World Watch

Were the Israeli's "Set up" when they Intercepted 6 ships to Gaza?

2 June 2010 (c) DOJgov.net Newswire

With anti-israel demonstrations occurring throughout the world, few have looked into the background of the organization sponsoring the alleged "humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza.

The Israeli's asked to inspect the ships for weapons. If none were on board, the supplies would be forward to Gaza. Every day, hundreds of Israeli trucks bring medicine and food to Gaza. They supply all of Gaza's electricity.

Gazans may lob thousands of rockets into Israeli population centers, but they are essential on the Israeli dole.

Five of the six ships compled. One of them was manned by pro Hamas thugs and attacked the Israelis. The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) is the so-called "relief" organization from Turkey that was running the ship.

IHH's has affiliation with the Islamic terror network, including: explicit ties to Hamas, al-Qaida, as well other militant Islamic organizations based in Algeria, Libya, Turkey.

Hamas which runs Gaza has murdered the opposition. It calls for the destruction of israel as a beginning, with the eventual creation of a world wide Islamic Caliphate. The IHH has stated its support and admitted ties to Hamas and is a terror organization as recognized by the United States, Israel and the European Union (EU).

Iran say it will kill Americans if we attempt to Stop their Nuke Ambitions

8 April 2010 Reuters

While dismissing the sanctions threat, Iran has also warned against any military steps against its nuclear program.

After several warnings that it would hit back at Israel if attacked from there, Iran's military chief said Thursday he would target U.S. forces stationed in the Middle East if Washington attacked.

"If America presents Iran with a serious threat and undertakes any measure against Iran, none of the American soldiers who are currently in the region would go back to America alive," Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency.

U.S. troops are engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which border Iran.

Islamist Friendly Barack Obama Slams Israel but gives Iran a Pass at UN

30 May 2010 AFP

Washington's unprecedented backing for a UN resolution for a nuclear-free Middle East that singles out Israel has both angered and deeply worried the Jewish state although officials are cagey about openly criticizing their biggest ally.

The resolution adopted by the United Nations on Friday calls on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and urges it to open its facilities to inspection.

It also calls for a regional conference in 2012 to advance the goal of a nuclear-free Middle East.

Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, with around 200 warheads, but has maintained a policy of deliberate ambiguity about its capabilities since the mid-1960s.

The document, which singles out Israel but makes no mention of Iran's controversial nuclear program, drew a furious reaction from the Jewish state who decried it as "deeply flawed and hypocritical."

But it was US backing for the resolution which has caused the most consternation among Israeli officials and commentators, who interpreted the move as "a resounding slap around the face" which has dealt a very public blow to Israel's long-accepted policy of nuclear ambiguity.

Publicly, the Israel government has not criticized the US position but privately, officials expressed deep disappointment over the resolution, which Washington backed despite intensive Israeli efforts to block it.

According to the top-selling Yediot Aharonot daily, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was "furious with the Obama administration for having failed to prevent the resolution from passing... and for choosing to support it."

"The American support for the resolution, after decades in which it supported Israel on this issue, came as a complete surprise," the paper said.

"In the secret talks that Netanyahu held with Obama's men... Israel was promised that the resolution would not focus on Israel and that if it did, the Americans would vote against."

Rape Rampant in Haiti's camps. Girls as young as 12 have been attacked as sexual violence plagues the quake's survivors

7 February 2010 The Independent (UK)

In one of the great unmentioned effects of the earthquake in Haiti, women and young girls are suffering a rising number of rapes and sexual assaults, according to leading aid agencies. So widespread are the reports – and they include the rape of a girl of 12 by her rescuer after she was pulled out from the rubble – that emergency measures are now being taken.

Displaced men and women patrol some camps with makeshift arms to ward off attackers; girls wear jeans under their skirts for protection if they go out after dark; temporary women-only health centres are being set up; and NGOs try to deliver aid to dangerous neighbourhoods where women are too scared to go out in search for food.

Sarah Spencer, gender-based violence co-ordinator for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), who arrived in Port-au-Prince two weeks ago, said: "Violence against women was a problem in Haiti before this crisis. Now, women and girls are dramatically more vulnerable to attack.

The humanitarian community focuses on food, water and shelter, understandably, but this is at the sake of protection for women. Criminal gangs have regrouped; security is poor; people are sleeping in the streets, too frightened to go inside or else in crowded, unlit camps, surrounded by strangers.

Many women have been left without male protection because their husbands or brothers were killed. All of this means the risk to women in post-disaster Haiti have elevated dramatically."