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Israeli occupation forces arrest dozens of Palestinians following clashes over al-Aqsa Mosque

Sarah Benhaida
Interakyson
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:29 UTC

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Palestinian women shout slogans in front of Israeli forces during a protest in al-Quds (Jerusalem), September 20, 2015.

Israeli regime forces have detained nearly 40 Palestinians across the occupied territories following a series of clashes over the recent Israeli violations of the holy al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Israeli police sources confirmed on Sunday that they had arrested at least a dozen Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and 27 others in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) over the previous two days.

Palestinian protesters on Friday clashed with Tel Aviv regime forces in several cities across the occupied territories in a "day of rage" to denounce the Israeli acts of aggression against worshipers at the holy compound.

The arrests came days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed tougher penalties and "war" on Palestinian protesters. The Israeli premier said at an emergency meeting on Wednesday that Israel plans to broaden the mandate of its forces following clashes between them and Palestinian protesters in and around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied West Bank.

The brutal assaults against Palestinians at the holy compound started last Sunday following the deployment of Israeli soldiers to the area for the Jewish Rosh Hashanah New Year holiday. However, Tel Aviv regime forces had already applied sweeping restrictions on entries into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound since August 26.

Comment: Police state Israel: Govt approves sniper fire against Palestinians who throw rocks

War drums: 24 generals from 13 NATO countries gather in Latvia for training in joint operations

RT
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:24 UTC

NATO's cross-block training exercises, Steadfast Pinnacle 2015, involving high-profile commanders has kicked off in the Latvian capital of Riga. The session will focus on the role of top brass at an operational level.

The training, which also involves commanders from Sweden and Finland, who are not NATO members, started Sunday and will last for six days. Altogether, 48 top officers and 50 lecturers, administrative staff, planning analysts and observers are participating in Steadfast Pinnacle 2015 which is held at the Latvian National Academy of Defense.

The aim of the trainings is to work on commander roles in the process of planning and running operations, according to the Latvian Ministry of Defense.

Comment: NATO claims this is a defensive exercise but is it really?

STRATFOR Chief outlines psychopathic Zio-Anglo-American plans for world domination in speech to Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Islamic State group now controls key drug trafficking routes

Telesur
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:15 UTC

According to some estimates, the group could be making US$1 billion per year from drug trafficking.

Russian United Nations Envoy Vitaly Churking warned Thursday that Moscow received information on the Islamic State group confirming the group now controls an important narcotics supply route from Afghanistan.

"There is information that a group of militants from ISIS (Islamic State group) already control a part of the routes of illegal drug supply from the Badakhshan Province (in northeastern Afghanistan)," said Churkin during a United Nations Security Council session.

The official also called upon the U.N. body to closely monitor the situation of drugs in Afghanistan, given that it is one of the main routes of drug trafficking into Europe.

Comment: For more information about who is secretly bankrolling the narcotic trade. Read:
Unsung heroin: How MI6, CIA spend tax money on propping up Afghan drug trade

Egypt floods Gaza's underground 'lifelines'

Marga Ortigas
Aljazeera
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:37 UTC

Underground lifelines used by residents of the town of Rafah are being flooded by Egypt, worsening existing isolation.

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Palestinian children played in water after Egyptian forces flooded the tunnels dug beneath the Gaza-Egypt border.

Seventy-three year old Mansura Abu Shaar was more than happy to talk to strangers. People rarely came this far, she told us, and it seemed to her that very few of those that did, cared enough to ask how they were doing. "Not well at all," she said needing little prodding. "Not well at all."

Mansura was clearly exhausted from having stayed up the night before. Fearful for her family, she sat outside her makeshift house just a few hundred metres from the border between Gaza and Egypt, on guard until dawn. "We're used to the guns and the rockets and the explosions," she said. "But now - water?"

Her voice trembled, and tears began to pool in her eyes. "This is our life," she said hopelessly. "We are so, so tired." Mansura lives in Rafah, the town divided between Gaza and Egypt by international political agreements in the 1980s. With Israel the only other way in or out, Gazans saw the border with fellow-Arab Egypt as the "friendly" alternative.

It was a pressure valve when all else around them seemed to be closing in. But the "friendly border" closed when Hamas took control of the government in Gaza in 2007. At least in theory. Underground, an entire network of smuggling tunnels was fully operational. As it had been for years, allegedly with Egyptian border guards looking the other way.

Comment: 2011 Film: One Family in Gaza

Polls reveal Syrians overwhelmingly blame US for ISIS

Eric Zuesse
Global Research
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC

The British polling organization ORB International, an affiliate of WIN/Gallup International, repeatedly finds in Syria that, throughout the country, Syrians oppose ISIS by about 80%, and (in the latest such poll) also finds that 82% of Syrians blame the U.S. for ISIS.

The Washington Post summarized on September 15th the latest poll. They did not headline it with the poll's anti-U.S. finding, such as "82% of Syrians Blame U.S. for ISIS." That would have been newsworthy. Instead, their report's headline was "One in five Syrians say Islamic State is a good thing, poll says." However, the accompanying graphic wasn't focused on the few Syrians who support ISIS (and, at only one in five, that's obviously not much.) It instead (for anyone who would read beyond that so-what headline) provided a summary of what Syrians actually do support. This is is what their graphic highlighted from the poll's findings:

82% agree "IS [Islamic State] is US and foreign made group."
79% agree "Foreign fighters made war worse."
70% agree "Oppose division of country."
65% agree "Syrians can live together again."
64% agree "Diplomatic solution possible."
57% agree "Situation is worsening."
51% agree "Political solution best answer."
49% agree "Oppose US coalition air strikes."
22% agree "IS is a positive influence."
21% agree "Prefer life now than under Assad."

Here are the more detailed findings in this poll, a poll that was taken of 1,365 Syrians from all 14 governates within Syria.

Israeli arms, training and psychopathic ideology fuel atrocities in Africa

Rania Khalek
The Electronic Intifida
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC

Israeli weapons are fueling atrocities in South Sudan, according to a United Nations report that sheds new light on the secretive Israeli arms trade in Africa.

Authored by an investigative team assembled by the UN Security Council, the report cites photographic evidence of automatic rifles made by Israel Military Industries (IMI) being in the arsenal of South Sudan's army and police. Known as Galil ACE, the guns have particularly been used by bodyguards of high-ranking politicians and by senior army officers.

South Sudan was granted independence in 2011 following a civil war that lasted for decades. Within days of its establishment, leading figures in the Israeli weapons industry rushed to advance their interests in the new ally against Iran's influence in Sudan.

Since its secession in 2011, South Sudan has descended into civil war between opposing political factions.

Comment: Incredible to think that a nation's number one export - connected to its "products" - can be the pathologic thinking that helps people justify acts of genocide. But that is what we're witnessing here from the "only democracy in the middle east". 'Ye shall know them by their fruits'. And certainly it seems that the toxic fruit the Israelis have planted in the lands of Palestine have not been enough to satiate its dark thirst for profit, conquest and destruction at any cost.

Behind the Headlines: War and rumors of Wars: Is 'the end' nigh?

Sott.net
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:00 UTC

This week on Behind the Headlines your regular hosts, Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley, are once again joined by 'The Truth Perspective' host, Harrison Koehli.

From the ongoing U.S./Saudi Arabia-manufactured Syrian 'civil war' and a possible Russian-inspired 'peace process' to the continued US-Japanese sabre-rattling in Asia; from the British people's 'new hope' UK opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn to the increasingly desperate plight of Syrian refugees in Eastern European nations as they try to reach 'prosperity' in Germany and Western Europe; we'll be discussing all the latest developments in global politics, society and 'earth changes' and calling out the BS in the process.

Join us this Sunday September 20th 2015, 2-4pm EST - 8-10pm CET.

Running Time: 02:19:00

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Hungarian police clash with migrants at Serbian border

Dusan Stojanovic and Vanessa Gera
Yahoo! News
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC

Baton-wielding Hungarian riot police unleashed tear gas and water cannons against hundreds of migrants Wednesday after they broke through a razor-wire fence and tried to surge into the country from Serbia. Crying children fled the acrid smoke and dozens of people were injured in the chaos.

With their path blocked, hundreds of other asylum-seekers turned to a longer, more arduous path to Western Europe through Croatia, where officials said 1,300 had arrived in a single day — a number that was sure to grow.

On the sealed border into Hungary, frustrated men — many of them war refugees from Syria and Iraq — hurled rocks and plastic water bottles at the helmeted riot police as they chanted "Open" Open!" in English. Children and women cried as the young men, their faces wrapped in scarves, charged toward the police through thick smoke from tear gas and tires set on fire by the crowd.

Comment: We are witnessing a bizarre, love-hate spectacle of western nations and their vassal states towards Arab migrants, whom they continue to create by destroying Muslim nations in the name of "freedom" and "democracy".

Canada to accelerate Syrian refugee applications

Canada will bring in 10,000 refugees by Sept. 2016, 15 months ahead of schedule. The government said it will speed the processing of Syrian refugees by no longer requiring them to prove their refugee status through the United Nations refugee agency. Instead, Syrians will be presumed to be refugees by Canadian authorities who vet their applications.

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India under Modi: Pew survey shows national pride has never been this high since 1970

Sandipan Sharma
Firstpost
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC

A tsunami of euphoria and optimism is sweeping India. Indians are finally feeling that they are getting the deserved respect on the world stage, that their country is in safe hands and the future of their children is bright.

The source of their optimism is the source of their faith: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who, they believe, is taking India in the right direction and will ensure that the country's economic situation will improve a lot in one year.

Even Rahul Gandhi and his mother are benefitting from the surge in positive sentiments. The Gandhi scion is seen much more favourably by Indians than a few months ago, though his ratings (62%) remain way behind the PM's (87%). While the PM's ratings have gone up by nine points, Rahul's have gone up by 12. But then Rahul had a smaller base to begin with.

The mood of the nation has been revealed by a survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre among 2,452 respondents between April 6 and May 19, 2015. It was released on September 17, the PM's birthday.

Comment: How are other world leaders faring around the same time of the year?

The world's most popular politicians: Putin's approval rating hits 86%

Despite, or perhaps because of, the Ukraine crisis, Vladimir Putin's popularity continues to scale new heights, with a recent poll showing the Russian president's approval rating at an astounding 86 per cent.

Moscow-based pollster the Levada Centre, which surveyed 1,600 Russians across 134 cities, found support for Putin was up 21 per cent in the last two years

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Another U.S.-supported humanitarian crisis: Saudi air raids kill more than 40 Yemeni civilians

RT
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:23 UTC

The latest Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen have left dozens of civilians dead and nearly 160 injured at a time that sees medical facilities struggling to provide even the most basic services. The country is suffering from a shortage of vital supplies due to the ongoing blockade.

The coalition air raids against Houthi forces in Sanaa overnight on Friday killed at least 40 civilians and injured at least another 130 people, Yemen News Agency (SABA) reported.

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Puppet Masters

Israeli occupation forces arrest dozens of Palestinians following clashes over al-Aqsa Mosque

War drums: 24 generals from 13 NATO countries gather in Latvia for training in joint operations

Islamic State group now controls key drug trafficking routes

Egypt floods Gaza's underground 'lifelines'

Polls reveal Syrians overwhelmingly blame US for ISIS

Israeli arms, training and psychopathic ideology fuel atrocities in Africa

Behind the Headlines: War and rumors of Wars: Is 'the end' nigh?

Hungarian police clash with migrants at Serbian border

India under Modi: Pew survey shows national pride has never been this high since 1970

Another U.S.-supported humanitarian crisis: Saudi air raids kill more than 40 Yemeni civilians

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