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MESOP NEWS TODAYS HEADLINE : PROMISING ? / VIEL VERSPRECHEND ?  “Mad Dog Mattis”

“As secretary of defense, Mattis will bring an intellectual rigor, an understanding of military affairs, a sympathy for the grunts who fight our wars, and a strong ethical grounding that will serve the new administration well.” https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/military/james-mattis-defense-secretary/

 

MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS

MESOP : INDPEDENCE ? UNITY ? OR MORE SEPARATION ?

Ranj Talabany ‏@ranj_talabany  –  If economic crisis isn’t resolved in #KRG soon I actually think majority of Kurds in Slemani & #Kirkuk would prefer separation from #Erbil.

 

MESOP ALEPPO : MORE THAN HUNGER = THE INTERNATIONAL SILENCE !

Resident of area of #Aleppo being attacked by #Assad: “What scares me even more than hunger: The int’l silence.” THE WASHINGTON POST

‘We are alone’: The voices of besieged rebel-held Aleppo – By Louisa Loveluck December 3 at 7:00 AM  – Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80695

MESOP APPEAL

224 human rights & civil society groups issue call for emergency UNGA session to end #Aleppo war crimes: http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/un-inaction-on-syria-is-not-an-option  … They’ve stopped counting the dead in besieged East #Aleppo. 1wk ago, toll was 508 people killed since Nov 15. http://wpo.st/qRtI2   @hrw

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MESOP NEWS :  Lt. GENERAL FLYNN’S MAIN TARGET – THE TEHRAN MULLAHS

NYT: Flynn insisted that Iran was behind Benghazi, and on huddling with the Russians right after Crimea. –  In Trump’s Security Pick, Michael Flynn, ‘Sharp Elbows’ & No Dissent

Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for national security adviser, on Thursday at Trump Tower in New York. – Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT – December 3, 2016 – WASHINGTON

Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80699

 

 

MESOP NEWS TODAYS BACKGROUNDER : HEZBOLLAH’S ‘DIPLOMATS’ GO OPERATIONAL

 By Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism & Intelligence at The Washington Institute. – PolicyWatch 2734 – December 2, 2016

Officials in Washington and abroad should pay close attention to the group’s self-styled ‘ambassadors,’ who are increasingly being implicated in criminal and terrorist activities around the world.Given Hezbollah’s deployment of several thousand fighters in Syria, many of its most seasoned military commanders and terrorist operatives have been pulled away from their traditional missions manning posts along Lebanon’s border with Israel or engaging in financial, logistical, and operational activities abroad. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80678

 

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)

MESOP NEWS DECLARATION BY GIT-NORTH AMERICA – BAK [Academics for Peace] Declaration, Intellectuals and Academic Freedom[1]

Barış Ünlü  – Originally published in Turkish in Ayrıntı Dergi – Translated by Simten Coşar
The declaration, titled “We Will Not Be A Party To This Crime,” which was constituted by the initiative of Academics for Peace, and signed by more than 2000 academics (from Turkey and abroad) attracted harsh response from the state circles, starting with the President of the Republic. I think that this is due to two reasons; one, a century old, the other, more contemporary. Here I would like to focus on these two reasons.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80689

 

MESOP NEWS “BRUSSELS” – Council of Europe Raises Alarm Over Abuses Against Kurds in Turkey

4 Dec 2016 – MESOP  – The Turkish military operations against Kurdish rebels “have caused widespread human rights violations”, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner Nils Muiznieks said after two visits to the Kurdish-majority southeast of Turkey.Muiznieks called on Turkey to compensate people affected by anti-Kurdish military operations. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80707

MESOP MIDDLE EAST

MESOP NEWS  ANALYSIS BY BESA CENTER / ISRAEL – Implications of the Emergent Russian-Hezbollah Coordination in Syria

By Yossi Mansharof, December 2, 2016 – Yossi Mansharof is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern History at Haifa University, and a researcher at the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies.

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 383 – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Recently, Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese media reported on a first meeting in Aleppo between Russian senior military officials and Hezbollah field commanders, whereby the two sides agreed to continue conferring on a regular basis. The timing of this meeting, prior to the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, appears to have been a calculated move, and it bears important implications for the US and Israel. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80691

 

MESOP NEWS SPECIAL : The “PULSE INVESTIGATION” –   Robert Fisk’s crimes against journalism

A version of this article first appeared on The New Arab. It has since been updated with three case studies of Fisk’s journalistic malpractices.

The Syrian war has been deadly for healthcare services. Physicians for Human Rights (P4HR) has recorded 382 attacks on medical facilities of which 344 were carried out by the regime and Russia; they were also responsible for 703 of the 757 medical personnel killed in the war. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have both condemned their targeting of hospitals “as a strategy of war”. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80703

 

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

MESOP NEWS : QUOTATION BY GENERAL FLYNN ON OBAMA’S SYRIA POLICY : Flynn said: “When you don’t get in and help somebody, they’re going to find other means to achieve their goals. . . . We should have done more earlier on in this effort.”

Fearing Abandonment By Trump, CIA-backed Rebels in Syria Mull Alternatives / By Karen DeYoung and Louisa Loveluck – Washington Post –  2016-12-04 02:19 GMT

Three years after the CIA began secretly shipping lethal aid to rebels fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, battlefield losses and fears that a Donald Trump administration will abandon them have left tens of thousands of opposition fighters weighing their alternatives.Among the options, say U.S. officials, regional experts and the rebels themselves, are a closer alliance with better-armed al-Qaeda and other extremist groups, receipt of more sophisticated weaponry from Sunni states in the Persian Gulf region opposed to a U.S. pullback, and adoption of more traditional guerrilla tactics, including sniper and other small-scale attacks on both Syrian and Russian targets.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80709

MESOP NEWS TODAYS ALEPPO UPDATE :  Rebels to US — We Will Not Leave Aleppo

By Scott Lucas – eaworldview – 4 Dec 2016 – Syria’s rebels have told the US that they will not leaved besieged and bombarded Aleppo city, despite the advance of a pro-Assad offensive.

Zakaria Malahifji of the Fastaqim faction said the message was delivered on Saturday via contacts to American officials: Our response to the Americans was as follows: we cannot leave our city, our homes, to the mercenary militias that the regime has mobilized in Aleppo…..The US officials had asked the rebels, “Do you want to leave, (or) do you want to be steadfast?”, Malahifji said. The rebels responded with an allusion to the foreign forces attacking alongside the Syrian army and paramilitary units in Aleppo: “We cannot leave our homes to Afghanis, to Iraqis, and so on.”Malahifji added, “They listened to the response and did not comment.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80713

 

SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)

MESOP NEWS : PUK CONTRA KDP & THE ROLE OF PKK  – THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT ON YEZIDI’S – Kurdish Government Restrictions Harm Yezidi Recovery

2016-12-04 07:55 GMT – HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ORG  – Beirut — The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq has placed disproportionate restrictions on the movement of goods into and out of the district of Sinjar, the center for Iraq’s Yezidi religious minority.

KRG officials say that the KRG is concerned about the activities of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an armed Kurdish militant organization that has forces in Sinjar, mostly made up of Yezidi fighters, and has de facto free movement across the border into Syria. But, just two years after the people of the district were subjected to violent attacks and abuses by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), blanket KRG restrictions disproportionate to any possible security considerations are causing unnecessary harm to people’s access to food, water, livelihoods, and other fundamental rights. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80711

 

MESOP NEWS : McGURK ENGAGES PUK VIA KAK KOSRET & US FRIEND BARHAM SALIH

US Envoy Encourages PUK in Unity – McGurk met with top PUK officials while in Sulaymaniyah

Basnews English – 04/12/2016 – SULAYMANIYAH — US special presidential envoy to the global coalition battling Islamic State (IS), Brett McGurk, has met with officials from Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), seemingly to encourage them in unity among the party’s conflicting factions.

“A united PUK is critical for a stronger Kurdistan Region and destroyed Daesh,” McGurk posted on his official twitter account after meeting with Deputy PUK Secretary General, Kosrat Rasoul, and Pavel Talabani,  … Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80715

 

THE GERMAN CHAPTER

MESOP NEWS – NICHT NUR PUTIN – AUCH ERDOGAN !  – Sorge des Verfassungsschutzes Gezielte Falschmeldungen aus Ankara?

3 Dec 2016 – tagesschau.de – Ist der türkische Geheimdienst MIT massiv in Deutschland aktiv? Nach Informationen von WDR und NDR teilt die Bundesregierung diese Sorge der Opposition. Und der Verfassungsschutz befürchtet, dass der MIT auch gezielt mit Falschinformationen manipuliert. –  Von Georg Heil, WDR und Reiko Pinkert, NDR : Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=80693

 

MESOP NEWS : DIE ALLERGERINGSTE REGUNG – ABER IMMERHIN !

Schwarz-Grüne Allianz für Syrien

3 Dec 2016 – Die Grüne Franziska Brantner und der CDU-Politiker Norbert Röttgen starten eine Online-Petition. Sie fordern, in Syrien endlich zu handeln – und Sanktionen gegen Russland.

von Christian Böhme – Und was tut die Weltdiplomatie? Sie ist entsetzt, aber eben auch sprach- und hilflos. Franziska Brantner und Norbert Röttgen wollen es dabei jedoch nicht belassen. Die Grünen-Politikerin und der CDU-Mann haben jetzt gemeinsam auf der Internetplattform change.org eine Petition gestartet. „Gegen das Wegschauen, gegen das Schweigen“ lautet der Titel des Aufrufs. Es ist eine grün-schwarze Allianz für Syrien. Ein Appell an die EU und die Bundesregierung, endlich zu handeln. Konkret fordern Brantner und Röttgen Sanktionen gegen Russland und eine Luftbrücke für belagerte Städte wie Aleppo. Volltext  http://www.mesop.de/?p=80701

 

 

MESOP CULTUR : Die Islamisten haben gewonnen: Charlie Hebdo verschwindet

von Giulio Meotti  •  3. Dezember 2016″Die Zeitschrift ist nicht mehr dieselbe, Charlie ist jetzt künstlerisch und redaktionell erstickt.” — Zineb el Rhazoui, französisch-tunesische Intellektuellen und Journalistin, Autorin von Détruire le Fascisme Islamique.

  • “Wir müssen weiterhin Mohammed in Charlie darstellen, es nicht zu tun bedeutet, dass es keinen Charlie mehr gibt.” — Patrick Pelloux, ein weiterer Karikaturist, der die Zeitschrift verließ.
  • “Wenn unsere Kollegen in der öffentlichen Debatte keinen Teil des Risikos mehr auf sich nehmen, dann haben die Barbaren gewonnen.” — Elisabeth Badinter, Philosophin, die vor Gericht für die Karikaturisten im Dokumentarfilms “Je suis Charlie” aussagte.
  • Nachdem die Kouachi-Brüder die Journalisten von Charlie Hebdo gemetzelt hatten, liefen sie auf die Straße und riefen: “Wir haben Mohammed gerächt, wir haben Charlie Hebdo getötet.” Zwei Jahre später scheint es, dass sie gewonnen haben. Es gelang ihnen, das letzte europäische Magazin zum Schweigen zu bringen, das noch bereit war, die Meinungsfreiheit vor dem Islamismus zu verteidigen. www.mesop.de

 

MESOP NEWS : FORBIDDEN & BANNED LITERATURE IN POLITICALLY CORRECT FEMINIST LBGT-CULTURE

Virginia Schools Ban ‘Huckleberry Finn’ for ‘Racial Slurs’ & How to Kill a mockingbird

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.2 Dec 20161,147 – In a move to protect students from “racial slurs,” a Virginia school district has banned the reading of two classics of American literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80697