KEEP IN MIND EGYPT IS NOW UNDER CONTROL OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD!

Hamas complains to Egypt after Israeli army kills Gazan

 

A Palestinian youth (C) waves a flag in front of Israeli soldiers during a demonstration in the West Bank village of al-Masara near Bethlehem, marking the recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state by the United Nations November 30, 2012. The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly on November 29 overwhelmingly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the world body to issue its long overdue ''birth certificate.''

Credit: Reuters/Ammar Awad

 

 

 

(Reuters) - Hamas accused Israel on Saturday of violating the shaky, Egyptian-brokered Gaza truce of November 21 after Israeli troops killed a Palestinian taking part in a protest at the enclave's border fence.

 

Medical officials said the 21-year-old man had been among six Palestinians wounded by gunfire during Friday's demonstration near southern Rafah, and had later died in hospital.

The Israeli military said the Palestinians had tried to vandalize the fortified fence and that soldiers shot at their legs after first trying to warn them away.

The Gaza Strip's Hamas government described the incident, as well as the Israeli navy's seizure of nine Palestinian fisherman on Wednesday, as violations of a ceasefire mediated by Cairo to end a surge of cross-border fighting this month.

"We have discussed this with Egyptian officials, so they guarantee a cessation to those violations," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said.

Increased Palestinian access to the Gaza fence and to fishing waters heavily patrolled by Israel were among conditions lodged by Hamas and other armed factions in the Cairo talks.

Israel said it was willing to ease its military clampdown on the territory if the Palestinians did not pose a threat.

Since 2009, the Israelis had enforced a 300-metre-deep no-go zone on the Palestinian side of the border, saying this kept away gunmen and would-be infiltrators. It had also denied Palestinians the means of working swathes of farmland.

The army suspended zone enforcement after the November 21 truce, but killed another Palestinian in a similar fence protest two days later. Hamas, while condemning Israel, deployed police to evacuate other demonstrations.

Abu Zuhri's remarks did not indicate that the Islamist movement, which remains hostile to the Jewish state, wanted to abandon the ceasefire. The eight days of fighting this month killed 166 Palestinians, while Gazan rocket fire killed six Israelis.

A smaller Palestinian group, Islamic Jihad, was more threatening than Hamas, saying in a statement that "continued and so flagrant (Israeli) violations would put the calm at risk and push resistance factions to respond in a way they deem suitable".

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/01/us-palestinians-israel-violence-idUSBRE8B004T20121201

Remember keep your eye on Damascus...Damascus being totally destroyed is prophetic....Key to the GOG/MAGOG war in the Bible!

Syrian jets bomb rebels in Damascus

 

A woman carrying a child walks past a damaged bus in Aleppo's Bustan al-Basha district November 29, 2012.

Credit: Reuters/Zain Karam

(Reuters) - Syrian jets bombed rebel-held areas of Damascus on Saturday, residents said, and a countrywide Internet blackout entered its third day.

 

Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad clashed with troops in most populated areas of the country, according to opposition activists. At least 40,000 people have been killed during the 20-month-old uprising, they say.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked monitor, said war planes were bombing the Damascus suburbs of Kafar Souseh and Darraya.

If rebels maintain a presence in these areas, they will hold ground in a continuous arc from the northeast to southwest of the capital's outer districts.

"Syrian regular forces are trying to control the areas surrounding the capital and clashed with rebel fighters," the Observatory said.

The mostly Sunni Muslim rebels battling Assad, who is from Syria's Alawite minority linked to Shi'ite Islam, have been making gains across Syria by overrunning military bases and have been ramping up attacks on Damascus, his seat of power.

Since Thursday, clashes have been reported near the Aqraba and Babilla districts on the southeastern outskirts of Damascus which lead to the international airport, effectively closing the road and leading EgyptAir and Emirates to suspend flights.

Syrian state television quoted a ministry of information statement saying the Damascus international airport was open on Saturday and that the road leading to it was safe. Opposition activists said clashes continued.

Networking experts accuse the government of cutting off the Internet but Damascus blames "terrorists," a term it uses for the opposition.

Rights groups have warned the communications drop off is a precursor to a wider offensive by government forces in the capital. Syrian security sources and diplomats say the government intends to block central Damascus from the restive suburbs.

Rebels and activists said on Saturday there have been multiple communications problems since the uprising began.

Abu Yazen, an activist from the central city of Homs, said rebel units had been using satellite phones, radios and Skype to coordinate with each other.

"There is no Internet or phone service in Syria but it has not affected our work too much," he told Reuters over Skype.

Activists reported clashes and aerial strikes in the provinces of Homs, Deir al-Zor, Idlib and in Aleppo where they said 14 rebels fighters were killed during an assault on an army base in the town of Khanasser early on Saturday.

 

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/01/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE8AJ1FK20121201

I posted the information under the article of what the (NPT) is....Iran threatens to quit NPT if attacked

Iran threatens to quit NPT if attacked
DEBKAfile December 1, 2012, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)

 

Any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities may lead to it withdrawing from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a pact aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear arms, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Friday. He also suggested Iran could kick out IAEA inspectors and install its uranium enrichment centrifuges in "more secure" places. Asked about Soltanieh's comments, Israel's ambassador to the IAEA, Ehud Azoulay, said: "I believe that they are going to do it anyhow, in the near future, so I'm not surprised.

"When they make their first nuclear explosion they will have to withdraw, I believe," he told reporters, adding he thought Iran was "following the steps" of North Korea.

 

http://www.debka.com/newsupdatepopup/3078/

 

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Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Signed and ratified Acceded or succeeded State abiding by treaty though outside (Taiwan)     Withdrawn (North Korea) Non-signatory (India, Israel, Pakistan)
Signed	1 July 1968
Location	New York, United States
Effective	5 March 1970
Condition	Ratification by the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and 40 other signatory states.
Parties	189 (complete list) non-parties: India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan
Depositary	Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Languages	English, Russian, French, Spanish and Chinese

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.^[1]

 

Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty entered into force in 1970. On 11 May 1995, the Treaty was extended indefinitely. A total of 190 parties have joined the Treaty, including the five nuclear-weapon states: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China (also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council). More countries have ratified the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement, a testament to the Treaty's significance.^[1]

 

Four non-parties to the treaty are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan and North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons, while Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its own nuclear weapons program. North Korea acceded to the treaty in 1985, but never came into compliance, and announced its withdrawal in 2003.

 

The NPT consists of a preamble and eleven articles. Although the concept of "pillars" is not expressed anywhere in the NPT, the treaty is nevertheless sometimes interpreted as a three-pillar system, with an implicit balance among them:

1. non-proliferation,
2. disarmament, and
3. the right to peacefully use nuclear technology.^[2]                           

 

The NPT is often seen to be based on a central bargain: “the NPT non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear weapons and the NPT nuclear-weapon states in exchange agree to share the benefits of peaceful nuclear technology and to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals”.^[3] The treaty is reviewed every five years in meetings called Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Even though the treaty was originally conceived with a limited duration of 25 years, the signing parties decided, by consensus, to extend the treaty indefinitely and without conditions during the Review Conference in New York City on May 11, 1995.

 

At the time the NPT was proposed, there were predictions of 25-30 nuclear weapon states within 20 years. Instead, over forty years later, only four states are not parties to the NPT, and they are the only additional states believed to possess nuclear weapons.^[3] Several additional measures have been adopted to strengthen the NPT and the broader nuclear nonproliferation regime and make it difficult for states to acquire the capability to produce nuclear weapons, including the export controls of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the enhanced verification measures of the IAEA Additional Protocol.

 

Critics argue that the NPT cannot stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons or the motivation to acquire them. They express disappointment with the limited progress on nuclear disarmament, where the five authorized nuclear weapons states still have 22,000 warheads in their combined stockpile and have shown a reluctance to disarm further.^{[dubious – discuss]} Several high-ranking officials within the United Nations have said that they can do little to stop states using nuclear reactors to produce nuclear weapons.

WELL THIS IS SCARY!

Alarm in Tehran and Moscow over Bushehr nuclear reactor’s near-explosion in mid-October

 

 

Iran’s nuclear reactor at Bushehr was shut down in mid-October for fear of an explosion. Saturday Dec. 1, an authoritative Russian nuclear industry source revealed the cause of its malfunction: “Indicators showed that some small external parts were… in the [Bushehr] reactor vessel….” They were identified as “bolts beneath the fuel cells.”

debkafile’s Moscow sources report this information came from a source in the office of Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Russian nuclear energy authority Rosatom, which supervised the construction of Iran’s first atomic reactor at Bushehr.

According to our intelligence sources, Russian scientists and engineers were rushed from Moscow to Bushehr when Russian leaders including Vladimir Putin were warned that the danger of an explosion at Bushehr was high. Neither Moscow nor Tehran reported what was happening. Now they are racing against the clock to get the reactor back on stream.

Russian experts estimated that an explosion at the Bushehr reactor had the potential for causing a million Iranian deaths and hundreds of thousands of radiation victims in the Persian Gulf emirates, which supply the world with one-fifth of its fuel. The hazard was so great in October that Putin ordered command teams of the Russian emergency ministry trained to deal with nuclear disasters to set out for Bushehr in southern Iran and prepare the infrastructure for larger teams.

The engineers immediately shut down the reactor and removed its 163 fuel rods. The bolts which had turned up in the reactor vessel were examined to find out from which part of the plant they had come loose – from the fuel rods – which would have embarrassed Russia as their supplier - or some other part of the reactor. The Russian source which revealed the mishap made a point of saying that the bolts were “small external parts,” indicating that they were not from the rods.

Our intelligence sources in Moscow report that two possible outside causes of the malfunction are under scrutiny by Moscow and Tehran:
 
1. The bolts were deliberately unscrewed and dropped into the reactor vessel as an act of sabotage;

2. The Stuxnet virus which attacked Iran’s nuclear program two years ago was back and had tampered with the reactor’s computers.

 

Five months ago, Iran suspended operations at the Fordo underground enrichment facility near Qom after the power lines supplying the plant were sabotaged on Aug. 17 and some of the centrifuges blew up. The Iranians resumed work at Fordo in the second half of September without discovering who was responsible for the incident. However, the suspicion of sabotage at Bushehr immediately crossed the minds of the Russian and Iranian investigators, although they have not ruled an accident or incompetence.

Bushehr supplies the Iran’s national electricity grid with one-fifth of its fuel and it was therefore important to get it running again without delay. Our sources report that Monday, Nov. 26, Iranian and Russian engineers reloaded the fuel rods – still without explaining why they had been removed.

Friday, Nov. 30, shortly before the disclosure from Moscow, Tehran for the first time in its twenty-year nuclear program showed concern about the impact of “nuclear accidents” at Iran’s nuclear sites on the wellbeing of the population and environment.

Gholamreza Massoumi, head of Iran’s accident and medical emergency center, announced: “We believe all of our emergency services should be trained and ready to face nuclear accidents.”

He referred to “accidents” at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility where yellowcake is converted into highly toxic uranium hexafluoride and revealed: “People who have been in the region, for example – Isfahan’s UCF – have had some accidents for which they have been treated.”

He admitted that some employees at Isfahan had suffered from “health issues” and warned of “problems that civilians living close to nuclear sites could face.”

Massourni’s comments were removed from the semi-official Mehr news agency’s website a few hours after they were published.

Officials in Tehran, already jumpy over the near-catastrophe in Bushehr, must have realized that the comments about the urgent need to prepare emergency services for nuclear accidents, if tied in with the “health problems” at Isfahan and the near-disaster at Bushehr, were a recipe for a nightmare scenario of mass panic in the population and an outcry in the Gulf region against the hazards of Iran’s nuclear program – even before it produces a weapon.

http://www.debka.com/article/22577/Alarm-in-Tehran-and-Moscow-over-Bushehr-nuclear-reactor’s-near-explosion-in-mid-October 

Why is ISRAEL NOT ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING or it will ruin their credibility! LOOK world you have never respected them to start with so KISS OFF!

UK, France urge Israel to reverse decision on settlement construction

British foreign secretary says plans will ‘undermine Israel’s international reputation’ and make two-state solution difficult to achieve.

 

 

Britain and France on Saturday condemned Israel’s announcement that it would authorize the construction of 3,000 housing units in parts of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and called on Israeli leaders to reverse the decision.

 

The move, announced Friday, was made in apparent retaliation for a unilateral Palestinian bid for upgraded status at the United Nations General Assembly. The resolution submitted by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was overwhelmingly approved by member nations on Thursday.

 

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was “extremely concerned” about the Israeli construction plans in what he termed “illegal” settlements.

 

“Israeli settlements are illegal under international law and undermine trust between the parties,” according to the foreign secretary. Echoing comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday, he said proceeding with the plans would make the two-state solution difficult to achieve.

 

“[The plans] would undermine Israel’s international reputation and create doubts about its stated commitment to achieving peace with the Palestinians,” Hague added.

 

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Saturday also called on Israel not to approve the expansion of settlements by 3,000 new homes in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

 

“I call on Israeli authorities to refrain from any decision to that effect and to clearly show their willingness to restart (peace) negotiations,” he said.

 

Ahead of Thursday’s UN vote, the UK joined other European nations and the US in advising Abbas to refrain from submitting the resolution, which petitioned the General Assembly for non-member observer state status. However, Hague had also made clear to Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman that the UK would not support a strong Israeli reaction to the move. Britain abstained in the vote.

 

 

http://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-urges-israel-to-reverse-decision-on-settlement-construction/

Israel destroying Middle East peace process, Ankara charges!

Independent Palestine necessary for regional stability, Foreign Minister Davutoğlu says

 

 

Turkish leaders on Saturday lambasted Israel as a rogue, “terrorist state” and called on Palestinian groups to unite in order to realize the formation of an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

 

An independent Palestinian state is a precondition for lasting regional stability, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said, addressing regional leaders at the Turkish-Arab Cooperation Forum in Istanbul.

 

Davutoğlu called for collective action against Israel, which irresponsibly heeds no laws, Today’s Zaman reported.

 

“It is high time to take a firm stance against Israel’s activities that destroy the peace process in the Middle East,” the foreign minister said.

 

“Our responsibility for Palestinian people has not ended yet,” Hurriyet Daily News quoted Davutoğlu saying. “We will keep on working to make Palestine attain the position it deserves on an international platform.”

 

The conference came two days after the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of upgrading the Palestinian Authority’s status to a nonmember observer state — a motion championed by Turkey.

 

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated his charge that Israel is a “terrorist state” and accused it of attempting ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip in the recent Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel Radio reported.

 

He added that “Israel should not place obstacles in the way of the establishment of a Palestinian state whose capital is East Jerusalem,” and called on the various Palestinian factions to unite in order to realize that future.

 

“In order to carry Palestine to a further status and to see Palestine as a state with the capital of East Jerusalem, the unity and solidarity in Palestine is a must, and we want to see this and experience the excitement,” state-run Anadolu Agency quoted Erdoğan saying.

 

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-destroying-middle-east-peace-process-ankara-charges/

'Palestine can now sue Israel for illegal occupation'

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, When they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: All that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, Though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it… In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, And like a torch of fire in a sheaf; And they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:2-3, 6, KJV