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.
Military and intelligence sources in Yemen have claimed that up to 200 mercenaries from that country have been sent to Libya by Turkey to fight on behalf of the Government of National Accord (GNA).
The claims, disclosed by the Yemen News Portal, allege that a militia affiliated to the Islah Party in Marib sent fighters to Turkey under the guise of receiving hospital treatment, and that they were then transferred to the Libyan capital Tripoli. The sources added that Libyan National Army (LNA) forces headed by General Khalifa Haftar have already captured a number of Yemeni mercenaries fighting on behalf of the GNA earlier this year. LINK
The latest disclosures follow several reports relating evidence that Turkey is increasing its involvement in Yemen substantially, providing training and material support to the Islah Party in particular in the hope of gaining control over key facilities and resources in the event Islah manages to secure control over parts of the war torn country. LINK
The increasing attention being paid to the possibility of significant Turkish intervention in the conflict in Yemen followed the dramatic battlefield successes of the GNA due to the massive support provided by Turkey after concluding an agreement granting Turkey expansive resource rights in the eastern Mediterranean. The latest reports raise questions as to whether Turkey might be considering expanding its involvement in Yemen, either as part of the ‘proxy war’ against the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in particular or in order to gain control over infrastructure, possible military bases, and/ or resources in the geo-strategically vital area. LINK
The rivalry between the regional powers intensified considerably after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt severed relations with Qatar and attempted to impose a blockade on the country in 2017, in response to which Turkey provided critical support and supplies to Qatar to enable it to withstand the pressure.
If it can be verified that Turkey intends to increase its participation in the conflict in Yemen and is now recruiting large numbers of fighters from Yemen to send to Libya, it would demonstrate that Turkey’s already expansive geopolitical ambitions are surpassing all limits: enormously destructive military adventures in northern Syria and Iraq which seem set to pave the way for the annexation of substantial territories in each country adjacent to the Turkish border; followed by the transfer of thousands of its proxy militias and terrorists from the battlefields in Syria to Libya earlier this year to fight on behalf of the GNA, with which Turkey has signed resource agreements granting exploration rights in disputed maritime zones also claimed by Egypt, Greece and Cyprus.
Turkey has also been involved in recent military stand-offs with Greece and France in the Mediterranean.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Turkey has recruited over 10,000 Syrians to fight in Libya. South Front has previously reported that Turkey has cut off support to at least one of its proxy groups in northern Syria for refusing to send fighters to Libya. LINK
In turn, the GNA has accused the LNA of recruiting foreign mercenaries. On Saturday 27 June, Libya’s permanent representative to the UN called for the imposition of sanctions against Russian and Sudanese mercenaries in the country fighting on behalf of the LNA.
It is thought that the Islah Party in Yemen may be deepening a political and military alliance with Turkey, and that it may be sending soldiers to fight on behalf of Turkish interests in Libya in return for financial and military support provided by Turkey to the Islah Party, in particular to assist the group in its conflict with UAE-backed militia in the south of the country.
Also, according to the Yemen Press Agency:
The sources said the Islah party is trying to consolidate the military alliance with Turkey in fighting alongside it in Libya, in preparation for its call for intervention in Yemen, as the Saudi-Emirati coalition turned against the party. LINK
The reports provide additional corroboration that Turkey has no intention of backing off in Libya and is willing to risk provoking an all-out war with Egypt in its pursuit of foreign resources and military bases, apart from suggesting multiple motivations for its deepening involvement in Yemen.
تتجمّع في قضية القاضي محمد مازح مجموعة من العناصر تجعل كل نقاش في الاختصاص والصلاحية وحق التصريح الإعلامي نقاشاً تافهاً دون مستوى القضية ومجرد وسيلة للهروب من المسؤولية.
يعرف القضاة والوزراء والمسؤولون في الدولة أن هناك ما يسمو على كل هذه التفاصيل ويرتفع فوقها وهو ما يعرف بالمصلحة العليا للدولة. وهي هنا في مضمون الرسالة التي يحملها أي موقف او تصريح او تدبير في شأن يتصل بسيادة الدولة.
لا يملك أي مسؤول قاضياً كان أم وزيراً ام إعلامياً، مؤيداً للسياسة الأميركية أو معارضاً لها، ما يتيح له القول بأن ما صدر ويصدر عن السفراء الأميركيين في لبنان منذ زمن لم يبق مجالاً للحديث عن حدود للحصانة الدبلوماسية وحدود للسيادة اللبنانية. وقد اعتاد السفراء الأميركيون خلال عقدين على الأقل أن يتصرفوا مع لبنان بما لا يجرؤ سفراؤهم على فعل مثله في أي دولة ثانية حتى تلك الدول التي يتهكم على ملوكها ورؤسائها الرئيس الأميركي ويخاطبهم بلغة الإذلال.
التعامل مع قضية القاضي محمد مازح بالطريقة التي انتهت إلى استقالته رفضاً لقبول مثوله أمام التفتيش القضائي حمل رسالة واحدة مفادها أن الدولة تأنس لانتهاك سيادتها وتفتح المزيد من الأبواب والنوافذ ليمد الأميركي قدميه في غرف نومنا ويمدّ أنفه ويديه في مطابخ بيوتنا وأن من يجرؤ من موقع تمثيله للدولة قاضياً أو مسؤولاً سيلاقي التأنيب والتوبيخ تحت ألف عذر وعذر وأن همّ المسؤولين في الدولة استرضاء الأميركي وإثبات التسابق والتنافس على تبييض الوجه أمامه.
المضمون ببساطة بين دولة يتيمة يمثلها محمد مازح ودولة تستمتع بتسليم سيادتها. ونحن نختار بفخر أن ننتمي لدولة محمد مازح ونعلن أننا لم ولن نحمل جنسية أخرى غير الجنسية اللبنانية لنحمل ولاءين تضيع بينهما هويتنا السيادية.
President Trump’s failures to contain the coronavirus pandemic, to maintain US leadership in the world (instead of doing Russia’s bidding) and to address the profound national rethink on race cannot be squared with genuine concern for America’s well-being and values. It is no wonder that his closest advisers and former advisers cannot explain his conduct in ways consistent with the national interest. As a result, they simply refuse to answer basic questions about his decisions.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was asked about Trump’s refusal to wear a mask in contradiction of medical advice, including his own:
HOST CHUCK TODD: Mr. Secretary, multiple times with me in our seven minutes so far that we’ve talked you’ve brought up masks, you’ve brought up social distancing. But without the president of the United States doing this, how is half the country going to listen? Have you directly asked the president to please ask the country to wear a mask?
AZAR: So I’m the president’s secretary of health. I’m telling you, practice social distancing. Where you can’t appropriately social distance, we encourage you to wear a facial covering. The vice president of the United States on Friday stood on stage, walked up on stage wearing a mask even though he doesn’t need to in the sense that everybody around him is tested, he’s in a bubble. The president, we know, is a very unique circumstance as leader of the free world. He’s tested constantly and those around him are tested constantly and they’re kept at a distance even with that. But we’re all saying this. The president’s guidelines for reopening, the president’s guidelines, his guidelines have said from day one, practice social distancing. If you can’t, wear face coverings. Practice appropriate personal hygiene. And always please consider your individual circumstances and those of your household members. Protect the most vulnerable, those over 80, and those over 65 with three or more of the serious comorbid conditions. These are the people we have to ring-fence and protect right now.
TODD: It’s a do — but what you just articulated, Mr. Secretary, is a ‘do as I say, not as I do.’ The president of the United States holding indoor rallies, twice in the last 10 days. Once in a state that is seeing a potential of an out-of-control spread in Arizona. He doesn’t talk about wearing a mask. And you avoided my question about whether you’ve asked the president to at least ask the country to wear a mask. Just because you put guidelines under his name, when he doesn’t do it, his people don’t listen.
AZAR: Well, Chuck, I’m not going to talk about politics.
It is distressing to say the least that Azar thinks the president refusing to set an example regarding the worst domestic crisis in a century is simply “politics.” Todd never got his answer because there is no excuse for Trump’s cavalier conduct, which is mimicked by his base.
The administration’s reported failure to respond to intelligence indicating Russia was paying bounties to militants to kill Americans is yet another issue on which there is no good answer. If Trump was not told, his advisers are utterly incompetent and should never have been appointed. If he was told (the White House has denied that the president was “briefed,” contrary to reporting by the New York Times), then he has betrayed the troops. Whatever the explanation, Trump still has not expressed outrage over the bounty on US troops. Trump’s lack of response is one more act of supplication to Russian President Vladimir Putin (along with pulling troops out of Germany, trying to extort Ukraine by withholding military aid, attempting to let Russia back into the Group of Seven, bugging out of Syria and denying Russia manipulated the 2016 election).
Former national security adviser John Bolton has no acceptable theory to explain this conduct. As he said on “Meet the Press”: “[W]hy is the president so defensive about Putin? … If I had evidence, I would reveal it. I just don’t know what to say other than he likes dealing with strong authoritarian figures.” That’s the most generous explanation. In the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on ABC’s “This Week”: “This is as bad as it gets, and yet the president will not confront the Russians on this score, denies being briefed.”
Just as there is no defense for Trump’s conduct, there is no justification for giving him another term. Bolton concedes Trump is a menace but cannot bring himself to acknowledge that failing to vote for former vice president Joe Biden increases the chances of a debilitating second Trump term. “I believe America can recover from one term of Donald Trump,” Bolton said. “I believe that very, very strongly. I’m more worried about a second term. And it’s not just decisions in the national security space. I’m worried about the corruption of the civil discourse in this country by a president who says the sorts of things that you quoted at the outset of our discussion. I think it degrades the body politic.” (If Trump is that bad, why did Bolton keep working for him? Why didn’t he ring the alarm for the country earlier?)
There are presidents who make faulty policy judgments (e.g., George W. Bush’s decision to launch the Iraq War). There are presidents who fail to lift the country’s spirit (e.g., Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech). However, until now there has never been a president whose conduct — from refusing to wear a mask to trying to eliminate the Affordable Care Act with no replacement plan to selling out our troops — does not even attempt to serve the public interest. There is no excuse for Trump — or for Republicans’ continued indulgence.
Sometimes listening to the morning news on television is a bit like entering into an alternate universe. Last Wednesday, the day after primary elections in New York State, CBS News reported that New York Congressman Eliot Engel was “facing a challenge” from Democratic Party challenger Jamaal Bowman. NBC News reported that Engel was “trailing.” The reality, according to the New York Times tally of the results that morning was that Bowman had beaten Engel by a margin to 60.9% versus 35.6% with more than 82% of votes counted. Even though it posted the numbers, the Times felt compelled to describe the apparently impending lopsided loss as if it were something less than that, as a “stiff challenge” for Engel.
The media deference to Engel derives from the fact that he is a protected species, possibly the leading Israel-firster in Congress. In 2003, Engel supported the invasion of Iraq and in the following year he organized a group of fellow congressmen to demand cuts in the U.S. contribution to the United Nations office that assists Palestinian refugees. He attended the infamous Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address to Congress in 2015 that many other Democratic lawmakers boycotted due to the insult to President Obama and afterwards called Netanyahu’s speech “compelling.”
Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo and Nancy Pelosi all had endorsed Engel, who has been in Congress for going on 32 years and currently heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Clinton explained that Engel “…is deeply committed to working with our allies to maintain American leadership on the global stage.” She was, of course, referring to Israel.
Engel was also endorsed by the Congressional Black Caucus even though Bowman is black, a demonstration of how politics in Washington works. Engel will in any event likely be replaced to chair the Foreign Affairs committee by a similar Jewish Israel-firster Brad Sherman of California, but his imminent defeat has already sent a shockwave through the centers of pro-Israel power in the United States.
Bowman, a progressive so-called Justice Democrat, is on record as favoring cuts in aid for Israel based on its human rights record. He has attacked Engel for being on the dole financially from defense contractors and also for being an active promoter of a military attack on Iran, even though the Iranians pose no threat to the United States. He has, in fact, made Israel something of an issue in his campaign, pointing out that Engel had been one of the few Democratic members of the House of Representatives to vote against President Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015. The JCPOA was the major foreign policy achievement of the Obama Administration and it set up a framework to prevent Iran from taking steps to produce a nuclear weapon. It was strongly opposed by Israel and its American lobby even though the agreement enhanced U.S. national security.
In 2016, after the Obama administration abstained on a United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, Engel responded with a House resolution condemning the U.N. Engel often in his career has boasted about his close relationship with Israel. Speaking at the 2018 national convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the U.S.’s principal Israeli lobby, he boasted how“There’s a bunch of legislation coming out of the Foreign Affairs Committee. I want to tell you that I sit down with AIPAC on every piece of legislation that comes out. I think it’s very, very important. In the past 30 years I have attended 31 consecutive AIPAC conferences in March, I haven’t missed one.”Some might suggest that serving in one country’s legislature and working for the interests of another country amounts to treason.
The other good news coming out of New York was that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her district with 72.6% of the vote. AOC, controversial to be sure but no friend of the Israel Lobby, was running against Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a CNBC reporter. As is often the case, there is considerable back story to the two races and that back story is Jewish money, lots of it, intended to re-elect Engel and get rid of Ocasio-Cortez. Engel received more that $1.5 million from one group alone, the so-called Democratic Majority for Israel and also obtained large sums bundled by the AIPAC-tied group Pro-Israel America as well as from other Jewish groups. AOC was opposed by the not surprisingly well-funded Caruso-Cabrera, whose money largely came from pro-Israel and Jewish affiliated organizations
And more bad news appears to be coming from the Hudson Valley district currently held by yet another Israel-first congresswoman Representative Nita Lowey, who is retiring. Mondaire Jones, a gay Harvard-educated lawyer, has the lead based on early returns. Jones calls himself a progressive and he is unlikely to emerge as a cheerleader for Israel if he is elected.
Representing parts of Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York City, Carolyn Maloney, who chairs the Oversight and Reform Committee, is meanwhile maintaining a small lead over Democratic challenger Suraj Patel. Maloney describes herself on her website as a strong supporter of Israel and Jewish issues. In fact, she goes far beyond that, actively sponsoring and otherwise promoting legislation favorable to Israel and the Jewish community, most recently being the sponsor of the waste of taxpayer money in promoting the holocaust myth through H.R.943, the Never Again Education Act. Maloney is hanging on to a slim lead against Patel, though numerous postal and absentee votes have not yet been counted and the outcome could go either way. Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly a shock to the Israel Lobby that a completely reliable Maloney might be in danger of losing her seat.
To be sure, Congress continues to be Israeli occupied territory, as Pat Buchanan once put it. Last week 116 out of 198 Republican congressmen signed a letter to President Donald Trump asserting their support for Israel’s annexation of much of the West Bank, due to start shortly. The letter stated that the annexation was justified “based on the critical premise that Israel should never be forced to compromise its security,” indicating very clearly that actual U.S. national interests had nothing to do with it.
What is surprising about the Republican letter is that it was not unanimous, and the loss of Engel, replacement of Lowey and possible defeat of Maloney could be indications of a real shift among voters regarding what has been an assiduously cultivated overwhelmingly positive view of the Jewish State. Recent opinion polls suggest that a majority of Americans do not support either Israeli expansion or its form of apartheid.
Israel is feeling somewhat vulnerable. Its Lobby stalwarts in the media and in politics are working hard to disengage the current anti-racism turmoil in the U.S. from any mention of Israel, which trained American police in their “anti-terror” tactics. The Jewish state also practices a far more virulent and brutal racism than anything prevailing in America, something that is becoming increasingly clear to the public. It is early days to be hopeful, but the New York primary election results, coming as they do from a state where Jewish groups wield enormous power, just might be an indication that some things are about to change.
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Philip M. Giraldi is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served nineteen years overseas in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain. He was the CIA Chief of Base for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and was one of the first Americans to enter Afghanistan in December 2001. Phil is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a Washington-based advocacy group that seeks to encourage and promote a U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East that is consistent with American values and interests. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
The New York Times is pushing this story, denied by Trump and his war ministry the Pentagon and his ‘intelligence’ services publicly, that Russia is running a plot paying bounties to Afghan recruits of Taliban and others to kill US troops in Afghanistan.
What were the Afghan Taliban and most of the Afghan fighters doing all the past 19 years exactly? Maybe distributing flowers to the US occupation troops who were giving them chocolate in return!
The New York Times Breaking News on an alleged Russian bounty to Afghan fighters to kill US troops. This comes after Trump made some vague announcement on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
And, of course, the mainstream media jump to spread the explosive news that were uncovered by the ‘exceptional’ work of the New York Times:
Mainstream Media hype on New York Times Russia bounty to Afghan fighters to kill US soldiers story
That’s one side, what if Russia actually paid Afghan fighters to kill US soldiers? What’s wrong with that? Didn’t the US overtly arm the same Afghan fighters to kill Soviet troops in Afghanistan including with surface to air missiles paid for by the Saudis and the US taxpayers to shoot down Soviet planes and copters killing Russians?!
US President Ronald Reagan with Afghanistan Mujahideen (later to be al-Qaeda) plotting to kill Soviet (mainly Russian) troopsAfghan Mujahideen al Qaeda US Surface to Air Missiles to Kill Russians and USSR Soldiers
Just a reminder to the USAians: Afghanistan was directly on the Soviet Union southern borders; the USA is across the planet, like literally on the other side of the planet, if you look at the globe and find the USA just look at the other side of the globe and you’ll find Afghanistan. Flat-Earthers: The USA is a 1 full day, that’s 24 hours trip from New York (the closest city on the eastern US coast) to Afghanistan!
The USA considers Venezuela and all of Central America and South America as their backyard and they share borders only with Mexico, Russia is 4 hours flight from Afghanistan and that’s from Kabul to Moscow, not the distance between two border cities and not the closest two points…
New York to Kabul flight – Google search
Also a reminder to USAians, during her confirmation hearings Clinton bragged that the US created al Qaeda and armed al Qaeda and that this was a good idea.https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dqn0bm4E9yw
It’s only because the US presidential elections race has started and they want to confirm that Trump is a Russian asset, the thing they failed to prove in their lengthy costly ridiculous Muller investigations that revealed so many other things except this one. And this is not to defend Trump, he’s a lunatic war criminal, rather fearing he will impose more sanctions on Russia and push the already tense relations into further escalation to prove he’s not a Russian asset, just like how they played him all the past almost 4 years on every single subject they wanted him to act as tough on, remember his orders to withdraw from Syria?
A 70 Years Old President of the USA Donald J. Trump
Can we talk about the direct and indirect overt and covert aid the USA and all its stooges and lackeys (Turkey, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Australians, Gulfies, Canada, Denmark, Israel…) gave to terrorists of Al-Qaeda and all its derivatives (FSA, Nusra Front, HTS, ISIS, Faylaq Rahman, Maghawir Thawra, Khalid Army, Jaysh Al-Islam, Turkestan Islamist Party……..) to kill and maim Syrian soldiers and Syrian civilians in Syria? Iraqis in Iraq? Lebanese in Lebanon? Libyans in Libya? Iranians in Iran? …. in ….?
لوحظ بشكل لافت وغير اعتيادي أنّ هناك تواتراً في إطلاق التصريحات للمسؤولين في وزارة خارجية الولايات المتحدة الأميركية وسفيرتهم في بيروت، والتي تتدخل بشكل فظ في الشؤون الداخلية للجمهورية اللبنانية، في مؤشر على استنفار أميركي واضح لإدارة الحرب الاقتصادية المالية التي بدأتها، منذ شهور، ضدّ لبنان.. لا سيما أنّ التصريحات تضمّنت إنذارات واضحة بأنّ أميركا لن تسمح للبنان بالحصول على أيّ قروض مالية من صندوق النقد الدولي ومؤتمر سيدر إذا لم يقبل بالشروط التالية..
أولاً، إقصاء حزب الله المقاوم وحلفائه عن السلطة التنفيذية، وتشكيل حكومة اختصاصيين موالية لواشنطن..
ثانياً، قبول مقترح السفير الأميركي فريدريك هوف لترسيم الحدود البحرية والبرية بما يعطي كيان العدو الصهيوني جزءاً من مياه لبنان الإقليمية الخالصة في البلوكين 9 و10 الغنيين بالنفط والغاز، تقدر مساحته بـ 360 كلم مربع..
ثالثاً، إضعاف وتحجيم المقاومة وإبعادها عن الحدود مع فلسطين المحتلة، وتعديل قواعد الاشتباك في القرار 1701 بما يسمح لقوات اليونيفيل لعب دور أمني في جنوب الليطاني لضمان أمن كيان العدو الصهيوني وتمكينهُ من العودة إلى سرقة مياه الوزاني وحرمان البلديات الجنوبية منها..
هذه الأهداف الأميركية ظهر جزء منها كشعارات رفعت في التظاهرات من قبل مجموعات الـ المدرّبة أميركياً لقيادة الثورات الملوّنة للإطاحة بالحكومات غير الموالية لواشنطن وتقف عقبة أمام تحقيق مشاريعها الاستعمارية، على غرار ما حصل في أوكرانيا والبلقان والربيع العربي إلخ… فشهدنا بدايةً أنّ هذه المجموعات ركزت على مطلب يستقطبُ اللبنانيون عامة، الذين اكتووا بنار الأزمة المعيشية، وهو محاربة الفساد والاقتصاص من الفاسدين، والقول إنّ كلّ من هم في السلطة فاسدون أو يحمون الفساد، والهدف طبعاً هو شُمول حزب الله بذلك وتحميلهُ هو وحلفاؤه في السلطة المسؤولية عن حماية النظام الفاسد ومنع محاربة الفاسدين واستعادة الأموال المنهوبة إلخ… ثم تطورت الشعارات حتى كشفت هذه المجموعات عن الهدف الحقيقي وهو الإتيان بحكومة اختصاصيين لا يكون فيها ممثلون لـ حزب الله وحلفائه تكون مهمتُها تنفيذ الانقلاب الأميركي وتحقيق الشروط التي وضعتها واشنطن لرفع الحصار عن لبنان… وعندما فشلوا في ذلك، بعد استقالة حكومة الرئيس سعد الحريري، وتشكيل حكومة حسان دياب بدعم من الأكثرية النيابية، تقرّر إخراج الأهداف الأميركية المُراد تحقيقها، من خلال محاولة الاستيلاء على السلطة، إلى العلن، وهي المطالبة بتنفيذ القرار 1559ونزع سلاح المقاومة ونشر القوات الدولية على الحدود مع سورية تحت ذريعة وقف التهريب.. وصولاً إلى ما صرّح به أخيراً المسؤولون الأميركيون بالربط بين قبول لبنان ترسيم الحدود البحرية وفقَ مقترح هوف، ورفع الحصار المفروض عليه لتمكينه الاستفادة من ثروته في مياهه الإقليمية..
لكن فشل القوى والمجموعات الموالية لواشنطن في تحقيق الأهداف المطلوبة من الحصار المالي، وما أدى إليه من تفجير للأزمة المالية النقدية والاجتماعية المعيشية في الشارع.. على الرغم من دعم الماكينة الإعلامية لحركة هذه القوى والمجموعات 24/24 .. شعرت واشنطن أنّ الثورات الملونة التي نجحت في أوكرانيا ودول البلقان وطُبق نموذجها في الربيع العربي.. تواجهُ التعثر في لبنان ومهدّدة بتداعيات سلبية على النفوذ الأميركي بإضعاف القوى الموالية للولايات المتحدة، والتي ترتكز إليها في تدخُلها بشؤون لبنان الداخلية.. فقرّرت الإدارة الأميركية الاستنفار وتشكيل لجنة من الخارجية لإدارة الحرب الاقتصادية والمالية عبر تكثيف التدخل الأميركي والمجاهرة علناً بما تريده واشنطن من لبنان، وهو الخضوع لشروطها القاضية بتنازل لبنان عن جزء من ثروته النفطية وإقصاء حزب الله وحلفائه عن السلطة عبر استقالة حكومة حسان دياب وتشكيل حكومة جديدة موالية لواشنطن، وتعديل القرار 1701 مقابل رفع الحصار عن لبنان..
ولتحقيق ذلك بدأت إدارة حرب الحصار بقيادة وزير الخارجية الأميركي مايك بومبيو ومعاونيه تصعيد الضغوط الاقتصادية والمالية، عبر…
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ـ تحريض الأطراف اللبنانية الموالية لواشنطن على التحرك لإسقاط الحكومة اللبنانية باعتبارها حكومة حزب الله.. والعمل على تشكيل حكومة موالية للسياسة الأميركية وقادرة على تنفيذ ما تريده واشنطن من طلبات تخدم السياسة الأميركية الإسرائيلية…
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ـ تحريض اللبنانيين ضدّ المقاومة وسلاحها من خلال الزعم بأن المقاومة هي سبب الأزمة الاقتصادية والمالية..
إنّ واشنطن تدرك أنّ سلاح المقاومة هو الذي يقف حائلاً دون تمكن كيان العدو الصهيوني من سرقة نفط وغاز ومياه لبنان.. وهو الذي أسهم في إحباط أهداف الحرب الإرهابية الاستعمارية ضدّ سورية ولبنان، والتي استهدفت قصم ظهر محور المقاومة، مما حال دون تعويم مشروع الهيمنة الاستعمارية الأميركية على كامل المنطقة، وتمرير خطة القرن لتصفية القضية الفلسطينية.. ولهذا فإنّ الإدارة الأميركية استشعرت الخوف من أن يتفلت لبنان من قيود الحصار الاقتصادي الأميركي، وأن يتجرأ على الاتجاه نحو دول الشرق لتنويع علاقاته الاقتصادية وإيجاد أسواق لتصدير إنتاجه واستيراد حاجاته من دول تقبل التداول بالعملات الوطنية بديلاً عن الدولار.. وبالتالي تقليص حاجة لبنان للدولار.. إلى جانب حلّ مشكلات لبنان المالية والخدماتية من قبول العروض الصينية والإيرانية والروسية المتنوّعة والتي تُجنّب الحكومة اللبنانية الخضوع لشروط صندوق النقد الدولي ومؤتمر سيدر، بل تجعلُها في موقع قوة في التفاوض معهما للحصول على قروض ميسّرة غير مشروطة إذا أراد..
إنّ لجوء واشنطن إلى إشهار الحرب الاقتصادية والمالية لتجويع الشعب اللبناني بهدف دفعه إلى التخلي عن مقاومته وسيادته وجزء من ثرواته، إنما يعكسُ من جهة الوجه البشع للسياسة الاستعمارية الأميركية، ومن جهة ثانية يكشفُ مدى إفلاس السياسة الأميركية وفشلها في تحقيق أهدافها بوساطة حروبها العسكرية المباشرة والإرهابية غير المباشرة..
لكن كما تؤكد التجربة فإنّ المقاومة وحلفائها الذين صمدوا في مواجهة أشرس حرب إرهابية ونجحوا في تحقيق الانتصارات الهامة عليها وإحباط أهدافها، سيتمكنون من الصمود في مواجهة الحرب الاقتصادية المالية وإحباط أهدافها بإيجاد البدائل الاقتصادية التي تحبط أهداف الحصار الاقتصادي، وتحوّله إلى فرصة لبناء اقتصاد منتج والانفتاح على الشرق لتسويقه، وبالتالي إفقاد أميركا آخر سلاح تملكهُ للضغط على لبنان…
TEHRAN - Mohamad Kleit, a Lebanese journalist specialized in international affairs and geopolitics, tells the Tehran Times that the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary, while this international organization has failed to achieve justice.
“Considering Israel is the “U.S. pampered baby”, metaphorically speaking, any international resolution would be negligible if it doesn’t preserve Israeli interests, even if those interests were ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, preservation of the illegal and inhumane blockade on the Gaza Strip and building illegal settlements on the Palestinian soil in the West Bank,” says Kleit, who is deputy editor at U-News Agency.
On the future of the United Nations, Kleit notes, “I personally see that the role of the UN will be minimized considering that major powers are out their taking what they want with disregard to any UN resolution or the disruption of global stability.”
The text of the interview with Mohamad Kleit is as follows:
Question: The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War with several objectives primarily the prevention of war and maintaining peace in disputed areas. But the UN has failed to prevent war and fulfill peacekeeping duties many times throughout its history. In your opinion, what have been the main causes of this passivity?
Answer: The United Nations’ passivity is basically caused by the strong political powers controlling some of its major and most critical decisions; particularly by the United States of America which spent $10 billion in 2018 (almost 30% of UN’s peacekeeping operations are funded by the United States). This affects United Nations and its Security Council’s decisions in areas that the U.S. is directly involved in, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq in 2003, and others.
“They (UN) didn’t call out who was clearly responsible for this (Yemen) catastrophe, yet they called for a political solution back in 2016 in Kuwait that would indirectly preserve the Saudi Arabia’s interest while acknowledging the newly formed government in Sana.”
It also acts as a pressure force on political issues, most recently the Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, where Israel doesn’t abide by any Security Council decision nor UN resolutions ever since the entity joined the UN. This is because the U.S. has close ties and joint interests in Israel, thus it is not dealing with the Palestinian cause in an objective manner, where the U.S. always sides with Israel, consequently belittling any UN resolution, regardless how righteous and just it is.
Q: Ever since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, Palestinians have been fighting against what a UN investigator once described as Israel’s ethnic cleansing. Today Israel controls dominantly over Palestine territories. It also has imposed a crippling blockade on Gaza and is continuing its construction of illegal settlements on occupied lands in defiance of several UN resolutions calling for an end to those activities. What is your take on it?
A: As in other areas of turmoil and disruption, the UN has its hands tied because of the U.S. financial advantage over its regular budget. This poses a threat and jeopardizes any resolution issued by the UN in matters the U.S. would consider part of its so-called “national security”, which, as history taught us, extends across the world far from the U.S. national borders.
Now considering Israel is the “U.S. pampered baby”, metaphorically speaking, any international resolution would be negligible if it doesn’t preserve Israeli interests, even if those interests were ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, preservation of the illegal and inhumane blockade on the Gaza Strip, building illegal settlements on the Palestinian soil in the West Bank, or even detainment of Palestinian children for investigation while mistreating prisoners of opinion and protests.
History has also taught us that Israel has never once abided by any UN resolution that isn’t fully in its favor, even when it’s waging an occupation like the one in 1982 in Lebanon or bombing civilian sites in Syria that is being internally war-torn since 2011. It also, rudely, disrespects any UN resolution that is internationally consented, like Resolution 1701 to end the 2006 war on Lebanon that was unanimously approved by the United Nations Security Council on 11 August 2006, where each side of the war (Lebanese Resistance Movement and Israel) goes back to their international borders before the war started in July, yet Israel, until this day, violates Lebanese airspace with fighter jets and occasionally targets civilian, scientific, and military targets in Syria from the Lebanese airspace.
Q: Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Ansarullah movement and reinstate former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime. Many experts accuse the UN silence regarding Saudi Arabia’s aggression and argue that the UN has failed to send humanitarian aid and support to civilians amid a blockade imposed on the war-torn country. What is your thought?
A:Justice is a negligible term in international books; it is only used when the elite nations preserve their interests on the expense of smaller powers, or helpless nations in that case. The Saudi-led coalition, that is supported militarily and politically by (just to name a few) the UAE, USA, UK, France, Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, and other nations, launched a war on Yemen in 2015 that has been described by the UN itself as “one of the worst human catastrophes in modern history.” The war started on the request of the ousted Yemeni president Abed Rabu Mansour Hadi, who took Aden for refuge after a large-scale protest in the capital Sana, where a coalition of Yemeni parties rules now, most prominently Ansarullah led by Abdul Malek al Houthi. Now considering Ansarullah’s opposition to Saudi Arabia’s control over Yemen (Saudis controlled and interfered in Yemen’s politics and economy for over 40 years during the reign of Ali Abdullah Saleh and then Mansour Hadi), which would jeopardize what they call “national security”, thus they launched a full-scale war on Yemen that has led to the death of well-over 30,000 persons and displaced millions, while 19 million are suffering from poverty and in danger of famine.
What did the UN do? They didn’t call out who was clearly responsible for this catastrophe, yet they called for a political solution back in 2016 in Kuwait that would indirectly preserve Saudi Arabia’s interest while acknowledging the newly formed government in Sana. The talks failed because of the continuation of hostilities until 2018 in Stockholm, where another round of talks happened to mark a breakthrough, yet the war is still ongoing with more complications and disasters to put in short.
From 2015 until this day, neither did the UN nor the international community point out that it’s Saudi Arabia and the UAE which are the direct causes of the catastrophe by a huge margin, with the help of the U.S., Israel, the UK, and France, yet they put both sides (the Saudi-led coalition and the Sana government) as equally responsible for the war… It is quiet intriguing for a man shooting an AK47 and an RPG to be held the same responsibility as another man flying an F-16 with U.S. satellites giving him pin-point directions (not all the time though) with missiles that have proven to have the ability to put entire villages to the ground. This is a major problem that stands in the way of any problem-solving procedure that would be in the best interest of Yemen’s future, which is pointing out who holds responsibility for the problem in a just and fair way, not on the basis of equality.
Q: The United Nations is celebrating its 75th anniversary, while it is dealing with serious challenges, including poverty, disease, environmental breakdown, ongoing conflicts, and so on. In your view, is the UN ready to face the future?
A: In addition to the ongoing global crises from Palestine, Yemen, to general African wars, to the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, the Coronavirus and its financial backlash put huge pressure on the UN, as well as the rise of alt-right movements and populist ideologies affect the on-the-ground operations of the UN. One major example is U.S. President Donald Trump retreating from the World Health Organization with accusations that it is siding with China (U.S. economic rival), as well as cutting funding for UNRWA which is specialized with Palestinian refugees. Both cases place huge pressures on both organizations, considering that the U.S. is their biggest donor. The first one is a political decision to pressure WHO into joining the “Ideological Cold War” (as China’s Foreign Ministry named it) against China, while the second is to pressure the Palestinian authorities into accepting Trump’s “Deal of the Century” which is completely a pro-Israel agreement basically aimed to give full control of the West Bank to Israel.
These are just examples of what the UN is going to face from the U.S., in particular, as a cost for its not-so-total kneeling to the man in Washington. I personally see that the role of the UN will be minimized considering that major powers are out taking what they want with disregard to any UN resolution or the disruption of global stability.
Iran issued an arrest warrant and asked the Interpol for help in detaining US President Donald Trump and dozens of others involved in carrying out the drone strike that assassinated the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC] Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani while on an official visit to the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.
Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday that Trump, along with more than 30 others Iran accuses of involvement in the January 3 attack that killed General Soleimani, face “murder and terrorism charges”, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
Alqasimehr did not identify anyone else sought other than Trump, but stressed Iran would continue to pursue his prosecution even after his presidency ends.
The Interpol, based in Lyon, France, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Alqasimehr was also quoted as saying that Iran had requested a “red notice” be put out for Trump and the others, the highest-level notice issued by Interpol, requesting that seeks the location and arrest of the individual named.
Under a red notice, local authorities make the arrests on behalf of the country that requested it. The notices cannot force countries to arrest or extradite suspects, but can put government leaders on the spot and limit suspects’ travel.
After receiving a request, Interpol meets by committee and discusses whether or not to share the information with its member states. Interpol has no requirement for making any of the notices public, though some do get published on its website.
It is unlikely the Interpol would grant Iran’s request as its guideline for notices forbids it from “undertaking any intervention or activities of a political” nature.
The US killed General Soleimani along with the Iraqi paramilitary group Hashd al-Shaabi second-in-command Hajj Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and their companions in the January attack near Baghdad International Airport.
Trump confessed at the time of crime that the airstrike was carried out upon his direct order.
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