October 21, 2018 – Astute News

October 21, 2018

“All-Out War” Coming: Record Number of Israeli Tanks Amassed on Gaza Border

After months of violence and widespread protests along the Israeli-Gaza border fence, Israeli is quickly ramping up its military presence with a show of force a day after launching deadly airstrikes on Gaza in response to what officials say were two rockets fired from the strip earlier this week. Reuters has reported some 60 Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers...

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October 21, 2018

US Army Security Brigade to Deploy to Afghanistan as 17-Year War Drags On

The US Army’s second Security Force Assistance Brigade is slated to deploy to Afghanistan in an “advise and assist” mission as the fight against the Taliban shows no signs of ending from either side. “The 2nd SFAB is a conventional unit with a special mission ready to answer the nation’s call,” US Army Brig. Gen. Donn Hill, who commands the unit, said...

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October 21, 2018

Al Arabiya Isn’t Serious, There Won’t Be a Russian Base in Saudi Arabia

The influential and well-connected General Manager of the Al Arabiya News Channel said that Russia might be invited to establish a base in northwestern Saudi Arabia if the West’s sanctions his Kingdom, but there are plenty of reasons why this will never happen even though relations between the two Great Powers are better than ever before and some observers might...

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October 21, 2018

Converting Khashoggi into Cash

The hazard of writing about the Saudis’ absurd gyrations as they seek to avoid blame for the murder of the late, not notably great journalist and Muslim Brotherhood activist Jamal Khashoggi is that by the time a sentence is finished, the landscape may have changed again. As though right on cue, the narrative has just taken another sharp turn. After...

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October 21, 2018

Opportunities Abound After Khashoggi-Gate

Every crisis is also an opportunity. Don’t worry I’m not about to go all Rahm Emmanuel, Mr. Realpolitik, on you today. The disappearance/death/dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi is both a crisis and an opportunity for the worst people in the world. And all of them are seizing the day, as it were. Frankly, most of it makes me sick to my...

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October 21, 2018

For the U.S. Palestine No Longer Exists: Trump Regime Closes Jerusalem Consulate Serving Palestinians

The Trump regime’s one-sided support for Israel is deplorably hard-edged. Earlier this year, it cut off most US funding for Palestinians. All funding through UNRWA for its refugee population ended, a flagrant assault on their rights and welfare. In September, the State Department closed the PLO office in Washington after operating for 24 years. At the time, John Bolton said...

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October 21, 2018

Cloak and Dagger

Russian intelligence operations have taken a heavy hit recently. It is hard to evaluate the exact measure of things in the murky world of spies and counter-spies, but it appears that the Western spies have had extraordinary success in the subterranean battle. The external, visible signs of the hit are less than mind-boggling. A group of Russian diplomats had been...

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October 21, 2018

Israel’s Defiance of History, Morality and Law

No state established on land seized by force from the people living on that land can claim moral legitimacy and a ‘right’ to exist. A purported ‘right’ to exist is not central to the existence of states anyway, let alone colonial settler states established amidst the wreckage of the genuine rights of another people. States exist because they have strong...

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Daily Archive: October 21, 2018

“All-Out War” Coming: Record Number of Israeli Tanks Amassed on Gaza Border

US Army Security Brigade to Deploy to Afghanistan as 17-Year War Drags On

Al Arabiya Isn’t Serious, There Won’t Be a Russian Base in Saudi Arabia

Converting Khashoggi into Cash

Opportunities Abound After Khashoggi-Gate

For the U.S. Palestine No Longer Exists: Trump Regime Closes Jerusalem Consulate Serving Palestinians

Cloak and Dagger

Israel’s Defiance of History, Morality and Law