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MESOP : OURTIMES SOCIETY OF THE “TOILET QUESTION” WILL NEVER RESIST TERRORISM & DICTATORSHIP’S
DOJ files lawsuit against North Carolina over bathroom law – THE HILL 10 May 2016
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina over the state’s controversial bathroom law, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced.Earlier Monday, North Carolina filed a suit against the federal government over the law, which requires that transgender people use the bathroom corresponding to their biological sex. www.mesop.de
MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
Very interesting talk by @EdithSzanto about Zoriasterainsm and the #Kurds @AUIS_NEWS @ifporient
Raed Fares – @RaedFares4
ASSAD AIRFORCES ATTACKED BINISH TODAY – #SYRIA
#Breaking: The Pentagon says it successfully targeted Abu Wahib, a key #ISIS figure, in an airstrike
#Stat: 1,800 tons of equipment granted by @GermanyDiplo in 2015 to the #Peshmerga & #ISF http://bit.ly/1RokmNU
BM-21 GRAD @bm21_grad May 9 – A great read by @ARothWP, 56 hours with the Russian Army in Syria. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/09/56-hours-with-the-russian-army-in-syria/ …
More on : www.mesop.de Very interesting talk by @EdithSzanto about Zoriasterainsm and the #Kurds @AUIS_NEWS @ifporient Very interesting talk by @EdithSzanto about Zoriasterainsm and the #Kurds @AUIS_NEWS @ifporient
Very interesting talk by @EdithSzanto about Zoriasterainsm and the #Kurds @AUIS_NEWS @ifporient
MESOP TODAYS OPINION (I) : KING ERDOGAN !
TURKEY’S KING: ERDOGAN AFTER DAVUTOGLU
By Soner Cagaptay – Foreign Affairs – May 8, 2016 – Read Dr. Cagaptay’s related Wall Street Journal article covering the foreign-policy implications of Davutoglu’s resignation: Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73855
MESOP TODAYS OPINION (II) : What next for Turkey’s AKP after Davutoglu’s exit?
Author: Mustafa Akyol – AL MONITOR – May 6, 2016
In Turkey, prime ministers normally lose their job when they lose an election, or they lose the majority of the seats in the parliament due to a break down in their party. Turkey’s current Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had none of those problems. He had won a sweeping election victory just six months ago and his party is more intact than ever. Yet, still he had to give a farewell speech on May 5. He announced that there will be a surprise snap party congress in 17 days to chose the new party leader, but he himself will not run. “This is not my decision,” he said, “but a necessity.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73857
MESOP TODAYS ANALYSIS : Muqtada al-Sadr’s Changing Role in an Unchanging Iraq
BY NABEEL KHOURY – Nabeel Khoury is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. 9 May 2016
In a speech a day after his followers stormed Iraq’s parliament, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr described the move as a gesture of civil disobedience in rejection of Iraq’s political class and the sectarian division of power and corruption within it. The protesters tore up papers, ransacked offices, and kicked furniture around, with some reports of attacks on individuals. As they made their way through the parliament, some of Sadr’s supporters, however, chanted ‘Silmeyeh, Silmeyeh,’ or ‘Peaceful, peaceful.’ Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73886
MESOP TODAYS FOCAL POINT : WHY MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERS ARE TALKING TO PUTIN, NOT OBAMA
By Dennis Ross – FORMER US AMBASSADOR – Politico – May 8, 2016
Russia is less dominant militarily but more willing to act, and that has changed the dynamics in the region.The United States has significantly more military capability in the Middle East today than Russia — America has 35,000 troops and hundreds of aircraft; the Russians roughly 2,000 troops and, perhaps, 50 aircraft — and yet Middle Eastern leaders are making pilgrimages to Moscow to see Vladimir Putin these days, not rushing to Washington. Two weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to see the Russian president, his second trip to Russia since last fall, and King Salman of Saudi Arabia is planning a trip soon. Egypt’s president and other Middle Eastern leaders have also made the trek to see Putin. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=73875
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP : KURDS AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN NORTH IRAQ ? – Dutch Delegation Visits North Iraq, Raises Issue of Kurdish Encroachment on Assyrian Lands
Assyrian International News Agency
By Dani Dabbous – 2016-05-09 – (AINA) — The Foreign Affairs Committee of The Netherlands (PVV) recently visited Dutch soldiers who stationed in North Iraq. During their they spoke with representatives of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). Before their departure, the committee was briefed on the latest developments in northern Iraq, particularly the rise of violence in area. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73853
MESOP : Iraq Council of Representatives Graphic – May 9, 2016 (CLICK BOTTOM LINK FOR GR APHIC)
By Emily Anagnostos (ISW- ) May 9 Update: Multiple political parties announced that they would boycott any upcoming session of the Council of Representatives (CoR). The Sunni Etihad bloc announced on May 9 that it would not attend any parliamentary session until those responsible for the April 30 protests were held accountable. A member of the Reform Front, the opposition bloc formed by rump CoR members, also reaffirmed that it would not attend any CoR session as long as Salim al-Juburi remained CoR Speaker. A member from the Islamic Dawa Party in Iraq, within the State of Law Alliance (SLA), revealed his participation in the Reform Front, further reducing the size of the SLA in the CoR. This graphic is updated from its May 6 version to reflect these additional boycotting parties and the new Reform Front member. More : http://www.mesop.de/?p=73848
MESOP : AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE – PUK & PKK & IRAN AGAINST KURDISH INDEPENDENCE
Iran Reacts to Kurdish Independence – Iraq is a conceptual failure, compelling people with little in common to share an uncertain future, Barzani said
ERBIL — 10 Ma 2016 – Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran responded to an article written by Masrour Barzani, the Chancellor of Kurdistan Region’s Security Council (KRSC), stating that Iraq should remain undivided. Masrour Barzani said in an op-ed for Washington Post last Friday that “Iraq is a conceptual failure, compelling people with little in common to share an uncertain future. It is time to acknowledge that the experiment has not worked. Iraq is a failed state, and our continued presence within it condemns us all to an unending conflict and enmity.” Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=73869
MESOP: THE JEWS OF IRAQ & KURDISTAN / MORE FREE & SAFE AS IN EUROPE
Kurds urge Jews to return to Iraq
By Hollie McKay – FoxNews / MESOP – 10 May 2016 – HEWLÊR-Erbil, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Even as religious minorities face genocide at the hands of Muslim extremists in Iraq, officials in one part of the country are actively courting Jews to return to the land of their ancestry.
The government of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north, eager to counter the devastating effects of Islamic State’s religious and ethnic cleansing, is making clear to Jews that they have a home in the ancient Babylonian land where many of their ancestors once lived peacefully. They are even urging thousands of Kurdish Jews living in Israel to come and make their homes in a land that has not always been so hospitable to them. – “Jews would be surprised to find that they are freer and safer here than in certain European capitals,” Sherzad Omer Mamsani, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s first-ever Jewish representative, told FoxNews.com. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=73867
MIDDLE EAST
MESOP ANALYSIS : BESA-CENTER – TEL AVIV
The ISIS Challenge in Syria; Implications for Israeli Security – By Prof. Hillel Frisch on May 9, 2016 – Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 118
ISIS captured the world’s attention when it routed the Iraqi army in Mosul and took control over the city in early June 2014. At one point, its advance southward reached to within 75 km of Israel’s border on the Golan Heights.
The organization’s remarkable ascent raises the question: to what extent does ISIS pose a threat to Israeli national security, and what should Israel do to meet that threat? This study by Prof. Hillel Frisch, a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, evaluates the ISIS threat to Israel. It does so by examining the organization’s strategic goals and military performance, the relative strength of its opponents, and the reactions of those opponents—especially that of Iran—to possible ISIS gains. This study concludes that: Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73861
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP REPORT: UN HIGH COMMISSONER ABOUT ERDOGAN’S CRIMES IN SOUTH EAST TURKEY
Need for transparency, investigations, in light of “alarming” reports of major violations in south-east Turkey – Zeid
GENEVA (10 May 2016) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said Tuesday that he had received a succession of alarming reports about violations allegedly committed by Turkish military and security forces in south-east Turkey over the past few months, and urged the Turkish authorities to give independent investigators, including UN staff, unimpeded access to the area to verify the veracity of such reports. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73884
MESOP : ERDOGAN NOW WANTS MUCH MORE / MERKEL & EU BLACKMAILED BY THE SULTAN
Erdoğan vows visa deal would boost Turkey-EU ties
ANKARA – 10 May 2016 – Hurriyet – The prospective deal to liberalize visa requirements for Turks visiting European Union member countries should accelerate Turkey’s accession process and full EU membership remains Ankara’s strategic goal, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, vowing Ankara’s commitment to resume cooperation with the 28-member bloc. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73871
MESOP : THE REAL PROCESS IN A SO-CALLED ISLAMOPHOBIC WORLD: THE MASS-CONVERSION OF CHURCHES INTO MOSQUES / REPORT & SUMMARY
Why Turkey’s Historic Churches Are Being Turned Into Mosques
By Uzay Bulut – THE CLARION PROJECT – 2016-05-09 – Frescos like these in the Hagia Sophia have been covered up since the church was converted into a mosque.Christians in Turkey have — throughout the centuries — been turned into a tiny, dwindling minority. The remaining few Christian churches in Anatolia are also on the path to total annihilation. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73863
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP Syria Video: Russia-Regime Attack on Aleppo’s Al-Quds Hospital — New Footage & Testimony
May 10 – by Scott Lucas – eaworldview – With new CCTV footage and testimony, Britain’s Channel 4 recreates the airstrike on Aleppo’s al-Quds Hospital on April 27, which killed 55 people and wounded 80. The video shows treatment of patients just before the attack, the moment of explosion, and the aftermath. Two of the three doctors who died are seen in their last moments; a woman with a baby tries to get out of the rubble; the hospital doorman — “a simple man and respected” — greets staff and patients just before his death. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73865
MESOP : SWP Comments by GUIDO STEINBERG /ANALYSIS
Ahrar al-Sham: The »Syrian Taliban« / Al-Nusra Ally Seeks Partnership with West
President Bashar al-Assad’s refusal to step down and open the door to compromise is not the only obstacle to a resolution of the Syrian conflict. Various Islamist groups focused on outright military victory also play a major role. Since 2012 they have come to dominate the uprising. The international community agrees that there can be no negotiations with the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), nor with the al Nusra Front, which is close to al-Qaeda. The open question is how to treat Ahrar al-Sham, as the largest rebel group alongside ISIS. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73880
MESOP : TEL AVIV NOTES – Chemical Weapons in Syria: From Red Line to Routine?
MDC Researcher Dr. Brandon Friedman explains the spread of chemical weapons in Syria through the lens of recently published reports from a UN-OPCW fact finding team.
Author: Brandon Friedman – At the end of April, Rebecca Hersman, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense wrote a sobering article titled, “Syria’s Toxic Wars: Chemical Weapons are Undermining Deterrence and Nonproliferation,” which quoted a report by the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) that listed 161 chemical attacks with 14,581 victims and at least 1,491 deaths in Syria since 2012.[1] Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73882
MESOP NEWS : US-led coalition: Kurdish interests do not align with Russia / COLONEL STEVE WARREN’SWISFUL THINKING
May 9, 2016 – ARA News – Van Wilgenburg – QAMISHLO – The US-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) is concerned about the relations between the Kurds and Russia in Syria, but thinks that relations between the West and the Kurds are stronger.“Sure there’s concern, but I don’t believe that interests of the YPG [Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units] align with Russian interests,” US-led coalition’s spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said.“We know that they interact, but we believe that at the end of the day they won’t be comfortable getting in bed with the Russians,” he added. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=73888
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
MESOP : RECHTFERTIGUNG & BEWAHRUNG EINES NATIONALEN EWIGKEITSPROJEKTS
Bekenntnis Matthias Döpfner (AXEL SPRINGER) : 12.06.14 – Ich bin ein nichtjüdischer Zionist
http://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article129001377/Ich-bin-ein-nichtjuedischer-Zionist.html
Zionismus bezeichnet eine politische Ideologie von Juden und die damit verbundene Bewegung, die auf die Errichtung, Rechtfertigung und Bewahrung eines jüdischen Nationalstaats in Palästina abzielt. Der Zionismus wird als Ideologie den Nationalismen und als politische Bewegung den Nationalbewegungen zugerechnet.[1] (…..) Sie bezogen die verheißene Sammlung aller zerstreuten Juden im Land Israel auch auf die Land-, Volk- und Segensverheißung JHWHs an Abraham (Gen 12,1-3; 17,8 EU), mit der im Tanach die Geschichte Israels beginnt. Damit verknüpften sie die Erwartung, dass eines Tages alle Völker den Gott Israels anerkennen und sein Abrüstungsgebot befolgen würden. WIKIPEDIA
…. Es genügt Döpfner nicht zu sagen, er sei ein erklärter Freund Israels, dessen Bestand man auf alle Fälle schützen möchte, um dabei auch an die Deutsche Staatsräson zu erinnern – dieser Deutschtyp muss sich selber soweit wie eben möglich in einen Juden verwandeln, nämlich einen Zionisten, der ohne Jüdischsein per Definition gar nicht geht. Nichtjüdischer Ehrenjude – oder so ähnlich. Widerlichste Andienerei ! Genau das ist unbewältigte Vergangenheit.
MESOP TODAY : WORÜBER DIE MIGRATIONS- & TRANSFORMATIONSFUNKT IONÄRE ENTSCHIEDEN SCHWEIGEN / EXTERMINIERUNG DES CHRISTENTUMS IM MITTLEREN OSTEN – VERFOLGUNG IN DER BRD KEIN „THEMA“
Christen klagen über Bedrohung in deutschen Asylunterkünften
Berlin – 10 May 2016 – In einer Studie zur «Christenverfolgung in Deutschland», die das Hilfswerk Open Doors Deutschland am Montag in Berlin vorgelegt hat, heißt es, mehr als 80 Prozent der christlichen Flüchtlinge seien in den Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen Schikanen durch muslimische Flüchtlinge ausgesetzt – Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=73851
MESOP REPORT : Türkische Soldaten schießen angeblich auf Flüchtlingskinder / Human Rights Watch BERICHT
10 Mai 2016 – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Auf der Flucht vor dem Krieg in Syrien werden Menschen an der Grenze von türkischen Soldaten beschossen: Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights Watch erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen die Türkei. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=73878
MESOP DRAMÖDIE : „DIE WAHRE BEFREIUNG KOMMT AUS JERUSALEM“
Wie eine vollmotorisierte pro israelische deutsche ANTIFA-Brigade mit taktischem Geschick das 300 Seelen Dorf Bornhagen eroberte + anschließend strategisch wieder verließ
HIMMELFAHRT : Am 5. Mai 2016 erschien entlang der Werra und en route thüringisch-hessischen Linien eine dreifach gekaderte motorisierte Truppe unter den Bannern: „Antideutsche Aktion Berlin“, „Antifaschistische Gruppe Halle“ + „Association Progrès aus dem Eichsfeld“, um mit rot-weißem Absperrband das Dorf Bornhagen zum Sperrgebiet zu erklären. Denn von 116 Wahlberechtigten hatten 42 ihre Zweistimme dem AfD-Kandidaten Höcke gegeben.
Bedeutet wurde den ungläubig schauenden Dörflern, das man gekommen sei „um euch das Himmelfahrtsvergnügen zu vermiesen“ – mit dem verbalen Zusatz: „Go straight to hell!“
Der petite Hinweis, das gerade in diesem Örtchen eine der besser ausgestatteten Flüchtlingsunterkünfte sich befindet, vermochte den Drang zum Sich-Ausagieren nicht zu mildern.
Damit aber auch intellektuell etwas geschah, wurde nun von einer offenbar lesekundigen ANTIFA-Person im authentischen Stil einer nach- 68er ML-Versammlung umständlich ein seitenlanger Text mühsam wie holprig vorgelesen, dem man jedenfalls anhörte, daß er kaum von den anwesenden eher Schriftunkundigen stammte, sondern aus Berlin, vom jungle world Autor Stephan Maßdorf. Volltext lesen http://www.mesop.de/?p=73873