Sudden Escalation of Conflict Happening in the Middle East

[darkbeaver]

... or as they used to tell us in high school:

"Those who fail History are doomed to repeat it"

Yes, but, the cycle of life is history repeated, doom deserves further study I think, what is meant by doom? My aquaintance with doom thusfar hasn,t been very dramatic and could be confused with erosion as easily as with anything else.

Suddenly my foot dosen,t fill my sneaker.

 

[OpposingDigit]

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr takes surprise lead in Iraq’s election as prime minister falters
By Tamer El-Ghobashy and Mustafa Salim
May 13, 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...415710-5535-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html

An electoral ticket backed by the influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr emerged as the early front-runner in Iraq’s elections ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqtada_al-Sadr

If the results hold, Sadr, a strident critic of the United States who commands a militia that fought American troops during the occupation of Iraq, could be in a position to determine Iraq’s next leader.

.... A significant blow to the reelection campaign of Prime Minister Haider Abadi’s coalition, which had been forecast to win and was Washington’s choice, came in fifth in the capital and was running third overall, according to the preliminary results.

 

[darkbeaver]

Washingtons choice? Is Washington invested with choice? I don,t think so. What sentient human would invest Washington with choice?

Could you point that supposed Washington out on a map?

 

[OpposingDigit]

America goes rogue
How the abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal could mark the start of a Saudi-American-Israeli axis.
By Andrew J. Bacevich
May 09, 2018
https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/america-goes-rogue

Trump’s abrogation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the so-called Iran deal, easily qualifies as the most consequential decision of his administration.

In reaching this decision, Trump ignored the advice – make that, pleas – of traditional U.S. allies such as France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.....

The creation of this new partnership confirms the fact that NATO no longer constitutes the central pillar of U.S. national security policy. Dating from its creation back in 1949, the purpose of the now essentially defunct Western alliance was to contain the Soviet Union, prevent war, and nurture liberal democratic values.

How will this decision effect the other signatories of the JCPOA? If the Russians and Chinese are smart, they will stick to the terms of the agreement, demonstrating the maturity and consistency that are marks of a mature power. In other words, by doing nothing, they can win big points at Washington’s expense.

How France, Germany, and the United Kingdom will react is the more interesting question. For years now, the United States has verged on going rogue – recall, for example, George W. Bush’s thumbing his nose at the world in deciding to invade Iraq in 2003. Now it has definitively done so. If the European democracies pretend that Trump’s highhandedness is nothing out of the ordinary, they will forfeit whatever last remnants of political credibility they possess.

By and large, I dislike Munich analogies. But in this instance the comparison may have some merit. In 1938, faced with a megalomaniac in charge of a fearsome military machine and surrounded by a coterie of fanatic militarists, the European democracies wilted, paving away for a great disaster. Today another megalomaniac with a fearsome military machine at his command and responding to the counsel of the latter day equivalent of Goering and Goebbels is on a tear. History will not treat European leaders kindly if they repeat the mistakes of Neville Chamberlain and Eduard Daladier. As an American, I believe that Trump needs to be confronted, not indulged.

“When I make promises, I keep them.” So Trump stated while announcing his decision to withdraw from the JCPOA. Well, no, Mr. President you don’t, as your several wives and sundry business associates can attest. Your modus operandi is betrayal.

 

[OpposingDigit]

Holy Jeeze! Just look at how big these unarmed protests have become in Palestine today and there is still one more day to go ....
https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/996006162565918721

The U.N. and Amnesty has described the Israel shooting unarmed protesters as "Murderous" and not "Disproportionate" as what is usually said.

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk outlined on Canadian television why Israel’s attacks against Gazans in the March of Return violate international law. We speak to Peter Larson of Canada Talks Israel Palestine, who recently returned from Gaza
https://therealnews.com/stories/isr...ians-in-gaza-a-violation-of-international-law

MICHAEL LYNK: Most of the demonstrations, in fact, are unarmed demonstrations. The violence is really coming from the fire shot at them by the Israeli Defense Forces. Over the last, past five Fridays we’ve had over 40 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and over 5000 Israeli-Palestinians injured, including 1700 by live fire. Of the 1700, a number of these are very devastating injuries. The doctors at the main hospitals in Gaza are reporting that high velocity ammunition has been used against them. They’re reporting patients who are arriving with significant internal damage to tissue, to bone, to organs, where there are narrow entry wounds by the ammunition and high velocity, large exit wounds, which, all of which, I must point out, probably is in violation of international law. It’s an international law, it’s a violation of international law for security forces of any sort to be using deadly ammunition fire against unarmed protesters.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1382339

Deadly, lethal fire is only permitted as a last resort, only when the lives or safety of the security forces are in imminent threat of either danger or or death. It doesn’t appear to be the case so far in these five Fridays of demonstrations.

SHARMINI PERIES: Shortly after this interview was aired, the Special Repertoire Lynk, Michael Lynk, was accused of lying by the Israeli lobby group Honest Reporting Canada, who also condemned CTV for giving the special repertoire airtime. The special rapporteur’s claims made in that interview and also in a press release was supported in a recent statement by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, both of whom says that Israel was unlawfully killing and maiming protesters, and several other U.N. officials and of UN bodies joined and issued another statement, which was a joint press statement, which lays out in more detail why international human rights experts consider IDF sniper fire a potential violation of international law.

And to add to that, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has warned Israel that its action could constitute crimes under the Rome Statute. Here is how U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley responded to the UN reports on the Israeli violence in Gaza, and trying to blame the deaths that have occurred thus far on the Palestinian Hamas party.

NIKKI HALEY: Anyone who truly cares about children in Gaza should insist that Hamas immediately stop using children as cannon fodder in its conflict with Israel.

 

[darkbeaver]

Nikki Haley is a work of art eh a finely carved piece of specially selected petrified pig vomit. The day occupied Palestine ceases to be a haven and hideout for the worlds vilest tormentors and formost human scum will be celebrated for a thousand years. Those very same Palestinian children will not forget and no decent human being will forget and none will forgive those despicable inhuman Israeli monsters.