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MESOP NEWS : POOR WOMAN – FIRST IN THE HANDS OF RELIGIOUS FANATICS – NOW IN HANDS SECULAR RAPISTS
Kurdish Yazidi activist Nadia Murad visits Barcelona FC – WATCH PICS www.mesop.de
MESOP RECOMMENDATION : WE PREFER CHARLES LISTER !
The #AQinSyria report is out! *The result of months of discussions by multiple #Syria experts & an event tomorrow: https://timep.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Combating-al-Qaeda-in-Syria.pdf …
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MESOP NEWS TODAYS OPINION : Here’s what Plan B in the Middle East should look like
By Stuart E. Eizenstat and Dennis Ross January 12 at 7:43 PM – THE WASHINGTON POST
Stuart E. Eizenstat is a former ambassador to the European Union and deputy treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, where he headed the economic dimensions of the Middle East peace process. Dennis Ross, a counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was a special assistant to President Obama from 2009 to 2011.
We have long worked to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians, believing that with two national movements, the only realistic answer is two states for two peoples. Unfortunately, this objective has never been less attainable. We believe, therefore, that it is time for a Plan B — an approach that incoming president Donald Trump might broker. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81990
MESOP TODAYS EDITORIAL – Policy Notes 29 – U.S. Policy on Turkey / James F. Jeffrey and Soner Cagaptay
TRANSITION 2017: Policy Notes for the Trump Administration
January 2017 – By JAMES F. JEFFREY, a former deputy national security advisor and ambassador to Turkey and Iraq, is the Philip Solondz Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute.
SONER CAGAPTAY is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute.
The Trump administration should revamp policy toward Turkey to emphasize a transactional approach to critical bilateral issues, counsels two leading experts on U.S.-Turkish relations.In the first in a series of Washington Institute presidential transition papers addressing key policy challenges across the Middle East, former U.S. ambassador to Ankara James F. Jeffrey and noted Turkish scholar Dr. Soner Cagaptay warn against maintaining current policy that has had the effect of mismanaging relations with a major NATO ally and pushing Ankara toward Moscow. “For any relationship with [Turkish president] Erdogan to succeed,” argue Jeffrey and Cagaptay, “it will have to be based on mutual interests and trade-offs rather than deep friendship and shared values.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81986
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP NEWS BACKGROUNDER : The Fight for Mosul & Turkish-Iraqi Relations
By Mustafa Aydin – hurriyetdailynews.com – 2017-01-12 19:53 GMT – After months of preparation and supported by the U.S.-led coalition’s air power, the Iraqi army finally started its military operation to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Oct. 17, 2016. Since then, the operation has maintained a slow but steady progress, reaching the Tigris River by Jan. 8. It is claimed that the joint operation involving the Iraqi army, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Shiite militias as well as U.S.-led coalition forces has already caused ISIL to lose more than 50,000 fighters and most of the ground under its control. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81992
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP NEWS : “HAVE A SEAT, UNITED STATES ! – (AFTER OBAMA!)
Friday,January 13 2017, Your time is 15:02:35 – Russia agrees US should attend Syria talks: Turkey – GENEVA – Agence France-Presse – Russia has agreed that the United States should be involved in talks on Syria’s political future slated to take place in the Kazakh capital of Astana later this month, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Jan. 12.“The United States should definitely be invited, and that is what we agreed with Russia,” Çavuşoğlu told journalists in Geneva after an international conference on Cyprus. “Nobody can ignore the role of the United States. And this is a principled position of Turkey,” he added. The talks in Astana are expected to take place on Jan. 23. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=82005
MESOP NEWS GREAT ARTICLE BY Loubna Mrie : Aleppo’s forgotten revolutionaries
Date of publication: 12 January, 2017 – Comment: Countless icons of the Syrian revolution who struggled for freedom between 2012-2014 have been ignored and erased from history by the western media, writes Loubna Mrie.
In journalism and on social media, I often come across a narrative – from the Syrian regime’s most ardent supporters, to even those who acknowledge its oppressive nature – asserting that the Assad regime is fighting a war against vile, extremist, Al-Qaeda-like organisations.The ignorant simplicity of this argument became clear after the fall of rebel-held eastern Aleppo.The city was often portrayed as the epicentre of a jihadi insurgency liberated by the national army. Many ostensibly left-wing individuals worldwide even went so far as to celebrate this as “liberation”. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=82009
MESOP NEWS FOCUS : Mr. TILLERSON AS A CLOSE COMRADE IN ARMS !?
Syrian Kurds best US allies in fight against IS: official
13 Jan 2016 – MESOP – US nominee for the Department of State, Rex Tillerson, stated that Kurds in Syria are best allies of his country in fight against the terrorist group of the Islamic State (IS).
According to Hawar News, Tillerson stated that Washington would continue to back Kurds in Syria, adding that the U.S. will attempt to make a balance between Turkey and the Kurds. Turkey has labeled the later as a terrorist organization and believes it has close ties with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which has been fighting with Turkey for more Kurdish rights since 1984. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=82013
MESOP INTEL DEBKA FILES ISRAEL – MYSTERY OR NO MYSTERY ? – Mystery blasts in Damascus: Syria accuses Israel
There were two unclaimed explosions in Damascus overnight Thursday and early Friday (Jan.12-13) – one at an officers club in Damascus and the second at Mezzeh airport, which Syria alleged was the work of the new Israeli S-35 stealth aircraft firing across the border from a point over the Sea of Galilee. There was no claim to either of the attacks.
The standard Israeli policy of striking any Iranian arms shipments for Hizballah in Lebanon when they cross through Syria would not longer be applicable to any such air strike, if indeed one was launched.. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=82015
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP NEWS INSIDER : MULLAHS CALLING FOR ERDOGAN – Rouhani Calls Turkey’s Erdogan About Syria –
January 13 – by Scott Lucas – eaworldview – In Iran’s latest maneuver over the Syrian crisis, President Hassan Rouhani has called Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Iranian State media framed Thursday’s call as Rouhani’s emphasis on “the need for promotion of cooperation…to advance the long-term interests of the Middle East” and his assurance that “the Islamic Republic of Iran is content with closer cooperation among Ankara, Tehran and Moscow to bring about peace in the region”. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81998
MESOP NEWS SPECIAL Kremlin Shadow – How Putin Played the Far Left / Hillary Clinton’s Goldmann Sachs speeches (THE DAILY BEAST)
The Kremlin didn’t just rely on the alt-right to help Trump win. Bernie Bros, Greens, and ‘anti-imperialists’ got had, too.
Casey Michel – 01.13.17 7:15 AM ET – THE DAILY BEAST – In the aftermath of the U.S. intelligence community’s recent report on the Russian-directed hacking of the Democratic National Committee, it’s easy but misleading to conclude that the Russian government’s propaganda strategy lies solely in advancing the careers of conservative Republicans in the United States. Backing Donald Trump’s candidacy, via steady leaks of stolen communiques to organizations like WikiLeaks, was but one prong of the Kremlin’s assault on American liberal democracy. Part of its campaign to vilify Hillary Clinton involved catering to her rivals on the far-left and pushing any number of crankish conspiracy theories that appeal as much to “anti-imperialists” as to neo-Nazis. There’s nothing new in that, really. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=82007
MESOP INTEL DEBKA FILES ISRAEL : JARED & DON & JERUSALEM !?
Exclusive: US Jerusalem embassy – only foundations
13 Jan 2017 – Exclusive to debkafile: The appointment of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, 35, as senior adviser in the future White House on Middle East affairs is part of a broader plan taking shape in the president-elect’s transition team for bringing forward a resolution of the Israel-Palestinian dispute. This plan has not yet jelled into concrete policy, but is still a set of ideas under consideration by the team’s insiders, in the light of Trump’s comments past and present.
On Nov 22, the president elect said that Kushner “could be very helpful” in reconciling the longstanding dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians. “He would be very good at it” and “He knows the region.”He also said: Many people said “you can’t do it. I disagree. I think I have reason to believe I can do it.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=82011
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
MESOP CULTUR : ZUR ENTWICKLUNGSGESCHICHTE EINES IDEOLOGISCHEN GEBRAUCHS-NARRATIVS
FERDINAND KNAUSS – DIE THESE VOM FACHKRÄFTEMANGEL
… und das Narrativ des Einwanderers als Wachstumsretter
Ibrahim Demir hat es geschafft, finden Ralph Bollmarin und Lena Schipper. Der aramäische Christ aus der Türkei hatte, so berichten die beiden Wirtschaftsredakteure der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung, »nur fünf Jahre lang die Grundschule besucht, als er Mitte der neunziger Jahre mit 16 Jahren nach Deutschland flüchtete, weil sein Vater in der Heimat verfolgt wurde». Doch er machte eine Ausbildung und rackerte sich nach oben: »Zweieinhalb Jahre lang nur arbeiten, Sport machen, lernen, schlafen, und dann das Gleiche wieder von vorne … Heute betreibt der Schuhmachermeister ein Atelier für Maßschuhe in Wiesbaden.«1
Über Einwanderer wie Demir schreiben tonangebende Wirtschaftsjournalisten in den letzten Jahren immer wieder in den höchsten Tönen. Denn sie verheißen Wirtschaftswachstum für eine ermüdete und alternde Gesellschaft. Und Wachstum muss sein, das glauben in Redaktionen, Ministerien und Parteien fast alle. Die Produktivität hat absolute Priorität gegenüber der Reproduktivität. »Ohne Wachstum ist alles nichts«, sagt die Kanzlerin.’ Wenn zu wenige Kinder geboren werden, und diese wenigen offenbar immer weniger Lust verspüren, für weiteres Wachstum zu sorgen, dann müssen die Wachstumsbringer eben woanders herkommen. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=81996
MESOP CULTUR : DEN DEKONSTRUKTIVISTEN SCHLÄGT DIE STUNDE DER WIRKLICHKEIT
Seitdem die politische Rechte postfaktisch geworden ist, hat die kulturwissenschaftliche Linke ein echtes Problem.
Ein Gastbeitrag von Michael Hampe – Michael Hampe – Jahrgang 1961, ist Professor für Philosophie an der ETH Zürich. Zuletzt erschien von ihm Die Lehren der Philosophie. Eine Kritik.
Meinen Freunden und Studenten von der KWL geht es gerade schlecht. Die KWL ist die kulturwissenschaftliche Linke. Sie machte zweierlei: historisch dekonstruieren und politisch korrigieren.
Wer etwas über die Entdeckung des Nordpols oder die Wahrheit moralischer Aussagen herausfinden wollte, wurde von ihr als Ewiggestriger müde belächelt. Nahm man etwa an, dass es den Nordpol als Tatsache gebe? Hatte man noch nicht gehört, dass “Nordpol” für ein Konstrukt steht, das durch technische Geräte, Diskurse, Politiken hergestellt worden war? Über die Erfindung des Nordpols, meinte die KWL, könne man wohl noch schreiben, nicht aber über seine Entdeckung. Fragte man zurück “Aber kalt ist es dort doch wirklich?”, zog man sich als Nutzer des Wortes “wirklich” gleich den nächsten Lacher zu. Und wem es um die Wahrheit moralischer Aussagen ging, der war nicht nur hoffnungslos gestrig, weil er noch an “die Wahrheit” glaubte, sondern vermutlich auch ein Authentizitätsfanatiker, der nach überhistorischen moralischen Verbindlichkeiten suchte und noch nicht kapiert hatte, dass auch Moral kulturell konstruiert und historisch bedingt ist. Volltext lesen http://www.mesop.de/?p=81984
MESOP NEWS – “DAS ALTE SPIEL” : SOBALD SIE ERWISCHT WERDEN, MACHEN SIE Takiya: Täuschung, Verschleierung und Blendwerk im Islam |
MERKE ! Linke fallen am liebsten darauf rein – NRW rot-grün-links / NRW fördert Erdogans religiöses Aussenministerium weiter
FAZ 12 Jan 2016 – Der Ditib-Bundesverband hat die Vorwürfe der Spitzelei für den türkischen Staat bestätigt und sich dafür entschuldigt. Tatsächlich hätten Imame des deutsch-türkischen Moscheeverbands Informationen über Gülen-Anhänger nach Ankara geschickt, sagte Ditib-Generalsekretär Bekir Alboga der „Rheinischen Post“ (Donnerstag). „Wir bedauern die Panne zutiefst“. Eine entsprechende schriftliche Anweisung der türkischen Religionsbehörde Diyanet sei nicht an die Ditib gerichtet gewesen, so Alboga weiter. ….. Die nordrhein-westfälische Landesregierung erklärte unterdessen, sie wolle weiterhin mit dem Verband kooperieren. Die Regierung sehe die Ditib weiterhin als „wichtigen Partner“ an, erwarte aber „eine eindeutige Haltung im Sinne von Deeskalation und Meinungsfreiheit“, so eine Sprecherin des NRW-Integrationsministeriums. – FAZ 12 Jan 2017
MESOP CULTURE : Gegenaufklärung ! – DIE SCHLECHTE DEKADENZ DER LBGTI-KULTUR
- ANTI-WEISSER FUNDAMENTAL-RASSISMUS –
Die Studentenbewegung der Londoner School of African and Asian Studies will keine weißen Philosophen mehr im Lehrplan. Sie gefährdet damit die freie Lehre.
13.01.2017, von Gina Thomas – FAZ – Bereits in Oxford wurden Stimmen laut, die Institution müsse „entkolonialisiert“ werden: Die Statue des Kolonialisten Cecile Rhodes sollte entfernt werden. Wird so Geschichte aufgearbeitet?
Die Idee der geistigen „Entkolonalisierung“, die durch das angelsächsische Universitätswesen spukt, hat nun auch die Londoner School of African and Asian Studies (Soas) erreicht. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=81994