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MESOP BREAKING NEWS KURDISTAN

On Air + Podcast from 0900 BST @BBCNHExtra The Fragmentation of #Iraq @janearraf @LizSly @ammar_afp listen here. http://bbc.in/21VJn5H

REPORT: East Ghouta still a war zone despite truce: “Warplanes began flying this morning.” http://syriadirect.org/news/east-ghouta-a-war-zone-despite-truce-%E2%80%98warplanes-began-flying-this-morning%E2%80%99/  …

 

MESOP SPECIAL : PUBLICATION EARLY RELEASE

U.S. MILITARY ENGAGEMENT IN THE BROADER MIDDLE EAST: Part I – James F. Jeffrey – POLICY FOCUS 143 • APRIL 2016

Reflecting broad foreign policy themes dating to World War I, U.S. grand strategy in the Middle East since the Cold War has focused on establishing and managing a global security system to contain and deter outside threats. Given Eurasia’s demographic and economic/technical strength, a dominant power or powers arising from that region, using modern military technology, could eventually project force against the United States. Whether the United States will continue the laborious task of maintaining regional security and deterring the threats to it is an open question. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72745

 

MESOP ISIS TRENDS : CONTRA SAUDI ARABIA

SIS Turns Saudis Against the Kingdom, and Families Against Their Own

By BEN HUBBARD – MARCH 31, 2016 – NEW YORK TIMES – Mishari al-Rashidi, whose foster brother, Sgt. Bader al-Rashidi, was killed by six of his own cousins who had joined the Islamic State. Credit Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times – Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72749

 

MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT DOCUMENTATION :  The Malice of Power –  Arrests in Syria as Part of a Politico-Economic Rationale

By Ansar Jasim – HEINRICH BOELL FOUNDATION – BENTE SCHELLER – BEIRUT

“I was shocked when I learnt Naser had been arrested. I did not want to believe it at first. To be arrested is the worst thing that could happen to you in Syria. No matter how you die – the main thing is not to die this way – that is what most Syrians will tell you. ‘I need to get hold of one of these pills that kill you instantly,’ Naser had said to me shortly before. He was planning ahead on how to elude an arrest. And then he was arrested in the Foreigners’ Registration Office, as he is Palestinian.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72757

 

MESOP Syria Feature: Iranian & Russian Media’s False Image of “Palmyra Massacre” by ISIS”

April 02 By Scott Lucas – eaworldview

Syrian State media proclaimed on Friday that Assad forces discovered a “mass grave” in Palmyra, after the Islamic State was pushed out of the historic city in central Syria.The SANA news agency, citing a “field source”, said that 40 corpses were found in the Masakin al-Jahizia district, 500 meters from Roman ruins. The source said 23 of the victims are women and children. He claimed that more bodies are being removed, and that some have been beheaded and others tortured.However, even as pro-Assad activists are complaining that Western media are ignoring the story, it has run into a complication: the claimed photo of the “mass grave”, circulated by Russian and Iranian State media, is a fake. Watch pics + documents : http://www.mesop.de/?p=72759

 

SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)

MESOP HISTORY : Syria Still Had Ties To Iraq’s Insurgency In 2011 (MUSINGS ON IRAQ)

01 Apr 2016 – When the Syrian civil war broke out at the start of 2011 Iraqi officials were still complaining about its support for the insurgency. In June, the head of the Anbar council’s security committee said that President Assad was a threat to Iraq. (1) He went on to say that in January militants were caught crossing over from Syria with help from Damascus. As early as 2002 Assad began allowing its nationals and other Arabs to go to Iraq to prepare to fight the impending American invasion. That process continued afterward. By 2008, Damascus was trying to repair relations with Baghdad as it saw the Americans preparing to draw down in the country.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72747

 

MESOP : MAHMUT OTHMAN ON KURDISH REPRESENTATION IN BAGHDAD

BAGHDAD,—  2 April 2016 – Former Iraqi MP and Kurdish political figure Mahmoud Othman said on Friday the existence of Kurdish representatives in the Iraqi government has no value as issues between Erbil and Baghdad have not been resolved.The Kurdish position in Baghdad is decreasing day by day following the suspension of negotiation between both sides, Othman told NRT.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72773

 

MESOP REPORT :  NOW MEDIA Beirut

Iraqi army’s first Mosul operation bogs down – A leading Kurdish Peshmerga commander criticized the offensive, telling NOW it was poorly planned and executed.

MAKHMUR, IRAQ – Wladimir van Wilgenburg –  – Last week, two Iraqi army brigades launched their first operation to capture Qayarra, a town along the Tigris River seen as a staging ground for the future battle to take Mosul. Nevertheless, they have not progressed much in their westward drive from Makhmur and only captured three villages. Leading Peshmerga commanders told NOW the operation was badly planned. Read all : http://www.mesop.de/?p=72763

 

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

MESOP NEWS : Britain Rejects Assad’s Syria Unity Government Plan

2 April 2016 –  (Reuters) — President Bashar al-Assad’s proposal to form a unity government including independent and opposition figures will not solve Syria’s conflict, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Thursday. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72751

 

MESOP : GOOD WORD’S FROM IDRIS NASSAN

Kurds vow to prevent Assad regime from holding parliamentary elections in Rojava

April 2, 2016 – ARA News  – ERBIL – Syrian Kurds will not hold Syrian parliament elections in their territory. The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called for these elections for April 13th on Monday.“Since the autonomous administration was declared by the Kurds and other minorities, the majority Kurdish areas are out of Assad’s control, and they are administrated by the components of the region,” said Idris Nassan, a former official in the Kobane administration.“ Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72771

 

MESOP : GET THE OIL !  – AFTER THE CONFLICT WITH ISIS FOLLOWS THEN THE FIGHT BETWEEN KURDS  & ARABS

Kurdish-Arab Alliance Expels ISIS Form Oil-rich Area in Eastern Syria

By Ahmed Shiwesh – ARA News –  2016-04-01 18:06 GMT –  Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reported advancement in the oil-rich area between Deir ez-Zor province and Raqqa, northeast Syria, subsequent to clashes with the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS), military sources reported on Thursday.The western-backed SDF forces have seized the Rweshid oil field after expelling ISIS from the Abu Khashab district west of the town of Margada in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72755

 

MESOP MIDDLE EAST

MESOP INDEPTH : Tribalism Drives Middle East Violence / It’s not Islam – it’s Ethnicity

by Philip Carl Salzman –  Independent Journal Review – March 25, 2016

Originally published under the title “He Say’s There’s One Thing That Drives Violence In The Middle East. But It’s Not Islam…”

Take a look at recent news reports from around the Arab world and you’ll notice an unusual commonality. Egypt’s government “struggles to rally Sinai tribes,” reads one Reuters headline, while the title of a Gulf News article recounts that former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh “fears tribes will shift allegiance” to his successor, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. The Oxford Research reports on the “local, tribal and fragmented” nature of militia power in Libya. CNN covers a U.S. special forces mission to “accompany tribal, Arab and Kurdish forces” in Syria. From the BBC, “Iraqi tribes clash with jihadists in IS stronghold of Falluja.” The UAE daily The National proudly notes the “tribal and military influences” in local designer Huda Al Nuaimi’s spring/summer 2016 collection. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72765

 

MESOP SPECIAL

“INTEGRATION” – A LEFT WING POTEMKIN FANTASY ?  – Integration is Not the Answer to Muslim Terrorism

By Daniel Greenfield – Frontpage Magazine –  2016-04-01 – There is a famous photo of Anjem Choudary, the head of multiple banned organizations calling for imposing Sharia law on the UK whose follower was responsible for the Lee Rigby beheading, getting drunk as a young law student. Friends recall “Andy” smoking pot and taking LSD, sleeping around and partying all the time. Andy was really well integrated, but he still turned back into Anjem.While the proliferation of segregated Muslim areas, no-go zones in which English, French or Dutch is the foreign language, is a major problem, it is a mistake to think that “integration” solves Islamic terrorism. It doesn’t. The Tsarnaev brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings seemed integrated.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72753

 

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)

MESOP : RECEP TAYYIP THE ONE & ONLY COMMANDER IN CHIEF Turkey’s Erdogan openly embraces his naked ambition / By Metin Gurcan – Al Monitor 1 April 2016

The War Colleges Command in Istanbul is the highest training and education institution of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK). After a stiff examination and selection process, about a hundred staff officer candidates are selected from among thousands of applicants. They assemble in Istanbul every March to mark the beginning of their academic year. – It is a tradition for the president to make the opening speech to these selected officers, who are likely to constitute the Turkish military’s future command. The speeches usually focus on national, global and regional security environments, and foreign relations. But this year and last, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speeches deviated from this template. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72769

 

MESOP : ANALYSIS BY THE RETHINK INSTITUTE (WASHINGTON D.C.)

Turkey As Viewed From Central Asia – By  Vladimir Fedorenko | April 2016

Diplomatic relationships and partnerships between Turkey and the countries in Central Asia started after the republics gained independence in 1991. The Central Asian republics, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, share many common trends and developments along with distinctive political, economic and social characteristics that affect the development of relationships with Turkey. While the stance of Turkey toward Central Asia is clearly positive, how do Central Asian nations perceive Turkey? Do they share the same attitude, or view Turkey with more caution? Also, how have recent events impacted the attitude of Central Asia toward Turkey? Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72767

 

THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER

MESOP :  IMRE KERTESZ ERKENNT DIE LETZTEN TAGE VON EUROPA ( IN COMPAGNIA MIT ADORNO – HORKHEIMER  & POPPER/ALBERT)

“Er sieht die frühere „europäische Vitalität längst von Dekadenz angefressen“ und die europäischen „Intellektuellen“ wie die „klassischen gockelhaften Syphili…

Zum Tode von Imre Kertés: Europa wird untergehen!

Zum Tode von Imre Kertész hier meine Besprechung seines Buches „The Last Refuge“, in dem sich der Literaturnobelpreisträger zum Zustand Europas…  vera-lengsfeld.de

http://vera-lengsfeld.de/2016/04/01/zum-tode-von-imre-kertes-europa-wird-untergehen/