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From The Daily Mail
‘I’m sorry’: Historic moment Tony Blair FINALLY apologises for Iraq War and admits in TV interview the conflict caused the rise of ISIS
- Former PM makes the confession after 12 years of refusing to apologise
- Blair says he is sorry for his conduct which has now led to ‘hell’ in Iraq
- Says there is an element of truth that the war caused the rise of ISIS
- Comes after Lord Blunkett revealed he had challenged Blair about the war
Tony Blair has finally said sorry for the Iraq War – and admitted he could be partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State.
There is no doubt that the rise of ISIS is connected with the interventions in the war.
The extraordinary confession by the former Prime Minister comes after 12 years in which he refused to apologise for the conflict.
Blair makes his dramatic ‘mea culpa’ during a TV interview about the ‘hell’ caused by his and George Bush’s decision to oust Saddam Hussein.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces kill Palestinian schoolgirl
Israeli police forces shoot and kill a Palestinian schoolgirl, whom they accused of attempting to carry out a knife attack against them, in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The forces purported in a statement on Sunday that the female had been “neutralized” after drawing a knife and approaching them.
One witness, a Palestinian woman who was in the area, told the Palestinian Ma’an news agency that “occupation soldiers covered a young Palestinian woman who was lying on the ground bleeding without giving her medical aid at all, before an ambulance arrived and took her.”
Earlier in the day, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man, whom the regime claimed had severely injured two Israeli forces in the northern part of the city.
On Saturday, unknown assailants attacked Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouthi with a sharp object in the West Bank city of Ramallah, injuring him in his face, Ma’an reported.
The day also saw Israeli forces shooting a Palestinian at the Jalama checkpoint at the northern entrance to the city of Jenin elsewhere in the West Bank after he allegedly attacked the checkpoint.
Palestinians have been staging protests at the sweeping restrictions Israel has been applying since August 26 on entries into the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
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From PressTV
Israel’s killing machine claims another Palestinian life
Israeli forces have killed another Palestinian in the northern part of the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli forces on Sunday. The Israeli regime claimed that the Palestinian man had severely injured two Israeli forces before being killed.
A fresh wave of tensions has gripped the occupied Palestinian territories. The tensions were triggered by the Israeli regime’s imposition in August of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
In a separate incident, an Israeli soldier fired at Palestinian farmers harvesting olive in the same city. No reports on possible casualties have been available yet.
Latest reports also said that an Israeli was stabbed near the settlement of Metzad, which is located south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday.
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From PressTV
Israeli settlers torch Palestinian car in hate crime
Israeli settlers have set fire to a Palestinian car in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in an apparent act of hate crime amid rising tensions across the occupied territories.
The settlers scrawled racist slogans on the vehicle and next to the home of its owner in the neighborhood of Umm Tuba during the early hours of Sunday.
Israeli settlers have in recent years carried out various attacks including arson on Palestinian property in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds and have frequently carried out acts of hate crime against Palestinian farmlands in the West Bank, uprooting olive trees.
On July 31, a group of settlers set a Palestinian home alight in the West Bank village of Duma, south of the city of Nablus, killing an 18-month-old boy and fatally injuring his parents.
Media reports indicated that racist Hebrew graffiti was found on the walls near the arson scene.
In a statement issued hours after the incident, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) condemned the “brutal assassination” of the Palestinian infant, stressing that the regime in Tel Aviv bears “full responsibility” for the arson attack.
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From PressTV
Thousands of Israeli protesters rally against Netanyahu policies
Thousands of Israeli protesters have taken to the streets in Tel Aviv to denounce Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies, which they blame for the recent wave of tensions in the occupied Palestinian lands as well as the Gaza Strip.
On Saturday night, the demonstrators held signs that read, “There is no security without a solution,” as they marched from Habima Square in downtown Tel Aviv to the headquarters of the Israeli Ministry for Military Affairs on Kaplan Street.
Many of the participants were from the activist group, Peace Now, which had organized the event, as well as the left-wing Meretz party, along with several members of the Hadash party and Da’am Workers Party.
The demonstrators also called on the Tel Aviv regime to stop “managing the conflict” and engage in dialogue with the Palestinians instead.
The organizers put the number of people that attended the rally at some 6,000, but Israeli media estimated that 3,000 people were present in the protest rally.
Daniel Dojon, a protester, said he took part in the rally “because the situation is crazy,” adding, “I am not talking about safety but the lack of (political) progress, the lack of hope. Israeli politicians are becoming more and more extreme.”
Another protester, who identified himself as 60-year-old Dov Kredo, said he feels “very pessimistic” about the current situation, adding, “It is much easier for people to answer the call of fear and hatred.”
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From Russia Today
Snowden leaks reveal harmfulness of US monopoly on internet – Russian minister
Published time: 23 Oct, 2015 20:02
Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Nikolai Nikiforov © Vitaliy Belousov / RIA Novosti
The NSA’s mass surveillance would not be possible if the internet wasn’t controlled by just a few major US companies, Nikolay Nikiforov, Russia’s communications minister, told RT after the first BRICS ministerial meeting on the de-monopolization of IT.
“Snowden’s disclosures showed exactly the harmfulness of the monopoly because it would not be possible if the world IT sector should be structured in a more balanced way,” Nikiforov said, adding that, as things stand, US security agencies have the power to just “come to several companies and to force them… to actually provide absolutely illegal access to hundreds of millions records of private data of users globally.”
In 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked thousands of documents revealing the US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs, proving that Google, Facebook and other US tech giants have been passing information to the spy agency.
Russia’s Communications and Mass Media minister stressed that, in purely economic terms, the monopoly is also harmful for BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the international community as a whole.
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The Telegraph (UK)
Eurozone crosses Rubicon as Portugal’s anti-euro Left banned from power
Constitutional crisis looms after anti-austerity Left is denied parliamentary prerogative to form a majority government
Portugal has entered dangerous political waters. For the first time since the creation of Europe’s monetary union, a member state has taken the explicit step of forbidding eurosceptic parties from taking office on the grounds of national interest.
Anibal Cavaco Silva, Portugal’s constitutional president, has refused to appoint a Left-wing coalition government even though it secured an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament and won a mandate to smash the austerity regime bequeathed by the EU-IMF Troika.
He deemed it too risky to let the Left Bloc or the Communists come close to power, insisting that conservatives should soldier on as a minority in order to satisfy Brussels and appease foreign financial markets.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bill Clinton to speak at Tel Aviv rally marking Rabin assassination
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former President Bill Clinton will speak at a Tel Aviv rally marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
The rally on Saturday night, at the square that now bears Rabin’s name, will cap a week of commemorative events in Israel, including a state ceremony at Mount Herzl and a special Knesset session.
In his eulogy for Rabin at the state funeral in Jerusalem, Clinton memorably ended with the words “Shalom, chaver,” or “Goodbye, friend.”
Rabin was slain on Nov. 5, 1995, by a Jewish extremist at the square that will host Saturday’s rally.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Far-right French Jews assault BuzzFeed journalist
(JTA) — Members of the French branch of the far-right Jewish Defense League attacked a prominent French journalist outside the Paris offices of the Agence France Presse news agency.
Armed with batons, dozens of violent Jewish activists who had gathered to protest the news agency’s Israel coverage, assaulted David Perrotin, a reporter for BuzzFeed, on Thursday evening, the Guardian reported.
Protesters threw eggs and other objects at the AFP building, yelled out insults and tried to storm the offices, according to the Guardian. They threatened journalists, saying “We’re coming to get you” and “Islamic terrorists.” Riot police sprayed them with tear gas.
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From Russia Today
Syria talks should be more ‘representative,’ include Iran, Egypt – Moscow
Published time: 23 Oct, 2015 17:54
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that a dozen actors ranging from international organizations to regional countries ‒ particularly Iran and Egypt ‒ should join the talks on finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis.On Friday the foreign ministers of Russia, United States, Turkey and Saudi Arabia held talks on the Syrian conflict in Vienna, Austria.
“Many external actors and not only those four that gathered in Vienna are obviously involved in the Syrian crisis. For this reason, we called for our future meetings to be held in a more representative format that would include a range of regional powers,” Lavrov said after the meeting.
“We specially stressed that it should include Iran and Egypt,” he stressed.
According to Lavrov, the format of talks on Syria should not be “endlessly extended,” although it could “reasonably” involve about a dozen states and organizations, including the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
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From The Times of Israel
US neo-Nazis: Netanyahu is right about Hitler and the Jews
The Daily Stormer website says Nazi leader never planned to exterminate Europe’s Jews, wanted to peacefully deport them to Palestine
October 23, 2015, 2:12 pm
An American neo-Nazi website has backed comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week that Adolf Hitler had never planned to systematically murder the Jews of Europe until it was suggested by the leading Muslim cleric in Jerusalem, open Nazi sympathizer Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini.
“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time. He wanted to expel the Jews,” Netanyahu told the World Zionist Congress on Tuesday. “And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said: ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here.’ ‘So what should I do with them?’ he asked. He said: ‘Burn them.’”
Netanyahu was trying to illustrate his claim that Palestinian incitement goes back decades, and is not related to any Israeli policies.
But in doing so, the prime minister won the support of neo-Nazis.
