Reuters quoted Ki-Moon as saying at a press conference with French President François Hollande “I acknowledge that today’s airstrikes have not been done upon a direct demand from the Syrian Government, but it was taken into consideration that the government was informed of the process in advance.

Netanyahu is only too aware how to keep the Israeli public compliant. Last week he warned of an apparently alarming new threat: Hamas had responded to the operation in Gaza by waging “cyber attacks” on Israel, aided by Iran.

The insinuation was clear. Unit 8200 is all that stands in the way of the Jewish state’s destruction by the mullahs of Tehran. Those who undermine intelligence work endanger Israel’s survival.

Netanyahu knows it is a message that will find favour with Israelis. Their military is no callous and brutal leviathan. And they can continue to sleep easy at night, still history’s victims.

„If there are other needs in future we will evaluate the response to make,“ Pinotti said. „We have officers at the operation‘s command headquarters in Tampa, Florida. They will update us on the programming and evolution of the situation,“ she added.

Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs said “After Syria’s confirmations on many occasions that it is ready to cooperate in combating terrorism in the framework of the full respect of its national sovereignty, and after many countries agreed on the necessity of respecting the UN Charter which affirms respecting the countries’ sovereignty and their territorial integrity, Syria’s permanent representative to the UN was informed on Monday that the US and some of its allies will target the terrorist organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” ISIS” in Syria hours before launching the airstrikes.”

„Die Versuche, eigene geopolitische Ziele durch einen Verstoß gegen die Souveränität von Regionalstaaten zu erreichen, verstärken die Spannungen und destabilisieren die Lage nur noch weiter.“

Die Verfechter der einseitigen Stärke-Szenarien trügen die Verantwortung für deren Folgen gemäß dem internationalen Recht.

In a sign that Obama’s war on ISIS in Syria could quickly be extended into a war against Syrian president Bashar Assad, Israel downed a Syrian jet inside Syria this morning with a US-funded Patriot missile. According to Israel, the Syrian plane had passed 800 metres into its territory before heading back into Syria, during what the Israeli media say was a sortie against “rebels” operating close to the Israeli border (that’s right – the people Obama is currently bombing but whose injuries are being mended in Israeli hospitals).

Of course, we only have Israel’s word for it that the plane briefly crossed into Israeli territory, but watch to see how completely the western media will assume Israel’s story to be the only valid account.

“There is no Nato involvement,” an alliance official said in response to a query from Reuters.

Die Nato hat sich von den Luftangriffen der USA und mehrerer arabischer Länder gegen Terrormilizen des „Islamischen Staates“ in Syrien distanziert, meldet Reuters.
„Die Nato steht in keiner Verbindung damit“, erklärte ein offizieller Sprecher der Allianz, der von der Agentur darauf angesprochen wurde.

Nach Informationen von SPIEGEL ONLINE schließt sein Ministerium beim Kampf gegen den IS eine Zusammenarbeit mit Machthaber Assad kategorisch aus.

#Terrorkrieg #Syrien

„Die Tatsache, dass sich im Irak und den benachbarten Staaten ein extremistischer Terrorstaat entwickelt hat, ist eine Folge der stümperhaften US-Politik, die Afghanistan in eine blutende Wunde verwandelt, den Irak zergliedert und zerstört und Libyen vernichtet hat. Unter dem Deckmantel des Antiterrorkampfes wird nun mit Bombenangriffen gegen Syrien begonnen“, sagte er am Dienstag vor Journalisten. „Dies ist eine absolut verbrecherische Politik, die auch in der Ukraine betrieben wird.“

(6. Dezember 2012) Für den einfachen Konsumenten (a.k.a WählerInnen, GenossInnen, SchwachköpfInnen, etc) noch einmal in Zeitlupe:

Alles Krokodils-Geschluchze der Funktionäre und Abgeordneten von “Die Linke”, was diese in den nächsten Tagen zur laufenden Vorbereitung einer offenen Syrian-Invasion (eine verdeckte läuft längst) in irgendwelche Kameras absondern werden, ist nur und ausschließlich eines: Geheuchel.

He also said Baghdad would welcome Iraq’s help in the fight against ISIS, the militant group that has gained almost a third of Iraq, as long as this did not mean surrendering national sovereignty to Tehran.

(11.7.2012) Die intervenierenden Staaten haben sehr schnell die Grenzen dessen überschritten, was ihnen die Resolution 1973 aufgetragen und erlaubt hat. Allein zum Schutz von Zivilisten und zur Durchsetzung einer Flugverbotszone hat der SR den Militärschlag autorisiert (SC Res. 1973, paras. 4, 8), nicht aber zum Sturz des libyschen Regimes unter Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Schon wenige Tage nach Beginn der Bombardements haben Mitglieder der französischen und der englischen Regierung öffentlich klargestellt, dass die Intervention nicht ohne den Sturz Gaddafis beendet werde. Nun wird die Verwirklichung eines erlaubten Hauptzwecks nicht schon deshalb unzulässig, weil seine Protagonisten mit ihm noch ein Nebenziel verbinden (das nicht für sich allein genommen schon rechtswidrig ist). Allerdings darf ein solches unautorisiertes Nebenziel nicht mit selbstständigen Gewaltmitteln verfolgt werden. Das geschah in Libyen freilich von Anfang an.

The group that issued the communique on the sidelines of this week‘s annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly included Algeria, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Britain, the United States, the EU and United Nations.

The draft resolution is under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which makes it legally binding for the 193 U.N. member states and gives the Security Council authority to enforce decisions with economic sanctions or force.

He added it seems that Israel’s greed and ambition didn’t stop at the limits of consolidating its occupation of the Syrian Arab Golan, but it moved today to encourage and facilitate the flow of the terrorist organizations, including Jabhat al-Nusra, into the Disengagement zone and attack members of the UNDOF, seeking to evacuate the region from the peace-keeping forces.
Ala affirmed that the UN Secretary General’s report, issued on September 12, on the UNDOF, confirmed those facts as it reported that UNDOF noticed contacts between the armed terrorist organizations and Israeli occupation forces through the cease-fire line near post 85.
He added that the report, confirmed by UNDOF, gives an explanation on the reasons behind Israel’s support to those terrorists, encouraging them to attack the Syrian Arab army and UNDOF members to end any international monitoring on the Israeli practices.

Military source: In the framework of supporting terrorist organizations of the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra and in an outrageous and clear violation of the Security Council’s resolution No. 2170, Israeli occupation attacks and shoots down a Syrian warplane

But they acknowledged that the UN resolution has no enforcement mechanism and that the international community has no single definition of what constitutes a terrorist group.

A few days ago, Israel’s interior ministry published a list of the most popular boys and girls’ names in time for the Jewish new year. It was publicised as the list of the most popular Israeli names. I was surprised that not one Arab name made it into the top 10, even though a fifth of Israel’s population are Palestinians. I should not have been. In fact, as Haaretz now reports, several Arab names were in the top 10 – including Mohammed, which was actually at number one. Israeli officials simply dropped it and any other Arab-sounding names from the list.

The deep chauvinism at work here is illustrated by the fact that the most popular name listed, Yosef, only came first because the Arabic version (Yusuf), which is spelt the same in Hebrew, was included. So the issue for the interior ministry was simply to prevent Israeli Jews and Jews overseas from seeing any Arab-looking names on the list.

Then there was Chris Matthews calling out the neoconservatives as being motivated by Israeli security in pushing the stupidest decision in history, to invade Iraq. Matthews has been great lately, opposing the president’s decision to throw the country into war in Iraq yet again.

„Do [people] really believe… these characters over there in Syria and Iraq have their own personal number. Do they? ….I know the political hucksters love pushing the fear button, they exult in the word “homeland,” that ominous term cooked up by neocons to drive us off to the stupidest war decision in history, to go into Iraq with the bugles blowing and the ideologues brimming with talk of converting the Arab Mid East into pleasant members of the United Nations, friendly neighbors of Israel and oh yeah, moderate democracies. But that talk was for a purpose of getting us into a stupid war. What’s the purpose now? Why push the armageddon button now?“

Chris Matthews finishes the show by asking the purpose of all the fear being created by “political hucksters” around ISIS and potential attacks on “the homeland.”

Die Transall-Maschine, mit der die Fallschirmjäger am Freitag nach Erbil aufbrechen wollten, musste vor dem Start wegen einer technischen Panne ausgetauscht werden. Die Kennung des Ersatzfliegers werde von den irakischen Behörden jedoch nicht anerkannt.

(29.01.2010) Grau und hohlwangig erschien er bei der Gedenkveranstaltung im Herbst. Er wirkte wie ein Schatten jenes Mannes, der 1997 mit jugendlichem Elan und dem Manifest für eine moderne Sozialdemokratie die Regierung übernahm. 44 war Blair damals und wurde Bambi genannt; als habe seine politische Unschuld Beschützerinstinkte hervorgerufen. Inzwischen will ihn jeder vierte Brite vor dem Kriegsgericht sehen.