We all know that the CIA has been involved in several coup d’etats ever since President Harry S. Truman spawned this creature. Hell, they’ve even done it once before in Iran, in 1953. And I think we also know that Iran has been in the crosshair’s of the neocons, neoliberals and other policy makers for quite a while. Even the RAND Corporation has been lobbying for another world war to “save the U.S. economy”.

And that, I think is reason enough to concider the possibility that the spooks might have their dirty little hands in this one aswell. It is of course their modus operandi.

Now, obviously the CIA does not control thousands of protesters, not directly at least. But because the atmosphere in Iran was tense to begin with, all they really needed was to introduce a few catalysts to get the ball rolling. This could be seemingly random violence, clashes with the Revolutionary Guard and so on. And as we are pack animals, our herd mentality and mob behaviour quickly take over in situations like this. It’s pretty basic psychology actually.

But the CIA is only a means to an end by the powers that be, the CIA is just a tool. Next you will probably see lots of videos and images of Iranians being killed by the Islamic militants and other horrible atrocities occuring in the country. This footage will probably loop continuously for several months on TV and be spread through the internet on websites such as YouTube and Twitter. Joe Average will buy what they are selling, and he will get angry, and demand that the Obama administration do something about it. Read more

Bethlehem – Ma’an – More than 3,200 housing units have been built in illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in the West Bank since the beginning of 2008, Israel’s most popular newspaper reported on Tuesday.

As US special Middle East envoy George Mitchell met with Israeli officials to discuss a current US-Israeli split over settlements the report in the newspaper Yedioth Ahrnoth made clear that the Israeli government’s policy has not changed since Prime Minister Ehud Olmert handed over power to Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

Bethlehem – Ma’an – The US has presented Egypt and Israel a plan to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with a two-state resolution, within two years, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat reported on Tuesday

Quoting unnamed Egyptian sources, the report states that the proposal was presented to Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during their visit to Washington last month. Read more

Jerusalem – Ma’an – US Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and President Shimon Peres to discuss US President Barack Obama’s stance on settlement construction in the West Bank.

According to Voice of Israel the Tuesday morning meetings dealt mainly with Obama’s demand that Israel halt all construction in illegal West Bank settlements, remove settler “outposts,” and ease movement for Palestinians. Read more

Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli authorities ordered a Palestinian to demolish his own home in the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Muhammad Ghosheh said police and a demolition crew from the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem arrived at his house in the morning, threatening him with a 100,000 Israeli shekel (25,125 US dollar) fine if he did not destroy the house. Read more

Bethlehem – Ma’an Exclusive – Two sets of deals, one between Hamas and Fatah, and a second between Egypt, Israel and the US, relating to unity between Palestinian factions, a Gaza truce and peace deal talks, are in the works and could be announced as early as July, reliable sources told Ma’an. Read more

A Petah Tikva District Court on Sunday convicted police officer Shahar Mizrahi of shooting and killing an Israeli Arab in 2006, after the latter was suspected of breaking into a vehicle in Pardes Hannah.

Mizrahi, who was on the Hadera police force, fatally shot Mahmoud Ganaim, then 24, in July 2006. Police claimed that Ganaim, a resident of Baka al-Garbiya, had tried to run over one of the officers with the stolen car. Read more

Bethlehem - Ma’an/Agencies - Israel charged 12 Palestinian citizens of Israel for the 2005 lynching death of an Israeli who murdered four Palestinians.

Dubbed a “Jewish terrorist” by then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israeli soldier Eden Natan-Zada shot dead four Palestinians and injured 22 others when he opened fire on a bus in Shfaram, northern Israel, in protest of the country’s withdrawal from Gaza. Read more

Gaza – Ma’an – Contacts with the Egyptians are underway to complete the Palestinian national dialogue in Cairo, said de facto Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Monday.

While checking up on general secondary exams, which started in the West Bank and Gaza this morning, Haniyeh said, “The Egyptians are to hold two separate meetings with Hamas and Fatah in Egypt soon. High-profile contacts between the Egyptians and Palestinian factions are ongoing.”
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