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Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
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November 15, 2015

Frogs & Yankees Desperate to Bring Down Assad ... Dave 'Pig-F*cker' Cameron Begging Putin To Halt Air-Strikes Against ISIS, the Evil-Western-Axis Proxies

Article
SOURCE
Huffington Post ... the neocon propaganda rag
... & other (as marked)
Translated by Steven B. Kennedy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/why-obama-and-hollande-ar_b_8479548.html



Translated by Steven B. Kennedy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/why-obama-and-hollande-ar_b_8479548.html


Bernard-Henri Levy is a French philosopher and writer.

Why Obama and Hollande Are Right on Syria
Posted: 06/11/2015 03:49 AEST Updated: 06/11/2015 04:59 AEST
BASHAR AL ASSAD



Forget principles and morality. Forget, or try to forget, the quarter-million deaths for which Bashar al-Assad is responsible, directly or indirectly, since choosing to respond with violence to a peaceful uprising of the Syrian people. Set aside the fact that Assad's forces have caused 10-15 times more civilian deaths thus far than the Islamic State, whose horrific execution videos have overshadowed the Syrian dictator's invisible massacres. But even if you can purge all of this from your thoughts, a policy for Syria that posits Assad as an "alternative" to the Islamic State is simply not viable[Comment:  Regime change is sought by international banker controlled USA, its neocon supporting intelligentsia, its allies (European & Arab oil)  ... & this desperation for regime change in Syria is mirrored in froggy France, while the anti-Assad neocon interests serving propaganda straddles two continents separated by the Atlantic.  Wow, that sounds almost like WWII.]

Assad, after all, unleashed the Islamic State's current savagery: In May 2011, he released hundreds of Islamic radicals from prison, quickly supplying the infant group with fighters and leaders. He then methodically shelled positions held by moderate rebels, while no less methodically sparing the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa. And then, in mid-2014, he allowed Iraqi elements of the Islamic State to find sanctuary in eastern Syria. [Comment:  'Moderate rebels' are Western & Gulf Oil proxies in Syria and beyond, who are aligned with al-Qaeda, or al-Nusra Front who are aligned with al-Qaeda, or something like that.  Some have defected to Islamic State, but Islamic State is also a proxy, so it's all 'good'.]

In other words, Assad created the monster that he is now pretending to fight. Is all that not a little much for a potential ally? Can working with Assad possibly provide a sound basis for what is supposed to be a common effort?   [Comment:  Preposterous frog propagandist.  ISIS is the proxy army of Saudi Arabia, allied Gulf States, allied USA (and European powers), as well as Israel, as I understand -- all of whom seek regime change in Syria (and destruction of Syria has been a long-time ambition of both Israel and USA), as the Syrian government is independent of the West, does not serve the Israeli, US, Saudi and allied European agenda.]

The bottom line is that Assad has no interest in winning. The man who now holds himself up as civilization's last bulwark against the Islamic State is also the last man who wants to see it eliminated.

After all, does a chess player, even a bad one, intentionally sacrifice his most powerful piece? Do any of us ever tear up our insurance policies? Do we really believe that Assad and his cronies are too stupid to have realized that their political survival depends on that of the Islamic State and on maintaining themselves as the keepers of the gate through which the rest of us must pass to wage war against it? [Comment:  Keepers of the gate?  Errr ... that's called a sovereign nation ... & the US, CIA, EU and Israel (especially Israel) have no respect for that Syrian sovereign nation.  The lot of them come and go as they please, without consent of the Syrian sovereign state.  Everybody knows that ISIS is the Arab States', US, Israel & EU proxy.  Why is he wasting his breath?  Is he insane?  Plus, he neglects to mention that these Western aggressors have prevented the Assad government from effectively handling this extremist threat, and have refused to cooperate with the Assad government, towards jointly tackling the extremists (who are the West's proxies).]

"Of course not," the advocates of working with him concede. "But let's take a two-step approach. Let's defeat the Islamic State and then worry about Assad."  [Comment:  Yeah, whatever.  But right now (10-days since this publication), David Cameron is begging Vladimir Putin not to strike their ISIS proxy, so what does that tell you, froggy?]

But this approach, too, assumes that dictators are more stupid than they really are. Worse, it ignores that politics follows its own logic, or at least its own dynamics. What the sorcerer's apprentices who want to work with Assad ignore is that they would most likely have a great deal of trouble, when the time comes, distancing themselves from an ally who would not be shy about claiming his share of the victory. As a result, jihadism would rush back in, though perhaps in a different guise. [Comment:  This old man is off his head.  Jihadism is there because the US & its allies have always backed Islamic militants, including the nuclear armed terrorist central, Pakistan; and they've  supported Afghanistan jihadist Mujahidin (now Taliban) when the Soviets were fighting there ... they've since backed the Saudi-funded extremists in Africa and the Middle East, who have defected to the Caliphate (but it's all the same deal), and the whole lot are CIA-US and allied puppet proxies in the region.
The 'sorcerer's apprentice' is Saudi Arabia, & the Gulf Oil StatesUSA-Israel, the Ango-Saxon West and their European counterparts, who support terrorist networks abroad.
They're also sending a deluge of their cousins to Europe, to meet international banker demand for economic growth in step with their greed for profit and concern for integrated markets, to keep the American economic and banking house of cards from coming undone, because it's based on the fraud of a debt-based fractional-reserve currency system, that's going to go under big time because it's a sinking ship.  Oh, and they invite plenty of domestic blowback upon a defenceless public, as consequence of aggression and meddling in the Middle East and in Africa.]

"Bashar al-Assad is the Syrian state," the same people say. "And we must not commit the fatal error of destroying the state." But this argument is not valid, either. The state has already failed: Assad controls only a fifth of Syria's territory, and the remaining four-fifths will never willingly resubmit to its terrifying control. If Assad's regime prevails, the state's citizens will continue to flee in droves to Turkey, Lebanon and Europe[Comment:  USA & friends funded and supported jihadist terrorists purportedly control a sizeable portion of Syria (thanks to Western backing, which is illegal pursuant to international law).  But Russia's air-strikes may alter the stakes and I hope they do. 
Mass exodus from Syria is far more likely if the West's Islamic fundamentalist henchmen take over, as there's not been an exodus from Assad's Syria, but rather from Assad's Syria attacked by Western backed fundamentalist terrorists. 
Note also:  the VAST MAJORITY of the 'Syrian' refugees the Western press has been hyping as the 'refugee crisis' are being shipped to Europe from EVERYWHERE but Syria:  reportedly only one in five is 'Syrian' -- and even that is doubtful, given easily obtainable fake IDs and discarded identification among the wave of immigrants storming Europe. The bulk are from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other Middle Eastern and African countries.
Pakistan is refusing to accept return of their European declined citizens from Europe.  But as the immigrants have destroyed their identification and cannot be positively identified, Europe is left holding these fruits of this 'Syrian' 'refugee crisis' by-Merkel-invitation that's swept over the European continent, wherever they come from and whatever their circumstances. 
Quite honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Turkey, EU, Soros, international bankers, CIA (and whoever the f*ck else is geared towards regime change and destruction of Syria) is shipping those Middle Eastern immigrants across to Europe, including to an unwilling (and still sane) former eastern bloc Europe (eg Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia etc), and an unwilling European general public (save for the colluding Western intelligentsia, their various propagandists and agenda pushers, the co-opted left,  and the brainwashed and brain-dead 'religiously' enthused rent-a-mob).
Unwilling Europeans, rising right, barbed wire, refusals to accept quotas etc, loss of border controls, tent cities, unidentified and unidentifiable aliens, missing aliens, bulk rape and gang rape, violence, riots etc etc ... But the scummy Western European politician banker-lapdogs persist in importing destruction to Europe, in the service of the  international banking  and corporate agenda.  Lapdog-politicians who enable the wholesale rape of European womanhood and European native population displacement, prior to inevitable, slow genocide of the European stock ... which will come to a violent end when the numbers are tipped in favour of non-Europeans.
Philosopher and pen-pusher for the monied elites ignores that when you destroy a state you create a power vacuum, as in Libya (which is a lawless hellhole of terror and destruction 2011 to date) ... the French writer knows, because there's photos of him in Libya with what is presumably France's jihadist proxy there.]

In fact, Assad's regime cares so little for its pseudo-state that it abandons its own soldiers when they venture beyond the territory it controls, as occurred in Tabqa, near Raqqa. Baathist Syria, whatever its friends in the Kremlin and elsewhere say, is dead and buried. And no military trompe l'œil can revive it.  [Comment:  So why is he even bothering with this propaganda if that is the case?  Ten days since the Frenchman's article was published, why is David Cameron begging the Kremlin to stop bombing his boys, ISIS?
Assad's Baathis Syria sounds like the only decent Middle Eastern government there is:

  • secularism
  • socialism
  • pan-Arab unionism / Arab nationalism

the rest are religious dictatorships or Western-backed religious-oil dictatorships.

The West wants to destroy the only secular country in the region, and to replace Syria's government with religious fundamentalists.]
But the supposed realists refuse to accept reality. Just as it was necessary to ally with Stalin to defeat Hitler, they claim, we should not be afraid to play the Assad card to rid ourselves of the Islamic State. Yes, jihadism is the fascism of our day, infected with plans, ideas, and a will to purity comparable to those of the Nazis. I was one of the first to suggest the comparison some 20 years ago.  [Comment:  This is where the propagandist just paints his paragraph-long smear because he's fond of playing in the muck that is the tool of his trade.]

And yet it is absurd to compare the power of the two phenomena, or to suggest that in the confrontation with the butchers of Mosul and Palmyra the democracies face a strategic challenge analogous to that of the Nazi Wehrmacht. This historical leap is possible only for people whose political irresponsibility is matched by their proclivity for lazy analogy. 
[Comment:  So, if I have this straight, he's trying to minimise the threat of ISIS, or some kind of Islamic extremist jihadists in the region.

Days after this piece of his, over 150 were killed in Paris & something like 200 were injured.
The same Evil Western Axis that's armed and backed terrorists in the Middle East is currently destroying Europe by flooding Europe with third-world rapists and consumers of state-funded support (together with their eight designated reunion-relatives to arrive in Europe in due course), 'sold' to the unwilling public as potential future wage-slaves and as cultural 'vibrants' (or some such thing), as the radical-right press would say. 
Who profits?  Probably the international bankers, as generations European natives will be indebted to pay for this non-Europoean invasion ... and for eternity in social and demographic terms, spelling the destruction of Europeans as a European people.  Europe is finished unless Europe goes to war immediately against its elites, which is unlikely.  The European people are unarmed and powerless, and  Europe is finished.]

Make no mistake: the Islamic State is strong. But it is not so strong as to leave those who would fight it with only the politics of the lesser of two evils.   [Comment:  Oh, do shut up, froggy.  The only evil is:  the Evil Western Axis' Syria regime change and destruction agenda.  
Hey, that means all Western governments are party to this evil destruction of Europe.
So the West is also collectively responsible for:  the rape of all those European women, the destruction of Europe, and what is genocide of the European people that we now witness ... as well as the rise of jihadists and the serial destruction of the entire Middle East.  And these are the same Evil Western Axis crew and their colluding press voices that spew lies and hypocrisy, among the stock victors' propaganda about the evil of WWII National Socialists, while politicians predictably perform public worship rituals at the altar of international banker mandated 'multiculturalism', in the aftermath of another round of European blood-letting.]
The West must decide what to do. In the aftermath of last week's peace talks in Vienna, which convened the United States, Russia, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, and key European Union members, that question becomes increasingly difficult. Should we equip what remains of the Free Syrian Army? Should we deal with the few remaining Alawite leaders whose hands are not stained with blood, or those members of Assad's clan who chose exile early and thus were not involved in the massacres? [Comment:  Free Syrian Army (FSA) are the Gulf Oil & Western proxy 'moderate rebels' -- ie jihadists of the al-Qaeda affiliation kind.]

Perhaps there is still be time to bring together, on neutral ground, some of the elements that comprised the old Syria. Or perhaps more radical solutions -- of the type implemented in Germany and Japan after World War II -- are now required[Comment:  What's he proposing, an atomic bomb or something?  Occupation?  Who cares.  This Frenchy propagandist lives in Disneyland.]

All of these paths remain open, but they are narrowing. And none of them depends on the political survival of Bashar al-Assad[Comment:  If this is how desperate this master French intelligentsia trans-Atlantic propagandist is to fulfil the agenda of deposing Bashar al_Assad, Assad's bound to be legitimate and deserves support.  Long Live Bashar al-Assad! ]

Translated by Steven B. Kennedy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/why-obama-and-hollande-ar_b_8479548.html



Article also published in France (on Levy site)
http://www.bernard-henri-levy.com/why-obama-and-holande-are-right-on-syria-bhl-49153.html

Levy's site indicates this was also published on:
The World Post (TWP)
-- TWP linked to Huffington Post (which has also published this article)
-- Huffington Post appears to be a shameless neocon rag (to borrow the terminology of a former UK ambassador, I think it was ;) )
-- Huffingon Post in Germany harasses, publicly 'shames' & thereby exposes to all manner of violence and hate crimes from the brainwashed, deranged, and violent left and beyond, the ordinary German public that is opposed to the international banker project:  mass third world immigration.


Updated: Israeli General Captured in Iraq Confesses to Israel-Isis Coalition

TIMES OF ISRAEL

Says Otherwise


By Nahed Al-Husaini on October 21, 2015

“There is a strong cooperation between MOSSAD and ISIS top military commanders...Israeli advisors helping the Organization on laying out strategic and military plans, and guiding them in the battlefield”

Israeli Brigadier Yussi Elon Shahak captured by the Iraqi popular army confessed during the investigation that

“There is a strong cooperation between MOSSAD and ISIS top military commanders,” asserting that  “there are Israeli advisors helping the Organization on laying out strategic and military plans, and guiding them in the battlefield.”

The terrorist organization also has military consultants from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Jordan
Saudi Arabia has so far provided ISIS with 30,000 vehicles, while Jordan rendered 4500 vehicles. Qatar and United Arab Emirates delivered funds for covering ISIS overall expenditure.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/21/breaking-story-israeli-general-captured-in-iraq-confesses-to-israel-isis-coalition/


Israeli commander working with Daesh arrested in Iraq: Popular forces

TIMES OF ISRAEL

Says Otherwise


Tue Nov 3, 2015 6:45PM

According to a report by Iran’s Fars news agency, sources in Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) say they have arrested Colonel Yussi Elon Shahak during an operation against Daesh.

The report said Shahak was arrested along with a number of key Daesh members, saying he is currently being interrogated by Iraq’s intelligence officials to determine the degree and type of support the Tel Aviv regime has been providing to militants fighting against the Iraqi government.
...

The report by Fars cited military intelligence showing that Shahak is registered with Golani Brigade, an elite force which was formed in 1948 and is known as the 1st Brigade of the regular Israeli infantry. A military registration number was also provided in the report.

The capture could be seen as a major setback for Israel as it has repeatedly denied having links to Daesh. Previous reports from the Golan Heights, an area separating Syria from the occupied Palestinian territories, had shown that foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists had received assistance from the Israeli military. Israelis have openly confirmed that they have hosted some militants in their field hospitals and provided them with medical care.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/03/436178/Iraq-Israel-Daesh-Yussi-Elon-Shahak-Golani-Brigade


TIMES OF ISRAEL

Says Otherwise

Official Iranian mouthpiece and others claim former IDF chief caught while aiding Islamic State. Er, no

By Judah Ari Gross October 28, 2015, 8:24 pm

Rumors that a high-ranking IDF officer had been captured while working alongside Islamic State forces began circulating on the Internet last week, beginning on assorted websites dedicated almost solely to starting and perpetuating conspiracy theories and later being picked up by the Iranian government’s official mouthpiece Fars news.

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/benny-gantz-wasnt-captured-by-iraqi-forces/


Israeli Lobby Urges War on Syria

By Stephen Lendman
Global Research, September 05, 2013

It did so formally. It didn’t surprise. It has more than Syria in mind. A previous article explained.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations wants war. AIPAC is its best known member.

It’s a blight on humanity. It’s an unregistered foreign agent. It operates illegally. It does so destructively.

It promotes war. It deplores peace. It supports the worst of Israeli crimes. It supports its most unprincipled interests.

It controls US administrations and Congress. Edward Said called it “the most powerful and feared lobby in Washington.”

In a matter of hours, he said, it can mobilize unanimous Senate support for Israel. Political Washington bows to its will. It does so disgracefully. It does it destructively.

It’s doing it now. In days, Congress will rubber-stamp Obama’s intended lawless aggression on Syria. He plans mass killing and destruction.

AIPAC endorses it. On September 3, it headlined ”Press Statement on Syrian Resolution,” saying:

AIPAC urges Congress to grant the President the authority he has requested to protect America’s national security interests and dissuade the Syrian regime’s further use of unconventional weapons.”

“The civilized world cannot tolerate the use of these barbaric weapons, particularly against an innocent civilian population including hundreds of children.”

“Simply put, barbarism on a mass scale must not be given a free pass.”

“This is a critical moment when America must also send a forceful message of resolve to Iran and Hezbollah – both of whom have provided direct and extensive military support to Assad.”

“The Syrian regime and its Iranian ally have repeatedly demonstrated that they will not respect civilized norms.”

“That is why America must act, and why we must prevent further proliferation of unconventional weapons in this region.”

“America’s allies and adversaries are closely watching the outcome of this momentous vote. This critical decision comes at a time when Iran is racing toward obtaining nuclear capability.”

Failure to approve this resolution would weaken our country’s credibility to prevent the use and proliferation of unconventional weapons and thereby greatly endanger our country’s security and interests and those of our regional allies.”

AIPAC maintains that it is imperative to adopt the resolution to authorize the use of force, and take a firm stand that the world’s most dangerous regimes cannot obtain and use the most dangerous weapons.”

AIPAC’s one of 51 US Zionist organizations. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO) represents them.

AIPAC’s best known. Both organizations work cooperatively. CPMAJO largely focuses on US administrations. AIPAC mostly lobbies Congress.

They seek unequivocal support for Israel. They’re in lockstep for war on Syria. On September 3, the CPMAJO said:

“The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said today that the use of chemical weapons violates fundamental international norms and principles.”

“The use of such indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction represents moral challenges that require a strong response. It also poses vital national security concerns to the US and to our interests and to those of our allies in the region.”

[ continued ... ]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-lobby-urges-war-on-syria/5348296

Confirmation of Israel Lobby Article

AIPAC to Deploy Hundreds of Lobbyists to Push for Syria Action
Reuters Sep 07, 2013 7:33 PM
Pro-Israel lobby says 250 activists will meet with their senators and representatives in Washington in a bid to win support Congressional support for military action in Syria.

The influential pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee will deploy hundreds of activists next week to win support in Congress for military action in Syria, amid an intense White House effort to convince wavering U.S. lawmakers to vote for limited strikes.

"We plan a major lobbying effort with about 250 activists in Washington to meet with their senators and representatives," an AIPAC source said on Saturday.

Congressional aides said they expected the meetings and calls on Tuesday, as President Barack Obama and officials from his administration make their case for missile strikes over the apparent use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.

The vote on action in Syria is a significant political test for Obama and a major push by AIPAC, considered one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, could provide a boost.

The U.S. Senate is due to vote on a resolution to authorize the use of military force as early as Wednesday. Leaders of the House of Representatives have not yet said when they would vote beyond saying consideration of an authorization is "possible" sometime this week.

Obama has asked Congress to approve strikes against Assad's government in response to a chemical weapons attack
on Aug. 21 that killed more than 1,400 Syrians.  [Groundless accusation - see MIT research & report (below)]

But many Republicans and several of Obama's fellow Democrats have not been enthused about the prospect, partly because war-weary Americans strongly oppose getting involved in another Middle Eastern conflict.  [Not enthused?  Got to be kidding.  American politicians live for war ... especially on Syria.]

Pro-Israel groups had largely kept a low profile on Syria as the Obama administration sought to build its case for limited strikes after last month's attack on rebel-held areas outside Damascus.

Supporters of the groups and government sources acknowledged they had made it known that they supported U.S. action, concerned about instability in neighboring Syria and what message inaction might send to Assad's ally, Iran.

But they had generally wanted the debate to focus on U.S. national security rather than how a decision to attack Syria might help Israel, a reflection of their sensitivity to being seen as rooting for the United States to go to war.   [US national security?  It's not Mexico, you know.  Syria's in the Middle East ... right up next to Israel.]


source
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.545661


MIT study of Ghouta chemical attack challenges US intelligence

Published time: 16 Jan, 2014 04:39
Edited time: 19 Jan, 2014 13:49

A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from govt controlled areas.


In the report titled “Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence,” Richard Lloyd, a former UN weapons inspector, and Theodore Postol, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), examined the delivery rocket’s design and calculated possible trajectories based on the payload of the cargo.

The authors concluded that sarin gas “could not possibly have been fired at East Ghouta from the ‘heart’, or from the Eastern edge, of the Syrian government controlled area shown in the intelligence map published by the White House on August 30, 2013.”

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source
https://www.rt.com/news/study-challenges-syria-chemical-attack-681/

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Comments as marked above.
Love how Bernard-Henri Levy began with "Forget principles and morality ...".   Was he trying to inject some humour into his article?
Bit confused about who did the Paris attack.

If al-Qaeda & ISIS are Western & Gulf State proxies, why are extremists on the payroll attacking Paris? 

Oh, I remember, they've sort of gone rogue or AWOL now.

UPDATE:

It looks like Hollande publicised in Le Monde in late 2014 delivery of arms to the 'moderate rebels', who are the al-Nusra associated faction (who are an associated al-Qaeda faction), that's in opposition to the ISIS faction ... unless they defect.
“We cannot leave the only Syrians who are preparing a democracy ... without weapons,” he added.
Would ISIS wait a whole year to respond with an attack?   It seems too long a wait.  Not sure.
FULL AT SOURCE
http://m.france24.com/en/20140821-france-arms-syria-rebels-hollande
I can't figure how the West is getting away with backing terrorists in Syria when it is illegal pursuant to international law to arm (and presumably fund) actors to take down a sovereign government.  
Arms reach Syria from Jordan and I'm guessing also Turkey ... and it appears France was openly arming the Syrian opposition as at late 2014.  
The 'chemical weapons' thing is similar to the 'weapons of mass destruction' illegal attack that was carried out in Iraq, only in this case the chemicals came from the 'moderate rebels' as the most likely source -- so it was a false flag attack, aiming to make a target of the al-Assad government.

The above 'Israel lobby' article is just a random one that popped up when I searched for "Israel lobby" and "Syria".  Wanted to make sure I was right, in making the above statement.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

UPDATED with Times of Israel refuted of captured Israeli Colonel.

Press TV is the official Iranian press agency.

The operators of Veterans Today are unknown to me.

Its site is registered by proxy, but is presumably an American site.

The author of the article would be:  Nahed al Husaini Lancaster of Veterans Today.

As the article author appears in this article (here), I'm going to assume that the Veterans Today site is a genuine news outlet.  But, yeah, on taking a second look at the VT article, it is rather odd.  I think I just skimmed over that first part, but I'm not sure why. 

The Israeli article goes on to discuss the photograph regarding the 'captured Colonel' who isn't a colonel and hasn't been captured.

So is there a captured Israeli of any description in Iraq, or what?
PressTV I'd trust.

Fars News, not so much.  Especially as there's yet another proxy registration.

Not sure why PressTV would print something that might be dodgy.

Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) is a Shia militia umbrella group drawn together  to defend against ISIS - here.
If they really did have an Israeli military guy, I suppose there might have been a bit more fanfare than this.  As in, you'd think there'd be a huge press conference or something to mark the occasion.

PS

Some reading for those that think my predictions for Europe are exaggerated.  Article was enough for me, but there's a video also.  Just one report of multitudes of horrifying reports of dramas etc in Europe -- and the politicians, the liberal left network, and the wider intelligentsia and the media continue to push an unsound ideology (and consequences) on the public:

WATCH: Journalist Stoned While Trying To Film In Swedish No Go Zone

by Liam Deacon  |  27 Oct 2015
A Swedish journalist attempting to make a movie about the residents of a Swedish no go zone and their habit of throwing stones at police has herself been attacked and had stones thrown at her as she attempted to film.

They thought we crossed the limit and that we were standing on their land,” journalist Valentina Xhaferi told Swedish newspaper Expressen.

Ms Xhaferi planned on investigating police reports that any officer trying to patrol the Stockholm district of Tensta – with its foreign born population now over 70 per cent – would be pelted with rocks. She wanted to get behind the black headlines and find out what was really troubling the poor residents.

[ ... ]
But as they waited, another man, who appeared to be upset, approach to ask why they were filming. He went away only to return with his gang.

“Then he became very, very angry and said he’ll get stones and show us what stoning is. When I saw that he was armed with a stone I just wanted to get out of there,” said Ms Xhaferi.

At this point more three men appeared from a subway and demanded to know what they were doing. The camera was recording, and captured the moment the men kicked the equipment to the floor, shouted insults at Ms. Xhaferi and poured coffee on the cameraman before running off.

“It was impossible to calm them down. I pulled back and tried to calm down everyone, while trying to get my colleague and myself out of there.
Police estimate that there are around 55 such areas in Sweden similar to the Tensta no go zone, which was the site of a riot in 2012, and which boasts a 95-100 per cent foreign origin rate for children living there.

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