Jerusalem Grand Mufti Detained After Holy Site Attack Leaves Five Dead

Jerusalem Grand Mufti Detained After Holy Site Attack Leaves Five Dead

The grand mufti of Jerusalem was detained by Israeli security forces on Friday after three attackers opened fire on Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing two. The attackers fled to a nearby highly sensitive holy site before being killed by security forces, police said. The three attackers were killed at the site known to…

U.S. Bases Strategically Placed to Prevent Syrian Military from Advancing; Outlining Borders of Kurdistan

U.S. Bases Strategically Placed to Prevent Syrian Military from Advancing; Outlining Borders of Kurdistan

Despite the spits and spurts of World War Three, it seems the United States (at least part of the establishment) and Russia are beginning to move toward a cooling of their approaches to the Syrian crisis. While we have seen this many times in the past – the apparent mutual understanding of Russia and the…

Israel’s Ever-More Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood

Israel’s Ever-More Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood

When Israel passed a new counter-terrorism law last year, Ayman Odeh, a leader of the country’s large minority of Palestinian citizens, described its draconian measures as colonialism’s “last gasp”. He said: “I see … the panic of the French at the end of the occupation of Algeria.” The panic and cruelty plumbed new depths last…

1918 “Sykes-Picot” & 2017 “Rojava” – Flogging the Same Dead Horse Twice

1918 “Sykes-Picot” & 2017 “Rojava” – Flogging the Same Dead Horse Twice

Throughout the “civil war” (all of the terrorists are supported by external States) in Syria, which began – according to the official narrative – in 2011, the parties involved either on the side of current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or on the side of the “Syrian revolution” (jihadists but with the western PR firms and media…