The Israeli regime, which rejects all international nuclear
agreements, particularly the Non-Proliferation Treaty, maintains a
policy of deliberate ambiguity over its nuclear activities and refuses
to allow its nuclear facilities to come under international regulatory
inspections.
“Israel needs constant war in order to justify its existence as the
main recipient of the US military and economic aid, and in order to show
that it is really an important partner and ally for the US in the
Middle East. Israel fears peace,” said Brian Becker in an interview with
Press TV on Saturday.
The analyst went on to say that Washington “realized that it needed another force, a proxy force, an extension of its military power to police the region and the Israelis have done that” by invading Egypt and Syria, as well as by invading and stealing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in defiance of the UN resolutions.Moreover, Becker stated that the US has used “Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar” as “proxy forces” in the region for the last two and a half years to “fund and arm” foreign-backed militant groups in Syria to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Becker also noted that Washington is not looking for peace in the
region, saying, “The United States is not going to let the Middle East
become a self-determining entity because of its resource-rich capacity.”
Referring to Israel, which is the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East with an estimated 200-400 nuclear warheads, the analyst said, “The US does not want to disarm Israel because fundamentally it sees Israel as its pillar, as its fundamental ally in this resource rich and tumultuous part of the world.”
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Snowden ‘may meet whoever he wants’ over Merkel phone hack – Kremlin
RT: The Kremlin, which granted the Edward Snowden asylum in Russia, does
not see the whistleblower's contacts with the German parliamentary probe
into the alleged NSA surveillance of Chancellor Merkel as a violation
of the pledge not to hurt America.
Snowden, who got stranded in a Moscow airport after the US revoked his American passport, was allowed entry to Russia in August. He was given political asylum there on the condition that he would not further damage the US.
But his latest contacts with German investigators, who are looking into the alleged wiretapping of Angela Merkel’s phones, are “clearly damaging US national interests,” a senior White House official told the Russian Kommersant daily on Friday.
Snowden has given assurances many times that he has handed over the entire cache of classified documents to the press, which he took from the US National Security Agency’s networks, while he was in Hong Kong. Washington suspects this may not be true. US officials believe that while staying in Russia, Snowden keeps in touch with journalists around the world and provides them with more material, exposing secret surveillance practices.
The accusations have been dismissed by presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, who assured the newspaper that “nobody allows” Snowden to violate his pledge.
“But he is in Russia after legally obtaining temporary asylum and he is free to meet whoever he wants to – it’s not up to us to obstruct this,” he added in a reference to Snowden’s meeting with German Greens lawmaker, Hans-Christian Stroebele, in Moscow on Thursday.
The Germans are investigating the alleged wiretapping of its leader by American secret services, which was reported by Der Spiegel and Die Welt last week. The reports caused outcry in the country, with many critics branding the NSA’s actions as those worthy of the Stazi, the notorious secret police of Eastern Germany during the Cold War.
Snowden may serve as key witness in the investigation, and may testify in person, if Berlin guarantees that he would be safe from arrest and deportation to the US. Several top German officials, including Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, said they thought that bringing the whistleblower to the country would greatly benefit the investigation.
This, however, is likely to require a lot of judicial consideration, since his temporary status as refugee in Russia does not allow him to leave the country, his Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said.
Snowden, a former NSA contractor, leaked top secret materials to a select number of journalists, to expose what he believes as unlawful actions of the US government and its allies. The documents, which have been the basis of many scandalous reports in the past few months, detail dragnet gathering of phone and internet data, spying on world leaders, alleged cases of economic espionage by the US and other issues.
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Snowden ‘may meet whoever he wants’ over Merkel phone hack – Kremlin
RT: The Kremlin, which granted the Edward Snowden asylum in Russia, does
not see the whistleblower's contacts with the German parliamentary probe
into the alleged NSA surveillance of Chancellor Merkel as a violation
of the pledge not to hurt America.Snowden, who got stranded in a Moscow airport after the US revoked his American passport, was allowed entry to Russia in August. He was given political asylum there on the condition that he would not further damage the US.
But his latest contacts with German investigators, who are looking into the alleged wiretapping of Angela Merkel’s phones, are “clearly damaging US national interests,” a senior White House official told the Russian Kommersant daily on Friday.
Snowden has given assurances many times that he has handed over the entire cache of classified documents to the press, which he took from the US National Security Agency’s networks, while he was in Hong Kong. Washington suspects this may not be true. US officials believe that while staying in Russia, Snowden keeps in touch with journalists around the world and provides them with more material, exposing secret surveillance practices.
The accusations have been dismissed by presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, who assured the newspaper that “nobody allows” Snowden to violate his pledge.
“But he is in Russia after legally obtaining temporary asylum and he is free to meet whoever he wants to – it’s not up to us to obstruct this,” he added in a reference to Snowden’s meeting with German Greens lawmaker, Hans-Christian Stroebele, in Moscow on Thursday.
The Germans are investigating the alleged wiretapping of its leader by American secret services, which was reported by Der Spiegel and Die Welt last week. The reports caused outcry in the country, with many critics branding the NSA’s actions as those worthy of the Stazi, the notorious secret police of Eastern Germany during the Cold War.
Snowden may serve as key witness in the investigation, and may testify in person, if Berlin guarantees that he would be safe from arrest and deportation to the US. Several top German officials, including Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, said they thought that bringing the whistleblower to the country would greatly benefit the investigation.
This, however, is likely to require a lot of judicial consideration, since his temporary status as refugee in Russia does not allow him to leave the country, his Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said.
Snowden, a former NSA contractor, leaked top secret materials to a select number of journalists, to expose what he believes as unlawful actions of the US government and its allies. The documents, which have been the basis of many scandalous reports in the past few months, detail dragnet gathering of phone and internet data, spying on world leaders, alleged cases of economic espionage by the US and other issues.
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