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19.02.2020 - 21:03 [ Reuters ]

Syria‘s Aleppo airport receives first scheduled flight in eight years

The reopening of the airport comes days after the Russian-backed Syrian army said it had seized rural areas northwest of Aleppo, a major strategic gain in weeks of bombing of the last rebel bastion in northwestern Syria.

15.05.2018 - 09:43 [ Maria ‏/ Twitter ]

There you go

15.05.2018 - 09:38 [ Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch ‏/ Twitter ]

Ivanka Trump is still all smiles at new US embassy in Jerusalem even though Israeli snipers killed 52 Palestinians at Gaza border protests.

15.05.2018 - 09:36 [ Luke Savage, writer and journalist, Jacobin, Current Affairs, The Guardian / Twitter ]

My god, this image

15.05.2018 - 09:31 [ Washington Post ]

Nothing says ‘peace’ like 58 dead Palestinians

President Trump himself, in a video message, pledged his commitment to a “lasting peace agreement.”

His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said “peace is within reach.”

And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared it “a great day for peace.”

Because nothing says “peace” like 58 Palestinians killed, 2,700 wounded, renewed hostilities between Iran and Israel, the entire region aflame and U.S. allies reeling.

15.05.2018 - 09:27 [ Haaretz ]

Messianic U.S.-Israel Axis Showcased at Jerusalem Embassy Ceremony Is Gut-punch for Most American Jews

Horrendous Gaza casualty count mars Netanyahu and Trump‘s historic day of glory

15.05.2018 - 09:24 [ New York Times ]

A Grotesque Spectacle in Jerusalem

The event was grotesque. It was a consummation of the cynical alliance between hawkish Jews and Zionist evangelicals who believe that the return of Jews to Israel will usher in the apocalypse and the return of Christ, after which Jews who don’t convert will burn forever. Religions like “Mormonism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism” lead people “to an eternity of separation from God in Hell,” Robert Jeffress, a Dallas megachurch pastor, once said. He was chosen to give the opening prayer at the embassy ceremony.

14.05.2018 - 17:32 [ CNN / Twitter ]

Standing next to Ivanka Trump, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin reveals the seal of the US embassy, making the embassy‘s move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem official