Russian ally Israel caught leading ISIS

[Michael K.]

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940730000210

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli Colonel Leading ISIL Terrorists Captured in Iraq

October 22, 2015

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi security and popular forces have caught an Israeli colonel from Golani Brigade along with a number of ISIL terrorists, a commander disclosed on Thursday.
"The security and popular forces have held captive an Israeli colonel," a commander of Iraq's popular mobilization forces said on Thursday.

"The Zionist officer is ranked colonel and had participated in the Takfiri ISIL group's terrorist operations," he added.

Noting that he was arrested along with a number of ISIL terrorists, the commander said, "The Israeli colonel's name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade of the Zionist regime's army with the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434."

He said that the relevant bodies are now interrogating the Israeli colonel to understand the reasons behind his fighting alongside the ISIL forces and the presence of other Zionist officers among ISIL terrorists.

The Iraqi security forces said the captured colonel has already made shocking confessions.

Several ISIL militants arrested in the last one year had already confessed that Israeli agents from Mossad and other Israeli espionage and intelligence bodies were present in the first wave of ISIL attacks on Iraq and capture of Mosul in Summer 2014, but no ranking Israeli agent had been arrested.

Political and military experts told FNA that the capture of the Israeli colonel will leave a grave impact on Iraq's war strategy, including partnership with Israeli allies.

In a relevant development in July, Iraqi volunteer forces announced that they had shot down a drone that was spying on the Arab country's security forces in the city of Fallujah, Western Iraq.

Iraq's popular forces reported that they had brought down a hostile surveillance aircraft over the Southeastern Fallujah in Anbar Province.

They said that the wreckage of the ISIL's spy drone carried 'Israel-Made' labels.

This was not the first Israeli-made drone downed in Iraq.

In August an Israeli Hermes drone was shot down in the vicinity of Baghdad Airport.

[MikeWB]

>Russian ally
Heheh... you're stretching it. Israel as no allies and their closest useful pawn is the US.

[Michael K.]

Israel is an ally of Russia, and here is all the proof in the world:

http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/09/mixed-signals-from-moscow-putins-russia-israel-and-the-middle-east/

During a meeting with a delegation of Israeli and Russian Jewish religious leaders in July 2014, Putin said he identifies with and supports the "struggle of Israel" against the native Arabs whose land and resources have been consistently usurped by European and Russian Jews who mass migrated to Palestine and then took much of it over through violence and terrorism in 1948. One rabbi at the meeting 'blessed' Putin's leadership in Russia, saying it was the 'will of god.' Putin told the rabbis that he is a "true friend of Israel" and of its extremist prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.[2]

Putin has described Israel as part of the "Russian world" because 15 percent of its population is of Russian origin.[3] Despite living in Israel, many of these Russian-Israelis vote in Russian elections, and a good number of them cast their ballot for Putin.[4] At a 2011 dialogue conference featuring organizations representing the major religious and ethnic groups in Russia, Putin stated that Israel is "a special state to us" because it is "practically a Russian-speaking country."[5] Russian-speaking Israelis form the base of the ultra-Zionist Yisrael Beiteinu political party[6], headed by Israel's former foreign affairs minister Avigdor Lieberman who recently called for "disloyal" Arab citizens of Israel to be "beheaded."[7]

During a 2013 joint press conference, Putin and Netanyahu both affirmed that ties between Russia and Israel are getting 'stronger and stronger.'[8] Putin said that "our relationship with Israel is both friendly and mutually beneficial." He stressed that Russia and Israel cooperate in a "wide variety of areas," including political, cultural, economic and military. He proudly noted that under his watch the Russian city of Gelendzhik was twinned with the Israeli city of Netanya.

Russia has fuelled Israel's war economy, purchasing more than $550 million of Israeli drones since Putin became president.[9] In 2010, Russia and Israel signed a five-year military contract that boosted "military ties between the two nations to help them fight common threats, such as terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."[10] Increased cooperation and information sharing between Russian and Israeli intelligence services was one result of the agreement.

In 2013, Putin's Gazprom oil and gas company signed a 20-year deal with the Israeli firm Levant LNG Marketing Corp. to exclusively purchase liquefied natural gas from Israel's Tamar offshore gas field.[11] Plans are also in the works for Russia to develop Israel's Leviathan gas field. According to Debkafile, in August of 2015 Putin offered to heavily invest in, as well as safeguard, Israel's gas fields, thereby dissuading hostile forces from confronting Israel.[12] Russia and Israel do billions in trade each year, and in 2013 negotiated a free trade agreement.[13]

If Putin were truly "anti-Zionist" he would not have any relations with Israel whatsoever and would support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Offering to safeguard Israel's security with Russian investment in its economy is hardly a gesture of hostility. And signing a 20-year gas deal with Israel evidently signifies that Putin's Russia believes the Jewish state will continue to exist 20 years in the future.

At best Putin supports a "two-state solution" to the Israel/Palestine quandary – a heavily fortified and domineering Israeli Jewish state next to a rump Palestinian Arab state with vastly inferior military capabilities, if any at all. This is a scenario 'championed' by many mainstream Western politicians too, so Putin's position is nothing extraordinary, and no honest commentator can label such a feeble stance "anti-Zionist."

Factually speaking Putin upholds the status quo in the Israel/Palestine conflict, merely maintaining hampered relations with the Israeli puppet regime – the "Palestinian Authority" – in the West Bank under Mahmoud Abbas, while offering no physical, ideological or diplomatic support to the armed Palestinian resistance. Russia has basically no formal relations with the democratically elected Hamas government in the Gaza Strip and pays lip service to Israeli propaganda about "Hamas rockets" being a significant threat to Israel.[14]

When Israel launched its murderous Operation Protective Edge terror campaign last summer, Putin largely sided with Israel. "Support for Operation Protective Edge [the codename for Israel's latest offensive in Gaza] is coming directly from the Kremlin," noted the Federation of Jewish Communities website.[15] Putin said he "[supports] Israel's battle that is intended to keep its citizens protected." Putin cited the engineered Israeli pretext of the three Jewish settlers who were kidnapped and killed by unknown assailants as a sufficient justification for the mass arrests of hundreds of West Bank Palestinians and the wholesale slaughter of more than 2100 Gazans, including nearly 500 children and 250 women.[16] Putin of course didn't mention that Israel itself created the Jewish settler kidnapping/murder saga as a false-flag ploy to rubber-stamp its premeditated attack.[17] Nor did Putin mention the dozens of Palestinians periodically killed by Israeli forces in the months before the deaths of the three Jewish settlers, or how the Palestinians have suffered more than 60 years of Israeli occupation and state-sponsored mass murder.

Ultimately, it is Putin's actions, not his words, which carry the most weight in judging his true attitude towards any situation. As a mealy-mouthed politician and former career spy, Putin's slippery statements are often contradictory and adaptive to different situations. But his actions, and much of his words, are undoubtedly partisan to Israel...

Converging Interests

Russia and Israel also share a common concern to perpetuate the official mythology surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust narrative. As part of the Allied Powers, the Soviet Union played an integral role in formulating the victors' "good war" historiography, and Russia under Putin seeks at all costs to uphold that fabled version of events.

It was the Soviet Union after all which created and promulgated many of the lies about Germany's wartime concentration camps, many of which came under Soviet control after the war, and were thus subject to Soviet fabrications (such as the fake "gas chamber" in Auschwitz's main camp) designed to incriminate their defeated German foes.[26]

In 2014, Putin undertook an Orwellian mission to stamp out skeptical viewpoints about the Holocaust and Stalinist Russia's "benevolent" and "heroic" contribution to the Second World War. At a meeting with Jewish religious leaders mentioned earlier, Putin consulted with them "on means of dealing with anti-Semitism, Holocaust deniers and preventing historical revisionism."[27] Following through on his promise to curtail historical revisionism, Putin's government passed a new law in 2014 making it illegal to question the farcical Nuremburg Trials verdict on the Holocaust (six million, gas chambers, etc.) as well as to "spread false information" about the Soviet regime's brutal wartime tactics and activities.[28] The same year Russia also forwarded a bizarre UN resolution "condemning attempts to glorify Nazism ideology and denial of German Nazi war crimes," whilst it concurrently (and hypocritically) just approved a law making it a crime to criticize or even suggest that the Soviet regime did bad things during its conflict with Nazi Germany.[29]

In 2012, Putin participated in the construction of a monument in the Israeli city of Netanya honouring Jewish veterans who fought in the Soviet Red Army during World War II.[30] In a speech for the unveiling ceremony, Putin said the monument "reinforces my feeling of respect for the Jewish people, for Israel."[31] The monument will "remind us of how heroic the generation of the Second World War was." He said the Holocaust was one of the most "black and tragic pages in the history of mankind" and how it is "impossible to make peace with what the Nazis perpetrated." To ensure that Nazi ideology remains a thing of the past and the skewed Russian-Jewish war narrative continues to be believed, Putin stressed his desire to "preserve the conclusions of the Nuremberg Trials" – evidently by criminalizing skepticism towards the dubious findings of that show trial, as many European countries have also done. Putin then credited the Soviet Union for "saving the world" during the war, neglecting to mention the much greater atrocities committed by Stalin's Red Army and NKVD secret police, who butchered and raped millions, spearheading far worse and larger scale misconduct than the grandest myths of German-Nazi barbarity.

As revisionist Paul Grubach succinctly put it:

"One can now plainly see why Putin would outlaw Holocaust revisionism: it is a direct threat to the ideology that 'justifies' and 'legitimizes' his government and political agenda. Indeed, a Revisionist repudiation of the Holocaust ideology would allow another reappraisal of the crimes, atrocities, genocide and oppression committed by the Stalinist regime. The end result of such historical revisionism would be the demolition of a pillar of Russian patriotic ideology, and the worldwide realization that Stalinist Communism was more oppressive and evil than National Socialism."[32]

Putin's characterization of his present conflict with Ukraine as a rekindled Soviet-style crusade against Nazism is further corroboration of his strong ideological alignment with Jewish-Zionist interests on that issue. Grubach noted how the Kremlin:

"needs to use the Holocaust as an ideological weapon against those non-Russian ethnic groups (such as the Ukrainians) that backed the Germans during WWII and are presently in conflict with Russia. We saw this in the recent conflict in the Ukraine. Russia's Ukrainian opponents were depicted by Russian officials as 'rampaging neo-Nazis' who wanted to 'create a new Auschwitz.'"

While it is true that the US was heavily involved in egging on the Ukrainian uprising that ousted the pro-Russian Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych in early 2014, Putin's response to it – supporting violent pro-Russian separatist rebels (many of whom are communists) in the Eastern parts of Ukraine – has been just as invasive and destructive as Washington's meddlesome input. And his aggressive resurrection of Soviet atrocity propaganda from World War II showcases his purely opportunistic and devious approach to issues affecting the Russian image.

Shared Hatred of Muslims

Israeli and Russian politics strongly intersect in their shared hatred of Muslims and aversion to affording them any human rights beyond being subordinated subjects of their respective empires.

When Russia struck a five year military contract with Israel in 2010, Russia's defense minister said that "

• ur views on many modern challenges are close or coincide" with Israel's anti-Muslim impulses. Specifically, the minister stressed, Russia and Israel see eye-to-eye on "Islamic terrorism." The Israeli politician and former general Ehud Barak remarked: "Israel follows closely the situation with terrorism in Russia's North Caucasus, because both Russia and Israel are under the threat of radical Islamic terrorism."[33]
  
  Russia's historical enmity towards the Muslim peoples of the North Caucasus region – Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and other areas – presents a significant point of commonality between Moscow and the anti-Muslim imperial regime in Tel Aviv. After suffering nearly a century of Russian abuses under the Czars who conquered Chechnya in 1858, the entire Chechen population was deported to the Siberian Gulag slave camps by Stalin in 1944, where many thousands died.[34] When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Chechens understandably mobilized for independence, only to be ferociously crushed by Moscow in two bloody wars waged in 1994 and again in 1999 (under Yeltsin and Putin respectively).
  
  During these savage wars of aggression, the Kremlin inflicted mass terror bombing upon the civilian population of Chechnya. Various estimates put the Chechen death toll for the two wars at around 200,000, including tens of thousands of children.[35] "We will kill [Chechen rebels] even in the toilets," Putin said in 1999, emphatically rejecting any peaceful dialogue with Chechnya's separatist-oriented leadership.
  
  Putin's political career was very much predicated on his hardline militaristic response to the Chechen rebellion against Moscow's iron rule in the Caucasus. Putin effectively modeled his military incursions into Chechnya on Israel's violent tactics in the occupied Palestinian territories. "Parallels between Russia's conflict with the Chechens and Israel's struggle with the Palestinians have resonated strongly with the Putin administration," noted Mark N. Katz in his Middle East Quarterly article entitled "Putin's Pro-Israel Policy."[36] Katz highlighted how the Israeli regime endorsed Russia's human rights violations in Chechnya, loudly supporting Moscow's belligerent approach to dealing with the rebellious Chechens. Israel's fanatical Zionist leaders Natan Sharansky, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak all "[spoke] approvingly of Moscow's Chechnya policy."[37]
  
  Ehud Barak, a credibly accused war criminal, is an especially big fan of Putin, often repeating the Russian leader's infamous "we'll get the terrorists on the toilets" quip during his political campaigns in Israel.[38] An hour after the Twin Towers were hit on 9/11, Barak appeared on international television and immediately tried to mobilize global public opinion behind Israel's imperial agenda, calling for a "global war on terror" led by "the United States, the UK, Europe and Russia." Putin is "highly committed to the struggle against terror," Barak added, imploring the Russian president to join the US-Zionist crusade to annihilate the Muslim world.[39]
  
  Barak's wish was Putin's command. A 2001 ABC special interview with Putin revealed his initial embrace of the fraudulent US-Zionist-Neocon "war on terrorism." "Putin has pledged support to [US] President George W. Bush in the war against terrorism," reporter Barbara Walters noted in the introduction, specifying that Russia allowed the American military to use its airspace to prepare military operations against Afghanistan. The special also disclosed that Putin was the first world leader to call President Bush after 9/11. Later in the interview Putin described Bush as a "solid partner" whom "we can do business with."[40]
  
  All of this harmony has some Zionists optimistic about the future of Russian-Israeli relations. The rapport between the two countries "may be heading to a beautiful friendship if not the beginning of love," wrote a Zionist commentator for the American Thinker website.[41] Another pro-Israel columnist for The Week opined that Russia should take over from the US as "Israel's global defender."[42]

[MikeWB]

That's comical. How many billions of dollars in aid is Russia giving to Israel? How many billions in arms? Is FSB giving them full-access to all of the communications of Russians (including their parliament) like NSA is doing right now?

PS: you're Ukrainian, right? Excluding insanity, that's the only conclusion I can come up with to explain all this irrational hate.

[Michael K.]

You are comical in your denial of the facts.  You don't even read the proof I give you or offer proof of your own to rebut what I have given.  Russia gives $550 billion per year to Israel for drones alone, as you may read above.  In your desperation to deny the truth you propose that I am Ukrainian, as if that were some bad thing which would discredit the objective facts I offer as proof.

You are deluding yourself, but I won't let you delude the others.  ISIS is a creation of Israel and it serves as a moral pretext for Russia to invade the Middle East.  This Russian government is no less Zionist than Lenin's.  The new post-Soviet Russian rhetoric runs the full gamut from leftist anti-Imperialism to rightist white separatism and gay-bashing.  They have no morals, no religion and no objective truth other than the gun. 

Your continued and ignorant wonkery for the criminal post-Soviet neoconservatives of Russia makes you look like you lack the ability to seriously reason from facts and not lash out irrationally from emotions.  Responding to this mountain of evidence by accusing me of being Ukrainian makes you look like you should have to sit at the children's table.  But worst of all, lacking any factual basis from which to prove your view, you accuse me of "hate".  That makes you equivalent to a Jew from the ADL in your rhetoric.

[MikeWB]

You're repeating the same neocon bullshit we've been haring since 2000s. So you're denying you're Ukrainian? Heh. I'm not convinced at all.

Anyway, saying that Israel is Russia's, and not America's, ally is one of the most idiotic things I've read on here.

[Michael K.]

 Continuing your ignorant speculation about my ethnicity while ignoring the mountain of evidence presented declares to the world your status.  And in case you haven't figured it out, Russia is neoconservative too, being another Zionist organization at heart: they believe in preemptive warfare, the war on terror, false flag attacks, proxy warfare with air support, and support Israel's occupation.

[yankeedoodle]

What is said originally:

Russia has fuelled Israel's war economy, purchasing more than $550 million of Israeli drones since Putin became president   

What is said subsequently:

Russia gives $550 billion per year to Israel for drones alone 

Why Russia, which produces such fabulous airplanes, would need to buy drones from Israhell is a mystery.  But, let's suppose that the first statement is true, and, in that case, it needs to be noted that Putin first became President of Russia about 15 years ago.

Given that there is a big big BIG difference between, hypothetically, $550 million over 15 years (less than $40 million per year), and $550 billion per year, one must wonder who is "comical" and who "do[es]n't even read."

You are comical in your denial of the facts.  You don't even read the proof I give you or offer proof of your own to rebut what I have given.  Russia gives $550 billion per year to Israel for drones alone, as you may read above.

[Michael K.]

Billion, million, whatever.  The fact that Washington pays tribute to the State of Israel proves only that Israel is in command, wheras you fallaciously argue that it proves Washigton is pulling the strings.  How is paying a tribute ever been evidence of a superior status?  Maybe the logic eludes you. Russia is Israel's #1 supplier of oil, Russia and Israel have a visa free travel arrangement, a Space cooperation agreement, and an encrypted hotline from Moscow to TelAviv in the works, and joint nanotechnology ventures.  This an alliance.

The point is that the facts are there as well as the sources so you don't have to take my word for it.  What I want to know is how you who are capable of research are still so blind to the obvious fact that Russia is run by the same people that used to call themselves Communists.  The fall of the old Soviet Union is a public relations act, even the whole scene with Yeltsin atop a tank is a joke.  Yet you believe with all your heart that Putin is a new creation.  Are you sadly mistaken and dimwitted, or malevolent and deceptive?