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Israel and Saudi Arabia: What's shaping the covert 'alliance'
BBC ^ | 24/11/2017 | Jonathan Marcus

Posted on 11/23/2017 6:08:07 PM PST by Postman Pat

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To: Postman Pat

“these differences matter when it comes to how US foreign policy is currently being directed.”

They shouldn’t. A terrorist is a terrorist. We should be killing, or helping to kill, every last one of them.

L


21 posted on 11/24/2017 2:18:07 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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22 posted on 11/24/2017 4:09:16 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: SVTCobra03

Amen!

The sick disease of Anti-Semitism will be dealt with very soon by a Sovereign Lord & God.

“FReepers” or trolls have been warned.

MARANATHA!


23 posted on 11/24/2017 6:43:54 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (21st Century American Culture = Not worth preserving)
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To: Postman Pat

Obscure text?

Only somebody who’s deeply deceived or an all out fool would say something like that about the Bible.

And your posts above clearly shows childish tendencies and straight up Anti-Semitism.

I feel like I have to wash my hands after reading your idiocy.


24 posted on 11/24/2017 6:47:33 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (21st Century American Culture = Not worth preserving)
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To: Postman Pat

It is not Hezbollah...

huh? Reagan did nothing when Hezbollah killed our 1/8 Marines in Beirut.

from http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-hezbollah

I figured Mossad would get to the truth.

Activities Around the World

Hezbollah is believed to have kidnapped and tortured to death U.S. Army colonel William R. Higgins and the CIA Station Chief in Beirut, William Buckley, and to have kidnapped around 30 other Westerners between 1982 and 1992.

Hezbollah was suspected of involvement in numerous anti-US and anti-Israeli terrorist attacks. The organization was responsible for the suicide truck bombings of the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in October 1983, in which 241 American servicemen were killed (220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and 3 Army soldiers) and the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut in September 1984. snip

Three members of Hezbollah, Imad Mughniyah, Hasan Izz-al-Din, and Ali Atwa, were on the FBI’s list of 22 Most Wanted Terrorists for the hijacking in 1985 of TWA Flight 847 during which a U.S. Navy diver was murdered. Mughniyeh was assassinated in 2008 in a joint CIA-Mossad operation. Elements of the group were responsible for the kidnapping and detention of Americans and other westerners in Lebanon in the 1980s.

In 1989, Hezbollah terrorists planned to kidnap Israel’s consul general in Sao Paolo or a diplomat in Brasilia to use as hostages for negotiations to free Hezbollah prisoners in Israel. Security forces searched for the terrorists for a month before learning they had left the country.

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Since the Second Lebanon War, Hezbollah operatives have been seen and, at times, even arrested in the Caribbean, Central America, South America and Asia.

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U.S. State Department “wanted” poster for
Hezbollah operatives Talal Hamiyah and Fu’ad Shukr
Two alleged Hezbollah operatives were arrested in the United States on June 8, 2017. Ali Kourani, 32, and Samer el Debek, 37, both naturalized U.S. citizens, were charged with performing surveillance on prospective targets for attacks to be carried out by Hezbollah’s external operations wing, Islamic Jihad. Kourani, who was living in the Bronx, New York at the time of his arrest, had been gathering intelligence regarding operations and security at New York airports, and was working to identify individuals affiliated with the IDF in the U.S. Born in Lebanon in 1984, Kourani relocated to the United States in 2003. His family’s home in Lebanon was allegedly destroyed during the 2006 Lebanon War, and two years later he was recruited into Hezbollah.

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Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Nicholas Rasmussen told reporters during a briefing in October 2017 that Hezbollah is determined to give itself a potential homeland option to launch attacks within the United States. As part of a new strategy by the Trump administration to take on Iranian proxies in the Middle East, Rasmussen announced a $12 million reward for the capture of two top Hezbollah operatives: Talal Hamiyah ($7 million) and Fu’ad Shukr ($5 million). Hamiyah is in charge of coordinating Hezbollah attacks outside of Lebanon, and Shukr played a central role in the 1983 attack on the U.S. Marine corps barracks in Beirut.

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Mattis hates them. Enough said.


25 posted on 11/24/2017 9:52:54 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

There is nothing I have written, nothing, I repeat nothing, that could remotely be construed as being anti-semitic.

If you can point me to a single word that I have written that is in any way insulting or belittling of Jewish people do so, otherwise retract your ignorant slur and apologise.

I have deep respect for the Bible, I have deep respect for Bible-believing Christians. However, I have nothing but contempt for small-minded idiots, conspiracy nuts and losers who trawl the internet looking for Manichean prophesies based on obscure Scriptural text, I believe such activity to be nothing short of blasphemous, if you are such a blasphemer the problem lies with you, not me.


26 posted on 11/24/2017 9:35:00 PM PST by Postman Pat
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To: huldah1776

You had to dig deep and go back a long time to find Hezbollah activities that were threatening to US interests.

Meanwhile our good friends the Saudis attacked the US on 9/11 in plain sight and in broad daylight, their ISIS proxies continue their abominations every day around the world.

You look at that and cannot see who the real enemy is?

Well, there is none so blind as those who will not see.

The Saudis are our enemy, plain and simple, they make no secret of the fact, they treat the US with utter contempt, a curse on anyone who would befriend them.


27 posted on 11/24/2017 9:38:50 PM PST by Postman Pat
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To: Lurker

I agree, so why are we befriending and protecting the greatest source of Islamic terrorism of them all, Saudi Arabia?


28 posted on 11/24/2017 9:39:59 PM PST by Postman Pat
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To: CurlyDave
If the new government keeps this up, their radical subjects may even learn not to attack the US and Israel.

I think they probably will, as "I have a feeling" that Mr President told him to clean house or we'll blow them up and take the oil.

(off the record of course)

29 posted on 11/24/2017 9:53:24 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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Saudis are in a panic mode. After their little humanitarian initiative known as ISIS flopped the ‘progressive’ Arabs and Iranians are finishing licking their wounds and starting to look into the roots of their problems which are Saudis. Saudi royals are feeling exactly the way Nazi felt in 1944. The rest of the Middle East is liting torches to come after them. They want any support right now including Israel.


30 posted on 11/25/2017 4:32:45 AM PST by NorseViking
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“I agree, so why are we befriending and protecting the greatest source of Islamic terrorism of them all, Saudi Arabia?“

$$$$$$

L


31 posted on 11/25/2017 5:10:00 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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“You look at that and cannot see who the real enemy is?”

The real enemy is the immoral pre-born genocide legalized by our nation. The biblical consequence of which is invasion and conquest. Genesis 9:6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.”

Warnings are always given beforehand. God is much more patient than we. NYC, my place of birth, is the abortion capital of our nation. If the attack had happened later, many, many more would have been killed. That day, about 3k were killed. 3k abortions are done every day.

So, who is our enemy?


32 posted on 11/25/2017 10:37:49 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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oh, just read this at breitbart

“Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorist groups are joining forces with “violent drug lords” in Latin America to raise money to fund their nefarious activities, posing a “grave threat” to U.S. national security, warned Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) during an international forum on the nexus between drug cartels and Islamic extremists.”

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/11/23/terror-task-force-chair-islamic-terrorists-teaming-up-violent-drug-lords-latin-america/


33 posted on 11/25/2017 10:48:45 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: NorseViking
Saudis are in a panic mode. After their little humanitarian initiative known as ISIS flopped ...

Very true. What these floundering tyrants will do next, is anyone's guess. They seem to be funding the latest outbreak of fundamentalist mayhem in Pakistan. This is because they want the Pakistani army to join in their Yemen adventure, but the current govt says no.

34 posted on 11/27/2017 12:29:47 AM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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