The International Atomic Energy Agency last Friday said North Korea has definitely resumed operations at its Yongbyon nuclear facility. In an annual report, the IAEA said, "Since late August 2013, the agency has observed, through analysis of satellite imagery, steam discharges and the outflow of cooling water at the 5 MW(e) reactor, signatures which are consistent with the reactor's operation."
"The agency has continued to observe building renovation and new construction activities at various locations within the Yongbyon site." This roughly coincides with the North's own announcements.
North Korea's nuclear program "remains a matter of serious concern," the report adds, but since North Korea expelled IAEA inspectors in 2009 the facts are somewhat hazy.
The North blew up the reactor's cooling tower and suspended operation in 2008 under an agreement reached in six-party talks, but the deal later crumbled.
In April last year, the North pledged to reactivate the 5 MW reactor, citing "hostility" from the U.S. and South Korea.
Seoul urged Pyongyang to immediately stop nuclear development. "North Korea should fulfill its international obligations, including its promise to abandon nuclear weapons" in accordance with a Sept. 19, 2005 statement of principles from the six-party talks and UN Security Council resolutions.
"The IAEA report is a spur to stronger diplomatic measures in cooperation with the international community," a senior Foreign Ministry official here said.
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FREEREPUBLIC has an Artic denoting how Pudgy = NOKOR may be dev a SLBM or SLCM.
Islamabad: A court in Pakistan ordered on Saturday that 100 opposition activists be sent to jail for holding illegal protests, prompting a tense confrontation between demonstrators and police in the centre of the capital.
Protesters led by Imran Khan, a former cricket star, and Tahir Ul Qadri, have been locked in a bitter stand-off with the government for weeks, refusing to leave their protest camp until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns.
On Saturday, a crowd of protesters gathered outside a court in Islamabad in a protest against its decision to send 100 activists to jail for two weeks, with some trying to slash the tyres of a police van and shouting "Go, Nawaz, go!"
Almost makes you wish Perv was back in charge...
Although the crowd eventually left peacefully after a two-hour stand-off with police, the episode highlighted just how nervous both sides of the conflict remained after talks to resolve the crisis failed several times.
Protest leaders accuse Sharif of rigging last year's election which brought him back to power in a landslide and say they will not back down until he resigns - a demand Sharif has repeatedly rejected.
"The end of the incumbent government's rule is near," Qadri told domestic media on Saturday.
The confrontation turned violent last month, with thousands trying to storm Sharif's house and briefly taking the state television channel off the air. Violence in the usually quiet capital has alarmed many people in a nation where power has often changed hands though military coups rather than elections.
The army, which has ruled Pakistan for more than half of its history, has stayed out of the conflict, urging both sides to find a political solution.
That's fluff for public consumption, of course, since we know the military has been on all sides in this one, just as they have in the past...
Yet, some ruling party officials have accused the military itself of instigating the unrest as a way of unsettling Sharif and exerting supremacy over him.
The army has denied it was meddling in civilian affairs, saying it is neutral. Late on Friday, an army spokesman once again repeated that the army had nothing to do with the conflict.
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[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian Authority has yet to approve an International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... investigation into the fighting in the Gazoo Strip this summer, according to an ICC document obtained by Al Jazeera.
Without the PA officially granting the ICC jurisdiction, no investigation in Gazoo can move forward.
In an August 14 letter from ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's office to the French attorney for PA Justice Minister Saleem al-Saqqa and General Prosecutor Ismail Jabr, Bensouda said she "did not receive a positive confirmation" that documents accepting ICC jurisdiction were done so on behalf of the PA's top leadership, the only figures who can authorize an investigation.
"Accordingly," she writes, "there is no legal basis for my Office to consider and/or treat the 30 July 2014 communication as emanating from a representative of Paleostine endowed with the required full powers to seize the Court's jurisdiction..."
On July 25, Al-Saqqa and Jabr had submitted a letter to the ICC through their lawyer requesting an investigation, but only a head of government, head of state, or foreign minister -- not the justice minister or general prosecutor-- has the authority to grant the ICC jurisdiction for an investigation.
In early August, Riad Malki, the PA foreign minister, met with ICC officials in the Hague, and said Paleostinians should do everything in their power to enable the ICC to investigate.
On August 29, however, Bensouda wrote in the Guardian that the Paleostinians had yet to grant the ICC jurisdiction to investigate alleged war crimes in its territory.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has debated for months whether to join the court, a step that would transform his relations with Israel from tense to openly hostile and could also strain his ties with the United States.
Turning to the International Criminal Court became an option for Abbas in 2012, after the UN General Assembly recognized "Paleostine" in the West Bank, Gazoo and East Jerusalem, lands captured by Israel in 1967, as a non-member observer state. The upgrade to a state opened the door to requesting the court's jurisdiction in Paleostine.
In August, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, signed a pledge to back any Paleostinian bid to join the ICC, two bigwigs in the group said Saturday.
The decision by Hamas to sign a document in support of a court bid removes a major obstacle, though it's not clear if Abbas now will go ahead. A hesitant Abbas has said he would not make any decision without the written backing of all Paleostinian factions. In July, he obtained such support from all factions in the Paleostine Liberation Organization.
Since the start of the Gazoo war, Abbas has come under growing domestic pressure to pave the way for a possible war crimes investigation of Israel. Last month, he told senior PLO officials and leaders of smaller political groups he would only go ahead if Hamas supports the bid.
If Abbas were to turn to the court, Hamas could be investigated for indiscriminate rocket fire at Israel since 2000. Israel could come under scrutiny for its actions in the current Gazoo war as well as decades of settlement building on war-won lands the Paleostinians seek for a state.
Izzat al-Rishq, a senior Hamas official, said previously that Hamas was not concerned about becoming a target of a war crimes investigation.
"We are under occupation, under daily attack and our fighters are defending their people," he said in a phone interview from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... . "These rockets are meant to stop Israeli attacks and it is well known that Israel initiated this war and previous wars."
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... it is not clear if such arguments would hold up in court. After the last major round of Israel-Hamas fighting more than five years ago, a UN fact-finding team said both Israel and Hamas violated the rules of war by targeting civilians -- Hamas by firing rockets at Israel. That report's author, Richard Goldstone, later retracted his assertion that Israel had intentionally targeted civilians.
The 50-day Gazoo war between Israel and Hamas-led murderous Moslems ended on August 26 after killing more than 2,100 Paleostinians, most of them civilians, according to Gazoo-based medical sources.
Israel has said that as many as 1,000 killed were fighters and contends that Hamas is largely responsible for civilian casualties due to its tactics of firing from populated areas and using human shields.
[Ynet] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... on Saturday hailed Egypt is an "important partner" in the emerging coalition aimed at beating back the turban Islamic State group, while stressing that the need for Cairo's support would not lead Washington to ignore human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... concerns.
During a visit to Cairo, Kerry referred to Egypt as "an intellectual and cultural capital to the Moslem world," saying it has a "critical role" to play in denouncing the harsh ideology of the Islamic State group, which has seized much of northeastern Syria and northern and western Iraq.
Is Egypt capable of projecting forces that far away? Can they be spared, given Egypt's little problems in the Sinai and on its southern border?
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Perhaps this is a different Egypt than the one we just recently pissed off.
As tw points out, the Egyptians seem to have their hands full. A sign of desperation on our part, mayhaps. Lord knows the Turks are not going to step up.
[AnNahar] Iran said Saturday it has no wish to attend an international conference in Gay Paree next week on fighting the jihadist Islamic State group, dismissing the meeting as just for show.
What else could they say, after being so pointedly not invited?
"We have no interest in taking part in this counter-terrorism conference in Gay Paree which has a selective guest list and is just for show," deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
"What would interest Iran is a real fight against terrorism in the region and around the world, not this selective one," he said.
Iran has not been invited to Monday's meeting in Gay Paree, amid U.S. resistance to involving Tehran in the regional coalition it has been building among regional states to fight the jihadists in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said on Friday that Washington opposed Tehran's participation because of its "engagement in Syria and elsewhere."
The United States is building an international coalition against the Islamic State and has said it plans air strikes against the jihadists on Syrian territory without the consent of Damascus.
Syria and its ally Russia have warned that any unilateral U.S. military action on Syrian territory would be a violation of its illusory sovereignty.
The deputy foreign minister is the latest in a string of Iranian officials to criticize U.S. efforts to wage war against the jihadists.
On Thursday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afhkham cast doubt on the "sincerity" of the coalition Washington is seeking to build.
Last week, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States of not taking the threat from IS forces of Evil in Iraq and Syria seriously.
He also charged that U.S. aid had previously helped the jihadists, alluding to support given by Washington to other rebel groups in Syria, some of which has found its way into IS hands.
Iran has been Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's main regional ally since the revolt against his rule erupted in March 2011, and has also provided military advisers to the Shiite-led government in Iraq to help it battle the jihadists.
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See also BHARAT RAKSHAK > [WaPo] US-LED COALITION WANTS TO EXLCUDE IRAN FROM FIGHT AGZ ISIS.
Personally, I sincerely doubt iff anti-US US OWG Globalist = "Go, Go, Co-Superpowers" Obama will stand for IRAN actually being excluded from the ISIS fight.
Also from WAPO ... ...
* TOPIX > [WaPo] US OFFICIALS: ARAB STATES WILLING TO JOIN [anti-ISIS] AIR FIGHT.
US Muslim partners uncertain or waffling about anti-ISIS ground war where the US, NATO-EU is NOT in the lead???
YOOHOO, AYATOLLAH KHAMEINI = IRAN, I'M LOOKING AT YOU + YOUR COUNTRY'S MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL [military aviation] COMPLEX.
versus
* TOPIX > [The Hill] REPORT: OBAMA WOULD RETALIATE IFF SYRIA SHOOTS DOWN MILITARY FLIGHTS.
The Bammer de facto "at war" wid ISIS - you know, Baby Assad???
[ABC.au] The Federal Government is sending 600 Australian personnel to the Middle East in preparation for military action against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the United States had specifically requested Australia contribute to an international strike against the militants, who have captured large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
Mr Abbott said around 200 troops would be sent to the United Arab Emirates within days, including a Special Forces contingent "that could act as military advisers to the Iraqi armed forces or to the Peshmerga".
They would be followed by around 400 Air Force personnel, up to eight Super Hornet aircraft, an early warning and control aircraft and an aerial refuelling aircraft.
Mr Abbott said Australia was "not deploying combat troops but contributing to international efforts to prevent the humanitarian crisis from deepening".
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[AnNahar] Berlin is preparing to send around 40 soldiers to northern Iraq to train Kurdish fighters battling against Lions of Islam from the Islamic State, the German army said on Saturday.
Following a decision last month by the German government to provide Kurdish peshmerga forces with weapons, Berlin's defense ministry said it had sent six soldiers to its consulate in Arbil, northern Iraq, to "coordinate" joint training exercises.
Additional teams will be "temporarily" deployed to Iraqi Kurdistan, with up to 30 Kurdish soldiers traveling to Germany in exchange, it said.
The first batch of German weapons, which includes "anti-tank rockets and machine guns," will arrive in northern Iraq on September 24 and will be followed "quickly" by the military trainers, according to a defense ministry front man.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... said earlier this month that an estimated 400 German nationals had traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight on the side of the jihadists, who were threatening the stability of the entire region.
"We must fear these fighters could return one day" and mount attacks in European cities, she told parliament on September 1.
"The enormous suffering of many people cries to the heavens and our own security interests are threatened," she said.
Baghdad: Iraq’s prime minister said on Saturday he has ordered the army to stop shelling populated areas held by militants in order to spare the lives of “innocent victims” as the armed forces struggle to retake cities and towns seized by the ISIS group this summer.
“I issued this order two days ago because we do not want to see more innocent victims falling in the places and provinces controlled by ISIS."
He accused the militants of using civilians as a human shield to stop the advance of Iraqi security forces.
“We will continue to chase them (ISIS fighters) and we know that they are hiding behind the civilians,” he added.
The United Nations envoy to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, who was present at the conference, welcomed Haider Al Abadi’s commitment to protect civilians.
Saving civilians is good as long as they're innocents and not camp-followers. But the best way to save civilians is to kill the bad guys as quickly and completely as possible.
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Another headline at the site caught my attention: Newly declassified documents reveal how the Nixon White House looked the other way while Israel built the Middle East’s first nukes. This is not a problem. However, it is a problem that Pakistan and probably Iran have nukes.
[Daily Beast] Champ pledged that the war against ISIS won't be fought with U.S. ground troops. He didn't say anything about contractors, who see this as "the next big meal ticket."
America's rapidly-expanding war against ISIS won't involve large numbers of U.S. troops on the ground, President Champ is promising. And it's clear that airstrikes alone won't beat back the extremist group. Which means that if the President wants to have any hope of meeting his far-reaching goal of destroying ISIS, he's going to have to rely on private military contractors. All of which assumes he actually has a "far-reaching goal of destroying ISIS." I see no evidence to support such an assumption.
2. Like others of his ilk, Eli Lake has a disconnect. They don't like military deployments. They don't like a large military footprint if the military has to deploy. They don't like any semblance of permanence in places where the military deploys.
3. Contracting for certain government operations and projects is fine, provided it's the 'right kind'. Even hiring contractors for the military is good, like contracting a Native American firm to perform landscaping or maintain communication facilities. But not for military deployments.
4. Destroying ISIS is fine with Eli Lake, I guess. It's the grubby reality of how to do it that grates on him.
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4. Destroying ISIS is fine with Eli Lake, I guess. It's the grubby reality of how to do it that grates on him.
Absolutely right Pappy. I'm glad you added the "I guess" at the end of the first sentence. Contractors are a necessary part of a war effort in today's times.
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What percentage of government expenditures now go to contractors of all kinds? How many hundreds of billions? This needs to be mentioned every time issues about government contracts are raised, but that never happens. One figure I read is $0.5 trillion a year.
[WAPO] Hours before President Champ announced a new U.S. military offensive against the Islamic State, one of his top counterterrorism officials testified to Congress that the al-Qaeda offshoot had an estimated 10,000 fighters. Appears the "top CT official" was mistaken. Is he or she still.... a "top CT official?"
The next day a new assessment arrived from the CIA: The terrorist organization's ranks had more than doubled in recent months, surging to somewhere between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria. Numbers doubled in 'recent months' but the Klingons never thought to mention it until last week? Ok, I got it, thanks.
The enormous discrepancy reflects, in part, significant uncertainty among U.S. intelligence agencies over the dimensions of and danger posed by America's latest Islamist adversary. Yet another "fog of war"... or would that me WAPO throwing kak in game and screening for the White House by blaming the intelligence community? Well, somebody has to be thrown under the bus. DNI Jim Clapper, or DCI John Brennan, where art thou? Any comments in defense of your community? I thought not.
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Massive opaque bureaucracy is fricking useless shock!
[Ynet] Syrian opposition sources said on Saturday that Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... paid bully boyz from the Nusra Front in Syria a ransom of $20 million in return for the release of the 45 Fijian UN peacekeepers, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported.
The report comes a day after the Qatari Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that it had helped to secure the release of the peacekeepers following "the request of the government of Fiji".
"The efforts of the State of Qatar led to the successful release of the Fijian soldiers... who had been held for two weeks," the Gulf emirate said in a statement.
Qatar said it had acted on "humanitarian" grounds, and that did not hesitate to mobilise all its means and diplomatic channels to save lives".
A UN front man previously said the abductors had made no demands to secure their release, "and there were no concessions".
The Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper further reported that Qatar had paid the Islamist organization $1 million for the release of each soldier. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... an official confirmation regarding this information has yet to be obtained.
On Thursday, the IDF spokesperson confirmed that the 45 Fijian peacekeepers that had been captured by al-Nusra Front rebels in the Syrian Golan had been released and crossed into Israel safely.
A day earlier, the head of Fiji's army said the Islamist Death Eater group had dropped all of its demands to free the hostages, but at least slightly back-pedaled later in the day as the situation appeared to deteriorate.
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Kidnapping has been a fabulous fundraiser for them, as it has been everywhere jihadis operate. And it's a practice that goes way back -- I seem to recall Saladin holding King Richard Lionheart until England was stripped of her wealth for his ransom.
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Actually, that was other 'Christian' rulers who copped Richard on his return from the Crusade.
On his way to the territory of his brother-in-law Henry of Saxony, Richard was captured shortly before Christmas 1192 near Vienna by Leopold V, Duke of Austria, who accused Richard of arranging the murder of his cousin Conrad of Montferrat. Moreover Richard had personally offended Leopold by casting down his standard from the walls of Acre.
... On 28 March 1193 Richard was brought to Speyer and handed over to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, who imprisoned him in Trifels Castle. Henry VI was aggrieved by the support the Plantagenets had given to the family of Henry the Lion and by Richard's recognition of Tancred in Sicily.[79] Henry VI needed money to raise an army and assert his rights over southern Italy and continued to hold Richard for ransom. In response Pope Celestine III excommunicated Henry VI, as he had Duke Leopold, for the continued wrongful imprisonment of Richard. Richard famously refused to show deference to the emperor and declared to him, "I am born of a rank which recognises no superior but God".[81] Despite his complaints, the conditions of his captivity were not severe.
The emperor demanded that 150,000 marks (65,000 pounds of silver) be delivered to him before he would release the king, the same amount raised by the Saladin tithe only a few years earlier,[82] and 2–3 times the annual income for the English Crown under Richard. Eleanor of Aquitaine worked to raise the ransom. Both clergy and laymen were taxed for a quarter of the value of their property, the gold and silver treasures of the churches were confiscated, and money was raised from the scutage and the carucage taxes. - Wiki
[Ynet] The hardline al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State has destroyed several Sufi Moslem shrines and tombs in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor, a monitoring group said on Saturday.
The Sunni Moslem group, which enforces a strict interpretation of Islamic law in territories under its control in Iraq and Syria, has destroyed dozens of shrines, tombs and Shi'ite Moslem mosques.
Sites affiliated with the Sufi sect, a mystical school of Islam opposed by puritanical Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... from which Islamic State draws its members, have been among the group's main targets.
They all do it -- Islamic State, the Saudis in Arabia, the Afghan Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt -- it's as if the idea of history existing between the Prophet Mohammed and their own ascendence must not be allowed.
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Need that graphic of Mansour Hallaj being hanged amidst Islamic jubilation.
ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground, the Central Intelligence Agency said on Thursday, much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000. Among those in Syria are 15,000 foreign fighters including 2,000 Westerners, some of whom have joined ISIS, a US intelligence official said.
“CIA assesses the ISIS can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria, based on a new review of all-source intelligence reports from May to August,” CIA spokesman Ryan Trapani said in a statement.
“This new total reflects an increase in members because of stronger recruitment since June following battlefield successes and the declaration of a caliphate, greater battlefield activity, and additional intelligence,” he said.
Senior US officials have voiced concern at the presence of foreign fighters among the extremists who hold Western passports, potentially enabling them to return from the battlefield prepared to carry out terror attacks in Europe or the United States.
There's simple ways to fix that...
The White House has insisted that President Barack Obama is authorised to strike ISIS in Iraq and Syria under a law passed by Congress after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Only if he turns that authorization on its head. That resolution was about al-Qaeda, Afghanistan and 9/11. The 2002 Iraq War resolution was about Saddam Hussein. I applaud and support going after ISIS even though I don't think Champ has a clue how to do it. But we need (especially with Champ in charge) a new authorizing resolution from the Congress.
I'd say we put the resolution forward in the second week of October and see who votes for it. I'm sure the Pubs will...
However Obama learned on Thursday that he may have a wait on his hands before Congress signs off on his plan to train and equip Syrian rebels, a key plank in his strategy to destroy ISIS fighters.
Also on Thursday the Pentagon announced that US combat aircraft will soon start flying out of a base in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq as part of a “more aggressive” air campaign against ISIS militants.
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Numbers are not everything. The cartels down south seem to be operating just fine with (most probably) fewer numbers. There too,TERROR is a key toolto offset numerical inferiority.
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Almost nothing is being said about support given by Sunni's in the areas taken over by IS. I have read that this is a big part of IS muscle & only appears when IS has seized control of a town or region. These supporters are not fighters, but do enable mass killings & general mayhem that seems to appear magically whenever IS establishes governmental functions
[IsraelTimes] Growing up in New Orleans, Chloe Valdary kept kosher, studied the Jewish Bible and celebrated Jewish holidays with festive meals. In recent years she has become an outspoken pro-Israel campus activist, contributing regularly to the Jewish press, and speaking and posting widely about the merits of the Jewish state on social media.
But the senior at the University of New Orleans is not Jewish. She is Christian -- a member of the Intercontinental Church of God, whose adherents revere the Hebrew Bible and follow the Jewish calendar -- and she is black.
In July, Valdary, 21, garnered widespread attention for a Tablet piece in which she accused pro-Palestinian activists of misappropriating the rhetoric of the black civil rights movement. In the piece, titled "To the Students for Justice in Palestine, a Letter From an Angry Black Woman," Valdary addressed the campus group.
"You do not have the right to invoke my people's struggle for your shoddy purposes, and you do not get to feign victimhood in our name," she wrote.
Valdary, who has blogged for The Times of Israel for the past two years, also listed prominent black civil rights-era Zionists, telling Israel's college-age critics, "You do not get to pretend as though you and Rosa Parks would have been great buddies in the 1960s. Rosa Parks was a real Freedom Fighter. Rosa Parks was a Zionist." (Parks signed a 1975 letter by the Black Americans to Support Israel Committee, backing Israel's right to exist.)
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TW, Valdary's statement about Rosa Parks is spot on. Interesting to note, there are quite a few blacks living in Israel--Ethiopians, Yemenites, etc.
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An interesting side-note about Rosa Parks. She rode that particular bus every day and she and the bus driver were on a first-name basis. She said when he told her she was going to have to move to the back she really had no thought of being a civil rights symbol, she was just tired and her feet hurt so she told the driver no. She said he told her he was sorry but that was the law and if she didn't move she would be arrested. It seems a lot of people become reluctant warriors simply because they are tired and their feet hurt. In other words, they have finally decided they have had enough crap.
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P. S. This story doesn't diminish her courage in my view.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency last Friday said North Korea has definitely resumed operations at its Yongbyon nuclear facility. In an annual report, the IAEA said, "Since late August 2013, the agency has observed, through analysis of satellite imagery, steam discharges and the outflow of cooling water at the 5 MW(e) reactor, signatures which are consistent with the reactor's operation."
International Criminal Court
[AnNahar] Iran said Saturday it has no wish to attend an international conference in 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Baghdad: Iraq’s prime minister said on Saturday he has ordered the army to stop shelling populated areas held by militants in order to spare the lives of “innocent victims” as the armed forces struggle to retake cities and towns seized by the ISIS group this summer.
[WAPO] Hours before President Champ announced a new U.S. military offensive against the Islamic State, one of his top counterterrorism officials testified to Congress that the al-Qaeda offshoot had an estimated 10,000 fighters.
ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground, the Central Intelligence Agency said on Thursday, much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000. Among those in Syria are 15,000 foreign fighters including 2,000 Westerners, some of whom have joined ISIS, a US intelligence official said.
