‘Zionist Regime Manipulates Judaism,’ Says Tehran Jewish Leader

July 2, 2016 By administrator

A picture of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among the torched detritus of a Quds Day rally in Tehran on Friday.Atta Kenare/AFP

Iranian news agency quotes Homayoun Sameyah Najafabadi as saying that Jews attended Quds Day rallies to ‘condemn the Zionist regime atrocities against Palestinians.’
By Haaretz,

The Iranian news agency IRNA quoted the head of the Tehran Jewish community as saying on Friday that there is no link between Zionism and the Jewish religion and that freedom-loving Jews support the Palestinian people.
Israel’s “Zionist regime is just a political party and there is no link between the Jewish religion and Zionism,” Homayoun Sameyah Najafabadi, Executive Director of the Tehran Jewish Committee, is reported to have told the news agency.
Large crowds participated in rallies throughout Iran on Friday to observe Quds (or Jerusalem) Day. Iranian Jews living in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz and Kermanshah attended the rallies to “condemn the Zionist regime atrocities committed against Palestinians,” Najafabadi said.
IRNA quoted him as saying that “the Zionist regime is manipulating Judaism for materialistic purposes,” and that all the world’s freedom-lovers, including the Jews, are supportive of the Palestinian people.
It said that Najafabadi “called on the world media to be committed to supporting the Palestinians and bringing to global attention the criminal actions by the Zionists against the Palestinians.”

Job done: Russia saved Syria from US regime change… now it’s over to diplomacy

March 15, 2016 By administrator

By Finian Cunningham

56e7f487c36188e9348b45d2 Five years of war, five months of Russian military intervention, and now peace talks are underway. It’s as simple as that.

However, rather than acknowledging a successful Russian mission, Western media outlets immediately began speculating that President Putin’s surprise announcement to withdraw Russian forces from Syria indicates a “rift” between Moscow and Damascus.

This is just more of the same Western media weapon of mass distraction that has obscured the real nature of the five-year war.

The sovereignty of Syria is the central principle officially underpinning peace talks that resumed in Geneva this week. Without Russia’s military intervention, Syria would not have the chance to pursue a political settlement on a such solid footing.

By contrast, after nearly two years of US-led military intervention allegedly to “defeat terrorism”, the Syrian state was on the brink of collapse from a largely foreign-backed terrorist assault. Until, that is, Russia intervened at the end of September last year.

The touchstone is that Russia from the outset was motivated by supporting the Syrian nation and supplanting the terror threat. While the US and its allies were ultimately the source of the threat.

Western media in hock to their governments’ political line still strain the implausible narrative of a “popular uprising” in Syria that somehow descended into a “global proxy war”.

But to the rest of the world, US-led illegal regime-change is the obvious, and damning, story. This should be the focus, not speculation about Putin’s alleged ulterior motives to withdraw militarily now from Syria.

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaking in Paris last weekend alongside European counterparts appeared to highlight Syria as a priority for peace efforts.

It is rather galling that Kerry should lecture Russia about making “clear choices” in Syria or elsewhere, when the only plausible explanation for the violence in the Arab country can be traced to the criminal interference of Washington and its partners, in flagrant violation of international law and thereby unleashing mayhem that destroyed millions of lives.

As opposition parties gather for tentative talks in Geneva, the New York Times informed its readers that it coincides with the “fifth anniversary of the beginning of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, which morphed into civil war and then a regional and global proxy war.”

This is a typical sample of Western distortion on Syria that persists in contradiction to the abundant evidence. That Western narrative is based on the dubious premise that the violence was instigated after the Syrian state crushed a genuine pro-democracy uprising. Secondly, the narrative blandly portrays that the conflict then escalated into a proxy war between foreign governments, as if the latter scenario is unrelated to the initial “uprising”.

However, thanks to alternative news media in the West and also internationally, such as channels like RT and Press TV, there is a substantial body of information that challenges the Western mainstream narrative. Not only challenges, but exposes it as willful deception.

For a start, substantive reports in the alternative media convincingly show that the initial, small-scale protests in Syria during March 2011 were infiltrated by armed provocateurs who fired on civilians and state security forces alike in order to incite large-scale violence. One of the best investigations on these crucial events was carried out by Sharmine Narwani for RT.

Bush-Saudi Dynasty: Masochistic Alliance: Why Does Saudi Regime Appeal to Washington?

March 4, 2016 By administrator

Bush and Saudi Dynasty

The US alliance with Saudi Arabia should appeal only to masochists, American scholar Ted Galen Carpenter notes, adding that if Washington is really interested in defeating Daesh, simultaneously trying to undermine Iran makes little strategic sense.

There is something masochistic about Washington’s longstanding friendship with Saudi Arabia — America’s impulsive Middle Eastern partner, Daesh’s sponsor and a “chronic and horrific” abuser of human rights, Ted Galen Carpenter, a US author and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, emphasizes.

“US officials and prominent political figures from both parties routinely describe Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Gulf clients as ‘friends’ of the United States. But Americans should take a closer look at the nature of their Saudi ‘friends,'” Carpenter writes in his article for The National Interest.

While the White House and the international community have repeatedly condemned the notorious Daesh terror group for beheadings of their victims, America’s Mideast head-chopping ally Saudi Arabia executed more than 150 people in the same very fashion in 2015.

Furthermore, in early January 2016 Riyadh decapitated some of 47 men (others were executed by firing squad) including peaceful cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

“Many of the victims, such as the prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, had apparently done nothing more than demonstrate against or publicly criticize the regime,” the US scholar remarks.

In addition to Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuse record, Riyadh “has consistently engaged in actions that undermine America’s security,” Carpenter continues, referring to the monarchy’s involvement in funding, teaching, training and funding of Islamic extremists since the early 1980s.

“Given the pervasive program of Saudi-sponsored radicalism, it is no coincidence that sixteen of the nineteen hijackers on 9-11 were Saudi nationals,” he stresses.

Incredible as it may seem, Washington not only turns a blind eye to Riyadh’s misdeeds, but assists its Mideast partner in its controversial military operations.

In 2011, the White House tacitly endorsed the Saudi-led military intervention in Bahrain. Then Washington agreed to provide intelligence and logistical support for Riyadh’s invasion of Yemen.

And now, the Obama administration is “flirting with endorsing” of the Saudi-Turkish plan to deploy their ground troops in Syria.

“US leaders exhibit a curious myopia if they do not see the underlying problems,” Carpenter underscores.

The situation is complicated by the fact that Saudi Arabia has long been funding and arming Daesh and other Sunni Islamists in the region. However, some US policymakers are much more concerned about the emergence of Iran, the state that remains the “principal barrier” to Daesh and its expansion.

“The alliance with Saudi Arabia should appeal only to masochists,” the US scholar believes.

Still, according to some experts there are clear signs that the pillars of the US-Saudi friendship are trembling.

“The US-Iran nuke deal and the consequent partial change of heart of the US over the Syrian crisis have certainly greatly ‘flooded’ the otherwise strongly built ship of the US-Saudi alliance, putting it in a position where its sinking is not altogether impossible,” Salman Rafi Sheikh, research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs, wrote in his article for New Eastern Outlook.

At the same time, American researcher, historian and author F. William Engdahl has repeatedly noted that Washington has apparently set a trap for the House of Saud in Syria and Iraq.

“The trap will likely see the map of the entire Middle East redrawn fundamentally for the first time since the secret… Sykes-Picot Plan,” the historian stresses in his analysis for New Eastern Outlook.

Remarkably, American columnist and foreign correspondent in the Middle East Doyle McManus echoed Engdahl’s stance in his January article for Los Angeles Times. The journalist assumed that the White House purportedly has had enough of Riyadh.

“The fracture in US-Saudi relations isn’t going away, because the foundations of the relationship — the interests the two countries had in common — are no longer as strong,” he wrote, citing former US ambassador to Riyadh, Charles W. Freeman Jr., who added that in the recent years Washington and Riyadh “have increasingly seen their interests diverge.”

ISIS contract, the latest Turkish Fascist regime & its Colonial Masters’ Humanoid Weapon

January 23, 2015 By administrator

By Steve Tataii,

Turkish FM attempts to plot against Kurds in other sarcastic words in media photo-op. I have to remind him; that: you, and your predecessor with names ending “Oglu” are a fine example of the fascist Turkish regime, practicing alive & well in 21st century. A hardcore Tyranny not easily toppled leftover of the 20th century type, which won’t go down as easily as some of Arab dictators in the “Arab Spring” or under other new political labels in their respective regions yet to be made if you will.

Your recent words end with: “Iraq needs a non-sectarian army”. This is a clear declaration; that you, and your old rotten kemalist regime will never learn nor change, in fact, it will only ascend along the same fascist lines. Not only that, but it clearly defines you as the same in nature to the fascist Arab mentality against Kurds because you, Turk, Arab, and PERSIC regime elements are all usurper occupiers of the Kurdish land, and despite your clever sleazy masks on your hidden vicious faces, you still want to continue to occupy Kurdistan, and you still want to massacre Kurds and commit more genocides against Kurds, and you still want to serve your international corporation masters, whom have empowered you to usurp, rule & occupy Kurdistan since the 1923’s callous partition of the 50+ million Kurdish people’s nation by their top dog on the list non-other than the 1920’s Britain & France colonial players.

You all have used everything in your power to destroy Kurdish nation, but your latest ISIS is a clever contract scheme, but quite a vicious clumsy stupid & reckless surprise aggression against Kurds, but it is now like a deflating tire on a moving car fast being flattened before your eyes, which means it has failed.

Now, remotely from Ankara, your regime want to set up another army made up of non-Sectarians to turn Arabs against Kurds, and envisioning Kurds against Kurds as well if you can pull it off.

Your regime assumes it can keep on plotting against Kurds overtly in the media, and get away with it every single time, but I assure you; that your audience understand exactly where you’re trying to lead them to believe, and that’s how you, the “Oglu Twins”, and the regime now led by “Rejeb khan=Teyyeb Agha” (the newly arisen Kemal, or at least that’s what he may want to be known in history), openly bringing in the foreign ISIS filthy animals into the region, and especially released across the sacred Kurdish land, thinking you’ll get away with it

Make no mistake about it; that all you greedy & power hungry Turkey’s little Tyrants are about to have your wishes come true, and unlike your desires get your chance for that “Turkish Spring”, and other FINNALS you’ve been waiting for very soon.

I only hope you’ll all wise up, admit to your crimes against humanity, and leave Kurdistan alone before starting another bloody World War with no winners, but losers unless the West shall try to stop you “Gone Mad Maniacs”, because your makers “Britain & France” may not be able to stop you.

They’ve created a monster like you to rob the region from their natural resources of mainly “Oil revenues”, hence national revenues within their own independent & sovereign nations particularly “Kurdistan”. Robbed of those revenues for over 100 years, and live in unwanted Wars under 4 Tyrant regimes constantly killing their civilians with armies the two colonial thieves armed & equipped them with, while the two after that 100 years are still too damn arrogant, and sure of themselves to admit what their past predecessor colonial powers did, living in denials from their colonial past, but they could if they want to, and prevent more senseless “Wars” and blood sheds now that they have royally robbed Kurdistan from her 100 years of national revenues, especially costing Kurds hundreds of thousands of civilian lives.

Turkey, their prominent center stage for these Gigantic exploitation itself aside revenues from tourism, it became wealthier than its other Kurdistan usurper neighbors below from collecting TAXES, an economic tactic followed from their past Ottoman empire hegemony, but much more than that; when the stealing of oil from Kirkuk Kurdistan primarily by “BP”, passing it on to Britain, France, and other boys in the club have brought them even more money than TAXES in general from oil sales’ commissions alone (Taxing has been Britain’s main money making agenda kept in a lean money making machine protected by their huge number of Lawyers in a most bureaucratic legal system in the world, which is something that United States had to go to civil war for to free herself from “Tax Hell & Lawyer system” to be sovereign and Independent).

No, there will be no such thing as “non-sectarian army” to continue your occupation in the same old manufactured “Iraq” didn’t you know that, when the whole world does?

I’m afraid your last wishes will be doomed for ever; when Kurdistan, with 50+ million peace loving Kurds will be one of the greatest independent state in the world (it is about time now), and the abusive murderous hands of “all you” past colonial puppets, Turks, Arabs, and the minority little “PERSIC” dominated regimes will be off of all 4 partitioned Kurdistan, and your new humanoid weapon in form of “ISIS” bandits you’ve contracted through the long list of an army of mentally disturbed, deranged, druggy, and murderers in a computer search to maintain the above robbery of Kurdish revenues shall come to a halt now & for all times, so pay close attention to what I’m telling all you wise guys here.

The ISIS vicious young foreign contractor thugs, who want to do nothing but take precious lives of the innocent civilians for their pass time fun, because they’re the most vulnerable, and helpless of all, in surprise attacks, invasions, and sneak ups out there in any peaceful village, town or even cities, armed and trained by “all you” their scum protector & masters trickling them down mostly from Istanbul hotels or Terror Cells as we speak, and over the past 4 years.

An unworthy, senseless group under the name ISIS practicing the Video War Game they’ve watched most their young adult lives, now practicing those killings on innocent civilians. This was quiet a surprised method to continue the 100 year long Wars and killings against our peaceful Kurdistan population, and you’ve almost pulled it off if it wasn’t for a few good men & women world politicians out there you failed to bribe.

“You” freaking Turks & Brits failed pal, and you should really pack up your ISIS bullshit, and leave Kurdistan & the region as soon as possible or your own citizens may help you do it.

Keep on dreaming you Kemalists, Ba’sists. and PERSICS, because the consequences could be other springs, which would be coming to you shortly as you may have expected, and only then your “media over kill speech performances”, and surprised fancy moves via hired foreign “haftabijar” (mixed up) roaming filthy army will end for once and for all.

Even a child could have told you “not to play with Lions’ tail”, but doing so woke up Peshmerga forces in all of Kurdistan with this latest ISIS bullshit surprise, and when on behalf of the world’s peoples they will teach you your final lessons now that you’ve messed with lion’s tail.

Your imported ISIS scums are already on the run, and showing their real coward selves like “dirty rats”, once they’ve realized this in reality was not similar to Video War games, and now that drones have identified their identities their families too will have to pay for their “child neglect” of the vicious devils left unsupervised in internet cafes, while they too will likely have to serve time as well. You can all run now, but you can’t hide.

ISIS, don’t forget to pay the taxes to Peshmerga (of KRG, YPG, YPJ, PKK, KDPI, Komala, and PJAK) when they help you pass the gates of hell, and send you to where you always wanted to be.

About Steve Tataii

Steve Tataii is a Kurdish scholar, former candidate for US Congress in 2010 special election, former candidate for the United States Senate in ‘06, and US House in ’02 (won the election, but denied of his victory through a plot by corrupt inner circle political elements). US House Candidate ’08 (no debate), author of three recent books on the Iraq War related to Kurds and Kurdistan, long-time contributing writer for local and other media, linguist of more than six languages, and an Independent Conflict Resolution Consultant. The author can be reached via email at: tataii2003congress@msn.com. Steve Tataii is a longtime contributing writer and columnist for Ekurd.net