. Apparently he sees no contracduiction between torture and murder and human dignity and personal dignity.

    Thus, they do a “sigheh” or forced marriage on these pour souls and rape them before executing them.

    Just like the babies in the incubators in Kuwait or Saddam's human shredder. It's true folks, honest to God.

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    http://www.IranResearch.org? Which was world class research done through a psychological questionnaire and world class researchers to determine the secular democracy proclivities of the Iranian people?

    World class psychological questionnaire huh?

    From the front page:

    "Groundbreaking research recently conducted in Iran shows that contrary to common perception, the Islamic Republic has high potential to turn into liberal democracy."

    Get this folks - the interdisciplinary centre Herzliya Lader school Government, which is is a private college in Herzliya, Israel. Isn't that a surprise!! So a "private" sollege in Israel decided to conduct a psychological questionnaire developed by professor Shalon Schwatz for the Iranians.

    So here is Hasan, who claism to knw what all Iranians think, citing a report by an Israeli group.

    Sassan is an Israeli stooge folks

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Most Iranians inside the diaspora support sanctions.

    Hassan has no evidence fo this, he'll just tell youi that he knows all the Iranians in the diaspora personally and we are suposed to take him at his word that they all agree with him.

    The majority do not support military action at this time, but even that a strong minority do.

    Teh minirity being his friends, the MEK.

    This is why many Iranians inside of Iran say that Bush’s mistake was liberating the wrong country.

    Actually, they dodn;t say that at all, but Hassan will run with it regardless, because he;ll have you believe that there are dozens fo towns in Iraq desperate to become anotehr Fallujah.

    We need to be united and let this campaigning and political haggling come at a future date when Iran is free.

    Whether the IRanians like it or not.

    For now, we all need to be united in our opposition to this tyrannical and medieval regime.

    While supporting others....

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 5:31 pm

    a moderate Democrat, but follow the school of Realpolitik and liberal interventionism.

    So he's a Joe Liberman type.

    To look what a culture or society has contributed to society and humanity (particularly in the fields of science and medicine) I simply look at the Nobel Laureate list

    So in otehr wiords, he despises Aisans, Latinos and Black African nations too becasue they have short Nobel Laureate lists.

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 10:14 am

    but what is his nation of citizenship, religious background, ethnicity and political affiliations, if he would care to share? Where is he coming from on Mideast politics?

    Sassan cliasm to be an Iranian living in America, who loves Iran and his fellow Iranians so much that he is desperate for the US to go to war adn bomb the place back to the stone age and liberate his beloved Iranians.

    Oh, and he's really conerned for teh well being of Israel.

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 10:10 am

    Puzzling though that you didn’t use the word ‘antisemite’ with it eh.

    Oh don't worry, that's comming.

  • Shingo July 20, 2012 at 10:09 am

    Even his picture is, well, stolen.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s an ex idfer with a long list of operations against civilians to his (stolen) name

    It's not stolen, but he's a Shah fanboy with a serious man crish on US puppet dictators. He likes to cite an anti Iranian web site, which I can't recall, which was set up a few months ago, so he's probabyl a paid shill working for the MEK or their political wing.

  • Shingo July 19, 2012 at 8:16 pm with 3 replies

    You lose the bet. He was Hezbollah.

    Thanks for the comic relief Fred.

    From the report.

    the American official said, adding that there were no details yet about the bomber — his name, age or nationality.

    So they don't know who he is, but know he's Hezbollah. Hillarious.

    He also declined to describe what specific intelligence — intercepted communications, analysis of the bomber’s body parts and other details — that led analysts to conclude that the suicide bomber belonged to Hezbollah.

    Is this getting funnier by the minute or what?

    So the official, who insists on remaining anonymous, has no details and provides no evidence knows it was Hezbollah.

    Please feel free to continue maing a complete fool of yourself Fred.

  • Shingo July 19, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    If he was imprisoned at Gitmo, the CIA have his fingerprints.

    And DNA.

    What will be interesting to see is if the Israelis will allow the Bulgarians to carry out this investigation without interfering. They've sent over teams of diplomats and rescuers etc.

    It's hard to imagine they'll come back without some "evidence" for Bibbi.

  • Shingo July 19, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    lol now you are going to deny the Islamic Republic was behind the Argentinian terror attack?

    Yes, seeing as the FBI also does.

      Is that why Interpol has arrest warrants out for regime thugs based on the case?

    Clinton was going to lift those warrants, knowing they were bogus, but was unable to do it for political reasons.

      Next you are going to say the regime wasn’t behind the Mykonos assassinations in Germany ..

     

    Assassinations, which are routine for Israel and the US, are a far cry from bombing civilians.

    Fail. Tell your Hasbra and MEK mother ship that your Mossad buddies have to stop being caught on CCTV cameras.

  • Shingo July 19, 2012 at 7:08 pm with 2 replies

    We must note that this happened on the 18th anniversary of the Argentinian terrorist attacks against Jewish civilians by the Islamic Republic.

    Sassan the Shah fanboy has come along to soil ths this forum. Ignore him people, the guy is a right wing nutcase. Now to his point.

    After spending several months interviewing officials at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires familiar with the Argentine investigation, the head of the FBI team that assisted it and the most knowledgeable independent Argentine investigator of the case, I found that no real evidence has ever been found to implicate Iran in the bombing. Based on these interviews and the documentary record of the investigation, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the case against Iran over the AMIA bombing has been driven from the beginning by US enmity toward Iran, not by a desire to find the real perpetrators.
    link to thenation.com

    Such plots were foiled in Azerbaijan, Baku, Thailand, India, Cyprus, and more.

    BS. The stunts in India and Azerbaijan were clearly set ups intended to pin them on Iran. They were not carrised out by anyone who had a clue what they were doing. Probably Sassan's buddies from teh MEK posing as Iranians.

• 7 dead in terrorist attack in Bulgaria
  • Shingo July 18, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    Who can say that history cannot repeat itself and Iranians will pull something like that again?

    How can it repeat itself when the FBI refures Iran had anything to do with the bombings in Israel cultural center in Argentina

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  • Shingo July 18, 2012 at 9:43 am

    Wow, very powerful.

    This is the kind of story that will make the world change what is happenining in Israel - solidarity between human rights activitists in Israel and Palestinians.

• What if an American politician came out for preserving a Christian majority?
  • Shingo July 19, 2012 at 9:37 pm

    The jihadis actually brought tools on board for no other purpose than turning the rails of the ship into improvised clubs, well in advance of their being boarded.

    And what tool's were on board that served no other purpose than turning the rails of the ship into improvised clubs? And wouldn;t it have made more sense to bring propper clubs to begin with? Why not steel piping that they could use, as opposed to canibalizing the ship?

    It doesn't make any sense does it Fred? You must seriously feel like an idiot right now, and you should.

    They stabbed the soldiers with knives, clubbed them with iron bars, shot one of them twice

    Shot who with what? they had no guns Fred. No a single firearms was turned up by the IDF. No guns appear in any pof those pathetic photos released by teh IDF (with the EXIF date from 2004). Not a ingle bullet wound to any of the IDF pirates.

    If none of the soldiers died it was despite the best efforts of the attacking passengers to kill them.

    Wrong again. Some of the IDF were captured. Some were actualyl treated by the passengers. They could have been killed in an instant if that was the aim.

    Some of the soldiers were in critical condition.

    Wrong again. They made some critically stupid choices and descisions, but not weer critically injured. Just a bunch fo fat, stoned cowards with lethal wepoans shooting passenger in the back of the head.

    The IDF goon were a laughing stock . The veterans forums were rippnig these buffoons apart for their stupidity, lack of skill, lack of intelligence and being overweight.

  • Shingo July 18, 2012 at 9:03 am with 14 replies

    The result is a collective yawn from the rest of the world.

    A yawn that has placed Israel alongside North Korea in the popularity stakes and shot Israel to the number 1 spot in terms of perceived threats to world peace.

  • Shingo July 18, 2012 at 9:01 am

    Thinking that the alternate to self-determination is persecution or thinking that a certain land is one’s homeland or thinking that an ethnic unit should unite into a political unit is not the same as thinking, for instance, that one’s group is biologically superior to other humans. How’s that?

    Not great. In the case of Isrel, self-determination as Israel sees it means persecution of Palestinians, the homeland they think is actualyl soneone else's, and they united into a political/ethnic unit as a means of using their ethnicity and moral protection from criticism.

  • Shingo July 18, 2012 at 8:57 am

    Yeah, sorry, Jews in America are here to stay.

    That's wonderful, but it kinda reminds the world why Israek is redundant.

  • Shingo July 18, 2012 at 8:55 am with 1 replies

    Conversely, it’s begun to dawn on the various quasi-Nazi, semi-Nazi, and just xenophobic right wing parties of Europe that Israel is actually their soul mate.

    Yes, how ironic is that? Neo Nazi's are condeming anti Semitism and waving Israeli flags at their marches. Pamella Gellar is BFF with Geert Wilders.

    Reality really has been turned on it's head.

  • Shingo July 18, 2012 at 8:48 am

    The Afrikaners had no history of persecution before they came to South Africa

    Most child sex offenders tend to be those that were secually assaulted as children. Does that excuse their behavior?

    Inside the Green Line, there is nothing like apartheid SA, not in law and not in fact.

    Yes there is, in fact, Israeli friends of mine tell me that it's an accepted reality that Israel is an apartheid state, inside and out, though they ralrely admit it outside of Israel.

    Of course, arguing that apartheid only exists outside the Green Line is a lame argument anyway, because the territory is 100% under Israel control and the apartheid that exists is the consequence of Israeli policy. So that makes Israel an apartheid state.

    And to the extent that it exists in the territories, you’re talking about a situation where the assumption is the Palestinians will have their own state,

    On the contrary, the assumption is that they won't have one and the apartheid are intended to make one less and less likely. By creating bantustans as Israleis doing, they are ensuring that no viable state will ever emerge.

    Israel, is not a society built around race as SA was; there’s a religious basis, not unlike the nearly five dozen states that have Islam as an official religion.

    Israel IS a society built around racsism.

    Did you favor the creation of East Timor? It’s 97% Roman Catholic and the Church is mentioned in its Constitution.

    Timor does not refer to itself as a Roman Catholic state and at no stage was there ever any suggestion it would be.

    Are you for Kosovo? It’s an ethnic Albanian state and was created to be one.

    No it wasn't. Kosovo was aleways a region. It became Albanian by default not design.

    Latvia and Estonia are both ethnic nationalistic states.

    Again, they became ethnically nationalistic over centuries, not from scratch.

    To the extent that one ethnicity in Israel predominates, it makes Israel no different from many states in the international community and certainly no different from the Arab-Muslim religio-ethnic states that surround it in the region.

    So why then does Israel keep lamenting the demograpic problem?

  • Shingo July 18, 2012 at 8:35 am

    Israel is isolated in the world because of Arab blackmail and boycotts.

    No, Israel is isolated in the world because Israel is a pariah and acts like one. It is isolated in the Arab world because becasue it choses isolation over peace because peace woudl require giving up stolen land.

    Palestinian leaders (that’s for you, Cliffy boy) have made friends over the years with Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein, among others.

    The Zionist leaders tried to make friends with Hitler too.

    It's not that Israel can't make friends, it's that it only accepts friendship on it's terms. It won't make friends with anyone critical of it's criminal policies.

    Gansters and drug dealers find makign friends difficult too, because of the lifestyle they chose to lead.

• Responding to 'the Atlantic' smear on Mondoweiss
  • Shingo July 17, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    Arafat was a bloody murderer.

    He was an amateur compared to Sharon And Rabin.

    Accusing Mossad of killing an innocent, when you know it’s a false claim, is a blood libel.

    No it's not. Killing innocents is what Israel does.

  • Shingo July 16, 2012 at 7:17 pm with 9 replies

    Refaat Alareer’s article on the death of Vittorio Arrigoni was a classic anti-Semitic blood libel.

    That's what shills like you were saying over allegations Israel killed Arafat. Funny how no one is using that as a rebuttal anymore.

• The (what about) China syndrome
  • Shingo July 17, 2012 at 12:36 am

    Israel is so rich and successful I think US aid to Israel should be phased out. It isn’t needed and doesn’t even help Israel that much any more.

    That would explain why Israel keeps asking for thesis to be increased. Without the insane financial, military and diplomatic support the US gives Israel, it would be about as successful ad North Korea.

    After all, the 2 share the same level of popularity and international prestige.

  • Shingo July 17, 2012 at 12:27 am

    What China did to Tibet was and is much worse. Ask the Dalai Lama and Tibetans.

    Tibetans have been given Chinese citizenship, unlike the Palestinians who are treated as stateless by Israel.

  • Shingo July 17, 2012 at 12:26 am with 1 replies

    KSA is a threat to the world. Why isn’t everyone on this blog more focused on the Saudi threat than Israel?

    Probably becasue they haven't attacked or inavded anyone for over a century, whereas ISrael has attacked and inavded all it's neighbors.

    One important reason Israel has to do right by the Palestinians is because the world is counting on Israel to help manage Saudi Arabia

    Really? Where did you read that? Or did you make that up as you do with all your other diatribes? ISrael is regardded as a far greater threat to world peace than Saudi Arabia.

  • Shingo July 17, 2012 at 12:19 am

    Israel would go the way of Greece without US help.

  • Shingo July 17, 2012 at 12:18 am

    radii, Afghanistan received more US aid than Israel before 1976, and after 2002. Israel only gets one five thousanth of US income per year in aid.

    No, Afghanistan dd not receove more aid - that was the financing of the Mujahadeen.

    China has a very powerful lobby in America. I would argue it is more powerful than the Israeli lobby and more subtle and behind the scenes.

    On the contrary. If it had any power, the US woudl not be sending the US Navy towards the China Sea to threaten China.

  • Shingo July 17, 2012 at 12:16 am

    Isrlae si a fascist apartheid state Anan. There is nothign just about it.

    And it's only 64 years old, so it is far from ancient .

  • Shingo July 16, 2012 at 11:24 pm with 1 replies

    Israel is one of the richest and most successful countries on earth. She doesn’t need any American help.

    Whaty rubbish. The author of 'Startup Nation' conceded, Israel was in an economic black hole before the migration of several thousand Russian-trained scientists and engineers. Russian taxpayers laid out the resources and brainpower to teach and train those people; Israel reaps the benefits.

    Israel is entirely dependent on the world's largest welfare cheque. If Israel ever has to pay its own way in the world, it will go the way of Greece. That's why the lobby is so active in the US, becasue if the truth ever got out, Israel woudl be done for.

    Israel get's little or no aid from China, India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, Malaysia, South Korea, Australia and Germany. In fact, Israel has ver few fiends, which explains why it ranks alongside North Korea in terms fo internatioal popularity and it reagrded as the world's bigegst threat to peace.

    srael sells large quantities of military equipment to China and India.

    Israel increasingly isn’t even that dependent on US civilian trade and investment.

    Absolute rubbish. Israel's tade agreement iwht the US has been described as little more than a US$10 billion annuam grant to ISrlae because it is so obscenely one sided. While US industries have gone to ground because of the access given to ISrael to US markets, Israel imposes stict protectionism. Much of it's so called "innovation" is based on stealing or reverse engineering US technology - in weapons and pharmaceuticals.

    The US has little influence over Israel.

    The US has complete infvluence over Israel utg simply choses not to excercvise it. Every time the US has said no, Israel has had so suck it up. Whern they were told to withdrasw from the Sinai in 1956, they did as they were told. When they were denied permission to attack Iran, they did as they were told.

    Rather the Israeli lobby in the US keeps telling Americans about how much more America needs a rising power like Israel compared to how much Israel needs America.

    You are complattely out fo your mind. If that were trur, there woudln't be need for any Israeli lobby. Israel's relies so heavily on perpetuating the myth that it is a strategic asset because evidently, very few people believe it. The last thing Israel wants the public to realize is that it is a strategic liability, as Meir Dagan and Anthony Cordesman both satted.

    You're seriousl oln another planet Anan. Planet Hasbra and you've snorterd way too much Ziocaine.

• Light sentence in brutal murder shows double standard for Jews, Palestinians
  • Shingo July 16, 2012 at 8:15 am

    No i wouldn’t, the Israeli penal system is absolutely
    mild in comparison to yours.

    When it comes to Jews murdering Palestinians? Yes indeed.

  • Shingo July 16, 2012 at 8:13 am

    what i dont get is on what bases ira thinks that there is double standard? is he just making this up?

    Are you eliberately pretending to be incoherent and in denial Benedict, or is this your normal state?

  • Shingo July 16, 2012 at 6:43 am with 4 replies

    Israeli is a democratic country where there is an established system of the rule of law where criminals get trialed and if found guilty convicted.

    Hahhahahhahhaha. Thanks for the comic relief Oleg.

• NY assembly member urges censorship of maps ad, citing offense to 'a multitude' of Jewish orgs
  • Shingo July 15, 2012 at 6:37 am

    Far from complexity, the word to think about is perversity. All should look at the maps and wonder about the perversity of Israel claiming to be a victim that is always on the verge of being “driven into the sea”.

    Even more perverse is the claim by the likes of Jonathan Tobin, is that the Palestinians are:

    1) occupiers and
    2) the ones refsing to accept Jewish life in Palestine.

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