The candidates in 2016 will also have to contend with a public sentiment that has only grown since 2008: that American forces should stay out of dangerous and unpredictable foreign conflicts.

The vote on Thursday will also be the last major action that the Senate takes before the midterm elections in November.

Units of the armed forces continue sweeping Qhweiran neighborhood in the city of Hasaka to which they restored security last Tuesday so as to secure the return of residents back to their homes, a military source said.

The source told SANA reporter that the army units dismantled dozens of explosive devices which terrorists had earlier planted in the neighborhood before they were forced out of it.

Die Europäische Union arbeitet heimlich mit der Kernindustrie Israels seit mindestens sechs Jahren zusammen. Ein internes Dokument, das ich vor kurzem erhielt, zeigte, dass 2008 eine Vereinbarung zwischen der EU und Israel unterzeichnet wurde, zum Zwecke „gemeinsamer Kooperationsinitiativen zur friedlichen Nutzung von Kernenergie“. „Dies ist eine „diskrete“ Vereinbarung und soll nicht öffentlich gemacht werden“ sagt der Text weiter.

Summarizing Israeli intelligence estimates that were previously not disclosed to avoid undermining the Syrians‘ surrender of their declared chemical arsenal, the official said they had kept some missile warheads, air-dropped bombs and rocket-propelled grenades primed with toxins like sarin.

Israel, the commander said, should impose a no-fly area over the buffer zone and allow the moderate opposition fighters to continue eastward, toward Damascus.

“Israel could down any plane above that area and no one would blame it,” he continued. “Refraining from doing this means collaborating with the Assad gang in our murder.

Claims Intervention Would Win ‚Hearts of All Syrians‘

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On August 9, 2014, a Ferguson police officer gunned down 18-year-old Michael Brown, shooting him at least six times. In the wake of his murder the city of Ferguson, Missouri erupted into a mass uprising against police violence sustained for over two weeks, the likes of which the United States has not seen in decades. One month before, on July 8, Israel began its vicious assault on the people trapped in Palestine’s Gaza Strip, slaughtering over 2000 people, around 500 of them children. This wave of terror lasted until August 26, the same day Michael Brown’s body was buried.

Yesterday, Israel’s Supreme Court dismissed a petition by Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel effectually facilitating the Judaization of more Palestinian owned land inside Israel. According to Adalah, the court’s decision holding up Israel’s Admissions Committees Law, “entrenches racial segregation; 434 small communities in Israel, or 43% of all residential areas, will be allowed to close their doors to Palestinian Arab citizens of the state.”

Abbas, 79, shows no signs of ill health and continues to travel widely, visiting France this week before heading to New York for the UN General Assembly next week, the annual jamboree that provides Palestine with a global stage.

Leaders in the village of approximately 1,250 have galvanized locals into organizing Friday demonstrations against Israeli occupation for the first time in years, after 4,000 dunams (nearly 1,000 acres) in the southern West Bank was declared “state land,” by Israel. Over a quarter of the confiscated land belongs to Wadi Fukin, which already lost most of its property to the still expanding Israeli settlements of Beitar Illit and Hadar Beitar in the north and Tsur Hadassah in the west after 1967.

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Sie sagen: Kommt der Wirtschaftsminister mit Ihren Forderungen nicht durch, soll er Ceta stoppen. Die Bundesregierung spricht aber bisher von „übergeordneten politischen Gründen“, die trotzdem für das Abkommen sprechen könnten.

Aus meiner Sicht sind unsere Souveränität und die Freiheit vor Erpressungsversuchen eindeutig ein übergeordnetes Interesse gegenüber privaten Profitinteressen.

“Human Rights Watch” legt die Axt an gegen die Vereinten Nationen und den Rest von Stabilität in der Welt

Although police cancelled the permit for a protest in Tel Aviv on 9 August 2014 against Israel‘s assault on Gaza, some radical activists showed up anyways, as did a group of pro-war counter-protesters.

Right-wing Jews protest at the wedding of a son of Muslims and a daughter of Jews in Rishon Letzion, Israel, on 17 August 2014

On September 16, 2013, Israel‘s Supreme Court overruled an amendment that the Knesset tacked on to the country‘s Anti-Infiltration Law in January 2012. The amendment authorized the automatic incarceration without trial of all Africans who enter the country asking for asylum. Since the amendment came into effect, about 2,000 Africans have been jailed by Israel. The court now ruled that they must be released. The next day, on September 17, 2013, residents of South Tel Aviv, where about 30,000 African asylum-seekers already live, protested the court‘s decision.

Tel Aviv – December 10, 2012: This event was (A) a celebration of the Jewish holiday of Chanukah (B) a political rally for the Strength For Israel party & (C) a protest to deport all the non-Jewish African asylum-seekers out of Israel.

(13. Oktober 2013) Members of the racist mob harassed a small group of Israeli leftists present to ensure that Africans were not attacked.

“Go find somebody to fuck you,” one man taunted a woman. “If you want to have ‘black sex’ I can give it to you.”

Marching around with her megaphone, Golan joined in the abuse. “She wants cock in the face,” Golan cried. “The ‘infiltrators’ [Africans] you help will give you cock in return.”

Levinsky Park, December 11, 2011
See another rally just like this from 8 months previous:

protest to expel Africans from South Tel Aviv and all of Israel – April 6, 2011
The context for this video is an article published on the Haaretz website on April 8, 2011:

Once they do, asylum seekers find themselves stranded without papers, in countries unprepared to help them.

See Egypt, the sister company of the U.S.-based Blue Coat, won the contract over the summer, beating out the British Gamma System, and the Israeli-founded Narus System. See Egypt has begun monitoring Egyptians’ online communications, according to several Egyptian government officials who spoke to BuzzFeed News.

“See Egypt has already worked with the government and has strong ties to the State Security Services,” said one official. He asked to remain anonymous, to protect his position within the government.

„Today our orders portfolio stands at $38.7 billion. This is one of the strongest figures Rosoboronexport has had in recent years,“ Anatoly Isaykin told a news conference at the same arms expo, according to Interfax.

(16. September) Mit tiefer Besorgnis vernahmen wir die einlangenden beunruhigenden Informationen über den Einsatz von chlorhältigen chemischen Stoffen als chemische Waffe durch die Kämpfer im Irak im Gebiet südlich von Tikrit. Diese Ereignisse zeigen erneut, dass die auf dem Territorium Syriens und des Iraks tätigen terroristischen und extremistischen Gruppierungen sich schon genug Erfahrungen für den Einsatz von toxischen Chemikalien als Kampfgiftstoffe aneignen konnten. In Syrien wird das aus provokativen Zwecken für die Diskreditierung der Regierung und der Streitkräfte des Landes gemacht. Davon zeugen analoge Vorfälle des vergangenen Jahres in Khan al-Assal und in Ost-Guta und mit größter Wahrscheinlichkeit im Frühling dieses Jahres im Norden Syriens in den Ortschaften Kafr Zeita, Talmanes und al-Tamana.

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Sa‘ar based his decision on three professional opinions, which concluded that the nationality met the conditions required for official recognition, including a historical heritage, religion, culture, origin and common language.

The interior minister‘s decision is expected to add fuel to the fire brewing in the Knesset over attempts to separate Muslim Israelis from Christian Israelis.

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A survey conducted for Bina, a pluralist organization that promotes Jewish culture and identity, particularly among the secular population, showed that while more than half the Jewish population still feels that being born to a Jewish mother defines one’s Jewish identity, more than a quarter feel that being Jewish is defined by one’s own personal perception.

Among his most shocking discoveries, he told me, was the fact that the N.S.A. was routinely passing along the private communications of Americans to a large and very secretive Israeli military organization known as Unit 8200. This transfer of intercepts, he said, included the contents of the communications as well as metadata such as who was calling whom.

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IF there is one thing the eminent world Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt isn’t – she isn’t a dry-as-dust academic.

She is not afraid of causing waves as she showed in the last few minutes of a question-and-answer session at the packed Hampstead Synagogue in West Hampstead, on Thursday when she criticised Israel over its conduct of its war on Gaza.

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(15. September)

(15. September) Bundesaußenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) kündigte nach einer Irak-Konferenz am Montag in Paris an, dass Deutschland das Thema bereits vor der nächsten Uno-Generalversammlung in New York vorantreiben wolle. Schon von Freitag an werde es eine „dichte Frequenz“ von Treffen geben. Geplant sei dann auch eine Runde zum Irak mit etwa 40 Staaten.

(13. September)