Arab world

Image: Isis, a radical, ruthless Islamist army, is brutally extending its hold in the Middle East, further destabilising an already restless region. 
 
 

By all accounts Steven Sotloff was a good man and no probative evidence has surfaced that the American was anything other than what he appeared to be.   Caught up in Middle Easter politics for which few are prepared and fewer these days should feel confident about their personal security

 
 

Set Up and Sold Out on the Kilis-Aleppo Highway…

While for the past 35 years Saudi Arabia has supported all the jihadist movements to the most extremist, Riyadh seems suddenly to have changed policy. Threatened in its very existence by a possible attack from the Islamic Emirate, Saudi Arabia has given the signal for the destruction of the organization. But contrary to appearances, the EIS remains supported by Turkey and Israel who sell their looted oil.

by Thierry Meyssan

Image: Israeli authorities on Sunday announced the confiscation of around 4,000 dunums (1,000 acres) of private Palestinian land south of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank. 
 

 America’s politicians always back Israel because America’s government is constituted on the fallacious and unethical concept that money is free speech when it comes to political campaign contributions – fixed by a Supreme Court whose history includes vigorous support of such other glorious principles as slavery.

Image: Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who few in Lebanon deny live in near unimaginable squalor 
 

It is long overdue for Lebanese politicians to grant Palestinian refugees the elementary civil rights to work and to own a home. They should and they are well advised do it now

Everyone has noticed the contradiction of those who recently characterized the Islamic Emirate as “freedom fighters” in Syria and who are indignant today faced with its abuses in Iraq. But if that speech is incoherent in itself, it makes perfect sense in the strategic plan: the same individuals were to be presented as allies yesterday and must be as enemies today, even if they are still on orders from Washington.

The mega-buggers in Washington and the bootlickers in Europe have chosen sanctions over trade and destruction over prosperity.  They are paying a price:  domestic unrest, displacement from markets by emerging economies and the ascendancy of chaos as a way of life in Western Europe.

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, adviser to Syrian Presidency tells Channel 4 News that western reactions to Isis “are coming too little too late.” “The whole world should be against Isis,” she says. Dr. Shaaban also blasted Senator John McCain for meeting terrorists in Aleppo, Syria.

Photo credit:  A handout picture released by the acting Iraqi Prime Minster’s Office shows newly-appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (R) meeting with the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Baghdad (AFP)
 
 
 

 The new Prime Minister Haidar Abadi needs to bring independent Sunnis to power and have them shoulder responsibility for security and nation-building – this is the only way to prevent them from one day tilting towards the ISIS

US may attempt to arm and provide air cover for terrorists in Syria after claiming success in fighting ISIS in Iraq using Kurds

 
 
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