[An Nahar] The Malian government and six rebel groups signed an accord on an end to hostilities as part of ongoing peace talks that opened in Algiers last week.
A ceasefire has been in force with the mainly Tuareg and Arab rebel groups since a last eruption of fighting in May.
The two sides also signed a roadmap aimed at "putting in place a framework for the peace talks to allow the emergency of comprehensive negotiated settlement."
The signature of the two documents marked "a satisfactory result with which to crown the initial phase of the dialogue", Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said in a short statement.
The talks, which opened on July 17, are to resume next month aimed at reaching an agreement by the autumn on power-sharing short of secession.
While separatist demands have officially been dropped by the rebel Tuareg groups attending the talks, they are demanding greater autonomy or a special status for northern Mali, known by the Tuareg as Azawad.
After inflicting a "major defeat" on the Malian army in the Tuareg region of Kidal in May, the rebel movements now occupy nearly two-thirds of the country's territory and are in a position of strength in the talks, according to the Algerian hosts.
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I have the mental image of Chaimberlain waving a worthless piece of paper.
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[Libya Herald] The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly advised all its citizens still remaining in Libya to leave the country. It is also looking into the possibility of closing its embassy in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
In a statement yesterday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry advised all its citizens to leave. Those in the west of the country should travel to Tunisia, it said. The Turkish embassy had, it said, set up a help line for its citizens to aid them to do so.
It has also advised against travel to the country and asked all citizens to exercise maximum care while leaving Libya.
In a TV interview today, the country's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu confirmed that several hunted Turks were being helped to leave, adding that he was now conferring closing the embassy. "The measure of evacuating the embassy may be considered," he said.
He also warned that deteriorating situation in Libya could create a "domino effect" in the region.
According to Turkish embassy officials, the precise number of Turks in Libya is unknown but is estimated around 5,000, most of whom are in the west of the country. Before the revolution the figure was put at 20,000.
The Turkish Consulate-General in Benghazi has already closed.
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Strange sounds, odd smells, garbage out of the ordinary - these are among signs Chinese citizens should watch out for in the country's fight against terrorism.
The National Anti-Terrorism Leading Group Office on Tuesday updated its counter-terrorism handbook, which is aimed to help citizens better prepare and defend themselves during terrorist attacks.
It urges citizens to be vigilant of odd neighbors, especially tenants who repeatedly make strange sounds, carry unfamiliar objects and throw away garbage out of the ordinary.
"Stay calm, do not resist and trust the government" is the first rule to follow if abducted by terrorists.
In a scenario when faced with a person who has a knife, the manual suggests to "grab anything that is handy, like your handbag, clothes, umbrella, a chair or a mob to fend against the person, if you can not flee or hide." If there aren't enough people around to form a mob, a mop might serve to fend a knife attack.
The handbook has very detailed countermeasures for fire and explosions on buses, subways, trains and other public places like stadiums, hotels and market places. China is witnessing more frequent terrorist attacks while many people still lack life-saving experience and skills, said Li Wei, an anti-terror expert from China Institute of Contemporary International Relations.
"The book is a measure to enhance people's anti-terror awareness," said Li.
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So, see, when the sergeant issued you a mop and bucket and told you to mop the barracks, you were really receiving special anti terrorist training. And don't get me started on the toothbrushes...
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North Korea is preparing for a large-scale landing exercise ahead of joint annual South Korea-U.S. military drills next month.
"We've detected signs that the North is preparing for a massive landing drill in Nampo on the west coast since two to three weeks ago," a government source here said Monday.
The North protests vociferously against South Korea-U.S. drills every year and has apparently now decided to stage a drill of its own. Recently, the North has been transporting arms and equipment to Nampo and carrying out a preliminary exercise by firing rockets from 122 mm rocket launchers and howitzer shells into the West Sea.
Early this month, the North staged a landing exercise involving the Army, Navy and Air Force near Wonsan, Kangwon Province, mobilizing submarines, artillery guns, fighter jets, and bombers under the watchful eyes of leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un himself. It apparently aimed at practicing to hit the South Korean Spike missile bases on Baeknyeong and Yeonpyeong islands. The Israeli-made Spikes with a range of 25 km are deployed to hit the North's coastal artillery pieces in an emergency.
"The upcoming landing exercise on the west coast could be smaller in scale than the earlier landing drill," a military source speculated.
Meanwhile, the North on Sunday shifted the blame for any future provocation firmly to the South. A spokesman for the National Defense Commission said, "We have already done what we can do to improve inter-Korean relations through an important proposal and an open letter in January, a special proposal in June, and a [North Korean] government statement in July. Now, all that is left is what choice to make."
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North Korea's relations with its sole ally and benefactor China are going rapidly downhill. In an unprecedented move on Monday, North Korea attacked Beijing as "spineless" after cracking down on the usage of the yuan within its borders and reducing exchanges of personnel between the two sides.
Is this all just for show or are the Norks really stupid/rat-shit crazy to bite the hand that's been feeding them?
The move comes after months of a de-facto oil embargo from China that has left the all-important North Korean army high and dry and forced officers to cycle to work.
"Some spineless countries are blindly following the stinking bottom of the U.S., also struggling to embrace (South Korean President) Park Geun-hye, who came to a pathetic state of being," the North's powerful National Defense Commission said in an outburst of vitriol unusual even by its own somewhat eccentric standards.
The North defended its latest missile tests as measures to strengthen its "self-defense capability."
The comments appear squarely aimed at Beijing, which joined the UN Security Council in denouncing Pyongyang's short-range missile launch last week and whose president, Xi Jinping, took the rare step of visiting South Korea before North Korea shortly after he came to power. A day before Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Seoul late last month, the North also accused Beijing of warming up to the U.S. and South Korea.
China halted shipments of oil to North Korea for five months so far this year, and bilateral trade has declined markedly. North Korea's special economic zones, which had seen huge amounts of trade and investment from China are ailing.
According to sources in the Rajin-Sonbong economic zones, security forces recently launched a massive crackdown on usage of the Chinese currency. State security agents cracked down on Chinese money changers who refused to accept North Korean won and only traded in yuan and U.S. dollars, the source said.
"Security agents said China is the sworn enemy," the source added.
Violent scuffles broke out during the crackdown, resulting in one security agent getting stabbed to death by a money changer, who in turn was shot and killed by other agents.
Good. He took one with him. More people in Nork-land need to do that, and someone has to pop Pudgy...
Increasing tensions in the zones, a symbol of business ties between the two allies, prompted Chinese ambassador to North Korea, Liu Hongcai, to visit the region and plead for calm.
The number of North Koreans visiting China fell 7.3 percent in the first half of this year to 91,800 people. North Korea apparently recalled all workers dispatched to China to earn valuable foreign currency.
Park Hyung-joong at the Korean Institute of National Unification said North Korea's latest outburst was an official response to China's protest against the North's missile launch and Xi's trip to Seoul.
"Due to the North Korean nuclear program, relations are unlikely to improve any time soon," he said.
Meanwhile, North Korea is cozying up to Russia. In May, Russia wrote off US$10 billion in loans to North Korea and a senior Russian diplomat visited Pyongyang. Trade between Russia and North Korea rose 37.3 percent last year to $104 million.
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Yes, Steve W., the Norks actually ARE "stupid/rat-shit crazy." Living in a hermetically-sealed walled-off Hermit Kingdom can do that to you.
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So, how fortified *is* the North Korean border with China against invasion from the west? Has anyone noticed the NKors digging in above the Yalu? Because this all sounds like the Kim regime is preparing the battlespace to repel an expected Chinese-directed coup.
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Sometimes, it can be difficult to find a friend before the meds kick in.
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Twenty-nine North Korean defectors and five of their South Korean helpers were arrested in China on July 15-17. They were nabbed in Qingdao, Shandong Province, and Kunming, Yunnan Province, on an established escape route to Southeast Asia, and face deportation, possible torture and execution in North Korea.
Kwon Na-hyun of an activist group for defectors on Tuesday said 20 defectors were arrested in Qingdao and nine others in Kunming. One of the helpers who were arrested is Na Su-hyun (39), himself a defector who now has a South Korean passport. They have been transferred to a detention center in the border town of Tumen and face deportation to the North, Kwon added.
All defectors had stayed in a safe house in Qingdao, but some of them left for Kunming first. "Nine of them left for Kunming on July 14, because it would have been dangerous if all 29 defectors traveled together," Kwon said.
This is the largest-scale arrest of North Korean defectors and their helpers in China so far.
Since learning of their arrest on July 16, the South Korean government claims to have been negotiating with the Chinese government for their release. But Chinese police are digging in their heels because they want to stem a potential flood of refugees from the North.
Despite the latest improvement in the Seoul-Beijing relations and the worsening relations between Pyongyang and Beijing, there has been no big change in Beijing's policy to send North Korean defectors back.
Beijing is talking about its obligation under its border treaty with Pyongyang to send back people who cross the border illegally. It says the issue should be resolved between China and North Korea and is not a matter for any international organization or third country.
Since 2009, China has tried to prevent defectors who take shelter in South Korean missions in China from heading to South Korea.
Yoon Yeo-sang of the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights said, "China has never stopped sending defectors back to the North and isn't going to."
Prof. Yoo Ho-yeol of Korea University said China has "no choice" but to repatriate defectors because the North is vociferously demanding their return. "It's also a quite sensitive issue for China as it worries about border security and illegal entries," Yoo added.
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SOUTH KOREA, not NORTH.
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WASHINGTON — Like the rest of the world, the U.S. government appeared to have been taken aback last month when Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, fell to an offensive by jihadis of the Islamic State that triggered the collapse of five Iraqi army divisions and carried the extremists to the threshold of Baghdad.
A review of the record shows, however, that the Obama administration wasn’t surprised at all. In congressional testimony as far back as November, U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials made clear that the United States had been closely tracking the al Qaida spinoff since 2012, when it enlarged its operations from Iraq to civil war-torn Syria, seized an oil-rich province there and signed up thousands of foreign fighters who’d infiltrated Syria through NATO ally Turkey.
The testimony, which received little news media attention at the time, also showed that Obama administration officials were well aware of the group’s declared intention to turn its Syrian sanctuary into a springboard from which it would send men and materiel back into Iraq and unleash waves of suicide bombings there. And they knew that the Iraqi security forces couldn’t handle it.
The group’s operations “are calculated, coordinated and part of a strategic campaign led by its Syria-based leader, Abu Bakr al Baghadi,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk told a House committee on Feb. 5, four months before fighting broke out in Mosul. “The campaign has a stated objective to cause the collapse of the Iraqi state and carve out a zone of governing control in western regions of Iraq and Syria.”
The testimony raises an obvious question: If the Obama administration had such early warning of the Islamic State’s ambitions, why, nearly two months after the fall of Mosul, is it still assessing what steps, if any, to take to halt the advance of Islamist extremists who threaten U.S. allies in the region and have vowed to attack Americans?
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Everyone saw it coming. The O administration decided to do nothing, and let it fail, thus showing that they wanted it to fail.
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Having been the dream of many fathers, the arrival of the caliphate has long been predicted. You either openly or clandestinely support it, or you do not.
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"The testimony raises an obvious question: If the Obama administration had such early warning of the Islamic State's ambitions, why, nearly two months after the fall of Mosul, is it still assessing what steps, if any, to take to halt the advance of Islamist extremists who threaten U.S. allies in the region and have vowed to attack Americans?"
My take:
1) Deer : Headlights
2) Some serious ambivalence regarding who the "good guys" are.
Three women were arrested Wednesday, in the United States and Netherlands, for allegedly giving financial help to Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab, authorities said.
Since the United States deems the group a terrorist organisation, such aid is a crime for which Muna Osman Jama, 34, was arrested at her home in Reston, Virginia, the Justice Department said in a statement. Hinda Osman Dhirane, 44, was arrested at her home in Kent, Washington; and Farhia Hassan was arrested at hers in the Netherlands; it added.
Two additional women were fugitives on the same charges: Fardowsa Jama Mohamed, in Kenya; and Barira Hassan Abdullahi in Somalia, the statement said.
The women allegedly sent money transfers as part of a network of small monthly payments. They were charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation and 20 counts of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organisation.
“If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison on each count in the indictment,” the statement warned.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: A network of religious scholars has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the growing polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... incidence in the country and demanded accountability of all those associated with polio vaccination programme since 1994.
"The government should intervene immediately to prevent polio outbreak and save the children. Both the government and its partner agencies should be held accountable for failure to contain polio," Mufti Jehanzeb Khan told participants of meeting of 100 Learned Elders of Islam on Thursday.
He said more than 7,000 Learned Elders of Islam had run a Unicef-sponsored polio communication programme between 2009 and 2012 under the National Research and Development Foundation but the number of polio cases rose after its contract was terminated.
Mufti Jehanzeb said the government faced an uphill task of eliminating polio from a geographical block comprising Wazoo Agency and adjoining southern districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , especially Bannu and Lakki Marwat, over the growing refusal of the children's vaccination by parents.
Say ready to play role in polio eradication
"This block has been responsible for 76 countrywide polio cases of this year until now. Last year, Pakistain had reported 21 cases during the said period. North Waziristan Agency has reported 57 cases, South Waziristan Agency seven, Bannu nine, FR Bannu two and Lakki Marwat one. All this shows the government is unable to protect children against polio especially in light of the recent displacement of one million people from North Waziristan," he said.
Another religious scholar, Mufti Jehanzeb, said the NRDF had brought down vaccination refusal cases to 200 only in Bannu but the number had gone back to 17,000.
He said Bannu had reported nine polio cases this year, while the crippling virus detected in four children genetically resembled with the one found in Waziristan.
Mufti Alamgir said it was the high time to hold accountability into spending billion of rupees for polio eradication as the polio incidence kept rising.
He said Pakistain was the only country, where polio was uncontrollable and thus, putting the life of children in other parts of the world at risk.
Religious scholar Maulana Shakoor said the NRDF with the help of Learned Elders of Islam had almost done away with polio refusal cases.
"We'd brought down vaccination refusals to 6,000 only in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, which has gone up to 35,000 now. The NRDF project was supposed to end in Dec 2012 but was terminated two months before without reason," he said.
The religious scholar said the NRDF used pulpits in local mosques effectively which ended suspicions regarding vaccination in people's minds.
NRDF national coordinator Tahseenullah Khan said religious scholars still wanted to play their role for polio eradication.
"We appreciate Unicef, WHO and other organizations for working for polio eradication. We have got a golden opportunity to administer polio drops to displaced children in Bannu and other southern districts to boost the government's immunisation efforts," he said.
Tahseenullah said religious scholars appreciated the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa health department for taking action against six executive district officers (health), around 100 health technicians and other staff for poor anti-polio performance but unfortunately, there was no accountability at the Unicef.
"We urge the government to intervene without delay to stop further damage to anti-polio efforts by enhancing local ownership, accountability and oversight of the polio programme," he said.
Tahseenullah said religious scholars demanded that the government run the immunisation programme by itself and assign clear responsibilities to the WHO and the Unicef to keep them from exceeding their mandate.
Senior polio coordinator of the WHO in Pakistain Dr Elias Durry said the situation warranted immediate action in Bannu and other IDP-hosting districts.
"We desperately need to vaccinate each and every child in the country. There is an imminent threat that Pakistain may face stricter restrictions if it doesn't fulfil its commitment on polio eradication," he said
He said he was hopeful that the recent opportunity to reach thousands of North Waziristan children for vaccination against polio would be best availed.
"The global image of Pakistain on polio front will definitely change for good when the polio incidence begin to drop," he said.
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So, this sounds like a clerical shakedown? Like they feel they were cut out of the protection racket? They got cut out of the take in 2012, and have been, well, not actually interfering in the vaccination program, but not exactly pushing back against the backcountry lunatics. And maybe giving a wink and a nod to the boys behind closed doors, at least until the taps are opened again. Korans don't print themselves, you know. Nor do fortified princely compounds build themselves.
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You didn't protest when the children died.
You didn't protest when the polio workers were slaughtered,
But now that your income is threatened, you protest?
Fuck off and DIE.
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[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Sirajul Haq said on Thursday the revelations about the notorious National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) adopted during the PPP rule has proved that the country's affairs were decided not at home but in Washington and New York.
Talking to the media at Mansoora, the JI emir termed the PPP and the PML as two sides of the same coin, competing with each other in the US slavery.
To a question about the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... 's rally on the Independence Day, he said he believed that Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... did not want an end to democracy. "I am sure that there will be no martial law in the country again as no army chief will dare take over while the country is confronted with numerous problems," he said.
Sirajul Haq said it was the PTI's democratic right to stage a rally on the Independence Day. He said the JI and some other parties also supported Imran Khan's demand that the elections should be free and transparent and the election commission should be autonomous and impartial.
"Had the government accepted Imran Khan's demand for recounting of votes in four NA constituencies, the situation would not have gone that far. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... there should not be any ugly happening on the Independence Day," he added.
Condemning Israel's continued bombings on Gazoo, Mr Haq appealed to the Arab world to pull out its wealth lying in American banks and use its petrol as a weapon in order to stop the US from supporting Israel's hostilities against the Paleostinians. He appealed to the people to join and support the protest rallies being staged by the JI on Friday (today) to express solidarity with the Paleostinians.
The JI chief said the internally displaced persons (IDPs) issue was getting more serious. Around one million people had moved out of their homes in hot weather and their problems and difficulties could not be explained in words, he said, adding the federal and the provincial governments had failed in handling the IDPs. He said the federal government should have made arrangements for such a large number of the IDPs.
Asked about efforts for friendship with India, he said all talks in this respect was a fraud as both the governments fully realised that relations between the two states could not be normalised unless the Kashmire issue was solved.
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[DAWN] They had left their homes to secure their life but are still unsafe. The lone camp set up by the government for internally displaced persons (IDPs) is infested with deadly black scorpions, an official said on Thursday.
Tariq Hayat, bigwig of the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (Safron), conceded before the Senate's standing committee on cabinet division that the camp had been set up at a wrong place.
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the black, or Emperor scorpion delivers a sting comparable to a bee.
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... stated here on Thursday that his party's 'Azadi March' would not be a 20-20 match but a series of Test matches.
"Nobody should misunderstand that the PTI is going to hold a simple protest public gathering in Islamabad," he warned.
Speaking after the inauguration of his party's Lahore office on Thursday, Mr Khan said the 'Naya Pakistain' would only be created after coming out on roads as was the case of winning the cause of independent judiciary. "The Azadi March (from Lahore) will be a final battle to root out the corrupt and bring in a fair system in the country," he said.
The PTI chief referred to PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's reply to a media person's question whether the nuclear bombs could be used in trying times — "The nuclear bombs are not to be fired on Shab-e-Bara'at".
Mr Khan hinted that in his speech in Islamabad he would expose the whole team that had fixed the general election match.
He said his party had been looking for justice against the wrongs done in last year's general elections, but all its efforts went in vain only because of the corrupt system in the country.
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[An Nahar] Iraq's parliament on Thursday elected veteran Kurdish politician Fuad Masum as federal president, a move that paves the way for the much-delayed formation of a new government. He succeeds the ailing Jalal Talabani, who returned only five days ago from 18 months of medical treatment in Germany to serve out his tenure.
Parliament speaker Salim al-Juburi announced that Masum, who was born in 1938 and became the first prime minister of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan more than two decades ago, had garnered the most votes. Masum was almost guaranteed the job after Kurdish parties struck a late night deal to support him.
Under an unofficial power-sharing deal, Iraq's Kurds traditionally get the post of president.
Masum won 211 votes while his challenger only managed 17 in the second round, according to figures announced by Juburi.
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When a caller attempted to blame Israel for the war with Hamas last week, SiriusXM radio host Howard Stern told him to F*** off!
...Stern: Oh, f*** off... I dont want to listen to any anti-Semitism today. Jews get enough s**t all over the world. They get s**t on all the time. Jews are the indigenous people of that area. Im sick of the bulls**t. And the Arabs dont even want those Palestinians, otherwise theyd let them matriculate into their country.
...Stern: People forget history. Jews were being executed and killed, and they went over to Israel, this little sh*thole, which was a desertit had nothing going on.
...Stern: But the Palestinians are mad at the Israelis, instead of being mad at the f***ing terrorists running their so-called countrywho are raping the country, taking all the aide the United States actually gives to them. That theyre not angry with; theyre angry with Israel. [...] They elected terrorists to run their country. Thats the difference. Who do you support? Get off your f***ing high horse.
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Perhaps we should debate the "Anti-Americanists" in a like manner, rather than accept the 'euphemism' for America's 'demise.'
American Jews tend to stake out left-liberal with respect to the concerns of their fellow Americans, but are rightist on matters Israel. For America, leftist Jews advocate a multicultural, immigration free-for-all, pluralist pottage. At the same time for Israel, most Jews claim the right to retain a creedal and cultural distinctiveness and a Jewish majority. Israel, but not the US, should be allowed to control immigration and guard its borders.
Ask any left-liberal American Jew if he supports a “Right of Return” to Israel proper for every self-styled Palestinian refugee, and he’ll recoil: “Are you mad? Never. That’s a euphemism for Israel’s demise.” The very thing he opposes for Israel, the leftist Jew is inclined to champion for America: a global right of return to the US for the citizens of the world. When it comes to “returning” to America only (but not Israel), humankind is said to possess a positive, manufactured right to venture wherever, whenever. (This view is common among American liberals of all religious persuasions.)[From "The Titan is Tired"]
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Deeply embedded in all the Semitic cultures (not just the Jews) is a tendency to 'argue for the sake of arguing' and call it a virtue.
Note: I'm not saying nobody else does this.
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Ed, don't let Besoeker mess with your head. Just ask yourself the following questions.
(1) Is voting Democrat = left wing (see RINO)?
(2) Do left wing Jews support Israel?
(3) Assume there are American Jews who only care about Israel. Does the historical record suggests that they should vote Republican?
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Actually, when I posted the above, I was thinking about Howard Stern. I think he frequently takes a contrarian position just to start an argument; which, after all is the business he's in.
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[NDTV] American, Russian and some European carriers resumed flights to Israel Thursday after a two-day freeze amid fears that rocket fire from Gazoo was endangering commercial air traffic into Tel Aviv.
But some European airlines continued to suspend their flights, out of security concerns around Ben Gurion International Airport.
Officials in Washington lifted a formal ban on American flights to Israel late Wednesday, and flights by carriers Delta, United and US Airways, as well as Air Canada, were scheduled on Thursday.
"We have consulted extensively with the US government, as well as our own people on the ground in Tel Aviv... and we believe it's safe to fly and that's why we're recommencing our flights," a United Airlines spokesperson said.
After a 17-minute delay, United Flight 84 departed at 5:01 pm from Newark, New Jersey bound for Tel Aviv.
But the Federal Aviation Administration, while lifting its ban, warned of a "very fluid situation" amid intense fighting in the Gazoo Strip that has left nearly 800 Paleostinians dead.
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Thereby showing it was kabuki posturing by the western governments. Looking for a way to cave in to Hamas.
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I can think of no more positive confirmation of the justification for the Israeli action. The listed Nobel Laureates and academics are an intergalactic freak show of communists, socialists and at least one literary fraud.
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They are not useless, they have much power.
I am always surprised by the blindness of our side to others strength.
It is called hubris.
The power of this kind of people made Communism stay much longer than normal circumstances.
This operation has been a PR disaster of giant proportions. I hope they hit Hamas hard because if they didn't they are even more idiot than i think. And Hamas not wanting to sign a cease fire i see points for the other option.
Hamas wins with Israeli and Palestinian deaths.
That is the journalists work of art
(BBC, Telegraph, Guardian etc jut to talk about English ones).
Unfair for many Palestinians and Israelis . Yes but world is not fair.
So Israel should make small continuously operations instead of this big operations that enter in people minds because the media only writes about Israel retaliations.
We are not wining if we don't get a strategic victory over Hamas.
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One notable signer was a former close friend and mentor of President Barack Obama, former PLO spokesman Professor Rashid Khalidi. Obama has credited Khalidi with helping shape his political worldview.
Interesting. But not surprising.
Among the other signers were Nobel peace laureates Desmond Tutu, Betty Williams, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Jody Williams, Adolfo Peres Esquivel, Mairead Maguire and Rigoberta Menchu.
Also signing were academic Noam Chomsky, filmmakers Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, musicians Roger Waters and Brian Eno, writers Alice Walker and Caryl Churchill, and journalists John Pilger and Chris Hedges.
So I've heard of two of these zeroes looking for relevance (not counting the President, of course).
Perhaps some of you educated Burgers have heard of more than Noam and Desmond?
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These people should volunteer to become human shields in Gaza. The Gazookians would probably shoot them themselves and then blame it on the Jews.
#9
Zorba Fleresh4606, I disagree. This is not a PR mishap, sane folks who don't normally pay attention are realizing that Israel is finding tunnels everywhere and rockets that don't stop. Hamas is realizing that their rockets don't work against Iron Dome and they look very week, and Israel is doing what needs to be done.
Israel needs to realize no matter what they do the same folks are gonna hate them, so they need to do what they have to do. Talk peace all you want, but make sure that the talks take long enough the Pals are desperate. Then tell the media that they are talking and making progress and sugar-coat the hell out of it until the job is done.
#10
"Among the other signers were Nobel peace laureates Desmond Tutu, Betty Williams, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Jody Williams, Adolfo Peres Esquivel, Mairead Maguire and Rigoberta Menchu."
When did Federico get a Nobel prize? Was he part of a group that was awarded one?
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07/25/2014 15:16 Comments ||
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Rigoberta Menchu is still accepted in polite society? Didn't it turn out that almost every single thing in her biography and career was either a fraud or a scam?
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
07/25/2014 15:43 Comments ||
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I did some research, yup she's a liar, and not to be believed.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
07/25/2014 16:18 Comments ||
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#13
The crowd is so predictable as in Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton predicable. It is what they do.
#14
I realize that, for some strange reason, Pilger and Chomsky still have some cred in wild-eyed circles. But surely the presence of Cynthia McKinney is your Seal of Stupidity -- your guarantee that this letter and its signers need not be taken seriously.
[Dhaka Tribune] The religious leaders from Christian, Jewish and Moslems across the world have called for an end to the recent spate of violence in the name of religion.
They made the joint appeal in a media release.
The religious leaders said they were concerned about the ultimatum to the Christians to leave the town of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
"We have also heard about the desecration of Christian holy spaces and their symbols," they said.
They also termed those actions an appalling blot on the proud tradition of pluralism in a region which has been home to Chaldeans, Assyrians and other Churches of the East for more than 1,700 years.
"The destruction caused by the violence has engulfed all of the diverse populations in Iraq who have been uprooted from the region in fear of their lives," said the religious leaders.
They also expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the ongoing situation in Gazoo and Israel.
They appeal to the leaders and brokers of power in Mosul and around the world that the holy spaces should not devolve into venues that separate us from each other.
"Instead, they [leaders] should be venues for dialogue and for conversation, so that we may recognise the values of human dignity and solidarity to which we all subscribe. Only by having these shared conversations, we will be able to better understand each other."
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When are they ready to condemn mulism violence/agression in Sudan,Thailand,Pakistan,Kenya,Somalia,Nigeria etc all sponsored/funded by the gulf states?
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07/25/2014 3:20 Comments ||
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Despicable. The question is not who is good and who is bad. The question is, who is right and who is wrong. The djinn are wrong. And they are not religious, they are djinn: ogres and ogresses. At root, it is so-called religious leaders who have caused this whole mess by their pusillanimous intellectual obfuscation of truth up and down its line. Dialogue can solve nothing and is impossible when the interlocutor is an hegemon. And there is never a religious war: http://theological-geography.net/?p=3689
#3
There's a flaw, they only call for an end to sectarian violence, but that's ALL they call for, many people will see that as an excuse to do nothing IF it means nothing to them.
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So, they've got England on the make because Scotland is voting about independence.
Right...
Maybe they're expecting a late attack by Robert the Bruce and a wave of highlanders.
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07/25/2014 19:18 Comments ||
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That would be on the map, not the make.
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07/25/2014 19:19 Comments ||
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#9
Ed, I'm sure England is looking for a suitor now that Obama has kicked them out of America's bed.
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