Ivanka Trump werde heute Präsident Moon einen Besuch abstatten, sagte ein Beamter des Präsidialamtes. Beide würden im Gebäude Sangchunjae am Präsidentensitz zu einem Dinner zusammenkommen. In Anbetracht der Bedeutung von Sangchunjae werde die US-Delegationsleiterin herzlich umsorgt.

Israel will be undisputedly an apartheid state, a rogue state in the eyes of much of the world. Like Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Syria under both Assads and South Africa before Nelson Mandela, a very large or majority societal group will be deprived of its rights.

A 50 year occupation is already eroding democracy within Israel itself. Reuven Rivlin, Israel’s President, recently warned that „statesmanship has disappeared” and that Israel was witnessing a „counterrevolution“ in political leaders were interfering in the legal system. President Rivlin continued that those in power are working to „delegitimize the gatekeepers of Israel’s democracy,“ no doubt referring the right’s continuous attacks on the Supreme Court and Israel’s justice system.

Trump: ‚I was hit by more countries and more pressure and more people calling, begging me not to do it. And I said – we have to do it‘

Sie traf als Leiterin einer US-Regierungsdelegation am Freitagnachmittag am Flughafen Incheon ein und wurde von südkoreanischen Regierungsvertretern empfangen.

Zur Delegation zählen auch Senator James Risch und die Sprecherin des Weißen Hauses Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Ivanka Trump wird an einem von Präsident Moon Jae-in veranstalteten Dinner am Präsidentensitz teilnehmen.

(1.12.2014) 5. In view of the heavy fighting, which was approaching close to the UNDOF headquarters at Camp Faouar and the mission’s positions in the central part of the area of separation, the Force Commander briefed both parties early in September on the Force’s plans to relocate its personnel and assets should the Nusra Front or other extremist fighters who posed a clear threat to the mission endanger the safety and security of the United Nations personnel. It should be noted here that from information posted on social media as well as in the course of its efforts to secure the release of the peacekeepers, the United Nations learned that its personnel had been taken and held by members of the Nusra Front. There were indications that the Nusra Front intended to detain additional UNDOF personnel and take from UNDOF more weapons and vehicles as opportunities arose. (…)

12. Crossing of the ceasefire line by civilians, primarily shepherds, was observed on an almost daily basis. On 24 October, United Nations observation post 73 observed 12 IDF soldiers who detained one civilian between the Alpha line and the Israeli technical fence south-east of the observation post and subsequently took him away. IDF informed UNDOF that they released the person within one hour at the same location. On 27 October, position 80 observed two IDF soldiers east of the technical fence returning from the direction of the Alpha line towards the technical fence. UNDOF observed IDF opening the technical fence gate and letting two individuals pass from the Bravo to the Alpha side. Following the evacuation of UNDOF personnel from position 85 on 28 August, UNDOF sporadically observed armed members of the opposition interacting with IDF across the ceasefire line in the vicinity of United Nations position 85.

(4.12.2014) UN troops monitoring the 1974 ceasefire between Israel and Syria have witnessed interactions between members of the Israeli Defence Forces and the Al Nusra Front who have taken over a large part of the Golan Heights.

(21.3.2014) The remarkably nonsectarian and democratic statement signed by rebel factions in southern Syria in February was likely only a ploy by rebel commanders to get more foreign support by declaring their opposition to extremism.

Analyst Elizabeth Tsurkov, who has followed events in Syria closely for the last several years and has interviewed many rebel militiamen and residents of the Syrian Golan, published a detailed survey of developments in southern Syria in the War on the Rocks blog last week.

(14.2.2018) Rebels from Quneitra and western Daraa, as well as media activists in those regions with ties to the rebels, told me that Israel began providing more military support to a greater number of rebel groups affiliated with the Free Syrian Army. This support came in the form of weapons, ammunition and money to purchase weapons on the black market. All of my sources confirmed the identity of at least seven factions receiving Israeli support, on the condition that the groups would not be named. However, two of these groups have been publicly identified before: Liwaa’ Fursan al-Jolan and Firqat Ahrar Nawa. Israeli officials have vehemently denied support to jihadist groups, leaving open the possibility that the government supports these non-jihadist groups.

Some of the groups that started getting Israeli support in late 2017 were previously supported by the Military Operations Command, a CIA-directed center in Amman. Until January 2018, this center paid the salaries for tens of thousands of Free Syrian Army “Southern Front” fighters and provided them with materiel and ammunition. The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the center left rebel factions in southern Syria in desperate need for alternative sponsors.

Noch mal: Unter den Verteidigern von Ost-Ghouta sollen sich auch Al-Qaida-Verbündete wie Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (ehemals Al-Nusra-Front) befinden.

Ost-Ghouta wird beschossen, aber das kann ja nicht dazu führen, dass wir zu dem Leid der Hundertausend Zivilisten vor Ort schweigen. In den vergangenen 48 Stunden sind eben auch viele zivile Einrichtungen unter massiven Feuerbeschuss geraten.

Der russische Vertreter bei den UN, Wassili Nebensja, machte klar, dass er dem Entwurf von Schweden und Kuwait nicht zustimmen werde. Stattdessen präsentierte er eine Reihe von Änderungswünschen. Da Russland mit seinem Veto Beschlüsse des Rates blockieren kann, zog es der Ratspräsident, der kuwaitische Botschafter Mansour Al-Otaibi, vor, die Sitzung zu vertagen.