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• Syria Live Blog - June 14. Here .(Al-Jazeera).

• Libya Live Blog - June 14. Here (Al-Jazeera). 

• Yemen Live Blog - June 14 . Here. (Al-Jazeera).

• Updated !Earthquakes in the last 24 hours in the world seismic activity in Japan  today ,increased activity in Turkey! More info here.

• Japan - Latest official Situation Update No. 129.Source : Here .

• Japan : For the most accurate info on the nuclear disaster go to : Paul Langley's Nuclear History Blog.Here.

• Europe - Latest official Situation Update on E-Coli epidemic - 55 On 14.06.2011 at 03:43 GMT+2
  
  The death toll in Germany's killer E.coli outbreak has risen to 36, one day after authorities said more fatalities could not be ruled out. Meanwhile, Taiwan has suspended the import of German bean sprouts. The number of people who have died in the outbreak of the virulent E. coli strain in Germany has risen to 36, health officials confirmed Monday. Germany's national disease agency, the Robert Koch Institute, said 3,228 people had fallen ill from the EHEC (enterohaemorrhagic E. coli) bacteria or from linked kidney problems (haemolytic uraemic syndrome or HUS). However, the RKI said there were signs the rate of infection was slowing. "For many days the number of new infections from EHEC or HUS has declined in the country," the agency said in a statement that confirmed the new number. The increase in the death toll comes one day after German Health Minister Daniel Bahr told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that "more fatalities cannot be ruled out.Source.

• FLOTUS tells of Obama's worry.(Politico).First lady Michelle Obama on Monday told a fundraiser in Southern California of the toll the presidency has taken on her husband Barack Obama. "I see the sadness and worry that's creasing his face," she said to a crowd of about 500 at the Pasadena luncheon organized by the Southern California Women For Obama. She described his worth ethic as “tireless,” according to pool reports. "He reads every word, every memo, so he is better prepared than the people briefing him," she said. "This man doesn't take a day off." She said the next two years of campaigning would be difficult for the Obamas and their supporters. "It is not going to be easy, and it is going to be long," she said. "Now more than ever we need your help to finish what we started." She also mentioned health care reform, the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Act and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. She praised "justice" in the killing of Osama bin Laden, and the withdrawal of troops from overseas. Guests paid $1,000 per ticket to attend the event. This evening, she will speak at another fundraiser in Westwood.Read the full story here.

• Obama tells Jews that Arabs deserve another try at Six Day War (5 June 1967).(Dangerous).The old 'drive them into the sea' plan backfired... again... But today Barack Hussein Obama(D) tells the Jews that if they don't retreat to the sea and recreate the circumstances, that he won't help them in the UN. Hhhmmm... didn't the Six Day War happen BECAUSE LBJ(D) wouldn't help the Jews? So this time the Jews just need to trust Barack Hussein Obama(D) because this time it will be completely different? Read the full story here.

• CAIR-Led Group Demands “Islamophobic” Republicans Refrain From Talking About Islam During GOP Presidential Debate.(WZ). The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT*), a national coalition of major Muslim organizations, today called on Republican presidential candidates to repudiate growing Islamophobia in American society during tonight’s GOP debate in New Hampshire.In a statement, AMT said:

“We call on all the participants in tonight’s GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire to state clearly that they will not promote or exploit growing anti-Muslim sentiment to gain political advantage.“While appealing to fear and religious intolerance may score some cheap political points with a vocal minority in American society, our nation and its values of diversity and inclusion are harmed in the process.AMT says several of those taking part in tonight’s debate hold Islamophobic views or promote unconstitutional measures targeting American Muslims. . . .AMT is an umbrella organization that includes: American Muslim Alliance (AMA), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), Muslim American Society-Freedom (MAS-F), Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), National Association of Imams (NAIF), United Muslims of America (UMA)SOURCE Council on American-Islamic Relations.Hmmmmm.......It's "Islamosophia".It means: "wise to the ways of Islam and no longer taken in by the pretty-sounding deceits."
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• AP Report Shows States Have $1.1 Trillion In Unfunded Public Worker Pensions, Health Care Obligations.(AP).At statehouses around the country, the Great Recession is far from over: It could take years for many states to climb out of the hole and return to pre-downturn spending levels.An Associated Press examination of 50 balance sheets shows state budgets and bank accounts still ravaged by a drop in tax revenue. Many states are also facing enormous long-term pension and health care obligations. At the same time, the payout of stimulus money from Washington that helped many states in their darkest hours has come to an end.While some states saw a modest jump in tax collections this spring, the combined revenue projected by the 50 states in the coming fiscal year – $734 billion – is still down by about $34 billion, or 5 percent, from the 2007-08 fiscal year, when the recession began.

Some states are in far worse shape. New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Illinois and Louisiana reported deficits that are more than 20 percent of the state general fund.

- 12 states started the year with deficits that were equal to 15 percent or more of their general fund, a state’s main checkbook for paying day-to-day operations.

- States with the highest per capita number of Medicaid recipients were among those with the largest budget deficits, as a percentage of general fund revenue.

- Seven states are spending 10 percent or more of their general funds to pay for their prison systems.

- The average general fund amount dedicated to colleges and universities was 11.6 percent but varied greatly among states.

- All 50 states have a combined $689.5 billion in unfunded pension liabilities and $418 billion in retiree health care obligations. Five states have unfunded public employee pension liabilities of $50 billion or more.Read the full story here.

• LA Times Gives Platform for Hamas, Still Hasn’t Released Obama-Khalidi Video.(BigPeace).At The Corner this morning, Andy McCarthy points out the LA Times’ “mainstreaming of the Muslim Brotherhood” by providing a forum for Mousa Abu Marzook—at one time the most senior Hamas operative living in the US:

This was akin to giving equal time to the director of the FBI and the head of Cosa Nostra. Marzook is the most important Muslim Brotherhood operative ever stationed in the U.S. I discuss him in some detail in The Grand Jihad. During his 14 years here, which ended when he was deported in 1994, he actually ran Hamas (the terrorist organization that is the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch) from his home in Virginia.This was in the early 90s, during the Intifada. He also had a hand in the establishment of many of the Islamist organizations with which we are familiar today. The Islamist infrastructure he helped build here was the foundation of the Justice Department’s successful terrorism financing prosecution against the Holy Land Foundation for funneling millions of dollars to Palestinian terrorists.This weekend, Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft at Human Events put the exuberance with which the release of Sarah Palin’s emails were covered in the context of the LA Times’ ongoing embargo of a potentially damaging video of Barack Obama with notorious anti-Israel academics Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said. When will we see that video?Read the full story here.

• US Is in Even Worse Shape Financially Than Greece: Gross.(Cnbc).When adding in all of the money owed to cover future liabilities in entitlement programs the US is actually in worse financial shape than Greece and other debt-laden European countries, Pimco's Bill Gross told CNBC Monday.Much of the public focus is on the nation's public debt, which is $14.3 trillion. But that doesn't include money guaranteed for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which comes to close to $50 trillion, according to government figures.The government also is on the hook for other debts such as the programs related to the bailout of the financial system following the crisis of 2008 and 2009, government figures show.Taken together, Gross puts the total at "nearly $100 trillion," that while perhaps a bit on the high side, places the country in a highly unenviable fiscal position that he said won't find a solution overnight."To think that we can reduce that within the space of a year or two is not a realistic assumption," Gross said in a live interview. "That's much more than Greece, that's much more than almost any other developed country. We've got a problem and we have to get after it quickly.""We've always wondered who will buy Treasurys" after the Federal Reserve purchases the last of its $600 billion to end the second leg of its quantitative easing program later this month, Gross said. "It's certainly not Pimco and it's probably not the bond funds of the world."Pimco, based in Newport Beach, Calif., manages more than $1.2 trillion in assets and runs the largest bond fund in the world."Why wouldn't an investor buy Canada with a better balance sheet or Australia with a better balance sheet with interest rates at 1 or 2 or 3 percent higher?" he said. "It simply doesn't make any sense."Should the debt problem in Greece explode into a full-blown crisis—an International Monetary Fund bailout has prevented a full-scale meltdown so far—Gross predicted that German debt, not that of the US, would be the safe-haven of choice for global investors.Read the full story here.

• Did anyone happen to find 3 C-130 aircraft full of $ 100 bills?Pentagon Loses Track Of $6.6 Billion.(Judicial Watch).In a mind-boggling example of government corruption, billions of dollars flown to Iraq for post-invasion “reconstruction” have vanished and may never be recovered. Bundled in chunks of $100 bills, the cash was sent from the U.S. to Iraq in turboprop military cargo planes known as C-130 Hercules. About $2.4 billion fit in each aircraft and 21 flights made trips, transporting a total of $12 billion in American currency to Iraq by 2004.For years federal audits have determined that more than half the money cannot be accounted for but there seemed to be some hope that some of the funds could be retrieved. However, this week the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Stuart Bowen) essentially confirmed that $6.6 billion in cash was likely stolen and may never be recovered. Bowen referred to it as "the largest theft of funds in national history," in a newspaper report that points out the missing money is enough to run a major public school district for an entire year. The story also says that the mystery is a growing embarrassment to the Pentagon, which has long asserted that it could track the cash if given the time to do it. This is simply the latest of many reports documenting the pervasive fraud and waste in Iraq reconstruction efforts, which have received more than $100 billion from U.S. taxpayers. In the last few years Inspector General audits have exposed the sordid details of costly projects that never got completed or are rife with excessive delays and shoddy work.Read the full story here.

• E.P.A. Delays Rule on Power Plant Emissions.(NYTimes).The Environmental Protection Agency, facing intense opposition from Congressional Republicans and industry over a broad range of new air quality regulations, said Monday that it was delaying by two months the release of a proposed rule on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major pollution sources.The delay of the rule, which will have a major impact on the nation’s efforts to reduce emissions of gases blamed for the warming of the planet, is the latest step by the E.P.A. to slow the issuing of regulations that its critics claim will hurt economic growth, drive up energy costs and cut employment. The delay is a tacit admission that the regulations pose difficult political, economic and technical challenges that cannot be addressed on the aggressive timetable the agency set for itself early in the Obama administration.The agency said it was pushing back the new greenhouse gas proposal to the end of September to allow more time to consider input from power companies, environmental advocates and others. Officials said they still expected to have a final rule in place by May 2012.Scott Segal, a utility industry lobbyist in Washington, said that the E.P.A.’s caution signaled an understanding that the new rule would have a profound impact on the price, supply and reliability of the electricity by forcing extensive modifications to, or the shutdown of, dozens of older power plants.He noted that the agency had several other major rules pending that would affect power plant operators, including rules covering coal ash disposal, power plant cooling water, ozone and toxic air emissions from generating stations.The E.P.A. is also working with the Department of Transportation and the state of California to develop a new mileage and emissions standard for cars and light trucks covering the years 2017 to 2025.Read the full story here.

• Liberal Politico Says Obama’s Claims Of Creating 225K “Green Jobs” Are Bunk.(politico).President Barack Obama heads to an energy plant in North Carolina on Monday to talk once again about the job-creating power of a green economy.The catch? Nearly three years into Obama’s presidency, the White House can’t point to much solid evidence that significant numbers of Americans are scoring the green jobs the president has been touting.Monthly Labor Department employment reports say nothing about the new clean energy workforce, while an effort to document how many Americans actually make a living in the “green collar” field may not be done by November 2012.Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers suggests 225,000 clean energy jobs were either created or preserved through the third quarter of 2010 thanks to more than $80 billion in the economic stimulus package. But those are estimates at best.Read the full story here.

• Civil war in Syria?Assad defies global outcry against savagery.(Al-Arabia).Syrian troops pursued a scorched earth campaign in the northern mountains, but refugees who had fled to Turkey said some soldiers had revolted in a bid to defend civilians. Condition deteriorated to a point of nothing short of civil war.President Bashar Al Assad continued to defy—and ignore—international calls to cease savage attacks on unarmed pro-democracy protesters.State media said two top officials were being investigated for their role in a previous crackdown, as international leaders continued to denounce the government campaign against protesters.Some of the thousands of refugees to have fled into neighboring Turkey said troops were burning crops and slaughtering livestock in villages near the border, according to Agence-France Presse.State television said the army was pursuing “armed gangs” into the woods and mountains around Jisr Al Shughur after storming the town, which had been a centre of protest, over the weekend.Human rights activists reported heavy gunfire and explosions in the town throughout Sunday as troops backed by helicopter gunships and around 200 tanks launched a two-pronged dawn assault.And on Monday, they reported intermittent gunfire as troops launched search operations in the village of Uram Al Joz, east of Jisr Al Shughur and in the Jebel Al Zawiya mountains further south.But most of the town’s 50,000 residents were long gone, having fled during the week-long build-up to the crackdown.But fighting had also broken out among the troops on Sunday as soldiers bent on destroying the area were confronted by others trying to defend the townsfolk, the refugees added, according to AFP.Elements from one tank division had even taken up positions by bridges leading into the town in a bid to defend it, they said.“The troops are divided,” said 35-year-old Abdullah, who fled Jisr Al Shughur on Sunday and sneaked over the border into Turkey to find food.“Four tanks defected and they began to fire on one another,” he added.Another Syrian refugee, Ali, who made it to Turkey, told a similar story.“There is now a split within the army and you have a group who are trying to protect the civilians,” the 27-year-old told AFP.More than 6,800 of Syrians have sought refuge in Turkey, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the town, Turkey’s Anatolia news agency reported. Another 5,000 have fled into Lebanon, the United Nations said.Syrian rights groups say 1,300 civilians have been killed since the start of the uprising. One group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says more than 300 soldiers and police have also been killed, according to Reuters.President Assad, 47, who inherited power when his father died in 2000, has offered some concessions aimed at appeasing protesters, lifting a 48-year state of emergency and promising a national dialogue, but many activists have dismissed those steps.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking at Argentina’s Foreign Ministry on Monday, said the Syrian government had responded with “horrific attacks” to people’s desire for change and the situation was “very worrisome.”Hmmmm......"Reformes in motion"?Read the full story here.

• UK - Arab Migrant ‘killed three-year-old as he drove unlicensed Jaguar’.(DailyMail).An Arab living in the UK on a temporary visa has denied causing the death of a three-year-old boy while driving a Jaguar.Ahmed Aldubaili, 30, is charged with causing the death of three-year-old Henry Blacklock who suffered fatal injuries when his father’s car was involved in a crash.Aldubaili, who is from the United Arab Emirates, is also charged with death by driving when unlicensed and driving while uninsured after the crash with Martin Blacklock’s Renault Clio.Henry died at the scene of the collision on the B1063 in Ashley, near Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, on October 23 last year.Aldubaili has pleaded not guilty to death by dangerous driving but admitted he did not have a licence or insurance to drive.The case has been adjourned until September when it will be decided if he is fit to stand trial.Aldubaili’s six-month visitor visa expired in March this year and he has now surrendered his passport as part of the legal proceedings.He failed to turn up at a previous hearing because he was in a clinic, according to the Daily Telegraph, and medical reports are being prepared ahead of his next hearing.Following Henry’s death, his mother, Clare Seager of Red Lodge, Suffolk, said: ‘Henry was a little boy with a big heart, who was, and is, loved by everyone who knew him.‘For a three-year-old lad he didn’t know the meaning of fear or danger.Hmmmm.....Amazing how many of these 'cases' are 'unfit'.....Genetics perhaps?Read the full story here.

• Obedient Wives Club sparks debate in Malaysia.(HurriyetDaily).Social ills such as prostitution, domestic violence and divorce can be cured by urging women to be submissive and keep their men happy in the bedroom, according to the Obedient Wives Club of Malaysia.The club aims to educate wives on how to keep their husbands sexually satisfied in order to avoid infidelity. The club’s vice president, Rohayah Mohamad, said wives must go beyond traditional roles as good cooks or good mothers and learn to “obey, serve and entertain” their husbands to prevent them from straying or misbehaving.“This way, the family institution is protected and we can curb social ills,” said Rohayah, who is also one of the club’s founders. She claims that “disobedient wives are the cause for upheaval in this world” because men are not happy at home and their minds and souls are disturbed.Launched on June 4, the Obedient Wives Club currently boasts some 800 members in Malaysia and is looking to expand to Singapore. Though the club was founded by a fringe Islamic group known as Global Ikhwan, it is open to wives of all races and religion.Global Ikhwan spokesperson Siti Maznah Mohd Taufik also said domestic abuse happens when wives do not obey their husband’s orders. When asked if a wife should shoulder the blame when abused, she said: “Yes, most probably because she didn't listen to her husband.”Siti Maznah believes that women have the duty of staying attractive and providing their husbands with a satisfying sex life so that they will not stray or turn to prostitutes. She herself is a second wife and a mother of five, with a total of 16 children in her household.“Wives should welcome them with sexy clothes and alluring smiles when in the privacy of their homes,” Siti Maznah said, adding that she and everyone in the club practiced what they preached. “My husband is a happy man, you can see it from his actions,” she said.The launch of this club has generated angry responses from politicians and women’s rights groups in Malaysia, a Muslim majority country where women are still victims of gender bias despite holding high posts in the government and corporate world and outnumbering their male counterparts at higher level institutions.“Unfortunately even today, there are still many Muslim women who are ignorant of their rights or culturally inhibited to exercise their rights in full,” said Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, the minister of Women, Family and Community Development.“To hinge fidelity, domestic violence and the fulfillment of a husband's responsibilities purely on a wife's capacity to be obedient and to stimulate sexual arousal is not only demeaning to wives, but to husbands as well.”The Malaysian women’s group Sisters in Islam said Islam advocates marriages based on mutual cooperation and respect. “Domestic violence happens regardless of women’s behavior,” it said. “Communication, not submission, is vital to sustain any healthy relationship.”Read the full story here.

• Iranian Majlis Member: Khamenei Rejects Ahmadinejad's Terms, Suggests He Resign.(Memri).In a speech in the city of Bushehr, Iranian Majlis member Gholam Ali Meigolinejad said that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had rejected the terms that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had set for his return to office during their recent confrontation.Ahmadinejad's terms included: firing Khamenei's deputy chief of staff, Asghar Hejazi; firing Khamenei's representative in the Revolutionary Guard's intelligence service, Hossein Taeb; appointing Rahim Mashai as vice president; and temporarily reinstating Heydar Moslehi as minister of intelligence.According to Meigolinejad, Khamenei responded to the president's threats that he would resign with the offer that the latter draft a resignation letter immediately.The website Alef claimed that Ahmadinejad has denied rumors that he threatened to resign.Read the full story here.

• Taliban admit killing Bamiyan council head Jawad Zahak.(BBC).Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have admitted killing Jawad Zahak, head of the Bamiyan province council.Mr Zahak, an ethnic Hazara, was kidnapped on Friday while travelling with his family to the capital, Kabul. On Monday his beheaded body was found in the mountainous Ghorband valley. The Taliban denied they had beheaded him. President Hamid Karzai blamed "the enemies of Afghanistan" for his death. Bamiyan is one of many areas due to be handed over in July to Afghan forces.Mr Zahak's death is one of many high-profile killings ahead of the planned transition and peace talks with the insurgents. Afghan officials say insurgents with intelligence about Mr Zahak's movements had forced him out of his vehicle.Soon afterwards police surrounded the insurgents and, in the ensuing gun battle, two policemen were killed. Mr Zahak fought against the Taliban in Bamiyan and was a close aide to Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari, killed by insurgents in the mid-1990s.Read the full story here.

• Erdogan says his victory is a victory for Gaza, Palestine, and "al-Quds".(StopTurkey).The party emerged from the Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a landslide victory in Sunday’s parliamentary Turkey, ensuring a third consecutive term, after the counting of nearly all ballots.After counting 99% of the votes, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Erdogan, in power since 2002, won 50% of the vote, according to the TV.This party will be able to form a government only because it has largely absolute majority of 550 seats in parliament with 326 deputies.This party won 47% of the vote in 2007 parliamentary and won 341 seats in Parliament. In 2002, his score was 34%.“Today once again democracy, national will have won,” shouted Mr. Erdogan, accompanied by his wife Emine, from the balcony of his party headquarters in Ankara to address a crowd of several Thousands of people waving the flags of the AKP.Erdogan, a former Islamist activist, also said that with the victory of the AKP, “Gaza, Palestine and Jerusalem were also won,” showing once again his sympathy for the Muslim world, especially because PA. [...]Erdogan didn't say "Jerusalem"; he said "Kudüs" -- that is, "al-Quds," the Islamic name for Jerusalem.Hmmmm......Obama's buddy Erdogan.Read the full story here.

• 100 jailed Islamic fanatics will be out on the streets of Britain in time for the Olympics.(TheSun).THESE ten Islamic terrorists - shown below - are among 100 jailed fanatics who will be out on the streets of Britain in time for the Olympics. They include extremists with convictions for bomb plots and conspiracy to murder. Two evil recruits from one of the most dangerous al-Qaeda gangs uncovered in the UK will walk free before the London Games start next July 27. Government security chiefs have warned that terrorism remains the greatest threat to events expected to attract 500,000 spectators. There are fears of attacks by chemical and biological devices - with public transport a likely target.Most of the men due for release are in their 20s and 30s. MI5 chief Jonathan Evans said: "We know some of them are still committed extremists likely to return to their terrorist activities."Harry Fletcher, of probation officers' union NAPO said: "Many are still seen as a high risk. Budget cuts mean fewer trained staff are available for supervision."Hmmmm......So why in Gods name release them?Read the full story here.

• Woman held for walking without abaya.(Emirates247).Defiant Saudi wife tells police head cover is symbol of backwardness.Saudi Arabia’s feared Islamic police briefly arrested a national woman for defying local rules by walking in a public place without the traditional Saudi gown and head cover. The arrest made her even more defiant, when she branded the head cover a symbol of backwardness.The 27-year-old Saudi wife was strolling at dawn on the sidewalk in the western town of Makkah when members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice seized her and took her to their centre.Sabq newspaper said a Saudi man had phoned the Commission and told them about a woman walking in tight pants and white tops without her gown or head cover. The man said he was worried the woman might be kidnapped by men.The paper said the unnamed woman told Commission members at the centre that she went to stay at her family’s house after an argument with her husband but that they refused to receive her and told her to return home.“The woman said she then decided to go for a walk at dawn to have some fresh air and release her pent-up feelings and deprivation,” the paper said.“She said what she had done is normal and that the gown and head cover are symbols of backwardness….she also told the Commission members that man had reached the moon and ‘you come and tell me don’t drive….don’t go out shopping…cover you face…be careful…etc..”Sabq said the woman was later handed over to her family after she was made to write a statement not to repeat what she had done.Hmmmm......."Religion does not require women to veil their hands, feet and faces or enjoin any special type of veil. Tribal custom must not impose itself on the free will of the individual."Amanullah Khan - King of Afghanistan (1919-1929).Read the full story here.

• IHH sends 'no violence' message to Israel.(Ynet).Flotilla organizers ask Turkish Jews to tell Israeli government they are willing to subject vessels to international inspection before heading to Gaza in late June. Meanwhile, Turkish government officials vow to stop flotilla from departing.Sources linked to the Jewish community in Istanbul say that leaders of the IHH organization have approached them with a request to send a message to Israel saying they are not interested in a violent clash with the IDF, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Tuesday. Senior elements within the Jewish community in Turkey have conveyed this message to Israeli representatives.The IHH heads propose that the vessels taking part in the upcoming flotilla will be checked by an international team in a third country such as Cyprus. According to the proposal, the ships will be allowed to head for Gaza only after it is confirmed they are carrying nothing but humanitarian aid. The IHH is thereby meeting a condition set by Israel stipulating that humanitarian aid can only be transferred to Gaza subject to inspection. It should be noted that Israel considers the IHH a terrorist organization and has no known intention of negotiating with it directly. Jerusalem is trying to reach understandings with the Turkish government before the flotilla arrives. It is unclear whether the IHH proposal had been coordinated with the Turkish government but it does fit it with the change in Ankara's stance. Turkish government officials announced Monday that Ankara will try to stop the flotilla as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan prefers focusing on the Syrian crisis, rather the Palestinian issue. Earlier this week, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged the IHH to postpone the sail.The defense establishment has meanwhile suspended procedures meant to outlaw several Turkish organizations for the purpose of arresting their members on board the ships. The freeze is meant to prevent what could appear as a provocation vis-à-vis Turkey and allow it to prevent the flotilla's departure.Hmmmm......Farmer guard your eggs,when the fox preaches the Gospel.Read the full story here.