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MESOP TODAYS MOTTO : Putin in Syria: Chechnya All Over Again / THE BLUEPRINT
By OLIVER BULLOUGH – New York Times – 12 Oct 2016 – The Kremlin wants to bomb Aleppo into submission and impose peace via a local strongman, just like it did in Grozny a decade and a half ago. – http://www.mesop.de/?p=79033
MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
Seref Isler @seref_i 37m37 minutes ago – #Turkey AKP reviving plans to change constitution and give President Erdogan more powers. Opposition MHP leader drops objections.
Patrick Osgood – @PatrickOsgood
Abadi responds to Erdogan’s latest astonishing remarks, over Turkey’s assertion of a role in Mosul. twitter.com/haideralabadi/ …
Al-Monitor @AlMonitor
Erdogan tells Iraq’s Abadi to “know his place” – @amberinzaman almon.co/2r7e
MESOP QUOTATIONS : NOT SADIGH KHAN – BUT BORIS JOHNSON SENDS CLEAR MESSAGE
11 Oct 2016 – UK Foreign Secretary @BorisJohnson: “Hard to avoid conclusion that #Russia & #Assad are purposely targeting hospitals = clear war crimes.”
#pt: @BorisJohnson: “If #Russia continues along its current track of action [in #Syria], it risks becoming a pariah nation…”
#pt: @BorisJohnson also underlines that “all evidence” points to #Russia being responsible for sustained air attack on aid convoy in #Aleppo
#pt: @BorisJohnson: “We are *disgusted* by both #Assad & #Moscow… & will consider *anything* deemed necessary to bring peace to #Syria.” www.mesop.de
#pt: @BorisJohnson “There is simply no commensurate horror expressed by the so-called Stop the War coalitions regarding events in #Syria.” – More via www.mesop.de
MESOP : CHARLES LISTER’S OPINION
“#Moscow’s political posturing is underpinned by military bluffing… It’s essential to call this bluff” Pavel Baev: http://brook.gs/2dP2RXW
MESOP TODAYS RECOMMENDATION : WHO IS SMARTER ?
This article encapsulates worst of #Syria status quo advocates – “I’m smarter than you” & no policy prescription: http://warontherocks.com/2016/10/the-misadventures-of-russia-and-the-united-states-in-syria-complete-strategy-implosion-edition …
MESOP : THOUGHTS & REFLEXIONS BY CHARLES LISTER TODAY / BROOKINGS
10 Oct 2016 – Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 3h3 hours ago – #pt: If these people *seriously* think (a) an #Assad victory in #Syria will bring stability or (b) diplomacy alone will work… think again.
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 3h3 hours ago – #pt: To respond by saying “but you don’t understand” is just childish. Worse still, these people *never* offer any alternatives. #Syria
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 3h3 hours ago – #pt: Such people entirely ignore the long-term threat/cost consequences of allowing #Syria events to continue along their current trajectory
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 3h3 hours ago – Amazing that some insist *so strongly* that US assertiveness will *definitely* see #Russia counter-escalate to “nuclear war.” Why so sure?!
More: www.mesop.de
MESOP TODAYS OPINION : THE MURDEROUSLY WESTERN PRO PALASTINE SOLIDARITY
Alex Rowell – Palestinians decry Western Assad apologists / NOWMEDIA – Beirut 12 Oct 2016
A statement signed by over 120 Palestinians condemns “whitewashing” of Syrian regime by “activists whom we once respected”
Eulogizing the late Samir Kassir forty days after his 2 June, 2005, assassination, the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish lauded the Lebanese-Palestinian-Syrian writer’s wide-ranging “liberation project,” which he said encompassed everything from “the child’s right to question his father, to the woman’s right to divorce her husband, to […] the poet’s right to shed the strictures of rhyme, to […] the right of citizens to change their ruler, to the right of the individual and society to resist both despotism and occupation simultaneously”* (italics added). Full text http://www.mesop.de/?p=79037
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP FOCUS : Turkish President says ‘we will do what we want to do’ in Iraq !
12 Oct 2016 – Middle east online – Ankara : Erdogan snubs Iraqi PM’s criticism – Turkish President says ‘we will do what we want to do’ in response to Al-Abadi’s condemnation of Ankara’s presence in Iraq, aggravating tensions that risk complicating Baghdad’s plan to retake Mosul. Middle East Online 11 Oct 2016 – Iraqis demand withdrawal of Turkish troops – Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79035
MESOP ANALYSIS BY THE “WASHINGTON INSTITUTE”
Research Notes 38 – How to Secure Mosul: Lessons from 2008-2014 / Michael Knights – October 2016
In early 2017, Iraqi security forces are likely to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State, which has held the city since June 2014. As the event draws near, big-picture questions regarding how Arabs, Kurds, and microminorities can work together have justifiably drawn much scholarly attention, as have immediate challenges such as accommodating internally displaced persons. Less studied has been the critical issue of how security forces should be structured to prevent an IS recurrence. Here, the recent historical record offers unambiguous lessons through two periods: 2007-2011, when U.S.-backed Iraqi forces substantially reduced security incidents in the city, versus 2011-2014, when such incidents steadily rose, facilitating the IS takeover. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79039
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
!KNOW BETTER WITH MESOP! – A PROGRAM OF THE DEMOCRATIC KURDS IN IRAN
Iranian Kurdish Leader Mustafa Hijri Calls For Secular, Democratic Federal Iran, Says: We Have Been Forced To Return To Armed Struggle
Mustafa Hijri, Secretary-General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, said, in a recent TV interview that Peshmerga cells carried out attacks against the IRGC in Iranian Kurdistan and had “finished off some well-known security officers.” We want to achieve our rights “within the framework of a united Iran, which will be a secular and democratic federal state,” he said, adding that they had the support of the Kurdish public. Hijri was speaking in an Al-Arabiya TV interview on September 2. – Following are excerpts http://www.mesop.de/?p=79013
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP INSIDER : Tehran Bolsters Russia Over Syria
October 12 – BY Scott Lucas – eaworldview – Iran has renewed high-profile support for Russia on the Syrian crisis, amid international criticism of Russian-regime bombing of civilian areas.Iranian State media herald a phone call between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday.However, the stories ignore the issue of Russia’s airstrikes — which have killed hundreds of civilians in Syria’s largest city Aleppo in the past three weeks — and instead declare that the two men “stressed that the only solution to the Syrian crisis is a diplomatic one”. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79029
MESOP “PUTIN’S DAYIL CHILDRENS BODY-COUNT” : 50+ Killed as Russia Renews Bombing of Aleppo
October 12 – After easing its airstrikes for several days, Russia has renewed bombing of opposition neighborhoods in Syria’s largest city Aleppo.Russian warplanes struck Daret Izza, Firdous, and the Bustan al-Qasr district, near the crossing between opposition and regime areas. Residents, rescue workers, and the Local Coordination Committees said at least 50 people were killed in and near the city.The Russian attacks came after rebels fought back against the advance of pro-Assad forces in northern Aleppo, reclaiming a water station. However, the Syrian military claimed that it had consolidated its control of a roundabout at a major intersection. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79031
MESOP MIDDLE EAST
MESOP BACKGROUNDER: ISRAEL = DÉTENTE NOW WITH ERDOGAN & HAMAS ?
Has Israel’s defense minister given up on toppling Hamas?
By Ben Caspit – Al Monitor – 11 Okt 2016 – A Qassam rocket fell in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Oct. 5, just meters from the home of Mayor Alon Davidi. Luckily there was no significant damage and no one was badly hurt, though two victims were treated for shock. The Iron Dome missile defense battery did not launch a missile to intercept the rocket, perhaps because of the short range of the Qassams. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79015
MESOP BUCH-EMPFEHLUNG : DIE ATHEISTISCHEN TOTALITARISMEN STALINISMUS & FASCHISMUS HALTEN GEMEINSAMEN DEN REKORD IN MENSCHENVERNICHTUNG
Utopie der Säuberung. Was war der Kommunismus? (Deutsch) Taschenbuch – 2000
by Gerd Koenen (Autor) – Fischer Verlag 2016 – www.mesop.de
MESOP : UNSERE KONFESSION
“Die Freiheit kann nicht identifiziert werden mit dem Guten, mit der Wahrheit, mit der Vollkommenheit.
Die Freiheit hat ihre eigene selbständige Natur, die Freiheit ist Freiheit und nicht das Gute.
Und eine jede Vermengung und Identifizierung der Freiheit mit dem Guten und der Vollkommenheit selbst ist eine Verneinung der Freiheit, ist ein Bekenntnis zu Gewalt und Nötigung. Das zwangsweise Gute ist schon nicht mehr das Gute, es wird so zum Bösen”.
Berdjajew zu Dostojewski Anschaung über die FREIHEIT
MESOP : NEUES AUS DER LBGTI-KULTUR / WOMEN’S TRUMPISM
DIE FEMINISTISCH-JAKOBINISCHE ZWANGSUMERZIEHUNG VON „toxic masculinity“ /
Die amerikanische Duke University will Männer entgiften, um dem Machotum auf dem Campus den Garaus zu machen. Sie meint es offenbar ernst.
12.10.2016, von Thomas Thiel – FAZ Feuilleton – Es geht immer noch etwas ärger. Von amerikanischen Universitäten ist bekannt, dass ein Professor seine Tochter nicht umwerfend nennen darf, weil sich andere Frauen dadurch zurückgesetzt fühlen. Er darf nicht Ovid zitieren, weil die derbe Erotik des lateinischen Meisters (Vorsicht, Rassismus!) zarte Gemüter derart verstört, dass auf dem Universitätsgelände sichere Rückzugsräume eingerichtet werden mussten. Die Wunden, die Klassiker der neuen Studentengeneration beibringen, sind so tief, dass man sie am liebsten ganz aus dem Lehrplan verbannen möchte. Professoren sind durch die jahrelange Lektüre von Dostojewski, Shakespeare und Voltaire so verzogen, dass man sie nicht ohne Diversity-Training auf Studenten loslassen kann. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=79027
MESOP – DIE KRONE ALLER AKTUELLEN PROTESTANTISCHEN BIGOTTERIE : DER KÄSSMANN KITSCH
SPIEGEL INTERVIEW : Kässmann – Mit den Taliban beten !
…… hat es aber vorsichtshalber nie auf einen eigenen Versuchankommen lassen. Nun soll sie sich laut dieses hirnweichen Gabriel (SPD) mit IS (Daesh) gebetsgesprächsweise zusammen tun. Zwecks „Frieden“.
Warum eigentlich muß es immer nur noch schlimmer kommen ?
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-128629132.html