MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: BLAMING JOE BIDEN & PRAISING DONALD TRUMP -Former envoy on Abraham Accords: ‘We should reward the peacemakers’
Aryeh Lightstone, who was chief of staff to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, offers his unique perspective on the historic normalization agreements.BY JOSH HASTEN JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE 24-11-2021
MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: Why Are Iraqi Kurds Fleeing to Europe?
Belarus’ weaponization of migrants aside, many Kurds feel the promise of their homeland was never delivered
Kamal Chomani Kamal Chomani is a journalist and analyst from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq November 22, 2021 NEW LINES MAGAZIN
MESOP WATCH ANALYSIS: THE HALIFAX CONFERENCE ABOUT THE REALITY OF THE UNITED STATES (POLITICO MAGAZINE)
Charles Lister – 23-11-2021 – “If “#America is back,” someone forgot to tell #America allies.” “Some of the harshest words” at this year’s @HFXforum “were reserved for the U.S., in what turned into a therapy session of sorts.”
‘No ground for cockiness’: Tough love for U.S. at pro-democracy conference
From Afghanistan to domestic extremism, the Halifax forum became a therapy session for allies concerned with America’s actions. By ANDREW DESIDERIO, ALEXANDER WARD and PAUL MCLEARY
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — If “America is back,” someone forgot to tell America’s allies.
MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: KURDISTAN IRAQ & FRIEND ISRAEL – KRG and Israel, the enemy within
Benaw Izzat | Ekurd.net 23-11-2021 – It is not every day that one can draw a parallel between the situation of the Kurds of Iraq and that of the Israelis. Yet our elders remember that the past has forged indestructible links.
As from 1948 the operations Ezra and Nehemiah (name of the prophets of the return to Jerusalem) allowed the Iraqi Jews and Kurds to leave Iraq. The Mossad agent Mordechai Ben Porat was at the helm with the support of the clandestine movement He Haloutz but he also had the support of Mulla Mustafa Barzani.
MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: KURDISH BARZANI KDP NORTH IRAQ = WE ARE CORRUPT ! – AND NOW WE GET PAY FOR IT!”
France ‘appreciates’ KRG efforts in combating human smuggling networks – Barzani and Le Drian spoke about the issue in a phone call on Monday.
Halgurd Sherwani 22-11-2021ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian extended France’s appreciation to Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for their efforts to combat the human smuggling networks exploiting migrants trying to reach Europe.
MESOP WATCH POINT OF VIEW: War everywhere? Why the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border is not a hybrid attack
19.11.2021 STIFTUNG WISSENSCHAFT UND POLITIK – Marco Overhaus
The crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border brought about by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko is an attempt to use the suffering of refugees to exert political pressure on the EU and divide it. But this is by no means hybrid warfare, says Marco Overhaus.
MESOP WATCH BACKGROUND:TURKEY IN REVIEW-OCT 29 – NOV17,2021
Nov 19, 2021 Turkey Reverses Syria Incursion Plans after Russian and US Pressure – By Ezgi Yazici INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR
Turkey likely abandoned its plans for an incursion into Syria after a significant military buildup in October. Turkey and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) planned, signaled, and prepared for a Turkish military incursion into northern Syria in late October after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for the military operation on October 11.[1] The incursion would have been Turkey’s fourth into Syria
MESOP WATCH : WHAT TO DO WITH KURDISH PKK ? – TURKEY VS. THE YPG: WHAT’S NEXT? by Soner Cagaptay PolicyWatch 3543
November 16, 2021
As Ankara and Moscow mull a potential exchange of Syria border incursions for Idlib concessions, Erdogan risks endangering his intertwined goals of improving Turkey’s economy and minimizing tensions with Washington.
In October, the Turkish parliament passed a bill authorizing further military operations in Syria, raising the possibility of another cross-border incursion to undermine the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG).
MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: Why Israel may soon attack Iran
The world’s largest state-sponsor of terror, sworn to destroy Israel, is approaching the nuclear threshold. It’s not an existential threat for the US. It is for Israel.
NOV 18, 2021, TIMES OF ISRAEL –
MESOP MIDEAST WATCH IRANIAN TEIL IN EUROPE – Sweden arrests second suspect in high-stakes espionage case involving Iran
NOVEMBER 18, 2021 JOSEPH FITSANAKIS INTEL ORG – AUTHORITIES IN SWEDEN HAVE arrested a second suspect in an espionage case that appears to implicate Iranian agents operating inside some of the most secretive units of Swedish civilian and military intelligence. The most recent arrest was announced on Tuesday with statement by the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO), which said that an individual had been arrested in “central Sweden”.
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