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[Regnum] The arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will not really affect anything, says Nikita Mendkovich, head of the Eurasian Analytical Club . He stated this on November 15 to a Regnum correspondent .
Earlier, a court in Paris issued an arrest warrant for Assad, who is accused of using chemical weapons in 2013.
“This is due to the sharp weakening of Europe’s position in the Middle East and Africa, which France is trying to win back through some demonstrative steps, ” Mendkovich suggested. “ As we understand, in reality this will not affect anything. Relations between Europe and Syria after the liberation of the latter from militants are already at a fairly low level. Therefore, an arrest warrant for Assad will not fundamentally change anything. This is just an excuse for another campaign against Arab regimes unfriendly to France.”
In other words, as Mendkovich emphasized, France is trying to indicate its symbolic presence in the region, because there is simply no strength and opportunity for a real one. How familiar.
The expert said that it is unlikely that France will be able to take active actions in the Middle East or Africa in the near future.
“After the inglorious flight from Niger, France will most likely take a very long time to regroup and look for ways to resume the struggle for influence in the world,” he said.
However, he believes that anti-Syrian forces will try to use this document to disrupt international visits and contacts of the official Syrian leadership.
“However, after Syria returns to the Arab League, I think these attempts will be like grain to an elephant. This arrest warrant means that France has no other means left to influence the politics of the region,” concluded Mendkovich.
In turn, orientalist Mikhail Balbus noted that such actions by the French authorities would make sense during the hot phase of the civil war in Syria, when provocations with the use of chemical weapons occurred.
“The timing is extremely unfortunate,” Balbus said. “ There will be no practical consequences [for Assad and Damascus] due to Syria’s recent return to the Arab League.”
Earlier , Regnum reported that, according to available data, France had issued four warrants: also against the brother of the Syrian leader, the commander of the Syrian Republican Guard, Maher Assad , and two generals. All defendants are charged with crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes.
The gas attack occurred in August 2013 in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. US intelligence stated that government forces were allegedly behind the attack; Damascus categorically rejected the accusations. In September 2023, American journalist Seymour Hersh published a Pentagon intelligence document stating that in 2013, not only the Assad government had access to sarin in Syria, but also the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra (banned in the Russian Federation).
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Jew-hate is fashionable. Picking on the defenseless dead is easy and safe for the cowards who indulge in it.
[Regnum] Ten Jewish graves were desecrated by unknown vandals at a German military cemetery in the Oise department in northern France. Radio station France Bleu reported this on November 15
The World War I cemetery is located in the commune of Moulins-sous-Thouvain, located 107 km north of Paris. Soldiers who fought for Germany are buried here. As the prefecture of the Oise department clarified, there are a total of 1,903 Jewish and Christian burials in the cemetery.
The department's prosecutor's office began an investigation into the incident. The identity of the grave desecrators has not yet been established.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned such acts, noting his personal involvement in the fight against all forms of anti-Semitism. The French leader made the statement at a joint press conference with Swiss President Alain Berset , broadcast on the official account of the Elysee Palace on the social network X.
Earlier , IA Regnum reported that the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, at a conference of EU ambassadors called for combating manifestations of anti-Islamism and anti-Semitism in Europe. As Borrell pointed out, in France alone, more than 1 thousand anti-Semitic acts occurred in a month.
In Paris on November 12, a march against anti-Semitism took place with the participation of almost all members of the government and leaders of major parties. More than 105 thousand participants gathered for the march.
Similar actions took place in other cities of France. A total of 73 demonstrations were registered, and about 182 thousand people took part in them. The purpose of the march was to unite the French against the backdrop of a sharp increase in the number of acts of anti-Semitism in the country.
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Don't know if the American Blacks were allowed in the US military to be on the front lines during WW1, Skidmark. I believe that they were only able to serve in support roles.
No problem for the Brits or the French.
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Prob time for some serious estate planning. [Fox] The People's Forum has been primarily funded by a left-wing multimillionaire tech mogul and his activist wife who co-founded Code Pink.
A multimillionaire tech mogul and his wife are helping to bankroll groups behind pro-Palestinian protests that have occurred in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas on Israel.
Neville Roy Singham, a U.S.-born entrepreneur who made millions after founding and selling an IT consulting firm called Thoughtworks,
...the Sri Lankan-American sold out for $785 million in 2017. Since his youth he’s been of the Left, starting out a Maoist Black Nationalist — which is some trick considering he is half Asian and half white...
and his wife Jodie Evans, the co-founder of left-wing anti-war group Code Pink, have been the primary funders of a group called The People’s Forum since 2017, according to a report by The Free Press’s Francesca Block. The group bills itself as a "movement incubator for working class and marginalized communities" and "nurtures the next generation of visionaries and organizers who believe that through collective action a new world is possible."
The People’s Forum has played a role in organizing several pro-Palestine protests since Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 in which the terror group’s members killed at least 1,200 Israelis and took over 200 hostages from Southern Israel into Gaza.
On the day of Hamas’ attack, the group appeared to offer no condemnation of the terror group’s actions and called for an end to "US aid to the Zionist occupation" and tweeted images of posters stating, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" — a slogan that has been criticized as being antisemitic and was cited in the House’s censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
One such protest occurred in New York City’s Times Square the day after the attack on Oct. 8. A social media profile belonging to The People’s Forum on X, formerly Twitter, encouraged New Yorkers to go "all out for Palestine!" It also urged supporters to "stand with the people of Palestine, who have the right to resist apartheid, occupation & oppression."
It also organized "Shut It Down for Palestine" protests on Nov. 4 to call for an end to U.S. support for Israel and Nov. 9. At the latter protest, activists entered the lobby of the NYC headquarters of asset management giant BlackRock, which The People’s Forum claimed "shut down" the company’s office.
The People’s Forum executive director Manolo De Los Sar criticized the March for Israel, which was held Tuesday in Washington, D.C., calling it a "Pro-Genocide March" and saying in a post on X, "This anti-Palestinian march, helped by the US govt, expects to gather a large crowd in support of 75 years of apartheid & occupation." He also accused speakers at the March for Israel of being "racists" and "fake progressives."
Another pro-Palestine protest organized in part by The People’s Forum is scheduled for Friday. The "Shut It Down for Palestine" protest calls for walkouts, sit-ins, direct action and marches "directed at the political offices, businesses, and workplaces that fund, invest, and collaborate with Israeli genocide and occupation."
The People’s Forum did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Singham and The People’s Forum have also been accused of having links to Chinese propaganda outlets, including Dongsheng News, which The New York Times reported shares an address with The People’s Forum.
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I'm sure the members of Code Pink are relieved. Sitting out the Russia-Ukraine thing (you need any other proof it's a project of "the Left?") was probably making them itchy.
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Manolo De Los Sar, better known as Manolo De Los Santos, is a founder of the People’s Forum and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His writing appears regularly in Monthly Review, People’s Dispatch, CounterPunch, La Jornada, and other progressive media. He coedited, most recently, Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War (LeftWord, 2020), Comrade of the Revolution: Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro (LeftWord, 2021), and Our Own Path to Socialism: Selected Speeches of Hugo Chávez (LeftWord, 2023).
[NYPOST] New York University has failed to tackle a sharp rise in antisemitism on campus following Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel — leaving some Jewish students feeling "under siege," according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The prestigious Big Apple university has dealt with numerous instances of antisemitism over the last decade that sharply rose after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and the Jewish state began to retaliate on the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, three Jewish students said in the Manhattan federal court suit.
Mobs of students have harassed and intimidated NYU’s Jewish population — which is regularly confronted with chants of "Hitler was right," and "gas the Jews," among other hateful phrases, according to the lawsuit.
Additionally, many students and faculty have "enthusiastically endorsed" Hamas’ deadly assault on the Jewish state, the suit states.
When Jewish students plead for help from administrators, complaints from them are either "ignored, slow-walked, or met with gaslighting," the lawsuit alleges.
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Why can't some of the richer Jews contract out hits on the instigators? Get... Wakandans to whack 'em. Identify and execute. A half dozen neo nazis or NYU abubakars driven by, garroted or beat into ICUs... and the rest will understand. You have to think outside the box the incompetent state has boxxed you in.
[JP] Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, semen samples of 39 men – 32 soldiers and seven civilians killed or murdered – have been extracted at the request of families, wives or partners who want to produce their progeny. In three other requests, the semen wasn’t removed due to the time limit that can be usefully taken after death. "a posthumous child."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
