This is an article describing a Memorandum of Understanding with San Francisco State University and the student organization of Fatah, said organization promoting terrorism. A sampling:
[MEForum] In 2016, the Middle East Forum (MEF) launched a campaign calling on San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Leslie Wong to end the school's 2014 memorandum of understanding (MOU) with An-Najah University -- a college in the West Bank that promotes radicalism and Palestinian violence.
Since that time, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has documented two cases of a Najah student group promoting terrorism.
Last month, PMW reported that Shabiba -- the student branch of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement at Najah -- displayed a logo (above right) on Fatah's official Facebook page featuring a coat of arms with a "resistance" fist in the shape of a PA map of "Palestine" encompassing all of Israel. It was accompanied by the violent slogan, "From the sea of blood of the martyrs, we will create a state."
Then, on March 29, Fatah's Facebook page featured Shabiba's call for a day of terror against Israel on April 17. Shabiba promised to "to burn the land under the feet of the tyrants," and threatened to replicate a previous terror attack in which 16 people were murdered.Read the whole thing at the headline link. This goes beyond sanctuary cities issue, more like support of terrorist organizations.
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[DAWN] ACCUSATION is evidence, trial is by ordeal, and the sentence is always death. This is how it went with Mashal Khan and this is how it has been with the countless others who have preceded him. His final words do not matter, it does not matter that he professed his love for the Prophet (PTUI!) as he lay dying from gunshot wounds inflicted by his pious tormentors, all that matters is the accusation and the accusation is evidence.
It doesn’t even matter that his murder seems to have nothing to do with his actual words, that it is likely that it was his vocal stance against the university administration that prompted the campaign against him. It doesn’t even matter that the university administration has displayed its complicity by forming a committee, not to investigate the killing, but to investigate the alleged blasphemy committed by the murdered Mashal Khan.
It doesn’t matter that after his death fake accounts bearing his name have cropped up like poisonous toadstools aiming at providing post-facto justification.
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I'm not sure the author is completely serious
[IsraelNationalNews] There is no end in sight for the Syrian War because both sides have a lot of fight left in them. This is due in part to the fact that losing is not an option for either and both sides are being financed by oil money.
What started as a civil war in 2011 quickly escalated in a sectarian war between Shiites, (Iran, Alawite Syria and Hezbollah) and local Sunnis aided and abetted by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states and from time to time Turkey.
Almost from the start, President Obama backed the ouster of Assad by Turkey and some of the Gulf states with the intention of installing the Muslim Brotherhood to run Syria just as he installed the Muslim Brotherhood to run Egypt.
Victory was almost within the Sunni grasp until Russia entered the fray on the side of the Shiites and turned the tables. At some point along the way, Obama, in pursuit of the Iran Deal, backed away from original plans to oust Assad. This deal greatly strengthened Iran by giving it $150 billion and a license for seeking hegemony.
The conflict between Shiites and Sunnis dates back to a dispute over succession to Muhammad as a caliph of the Islamic community upon his death in 632. IMO even before that, as various groups chose Shia Islam to oppose their old enemies who now were Sunni.
...Today at least 85% of the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world are Sunni, but the Shiites are concentrated in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Bahrain.
...In 2003 President Bush removed Saddam Hussain from power in Iraq and attempted to transform Iraq into a democracy. Should've started with something easier e.g. teaching calculus to dogs.
The end result was that the majority Shiites were put in power and Iranian influence in Iraq dramatically escalated. This action, in effect, removed the most important bulwark in the way of Iran’s hegemonic ambitions.
...The turmoil in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq can rightly find its roots in the Sykes-Picot agreement which Britain, France and Russia signed in 1916 believing that they would defeat the Ottoman empire in WWI. Essentially, in it, they divided up the spoils into three spheres of influence, one for each of them. When Russia withdrew from the war, it was no longer part of the agreement.
Due to the hue and cry that followed when this agreement became public, Sykes-Picot morphed into the more palatable division of the Ottoman Empire into Mandates, namely the Palestine, Syria and Iraq mandates, in which the ultimate goal was to usher in independence for the inhabitants of each area. No regard was held for the Shiite/Sunni divide, which was simply ignored. And thus we have sectarian conflict in Syria and Iraq.
Although Palestine was originally intended by the Mandate to be a Jewish state, Britain thwarted this goal by restricting Jewish immigration and encouraging Muslim immigration. And thus we have sectarian conflict in Israel. This conflict has resulted in many wars and has defied resolution.
For six years now the conflict in Syria and Iraq has defied resolution because there are no good choice
Frank Gaffney Jr., in a recent interview in which the removal of Assad was the topic, said:
"The choices, unfortunately, seem to be more of the same. At best, it’s an Assad-Lite, supported by the Russians, supported presumably by the Iranians, supported by Hezbollah. Or, alternatively, it’s Sharia supremacists of the Sunni stripe supported by the Saudis, supported by the Turks, supported by perhaps al-Qaeda or the Islamic State, or simply the Muslim Brotherhood. All very bad choices, in my judgment."
..."I think the president is now being buffeted by individuals who have come in who apparently do not agree with his priority of defeating radical Islamic terrorism, as he calls it, and who have, instead, the view that we should align ourselves with people who are the prime movers behind radical Islamic terrorism. That would include, by the way, the Saudis. It would include the Turks. It would include the Qataris and others in the region. I think that’s a grave concern."
I share his concerns but have some suggestions to make.
At the beginning of the Syrian War, Turkey had visions of taking over Syria and recreating the Ottoman Empire. Why not play into that?
Let’s say, President Trump, the master of the deal, approaches Turkey with the following deal.
1.Turn from your drift to a 'neo-Ottoman jihad state' and reestablish the modern, secular nation-state of Turkey based on the reforms of Ataturak instituted in 1923. For one thing, Erdogan can't stay in power - or even keep breathing - in secular Turkey.
2. Allow the secession of southern Turkey where 10 million Kurds live so they can have their independence and join the New Kurdistan if they so choose. For another, even secular Turks oppose Kurdish succession.
3. In return, the US will assist you in taking over the Sunni areas of Syria and Iraq and allow you to annex them if you so wish. Leaving aside the question of territorial continuity, is this feasible domestically (in USA)?
That would leave Alawite Syria as a state in which Russia could maintain its port and air field.
What’s not to like? I don't see this as practical, but would like the part where Turks would have to cope with "Sharia supremacists of the Sunni stripe"
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