Associated Press attacks Netanyahu’s speech

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the United States Congress today commenting on Palestine and Israel, and if both States should return to 1967 borders. In other words, essentially force Israel to give up its land in favor of sharing it with the Palestinian people.

While President Obama is vacationing around Europe and spreading some BS that he’s now an Irishman, Netanyahu’s visit to the United States was to also send a clear message that “Israel can defend itself.”

It is interesting that every time Netanyahu comes to the United States, President Obama has other things he has to be doing.

But already, the news media is attacking Netanyahu. By way of example, the Associated Press stated that Israel is a leading recipient of more than $1 billion in military aid each year. Israel is a crucial ally in the Middle East, as was Egypt, before Obama apparently forgave that debt last week. Despite the assistance, Israel’s military is more than capable of defending itself, which is what Netanyahu was alluding to.

AP also said that Netanyahu was wrong with indicating “Israel will not negotiate with the Palestinian government backed by the Palestinian version of al-Qaeda.”

AP says that Hamas (which is backed by Palestine) and al-Qaeda have no connection. Really?

Maybe the AP apparently forgot that Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood which supports Hamas as well?

Furthermore, Netanyahu spoke heavily about wanting to reach a peaceful compromise with Palestine and said that while it would be extremely painful, it could be done. He noted that in the past, Israel has given up occupation of land in both Southern Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip. What did that leave Israel? With acts of terror from Hezbollah and Hamas.

Towards the closing of his speech, Netanyahu remarked that if Palestine is willing to sever its relationship with Hamas, then peace would be reached. But some of his comments about Israel keeping several territories have apparently upset Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who calls this nothing more than a “declaration of war”.

In short however, Netanyahu’s speech on stabilization and peace for the Jewish people in the Middle East was found to be very inspirational and welcoming. I’d prefer him as President of the United States any day.

Could we perhaps negotiate with Netanyahu and allow him to become President? We’ll just give Obama to the Middle East since he enjoys sympathizing with the Arab world so much.

Al-Qaeda leader comments on U.S. and Middle East upheaval

When Libya’s upheaval began in February, Moammar Gaddafi had indicated that al-Qaeda was responsible for destabilizing his country. This turned out to be factual after the Muslim Brotherhood crippled Egypt and removed Hosni Mubarak and the Brotherhood’s clerical leader called for an assassination of Gaddafi.

A piece on News24.com says that Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is presumed to be the new leader of al-Qaeda and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, posted an audio sound byte on the Libya situation a few days before Navy SEALS killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The audio was posted on militant forms in which al-Zawahiri claims that NATO’s intervention in Libya is meant to remove Gaddafi and the United States will set up a ‘puppet government’ to control the country’s rich oil resources.

No surprise there. After all, the U.S. did the same thing in Iraq and Kosovo.

In this recording, Zawahiri gave high praise to Egyptians that were successful in toppling Mubarak in Egypt and that the Gaza Strip border should be opened. And what happened? The post-Mubarak Egypt supported Hamas and vowed to open up the Gaza Strip.

Zawahiri also called on Syria to remove its president, Bashar al-Assad. Interestingly, while al-Qaeda harbors resentment against countries in the Middle East like Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia which are associated with the United States, in the same aspect, al-Qaeda is indirectly supporting the U.S. because President Obama wants to see these dictators removed from power.

Of course that is exactly what al-Qaeda wants, as does the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hezbollah. In this unprecedented move, you have Sunni and Shiite Muslims actually working together to bring down the Middle East and remove Israel.

In another unbelievable move, President Obama said that the United States forgave Egypt’s $1 billion debt, while the rest of us in America continue to suffer. Maybe the President believes that once the U.S. controls Libya and seizes its oil rights, they’ll cross collateralize the loss of Egypt’s debt?

As usual, the ignorance by President Obama shows that this danger will continue to escalate. Why does this President continue to embrace terrorists and destabilization?

Pakistan angry over Osama bin Laden raid

While the U.S. celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden, one of the world’s most wanted criminals, the reaction from the Middle East has been nothing more than pure outrage.

Hamas had publicly condemned the United States; the Muslim Brotherhood is demanding U.S. military forces leave the Middle East immediately and the Taliban is vowing revenge.

But perhaps the most interesting of all was Pakistan's comments, a country that is supposed to be a U.S. ally. Well apparently it seems as though the so-called ‘alliance’ has been rather bleak these days.

Yesterday, former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told CNN-IBN “American troops coming across the border and taking action in one of our towns, that is Abbottabad, is not acceptable to the people of Pakistan, it is a violation of our sovereignty. It would have far better if Pakistani special services group had operated and conducted the mission.”

What a load of crap. It has been the case since the moment we entered Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, that the Pakistan Government has swayed back and forth. First vowing to help the United States combat terrorism and insisting al-Qaeda members are not wanted in Pakistan and then deciding to provide safe haven for Osama bin Laden throughout all of these years. It is patently absurd that the U.S. would agree to cooperate with Pakistan military forces, because if that were the case, Pakistan would have most likely alerted Osama bin Laden’s compound and he would have fled, as he has done many times over the course of the last 10 years.

While Pakistan continues to lie to the United States about helping the Taliban and that they provided a safe haven for bin Laden all this time, we still managed to send them over $3 billion in 2010. How does that image help the United States?

Despite the fact that this evil man masterminded the most horrific attack our country has ever experienced, and the countless bombings throughout Europe, and at African embassies and the Bali nightclub bombings, this man is now garnering tremendous sympathy throughout the Muslim world.

That is a hint with relation to the uprising in the Middle East right now. We have the Muslim Brotherhood destabilizing Egypt and Libya, Hamas and Hezbollah forming a coalition to destroy Israel; Iran and Egypt bridging relations for the first time in 30 years and to completely open up the Gaza Strip.

Yes, the death of Osama bin Laden is a great victory, but his death appears to be nothing more than the end of Chapter 2.

U.S. drones allowed in Mexico

If you have not already heard, our nation's borders have been unsecured for many years and the United States has dealt with constant bombardment of criminal illegal aliens from Mexico.

Furthermore, the drug cartel violence throughout Mexico has continued to escalate. I reported in previous blog posts here on Independent Word, that the Mexican Military and Police Force are loosing the battle against the cartels. Since 2006 when President Calderon declared war, more than 35,000 people have been killed. I also came to the conclusion that sometime down the road, the United States would have to join Mexico if they ever expected to wipe the drug business out completely.

Well today, Mexico announced that U.S. drones would be permitted to fly over parts of the country adjacent to the U.S. and Mexico border in hopes to gather intelligence on drug traffickers. Now, critics are already jumping on this calling intervention from the U.S. unnecessary. Mexican Senator Luis Villareal said that "U.S. involvement violates trust and undermines national sovereignty." 

The truth of the matter here is that Mexico's inability to stop drug cartel violence and its largely outnumbered military would have only called for more intervention from the United States. Still, there are several questions. Drug cartels are a multi-billion dollar business.  It has been years dealing with a constant broken borders system and hundreds of billions of dollars spent over the years which go to what? Paying off politicians or giving kick-backs? Many of them covered in blood money? Why in the hell has it taken the United States so long to get the hint that something needs to be done to disband the drug cartels, close the border, reduce the crime wave and stop illegal immigration?

Nothing has been done. President Obama continues to play around with the idea that the borders need to remain open to welcome immigrants and it plays a crucial part in the ridiculous North American Free Trade Agreement and the Security and Prosperity Partnership that President Bush put together during his reign.

Security? Really? The CIA has verified for years that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups from the Middle East also have a presence in Mexico and are just as much of a threat to this country's national security as the drug cartels, but I digress...

Now, it appears that when the United States decides to try and work with Mexico on gathering intelligence on drug cartels, Mexico snaps back saying "we don't need you're help!"

From the looks of it Mexico, you're going to need all the help you can possibly get. How many more innocent people on either side of the border need to get killed?

Prisoners in Egypt released by Hezbollah

Egypt continues to look like nothing more than a war zone out of some Hollywood action movie.

The situation has grown from bad to worse as protesters and supporters of President Mubarak took to the streets for a violent battle. Gun fire, beatings, Molotov cocktails being thrown, its pure pandemonium. Journalists and world class reporters including Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour have been in the middle of the crossfire and today, a Fox News crew were severely beaten and were taken to a hospital.

But that's not all that gone from bad to worse. Reuters reported that Hezbollah, which recently collapsed Lebanon's government, managed to help several of its members escape from prison in Egypt at the height of the chaos. In addition, thousands of other inmates were also able to escape, and with the Egyptian military and police force concentrating all of their efforts on the protests, a few of them have managed to muzzle their way back to the Gaza Strip.

Just moments ago, Ms. Amanpour, having dealt with getting attacked by the mob of protesters yesterday in Cairo, managed to finally talk with President Mubarak himself. In a ABC news exclusive, President Mubarak told Ms. Amanpour that "I'm fed up, I want to go, but if I resign today, there will be chaos..."

President Mubarak does have a point. There is no question that the people in Egypt are fed up with an authoritarian rule, but if he does cease power, this is one step further in what the Muslim Brotherhood wants, which again, is to destabilize the region and unite radical Islam to get rid of Israel.

Meanwhile, as expected, Iran is cheering for the protests in Egypt. Just like the Obama Administration is doing by the way.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the protests are a sign of "Islamic Renaissance" and that "any opposition to the movement of the Egyptian people ... will bring about the anger and hatred of all Muslims around the world..."

This is also what Iran wants and will have no problem in helping Hezbollah establish its goal here, which is to dominate the entire Middle East under an Islamic rule.

Protests in Middle East not a good thing?

There is heavy concern right now with relation to the continued protests in North Africa and the Middle East. As everyone is no doubt already aware, there has been political unrest in a growing list of countries including Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, Yemen and most recently inspiring riots against Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime in Egypt.

Thus far, the protests from these nations' people are meant to call for an end of the wrath of dictatorship from their leaders, and establish more solvent countries without the crisis of inflation, shortages, poverty and high unemployment.

Many economists did not expect Egypt to revolt against its own government. Well, that obviously was not the case. As of today, the riots in Egypt have become so bad, that members of the country's own police force decided to join the people and for the first time in history, an entire country shut down its internet access to try and isolate its people from the outside. Also today, President Mubarak agreed to fire his entire cabinet, but still refused to step aside.

President Obama has been cheering on the riots, but asking for a more civil and non-violent approach and also called for President Mubarak to engage in this more civil tone with Egypt's people, or the United States will cut off aid to the country.

Now the first argument to this of course is going to be that the United States should just mind its own business. Well, despite the fact that the people in these countries want new government and leadership, there is also something else which might determine that the escalating tension in the Middle East is not a good thing.

As WikiLeaks uncovered the secret cables concerning our beloved Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the knowledge she hid from the American people over Saudi Arabia's involvement in financing terrorism, they have also uncovered documentation of Ms. Clinton's pressure on Middle Eastern nations in particular to push for government reform. One of those nations was Egypt.

So now, the Middle East is in a position of reform, by the riots we've seen from their people. But what kind of reform is it leading to?

Egypt is one of the United States' most trusted allies in the Middle East and they're one of very few countries that has peace with Israel. If Egypt's government entirely collapses, which apparently it is as we speak, this means Sharia Law could be imposed, which is dominated by Muslims. Is it just a surprise that radical Muslims want to whip out Israel?

We should all see the common trend here and it looks rather frightening. Meanwhile, Lebanon's entire government has collapsed and they're trying to shove Hezbollah leaders down that country's throat, who by the way, also want to destroy Israel.

The protests that started in Yemen? They have not been entirely successful on riding al-Qaeda out of their country.

Iran? A clown like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is just waiting in the wings with his nuclear plans. He's already an ally of Hezbollah, and the destabilization in Egypt is the last 'piece of the puzzle' to finally get Israel off the face of the Earth.

Yet, we hear virtually nothing from our leaders in Washington about these common factors, nor the fact that right now we are on the brink of beginning to witness a full scale war in the Middle East.

Like everyone else that HAS seen this trend, I hope I'm wrong.

Iran backs Lebanon; asks U.S. and Israel to stop interfering

The circus in the Middle East is asking the United States and Israel to stop interference with Lebanon's recently collapsed government. When I say circus, I'm referring to the joke that is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad responded on Lebanon's situation: "I tell the Zionists and the U.S. ... be ashamed of your interference in Lebanon and be sure that the Lebanese and regional nations will chop your dirty hands off." 


He went on to say that each time the United States interferes in any country in the Middle East, it makes things much more complicated and that Lebanon can take care of itself.

This is a president that is basically for the most part, offering safe haven to the Militant Shiite group Hezbollah, which effectively collapsed Lebanon's unity government last week when its representative ministers resigned because Hezbollah remains at the top of the list of an international tribunal in the assassination of former Lebanon Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hezbollah is hoping to establish a new power in Lebanon and to possibly wage a new war on Israel sometime down the road.

Hezbollah has issued a warning that they will "cut off the hands" of anyone who blames any member of the group for Hariri assassination. But the pressure is mounting. While Lebanon's government remains ineffective for the most part, Israel is basically having to battle enemies from all sides by itself and will have one more thing to worry about if Hezbollah gets it way. On the same front, Iran has a nuclear program which is for the most part, aimed at Israel and resentment is harbored by other Middle East nations after Israel was accused of carrying out the assassination on a leader of Hamas.

Things right now in the Middle East are not at all calm. President Obama might want to start getting serious that this idea of international talks and relations is not working. The Middle East could care less about this idea of peace. They want Israel out. If the United States chooses to do nothing, that entire region of the world may become a much larger threat than was anticipated.

Hezbollah collapses Lebanon's government

Earlier this week, Lebanon's government collapsed following the resignations of 11 ministers, 10 of which were representatives of the Militant Shiite Hezbollah, which opposes the parliament. The two main reasons as to why its government collapsed is because Hezbollah is hoping to establish a new form of government without a parliamentary and it would mean no further action can take place regarding indictments in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri from 2005, which the international tribunal is investigating. By collapsing Lebanon's government, Hezbollah has effectively ceased the tribunal's investigation and indictments because wouldn't you know it, Hezbollah is at the top of the tribunal's suspect list for Hariri's assassination.

It is quite obvious what is happening here, because Hariri is the father of Lebanon's current prime minister Saad Hariri and apparent that Hezbollah is hoping to stifle his investigation and opposition of their radical agenda, and remove him from his position. With this current situation growing, some leaders are fearing that the country could lead to the brink of turmoil including violence on the streets.

Of course Lebanon has had problems like this for many years. Find any country in the Middle East that doesn't have these radical problems from militant or terrorist groups, its not necessarily "new" news. Lebanon itself has had to deal with government turmoil before, which include a laundry list of never-ending problems such as assassinations, bombings, a war with Israel and at one point, almost went to the brink of civil war back in 2008. Just about every country over there, with the exception of Israel, hates the United States and they want to kill us.

But coming to a more political standpoint, it seems completely logical to conclude that with President Obama having to deal with all of our problems here, it is the right opportunity for an issue to start over there. Lebanon, is becoming more aggressive like Iran, and they know President Obama does not want to engage in becoming the world police or having to assist in going to war. It occurs to me however, if Lebanon's new government eventually is re-established as being completely dominated by Hezbollah, could also mean another war on Israel.

You think Iran will miss out on an opportunity to help Hezbollah if they want to rage another war on Israel? I think not. So while the resentment continues to grow in the Middle East, some people in Washington right now are continuing to not pay much attention, if any, to this new development that Lebanon is functioning without a government and becoming increasingly dominated by a radical militant group, and most likely, nobody is going to admit that they'll pose as a potential threat to Israel.

But I'll say it here.

Is Obama keeping U.S. safe from a “new” nuclear war and terror?

What is obviously continuing to be an escalating global threat, it was confirmed yesterday that North Korea has enriched uranium for its nuclear facilities. The news apparently sent shockwaves through Washington, yet some U.S. Officials were not entirely surprised by the situation… Well, the ones that were not surprised, at least understand that we’ve only been warned about North Korea’s anticipated progress on advancing its nuclear ambitions for fifteen years, or more. Yet nothing was ever done, except sign a piece of paper with the United Nations.

Back in June 2009 while in France, President Obama was asked at a press conference about North Korea and its relationship with Iran concerning their nuclear ambitions. The President seemed rather evasive on addressing the issue and could not clearly answer the United States’ policy with North Korea specifically, although he ended his statement by saying:

“I don’t think that there should be an assumption, that we will simply continue down a path in which North Korea is constantly destabilizing the region, and we just react the same ways by after they do these things after a while, we reward them.”

Well, why don’t we stop assuming Mr. President? After all, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has shown a clear defiance all this time, and violated its resolution with the United Nations. That should be enough of an indicator that they are one step further in expanding their program.

But North Korea, continuing its nuclear plans is just the tip of the iceberg. The United States has feared North Korea intention to sell missiles and nuclear technology to Iran. Even more terrifying, is the notion of North Korea ,possibly one day selling any of its nuclear programs to al-Qaeda, something that the terrorist network would absolutely love to get its hands on.

Iran has actually continued its operations out of the Middle East, in moving forward in establishing their nuclear plans. Now, the country is apparently mining for uranium in Venezuela. Russia agreed earlier this year, to help Venezuela build a nuclear reactor plant, and continued its relationship in assisting Iran. Over the course of the last several years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have meet with each other in their respective countries to discuss their plans, with Venezuela actually allowing Iran to take over a mining site within its own country to obtain uranium.

Incidentally, on Chavez’s numerous trips to Iran in the last two years, he also began subsidizing the Militant Islamic group Hezbollah in Lebanon, while continuing to work in conjunction with Iran on its nuclear programs. 

Why in the world would a Latin American President be giving money to an organization bent on destroying the United States and Israel?

The commonality of these three countries is based on the fact that they have been working to create a nuclear program that could threaten the safety of the world. Taking into consideration Chavez’s relationship with Hezbollah, which in itself has ties with al-Qaeda and Iran’s relationship with North Korea, which in turn could sell its missiles or weapons to al-Qaeda, paints a very disturbing picture as to what the United States is doing to seriously address this matter.

President Obama has done little when has come to moving forward on solutions to force North Korea and Iran to dismantle their nuclear plans, and is reluctant to admit putting sanctions against Venezuela and its connections to Iran and Middle East terrorist organizations.

The President also seems to be very reluctant to admit that al-Qaeda has moved its breeding grounds to North Africa in the Sahara desert, since the terrorist network has felt increasing heat to move away from Pakistan and Yemen. In September, al-Qaeda kidnapped five French nationals in Niger, and are currently holding them hostage. As of yesterday, al-Qaeda is reportedly demanding that France pull its troops out of Afghanistan if they want to see the hostages released. This, at the height of the NATO summit last week, which its topic of discussion was pulling out of Afghanistan by 2014.

Here’s a side recommendation to the French Government: If they are successful in getting its citizens out of the hands of al-Qaeda, then they should step up and use their own nuclear weapons as a primary defense in the war on terror, along with the United States. One problem resolved. Wouldn’t want to see all of that nuclear testing in the French Polynesian ocean near the Tahitian Moruroa Atoll go to waste.

But these are continuous escalating global threats. I would question President Obama as to how serious he is on taking affirmative action against these countries nuclear plans and the continuation of the threat from al-Qaeda in order to protect the United States, with the assistance of our allies. He can either get the United States to move on these problems; or simply just do what he said in his speech back in June of 2009, and just let them do their thing and reward them later.

This is probably the biggest world threat since the end of the Cold War, and this is not the extension of it, but rather something much worse.