Uprooted Palestinians are at the heart of the conflict in the M.E Palestinians uprooted by force of arms. Yet faced immense difficulties have survived, kept alive their history and culture, passed keys of family homes in occupied Palestine from one generation to the next.
The European Union (EU) is ready to lift economic sanctions against Iran as soon as the UN nuclear agency verifies Tehran's compliance with its obligations under a nuclear agreement it reached with six world powers last July, sources say. Diplomatic sources said on Friday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to issue its final report possibly later in the day or over the weekend confirming that Iran has lived up to its obligations under the nuclear agreement, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
They added that the IAEA is expected to confirm that Iran had fulfilled its obligations so that the 28-nation EU, alongside the United States and the United Nations, can end their sanctions on what is known as "Implementation Day" for the JCPOA.
"When the report from the IAEA is published, the European Union will be ready," one of the sources said.
The source added that the EU member states were agreeing the precise instruction which would then be finalized by the Netherlands, the bloc's rotating presidency. Iran and the P5+1 - the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany finalized the text of the JCPOA in the Austrian capital of Vienna in July 2015.
Under the JCPOA, limits are put on Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all nuclear-related economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic. In a key step, a senior Iranian nuclear official said on Thursday that the country has removed the core vessel of the Arak heavy water reactor and its cavities have been filled with cement in compliance with its obligations under the JCPOA.
"We carried out the last stage of the removal of the Arak reactor's heart and today our job was completely done," said Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
IAEA's report on Iran within hours: Russia
Russia's Permanent Representative to the IAEA Vladimir Voronkov said on Friday that the UN nuclear agency will publish its report on Tehran's compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA within hours.
"The report should be published within hours," Voronkov said.
Comment: The sanctions against Iran have been ridiculous and completely unwarranted. Tehran, unlike the United States, hasn't invaded another country for hundreds of years. The only 'threat' it poses is one of leadership for Middle Eastern unity. The US can no longer impede its progress, and it is good to see Iran's return to it's well earned place in the world's economic community.
Israeli occupation forces on Friday afternoon shot dead two Palestinians during clashes near al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
Doctors told Ma’an that 19-year-old Muhammad Abu Zayed had been shot in the head. His body was taken to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
Medics added that at least 10 other Palestinian youths had been shot and wounded by live fire during the clashes.
Hours later, a second Palestinian died after being shot in the stomach during clashes in the same area.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra identified the man as Muhammad Majdi Qaita, 26, from Khan Yunis. Qaita had been pronounced dead shortly after being taken to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the spokesman added.
Source: Agencies
15-01-2016 - 17:10 Last updated 15-01-2016 - 21:53
Israel arrested Ezra Nawi without just cause. A police state sting operation targeted him because of his activism. He’s held incommunicado, denied contact with legal counsel for five days, perhaps longer.
An illegal gag order barring revelation of his identity and information about his case was violated.
He’s detained at least through next Tuesday, possibly indefinitely, on fabricated charges of activities endangering state security - Israel’s usual dubious claim against activist resistors when no credible evidence exists.
Authorities claim he collected unspecified confidential information on behalf of an unnamed foreign nation or terrorist organization, as well as unexplained involvement in criminal activity.
Judicial hearings on his case will be held behind closed doors, denying him the right to present his defense publicly.
His lawyer, Lea Tselem, said “police are (fraudulently) trying to create symmetry between (Palestinian Dewabsha family) murders and my client. The same method and the same practice. It won’t help them.”
On Tuesday, Rabbis for Human Rights head Arik Ascherman expressed solidarity with Nawi, saying:
“I have known and respected him for many years. He is not a perfect individual, but he has done a lot of good in the world.” He’s done nothing wrong, Ascherman maintains.
“Every Palestinian in the South Hebron Hills knows him. If there is an attack there by Israelis at dawn, they all know they can call him, and he'll be there” - staunchly supporting justice.
Israel tolerates no opposition to its ruthlessness, wanting its high crimes suppressed, Jews as vulnerable as Palestinians when revealing them.
Nawi’s rights were systematically violated. He’s gotten death threats.
He’s a Ta’ayush advocacy member (Arabic for living together) - “a grassroots movement of Arabs and Jews working to break down the walls of racism and” apartheid through nonviolent unity for “equality, justice and peace” - polar opposite longstanding Israeli policy.
Haaretz editors blasted Israeli authorities for persecuting Nawi unjustly, saying they operate like other regional police states.
Denying him fundamental rights guaranteed under international law is more evidence of Israeli ruthlessness. Allegations against him are without just cause, entirely for political reasons.
“The two-facedness and hypocrisy of the authorities point to their true motives: to hound human rights organizations and delegitimize the entire left,” Haaretz editors stressed.
“Detention under the cover of darkness is another phase in the (regime’s) attempts to crush all resistance and opposition to the occupation.”
Kangaroo courts outrageously “are abetting” police state lawlessness.
- See more at: http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/56705-israel-arrests-jewish-activist.html#sthash.RDD5nisb.dpuf
RT Correspondent Anya Parampil talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh about his latest bombshell piece in the London Review of Books. The article, titled “Military to Military” alleges, based on sources within the military, that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Intelligence Agency advised President Obama against an “Assad must go” policy back in 2013, fearing if Assad fell the country would plunge into utter chaos or into the hands of extremists. When the Obama Administration seemed to ignore the advice, according to Hersh’s sources the Joint Chiefs began sharing intelligence with Russia, Germany, and Israel with the understanding it would be sent to the Assad regime and aide its fight against ISIS and other extremists groups. In the interview, Hersh discusses the implications of his story, the US’s relationship with Turkey, and why the mainstream media is quick to attack him.
On Wednesday, a debate was held in the British Parliament on the issue of Palestinian child prisoners detained by Israeli forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
The same day, two thousand miles away, Israel’s Knesset hosted a discussion on how to combat the growing, Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. Together, these two parliamentary meetings serve as a useful illustration of why Israel’s international image continues to deteriorate – and why it is not likely to improve any time soon.
First, to Westminster, where Labour MP Sarah Champion sponsored a debate on Palestinian child prisoners. The majority of the debate was taken up by a detailed account of the situation as it currently stands, including how children are taken from their homes at night, and the injustices and discrimination inherent in Israel’s use of military courts to try and jail Palestinian children.
Instructively, however, the debate did not just focus on the human rights abuses being perpetrated by Israel, but what can be done to stop them.
Champion, describing the transfer of Palestinian detainees out of the OPT as a war crime, urged the government to establish “a watch list” of those responsible, and to “ensure that any individual on the watch list who attempts to enter the UK is detained for questioning and, if sufficient evidence is available, charged and prosecuted, subject to the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.”
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, meanwhile, asked Champion whether she agreed “that it is now time for action”, and suggested that “the UK could call for the suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement”, on the basis that it includes “a clause saying that if there are human rights abuses, there is a right to suspend the agreement.” Champion called the recommendation “superb.”
Two members of Labour’s frontbench similarly urged further meaningful steps to be taken: shadow Foreign Office minister Diana Johnson insisted that “the British Government need to do much more to hold the Israeli Government to account”, while shadow minister for human rights Andy Slaughter criticised what he called “the apartheid regime that exists…in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
Interestingly, given how strong the support for Israel has been, and continues to be, within the Conservative Party, three Tory MPs also voiced criticism of Israeli policies. Tania Mathias, for example, noted the “sad coincidence” that the debate was taking place the same week the UN human rights envoy to the Palestinian territories resigned because Israel denied him access.
Conservative MP Bob Stewart predicted that, unless Israel changes its illegal policies, “people such as me, who actually are big supporters of Israel, will lose the urge to be supporters.” Similarly, Tory MP David Jones, calling himself a friend of Israel, said that “the way that Israel is conducting itself is in a way that should bring shame to any self-respecting democracy.”
Attempts to defend Israel during the debate were feeble and predictable. Labour MP Ian Austin was literally laughed at, after he asserted that the detention of children under-12 simply “does not happen.” Conservative MP John Howell referred to Palestinian “incitement” six times in one minute, and also declared that “we should focus our attention on the Saudi execution of minors.”
Andy Slaughter put it succinctly when he said “government Members—and, indeed, Opposition Members—who seek to defend the occupation are increasingly clutching at straws in doing so.”
In the Knesset, meanwhile, Wednesday saw some 150 politicians and activists gather for a two-hour discussion organised by the Caucus to Fight Delegitmization on how to fight the BDS campaign. The caucus has five, cross-party co-chairs: Michael Oren (Kulanu), Anat Berko (Likud), Nachman Shai (Zionist Camp), Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid), and Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beytenu).
The meeting was chaired by Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan, who called for “a network to face a network”, echoing the wording used by think-tank the Reut Institute. Erdan is responsible for coordinating the government’s efforts to sabotage the various global campaigns designed to hold Israel to account, with a NIS 100 million budget for 2016.
Erdan described delegitimization as “a challenge with strategic potential”, and BDS as “part of a broader campaign that covers many areas, including education and culture.” BDS activists’ aim, the minister warned, is “to restrict the IDF’s actions and discriminate in international institutions.”
The Labor party’s Nachman Shai emphasised how the fight against the growing boycott united both coalition and opposition alike. MK Berko called BDS “jihad dressed up in a suit.” Most speakers were well-known pro-Israel advocates, including Irwin Cotler, former ambassador Ron Prosor, NGO Monitor head Gerald Steinberg, and Shurat HaDin’s Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.
MK Michael Oren, meanwhile, in remarks made to the press beforehand, claimed that BDS activists “are well-funded, highly organized and very sophisticated.” According to Oren, Israel is yet to “come up with an answer [to BDS]”, and suggested a role for the Israeli military and intelligence services.
Desperate stuff, and the suggestions made during the meeting were more of what has already been tried: former Israeli soldiers visiting North American campuses, ‘exposing’ BDS activists, and so on.
Meanwhile, in London, British politicians – including many who still describe themselves as ‘friends’ of Israel – despaired of the treatment of Palestinians under a discriminatory occupation, and, crucially, called for the government to go beyond mere words.
Israel’s leaders still don’t understand. BDS is not some well-resourced, evil conspiracy but a grassroots response to Israel’s colonialism, occupation, and apartheid. Without drastic changes on the ground, support for this form of pressure will only grow – including in Westminster.
Local Editor Given the current regional situation, the "Israeli" entity fears that Hizbullah might strike its naval ships from Syria using Russian-made missiles.
"Syria possesses Russian-made Yachont missiles, and there is the feeling that they have also made their way into the hands of Hizbullah," a senior "Israel" Navy officer told The Jerusalem Post's sister publication Ma'ariv. "In any event, our working assumption is that [the Lebanese Shi'ite organization] will launch those missiles from Syria," the officer said. The naval commander listed a number of maritime threats with which "Israel" must contend, ranging from Hizbullah and Syria in the north to "ISIS" and Hamas in the south. When asked if "ISIS" or any other group poses a threat to "Israel", the official said: "We are taking into account that anyone holding a weapon will use it at some point." The official said that the defense establishment believes the Yachont poses the greatest threat to the "Israeli" regime's ships and submarines, adding that the supersonic cruise missiles are being housed in facilities controlled by the Syrian government. The senior official added that the missiles pose the greatest threat to strategic assets controlled by the "Israeli" entity and is deeply concerned that it could elude the newly developed Barak 8 missile defense system. "Hizbullah has in its possession a broad spectrum of missiles" in its arsenal, the official stressed. "Any ship that leaves our docks is now at threat." Not a week goes by in which the Navy does not practice against such military scenarios, the official said, adding that the Navy also conducts training exercises that protects the "Israel" entity from possible infiltration, military operations on its ports and underwater vessel hijackings. Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
ByIsraa al-Fass Saudi newspapers has been celebrating the first anniversary of Salman bin Abdul Aziz's being in charge of the kingdom since the 3rd of Rabi'e al-Awwal of the 1436 Hijri year. The kingdom's newspapers compete to celebrate the occasion, as they expressed the renewal of "pledging loyalty" and obedience to the king who western reports verify "he couldn't concentrate but for few hours a day," according to Bill Law in his piece for the British daily, "The Independent."
The Saudi "al-Hayat" newspaper, under the title of "A Year of ‘Decisiveness’ and ‘Determination’ Makes the New Saudi Identity," selected a bunch of "achievements" it claimed they were made since the beginning of Salman's rule. In parallel, the "Sahrq al-Awsat" newspaper praised some extraordinary features of the seventh king from the sons of Abdul Aziz. As it exaggerated praising the king, a policy adopted by the kingdom's newspapers and writers, the "Sharq al-Awsat" described Salman bin Abdul Aziz as the "founder of the fourth Saudi state!"
For its part, "Okaz" newspaper specified its first page to publish the king's photo under the title "Salman, the Heart of the People and the Nation", exposing the wars of whom it described as the "King of Decisiveness" from Yemen, to Lebanon, Syria and Iraq to return them to "the Arab lap". The paper further published a file entitled "Pledging Loyalty" in which it specified it for reports that praise the king, in addition to statements by the princes of the regions who renewed their pledge of loyalty to him... The same titles, next to the king's photos, dominated the topics of Saudi newspapers such as: "ar-Riyadh", "Sabaq", "al-Watan", "al-Yawm" and "as-Sharq."
This is how "Saudi" newspapers drafted the news of the royal "achievements", in a kingdom where criticizing authorities is a crime, where tweeters are detained, and those who demand reform are beheaded... What about those who are not obliged by obeying "the ruler"?
Executing Rivals... Disobedience of "Al Saud" Princes
Before burying his brother King Abdullah, the royal court had announced a bunch of decisions that were described as revolutionary over the previous rule. Such decisions provided assigning Mohammad bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz as Deputy Crown Prince, his son Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz as Defense Minister, and isolating Khaled Tuweijeri who is close to Mut'ab bin Abdullah. Such decisions didn't last long until Megrin bin Abdul Aziz was exempted from his post as a Crown Prince. This post shifted for "bin Nayef", while Mohammad bin Salman held the post of the Deputy Crown Prince. Therefore, the king guaranteed that his son would find a place in the transformation of rule from the first generation to the other, under tense competition that has not ended yet due to the absence of the mechanism of shifting power.
Salman bin Abdul Aziz's decisions represented final end of relations with the previous rule, in which he tended to draw a roadmap that would allow his son Mut'ab reach power. Besides, the decisions to isolate the sons of Sultan and Bandar soon proved that he could not be relied on in hopes to restore the strength of the Sudairi wing to power. It is the wing to which Salman belongs, and that was marginalized during the previous rule. Isolation and marginalization policies included all sons of Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, yet boosted bin Nayef's position, opening the door for the rule of the son of King Mohammad bin Salman, who is considered the actual ruler of the kingdom as the health and mental situations of his father deteriorated.
The British newspaper, "The Guardian", didn't see the royal decisions but "defending survival" of the rule, which explains Saudi prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz's campaign against the royal decisions, announcing neither pledge of loyalty nor obedience.
Relatively, decisions in the kingdom faced rejection amidst the Al Saud milieu, in particular from the brothers of the king: Ahmad, Abdul Ilah, Mamdouh, Mut'ab, Bandar, Turky and Abdul Rahman, according to tweets by the famous Saudi Twitter user "Mujtahidd."
Discontent within the family appeared months later in a two-part message that was circulated in the houses of the Al Saud members, which ignited isolating the king and his son bin Nayef.
However, these stances didn't hinder the progress of the rule, despite what is being leaked about fierce competition between the two "Mohammads" (bin Nayef and bin Salman).
Gambling in Yemen
Although as soon as he took power he announced that Saudi Arabia will keep its path in "all what would achieve unity of lines and words, and defending the causes" of the Arab and Muslim nation, two months later, the king led a war on Yemen that is still ongoing since more than 11 months, claiming the lives of 7411 martyrs, and causing injuries to 13846 others until the moment, as well as damaging the Yemeni infrastructure and most distinguished historic and religious landmarks of the country.
Under the slogan of "restoring legitimacy" in Yemen, the kingdom announced in the night of March 26 the formation of a military coalition that includes 10 countries to get engaged in a war against Yemen. But Saudi efforts and grants failed to make benefit from such countries, as Egypt and Pakistan refused to take part, while battles showed that real participation is conducted and led by Saudis and Emirates, besides number of mercenaries.
Despite the high expenses that were spent in the Yemen war, Saudi Arabia failed to achieve any of its announced goals, and it couldn't until now make any field achievement that it tends to before heading to the table of negotiations. An American researcher described fights in Yemen as very expensive on the financial level, expecting that it "would last long without any clear results." Meanwhile, "The Independent" considered that Saudi burned billions on the aggression it is launching against Yemen as well as its war in Syria.
In last April, "Der Spiegel" newspaper reported that the Saudi military operations in Yemen failed to achieve its goals, adding that: "four weeks after the war, hundreds were killed and Saudi now wants to get engaged in a political solution for the struggle on power in Yemen."
For its part, "The Independent" said that the Kingdom involved itself in a "brutal war in Yemen, whose end doesn't appear in the horizon."
In the context, Irish writer Patrick Cockburn described Saudi current policies as hasty, saying they seek "paralyzing the Arab world by getting it involved in proxy wars in Syria and Yemen," citing a report by the German intelligence agency as saying that "Saudi is taking more aggressive options and war-loving policy, like the war in Syria and Yemen."
Few months ago, in the same context, "Mujtahidd" saw that it is too late to fix the situation in Yemen, noting that it is no more possible "to stop the war without confessing defeat," adding that "almost four months have passed on the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen, which is more than the double of the longest period of airstrikes without ground battles. So what is the result?"
The Inside Terrorism... "ISIL" in the Kingdom
Slogans of "decisiveness and determination" which Saudi media promoted regarding the kingdom's wars, appeared as a media bubble that was uncovered by terrorist attacks and bombs inside the kingdom.
On May 22nd, a suicide attack targeted worshippers in the Mosque of Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb (PBUH) in al-Qudeih in the eastern al-Qatif Province, which martyred some and was claimed by "ISIL".
Few days later, on May 29th, another suicide bomb rocked the courtyard of the Imam al-Hussein (PBUH) Mosque in the eastern al-Anoud neighborhood, claiming the lives of 4 martyrs who prevented the suicide bomber from entering.
In July, a booby-trapped car exploded in front of a checkpoint on the way to al-Haer-Riyadh, causing injuries to two police officers, and was soon claimed by "ISIL."
Later in August, the terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the Abha bomb that killed 12, including a police officer.
Then in October, terrorist militants conducted an armed attack against the Haidariya Husseiniya in Sehat, east kingdom, leaving 5 martyrs. And by the end of the same month, another terrorist explosion targeted a mosque belonging to the Ismaili sect in Najran, south Saudi Arabia, leaving 2 martyrs and others wounded.
The Mena Tragedy
Among the record of the new era, the Mena tragedy is mentioned, which was classified as the bloodiest incident in the history of pilgrimage, claiming the lives of 2121 victims, according to computation by the Associated Press.
"The Independent" held Saudi authorities responsibility for the tragedy, despite the Saudi attempts to lay responsibility on the pilgrims, claiming they were not controlled in their behavior. The British newspaper further cited eyewitnesses as saying that there were untrained emergency men, noting what was reported about the closure of two roads to let members of the ruling family pass.
Peak Disability in Saudi Budget
By the end of December, Saudi Arabia announced its budget, uncovering peak disability in the oil-rich kingdom that exceeded 80 billion dollars.
This unprecedented disability came after a report published by "The Independent" some months earlier saying that Saudi Arabia is burning billions of its financial stock in an unprecedented manner to keep oil prices low "50 dollars per barrel", and at the same time, to meet its needs regarding the aggression it is leading on Yemen as well as its war in Syria. The daily at the time expected that Saudi would be harmed by the policy of swamping the market with oil products. This policy was adopted by the kingdom to harm the Iranian and Russian economies and prevent the Americans from extracting shale oil.
Such economic disability pushed the kingdom towards imposing new policies, such as lifting support of fuel prices, imposing taxes on water and electricity services, and even imposing the value-added taxes which will be applied within months.
Bloody Executions Series
The kingdom didn't close 2015 just with the economic failure; it rather dedicated what was previously criticized by Amnesty International which considered the "series of bloody executions" at its highest level since 20 years in the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia executed 150 members in 2015, before closing that year on the crime of executing 47 persons, among who where the prominent Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, which shook the Muslim world and caused the eruption of a crisis between the Saudi Kingdom and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Under Salman bin Abdul Aziz the first's rule, Saudi Arabia decided to end 2015 with a "beheading" party, according to "The Independent", which also pushed "The Sunday Times" to say: "Less than a year has passed until now on Salman bin Abdul Aziz being in charge, yet it is one of the worst years in the history of Saudi Arabia!"
Source: Al-Manar Website
15-01-2016 - 13:09 Last updated 15-01-2016 - 13:09
It’s the deft way that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacted to the de
is much more to the incident than simply an Islamist terror attack carried out against innocent civilians.
From the blood and carnage, his regime has quickly sought to position itself internationally as another victim of barbaric terrorism, and as a fearless fighter against the Islamic State terror network. Turkey is a little too self-consciously wrapping itself in the emotional flag of France following the Paris terror attacks in November.
The American White House and the United Nations’ chief Ban Ki-Moon also weighed in with condemnations of the «despicable» killings in Istanbul and vowed solidarity with the Turkish state against the terrorism.
Both Erdogan and his prime minster Ahmet Davutoglu responded immediately in separate but similarly scripted speeches to claim that the atrocity was evidence that Turkey is at «the front line in the fight against terrorism».
«No-one should doubt our resolve to defeat the terrorists of Islamic State», Erdogan told reporters. His earnest, tough-sounding anti-terror declarations were echoed by Davutoglu.
However, as William Shakespeare would say: «Thou protest too much!» – meaning the contrived rhetoric suggests an ulterior aim.
Erdogan’s government reacted with suspiciously punctual accounting of the bombing, which occurred in the historic quarter of Istanbul, killing at least 10 people, including eight German tourists.
Within hours of the attack early Tuesday, Turkish authorities had named the suicide bomber as a 28-year-old Syrian national who was originally born in Saudi Arabia. The Turkish government said he was a member of the Islamic State (IS) terror group.
But even several hours later, as of Tuesday night, no group had yet claimed responsibility for the attack. That raises questions about who did carry out the bombing. Surely the IS would be only too glad to take the credit for an attack involving international headlines, as they usually do in such atrocities? Why did the group seem to not know anything about it in the immediate aftermath?
If this were a genuine terror attack that defied the Turkish state security services, then how come the Turkish authorities were so quickly able to identify the alleged suicide bomber? In a «normal» terror attack, the authorities would be caught off-guard and would be seen to be scrambling for several days to piece together who carried it out. Not in this case. Erdogan’s government had the low-down immediately on not only the alleged group behind the bombing (IS), but also the alleged individual. That’s quite amazing detective efficiency, if we accept the official version at face value.
In any case, such acceptance of the Erdogan government’s version would also be wildly naive. The Turkish military intelligence, MIT, has been shown through many previous instances to be intimately involved with Islamist terror groups waging war in Syria.
Can Dundar, the editor of Cumhuriyet, is facing life imprisonment because his newspaper exposed gun-running by the MIT to terror groups in Syria.
Turkish MP Eren Erdem earlier this year also made credible claims that the Erdogan government has covered up an investigation into the supply of chemical weapons to Islamic State militants by the MIT; chemical weapons that were mostly likely used in the mass killing of Syrian citizens in the Damascus suburb of East Ghouta in August 2013.
Russian military aerial surveillance has in recent months irrefutably exposed industrial-scale smuggling of oil by the IS terrorists into Turkey, with credible links in the racket going all the way to the Turkish state and Erdogan’s family shipping businesses in particular.
Previous bombings against Turkish citizens inside Turkey have also implicated the dirty work of the Erdogan regime. When over 100 Kurdish rights supporters were killed in a bomb blast at a peaceful rally in Ankara last October, Kurdish groups accused Turkish state agents of secretly carrying out the atrocity. Similar claims of state-sponsored terrorism against Kurdish political groups were made over the deadly bombings in Suruc and Diyarbakir also last year.
A deadly bombing in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli in May 2013, which killed over 40, was again blamed on Turkish state agents trying to frame the Syrian government, in an attempt to contrive a casus belli for Turkish military invasion of Syria. Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu has been caught in leaked audio tapes voicing such false flag schemes in private meetings with party cadres.
In recent weeks, the Turkish authorities have been making high-flown claims of foiling terror plots within the country, alleging that they had pre-empted suicide bombers belonging to IS. It is impossible to verify these official claims because Erdogan’s regime has severely clamped down on independent media reporting.
But one reasonable way of assessing such official claims is that the Turkish authorities were setting the scene for an eventual terror attack, which appears to have happened this week with the bombing in Istanbul.
And with swift reaction Erdogan’s government has deftly stepped up to make pointed claims that it is a victim of IS terrorism, and thereby quickly receiving sympathy and support from the White House and the UN.
The timing is important for proper understanding. Erdogan, Davutoglu and the ruling Justice and Development Party have been exposed in recent months by Russia’s military intervention in Syria as being up to their necks in supporting terrorism in Syria. The Western media may have treated the revelations with a stultified indifference. Nevertheless, the revelations are a shocking indictment of the lawlessness of the Turkish state, a NATO member and an aspiring member of the European Union.
The Erdogan regime has become synonymous with state-sponsored terrorism, smuggling and gun-running in Syria, and in particular collusion with Islamist terror groups like IS. (Saudi Arabia has also been similarly illuminated as a rogue, gangster state.)
What better then, from the Erdogan’s point of view, than an IS atrocity in Istanbul this week killing foreign tourists in order for his regime to subsequently make claims of being an «enemy of IS» and a «defender against terrorism».
Nonetheless, this alternative, more realistic, scenario beckons: the Erdogan regime knew the bomber’s identity because it works with such terror operatives; and the Turkish authorities enabled the attack to go ahead for its own self-serving political reasons of blanching its badly tarnished international reputation, to be thus seen as a «victim of terrorism».
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Israeli occupation forces on Friday afternoon shot dead two Palestinians during clashes near al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
Saudi newspapers has been celebrating the first anniversary of Salman bin Abdul Aziz's being in charge of the kingdom since the 3rd of Rabi'e al-Awwal of the 1436 Hijri year. The kingdom's newspapers compete to celebrate the occasion, as they expressed the renewal of "pledging loyalty" and obedience to the king who western reports verify "he couldn't concentrate but for few hours a day," according to Bill Law in his piece for the British daily, "The Independent."
