Nur wenn solche Fakten geschaffen werden, lässt sich der Konflikt lösen. Wenn es die internationale Gemeinschaft und vor allem die US-Regierung aber weiter nur bei Worten und Mahnungen belassen, wird die Nahost-Diplomatie brotlose Kunst bleiben.

(4.November 2012) The report cited sources close to Ashkenazi and Dagan – who since stepping down from their respective posts have both been outspoken in their opposition to a strike on Iran – to the effect that as the two men were leaving the meeting, Netanyahu “matter-of-factly” instructed them to initiate the “P Plus” code, which is essentially a readying of the military to imminently launch an attack.

Ashkenazi and Dagan reportedly vehemently objected to the order.

(5. November 2012) The request, delivered to the top seven security officials but not to the full security cabinet, angered Dagan and Ashkenazi, leading Dagan to reportedly say that Netanyahu and Barak “tried to steal a war –- it was as simple as that.” To Dagan, the meeting betrayed standard protocol for launching a war. “You may end up going to war based on an illegal decision. Only the security cabinet is authorized to make such a decision,” he said.

An Israeli plan to attack the heavily fortified Fordo from the inside was deemed to be a “suicide mission” by the United States, which refused to sell Israel the materiel it felt was needed to carry out the strike, the Journal reported.

U.S. officials, according to the Journal, believed that Israel was serious about striking Iran and the Obama administration stepped up surveillance of Israeli air activity. Israel was found to be practicing “strike missions” and undetected flyovers in Iran.

The U.S. closely monitored Israel’s military bases and eavesdropped on secret communications in 2012, fearing its longtime ally might try to carry out a strike on Fordow, Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear facility.

Nerves frayed at the White House after senior officials learned Israeli aircraft had flown in and out of Iran in what some believed was a dry run for a commando raid on the site.

John Brennan, Direktor der C.I.A., hielt am Freitag, den 16. Oktober 2015 an der Juristischen Fakultät der University of Washington eine Rede. Während des Zeitraums seines kurzfristigen Aufenthaltes auf dem Campus entwendeten Unbekannte auf professionelle Weise ohne Spuren zu hinterlassen Dokumente, die in der vom Verfassungsgericht von El Salvador eröffneten Untersuchung zu Kriegsverbrechen, unterstützt von der C.I.A., von hoher Bedeutung sind.

Lavrov dismissed media reports, claiming that the Russian, US, Saudi Arabian and Turkish foreign ministers during a Vienna meeting agreed on resignation of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

„Rumours have begun to circulate that we are discussing or will be discussing that President Assad must go after some time. This is not true,“ Lavrov said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel Jubeir in Vienna on Friday, October 23.
The main topic on the agenda is expected to be the crisis in Syria and the fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
A coalition led by the United States, and which includes Saudi Arabia, started targeting IS in Syria in September 2014. The Russian Air Force has been carrying out air strikes against IS targets in Syria since September 30, 2015.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is to hold a press conference following his talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel Jubeir in Vienna on Friday.

Es ist viel nachgedacht worden über die globale Polizeirolle, die die Vereinigten Staaten sich nach 1990 angemaßt haben. Augenfällig wurde allerdings, dass über das amerikanische Budget eine Armee herangezüchtet worden ist, die den amerikanischen Haushalt dominiert. Eine Armee, die diese Rolle einmal eingenommen hat, lässt sie sich kaum noch nehmen. Sollten die Republikaner den nächsten amerikanischen Präsidenten stellen, dürfte über die sogenannten Präsidentendirektiven zur ziemlich breit angelegten „nationalen Sicherheit“ uns allen noch Hören und Sehen vergehen. Diese Armee kann eigentlich gar nicht mehr nach USA zurück, ohne umgehende Staatsstreichüberlegungen hervorrufen zu müssen. Selbst wenn man seit Präsident Eisenhower und seinen Warnungen vor dem „militärisch-industriellen Komplex“ ohnehin bestimmte Vermutungen in diesem Kontext haben dürfte, dann würde die Militärherrschaft endgültig manifest. Von Russland heute ist das nicht bekannt.

Wien wird Schauplatz eines hochrangigen Treffens zur Syrien-Krise: US-Außenminister John Kerry und Russlands Chefdiplomat Sergej Lawrow wollen am Freitag gemeinsam mit ihren Amtskollegen aus der Türkei und aus Saudi-Arabien über eine Lösung des seit 2011 andauernden Syrien-Krieges beraten.

Donnerstagfrüh landete auf dem Flughafen Wien ein besonders seltener Gast. Der saudiarabische Außenminister nutzte für seine Reise in die österreichische Bundeshauptstadt nämlich den Airbus A340-200 mit der Kennung HZ-A1.

(22.Oktober) Deutschland hat nach SZ-Informationen kürzlich vier Panzer vom Typ Leopard 2 sowie drei Panzerhaubitzen Richtung Katar verschifft.
Das Land ist Medienberichten zufolge in den Bürgerkrieg in Jemen verwickelt.

Deutsche Waffenverkäufe sind in der ersten Hälfte des Jahres 2015 im Vorjahresvergleich auf 3,5 Milliarden Euro um 59 Prozent angestiegen. Zu den Profiteuren deutscher Schmiedekunst dürfen sich Großbritannien, aber auch Israel und Saudi Arabien zählen. Das absolutistische saudische Herrscherhaus gilt als „Hauptsponsor des Dschihadismus“.

(17.Oktober) «Die Koalition hat das falsche Ziel getroffen.» Der Vorfall ereignete sich in einem Berggebiet nahe der Stadt Tais, wo jemenitische Soldaten gegen Anhänger des gestürzten Präsidenten Ali Abdullah Saleh kämpfen, der sich auf die Seite der schiitischen Huthi-Rebellen gestellt hat.

(18.Oktober) Rettungskräfte und Augenzeugen berichteten am Samstag von mindestens 30 Toten und etwa 40 Verletzten.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a scion of personal and political dynasties of renowned orators. His grandfather, Nathan Mileikowsky, who bequeathed his pen name “Netanyahu” to his children, preached Zionism to crowds of Polish and Lithuanian Jews a century ago. His political predecessor, Menachem Begin, mesmerized many with his soaring rhetoric.

In other words, the High Court Judges within the Family Division are now tasked with determining whether children will be made wards of the state based solely on suspicions of possible radicalization. Children torn from mothers and fathers in Muslim homes will be subject to the whims and inherently flawed watch of the larger citizenry. A citizenry, mind you, that has had its vigilance unduly ramped up by the government‘s past actions and requests. It‘s hard to imagine a better recipe for the unfair targeting of Muslim families than this.

Netanyahu’s attempt to place the mufti at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict shows just how bankrupt the extremists in Israel have become. It’s a declaration of all-out war on the Palestinian people. It’s ‘us or them.’

Diese Aufnahmen einer Drohne zeigen das wirkliche Ausmaß der Zerstörungen in Syrien. Die Drohne fliegt über das Gebiet Damaskus und filmt Spuren der Kampfhandlungen: große zerstörte und verlassene Wohngebiete.

(19.Oktober)

(22.Oktober) Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday that to eliminate militant group Islamic State, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must be removed from power.

Jubeir also said that Assad was the magnet „that attracted foreign fighters from all over the world to fight on the side of Daesh (Islamic State) against Assad‘s regime,“ he told Al Arabiya al-Hadath television channel in Vienna, after talks with Austria‘s foreign minister.

(20.Oktober) The Erdogan regime’s ‘hypothesis’ is that ISIS or the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) was responsible for the terrorist attack, a position echoed by all of the NATO governments and dutifully repeated by all of the Western mass media. Their most recent claim is that a Turkish member of ISIS carried out the massacre – in a ‘copy-cat action’ after his brother, blamed by the Turkish government for an earlier bombing which left 33 young pro-Kurdish activists dead in July in Suruc, on the Syrian border.

The alternative hypothesis, voiced by the majority of the Turkish opposition, is that the Erdogan regime was directly or indirectly involved in organizing the terrorist attack or allowing it to happen.

(21.Oktober) The crisis in Russian-Turkish relations was left behind, since both countries perceived the strategic importance of each other, a source in Turkey’s presidential administration told Trend Oct.21.

(21.Oktober) Turkish and Russian Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin have discussed Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad‘s visit to Moscow, Turkish CNN Turk TV channel reported Oct. 21.

Israel is unusually tight-lipped about the military coordination, a reticence that officials and experts say stems in part from reluctance to signal any significant strategic shift away from the United States, its key ally but one that has reduced Middle East engagements as Russia steps up its own.