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Copenhagen Climate Scene – Yet another Gimmick? – Dr. Abdul Ruff

Copenhagen Climate Scene – Yet another Gimmick?
– Dr. Abdul Ruff

1. THE ISSUE

The NATO/US led ISTs (international state terrorists) cause the acceleration of deadly pollution of atmosphere by destructions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan and elsewhere, while the natural global warming emissions pursued by most of the nations and resultant rising sea levels resulting from anti-climate human activity, remain the continuous reason for the climate change. Tormented by financial conflicts, the 15th U.N. Climate Change Conference being held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from Dec. 7-18, calls world leaders to Copenhagen next week to address global warming and emissions reductions. The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) seeks a reduction of carbon emissions by industrialized countries, methods of financing developing countries’ emissions reductions, and management of the funding. Representatives of 192 countries have been invited to meet in Copenhagen to attempt to reach a global consensus on tackling climate change. The highest emitters are USA, China, Russia and India.

According to WWF International, the 160-page document, called the Copenhagen Climate Treaty, was completed in June 2009 after nearly a year of work. It has been “distributed to negotiators from 192 states,” and shows “balanced and credible climate solutions based on equity and science. The treaty was reworked “into a concise paper called the Real Deal for Copenhagen” in October. In late November, Denmark drafted a climate pact in preparation for Copenhagen. The pact calls for the world to “halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels. The pact also stipulates that wealthy nations “account for 80 percent of the global emission cuts.” Noticeably absent from the draft was poorer countries’ request for short-term emissions goals for wealthy nations. China and India have said they oppose agreeing to the halved emissions goal unless wealthy world powers “take the lead by setting far tougher reductions by 2020.

The global average temperature has already risen by about 0.7C since pre-industrial times. In some parts of the world this is already having impacts – and a Copenhagen deal could not stop those impacts, although it could provide funding to help deal with some of the consequences. Greenhouse gases such as CO2 stay in the atmosphere for decades; and concentrations are already high enough that further warming is almost inevitable. Many analyses suggest an average rise of 1.5C since pre-industrial times is guaranteed. The Earth’s climate has always changed naturally over time. For example, variability in our planet’s orbit alters its distance from the Sun, which has given rise to major Ice Ages and intervening warmer periods. According to the last IPCC report, it is more than 90% probable that humankind is largely responsible for modern-day climate change. The principal cause is burning fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas. This produces carbon dioxide (CO2), which – added to the CO2 present naturally in the Earth’s atmosphere – acts as a kind of blanket, trapping more of the Sun’s energy and warming the Earth’s surface. Deforestation and processes that release other greenhouse gases such as methane also contribute. Although the initial impact is a rise in average temperatures around the world – “global warming” – this also produces changes in rainfall patterns, rising sea levels, changes to the difference in temperatures between night and day, and so on. This more complex set of disturbances has acquired the label “climate change” – sometimes more accurately called “anthropogenic (human-made) climate change”.

In general, fossil fuels provide us with our cheapest sources of energy. The main route to reducing greenhouse gas emissions is to avoid burning fossil fuels; so a successful treaty would almost certainly make energy more expensive. There are different analyses of how much it would cost to make this transition quickly enough to avert “dangerous” climate change. Many countries are thinking about how to prepare for the impacts of climate change – what sorts of adaptation will be necessary. These include measures such as building sea defences, securing fresh water supplies and developing new crop varieties. Developing countries are looking for substantial and reliable finance to help them adapt. Their argument is that as the industrialised world has caused the problem, it must pay to sort it out. Measures to protect forests will be a component of the deal.

Global governments want a new treaty that is bigger, bolder, wider-ranging and more sophisticated than the Kyoto agreement. In June, the G8 and a number of large developing countries agreed that the average temperature rise since pre-industrial times should be limited to 2C (3.6F). In principle, they are looking to the Copenhagen treaty to curb the growth in greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep the world within that limit. The Copenhagen talks sit within the framework of the UNFCCC, established at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. In 1997, the UNFCCC spawned the Kyoto Protocol. But neither of these agreements can curb the growth in greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to avoid the climate impacts projected by the IPCC. In particular, the Kyoto Protocol’s targets for reducing emissions apply only to a small set of countries and expire in 2012.

A lot of issues are involved. Industrialized nations set targets for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions in order to mitigate climate change. The key date for these commitments is 2020, although some countries are looking beyond that, to 2050. Australia, the EU, Japan and New Zealand have already said what they are prepared to do by 2020. Richer developing countries are also likely to be asked to constrain their emissions. If they do make any pledges, they are likely to restrain the growth of emissions rather than making actual cuts. Developing countries are looking for money in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars each year for mitigation – the ballpark figure that the International Energy Agency calculates is necessary to fund a large-scale switch to low-carbon energy. Many island nations are the affected parties threatened by rising sea levels and Commonwealth leaders met days after pledges by the US and China to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, amid concerns that December’s Copenhagen meeting on climate change could fail to agree substantial cuts. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told a news conference in Trinidad that the Commonwealth – representing a third of the world’s population – believed “the time for action on climate change has come”.

There has been a rather, futile attempt from the climate polluting states to use global media to make climate change less important and not dangerous at all now. They say that temperatures are not rising anymore. One of the main reasons why governments decided two years ago to draw up a new global agreement on climate change was a major report published just before that year’s UN climate summit in Bali. This was the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the distillation of research into climate past and present, melting ice, atmospheric changes, dates of bird migrations and harvests, projections of future social and economic development, in fact any field that could throw light on how the climate was changing and how it might change over the next century, and what implications that carried for humankind and the natural world. The broad outline, though, deviates little from the IPCC’s conclusions -unequivocal evidence of warming, more than 90% likelihood that humanity’s emissions of greenhouse gases were principally to blame, projections of temperature and sea level rise, declining crop yields, mountain glacier melt, and considerable damage to ecosystems and the human economy.

2. CLIMATE & FUND

The greedy industrialized nations have harmed the genuine global atmospheric interests. The rift between developing countries and their industrialized counterparts, poverty and war has always been advantageous for the strong nations. Previous conferences got the ball rolling on awareness of climate change, but did not set legally enforced standards because the top polluters played dirty politics. The US Congress’s inability to enact climate and energy legislation that sets binding targets” on greenhouse gas emissions was one of the “chief barriers” to what might have been a “comprehensive deal in Copenhagen.” An atmosphere of distrust has already been established between rich and poor countries regarding climate change funding. In 2001, several rich nations pledged $410 million per year, from 2005-2008, to developing countries for climate change, but hardly any forward step was initiated to implement the promise. The European Union got removed lines in the negotiating text for the summit that stressed “that climate change aid comes on top of existing development aid.” Charity organizations considered the move potentially devastating to the Copenhagen talks.
Commonwealth leaders at a recent meeting have backed a multi-billion-dollar plan to help developing nations to deal with climate change and cut greenhouse gases. The fund, proposed by UK and French leaders at the Commonwealth summit on Friday, would start next year and build to $10bn annually by 2012.. Leaders also called for the strongest possible outcome at next month’s climate change summit in Copenhagen. They unanimously agreed to seek a legally binding international agreement, but accepted that “a full legally binding outcome” might have to wait to 2010. Commonwealth leaders welcomed the initiative to establish, as part of a comprehensive agreement, a Copenhagen Launch Fund starting in 2010 and building to a level of resources of $10 billion annually by 2012. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said half the $10bn fund should go towards helping developing nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and the other half towards helping them adapt to climate change.

The first cash would be made available next year, he said, before any emissions deal could take effect. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the Commonwealth is showing that “you can find some common ground amidst countries that are very different, large and small, rich and poor, and that climate change is an issue that affects us all, and “fast start funding” for adaptation should be focused on the most vulnerable countries to assist the poorest and most vulnerable countries, to cope with, and adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. In order to help developing countries constrain their greenhouse gas emissions, industrialised nations have agreed in principle to help them in areas such as renewable energy. Their commitments are likely to be expressed in terms of a reduction in emissions growth of a certain percentage compared with “business as usual”. A number of studies, including one by the World Bank, also suggest that a further $100bn per year or thereabouts will be needed to help poorer countries adapt. By comparison, the amount of overseas aid currently given each year by rich countries is in the region of $100bn. That neatly illustrates the greatest threat to a global deal, many countries will only make binding concessions if every other nation also gives ground. Speaking earlier at the summit, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he believed an agreement was in sight, with recent moves by some countries a positive step to cutting emissions. Developing countries are looking for mechanisms that can speed up this technology transfer.

The world’s big powers, including USA and China, the largest culprits in contaminating the atmospheric air, followed by India, have been stating their objectives and making diplomatic efforts ahead of the Conference in Copenhagen. China, the world’s top emitter at par with USA, together with India, Brazil and South Africa rejected core targets for a climate deal such as halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 just days before talks start in Copenhagen on 07 Dec and they demand that richer nations do more and have drawn “red lines” limiting what they themselves would accept. India said that India’s offer would be conditional on other countries sharing the burden. The four rejected key targets proposed by the Danish climate talks hosts in a draft text — halving global greenhouse gases by 2050, setting a 2020 deadline for a peak in world emissions, and limiting global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.

The USA has the dubious honor of being the world’s other top polluter. In a break with his predecessor G. W. Bush, Barack Obama takes the issue of man-made global warming seriously. The EU is keen to be seen as a standard bearer for the reduction of greenhouse gasses. At the end of October the EU identified that developing nations need help to the tune of 100 billion euros per year to reduce their emissions – but failed to agree on how this aid could be achieved. EU countries have pledged to reduce their emissions by 20% by 2020 (based on 1990 levels), a figure that could climb to 30% depending on the outcome of the Copenhagen summit. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made the reduction of greenhouse gases one of his top diplomatic priorities.
US President Barack Obama’s presence is an expression of the growing political momentum towards sealing an ambitious climate deal in Copenhagen The US president had changed his plans after talks with other leaders and after seeing “the progress that has already been made to give momentum to negotiations”. US representatives will attend the Copenhagen summit throughout negotiations. It said the president believed recent progress included the emissions reduction target announced by the US; China and India setting targets for the first time to reduce their carbon intensity and moves by members of the Commonwealth. The White House said the president had discussed the state of the negotiations with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He concluded there appeared to be growing support for the suggested $10bn annual fund to help developing countries deal with climate change.

Obama needs to reconcile the expectations of the international community with realities at home. Obama’s stated objectives are to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 17% by 2020, then 30% by 2025 and 42% by 2030 (based on 2005 levels). But this needs to be approved by Congress which will be responsible for passing climate legislation. The US House of Representatives only narrowly approved these figures in June and the Senate has only just begun looking at them. China, one of the world’s biggest polluters, has always refused to impose fixed targets for emissions reduction in order to protect its economic growth. But now China has unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions, laying out a carbon intensity goal (the amount of carbon dioxide emitted for each unit of economic output) that premier Wen Jiabao will take to the climate talks as his government’s central commitment. The carbon intensity goal highlights China’s commitment both to the environment and to continued economic growth. The global warming agenda is being funded with tens of billions of dollars as a mechanism to create global governance. Hear from congressmen, experts and even well-known news broadcasters how global governance puts global institutions that are not accountable to the American people in control of every aspect of US economy.

Meanwhile the Danish regime is making arrest arrangement of the protesters. Danish Cops Prepare “Dog Kennel” for Copenhagen Protesters 346 people are to be held in the 37 cages in the old brewery storage facilities of world wide Danish corporation Carlsberg. They are protesting heavily against vaccines and the wars. Most people were also against the formation of the EU. Moreover the Danish parliament Folketinget recently passed legislation – which enables the police to conduct preemptive arrests on the sole assumption – that the person has criminal intend. The Danish police states that carrying an ordinary scarf or headdress in a bag – is considered an evidence of criminal intend. This is a surprise to some – because of the generally cold Danish winter weather. In ending it is relevant to add that the Danish police have announced that they will stop and arrest all passengers on busses loaded with demonstrators as far as 350 km from Copenhagen. Demonstrators against “COP 15″ are called “climate thugs” throughout the Danish mainstream media. Martin Kaiser, Greenpeace International’s political climate coordinator, said in a statement: “After a global outcry, President Obama has come to his senses and accepted the importance of this potentially historic meeting.”

3. POST SCRIPT

One is not sure if the world’s advanced nations causing pollution through emissions make a mockery of impending climatic disaster, but the would be affected nations have already, like Maldives, have expressed their anguish and anger at the slow decision making processes in this regard. World economic powers, inducing advanced capitalists, have extracted yet another venue in the name climate change to discuss their trade deficits and decide the weapons deals. Under G20 plus forum the advanced econmies along with middle ones gather to woo the countries like India to cut their emissions. In the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on 05 December, the main players have revealed their stated objectives for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

The Copenhagen summit aims to draw up a treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Talks in Copenhagen aimed at establishing a new global treaty on climate change are expected to come out with some new ideas. Two years ago, at the UN climate talks held in Bali, governments agreed to start work on a new global agreement. The Copenhagen talks mark the end of that two-year period. Governments hope to leave the Danish capital having completed the new deal. The talks are technically known as the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – often abbreviated to COP15. Of course, the Commonwealth does not give any lead to the world on climate change, as the Queen urged when she opened this summit. So, it doesn’t mean the Commonwealth has failed. The wording looks cautious but realistic. It is the breakdown in global negotiations which threatens to sink a strong deal. The Commonwealth Climate Declaration does emphasize that “an internationally binding agreement is essential” but then concedes in the next sentence that “a full legally binding outcome” will have to wait until 2010. There does seem to have been some meeting of minds at the Commonwealth on the global fund to distribute money from rich countries to the developing countries to help them adapt and pay for low-carbon alternatives. Poorer countries can start to see the money now, with the promise of payouts starting soon after a global treaty is agreed.

World is looking forward to Copenhagen meet with a lot of enthusiasm. The majority of the world’s governments believe that climate change poses a threat to human society and to the natural world. Successive scientific reports, notably those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have come to ever firmer conclusions about humankind’s influence on the modern-day climate, and about the impacts of rising temperatures. Currently, the cuts pledged by industrialized nations are not enough to halt the overall global rise in emissions. Whatever happens in Copenhagen, further meetings will almost certainly be necessary to finalise the “rules” of any new treaty. Further ahead, at some point governments will almost certainly begin the process of securing the deal after Copenhagen. A strong Copenhagen deal might keep the temperature rise under 2C; but given uncertainties in how the atmosphere and oceans respond to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases, it might not. This is why developing countries put such an emphasis on adaptation, which they argue is necessary already. IPCC figures suggest that to have a reasonable chance of avoiding 2C, global emissions would need to peak and start to decline within about 15-20 years.

Almost every government attending the talks says it wants a deal; and many contend it is necessary to have the essential ingredients in place by the time the Kyoto Protocol’s current targets expire in 2012. But in the weeks leading up to Copenhagen, it has become clear that a full, legally-binding treaty is not possible, with a number of key players suggesting something less ambitious is indicated given the immense amount of detail remaining to be worked out and the fact that the US is not in a position to make firm pledges on mitigating its own emissions or on providing financial support to the developing world. A political agreement appears more likely, with attempts to secure a legally-binding treaty deferred until some point in 2010. It all depends on big guys among G20. The USA is expected to play a major role in Copenhagen.

Today, US-led North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) are engaged in illegal terror wars in Islamic world and all western powers are ill-focused on Islam, help enhance Islmophobia around the world with media lords playing dirty terror politics. G20 has become the global point in the fight against the economic crisis and generally they focus more on trade and financial issues and, after the sumptuous lunch and fantastic photo session, have very little time, patience or scope for any credible resolution of climate change. All big summits are used for promoting terror wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Copenhagen would be used for leaders of IST to get more terror troop commitments for killing Afghans in their own, country occupied by US-led NATO. Copenhagen summit cannot be different from the rule and the realists speculate on the outcome of this climate summit and its relevance for the deadly atmospheric issue. Would then a detailed Copenhagen deal solve climate change?

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Indian cricket Trade By Dr. Abdul Ruff

Younis Khan must return to Team

As it is widely known, India plays negative cricketing making it almost a part of nuclearism deals. Of late, Indian thirst for Kashmiri blood and fame has reached such an extent its extremist, fanatic media cannot tolerate any defeat anywhere whether in Kashmir or in cricket field because it spends huge resources and its lobbies beg around the world. The ongoing Srilanka-Indo cricket test series exposes yet again the fact that it has been the common practice to purchase runs in package or individual bits like 50s, 100s, 200s and more hundreds as well as wickets of some select batsmen and or crucial wickets to win a match or series. It is another story that even with all help form th eoppoentns some batsmen suddenly fall to ground. One does not know the price of Sankakara who willingly throws away his bat as if his bat is too slippery; and he apparently becomes restless and desperate to return to the pavilion by hitting wrong, awkward shots exposing himself and his team. When the captain plays against the team in favor of the opponents neither Sri Lanka nor cricket can be saved. India also sells wicket and offers 100s and 50s on payment basis. Younis Khan does not play even after shedding his captaincy and perhaps he is damn sure his opponents just ill-focused on his bat and does not know how to score runs against odds. Hence he refuses to play but hat is not good at all. Khan should shed his inferiority baggage and return to the team. He can undermine the fact that all great batsmen have been helped by opponents bowlers, on prior arrangement by the cricket mafia or between the countries concerned or by mutual understanding b among/between them. Now what is happening in India between Lankans and Indians is a case in point. Watch carefully. Obviously, truth does not offer any honey taste! Nor does Kashmiri blood make Indian Hindus any intelligent.

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By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

abdulruff_jnu@yahoo.com

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Zionism and Obamaism: One and the Same? – Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Zionism and Obamaism: One and the Same?
– Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Part- One

Even since Barack Obama assumed US presidency early this year, Israeli terror Mossad agents in USA and the local Pentagon-CIA outfits have been making strenuous efforts to make Obama as bad as his immediate predecessors in resolving international conflicts, especially on Palestine. Israel almost has made Obama look like a criminal. At one level, it still looks Zionism and Obamaism cannot go hand in hand as they have got opposite objectives in setting: Obama seeks peace while Zionist leadership pursues its favorite fascist goals. At another, Obama has not essentially changed any of the Bushdom evil policies, notwithstanding his recurring rhetoric for world peace and disarmament, while Zionism is deadly against any peaceful situation any where in the world because that would hamper its roaring arms trade plus make the case easier for the Palestinians to push for total sovereignty from the Mideastern Zionist fascism. Obama needs to assured that unless he sheds all Neocons terror cum energy ideas, he would also stand along with Bushes Sr. and Jr. in war criminals courts.

The Zionist regime, possessing illegal nukes, possibly supplied by the anti-Islamic terror Hindu strategic partners, without the knowledge of world bodies charged with the task of monitoring and controlling of nuclear proliferation, has always projected the Iran’s nuclear ambition as the serious threat to Israel and world. Israel has done this for years now in order to keep occupied Palestine under its terrible feet. World events have recently taken an interesting turn, with the Goldstone Report, which wreaked havoc in the beginning of the week being nearly completely overshadowed by Iran’s revelation of another nuclear facility, according to diplomats in Vienna on September 25. The Iranian nuclear threat is being highlighted repeatedly by both USA and Israel, less by European powers. The issue was raised even by US President Barack Obama during a UN speech on September 23, and then by Israeli Prime killer Benjamin Netanyahu the next day, he came armed with maps and relentlessly invoked falsified Holocaust memories.

USA has not yet asked India to dismantle all nuclear materials plus the nukes before considering for any real bilateral nuclear or other ties. Both terror India and fascist Israel argue for the continued genocides of Muslims in all Muslims nations under western occupation, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq and seek to put Iran under tremendous pressure so that India could fetch some subsidized energy resources, while Israel could use Iran as a threat to kill some more Palestinians. As before, the CIA-Mossad-Pentagon terror combine was quick enough to reveal the Iran’s new nuclear facility so as to enable the pro-Israeli and anti-Islamic US congress controlled by the notorious Bush Republican Party to reject the report thereby diluting the report’s seriousness and support the Zionist regime’s holocaust. This charade was meant to distract from the nearly 600-page UN report – prepared by South Africa judge Richard Goldstone and others – dedicated mostly to Dec-Jan Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Confirming that Israel wantonly used weapons, including illegal weapons, against a defenseless civilian population in Gaza, and going so far to say that Israel did not only commit war crimes, but indeed may have also committed crimes against humanity, the findings of the report were all fell by the wayside. USA under the Democratic Party rule also has done exactly the same as the Republican outfits did in their era.

Sadly enough, President Obama’s double-speak, even if unintended, has given some, much awaited, hopes in the opposite camps across camp. The Obama administration’s foreign policy is creating some confusion even among the anti-Islamic strategists. On the one hand, the Obama’s “open hand” approach has perplexed them, on the other that Obama keeps close to his chest his own ideas that continue to puzzles them. The Obama administration has acknowledged Iran ’s right to enrich uranium, the right to self-existence; Iran has agreed to transform much of its uranium into material that is not weapons-grade. It’s a small step, to be sure, and the Neocons, who refuse to die and still roam about the US corridors of power through media, would like to see ample opportunity for Iran and the USA to clash. Obama’s engagement approach in Geneva with Iran finally bore fruit, because both have the will to negotiate fruitfully. Both multilateral and face-to-face between Iran and the USA produced an agreement that at least temporarily keeps additional sanctions at bay. Iran will permit inspections of its new uranium enrichment facility near Qom . And it will send much of its low-enriched uranium outside the country, first to Russia and then to France, for further enrichment before returning to Iran for use in medical research. It was accepted by the USA, but because Iran would be placed under outside controls. Then Iran has second thoughts- and rightly so Tehran cannot trust these anti-Islamic terror states that betrayed Saddam Hussein and got him killed by American terrorists. . .

After failing to pressure successfully to create the report in favor of Israeli terrorism and its rights to kills Palestinians, the Goldstone report was utterly rebuked by Netanyahu and his ilk, arrogantly disregarded and shelved. Concurrently, Israel’s official statement regarding the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) pressure on Israel to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was that Israel “deplored” such a notion. The Israeli conceit may be redundant, but is as ever infuriating. Many of Israel’s devoted supporters accused the Goldstone mission of fabricating conclusions. Therefore, yet again, Israel unhesitatingly established that they it is above the international law, above UN and UNSC, ICJ, promptly and successfully turning the world’s attention to the greater menace, Iran.

Obama makes statements and then talks less about them, slows down his actions and the result is Obama rhetoric is not appreciated by them either. He has not spoken what he wants to do in Islamic nations under American occupation now. Anti-Islamic and pro-GST rogues, Hamid Karzai has been puppeted back to power in occupied Afghanistan though he employed nothing but fraud in the polls to help the NATO rogue states to showcase their terror legitimacy over the nation of Afghans. Voter turnout data kept confidential by the United Nations’ chief envoy in Kabul In southern Helmand province — where 134,804 votes were recorded, 112,873 of them for President Karzai — the United Nations estimated that just 38,000 people voted, and possibly as few as 5,000, according to a U.N. spreadsheet obtained by The Washington Post. The disclosure of the data seems likely to worsen a credibility crisis for the U.N. special envoy, who is already facing allegations that he sided with Karzai, after Afghanistan’s disputed August presidential election show that in some provinces the official vote count exceeded the estimated number of voters by 100,000 or more, providing further indication that the contest was marred by fraud.

Fanatic Israel keeps the ball, bluffs it is in Palestine court. Illegal Israeli settlers have been angered by the decision to limit building, although the Palestinians say it is not enough. They refuse to restart peace talks without a total freeze and are angry the policy does not include Jerusalem . Under the Israeli new policy, backed by the security cabinet on 25 Nov, permits for new homes in the West Bank will not be approved for 10 months. But municipal buildings and hundreds of houses already under construction will still be allowed to go ahead. Defence Minister Ehud Barak said construction would completed before the beginning of the 2010-11 school year. After approving the 28 educational institutions, Barak said: “Alongside our duty to be open and attentive to the settler public we must not confuse ourselves, the state means what it says.”

The Israeli leaders repeatedly say world should understand Israel’s internal problems on freeze of illegal settlements. But they say Palestinians will make their considerations based on internal considerations that “don’t need to concern us”. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Israel’s move was insignificant because current West Bank construction is not being stopped and the announcement by Israeli Prime Killerr Benjamin Netanyahu was aimed more toward appeasing American pressure than truly trying to reconcile with Palestinians. “At the end of the day Netanyahu needs to make peace with us, the Palestinians, he doesn’t need to make peace with Americans,” “If that is what he wants, that is his business. The last I know, Washington is 6,000 miles from Jerusalem, while Jericho is 67.”

The Palestinian Authority and some members of the international community, including Russia and the UK, want Israel to go further and include East Jerusalem. However, Israel does not consider Jerusalem occupied territory. Nevertheless, right-wing Israeli leaders have been angered by what they see as capitulation by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, and vowed to keep building. The chairman of the illegal settler terror group, the Yesha Council, Danny Dayan that Netanyahu had “betrayed the very principles for which he stood for all his life”.

“Everybody who asks whether the political echelon intends to fulfil its decision, I say, the answer is positive. This is a real test for the Israeli democracy,” he added. The row over settlements has dogged US President Barack Obama’s attempts to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians since he took office. Israel previously pledged to freeze all settlement activity under the 2003 Middle East peace plan known as the Roadmap, which also called on the Palestinian Authority to dismantle militant groups. However, the administration of former US President George W Bush did not pressure it to curtail building in the settlement blocs which it was widely expected to keep in any eventual deal.

Part- Two

The Jews in Israel are known for dirty tricks and endless tactics. However the PLO and Hamas retorted by saying the ball is still in the Zionist court. The Israeli comments came a day after Israel proposed a 10-month halt in West Bank settlement construction, which the Palestinians swiftly rejected because it did not include east Jerusalem.

The Zionist regime has so far encouraged the illegal settlers so much that now they are unwilling to stop those illegal activities saying whatever the Jews do is legal. Netanyahu also faces fierce opposition at home from pro-settler groups and even within his own right-wing coalition. That is quite natural and he has to do the enough to make them accept the truth about the fate of Palestinians under their illegal occupation and control. A leader of the West Bank settlers’ council pledged to continue building as much as possible. “We will do everything in our capacity to keep building, to keep developing our communities, and I am optimistic that we will prevail.” They know the Zionist regime is an illegal entity and still think it would protect all Jewish illegal activities in Palestine.

The fanatic Israeli regime, like Hindu India, takes undue advantage of the ongoing global state terrorism (GST). The Netanyahu Zionist regime pestering Germany for extra armaments and seeks stronger assurances from Chancellor Merkel about Western aims to impose stiffer sanctions on Iran unless it accepted a U.N. plan to rein in its atomic project by shipping its low-enriched uranium abroad. Merkel wanted to discuss with Netanyahu “the continuation of the Middle East peace process” by removing all illegal settlements by its terror campaigners inside Palestine. , alluding to Israeli-Palestinian talks stalled since last December. Germany has also been involved, alongside Egypt, in mediating a deal between Israel and Hamas on release of hundreds of Palestinians put in Israeli jails on false charges.

The foundation of Israel was advanced by the Zionist movement. Fascism, the crimes of Stalinism and finally the horrors of the Holocaust were utilized to legitimise the creation of Israel through the brutal suppression and forcible expulsion of the existing inhabitants of the region. Zionism has, ever since, acted as the major obstacle to the political development of the Palestinian working class.

The Zionists keep shifting their position on freezing their illegal settlements in Palestine . After announcing t a freeze on illegal settlements, they have approved school buildings inside Palestine for Jewish children who are taught to treat Palestinians as “terrorists” and Jews as innocent people occupying Palestinian lands new residential building. This has made a mockery of the Zionist regime’s moral standing today.

Except on Palestine issue, Israeli regime is trying to appease the Obama administration in a mild manner without losing anything tangibly in terms of lands and money, on the one hand, and keeping the split in Palestine- Fatah and Hamas. Israel ’s foreign terror minister Avigdor Lieberman said it is up to the Palestinians to decide whether to resume Middle East peace talks now that Israel has announced a settlement freeze. Lieberman, a settler himself, said Israel has gone as far as it could in its gestures toward Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Obama administration has been urging the sides to resume peace talks and said the Israeli move could help them do so. The Palestinians have refused to talk until all settlement construction ceases.

In view of divided Arab world and divided Palestinian movement into Fatah and Hamas , Israel is now in a bargaining position and hence tries sot dictate terms to Palestine . The Palestinians are confined to two separate militarised ghettos surrounded by Israel and subject to repeated bloody invasions, policed by rival security services and lorded over by a corrupt bourgeois layer that has grown fabulously wealthy while the workers and peasants are denied jobs, medical treatment, decent food and even access to clean water by Tel Aviv. Israel has consolidated its control of East Jerusalem and much of the West Bank ’s best land, vastly expanding settlements and, in the process, dividing the PA’s territories into numerous fragments by a system of roads, military checkpoints and the infamous “Security Wall.” Hamas merely projects a more radical form of protest, but does not go in realistic terms. The outcome represents the failure of Abbas, PLO, Palestinian movement, Arab world and Islamic world.

Leaving Hamas at bay, the Fatah leadership has been holding talks after talks with Israeli fanatic leaders for nothing. Fatah’s move to announce it was seeking support from the Arab regimes for a unilateral declaration of independence has yet to be recognized by world powers. The US Obama immediately ruled out recognition, as did the European Union. Now Abbas and Fatah are planning for a “third intifada” which means only an escalation of protests against settlement construction but that would only bring destruction and devastation to the Palestinian people, which the last war in Gaza proved.” Cost of an armed struggle would be enormous for the Palestinians especially when the Arabs are not enthusiastic about straining ties with USA and Europe . A military solution means the Arab countries starting a war against Israel , and there is no Arab country ready for such a scenario.

Israel promotes terrorism, bluffs, tells lies, floats all truces and kills Palestinians. Israel is keen to ignite a war of words, to the pleasure of Netanyahu and his extremist government. However, the outcome of this duel will certainly exceed the realm of words and the fascist Jews would pounce upon the Palestinians as before. Israeli attitude is harmful to the world as the nations who do not yet possess weapons of mass destruction had better get on the bandwagon and make some, for it seems that without them, they are nothing more than sitting ducks. How ironic it is, and what a sweet talker Netanyahu is, to successfully divert the world’s eye, ears, and conscience away from what he as a state terrorist leader has indeed done so far, to the dangerous notion of what another leader could do some time in the future. President Obama has options too to prove if Zionism is qualitatively different from Obamaism.

Obama’s shifting contours of Mideast game is dangerous for the defenseless Palestinians and the world at large. Ahmaedinejad’s crusade for Iran is genuine and rightful. When addressing the UN in New York on September 24, he branded Iran once again, exhorting that “the struggle against Iran pits civilization against barbarism. This Iranian regime is fueled by extreme fundamentalism. What starts as attacks on Jews always ends up engulfing others. This regime embodies the extremes of Islamic fundamentalism.” Interesting words from a man whose former administration and current administration could very well face the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Obama’s words to Iranian leader Ahmadinajad and the people of Iran at the United Nations were decisive: “They are going to have to make a choice. Are they willing to go down the path to greater prosperity and security for Iran , giving up the acquisition of nuclear weapons or will they continue down a path that is going to lead to confrontation?” This rhetoric was not posed to Israeli leadership- why?

Part- Three

Israel’s deceit is historic truth. Netanyahu has been tireless at drawing parallels between Iran and Gaza , presenting them both to the world as dire threats to the existence of the Jewish State. It seems that Netanyahu’s declarations could actually lead to the detriment of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and indeed to us all, by encouraging nations that until this point do not possess nuclear weapons to expedite the creation of their own arsenal. Obama’s rebuke might do any wonder to make Israel come to terms with reality. The Zionist regime with corrupt bourgeois cliques acting as guardians of the existing economic and social order, still calls all shorts with USA second fiddling effectively. Israel resorts to ever more grotesque repression of the Palestinians US Hillary Clinton who publicly ditched calls for a settlement freeze that are part of the so-called Road Map for peace in the Middle East, also quickly praised Israel for making “unprecedented” concessions in offering to limit their construction.

On Israel, given the military and terror ties between USA and Israel for years, including Sept-11, Obama perhaps does not know how to proceed further. Learning from history, one can hardly be optimistic to expect a US victory in the talks with Israel, unless US reforms its Mideast policy. Israel’s recent use of illegal weapons on civilians, its arsenal of hundreds of nuclear weapons, and its refusal to consider disarmament paled in comparison to the potential threat that could arise should Iran seek a nuclear weapon some time in the future. For the time being, however, one can only hope that the international community rejects all attempts to be blinded by Netanyahu’s fear mongering.

Israel hates international law that binds its illegal activities. For Obama it is indeed the real test for diplomacy. Obama’s administration began by pressing for a total freeze, but softened its language in the face of refusals from Netanyahu and his right-leaning government. It seems that President Obama is also learning some painful lessons regarding the balance of power between the USA and Israel. He has negotiated with PLO chief and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on the sidelines of UN General Assembly, with a strong stance for the complete freeze of all settlement activity. Obama potently calls for Palestinians to continue along the road of diplomacy despite Israel’s refusal to consider the option of adhering to international law. Nearly 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built on occupied territory in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlement building in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is illegal under international law – although Israel disputes this. Obviously, the fascist Israel can play like this mocking at USA and world community because they have the stolen lands and others don’t come to take them away for the owners.

For economic and political reasons of equality, the Arab states have time and again played a dangerous, despicable role in betraying the Palestinian masses. Today, they act as direct accomplices in Israel’s suppression of the Palestinians, as in the case of Egypt, or mouth platitudes while this historic crime continues. It is 61 years after the Naqba, when three quarters of a million Palestinians were expelled from their homes by Israeli forces and turned into exiles. It is 55 years since the movement that became Fatah began decades of struggle for a democratic and secular state of Palestine. It is 16 years since this perspective was abandoned in favor of a “two-states” solution, when the 1993 Oslo Accords were signed by Arafat and Abbas—establishing the PA supposedly as part of a five-year interim period leading to an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Islamic Iran cannot bullied either for too long as fascist Israel or its western bosses think. Tehran does what is legitimate and does not does not do any thing inside Israel, though it really can. On 29 Nov, convinced of western trap for Islamic Iran with the anti-Palestine fascist Israel playing spoil role, Iran announced plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, in a major expansion of its atomic program.

Nor can ever Israel dare terror attack Islamic Iran to get itself destroyed along with its nukes. Pro-Israeli US strategists continue to argue, now with less force, that Sept11 was not an insider attack and it was done by their hero Osama Bin Laden and his associates without knowledge of CIA-Mossad-Pentagon combines. These terror strategists still push Obama for addition of terror troops to Afghanistan to make their fascist genocides there a serious affair to shield the western rogue states. Israel tries to brand Obama as a part of criminal gang that invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, killing over a million innocent Muslims in these countries. By pushing Obama into sending some more terror troops only to kill more Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Zionist regime intents to make Obama also a war criminal at par with Bushes Sr. & Jr. Terror India wants to retain Jammu Kashmir under its brute terror control and Obama’s decision to dispatch terrorists to Afghanistan would be a short its bloody arms.

PLO avoids incorporating the working class into the movement as the core groups for fear of American and European onslaught against Palestine. Palestinians, after the scourge of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead nearly one year ago, still await the bare necessities to rebuild basic sustenance. In the words of Israeli writer, Uri Avnery, “No point denying it: in the first round of the match between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama was beaten.” The Palestine capitalists play the role assigned to them by the Israeli Mossad, spoiling any chance of freedom. The Arab masses must consciously repudiate the reactionary identification of the entire Jewish people with responsibility for the crimes perpetrated by the Israeli state.

The Zionist regime must ensure the freeze of all settlements inside Palestine first. Jerusalem must be free of such illegal settlements. Proving itself to be the most fanatic of nations around, after announcing a freeze of illegal settlements, Israel’s government has approved 28 new schools for settlements in the West Bank, a day after it announced a 10-month halt to illegal constructions.

The question arises now who then voted in Afghanistan Americans, Indians and other occupying nations? Were these votes cast even before the votes began? Has President Obama has any knowledge about western democracy works in Afghanistan and other occupied nations in Islamic world including Arab world where they occupy unofficially? Obviously, it could be very possible that in the end, the humanity will pay for US-Israeli hidden terror ties and their bold, fanatic, declarations. Once PLO and Fatah has done that it would be fairly easier to go ahead with the declaration of Palestine independence under a unified PLO. Unless Fatah recognizes Hamas the international community would suspect the real intentions Fatah and PLO. It is certain; there can be no successful struggle by the Palestinians for their emancipation from Israeli oppression that does not take as its point of departure the forging of an independent movement of the working class in opposition to all factions of the Arab bourgeoisie throughout the Middle East.

The international community shall insist on a stern and decisive investigation into the war crimes in Gaza, as presented in the Goldstone Report so that the real culprits, not the imagined ones in Tehran, pay for their heinous crimes against the defenseless people of the Gaza Strip. Fatah must revert back to united Palestine struggle for freedom form the fascist Israel. For this, Fatah has to first recognize the elected Hamas government, ignoring nodes from either Israel or any of its western Axis partners.

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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
Specialist on State Terrorism
Independent Columnist in International Affairs, Research Scholar (JNU) & the only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia.
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Can Islamic World be Saved? -Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Can Islamic World be Saved?
-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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[The US-led international state terrorist (IST) rogues are dismantling the Islamic world according to a plan. Can the shamelessly disunited Islamic world be saved and protected from the Western and Israeli-Indo hidden terror and energy agendas? The way the puppet regimes in Islamabad, Kabul and Baghdad behave, rather misbehave against Islam and Muslims, it looks the entire Islamic world would be brought under occupation by the nasty anti-Islamic world led by terror states like USA, UK, France, India and Israel. Bulk of Arab leaders is still at the feet of the Western capitalists and their leaders refuse to spot light in true Islam. Pakistan is supposedly a part of Islamic world and the only Muslim nuclear power in the world and therefore is also been occupied by the western democratic terror states with official Pakistani and usual Indian support. Worse the media in these countries are controlled by anti-Islamic hawks and state war lords. Global state terrorists GST have been destroying Pakistan and other Muslim nations, killing over a million innocent Muslims in the region thus far. US led terror fire has destroyed many zones of Pakistan and the people therein].

PART- ONE

Islamic world is in turmoil and Arab world remains in a state of constantly serious threat from the western energy hungry Axis evils. Resources of Iraq and Afghanistan are being squandered by the western nuclear terrorists in democracy suits. Pakistan has been burning for quite some it me now along with Afghanistan, but its leaders don’t see any threat to their seats. Yet, no one in Pakistan, for instance, seems to be really worried about saving Pakistan from Western and nearby Pro-US invaders: the ordinary people have their own bread and butter problems; the media people have their own masters’ agendas, the ruling dispensation has its own agenda, while the occupiers have their own agenda and nukes are almost ready to reach the Western terror hands. Thus each section moves according to their own pet agendas, while Pakistanis are being terrorized and killed in a phased manner and Pakistan is being destroyed step by step. When none in Pakistan seems to be interested in an Islamic state, there is absolutely nothing for anyone else to do anything about.

The same is true of other occupied nations like Afghanistan and Iraq. However, it is indeed a valid question and only the US president Obama can answer as it all depends on what US-led NATO and its other terror allies including Pakistan and India would do next. A destabilized Pakistan is finding it difficult to shield itself from the foreign invaders who continue to occupy it on some fictitious pretexts. In the absence any sincere move from Pakistanis and their elected regime, especially from the court servants who spearheaded the “democracy” fight to instate the Zardari regime, there is clearly no chance that Pakistanis would get back their lost sovereignty to the global state terrorists.

A regime that works against the interests of the people and invites foreign terrorists in democratic suits to kill its own people is rogue state. The miseries afflicting the masses in their daily lives are of no consequences for the ruling dispensation of Pakistan. Politicians who are focused only on their own welfare and show utter disregard to the people’s aspirations see no reason to support ordinary citizens of the country now when the foreign democratic terrorists are killing defenseless Muslims as terrorists. Pakistan’s political scene is flooded with political actors including novices harboring misplaced delusions of mass leadership and the politicos who have no other outstanding credentials except dynasty.

Unfortunately, Muslim rulers, including Arab leaders, behave hypocrites and are largely extremely corrupt people whom people don’t trust. Pakistani politics revolves around dynasties and big capitalists. The fact remains that Nawaz Sharif owes his rise to power to his mentor late General Zia Ul Haq whereas late Benazir Bhutto and now Asif Ali Zardari is capitalizing on the PPP, a political party formed by late Z A Bhutto and his comrades in late 1960s. However, they have yet to understand the basic principle of politics that a leadership’s sustenance comes from people’s power. And the people would only support it when it stays relevant to their lives. For decades, Pakistan unfortunately has not been able to produce selfless and caring leadership notwithstanding all crises capable of generating fresh crop of such great individual leaders. USA has never let that happen in Pakistan considered by the west as the puppet regime under USA control. Even today, none from either ruling or opposition streams question the occupation of Islamabad by the NATO rogues, let alone asking them to quit. But it seems the rulers show the spirit of tolerance, which is considered a hallmark of democracy to let the foreign forces drone-kill Pakistanis, while being intolerance to Muslims seeking Islamization of Islamabad.

In one way, both USA and Pakistan have a common strait, they have ditched their people on falsified terror. A state without any sincere concerns of people at heart is as good as dead. Pakistani leadership does not show it is entirely different. Pakistani leadership always committed to their own people and capitalists and care only about US interests in the country, although Pakistan is not a part of US Empire. US promotes corrupt regimes and the self interest across the globe help the capitalists in Pakistan and elsewhere, while Pakistan exists now only for its own billionaires, for Pakistani capitalism and profiteering. Thus there is a natural coincidence of Pak-US interests. But beyond that USA also has energy and anti-Islamic interests and Pakistani regime supports that for service charges. This is the basis genesis of the ongoing terror war in Pakistan.

PART-TWO

The horrid neo-conservatives under Bush believed that the world was ripe for a huge expansion of American power and influence. The CIA and Pentagon networks charted plans of subduing the world by employing concepts like democracy, regime change, WMD, axis of evil, etc. This in turn resulted in the US led forces occupying the countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, but now unable either to quit or to annex them as many other countries have done in similar situations. Genocides by these western democracies seem unstoppable with more and more Muslims falling to their terror methods.

Islamic world requires an effective shield form anti-Islamic invasions, but the Muslim nations do not consider protection of Islam and Islamic world more important than making more profits in illegal and immoral businesses. Added to this, bulk of media of Islamic world, especially of Arab nations, above all the ones in English language, are being controlled by Chrestian-Jewish-Hindu journalists whose anti-Islamic mindset is beyond doubt. They tarnish the image of Islam and Islamic nations, Muslims in sustained manner. The result is, even Muslims are coerced to recognise Islam as a terrorists’ religion. The larger issue is the protection of Islamic world from the anti-Islamic state terrorists of the West and East. The deadly neoconservative strategy of “remaking” the Mideast region to secure its cheap (free) and unlimited energy supply single-handedly with the support of fascist Israel, of course has been undermined by its own hubris and continued occupation strategies. Democracy having being failed in the region, with over 100 deaths every day in Islamic world, Pakistan inclusive, on an average, the establishment of a New Middle East has become a joke. In short, it proposes a reversal of the key strands of Bush’s aggressive foreign policy. Though the US people have delivered a resounding rebuff to the Bush foreign policy and clearly rejected the US-led wars in Middle East, Bush did take revenge on the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with his martyrdom and made the position of the USA easier in West Asia for energy resources. USA on account of the” terror wars” has in fact sacrificed its global leadership on security and human rights guard.

The energy rich Middle East controlled by the Arab capitalists on Western ideas historically looks to the USA as their defender and close ally .The USA has been the decisive arbiter in the Middle East since the end of the Suez crisis in 1956, albeit with the Soviet Union playing a secondary role until 1989. Not even the closest ally, Saudi Arabia seems to trust the real intentions of the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. The regional consequences of the Iraq imbroglio are immediate, profound and far-reaching. As one of the most dangerous spot in the world, Iraq has emerged as a problem from the bush ministration. The civil war threatens to unhinge more or less the entire Middle East and Pentagon-CIA-Mossad Axis evils are working overnight to provoke them. Notwithstanding the confusion that engulfed the Western powers now, the Pentagon and the US administration are seemingly at work to eradicate the harm done to the American prestige.

The USA over centuries has fought fiercely many whirlwinds to establish its supremacy, in economic as well as military terms, with the USSR providing the most formidable challenge for US till 1991. As Cold War crippled the economy of the USSR leading to a state of economic stagnation and growing political paralysis by the 1980s leading to its eventual fate in 1992, leaving the USA as the sole superpower and the victorious US began concentrating on other “axis of evils”. The collapse of the socialist system in the Eastern Europe greatly encouraged the neo-conservatives in Washington to utterly misread the historical runes at the end of the 1990s, when the USA became unchallenged power militarily, economically and technologically. Now USA is on a terror war to control the Islamic world and the resources there.

The fight with USSR also gave the USA opportunity to forge strong bond with the Western powers and the Middle Eastern nations. The aggressive policy of the USA in West Asia seems to have created embarrassment for the US-Muslim world relations. Before the entire world, the neo-conservative position is disintegrating. Its foreign policy tenets have been proven to be false. As is now openly admitted, including by the new Defense Secretary Robert Gates, US wars in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan have failed. The failed anti-Islamic terror wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have once again reminded the Americans also of the past experience and forecast the possible disastrous fall out of its West Asian misadventure.

The USA wanted- still wants- to show its power to those that oppose it or , worse, challenges American hegemony, but rout in Vietnam shaped the foreign policy of the Washington until the Sept 11, when the desire to avoid overseas military entanglements was overwhelmed by the desire to demonstrate its power world over. Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam War was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind. While the American defeat in Vietnam did not signal any serious upturn in the fortunes of its arch enemy, the Soviet Union, though the communist movement got a shot in arm because of the rout of “US imperialism”, the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan threatens with worst possible consequences for those courtiers as well as the occupation forces led by the USA.

Misguided by the notorious Neocons and by misreading global trends, the Bush administration’s embrace of unilateralism not only provoked the Iraq-Afghanistan disaster but also hastened American decline. The policy failure in Middle could also signal decline the case globally as well. When the most powerful and, indeed, the most influential USA could also get things profoundly wrong, the position cannot be different with other strong powers of the globe. By displaying arrogance through their external pursuits in many parts of the world, President Bush and advisors have brought the USA to the brim of disorder. The war on terror has tarnished the image of the world’s only super power. Cruel killing of Saddam did cause a slur on the psyche of the US diplomacy once hailed as great when the former President withdrew the US forces from Vietnam. By relegating diplomatic efforts to sidelines, not only Bush became one of the most wanted criminals on the earth today shielded by the Obama administration, but also the USA itself feels let down by its responsible leaders and looks to Obama for sincere actions to punish the Americans for their genocides in USA (Sept11) and Islamic world.

PART-THREE

USA used Osamaphobia to achieve the Neocon agenda of controlling the energy resources and routes. Now “democratic” USA needs cash from China and Japan, while India has already offered sumptuous money to Americans. Even as the Muslim nations refuse to take a joint action against Islamophobia and anti-Islamic terrorism, America has indeed become a troubled nation now and none trusts it. With the “terror war” damaging the US image as well as foundations of the diplomacy plank of USA, the EU is emerging as an economically as well as influentially strong block of nations,. Economic slide downward along with the US dollar falling steadily against the euro, the pound and the yen is certainly not to the advantage of the USA. Devastating genocide and destruction in Afghanistan and Iraq have also created jerks in US-EU relations, on the one hand, and US-Arab ties, on the other, and in some measure misunderstanding with the UK that seem to take its own decisions about troop withdrawal. USA remains the most influential power of the world with most countries, big as well as small, vying with one another to engage the USA in strategic relations.

Thanks to neocons unilateralism, loss of US prestige as a super power and image of being an anti-democratic regime stare at the legacy of Bush administration daringly, while President Obama is still “healthless” to end the anti-Islamic terror wars. Sharing energy resources in Central Asia cannot be replicated in this explosive Mideast region any more. Such a scenario may well mean that the key alliance that has shaped the Middle East since 1956 — between the U.S. and Israel — will no longer be so pivotal and could even be increasingly downgraded. That means, USA and UK should share their “global responsibilities” with these countries and construct a credible multipolar world.

The American era looks now over. The bull talk of democracy and rule of law has been a fraud played on poor nations and Arab world. An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power sharing on both a global and regional basis. The new approach is implicit in the ISG report, which recognizes that any resolution of the Iraq crisis depends on the involvement of Iran and Syria. The US Secretary of State, Rice might have rejected that idea now. But elements of this approach are already apparent on the Korean peninsula and in Latin America.

Bush Jr. is condemned as one of the worst Presidents ever. After the discredited war with Philippine long ago and the Vietnam war reversals in 1970s when the US forces had to flee disgracefully on both occasions, USA had resolved that it would not stretch itself too far and wide beyond its capacity and, by and large, disengaged itself from the world affairs for quite some time, until the collapse of the USSR. End of Cold war rekindled the US desire to showcase its military superiority in action. USA has been rendered its allies directionless and clueless and they have no idea about their real mission. World criticism in combination of the situation in occupied Afghanistan and Iraq dictates that in future the U.S. will have to shelve unilateralism and share its influence with regional powers such as Iran, Syria as well as powers like Russia, China and the EU in due course. Both Russia and China stipulate that US must act according to the UN rules.

Fascist Israel has to relinquish air and sea controls on Gaza strip of Palestine. Obama administration’s efforts should be to make that happen soon. Obama has not been elected to pursue the death policies of Bush and other rogues of White House. Though discredited for now, US remains the most influential power of the world with most countries, big as well as small, vying with one another to engage the USA in strategic relations. Its challenge today particularly in post-Saddam West Asia is however too great to be assessed easily, but in any case it would have to make necessary amendments to revive its lost glory. Force additions may not change the fortunes of USA. The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is now in decline, too. Instead of wars and sanctions, revival of enough diplomatic skills could bring some good message for the Obama administration.

President Obama has rightly asked Burma to free Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but he should also extent the logic to Afghans, Pakistanis and Iraqis as well. In fact he must call for freeing all Muslims from terrorism strategies. Now that the US led NATO has successfully spread their poisonous tentacles across the destabilized region with puppet regimes established by the Pentagon-CIA-Mossad to suit their terror cum resources agendas, Pakistan could be saved only if President Obama takes a firm decision to drive away the US-NATO terror forces form Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The entire region has to be saved almost simultaneously and that can happen only when the USA honestly decides to quit the Islamic world and punish the western criminals for genocides in Islamic world as well as for the ghastly Sept-11 event meticulously engineered to enable the US state terrorists to invade Afghanistan and kill Muslims and squander their resources, besides keeping the citizens there as US captives.

In pursuing the double-standards of America and European powers, President Obama seems to be either under some illusions about Israel and India or terribly confused about his course of action in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan against the wish of Neocon rogues and Bushdom Axis evils. He has to regain the trust of Islamic world. Just by rhetoric alone Obama cannot bridge the gap with Islamic world, nor by more state terrorisms. Threat perceptions generated by the CIA-Pentagon network kept the ties fairly on with Europe, Russia and Muslim world. The challenge of Obama administration today is to tide over the situation in order to both “contain” the Republicans, former Neocons who are still active in White House and enhance US global prestige has to be watched. US double speak in disarmament has generated enough suspicion in the world, but Washington under Obama label goes ahead with its objective of strengthening its world hold.
Tell me, can Islamic world be saved and shielded from all sorts of anti-Islamic sources- both within and from outside?
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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
Specialist on State Terrorism
Independent Columnist in International Affairs, Research Scholar (JNU) & the only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia.

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On Declaration of Independence of Palestine – by Dr. Abdul Ruff

On Declaration of Independence of Palestine
- Dr. Abdul Ruff

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[Establishment of Palestine state on the lands of the Palestinians now under the continued occupation of the Zionist regime in the illegally established Israel, has been the subject of international campaigns, but thus far the Zionist and regime and its western terror allies have systematically thwarted all efforts to create the much awaited state and bring about comprehensive peace in Mideast region. President Obama’s recent efforts sent chill into the Zionist regime, but then, the criminal Israeli leaders who operate in tandem with CIA, Pentagon and Mossad and appoint Americans as contractors for the illegal settlements in occupied Palestine, know how to make the American shut their )bloody) mouths. After unsuccessfully pressuring Israel, all powerful US President ate his words albeit uncomfortably saying USA would not to press for a freeze of Israeli illegal settlements in Palestine]

PART –ONE

Rise of a Palestine State?

Fascist Israel has to be disarmed – earlier the better for world peace. It is the most welcome move as well as a healthy sense of self-development for the Palestinians to consider declaring a unilateral independence of Palestine state. West Bank-based PLO Palestinian leaders, upset over continuing illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, said that they are preparing to ask the UNSC (United Nations Security Council) to declare their backing for the Palestinian quest for an independent state. Yes, there has been some positive move from Palestinians to take their fight quite seriously having lost trust in the western rogue states. Obama’s double crossing has badly shaken whatever trust the Palestinians have retained till now in the sincerity of Western “democracies”. They have also expressed disappointment with US failure to put enough pressure on Israel to halt the illegal construction. The Fatah Palestinian officials said they will ask the UNSC to recognize an independent state, because of a lack of progress in restarting peace talks.

However, in a rude and shabby move to expose itself as a fanatic, terror state playing dirty tricks with Palestinians and the Arabs and also the international community apart from USA and Europe, fascist Israel has quickly sanctioned constructions of illegal settlement blocks and rejected the move by the Palestinians to gain international recognition for an independent state, saying bilateral negotiations are the solution but Israel has not admitted it has bee bullying the divided Palestinians. Palestinians are angered at continued expansion of illegal Jewish settlements. Settlements on occupied territory are considered illegal under international law. It is usual style of demonstrating Jewish arrogance, Israel quickly approved planning applications for the new units in East Jerusalem for the illegal expansion of Gilo which is built on land captured in 1967, and later annexed to the Jerusalem municipality. The announcement represents by far the largest batch of planning approvals for building on occupied territory since Netanyahu became prime minister. The 900 housing units, which will be built in the form of four-to-five-bedroom apartments, will account for a significant expansion of Gilo.

Having support of the US-led western rogue states plus some eastern Axis allies like terror India, Israeli Prime killer Benjamin Netanyahu said such unilateral moves would unravel past agreements to reach Middle East peace, but this hawkish Jew terrorist refused to admit it was the Zionist regime that always blocked all peace moves for expanding the illegal settlements in Palestine, and attacked defenseless Palestinians, killing them in hundreds each time. In fact Israel is creating new realities on the ground in the Occupied Territories that will make the possibility of establishing a contiguous and viable state over the West Bank and Gaza simply undoable.

The proposal cannot go to the Security Council without the green light from the US because America can use its horrible veto to oppose it and support the fascist regime in Mideast as usual. If the US gives the green light, it means the relations between the US and Israel will change for better. The US and Israel have avoided the Security Council for more than 16 years. To go back to it today, would be a major shift, a game changer in the diplomatic process. All Palestinians would be quite excited. Everyone, on all various levels, feels betrayed by a process that delivered not much after 16 years and seven agreements with the Israelis while quadrupling the illegal Israeli settlements.”

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the new planning approval was “yet another step that shows and proves Israel is not ready for peace”. The Palestinians have refused to re-enter peace negotiations unless Israeli completely halts all building work in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel has scaled back construction in the West Bank, but says it does not consider areas within the Jerusalem municipality to be settlements. Israel terror Army Radio said Israel would respond to a possible unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence by annexing the West Bank settlement blocs, as demanded by senior right-wing ministers. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have criticized Israel’s approval of 900 extra housing units at a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem and said the move would hamper Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The UN chief believes the Israeli action would “undermine efforts for peace and cast doubt on the viability of the two-state solution”. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said his government “regretted” the move, while Saudi Arabia said the approval was a “major obstacle” to the peace process. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said that the Palestinians had decided to turn to the UN due to frustration at the lack of progress peace talks, which have been stalled since Israel launched 22-day offensive in Gaza last December. Saeb said that the Palestinians felt they had few options left as Israel was continuing to build Jewish settlements on territory it has occupied since the 1967 war. The territory includes East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinians want to establish their state.

A crippled government and divided Palestine are ruining the Palestinians. The Zionist regime on the strength of western terror powers, prefer unilaterally pre-emptive actions in Palestine. Already, the terrorist Israeli bulldozers have demolished Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, a further cause of Palestinian anger, displacing thirty defenseless people when the first home was knocked down in the Beit Hanina area of East Jerusalem on 17 Nov evening. Palestinians say it is extremely difficult for them to get construction permits for rebuilding their destroyed homes. Western rogue states always played nasty roles in subjugating Muslim nations and terrorizing Muslims and the current GST/IST (global state terrorists) led by the USA and UK have only further hardened the already petrified the mindset of the Zionist criminals. Israeli state was carved out by the UK and its western allies- right in the centre of Palestine dividing Gaza Strip from West Bank. Fort years now, the Western Axis evil nations and a few Islamic nations played dirty tricks with Palestinians while supporting the Zionist regime. And the Bushdom rogues and Zionist criminals secretly planned to permanently divide both and make them fight each other western arms, eventually killing every Palestinian and leaving the lands for the terrorist Israelis to occupy.

The Fatah leader Abbas traveled to Cairo on 18 Nov to discuss the plan with pro-US Hosni Mubarak, his Egyptian counterpart, but nothing has come out that. Arab foreign ministers decided to approach the Security Council with the idea following a meeting in Cairo on 12 Nov. Palestinians have not been negotiating the two states for 18 days or 18 months. Erekat added: “For God’s sake, we have been doing it for decades. Now it’s a defining moment.” They would go to the UN after consultations with Russia, the European Union and other leading players in the international community. They are eager to explain their position to the international community before doing so. However, the Hamas has not made any statement about the move. Abbas should make their appeal a joint effort to so that UN takes the appeal seriously enough.

Israel is a colonial power and nuclear state. UK, USA and others in the Europe forcefully snatched the Palestinians lands and gave to the Jewish terrorists. Who helped Israel acquire nukes so secretly and kept the secrecy for too long and now why the world nuclear bodies don’t raise the issue at all? UNSC should be slapped sanctions on Israel for secretly possessing nukes and proliferating it secretly. The terrorist Jews from Israel confront defenseless people possessing none of these arms. Palestinians feel perpetually threatened by Israeli weapons. It is strange that when USA, Israel and many European states that have nukes and continue to add more to its arsenals, have made a big fuss about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Fascist Israel, longing for Islamic blood for quenching its bloody thirst, has been threatening Iran with terror attacks while the USA, UNSC and IAEA, etc just watch the Israeli rhetoric show silently. That fact that Israel had earlier attacked the nuclear sites of Syria and Iraq are being used by Western rogues state to push for their own oil agenda. Who gave Israel permission to go nuclear how could do it so secretly without support from USA and other UNSC-5 rogues? IAEA should reveal the Israeli nuclear agendas and why their nukes pose no threat to Arabs and other Muslim nations.

PART – TWO

Zionist Terror and Expansion

Israel captured and occupied larges areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem after the 1967 Middle East war, and the Palestinians want to form their state based on the borders agreed by a ceasefire before then. The Palestinians had earlier declared independence unilaterally from fascist Zionist regime in 1988, but the western powers that sponsor the Zionist terror regime in Mideast have not yet backed the Palestine state. However, the move was recognized by dozens of countries but never implemented on the ground, because of the in-flights in PLO and mischief from Israel and Mossad agents that control the PLO. Regardless of the Kosovo and the East Timor cases, the fact remains that the Palestinian question, the oldest on the UN agenda, was never taken seriously by the world powers, in particular the United States. Successive US vetoes and biased policies gave Israel the necessary cover to maintain its occupation of Palestinian territories. The Palestinians have made numerous compromises and eventually accepted to build their state over less than 8 per cent of the total land mass of historical Palestine. To this date they are unable to achieve that goal.

The creation of an independent Palestinian state was always seen as the endgame of the peace negotiations. But after more than 15 years since Oslo the Palestinian dream remains elusive. And even after President GW. Bush (Jr). reiterated his vision for a two-state solution in the Holy Land, the struggle continues, because the Israel does not want to the oclcupatio and Wester has already made Israel their weapons depot. The right of Palestinian to self-determination was reaffirmed as far back as 1974 by the UN General Assembly and accordingly recognised by the majority of countries. UN resolutions 181, also called the partition resolution, 194 and 273 to make their case as the base. Over and above they have the Security Council resolutions of 242 and 338 to back their claim as Occupied Territories from which Israel must withdraw and remains non compliant.

In 2008 Yasser Abed Rabbo, a key Palestinian peace negotiator, who called for a unilateral declaration of independence if reconciliation with Israel stumbles. Almost all of the reactions were judgmental and non-sympathetic. Few were even cynical. The US immediately rejected the comparison with Kosovo. There were few discouraging voices from the Arab world as well that are insicere aobut Palesitne resoltuoon. After all this was not the first time the Palestinians had made such a caveat. Much earlier, on November 15, 1988 the Palestinian National Council in Algeria declared the establishment of the state of Palestine within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. About 100 countries recognised the state of Palestine, but that did not end the Israeli occupation. They evn goen for big holocausts in palesitne in a way as to threadhth USA, Europe, UN, UNSC and ICJ.

Only when the Americans got into the game, by putting together the Madrid peace conference, that the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Israel began talking to each other. That paved the way for the Oslo agreement and the historic signing of the Washington Accord in 1993, under which the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was created. From there on it was a bumpy ride – and remains dangerously so. The Palestinian Authority, which is currently led by Mahmoud Abbas, is itself is a product of the interim accords, but Abbas became a tool of the West against Palestinian interests. Israel kills every accord, deliberately and USA and Europe pretends not being aware of that. Both Oslo (1993) and the Road Map (2003) called for settlements to stop, but the number of settlers has risen steadily to over 450,000. There has been such a gross and major violation on Israeli part that the agreement itself is no longer in force.

Israel claims, according to the Oslo Accord all Palestinian lands and people are in full Israeli civilian and military control. Jews think the Palestinians are the Zionist “things” to do whatever it feels like with. It is again a hostile Israeli proposition, one surely meant to erode any chances of continuing negotiations. Interim accords agreed by the two sides set up a system of interlocking administrations that falls far short of peaceful relations but brings some order to issues like Palestinian imports and exports, tax collection, utilities and security co-operation. Palestinian Fatah Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said that the declaration of a Palestinian state would be a mere formality once the institutions of a Palestinian state are created. Fayyad said building national institutions is an important step in preparation for the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.

The Zionist Illegal settlements in Palestine have been an integral part of Israeli hidden agenda and the West Bank settlement plan hatched by the Zionist regime with help from western rogue states has shattered Palestinian lives, grabbed land and become “terrorists”. Over 500,000 terror Jews live in more than 100 settlements built on occupied territory in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Zionist government rejected a request from Washington to freeze the construction work at Gilo. Netanyahu shouted saying the project did not require government approval and that Gilo was “an integral part of Jerusalem” which is an integral part of Zionist regime now. The fascist Israeli leader disputed that East Jerusalem was occupied territory, and said that building there was like building anywhere else in the city. Areas annexed to Jerusalem were not part of any accommodation of Obama’s call for “restraint” in settlement construction.

Israel has systematically complicated the peace process in a sustained manner so that never a peaceful resolution is possible in Mideast. the Israeli Army’s harsh reoccupation of most of the West Bank; Hamas’ violent rise to power in Gaza and the accompanying resurgence of annihilationist ideology; the spectacular spread of Jewish settlements in the West Bank; and the Israeli construction of over 250 miles of a separation barrier that has protected Israel. Israeli illegal wall demonstrates a relentless continuity of Israeli purpose, now cemented by a fence whose aim was in fact double: to stop terrorists but also “to protect the settlements, to give them room to develop.” even at 250 miles, the barrier (projected to stretch over 400 miles) is already much longer than the pre-1967 border or Green Line: It burrows into the West Bank to place major settlements on the Israeli side, effectively annexing over 12 percent of the land. These anti-Palestinian settlements have changed sustained tension in the region as well as the physical appearance of the Middle East, complicating the peace efforts. Israelis have walled themselves off from Palestinians. They are less interested in peace settlements. The president was categorical in his Cairo speech: “The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.”

PART – THREE

Post-Script: Israel makes diplomacy fail

Israel deliberately makes diplomacy fail so that it could go on rampage over Palestine intermittently. All these years diplomacy form various quarters have succumbed to Israeli terror cum fanatic tactics. Israel has dozens of illegally acquired atomic bombs, tanks and planes and hence they terrorize the innocent Palestinians. Obviously, UK, USA, France or India could have proliferated nuclear materials to Israel. The way fascist Israel and terrorist India have gone ahead with forging terror collaborations speaks volumes about democratic effects of India and other anti-Islamic nations. Israel is cooperating with India to kill Muslims in Jammu Kashmir by the Hindu state terrorists. Indian outfits have been on rampage in occupied Jammu Kashmir. Israel is desperately trying to make the Palestinians become violent all over again. The right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t deviate from the pattern of settlement growth established since 1967. And they want to recreate terrorisms to safe guard their illegal settlements. The myriad humiliations of the looping barrier, which divides, blocks and terrorizes Palestinians, are deeply rooted. Nothing has riled Palestinians as much as the continued flow of Israeli settlers into East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The Palestinians’ move to move the UN for justice reflects growing frustration amongst Palestinians with a deadlock in peace efforts, but it is largely symbolic, correspondents say. But, as expected, it was rejected by Israeli chief terrorist Netanyahu, who said: “There is no substitute for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.” He warned: “Any unilateral action would only unravel the framework of agreements between us and can only lead to one-sided steps on the part of Israel. The conventional wisdom in the US is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has successfully thwarted Barack Obama’s first foray into the stalled Middle East peace process, rebuffing American calls for a complete settlements freeze. Some Washington observers however say it’s too early to write off the president’s efforts. They argue Obama is playing a long game and that the frosty relations between fanatic terrorist Netanyahu and the White House could cause problems for the Israeli leader in the future. Obama has clearly underestimated Israeli power inside USA, Europe and some anti-Islamic nations like Hindu India which seeks a US-India-Israel Trio (Jewish-Chrestian-Hindu anti-Islamic platform to strategically monitor and control the world for quire some time now.

Now it is certain that the Zionist regime is interested only in expanding illegal lands belonging to Palestinians and plays gimmicks with world and does not want to settle the dispute because it wants to control the Palestinians and their lands and, hence, it disallows Palestine independence. It is keen to kill all Palestinians with western support. The endgame is to tell the Israelis that now the international community has recognized the two-state solution on the ‘67 borders. If the Security Council does not approve the measure, other options include a unilateral declaration of statehood and “popular, comprehensive resistance against settlement and the occupation”. The UN initiative would be “a real test of the intentions of the international community.

USA and European states have been pushing for the global recognition of Kosovo, and they could sympathetically seek the recognition of Palestine state as well- for the sake of world peace and welfare of humanity. President Obama and his administration are committed to the establishing the much delayed –by the Zionist regime- Palestine state should use power both as US president and membership of UNSC to step in Israel to contain all its nefarious activities in Palestine. Obama’s Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, is said to have made the request to Netanyahu but he ridiculed the US envoy. It is the second time in two months that the Obama administration has spoken out on settlements. In September the White House said it regretted reports that Israel planned to approve new construction in the West Bank. World has grown pessimistic about the possibility of peace between Israel and Palestine. One worries about what has really gone wrong with Obama on Palestine.

Along with Hamas ruling party, PLO must go ahead declare the birth of an independent Palestinian state over lands occupied in 1967 in accordance with international law. Or, Palestilnins must proced with their proposal to request the United Nations to endorse an independent state without fascist Israel’s consent- after all the occupiers don’t have to grant permission to the owners. By doing so PLO would risk the collapse of the peace talks with Israel and an extension of occupation. But the a proper response from Islamc world alsong with western support, Israel would get bck to its shell. The Palestinian issue is not a dispute over boundaries and territory, as Israel would have the rest of the world believe. It is a legal, natural and moral right of a nation that has suffered enormously as a result of conspiracy, collusion, appeasement and deceit. Abbas should not use the declaration of a Palestinian state as a tactic but only as a long-term strategy for future. He must be sincere and should announce that Israel has violated the previous agreements and that accordingly he is labelling the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza, including East Jerusalem, as the Occupied Territories of the independent state of Palestine. Such a move requires both courage and commitment to a cause that has been betrayed by the world for decades.

Israeli State terrorism and Palestinian struggle for freedom cannot go together. Peace and the Zionist terror walls do not go together and also fascism and negotiations cannot go together. Illegal settlements and Palestinian peaceful life cannot go together. Mossad-CIA terror networks and innocent Palestinian life cannot coexist. US led unilateral terrorisms are strengthening fascist Israeli power. Israel is in fact a paper tiger, just like Hindu India, but boosted by the anti-Islamic western and eastern states of Axis Evils. Israel did not seek the consent of the Palestinians before annexing their lands illegally on the support form the western rogue states, but now they arrogantly say Palestinians can’t do anything unilaterally, but only Israel has the right to do anything with them and act unilaterally in Mideast, like the USA on global arena. The USA unnecessarily condoned the construction of this settlement-reinforcing barrier, squandering the all peace efforts form his administration. It is not that it cannot be unmade — even for the foreseeable future. The German wall collapsed Israeli wall no stronger than that.

Palestinians went into this peace process in order to achieve a two-state solution as suggested by USA and Europe, are now leading a diplomatic battle and now it is their defining moment. First of all, all Palestinians must take an oath to support one another and not to kill each even on the request from outsiders. They must save themselves from the evil influences of Mossad-CIA gangsters. Fatah has to shed it pro-western concepts and embrace Islamic ideals in stead and recognize the Hamas government and then go for a Unity government to create an image of unity among Palestinians. This will offer no extra chances for the fascist Jews to kill or bond the Palestinians. All political parties have to be abolished to form a united PLO until a Palestine state is established.

The past shows, on its own Israel is not going to let the Palestine state or let the Palestinians live peacefully and Since all efforts to find a solution to the Palestine issue have fallen flat, it is time go for the military option to settle the issue once for all by forcefully establishing Palestine state for Palestinians. In fact, any two state formula as propounded by the US stalwarts should have 50-50 lands of the entire Israel-Palestine thereby the Palestinians would get back some part of their lands along with Jerusalem as their future capital stolen by the Zionist regime by force. It is certainly time the UNSC stepped into action and divided the entire zone of Israel-Palestine into two equal halves- one for Palestinians and another for the Jews. Fascist Israel has the capacity to make the Jews understand that they have to return the stolen lands to Palestinians before they go to any synagogue with clear conscience in stead of the usual practice of enter the religious place with hands and legs stained with Palestine blood. The era of Israel fascism and its terrorism plank terrorize the defenseless Palestinians has to end.

Add comment November 22, 2009

Cricket as Indian Political Tool – Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Cricket as Indian Political Tool
- Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
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[India makes political capital out of its sport, especially the most misused cricket. By wasting huge resources as price for fictional successes to showcase Indian importance in the region and world, India takes pride in prior match-fixing in sports, above all in cricket, to boost its fake, contaminated image to outsmart Pakistan. Match fixing is a global phenomenon. Recently, prosecutors in Germany have revealed the scope of the match-fixing scandal that has shocked European football. Around 200 games are suspected of having been fixed, with more than 30 of those played in Germany. Imagine a cricket test match where all possible manipulations are executed to perfection without the knowledge of the public that watches the matches!].

Now Sri Lanka drowns India in Gujarat

The Test match, fixing two mischievous innings, does to stand the scrutiny of any real cricket game as a competitive sport, resulting in disastrous draws- preplanned or otherwise. The Lankan-Indian first test match ended in draw as expected after the mammoth score from Sri Lankans on Indian soil for the fist time. Draw is not a crime, after all, tests are merely practice sessions, but the records set in Test matches with dubious standards do create problems.

This is about how Sri Lankan cricketers outsmarted the Indian outfits in their own turf demolishing the records set by Indians and others one by one in Ahmadabad cricket stadium where they clashed for the Test -1. As such for Sri Lankan winning the Test was less important than appeasing the guests after they got a massive score of 700 plus. Undoubtedly, Sri Lanka clearly has registered their first victory on Indian soil. The only plus point about Indian cricket team is Zaheer Khan who took two important massive wickets including of SL skipper Sangakkara. The remaining Indian parts are mediocre and meaningless. The first Test between India and Sri Lanka was in favor of Sri Lanka, though it looked tantalizingly poised after day four’s play.

Indian greatness looks very pathetic. Although Indian outfits managed to get one century each for Gambhir and Sachin, on the eve of announcements of Republic day awards for selfless, free services to this Hindu nation, they were crushed to the bottom level by the visitors. Mahela Jayawardene is the Man of Match MoM for his excellent 275 – his 27th Test century -and has broken some important “records” in Gujarat. They all slay the winner has been the wicket, but loser has been the cricket. The finale was continued until India’s most pampered Sachin is offered a full 100 to his credit empty of genuine glory. Sachin thus won and India lost miserably, he got what he wanted- a 100 before pulling down the curtain in Ahmadabad, but India lost to Sri Lanka in all practical measures. Indian media argue if Sachin is not offered 100 what is the point in Lankan playing against India, especially when the guests could make several centuries and an almost triple century on Indian cash rich soil.

Obviously, Sri Lanka, possibly on demand from the cricket mafia or Indian agencies directly, did not want to win that match and decided to go for the draw to appease Indian sponsors, mafia and lunatic cricket fans. But most intriguing fact is India did not agree for the draw as the situation warranted, as Pakistan and New Zealand did in NZ in their first Test on 19 Nov where Pakistan made better score in the first innings and New Zealand was still worse in the second innings.- but Indian greats insisted that the guests should offer a century each to those whom they dumped in the first innings, namely Sachin, Shewag and gambhir, etc. Sri Lanka perhaps had no choice but to oblige the hosts, lest Indian could engineer terror attack to terrorize the Lankan boys. Already when Jayewardene was batting, several Indian usual gimmicks on the pavilion were employed to coerce him to throw his bat, but failed. And, result, gambhir was offered 100 plus, Shewag a fifty plus and Sachin a super hundred and immediately India agreed to draw the match. Look at the way the so-called greats in cricket behaved: they coerced the guests to offer 100 to Sachin so that Indian greatness is not spoilt beyond certain point. The match at last ended not without Sachin getting a 100 from Sri Lanka- what a pity and it is shame on India asking for hundreds form guests and blast the news as Indian achievements followed with national/regional awards and special privileges for the select players!!

Indian sponsors dictate terms to the other teams and manages records for its players and glorifying such wins. When a nation is defeated, rather crushed badly, the fanatic media don’t show that global insult, but still praise a much pampered batsman, it looks funny. The case in point is terror India and its cricket team thrashed badly by Sri Lanka for the first time in history inside India. It is shameless but a country and leaders, who have stolen the Kashmiri properties and killed over a lakh Muslims there by using India-UK-Russo-Israeli terror machines, cannot be expected otherwise. Indian media, both state and private, print and radio stations, intentionally announced Sri Lanka was at 375 for 5 wickets for too long even when it had reached 520. Is it not Indian small mindedness? Or, greatness of Hindus who own the fanatic media? That is a state or media crime, as the case may be. Was there any understanding that Sri Lankans would be out with 375/5?

These days India celebrates even crucial defeats as victories these days. That is fine. But India glorifies substandard as the greatest. Is there any Indian cricketer who never failed to defend the stumps? Is there any batsman who never scored a zero run at the crease? Or, is India support its cricketers who got clearly bowled or run-out and made the stumps scattered all over India and behind him? No! Then can India boast of its select cricket players, thereby calling other players as wild monkeys or Indian jungle donkeys?

Jayawardene Eclipses Indian records

An incredible innings from Mahela Jayawardene virtually ensured that SL can’t lose this test from here and they did not lose as forecast by India. Mahela Jayawardene ground the Indian bowlers into the Ahmedabad dust, almost ruling out a defeat for Sri Lanka in the first Test— perhaps the agenda of the visitors. This was only the second time that Sri Lanka took a first-innings lead in India, and only the first time they crossed 450 in the country. Jayawardene’s sixth double-century, and twelfth 150, was one of his easier ones because for more than half his innings India didn’t try to take his wicket, and only towards the end was he made to work hard for singles.

Jayawardene began resetting world records by breaking the Dravid’s 173 record the previous day and then went on thrashing several records with a good partnership. Sri Lankans are ranked second behind South Africa in the official test rankings and are aiming to win their first test match on Indian soil since their first visit in 1982. Jayawardene, who shared in a Sri Lanka record unbroken sixth wicket stand of 216 with wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene (84), has given the tourists a good chance to achieve that goal.

Sri Lanka was egger to set up a good score on board so that it can easily negotiate with Indian team at the appropriate time. Jayawardene had started assuredly, and never gave India a serious look-in. Despite that Mathews wicket to what turned out to be the last ball before lunch, the Jayawardenes thwarted any hopes of a quick Indian comeback. Jayawardene was supported by Thilan Samaraweera in the first session, Prasanna Jayawardene in the second and third, and by muddled thinking from India in both. Their fast bowlers couldn’t generate any swing, conventional or reverse, but still looked the only ones capable of making things happen.

Both batsmen Jayawardene and Samaraweera reached fifties during that spell, and brought up their ninth 100-run stand. The sixth over with the new ball, bowled by Zaheer, was the best of the day from India’s perspective. He beat Samaraweera with an away-going delivery, got him into an uncertain position with a bouncer, and then hit him in the midriff with another. Post tea second day, both sides called ceasefire. Doni got spinners to bowl from round the stumps with 6-3 leg-side fields, while the Jayawardenes didn’t seem interested in taking too many risks, and were happy scoring in ones and twos and occasional boundaries.

Jayawardene double has flattened India, its loud claims. The Sri Lankans’ stand was broken after Mahela (275), who completed his double ton, was dismissed while trying to loft the leg-spinner over cover only to have his stumps rattled. The batsman tried to play the leg-spinner over extra cover but missed the line of the ball completely in a rare loss of concentration. Before going back to the pavilion, Mahela also completed 9000 runs in Test cricket to become the ninth highest run-getter in this format. The senior Jayawardene didn’t let fatigue get the better of him and reached the double with two overs to go, while Prasanna took the opportunity to move towards what would be a risk-free second century.

The 32-year-old Sri Lanka batsman Mahela Jayawardene became only the seventh batsman in test cricket to score six or more double hundreds when he made 204 not out against India in the first test on 18 Nov in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India. It was Jayawardene’s 27th test century but the first on Indian soil. Australia’s Don Bradman tops the list with 12 double hundreds and West Indian Brian Lara is second with nine. England’s Walter Hammond (7) and Pakistan’s Javed Miandad and Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and Marvan Atapattu (six each) were the other members of the select club.
Mahela Jayawardene was bowled for 275 just, luring the batsman out of his crease and beating him with flight and turn. The dismissal of Mahela ended a partnership which yielded 351 runs – the highest ever for the sixth wicket. The former captain went past the 250-run mark and later scaled 9,000 runs in Tests – only the ninth batsman in a list to achieve the mark. Sri Lankan batsmen Mahela Jayawardene and Prasanna Jayawardene broke a 72-year-old world record for the highest sixth-wicket partnership in Tests by putting on a 351-run stand against India on the fourth day of the first cricket Test in Ahmedabad. Mahela and Prasanna, who came together on Wednesday, went past the 346-run stand that was put together by Australian great Don Bradman and Jack Fingleton against England in Melbourne in 1937.

“After playing for so many years I have realised what my strengths and weaknesses are and how to manage my innings and how to build the innings,” Jayawardene told reporters after notching his second double hundred of the year. “Once you get to a stage, you realize how to pace your innings and how to attack and how to play on different surfaces,” said the former captain whose test best is 374 against South Africa in 2006.

Indian anti-Pakistani Agenda

Any one who thinks Indian cricket is just for fun and entertainment of Indians, they should finally change their view right here. The choice of Gujarat, on the sea shores of Arabian Sea that also washes the shores of Pakistan, was chosen by the military intelligence precisely to show case Indian power to Pakistan. India wanted to defeat Sri Lanka in Gujarat sending a political message to Islamabad. But all their efforts went ashtray since India was badly thrashed by the visitor from Colombo immediately after beatings from Australians. When entire cricket world listened to terror India and rejected Pakistani offers to play cricket there, it was only Sri Lanka that went boldly there to play. But Indian terrorists attacked them as a sheer punishment to ignoring their demand not to go to Pakistan. The same Lankan team was asked to play against Indian in Gujarat, a traditional anti-Islamic turf.

Gujarat, a western anti-Muslim, fanatic state on Arabian Sea that separates India from Pakistan has killed many Muslims with support from the central government and Manmohan Congress party. Gujarat, birth place of MK. Gandhi, who in his final days desired to go to Pakistan to live the rest of his life there but his ambition was cut short by Indian Hindus with UK bullets, is being ruled by the extremist Hindutva BJP with iron hand harming the interests of Muslims and terrorizing them.

Historically, BJP is a byproduct of Congress party of Manmohan. Gujarat has a strong BJP extremist regime evoking anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistani sentiments to say in power. In fact almost the entire western belt of states of India, if one looks at the map, is being occupied by the extremist Hindu parties. From Karnataka, Maharshtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and upward, the Hindu Jehadi Hindu-Al-Quada fanatics have full control with Congress party playing second fiddle rather effectively. Congress never declared Muslims rights in the country and never defended the state support for Muslims as the largest minority, because they are anti-Muslims.

Indian state media outfits and commentators in private media outfits predicted that the Sri Lankan openers should be out any time soon and that Dilshan looked ready for a whack, but the Sri Lankan outsmarted not only the media outfits, but even the players themselves. When the news spread about India hidden agenda in Gujarat, India had almost lost the match, but repairs were done by making adjustments with Sri Lanka. Indians were so frightened on 19th Nov in fourth day end, that when Dravid was thrown out of the match in stead of Sachin or Dony who were in the list of Indian batsmen in order, a tail Misra was sent as a night watchmen, because Sachin cannot be a night watchman, not even Doni or any body else who are there only for fake runs record and awards. The commentators in a silly way of explanation claimed the Indian doe snot want to lose Tendulkar so soon, hence he was not sent.

Indian cricket attacks have both regional and global dimensions.

A Word with cricket boards

India seeks a peace of cake, even if blood stained, in every thing in the world and Indian Manmohan Singh has been summoned by President Obama for sharing Indian wealth with America to save its down-downing economy, but India wants a piece of Afghan-Iraqi-Pakistani blood-stained cake along with a major say in Pakistani affairs. Energy resources are the common focus of all energy hungry states.

Cricket is known for all manoeuvrings, all hidden agendas, including political. The huge scores at Ahmadabad are now in the public domain. The irony of Indian fate is that a batting-friendly track created for favouring the Indian side that as expected to bat first, has turned against it and supported the opponents. Now Indian cricketers say such anti-bowler-friendly tracks would kill cricket’s longest format. Seven of the last 12 Tests in India have been draws. One factor is confusing; how come even after scoring 700 plus runs in one innings, almost double of Indian outfit- Sri Lanka had to go for a draw? Does it not mean there is something awfully wrong with the Test cricket? Do you say, cricket itself is an anomaly in as a sport?

If Indian batsmen are so afraid of Lankan team and quickly rescheduled the bating order by not sending Sachin as decided before after the fall of Dravid, one can image the nature of Indian cricket and what sort of players the Indian cricketers are. This wickedness exposes Indian wicket mindset. Cricket racket and mafia role are evident from this Indian horrid action. It is an insult, rather a bold slap on those in their faces who offered Sachin like sportspersons awards and other profits plus privileges. How long will the Indian cricket mafia, including the military intelligence, make Sachin continue to “blast’ with opponents help and offer awards and cash?

Test is the least trustworthy game among all forms of cricket today. In hailing Sachin, foolishly, as the only great cricketer of India, the media and leaders insult the team, team spirit of a collective sport in cricket, they insult other cricketers who play with him making adjustments to let Sachin score the maximum for India. Did India pressure Jayawardene to end his shots? Possibly, Mahila Jayawardene just threw his bat when he scored 275 perhaps on signal from the cricket mafia or even from organizers’ side after ignoring their calls deliberately for hours. (Now it looks SL was trying to delay Indian final defeat) The Sri Lankan fast bowlers failed, rather refused, in the second innings to replicate the swing they got in the first innings.

One fails to understand the rationale or logic behind two innings in Test, apart from offering enough scope for manipulations and other forms of match-fixings for records. Why not restrict to one full innings for maximum of 100 runs so that chances for match fixing could be reduced. If it were the case, Sri Lanka has won the test number one by huge margin on Indian soil.

Like the follow-on innings if the team that chases the target setter that played first, there should be a rule to declare a team the winners if they make 200 more or 50% more of runs, whichever is less, over and above the other team that has bated first and all bowled out. If this rule is applied Sri Lanka have already won the match with double innings belonging to both- or a simple one inning.

Indian predicament is interesting: Australians can defeat India, because they re business partners of joint military exercises, but Ceylon is a small island nation under the threat of disappearance and should not beat a great nuclear India either in Lanka or in India. Indians psyche is petrified about Pakistan and Bangladesh too in almost similar fashion. A defeat from Pakistan cannot be tolerated by Indian outfits and hence cannot be digested for a long period of time. Bangladesh team does not pose any danger to Indian outfits, but Pakistan does and hence India employs terrorism plus terror plank to cut Pakistan to some size.

One does not know the future strategy of both Lankan and Indian cricket outfits for the second and third tests. Probably, Indian would p press for their turn in making more two hundreds and “create” some “records” of Indian outfits with help from Lankan boys. Both the teams are in a star hotel and sponsors and mafia connect them to make decisions before the matches. Sri Lanka seems to have lost three bowlers so far and India in the name of entertainment of affordables is interested only in profitable cricket in all respects, including political- both domestically and internationally. Cricketers make sumptuous profits too.

Add comment November 22, 2009

On Declaration of independence of Palestine – BY Dr. Abdul Ruff

On Declaration of independence of Palestine
- BY Dr. Abdul Ruff

[Establishment of Palestine state on the lands of the Palestinians now under the continued occupation of the Zionist regime in the illegally established Israel, has been the subject of international campaigns, but thus far the Zionist and regime and its western terror allies have systematically thwarted all efforts to create the much awaited state and bring about comprehensive peace in Mideast region. President Obama’s recent efforts sent chill into the Zionist regime, but then, the criminal Israeli leaders who operate in tandem with CIA, Pentagon and Mossad and appoint Americans as contractors for the illegal settlements in occupied Palestine, know how to make the American shut their )bloody) mouths. Obama also after pressuring Israel ate his words albeit uncomfortably saying USA would not to press for a freeze of Israeli illegal settlements in Palestine]

I- Rise of a Palestine State?

It is the most welcome move as well as a healthy sense of self-development by the Palestinians to consider declaring a unilateral independence of Palestine state once again. West Bank-based Fatah Palestinian officials said that they were preparing to ask the UNSC (United Nations Security Council) to declare their backing for the Palestinian quest for an independent state. The Palestinian leaders said they will ask the UNSC to recognize an independent state, because of a lack of progress in restarting peace talks. They are also upset over Jewish settlements in the West Bank. They have also expressed disappointment with US failure to put enough pressure on Israel to halt the construction.

However, in a rude and shabby move to expose itself as a fanatic and terror state playing dirty tricks with Palestinians and the Arabs and also the international community apart from USA and Europe, Fascist Israel has quickly rejected the move by the Palestinians to gain international recognition for an independent state, saying negotiations are the solution. Having support of the US-led western rogue states plus some eastern Axis allies like terror India, Israeli Prime killer Benjamin Netanyahu said such unilateral moves would unravel past agreements to reach Middle East peace, but refused to admit it was the Zionist regime that always blocked all peace moves for expanding the illegal settlements in Palestine, and attacked defenseless Palestinians, killing them in hundreds each time.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the planning approval was “yet another step that shows and proves Israel is not ready for peace”. The Palestinians have refused to re-enter peace negotiations unless Israeli completely halts all building work in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel has scaled back construction in the West Bank, but says it does not consider areas within the Jerusalem municipality to be settlements. Israel terror Army Radio said Israel would respond to a possible unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence by annexing the West Bank settlement blocs, as demanded by senior right-wing ministers. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have criticized Israel’s approval of 900 extra housing units at a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem and said the move would hamper Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The UN chief believes the Israeli action would “undermine efforts for peace and cast doubt on the viability of the two-state solution”. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said his government “regretted” the move, while Saudi Arabia said the approval was a “major obstacle” to the peace process.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the Palestinians felt they had few options left as Israel was continuing to build Jewish settlements on territory it has occupied since the 1967 war. The territory includes East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinians want to establish their state. Erekat said Arab foreign ministers decided to approach the Security Council with the idea following a meeting in Cairo on 12 Nov. Erekat said: “We have not been negotiating the two states for 18 days or 18 months. “For God’s sake, we have been doing it for 18 years. Now it’s a defining moment.” He said they would go to the UN after consultations with Russia, the European Union and other leading players in the international community. “So we’re not in a rush, we’re going to prepare our homework very well and we’re going to explain our position to the international community before doing so.”

The Fatah leader Abbas would travel to Cairo on 18 Nov to discuss the plan with Hosni Mubarak, his Egyptian counterpart. The proposal cannot go to the Security Council without the green light from the US because America can use its veto to oppose it and support the fascist regime in Mideast as usual. “If the US gives the green light, it means the relations between the US and Israel are in trouble. “The US and Israel have avoided the Security Council for more than 16 years. To go back to it today, would be a major shift, a game changer in the diplomatic process. “All Palestinians would be quite excited. Everyone, on all various levels, feels betrayed by a process that delivered not much after 16 years and seven agreements with the Israelis while quadrupling the illegal Israeli settlements.”

II- Zionist Terror and Expansion

Israel captured and occupied larges areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem after the 1967 Middle East war, and the Palestinians want to form their state based on the borders agreed by a ceasefire before then. The Palestinians had earlier declared independence unilaterally from fascist Zionist regime in 1988, but the western powers that sponsor the Zionist terror regime in Mideast have not yet backed the Palestine state. However, the move was recognized by dozens of countries but never implemented on the ground, because of the infight in PLO and mischief from Israel and Mossad agents that control the PLO.

Israel is desperately trying to make the Palestinians become violent all over again. The right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t deviate from the pattern of settlement growth established since 1967. And they want to recreate terrorisms to safe guard their illegal settlements.

The myriad humiliations of the looping barrier, which divides, blocks and terrorizes Palestinians are deeply rooted. Nothing has riled Palestinians as much as the continued flow of Israeli settlers into East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Both Oslo (1993) and the Road Map (2003) called for settlements to stop, but the number of settlers has risen steadily to over 450,000.

Israel claims, according to the Oslo Accord all Palestinian lands and people are in full Israeli civilian and military control. Jews think the Palestinians are the Zionist “things” to do whatever it feels like with. It is again a hostile Israeli proposition, one surely meant to erode any chances of continuing negotiations. Palestinian Fatah Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said that the declaration of a Palestinian state would be a mere formality once the institutions of a Palestinian state are created. Fayyad said building national institutions is an important step in preparation for the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital. Interim accords agreed by the two sides set up a system of interlocking administrations that falls far short of peaceful relations but brings some order to issues like Palestinian imports and exports, tax collection, utilities and security co-operation. The Palestinian Authority, which is currently led by Mahmoud Abbas, is itself is a product of the interim accords. There has been such a gross and major violation on Israeli part that the agreement itself is no longer in force. Israel kills every accord, deliberately and USA and Europe pretends not being aware of that.

The Zionist regime on the strength of western terror powers, prefer unilaterally pre-emptive actions. Already, the terrorist Israeli bulldozers have demolished Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, a further cause of Palestinian anger, displacing thirty defenseless people when the first home was knocked down in the Beit Hanina area of East Jerusalem on 17 Nov evening. Palestinians say it is extremely difficult for them to get construction permits for rebuilding their destroyed homes. Western rogue states always played nasty roles in subjugating Muslim nations and terrorizing Muslims and the current GST/IST (global state terrorists) led by the USA and UK have only further hardened the already petrified the mindset of the Zionist criminals. Israeli state was carved out by the UK and its western allies right in the centre o Palestine dividing Gaza Strip form West Bank. And the Bushdom rogues and Zionist criminals secretly planned to permanently divide both and make them fight each other western arms, eventually killing every Palestinian and leaving the lands for the terrorist Israelis to occupy.

III- Post-Script

Israel also has dozens of illegally acquired atomic bombs, tanks and planes and hence they terrorize the innocent Palestinians. The terrorist Jews from Israel confront defenseless people possessing none of these arms. Palestinians feel perpetually threatened by Israeli weapons. It is strange that when USA, Israel and many European states that have nukes and continue to add more to its arsenals, have made a big fuss about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Fascist Israel, longing for Islamic blood for quenching its bloody thirst, has been threatening Iran with terror attacks while the USA, UNSC and IAEA , etc just watch the Israeli rhetoric show silently. That fact that Israel had earlier attacked the nuclear sites of Syria and Iraq are being used by Western rogues state to push for their own oil agenda. Who gave Israel permission to go nuclear how could do its so secretly without support form USA and other UNSC-5 rogues? IAEA should reveal the Israeli nuclear agendas and why their nukes pose no threat to Arabs and other Muslim nations.

The Palestinians’ move to move the UN for justice reflects growing frustration amongst Palestinians with a deadlock in peace efforts, but it is largely symbolic, correspondents say. But, as expected, it was rejected by Israeli chief terrorist Netanyahu, who said: “There is no substitute for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.” He warned: “Any unilateral action would only unravel the framework of agreements between us and can only lead to one-sided steps on the part of Israel. The conventional wisdom in the US is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has successfully thwarted Barack Obama’s first foray into the stalled Middle East peace process, rebuffing American calls for a complete settlements freeze. Some Washington observers however say it’s too early to write off the president’s efforts. They argue Obama is playing a long game and that the frosty relations between fanatic terrorist Netanyahu and the White House could cause problems for the Israeli leader in the future. Obama has clearly underestimated Israeli power inside USA, Europe and some anti-Islamic nations like Hindu India which seeks a US-India-Israel Trio (Jewish-Chrestin-Hindu anti-Islamic platform to strategically monitor and control the world for quire some time now.

Now it is certain that the Zionist regime is interested only in expanding illegal lands belonging to Palestinians and plays gimmicks with world and does not want to settle the dispute because it wants to control the Palestinians and their lands and, hence, it disallows Palestine independence. It is keen to kill all Palestinians with western support. The endgame is to tell the Israelis that now the international community has recognized the two-state solution on the ‘67 borders. If the Security Council does not approve the measure, other options include a unilateral declaration of statehood and “popular, comprehensive resistance against settlement and the occupation”. The UN initiative would be “a real test of the intentions of the international community. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said that the Palestinians had decided to turn to the UN due to frustration at the lack of progress peace talks, which have been stalled since Israel launched 22-day offensive in Gaza last December. “We are now leading a diplomatic battle,” he said. “If the American administration does not agree, that will be another setback.” Now is our defining moment. We went into this peace process in order to achieve a two-state solution”

Illegal settlements in Palestine have been an integral part of Israeli hidden agenda and the West Bank settlement plan hatched by the Zionist regime with help from western rogue states has shattered Palestinian lives, grabbed land and become “terrorists”. Over 500,000 terror Jews live in more than 100 settlements built on occupied territory in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Zionist government rejected a request from Washington to freeze the construction work at Gilo. Obama’s Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, is said to have made the request to Netanyahu but he ridiculed the US envoy. Netanyahu shouted saying the project did not require government approval and that Gilo was “an integral part of Jerusalem” which is an integral part of Zionist regime now. The fascist Israeli leader disputed that East Jerusalem was occupied territory, and said that building there was like building anywhere else in the city. Areas annexed to Jerusalem were not part of any accommodation of Obama’s call for “restraint” in settlement construction.

Israel has systematically complicated the peace process in a sustained manner so that never a peaceful resolution is possible in Mideast. the Israeli Army’s harsh reoccupation of most of the West Bank; Hamas’ violent rise to power in Gaza and the accompanying resurgence of annihilationist ideology; the spectacular spread of Jewish settlements in the West Bank; and the Israeli construction of over 250 miles of a separation barrier that has protected Israel. Israeli illegal wall demonstrates a relentless continuity of Israeli purpose, now cemented by a fence whose aim was in fact double: to stop terrorists but also “to protect the settlements, to give them room to develop.” even at 250 miles, the barrier (projected to stretch over 400 miles) is already much longer than the pre-1967 border or Green Line: It burrows into the West Bank to place major settlements on the Israeli side, effectively annexing over 12 percent of the land. These anti-Palestinian settlements have changed sustained tension in the region as well as the physical appearance of the Middle East, complicating the peace efforts. Israelis have walled themselves off from Palestinians. They are less interested in peace settlements. The president was categorical in his Cairo speech: “The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.”

Palestinians are angered at continued expansion of illegal Jewish settlements. Settlements on occupied territory are considered illegal under international law. It is usual style of demonstrating Jewish arrogance, Israel’s interior ministry quickly approved planning applications for the new units in East Jerusalem for the expansion of Gilo which is built on land captured in 1967, and later annexed to the Jerusalem municipality. The announcement represents by far the largest batch of planning approvals for building on occupied territory since Netanyahu became prime minister. The 900 housing units, which will be built in the form of four-to-five-bedroom apartments, will account for a significant expansion of Gilo.

USA and European states have been pushing for the global recognition of Kosovo, and they could sympathetically seek the recognition of Palestine state as well- for the sake of world peace and welfare of humanity. President Obama ands d his administrations committed t the establishing the much delayed –by the Zionist regime- Palestine state should use power both as US president and membership of UNSC to step in Israel to contain all its nefarious activities in Palestine. It is the second time in two months that the Obama administration has spoken out on settlements. In September the White House said it regretted reports that Israel planned to approve new construction in the West Bank. World has grown pessimistic about the possibility of peace between Israel and Palestine. One worries about what has gone wrong with US policy with Obama.

PLO must go ahead with their proposal to request the United Nations to endorse an independent state without Israel’s consent. Israel is in fact a paper tiger, but boosted by the anti-Islamic western states of Axis Evils. Israel did not seek the consent of the Palestinians before annexing their lands illegally on the support form the western rogue states, but now they arrogantly say Palestinians can’t do anything unilaterally, but only Israel has the right to do anything with them and act unilaterally in Mideast, like the USA on global arena. Peace and walls do not go together. The USA unnecessarily condoned the construction of this settlement-reinforcing barrier, squandering the all peace efforts form his administration. It is not that it cannot be unmade — even for the foreseeable future. The German wall collapsed Israeli wall no stronger than that.

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With Best wishes. 2009. Unfortunatley global media promote state terrorism and Hidden sport to fool the world.

Kindly don’t sed me false mails for awards and prizes, I dont buy them.* Indian government owes me, a former university level faculty for central government, possibly billions of rupees as dues as well as VRS but the present regime refuses to settle the money.* Indian government unleashed remote as well as direct terror on me for years, to surrender job for VRS including terror dreams, denying me continuous sleep and making me to wake up to the remote terror strikes. * India has several times unleashed politico-lumpen elements to attack me.*The shameless GOI people(PM,President,HRD minister) don’t even bother to respond to my appeals in this “largest democracy”. * I shall be grateful to you if U pursue that for me.Thanks for kind cooperation.Illiterate IndianPM is reluctant to release my money.Sadly, many Muslim journalists are anti-Islamic. Unfortunately, columnists write anything any way for cash. From Dr. Abdul Ruff * with Best wishes. 2009.

1 comment November 19, 2009

Pakistan should go beyond 20Twenty -Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Pakistan should go beyond 20Twenty
-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

India has skillfully reduced the chances of Pakistan playing international cricket, by creating terrorism horrors in Pakistan and pressuring other teams not to play cricket in Pakistan for a couple of years now. Yet, Pakistan have now won 7 consecutive T20Is – Equaling the record held by South Africa. Pakistan overcame a spirited New Zealand fightback to sweep the Twenty20s 2-0 at the Dubai Sports City. New Zealand focused on keeping wickets in hand, but unfortunately though, they left a little too much to do in the end as Pakistan sneaked home by seven runs.
After a disappointing loss in both last ODIs, Pakistan bounced back strongly and won both the T20I matches, dominating the match from the outset. A clinical Pakistan maintained their perfect Twenty20 record against New Zealand by strolling to a 49-run victory in first T20 on 12 Nov and again another 7 runs victory in the second 20/20 on Nov 13. The difference between the two teams was the top-order batting. Pakistan moved swiftly. The worms couldn’t have looked more different after two overs: Pakistan were 3 for 0, New Zealand were 29 for 1. After seven, it read: Pakistan 53 for 1, New Zealand 44 for 4. Pakistan kept their wickets intact. New Zealand lacked the sort of effort that Nazir turned in earlier in the evening.
Pakistan looks really good with Afridi as skipper and their bowling and fielding look pretty sharp. The batting though still has its problems that should be sorted out on the field. In the first T20, Imran Nazir smashed his first half-century in limited-overs since returning from the ICL and some swinging from the lower order pushed the target to a tough 162. Against the Twenty20 world champions, New Zealand’s chances were slim, given the long list of unfit players. The biggest blow was the loss of captain Daniel Vettori to a head injury picked up during the one-dayers. After electing to bat, Pakistan squandered away a good start and managed to reach 153/5 at the end of 20 overs. New Zealand never really looked in the chase and kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. The required run-rate kept on increasing and the pressure kept showing on the batsmen. However, Brendon McCullum and Scott Styris staged late fightback with a nicely-built 66-run stand. Towards the end, however, NZ was almost on the top, but Pakistan quickly removed the last batsmen at the crease for 20 overs.

Pakistan has lived up to their reputation of being called World T20 Champs with a clinical bowling performance to clinch a thriller on 13 Nov. NZ got off to a disastrous start, but McCullum and Styris got them back. Ajmal’s spell turned out to be the turning point in the match, his wicket of McCullum turned the scales in their favour. Once he was gone, it was all over for the Kiwis who fall 7 runs short in the end. Pak win the series 2-0. Styris walks off in disappointment, but the crowd is up in arms, celebrating a Pakistan win. New Zealand says it lost a lot of players due to injury and they were never really up to the challenge in the shortest version of the game in this series. One of the main reasons for an injury-ravaged New Zealand’s feeble showing was the failure of their top order to come up with something substantial.
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BY keeping sachuin till the end and offer a victory to Indian team would have meant Australians make sachuin look larger and taller than Sydney which they averted probably at the last moment.
Of course, the Indo-Australian mutual appeasement on the cricket field is an established fact. It appears having a better team in cricket, Australia now effectively controls Indo-Aus series and India seems to make prior agreements on some important aspects of the hidden agenda.

Australia has disproved Indian media boost on Tendulkar. It seems Australia has one proved it can have upper hand, decide the course of the match and finally win if it chose an if the mafia signals them to go for the final kill. Austria has squashed the media contention that Sachin is the secret of Indian victories glory so far. Australia offered the luxury of expansive short to Sachn and never sought to kill him until the critical moment approached when they have wind up the show and have a control over the series Sachin thus score 175 in fifth OSDI but could make India either win or shine.

It seemed options before the Australians are three fold: keep Sachin till the end of the match at the crease and let India win; tow, let Sachin stay on comfortable with his bat till the end and let all other batsmen fall leaving only sachuin still with his bat, witnessing the end of Indian show pathetically and, third, shut him towards the end keeping the merry crowd thunder bound, which ultimately happened. The eventual decision for Australian to claim victory by 3 runs only towards end after prolonging the match, could have been taken earlier, may be by the cricket mafia and signaled to them on the field.
However, the Australian hosts helped Sichuan to resurrect himself from the deep recession he was undergoing for a long time now with continued flops with bat. Indians now perhaps think and know sachin’s continued stay at the crease has brought about the final flop of Indian side. Once again, the claim that Sachuin’s presence or play would enhance the success of Indian team, has been thrashed badly.

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According the recent trends, Australians are cricket prowess is double of India and Pakistan is below 35 percentage of New Zealand in ODI and 200 percent in 20/20. If Australia played the last ODI, washed away by the rains in Mumbai, they were better poised for a win making their position almost three times that of fanatic India making Indian media cry over the spoilt milk.

The current matches on Nov 16 between Sri Lanka and India in Ahmedabad clearly shows it is not the batsmen who decides about his performance, but he opposite bowlers who in fact determine how many runs approximately a particular batsman should be offered in a given situation. Sachuin was expected to make 100 plus runs quickly as he was entering his 20 year of cricket in fanatic India. But Sri Lankans saw the event other wise and kicked the Indian media hype sachuin and cut him to size. A helpless Sachin returned to pavilion without scoring any only to watch how Sri Lankans were offering plentiful runs to others — probably on special request from special quarters, including mafia. The batsmen can throw their bats if they want to quit on their own, but they cannot score 100 or 50 if the opponents refuse that. Earlier Australian strategic partners offered 170 plus rune to sachin bhai on prior agreements on the eve of his completing 17000 runs and completing his 20 years as a Indian gift to the batsman much pampered by media and state agencies is to boost the fractured Indian image. The very fact the Aussies refused to offer another fantastic inning to sachin in the nest match by restricting him to just 10 while giving 50 plus to weak tail ended batsmen who otherwise would have got just zero to 10 at the most shows what really happens on the field. After getting 170 plus, sachin would have thought Australians are now in his favor and he could score another 100 plus, but the Aussies dashed all his hopes as well as the India’s false expectations.

After removing four batsmen quickly including sachin and Shewag and Gambhir, as Indians were tottering at 32/4, the Lankans decided to let the Indian batsmen escape the Lankan hook fairly easily and it appeared Indians were promised not to trouble any more and Dravid and Doni could score as many runs they wish- both crossed 100 mark without any serious attack, but with fanciful expansive shots offered to them by the visitors.
While the Test cricket serves as massive practice sessions where all possible combinations and permutations are allowed and select cricketers are offered hundreds and other privileges, the 20/20 is a super fast cricket format where all so –called best batsmen and bowlers lost their place. ODI, which is very important for sustained records for select cricketers, like Sachins, from India, whom Indian media praise for his recent 170 gift from Australians for the trouble the Australians have created for poor Indians enjoying life in that country. ODI should be the target of Pakistan now.
Yes, now Pakistan should go beyond 20Twenty format and achieve greater heights in ODI. By being the practice format to help select cricketers “achieve” in their desired field, tests in deed test the patience of the spectators. Younis Kahn’s decision to take a break from cricket captaincy cannot be wrong, but he should have played to be in practice. True, he has not been performing well but without captaincy pressures, Khan could concentrate on bating skills against the bowling tricks.
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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
Specialist on State Terrorism
Independent Columnist in International Affairs, Research Scholar (JNU) & the only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia.

1 comment November 16, 2009

Obama in Asia: Focus on Japan and China -Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Obama in Asia: Focus on Japan and China

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Amercians are now after Japan and China for saving its ever-sliding capitalism. At a time of uncertainty in relations with America’s old Asian ally Japan over foreign policy and US military base, US President Barack Obama landed on 13 Nov in Tokyo, the first stop on his four-nation Asian seven day tour on November 13-19 and met Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. In Japan, Obama, named the world’s most powerful person by Forbes magazine, discussed U.S. ties in the region on security concerns listed as ” the global economic recovery, climate change, nuclear proliferation, extremism” and its plans for increased engagement in regional groupings, such as APEC. His eight-day tour will also take him to Singapore, China and South Korea and includes an Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit. In China, the main focus of the Asia visit, Obama will talk about China more during his visit to Shanghai and Beijing for four days and his speech will address U.S.-Chinese relations.

Obama’s first Asian tour as US leader is aimed at boosting economic growth and reassuring key allies. Climate change issues, the NATO terror war in occupied Afghanistan and the global downturn featured prominently in the bilateral talks in Tokyo. Japan’s new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, who heads the Democratic Party of Japan, which ousted the long-ruling Liberal Democrats in a landslide victory earlier this year, wants to reposition Japan’s standing in the traditionally close US-Japanese relationship, aspiring to a more ‘equal’ partnership- a demand of new Russia with USA but could not be materialized. The future of a US military base on Okinawa, which is highly unpopular among the island’s residents, is a bone of contention. With Hatoyama, Obama has signaled he wants closer ties with Asia and he opposes plans to relocate a US base on Okinawa. Yukio Hatoyama has promised to end Japan’s Indian Ocean refueling mission that supports US-led forces in Afghanistan. He also promised to review the Okinawa base agreement that Washington thought was settled three years ago.

US President and Japanese Prime Minister have agreed on the need to renew their two countries’ strained alliance. Hatoyama confirmed Japan would no longer refuel ships that supply forces in Afghanistan but promised an “alternative package”, which would involve civilian aid in areas such as schooling, agriculture and police. On the dispute with the US over plans to keep a US air base on the island of Okinawa, albeit in a different location, he said only that the base was a “difficult issue”. Washington thought the issue was settled three years ago but Hatoyama, who came to power this year, has said he wants to review the agreement reached. Obama said the US and Japan would work quickly to resolve the dispute.

Hatoyama stressed that the Japanese-US alliance was a “cornerstone of Japan’s diplomacy”. Obama and Hatoyama, pledged to revitalize their strained security alliance as they adapt to a rising China, set to overtake Japan as the world’s No. 2 economy soon. But they left unresolved a feud over a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern Okinawa Island that has frayed Washington’s ties with Hatoyama’s government, which has pledged to steer a diplomatic course less dependent on its ally and forge closer relations with Asia.

Japanese peace activists have criticized Obama for not taking time to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obama said he would visit the sites of the atomic bomb attacks on another occasion. Japan has deployed about 16,000 police officers to provide security in Tokyo during the visit, which is expected to see further demonstrations. Most of the 47,000 US soldiers in Japan are based on the island. The US military favours Okinawa as it is closer to China and Taiwan. The US governed the island directly for nearly 30 years after World War II. The US wants to move its airbase at Futenma away from residential areas to another location on the island. Pollution from the US bases has angered local people. A number of sexual assaults by US servicemen on Japanese civilians and accidents involving military hardware have fuelled opposition to the bases. Japan’s new PM has suggested moving Futenma off the island completely.

In his fifth major foreign address of Obama’s 10-month presidency, continuing the sharp break with the unilateral approach that marked international relations under the Bush administration, in the speech to 1,500 prominent Japanese in a soaring downtown Tokyo concert hall on 14 Nov, Obama reaffirmed the strength of Washington’s alliance with Japan. Obama reached out through several personal notes that delighted his audience, including calling himself “America’s first Pacific president,” referring to his time in Indonesia, birth in Hawaii and travels in Asia as a boy. Obama was quick to spurn North Korea’s nuclear belligerence, warning Pyongyang that the U.S. and its Asian partners would “not be cowed” by the isolated dictatorship’s nuclear tests and missile launches, although he let the fascist Israel to cow him and in a way, kick his presidency. Obama has asked NK to stop building nuclear weapons and scrapped those already believed to be in its arsenal. President Obama also welcomed China’s efforts to play a greater role on the world stage, a role in which “their growing economy is joined by growing responsibility”.

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After a luncheon with the Japanese emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, who have just celebrated 20 years on the throne, Obama headed to Singapore for an APEC. In Singapore, Obama will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in an effort to revitalize U.S. engagement in the region’s multilateral institutions.

President Obama meets Russian president Medvedev on the APEC sidelines. Both are expected to continue work on a treaty to replace the START II nuclear agreement that expires Dec. 5. Both leaders have pledge to reach a new pact before year’s end. Administration officials said the two men also would be discussing attempts to curb not only North Korea’s nuclear program but blunting Iran’s perceived ambitions to build an atomic bomb. In Singapore, Obama also will become the first U.S. president to sit in on the ASEAN 10 meeting that will include the leader of a brutal regime in Myanmar. The Obama administration has recently unveiled a new policy of directly engaging the leadership of Myanmar, also known as Burma, while keeping in force punishing sanctions that so far have failed to convince Rangoon to ease its heavy-handed and repressive methods. Key to any lifting of sanctions would be the release of all political prisoners.

USA is increasingly turning to China for shielding its own economy from further recessions. Barack Obama maintained China is a “partner” as well as rival but warned of “enormous strains” in relations between the world’s two most powerful nations if economic imbalances between them were not corrected. While Obama will push for increased Chinese co-operation in containing Iran and North Korea, his real challenge will be to allay the concerns of his non-Chinese hosts about the rise of Beijing’s power in the region.

China will soon overtake Japan as the world’s second largest economy. Even while in Japan, Obama was always made positive references of China, the today’s American bank. Obama hopes to discuss a revaluation of the Chinese currency. Applauding Beijing’s robust strides as a burgeoning economic engine, he said China was a “partner” as well as rival but warned of “enormous strains” in relations between the world’s two most powerful nations if economic imbalances between them were not corrected. He is also set to discuss opening Chinese markets further to US goods and encouraging Chinese consumers to spend more.

The import growth may reinforce U.S. concerns that China’s currency is undervalued against the dollar, which U.S. manufacturers say gives Chinese companies an unfair trade advantage. Fresh government figures on the U.S. trade deficit could add urgency to Obama’s efforts to seek greater export opportunities in China and other Asian countries. America’s trade gap ballooned in September by 18.2 percent to $36.5 billion. It was the largest monthly increase in more than 10 years and was driven both by higher oil prices and a surge in imports from China.

China’s growing economic and military power and its effect on relations with Washington are also concerns for some Japanese. Three days of the tour are being devoted to the Chinese leg during which Obama hopes to discuss a revaluation of the Chinese currency. He is also set to discuss opening Chinese markets further to US goods and encouraging Chinese consumers to spend more. Meanwhile, China signaled that it might allow an appreciation of the Yuan. He will try to capitalise on this as he seeks to build on and improve crucial relationships with allies and rivals across the Pacific.

Obama stopped off in Alaska on his way, touching down at Elmendorf Air Force Base where he spoke to a military audience about his strategy in Afghanistan. “I will not risk your lives unless it is necessary to America’s vital interests,” he told troops. The US administration has been locked in an intense debate over a request from the American commander in Afghanistan for thousands of extra troops amid doubts over the competence and integrity of the Afghan government. No decision on the surge request is expected during Obama’s visit to Asia

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US influence in Asia is at risk without a more active role in such organizations. There have been pressures on US president that he must express his commitment to free trade and follow up with actions on pending bilateral, multilateral, and global trade agreements. exclusion of the United States from many of the region’s most relevant financial institutions and preferential trade agreements that could put U.S. companies at a disadvantage over time. There have been growing concerns in the rest of the world, including Asia, on rising trade protectionism in the USA. the US role in Asia will become less relevant economically unless it keeps its markets open and pushes back trade protectionism. U.S. alliances with South Korea, Japan, and Australia largely keep the peace in the region. Even China, which periodically complains about these alliances, benefits from the regional stability they provide.

A new world order is emerging fast in Asia as the region outgrows decades of American/Western supremacy and the Obama visit is the beginning of a battle to keep the US relevant in the turbulent years of change that lie ahead. Obama’s first Asian tour as US leader is aimed at reassuring key allies and boosting economic growth. The trip is also the president’s Asian charm offensive as the glitz starts to fade from the year’s fashion for the so-called Obama-mania. He has called for a global growth strategy “that is both balanced and broadly shared”. Knowing Asia as the potential hub of economic power, US president has chosen to concentrate on Japan and China. Obama said the USA has high expectations for closer ties with economic giant China. The US president outlined a possible future of economic opportunity and greater global integration, but warned China that “this respect cannot be earned through belligerence.” But Obama stressed when it comes to national security, China is a major concern and a destabilizing factor for the Japan-U.S. alliance.

In new Asia, the USA, a fast declining capitalist nation, risks eventual marginalisation unless it more actively seeks to shape a new regional economic and political order and hnce Obama is Asia, but has evaded not only terror India, the newly aquaired terror ally in South Asia and a former Bushdom ally Pakistan as well as other nations in the reigon. Obama is focused on economic giants in the region and said Washington would work hard to strengthen alliances in Asia, such as those with Japan and South Korea, build on newer ones with nations like China and Indonesia, and increase its participation with a growing number of Asian multilateral organizations. Acknowledging Asia’s growing power and regional perceptions of America’s parallel decline, Obama aides, however, said Obama’s Asia sojourn was not designed to reap specific agreements but to show that the U.S. remained very much in the Asian game. USA seems to make top-priority American issues such as creating jobs, a cleaner environment and preventing dangerous weapons proliferation.

US economists believe Asia is obviously the fastest growing economic region in the world. President Obama pressed on with his mission to repair America’s global standing, telling Asians he was determined to engage them as equal partners in the economy, diplomacy and security. For own economy, USA supports millions of jobs, a huge amount of our trade. Obama spent several years in Indonesia as a child and is seen as the first president with an “Asia-Pacific orientation. His message is that the US is back as a player on the region’s diplomatic chess board. However, the recent setback for his diplomatic efforts in Mideast has cast a bad shadow over his administration’s ability, albeit temporarily, to make fascist Israel see reason to behave better in the fast changing global scenario.

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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Specialist on State Terrorism

Independent Columnist in International Affairs, Research Scholar (JNU) & the only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia.

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