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In Syria, Lavrov has failed Putin and Mother Russia

When one goes to sleep with dogs, one wakes up with fleas. When Lavrov and Putin went to sleep with the genocidal terrorist state of Iran, they both woke up with war-crime referrals.

Published on March 12, 2018 by Mark

The sands of the Syrian hourglass are now beginning to smother Putin and Mother-Russia.  Putin’s not very bright Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov appears to have re-upped a new version of Jean Paul Sartre’s existential play “No Exit.”
In Sartre’s “No Exit,” three dead characters are stuck in the same room in the afterlife for eternity.  In Syria, Russia is stuck in Sartre’s dead room located in Syria along with the Islamic Caliphate of Neo-Ottoman Turkey, and the Islamic Imanate of the Neo-Safavidic Iran.
“Eternity” in Sartre’s afterlife is a long time. However, for Putin and Mother Russia, Russia’s FM Lavrov’s tragic mistake in Syria involving Turkey and Iran will seem a lot longer and more horrific than Sartre’s eternity.  Putin’s only play now is to allow America and Israel to undo the strategic damage he and his foreign minister did to Russian strategic interests in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean.

How did FM Larvov make that catastrophic decision to fan the Iranian fires of the Shiite juggernaut?  Lavrov made two fatal errors. First, Lavrov thought he was Foreign Minister of the waxing Soviet Union Empire instead of Foreign Minister of the waning Russian Republic.  Second, thinking he was the FM of the Soviet Union, Lavrov mistakenly worked forward and thought of expanding his non-existent Soviet empire using infinite resources that do not exist anymore. Lavrov should have first asked himself where the absolute red line marking the strategic interests of the meagre Russian Republic is ,and then worked backwards from there.

What was, and is, Russia’s one and only red-line strategic interest in the eastern Mediterranean?  The answer is the trans-Greece-Cyprus Christian Eastern Orthodox arc.  Why?  Because practically, Cyprus/Greece is the Russian Oligarchs’ “back-door” to the EU’s financial system, and to the EU itself.  Russia shares a deep religious and political synergy with Greece. So, it’s a natural relationship.

Strategically, the Greece-Cyprus topological Mediterranean Sea arc protects Russia’s Black Sea access through Turkey’s Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosphorus to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. If there was an Ottoman Turkish military putsch through Cyprus and over the Greek Aegean islands, all bets would be off for the status of the Montreux Convention regarding Russia’s legal passage through the Turkish Straits.  A Greek Orthodox strategic Mediterranean collapse would be the ultimate strategic and irreversible failure of the Russian Republic.

So working backwards from the singular strategic goal of protecting the Greek Orthodox Greece/Cyprus Mediterranean arc, Russia’s best strategic action would have been to allow a splintered shattered Syria with neither Turkey nor Iran in an entrenched enhanced position.  And as a corollary, Russia needs Israel as the absolute and overwhelming Eastern Mediterranean military power acting as the in situ order of battle and quietly protecting Israel’s Levant Basin gas-partner, Greek Cyprus.

Instead, what happened? President Obama and the Iranian Qasem Soleimani lured Russia into Syria by stoking Lavrov’s and Putin’s fatal weakness – the delusion that they are still the Foreign Minister and Tsar of the Soviet Union.  Obama knew Russia’s entry into Syria would bring total victory for Iran.  That’s exactly why President Obama enticed Putin into Syria.  A sucker is born every day. In this case, two suckers were born when Putin and Lavrov committed to their Syrian debacle.

Predictably, what hath FM Lavrov wrought to Putin and Russia in Syria? The exact opposite of a splintered ineffectual weakened Syria!  Russia’s entry into Syria has, to the north, emboldened Turkey into a neo-Ottoman Empire campaign, and to the east, has metastasized Iran into a trans-regional behemoth that laughs at Russia as it commits genocidal war-crimes against the Sunnis.

When one goes to sleep with dogs, one wakes up with fleas. When Lavrov and Putin went to sleep with the genocidal terrorist state of Iran, Lavrov and Putin woke up with war-crime referrals.

In conclusion, Putin and Russia’s best course of action is to allow America and Israel to clean up the mess Lavrov has made of Syria. Lavrov keeps loudly frothing about the importance of the “territorial integrity” of Syria, when he should be quietly enabling the territorial disintegration of Syria.

It is in the best interests of Russia to allow America and Israel to annihilate Iranian and Hezbollah assets in Syria and Lebanon as quickly and completely as they can.  Russia’s ultimate strategic interest in protecting Cyprus, and Russia’s access to world banking and the Mediterranean Sea depend on it.

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Any 2-state peace plan rewards Palestinian Arab terror

Trump's plan or any other plan must not reward those who pay terrorists in proportion to how many they kill.

Published on March 5, 2018 by Mark

AIPAC’s CEO has come out for the two-state solution, but more important, there are rumblings that the Trump Administration is close to unveiling its own Peace Plan.  From the snippets one hears in the media, chances are it will resemble the 1967 Allon Plan which incorporated the Jordan Valley into Israel and ceded Western Samaria, and Western Judea to some sort of Palestinian Arab State along with an extra-territorial corridor to the Gaza Strip.

While the Trump Administration has been the greatest American administration ever, such a plan is not only in the worst interests of Israel, it is first and foremost in the worst interests of the United States because Islamic terrorists will see any reward of the Palestinian Arab Terror Authority as an American sanction and legitimization of violent terror as a successful and legal tool.

For example, despite President Trump himself stating that the Palestinian Authority must stop paying terrorists and/or their terror families money for committing heinous violent terror acts, the Palestinians and Abbas himself have rejected such requests out of hand.  On May 23, 2017, President Trump said, “Peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded. We must be resolute in condemning such acts in a single unified voice.” Well, what has happened since?  The Palestinian Terror Authority has blithely continued terror payments for genocidal Palestinian murderers.

To add an exclamation point to the issue of terror payments, on August 23, 2017, it was reported that the chairman of the Palestinian Arab Terror Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, at a meeting with Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, rejected American demands that he stop using foreign financial aid to pay stipends and salaries to the families of jailed Palestinian terrorists. In fact, the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Quds reported that Abbas’ response was to “inform Kushner that he would never stop paying these salaries until his dying day, even if this cost him the presidency.”

Now, the perverse genocidal reality of Palestinian Arab politics is that as long as Abbas continues the terror payments to his coterie of genocidal murderers, his leadership position is relatively safe.  The second Abbas even hints he will stop the terror payments, he might not live out the day, let alone continue as the Palestinian Arab leader.  By the Palestinian Arabs’ constant self-teaching of Israeli-Jew hatred, they have turned themselves into bastions of hate who live to murder Israelis.  Take for example the two female Israeli soldiers that took a wrong turn into a Palestinian Authority city and were almost lynched by the locals.

Or how about the Palestinian Arabs who voted more for Hamas than Fatah in the parliamentary elections? The Palestinian Arabs know both Hamas and Fatah want Israel’s annihilation and the genocide of the 6 million Jews of Israel.  The only difference is Hamas is explicitly for the Israeli genocide, while Fatah is tacitly for an Israeli genocide.  Nevertheless, the Palestinian Arab majority voted for Hamas’ explicit call for Israeli genocide.

This brings us back to the simple American demand that the Palestinian Arab Terror Authority stop making its terror payments since the American taxpayer is substantially footing the bill for those payments. It was reported by Haaretz on June 13, 2017 that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified in the Senate “that the Palestinian Authority has changed its policy of paying families of convicted terrorists, and intends to stop supporting them as a result of pressure from the Trump administration.” It was further reported that, “in reply to a question from Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) on these payments, Tillerson said that the issue “was discussed directly with [Palestinian] President Abbas when he made his visit to Washington.”

Abbas was in the White House in early May, and according to Tillerson, President Trump talked to him about the controversial payments. “The president raised it, and I had a bilateral meeting with [Abbas] later and I told him – you absolutely have to stop this,” Tillerson said.  He [Tillerson] then went on to say that the Palestinians have in fact changed their policy: “They have changed that policy and their intent is to cease the payments to the families of those who have committed murder or violence against others. We have been very clear with them that this is simply not acceptable to us.”

But, we already know, 

Abbas on August 23, 2017 two months after Tillerson testified that the Palestinian Terror Authority had “changed their policy” stated that the terror payment policy will never change. Share on X

As long as the Palestinian Arabs are brainwashing and paying their citizens to murder Israelis, how is the United States coming up with a “Peace Plan” to give the Palestinian Terror Authority anything?  How is the Palestinian Authority any different than ISIS?  Would President Trump give ISIS land in a “Peace Deal” while they are slitting peoples’ throats and paying the murderers?

In fact,

any floating of a Trump “Peace Deal” giving anything to the Palestinian Arabs will appear to ISIS and Islamist crazies world over as a Trump sanction and reward for Palestinian genocidal terrorism. Share on X

Such an American sanction and reward for Islamic terrorism will only incentivize other Islamic terrorists to murder American citizens all over the world.

Hence, instead of the Trump Administration rewarding the Palestinian Arabs for their institutionalized terror spree, there should be a complete cut-off of every penny America sends to the bloodthirsty Palestinian Arab Terror Authority.

For every penny America gives the Palestinian Authority is a sanction to Islamic terrorists all over the world that America sanctions and rewards Islamic terror murder.

Therefore,

any Trump “Peace Plan” that gives anything to the Palestinian Authority is in the worst national interests of the United States. Share on X

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Diamond & Silk Praise Israel at the “Truth About Israel” Gala Dinner

Published on February 26, 2018 by Mark

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Published on February 26, 2018 by Mark

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How Trump has made Israel’s leftist generals look like rank fools

No one needs to have an Israeli security clearance to monitor what the Palestinian leaders are saying about their obssessive desire to murder every Israeli in Tel Aviv.

Published on February 22, 2018 by Mark

They talk in their thick Israeli self-assured accents, and are introduced to American and Israeli Jewish audiences as “Israel Generals” who “know Israel security.” These leftist Israeli former IDF officers have propagated the Big Lie claiming that there is a Two-state solution to the Palestinian Arab problem, to millions of all-to-eager to be duped Jews:

They are the “Gatekeepers.” There was even a movie made about them and their military advice.

Enter US President Donald J. Trump, who makes a simple objective declaration that Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel. And what happens? PA President Abbas begins to say in English what he has been saying in Arabic- namely, that Tel Aviv is also “occupied territory.” But the Israeli generals always knew what Abbas was saying in Arabic, so they knew the Two-State solution was a fraud to begin with. This group of Israeli generals, on whose opinions Israeli and American Jews have relied for life-and-death decisions about Israel must know that what they are saying is delusionary.

No one needs to have an Israeli security clearance to monitor what the Palestinian leaders are saying about their obssessive desire to murder every Israeli in Tel Aviv. All one needs to do is subscribe to Palestinian Media Watch, or PMW. Itamar Marcus has single-handedly done with a shoe-string budget what the Israel government didn’t do with millions of dollars: Just translate exactly what the Palestinian leaders/terrorists have been openly saying in Arabic. They don’t want Judea, Samaria and Gaza, they want Tel Aviv and Netanya and they want to murder every last Jew who dares to remain when, as they hope, they begin their Jihad murder spree.

All Abbas’ recent rantings at the UN about Israel as a “colony,” that Israel occupied Palestine in 1948, not 1967, about the UN Resolution 181 and the “right of return” into Tel Aviv for the 7 million claimed Palestinian “refugees” is merely a repetition of what Abbas has been saying for years. It’s just that the left-wing Generals thought of themselves as imbued with messianic visions that ordinary human beings didn’t possess.

What’s worse is despite Abbas’ genocidal ravings about erasing Israel from the map with the clear intention of murdering another 6 million Jews in Israel, these leftist Israeli generals are still touting the Two-State solution. Are they suicidal?. Are they getting paid by leftist-American Jews who think Israel is expendable or a laboratory guinea pig?

Look at a January 4, 2013 statement by Mahmoud Abbas: “We must remember the pioneers – the Grand Mufti.”. In 1939, before there was a State of Israel, before there was a ‘West Bank’, there was Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the British appointed Palestine Mufti who wanted nothing other than to murder every last Jew and Englishmen in what was then the Palestine mandate.

Al-Hussieni went on to foment the genocidal murder of 600 Jews in Bagdad in a pogrom when the pro-Nazi coup was quelled by England. Al-Husseini then met with Adolf Hitler who at their meeting on November 28, 1941 promised the “total destruction” of the Jews. And then the next day, November 29, Heydrich sent out the invitations to the Wannsee Conference where the Final Solution was said to have been officially formulated and implemented. The genocidal Nazi plan to mass-murder Jews is inextricably intertwined with the genocidal Palestinian plan to mass-murder Jews. The problem is the leftist Israeli generals think that despite all evidence to the contrary, they have the silver bullet. In reality, the Two-State Solution “bullet” is aimed at the State of Israel and its 6 million Jewish inhabitants.

These generals think that if their “solution” doesn’t work out, they can reinvade the ‘West Bank’ just as they invaded it in 1967. They’re reliving the glory of the 1967 war, instead of understanding the fact fact that 2018 is not 1967. But whether they are fools or traitors for money, the bottom line is they need to be exposed for the lies they are spewing and the infecting of Jewish minds. There is a reason no Israeli Leftist general would ever debate me: I would expose them for the military frauds that they are. But, time is short. There may be another election soon. Everyone has to study and be prepared to expose these talking heads for the frauds that they are.

It’s a testament to President Trump’s truth in diplomacy that one obvious declaration of reality has shown these Leftist Israeli generals up as the rank fools that they are.

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Putin: Grand deal now, or Syrian bust

Putin has to act now or Russia will implode.

Published on February 17, 2018 by Mark

In December 2017, Putin proudly stated to Russian servicemen in the western Syrian Hmeimim Air Base, “In just over two years, Russia’s armed forces and the Syrian army have defeated the most battle-hardened group of international terrorists.”  It’s three months later, and Putin’s all-too-rosy December 2017 “mission accomplished” has melted in the February 2018 reality that the “mission has just started.” What’s worse is that when it comes to Iran, Putin has realized he created an Islamic Frankenstan that now threatens the very elements that brought Russia into the Syria war to begin with: To control Syria. Putin needs to cut a Grand Deal with Trump immediately, before Russian’s Syria venture explodes in his face.

In the current state of Russian-American meltdown, how can such a Grand Deal be made?  There is the Mueller probe, the Ukraine, sanctions, aggressive Russian military moves, NATO expansion.  Where to start?


Putin has dug himself into a deep economic and strategic catastrophe.

 

Putin has dug himself into a deep economic and strategic catastrophe.  A recent article related that while an average salary in in Russia is now roughly $670 a month, Russia is paying its unofficial mercenaries in Syria $4,600 a month. The $670 Russian domestic wage in comparison with the  $4,600 paid for being in the Syrian death warrant chasm is the ultimate indictment of Putin as a total failure, in domestic as well as international affairs.  It is a symptom of the approaching total collapse and implosion of Russia. Putin is paying $4,600 a month to soldiers who will ignominiously and anonymously die in an undeclared international war with no real Russian strategic goal and domestically, Putin’s citizens can’t find a job in Mother-Russia for an eighth of the Syrian salary. This is a symptom of total system failure that Putin ignores at his own peril.

Where to start?  Russia must take the first step and cede all of eastern Syria to the United States’ Syrian allies.  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Larov recently attacked the US for recent steps that he claimed “look more and more like a part of a course to create a quasi-state of sorts on a large chunk of Syrian territory.  Autonomous, independent from Damascus governing bodies are being created in this territory, money keeps flowing there to keep them functional. Law enforcement, created there, is receiving weaponry.”

Putin must realize that FM Lavrov has been completely wrong on Syria from the start.  Putin should do the exact opposite of what FM Lavrov says about Syria.  Tell FM Larvov he should welcome the US creating a safe area in Syria.  Next, tell Russia military, on the ground, to refuse all operations remotely east of the Euphrates River and south of Damascus.  In the air, ignore any Israeli or American planes.  Putin has to tell Syria and Iran that he didn’t buy into their Shiite Empire and isn’t going to defend it.

America’s attempting to topologically cut Iran’s military path from Iran to the Mediterranean Sea is in the best interests of both America and Russia.

Is an neo-Safividic Iranian Empire spanning from east Iran through to Lebanon, the ‘West Bank’ and Gaza in the best strategic interests of Russia?  Of course not!  So, Russia must realize that it has been in the wrong direction on Syria and partner with the United States to bring Syria into a peaceful period without Iran or Hezbollah.

Next, Putin’s got to stop all these ludicrous close-encounters-of-a-Russian kind with American military assets has got to stop ASAP.  It seems every week there is another “unprofessional” encounter with a Russian plane somewhere.  What’s the point?  Does Putin want an American-Russian military mid-air collision?

Third, Putin has got to signal Crimea, East Ukraine with some type of extra-territorial link to Transnistria in Eastern Moldova is Russia’s sole strategic interest, nothing else. Is Russia really going to attempt a Cold War invasion of Europe?  No.  So, just openly sketch out what exactly Russia seeks to control, and work on a final resolution.

Once, Russia has ceded Syria, and delimited the Ukraine/Transnistria conflict, America can break its sanctions and have a true peace between Russia and America.

In short, after all the smoke Russia has created, Russia has got to show it is not a revanchist 20th century strategic fire, but instead, a 21st Century strategic ally against the waxing and menacing Islamistic threat to Western Civilization.  FM Lavrov should start doing his job and protect Russia and Putin instead of acting like a prima donna with no script.  If FM Lavrov doesn’t understand what side of Russia’s bread is buttered, Putin should take a line from President Trump, and tell FM Lavrov “You’re fired!.”

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