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From The Independent
Everyone wrote off the Syrian army. Take another look now
While the world still rages on at Russia’s presumption in the Middle East – to intervene in Syria instead of letting the Americans decide which dictators should survive or die – we’ve all been forgetting the one institution in that Arab land which continues to function and protect the state which Moscow has decided to preserve: the Syrian army. While Russia has been propagandising its missiles, the Syrian military, undermanned and undergunned a few months ago, has suddenly moved on to the offensive. Earlier this year, we may remember, this same army was being written off, the Bashar al-Assad government said to be reaching its final days.
We employed our own army of clichés to make the case for regime change. The Syrian army was losing ground – at Jisr al-Shugour and at Palmyra – and so we predicted that the whole Assad state had reached a “tipping point”.
Then along came Vladimir Putin with his air and missile fleets and suddenly the whole place is transformed. While we huffed and puffed that the Russians were bombing the “moderate” rebels – moderates who had earlier ceased to exist according to America’s top generals – we’ve been paying no attention to the military offensive which the Syrians themselves are now staging against the Nusra Front fighters around Aleppo and in the valley of the Orontes.
Syrian commanders are now setting the coordinates for almost every Russian air strike. They were originally giving between 200 and 400 coordinates a night. Now the figure sometimes reaches 800. Not that the Russians are going after every map reference, of course. The Syrians have found that the Russians do not want to fire at targets in built-up areas; they intend to leave burning hospitals and dead wedding parties to the Americans in Afghanistan. This policy could always change, of course. No air force bombs countries without killing civilians. Nor without crossing other people’s frontiers.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Eritrean migrant, mistaken for terrorist, killed in Beersheba attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli police shot and killed an Eritrean migrant mistaken for a second assailant in a terror attack at the Beersheba bus station.
The attacker, Bedouin-Israeli Mouhand al-Okbi, 21, entered the bus station on Sunday night armed with a handgun and a knife. He stabbed a soldier and grabbed his M-16 rifle, then opened fire. The soldier, identified as Omri Levi of Moshav Sde Hemed, in central Israel, was shot and killed in the attack.
The migrant, Haftom Zarhum, 29, was also shot by police and died hours later at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. Video images show him lying in a pool of his own blood being kicked by bystanders who thought he was an assailant. Ten people were wounded in the terror attack.
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From PressTV
Eritrean man shot, beaten to death in Israel
An Eritrean man has died after being shot by a security guard and beaten by an angry mob in southern Israel, media reports say.
The media reports said on Monday that a security guard at a bus station shot the 29-year-old Eritrean, allegedly thinking he was a potential attacker.
The Eritrean man also received blows to the head and body from angry Israeli bystanders.
Israeli police later identified him as Habtom Zarhum, with Israeli media describing him as an asylum seeker.
A video has emerged showing Israelis beating up Zarhum and leaving him to die.
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From the Daily Mail
Smoking gun emails reveal ‘deal in blood’ George Bush and Tony Blair made as they secretly plotted the Iraq War behind closed doors a YEAR before the invasion
- Damning White House memo, from secretary of state Colin Powell to president George Bush, was written on March 28, 2002, a week before Bush’s famous summit with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas
- In the bombshell document, headed ‘Secret… Memorandum for the president’, Powell tells Bush that Blair ‘will be with us’ on military action
- It adds that Blair was preparing to act as spin doctor for Bush, who was told ‘the UK will follow our lead’
- New light was shed on Bush-Blair relations by material disclosed by Hillary Clinton at the order of the U.S. courts
A bombshell White House memo has revealed for the first time details of the ‘deal in blood’ forged by George Bush and Tony Blair over the Iraq War.
The damning memo, from secretary of state Colin Powell to president George Bush, was written on March 28, 2002, a week before Bush’s famous summit with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas.
The Powell document, headed ‘Secret… Memorandum for the President’, lifts the lid on how Blair and Bush secretly plotted the war behind closed doors at Crawford.
In it, Powell tells Bush that Blair ‘will be with us’ on military action. Powell assures the president: ‘The UK will follow our lead’.
The classified document also discloses that Blair agreed to act as a glorified spin doctor for the president by presenting ‘public affairs lines’ to convince a skeptical public that Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction – when none existed.
In return, the president would flatter Blair’s ego and give the impression that Britain was not America’s poodle but an equal partner in the ‘special relationship’.
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From PressTV
Israel rejects international monitors in East al-Quds
Israel has rejected a proposal by France to send international observers to monitor the situation near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday for the second time slammed France’s draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to deploy monitors to the area, which has been witnessing deadly clashes for weeks.
“Israel cannot accept the French draft resolution at the UNSC,” Netanyahu said.
Paris submitted its proposal on the matter in a draft resolution to the UNSC on October 16, during an emergency meeting over the escalation of violence in occupied Palestinian territories.
Netanyahu first slammed the draft resolution on October 17, as “absurd,” saying it was seeking the “internationalization of the holy places in the Middle East.”
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From Russia Today
Israel, US resume military aid boost talks as Iran deal takes effect
The current 10-year American military aid package is due to expire in 2017, and the two allies have been in negotiations about a new one, which could increase the sum by $600 million to $700 million annually. This would bring the total aid received by Israel to between $3.6 billion and $3.7 billion per year.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had suspended these talks in protest against Washington working on a nuclear deal in Iran, which Tehran and six world leading powers signed in July.
After Israeli efforts to derail the deal failed, the negotiations are resuming.
“With the nuclear deal now moving ahead, Israel is also moving ahead, hoping to forge a common policy with the United States to address the continuing dangers posed by Iran,” the Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer said in a speech at the National Israeli American Conference in Washington DC.
“Discussions over a new Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States, which had been on hold for some time, resumed this past week in Washington,” he said, using another term for the defense-aid agreement.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Yitzhak Rabin’s murder: This American Life examines the holes left behind
The radio show investigates the mysterious bullet holes in the prime minister’s clothes and the void created in Israeli society.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy shocked the American public; the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin reshaped Israel’s.
This week, the long-running long-form radio journalism program This American Life examines the circumstances surrounding Rabin’s 1995 assassination and its imprint on Israeli politics, policy and psyches.
The episode, called “The Night in Question,” is narrated by Nancy Updike, a producer of This American Life, and her husband, Dan Ephron, a former Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek and author of the book “Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzkak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel,” which arrives this week.
For the hour-long episode, Updike and Ephron speak to a number of people involved in the events of November 5, 1995, when Rabin, who had just finished speaking at a peace rally in Tel Aviv, walked off the stage to his waiting car and was shot twice in the back.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
UNESCO to vote on proposal declaring Western Wall a Muslim site
(JTA) — A Palestinian effort to have a United Nations agency declare Judaism’s holiest site a Muslim holy site is “an attempt to distort history,” Israel said.
UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural body, is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the proposal concerning the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
In a statement Monday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the proposal “an attempt to distort history and blur the connection between the Jewish people and its holiest place and to create a false reality,” the Times of Israel reported.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli gov’t minister: Abbas’ incitement reaches Hitler’s level
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ incitement against Israel is on the same level as Adolf Hitler’s anti-Jewish propaganda, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said.
“The level and intensity of the incitement and the level of anti-Semitism is the same level as Hitler,” Steinitz said Sunday while speaking with reporters in Washington, where he was addressing the annual conference of the Israeli American Council.
“I see Abu Mazen as principally responsible for the wave of terrorism,” Steinitz said, using Abbas’ by-name and referring to the recent spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks on Israelis.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Cleveland-area rabbi to serve 22 years in prison for sex abuse
(JTA) — A Cleveland-area rabbi will serve 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a minor.
Rabbi Frederick (Ephraim) Karp, 51, was sentenced Thursday in Baltimore County Circuit Court in Maryland, the home county of the victims, all females. He had been scheduled to go on trial later this month.
Karp, the former director of spiritual living at Menorah Park Center for Senior Living in Beachwood, Ohio, was sentenced to 35 years, with 13 years suspended, plus five years of supervised probation after he is released, the Cleveland Jewish News reported.
The abuse reportedly took place when family friends visited the Karp’s suburban Cleveland home, and also when he visited the family, over a five-year period that ended last December. The victims lived in Baltimore County at the time of the incidents. Two of the three were under the age of 18.
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From Russia Today
Thousands rally in Germany as PEGIDA ‘anti-migrant’ movement marks 1 year since formation
Several German cities saw PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident) protests on Monday, with the main event being held in Dresden, the movement’s “birthplace.” Over 20,000 protesters gathered at the rally in the capital of Saxony, according to Sächsische Zeitung.
“Money for our children instead of money for your asylum seekers!” and “Merkel has to go!” read the banners of the protesters.
Along with Dresden, Hannover and Munich were set to host similar events, but on a smaller scale.
Counter-protests also found support in Germany. In Dresden, about 10,000 people came out for a rally organized by the anti-PEGIDA union“Nazi-free Dresden”.
“That’s enough! Heart instead of hate!” and “Falafel instead of sausage,” the posters of the anti-PEGIDA activists read.
The first PEGIDA rally in Dresden took place a year ago and was attended by about 350 participants. The number of supporters had increased to around 17,500 by the end of the year.
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From Russia Today
Russia and Europe to launch joint mission to dark side of Moon, then build base there
Announced by Russia’s space agency Roscosmos last November, Luna 27 is a robotic lander that will land in the South Pole–Aitken basin, a giant crater on the dark side of the Moon, and prospect it for resources that could be utilized by future moon-dwellers.
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From The Times of Israel
Former Polish PM: Migrants carry diseases to Europe
Left-wing politicians say rightist Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s language reminds them of Nazi racism
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Former Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has shocked some in Poland by claiming that the Muslim migrants now arriving in Europe are carrying diseases that could hurt local people.
The comments sparked a sharp rebuke from some of his political opponents, with one left-wing politician, Janusz Palikot, slamming Kaczynski’s statement as racist language that Adolf Hitler himself “would not be ashamed of.”
Kaczynski spoke Tuesday ahead of Poland’s Oct. 25 parliamentary election that his right-wing Law and Justice party is expected to win.
The current Polish government has agreed to take 7,000 refugees as part of a European Union resettlement plan, but many in heavily Catholic Poland strongly oppose taking in any Muslims, sentiment that is helping Law and Justice.
“There are already signs of the emergence of very dangerous diseases which haven’t been seen in Europe for a long time: Cholera on Greek islands; dysentery in Vienna; various types of parasites, protozoa, which aren’t dangerous in the organisms of these people but which could be dangerous here,” Kaczynski told voters in Makow Mazowiecki.
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