A solidariedade dos judeus com os demais seres humanos, imaginada, desejada, praticada pelos humanistas anti-sionistas, incentivada no vídeo acima, está no seio dos palestinos.
Exemplo disso, uma família na Cisjordânia - humilhada, maltratada e com a liberdade tolhida do início ao fim do dia - foi quem ministrou os primeiros socorros às vítimas - "colonos" israelenses - de um ônibus acidentado em uma estrada - exclusiva aos invasores - em seu território ocupado. Ligaram para a polícia de Israel pedindo socorro aos compatriotas desta e ficaram salvando os feridos até a chegada das ambulâncias israelenses. Que, diga-se de passagem, chegaram em seguida - pois não ficam bloqueadas horas a fio nos checkpoints como as palestinas ficam para que os feridos ou doentes morram por falta de assistência médica. Aliás, esta é uma das inúmeras modalidades de holocausto que Israel pratica na Palestina. Todo dia.Israel is the only country in the world with juvenile military court... for Palestinian minors. 10 to 17-year-old boys and girls taken from their beds in the night... Kidnapped, abused, tortured, with no human rights whatsoever.
Fidel, em 2014, durante a carnificina da Operation Protective Edge, escreveu um artigo no Granma que foi reproduzido em meia dúzia de jornais no mundo. Eis um extrato do mesmo, em inglês:
The human species is living in an unprecedented stage of history. A crash between military planes or warships which are closely watched, or other similar events could unleash a conflict with the use of sophisticated, modern weapons, which could become the last known adventure of Homo sapiens."
Aliás, vendo essa
menina trabalhar, fico tranquila. Ela não vai deixar a peteca cair. Com
ela na jogada e mais um punhado de jovens
jornalistas lúcios, humanistas e brilhantes, nós que começamos a
carreira antes de eles nascerem, e praticamos hornalismo como uma missão
que vai além da profissão remunerada, podemos pendurar as chuteiras
quando quisermos, despreocupados. O futuro do jornalismo-missão está
assegurado. 
Empire Files 1: Israel Accelerates Land Theft & Home Demolitions. The demolition of Palestinian homes for Israeli settlements reached a ten-year high in 2016. While this activity led by the fanatical settler movement is illegal under international law, it is completely aided and abetted by the Israeli government. With hundreds on notice to be evicted and their homes destroyed, Abby Martin goes on-the-ground throughout the West Bank investigating this dire human rights situation. She speaks to residents living under regular settler attacks from encroaching settlements and outposts illegal even under Israeli law, and sees first-hand how this crisis is worsening.
Abby Martin goes on-the-ground to the epicenters of state-backed settler terrorism in Palestine’s West Bank, in Part II of her report on illegal Israeli settlements and home demolitions. This installment visits both the rural countryside of Duma—interviewing the surviving members of the Dawabsheh family, victims of a horrific arson attack that left three dead—and the urban center of Hebron, a glaring example of Israeli apartheid under intense military occupation.
Sob os auspícios das Nações Unidas e iniciativa do Kremlin, houve na semana passada na capital do Cazakistão, o que ficará conhecido como Astana Talks sobre o futuro da Síria.
O início da reunião de cúpula foi turbulento. Os líderes dos diversos grupos "rebeldes" - instalados confortavelmente em Doha e em Ankara nesses anos de guerra civil durante os quais monitoram a violência dos combatentes à salvo - fizeram seu drama de sempre forçando a barra para descartar Bashar el Assad e o Irã da equação da qual ambos são, querendo ou não, expoentes.
Os dois dias começaram mal.
Primeiro, os representantes das organizações para-militares que disputam com as forças armadas oficiais o troféu de violência na Síria desde 2011 alegaram que, apesar do cessar-fogo declarado pela Rússia no dia 29 de dezembro de 2016, ainda estavam sendo combatidos pelo exército regular em uma área de Damasco. Depois foram contrários à adição do Irã ao pacto bipartite Rússia & Turquia de garantir a manutenção do cessar-fogo; até serem obrigados a acatar as diretivas.
A consequência dessa manha foi que os delegados russos passaram os dias 23 e 24 indo de uma sala para a outra - a do governo sírio, a dos grupos de oposição (que também não falavam em uníssono), a da Turquia e a do governo iraniano.
Staffan de Mistura, o italo-sueco representante da ONU, também deu o máximo de si, mas no final, também parecia meio sem certeza de o novo mecanismo tripartite conseguir acabar com a violência e manter a trégua precaríssima. Porém, garantiu que a ONU está pronta para assistir os envolvidos no "trilateral mechanism" e "to ensure that it helps strengthen the quality of the ceasefire".
No final das discussões por grupo, em vez de em grupo como foram programadas, Rússia/Turquia/Irã lançaram um comunicado com promessas solenes de respeitar e impor as modalidades necessárias a um cessar-fogo real.
Moscou foi mais longe ainda. Propôs e entregou a todos os beligerantes um rascunho de constituição para o país desgovernado. Esta não foi feita da noite pro dia. Estava sendo estudada há meses nos bastidores diplomáticos.
Quanto a ela, o representante de Putin, Alexandre Lavrentiev, disse esperar que "the Syrian armed opposition in the future will be more active in the conduct of a peaceful settlement and the establishment of the constitution. The draft constitution is now in the hands of the armed opposition, and we anticipate their response, which for us is very important and interesting from the point of view of further assistance."
Em uma prova a mais da nova ordem geopolítica mundial, os Estados Unidos estavam presentes apenas com o embaixador George Krol, mero observador, em toda a extensão do termo.
The talks in Astana were made possible by a pivot in Russia’s Syria strategy from military operations toward diplomacy, and more specifically towards engaging directly with the moderate armed opposition. Having secured the survival of the Syrian regime through military intervention, Moscow’s primary interest now lies in ending the Syrian conflict.
As a way of maintaining leverage in Syria, Moscow is transforming itself from combatant to peacemaker (a role that it should have tried much earlier in the conflict). Even after its bombing campaign, Russia — with Turkish backing — enjoys more credibility with the armed opposition than Iran, and is now wielding soft power.
Russian state television has now ceased to refer to all the armed opposition as “terrorists,” adopting a more neutral tone. In addition to presenting the opposition with the Russian blueprint of a future Syrian constitution, Russia is reaching out to the political factions of the Syrian opposition, with invitations such those of the Cairo and Riyad groups to Moscow to meet with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last Friday.
Furthermore, Moscow is clearly distancing itself from Teheran.While Iran is betting on maintaining leverage in Syria the power through its militias, Russia is seeking to recreate a strong Syrian state with a monopoly over armed force, with the regime and the opposition sharing power.
In the last months, Moscow’s efforts to put those local militias under a unified military command have been torpedoed by Iran, prompting the Russian military to train and equip its own Syrian ground units. Iran, its Shia militias and the Syrian regime have been responsible for the most serious violation of the Russia-Turkey backed ceasefire in Wadi Barada, a suburb of Damascus. No wonder the Syrian opposition groups in Astana refused to negotiate with Iran and insisted on removing Shia foreign fighters from Syria.
Moscow can live with a political settlement that leaves swaths of Syria under de-facto control of the opposition, provided they nominally “integrate” into the Syrian government structures (like Chechnya in Russia). So far, Iran and Damascus, however, cannot accept a form settlement where any opposition autonomy could stand in the way of their complete military control over Syria.
The challenge for Moscow now is to find viable levers of control over the Syrian regime and its Iranian backers to enforce the ceasefire and pressure the sides into a political settlement. In a sign that Russia is serious about pressuring the Assad regime into making concessions, the Russian military issued a statement explicitly accusing the government of violating the cease-fire.
The United States, because of its indiscriminate involvement with the armed opposition, has been sidelined from the talks in Astana. Moscow does not want Washington to actively shape the parameters of the political settlement which is now likely to see president Assad in power at least until 2021. Nevertheless, it needs the United States and the EU to sign off on any future settlement, as well as areas under de-facto opposition control, for raising reconstruction funds from regional donors.
The Trump administration says it is willing to partner with Moscow to combat Islamic State and there are signs Moscow and Washington are already privately discussing and sharing targeting data through Turkey, since the US law bars the Pentagon from joint operations with the Russian military. Trump may waive those restrictions, but what the administration’s plan to “eradicate Radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth” will entail is anybody’s guess.
Meanwhile, the CIA is still dumping more than US$1 billion into extremist rebels with very very little transparency. Actually, there are no real means of determining exactly who or what the CIA is funding in Syria. Proxy wars are shrouded in secrecy by design. Syrian rebels have been funded covertly thru CIA's "black budget."
Which reminds me of Operation Cyclone in Afganistan (1979-89), which I shall bring back to light soon because I see right now history repeating itself in Syria, with terrible consequences for all.
The problem with each round of Syria peace talks, is that it is further clarified that Syrians under siege or being held in the cross fire are not the key factor in negotiations. After the last round in Astana, Iran, Russia, Turkey agreed to support a so-called ceasefire in the country, and Assad and the rebels were given 10 days to decide whether it will abide by the conditions put forth by each other.
One thing is for sure. For over five years, talks on Syria have failed because the variables do not change: an opposition that does not want to talk, Assad who wants to make sure his country stays as it was, and international actors with their own agendas and interests acting as brokers of these talks, with the added dilemma that some of these states are trying to broker the peace they have been responsible for disturbing.
As a result, the UN-hosted negotiations on the Syrian conflict planned for February 8 in Geneva have been postponed until the end of that month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, at a meeting on Friday with Syrian opposition groups that stayed in Kazakhstan after the end of the negotiations on Tuesday without a major breakthrough.
The matter of the fact is that, no matter who is brokering the peace-talks in Syria, they are doomed to failure no matter what implementation mechanisms are used, due the lack of inner unity of purpose among the opposition and tha lack of interest on Syria's citizes.
As to that, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, estimates that more than 310,000 people have been killed in Syria since 2011, from all sides.
Aproveito para lembrar em que pé está a Síria e a origem do conflito.Nos cinco anos de conflito, morreram mais de 300 mil sírios, em uma população que era de 12 milhões.
Mas em guerra, estatística de mortos, está longe de refletir os danos humanos, materiais e morais no terreno. Os da Síria são como os da Faixa de Gaza. Imensos. Com a diferença é que a maioria absoluta de quem causa esses danos são os próprios sírios.
Recapitulando, em 2011, no que ficou conhecido como Primavera Árabe, revoltas ecclodiram na Tunísia contra o ditador Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, no Egito contra o ditador Hosni Mubarak, e se propagaram pelos países árabes.
Apesar do alastramento de descontentamento, a liberdade só foi adquirida nos dois primeiros países e durante pouco tempo. Farei um balanço sobre isso proximamente.
Na verdade, os únicos ditadores que caíram foram os que perderam as graças dos Estados Unidos porque a Casa Branca já tinha substitutos em vista, prontos para a dar o golpe de morte ao movimento democrático emergente.
Nas ditaduras dod Golfo, os emires, skeiks e príncipes reprimiram com armamento pesado e continuaram intocáveis.
Enquanto nos Emirados Árabes, em Bahrein, no Qatar, Arábia Saudita e seus vizinhos reprimiam cruelmente seus cidadãos, os holofotes da grande mídia foram oportunisticamente voltados para os dois ditadores expressivos e poderosos que incomodavam Israel e os Estados Unidos - Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, na Líbia, e Bashar el Assad, na Síria. Os demais príncipes e emires do Golfo que mantêm seus concidadãos na Idade Média, permaneceram em seus tronos dourados e nunca mais se falou nisso.
Na Líbia, tudo começou em Benghazi, capital do rei deposto por Muammar Gaddafi. E teria acabado lá mesmo, se não tivesse sido a raiva dos líderes ocidentais do ditador localizado em Trípoli. Desconsiderando história e cultura locais, a OTAN interveio rapidamente com sua potência inigualável e da mesma maneira de sempre. Primeiro armando as dezenas de facções "rebeldes" e depois bombardeando as bases de Gaddafi até deixá-lo exangue e este, na fuga, ser executado por uma horda selvagem.
Na Síria, tudo começou com passeatas nas duas principais cidades controladas pela Irmandade Muçulmana. Primeiro em Hama, com mobilizações crescentes a partir de março de 2011. Depois em Homs, a partir de maio do mesmo ano. Assad sitiou uma, depois outra, e teria dominado a revolta com facilidade, como seus vizinhos do Golfo e como o rei da Jordânia. Porém, estava condenado desde o início pelos Estados Unidos.
Como na Líbia, as armas leves e pesadas choveram de toda parte, através da Arábia Saudita, e "líderes" oportunistas, afastados a anos ou décadas do país, emergiram e monitoraram de longe os combates no terreno, cada vez mais sangrentos. As armas vinham dos fornecedores de sempre, que não faziam nenhuma distinção entre os "rebeldes" que armavam até os dentes.
As notícias seletivas falavam nos massacres do exército oficial contra os "valentes rebeldes" e omitiam que estes estavam transformando a vida dos cristãos da cidade em um inferno. O bairro todo foi "evacuado", bombardeado, e as onze igrejas da cidade foram parcial ou totalmente destruídas. A maioria delas, centenárias.Desde o início, as notícias foram monitoradas e selecionadas. Até hoje, através dos capacetes brancos que usam e abusam dos efeitos cinematográficos e pressionam jornalistas e funcionários da ONU que contradigam sua versão ou sua intervenção, ambigua, no terreno e seus métodos criminosos em Damasco, como o de envenenar a água.
Falando em água, por incrível que pareça a brasileiros cujo país detém a maior porcentagem de água potável do planeta, uma das razões da adesão inicial de alguns bairros populares citadinos aos rebeldes, foi um desastre natural provocado pelo aquecimento do planeta. Uma seca rigorosíssima avassalou a Síria entre 2007 e 2010, levando à migração de 1.5 milhões de pessoas do campo para as cidades. Migração grande demais para ser absorvida e por isso a pobreza foi exacerbada progressivamente, assim como o descontentamento. Que, diga-se de passagem, era muito mais econômico do que político. Ou seja, se a comunidade internacional tivesse ajudado o governo a encontrar soluções financeiras em vez de priorizar a venda de armas, hoje, a Síria estaria inteira.
Um problema conjuntural foi transformado em estrutural por interesses alheios aos cidadãos sírios. Que queriam, prioritariamente, era comida na mesa.
Pois tirando os muçulmanos sunitas, as minorias religiosas apoiam o governo de Assad e o defendem a quem se der ao trabalho de perguntar - e ousar publicar as respostas dadas.
Por quê, sendo ele um ditador tão perverso?
Porque durante os governos de pai e filho, a Síria viveu em paz relativa em uma convivência pacífica entre as diversas comunidades religiosas. Damasco e Aleppo eram um paraíso em que as mulheres cristãs andavam de cabeça alta e descoberta, assim como as muçulmanas que quisessem.
A relação de Assad com os palestinos sempre foi ambigua. Era o inimigo comum - Israel - que os unia. No mais, tudo os separava. Sobretudo porque os palestinos da diáspora geralmente combatem regimes opressivos. 
Quando as milícias do Nusrah&Daesh começaram a massacrar os palestinos em Yarmuk, o maior campo de refugiados palestinos no mundo, Assad cruzou os braços e seu sítio foi responsável por milhares de mortes de mulheres, crianças e anciãos, mais fragilizados. Morreram de fome, sob o silêncio internacional. Os que sobraram da população de mais de cem mil palestinos, foi parar em novos campos de refugiados no Líbano e na Jordânia. Uma tristeza, pois têm seu próprio país para morar, mas o retorno lhes é vedado pelo ocupante, com a cumplicidade da comunidade internacional. 
To make a long story short, minority religious groups support the Assad government, while the overwhelming majority of opposition fighters are Sunni Muslims. Although most Syrians are Sunni Muslims, Syria's security establishment has long been dominated by Alawites, such as the Assad family.The sectarian split is reflected among regional actors' stances as well. The governments of majority-Shia Iran and Iraq support Assad, as does Lebanon-based Hezbollah; while Sunni-majority states including Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others staunchly support the rebels.
In this context, foreign backing and open intervention have played a large role in Syria's civil war. First by arming the "rebels". Than, when it was understood that extremists were growing stronger, an international coalition led by the United States has bombed targets of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group since 2014.
In September 2015, Russia, whose only military base in arab countries is located in Syria, launched a bombing campaign against "terrorist groups" in Syria, which included ISIL, as well as rebel groups backed by western states.
Since then, Russia has also deployed military advisers to shore up Assad's defences, while several Arab states, along with Turkey, have provided weapons and materiel to rebel groups in Syria.Many of those fighting come from outside Syria. The ranks of ISIL include a large number of fighters from around the world. Lebanese members of Hezbollah are fighting on the side of Assad, as are Iranian and Afghan soldiers.
In October 2015, the US scrapped its controversial programme to train Syrian rebels, after it was revealed that Obama's administration had spent $500 millions, but only trained 60 fighters.
Where did the money go?
On November 26, the Syrian army launched a military offensive on Aleppo. In less than a month, Syrian troops, with unfettered Russian air support, were able to recapture 90 percent of the eastern part of Aleppo.
On December 13, the Syrian army claimed that 98 percent of east Aleppo was in the hands of Syrian government forces, as well as the capital, Damascus, parts of southern Syria and Deir Az Zor, much of the area near the Syrian-Lebanese border, and the northwestern coastal region. Rebel groups, ISIL, and Kurdish forces control the rest of the country.
The so called moderate rebel groups - whose leaders are in Turkey and in Doha - continue to jockey against one another for power, and frequently fight each other. The Free Syrian Army has weakened as the war has progressed, while explicitly Islamist groups, such as the al-Nusra Front, that has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda, became empowered. Last July, al-Nusra front leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, announced his group's name has also changed, under the advise of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to Jabhat Fateh al Sham, or The Front for liberation of al Sham - but its cruelty remains unchanged.
In 2013, ISIS emerged in northern and eastern Syria after overrunning large portions of Iraq. The group quickly gained international notoriety for its brutal executions and its energetic use of social media.
Meanwhile, Kurdish groups in northern Syria are seeking self-rule in areas under their control. This has alarmed Turkey's government, which fears its large native Kurdish population may grow more restive and demand greater autonomy as a result.
Last August, Turkish troops and special forces, backed by the Free Syria Army, launched Operation Euphrates Shield against ISIS to liberate the strategic Syrian city of Jarablus on the border with Turkey.
Euphrates Shield operation is the first official Turkish ground intervention in Syria since the Syrian crisis started in 2011.
The mainstream media have been bias about Syrian civil war since the beginning influencing Western public opinion; to the point of turning Al Qaeda into a US Ally.
Meanwhile it has forgotten that the Syrian tragedy has been creating profound effects far beyond the country's borders. Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan are now housing large and growing numbers of Syrian refugees, many of whom have attempted to journey onwards to Europe in search of better conditions.
Fighting has occasionally spilled over from Syria into Lebanon, contributing to the country's political polarisation, mostly in the northern cities, such as Tripoli.
Several rounds of peace talks have failed to stop the fighting.
But with much of the country in ruins, millions of Syrians having fled abroad, and a population deeply traumatised by war, one thing is certain: Rebuilding Syria after the war ends will be a lengthy, extremely difficult process. As it happens in all civil wars.
The one per cent that control the world wil come running to collect the spoils of war. As they are doing in Lybia, while the population strugle to survive, to eat and miss Muammar Gaddafi badly. Afer all.
"When we are talking about the Jews, we are not against their religion, we are not against their beliefs, we are not against them as a people," says Hamdan. "We are against the one who is occupying our cities, villages."
In 2013, ISIS emerged in northern and eastern Syria after overrunning large portions of Iraq. The group quickly gained international notoriety for its brutal executions and its energetic use of social media.
Meanwhile, Kurdish groups in northern Syria are seeking self-rule in areas under their control. This has alarmed Turkey's government, which fears its large native Kurdish population may grow more restive and demand greater autonomy as a result.
Last August, Turkish troops and special forces, backed by the Free Syria Army, launched Operation Euphrates Shield against ISIS to liberate the strategic Syrian city of Jarablus on the border with Turkey.
Euphrates Shield operation is the first official Turkish ground intervention in Syria since the Syrian crisis started in 2011.
Meanwhile it has forgotten that the Syrian tragedy has been creating profound effects far beyond the country's borders. Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan are now housing large and growing numbers of Syrian refugees, many of whom have attempted to journey onwards to Europe in search of better conditions.
Fighting has occasionally spilled over from Syria into Lebanon, contributing to the country's political polarisation, mostly in the northern cities, such as Tripoli.
Several rounds of peace talks have failed to stop the fighting.
But with much of the country in ruins, millions of Syrians having fled abroad, and a population deeply traumatised by war, one thing is certain: Rebuilding Syria after the war ends will be a lengthy, extremely difficult process. As it happens in all civil wars.
The one per cent that control the world wil come running to collect the spoils of war. As they are doing in Lybia, while the population strugle to survive, to eat and miss Muammar Gaddafi badly. Afer all.
Inside Story: What triggered the infight among Syrian rebels?
PALESTINA
Russia's
influence can already be felt in the Middle East. Osama Handam,
spokesman of Hamas, anounces on Upfront the upcoming new charter of his
party, which certainly includes the two states solution and may
eliminate its anti-Semitic language."When we are talking about the Jews, we are not against their religion, we are not against their beliefs, we are not against them as a people," says Hamdan. "We are against the one who is occupying our cities, villages."
When
asked about an independent Palestine, Hamdan said they would support a
"Palestinian state on the lines of June 4, 1967, including the right of
return and Jerusalem as a capital for the state", but declined to call
it, upfront, a "two-state solution".
Já
faz anos que o Hamas mudou sua posição, mas a grande mídia não estava
interessada em veicular esta mudança. Agora o Hamas resolveu fazer
declaraçõs públicas, em alto som, porque está sentindo que o roubo de
terra e a limpeza étnica de seu povo está aumentando sem parar na Faixa
de Gaza com o bloqueio e os massacres, e na Cisjordânia com a ocupação e
as invasões civis chamadas, erroneamente, assentamentos e a solução dos
dois Estados é crucial para a sobrevivência dos palestinos.
PS USA: Donald Trump said construction of a border wall between Mexico and the United States would start within "months." Mexican architects visualized the wall, estimated to cost $25 billion, to show how unrealistic it the idea is.
Informação útil: Donald Trump's cabinet picks: Who's who?
By the way, Shocked by Donald Trump's 'travel ban'? Israel has had a similar policy for decades, explains Ben White.
Another dangerous legacy that Obama left to Trump is very lethal for our Continent - The US school that trains dictators & death squads.
Another dangerous legacy that Obama left to Trump is very lethal for our Continent - The US school that trains dictators & death squads.
On November 22 2016, thousands gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, GA at
the 25th annual protest of the School of the Americas to memorialize the
tens of thousands of people who lost their lives at the hands of the
U.S. Empire’s brutally repressive juntas it used to rule Latin America
by force.
The dictators and death squad leaders, who committed
acts of genocide, were trained within the gates of Fort Benning, at the
School of the Americas – otherwise known as the “School Of Assassins.”
Abby
Martin investigates this notorious school that is largely hidden from
the American public; it’s crimes around the world, its star graduates,
why it exists and the movement to shut it down - which Obama refused to do.
Featuring
interviews with School Of the Americas Watch founder Father Roy
Bourgeois and other SOAW leaders.
