A military spokesman for the African Union mission in Somalia says the AU has canceled a planned troop rotation by Sierra Leonean forces because of the Ebola outbreak.
"Don't make us come in there, or we'll give you all sudden, suppurating death. And then see now much fighting you'll want to do!"
Col. Ali Aden Houmed told The Associated Press late Thursday that the Union decided to halt the deployment of a new battalion in an effort to prevent the disease from crossing into Somalia.
The West African nation is currently facing the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history. More than 700 people have died. Sierra Leone is one of five nations that sends large numbers of troops to Somalia to protect the government and fight al-Shabab militants.
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Security forces have discovered two caves in Boni forest believed to be used by the militia behind the wave of killings in Lamu County.
Senior security officers involved in the joint operation by the police and the Kenya Defence Forces said they discovered the caves deep inside the expansive forest on Wednesday evening. They did not, however, find anyone inside the two caves, said a senior security official who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
"We believe the caves were being used by the criminals. We found some paraphernalia and clothing, which we suspect belong to the criminals," said the source.
Inspector! How do you do it?
Security officers believe the militia fled after getting information that they were being pursued. "We are determined to flush them out, however, long it takes. We have sealed all entry and exit points to the forest so that they are not able to escape or to get supplies," the source told Nation.
So they're surrounding them Saoodi-style...
"These are radicalised locals who fought alongside the Al-Shabaab in Somalia and sneaked back into the country after the fall of Kismayu. They are the ones waging the war on innocent citizens."
The military was sent to Lamu on July 7 to assist flush out the militia after a wave of attacks, which claimed the lives of at least 70 people.
Victims of the Mpeketoni attack recounted that they saw the assailants stock food and medical supplies, indicating they could be in the area for the long haul.
Two months ago, Sheikh Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, a leader of Al-Shabaab, warned that the group would "soon" be taking the war in Somalia to Kenya's doorstep.
Fuad should be Mau-Mau'd...
Witnesses in Mpeketoni said some attackers delivered a jihadist sermon at a mosque in Pandanguo village.
The government has, however, blamed local political leaders and militias like the Mombasa Republican Council. This is despite the fact that two weeks ago, two known Al-Shabaab men were arrested by Kenyan soldiers in Lamu.
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Libya’s new nationalist-dominated parliament was holding its first meeting on Saturday in the eastern city of Tobruk, boycotted by Islamists, in a sign that deep divisions remain in the strife-torn country.
The parliament, elected on June 25, is to take over from the Islamist-dominated interim General National Congress that was elected after the 2011 ouster of Moammer Gaddhafi. It was to have convened in Benghazi on Monday, but a decision was taken to move the meeting forward by two days and shift it to Tobruk for security reasons.
Both Benghazi and the capital, Tripoli, are the scene of fighting that has killed more than 200 people and wounded another 1,000 in the past two weeks.
Soon to come to Tobruk, and I don't think even Richard Burton will save them...
Presiding MP Abu Bakr Biira said on Wednesday that, “in light of the dangerous situation in the country, we decided to hold an emergency meeting in Tobruk.”
Issuing a call for reconciliation among the country’s factions, he confirmed Saturday’s closed-door gathering was purely consultative and that the inaugural session would be held Monday.
“We want to unite the homeland and put our differences to one side,” he said, claiming that 160 of the 180 members of the new parliament had made their way to Tobruk, near the Egyptian border. It was not possible to independently confirm that number.
Meanwhile, outgoing GNC president Nouri Abou Sahamein also said the inaugural session would be held on Monday, but insisted that it would be held in Tripoli.
The international community has pressed the new legislature to move quickly to assume power amid continuing turmoil.
Tripoli has been rocked by violence since July 13, when armed groups, mainly Islamists, assaulted the international airport in a bid to oust former fellow rebels from Zintan, who have controlled it for the past three years. The Zintan brigades are viewed by their opponents as the armed wing of Libya’s nationalist movement, and the battle is seen as part of a struggle for political influence at a time when the new parliament prepares to assume office.
Nationalist factions have won the most seats in the new assembly, according to political analysts, and the Islamists are now trying to reassert their influence by military means. Many newly elected MPs expressed reluctance about a proposed GNC move to Benghazi, with some refusing to take up their seats because of the city’s rampant security problems.
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Libya is descending into a civil war spiral that is “much worse” than the unrest that toppled its dictator Moamer Gadhafi in 2011, residents fleeing the country said Saturday.
Remember when the Democrats said that GWB had wrecked Iraq by removing Saddam and not being prepared to rebuild Iraq properly? You'd think Champ would have learned from that since he was one of the more vociferous critics. Then came Libya where we (from behind the Europeans) removed Daffy, and left Libya completely unprepared to come through what came next. Try pointing that out to your goofy progressive friends...
“We have gone through (war) before, with Gadhafi, but now it’s much worse,” Paraskevi Athineou, a Greek woman living in Libya, told AFP.
“Chaos reigns. There is no government, we have no food, no fuel, no water, no electricity for hours on end,” she said.
Athineou was part of a group of 186 people evacuated from Tripoli by a Greek navy frigate which reached the port of Piraeus early on Saturday. In addition to 77 Greek nationals, there were 78 Chinese, 10 Britons, 12 Cypriots, seven Belgians, one Albanian and a Russian. Among them were several diplomats, including the Chinese ambassador to Libya.
"这就对了! 我在这里!"
“So many people died to make the country better. But now we started killing each other in a civil war,” said Osama Monsour, a 35-year-old employed at a non-governmental organisation in Tripoli.
“It is worse than 2011,” said Ali Gariani, a Libyan married to a Greek woman.
“That time were were being bombed by NATO. But now we are being bombed by the Libyans themselves, and that is really shameful,” he said.
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If Libya continues to unravel, it could provide an opening for the Islamic State, the Sunni militant group whose leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, last month declared a caliphate in territories captured by his group in Syria and Iraq, according to Julia McQuaid, an analyst at the Arlington, Virginia-based CNA Corp., a U.S.-funded research group.
One could imagine a situation where a group in Libya sees success in the Islamic State and pursues a similar path - essentially declaring a physical territory part of the Islamic State, pledging allegiance to al-Baghdadi, McQuaid said in an e-mail. Shes the author of a report titled Reviving the Caliphate: Fad, or the Future?
The U.S. militarys role in helping African countries battle militancy and civil wars in the continent is essential because we have to get away from the romanticism that these are local squabbles with their government, and if we accommodate them they might harmlessly leave us alone, OHanlon said. That may be true for some groups, but not for al-Qaeda affiliates.
[ARABNEWS] The Interior Ministry has confirmed the establishment of a special rehabilitation program for women previously involved with Al-Qaeda.
"Women who have been tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in connection with terrorism activities will be involved in a special rehabilitation program like men, but rehab will take place in cooperation with their families," Interior Ministry front man Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki told local media.
Only a limited number of women are detained on suspected terrorism charges compared with men.
Al-Turki did not clarify whether there would be a special female department at the Mohammed bin Naif Consulting and Care Center, which is devoted to correcting behavioral patterns and ideas that lean toward terrorism.
The center also plays a big role in promoting moderation.
Yemen recently handed over a Saudi woman who had joined Al-Qaeda in Yemen. The woman was among eight Saudis extradited to the Kingdom on charges of associating with the terrorist group.
The woman had illegally left the Kingdom for Yemen without the consent of her family and husband.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has released 166 former Al-Qaeda members and former Lions of Islam after they underwent a long-term state-sponsored counseling program (Munasaha) in 2013 aimed at reintegrating them into society, said Al-Turki.
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[ARABNEWS] King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has urged officials and Islamic scholars to speak out against terrorism and work together to defend the Islamic faith. "You should overcome indifference and silence and shoulder your responsibility in protecting your religion," the king said while hosting officials, holy mans and other prominent personalities at his palace here Friday.
"I don't have anything more to add to what I have already said in my speech today," King Abdullah told the gathering, referring to his speech that denounced the Israeli war crimes in Gazoo.
In his keynote speech, the king said the Israeli atrocities against the Paleostinians would trigger more violence in the Middle East.
He also stated that Lions of Islam should not be allowed to hijack Islam and contribute to false impressions that this is a religion of hatred and terrorism.
"I believe that my speech represented the views of Moslem men and women around the globe," the king said. "My Saudi brothers, my speech has conveyed your views and those of the Arab and Islamic nations."
King Abdullah said he would be at the forefront of the fight against terror. "I am one of you. Don't think I am just sitting here. If something were to happen...I would be the first (to deal with it)."
"Anomalous and spiteful people are easily recognizable," he said. "Some are spiteful toward even themselves. How can humans kill each another like sheep."
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King Abdullah has urged officials and Islamic scholars to speak out against terrorism and work together to defend the Islamic faith
Yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah, etc etc etc. That oughta hold 'em for a while.
After missing the Nazi Holocaust and losing readers recently while leading the charge for Hamas, the New York Times is determined to be near the front in reporting the rise of European antisemitism. Much of the article we've seen here at Rantburg, but this bit if background is useful:
Academics who study anti-Semitism say the acceptance of disparaging remarks about Jews has become increasingly common in the educated middle class over the past two decades. Especially on social media, where hashtags such as #HitlerWasRight have appeared, there has been a significant jump in slurs against Jews.
Monika Schwarz-Friesel, a cognitive scientist at Technical University, has spent 10 years tracking anti-Semitic comments from educated Germans in letters to editors, in Internet chat rooms and on social media. She said such comments in public forums had served as kindling for the most recent outbreak.
"Violence always starts in the mind," Ms. Schwarz-Friesel said. "Attacks like that on the synagogue in Wuppertal are not just pulled out of thin air."
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Anti-Semitism Rises exposes itself in Europe Amid Israel-Gaza Conflict
FIFY. Lip service. Just like the Donks who suddenly go homophobic, misogynist, and racist when the target is conservative or someone who's departed the Left's approved reservation. All that 'feeling' stuff seems to be a facade all the way down.
[DAWN] Veteran politicians on Saturday warned Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... against derailing the ongoing democratic system and suggested he use the platform of the parliament to fulfill his just demands.
The parliamentarians said that it was PTI's constitutional right to demonstrate against the rigging in May 2013 elections but any campaign to derail democracy could provide a chance for the establishment to take over the political system.
PPP Senator Mian Raza Rabbani said that the ongoing political situation is very critical as the Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N) government is in the process of completing its tenure after the first democratic transition in the history of Pakistain.
"The government is involved in an operation against murderous Moslems in FATA to restore peace in the country and is also facing challenges on its eastern and western borders," he said.
"The PPP too has reservations on the elections results but the party leadership does not want to destabilise the present democratic setup for the sake of democracy in the country. The PML-N government cannot bear any kind of setbacks under the present circumstances," Rabbani warned.
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[GatewayPundit] Yesterday, after offering Eid prayers at Eidgah, people started shouting anti-Israel and Pro-Paleostine slogans to protest the Israeli aggression on Gazoo. The call for 30 minute post-namaz protests was given by Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Reportedly, masked men surfaced in the sensitive old city and waved black flags and banners of ISIS and Al Qaeda with Kalima (the first basic fundamental of Islam) inscribed on them. Some men even used the flags as masks to hide their faces even as other men watched from the lanes and bylanes.
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Ditto SE Asia in general, + repor as far north as SOKOR + certain parts of East China.
The Nuclear? Global Jihad is coming to East Asia + WESTPAC - 'tis a only a question of when.
As before, WILL THE US-CHINA GO TO WAR BEFORE THE JIHADIS ATTACK ONE OR THE OTHER FIRST???
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The second paragraph of the article is particularly interesting, I thought.
During the peak stage of peace talks last year, Kerry spoke regularly with high-ranking negotiating partners in the Middle East. At the time, some of these calls were not made on encrypted equipment, but instead on normal telephones, with the conversations transmitted by satellite. Intelligence agencies intercepted some of those calls. The government in Jerusalem then used the information obtained in international negotiations aiming to reach a diplomatic solution in the Middle East.
In other words, pretty much anyone could have listened in, and probably did.
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ANY official communications should be done over an encrypted line. Yes, encryption can be broken, but only an idiot would discuss anything but the weather over an unencrypted line.
Of course, we are talking Jawn Kerry here.
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I'm pretty sure Henry Stimson would read Mr. Kerry's mail.
Homer Simpson would read Kerry's mail. The question is why anyone would admit it? Especially the Israelis.
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Anyone who eavesdropped on John Kerry probably fell into a deep slumber about 3 minutes into the conversation and most likely is still sleeping today.
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There was little of any value in Kerry's conversation, I would imagine. The fact that it was done and publicized was enough to throw in the face of O & Co. A b*tchslap in diplospeak, to be sure.
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not surprising.. a case of "keep your friends close and your enemies closer..."
[Breitbart] An enterprising blogger's diligent spadework has revealed the truth behind an Israeli 'massacre' that never was. (H/T Jonathan Foreman)
According to the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, version of events - widely promulgated in the media by ITN, the Telegraph and the Belfast Telegraph - an Israeli Arclight airstrike on a crowded market place during a partial ceasefire in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood of Gazoo City on July 30th, 2014 was responsible for the deaths of 17 people, including blue-helmeted photojournalist Rani Rayan.
However as Thomas Wictor has incontrovertibly demonstrated using close analysis of film footage of the incident, the deaths were not caused by Israeli shrapnel but by secondary kabooms from a vast cache of Hamas rockets.
Oh, and the market wasn't 'crowded' either: it had been closed for the day. And this particular area wasn't included in the ceasefire zone, either, because Hamas was continuing to fire rockets from it.
This report implies that it was the ten Israeli shells which killed the 17 Paleostinians. It was not. As Wictor demonstrates, it was a "Pallywood" propaganda stunt which went badly wrong:
That burning warehouse was full of Hamas rockets. The series of concussions you hear are secondary kabooms, not the primary kabooms of aerial munitions. When you bomb a warehouse full of fueled rockets, each rocket will explode separately. What happened was the empty marketplace next to the burning warehouse became the set for a Pallywood production, but then the rockets started exploding, killing and maiming the people who tried to exploit this situation. I know they're secondary kabooms because they're causing no destruction. No fountains of earth or clouds of dust appear with each loud BOOM! And the Paleostinians also sent out a photo of a damaged rocket cone, calling it an "unwent kaboom! Israeli missile."
Video and MSM reports for comparison purposes at the link.
[Al Ahram] The U.S failure to secure a firm ceasefire in the Gazoo Strip despite two weeks of intense diplomacy reflects new regional dynamics in which the world's most powerful actor has diminished influence and fewer allies.
When Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... left Washington on July 21 on a mission to try to halt the latest Israeli offensive on Gazoo, more than 400 Paleostinians had been killed, mostly civilians, along with 20 Israelis, 18 of them soldiers.
Nearly two weeks later, after Kerry's extensive face-to-face diplomacy in Cairo, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Tel Aviv and Gay Paree and scores of telephone calls, the corpse counts have tripled, two ceasefires have collapsed and the violence rages.
Israel declared a 72-hour Gazoo ceasefire over on Friday within hours of its taking effect, saying that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, fighters breached the truce soon after it began and apparently captured one Israeli officer while killing two others.
Renewed Israeli shelling killed more than 70 Paleostinians and maimed some 220, hospital officials said, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hamas and other hard boy groups they would "bear the consequences of their actions."
Beyond the animosity of the two sides - neither of which seem close to achieving its aims - Washington's diplomatic challenge has been made more complex by the erosion of its standing in the Middle East.
Other contributing factors include tensions among big Arab players, who see the conflict as a proxy war against Hamas and its Islamist allies, some clumsy U.S. diplomacy, including bad timing, and strains between the United States and Israel.
Diminished Influence
"There is no question that U.S. influence has diminished" in the Arab world, said Daniel Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt now at Princeton University.
U.S. credibility has also been undercut by its reluctance to intervene in Syria's civil war; Kerry's failed push for wider Israeli-Paleostinian peace, which collapsed in April; and Iraq's instability despite a decade of massive U.S. intervention.
U.S. nuclear negotiations with Iran have also fanned Arab fears of a rapprochement between Tehran and Washington.
"It doesn't convey a sense that the U.S. has a full grasp of the complexities of the region," Kurtzer said, suggesting that a perception has begun to take hold among some countries in the region that they can defy Washington without paying a price.
In one telling incident, and a remarkable breach of protocol, Kerry and his top aides were briefly searched with metal-detecting equipment as they arrived for a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in Cairo on July 22.
In Israel, hostile media reports, apparently fanned by Israeli officials, harshly attacked the U.S. secretary of state as he left the region.
"John Kerry is an ongoing embarrassment, with the characteristics of a snowball. The further he rolls, the greater the embarrassment," centrist columnist Ben Caspit wrote in the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv.
Several analysts said neither side seemed ready to stop fighting when Kerry began his shuttle diplomacy, suggesting his timing was off. It is now unclear when, or whether, Kerry might return to the region.
U.S. 'Does Not Control Everything'
President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... defended Kerry on Friday even as he derided the notion that the United States had lost influence or that it can solve every problem.
"Apparently, people have forgotten that America, as the most powerful country on earth, still does not control everything around the world," he told news hounds.
"Our diplomatic efforts often take time. They often will see progress and then a step backwards," he added. "That's the nature of world affairs. It's not neat and it's not smooth."
The U.S. task has been made more challenging by the cleavage within the Arab world between Islamist forces such as Hamas and Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund and traditional powers who see them as a direct threat.
Egypt is a case in point. Al-Sisi, who was the country's top military officer, came to power after the ouster of Mohammed Morsi, a president who emerged from the Moslem Brüderbund, which has deep ties to Hamas.
"The role of Egypt has changed from being a credible intermediary to being seen as virtually a protagonist, with its own interests at stake and inimical (to or at least) at odds with Hamas," said Rob Danin, a former U.S. State Department official now at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank.
As a result, Kerry turned to Qatar and Turkey, both of which have rulers with much deeper sympathy for Hamas, to influence the Paleostinian group to embrace a ceasefire.
In Gay Paree last Saturday, Kerry joined the foreign ministers of both countries, as well as those of Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and Italia, to make a joint call for what was then a 12-hour Israeli ceasefire to be extended. That ceasefire also, ultimately, collapsed.
The tableau of the seven foreign ministers, but no one from the Paleostinian Authority or from the traditional Arab powers of Egypt, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... or the Gulf, irked U.S. Gulf allies.
"The optics of it is read by an already skeptical audience in the Gulf and in the Arab World as the reinforcement of their worst fears," said Ghaith al-Omari, executive director of the Washington-based American Task Force on Paleostine.
Both Sides Dug In
The stakes for both sides have increased since Israel began an aerial and sea bombardment of Gazoo July 8 to try to stop, what Israel claims, Hamas rocket fire from the coastal Mediterranean strip and then followed up 10 days later with a limited ground invasion.
The scale of the casualties - more than 1,500 Paleostinians have been killed, most of them civilians, as well as 63 Israeli soldiers and three Israeli civilians - makes it harder for each side to disengage without something to show for the bloodshed.
Neither appears near achieving their aims: Hamas seeks an end to the Gazoo blockade and Israel is trying to degrade the Paleostinian group's military capabilities, including its rockets and tunnels, and deter it from future attacks.
While on Thursday the White House pressed Israel hard to do more to prevent Paleostinian civilian casualties, it appeared to temper its stance on Friday following the apparent abduction of an Israeli soldier.
Speaking to news hounds, Obama described the U.S. "dilemma."
"On the one hand, Israel has a right to defend itself, and it's got to be able to get at those rockets and those tunnel networks," he said, adding that on the other, because Hamas launches rockets from civilian neighborhoods, innocents get hurt.
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That's what usually happens when you insist on spitting in your allies' face.
Do u have any decent Republican leadership left as the World needs it atm!
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It will get worse when we are energy independent and have less and less reason to put up with the Middle East crap. While they are getting less and less money from USA they will have to deal with a weak Europe, and the less than kind regimes of China and Russia. Oh it is going to get worse.
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Never had allies, but we did share a lot of common interests with one or two. Now those are rather tired of the interference in what they believe is their national existence by a bunch of clowns masquerading as competent people with academic letters of certification.
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The diminished influence is because the rest of the world has learned that American liberals will not fight for ANYTHING. There is no cause, there is no threat worth fighting for. That is why the empty suit and his minions are dismantling the military, why have a military you will not use? We have more bureaucrats in the Department of Defense than we have soldiers, sailors, or airmen on active duty.
The European liberals learned that occasionally a cause is worth fighting for...of course having the slums full of fanatics does put a punctuation mark on that.
The end result will be another mass casualty event, i.e., some tin hat fanatic Muslem terrorist act, and a war in which we are ill equipped and unprepared to follow. The Republican president will be blamed for the failures of the military and so it goes.
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In Israel, hostile media reports, apparently fanned by Israeli officials reality, harshly attacked the U.S. secretary of state as he left the region
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Yokay, I'll bite, WASN'T THAT THE OWG GLOBALISTS' INTENTION, ALBEIT PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY???
Ditto vee Rising Iran, Putinist Russia, Rising China, etc. AKA Globalist desired OWG Co-Superpwers???
To once again paraph KRAUTHAMMER [ala Oliver Stone's "JFK"] = "SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA, DON'T YOU GET IT - ITS A RIDDLE, MAN, ITS A MYSTERY WRAPPED AROUND AN ENIGMA"!
[Al Ahram] Israel has evidence that almost half of Paleostinians killed in the 25-day-old Gazoo war were combatants, its deputy foreign minister claimed on Saturday, pushing back against international allegations of a lopsidedly heavy civilian corpse count.
Gazook human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups say at least 80 percent of the 1,669 Paleostinians killed have been non-combatants, including hundreds of children. The U.N. Human Rights Council last week accused the Israelis of "disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks" and launched an inquiry into possible war crimes.
Israel, which has lost 63 soldiers and 3 civilians to the fighting, says it has done everything possible to avoid harming innocents and that Gazoo's dominant Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Islamists invite such casualties by operating in densely populated areas.
"There is research being done in the military, very professionally and reliably, (whose) conclusion is that at least 47% of the fatalities are terrorists, with photographs and names," Tzachi Hanegbi told Israel's Channel Two television, adding that the data would be presented to Sherlocks.
He did not elaborate. Israel rejected the U.N. Human Rights Council's probe announcement, describing the forum as biased, but usually conducts its own combat inquiries.
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If the IDF were to stop the precision guided munitions use and level a few blocks, with the associated death of 1,000's of civilians, what could be said that isn't being said already?
I recall hearing "I'll give you something to cry about" as a child - the lesson sticks with me today.
[Iran Press TV] Noam Chomsky ...intellectual and political theorist of a socialist persuasion. He is noted for being so far out in left field he can't see the shortstop on every issue he pushes... , the renowned Jewish American thinker, says Israel has committed "a major war crime" as it continues to attack the besieged Gazoo Strip.
Israel has been pressing ahead with heavy offensive on Gazoo amid international condemnation to stop the bloody onslaught which has claimed the lives of at least 1,700 Paleostinians. More than 9,000 people have also been injured since the beginning of the aggression nearly four weeks ago.
Chomsky told Press TV that Israel is much worse than the former apartheid regime in South Africa.
"Hospitals have been attacked repeatedly. Each one is a war crime. In fact, for Israel to fire one bullet across the border is also a crime. Trials for war crimes only apply to the defeated. Within the occupied territory, Israel's polices are much worse than apartheid," he said in a phone interview.
He said Israel faces economic isolation over occupying Paleostinian territories. He called for an arms embargo on Tel Aviv.
Chomsky also criticized Arab leaders for supporting Washington's pro-Israel policies in the past years.
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Chomsky was great at figuring out basic laws of pharsing (300 level stuff) but everything else he's a perfect example of the Peter Principle (a sibling of Murphy's Laws).
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He became known aw a linguistics expert, and proceeded to think himself an expert on all other things. Much like Krugman, and many other academics who think their deep knowledge in a single area makes them credible in any other area -- and the press which willingly parrots such tripe without the least amount of questioning as to the actual expertise in the subject area.
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Chumpsky needs to be the recpient of the "155MM howitzer shell catcher" award. Twice.
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For a linguistics expert he sure has a hard time comprehending what is written plain as day in the Hamas Charter and what the Mad Mullahs of Iran have been saying for decades: Destruction of Israel.
The Israeli army on Saturday informed residents of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza that it was “safe” to return to their homes, as witnesses said troops were seen withdrawing from the area.
Collapsed all the tunnels, did they?
It was the first time troops had been seen pulling back since the start of the devastating 26-day Gaza conflict, which has so far claimed more than 1,660 Palestinian lives and forced up to a quarter of the territory’s population into exile.
“Messages have been conveyed to residents of the northern Gaza Strip that they may return to the Beit Lahiya area,” an army statement said, with a spokeswoman indicating the message had been relayed to authorities in the Palestinian enclave.
“They have been informed it is safe for civilians to return to Beit Lahiya and Al Atatra,” the spokeswoman said, in what was understood to be a confirmation that troops had stopped operating there.
Witnesses in Al Atatra, which is part of Beit Lahiya, reported seeing troops pulling back, in a move mirrored in the south, where residents said the soldiers had withdrawn from villages east of Khan Yunis, close to the Israeli border.
On July 16, the Israeli military dropped flyers and sent text messages warning residents in Beit Lahiya to flee their homes and not return until further notice. Similar messages were delivered to Zeitun and Shejaiya, to the south and east of Gaza City, respectively.
Other messages were relayed in other areas, prompting hundreds of thousands of people to flee in terror, most of whom have sought refuge in 90 UN schools and other facilities across the Gaza Strip.
UN figures indicate that up to 25 per cent of Gaza’s population of 1.8 million have fled their homes, with a quarter of a million of them taking refuge in shelters run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
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Netanyahu said Israel will keep up its military campaign in the Gaza Strip for as long as needed and with as much force as necessary.
Hamas vowed on Saturday to continue its fight against Israel that has cost more than 1,670 Palestinian lives until the group has achieved its objectives.
It's all they know how to do...
“We will continue our resistance till we achieve our goals,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said, shortly after a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he claimed to have dealt a “significant blow” to the Islamist movement since the conflict broke out on July 8.
Earlier, Netanyahu said Israel will keep up its military campaign in the Gaza Strip for as long as needed and with as much force as necessary. And he said that all options were “on the table” to achieve that mission.
“From the beginning, we promised to return the quiet to Israel’s citizens and we will continue to act until that aim is achieved. We will take as much time as necessary, and will exert as much force as needed,” he said in a public address. “All options are on the table to return peace to the citizens of Israel.”
Correct. When Jahwn Kerry interfered and completely biffed the "cease-fire" proposal, and then Obama forbade airlines to fly to Israel, they left Bibi with no choice at all to continue. If Gaza can shoot rockets at Israel, what would a Hamas-controlled West Bank do?
He also pledged to do whatever necessary to bring home 23-year-old soldier Hadar Goldin, who Israel believes was captured by Palestinian militants during an ambush in southern Gaza early on Friday.
“Israel will continue to make every effort to bring its missing sons home,” he pledged in remarks made just after the missing soldier’s mother made an emotional appeal demanding there be no troop withdrawal until her son is found.
He said troops would complete the mission of destroying a complex network of tunnels used by militants to infiltrate southern Israel before deciding on its next security objectives.
“After the completion of our activity against the tunnels, the IDF (army) will prepare to continue our activities according to security needs, and only according to our security needs, until we achieve the objective of returning security to the citizens of Israel,” he said.
Netanyahu warned Hamas that it will “pay an intolerable price” if it continues to fire rockets at Israel.
Earlier Saturday, an Israeli official said Israel would not engage in Egypt-hosted truce talks with Hamas for the time being.
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until the group has achieved its objectives
These being the extinction of the Gazuk branch of the "Palestinian Nation".
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