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Erdogan: 'Israel is a state of occupation, and Jerusalem is a red line for Muslims'


Yahoo News
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday described Israel as a "state of occupation" which used "terror" against the Palestinians, as he stepped up his criticism of the US recognition of Jerusalem as its capital.

Erdogan has been bitterly opposed to the decision of US President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem and has called a summit of Islamic countries on December 13 in Istanbul.

"Israel is a state of occupation," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul, referring to Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank and settlement building. "And now they are making use of terror and are bombing young people and children," he said.

Retaliatory Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed two militants from Palestinian Islamist group Hamas before dawn, bringing to four the number killed since Trump announced the move.

Erdogan, who regards himself as a champion of the Palestinian cause and an opponent of any perceived global injustice against Muslims, described Jerusalem as the "apple of our eye" and a "red line" for Muslims.
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Supreme Court ruling benefits Trump's bid to defend DACA cancellation

Kevin Daley
The Daily Caller
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 08:31 UTC
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A closely divided Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to shield documents relating to the cancellation of DACA, an Obama-era amnesty initiative that extended temporary legal status to foreign nationals who illegally entered the country as children.

The Court divided five to four along ideological lines in a late Friday ruling that temporarily permits the administration to conceal records relating to the program. Justice Stephen Breyer dissented from the decision, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.

The ruling is likely a boon to Trump's efforts to defend DACA's termination.

"The Department of Justice is pleased with the Supreme Court's decision today putting on hold the district court's overreach," DOJ spokesman Devin O'Malley said. "The Department of Homeland Security acted within its lawful authority in deciding to wind down DACA in an orderly manner, and the Justice Department believes the courts will ultimately agree."

The case was occasioned when a coalition of four states sued the administration over its September decision to end DACA, which has benefited some 800,000 individuals. Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, now president of the University of California system, also joined with the plaintiffs.
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Israel's London embassy holds chemical training drill in prep for a terrorist attack


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:20 UTC
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Israel's attention-catching 'green men' terrorist drill
Armed police in biohazard suits swarmed the Israeli embassy in London during a training exercise for a chemical terrorism attack. Emergency services rehearsed their response to "casualties effected by a noxious substance."

The drill, which was the first of its kind to take place in a foreign embassy in the capital, saw decontamination tents erected in a section of the building that was cordoned off on Sunday. Paramedics in biohazard suits treated 50 'casualties' played by Royal Military Police personnel, who were put through decontamination showers.

It comes at a time when Israeli-owned institutions are on high alert. Officials say the drill was planned well in advance, however, and was unconnected to protests around the world in the wake of US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Trump's move is controversial since the city is a holy site for a number of religions. It is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, and is looked to as the capital of a future Palestinian state. The US president has been accused of squandering years of diplomatic peace efforts between the Israelis and Palestinians.


Comment: One can hardly say Trump squandered years of peace efforts...they were sabotaged or refused.


Comment: Is there something up and coming in order to instill fear in the populace and create a new, manipulatable dynamic for the PTB?

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US, S. Korea, Japan begin joint provocation drills aimed at stirring tensions with N. Korea


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:08 UTC
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Washington, Seoul and Tokyo have have begun joint "missile tracking" drills, South Korea's military said. The new round of military exercises comes just days after the US and its allies concluded the largest ever air maneuvers over the peninsula.

The exercises kicked off Monday amid speculation that North Korea may soon test launch a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), South Korea's military announced, according to the Yonhap news agency.

Two US Aegis destroyers - USS Stethem and USS Decatur - are leading the war games along with South Korea's Seoae Ryu Seong Ryong Aegis destroyer, and Japan's Chokai Aegis vessel. During the exercises, the three navies aim to polish their skills at detecting and tracking potential ballistic missiles using a computer-simulated training module.
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Former Waffle House employee summons inner SJW to attack Trump with backwoods taunt

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:50 UTC
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US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley has been a very public cheerleader for Donald Trump's controversial Jerusalem/al-Quds declaration, however, it seems that in terms of Haley's own career ambitions, Trump is standing in her way.

The woman described by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as spewing "bloodthirsty" tirades and by North Korea as "political prostitute...crazily swishing her skirt, playing the flagship role in Trump administration's hideous sanctions and pressure racket against the DPRK", seems to be doing what I personally predicted in May of this year-she's gunning for the top job in the US.

During the heavily fraught 2016 US election, pro-Clinton media attempted to cast Donald Trump as a man who had "attacked" women. However, the allegations were later exposed as baseless and the election continued with Trump ultimately securing victory.
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Merkel: Refugees will return home once peace has returned to Iraq, Syria


Sputnik
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 04:42 UTC

Comment: Well, Angela, the Russians have made it safe for the refugees to return home... so what's it going to be?


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German Chancellor Angela Merkel expects that many refugees will go back to their home countries once peace has returned to Syria and Iraq, according to German media reports on Saturday.

Over a million of asylum seekers arrived in Germany last year. Many of them fled hostilities and poverty in North Africa and the Middle East, specifically the nearly-five-year-long war in Syria.

"We expect that once peace has returned to Syria and Islamic State has been defeated in Iraq - that you will also go back home with the knowledge you have acquired here," Merkel said at her party's meeting in the northeastern town of Neubrandenburg.
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In bitter war for public's attention, the mainstream media throws 'fact-checking' out the window

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:33 UTC
Trump media
The catalogue of journalistic "errors" in the US media over the last few weeks - the wrong ABC story about the instructions Michael Flynn supposedly received from Donald Trump, the still more wrong CNN story about the email sent to Donald Trump Junior about the publication of the Podesta emails by Wikileaks, and now the ludicrously wrong story in the Washington Post about Donald Trump and the supposedly empty stadium addressed by Donald Trump in Pensacola Bay - brings to mind a recent article by David Aaronovitch in the London Times.

Writing on 30th November 2017, Aaronovitch contrasted - I thought a touch too portentously - the rigorous fact-checking of the mainstream media with the supposedly lax attitude to facts shown by the alternative media:

Comment: Passions have ignited within mainstream media outlets. The only way some breaks could be applied is if they were to suddenly undertake a massive inventory of their wrongs. Since that's unlikely to happen, we can expect to see the decline of the establishment media at an ever-increasing rate.

See also: Fake News! CNN Launches Bombshell Dud Over False Trump-Wikileaks Story

Fending off Libel Suit, BuzzFeed is on Mission Impossible to Prove 'Trump Dossier' is Fact-based

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Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says fight for Jerusalem is now top priority


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:03 UTC
Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah
© Aziz Taher / Reuters
Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah protest in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon December 11, 2017
Lebanese Hezbollah will work with its allies to create a strategy "in the field" to confront Israel, the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said, calling again for a third Palestinian intifada (uprising), during a rally in Beirut on Monday.

"Today the axis of resistance, including Hezbollah, will return as its most important priority ... Jerusalem and Palestine and the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance in all its factions," Nasrallah said, as cited by Reuters.

Speaking by video-link at a rally attended by tens of thousands in Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut, Nasrallah vowed that the struggle for Jerusalem and an independent Palestine is now Hezbollah's top priority.

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Mission Accomplished: Putin makes first-ever visit to Syria, announces withdrawal of Russian troops following defeat of ISIS

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:04 UTC
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Before and after
Two years on from Russia's historic intervention in the Middle East to answer an international distress call from Syria, Russian president Vladimir Putin today made a surprise visit to Khmeimim airbase in northwest Syria to address Russian troops stationed there, and to tell them in person that they were going home after accomplishing their mission of saving the Arab republic from the scourge of ISIS.

Russia's successful military intervention stands in stark contrast to American intervention in the region. 14 years ago, US president George W Bush declared 'mission accomplished' aboard a US aircraft carrier just two months into the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Far from marking any accomplishment - for either Iraqis or Americans - it merely foreshadowed a long and brutal period of Iraqi history that culminated in so-called 'Islamic State', the most dangerous terrorist group the world had ever seen. How's that for 'Freedom and Democracy'.

In Putin's first-ever trip to Syria, he was met at the airbase by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, where he addressed Russian troops, congratulated them on a job well done and held meetings with President Assad and the Russian general staff.

Putin also announced that Russia would keep its Khmeimim air base in Latakia Province as well as its naval facility at Tartus "on a permanent basis". Addressing Russian servicemen on the airbase runway, Putin praised their courage and professionalism, and announced that most of them would begin returning home:
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Vanessa Beeley: Global Britain is financing terrorism and bloodshed in Syria while calling it 'aid'

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Jane Corbin, Jihadis We Pay For

BBC Panorama’s Jane Corbin in “Jihadis We Pay For”

Boris Johnson preached to the UK State choir, in the Foreign Office, on the 7th December. In Churchillian tones, Johnson announced "when in the course of a prolonged, ambitious struggle, you eventually record a success, it is essential, with due humility and caution, to celebrate that success - so I draw your attention, once again, to the defeat of DAESH in Raqqa and the victory of the 74 member coalition, in which the UK played a proud part".

The sheer sanctimonious humbug contained within that first convoluted utterance should be enough to take our breath away. However, Johnson continued speaking for 36 minutes, turning verbal somersaults of every shade and hue of hypocrisy. This speech comes swift on the heels of the BBC Panorama limping expose of the UK FCO funding of terrorism in Syria that barely scratched the surface of the magnitude of the UK campaign to destablize a sovereign nation and foment insurgency against a "regime" and its allies, that has thwarted Global Britain's geopolitical ambitions at every turn.

BBC Panorama's "Jihadis You Pay For" was nothing more than a media sleight of hand designed to conceal the bulk of the funding iceberg beneath the decorative tip of a superficial investigation that revealed nothing that had not already been unmasked by independent analysts, investigative journalists, the Syrian Government and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the last 7 years. The BBC, as always, made a "molehill out of a mountain" in order to protect Global Britain's criminal foreign policy in Syria.

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