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Palmyra in early May 2015 before the arrival of Da’ish (ISIS). As of early October 2015 it is not known precisely what has been spared. (Photo: fplamb)

By Gideon Levy

Nakanune

Translated by Kristina Rus

by Pepe Escobar
So a Su-30 enters a few hundred meters into Turkish airspace for only two minutes over Hatay province, and returns to Syrian airspace after being warned by a couple of Turkish F-16s.
Then all hell breaks loose as if this was the ultimate pretext for a NATO-Russia war.
NATO, predictably, went out all rhetorical guns blazing. Russia is causing“extreme danger” and should immediately stop bombing those cute “moderate rebels” the coalition of the dodgy opportunists refuses to bomb.

Undercover members of the Israeli military detain a Palestinian and fire towards other protesters during clashes in Beit El, on the outskirts of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 7, 2015. (AFP)
 

Mourners carry the body of 13-year-old Abdulrahman Shadi Obeidallah during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on 6 October. Muhesen AmrenAPA images

Image: Caspian Sea: the Buyan-M Corvette “Uglich” launches a 3M-54 Kalibr missile

Syrian Free Press

 
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Russian Government Says U.S. Has Been Pretending to Strike ISIS Over the Last Year and that Obama is Lying to the American People…

Palestinian youth burn tires during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 4, 2015.AFP