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Expert skeptical US would return to Iran nuclear deal under Biden

  Expert skeptical US would return to Iran nuclear deal under Biden by aletho Press TV - September 15, 2020 A former American Senate foreign policy analyst has expressed skepticism that a Joe Biden administration would re-enter into the nuclear agreement with Iran. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that if elected he will return the United States to the Iran nuclear deal as a starting point for follow-on negotiations. Biden said in a recent article for CNN’s website that the US will rejoin the 2015 deal if Iran returns to what he called “strict compliance” with the nuclear accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). James Jatras, a former Senate foreign policy adviser in Washington, told Press TV on Tuesday that “It's hard to know how much we can make of Joe Biden’s claim that he would return to the JCPOA, if he is elected president.” “I noticed that he caveats that with ‘Iran must return to full compliance.’ And of course, we know that Iran ...

Hamas recycles shells from British ships sunk off Gaza during WWI

HMS M15 was sunk on 11 November, 1917 [Imperial War Museums/Wikipedia]  Hamas recycles shells from British ships sunk off Gaza during WWI by aletho MEMO | September 15, 2020 The military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has apparently recycled shells found on the wrecks of British warships which were sunk off the coast of Gaza during World War One. In a documentary film broadcast on Sunday, Al Jazeera revealed that Al-Qassam Brigades could in such a way overcome the consequences of the Israeli-led siege imposed on Gaza, which are in part intended to undermine its ability to manufacture weapons. The internationally-backed siege has been in place for over 14 years. During this time, Israel has carried out three major offensives that have together killed thousands of Palestinians, wounded tens of thousands more and devastated the civilian infrastructure in the coastal territory. For the first time, Hamas allowed its arms factories to be filmed. The documentary showe...

Novel - The journey from the plateau to Jerusalem -- Hatem Babiker Awad Al-Karim "House of Israel" - the Falasha

  Novel - The journey from the plateau to Jerusalem -- Hatem Babiker Awad Al-Karim "House of Israel" - the Falasha  I heard about the news in the fall of 1985 of the deportation of Jews from Ethiopia, in what was known as Operation Moses. I asked the auditors of the history of the Nile from source to mouth how the Jews existed in Ethiopia's rugged highlands. The common story is that the Jews reached the Ethiopian plateaus because of trade, and crossed the Red Sea on the maritime trade line linking the Indies and the coasts of East Africa, Pharaonic Egypt, Yemen and Europe. The ruins bear witness to the vitality of this road in ancient history. There is another anecdote explaining the presence of Jews in Ethiopia related to, that a group of Jews lived in Egypt after the destruction of the Temple on the island of Fantaline in the Nile River at the site of the current city of Aswan. Because of the demographic changes that Egypt was subjected to and the brutal wars and raids ...

Yitzhak Rabin, the peacemaker who paid for it ... !!

  Yitzhak Rabin, the peacemaker who paid for it ... !! Yitzhak Rabin (March 1, 1922 - November 4, 1995) is an Israeli politician, former military general in the Israeli army and prime minister of Israel. He is one of the most prominent Israeli figures and one of the most important decision-makers in the foreign, military and security affairs of Israel. Yitzhak Rabin is the fifth Israeli Prime Minister, and he held this position in two terms; The first from 1974 to 1977 and the second from 1992 ended with the shooting and killing of him on November , 1995 at the hands of a Jewish murderer named Yigal Amir, so Rabin became the only Israeli prime minister to serve an assassination, and Rabin is considered one of the most famous Palmakh men branching out of the military Haganah Its inception Rabin was born in Jerusalem during the British Mandate of Palestine for "Nehemiah" (Ukrainian) and "Rosa" (Belarus). A year after his birth, his family moved to Tel Aviv, where he g...

Bahrain Makes Peace with Israel, Joins Abraham Accords By Ebin Sandler

  Bahrain Makes Peace with Israel, Joins Abraham Accords By Ebin Sandler The Abraham Accords mark a major milestone in the Middle East, with the UAE and Bahrain joining Egypt and Jordan in a growing club of Arab countries with official diplomatic relations with Israel. On Friday, Israel and Bahrain announced their intention to establish diplomatic ties in a joint statement delivered at the White House. The announcement arrived about a month after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the first Gulf nation to forge open ties with the Jewish state. U.S President Donald Trump announced the Israel-Bahrain agreement on September 11, a day on which Americans honor those who perished in terror attacks in New York and Pennsylvania on that date 19 years ago. “There’s no more powerful response to the hatred that spawned 9/11 than this [peace] agreement,” Trump commented to reporters gathered at the White House. Trump issued the comments after a joint call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

Social media fact-checking, brought to you by the Deep State

 Social media fact-checking, brought to you by the Deep State by aletho By Daniel Espinosa | OffGuardian | September 7, 2020 Almost four years of mainstream media hype about “fake news” and “Russian meddling” propaganda has brought to the world exactly what they were intended to bring: an effective mechanism for internet and social media censorship. In the center of this move toward global discourse control is an organization called the Poynter Institute, home to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), a body created to coordinate, promote and train dozens of fact-checkers from around the world. The IFCN and many non-profits working in the same field are funded by the big capitalist “philanthropists” of our era, like George Soros, Pierre Omidyar, Bill Gates, and even the Koch brothers… but also by the US Department of State and a shady “aid” – in reality, political meddling – organization, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), historically linked to the CIA and regime...

Israeli warplanes use US Tanf Zone to bomb Syria again

  Israeli warplanes use US Tanf Zone to bomb Syria again by aletho Al-Masdar News | September 11, 2020 BEIRUT, LEBANON – The U.S. Al-Tanf Zone in southeastern Homs has once again been used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to bomb an area in Syria, a source in the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Damascus told Al-Masdar News. According to the source, missiles fired from the Al-Tanf area targeted the town of Al-Safira in southern Aleppo, resulting in a number of explosions and at least two deaths. The source said a number of missiles targeted the Scientific Research Lab, with a few managing to hit the facility. He would add that the building suffered damage, but it is believed to be minimal at this time. The U.S.-led Coalition contends that they are using the Al-Tanf Zone to prevent the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) from returning; however, it is the Syrian Army that has solely faced ISIS in the Homs Governorate. Thursday night’s attack by the Israeli Defense Forces marks the second...