Category Archives: Middle East

Set: “Palestinian KGB” and Other BackChannel’s Observations Related to the Middle East Conflict

06 Tuesday Feb 2018

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As BackChannels interests developed, it became possible to plug-and-play appropriate material into Facebook and Twitter feeds with the hope that the same would pass through the western choirs, as they may be, and into the Palestinian’s own debilitating, degrading, faked-up “orientalist” gang counseling resistance with one hand and thieving (via corruption and other methods) from the same with the other.

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/10/03/palestinian-kgb/
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https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/09/23/ftac-these-too-are-palestinians/
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https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/03/08/bds-cult-modules/
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https://conflict-backchannels.com/2015/10/12/ftac-tip-to-the-kgbs-amplification-of-middle-eastern-anti-semitism/
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https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/12/27/excerpt-1920s-the-spread-of-hate-russia-germany-laqueur/
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https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/07/29/ftac-antidote-to-what-poisoned-the-palestinians/
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https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/12/29/ftac-middle-east-conflict-back-to-max-erwin-von-scheubner-richter-and-forward-to-the-plundering-of-palestinian-misery-by-palestinian-leadership-elites/

–https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/12/16/excerpt-first-political-terrorist-organization-in-history/

–https://conflict-backchannels.com/2019/02/24/shuafat-on-the-edge-between-good-and-evil/

Those genuinely interested in peace but making their careers, for now, on the spine of the conflict may today ask themselves how much they need to sustain the conflict as a conveniently evil institution.

As a dictatorship or sham democracy, one may expect today’s Moscow and company in similarly absolute power to want to keep another generation of refugees or Gaza and West Bank residents trapped in time and kept exactly as they are.  The business that made Arafat and Abbas multimillionaires and Haniyeh and Mashaal billionaires has been pretty good for cash and the related power that comes with dispensing the same as patronage.  Why stop now?  Or ten years from now?  Or twenty . . . or seventy-plus?

BackChannels would ask a different question: what do the open democracies wish to do with political systems redolent of medieval and totalitarian epochs and post-modern and politically criminal worlds?

Should Palestinians not “enjoy” another 70+ years as the political captives of their interlocutors?

Related on the Web

Bergman, Judith. “The Soviet-Palestinian Lie.” Gatestone Institute, October 16, 2016.

Bergman, Ronen. “The KGB’s Middle East Files: Palestinians in the Service of Mother Russia.” YNet News, April 16, 2011 & YNet News. “The KGB’s Middle East Files”.  October 28, 2016 to December 1, 2016.

Fish, Christopher.  “The Deception of Palestinian Nationalism.”  The Stanford Review, February 27, 2008.

Lundberg, Kirsten O. “Arafat says Soviets support PLO ties with Jordan.” UPI, January 13, 1983.

There’s no end to bibliography and producing it becomes after a while mindless.  With strong word processing software, it may be possible for the URLs to become a long list at the back of a book, so BackChannels will again freeze this “set” about here (August 12, 2018).  If there is a place to go with the contemporary history of the middle east conflict, it would be into Yuri Andropov’s relationship with terror worldwide and then, to get to “now”, the KGB/FSB’s relationship with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, and others that so bedevil the west and that appear in Vladimir Putin’s  “RealPolitikal Theater” to support feudal-medieval political absolutism.

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Also in Media: FPA Blog: “How Can America Bring Iran Back to the West?” | January 11, 2018.

28 Sunday Jan 2018

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The recent Russian rejection of an American initiative at the UN Security Council for the world community to express solidarity with the Iranian protesters in the face of the Islamist regime’s brutalities did not come as a surprise. In fact, given the history of Russia’s imperialistic behavior towards Iran, the rejection came as a natural move on the part of Putin. In this article I am going to make a survey of Russian imperialism in Iran and indicate what America can do to neutralize that threat and consequently bring Iran back to the West.

https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2018/01/11/can-america-bring-iran-back-west/

One more excerpt as a teaser to this reading highly recommended:

The Tudeh’s professed goal, according to Abrahamian (Iran Between Two Revolutions, 1982), was to “adapt Marxism to the local environment” so that in the end a Soviet-style Communist revolution can be brought about in Iran. In other words, as Iran was mostly a Shiite Muslim community, the Tudeh would use Shiite religious jargon and lore in order to attract the attention of the masses. This ploy would later play into the hands of the revolutionary Islamists who took over in 1979.

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FTAC: +70 Years of Palestinian and Israeli Coexistence: A Comment

25 Thursday Jan 2018

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It has happened: the refugees of 1948; the KGB-designed Arafat and PLO and associated Abbas; and Hamas, held to account for rocket fire from Gaza: all — whatever has been the mix — have coexisted with Israel for 70 years.

If not happily, there’s a story there that goes back to the WWII and the character of the Soviet Union then and comes forward to that of the Russian Federation today. Absolute power, corruption on the part of the powerful, the deceptive and disingenuous use of language — such have been the variables that have sustained Palestinian hardship and an angry coexistence with the Jewish neighbor from near the ruins of Ottoman power and Nazi adventure in the middle east. When the phantoms of the Soviet wake up and then decide to go back to sleep forever, then the coexistence will become peaceful, pleasant, productive, rewarding.

I don’t know if there’s a fairy tail ending with “peace and prosperity” for all, but I feel the burden and weight of the “Nakba” should be rightly assigned to the post-WWII role taken up by an historically autocratic, authoritarian, elitist Russia having difficulty shaking off its attachments to “political absolutism” and related egotism, narcissism, and hypersensitivity to civilizational self-concept and image.

Of course Moscow means to look noble and powerful before the world.

Well, here it has its chance to stop covering its yesterdays, which may include immediately two major revolutions and the weathering of three governments within the past 100 years, and shrug away the chaos and dishonesty that have brought a mess to Syria, hardship to Ukraine, and continuous meaningless and needless suffering to the Palestinian main base.  BackChannels may well see in its crystal ball — why else publish such a blog?  🙂 — the difficulty of transitioning patronage and power away from corrupt elites in the effort to better and honestly serve the interests of an abused and disenfranchised once refugee population, but where else to go?  Let the political criminals and gamblers settle up, reinvest, and move on to the challenges posed by genuinely noble causes and enterprises.

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Iran Protests 2018: Killed or Detained: Faces

23 Tuesday Jan 2018

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Detainees disappeared
Families of a number of detained protesters have not been able to obtain any information about their loved ones. Among them are Ashkan Absavaran, a 20-year-old male detainee, and Sepideh Farhan (Farahabadi), a young female. Ashkan Absavaran informed his family of his detention in a telephone call on 4 January. Officials of Evin prison told his family later that he had disappeared.

The IRGC and its affiliated paramilitary force, the Basij, have been mainly responsible for the heavy crackdown on the protesters. Having initially denied direct involvement in repressing the protesters, the IRGC commander declared on 3 January that they had taken action in three provinces. Furthermore, the IRGC has been responsible for torturing the detainees in order to make false confessions in Wards 2A and 240 of Evin prison.

FIDH: Worldwide Movement for Human Rights.  “31 protesters died in streets & detention centres; more than 3,700 detained.”  January 10, 2018.

BackChannels has been here before.

Embedded on the post, “On Human Rights Day, Iran is Again Covered in Blood” — Maryam Rajavi, BackChannels readers will find added from 2009 “Iran -References to the Serial Murders and Related — From April 22, 2009” and a listing of the dead titled “Iran — The Mute”.

For how long will Iran’s payoffs for murder continue to be accepted by the patronized of the state?

Noted on the Human Rights Day post:

In one of the above clips, Maryam Rajavi put the number of regime executed political martyrs at above 120,000, with 30,000 killed shortly after the taking of power in 1988.

Related Online

Stecklow, Steve, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati.  “Khamenei controls massive financial empire built on property seizures.”  Reuters, November 11, 2013.

The Iran Observer.  “Iran Lawyer Raises Concern Over Missing Hijab Protester.”  January 2018.

Posted to YouTube on January 20, 2018.

Children of Iran’s captive south run through the streets chanting “Death to Rouhani” – video date reported from source as January 22, 2018.

Updates from the News Online

Rannard, Georgina.  “Iran hijab protester: Where is she?”  BBC News, January 23, 2018.

 

 

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Iran’s Protesters Appeal to President Trump for Support Against Dictatorship

30 Saturday Dec 2017

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Iran Protests, Dec 30, 2017 – chanting slogans against Khamenei in Tehran University – NCRI

Demonstrators were reportedly heard yelling slogans like “The people are begging, the clerics act like God”. Protests have even been held in Qom, a holy city home to powerful clerics.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42519054 – 12/30/2017

Other demonstrators chanted “leave Syria, think about us” in videos posted online. Iran is a key provider of military support to the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Twenty-one hours ago:

 

https://twitter.com/AdelleNaz/status/946939651310440454

One theme emerging from the protests: faith in President Trump’s determination to battle back dictatorships and groom democracies.

https://twitter.com/CyrusTheGreat09/status/947068585100189697

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly taken aim at Iran, denouncing its government as a “fanatical regime” and accusing it of violating an international agreement aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program, refusing to certify its compliance with the deal.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert also addressed the protests.

“The United States strongly condemns the arrest of peaceful protesters. We urge all nations to publicly support the Iranian people and their demands for basic rights and an end to corruption,” she said in a statement.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/170424/trump-condemns-arrest-demonstrators-iran/

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Syria: The Horror: 2011

29 Friday Dec 2017

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Bashar al-Assad By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44378508 | Vladimir Putiin By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60759727 | Ali Khameini By Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57953266

Related Reference

Asher-Schapiro, Avi.  “The Young Men Who Started Syria’s Revolution Speak About Where It All Began.”  VICE News, March 15, 2016:

Omar first heard about the graffiti at morning recess. It was winter, he was 14, in the middle of 10th grade, and his friends said it was just a prank. The day before, just after school, a handful of Omar’s classmates found some red paint and scrawled, “Your turn doctor,” on the school’s wall. Under most circumstances, in most places, such behavior might provoke a slap on the wrist — perhaps a stern visit from the police. But in Daraa, Syria, in February 2011, those words could get you killed.

Macleod, Hugh.  “How schoolboys began the Syrian revolution.”  CBS News / Global Post, April 26, 2011:

The local secret police soon arrested 15 boys between the ages of 10 and 15, detaining them under the control of Gen. Atef Najeeb, a cousin of President Bashar al-Assad.

In a gloomy interrogation room the children were beaten and bloodied, burned and had their fingernails pulled out by grown men working for a regime whose unchecked brutality appears increasingly to be sowing the seeds of its undoing.

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FTAC: Middle East Conflict: Back to Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter and Forward to the Plundering of Palestinian Misery by Palestinian Leadership Elites

29 Friday Dec 2017

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This one I will let fly in “to whom it may concern” fashion.

The links have been laying about for decades but not necessary chained together with distilled clarity.

Okhrana Era Russian anti-Semitic promotion (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and much other garbage) –> Scheubner-Richter (and other White Russian emigre to Germany) –> Adolph Hitler (and the Nazi movement) –> genocide and persecution of the Jews of Europe –> Grand Mufti al-Husayni (and the notched up persecution of the Jews of the Middle East) –> Stalin –> KGB Projects –> and many years later, Arafat and the PLO.

Add: the Arab keeping of Palestinian refugees in apartheid camps for 70 years.

Add: legendary PLO/PA and Hamas corruption and political suppression.

Palestinian poverty has been enforced by the Palestinian Leadership exactly to draw charity and development support from the world for plunder and the enrichment of elites and their systems of patronage.

To really get half way to the bottom of the political engineering, one may start with the grooming of Arafat and the PLO (look up Ion Mihai Pacepa for that).

To get all the way back to the Nazi base that was picked up by the Soviet Union at the end of WWII — Stalin acquired in relationships what Hitler could not hold — you would go back to the figure of Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter and his relationship with Adolph Hitler.

The smallest note in history: Scheubner-Richter was killed by Hitler’s side in the failed Beer Hall Putsch that took place November 9, 1923. Kristallnacht was to take place exactly 15 years later on the same day in 1938.

Our laziness in ferreting out the details of the long story and making them a part of common public education have helped those who exploit and sustain Palestinian misery to keep themselves adorned in power and in wealth

November 9, 1923: Beer Hall Putsch

November 9, 1938: Kristallnacht

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