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Palestinians 'can't be stuck in the past,' Trump's idiot son-in-law laments while backing Israel's own thousands-year-old claim to land


RT
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:10 UTC
kushner
© Reuters / WAM
White House adviser Jared Kushner urged Palestinians to make their peace with the newly official alliance between the UAE and Israel - whose leadership refers to its ancient religious texts to justify its own land grabs.

Kushner made the somewhat ironic statement after arriving in the UAE on Monday on board a passenger jet completing the first-ever direct flight from Israel. The route was officially established as part of the Abraham Accords between the two countries and the US earlier this month. The decision was hailed by Washington and its allies as "historic," though Palestine and its allies have deemed it a betrayal by their erstwhile Arab brethren.

This hasn't stopped Kushner from continuing to promote it. Donald Trump's son-in-law told reporters that Palestinians should know peace would be "ready for them...as soon as they are ready to embrace it," urging the occupied population to accept the help of "the whole region" in getting an economic boost.
We can't want peace more than they want peace...They can't be stuck in the past.

Comment: "But God gave it to us thousands of years ago!"


The UAE has defended its decision to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel by pointing out that the landmark agreement had postponed Israel's official annexation of the Jewish-only settlements currently honeycombing the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. However, Palestinians have argued that such a move would merely legitimize the status quo - since the land's occupation continues with Tel Aviv's backing.
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Bad Guys

Growing discontent with GNA's policies in Libya reaching critical levels

Vladimir Platov
New Easter Outlook
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:00 UTC
protest tripoli GNA libya
© Reuters
Martyrs’ Square, in the center of Tripoli, has been the nexus site of protests for many years.
In recent days, a protest movement in Libya has been growing, and with each passing day, it has been spreading to an ever increasing number of towns and cities in this country, devastated by the ongoing civil war.

Nine years since the overthrow of former Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, which Western powers, including the US, were actively involved in, a growing number of demonstrators have been calling on the Government of National Accord (GNA), currently led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, to step down, while he is being presented to the international community as the representative of the Libyan people. Protesters are demanding real improvements to living conditions in the country, and an end to corruption and unlawful actions taken by numerous militias and thousands of foreign mercenaries operating in and around the capital and other regions of Libya. They are also voicing their discontent about growing prices, lack of water, power outages, unemployment and lack of necessary support in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Star of David

Israel frustrated at failure to cripple BDS movement

Dr Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:48 UTC
BDS protest
© Twitter
Demonstrators supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement
Israel is frustrated at its failure to tackle the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement despite the huge budget allocated to the task and the recruitment of pro-Israel activists worldwide to help. The movement continues to flourish in its effort to get Israel to abide by international law.

What's the reason for Israel's failure? Is it related to financial, political or security issues? What impact do these have, and how do they affect Israel's global image?

The Ministry of Strategic Affairs was assigned the task of dealing with BDS in 2017, under the leadership of Minister Gilad Erdan, who is now the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations and is due to become the Ambassador to the United States. Recent leaks suggest that bureaucracy is one of the reasons for its anti-BDS failure.
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Footprints

Trump: People 'in the dark shadows' are controlling Joe Biden

David Sherfinski
Washington Times
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:33 UTC
Trump
© AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, in Washington.
President Trump said that Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden is essentially a "puppet" controlled by shadowy figures lurking in the dark.

He also suggested that a planned attack on the Republican National Convention might have been thwarted but declined to go into detail.

"He's a weak person. He's controlled like a puppet," Mr. Trump said of Mr. Biden in an interview that aired on Fox News Monday evening.

Asked who is "pulling Biden's strings," Mr. Trump said: "People that you've never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows."
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Putin

Western 'experts' predicted Covid-19 would lead to Russia's economic collapse & 'topple' Putin...they were wrong (again!)

Paul Robinson
RT
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:17 UTC
Moscow
© Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov
A few months ago, US/UK media outlets and think tanks warned that the Covid-19 crisis meant Russia faced economic ruin. Now, as we enter the fall, it turns out Moscow is in a far better condition than most of its Western rivals.

Russia 'experts' in the English-speaking world love predicting the imminent downfall of the "Putin regime." Whether it be the 2012 Bolotnaya protests, Western sanctions, the collapse in the oil price, or anything else, pundits are always on the lookout for indicators and warnings that Russia's president and the system he governs are on the verge of breakdown.

It was hardly a surprise, therefore, that the arrival of the coronavirus provoked the commentariat into another round of doom-laden prognostications about Russia's future. In particular, experts reckoned that the country's fragile economy, already struggling to recover from its 2014 slump, was bound to suffer particularly badly, with negative political consequences for the Kremlin.

As spring turned into summer, newspapers told readers of Russia's "dire economic situation" and "looming economic collapse.""This is arguably the most serious challenge to Putin as national leader in the 20 years he has been in power, and he is failing it," stated one of the Western media's favored commentators, Mark Galeotti.
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Bad Guys

US foreign policy elite wants Biden & detests Trump because President failed to launch new NATO missions to justify its existence

George Szamuely
RT
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:40 UTC
Donald Trump
© Getty Images / Sean Gallup
FILE PHOTO: President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the media at a press conference on the second day of the 2018 NATO Summit on July 12, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium
One reason for the extraordinary hostility of the foreign policy insiders' brigade toward President Trump is that he has not wasted his time conjuring up new missions to justify NATO's continued existence.

Instead, he has promised to withdraw 12,000 US troops from Germany and, to add insult to injury, he has demanded that NATO member states increase their financial contributions toward the upkeep of the military alliance ostensibly there to "protect" them.

This is sacrilege to a foreign policy elite that have spent the last 70 years worshiping at the altar of NATO.

"US troops aren't stationed around the world as traffic cops or welfare caseworkers — they're restraining the expansionary aims of the world's worst regimes, chiefly China and Russia," Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., fumed.

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice expressed alarm about the "continued erosion of confidence in our leadership within NATO, and more efforts that call into question our commitment, and more signals to the authoritarians within NATO and Russia itself that this whole institution is vulnerable."

Trump, according to Nicholas Burns, former US ambassador to NATO and current adviser to Joe Biden, has cast America's military allies primarily as a drain on the US Treasury, and he has aggressively criticized Washington's true friends in Europe — democratic leaders such as France's President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel — even as he treats Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, and other 'authoritarians' around the world with unusual tact.

Seventy former Republican national security officials recently issued a statement accusing Trump of having "disgraced America's global reputation and undermined our nation's moral and diplomatic influence." And — horror of horrors! — Trump "has called NATO 'obsolete.' "
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Bad Guys

Meet the "Violet" - successors to the White Helmets' Syria propaganda throne

Vanessa Beeley
Unlimited Hangout
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 09:18 UTC
Violet organization 1

“To be purple means to be gifted, hopeful, and sacrificed”—motto of the Violet organization
Violet organization 2
© Violet gallery
The Violet organization in Idlib.
While the world is distracted by the Covid-19 crisis, scant attention has been paid to events in Syria. The US-led coalition is maintaining a savage multispectrum war on the country, but few are aware of the suffering of the Syrian people as the media have barely reported on the starvation, economic catastrophe, scorched-earth policy, and war crimes directly committed by the US-led coalition and indirectly via their client terrorist groups. All of these are components of the US-led spoiler policy designed to economically reduce Syria to a failed state, a sinister objective they were unable to achieve militarily.

The White Helmets' Fall from Grace

White Helmets
© Facebook
The White Helmets, a supposedly impartial organization, flying their flags alongside those of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, a militia responsible for multiple war crimes against Syrian civilians and allied with Al Qaeda and other extremist groups.
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Light Sabers

India-China border dispute flares up as both claim to have thwarted violation of territory

Sanjeev Miglani
Yahoo
Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:09 UTC
Pangong

A view of Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh region
Indian forces foiled an attempt by Chinese troops to occupy a hill on the Asian giants' disputed border in the western Himalayas, officials in New Delhi said on Monday, following the latest flare-up between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

Having spotted the Chinese troops' movement, Indian troops mobilised to deter further encroachment, and the confrontation did not escalate into a clash between the two sides, Indian military and government sources told Reuters.

China rejected the accusation that People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops had breached the border, but tensions between the two armies in the freezing snow deserts of the Ladakh region have been running high for several months.

Comment: RT reports on China's border dispute claims:
Beijing has reported a new border incident with India in the contested region of Aksai Chin, accusing New Delhi of intrusion into Chinese territory on Monday. China's military warned it was getting ready for any possible scenario.

Indian troops have broken their promise and trespassed over China's border again, Senior Colonel Zhang Shuili, spokesperson for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) said in a statement.

The official urged India to withdraw its troops from the Chinese-controlled area and "control" them to avoid such incidents in the future. The Chinese military is taking all measures necessary to deal with the situation and is ready to defend China's sovereignty, he warned.

The statement came within hours of New Delhi bringing an earlier border incident to light, accusing China of conducting "provocative military movements" in the area and crossing the border at the weekend.

The two countries have long been at odds over the disputed border in the scarcely-populated mountainous region known as Aksai Chin in China and Eastern Ladakh in India. The dispute has repeatedly resulted in clashes between Indian and Chinese troops stationed in the area.
See also: Russia-India-China will be the big G20 hit

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People

New Ukrainian Special Forces Commander previously attempted to defect to Donetsk


South Front
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:00 UTC
Zelensky

President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and Special Forces Commander Grigory Galagan (R).
On August 25th, the Ukrainian Special Forces Commander was replaced by Grigory Galagan.

Galagan is known for his attempt, in 2014, to defect to the side of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

This was announced reported by the Telegram-channel WarGonzo, citing sources in the intelligence services of the DPR.

It is noted that Galagan himself proposed his candidacy to an influential DPR militia commander, whom he approached through his contacts in the Crimean "Alpha Group" (a branch of the Security Service of Ukraine), where he served till 2014.

Comment: See also: Under fire from a Western-backed Ukraine: The people of the DPR share their stories

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Yellow Vest

Robert F Kennedy Jr Delivers Historic Anti-Fascism Speech to Million-strong Crowd in Berlin


Europe Reloaded
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 20:07 UTC

Comment: We don't know exactly how many people were there, but it was probably similar in crowd size to the 1.3 million people organizers estimated filled the streets at an anti-Fascism rally in Berlin at the beginning of August.

In any event, what actually took place was the direct opposite of what global media is reporting: 'a few thousand neo-NAZI conspiracy theorists ranting about freedom or something...'

RFK Jr was one of the speakers, and he did his forebears proud...


RFK Jr Berlin protest
We've transcribed Robert F. Kennedy Jr's speech below (broadcast through RT Deutsch), punctuated as it is with German translation, made to hundreds of thousands of Germans assembled in Berlin yesterday, Saturday, August 29, 2020, to protest the anti-democratic measures of the COVID scare. Below that is a short video of the Brandenburg Gate area as yesterday's crowd was assembling, with a short video of Kennedy speaking to a reporter.

Kennedy's Children's Health Defense has also issued its own video recorded from the back of the stage, along with the transcript of Senta Depuydt's speech and some photos. Senta is an Officer of the new European chapter of CHD. See this post on Children's Health Defense for Friday's CHD press conference in Berlin: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Holds a Press Conference in Berlin After Launching CHD's Europe Chapter.


Comment: In related Fake News, the media reported that these protesters "attempted to storm the German parliament," when in fact all they did was stand on the steps of the Reichstag waving flags and singing the German national anthem.

The protest was actually 'banned' earlier last week, but the highest court in the land later 'lifted the ban'. Of course it did; hundreds of thousands of people were going to go out and protest anyway!

What's really freaking out the media talking heads is the range of people showing up at these events in London, Berlin and elsewhere - everyone from families with young kids to hardcore nationalists and 'Q' supporters to pink-haired LGBT and anti-war activists...

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