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French Aliyah Stealing Paris Hi-Tech Talent
France’s Economy Minister visits Israel to lure back Jewish business and hi-tech experts, insists Jews ‘can innovate as well in France.’
French Jews’ mass aliyah (immigration) to Israel has impacted the French business world – so much so that the French Economy Minister himself has invested in bringing back Jewish talent.
French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron visited the DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference at the old train station on Tuesday, where he met with several prominent Israeli businessmen.
But more than strengthening economic ties between countries, Macron’s visit is part of a larger agenda to stop brain drain.
“A lot of these people have energy, vitality. They want to create jobs, startups, and innovate here,” Macron said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. “They can innovate as well in France.”
More than 20,000 French Jews, mostly young people and families, have made Israel their home over the past five years.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200513
This one touches all our sweet spots:
Jeremy Corbyn and the Contagion of Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories plague society. Because of their moral certainty, they naturally become a motivating element of radical politics, whose adherents seek with revolutionary fervor to uproot the causes of social injustice. Precincts on the far-Left and Right serve as sanatoriums for the highest concentration of conspiracists.
It is in this light that we can begin to explain Jeremy Corbyn’s propinquity to antisemites. His brother, Piers, is a demonstrated conspiracy theorist. Conspiracy theories self-nourish in the individual, thrive and develop into conspiracism. They are contagious. For the Corbyns, they are a family affair.
Jeremy Corbyn has spent his career on the far-Left of British politics. He has associated with and provided leadership to groups such as the Socialist Campaign Group, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He has chaired the largely Trotskyist Stop the War Coalition since 2001. These are radical milieus in which cartoonish certainties about the malice of warmongers, plutocrats and Israelis – and the saintly, or at least sanitary, morality of their victims – prevail.
Jeremy Corbyn need not be overtly or even consciously anti-Semitic to apply the “cabalistic paradigm.” He need only presuppose that history is a passion play between haves and have nots, and that certain analytical principles light the path to social justice. At the time of Osama bin Laden’s killing, Corbyn participated in a roundtable on Iranian state television, calling it a “tragedy” and suggesting that the American government had covered up what really happened. “Why the burial at sea – if there was indeed a burial at sea – and if it was [indeed] Bin Laden?”
It is no wonder then that Corbyn would ally with anti-Semites. He has a fundamental affinity for them – not for their specific views, but for their worldview. He attracts them both wittingly and unwittingly. Last October, he invited Max Blumenthal to Parliament to describe how scenes in Israel were beginning to resemble Kristallnacht – and James Thring, an actual neo-Nazi and ally of David Duke, showed up to kick off the event.
In this time of political anxiety, as violent anti-Semitism spreads in Europe, chaos blooms throughout the Middle East, and nuclear capability looms in Iran, we would do well to reflect on a terrible historical truth: conspiracy theory is bad for the Jews.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/09/10/jeremy-corbyn-and-the-contagion-of-conspiracy-theories/
‘He begged me not to dob him in’: Bereaved Iraqi woman on the same dinghy as Aylan Kurdi claims the boy’s father is a ‘people smuggler’ and was driving the boat
Zainab Abbas was on the same boat as Aylan Kurdi, three, and his family
Her two children and three Kurdi family members were among the dead
Now Ms Abbas claims Aylan’s father Abdullah was driving the dinghy
Says Mr Kurdi begged her ‘not to dob him in’ while they were in the water
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3230422/Abdullah-Kurdi-people-smuggler-migrant.html
THE father of the three-year-old boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach was allegedly a people smuggler and was at the helm of the boat when it foundered, killing his son.
Australian broadcaster Network Ten has aired allegations that Aylan Kurdi’s father Abdullah was a people trafficker who skippered the vessel which capsized off the Turkish coast.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/11/drowned-aylan-kurdis-father-accused-of-being-people-smuggler-at-helm-of-capsized-boat/
Aylan Kurdi’s father is a people smuggler, woman claims
http://www.smh.com.au/world/migrant-crisis/aylan-kurdis-father-is-a-people-smuggler-woman-claims-20150911-gjkt2m.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/71991402/aylan-kurdis-father-is-a-people-smuggler-woman-claims
Thousands trekking to Vienna from Hungarian border
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_EUROPE_MIGRANTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-11-07-42-54
VIENNA (AP) — Thousands of people seeking asylum in western Europe pushed through police lines at Austria’s main border crossing with Hungary and set off on foot on the highway toward Vienna Friday.
They began their march after rail traffic was sharply reduced due to overcrowding, despite moves by authorities to compensate for that at the Nickelsdorf cross. Buses and taxis were called to Nickelsdorf to take migrants to the Austrian capital, the main jump-off point for Germany and other western EU nations for the tens of thousands who have crossed from Hungary over the past week.
Police spokesman Helmut Marban said there was “some kind of group dynamic” that started with a few people beginning to walk toward Vienna and quickly developed into a large movement of people.
Video shows refugees fed ‘like animals in pen’ in Hungary camp
Austrian volunteer who filmed footage in Hungary’s Roszke camp says treatment of refugees “like Guantanamo in Europe”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/hungary/11857695/Video-shows-refugees-fed-like-animals-in-pen-in-Hungary-camp.html
Disturbing footage emerged on Friday of the way migrants are being treated inside Hungary’s main refugee camp on the border with Serbia, with images showing families fed “like animals in a pen”.
The video, shot secretly by an Austrian volunteer who visited the flashpoint Roszke camp on Wednesday, shows some 150 people wildly scrambling for bags of sandwiches thrown at them by Hungarian police wearing helmets and hygiene masks in a fenced-in enclosure inside a big hall.
Hungarian police said on Friday they had launched an investigation into the video.
Richard
The idiot leftist who says this is like Gitmo doesn’t have any idea about how rigidly controlled things are at Gitmo. A goat roping like this in a pen would cause a major riot that would have a very long causality list.
Hungary calls in the Army: Soldiers given shock powers to use rubber bullets on migrants
CHAOS has erupted in Hungary after thousands of army soldiers assembled at the Hungarian borders as the Government gave them power to use rubber bullets and tear gas on migrants.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/604332/Hungary-army-powers-to-SHOOT-refugees-migrant-crackdown
The 3,800 troops descended on Hungary’s border with Serbia this morning to provide live border guards.
Prisonsers have been drafted in to build 10km of fencing every day.
Tough new powers have been issued by the Hungarian government to deal with the growing migrant crisis amid fears the country could be hit by terror attacks linked to the influx of refugees.
It will see the army being called in to deal with border checks and soldiers given the right to use a host of weapons against migrants.
The Eastern European nations that are working to lessen the damagee the “refugees” can do to their nations are going to survive with more of their culture and ideals intact then the western nations who are allowing them to roam free. Once again the left has refused to learn the lessons of history.
Hungary: Prisoners from Roszke complete Hungarian border fence
Hungary: Prisoners in Roszke work to complete Hungarian border fence
Islamists in Germany trying to recruit young refugees
http://news.yahoo.com/islamists-germany-trying-recruit-young-refugees-093024733.html;_ylt=AwrC1C4SyvJVfhMAoLvQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByZnU4cmNpBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM5BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg–
Berlin (AFP) – Muslim radicals in Germany are trying to recruit some of the growing numbers of asylum seekers reaching the country, according to intelligence services quoted by the German news agency DPA.
The Islamic extremists “are trying to approach the young unaccompanied refugees, who arrive in our country without their families and are particularly looking for contacts and support,” a spokesman for the intelligence service in the southern state of Bavaria told DPA.
He said many of the youths are approached around reception centres but also at Munich railway station where many of the asylum seekers have arrived from Hungary and Austria in recent days.
Translation: The agents in place are working to make contact with the fifth columnist hiding among the “refugees”
The Migrants and the Elites
A humanitarian crisis threatens the future of Western institutions
What a crisis Europe is in, with waves of migrants reaching its shores as the Arab world implodes. It is the biggest migration into Europe since the end of World War II and is shaping up to be its first great and sustained challenge of the 21st century. It may in fact shape that continent’s nature and history as surely as did World War I.
It is a humanitarian crisis. As Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations notes, it will not soon go away, for two reasons. First, the Mideast will not be peaceful anytime soon and may well become more turbulent. Second, “The more that Europe responds the more it will reinforce the supply of migrants. Europe is caught.” If it doesn’t respond with compassion and generosity it is wrong in humanitarian terms; if it does, more will come and the problem grows. “This is now part of the architecture,” says Mr. Haass.
Three hundred eighty-one thousand detected migrants have arrived so far this year, up from 216,000 in all of 2014. Almost 3,000 died on the journey or are missing. The symbol of their plight is the photo of the 3-year-old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, who drowned along with his mother and 5-year-old brother when their boat capsized near a Turkish beach. Just as horrifying is what was found inside a Volvo refrigerated truck stranded on the shoulder of the A4 highway 30 miles from Vienna in late August. Inside were 71 bodies, including a 1½-year-old girl, all dead of suffocation. They’d been left there by human smugglers.
The Mideast is guaranteed to become more turbulant, as is the rest of the world, the Crescent is on the march and only military force will stop the march.
eff Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations
Germany: Blood on Frankfurt’s streets as Turkish and Kurdish protesters clash
This will become more common the more “refugee” that are allowed into the nations.
Watchdog opened ‘criminal’ Abedin probe, but DOJ passed
Sources close to Hillary Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff and current vice chairwoman for the campaign say the news actually exonerates her.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/huma-abedin-criminal-probe-state-inspector-general-213520#ixzz3lRDlt5g6
The State Department inspector general opened a “criminal investigation” of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin in 2013 over allegations of “theft” — referring to overpayments she received and overtime she allegedly wrongfully billed. But the Justice Department declined to take up the issue, POLITICO has learned.
State’s watchdog in October 2013 escalated a preliminary inquiry regarding Abedin’s work compensation to a “criminal” probe, according to a copy of the notice the watchdog gave the FBI, which was obtained by POLITICO.
“This is to notify you the U.S. Department of State, Office of Inspector General, Washington, D.C., has opened a criminal investigation of the following: Subject: Huma M. Abedin. Title: Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. Office: Office of the Secretary,” reads the notice to the FBI. “The investigation concerns allegations of title 18 U.S.C. 641 Theft.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/huma-abedin-criminal-probe-state-inspector-general-213520#ixzz3lRE3vKmY
The hell it exonerates her, the fact that Obama has so politicized the Department of Justice that it no longer functions to enforce the law but rather to protect Obama and company doesn’t mean she was exonerated it means more people broke the law.
Austria: Thousands of refugees arrive at makeshift camp in Nickelsdorf
Austria: Refugees in Nickelsdorf depart for Vienna
Migrants and refugees struggle to board train at station in Austria
Greece: Hundreds of refugees cross border into Macedonia
Migrants reach Greece-Macedonia border
Vigilantes Hunt Mystery Highway Shooter
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/vigilantes-hunt-mystery-highway-shooter.html
A vigilante group is determined to hunt down the sniper terrorizing Arizona’s highways—whether the cops like it or not.
There’s a serial sniper with a wild trigger finger on the loose in Phoenix. The attacker has been randomly shooting at drivers since August, firing bullets and projectiles at cars, trucks, and busses zipping by on major Arizona highways.
So far, the only injury involved a 13-year-old girl, whose ear was sliced two weeks ago by glass shards after a bullet struck the windshield of the SUV she’d been riding in.
But hysteria surrounding the rogue shooter reached a fever pitch this week with news of an 11th shooting—channeling jitters from over a decade ago when the Beltway Snipers, made up of a deadly duo, slayed or injured 27 bystanders on highways around Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. before they were caught and convicted.
Arizona police confirm 11th vehicle attack, seek tips
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FREEWAY_SHOOTINGS_PHOENIX?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-11-05-33-07
PHOENIX (AP) — The search for a suspect in a string of Phoenix freeway shootings has taken on a frenzied pace, with a panicked public flooding a police hotline with tips.
Police confirmed one of these reports as a shooting, raising to 11 the number of vehicles struck on Phoenix-area freeways since Aug. 29. Eight were hit by bullets and three by projectiles such as BBs and pellets.
One girl’s face was cut by glass as a bullet shattered her window.
Authorities are appealing for help through social media, news conferences, TV interviews and freeway billboards. The messages have morphed from “report suspicious activity” to “shooting tips” to the more ominous “I-10 shooter tip line” on Thursday.
NATO Caught ‘Surprised’ By Russia’s Move Into Syria
Intelligence chief says the alliance members can’t even agree whether Moscow or ISIS is the greater threat — and there’s not enough ISR to go around.
Intelligence / Russia / ISIS / NATO
When Russia sent military forces into Syria last weekend, it caught NATO by surprise and proved that its members can neither stay ahead of threats nor even decide which ones are the most pressing, the alliance’s intelligence director said.
“Are we keeping up with threats?…Absolutely not,” said U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Brett Heimbigner Thursday. “The demands for intelligence… to accurately deal with some of these crises is clearly insufficient.”
Heimbigner’s latest frustration: “From an alliance perspective, what Russia is doing and the ability of Russia to surprise us on a very consistent basis.”
“We were able to get some warning, but did not see from a strategic perspective that one, necessarily, coming until just a couple days ago,” he said, speaking at the Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington, D.C. Defense One is a media sponsor of the event, which is held by AFCEA International and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, or INSA.
Plus the left has been destroying the Wests intelligence services and military capabilities for decades, now we are all paying the price for letting them get so much power.
Venezuelan opposition leader convicted of inciting violence
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_VENEZUELA_OPPOSITION_LEADER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-10-23-17-23
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for inciting violence during last year’s sometimes bloody protests, with a judge handing down the maximum sentence in the high-profile trial despite U.S. calls for Lopez’s release.
About 200 supporters of the country’s most prominent jailed opposition leader gathered in a Caracas plaza expressed disbelief and sadness late Thursday when they learned of the verdict. Several wept and consoled each other with hugs.
Reflecting the passions stirred by the trial on both sides of Venezuela’s deep political divide, an elderly man died and several people were injured earlier in the day during clashes outside the courthouse between government loyalists and Lopez supporters.
This is the uture for all nations if we don’t get the left our of our govrnments.
Syrians in Lebanon dream of future in Germany
Thousands of new migrants land on Greece’s Lesbos
Albanian asylum seekers deported from Germany
China: USA Must Take More Syrian Refugees; We’ll Take Zero, Thanks
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/09/09/china-usa-must-take-more-syrian-refugees-well-take-zero-thanks/
“The United States should take its responsibility in the disheartening refugee crisis in Europe as its controversial Middle East policies resulted in wars and chaos that displaced large numbers of people,” hectors China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua.
They dwell on the photo of the drowned Syrian toddler — who was not in the process of fleeing from Syria when he died — and the horrid deaths of 70 refugees in a smuggler’s truck in Austria.
China is not generally noted for its genial indulgence of lawbreakers, especially when there are national security implications, but it expects the United States to throw caution to the winds. “Even though it has remained relatively ‘quiet’ on this matter, the United States actually has an inescapable responsibility on what happens today in Europe and the Middle East,” Xinhua pontificates.
‘Mama Merkel’ cheered by Syrians at refugee centre
http://news.yahoo.com/mama-merkel-cheered-syrians-refugee-centre-155944307.html
Berlin (AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel won a hero’s welcome as she visited a Berlin migrant centre on Thursday, with Syrians cheering and taking selfies as Germany threw open its doors to thousands of refugees.
“We are so happy Mrs Merkel came to see us today,” said a joyful Ramadan Salah, a 35-year-old Syrian Kurdish refugee the migrant refugee centre in western Berlin.
“She is like a mother to us, she has helped many refugees,” he said.
“It’s a dream come true for me to take my picture with Mrs Merkel.”
As thousands continue to flee bloodshed in Syria, Iraq and beyond, Germany is expected to welcome 800,000 asylum-seekers this year, four times the number in 2014 and far more than any other European country.
Turkey ‘must ensure access’ to besieged Cizre, says Council of Europe (BBC, Sep 11, 2015)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34222286
“Turkey should grant independent observers immediate access to the besieged city of Cizre, the Council of Europe has said.
Residents in the mainly Kurdish town say they have been unable to buy food or medical supplies since a military curfew was imposed there.
Turkey launched a security operation against Kurdish militants in Cizre last Friday, which has killed at least 19.
Nils Muiznieks of the Council of Europe called the developments “distressing”.
Turkey’s Interior Minister Selami Altinok said seven suspected rebels had been killed in the south-eastern city.
At least 12 civilians are also believed to have died. The exact number is disputed…”
Exclusive – U.S. to China: Take back your undocumented immigrants
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In early June, in cities across America, U.S. immigration agents arrested more than two dozen Chinese nationals with unfulfilled deportation orders, telling them that after years of delay, China was finally taking steps to provide the paperwork needed to expel them from the U.S.
But, not for the first time, China failed to provide the necessary documents, and three months later not one of those arrested has been deported, and many have been released from custody. They form part of a backlog of nearly 39,000 people Chinese nationals awaiting deportation for violating U.S. immigration laws, 900 of them classed as violent offenders, according to immigration officials.
The issue, which is likely to come up during a state visit to Washington later this month by Chinese President Xi Jinping, has further strained a U.S.-China relationship already frayed by tensions over economic policy, suspected Chinese cyber hacking and Beijing’s growing military assertiveness.
There are thousands possibly tens of thousands of illegals from China in the US, there are millions of illegals from Mexico and further south in the US. Look at the group that Obama wants out of the US, and remember the Chinese and others from the orient or their descendants usually vote Republican.
Nigeria bomb blast hits Yola camp for Boko Haram refugees (BBC, Sep 11, 2015)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34220291
“A bomb has exploded at a camp in north-eastern Nigeria for people who have fled their homes because of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.
Emergency services told the AFP news agency that at least two people were killed in the blast caused by an improvised explosive device.
It occurred at the Malkohi camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of Yola in Adamawa state.
Yola has been seen as a relative safe place for those fleeing the violence….”
Aylan Kurdi’s father is a people smuggler, woman claims
A woman who was on the boat carrying drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi has accused his father of being a people smuggler.
Channel Ten reported Zainab Abbas, who lost two children in the tragedy, claims Abdullah Kurdi was at the helm of the boat when it sunk off the Turkish coast.
“He was a smuggler, yes. He was the one that was driving the boat,” the woman told Ten over Skype from Iraq through a translator.
Ms Abbas claims Mr Kurdi was speeding before the boat capsized and pleaded with her while they were still both in the water, “please don’t dob me in”.
The Wall Street Journal said Mr Kurdi had denied Ms Abbas’ claim, saying the boat’s Turkish captain jumped into the water shortly after the engine stalled.
“I lost my family, I lost my life, I lost everything, so let them say whatever they want,” he told the newspaper.
Ms Abbas claimed she met Mr Kurdi and another man in a cafe and handed over $US10,000 to get them to Europe.
“[The other man] told me, ‘You have to give me the money and when you get safely to Bodrum, the island, you call me and tell me that you arrived safely’,” she said.
Ms Abbas said he told her the boat was safe to make the perilous journey.
“He said, ‘Don’t worry, the captain of the boat, the driver, is going to bring his two kids and his wife’,” she said.
Ms Abbas said there were too many people in the boat and not enough life jackets when it capsized.
Her husband had asked Mr Kurdi to slow down, but he didn’t listen, she said.
Crying, Ms Abbas said she and her husband and daughter held on to a life jacket but her other two children, a boy and girl, were lost.
“I was screaming, calling out for them, but there wasn’t anyone replying,” she said.
“They were my life, I have no life now. Right now I can’t believe they are gone.”
Ms Abbas said she heard Mr Kurdi claim in the media that a Turkish man had driven the boat, but that this was not the case.
“I’ve lost my kids, I’ve lost my life, how can he lie to the media?”
Ms Abbas is calling on Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott grant her family asylum so they can escape Islamic State.
“I beg the Australian government to do something for me,” she said.
Mr Kurdi has repeatedly spoken publicly about his ordeal, telling reporters that somewhere between Turkey and Greece, their boat started filling with water.
He said the boat’s captain panicked due to the high waves, jumped into the sea and fled, leaving him in control of the small craft, the NZ Herald reported.
“I took over and started steering,” he said. “The waves were so high and the boat flipped.”
Mr Kurdi told Turkey’s Dogan News Agency his children “slipped from my hands”.
“We tried to hold on to the boat, but it deflated rapidly. Everyone was screaming. I could not hear the voices of my children and my wife.”
Mr Kurdi said he swam to the beach, following the lights on the shore.
He looked for his wife and children and could not find them, he said.
Last Thursday, Mr Kurdi collapsed in tears after emerging from a morgue in the city of Mugla near Bodrum in Turkey.
“The things that happened to us here, in the country where we took refuge to escape war in our homeland, we want the whole world to see this,” he said.
Mr Kurdi has now returned to Syria and the ruins of the city of Kobani; the home he and his family had fled.
His wife and sons were buried in Kobani on Friday.
Ms Abbas’ cousin by marriage, Lara Tahseen, told Fairfax Media the family was angry at their treatment by Turkish authorities compared to Mr Kurdi’s.
“All the media attention was on Aylan Kurdi and Abdullah Kurdi and not on them,” she said.
Ms Tahseen said when Ms Abbas and her husband Ahmed Hadi returned in Baghdad, they found their dead children’s bodies had not been correctly prepared for burial.
She said this was done despite the family waiting in Turkey for eight days to do paperwork to receive the bodies.
Ms Tehseen said Ms Abbas was “heartbroken”.
“Their daughter has been left in shock after what she saw happen in the sea to her brother and sister,” she said. “She can’t talk.”
Meanwhile, the family has been left with no house and income after they sold everything to flee to Europe.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/migrant-crisis/aylan-kurdis-father-is-a-people-smuggler-woman-claims-20150911-gjkt2m.html
DAILY MAIL – ‘He begged me not to dob him in’: Bereaved Iraqi woman on the same dinghy as Aylan Kurdi makes sensational claims on television that the boy’s father is a ‘people smuggler’ and was driving the boat
Zainab Abbas was on the same boat as Aylan Kurdi, three, and his family
Her two children and three Kurdi family members were among the dead
Now Ms Abbas makes claims on Australian TV that Aylan’s father Abdullah was driving the dinghy
Says Mr Kurdi begged her ‘not to dob him in’ while they were in the water
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3230422/Abdullah-Kurdi-people-smuggler-migrant.html
Militant Video Shows 18 Turkish Workers Kidnapped in Iraq (abcnews, Sep 11, 2015)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/militant-video-shows-18-turkish-workers-kidnapped-iraq-33682607
“A video from a previously unknown militant group in Iraq surfaced on social media Friday, showing 18 Turkish workers who were abducted in Baghdad last week and threatening Ankara with the “most violent means” if its demands are not met.
The men, employed by Turkish construction company Nurol Insaat were working on a sports complex in the Iraqi capital’s sprawling Shiite district of Sadr City. Gunmen stormed the site on Sept. 2 as the workers were sleeping in caravans, breaking down doors and disarming the guards before taking the workers away.
The 3-minute video released shows the 18 seated in three rows in front of five militants in black masks with machineguns. They appear tired as they identify themselves and give their hometowns….”
Kenya Launches Operation Against Extremists on Somali Border (abcnews, Sep 11, 2015)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kenya-launches-operation-extremists-somali-border-33684080
“Kenya has announced a new security operation aimed at ousting Islamic extremists from a forest along the Somalia border.
Interior Secretary Joseph Nkaisserry said Friday that al-Shabab fighters have been using Kenya’s vast Boni forest as cover to launch attacks on Kenyan territory.
Nkaisserry says al-Shabab is increasingly encroaching on the Boni enclave amid pressure from African Union forces who have pushed al-Shabab further toward southern Somalia.
He says the new military operation will be accompanied by a plan to improve infrastructure and social services for residents in the area.
Kenya has been attacked many times by al-Shabab, which opposes the country’s military involvement in Somalia.”
Fatwa against A R Rahman and Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi for film on Prophet (indianexpress, Sep 11, 2015)
http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/fatwa-against-a-r-rahman-majid-majidi-for-film-on-prophet/
“A Mumbai-based Sunni Muslim group has issued a fatwa against celebrated Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi and Indian music composer A R Rahman. The fatwa, issued by Raza Academy, demands that Muslims reject Majidi’s film titled ‘Muhammad: Messenger of God’ — first of the trilogy on the life of Prophet Mohammad. Last week, the group had written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, seeking a ban on Majidi’s film. In the fatwa, they cite as the reason the Prophet’s word that no visual or picture of him be created or kept. The fatwa claims the film makes a mockery of Islam, and professional actors, including some non-Muslims, have been cast in the key roles. The fatwa adds that the Muslims working on the film, especially Majidi and Rahman, have thus committed sacrilege and will have to read the kalma again and also solemnise their marriage again. Despite repeated attempts, Rahman remained unavailable for comment.”
Russia tells Washington: talk to us over Syria or risk ‘unintended incidents’
http://www.oann.com/category/world/
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia called on Friday for Washington to restart direct military-to-military cooperation to avert “unintended incidents” near Syria, at a time when U.S. officials say Moscow is building up forces to protect President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
The United States is leading a campaign of air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syrian air space, and a greater Russian presence would raise the prospect of the Cold War superpower foes encountering each other on the battlefield.
Both Moscow and Washington say their enemy is Islamic State. But Russia supports the government of Assad, while the United States says his presence makes the situation worse.
In recent days, U.S. officials have described what they say is a buildup of Russian equipment and manpower.
Finland is accusing Swedish company of arranging migrant’s illegal entry to Finland.
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FINLAND – Police: roadside anti-immigration, anti-Islam banners to be removed
Two makeshift banners proclaiming anti-immigration and anti-Islam sentiments were hung along national road eight in western Finland. Police said on Thursday that a decision was reached to remove the banners.
[…]The banners were seen along national road eight in Satakunta, in western Finland in the early morning hours on Thursday.
In large capital letters, drivers along the road saw the banners’ text: “Islam is destroying Finland,” and “Protect the children’s future, say no to immigration.”
Police Deputy Timo Vuola said Thursday they made the decision to remove the banners from the roadside.
He said that the text on the banners (which may already have been removed by publishing of this update) legally do not constitute incitement, but that they were being removed out of safety concerns, as they may impede traffic.
[…]Similar occurrence last month
A similar incident occurred last month when a makeshift roadside banner carrying an apparently racist message was put up on a highway in the Tampere region.
The sign posed a question: “What’s separates man from the animals?” The response: “The Mediterranean.”
Local police had previously said they could only remove the sign if someone filed a criminal complaint, however they took it down, saying it was “inappropriate.”
Other similar incidents have occurred in recent times in southwestern Finland, as well.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/police_roadside_anti-immigration_anti-islam_banners_to_be_removed/8295073
“What’s separates man from the animals?”
The response: “The Mediterranean.”
I like it.
Kremlin says extension of east Ukraine peace deal possible
http://www.oann.com/kremlin-says-extension-of-east-ukraine-peace-deal-possible/
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will agree to roll-over a peace deal for eastern Ukraine if it is not fully implemented this year as intended, the Kremlin’s top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, said on Friday.
The so-called Minsk agreements state that various provisions must be implemented before the end of this year. Ushakov said the most important thing was to get them in place as soon as possible and within the existing framework.
“If something is not implemented then it is clear the leaders would agree on some extension,” Ushakov told reporters.
Austria: At least 60,000 refugees expected over weekend
Law enforcement placed on high alert in re 9/11 threats by ‘Black Lives Matter’
Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/09/10/law-enforcement-agencies-placed-on-high-alert-in-re-new-violent-threats-from-black-lives-matter/
The nation has grown accustomed to threats from terrorist groups each year on the anniversary of 9/11. This year, an additional threat has been made by a group that bristles at the suggestion that it is a loosely knit amalgamation of terrorists. In a Daily Caller exclusive, Kerry Picket writes that “law enforcement agencies are on high alert this week due to violent threats coming from the Black Lives Matter movement”:
According to several Be On Look Out (BOLO) alerts sent from several law enforcement agencies and exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller, some members of the “#blacklivesmatter and #fyf911 are calling for the murder of more police officers on a site called blog radio.”
One caller on the show says, “When those mother f**kers are by themselves, that’s when when we should start f***ing them up. Like they do us, when a bunch of them ni**ers takin’ one of us out, that’s how we should roll up.” That caller goes on, “Cause we already roll up in gangs anyway. There should be six or seven black mother f**ckers, see that white person, and then lynch their ass. Let’s turn the tables.”
Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/09/10/law-enforcement-agencies-placed-on-high-alert-in-re-new-violent-threats-from-black-lives-matter/
Legal bombshell? Obamacare case may enable Congress to sue Obama over Iran ‘deal’
Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/09/11/legal-bombshell-obamacare-case-may-enable-congress-to-sue-obama-over-iran-deal/
On Thursday, Senate Democrats blocked cloture on debate over the resolution to disapprove the non-deal Iran “deal,” or JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
The Senate is effectively hamstrung. As of now, no Senate vote is foreseeable on the disapproval resolution. The mainstream media are visibly crowing over this as a big win for Obama.
Republican leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to push for a vote again next week. But there’s no reason at this point to think the outcome will be any different. Obama has the votes to prevent cloture in the Senate; he needs 41 and has 42. The vote on the disapproval resolution itself doesn’t look like it will be happening.
Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/09/11/legal-bombshell-obamacare-case-may-enable-congress-to-sue-obama-over-iran-deal/
This is the last ditch effort to stop the deal that is assuring us a war with Iran, the big question will the Mainstream Republican leaders find the courage to stand up for the nation or will they once again refuse to fight the left?
TURKEY – Tons of explosive material seized near Syrian border
Tons of explosive material has been seized near the Turkish-Syrian border in two days, with 17 suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) detained in the border town of Kilis.
As much as 6.5 tons of plastic explosive material was seized after police officers in the southeastern border province of Sanliurfa stopped and searched a long-haul truck full of onions in the Pekmezli neighborhood of Sanliurfa’s Akçakale district on Sept. 9, Dogan News Agency reported on Sept. 10.
The plastic explosive material, identified as pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), was found hidden in onion piles on the truck driven by a man identified by the initials Y.K.
The explosive material was reportedly handled by bomb experts and two suspects including Y.K. were detained over the incident.
In another incident in the southeastern province of Mardin on Sept. 10, 20 tons of ammonium nitrate, a common explosive used in making improvised explosive devices, was seized after gendarmerie forces searched a cottage on a road connecting Mardin to the southeastern province of Diyarbakir following intelligence they gathered said material used to make bombs was in a cottage on land owned by a private driving course.
The land owner, identified by the initials A.A., said they knew nothing about the 400 sacks of explosive material found inside the cottage.
The gendarmerie command launched an investigation to determine who put the 20 tons of explosive material in the cottage.
Meanwhile, 17 suspected members of ISIL, including two Turkish citizens, were detained in the southeastern border district of Elbeyli in Kilis on Sept. 10, the Kilis Governor’s Office said in a written statement. The suspects had attempted to illegally cross into Syria, the statement said.
“A total of 17 ISIL members, 15 foreign nationals and two Turkish citizens , were detained after they attempted to illegally cross into Syria,” it said.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tons-of-explosive-material-seized-near-syrian-border.aspx?pageID=238&nID=88346&NewsCatID=341
LONDON – UK – Vicious mob attack three men ‘outside Brick Lane mosque’
A Reddit London user posted a link to the video with the caption “white guy beaten up on Brick Lane, outside the Mosque of all places”.
One man wearing traditional Muslim dress can be seen grabbing someone wearing a hoodie and jeans, wrestling him to the ground and punching him repeatedly. He is then joined by another individual who beats the man on the floor with a large red-and-white road sign several times.
The cameraman then appears to move further down the road and film a second man lying topless by a crossing being hit and kicked by a group of men, with several others standing around watching.
Men can be heard saying “this is Brick Lane, this is f***ing Brick Lane” as they walk away from the scene.
The footage was put on YouTube on Tuesday September 8.
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said today: “On Monday September 7 police were called to reports of a group of males fighting in Brick Lane, E1.
“Officers from Tower Hamlets Borough attended and found a man, believed aged 36, injured. He was taken to hospital. His injured were not life threatening and he has subsequently been discharged.
“No other victims were at the scene, but officers believe there could be two outstanding.
“Officers from Tower Hamlets CID are investigating and are keeping an open mind regarding any motive.”
There have been no arrests and enquiries are ongoing.
http://www.london24.com/news/crime/video_vicious_mob_attack_three_men_outside_brick_lane_mosque_1_4229344
CBC – CANADA – Carlos Larmond tried to convert beating accused to Islam, lawyer says
A jailhouse video released in court shows the beating of Carlos Larmond, one of the Ottawa twins facing terrorism-related charges, after Larmond allegedly tried to convert another inmate to Islam.
The video, released to the media on Thursday, shows two men attacking Larmond on March 3 in a common area of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre located on Innes Road, with other inmates surrounding the group
One of the accused, 24-year-old Terrence Wilson, has since been sentenced on Thursday to 60 days in jail for assault causing bodily harm related to the jailhouse attack.
The other accused inmate, who was 29 years old at the time, is scheduled to appear in court for sentencing at a later date.
Larmond allegedly made death threat
Paolo Giancaterino, the lawyer representing Wilson who submitted the video as evidence, said Larmond had tried to convert his client to Islam on several occasions.
The efforts turned from friendly to aggressive, though, and Larmond eventually told Wilson “he was going to kill him in his cell,” Giancaterino said.
Carlos Larmond suffered a broken left hand, a black eye and multiple scrapes and bruises in the beating, according to police.
He did not file a victim impact statement during Wilson’s trial, Giancaterino said.
Larmond and his twin brother, Ashton Larmond, were arrested by RCMP in early January.
Carlos Larmond is facing one count of participating in the activity of a terrorist group and one count of attempting to leave Canada to participate in terrorist activity abroad.
The twins have since been transferred out of the Ottawa jail.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/carlos-larmond-tried-to-convert-beating-accused-to-islam-lawyer-says-1.3223262
USA – Democrats urge U.S. to take 100,000 Syrian refugees
Two top Democrats have called for the U.S. to accept 100,000 Syrian refugees next year, or 10 times the number President Obama proposed this week, saying America should “do our part.”
Reps. John Conyers Jr. and Zoe Lofgren, who are the two top House Democrats on the committee dealing with immigration, also said the U.S. should take a total of 200,000 refugees, or nearly three times the number accepted in 2014.
“It is time for the United States to join the global community for a humanitarian response,” the two lawmakers said. “We should do our part by admitting 200,000 refugees, with 100,000 reserved for refugees from Syria.”
With as many as 4 million Syrians believed to have been displaced by a crumbling government and multiple rebellions, countries around the globe are trying to decide what they can do. Refugees have been streaming into Europe, where officials are trying to figure out how many they can accommodate.
Pope Francis urged Catholic churches across Europe to house refugees, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said its churches also stand ready to help.
But the debate in the U.S. separated from the chaos by distance, is only just beginning to develop.
Mr. Obama deployed his top aides to Capitol Hill this week to consult with key lawmakers — a requirement under the law if he wanted to increase the refugee caps.
Republicans, though, said they are wary of mass Syrian migration given the poor security situation and the prevalence of Islamic State fighters in that country.
“The president wants to surge thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States, in spite of consistent intelligence community and federal law enforcement warnings that we do not have the intelligence needed to vet individuals from the conflict zone,” said House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul.
He said the president should instead seek to solve the problem “at the source” by developing a better strategy for combatting the Islamic State and the Syrian regime at home.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/11/democrats-urge-us-take-100000-syrian-refugees/
USA – Sterling Heights Mosque Proposal Rejected: Michigan Officials Deny Group’s Planning Commission Application Amid Cheers, Anti-Islam Epithets
City planning officials in a Detroit suburb on Thursday rejected a much-debated plan to build a four-acre mosque and recreation center in a residential area, sparking outrage among the local Muslim community. The Sterling Heights, Michigan, planning commission’s decision was greeted with cheers and anti-Islam epithets from a crowd outside the meeting place, Al Jazeera America reported.
People gathered at Sterling Heights City Hall chanted, “No more mosques,” and waved American flags, prompting some Muslims to accuse city officials of anti-Islam bias. “We’ll take it to the Supreme Court if we have to,” said a mosque plan supporter after the commission’s vote, according to the AJAM report. The same woman later tweeted her concern.
more :
http://www.ibtimes.com/sterling-heights-mosque-proposal-rejected-michigan-officials-deny-groups-planning-2092858
City Planner Recommends Mosque Denial ( 8 min 40 )
Commission votes 9-0 to deny building Mosque
Macedonia: UNHCR look after refugees and migrants crossing from Greece
First migrants in Poland
Prosor: Instead of flying Palestinian flag, UN can wave white flag in surrender of principles
The UN – with some EU countries in tow – would pass a resolution stating that the world is flat were such a resolution brought by the Palestinians, Israel’s UN ambassador Ron Prosor said Thursday night.??Prosor’s remarks came after the world body approved a resolution calling for the Palestinian flag to be hoisted along with the banners of the other nations that make up the world body.??The “State of Palestine” as well as the Vatican have the status of “non-member observer states” at the UN General Assembly, and up until now, only states with full member status had their flags flown there. Prosor, in his last speech to the UN General Assembly before returning to Israel after a four year stint as ambassador, took aim at the world body, saying that rather than flying the Palestinian flag, it might as well just wave a “white flag” and surrender its principles.
He argued that not only was the measure procedurally flawed, in that it was brought to a vote without the requisite debate and discussion, but it also allowed the Palestinians to manipulate the institution for its own public relations stunts.
??“In my four years, I have seen hypocrisy, I have seen duplicity, and I have seen a triple standard — one for democracies, one for dictatorships, and a special standard designed only for Israel,” Prosor said. “I thought I had seen everything,” he continued. “But I have to admit, this time, the Palestinian managed to take cynicism to a whole new level. The goal of this resolution is a photo op. The Palestinians want to bring together world dignitaries and the media to gather around and watch as [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] Abu Mazen raises a flag. They plan to use the prestige of the UN as a backdrop for this charade.”
http://www.jpost.com/International/Prosor-Instead-of-flying-Palestinian-flag-UN-can-wave-white-flag-in-surrender-of-principles-415921
SAUDI ARABIA – At least 62 dead in Grand Mosque in Mecca from falling crane
At least 62 people were killed when a crane crashed in Mecca’s Grand Mosque on Friday, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense authority said on its Twitter account, an accident that came just weeks before the Muslim annual hajj pilgrimage.
Pictures circulating on social media showed pilgrims in bloodied robes and masses of debris from a part of the crane that seemed to have crashed through a ceiling.
Saudi authorities go to great lengths to be prepared for the millions of Muslim who converge on Mecca to perform the sacred pilgrimage.
Last year, the kingdom reduced the numbers permitted to perform hajj for safety reasons because of construction work to enlarge the Grand Mosque.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/11/us-saudi-haj-idUSKCN0RB1WN20150911
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Over 60 dead after crane collapses on »»» world’s holiest mosque ««« in Mecca
At least 65 people have died after a crane collapsed on the Grand Mosque of Mecca on Friday, Saudi authorities say.
According to Saudi Interior Ministry, at least 80 more people were injured in the incident.
The tragedy comes ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage which is due later this month. Millions of Muslims from around the world will converge on the holy city between September 21-26.
pics on the page :
http://www.rt.com/news/315082-crane-collapses-mecca-mosque/
DAILY MAIL – Carnage in Mecca: At least 101 people killed after Bin Laden firm crane collapses on Grand Mosque during freak lightning storm
– Upsetting pictures on social media show bodies strewn across floor after crane crashed straight through ceiling
– Accident struck while millions of Muslims are in the holy city for annual hajj pilgrimage which starts later this month
– Authorities had issued extreme weather warnings and earlier photos capture mosque being struck by lightning
– Crane part of massive project to increase the area of the mosque so it can accommodate 2.2million people at once –
pics on the page :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3231117/At-62-people-dead-crane-collapses-Grand-Mosque-Mecca.html
Mecca Friday Sept 11 2015 – prayer after the sunset –
The Iranians mean what they say
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blatantly attacked the U.S. – the Great Satan – and Israel – the Little Satan – in a speech on Wednesday. These types of statements are commonplace. How can the Iranian leadership simultaneously sign a deal with the West while spitting in its face? Professor Ze’ev Maghen, head of the Middle Eastern Studies Department at Bar-Ilan University and an Iran expert, explains that there is a cultural-psychological gap that makes it difficult for the West to understand how the Iranian mind works. Iran’s goal is to humiliate the U.S., its despised enemy, as much as possible.
The West has gotten used to these declarations and is not bothered by them, as “Iran will be judged by its actions, not its words.” But Middle Eastern countries operate in a “culture of shame and honor.” Leaders in the Arab Muslim world would never accept statements that disparage their dignity and honor. In Iran’s eyes, Western restraint is not seen as the behavior of a “responsible adult,” rather it is interpreted as a sign of insecurity and lack of honor. The Iranians mean every word they say, and as soon as they have the opportunity and the necessary power, they won’t hesitate to turn their words into actions.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=13723
Once again the multiculturalists put the west in the cross-hairs of the Islamists by ignoring the differences in our cultures. The refusal to learn from history and what historical scholars say about other cultures is what has put us in the position where we and our descendants are going to have to fight for most if not all of this Century if we want freedom and our cultures to survive. With luck our fight will achieve victory and ensure that civilization will have about 100 years for the useful idiots to regain power to put us back in harms way.
Resolution 242 Revisited”: new research on Security Council’s approach to Israel-Arab conflict
My new article, “Resolution 242 Revisited: New Evidence on the Required Scope of Israeli Withdrawal,” has just been published in the Chicago Journal of International Law. Res. 242 represented a territorial compromise, with accommodations to Arab and Israel positions. A proposed new French resolution – which mandates a withdrawal to the 1949 Armistice Lines – would specifically undo the parts of that compromise that were in Israel’s favor, and essentially “reverse” 242, replacing it with the resolution demanded by the USSR and Arab states in 1967. If the U.S. allows this to happen, it would be a fundamental reversal of 50 years of Middle East diplomacy.
If the French resolution is approved, this would teach the international community that if one does not like compromises embodied in Security Council resolutions, simply ignore them and wait for the political winds to shift and bring a different resolution
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/07/resolution-242-revisited-new-research-on-security-councils-approach-to-israel-arab-conflict/
Russia and China have been doing this since the formation of the UN.
It’s Time for Congress to Come Together on Iran
Even many of the supporters of the nuclear deal with Iran have worries about what happens when Iran is no longer limited in the size or the quality of its centrifuges or nuclear infrastructure. Similarly, both supporters and opponents of the deal are understandably concerned about Iran using sanctions relief to provide significantly more material support to Hizbullah and other trouble-makers in the region.
Thus, shouldn’t it be possible to gain bipartisan agreement on bolstering deterrence and creating a firewall between Iran’s threshold nuclear status and its becoming a weapons state, and raising the cost to the Iranians of destabilizing behavior in the region?
Putting in legislation language that would support the use of force in response to an Iranian dash toward a nuclear bomb is critically needed if the Iranians are to understand that force and not sanctions will be the response to Iran’s violating its commitment not to pursue a nuclear weapon at any point.
In addition, we also see a need for legislation to provide the massive ordinance penetrator (MOP) – and the aircraft to carry it – to Israel to reinforce Israeli deterrence. Providing it to Israel would have the added benefit of signaling that we mean what we say about preventing Iran from ever becoming a nuclear weapons state.
Finally, legislation that provides for select and targeted sanctions in response to a surge of material support for Iran’s proxies in the region is necessary to ensure that Hizbullah, Hamas, and other Iranian-supported militias in the area don’t gain as a result of the Iran deal.
These practical steps reflect the consensus that exists on preventing Iran from ever acquiring a nuclear weapon or shifting the balance of power in the region against the U.S. and its partners in the area.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/congress-vote-iran-nuclear-deal-213135
This presupposes that they don’t already have some type of nuclear device and are working to miniaturize it to a size that will fit a missile. All of the information I have says that there is a very high probability that they already have one or more working devices. I remember reading speculation by some highly placed people talking about Iran having shipped a device to North Korea and paying them to detonate it for them. I can’t find the articles but it isn’t safe for us to do anything but act as if they already have working nuclear devices.
Dennis Ross is making nice. Maybe he’d like to poke ’em in the eye, but he’s trying to mitigate the damage, working inside the system instead of fire-bombing it.
He’s a good guy, undersecretary of Near East under Colin Powell.
Iranian troops join Russians in Syria fighting
Israeli security sources claim Quds Force sending hundreds of elite troops in unprecedented cooperation with Russia to save embattled Syrian regime.
Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has sent hundreds of ground soldiers into Syria in the past few days apparently in cooperation with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, said a senior Israeli security official Thursday.
Russia has also recently deployed military assets into Syria and according to the Israeli source, has teamed up with Iran in an unprecedented attempt to protect the embattled regime of Bashar Assad from falling to rebel groups including the Islamic State.
The Israeli source said that Iran’s increased military involvement in Syria was “due to Assad’s crisis and under Russian-Iranian cooperation as a result of a meeting between Soleimani with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” said the Israeli source.
The only Iranian force that has operated in Syria so far has been the Basij militia, a paramilitary organization with a relatively small number of fighters.
The security official said that Israel has little to worry about Russia’s military activity in Syria saying that it is “not directed at Israel.
“We have dialogue with Russia and we aren’t in the middle of the Cold War,” continued the source. “We have open channels with the Russians.”
Israeli security leaders assess that Assad currently controls just 25-30 percent of Syria, mainly around the country’s shoreline where critical supplies are shipped into ports.
“It’s hard to forecast whether Russia’s presence will decide the fate of Syria, but it will lengthen the fighting and bloodletting for at least another year because ISIS won’t give up,” said the Israeli source.
Along Israel’s border with Syria in the Golan Heights, Assad maintains just two enclaves at Quneitra and another smaller area further north, centered around Syrian-Druze villages that look to the regime for protection.
Rebels used bad weather caused by a massive sandstorm across the Middle East in the last few days to gain control of a government-controlled air field near the northern city of Idlib.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4699809,00.html
The most up-to-date info on Russian activity in Syria will come from Israel. Great assets, up close & personal. You can’t buy that kind of access.
Russian Jews keep up the aliyah pace, sizable numbers just this year from Ukraine. Many having served in the military in the Old Country before doing their IDF-thing.
Too bad the US burned Mossad (and related agencies) repeatedly over the course of 0’s tenure. Anyway, we Americans aren’t using the intel we’re getting from our own sources. Or they’re being sabotaged by the regime.
It pains me to say it but I truly hope the Israelis do not pony up any intel to the US at this time and for the foreseeable future. If the ideal president comes along it would still take 2 terms minimum to clean up the Obama Clinton mess and then another ideal president before the bureaucracy in the US could be trusted with intel from Israel IMO
Whom God Means to Destroy, He First Makes Undiscerning
http://canadafreepress.com/article/75182
Quote from a comment on the above article:
Time defaces all things in its path
And war displays his brutal wrath
The age of innocence is gone
Before a dark mirror all is shown
In the depths of one’s inward soul
There is no truth so foul
Nor no lie before heaven so chaste
That men in all mad haste
Are taken from their judgment true
What the hour and the day will rue
Hope dies all too soon now
Perversity never did lie low
Honor in men once held so high
Along with grace is never esteemed nigh.
Elliott Abrams:
UNRWA Again: UN Employees Incite Hatred
I’ve written before about the United Nations agency dealing with Palestinian “refugees,” UNRWA– here, here, and here–but the subject must be revisited in light of new discoveries by the invaluable UN Watch.
In a new report, UN Watch (on whose advisory board I am honored to serve) has found a dozen UNRWA employees spewing anti-Semitic hatred and celebrating violence and terrorism in internet postings. On Facebook pages where they identify themselves as UNRWA officials, these UN employees laud killing and kidnapping of Jews and Israelis, and post vicious anti-Semitic cartoons and drawings.
This is our tax money at work: the United States is by far the largest contributor to UNRWA, at over $400 million.
This discovery is a test both of the UNRWA and United Nations leadership, and of the Obama administration. This kind of behavior is absolutely intolerable, right? So now what happens? Does UNRWA discipline or fire these individuals? Does Ban ki-Moon step in?
Nope, not so far. The only reaction has been–you probably guessed it–attacks on UN Watch by UNRWA’s spokesman. Not a word about these postings or the employees.
The next step should be action by the State Department and by Samantha Power, our UN ambassador, demanding that the UN wake up. The State Department actually has an assistant secretary whose sole duty is supervising the United Nations, and even a Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. The next step should be simple: to contact top officials at UN headquarters in New York, and the head of UNRWA, Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl. Either such conduct is tolerated or it is not. Either UNRWA’s reaction is disciplinary moves against these individuals, or it attacks UN Watch. If the latter–UNRWA defends these acts inciting and celebrating violence and terror, defends those who are responsible for them, and assaults UN Watch for finding the truth–the United States should suspend payments to UNRWA. We should not be financing the spreading of hatred by UN employees.
It ought to be simple.
http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2015/09/03/unrwa-again-un-employees-incite-hatred/
How the Nuclear Deal Empowers Iran’s Terror Operations
http://youtu.be/MkThPB77aa0
The Two-State Solution Is in Stalemate. Here’s What Israel Can Do to Prevail.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action involves the lifting of sanctions directed against several leading Iranian terrorists. These include Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force—which is responsible for much of Iran’s terror operations abroad as well as its war against the U.S. in Iraq—and Ahmad Vahidi, one of the planners of the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center. Derek Harvey, Jack Keane, and Michael Pregent discuss this aspect of the deal and its implications. (Moderated by Lee Smith; video, 90 minutes.)
https://youtu.be/MkThPB77aa0