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World War 4 Report
Sept 10 2011
Israel to use Armenian genocide as political ammo against Turkey?
Submitted by WW4 Report on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 13:42.
Returning to a prospect first raised after last year's flotilla
affair, Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has broached
supporting recognition by the US Senate of the Armenian genocide as
part of a diplomatic offensive against Turkey, the Hebrew-language
daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sept. 9. The report came ahead of a
meeting of a meeting of Foreign Ministry officials to discuss Israel's
response to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to
downgrade Ankara's diplomatic ties with the Jewish state. Amazingly,
the report also claimed Lieberman had suggested that Israel back the
PKK Kurdish guerillas (which will doubtless fuel the endless
conspiracy theories in Turkish nationalist circles that the Kurds are
the pawns of a Zionist conspiracy against the Muslim world). (AFP,
Sept. 10; YNet, Sept. 9)
Showdown at UN looms
The White House is meanwhile keeping up the pressure on Palestinian
authorities to drop their plan to put statehood to a vote at the
United Nations this month. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is said
to be weighing whether to apply through the 15-member Security Council
for full membership - which the United States has vowed to veto - or to go
directly to the 193-member General Assembly, where there is no veto
and a pro-Palestinian majority. The General Assembly cannot grant UN
membership to Palestine, however; it can only declare it to be an
observer state. But this would still allow Palestine to join a host of
international agencies and treaty groups - including the International
Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, where it could
bring complaints against Israel. The Palestinians have been seeking
admission to the ICC for nearly two years, and the chief prosecutor,
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has indicated that General Assembly acceptance
would make the difference. (Although a further jurisdictional dilemma
is raised by the fact that Israel is not a member of the ICC.) (NYT,
Sept. 9)
More "price tag" attacks
On Sept. 8, the IDF reported new "price tag" by presumed far right
settlers on Palestinian targets in the West Bank. In the first
incident, a mosque in the West Bank village of Yitma, near Nablus, was
vandalized with graffiti. In the second incident, two Palestinian
vehicles were torched in the village of Kablan. Vandals also broke
into an army base outside the Beit El settlement, slashing tires and
breaking windows on 13 vehicles. It was the first such "price-tag"
attack against an IDF base, and drew major condemnation from the
Israeli government. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, "This was
an abhorrent crime directed against commanders and vehicles, the
mission of which is to protect the lives of Israeli civilians in Judea
and Samaria." The attacks came after the IDF razed three homes at the
Migron settler outpost. (JP, Sept. 10)
http://www.ww4report.com/node/10307
From: Baghdasarian
Sept 10 2011
Israel to use Armenian genocide as political ammo against Turkey?
Submitted by WW4 Report on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 13:42.
Returning to a prospect first raised after last year's flotilla
affair, Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has broached
supporting recognition by the US Senate of the Armenian genocide as
part of a diplomatic offensive against Turkey, the Hebrew-language
daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sept. 9. The report came ahead of a
meeting of a meeting of Foreign Ministry officials to discuss Israel's
response to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to
downgrade Ankara's diplomatic ties with the Jewish state. Amazingly,
the report also claimed Lieberman had suggested that Israel back the
PKK Kurdish guerillas (which will doubtless fuel the endless
conspiracy theories in Turkish nationalist circles that the Kurds are
the pawns of a Zionist conspiracy against the Muslim world). (AFP,
Sept. 10; YNet, Sept. 9)
Showdown at UN looms
The White House is meanwhile keeping up the pressure on Palestinian
authorities to drop their plan to put statehood to a vote at the
United Nations this month. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is said
to be weighing whether to apply through the 15-member Security Council
for full membership - which the United States has vowed to veto - or to go
directly to the 193-member General Assembly, where there is no veto
and a pro-Palestinian majority. The General Assembly cannot grant UN
membership to Palestine, however; it can only declare it to be an
observer state. But this would still allow Palestine to join a host of
international agencies and treaty groups - including the International
Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, where it could
bring complaints against Israel. The Palestinians have been seeking
admission to the ICC for nearly two years, and the chief prosecutor,
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has indicated that General Assembly acceptance
would make the difference. (Although a further jurisdictional dilemma
is raised by the fact that Israel is not a member of the ICC.) (NYT,
Sept. 9)
More "price tag" attacks
On Sept. 8, the IDF reported new "price tag" by presumed far right
settlers on Palestinian targets in the West Bank. In the first
incident, a mosque in the West Bank village of Yitma, near Nablus, was
vandalized with graffiti. In the second incident, two Palestinian
vehicles were torched in the village of Kablan. Vandals also broke
into an army base outside the Beit El settlement, slashing tires and
breaking windows on 13 vehicles. It was the first such "price-tag"
attack against an IDF base, and drew major condemnation from the
Israeli government. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, "This was
an abhorrent crime directed against commanders and vehicles, the
mission of which is to protect the lives of Israeli civilians in Judea
and Samaria." The attacks came after the IDF razed three homes at the
Migron settler outpost. (JP, Sept. 10)
http://www.ww4report.com/node/10307
From: Baghdasarian