MESOPOTAMIA NEW INSIGHT : A Revolution in All Its Implications
- BADIA FAHS By CARNEGIE MIDDLE EAST CENTER
The Nabatieh protestors smashed the notion of a Shi‘a community solidly behind Hezbollah and Amal. – September 02, 2020 عربي
The protests that rocked the town of Nabatieh in south Lebanon beginning on October 17, 2019, changed the life and history of an entire community. Their impact was so profound that the term “movement” barely suffices to describe the protests. What took place was a revolution, with its political, cultural, and social implications.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ANALYSIS : BREAKING HEZBOLLAH’S ‘GOLDEN RULE’
by Matthew Levitt – Perspectives on Terrorism – August 2020
Many details regarding the modus operandi of the group’s external terrorist operations wing are being made public here for the first time, including communications techniques, travel patterns, training programs, pay scale, and more.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUNDER : Israel-UAE deal could have happened four years ago
A regional peace conference that would have included the United Arab Emirates nearly came about four years ago, when former opposition head Isaac Herzog was negotiating to join Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Israeli Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog (L) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Aug. 18, 2015. Photo by ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images.
Ben Caspit Sep 1, 2020 AL MONITOR
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FOCUS : Amid talks with Israel, UAE pursuit of stealth jets rumbles in background
The United States has sold the F-35 to allies including Turkey, South Korea, Japan and Israel.
By REUTERS JERUSALEM POST- SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 20:15
The Lockheed Martin F35 fighter jet plane, also known as the Adir, in a test flight
Amid historic normalization talks between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, American officials spent a morning at an Abu Dhabi air base housing US stealth jets which the Gulf state hopes to buy despite Israeli objections.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS UPSIDE-DOWN : Israel-UAE Peace Deal Challenges Iranian, Muslim Brotherhood Camps
By Yaakov LappinSeptember 1, 2020 – ISRAEL – BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,724, September 1, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel takes Jerusalem’s cooperation with Sunni Arab states out of the shadows. A boost to regional stability, the agreement will enable expanded cooperation on defense and intelligence issues, trade, investment, and joint technological development, and could foster a positive religious-cultural dialogue. The deal is a setback for Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, two radical Islamist forces that are determined to destabilize the region and that threaten Israel and Sunni Arab countries alike.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE MAJOR MILITARY DEAL CONTRA IRAN
PEACE FOR WARPLANES? – by Neri Zilber – Foreign Policy – August 31, 2020
How domestic and foreign disputes over the potential sale of F-35 jets to the UAE could complicate the country’s normalization deal with Israel.
The Trump administration wants to push through within months an arms deal with the United Arab Emirates that includes the world’s most advanced warplane, the F-35, an ambitious timetable that could well be thwarted by the U.S. Congress, depending largely on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position on the sale. Publicly, Netanyahu has said he opposes the deal, insisting that Israel’s position on Middle Eastern states acquiring such high-end weapons had not changed. But the Trump administration and Emirati officials have suggested that the F-35 sale was one of the understandings that led the UAE to normalize relations with Israel this month—in a watershed agreement brokered by Washington.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS „ÜBERNAHME“ : SCHWEIZER PHARMA-ZENTRUM GEHT AN VR ROT CHINA
Der Ausverkauf der Schweizer Chemiebranche geht in die nächste Runde 2 Sept 2020 Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Das ist passiert: Die Schweiz zählt zu den führenden Nationen in der Pharmaindustrie, doch im Chemiesektor nimmt ihre Bedeutung ab. In den vergangenen Jahren sind wichtige Unternehmen vom Ausland aufgekauft worden. Ein ähnliches Schicksal dürfte nun dem Spezialitätenchemiegeschäft der Basler Lonza-Gruppe blühen. Und auch die Baselbieter Firma Clariant, die für ihre Pigmentsparte einen Abnehmer sucht, wird wohl im Ausland fündig werden.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : BRAUCHT ERDOGAN NOCH DEUTSCHE WAFFEN ?
Rüstungsindustrie für Erdoğan : Die Türkei rüstet in Rekordtempo auf
- Von Andreas Mihm, Wien – -Aktualisiert am 31.08.2020-17:44 – Die Wirtschaft der Türkei schwächelt, doch die Rüstungsindustrie wächst rapide. Präsident Erdoğan will sich unabhängig von Waffenimporten machen. Schon hat er ein neues Amphibien-Angriffsschiff und weitere Flugzeugträger angekündigt.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SPECIAL – WATCH RED CHINA : Top of the Agenda COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS 2. Sept 2020
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : SAVE ANCIENT HASANKEYF /ILISU DAM
Urgent call to resolve mounting problems in Hasankeyf
1 September 2020
In past years, the ancient city of Hasankeyf attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, offering them the chance to explore the traces of more than 20 civilizations that contributed to the city’s cultural heritage. Hasankeyf – with a history spanning 12,000 years – held a special appeal to visitors from the region as well as to those from western Turkey and every corner of the globe, and this enabled local residents not only to provide for their families but also to share their specialized knowledge of this historic landscape.
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