December 27, 2017 – Astute News

December 27, 2017

Ahed Tamimi Proves That There Isn’t a Third Intifada

The viral rise of Ahed Tamimi to international stardom as the Resistance’s latest hero is to a large extent due to the interest that various parties have in diverting attention from the politically inconvenient fact that Hamas’ Third Intifada never really took off. Ahed Tamimi, the teenage Palestinian activist who became famous for slapping an Israeli soldier, was arrested in...

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December 27, 2017

Abu Dis: The Palestinian ‘Capital’ Saudi Arabia Wants to Force on Abbas

It was once a small rural village, noted for its fields of olive trees and spectacular views, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem to the south-west and the Jordan Valley to the east. But now Abu Dis is a name spoken by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a potential capital of a future Palestinian state, as reported in...

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December 27, 2017

Washington’s Seasonal Tidings of Phoenix-Style Dirty War for Afghanistan

This week saw another deadly bomb attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, only days after US Vice President Mike Pence promised American troops “victory was in sight.” This war is far from over, and signs are it will get much worse in the year ahead. Lurking behind the cheery seasonal tidings brought by Pence lies a forthcoming year of much-increased...

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December 27, 2017

US Heavy Weapons to Ukraine. Does Trump have Another War in Mind, on Russia’s Doorstep?

Shipments of arms and munitions to Ukraine began after the February 2014 coup. Orchestrated by Obama’s administration, it replaced democratic governance with fascist putschists – an illegitimate regime under US-installed president Poroshenko. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert’s claim about the Trump administration’s decision to supply Ukraine with “enhanced defensive capabilities as part of our effort to help Ukraine build its...

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December 27, 2017

Trump Recognizes Jerusalem: “Don’t-Hold-Your-Breath” 2- Long for Good Results

Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has attracted a great deal of international wrath, as well as riots and official condemnations. If you laid all the learned opinion pieces on this subject end-to-end they would go all the way round Trump’s mouth, and if they continue multiplying exponentially for the next several months they will...

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December 27, 2017

The Afghan War: Trump and Putin Battle for Uzbek Support

As the year 2017 ends, the Afghan war is approaching an inflection point. The bloodiest year of the 17-year-old war is about to begin. The pep talk given by US Vice-President Mike Pence at Bagram airbase on Thursday harped on about “victory” and “winning” as the objective of the war. Pence claimed that the US strategy was already “bearing fruit”...

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December 27, 2017

How the US and Israel Extort Votes at the UN

On December 21, 2017, 128-member states of the United Nations General Assembly voted against the United States in condemning the Donald Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Moreover, the General Assembly called on member states not to move their embassies in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The US...

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December 27, 2017

U.S. National Security Searches for a Strategy

The end of the year is full of goodies. I watched with glee the 128 to 9 vote at the United Nations condemning the Trump Administration decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and was even more amused when the Associated Press and the New York Post tried to twist the story into a victory for the United States...

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Daily Archive: December 27, 2017

Ahed Tamimi Proves That There Isn’t a Third Intifada

Abu Dis: The Palestinian ‘Capital’ Saudi Arabia Wants to Force on Abbas

Washington’s Seasonal Tidings of Phoenix-Style Dirty War for Afghanistan

US Heavy Weapons to Ukraine. Does Trump have Another War in Mind, on Russia’s Doorstep?

Trump Recognizes Jerusalem: “Don’t-Hold-Your-Breath” 2- Long for Good Results

The Afghan War: Trump and Putin Battle for Uzbek Support

How the US and Israel Extort Votes at the UN

U.S. National Security Searches for a Strategy