Netanyahu Glares At United Nations for 45 Seconds After Berating Its ‘Deafening Silence’ on Iran Threat to Israel - by David Rutz
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the United Nations on Thursday for its “deafening silence” in the wake of Iran’s threats to exterminate his country, followed by 45 seconds of silent glaring at the General Assembly.
Netanyahu used his speech to sharply criticize the Iran nuclear deal led by the Obama administration, maintaining his longtime arguments that the agreement would pave Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon and allow it to make good on its constant threats to destroy the Jewish state. The U.N. Security Council unanimously endorsed the deal in July.
The Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced earlier this month that in 25 years, Israel would no longer exist, and he praised his people in July for demanding death be brought to the U.S. and Israel.
“Seventy years after the murder of 6 million Jews, Iran’s leaders promise to destroy my country, murder my people and the response from this body, the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here, has been absolutely nothing,” Netanyahu said. “Utter silence. Deafening silence.”
Netanyahu then looked slowly around the room with a glare fixed on his face, and there wasn’t a sound in the chamber. The U.N. has been hit with charges of anti-Semitismon numerous occasions.
“Perhaps you can now understand why Israel is not joining you in celebrating this deal,“ he said, breaking the quiet. “If Iran’s rulers were working to destroy your countries, perhaps you’d be less enthusiastic about the deal. If Iran’s terror proxies were firing thousands of rockets at your cities, perhaps you’d be more measured in your praise. And if this deal were unleashing a nuclear arms race in your neighborhood, perhaps you’d be more reluctant to celebrate.“
The nuclear deal provides sanctions relief to Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, in the amount of $100 billion. It is opposed by a majority of the American public.
The federal government owns 28 percent of the land in the United States, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.
“Federal land ownership is concentrated in the West,” explains the service. “Specifically, 62% of Alaska is federally owned, as is 47% of the 11 coterminous western states. By contrast, the federal government owns only 4% of lands in the other states.”
There has been a growing movement to transfer land from the federal government to states. According to a report from Newsmax, 36 bills have been introduced in state legislatures to move this effort forward.
For example, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) introduced legislation that would advance a land transfer between Alaska and the federal government to allow the construction of a road that would provide local residents with access to medical care in emergency situations.
The road would connect King Cove, which is currently only accessible by air and water, to Cold Bay, a place to get safe and reliable transport for patients in emergencies.
“At least 19 deaths have been attributed to the lack of a land route to Cold Bay, either because of plane crashes or an inability to get timely medical treatment, including four people who died in a 1980 medevac crash,” according to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Department of Interior secretary Sally Jewell opposes building the road because it would harm wildlife and the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
“Building a road through the Refuge would cause irreversible damage not only to the Refuge itself, but to the wildlife that depend on it,” said Jewell. “Izembek is an extraordinary place—internationally recognized as vital to a rich diversity of species—and we owe it to future generations to think about long-term solutions that do not insert a road through the middle of this Refuge and designated wilderness.”
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A new documentary seeks to investigate the mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found shot to death last January while investigating an Iran-linked terror attack and Argentine government cover-up.
Los Abandonados, which was directed by Matthew Taylor and premiered on Wednesday, traces the story of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center and a prosecutor’s quest for justice in the face of pressure from his own government and threats from Iran’s terror network.
Nisman spent 10 years leading Argentina’s investigation of the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, a probe that was never completed.
The 1994 attack killed 85 and is believed to have been carried out by Hezbollah under orders from Tehran. Nisman began quietly compiling evidence two years ago that Argentine President Christina Kirchner had agreed to whitewash Iran’s leading role in the attack in exchange for a lucrative trade deal.
Nisman was found dead in his apartment hours before he was scheduled to present his findings against Kirchner to the Argentine congress. Kirchner and her allies initially claimed Nisman had committed suicide. Forensic evidence later indicated that he was murdered.
But like the AMIA investigation, attempts to discover the truth behind Nisman’s death have been stalled by the chaotic and often-corrupt Argentine justice system.
The film premiered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and included interviews with Argentine officials, journalists, and colleagues of Nisman.
The documentary can be viewed online here.
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Both President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the United Nations, and each gave vastly different strategies in how to deal with Syria and ISIS.
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Due to the surge of popularity of the internet and what it has to offer, you might come across some security risks while browsing the net. Even worse is the rise in cyberstalking, which is now more common than physical stalking and harassment, probably due to the anonymity of being able to harass others over social media versus in person.
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Special Correspondent for In Homeland Security
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Washington and Moscow are at odds with each other about the alarming situation in Syria. The saber rattling is heating up.
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Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) recently published data on the economic performance of the North Caucasian Federal District during the first seven months of 2015. According to the optimistic government statistics, the unemployment rate in the district fell by 1.5 percent, while industrial output and services grew by 15 percent. These figures appear to be fairly good, even when adjusted for inflation (Svpressa.ru, September 22). However, experts increasingly notice that the Russian government’s promises to boost the economy of the North Caucasus are hollow. In July, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced that the government would increase financing for the region by an additional $3 billion. Previously, Minister for the Development of the North Caucasus Lev Kuznetsov proclaimed that the slogan popular among the Russian nationalists, “Stop Feeding the Caucasus,” was outdated and the North Caucasus would actually feed the rest of the Russian Federation soon because it was actively developing its agricultural sector (Vz.ru, July 29).
However, some top Russian officials have made contrary statements. The Russian government has dropped its three-year budget-planning cycles, and even the budget for 2016 has not yet been agreed upon, as no one in the government wants to take responsibility for painful cuts (Gazeta.ru, September 25).
The figures suggest that Moscow’s ability to finance the North Caucasus is rapidly declining. For example, the much-advertised government-backed company for the development of tourism in the North Caucasus cut nearly all of its projects, one by one. Funding for developing tourism in Ingushetia alone was cut four fold. The Russian economy is in a state of flux, with declining prices of oil, which generates the bulk of Moscow’s revenues. Such financial instability makes budget planning difficult. Yet, the government’s program for the development of the North Caucasus boldly makes promises for the period stretching out to 2025. Some analysts point out that even the previous Russian government program, which was unveiled in 2012, was not realistic. In the current financial turmoil, the program has become even more generous and less sensible. Some analysts say the program for the development of the North Caucasus appears to be little more than a piece of propaganda. Moscow is bluffing—attempting to influence the North Caucasians by pacifying them with promises of the future prosperity (Kavkazskaya Politika, September 11).
The harsh reality, however, is that some North Caucasus republics are already de-facto bankrupt. Out of the seven republics of the North Caucasus, three—Ingushetia, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and North Ossetia—appear to have the worst credit balances. In these three regions, the republican debt exceeds total revenues. Ingushetia’s debt is estimated at $42 million, Karachaevo-Cherkessia’s at $80 million and North Ossetia’s debt is about $150 million. While those figures do not seem particularly high, these republics’ revenues are low, making them bankrupt regions, although officials refuse to admit this while Moscow continues to cover their current expenditures (Kavkazskaya Politika, September 24).
It is notable that the two quietest regions of the North Caucasus, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and North Ossetia, have ended up on the list of bankrupt regions: indeed, they receive relatively little financial assistance from Moscow compared to more volatile places. The fact that they are not volatile reduces the Russian government’s urgency to finance them, ultimately putting them deeper in debt.
One of the major issues of the North Caucasus is its inability to attract investors. Foreign investment in the North Caucasian republics has remained negligible: in 2014, in decreasing order, per capita foreign investment in Kabardino-Balkaria was estimated to be $33, $6 in North Ossetia, $4 in Dagestan, and less than $1 in Karachaevo-Cherkessia and Ingushetia. No foreign investment was recorded in Chechnya. Nearby Krasnodar region received $205 per capita foreign investment in 2014, a rather large figure in absolute terms given that its population exceeds five million. Russian investment is also higher in Krasnodar region, which is followed, in decreasing order of per capita investment, by Dagestan, Stavropol region, North Ossetia, Chechnya, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria. The difference between the most popular region with investors, Krasnodar region, and the least popular one, Kabardino-Balkaria, is about four fold. Experts cite the possibility of “riots” as the primary risk for investors in the North Caucasus. The term “riots” here is probably used as a euphemism for insurgent attacks. The other risk is the declining funding of the region by Moscow (Svpressa.ru, August 29).
The North Caucasus evidently has been a priority for the Russian government’s domestic policies. The perceived informal contract between Vladimir Putin’s regime and Russian society, which can be summed up as “steadily rising income in exchange for political complicity,” was most successfully and vividly implemented in the North Caucasus. That contract, however, seems to be on the verge of expiration, given that Moscow still promises large investments in the region while the actual funding decreases. This may mean that a new social contract is likely to emerge over the next several years or even months, since the previous contract no longer seems sustainable. The change may force Moscow to adjust its policies in the region to these new realities and increase instability in the republics.
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WASHINGTON — US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Wednesday accused Russia of inflaming Syria's years-long civil conflict and said Moscow's military involvement in the war-torn nation was "doomed to fail."
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The Saudi-led coalition said on Wednesday it had seized an Iranian fishing boat in the Arabian Sea loaded with weapons destined for Shiite rebels it is fighting in Yemen.
September 30, 2015, 3:26 PM (IDT)
A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen reported Wednesday that an Iranian vessel disguised as a fishing boat had been caught trying to smuggle a large consignment of arms and ammunition to Houthi rebels. It included bombs, anti-tank mines,rocket-propelled grenades and shoulder-borne missikes. The vessel was intercepted in the Oman Sea Saturday and its 14 Iranian crewmen taken captive.
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The Islamic State Thursday released three new videos depicting the beheadings of 25 victims at separate places: Ten Kurdish Peshmerga fighters taken captive in Iraq: 13 “pro-Assad traitors and collaborators” at ISIS Syrian HQ in Raqqa, and two unidentified victims accused of “heresy” in the town of Hasaka.
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On September 11, DEBKAfile reported exclusively on the arrival of the first Iranian ground troops in Syria.
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It may not be a stretch to say that the entire Western strategy in Syria has collapsed in the last 72 hours.
As Russian airstrikes persist, Reuters reports that hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria and will soon join Syrian government forces and Hezbollah troops in a major ground offensive aimed at helping embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recapture territory. One source told Reuters that hundreds more Iranian troops were headed to Syria, and that it was likely that Iraqi soldiers would also take part in the operation under the cover of Russian air support. The assault may begin in Idlib and Hama and would once and for all confirm that Russia is not in Syria just to fight the Islamic State.
Indeed, following a barrage of airstrikes across Syria yesterday that somehow managed to miss every single ISIS-held position, Russia launched a second round of airstrikes in Syria today. Reuterswrites that after two days in the conflict, Russia has not yet targeted any ISIS-linked sites and suggests that “Russia's decision to join the war with air strikes on behalf of Assad is a major turning point in international involvement in the conflict.” U.S. officials said that Russian strikes instead hit north of Homs city.
Syrian rebels supported by the United States on the front lines with Assad forces told the Times that Russian strikes had targeted their base. The group stated that “[they] are moderate Syrian rebels and have no affiliation with ISIS. ISIS is at least 100 kilometers away from where [they] are.” John McCain (R-AZ) told CNN that he could “absolutely confirm” that Russian “strikes against the Free Syrian Army” and other “groups that have been armed and trained by the CIA.” He referred to the situation as an “Orwellian experience.”
The Russian defense ministry claimed to have hit a total of twelve Islamic State targets, and a Kremlin spokesman added that “Russia’s airstrikes in Syria are targeting not only Islamic State militants but also other extremist groups.” The BBC reports that the most recent “attacks reportedly hit sites in the north-west held by the Army of Conquest rebel alliance,” with most of the strikes occurring in the Idlib, Hama, and Homs provinces. The Army of Conquest alliance includes the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.
The strikes reportedly have killed as many as 36 civilians. Moscow denied that its strikes have resulted in civilian casualties—but videos and social media posts from the ground would suggest otherwise. The Times has more and provides a helpful map of the strikes. The Post also maps the locations of the attacks. The Telegraph is providing live-updates of the situation.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plan to meet later today to discuss “deconflicting” their respective initiatives in Syria. Lavrov also gave a press conference earlier today, in which he remarked that “Russian troops were targeting ISIS militants and ‘other terrorist groups’ in Syria and saw eye-to-eye with the U.S.-led coalition on this,” adding that Russia did not consider the U.S.-supported Free Syrian Army to be a terrorist group.
Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s reacted to the Russian air strikes and Defense One’s Molly O’Toole reports that Carter refused to acquiesce to Russia’s demand that the United States clear Syrian airspace in anticipation of Russian strikes. Indeed, the United States conducted its own airstrikes in Syria yesterday near Aleppo, without warning the Russians. Meanwhile, Russia continues to argue that their involvement in the conflict is more legitimate than other efforts given their backing by Assad’s regime. The Times outlines the various strategic interests and agendas with regards to the Syrian conflict of the countries now involved in the conflict.
The Guardian suggests that the conflict in Ukraine has showed signs of winding down in light of Russia’s increasing activities in Syria. Things have, apparently, gotten so quiet in Eastern Ukraine that a separatist commander and his men “even had time recently to kill, grill and eat Poroshenko, a pet pig they named after Ukraine’s president.” Russian, Ukrainian, French, and German officials will meet on Friday in Paris to discuss the future of Ukraine, and there is some confidence that military action in the region could end.
In Afghanistan, the Times reports that the Afghan army is rallying, in an attempt to take back Kunduz from Taliban control. While the Afghan army claims to have retaken the city, residents have disagreed with that assessment. The Long War Journal discusses the role of the NATO personnel bolstering Afghanistan’s security forces, explaining that while they are not officially “serving in a combat role,” the NATO troops nevertheless are authorized to use force when fired upon.
Following Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ announcement that Palestine was no longer bound by the Oslo accords, the Times describes the “unclear practical effects” of the declaration—which marks the end of Palestinian acceptance of the system responsible for "governing much of daily life in the occupied West Bank." In another U.N. development, the Palestinian flag wasraised for the first time outside U.N. headquarters in New York. Politico reports that President Obama brushed off Senate Minority leader Harry Reid’s attempt to extract from him public commitment to veto any U.N. resolution calling for an independent Palestinian state.
New information has surfaced on the Hajj disaster with Iran reporting that 465 Iranian pilgrims died in the stampede. According to an AP estimate based on the official figures reported by each country with nationals affected by the disaster, Iran’s revelation brings the total death toll to 997.
As the refugee crisis continues, Eastern European countries are cooperating on border control measures put in place to manage the population flows. The Times continues its live coverage of the crisis.
The European Court of Justice ruled that migrants can be arrested for re-entering a country from which they have previously been expelled. Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the crisis at the U.N. General Assembly yesterday. Voice of America reports that he “stressed the need for cooperation among all those who are struggling to cope with the crisis, with all efforts focused on saving lives.” This week has seen an unexpected increase in aid for refugee agencies.
China is investigating a series of “parcel bombs” that went off in the city of Liucheng yesterday. A total of seventeen bombs detonated in the city, killing seven and more than 50 others, according to the BBC. Police have identified a 33-year-old male suspect who officials claim hired other people to send the parcels.
Elsewhere in China news: in Foreign Affairs, Lawfare’s own Cody Poplin co-authors a piece on the “New Great Game” in the Asia-Pacific wherein India and China are caught in a battle for access and influence over Indian Ocean Rim states.
The New York Times shares that, amid the dramatic series of events in Syria, one initiative at the United Nations has quietly faded away, as Western governments dropped their push for an international inquiry into human rights abuses and war crimes committed in the ongoing conflict in Yemen. In the face of stiff opposition from Saudi Arabia and its coalition allies, Western governments now appear prepared to accept a new resolution that would instead allow exiled Yemeni president Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi—a party to the war—to appoint a national commission of inquiry.
The BBC reports that the long sought peace deal between the Colombian government and the FARC may be one step closer, with the leader of the rebel group announcing that FARC has stopped military training. The group has been ordered to instead conduct “political and cultural training.”
The Post writes that General Gilbert Diendere, the leader of the coup in Burkina Faso, is in custodyfollowing attempts to seek refuge in the country’s Vatican Embassy.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told reporters yesterday that he has recommended to President Obama that he should veto the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act on the grounds that it does not lift sequestration, but instead funnels $38 billion to the Pentagon through a separate war fund.The White House for its part has called the move “irresponsible” and made clear that the President would veto the bill in its current form. The Hill has more.
Parting shot: A news report went awry yesterday when a guest went from defending Edward Snowden to supporting Edward Scissorhands.
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Cody linked to the White House’s statement on H.R. 3457, “The Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act.”
Nick Weaver draws lessons from Taylor Swift on how to handle the relationship between the NSA and Silicon Valley.
Quinta Jurecic explored what it means that Apple blocked the app Metadata+, an online drone strike tracker.
Ben welcomed Edward Snowden to Twitter, suggesting Lawfare readers should conduct a an interview with Snowden. #LetsAskSnowden is the hashtag.
Finally, Quinta shared that finally a legislature has approved a Syria AUMF—that is, the Russian legislature.
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Indictments handed down by Israeli prosecutors say the men, all residents of northern Israel, were planning to carry out attacks on local police, military targets.
The Supreme Court agreed to consider an appeal by Iran’s central bank seeking to prevent terrorism victims from collecting nearly $2 billion in frozen Iranian banking assets.
The Pentagon on Thursday plans to conduct talks with its Russian counterparts in an effort to avoid midair collisions and other disasters as both countries conduct airstrikes over Syria, a senior military official said.
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The Kremlin’s first expeditionary war in decades is unlikely to bring the four-year Syrian conflict anywhere closer to an end, writes Yaroslav Trofimov.
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