'Zionist regime apocalypse imminent’

a·poc·a·lyp·tic (ə-pŏk′ə-lĭp′tĭk) also a·poc·a·lyp·ti·cal (-tĭ-kəl) adj. 1. Of or relating to an apocalypse. 2. Involving or portending widespread devastation or ultimate doom: "now speaks in apocalyptic terms about the probable conflict ahead" (Financial Times). 3. Characterized by usually exaggerated predictions of or allusions to a disastrous outcome: "Stripped of its apocalyptic tone, what this amounts to is an advocacy of teaching names, dates and places by rote" (Stefan Kanfer). 4. Of a revelatory or prophetic nature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The top U.S. intelligence chief said on Tuesday the war in Syria had created an "apocalyptic disaster" and said he was convinced that documents alleging torture and murder in the conflict were authentic. National Intelligence Director James Clapper was asked by Senator John McCain during a Senate hearing whether he had seen the documents, published by an array of media outlets including CNN, as potential proof of atrocities by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government. Clapper said he had, and that he believed they were real.

"They're terrible. And when you consider the humanitarian disaster in addition to the 2.5 million refugees, the 6.5 million or 7 million that are internally displaced, the 134,000 plus people that have been killed, it is an apocalyptic disaster," he said.

McCain, an Arizona Republican, asked if it was Clapper's "professional opinion" that the documents are authentic. "I believe they are. I have no reason to doubt that, and it would be difficult to suggest, you know, that something of that magnitude could have been fabricated," Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Clapper said his expectations for Syrian peace negotiations in Geneva are "pretty modest" and called prospects for a long-term political solution to the three-year-long civil war "problematic." He said his expects a "sort of prolonged stalemate" in which Assad's government does not have the strength to hold onto territory it clears, and the opposition has enough external support to keep fighting. An international mediator said on Tuesday that peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition are not making much progress, after a face-to-face meeting of the warring parties in Geneva that both sides called fruitless. Clapper and other U.S. officials point to Syria as a source of regional instability and also a danger for European countries and the United States. The strength of the Syrian insurgency is now estimated at anywhere from 75,000 fighters to 115,000, organized into more than 1,500 groups of "widely varying political leanings," Clapper said. "Somewhere in the neighborhood of between 20,000 and maybe up to a top range of 26,000 we regard as extremists," he said. "And they are disproportionately influential because they are among the most effective fighters on the battlefield." Among 7,500 foreign fighters from 50 countries, Clapper said, are al Qaeda veterans from Afghanistan and Pakistan who aspire to attack Europe, as well as the United States. (Editing by Mohammad Zargham) ============ Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:36:02 GMT An analyst predicts the imminent obliteration of the Zionist regime as more and more of its lies are being disclaimed across the globe. “The unveiling of truth and ensuing demand for justice is the real ‘apocalyptic threat’ that will soon bring about the annihilation of the Zionist entity,” Kevin Barrett wrote in a column for the Press TV website on Monday. He said the Zionist allegations about Iran’s development of a nuclear bomb have been disproven and “their racist colonial project is doomed.” “It is not any Iranian nuclear bomb, or Palestinian population bomb, that should concern the Zionists. Their real enemy is the slow-motion truth bomb that is gradually exploding across the world,” wrote Barrett. He said the Zionists’ failure to “suppress the truth” is bringing them face to face with a “catastrophe.” “In the age of the Internet, and the alternative media it spawned, simply buying up the mainstream media and the politicians no longer suffices,” he wrote. Barrett predicted that Zionist apocalypse this year to next year, noting that it “does not necessarily mean world war or financial collapse.” He said Zionism is facing “a popular backlash” in Europe were “more and more public figures are speaking out with increasing boldness against Zionism.” Barrett said the Zionists “will repeat a harvest of calamity” for having sowed “seeds of hate.” He added that the word “apocalypse” is popularly understood to mean “global catastrophe or calamity.” “But its first meaning is “disclosure” or “unveiling” – the disclosure or unveiling of the truth,” wrote Barrett. KA/HGH/SS