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Israel Successfully Defends Her Northern Border, As Hordes of Hostile Arabs Swarmed the International Border Fence Today
Written by Marty Roberts on June 5, 2011 – 3:55 pm -A special report, live from Israel…
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Britain’s Foreign Minister Has Apparently Lost His Mind
Written by Marty Roberts on February 9, 2011 – 10:22 am -Is this guy kidding????…He has GOT to be on drugs….or maybe just severely brain damaged (in which case I pity him and the people of Great Britain…but I doubt it)…Perhaps he is blind and deaf…or is it early senility?
The largest, strongest Arab nation in the Middle East is about to fall into the hands of terrorist-islamo-fascist ayatollahs, who will control the mega-military built and paid for by the United States of America. This country, Egypt, is sitting on Israel’s southern border. The likely new rulers have openly declared that they will void Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. That’s Israel’s southern border. On the north, Israel has Lebanon, which has just had its government hijacked by Iranian proxy Hizbullah. They have more than 40,000 missiles pointing at Tel-Aviv and environs. The damage to Israel from Hizbullah missiles in the last war has still not been completely repaired. The people of Israel might just be a bit nervous…wouldn’t you????
Israel’s Prime Minister, Netanyahu is attempting to respond to the citizens of Israel’s concerns by stating Israel “will be ready for any outcome” and promised to “reinforce the might of Israel”.
Britain’s genius of a foreign secretary calls this “belligerent rhetoric”???!!! He wants Israel to focus on preventing Jews from building homes in Israel rather than the growing existential threats to the Jewish State? Ignore the jihadist sandwich that is enveloping Israel?
Must be nice over there in La-La Land…Can I have a taste of some of that primo stuff you are smoking?
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Hague warns Israel over ‘belligerent’ rhetoric
Foreign Secretary William Hague warned “belligerent” Israel to tame its rhetoric and said unrest in Arab countries may hinder the peace process, in comments published on Wednesday.
Reprinted from AFP
LONDON — Foreign Secretary William Hague warned “belligerent” Israel to tame its rhetoric and said unrest in Arab countries may hinder the peace process, in comments published on Wednesday.
Hague told the London Times that recent popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan could undermine the search for a permanent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urged the United States to take action.
“Amidst the opportunity for countries like Tunisia and Egypt, there is a legitimate fear that the Middle East peace process will lose further momentum and be put to one side, and will be a casualty of uncertainty in the region,” Hague said.
“Part of the fear is that uncertainty and change will complicate the process still further,” the foreign secretary, who is on a three-day trip to north Africa and the Middle East, told the newspaper.
“That means there is a real urgency for the Israelis and the US. Recent events mean this is an even more urgent priority and that?s a case we are putting to the Israeli government and in Washington.”
The former Conservative party leader reacted strongly to Israel leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to his nation to be ready for “any outcome” and his promise to “reinforce the might of the state of Israel.”
“This should not be a time for belligerent language,” Hague argued. “It is a time to inject greater urgency into the Middle East peace process.”
Israel’s stance on settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories is “disappointing” and peace may become “impossible” within a few years, Hague said.
He also voiced concern over possible conflict between the Jewish state and Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah following last month’s collapse of the Lebanese government.
“The scale of any military conflict that may happen between Israel and Hezbollah is growing, because of the growth of armaments in the area,” Hague warned.
Hague spoke while traveling to Jordan from Tunisia, where he met members of the country’s interim government, including Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi.
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Lebanon has Already Fallen into the Hands of Iranian Proxy Hizbollah
Written by Marty Roberts on February 8, 2011 – 4:34 pm -This may turn out to be even more significant than Egypt’s imminent fall…
While all eyes are focused on the fall of Egypt to islamo-fascism, not very many are paying attention to the fall of Lebanon. Lebanon is now in the hands of Iranian proxy Hizbollah. They have more than 40,000 missiles aimed at the heart of Israel. Just a couple of years ago, Hizbollah proved to the world that were ready, willing and able to use their missiles to threaten the length and breadth of her neighbor to the south, Israel.
Iranian-backed Hizbollah began their takeover of Lebanon by assassinating Prime Minister Hariri in 2005. As the UN tribunal stands ready to point the finger of accusation at them, they have finished off the job by forcing Hariri’s son Saad to resign as prime inister and placing their puppet in control of a Hizbollah-dominated coalition.
Jimmy Carter lost Iran from the pro-Western bloc to the islamo-fascists. He is starting to look pretty good in comparison to Barak Obama, who is about to become the American president that lost Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and who knows how many more formerly friendly Arab nations to the ayatollahs…
Hope and change…
I just hope that things stop changing for the bad pretty soon….
Lebanon, not Egypt, may determine the fate of democracy in the Middle East
Despite the media’s recent focus on Egypt, events in Lebanon may well tell us more about the troubled prospects for Middle Eastern democracy. The fall of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s government, replaced by a Hezbollah-dominated coalition, dramatically imperils Beirut’s democratic Cedar Revolution.
Reprinted from JSOnline by John R. Bolton
Financed and dominated by Iran, terrorist Hezbollah has consistently refused to disarm and become a legitimate political party. Instead, it enjoys the best of both worlds, contesting elections while retaining the military ability to enforce its will against uncongenial results. History will rightly blame the West for the tragedy of the takeover in Beirut, because of its unwillingness to stand against Hezbollah and its Iranian puppet masters. Washington must withhold recognition from any Lebanese government that relies on Hezbollah support.
In mid-January at The Hague, the prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon submitted long-awaited indictments regarding the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Although the indictments are not yet public, they are widely expected to finger top leaders in Hezbollah, Syria and potentially Iran, and they are doubtless behind Hezbollah’s decision to assert itself by collapsing the government of Hariri’s son.
Rescuing Lebanon from radicals and terrorists will require strong action, noticeably absent in recent U.S. policy. We can no longer pretend that the special tribunal’s existence is an adequate response to the real problem in Lebanon: Tehran’s long-standing drive for regional hegemony. It was always a mistake to confuse the effectiveness of an international criminal court with courts of real constitutional governments, and harmfully naive to think that the special tribunal could operate in a vacuum, as the events in Lebanon make painfully clear.
Of course, Hezbollah’s toppling of the Lebanese government is just the latest of its cancerous efforts in its home base. And it remains a continuing threat to innocent civilians in Israel, to other Arab governments in the Middle East and increasingly to other nations around the globe.
For years before Hariri’s February 2005 murder, the West explained away or ignored Hezbollah’s clear role as an active agent of Syrian and Iranian influence. Western dupes and sympathizers noted Hezbollah’s support for schools and hospitals among Lebanon’s Shiite Muslims as if it were a different Hezbollah from the one terrorizing Israel and subverting and intimidating Lebanon’s faltering efforts at representative government. Hezbollah’s diaphanous justification for its military capability – expelling Israel from Lebanon – in effect ended in 2000 when Israel complied with U.N. Security Council resolutions by withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon. Of course, protecting Lebanon is legitimately the responsibility only of the Lebanese armed forces, which in fact Syria and Hezbollah have also been working to bring under their control.
Western support for Lebanese democracy has been for the most part limited to a series of Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolution 1559, calling for Syria to withdraw its forces from Lebanon, and Resolution 1595, creating an international investigation commission to assist Lebanon in prosecuting the Hariri assassination. But Hezbollah foiled these efforts in 2006 by provoking war with Israel. The Security Council ultimately imposed a cease-fire and called for “the disarming of all armed groups in Lebanon,” for an embargo against rearming Hezbollah and for Lebanon’s government to take control of its entire territory, in order to eliminate Hezbollah’s state within a state.
But, as so often before, the West did not follow through. Instead, Iran and Syria rearmed and restored Hezbollah to greater strength (unequivocally demonstrating that Hezbollah was their proxy).
The West must insist on enforcing the Security Council resolutions in support of Lebanese sovereignty and peaceful, representative government, or stop engaging in meaningless gestures. This is our last opportunity before Hezbollah’s armed capabilities swallow democracy in Lebanon, perhaps permanently, and dramatically increase the risk of renewed hostilities throughout the region.
President Obama’s reaction is crucial. Unlike Washington’s repeated prior failures, we must refuse to recognize any Hezbollah-dominated government as legitimate, at least until Hezbollah fully disarms and becomes a real political party. This may well mean committing to more than an impotent U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Hezbollah’s 1983 bombings of U.S. and French forces in Beirut caused their withdrawal, a rare failure of will by then-President Reagan, leading to today’s crisis. We stand aside again at our peril.
The White House has been obsessed for two years with pressuring Israel to make concessions to Palestinians instead of focusing on the manifestations of Iran’s menace. Perhaps the humiliation of Hezbollah’s collapsing of Saad Hariri’s government as Hariri was meeting in the Oval Office will help spur Obama into meaningful action. If not, the lights will be going out in Lebanon for a long time to come, with devastating consequences in the broader Middle East.
John R. Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “Surrender Is Not an Option.” He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.t routed forces loyal to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.
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Power to the People…The Surge Towards Democracy in the Arab Middle East
Written by Marty Roberts on February 2, 2011 – 4:25 pm -A tidal wave of populist uprisings are sweeping the Arab Middle East, starting with Tunisia and spreading into Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and beyond…
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The Arab people are screaming for democracy, demanding a change of the old order, removal of benign and not-so-benign despots and their military regimes…This has to be a good thing, right?
Maybe not…It all depends upon who gets the power and what they do with it (Think: Iran, circa 1979…The Shah vs. the ayatollahs)…
A look at the current state of the widespread rioting and revolts throughout the Arab Middle East…Who is revolting against whom, and who are the likely winners?
A look at the Muslim Brotherhood…Where do they come from?…What do they stand for?…What are their goals and how do they intend to achieve them?
Plus…What has been the historic results of the people taking democratic control of their countries in the Arab world?…What are the likely outcomes today, and what are the implications for the Western World, the U.S. and Israel?
Also…U.S. President Obama’s Middle East track record…What has he achieved and where does he and his administration stand in light of the current unrest in the Arab world?
And…Some parting advice for the policy-makers in Washington…Take it, or leave it…
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The REAL Story of The Gaza Greenhouses
Written by Marty Roberts on October 6, 2010 – 10:41 am -How Yossi Beilin and Co. used $14 million of donations to swindle the Jews out of their life-long investments
What REALLY happened in Gaza?…
Also…Syria Continues With Assasinations in Lebanon…
Is this not an “occupied” country?
Do sanctions by the U.S. mean anything?
Will Lebanon be able to re-assert her independence?
Do America and the world care?…
Plus…Prayers for rain,
Saudis infiltrating U.S universities,
how U.S. universities helped Hitler…
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Lag Bomer:Israel goes up in smoke and flames tonight
Written by Marty Roberts on August 17, 2010 – 12:40 pm -What’s THAT all about???…
Also…Nasrallah’s Missile Threat to the North…
Do 12,000 missiles pointing at Israel from the North teach us anything about the future of the South???
All this and MORE…
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Apartheid and Israel: Get Serious!!! – Maybe, “As different as “Black” &”White?
Written by Marty Roberts on August 6, 2010 – 10:11 am -Anyone Who Talks About Apartheid in Israel Does Not Have a CLUE!!!
Just Ask Israeli-Arab-Member-of-Parliament-Advisor-to-Arafat Ahmed Tibi
(if you can catch him between Israel and her enemy, Lebanon!)
Also, Warnings About Abu Mazzen From Intelligence Sources Like Mossad…
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Trouble on the Northern Border: Is an Iran Israel War Imminent???
Written by Marty Roberts on August 2, 2010 – 9:20 am -More Likely Than Not, say Israeli Military Sources
And Don’t Forget About Syria, Lebanon and Hizbullah…
All this and MORE…
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Israel’s Nothern Border: Lebanon


Still no peace agreement…
10,000+ hostile Hizbullah missiles aimed at Israel’s heart…
Flare-ups on the rise this week…
Israel’s Northern Border: Syria


Israel and Syria are still at war…
Assad is both stubborn AND weak…
Which could be a VERY dangerous combination for the region…
Sign of Things to Come???


So far, this week alone, three cross border attacks on Israel…
What happened to Israel’s “Red Lines”???
Where is the powerful military response promised by Israel after she retreated from Lebanon???
Stay tuned…THIS story promises to be a HOT One!!!…
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Dangling Carrots, Sliced Salami..and a LOT of Boloney…
Written by Marty Roberts on July 5, 2010 – 2:40 pm -Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu is Off to Meet US President Obama…
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Bibi can expect to be fed a lot of dangling carrots on sticks, instead of answers about stopping Iran’s nuclear ambitions…
Obama will most likely continue Arafat’s game of slicing Israel’s salami, feeding it, piece by piece to the palestinians, unless Netanyahu does something to stop him…

I guess eating a bunch of baloney for dinner is better for Bibi than sitting in the US prez’s office while Obama dines alone with his family…
And, BTW, what is that bright, shiny new Iranian bought Syrian radar installation doing sitting on a mountaintop in Lebanon, peering into all of israel and protecting the skies of Iran from attack?
Also…Is Pope Benedict REALLY dumb enough to schedule his address to the British parliament on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar…Yom Kippur?
And…Talk about chutzpah…The GERMAN parliament is telling the Jewish State how to conduct its affairs???…What next?
Finally…”Gowngate” in Jordan…”Made in Israel” tags cause the devil to break loose at a Jordanian university graduation…
All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…
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Re-Broadcast From the Second Lebanon War…The War in Israel Continues
Written by Marty Roberts on July 4, 2010 – 1:39 pm -A classic post and podcast from the archives!!!
The War in Israel Continues
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Harriette Lenore Freer z”l
A Proud Zionist
On the anniversary of her passing
What is happening in Israel, as the war against Hizbullah in Lebanon continues?…
Missiles and rockets are falling over large parts of Israel…What is it like in the bomb shelters?…
Is this the result of past mistakes?…Are we making the same mistakes again?…
And…Why aren’t the foreign news correspondents asking the right questions of the spokespeople of the enemy?…
Marty tells you…
All this and MORE…
War in Israel

This house in Israel’s third largest city, Haifa, was struck and damaged by Hizbullah rockets…
We are at war…
War on Hizbullah in Lebanon
Life In Israeli Bombshelters is not Easy

Tens of thousands of Israelis have been confined to “bombshelter living” for more than a week now…
Not really an end in sight yet…
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Warnings, Warnings…Everyone is Warning Everyone Else-WHO Do We Take Seriously?
Written by Marty Roberts on July 1, 2010 – 10:20 am -Warnings…Warnings!!!


Bibi warns Hizzbullah…
Bibi warns Abu Mazzen… Abu Mazzen warns Bibi… Israel warns Iran… And everyone, the US, the UN, the EU, Iran…warns Israel!!!
Israelis Tour the World

How else???
David and Goliath???


Don’t Tread on Me (or my airspace…and that means Washington OR Tel Aviv!!!)
No trespassing allowed!!! Violators WILL be prosecuted!!! (or shot down by the Air Force…that means YOU!!!)
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The Assassination of Rafik Hariri-Ex-Prime Minister of Lebanon
Written by Marty Roberts on June 29, 2010 – 11:50 am -A classic post and podcast from the archives!!!
Lebanese ex-Prime Minister Hariri was killed today, along with at least nine others in a huge car-bomb blast in a luxury neighborhood of Beirut. Somehow this doesn’t fit in with the tourism campaign being presented on CNN International. Marty talks about what is happening in his rough, Middle Eastern neighborhood on this evening’s show.
Also, issues arise concerning Jewish identity, while taking for granted living in a Jewish state…..
This and more, in this 25-minute long edition of “The Marty Roberts Show”.
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What’s REALLY Happening in Lebanon?……Cause to be Concerned?…Maybe!!!
Written by Marty Roberts on June 29, 2010 – 11:35 am -A classic post and podcast from the archives!!!
Here’s what the show is about…
America recalled her Ambassador from Syria for “consultations” in response to the suicide-bomb assasination of former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri.
America doesn’t take such steps cavalierly, does she? What’s up in Lebanon these days? And what has THAT got to do with “The Bulldozer”, Ariel Sharon?
Marty talks about this in more depth in today’s show.
Also, some new proposals for the International Law community to take into consideration.
This and more, in this 25-minute long edition of “The Marty Roberts Show”.
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The Drums of War Are Beating Loud and Clear to the North of Israel
Written by Marty Roberts on April 14, 2010 – 2:39 pm -It would seem that Syria is slowly, inexorably pushing Israel towards military confrontation…another war from Israel’s north. This, in the face of empty talk of peace by Syrian President Assad. Assad, another Arab leader claiming he wants nothing but peace with Israel, but with the caveat that it be peace, only if he is given everything that he demands…Unacceptable, of course, to side #2 in this “peace”, Israel.
Syria has transferred more missiles to the Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon…this time, much longer-ranged Scud missiles, capable of reaching most of Israel. Hizbullah is openly dedicated to destroying the Jewish State of Israel.
Both Israel AND the US have warned Syria about the danger of supplying Hizbullah with weapons, so far, to no avail.
Israeli Army bulldozers were filmed building embankments north of the security fence with Lebanon, an apparent preparation for war on that rapidly boiling front. More likely would be strikes by the Israeli Air Force on selected Syrian and Lebanese targets threatening Israel.
The scent of war is strong in the Middle East today…
Barak: Syria-Lebanon arms transfer violates UN resolutions
The transfer of advanced Syrian weapons to Lebanon destabilizes the region and is a blatant violation of United Nations resolutions, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday in response to media reports that Syria recently transferred Scud missiles to Hizbullah.
Reprinted from JPost.com Yaakov Katz
On Monday, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai reported that Damascus had transferred the missiles to Hizbullah and that in response, Israel had threatened to bomb Syrian and Lebanese targets.Barak said Tuesday that the IDF was closely following what was happening in Lebanon.
“We have no offensive intentions with regard to Lebanon,” he said during a tour of the IDF’s Tel Hashomer Base. “We recommend that everyone work to retain the quiet.”
Earlier in the day, Barak visited the Ramat David Air Force Base with Deputy Chief of General Staff Maj.-Gen. Benny Gantz and said the IDF was prepared for all of the challenges it currently faced.
At the same time, though, Barak said Israel needed to make efforts to achieve peace with its neighbors.
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Lebanon=Switzerland of the Middle East?..I Don’t Think So, Mr. President
Written by Marty Roberts on February 25, 2010 – 6:37 pm -With all due respect to Shimon Peres, are we talking another prophetic vision of a new Middle East? The last one was 15+ years ago with the advent of the disasterous Oslo Accords. Peres had us dreaming of dining on pitas in Damascus back then. Update:Syrian president Assad has threatened to rain missiles on Israel’s population centers just this week. Israelis were going to be sipping coffee in cafes in Ramallah, Jenin and Shechem, according to Peres’ estimation. Before giving the palestinians autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, when these areas were under Israeli political and military control, that was, in fact true. Israelis regularly shopped in the “palestinian” cities. Now, these same cities are Judenrein…no Israelis allowed. Against the law. Period. Maybe Peres dreams too much of the impossible, the “what-ifs” that have little connection to reality. If your mother only had a penis, she could be your father.
Could be, if only…

Peres: Lebanon could be Mideast’s Switzerland
President on visit to north says ‘Hezbollah has changed from religious movement to Iranian agent’
Reprinted from Ynetnews
President Shimon Peres said Thursday he did not believe there would be a war with Hezbollah anytime soon.Speaking before high school students in the northern city of Hatzor Haglilit, Peres accused Hezbollah of “preventing Lebanon from becoming the Switzerland of the Middle East” as well as unity in the state.
Referring to Iran he expressed hope that “Hezbollah will stop bowing down before the gods of missiles and begin praying to the god of peace”.
“Hezbollah has changed from a religious movement into a military wing. It has changed from a Lebanese organization into an Iranian agent. The State of Israel has upheld the UN resolution in its entirety, and returned to Lebanon all of the territory belonging to it. Those who have destroyed and continue to destroy and prevent union are Hezbollah,” Peres said.
The president also told reporters at the event that he had “no idea” about the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
Students present at Peres’s speech handed him a petition calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard, jailed in the US for spying for Israel.
“We will continue to seek his release as soon as possible. We have made many efforts in the past and we are currently doing so as well. All of the presidents and prime ministers who served in Israel have appealed to all presidents who served in the US during this time but were all turned down,” he said.
After meeting with the students Peres visited the Pri Galil factory in the area, which was prevented from closing down last year by a furious struggle and is considered one of the forerunners of the Galilee’s economy.
Peres spoke of the development in the north and promised Mayor Shimon Suissa that he would continue to help.
“There is a natural connection between Shimon Peres and the periphery, and some of the region’s best success stories are related to him,” Suissa said. “The security threats we have known have stressed the residents’ determination to live here.”
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