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Netanyahu’s Show of Muscle Comes Too Late to Deter a Nuclear Tehran
Oct 12th, 2013
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Israeli Air Force F-15 and F-16 fighter squadrons this week carried out exercises testing their capability to conduct missions at long ranges from base, the Israeli military said Thursday, Oct. 10. The drills included air-to-air refueling and dogfights against foreign combat planes. They were conducted together with Hellenic Air Force aircraft and naval units over the western Peloponnese and the Myrtoon Pelagos of Greece, shortly before the Six Power talks begin in Geneva on Iran’s nuclear program.
Israeli commentators noted that the drill broadcast a message to Tehran that Israel’s military option for bombing its nuclear program was alive and kicking. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bombarded European TV media with interviews warning their leaders that the Iranians were conning the world while continuing to develop a nuclear weapon capability. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” he said.
Prime Minister Netanyahu was acting as though he believed he still holds three spanners for throwing into Iran’s nuclear program:

1. The Israeli military as embodied in its air force;

2. European leaders, who are dismayed by President Barack Obama’s precipitate rapprochement with Tehran. Addressing them, Netanyahu warned: “Better no deal than a bad deal.”
3. The US Congress, on which he counts to block future presidential applications to approve the lifting in stages of sanctions against Iran, simply by withholding approval of his agreements with Tehran.  
However, the truth which every Middle East and Western leaders knows by now, is that the battle against a nuclear Iran is lost.

President Obama has wound up his secret negotiations with Iran and instructed US delegates to put on the table of the Geneva negotiations on Oct. 15 the understandings or deals he has reached with Iranian leaders.  

Those understandings are about to be endorsed by the P5+1 (the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany) for implementation in stages. They will leave Iran with the capacity, reduced but intact, to continue to enrich uranium along with its ability to use clandestine sites to house the nuclear weapons they are able to produce.
Netanyahu may keep on calling this a bad deal. But after all, it took shape on his watch as prime minister. And after Barack Obama became president in 2009, Israel failed to stall Iran’s race for a nuclear bomb – not in Parchin, Arak and Fordo – but in the White House.

The prime minister staged the long-distance air force drill more for domestic consumption than for use as a deterrent to impress Tehran. The Iranians have succeeded far too well in their diplomatic maneuvers to take much notice. They are sure the Netanyahu government will tire of its campaign, end up aligning once again with the Obama administration and swallow its deals with President Vladimir Putin on Iran, just as it did for Syria’s chemical weapons. 

Let the Headlines Speak
Oct 12th, 2013
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

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Killing Christians is the Way to Martyrdom - the Shocking Message Being Taught in Pakistan's Schools
Oct 12th, 2013
Daily Newschristianpost.com
Categories: Today's Headlines;Persecution

Some school textbooks in Pakistan include lessons teaching students that killing Christians is a goal that must be achieved for them to obtain martyrdom, according to a report prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

The report also included claims that Islamist groups in Pakistan are launching regular attacks against non-Muslim Pakistanis as well as some sects of Muslims such as Shiites and Ahmadi, whom they do not consider to be real Muslims.

The report states that official and independent media, government leaders and religious scholars have legitimized hate against religious minorities, with the term "minority" itself having come to be seen in a pejorative context.

"As a result of such legitimization of hate through school textbooks, government policies, sermons in mosques and religious congregations, there is growing persecution of Pakistani Christians, Hindus, Shias and Ahmadi Muslims," the report read.

"Jihad is part of our faith. We will not back down [from our decision]," Shah Farman, an official with a regional political faction, told World Net Daily.

The report added that many textbooks in Pakistan feed the Islamic trend and promote hatred and jihad among primary school students. Shockingly non-Muslim Pakistanis also have to go through the same school texts on a daily basis from a young age.

"Throughout Pakistan's history, since its creation in 1947, hate speech against non-Muslims has been a normal phenomenon in Pakistani society," the report noted.

There were also other claims that revealed school children were being forced to convert to Islam while in school, extending the picture of persecution taking place in the south-Asian country.

The Archbishop of Karachi and the head of the Council of Pakistani Bishops revealed that Christians in the country are under constant pressure to convert to Islam, most notably in schools at a young age.

"The daily lives of religious minorities in Pakistan are characterized by poverty, injustice and discrimination. Non-Muslims are identified as second-class citizens in school textbooks. Teachers repeatedly ask students to write essays titled: write a letter to your friend encouraging him to convert to Islam," Bishop Joseph Coats told the Italian AKI agency.

Amos Gilead: Iran Can Develop a Nuclear Weapon Any Time
Oct 12th, 2013
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

The Defense Ministry’s political adviser Amos Gilead said Wednesday in a lecture to a Washington audience: “If Khamenei were to ask Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Iranian Atomic Commission: ‘Can we develop a nuclear weapon whenever we want? The answer would be ‘yes.””  In 2003, when they feared an American attack, they suspended the program, but then reactivated it and also built hundreds of missiles.

Now, said Gilead, Tehran is afraid again - this time of tougher sanctions which present a different kind of existential threat. And so, he said, “Tehran has once again made a strategic decision to delay the nuclear project, hoping to stop the momentum of the sanctions while preserving the ability to develop a nuclear weapon in due time.”