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Joulani's Tahrir Al Sham declares jihad against Erdogan's 'First Corps'

Breakingnews.sy - translated by Samer Hussein
Fort Russ News
Sat, 13 May 2017 14:13 UTC
Tahrir Al Sham, a terrorist group led by notorious terrorist leader Abu Mohammed Joulani
Tahrir Al Sham
Tahrir Al Sham, a terrorist group led by notorious terrorist leader Abu Mohammed Joulani, reportedly began with huge amassing of its troops on Friday, following reports that Erdogan regime-backed terrorist groups might soon mount an assault on the city of Idleb.

According to the field reports, Turkey is preparing to merge the terrorists of at least 17 factions with the so-called "First Corps", a terrorist group backed by Turkey, in the scope of the "Euphrates Shield" operation.

Recently, members of Ahrar Al Sham terrorist group attacked the headquarters and checkpoints of Jaysh Al Islam, the "Free Idleb Army" and other Turkey-backed terrorist groups.

Comment: For more on the 'First Corps':



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Star of David

Palestinian Official: Israel will soon negotiate with hunger strikers


Sputnik
Sat, 13 May 2017 12:36 UTC
Israel prison Jerusalem Palestiian hunger strike
© AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit
Israel might soon start negotiations with Palestinian hunger strikers, held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian Authority Prisoners Affairs Minister.

The news come from Palestinian Authority Prisoner Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe.

According to Qaraqe, there were "signs" that Israel is about to start negotiations with the imprisoned hunger strikers shortly. He said that Israeli Prison Services have called for a meeting with the leaders of the strike, but did not provide additional details.

Comment: Further reading: Psychopathic society: Pizza Hut & Israeli army join in 'grotesque attacks' on starving Palestinian hunger strike leader

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Bad Guys

The End Of Japan's Pacifist Policy

Whitney Webb
Mint Press News
Sat, 13 May 2017 12:36 UTC
Japan Self-Defense Force Army
© AP/Shizuo KambayashiA member of Japan Self-Defense Force stands by an American Patriot missile unit deployed against the North Korea’s missile firing, at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Monday, March 6, 2017.
Japan has long depended on the U.S. to protect it militarily, as its own armed forces were virtually eliminated in the wake of World War II. But a new push for the end of Japanese pacifism is under way, with the U.S. military-industrial complex set to profit from the expansion of Japan's military.

Since taking office in 2012, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has caused a furor in the nation over his push for a stronger military that would be free from the shackles of Japan's pacifist constitution. While Abe is technically responsible for the remilitarization of Japan, he may simply be a pawn in the U.S.-Japanese "strategic relationship" in which Japan itself is largely voiceless.

Following the post-World War II Allied occupation of the country and its near complete disarmament, Japan was all but forced to align itself with U.S. interests as it came to exclusively rely on the U.S. military for its defense. To this day, the U.S. State Department refers to the American-Japanese relationship as "the cornerstone of U.S. security interests in Asia and [...] fundamental to regional stability and prosperity."
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Radar

News reports China moved cutting-edge AWACS planes near disputed S. China Sea islands


RT
Sat, 13 May 2017 12:09 UTC
Chinese KJ-500 airplane
© Power Sport Images / Getty Images
The Chinese military has deployed its latest airborne early warning and control aircraft to an air base in the vicinity of the contested South China Sea islands, according to Defense News, citing satellite imagery.

The imagery provided by DigitalGlobe company shows a number of Shaanxi KJ-500 and KJ-200 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft at the Jialaishi Air Base in the northern part of China's Hainan island, Defense News reported on Friday.

According to the news outlet, this is the first time China has stationed its state-of-the-art KJ-500 aircraft in Hainan.
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People

Hanan Ashrawi: Maybe it's time to stop Zionizing Palestinians and start de-Zionizing Israel

Mondoweiss Editors
Mondoweiss
Sat, 13 May 2017 09:16 UTC
Hanan Ashrawi

We've several times mentioned Hanan Ashrawi's lacerating speech on the cruel delusions of the peace process at the Israel lobby conference in March. Now the conference sponsors, Institute for Research: Middle East Policy and the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, have published a transcript of the speech, and we wanted to get it out to readers. Ashrawi:

Thank you very much. Thank you. This is indeed heartwarming and humbling. I thank you all for coming....

As you know, this is a very significant occasion, because we're talking about 100, 70, 50, and zero:

A hundred years since the Balfour Declaration. I do hope that the Brits will not celebrate it, even though Theresa May invited [Binyamin] Netanyahu to celebrate with her. This is a colonial legacy par excellence.

Seventy years since the partition plan that did partition Palestine and created the State of Israel, at that time on 55 percent of Palestine.

Fifty years since the occupation of 1967.

And zero time for the two-state solution.
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Light Saber

Jeremy Corbyn: 'I'm no pacifist,' but Britain's 'bomb first, talk later' policy must end


RT
Fri, 12 May 2017 21:12 UTC
corbyn
© Neil Hall / ReutersJeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told an audience at Chatham House he would use military force in line with international law as a last resort, while condemning Britain's "routine" wars around the world.

He said he would use force where "necessary to protect the safety and security of our people and our country."

"But I am not a pacifist. I accept that military action, under international law and as a genuine last resort, is in some circumstances necessary. But that is very far from the kind of unilateral wars and interventions that have almost become routine in recent times."

The former Stop the War Coalition chair said he would not pursue a "bomb first, talk later" policy and that current foreign policy amounted to a "recipe for increasing, not reducing threats and insecurity."
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MIB

Killary minions cooked up 'blame Russia' plan 'within 24 hours' of election defeat

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Fri, 12 May 2017 20:49 UTC
hillary election
Killary plotting the excuses
Wikileaks' latest tweet has the potential to destroy the Democrat Party's narrative the election of 2016 was corrupted by Russian election meddling. The news agency detailed the contents of the book Shattered — written by Jonathan Allen — and it makes some damning accusations.

The work details former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's presidential loss to billionaire Donald Trump. Allen, who was and is a correspondent for Bloomberg News, has also written extensively about Congress, national politics, and works as a political analyst on national television news programs.

Wikileaks uploaded a picture from a page of Allen's new book which destroys the Russian hacking narrative immediately. Wikileaks tweeted, "New book by Shattered by Clinton insiders reveals that "blame Russia" plan was hatched "within twenty-four hours" of the election loss.";

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Attention

Lavrov spells it out: Era of Western lecturing is long over


Russia Insider
Fri, 12 May 2017 20:45 UTC
Sergey Lavrov
Preach it, Lavrov.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov makes it crystal clear that Moscow will not take orders from the West.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that while there are positive developments in bilateral relations with Germany, dictates from Brussels (and by extension, Washington) have precluded stronger economic and security ties between Russia and Europe.

In an interview with the Mir Interstate Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Lavrov urged Europe to break free from the minority of hardliners who are working to pit Europe and Russia against each other:
The so-called aggressive minority is trying to maintain EU unity at all costs, whereas the principle of solidarity provides for looking for compromise between two extremes.

There are forces that are categorically against normalizing relations with Russia and also those who call for breaking out of the sanctions dead-end already now.
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Attention

Trump's lawyers say in letter no business ties to Russia, liberal left goes wild about the phrase 'with few exceptions'


RT
Fri, 12 May 2017 20:22 UTC
Trump signing documents
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
President Donald Trump has no income, equity or debt from Russian sources, according to his lawyers. The review of Trump's tax returns going back 10 years showed two major exceptions: a 2013 beauty pageant and a 2008 sale of a Florida estate.

In a letter dated March 8 and released Friday, Sheri Dillon and William Nelson from the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP reported to Trump that a review of his tax records going back to 2007 shows no income, debt, equity or investments from Russian persons or entities, "with a few exceptions."

A "substantial amount" of the $12.2 million in foreign income of the Miss Universe beauty pageant came from the event held in Moscow in 2013, the letter notes. Trump sold the rights to the pageant in 2015.
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Red Flag

Dommage, Monsieur Poroshenko! 'Macron doesn't care about Ukraine!'


RT
Thu, 11 May 2017 13:33 UTC
Macron
© 20 MinutesPresident-elect Emmanuel Macron
Left-centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has won the second round of the French presidential election - a race expected to have widespread ramifications for France, Europe, and the world. Speaking at a Moscow roundtable on the election results, international affairs scholar Nikolai Platoshkin explained why Kiev may soon be in for big trouble.

On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron, the former investment banker, economy minister, and leader of the centrist En Marche! party, won 66.1% of the vote, defeating National Front party candidate Marine Le Pen, who won 33.9%.

The French elections and Macron's victory raised questions about the geopolitical ramifications of the news, with analysts commenting on everything from French EU policy and NATO to the future of Paris's relations with the United States, Russia, and China.

Naturally, President-elect Macron's Ukraine policy has also been put under the microscope. As a key sponsor of Kiev's post-Maidan coup authorities, a member of the Normandy contact group on Ukraine, and a party to the Minsk agreements on peace in eastern Ukraine, France has had a crucial role to play in instigating, and perhaps resolving, the Ukraine crisis. But under Macron, Paris's position may face serious changes, and of the kind which would not be to Kiev's benefit.

Comment: If this attitude holds, President-elect Macron may find France taking a backseat to more aggressive partners and other decisions being made he doesn't care about. If he can't or won't fill the shoes he has chosen to wear, the French will know this soon enough. Remords de l'acheteur (buyer's remorse).

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