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Mardi 16 décembre 2014, à Dakar, lors de la clôture du Forum sur la paix et la sécurité en Afrique, acclamé par les participants, le président tchadien Idriss Déby a lâché une véritable bombe quand, en présence du ministre français de la Défense, il déclara qu'en entrant en guerre en Libye : "l'objectif de l'OTAN était d'assassiner Kadhafi. Cet objectif a été atteint".
Cette accusation est gravissime car, si ce qu'a dit cet intime connaisseur du dossier est fondé, c'est en effet toute l'histoire d'une guerre insensée et aux conséquences dévastatrices qui doit être ré-écrite. Sans parler d'une possible saisine de la Cour pénale internationale. D'autant plus que ce conflit rationnellement inexplicable fut déclenché au moment où, paradoxalement, le régime libyen était devenu notre allié à la fois contre le jihadisme et contre les filières d'immigration.
Revenons donc en arrière: l'intervention décidée par Nicolas Sarkozy influencé par BHL ne prévoyait originellement qu'une zone d'exclusion aérienne destinée à protéger les populations de Benghazi d'une prétendue "extermination". Il n'était alors pas question d'une implication directe dans la guerre civile libyenne. Mais, de fil en aiguille, violant avec arrogance la résolution 1973 du 17 mars 2011 du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, la France et l'Otan menèrent une vraie guerre tout en ciblant directement et à plusieurs reprises le colonel Kadhafi.L'attaque la plus sanglante eut lieu le 1er mai 2011 quand des avions de l'Otan bombardèrent la villa de son fils Saif al-Arab alors que s'y tenait une réunion de famille à laquelle le colonel assistait ainsi que son épouse. Des décombres de la maison furent retirés les cadavres de Saif al-Arab et de trois de ses jeunes enfants.  Réagissant à ce qu'il qualifia d'assassinat, Mgr Martinelli, l'évêque de Tripoli, déclara : "Je demande, s'il vous plaît, un geste d'humanité envers le colonel Kadhafi qui a protégé les chrétiens de Libye. C'est un grand ami." Telle n'était semble t-il pas l'opinion de ceux qui avaient ordonné ce bombardement clairement destiné à en finir avec le chef de l’État libyen sans tenir compte des "dégâts collatéraux"... La guerre "juste" permet bien des "libertés".
Les chefs d’État africains qui s'étaient quasi unanimement opposés à cette guerre et qui avaient, en vain, tenté de dissuader le président Sarkozy de la mener, pensèrent ensuite avoir trouvé une issue acceptable: le colonel Kadhafi se retirerait et l'intérim du pouvoir serait assuré par son fils Seif al-Islam et cela, afin d'éviter une vacance propice au chaos. Cette sage option fut refusée, notamment par la France, et le colonel Kadhafi se retrouva assiégé dans la ville de Syrte soumise aux bombardements incessants et intensifs de l'Otan.Une opération d'exfiltration vers le Niger fut alors préparée[2]. Or, les miliciens de Misrata, amis de BHL, alliés de la Turquie et du Qatar, se disposèrent en demi cercle sur l'axe conduisant de Syrte au Niger. L'histoire dira comment et par qui ils furent prévenus de la manœuvre en cours.Le 20 octobre 2011, le convoi du colonel Kadhafi composé de plusieurs véhicules civils réussit à sortir de la ville. Bien que ne constituant pas un objectif militaire, il fut immédiatement pris pour cible par des avions de l'Otan et en partie détruit. Pour échapper aux avions, le colonel s'abrita dans une buse de béton. Capturé, il fut sauvagement mis à mort après avoir été sodomisé avec une baïonnette. Les gentils démocrates de Misrata ne s'en tinrent pas là puisqu'ils crevèrent les yeux de son fils Moutassim avant de lui couper les mains et les pieds. L'Otan n'avait laissé aucune chance à Mouammar Kadhafi et à son fils. Leurs dépouilles sanglantes furent ensuite exposées comme des trophées dans la morgue de Misrata.
Ces faits étant rappelés, les accusations du président Deby prennent donc toute leur valeur. Rétrospectivement, le déroulé des événements peut en effet s'apparenter à un "contrat" mis sur la tête du colonel, aucune issue diplomatique honorable ne lui ayant été proposée.
Alors que le résultat de cette guerre insensée est d'avoir offert aux islamistes, au Qatar et à la Turquie la possibilité de prendre le contrôle de la Libye, donc d'une partie des approvisionnements gaziers et pétroliers de l'Europe, le président du Niger, Mamadou Issoufou vient de lancer un cri désespéré:
" Il faut une intervention militaire pour réparer les dégâts liés à la chute de Kadhafi, sinon nous aurons Daesh à nos portes" (Jeune Afrique28 décembre 2014).
Mamadou Issoufou est d'autant plus fondé à exiger cette intervention que, lors du sommet du G8 de Deauville au mois de mai 2011, il avait fortement demandé au  président Sarkozy de renoncer à sa guerre. Il ne fut, hélas, pas davantage écouté que les présidents Déby, Zuma et tous les autres responsables africains...Conséquence : à l'heure où ces lignes sont écrites, soutenus par la Turquie et le Qatar, les islamistes sont en passe de conquérir la Tripolitaine. Ils sont déjà sur la frontière tunisienne cependant qu'au sud, dans la région de Mourzouk, ils ont pris le contrôle du champ pétrolier d'El-Sharara avec l'aide de certaines fractions touareg.
Bernard Lugan01/01/2015

[1] Ce communiqué peut être reproduit à la condition d'en citer la source.[2] Selon plusieurs sources sud-africaines, cette opération aurait été coordonnée par des "spécialistes" anciens des forces spéciales de ce pays avec l'aval du président Jacob Zuma. Ce dernier était furieux d'avoir été berné par la France car son pays avait certes voté la résolution 1973 d'exclusion aérienne de la région de Benghazi, mais pas la guerre et il avait décidé d'offrir l'asile politique au colonel Kadhafi. Là encore, l'histoire nous en apprendra davantage quand les langues des témoins se délieront "officiellement'...

The State Department has condemned the move by Abbas to sign the Rome Statute and open the way for going to the International Criminal Court:

"We strongly oppose #Palestinian action at the #ICC," per @statedept. "Counter-productive" and does nothing for statehood aspirations.
— Matt Lee (@APDiploWriter) December 31, 2014
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#Palestinian move at #ICC "will badly damage atmosphere with the very people with whom they ultimately need to make peace," per @StateDept
— Matt Lee (@APDiploWriter) December 31, 2014
But there is more to this than just the Palestinian Arabs destroying the peace process.


There is also the fear of the results of another Palestinian exploitation of an international institution.

The pattern so far as been:

1. The Palestinian Arabs join an international institution -- over US objections
2. The Palestinian Arabs then politicize that institution, turning it into an anti-Israel forum
3. The delegitimization of the institutions then triggers a harsh response from Washington
4. The Palestinians move on to the next institution and repeat the process

UNESCO, The UN General Assembly and the UNHRC are all examples of this.

In America Must Safeguard Its Essential Interests At UNESCO, UNESCO’s Ambassador Samuel Pisar wrote:

...UNESCO suddenly finds itself, for totally extraneous reasons, in the throes of a financial crisis that threatens its very existence. This crisis exploded two years ago, when the Palestinian Authority decided to ignore the United Nations Charter, which requires a recommendation from the Security Council before the General Assembly can admit a new member, and persuaded a block of sympathizing countries to vote in Palestine as a member state of UNESCO. As required by law, the U.S. could not but freeze its annual 80 million dollar contributions to that agency, depriving it of almost a quarter of its annual budget.
After causing the crippling of UNESCO, Abbas went on to politicize UNESCO by getting the Church of the Nativity on the World Heritage in Danger list and orchestrating anti-Israel resolutions by UNESCO

This past September, the EU went so far as to walk out on the anti-Israel UN debate:




The fear now is that this new ICC bid by Abbas will follow this pattern of politicization, leaving the court torn between anti-Israel politics and actual issues of international law, thus bringing it into conflict with US laws and Congressional lawmakers as the US moves to reassert its interests.

The resultant fight could damage both the ICC and international law, as the US could block funding of the ICC as well.


The current headquarters of the ICC in The Hague

Hat tip: The Israel Project
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From Arlene Kushner:
December 30, 2014

A Somber View

Very somber, my friends.  The situation in the world is not worrisome – it’s terrifying.  Consider:In an interview with NPR, President Obama said that Iran could become a “very successful regional power” if it agrees to a nuclear deal.  He said things must move slowly but he wouldn’t entirely rule out the possibility of opening a US embassy in Tehran before his term ran out.http://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-iran-could-be-a-very-successful-regional-power/~~~~~~~~~~WHAT?  There is nothing on the table in negotiations with Iran at the moment that is serious enough to prevent Iran’s nuclear advancement. The Iranians – a threat to the world – are running rings around an eager Obama.
In fact:“A commander of Iran’s widely feared Basij paramilitary corps has inadvertently confessed that the Tehran regime aims to build up an arsenal of nuclear and chemical weapons.“Abdul Reza Dashti, the head Basij commander in Bushehr – a city on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast that contains the Bushehr nuclear power plant, one of the regime’s key installations – had been addressing the fight against ‘foreign influences’ in Iran when he made the admission, according to a report by the official news agency IRNA.”http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/29/iranian-paramilitary-commander-reportedly-admits-tehrans-goal-of-achieving-atomic-and-chemical-weapons/And see this article by Jonathan Tobin, editor of Commentary, on the Iranian situation:http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/12/08/iran-cheating-debunks-biden-kerry-boasts-nuclear-arak/~~~~~~~~~~Obama is worthless on this because of his own orientation, motivation. But where is everyone else? This is the stuff of nightmares.~~~~~~~~~~Then, as if there isn’t enough with the Iranian situation to prevent peaceful sleep, there is the on-going situation at the UN Security Council. Not nearly as troubling as Iran, but, yes, troubling, on several scores because of diplomatic implications, not legal ones. Jordan has submitted a draft PA resolution to the Security Council.Originally, Kerry had hedged on whether the US would veto such a proposal.  It was clear that he was looking for revisions that would soften its terms, so that he wouldn’t have to veto it.  But what has happened instead is that Jordan strengthened the terms, with the approval of the Arab League.The current version calls for a complete end to Israel “occupation” within three years, with a Palestinian state to be established within the “June 1967 borders” (sic) and East” Jerusalem to be the Palestinian capital.http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-palestinian-bid-calls-for-e-jerusalem-capital-just-solution/~~~~~~~~~~As for “East Jerusalem,” there is no such thing. There is one city of Jerusalem.  What is meant, in actuality, is all of Jerusalem past the Green Line, which includes northern and southern parts of the city as well as eastern. This is sometimes referred to as “Arab Jerusalem.”  It most certainly is not “Arab” today, as there are many Jewish neighborhoods in this part of the city. What is more, the Old City is in the eastern part of the city, as is the Jewish cemetery at Mt. of Olives – the oldest Jewish cemetery in the world, with 150,000 Jewish graves.
Credit: Keep JerusalemThe division of the city came about at the end of the War of Independence in 1949, when Jordan (illegally) held part of the city, and an armistice line was drawn.  It is the only time in Jerusalem’s 3,000 year history that Jerusalem was divided, and it became “Arab” only because Jordan rendered it Judenrein. Prior to the Jordanian occupation, the heart of Jewish residency was to be found in this part of the city.  Jerusalem will never be divided again. ~~~~~~~~~~And as to “occupation,” my friends, they can use this loaded buzz word all they wish.  Israel is not an occupier in Judea and Samaria.  It is Israel that has legal rights there.  The corollary point to be made here is that the land in no way “belongs” to the Palestinian Arabs. There has never been a Palestinian state.~~~~~~~~~~The behind the scenes politicking on this resolution issue are convoluted. At this point Kerry will veto if necessary (the “strengthening” of its terms made this more likely), but he prefers not to.  He had implored Abbas to wait to call a vote until after the Israeli elections on March 17. His reason is infuriating: a fear that what is happening in the UN will push the Israeli electorate to the right. Abbas said yesterday that the vote would be called in “a day or two.” And the most interesting questions have to do with why Abbas chose to ignore Kerry and move ahead anyway. It’s clear that he’s not afraid to figuratively bite the (US) hand that feeds him – this tells us a good deal about loss of American influence. I will suggest something that is counter-intuitive on the surface but is actually reflective of the way Abbas has consistently conducted himself: Abbas does not want to win here.  We must conclude this if he is willing to buck the US, secretary of state.  Had he waited, he might have said to Kerry, look, I did as you asked, now don’t veto. Abbas does not want a state, with the concomitant burdens it implies. Nor, I would imagine, does he think he could hold on to a state for more than a week or two before Hamas pushed him out.Abbas wants to squeeze Israel and garner PR.  Part of that PR involves showing the world how the poor Palestinian Arabs suffer setbacks in their heart-wrenching efforts to achieve self-determination. Another possible motivation for Abbas: this may give him the excuse to go to the International Criminal Court, something he’s been threatening to do. This remains to be seen – as that too may be just a ploy.  ~~~~~~~~~~With this, there is one other factor at play.  The Security Council consists of 15 members: five permanent - China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States -and 10 others who rotate every two years.  Only the permanent members can veto a resolution.  For a resolution to pass, nine votes are required.  Right now, Abbas does not have those nine votes.But here is the catch: The terms of the temporary members is up at the end of the year. As it happens, nations not supportive of this resolution – such as Lithuania and South Korea - will be replaced by nations hostile to Israel – such as Malaysia and Venezuela.  Then the chances of getting nine votes in favor would be greater.  It has been suggested that this would strengthen Abbas’s position – he would be able to say that most of the Security Council is with him because his cause is just even if the US is not.But Abbas seems bent on not waiting for this transition in membership.  Again, we must ask why.Since Abbas does not want to win anyway, this may be a way to allow Kerry to save face: he will not have to veto if there are not nine votes in favor.Commentator Michael Freund, however, has another idea.  He refers to what is going on in the UN as “a diplomatic terror attack.”  No, he agrees, they don’t want to win: What they want is a rationale for “resistance,” since they can say they’ve tried diplomacy and it doesn’t work.http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/FUNDAMENTALLY-FREUD-A-diplomatic-terrorist-attack-at-the-UN-386085~~~~~~~~~~ I hope all my readers are still with me.~~~~~~~~~~Before closing I want to share a couple of painful, but hardly surprising, insights into the true nature of the Palestinian Arabs:Last year, two Palestinian Arab terrorists who were involved in throwing rocks that killed Asher Palmer and his infant son Jonathan (when the rocks made Asher lose control of his car) were convicted of murder.  This was a much welcome landmark decision.  It was followed recently by a court decision requiring one of the terrorists, Ali Saada, to pay a hefty fine as compensation to the Asher family.Now Issa Karake, a PA Minister in charge of “prisoner affairs” has complained about this, saying that this delegitimizes “the national resistance against the occupation.” (Emphasis added)http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=13544In other words, he approves of killing innocent babies.~~~~~~~~~~Last Thursday evening, Avner Shapira and his daughter, Ayala, 11, were driving in the Shomron, when a firebomb was tossed at their car.  Avner yelled at his daughter to get out of the car. Had she not, she would have been killed, as it went up in flames.  As it was, she was very seriously injured – with third degree burns over more than half of her body and damage to her respiratory system.Where does it end?  My thoughts when this happened were murderous, I confess.  This child, whom her mother described as very intelligent in a special way, was on her way home from a special math class. Her father, who was mildly injured, protested that such attacks are not criminal in nature, but acts of war, and should be treated as such:”We have an enemy who is trying to annihilate us and states this day and night. It’s not the IDF’s fault, rather [it’s the fault of] the security establishment which treats these acts as criminal. Criminals that need to be caught and made to stand trial as if you can stand trial during a war...it is a case of us or them; they want to kick us out of here.” (Emphasis added)http://www.timesofisrael.com/security-forces-arrest-2-in-firebomb-attack-that-injured-israeli-girl/

Ayala, who was burned in the face, has before her the prospects of months of hospitalization and many surgeries to do reconstruction.~~~~~~~~~~Within a day or two, the firebomb perpetrators were picked up by the Shin Bet in the Arab village of Azzoun in Samaria.  They are both teenagers, and one, at 16, is under age. They told of hiding in the bushes at the side of the road, waiting for a car to approach, throwing the firebomb and then running back to their village.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4608327,00.htmlThey will not be handled with sufficient severity, I am afraid – although I always wait to be surprised. It is not clear which of the two actually tossed the bomb.~~~~~~~~~~Let us circle around for a moment: if Freund is correct about diplomatic terrorism, then the PA loss in the Security Council will be used to strengthen the rationale for the sort of horrors I’ve just described. ~~~~~~~~~~And yet at a bare minimum, Kerry – who will oppose certain UN gambits by Abbas - thinks we should negotiate with the PA, never mind how violent the nature they’ve exposed is. In fact, I believe if he does veto, he’ll then come to Netanyahu and say we have an obligation to sit at the table with Abbas to negotiate since he “saved” us. See the article below that describes Abbas’s refusal to cooperate with the US last March in an arrangement that would have pressured Israel and moved a “deal” forward.http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mahmoud-abbas-is-again-insisting-on-failure/2014/12/29/6119435e-8f87-11e4-a900-9960214d4cd7_story.html?wpmk=MK0000203This look at Abbas’s perennial insistence on failure reinforces the speculation that he also wants to fail now in the UN. But it leaves us pondering what Kerry’s game is, since he KNOWS that Abbas is not truly on board for a two-state deal.  I will leave speculation aside here, but none of this is reassuring in the slightest.~~~~~~~~~~The good news - this is who we are:Israel has made the world's largest per-capita contribution to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa, Part of the $8.75 million pledge is committed to UNICEF, for care of children stricken with the disease.  In addition, Israel has sent into West Africa fully equipped clinics and medical specialists.http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.634360The IDF recently saved the life of a Palestinian Arab baby with heart problems, who collapsed while on the way to Jordan for medical treatment. A medical helicopter airlifted him to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, thereby saving his life.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4608295,00.htmlSometimes it’s not hard to wonder if we are nuts. But I have concluded we most certainly are not.  We can stand proud.~~~~~~~~~~© Arlene Kushner. This material is produced by Arlene Kushner, functioning as an independent journalist. Permission is granted for it to be reproduced only with proper attribution.  
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