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YEMENI HOUTHIS VOW TO FIGHT ISRAELI PLOTS AS NETANYAHU SIGNS HISTORIC DEAL WITH UAE, BAHRAIN
The Ansar Allah movement (also known as the Houthis) continues pounding Saudi Arabia with drones and missiles.
Late on September 17, the Yemeni Air Force loyal to the Houthi government struck Abha International Airport in the Saudi province of Asir with Samad 3 combat drones, which can be used as loitering munitions. The Houthis claimed that the strike hit a military section of the airport causing material damage and casualties among Saudi forces.
The military infrastructure in the Abha airport area and southern Saudi Arabia itself has regularly become a target of Houthi missile and drone strikes. Just during the past month, Abha International Airport was targeted by at least 4 drone and missile strikes. The Saudi capital of Riyadh and oil infrastructure in the central part of the Kingdom are also not out of danger. The Houthis demonstrated this several times during the past few years. The most recent strike on Riyadh took place just a few days ago.
Islamic 'Holy-War' Brewing: Iran Threatens Arab States, Says US Did This To World
Iranian President Hassan Rohani threatened the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Wednesday for having signed agreements to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel. Specifically, he warned that "they will be responsible for the consequences" of the decision.
How could they have reached out to Israel? And then they want to give them bases in the region? You will be responsible for all the serious consequences, "Rohani declared in a televised speech.
The president of the Persian regime, who did not directly name the two countries, made these statements in the council of ministers after the signing of the agreements, which took place last Tuesday in Washington, given the role of mediator that the United States played in the negotiations
Trump Says He Would Sell Other Gulf Countries Same Advanced Weapons Given To Israel
In an interview ahead of the signing ceremony for the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Trump said he would be willing to sell other countries in the Middle East "the same advanced weapons" the US sells to Israel.
"They're very wealthy countries for the most part," Trump told Fox News. Trump also mentioned the UAE's desire for US-made F-35s and said he would "personally not have a problem" with the UAE acquiring the warplanes.
Iran warns the UAE and Bahrain they will bear 'severe consequences' after they signed an historic peace deal with arch-foe Israel
Iran has warned the UAE and Bahrain they will be responsible for 'severe consequences' caused by the signing of an historic peace deal with Israel.
Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian President, blasted leaders of the two Arab states over the deal and accused them of forgetting 'their debt to the Palestinian people'.
'How could you reach out your hands to Israel? And then you want to give them bases in the region? All the severe consequences that would arise from this are on you,' he said in televised remarks.
UAE official says U.S. mediation an assurance suspension of annexations will hold
The United Arab Emirates' foreign minister said on Tuesday that the presence of the United States as a mediator of the country's deal to normalise relations with Israel assures him that the suspension of further annexation of Palestinian lands will hold.
Minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash also said it was not the time to revise the Arab Peace initiative, and that it remains the cornerstone of the UAE's commitment to the Palestinian cause.
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Protests and rockets as Gulf states sign deals with Israel
At a White House ceremony on Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain officially established diplomatic relations with Israel.
The signing of the US-brokered Abraham Accords formalizes decades of clandestine relations between Israel and the two Gulf states.
US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Emirati foreign minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani all spoke before the signing.
Al Nahyan and Alzayani also signed separate treaties with Trump and Netanyahu.
Bahrain's was termed a "declaration of peace," while the UAE's a "treaty of peace."
The four leaders signed copies of the documents in English, Arabic and Hebrew.
Peace Plans That Have Nothing To Do With Peace
On September 11, 2020, Bahrain announced that it had agreed to normalize relations with Israel, following a similar agreement by the United Arab Emirate (UAE). Both agreements are being packaged and sold as historic peace plans.
They're Not Peace Plans
Arab-Israeli Peace At Last: Watch Historic Signing, Trump's 'Globally Praised' Speech
As Israelis prepare to enter a three-week lockdown to block the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, around 700 people attended Tuesday's ceremony at the White House where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain established official diplomatic relations.
Before the ceremony, Netanyahu met at the White House with US President Donald Trump, who mediated the relations breakthrough, according to an Israeli official who interviewed reporters staying at the premier in Washington.
The Ministers of the UAE and Bahrain, Abudullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, represented their countries at the signing ceremony.
War and destruction are what REALLY need to be put on lockdown amid this pandemic. But that lesson has YET to be learnt
Today, according to the Palestinian PM, 'the Arab Peace Initiative dies' in Washington with the signing of deals between the UAE, Bahrain and Israel. This comes at a time when peace could not be more critical.
On Monday, Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the following day's ceremony at the White House, calling it "a dark day in the history of the Arab nation and of the Arab League."
Indeed, it is a dark day for the world as it faces one of its greatest challenges in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Peace In Our Time: Nine Additional Arab Countries 'Lined-Up' To Sign Trump's Plan
President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that it was a "historic day for peace" as two historic Middle East peace agreements were signed between various Gulf states and Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed agreements with the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the three nations agreed on a plan to normalize relations.
Donald Trump also said on Tuesday that "five more countries" will soon establish diplomatic relations with Israel, shortly before participating in the White House in the signing of the Abrahamic Accords of the Israeli government with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, respectively.
SAUDI AIR FORCE IS LEVELING YEMENI CAPITAL TO GROUND IN RESPONSE TO HOUTHI STRIKES ON RIYADH
The Saudi-led coalition has been bombing Yemen with a renewed energy following the recent missile and drone strikes on the Kingdom's capital by the Ansar Allah movement (also known as the Houthis).
According to pro-Houthi sources, Saudi warplanes conducted over 60 airstrikes on different targets across the country during the past few days. They insist that the most of the targets that were hit were objects of civilian infrastructure. At the same time, Riyadh claims that it has been precisely bombing Houthi military positions.
Iran's Resistance Film Festival Key to Undo Hegemony of US Films: Canadian Journalist
By: johnu78
PROTESTS/REVOLUTION
"...A Canadian journalist and political analyst described the 16th Resistance International Film Festival underway in Iran as important in the face of the hegemony of American films..."
US Officials Fear Arrest Over Saudi War Crimes in Yemen
COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA
TORTURE/WAR CRIMES
State Department has come under fire for facilitating arms sales to the Saudis and suppressing evidence of legal issues raised by Yemen war.
A report from The New York Times revealed that some US officials are concerned that their role in facilitating arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, while ignoring the harm to civilians each country has caused in Yemen, could lead to their arrest overseas for war crimes. A Congressional hearing over these arms sales is set to take place on Wednesday.
The report said that officials from both the Obama administration and the Trump administration have considered hiring lawyers to discuss the possibility of being arrested while vacationing overseas.
The Times report reads: "No episode in recent American history compares to Yemen, legal scholars say, where the United States has provided material support over five years for actions that have caused the continuous killing of civilians."
Saudis Launch Airstrikes Against Yemeni Capital of Sanaa
Saudi warplanes carried out at least 11 airstrikes against the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa, according to the Shi'ite Houthi movement. Strikes hit across the city, but the main target appeared to be the Sanaa airport.
There is as of yet no word on how much damage was caused, and no reports from either side mentioned casualties. It would be unusual for there not to be casualties in such a large city, but the airport has been closed by a fuel shortage for weeks anyhow.
The Saudis did not announce any specific goals for the attacks, but media reports attributed them to a recent increase in Houthi strikes on Saudi targets. The Houthis have claimed such strikes, though reports have not backed up many of them, and there seems to have been little hit in Saudi Arabia recently.
Saudi Arabia and America Are Responsible for the 'Houthi Threat' in Yemen
America's post-9/11 wars have had disastrous consequences. They have been a geopolitical bust, fragmenting rather than eliminating terrorist groups, enhancing Iran's influence, and destabilizing the Middle East. The humanitarian consequences have been even worse: thousands of Americans killed, tens of thousands wounded, hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, millions of people displaced, al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamic State loosed, and entire nations ravaged.
Israel-UAE deal: The two-(police)-state solution
In 2016, award-winning Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor - who is now serving a 10-year prison sentence in the United Arab Emirates for such unspeakable crimes as insulting the "status and prestige of the UAE and its symbols," including its leaders - was the victim of a hacking attempt by NSO Group, an Israel-based cyber warfare firm.
According to the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab, which analysed the attack, the goal of the operation was to convert Mansoor's iPhone into a "digital spy in his pocket" - taking control of the camera and microphone and recording the activist's communications and movements.
This, mind you, was four years before the normalisation of UAE-Israeli relations last month - the culmination of a longstanding, secret love affair between the Middle Eastern federation of sheikhdoms and the Zionist state known for habitually massacring Palestinians and otherwise tormenting the Emiratis' fellow Arabs.
ISRAEL AND THE UAE HOPE TO TURN YEMEN'S REMOTE ISLANDS INTO AN INTEL GATHERING HUB
In the wake of the recent normalization of ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in August, it is becoming increasingly clear that Tel Aviv is set to take on an increasingly active role in the war on Yemen, a war that the UAE – together with Saudi Arabia – launched over six years ago.
Biden Says Stay in Mideast, Increase Military Spending
Former Vice President Joe Biden gave some of his first foreign policy-related positions in an interview with Stars and Stripes on Thursday, saying the "forever wars have to end" while seemingly ruling out any full-fledged withdrawals, arguing the US still has to worry about terrorism and ISIS.
Biden said the ongoing US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria are so complicated he can't promise a withdrawal. He also suggested he may increase military spending even beyond its current record levels as he shifts focus to what he believes should be the military's priorities.
The priorities, as are so often the case for the US, are fighting Russia, who Biden identified as a "near-peer" power. The US spends more than ten times the amount on its military annually that Russia does, and it is unclear in what way they are a "near-peer."
Bahrain Normalizes Israel Relations, Signing Ceremony Tuesday
A joint statement between Bahrain and the United States on Friday announced that Bahrain will be normalizing ties with Israel, entering "direct dialogue" and establishing full diplomatic relations.
President Trump made the announcement, and officials say a signing ceremony, involving Bahrain, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates, will be happening on Tuesday. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu presented this as a "new era of peace."
This started in August with the "Abraham Accord," a peace deal between Israel and the UAE. This historic announcement got off to a rocky start, however, as the UAE claimed it included a deal to let them buy F-35 warplanes from the US, and Israel has attempted to block that.
Bahrain Jumps on the UAE-Israeli Deal's Bandwagon While Saudis Still Testing Waters, Observers Say
On 11 September, the Kingdom of Bahrain has reportedly agreed to a peace deal with Israel, becoming the fourth Arab country to formally recognise the Jewish state and the second in the last 30 days. International observers have discussed the new announcement as well as its potential impact on the 2020 presidential race in the US.
The Jew Who Cried Wolf: Extended, 9-11 2020
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Bahrainis Decry Betrayal as King Does Deal With Israel
In a move that surprised no one, Bahrain and Israel agreed on Friday to establish full diplomatic ties, formalizing more than two decades of clandestine relations.
President Donald Trump announced the US-brokered agreement in a joint statement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahrain's king Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
HOUTHIS STRIKE RIYADH WITH MISSILES AND DRONES. SAUDI COALITION RETREATS IN YEMEN
Late on September 10, the Saudi capital of Riyadh came under a missile and drone attack from the Ansar Allah movement (more widely known as the Houthis).
The Yemeni missile and air forces, loyal to the Houthi government, announced that they struck a "high-value target" in Riyadh with a Zulfiqar ballistic missile and three Samad-3 suicide drones.
"The attacks are a response to the enemy's permanent escalation and its continuing blockade against our country," Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Houthi government, said in a statement promising more attacks on Saudi Arabia if the Kingdom "continues its aggression and siege" on Yemen.
Jordanian Authorities Confirm Explosion at Military Warehouse Near Zarqa, Say No Casualties Recorded
Reports from Sky News Arabia say that at least two people have died and three injured after the explosion, also noting that an investigation into the matter has been launched.
The Jordanian Minister of State for Media Affairs, Amjad Odeh Al-Adaileh, cited by Petra news agency, said that an explosion occurred on early Friday in a warehouse containing unsuitable mortar bombs belonging to the armed forces.
According to Al-Adaileh, the blast was caused by an electrical short circuit in a warehouse, which are located in an isolated and uninhabited area and are subject to constant surveillance.
Tucker: President Trump wants US troops out of the Middle East
Mile Markers Of Tyranny: Losing Our Freedoms On The Road From 9/11 To COVID-19
Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
"No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end."
- George Orwell
You can map the nearly 20-year journey from the 9/11 attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic by the freedoms we've lost along the way.
The road we have been traveling has been littered with the wreckage of our once-vaunted liberties, especially those enshrined in the Fourth Amendment.
The assaults on our freedoms that began with the post-9/11 passage of the USA Patriot Act laid the groundwork for the eradication of every vital constitutional safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse.
There has been "no US child left behind" since 9/11 who has not witnessed, and experienced the terrors the Unhinged, Surveilled State of Amerika has visited, both upon its citizens, in its being perpetually at war with some third world entity with the temerity of sitting over some natural resource so coveted by this country, that they will go to war to obtain it; control it; insure to whom it can or cannot be sold, and in what monetary currency it can be sold.
And the "active shooters drills" in public schools?!? It would only take ONE for me to pull our kid out of that public school so quickly, that the principal's head would be spinning.
I would also make sure my neighbors understood, that if they sent their child to that public school, the emotional scars from this kind of experience, is precisely the kind of intense trauma with which they can expect their kid to come home.
These drills are not about "safety"; they are about conditioning our kids to accept state-induced trauma, so that they can be controlled more easily.
Nearly 3,500 Yemeni children killed in Saudi airstrikes since 2015: Rights group
Nearly 3,500 children have been killed in Yemen since 2015, when a Saudi-led military coalition started a devastating war against the impoverished country, a human rights group says.
In a report, carried by Yemen's Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, Yemen's Human Rights Center said on Monday that some 7,200 Yemeni children were either killed or wounded in the imposed war.
Of these ill-fated children, 3,468 were killed, further said the report, which was titled "Childhood with the Color of Blood and the Smell of Death."
Citing reports by Yemen's Health Ministry and the country's media, the center added that 91 percent of the dead were those who had lost their lives in ceaseless aerial attacks by the invaders.
When you kill the children, babies, and toddlers of a country, you are also killing that country's future; this is what Saudi political and military leadership have attempted to do in Yemen.
They attempt to buy press silence, or sic their "American attack dogs" against anyone who calls it by its rightful name; this is the murder of innocents, writ large.
The Israel-Palestine Conflict, Annexation and "Normalization". Towards "Greater Israel"
As the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on with no end in sight, Israel and the US have launched an all-out push to resolve the conflict once and for all, on Israel's terms. If the manoeuvre is successful, Israel will end up with all of the territories it conquered during the 1967 war, including all of the Golan Heights and Jerusalem and most of the Palestinian Territories, including the best sources of water and agricultural land. The West Bank will find itself in the same situation as the Gaza strip, cut off from the outside world and surrounded by hostile Israeli military forces and Israeli settlements.
Palestine in the regional and international geopolitical context.
Middle East Countries Prepare To Decouple From The Petrodollar
For years, journalists cheered Assange's abuse. Now they've paved his path to a US gulag
By: Redress
What the UAE-Israel Deal Really Means for the Middle East
A key part of this joint intelligence initiative between the UAE and Israel (and, by extension, the U.S.) has been the dramatic increase in the past two years of the purchase of commercial and adjunct residential properties in Iran's southern Khuzestan province – a key sector for its oil and gas reserves – by UAE-registered businesses, particularly those based in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, said the source.
"Around 500,000 Iranians left Iran around the time of the [1979 Islamic] Revolution and settled in Dubai, in the first instance, and then Abu Dhabi, and they have never been in favour of the IRGC having the key role in Iran, so some of them have been used to front businesses or commercial property developments in Khuzestan that are being funded from business registered in those two states of the UAE," he added.
There you have it, folks!!
Report: UAE Letting Israel Send Spies Into Yemen
Reports originating in the Turkish state media are claiming that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are allowing Israel's intelligence agencies growing access into Yemen, with the UAE in particular giving Israeli agents access to the strategic island of Socotra.
There is still not a lot of evidence of how far-reaching this is. One Socotra tribal elder was quoting in the media saying this is the case. Socotra's tribes have been trying to build up opposition to the UAE's assertion of control over the island during the ongoing Yemen War.
Socotra has regional strategic value, which is why the UAE wants a presence there, and presumably why Israel would also want a presence there. Couple this with the Israel-UAE peace, and the allegation practically writes itself.
I frankly wouldn't be surprised if this story proves true.
Making a hash of Brexit wasn't enough: Boris Johnson is now set to hire another Israel stooge as trade envoy
Stuart Littlewood comments on reports that Britain's Zionist Prime Minister Boris Johnson is about to appoint Australia's Zionist former Prime Minister Tony Abbott as UK new trade envoy, and notes pledges by Johnson to forge even stronger trade relations with the racist state of Israel.>>
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US charges three over collecting monetary aid for war-torn Yemen
The US Justice Department has charged three people in connection with a campaign to collect monetary assistance for the oppressed Yemenis, who are suffering under the years-long Saudi war and blockade.
It claimed that Muzzamil Zaidi and Asim Naqvi, US citizens living in Iran's holy city of Qom and the American city of Houston, respectively, and Ali Chawla, a Pakistani national residing in Qom, had violated the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Justice Department officials alleged that the defendants "have considerable operational links" to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and moved US currency from the United States to Iran.
Blasts hit Dubai, Abu Dhabi ahead of first flight from Israel
One person has been killed and several people injured in two separate explosions in the United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi and its tourism hub Dubai, police and local media say.
The incidents came as the first direct flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates entered the Saudi airspace before landing in Abu Dhabi, which was hit by a rare blast shortly before the arrival of US and Israeli officials.
It appears that not all Emeratis are really happy with the UAE's rapprochement with Israel.
UAE And Israel Plan To Create Intelligence Bases On Yemen's Socotra Island
By South Front,
Israel and the United Arab Emirates are going to create a military intelligence-gathering infrastructure on Yemen's Socotra Island, according to Arab and French sources.
According to reports, a delegation of Israeli and UAE officers recently visited the island and examined several locations for establishing the planned intelligence facilities. Earlier in August, the UAE and Israel with assistance from the United States reached a historical peace agreement relaunching diplomatic, economic and even military cooperation between the states on the highest level. The security and military cooperation in the Bab al-Mandab Strait was among the expected goals.
So the first item on the cooperation agenda between UAE and Israel is.... surveillance?!?
The Israel-UAE Deal Isn't About Peace at All: The U.S.-brokered pact makes no pretense of peace for Palestinians. Instead, it sharpens a regional coalition against Iran.
In some ways, the U.S.-brokered plan for mutual recognition between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is big news. For more than a quarter of a century, only two Middle Eastern countries – Egypt and Jordan – had officially recognized Israel. None of the Gulf monarchies did.
So, it was a pretty big deal when the announcement was made. Except, actually, not so much.
Despite the UAE's claimed adherence to a decades-long position that no Arab country should normalize relations with Israel until it ended its occupation of Palestinian land, ties between the UAE and Israel had been quietly underway for years. The same is true of many other Arab states.
Wow, this looks more like a cynical "same-old same-old", than a real move for peace in the region.
FIRST AREA OF UAE-ISRAEL COOPERATION: SPYING ON DISSIDENTS AND JOURNALISTS
OURCE: GEOPOLITICS ALERT
ABU DHABI (AMA) – ONCE AGAIN, MEDIA OUTLETS REVEAL ISRAELI COOPERATION WITH GULF COUNTRIES IN THE FIELD OF ESPIONAGE AND THE SALE OF SPECIAL CAPABILITIES AND EXPERTISE THAT WILL HELP GULF GOVERNMENTS TRACK DOWN DISSIDENTS. THE ISRAELI NSO COMPANY IN QUESTION IS ALSO MENTIONED IN A VERY IMPORTANT AND SENSITIVE TOPIC RELATED TO ITS ADVANCED SPYWARE, "PEGASUS," WHICH ENABLES PENETRATION OF MOBILE PHONES.
This time, the Hebrew newspaper, Haaretz, discussed the issue of Israeli-Gulf cooperation in terms of espionage, stating that the NSO company recently sold programs to opponents like the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf countries. According to what the newspaper on Sunday, deals, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, were carried out through official mediation.
The report came to confirm that the Emirati normalization with Israel was an inevitable result of deep and sensitive cooperation between them.
WHAT IS NSO?
How WONDERFUL!!
Pompeo seeks to flood West Asia with arms, defies US own laws: Iran FM
Iran's foreign minister says his American counterpart, Mike Pompeo, is trying to "flood our region" with all kinds of US weapons even when his country's own laws prohibit such a measure.
Mohammad Javad Zarif's comments came in a Monday tweet after Pompeo said earlier the same day and following his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem al-Quds that the US will find a way to balance helping its military ally, the United Arab Emirates, without weakening Israel's qualitative military edge (QME).
Pompeo's remarks came amid controversy over whether the US will sell F-35 stealth jets to Abu Dhabi, after the Emirati officials unveiled their plan to totally normalize their country's relations with Israel.
"The US has legal requirements with respect to the QME, and we will respect that," Pompeo said, adding, "We have a 20-plus year security relationship with the UAE as well."
Ignore at your peril: Palestine ranks high in Arab public opinion
James Dorsey explains that while domestic issues such as provision of jobs, education and health care, good governance and protection of personal rights are of primary concern to Arab citizens, opinion polls indicate that Palestinian rights remain at the top of citizens' agendas.>>
How the Israel-UAE pact undermines international law
Lawrence Davidson says the United Arab Emirates' "normalisation" of relations with Israel in effect provides a seal of approval for Israel's illegal creeping annexation of Palestinian lands and gives a green light for other states to acquiesce in undermining International law.
How the UK government provides cover for Israel's crimes
Stuart Littlewood highlights the gap between the UK government's meaningless platitudes and mealy-mouthed declarations in relation to Palestinian rights on the one hand, and its actual deeds on the other, which serve to provide cover for Israeli crimes.>>
How Israel wages war on Palestinian history
Jonathan Cook highlights Israel's systematic and comprehensive policy of seeking to eradicate Palestinian history in order to to accomplish its desire to destroy Palestinian society and pressure Palestinians to leave their homeland, to be replaced by Jews.
ISRAEL LAUNCHES WEEK-LONG BOMBING CAMPAIGN IN GAZA AMID ONGOING WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATION
SOURCE: MINT PRESS
Last Monday night Israeli fighter jets executed airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip for the ninth night in a row in an act that may be another on Israel's long list of possible war crimes.
Israeli leaders characterized the actions as retaliatory, naming Gazan "incendiary balloons" and "riots" as justification.
This is just the latest in what mainstream media generally depicts as a "protracted conflict" between "the militant group Hamas and Israel," after "months of calm" (5 Gazans have been killed in 2020; Israel has shot at farmers and fishermen hundreds of times; no Israelis have been killed).
The plight of Palestinians in Gaza, a population of almost two million crammed into a region the size of Detroit, has been hidden from the view of most, even as the US funds its occupier with over $10 million a day in military aid.
Israel has devolved into a cruelly apartheid theocracy with nuclear weapons; what could possibly go wrong in the region henceforward?!?
A great deal, my friends; a very great deal.
Saudi Arabia Breaks Silence, Tentatively Embraces Israel-UAE Peace Deal
As the steward of the two Muslim holy cities (Mecca & Medina) - cities where no non-Muslims are allowed - Saudi Arabia has an image to maintain as an ally in the regional struggle to support the Palestinians in their struggle against Israel. But in another sign of just how significant Jared Kushner's accomplishment actually was, it appears the desert petro-kingdom is finally ready to make an important step toward publicly accepting Israel as a neighbor and friend.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has made it quite clear, that his annexation will continue to move forward; just perhaps at a slower pace than the speed at which he originally wanted this accomplished.
I am as of yet unsure that this move will find Palestinians "forced to the table" for other concessions.
UAE recognition of Israel: Whither the Arab and the Muslim world?
PAKISTAN / INDIA
James Dorsey says parochial interests and rivalry between the Arabian peninsula's rulers lie behind the United Arab Emirates' decision to recognise Israel and Saudi Arabia's turning its back on Jammu and Kashmir.>>
The United Arab Emirates and Israel Join Hands: Great for Trump but More Bad News for the Middle East
The deal, reportedly set up by White House Special Assistant to the President and son-in-law Jared Kushner, will in fact have little impact on the UAE, whose Crown Prince and head of state of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed was instrumental in coming to an agreement on behalf of all of the Emirates. He issued a statement on the understanding reached, stating that
"During a call with President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, an agreement was reached to stop further Israeli annexation of Palestinian territories. The UAE and Israel also agreed to cooperation and setting a roadmap towards establishing a bilateral relationship."
Iran will change its approach to UAE over deal with 'child-murdering Israeli regime' – top commander
The freshly inked peace deal with Israel will change Tehran's attitude towards the United Arab Emirates, a top Iranian commander has warned, saying that Abu Dhabi will now be the prime suspect for any troubles in the Persian Gulf.
"Unfortunately, the UAE has reached a deal to normalize ties with the child-murdering Israeli regime," Chief of Staff for the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri said on Sunday.
Tehran's approach to the UAE will change ... If something happens in the Persian Gulf region and if our national security is damaged, however small, we will hold the UAE responsible for that and we will not tolerate it.
War-Drums: Iran Lashes Out At USA, UAE & Israel; 'Brought Upon You A Dangerous Future'
Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned on Saturday that there will be dangerous consequences for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for announcing a historic agreement with Israel to establish diplomatic relations.
The UAE is the first Arab Gulf state to do so and only the third Arab nation to establish normalized relations with Israel, Iran's regional archenemy. The Iranian Guard described the agreement as a "shameful" pact and a "nefarious action" approved by the United States, according to a statement from that group posted on its Sepah News portal.
The Iranian guard warned that the deal with Israel will hamper US influence in the Middle East and bring a "dangerous future" for the UAE government. In a televised speech, Iran's president Hassan Rouhani warned on Saturday that the United Arab Emirates committed a "serious error" for reaching an agreement for the normalization of ties with Israel.
There Is a Historic Change Taking Place in the Middle East
President Donald Trump is cock-a-hoop over the United Arab Emirates becoming the first Arab Gulf state to normalise its relations with Israel. He needs all the good news he can get in the months before the US presidential election.
"HUGE breakthrough today! Historic Peace Agreement between our two GREAT friends, Israel and the United Arab Emirates!" Trump tweeted. Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu claimed a triumph in establishing full diplomatic relations with an Arab state that had once been a vocal supporter of the Palestinians. The UAE, for its part, said it had averted Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank, while the Palestinians denounced yet one more betrayal by their fellow Arabs.
Is The Stunning Peace Deal Between Israel And The UAE A Prelude To Formally Dividing The Land Of Israel?
Outrage grows over UAE-Israel pact to establish full diplomatic ties
Anger is boiling in the Middle East and elsewhere over a recent agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to normalize diplomatic relations, with Palestinian leaders describing it as a "stab in the back" by an Arab country.
Dozens of people raided the UAE embassy in the Libyan capital city of Tripoli on Saturday to express their outrage over the normalization pact between the Persian Gulf country and Tel Aviv.
Don't be Hoodwinked by Trump's UAE-Israel "Peace Deal"
"HUGE breakthrough today," crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The deal makes the UAE the first Gulf Arab state and the third Arab nation, after Egypt and Jordan, to have diplomatic ties with Israel. But the new Israel-UAE partnership should fool no one. Though it will supposedly stave off Israeli annexation of the West Bank and encourage tourism and trade between both countries, in reality, it is nothing more than a scheme to give an Arab stamp of approval to Israel's status quo of land theft, home demolitions, arbitrary extrajudicial killings, apartheid laws, and other abuses of Palestinian rights.
Israel Not Giving Up On Annexing West Bank, Netanyahu Says, After Historic UAE Deal
Via AlMasdarNews.com,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he has not agreed to remove the issue of the extension of Israeli sovereignty over lands in the West Bank and will not relinquish it.
Netanyahu said during a speech on Thursday evening, "The American president asked me to wait on the extension of Israeli sovereignty over more lands."
Feeling more than a little betrayed, Mr. President, when you made the comment that the Israel/UAE deal was going to prevent annexation by Israel of the West Bank?!?
President Donald Trump said in a surprise announcement Thursday that Israel and the United Arab Emirates had agreed to normalize relations and that, as part of the deal, Israel would not annex parts of the West Bank it currently occupies.
Welcome to a much clearer understanding of your greatest "frenemy" yet, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and I am sorry if you are so blind that you cannot see this; the guy just "relieved himself" in your face, geopolitically, and told you "it was raining".
What's the real aim of the disastrous UAE-Israel deal
Israel and the United Arab Emirates have announced an agreement leading to full diplomatic relations -- with the help of US President Donald Trump (who has a Zionist daughter and son-in-law Jared Kushner). Sealed after a long-running series of negotiations and confirmed in a phone call on August 13 among Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli co-prime minister, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, and Donald Trump, the US president, the participants will formally sign the accord at the White House in coming weeks.
Trump's comment? "HUGE breakthrough today! Historic Peace Agreement between our two GREAT friends, Israel and the United Arab Emirates," he wrote on Twitter.
With Trump's Help, Israel and UAE Reach Historic Deal to Normalize Relations
Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a historic peace deal on Thursday that will lead to a full normalization of diplomatic relations between the two Middle Eastern nations in an agreement that President Donald Trump helped broker.
Under the agreement, Israel has agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to areas of Yehudah and Shomron that it has been discussing annexing, senior White House officials told Reuters.
The peace deal was the product of lengthy discussions between Israel, the UAE and the United States that accelerated recently, White House officials said.
The agreement was sealed in a phone call on Thursday between Trump, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi.
The officials described the agreement, to be known as the Abraham Accords, as the first of its kind since Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty in 1994. It also gives Trump a foreign policy success as he seeks re-election on Nov. 3.
US comedian Seth Rogen turns the truth about Israel into a joke
Lawrence Davidson highlights the growing gap between Zionists and young Jewish Americans who question the fake history of Israel they have been taught which blanks out the Palestinian people, and reject the racist, apartheid Zionist state.
Gordon Duff Says Israel Nuked Beirut
More info available in a one hour Interview between Gordon Duff and Kevin Barret on this topic here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40266269
Youtube video: https://youtu.be/FPiFIT40feA
Rabbis: Synagogues' silence on Israel's annexation a moral failure, [Independent Jewish Voices Canada]
We are two rabbis and other members of the Hamilton, Ontario, Jewish community who call on the religious institutions of our community to take the clear moral stand of opposing Israel's plan to annex large areas of Palestinian land in the West Bank and Jordan Valley.
Particularly at this time, parts of the Canadian Jewish community strenuously promote themselves as allies of oppressed minorities here and elsewhere. Some Jewish organizations express concern about police violence in the U.S. and in Canada. Their silence as Jews in the face of extreme ongoing Israeli violence and oppression of the people of Palestine is intolerable and inexcusable. Jewish people in Canada must condemn those institutions' silence and complicity.
Independent Jewish Voices, Rabbis: Synagogues' silence on Israel's annexation a moral failure
Something rotten at the heart of UK government: The smell of pro-Israel bias in the Foreign Office is overpowering
Watch: Massive Fire Engulfs Sprawling UAE Market In Flames
As GCC member states pledge to send aid to embattled Lebanon following yesterday's shocking and historic blast, allegedly caused by government negligence in the borderline failed state, a massive explosion just rocked a busy market near Dubai, in the UAE.
The fire has spread rapidly through a market in the emirate of Ajman.
Social media users are speculating without any evidence about a possible connection between this fire and the explosion yesterday in Beirut - though "bad things come in twos and threes" isn't much of a theory to go on.
War Drums Beat In The Middle East After Thousands Of Casualties In Beirut Explosion
Initial reports suggested that the explosion may have been caused by an incident in the firework storage area. However, later, Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, which is typically used as an agricultural fertilizer, had been stored for six years at a port warehouse without proper safety measures, "endangering the safety of citizens."
This statement was backed by General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim, who said a "highly explosive material" had been confiscated years earlier and stored in the warehouse, just minutes' walk from Beirut's shopping and nightlife districts.
IF there was ever a time for some "adults in the geopolitical room" (and guys, you KNOW who you are!!) to be working the phones to ratchet down the tensions here, now is bloody well the time for them to get to it.
And folks, regarding a potential de-escalation of tensions, don't look at all to President Trump for help; he is way too enmeshed in his own pre-election issues to care.
Can Israelis broaden their protests beyond Netanyahu?
Jonathan Cook argues that anti-Netanyahu demonstrations in Israel have yet to draw a connection between Netanyahu's personal abuses of office and the systemic corruption of Israeli politics, with the occupation its beating heart.>>
Waffling while Libya burns: Libya's problem is a security problem that requires a military solution
RUSSIA/BELARUS/UKRAINE
"Libya's problem is a security problem that requires a military solution. In the west of the country are the Turkish-sponsored Islamist cutthroats of the Muslim Brotherhood and their crime syndicate allies, now backed by nearly 20,000 Syrian mercenaries and other Turkish-trained jihadists. In the east is the elected parliament and its armed force, the LNA, which succeeded in cleansing that part of the country of the Islamist terrorists. It should be obvious to everyone that there cannot be a political accommodation with the Islamist terrorists — the Muslim Brotherhood and its protégés — not in Libya or any other country. To reach a political accommodation with the Muslim Brotherhood is akin to asking the US White House to share power with the drugs mafia or urge Westminster to enter talks with jihadist Anjem Choudary.
Jul 30 14:12
Israel Moves Advanced Missile Systems To Lebanese Border On Fears Of Hezbollah Attack
Via AlMasdarNews.com
A Hebrew-language channel stated on Wednesday night that the Israeli army expects an attack by Hezbollah during the Islamic Eid Al-Adha holiday.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, Kann, reported that Israel fears a "second attack" by Hezbollah in the next 48 hours, that is, during the celebration of Eid al-Adha.
The news channel reported that, based on this expectation, the Israeli army has strengthened its forces in the north near the Lebanese and Syrian borders, deploying advanced missile systems, special rockets and intelligence-gathering capabilities, for fear of a reaction from Hezbollah, after one of its members was killed in an airstrike on July 20th in Damascus.
The Israel-based news channel quoted a "Lebanese diplomat in Beirut" – whom they did not name – as saying that Hezbollah does not want a comprehensive escalation with Israel, but that it is looking for a real retaliation.
Is this for real, or is the Israeli government broadcasting it is preparing to try a "false flag" against Hezbollah?!?
False flags are a very common form of Israeli statecraft; I am hoping (and praying) for calm, but I don't know that this will happen, looking at the level of distraction Netanyahu needs to misdirect Israeli citizens away from looking at the government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and his own corruption trial problems.
Tens of Saudi-led coalition defect to Houthis
Another defection from the camp of Saudi led coalition. This time a group of nearly 40 forces from the Republican Guards who were stationed in Yemen's western coastline declared their defection to the Houthi Ansarullah Movement in the capital Sana'a.
The commander of the group Major General Fawaz Aljaali said that real intention of the Saudi-led became clear to them only after serving under the command of what he described as the country's occupiers. This defection has come after major victories achieved by Ansarullah fighters and army forces in the vicinity of Marib city.
Experts say this defection is considered as the biggest one that has followed many defections by senior military officials from the camp of Saudi led coalition. Since the beginning of Saudi led war in Yemen in 2015, thousands of the coalition forces have left the ranks of it.
Four children killed, two injured as cluster bomb explodes in Yemen's Ma'rib
At least four children have lost their lives and two others sustained injuries when a cluster bomb dropped earlier by the Saudi-led military aircraft in a residential area of Yemen's central province of Ma'rib went off.
Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, citing local sources, reported that the explosion took place in the village of al-Hazm, which lies in the Harib al-Qaramish district of the province, on Tuesday.
Back on June 11, Yemen's Ministry of Human Rights, in a statement released by the official SABA news agency, warned that cluster munitions pose a serious danger to the lives of civilians, especially women and children, if they come in close contact with them.
The statement added that the alliance has used thousands of cluster bombs on residential areas, causing the death and injury of many civilians. Unexploded submunitions risk the lives of locals in the targeted areas as well.
US presence root cause of insecurity in West Asia: Ayatollah Khamenei
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Americans' presence in the region is the cause of insecurity in West Asia, underlining the need for unity among Muslims in the face of the US and the Zionist regime of Israel.
"We consider the US presence in the West Asian region to be a detriment to the nations of this region and a cause for insecurity, destruction and backwardness of the countries," Ayatollah Khamenei said on Wednesday in his annual Hajj message.
"Today, as always and more than ever, the necessary interests of the Islamic Ummah lie in unity; such unity that creates a single force in the face of threats and hostilities, and yells at the devil incarnate, that is the aggressive and treacherous US, and its mad dog, the Zionist regime, and bravely stands up to their bullying," the Leader added.
US switches to obstruction of air transit in the Middle East
Last Thursday, July 23, two American fighters carried out hostile maneuvers against an Iranian civil aircraft at an extremely short distance on the stretch between Beirut and Tehran, in Syrian airspace. Several people were injured. Much more than a mere "mistake", the American attitude reveals a real military strategy.
The Beginning of the U.S.-Iran Hot War?
"Americans should not blame others in vain," Iranian general Esmail Gha'ani has declared, "this is a fire they have lit and today has engulfed them." Gha'ani, a veteran military commander who heads the Quds Force, the branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responsible for extraterritorial operations, was speaking about the massive fire that has overtaken a U.S. navy vessel in San Diego.
The provocative remarks come amid signs of a new level of covert warfare being waged against Iran. The country has been beset by its own mysterious infernos and explosions, including at parks, medical clinics, power plants, ports, factories, a missile production compound, and a nuclear facility. The latter has been attributed to Israel by a source speaking to the New York Times. The incidents also come as the Trump administration has greenlighted the CIA to target Iranian infrastructure with cyberweapons.
President Trump has utterly no clue of what he might unleash, if he either he joins with Israel to attack Iran, or attacks Iran directly, for which Netanyahu has been constantly been agitating.
Am I the only human being on this planet without SMD (selective memory disorder) who remembers what Moscow's envoy said at a diplomatic conference to his Iranian counterpart last summer, when the guy made the statement: Iran 'Won't Be Alone' If U.S. Attacks, Russian Official Says The article goes on to state the following:
""Iran will withstand this type of fight and Iran is not alone," Zamir Kabulov, the Foreign Ministry's special envoy for Asian countries including Iran, said at a Russian-Iranian policy forum in Moscow.
When asked if Russia was ready to provide material support to Iran if the U.S. attacks it, Kabulov said that "specific actions are a question for the Russian president."
"But it's not just Russia, many other countries sympathize and empathize with Iran," the Kommersant business daily quoted him as saying. "Tehran won't be alone if the U.S., God forbid, takes wild and irresponsible actions against it."
War with Russia over Iran?!? You have GOT to be flipping kidding me!!
However,unfortunately, just because something would be the most ham-fistedly, pig-headedly stupid thing the US government and military could possibly do, is utterly no guarantee that they won't do it.
Next Monday is 3 August; we're barely 90 days out until the next election, and between the Covid 19 pandemic and the economic depression with which the country is dealing, President Trump is losing the window on gaining another term in office, and rapidly.
Animals are at their most dangerous when wounded, and between the "Nothing-gate/Russiagate", and his current woes in office, the President is a very definitely geopolitically wounded politician.
He may think that his only card, right now, he's left with, is to play "the war card" against Iran, and that this country, and the world, will line up behind him solidly on this; the man could not possibly be further from the truth.
As long as I have breath, and it does not become illegal, through the suspension of the Constitution and Bill of Rights as a "wartime measure", I will continue to advise President Trump, and this administration, against this recklessly dangerous path of action.
And there is a companion article, from sputniknews.com today, with the headline reading:
This article goes on to state: "At the same time, Washington has repeatedly ignored Tehran's calls for the US to stop sending its carriers to the Gulf and its warnings that such actions only contribute to the escalation of tensions in the region, not to security.
The US Navy has criticised Iran's military drills that are taking place along the waterways in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, adding that it is monitoring them closely. The American military further called the war games an Iranian attempt "to intimidate and coerce", without clarifying whom or for what purpose.
"We are aware of the Iranian exercise involving attacking a mock-up of a vessel similar to a motionless aircraft carrier [...] We are always watchful of this type of irresponsible and reckless behaviour by Iran in the vicinity of busy international waterways", US Fifth Fleet spokeswoman Rebecca Rebarich said in an interview with AFP."
Folks, something wicked this way comes.
Watch: Israel Reinforces Troops Near Golan Heights Fearing Hezbollah Retaliation To Strikes On Syria
Submitted by South Front,
The Middle East is rapidly moving towards a new round of confrontation between the US-Israeli bloc and Iranian-led Shiite forces...
On July 26, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) deployed M109 Doher howitzers near the separation line with Lebanon. The deployment of howitzers became the latest in a series of broad measures employed by the IDF near Lebanon recently. Earlier, the 13th "Gideon" Infantry Battalion of the IDF's elite 1st "Golani" Brigade reinforced troops near the border. The number Israeli Hermes 450 drone reconnaissance flights also significantly increased over southern Lebanon. Additional IDF units were also deployed in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. On top of this, the IDF announced that it will hold the Lebanese government responsible "for all actions emanating from Lebanon".
With the election-year turmoil here in the US, coupled with the broader issues of Covid 19 and riots in major metropolitan areas of the US, Netanyahu feels he can "get away with" major provocations in Syria and Lebanon, and that President Trump will do utterly nothing to stop him; the world is in for a profoundly dangerous set of moments which may well not resolve themselves until far after the US elections in November.
Israel propagandist Bernard-Henri Lévy in Libya to support Turkish-sponsored terrorists
A Zionist attack on late American-Palestinian scholar Edward Said's legacy
Lawrence Davidson debunks American-Israeli propagandist Caroline Glick's attack on the celebrated American-Palestinian scholar Edward Said, describing her attack on Said as an attempt to resurrect the notion of Western supremacism as a way of legitimising the racist state of Israel.>>
First Arab Country Acquires New Chinese Missile System As Beijing's Influence Grows
China has started exporting the third generation of their Red Arrow-12 anti-tank systems, also known as the HJ-12.
According to the China Defense website, Algeria has become the first Arab country to obtain the upgraded Chinese anti-tank system.
Israel's Jewish National Fund is uprooting Palestinians – not planting trees
Jonathan Cook highlights the crimes of the Jewish National Fund – viewed as a "charity" in many Western countries – including ethnic cleansing and land theft, committed against Bedouins in Israel as well as in the occupied Palestinian territories under the guise of environmentally damaging "environmental" work.>>
Woodrow Wilson's racism: The basis for his support of Zionism
Lawrence Davidson examines the shared racism of Zionism and Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, who was a champion of the Balfour Declaration and the creation of the state of Israel on usurped Palestinian lands, and who remains a hero to present-day Zionists.>>
Yemen war: Ansarullah says to unveil new ballistic missile after striking Saudi sites
Just a day after striking sensitive oil installations and military sites inside Saudi Arabia in a retaliatory operation, Yemeni armed forces say they will soon unveil a new type of domestic ballistic missile.
Brigadier Abdullah bin Amer, deputy director of the Department of Moral Guidance for Media Affairs, hailed Yemen's major military operation that targeted a number of sites deep within the Saudi territory, including King Khalid airbase in the city of Khamis Mushait, an oil facility in Jizan industrial zone as well as military sites at Abha, Jizan and Najran airports and a military camp in Ma'rib Province.
Unlike previous operations that involved launching only one ballistic missile, the recent strike was conducted using a combination of missiles and drones, al-Masirah TV channel quoted bin Amer as saying.
Yemeni army launches fresh retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia
Oil company Saudi Aramco operates a 400,000 barrel-a-day refinery in the Red Sea city of Jizan, which lies around 60 km (40 miles) from the Yemen border.
Yemen's army backed by Ansarullah fighters launched a number of retaliatory operations deep inside Saudi territories in response to Saudi spike of airstrikes. The army spokesperson Yahia Sareah said that the recent operations have hit their targets in airports of Jizan, Asir and Khamis Mushait, including a gathering of senior military officers, among them Saudi military officials in Altadween military camp in Ma?rib.
These operations, the army spokesperson says, have been carried out in retaliation to the spike of Saudi airstrikes, including Sunday's Saudi airstrike on a house in Washeha area of Hajjah province that resulted in the killing of 10 members from one family, among them the mother and two of her infants.
"Cancel culture" letter is about stifling free speech, not protecting it
Yemeni Houthis say they hit Saudi oil facility in drone, missile attack
Yemeni Houthi forces hit a large oil facility in the southern Saudi Arabian city of Jizan in drone and missile attacks overnight, a Houthi military spokesman said on Monday.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said earlier it had intercepted and destroyed four missiles and six explosive drones fired by the Houthis over the border towards Saudi Arabia. But there was no Saudi confirmation of where they were intercepted or whether anything was hit.
Oil company Saudi Aramco operates a 400,000-barrel-per-day refinery in the Red Sea city of Jizan, which lies around 60 km (40 miles) from the Yemen border. Aramco declined to comment.
Saudi-Backed and UAE-Backed Yemeni Fighters Clash in Taiz
Fighting in southern Yemen continued over the weekend in Taiz, when the Saudi-backed Yemeni government accused the UAE-backed separatists of having designs on the strategically important city, leading to multiple clashes.
Government forces and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) have been fighting over several provinces in South Yemen in recent weeks, and Taiz has been seen as the key to this war from the start. Indeed, the stalemate there is a big part of why pro-Saudi forces have been stalled in the south.
The UAE backs the separatists, and the Saudis back the government, but mostly the Saudis have tried to get the two sides talking, something which so far hasn't accomplished anything, with the government criticizing the very idea of power-sharing.
After the Saudis attacked Aden, Taiz was the first offensive, aiming to take a road leading to Sanaa. The fight over Taiz has been raging ever since, with no sign of anyone taking it over enough to push deeper north.
We are all "Jews" in the eyes of today's Nazis
US fully responsible for Saudi-led military aggression against Yemen: Army spox
The spokesman for Yemeni army has censured the US as the conspirator of the Saudi-led military onslaught on his country, saying Washington arms the Riyadh regime and its regional allies, defines goals for them and is involved in a political cover-up for their acts of aggression.
"Over the past few days, Yemeni armed forces have discovered large quantities of US-built munitions at the positions of Saudi mercenaries [loyal to the ex-Yemeni government] while conducting clean-up operations in the provinces of Ma'rib and al-Bayda," Brigadier General Yahya Saree said at a press conference broadcast live from the capital Sana'a on Tuesday afternoon.
"The weapons had the logo of the so-called United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on," said the Yemeni military official, adding that USAID supports and funds organizations in Yemen to collect classified information under the guise of humanitarian activities.
UK resumes arms sales to Saudi Arabia, says 'possible' war crimes in Yemen are 'isolated incidents'
The UK government has come under fire after announcing that it is to recommence arms sales to Saudi Arabia, despite acknowledging that the kingdom could be using them to commit war crimes in Yemen.
In a written statement published on Tuesday, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss confirmed that the UK will resume trading militarily with their key ally in the Gulf region. A landmark UK Court of Appeal ruling in June 2019 judged that arms sales to the kingdom were unlawful – prompting the government to suspend new arms sales while it conducted a review.
IS WASHINGTON PROVOKING INDIA TO A WAR WITH CHINA?
By: Blacklistednews
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a recent video conference suggested that the US might move some of its troops from Germany to the region around India, citing growing US security concerns in the Asian region.
Slavery Rampant In Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself
The United States abolished slavery 150 years ago, and has affirmative action for minorities. It is the country that elected a Black president, Barack Obama -- twice! Yet, a new movement is toppling one historic monument after another one, as if the US is still enslaving African-Americans. Activists in Washington DC even targeted an Emancipation Memorial, depicting President Abraham Lincoln, who paid with his life for freeing slaves.
Today slavery still exists in many parts of Africa and Middle East, but the self-flagellating Western public is obsessively focused only on the Western past of African slavery rather than on real, ongoing slavery, which is alive and well -- and ignored. For today's slaves, there are no demonstrations in the streets, no international political pressure, and virtually no articles in the media.
"We must not forget that Arab-Muslims have been champions in this field," Kamel Bencheikh, a Muslim poet, wrote in Le Matin d'Algerie.
Israel's Netanyahu and COVID-19
UK government evasive about sanctions if Israel annexes West Bank
Stuart Littlewood highlights the UK government's deceptive policy towards Israel's impending formal annexation of occupied Palestinian territories, noting that while ministers reject the prospect of annexation, they insist on being "friends and allies" of Israel regardless of its horrendous crimes.
Jun 30 08:21
Luongo: Is John Bolton A 'Resistance' Hero Or Traitor To Common Decency?
Authored by Tom Luongo via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
There are few men in modern American history more venal than Former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Calling Bolton a relic of the Cold War in his outlook on foreign policy is a kindness.
Bolton is a dangerous and pathetic creature whose entire life is an example of how incomplete men with a talent for violence can rise in a late-stage cesspit of political corruption.
He is simply someone who has never been in a fight in his life who lusts for the power to kill, main and destroy anyone who dares challenge him. A pathology he's had the dubious distinction of being able to act out in the real world on more than one occasion.
This will, hopefully, be the last article I write about his cretin because once his last fifteen minutes of fame are used up attacking President Trump in slavish interview after interview supporting his book, Bolton will be finished in Washington D.C.
US and its allies are leading an arms race in Middle East, not Iran: Scholar
The United States and its allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are leading an arms race in the Middle East region, not Iran, an American scholar has said.
Kevin Barrett, an author, journalist and radio host with a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday, after US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said that lifting the arms embargo on Iran will trigger an arms race in the Middle East.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir in Riyadh on Monday, Hook said lifting the ban would "only embolden" Iran and destabilize the region.
"This is not an outcome that the UN Security Council can accept. The council's mandate is clear: to maintain international peace and security," Hook added.
Yemeni forces score major territorial gains in Bayda, Ma'rib provinces
The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces says the country's troops, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have managed to wrest control over large swathes of land in the central provinces of al-Bayda and Ma'rib, following fierce clashes with Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
Speaking at a press conference in the Yemeni capital city of Sana'a on Monday afternoon, Brigadier General Yahya Saree highlighted that 400 square kilometers of land in the two provinces had been liberated during the operation.
He said Yemen's Armed Forces managed to completely seize the control of Radman al-Awad and Qaniyah districts in Bayda province, and retake vast areas of al-Abdiyah district in Ma'rib.
First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You're Praised for Sending in Aid.
The United Nations describes itself in its charter as an international moral authority created to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." But activists who are trying to end the U.S. war on Yemen say that, in a dark twist on this mission, the international body is withholding criticism from the U.S.-Saudi military coalition, and effusively praising its leaders, to avoid jeopardizing donations to humanitarian funds aimed at helping ease the suffering created by that war. As Jehan Hakim, the chair of the Yemeni Alliance Committee, puts it, "The same hand we're asking to feed Yemen is the same hand that is helping bomb them."
US Middle East Wars Far from Over
By Tony Cartalucci for Global Research.
Despite what appears to be a terminal decline of US influence over the Middle East, Washington has no intentions of gracefully abandoning its aspirations of regional hegemony.
Air strikes carried out against Syria by Washington's Israeli proxies, a mysterious explosion near Tehran, and the current Iraqi Prime Minister's decision to round up leaders of Iranian-backed militias who helped defeat the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (ISIS) unfolded in quick succession in an apparent coordinated campaign aimed at Iran and its allies.
New Iraqi Prime Minister's Checkered Past
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi took office in May 2020.
While he has warned about deepening relations with Iran he has concurrently stated the importance of US backing – despite the US having illegally invaded, destroyed, and since occupied Iraq starting in 2003.
What is profoundly discouraging about November's election, is the very sickening reality that no matter who wins the election, the bi-partisan war party will be safely and securely in charge; what the American people have, every 4 years, is not a choice in the direction of their country moving forward, but an illusion of choice, engineered to "game the system" so that the already monied win, and continue to win.
And I will make another prediction, no matter who wins in November; the US government and military will most probably go back to a draft. The quality and quantity of recruits is no where near where it needs to be for winning present and future wars, to which past, present, and and future administrations are, and will be committed, like the good psychopaths they are.
Keir Starmer's love affair with Zionism could prove fatal for UK's Labour Party
Stuart Littlewood says rather than getting Britain out of its mess and devoting all energies to that end, Labour leader Keir Starmer has decided to make Israeli interests, and banning criticism of Israel, his top priority, as shown by his sacking of senior Shadow Cabinet member Rebecca Long-Bailey.>>
At Least 54 Killed as South Yemen Ceasefire Collapses in Abyan
A Saudi-brokered ceasefire between the Saudi-backed government in Yemen and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) has not lasted long, and after tensions on the island of Socotra, fighting erupted in Abyan Province.
Fighting has raged over 24 hours in Abyan Province, with at least 54 fighters killed. Both sides are blaming the other for starting the fighting and "violating" the truce. Monitors are still heading into Abyan, but it's not clear there is a ceasefire left to monitor.
A coastal province, Abyan has often been contested by the STC, and the same territory was under dispute during the Arab Spring, when Islamist groups tied to al-Qaeda seized several towns in the area, including the provincial capital of Zinjibar.
Anyone holding any hope for this cease-fire holding, does not really understand the nature of this conflict.
Chokehold on diplomat exposes Israel's special type of apartheid
As Coronavirus Rips Through Yemen, Saudi Bombs Continue to Fall
With an already shattered medical infrastructure due to the five-year US-Saudi siege, Covid-19 has rapidly spread through Yemen. The Arab country lacks the basic necessities for preventative measures like clean water, and a population facing malnourishment is especially vulnerable to the disease. A recent uptick in Saudi bombing might put a country already on the brink of collapse over the edge.
Last week, Saudi warplanes pounded Yemen's capital Sanaa, in what residents called the worst airstrikes they have seen since the first years of the war. Seventy-seven airstrikes hit several provinces in north Yemen within 24 hours. According to the Houthi's health ministry and NGOs on the ground, one of the strikes hit a car traveling in the Sadaa province and killed 13 civilians, including four children.
"Killing civilians, particularly civilian kids; that's what we, with our war-crimes enabled and sanctified by the US government, DO!!" - official Saudi souse.
The Saudi government has the best PR money can buy, and they have to buy it, because their human rights record, both at home and abroad, is simply so execrable as to cause the most callous of human hearts to faint dead away from its excesses, both at home and abroad.
The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, in the Saudi embassy in Turkey, was just the tip of the proverbial ice berg here.Audio Offers Gruesome Details of Jamal Khashoggi Killing, Turkish Official Says
And Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the guy who most probably ordered this hit, is one of President Trump's "BFFs" in the Middle East?!?
One has to wonder if one of the Prince's "attractive qualities" to this President, is that he can literally get away with murder... and never have to say he's sorry.
Mr. President, you really may want to think a little more carefully about with whom you align, internationally; because right now, the US is still enabling and abetting Saudi war crimes in Yemen: I know this, as do millions of other
Americans, particularly those who lived through the horror which was the war against Vietnam.


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A real family business success story!
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Supply Logistics
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What do you wish was in Railworks? It can be anything!
I wish that there was a route of the ENTIRE East Coast Mainline with Class 91s and HSTs from the eras. Like Intercity scenarios and GNER, NXEC and EC.
I wish there was a class 33. and maybe a 73.
*Shikari* wrote: I wish there was a class 33. and maybe a 73.
I wished that the Oxford to Paddington route was extended to as far as Bristol and a Reading to Bournemouth route.
Edit: Oh and Oovee have put a 321/4 on there indevelopment page!
The JT A4 looks pretty crap TBH. Not up to their usual standards.
im not interested in it lol, rather have diesels to steam.
TBH I think that we should make it about 50/50. That'd keep everyone happy. It's the fact that there are more diesels and steam, AND that more people want diesels and electrics than steam, that upsets me. I think it's just leaving all of our past behind. NOT GOOOOWD!
Yeah try, they should have 3 locos in dev at one time, electric steam and diesel one of each!
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Jeff Arnold announced to the public he was seeking a 2 year seat on the School Board. Board members Lori Dickerson and Kevin Christie remind Mr. Arnold this is not the forum to do so.
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Q: Elasticsearch aggregation over children document field values I'm facing the following problem of selecting and sorting parent documents based on an aggregated value over its children documents. The aggregation (e.g. sum) itself depends on a query string, i.e. which children documents are relevant for the aggregation.
Example: Given the documents basket A and basket B, for each basket document, I am looking to sum over the  number field of its fruit children if the  name field matches my query, e.g. apples.
PUT /baskets/_doc/0
{
  "name": "basket A",
  "fruit": [
    {
      "name": "apples",
      "number": 2
    },
    {
      "name": "oranges",
      "number": 3
    }
  ]
}

PUT /baskets/_doc/1
{
  "name": "basket B",
  "fruit": [
    {
      "name": "apples",
      "number": 3
    },
    {
      "name": "apples",
      "number": 3
    }
  ]
}

Mappings:
PUT /baskets
{
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "name": { "type": "text" },
      "fruit": {
        "type": "nested",
        "properties": {
          "name": { "type": "text" },
          "number": { "type": "long" }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

*

*Use case 1: Which basket has (strictly) more than 5 apples? Would expect only basket B

*Use case 2: Sort baskets by number of apples. Would expect basket B with a total of 6 apples, then basket A with a total of 2 apples.

How can one implement this using the Elasticsearch (7.8.0) query DSL?
I have tried so far with nested queries and aggregations without success.
Thanks!
Edit: Added mappings
Edit: Updated the numbers to better reflect the problem
*Edit: Added possible answer to Use case 2 (see comments to the answer from @joe):
GET /profiles/_search
{
  "aggs": {
    "aggs_baskets": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "name",
        "order": {"nest > fruit_filter > fruit_sum": "desc"}
      },
      "aggs": {
        "nest":{
          "nested":{
            "path": "fruit"
          },
          "aggs":{
            "fruit_filter":{
              "filter": {
                "term": {"fruit.name": "apple"}
              },
              "aggs":{
                "fruit_sum":{
                  "sum": {"field": "fruit.number"}
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

A: Use case 1:
GET baskets/_search
{
  "query": {
    "nested": {
      "path": "fruit",
      "inner_hits": {},
      "query": {
        "bool": {
          "must": [
            {
              "term": {
                "fruit.name": {
                  "value": "apples"
                }
              }
            },
            {
              "range": {
                "fruit.number": {
                  "gte": 5
                }
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Strictly more than 5 --> gt; >=5 --> gte.
Also notice the inner_hits part -- this gives you the actual nested subdocument which caused this particular basket to match the query. It's not required but good-to-know.
Use case 2:
GET baskets/_search
{
  "sort": [
    {
      "fruit.number": {
        "nested_path": "fruit",
        "order": "desc"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Use case 2 Edit:
There are probably cleaner ways of doing this but I'd go with the following:
GET baskets/_search
{
  "size": 0,
  "aggs": {
    "multiply_and_add": {
      "scripted_metric": {
        "params": {
          "only_fruit_name": "apples"
        },
        "init_script": "state.by_basket_name = [:]",
        "map_script": """
          def basket_name = params._source['name'];
          def fruits = params._source['fruit'].findAll(group -> group.name == params.only_fruit_name);

          for (def fruit_group : fruits) {
            def number = fruit_group.number;

            if (state.by_basket_name.containsKey(basket_name)) {
              state.by_basket_name[basket_name] += number;
            } else {
              state.by_basket_name[basket_name] = number;
            }
          }
        """,
        "combine_script": "return state.by_basket_name",
        "reduce_script": "return states"
      }
    }
  }
}

yielding a hash map along the lines of
{
  ...
  "aggregations":{
    "multiply_and_add":{
      "value":[
        {
          "basket A":2,
          "basket B":6
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Sorting can either be done in the reduce_script or within your ES response post-processing pipeline. You could of course choose to go w/ (sorted) lists and lambdas...
Notice the required nested_path.

A: After a while of searching and testing, here are (in addition to @joe's answer to use case 2) possible queries for both use cases. Note that both use cases require to change the mapping for the field name to be of type keyword.
Use case 1: Which basket has (strictly) more than 5 apples? Would expect only basket B
For more information on filtering results by their aggregation value see Bucket Selectors
GET /baskets/_search
{
  "aggs": {
    "aggs_baskets": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "name"
      },
      "aggs": {
        "nest":{
          "nested":{
            "path": "fruit"
          },
          "aggs":{
            "fruit_filter":{
              "filter": {
                "match": {"fruit.name": "apples"}
              },
              "aggs":{
                "fruit_sum":{
                  "sum": {"field": "fruit.number"}
                }
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "basket_sum_filter":{
          "bucket_selector":{
            "buckets_path":{
              "fruitSum":"nest > fruit_filter > fruit_sum"
            },
            "script":"params.fruitSum > 5"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

... yielding
...,

"buckets": [
    {
        "key": "basket B",
        "doc_count": 1,
        "nest": {
            "doc_count": 2,
            "fruit_filter": {
                "doc_count": 2,
                "fruit_sum": {
                    "value": 6
                }
            }
        }
    }
]

Use case 2: Sort baskets by number of apples. Would expect basket B with a total of 6 apples, then basket A with a total of 2 apples.
GET /baskets/_search
{
  "aggs": {
    "aggs_baskets": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "name",
        "order": {"nest > fruit_filter > fruit_sum": "desc"}
      },
      "aggs": {
        "nest":{
          "nested":{
            "path": "fruit"
          },
          "aggs":{
            "fruit_filter":{
              "filter": {
                "term": {"fruit.name": "apple"}
              },
              "aggs":{
                "fruit_sum":{
                  "sum": {"field": "fruit.number"}
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

... yielding
...,

"buckets": [
    {
        "key": "basket B",
        "doc_count": 1,
        "nest": {
            "doc_count": 2,
            "fruit_filter": {
                "doc_count": 2,
                "fruit_sum": {
                    "value": 6
                }
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "key": "basket A",
        "doc_count": 1,
        "nest": {
            "doc_count": 2,
            "fruit_filter": {
                "doc_count": 1,
                "fruit_sum": {
                    "value": 2
                }
            }
        }
    }
]

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