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MESOP NEWS TODAYS PRIME QUOTATION / AFTER “RED LINE” OBAMA
It would be a final condemnation of Barack Obama’s presidency if the Trump administration took action against Assad when Obama did not. www.mesop.de
MESOP TWEETS : Shadi Hamid on Twitter
“I really do believe the world (Iraq, Turkey, EU, our own politics) would have looked quite different if we had acted against Assad in 2012” twitter.com
MESOP NEWS “THIS MORNINGS SHORT CUTS” SYRIA / TRUMP Courageous
| 6 April 2017 – President Trump warned that he would not tolerate the “heinous” chemical weapons attack in northern Syria on Tuesday, opening the door to a greater American role in the country’s civil war. The attack “crossed a lot of lines for me,” he said, as he met with King Abdullah II of Jordan. |
| Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the U.N., blamed Russia for blocking a Security Council resolution that would have condemned the attack and warned that the U.S. might take unilateral action. |
| We examined some of the atrocities the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has perpetrated against his people. And “The Daily” podcast tracks the course of the Syrian conflict and the choices Mr. Trump faces.
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MESOP NEWS TODAYS COMMENTARY BY FORMER US AMBASSADOR DENNIS ROSS
AMERICA MUST SEND A STRONG MESSAGE TO SYRIA THAT USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN WAR IS NOT ACCEPTABLE
By Dennis Ross – New York Daily News – April 4, 2017
The latest regime attack has once again shown that any effort to confront the Islamic State in Syria must also confront Assad. – Bashar Assad has struck again. The Syrian regime has carried out an air attack using Sarin gas in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. Early reporting from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suggests as many as 100 are dead, many of them children. As if it was not enough to drop chemical weapons on the town, the regime then targeted, with an airstrike, the clinic where the victims of the chemical assault were being treated. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84498
MESOP NEWS TODAYS “MUST READ” – GREAT HISTORY BY PROFESSOR MICHAEL GUNTER (US)
MESOP NEWS TODAYS RECOMMENDATION : Michael Gunter US Middle East Policy & the Kurds
It would not be too much to declare that two words largely define and explain US foreign policy toward the Middle East, including the increasingly important Kurds: oil and Israel. Of course, once this axiom is appreciated, many
additional factors and nuances also come into play, but even these usually stem originally from the two terms listed. The Kurds are one of these additional nuances. However, before examining the fascinating people whom Dana
Adams Schmidt, for many years a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, once concluded were “the fightingest people in the Middle East,”1 it would be useful to briefly survey earlier American involvement in the Middle East – before the post-World-War-II era led to today’s connection with the Kurds.
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP NEWS TODAYS SAMPLER TOP OF THE AGENDA: Nations Condemn Syria Chemical Weapons Attack / IT WAS OBAMA WHO RESCUED ASSAD ! – STATEMENTS & COMMENTS BY : New York Times – Reuters – Washington Post – The Atlantic + AP + more – Read all Sources + Statements
MESOP REACTION US CONGRESS BY JULIAN PECQUET (AL MONITOR)
Congress demands Trump action on Syria after Idlib gas attack
4 April 2017 – Congressional pressure on President Donald Trump to act forcefully against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria escalated dramatically April 5 following reports that a chemical weapons attack had killed at least 60 people in Idlib province. – Democrats wasted no time faulting the president for his apparent disinterest in playing an active role in ending the six-year conflict while downplaying the Barack Obama administration’s own failures. Several cast the White House as beholden to Moscow amid investigations into Russia’s ties to Trump’s presidential campaign. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84502
MESOP NEWS : Spokesman For Iran-Backed Iraqi Shi’ite Militia In Syria: ‘We Have Established The Golan Liberation Army
April 5, 2017 – MEMRI – Special Dispatch – No. 6859
On March 8, 2017, Hashem Al-Mousawi, the spokesman for the Iran-backed Iraqi Shi’ite militia Al-Nujaba, gave an interview to the Iranian news agency Tasnim, highlighting the militia’s activities in Iraq and Syria. He accused Saudi Arabia and the U.S. of being responsible for ISIS’s actions, stressing that Iran is the only country that has helped his militia. He also said that Iraqi-Saudi relations were like “a failed marriage,” adding that “we do not want a separation between Iran and Iraq.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84491
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP NEWS TODAYS CENTRAL ANALYSIS : By J. Matthew McInnis – April 5, 2017 | American Enterprise Institute
Building the Iranian Military: Understanding Tehran’s Defense Acquisition and Research and Development Decision-Making
Key Points – Tehran’s military expenditures can be reasonably estimated based on Iran’s GDP growth rates and the price of oil, if the regime’s threat perceptions of potential major conventional conflict are generally understood.
- Iran will retain a preference for proven domestic production of critical platforms over foreign weapons acquisition as it spends its post-JCPOA resources. Tehran could achieve more blue-water naval capabilities, but a full army or air force modernization remains unlikely.
- Washington and its allies have an enormous capacity to influence military spending levels and allocations by affecting the regime’s threat calculus, foreign investment climate, and global energy prices.
Executive Summary – Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84519
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP NEWS : THE HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ABOUT MOSUL CIVILANS
Plight Of Civilians In The Battle For Mosul, Interview With Amnesty International’s Donatella Rovera
05 Apr 2017 09:07 AM PDT – MUSINGS ON IRAQ – As the battle for Mosul enters its sixth month there are growing concerns about the damage and casualties it is causing. The Jadida incident where a Coalition air strike was blamed for over two hundred civilian deaths highlighted the rising costs incurred from the fighting. To help describe the situation is Amnesty International’s Donatella Rovera who has been interviewing people in Mosul and Ninewa during the campaign. She can be followed on Twitter @DRovera. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=84523
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
MESOP NEWS WORT DES TAGES VON JOOST HILTERMANN (CRISIS GROUP)
- PKK / PYD DIKTATUR IN KURDISTAN – AUS DER BRD POLITISCH GEFÖRDERT DURCH MARTIN GLASENAPP (MEDICO INTERNATIONAL)
6 April 2017 – „Nach Aussagen von Joost Hiltermann, Direktor für den Nahen Osten und Nordafrika in der International Crisis Group, lebten die Kurden in Nordsyrien in Abhängigkeit von einer einzigen Partei, der PYD. Militärisch, so Hiltermann, sei die PYD nicht bereit, Macht zu teilen. Vielmehr monopolisiere die PKK-nahe Organisation politische und militärische Macht. Um demokratischen Werten zu entsprechen, müsse die PYD bereit sein, diesen diktatorischen Tendenzen entgegenzuwirken.“ Mehr : www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS REPORT : PUTIN & ASSAD ALS MEGA-KRIEGSVERBRECHER
Russische Erklärung zum Giftgasangriff in Syrien – Eine Lüge und viele Ungereimtheiten
Russland macht syrische Rebellen für den Tod von mindestens 72 Menschen in Chan Schaichun verantwortlich. Doch die Erklärung, die Moskau zu dem Giftgasangriff präsentiert, kann nicht stimmen.
Von Christoph Sydow – SPIEGEL ONLINE – 5 April 2017
Ziemlich genau 24 Stunden brauchte Russlands Regierung um ihre Erklärung für den Giftgasangriff auf die syrische Stadt Chan Schaichun zu liefern. Bei dem Luftschlag kamen nach aktuellen Angaben von Augenzeugen und Medizinern 72 Menschen ums Leben, darunter 20 Kinder. Nach Darstellung des Kremls starben sie, weil ein syrischer Kampfjet ein Chemiewaffenlabor der Rebellen traf. Demnach wären die Aufständischen, die Chan Schaichun kontrollieren, selbst für die Toten verantwortlich. Doch die Erklärung von Generalmajor Igor Konaschenkow, dem Sprecher des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums, weist mehrere Ungereimtheiten auf. So behauptet der Sprecher, der Luftschlag habe “zwischen 11.30 Uhr und 12.30 Uhr Ortszeit” stattgefunden.
Das ist eine Lüge: Augenzeugen berichten, der Angriff habe sich gegen 6.30 Uhr Ortszeit ereignet. Volltext : http://www.mesop.de/?p=84493
MESOP NEWS : GUTE, RICHTIGE WORTE – DONALD TRUMP ! – Nach Gasattacke Trump über Syrien: „Ich habe nun Verantwortung“
OBAMA HAGTTE DIE GIFTGAS-ÜBERSCHREITUNG DER „ROTEN LINIE“ ERMÖGLICHT !
Im UN-Sicherheitsrat schieben sich die Mitglieder das Versagen im Syrien-Konflikt gegenseitig zu. Eine Resolution scheitert am Widerstand Russlands. Amerika macht deshalb eine klare Ansage.
05.04.2017 FAZ – Die Botschafterin der Vereinigten Staaten bei den UN, Nikki Haley, zeigt im Sicherheitsrat Bilder von syrischen Opfern einer mutmaßlichen Giftgas-Attacke. Amerika hat der Regierung von Baschar al-Assad die Schuld für den mutmaßlichen Giftgasangriff in Syrien gegeben und einen möglichen Alleingang angedeutet. „Für mich sind damit eine ganze Reihe von Linien überschritten worden“, sagte Präsident Donald Trump am Mittwoch in Washington. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=84511
MESOP NEWS ANALYSE : PKK & PYD DIKTATUREN GEGEN KURDISCHE EINHEIT IN SYRIEN & IRAK
Irak – Analyst: USA schwächen mit der PKK-nahen PYD andere Kurden
Von NEX24 -Apr 5, 2017 – Erbil (nex/eurasia) – Die USA unterstützen über den syrischen PKK-Ableger PYD sowie dessen bewaffneten Arm YPG die Destabilisierung der Autonomen Kurden-Regierung im Nordirak. Krisenherde mit regionalem Eskalationspotenzial sind das Sindschar-Gebiet und die ölreiche Kirkuk-Provinz. Eurasia News und NEX24 sprachen mit dem Pressesprecher der kurdischen Zukunftsbewegung in Syrien und Mitglied des Kurdischen Nationalrats, Jian Omar. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=84515