Magic Kippa – Goyim Beware

January 18, 2016  /  Gilad Atzmon

By Gilad Atzmon
Anti-Semites planning to target Jews easily identified by decorative skullcaps may have to find a better strategy to identify the chosens.

Following recent attacks on Jews around the globe, the Jewish genius has once again been activated to find a solution. Introducing Kippa Magic, the kippa that blends invisibly into the wearer’s hair. Thanks to the innovative new kippa, Jews will be able to hide within their host nations while still wearing the Jewish religious garment.

Shalom Koresh, a hairdresser from Rehovot (Israel) and the man behind the revolutionary invention says the product will allow Jews to remain observant even in hostile places. “The idea first came to me about six months ago,” says Koresh, “I had customers coming in who had travelled in Europe and talked about growing anti-Semitism there. So I thought, why not make a kippa that blends in with the hair?”

The 48-year-old Israeli says most of the demand for the Magic Kippa comes from France, Belgium and other European countries where there has been a marked uptick in anti-Semitic attacks and hate speech. I wonder how long it will be before Shalom Koresh resolves the dangers that are involved with the state of being foreskin-less.  

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New Stabbing Operation as IOF Hunts for Palestinian who Killed Israeli Settler

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A Palestinian teen stabbed an Israeli woman on Monday, as Occupation forces were hunting for another Palestinian who killed Israeli settler a day earlier.

IOF on Monday hunted for a Palestinian suspect accused of breaking into a West Bank home and stabbing an Israeli woman to death.

As the hunt was under way, another stabbing occurred on a street in a separate West Bank settlement, wounding another woman identified as Michal Froman.

The 17-year-old Palestinian assailant was shot by security personnel and taken to hospital in severe condition after the attack in Tekoa south of Jerusalem.

While Sunday's killing was part of a months-long wave of Palestinian operations, it was the first inside a Zionist settlement home in the occupied West Bank and triggered fears that the unrest was worsening against the Israelis.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled further security measures on Monday, pledging to "strengthen the communities" after the deadly stabbing in the so-called Otniel settlement near the flashpoint city of Hebron in the southern West Bank.

"Whoever tries to harm us, we will bring him to justice," Netanyahu said. "In the end he will be found and he will pay the full price."

Israel's military confirmed it was searching for the suspect but declined to provide further details.
It also said Palestinians who work in settlements in the southern West Bank were not allowed in on Monday. The order applied to several thousand workers.

The occupied territories have been, since October 1, rocked by a wave of attacks against Zionists in retaliation of the Israeli repressive measures against the Palestinians across the West Bank and especially in al-Quds.

Zionist settlers backed by occupation forces have been repeatedly storming the holy al-Aqsa Mosque, sparking Palestinian anger.

Source: AFP	18-01-2016 - 14:44 Last updated 18-01-2016 - 14:44

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Obama’s Invasion Plan of Syria Was Drawn Up by Kim Roosevelt in 1957

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The same person, Teddy Roosevelt’s grandson (pictured above), who planned and headed the CIA coup to overthrow Iran’s progressive secular democratic anti-communist President Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953, and to replace him with the brutal dictator Shah Reza Pahlevi, so as to continue Western oil companies’ control over Iran’s oil and gas, went on to plan four years later, in 1957, the invasion of Syria by the U.S., along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey; and it’s virtually exactly the plan that U.S. President Barack Obama has been placing into action ever since Obama first stepped into the White House: Obama’s plan, like Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt’s plan, entailed what in the intelligence trade is referred to as “false flag” events, which are intended to deceive the public into thinking that the actual victims of the overthrow-operation were instead to be blamed for it. (That’s like Obama’s 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria that he wanted to use as an excuse to invade Syria to remove Assad.)

Back in 1957, there was no Assad dynasty in Syria, but only the Ba’ath Party, which was, and is, the only effective non-sectarian, or non-theocratic, political force in Arabic countries; so, America’s oil companies used instead the Islamic forces, in order to grab Middle Eastern oil, and to be able to use Syria as the vital pipeline-route for it into Europe (the world’s largest energy-market). The Ba’athists refused to cooperate with any such plan for foreign control over their national resources. This was the basis for America’s determination to overthrow the Ba’athists, and replace them with their enemies, the Islamists. (This was likewise a reason for America’s wars against Saddam Hussein.)

Whereas U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower was ultimately forced to cancel Kim’s plan because only Turkey was willing to participate in it, Obama was able to get the royals of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to perform as Kim had planned for them: getting U.S. weapons to Syria’s jihadists, and supporting the main jihadist organization, Sunni Islam’s fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, to be the chief Syrian participants in overthrowing the Ba’athists.

Kim’s plan, just like his earlier and successful plan to take over Iran, enjoyed the full backing of both of the Dulles brothers — Allen Dulles who ran Eisenhower’s CIA, and John Foster Dulles who ran Eisenhower’s State Department. Both Dulleses headed the U.S. operation to bring top Nazis to America and give them fake backgrounds. Here’s a good documentary about specifically their still-ongoing European “Operation Gladio” to conquer Russia, but which until 1990 fronted as being instead (and was widely thought to have been) anti-communist. It actually was anti-communist, in the very narrow sense that any pro-fascist operation is, but it was anything but ‘democratic’ or pro-democratic. The CIA was set up by Eisenhower as a fascist entity, after President Truman had dithered with its predecessor the OSS, not knowing what to do with the post-WW-II incipient emerging U.S. intelligence bureaucracy. Eisenhower as President was no longer answering to FDR as he had been doing in WW II; he was on his own after the war, and became more and more fascist, so that, when he put together his Presidential Administration, the switch of the U.S. toward fascism began in earnest, and it has never really stopped.

Obama, also unlike Eisenhower, enjoyed additionally the backing of the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda, called Al Nusra. Al Qaeda was actually created by the U.S. in the late 1970s to exhaust the Soviets in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda was financed by Arabia’s royal families, especially the Sauds. After that success in supplying Osama bin Laden’s people with U.S. weapons paid for by the Sauds (and incidentally boosting profits for U.S. armaments-makers), the Sunni aristocracies had more respect for Kermit Roosevelt’s original vision. Obama tweaked Kim’s plan, which had been sitting on CIA-MI6 shelves unused, for more than 50 years; but it was, indeed, KR’s plan, not originally Obama’s. Only now in Obama’s time, the situation was finally right for it.

Kermit Roosevelt was at least as effective at advancing the American aristocracy’s conquest of foreign lands, as his much more famous grandfather had been. (The FDR wing of the Roosevelt clan were utterly opposed to American Empire, but FDR fatefully decided in 1945 to ally with King Saud in order to block Britain from resuming after the War the British aristocracy’s control over Arabic countries. It was FDR’s hope to break up even the British Empire — and the U.S. had actually even developed a secret plan between 1927 and 1939, for a military conflict between the U.S. and Britain, because the two countries had been at war against each other several times prior to WW I. FDR thought that America’s alliance with King Saud would make that plan unnecessary.)

The fact that defeating Soviet communism is no longer even an available excuse for overthrowing Russia-allied rulers, doesn’t deter Obama at all, because Obama has been skillful at demonizing post-communist Russia, which still remains as Syria’s key backer, even after the so-called ‘ideological’ war is long-since over, and NATO now increasingly surrounds Russia at Russia’s very borders. If Hillary Clinton or another candidate who demagogues against Russia becomes the next U.S. President, there’s no way of telling how bad things will get, because they’re already almost out of control.

The plan that Obama dusted off and placed into action has turned out to be, under Obama, part of a far broader U.S. war against Russia. One of the major decisions for the next U.S. President will be what to do with that broader war. Vladimir Putin can’t prevent it from become even more intense, because he has been doing everything possible in order to stop it. But Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize; Putin didn’t.

As Seymour Hersh has reported, Obama’s aggressivism in Syria was too much for the head of his Joint Chiefs of Staff to be associated with, so he quit. And as I have reported, it was also too much for his second Secretary of State, John Kerry, to accept, and so he virtually dared Obama to fire him, but Obama fortunately backed down there. The world might not be able to afford another Peace Prize Winner — or American President — like that.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of  CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.

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ISIS FLEES AL-BAAB IN ALEPPO; WITHDRAWS COMPLETELY TO AL-RAQQA; ARMY TO ENTER CITY ANY MINUTE

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Al-Baab:  It had to happen sooner or later.  The terrorists belonging to ISIS were warned in the city of Al-Baab that they would be exterminated along with their stinking families if they did not leave.  Turk terrorist handlers were overheard telling the rodents to abandon Al-Baab for the city for Al-Raqqa, specifically in the town of Tabaqa, where, conveniently, American Special Operations commandos are located to help them readjust.  The vermin collected their families and set out sporadically in a disjointed convoy designed to prevent casualties.  There were 20 cars and 1 large bus which conveyed the stinking rodents.   The SAA and PDC are only 5 kilometers away from the southern entrance to the city.  It is expected that the army will occupy Al-Baab over the next 4 hours.  Al-Baab is 35kms from Aleppo City and only 13kms from the Turk border.

It had become obvious to the Turks that the SAA was going to overrun Al-Baab after Syrian government forces liberated southern satellite villages such as Al-Multaffa, Al-‘Abboodiyya, Al-‘Aajooziyya, Rasm Sirhaan and Sirhaan Farms.

In the West, the SAAF and RuAF have been pulverizing Nusra and Jaysh Al-Fath positions at Hardatnayn, Hayyaan, Bayaanoon, Tal Rif’aat.  At the first town, the SAAF destroyed 2 HQs belonging to Nusra/Alqaeda. 

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Gulf Shares in Free Fall after Oil Rout, Iran Deal Implementation

Share prices in the energy-rich Gulf states nosedived Sunday following the sharp decline in oil prices as Iran prepares to resume crude exports after the lifting of sanctions.

Sunday’s plunge follows heavy losses in global bourses on Friday, when Gulf exchanges were closed for the weekend.

The price of oil, which contributes more than 80 percent to Gulf states' revenues, shed more than 20 percent this year to drop below $30 a barrel. This follows a plunge of 65 percent in the past two years.


The expected return of Iran to the oil market, following the implementation Saturday of its historic nuclear deal with world powers, will only worsen the production glut that has been the main reason for the oil price dive.

All seven Gulf bourses saw a wave of panicked sell-offs, sending indices to multi-year lows.
Big investors joined small dealers in dumping shares in fear of a further slump.

Most of the seven markets have already lost in the past two week more than they dropped in the whole of 2015.

The Qatar Exchange, the second largest in the Gulf after Saudi Arabia's, plunged 7.2 percent to close trading just above the 8,500-point mark, last seen in April 2013.

All the listed firms were in the red and the bourse has so far dipped 18 percent this year, more than the 15 percent it lost in 2015.

The Dubai Financial Market dropped 6.0 percent at the opening but recovered slightly to close the day down 4.64 percent to 2,684.9 points, a three-year low.

Blue chip properties giant Emaar shed 4.0 percent and the leading construction firm Arabtec sank the maximum allowed 10 percent.

Since the beginning of this year, Dubai has dropped 15 percent.

The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange also slumped 4.24 percent but remained above the 3,700-point mark. All sectors were down with banks and real estate shedding above 5.0 percent.
The Kuwait Stock Exchange dropped 3.2 percent to just above the 5,000-point mark, levels only seen in May 2004.

The Saudi Tadawul All-Shares Index, the largest Arab market, fell 7.2 percent to below 5,500-points during trading. The level was last seen in early 2011.

The leading petrochemicals sector dipped 8.0 percent, while banks lost 5.3 percent.

Since the start of 2016, the TASI has dropped 21.1 percent, more than all of its losses last year. The bourse closes later in the day.

The small market of Oman dropped 3.2 percent to below the 5,000-point mark for the first time since mid-2009. Bahrain dropped 0.4 percent.

Since the beginning of 2016, the seven stock markets have shed more than $130 billion of their market capitalization, which now stands at about $800 billion.

All Gulf stock exchanges ended 2015 in negative territory, led by Saudi Arabia, after the sharp decline in oil prices.

Source: AFP	17-01-2016 - 15:43 Last updated 17-01-2016 - 15:43

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USA made cluster bombs kill civilians in Yemen - but who answers for it?

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Human Rights Watch recently reported that further evidence on the use of cluster bombs had been uncovered on Al Zira’a Street in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

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Residents found pockmarks from the tiny bomblets released from these deadly devices along the street in homes, on their vehicles and even at the local kindergarten.

The bomb in question, which was dropped by the Saudi-led coalition in its campaign of air raids, recovered in the area revealed markings that lead it back to a US factory in Tennessee .

The facts above are damning, but given the complexities and futility of international law most likely no one will be called to account.

A war crime

Cluster munitions are bad weapons. Air raids in themselves are highly condemnable for the probable damage to infrastructure and civilian harm they cause, particularly in populated areas. However, these are not just single explosives; cluster bombs release many smaller submunitions – the one found on Al Zira’a Street possibly released up to 650 submunitions - which have the effect of hitting ground objects such as vehicles and people. They are also impossible to direct.

Since the Saudi-led coalition started its offensive in Yemen, the use of cluster bombs has been documented via air raids and its path has led back to the US.

The Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty joined by 118 states, bans the use of cluster munitions in armed conflict, but the US and Saudi Arabia are not signatories.

However, according to US domestic law, the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act 2011 limits the use and transfer of cluster munitions to those that have less than a one per cent failure rate, and prohibits their use in civilian areas. It also requires a clean-up plan if US cluster munitions are used as undetonated munitions - which essentially act as landmines.

The markings on the bomb found in Sanaa indicate it was manufactured in 1978, prior to efforts made by the US to increase the reliability of their manufactured stockpile. Also, although the target in this case was military, it was used around a populated area in direct contravention of US policy as well as the international law of armed conflict. Article 51(1)(b) of the Additional Protocol to Geneva Convention I states that an unlawful act that is indiscriminate in nature is one that cannot be specifically directed to a military target and cluster bombs, by their nature, in populated areas will affect non-military objects.

US liability

The US’s liability is evident on two grounds. Firstly, it is a party to the conflict by providing intelligence and it is providing arms to a state that is potentially responsible for grave human rights abuses.

Since the start of the conflict, Saudi Arabia’s air strikes have caused widespread civilian casualties that have ignited calls for a UN inquiry.

Secondly, the US is providing arms as a so-called "legal" transfer to a state that is liable for human rights abuses.

However, without the US having any planes in the air or boots on the ground, will the legal apparatus in place bring the US to account?

The International Law Commission has been clear on this and has deemed a state responsible for a wrongful act by aiding another state in that act when they know the circumstances of that act. They have had no problem in applying this to state arms transfers, and this rationale has been transferred to the Arms Trade Treaty of which the US is a party and signatory.

Notwithstanding international law, the US is contravening its own domestic law. The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and its amendment include section 620M states: "No assistance shall be furnished ... to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights."

The wrong precedent

The precedent of indicting third parties is weak. One example perhaps provides some glimmer of hope in that prosecutions have happened in the case of Charles Taylor, who was indicted by the Sierra Leone Special Court (SCSL) after providing weapons to rebels during Sierra Leone’s civil war, where war crimes had been committed by the rebel Revolutionary United Front. It is, at the least, an example of where criminal responsibility can be exacted for providing material support to perpetrators of human rights abuses.

When there are internationally binding treaties and conventions as well as national legislation, the foundation is there to compel the US to halt sales or face repercussions.

However, strong precedent shows that neither will happen. The US is one of the permanent members of the Security Council that will veto all major decisions relating to a UN investigation, which is necessary to establish whether human rights abuses have taken place, despite there being prima facie evidence of such crimes. Saudi Arabia is also chairing the Human Rights Council, which has already stalled efforts to launch an investigation.

Fruitless call for justice

Given that the US is one of the largest exporters of arms and Saudi Arabia is of one its largest importers, there will be a strong counter operation against advocacy efforts in establishing any inquiry, which would almost inevitably harm the longstanding bilateral relationship with Saudi Arabia.

As far as domestic law goes, section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act shows no advancement in being invoked in arms deals where human rights considerations should have been to the fore. Arms deals to both Israel and Colombia, in instances where evidence existed of human rights abuses on the part of both countries' militaries, continued with no repercussions.

The problem does not appear to be the law. Rather, it is the mechanism by which these laws are enforced. What is required is the ongoing cry of civil society to demand action on cluster weapons. This could expose congressional shortcomings and outdated UN practices, and put pressure for more states, including the US, to ban cluster munitions completely, just as it succeeded in its global campaign to ban landmines.

- Sophia Akram is a researcher and communications professional with a special interest in human rights particularly across the Middle East and Asia.

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Photo: Yemenis gather around the remains of a rocket during a protest in front of the United Nations (UN) office calling for an end to the military operations carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen, in the capital Sanaa, on 10 January, 2016 (AFP).

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US Desperately Paints Russia as Villain in Syria

US condemns Russia's role in Syria, amid conflict Washington and its allies started in the first place. 

January 15, 2016 (Tony Cartlaucci - NEO) - The US State Department has condemned what it claims is an increase in "civilian casualties" due to Russian military operations in Syria. CNN's report, "U.S. blasts Russian "indiscriminate attacks" in Syria," claims:

The U.S. sharpened its criticism of Russian airstrikes in Syria on Tuesday, charging that "indiscriminate attacks" had reportedly caused hundreds of civilian casualties and the displacement of over 100,000 residents. 

"We've seen a marked and troubling increase in reports of these civilian casualties since Russia commenced its air campaign," a spokesman for the U.S. State Department said.

Careful readers will notice however, that it is not actually civilian casualties that are on the rise, but rather merely "reports of" them that are increasing. By examining the nature of both the reports, and those who are making them, it is revealed that this latest media campaign pursued by the West is entirely disingenuous, and puts into jeopardy real oversight and genuine human right advocacy.

The CNN article also claims:

Various human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have accused the Russian military of killing civilians in its airstrikes.

And it would be Amnesty International's report that CNN links to in reference to the US State Department's comments. 

The Amnesty International report titled, "Syria: 'Civilian Objects Were Not Damaged': Russia's Statements on its Attacks in Syria Unmasked," even in title alone appears politically motivated in nature. However, it is under the report's section, "Methodology," that reveals the true deception at play.

Amnesty International's report admits that (emphasis added):

Amnesty International researched remotely more than 25 Russian attacks in Syria between September and December 2015. It interviewed by phone or over the internet 16 witnesses to attacks and their aftermath and spoke to more than a dozen Syrian human rights defenders and representatives of medical organizations supporting work in the areas of the attacks. It obtained and reviewed audiovisual imagery relating to all of these attacks or their aftermath, and commissioned advice from weapons experts on munitions visible in them. It reviewed statements published by the Russian Ministry of Defence and relevant articles in Russian and other media. It also reviewed reports of Syrian and international human rights organizations, humanitarian organizations, UN agencies, military and weapons analysts and open-source research networks. 

In other words, the entire report is based on hearsay from the very people fighting against the Syrian government, and/or in league with the very armed, terrorist organizations Russia, the Syrian military, and allegedly even the United States and its allies are supposedly fighting in Syria and across the region.

The report also admits that it is in contact with the discredited Rami Abdulrahman, a UK-based anti-Syrian "activist" who regularly coordinates with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. Amnesty International disingenuously refers to this one-man operation as the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights." 

The New York Times in an article titled, "A Very Busy Man Behind the Syrian Civil War’s Casualty Count," would claim:

...despite its central role in the savage civil war, the grandly named Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is virtually a one-man band. Its founder, Rami Abdul Rahman, 42, who fled Syria 13 years ago, operates out of a semidetached red-brick house on an ordinary residential street in this drab industrial city [Coventry, England].

The New York Times would also reveal: 

Money from two dress shops covers his minimal needs for reporting on the conflict, along with small subsidies from the European Union and one European country that he declines to identify. 

Considering various conflicts of interests, including open bias against the Syrian government and funding coming from governments bent on overthrowing that government, how Amnesty International finds Abdulrahman's information credible is a mystery. How Amnesty International finds his information convenient, on the other hand, is no mystery at all. 

Physicians for Human Rights is also referenced by Amnesty International. It has been behind previous and equally dubious accusations leveled against Russia in Syria, and is a US State Department-funded, US-based front - making the US State Department's recent statements not only baseless, but disingenuously self-referencing.

The equally discredited Eliot Higgins, a sofa-bound unemployed British man who now openly works as a "contractor" for Western defense companies and is clearly engaged in biased propaganda, not objective analysis, was also referenced in Amnesty International's report. Under methodology, Amnesty International claims it "reviewed" what it called "open-source research networks." This is a euphemism for people like Higgins who sit at home and watch YouTube videos, and draw conclusions most suitable to sustain the West's narrative.

Image: None of the people in Amnesty International's report on Syria are actually in Syria. Elliot Higgins spends most of his time on a sofa in the United Kingdom. Those Amnesty International claims are in Syria, have had their identities withheld, making it impossible to even verify their existence, let alone confirm any of the hearsay they allegedly passed on to Amnesty International during "Internet calls." 

Other "sources" Amnesty International cites in the footnotes of its report include "eyewitnesses" who "wished to remain anonymous."

Contempt of Human Rights Advocacy 

We can imagine a court hearing in which a police department is trying to give its side of the story, and all of its witnesses are either police or "anonymous witnesses" who sound a lot like the police. The hearing would be thrown out as a farce, and those involved in making it a farce, would likely be charged with contempt of court.

Likewise, Amnesty International and the political interests using its deceitful work, are in contempt of human rights advocacy. They are undermining justice, accountability, and the dignity of such work by exploiting it for political gain.

What's worse still, is even as the US State Department gets up to the podium to condemn Russia's military operations based on the words of networks the US State Department itself helped create to intentionally tell only one side of the human rights situation on any given battlefield, the US itself is guilty of all it has accused Russia of, and more. And not only in Syria, but in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, and far beyond.

It should also be remembered that it was the United States and its various allies, particularly Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who conspired to ignite the conflict in Syria in the first place as a means of effecting regime change, just as a US-led coalition accomplished in Libya earlier in 2011. In fact, the US would be caught funneling terrorists and weapons from the devastated battlefields of Libya to Syria, for a repeat performance.

Dissecting the lies of the West and exactly how they are crafted and by whom precisely, helps expose and undermine this utter contempt for human rights advocacy.

Human rights advocacy is in fact a very necessary and important task. There are legitimate monitors and researchers who do in fact attempt to advance human rights advocacy. But because the abuse of such advocacy is so appealing to those who stand the most to gain from managing public perception, and because those who stand to gain the most still possess vast amounts of unwarranted power and influence, particularly across mass media, real advocacy seems to have been lost in an ocean of lies.

And as the West's ability to change the facts on the ground in Syria continue to diminish in the face of successful joint Russian-Syrian military operations, we can predict this abuse of human rights advocacy will only continue to increase.

Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine“New Eastern Outlook”.   

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israeli settlers (terrorists) vandalise Jerusalem church

Extremist settlers carry out several such attacks without being prosecuted or even rebuked by the Israeli government

Human rights groups have always said that the Israeli government encourages such hate crimes as it does not bring the perpetrators to court.

Days of Palestine, Jerusalem –Extremist Israeli Jewish settlers wrote on Sunday at dawn hate speech on doors, walls of Dormition Abbey Church in Old City of Jerusalem.

Witnesses, who took pictures of the graffiti which was written in Hebrew, said that it contained threatening and insulting phrases targeting Christians and Christianity.

Palestinian Christian official Wadie abu-Nassar said the graffiti reads: “Kill Christians, the enemy of Israel” and “The revenge is coming very soon,” as well as “Send Christians to hell.”

• Abu-Nassar, who is a senior advisor to the Catholic Church, also condemned the graffiti, calling it reflection if Israeli Jewish racism, and pointed out that the incident was not the first Zionist attack against the Dormition Abbey.

In 2014, an Israeli Jewish extremist lit a prayer book on fire in the Church, in what Israeli police at the time said was a suspected arson attack just hours after Pope Francis held mass at a nearby Christian holy spot during a visit to the area.

A year before, Israeli extremists spray-painted “Jesus is a monkey” in Hebrew outside the Church, and “Havat Maon,” the name of an illegal Israeli settler outpost that had been dismantled by the Israeli occupation just days before the attack.

In 2012, Israeli extremist Jewish settlers spray-painted “Jesus, son of a bitch” in Hebrew, signed by the phrase “price tag,” a term used by Israeli extremists to mark nationalist-motivated hate crimes.

Extremist Israeli Jewish settlers always carry out such attacks against the Muslim and Christian religious places across the occupied Palestine and the Palestinian territories.
Human rights groups have always said that the Israeli government encourages such hate crimes as it does not bring the perpetrators to court.
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