July 7, 2008
The Lekarev Report
Under the intelligence cooperation agreement Iran and Syria signed secretly in Tehran on June 27, thousands of Syrian intelligence and police officers will receive special training in Iran. The document was signed at the end of an unpublicized five-day visit to Tehran of Syria's clandestine and security service chiefs headed by Gen. Fouad Sultan, superintendent of internal security. (Detailed Report HERE)
The accord is a crucial element in the deepening strategic relationship between Tehran and Damascus. It invalidates an earlier contention by French president Nicolas Sarkozy and prime minister Ehud Olmert, accepted also by Washington, that the Syrian regime was about to desert its close alliance with Tehran and embrace the West. On the strength of this false premise, Olmert is pressing forward along his peace track with Syria, and Sarkozy invited president Bashar Assad to be his guest of honor at the Bastille Day parade of July 14.
While secretly bolstering his partnership with Iran, Assad has no trouble spreading the illusion of his willingness for a turn to the West, especially when his propaganda effort is promoted by none other than former Israel foreign ministry official Alon Liyel.
Liyal, calling himself "an Israeli diplomat" declared in an interview to the July 6 Sunday Times that Damascus would sever its strategic ties with Tehran, Hizballah and Hamas for substantial American military and economic aid and Israel's renunciation of the Golan. All this would happen, the ex-official promised, on Assad's behalf, after the change of presidents in Washington.
DEBKAfile's sources report that Liyel spoke without authority or factual corroboration about Assad's intentions. He omitted to mention the fact that the Assad regime would have acquired a facility to produce fuel for Iran's nuclear weapons program, were it not for Israel's pre-emptive strike in September 2007. He also forgot that Damascus has for years provided friendly hospitality for the headquarters of the most extremist Palestinian terrorist groups and shown no sign that he means to evict them.
Abbas, Assad to Meet in Damascus
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to hold talks in Damascus on Sunday with Syrian President Bashar Assad on ways of ending the dispute between Hamas and Fatah. Palestinian officials who announced the meeting made a point of saying that this will be Abbas's first visit to Syria since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in June 2007.
The PA has in the past accused Syria of supporting Hamas's "coup," noting that Khaled Mashaal and other Hamas leaders are based in Damascus.
The PA officials ruled out the possibility that Abbas would meet with Mashaal during his visit to Syria, saying the gap between the two men remains as wide as ever.
However, leaders of some Palestinian factions said they were trying to persuade Abbas and Mashaal to meet to discuss ways of solving the Fatah-Hamas crisis.
The head of the PA negotiating team with Israel, former PA prime minister Ahmed Qurei [Abu Ala], will accompany Abbas to Syria.
According to some reports, Qurei will meet with Mashaal and hand him a message from Abbas. Abbas is expected to seek Assad's help in persuading Hamas to relinquish control of the Gaza Strip, a senior PA official told The Jerusalem Post.
More on Last Week's Hero
Since the horrific bulldozer attack in Jerusalem last week which killed three and injured 66, more information has come out about the heroic off-duty soldier who shot the terrorist to stop his murderous rampage.
Our hero was initially rejected from the Israeli military because he protested Israel's 2005 retreat from the Gaza Strip, we learned late Friday. The soldier, 20-year old Moshe Klessner, was forced to fight in court to get accepted into the military due to his activism against the Gaza evacuation.
Shocking video footage obtained by Israel's Haaretz newspaper shows Klessner climbing onto a bulldozer driven by a terrorist against traffic and that was plowing into cars, buses and shocked crowds. Klessner can be seen shooting the terrorist several times in the head, halting an attack that had already killed three - including two female teachers - and injured 66 others. Only several hours later did he learn that one of those killed was his own cousin.
Klessner has turned down media requests for interviews but released a statement saying he intervened in the attack "in accordance with the (biblical) precept of 'don't stand by your brother's blood,' even at the risk of getting hurt."
Eradicating Terrorism by Eli Hertz
(www.mythsandfacts.org)
My thanks to Moshe Aumann from Israel's Foreign Ministry for sending me this article.
Palestinian terrorism has targeted Jerusalem particularly in an attempt to regain control of the city from Israel. The result is that they have turned Jerusalem, literally the City of Peace, into a bloody battleground and have thus forfeited their claim to share in the city's destiny.
Incitement is the new uncontrollable, affordable and elusive weapon of mass destruction. Its brand of terrorism constitutes a major strategic threat to the foundation of the free world and is driven by the power of incitement.
Palestinian Arabs fan the flames of hatred and violence against Israel, and against the United States and Westerners generally. Directly responsible for inciting terrorism and unleashing its lethal genie, Palestinian Arabs have produced and perfected uncontrollable, hard-to-detect mobile homicide killers, a low-tech delivery system ready to attack anyone, anywhere, anytime.
On July 2, 2008, in our high-tech world, Jabr Duwait the mass murderer Palestinian terrorist, became the ultimate low-tech weapon of mass destruction, armed with a bulldozer and sufficient level of incitement to murder and wound as many Jews as he could.
Political and religious incitement play a crucial role in mobilizing and motivating Palestinian suicide bombers. After the horrendous 2002 suicide bombing of a Passover Seder in a Netanya hotel, Fouad Ajami, a Middle East scholar at Johns Hopkins University, wrote:
"The suicide bomber of the Passover massacre did not descend from the sky; he walked straight out of the culture of incitement let loose on the land, a menace hovering over Israel, a great Palestinian and Arab refusal to let that country be, to cede it a place among the nations, he partook of the culture all around him - the glee [that] greets those brutal deeds of terror, the cult that rises around the martyrs and their families."
Despite pledges to renounce violence against Israel, Palestinian Arab leaders continue to incite, inflame and encourage Palestinians to pin every problem they face as individuals and as a society on Israel. This strategy of channeling frustrations into hatred and the desire for revenge against Israel is adopted both by Israel's immediate Palestinian neighbors, Arab leaders throughout the Muslim-Arab world and in greater intensity from within the parameters of the Holy City.
Secretary Condoleezza Rice, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and the other member of the Quartet: By trying to redefine the Middle East conflict by calling Israel's settlements in Judea and Samaria (The West Bank) "obstacle to peace" or "illegal" - you became part of the camp that uses inflammatory incitement that encourages Palestinian Arabs to look for "Justice" and revenge. They believe they have your support.
Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria territories is consistent with international law.
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