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orange sky posted:Just saw a UAE born academic share an article by a Kuwaiti that kind of defends Rahaf. This is interesting. This is very heavily wordy, but the kuwaiti article calls for attitudes to be less reactionary and instead to be rational, to consider what these people go through and respect at least the right for expression in this case but the fact is our societies are pretty limited in such freedoms is what really limits any progressive voice to stand up in support of such principles and is whats gonna keep us from really changing. Thats the gist of the article, its interesting and good to hear a uae academic in support of this though. But i sincerely dont know when we will be allowed to do so in these countries, kuwait is pretty unique in the region for having better representation than the others.
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He's not explicitly supporting everything in the article, but even just sharing it seems like... Progress to me. https://twitter.com/Abdulkhaleq_UAE/status/1086886567891869697 Even Al Arabiya kind of fought against popular criticism for airing her entire interview http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2019/01/19/Critics-debate-airing-of-dirty-laundry-after-Al-Arabiya-s-coverage-of-Rahaf.html There's a lot of back-to-back news-worthy events going on, maybe too many for the GCC to ignore. Let's see what happens. orange sky fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Jan 20, 2019 |
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lmao yeah so volkerball asked me to explain to him in very great detail why american troops not leaving (resulting in fewer dead kurds) was a good thing but I think someone did that already in the past 20 pages. and reading through them... Volkerball posted:The Syrian Kurds didn't have citizenship, were slaughtered and imprisoned during a bunch of incidents like the Qamishli riots, and it was because of their revolting that the regime pulled out of northern Kurdistan to begin with, so it could concentrate on the heart of the rebellion. The PYD co-opted the whole movement by imprisoning political prisoners and burning down offices of its opposition, and it has never shared the same anti-Assad sentiment as the Kurds who sacrificed to allow it to exist. As Assad moves in to PYD territory, anyone who criticized the regime is going to be in real danger, to include a lot of Kurds. A lot of them are going to die. The question is whether it will be with the consent of the PYD or not. I think the problem might actually be that american troops remaining would result in fewer dead socialists.
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Israeli force are hitting Iranian assets in Syria. https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1087133200076414976
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https://www.facebook.com/YomyatKzefeh/videos/347818652478833/ A livestream of the bombings from earlier. Gets a bit heated around 3 minutes in. drat this is eerie. Imagine having to live under this regularly? Looks like a couple of the anti-aircraft missiles malfunctioned and went back down to the ground too.
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Volkerball thinks PYD/YPG/SDF=Regime because their enemies both happen to be headchopping Sunni Islamists. He ignores the fact that the Regime has attacked the YPG repeatedly. Certain posters in this thread (Savy Saracen Salad, Radio Prune, Volkerball, rear end Struggle, Horrific Existence) are very quick to call SDF ethno-nationalist and sectarian (it isn’t, although the PYD is a Kurdish Nationalist movement) and draw attention to all of the foreign Twelver Shia militias fighting alongside the SAA, occasionally going so far as to accuse the SAA of commiting ethnic and sectarian cleansing. However they are curiously silent on the Rebel’s character and composition. The Turkish and Idlib Rebel forces are almost entirely Sunni Arabs, with a minority of Turkmen and an extremely small number of Kurds. The vast majority are hardline Sunni Islamists. There are no more Arab Christians fighting for them. There are no Yezidis. There are no Twelver Shias. There are no Druze. I’ve never seen any evidence that the Ismailis have ever supported the Rebellion at any time. Some Assyrians supported the opposition early on but both of the major organizations representing them are allied to the PYD and Regime so they no longer have a presence. No Syrian Armenians ever supported the opposition (probably because the FSA/AlNusra “Freedom Fighters” blew up a church commemorating the Armenian Genocide and threw the bones into the street, and Sunni Turkmen brigades shot up Armenians in Kessab). There are sure as hell no Alawites remaining in the organization, and there numbers were low to begin with because I don’t think the Alawite community at large is too fond of Al-Qaeda. For an organization that purportedly represents “Real Syrians” it seems to overwhelmingly be composed of only one segment of society.
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Vasukhani posted:Israeli force are hitting Iranian assets in Syria.
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Grouchio posted:Wartime? this has been happening for a while, just accompanied with denials. if this is a meaningful escalation, it's a political one, not a practical one.
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Israel claims it's a reprisal. https://twitter.com/AAhronheim/status/1087200973628588032
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Israel bombs Iranian forces in Syria for years, one rocket flies into Israel from Syria, and then Israel bombs more and says it's retaliation and the guys manning anti-air defenses they killed deserved it because they were warned not to defend their territory. Russia pulls the same poo poo in Ukraine, Saudi Arabia plays it in Yemen, and the US has played it many times in many places: we're allowed to attack you, but 'holy poo poo, how loving dare you attack our inviolable territory???' the second you retaliate in any way.
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Fancy_Breakfast posted:https://www.facebook.com/YomyatKzefeh/videos/347818652478833/ Apparently there was heavy ECM action going on on the part of Israel. In some videos the Syrian missiles zigzag like crazy after a few seconds of being fired, and some of them clearly lose their lock.
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Frond posted:Volkerball thinks PYD/YPG/SDF=Regime because their enemies both happen to be headchopping Sunni Islamists. He ignores the fact that the Regime has attacked the YPG repeatedly. Obviously Sunnis don't deserve democracy, representation and dignity.
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1087361864042987520?s=19 Taliban hit the gate with a suicide bomber in a Humvee packed with explosives. Gunmen entered in through the breach. No official count yet, but reportedly 126 dead.
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Randarkman posted:Obviously Sunnis don't deserve democracy, representation and dignity. True. Sunnis deserve it but the minorities in Syria don't.
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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1087361864042987520?s=19 gently caress that's a lot of people dead for one event. Is it just me or do these ambushes seem bigger in Afghanistan? In Syria a major event like one of the besieged cities or SAA airbases being fully overrun might result in such a body count, but not all the time.
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Sinteres posted:Israel bombs Iranian forces in Syria for years, one rocket flies into Israel from Syria, and then Israel bombs more and says it's retaliation and the guys manning anti-air defenses they killed deserved it because they were warned not to defend their territory. Russia pulls the same poo poo in Ukraine, Saudi Arabia plays it in Yemen, and the US has played it many times in many places: we're allowed to attack you, but 'holy poo poo, how loving dare you attack our inviolable territory???' the second you retaliate in any way.
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Flayer posted:Your post doesn't say anything that anybody doesn't know already. Wow sorry for wasting valuable internet space sir.
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Sinteres posted:Wow sorry for wasting valuable internet space sir.
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Jan 22, 2019 13:39
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God forbid someone call attention to the hypocrisy of the Arabs and Israelis.
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Flayer posted:Your statement is posited as an eye opener to the hypocrisy of great powers when it's something that has been going on since the siege of Megiddo. Oh well good thing the whole world is woke and agrees on everything so nobody needs to point out anything ever again. My experience has definitely been that everyone on the internet is equally informed and shares uniform viewpoints on such matters. It's obviously true that might makes right isn't a new concept, but it still sucks and I don't think it's unreasonable to say so.
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Redmark posted:gently caress that's a lot of people dead for one event. Is it just me or do these ambushes seem bigger in Afghanistan? In Syria a major event like one of the besieged cities or SAA airbases being fully overrun might result in such a body count, but not all the time. Usually they don't expect it and their security is poo poo, apart from the fact that most of the time the Taliban have somebody inside the unit. However Syria is a warzone. People is alert all the time and there are no big concentrations of people in a single vulnerable place.
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Redmark posted:gently caress that's a lot of people dead for one event. Is it just me or do these ambushes seem bigger in Afghanistan? In Syria a major event like one of the besieged cities or SAA airbases being fully overrun might result in such a body count, but not all the time. It's not just you. The Afghan military has been getting it's asses kicked repeatedly in recent years and theyve lost tons of territory. It's really only a matter of time (probably after the US leaves) that the Taliban takes Kabul.
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Redmark posted:gently caress that's a lot of people dead for one event. Is it just me or do these ambushes seem bigger in Afghanistan? In Syria a major event like one of the besieged cities or SAA airbases being fully overrun might result in such a body count, but not all the time. The article says that the Afghan security forces have taken 28000 KIA since 2015. They are losing the war really badly.
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Saudi sisters whose bodies were found bound together near Hudson River died by suicidequote:Two Saudi sisters found dead on the edge of New York's Hudson River in October entered the water bound to each other and killed themselves, the medical examiner’s office said Tuesday. 
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Cable Guy posted:Saudi sisters whose bodies were found bound together near Hudson River died by suicide They'll be in good company with the BLM activists who were found to have shot themselves in the head twice.  By the way the Army War College papers about the Iraq war are fairly pro-reads despite truncating out most of the domestic political reasons originating such malignant policy, and in spite of their clickbait abstract "iran won the iraq war" being insanely evident since 2006 to anyone who gave a poo poo about the subject matter. part 1: http://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1373 part 2: http://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1376
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Willie Tomg posted:They'll be in good company with the BLM activists who were found to have shot themselves in the head twice. Any highlights? The first part alone is over 700 pages long.
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Cable Guy posted:Saudi sisters whose bodies were found bound together near Hudson River died by suicide Willie Tomg posted:They'll be in good company with the BLM activists who were found to have shot themselves in the head twice. I think it's certainly plausible, if extremely dark. Makes you think what kind of living hell awaited them in Saudi Arabia if a double suicide by drowning was the preferable option...At the same time, there is some super-bitter sweetness in considering that they chose to stay together to the very end with the help of duct tape. It's awful to imagine.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/world/asia/taliban-negotiator-afghanistan.html Seems like there's a renewed effort in Qatar for peace talks between the US and Taliban "Taliban officials and Western diplomats said Thursday that an agreement was imminent. They said that the two sides were finalizing a deal in which the Taliban would renounce ties to international terrorist groups and pledge that Afghanistan would not be used as a launching ground for attacks on the United States, as Al Qaeda did in 2001. In return, the Americans would declare a timetable for withdrawing their forces. But on Friday, one person informed of the talks’ developments who spoke on the condition of anonymity suggested that major sticking points still remained, including demands that the Taliban declare a cease-fire and agree to meet with the Afghan government to negotiate their future role."
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-idUSKCN1PK0DGquote:KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban officials said U.S. negotiators on Saturday agreed a draft peace deal stipulating the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan within 18 months of the agreement being signed. Big, if true.
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Willie Tomg posted:By the way the Army War College papers about the Iraq war are fairly pro-reads despite truncating out most of the domestic political reasons originating such malignant policy, and in spite of their clickbait abstract "iran won the iraq war" being insanely evident since 2006 to anyone who gave a poo poo about the subject matter. This is pro click as hell, there's a reason it was suppressed for 2 years. You have to filter for a "if we had done more war it would have worked" bias but it's very frank about the various gently caress ups and contexts leading up to and including the Iraq War.
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Lebanon got a government after almost 9 months. A guy close to Hezbollah got the Health Ministry. US may cut their aid to that ministry, which is considerable, for fear of the money being redirected to the military wing.
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https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1092087822218072064?s=19 https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1092460792119787520?s=19 I wonder when the Iraqis are going to tell us to leave.
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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1092087822218072064?s=19 Theres like a max of 8000 US military personnel. Its a drop in the bucket so really the whole thing is political drivel. "Watching Iran" could be dome by 100 dudes in technicals with hella drones and straight cash bribes Its a total sham that trump got from his militaty school education (i dont mean west point sports fans)i mean the one you send your 6 year old to because you want to man to man them up for the COMMIES circa 1960s. So risk style warfare of posting troops on the border or portraying the troops af if it were true WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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What's going on here? Whose they? I've lost track of the situation in Libya
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/04/how-u-s-mission-creep-in-syria-and-iraq-could-trigger-war-with-iran/quote:The situation remained tense throughout the next few weeks. On the night of May 9, Russia conducted airstrikes just 14 miles from al-Tanf—close enough that the soldiers could hear the aircraft, according to a U.S. defense official who requested anonymity in discussing internal deliberations. Alarmed, U.S. officials quickly negotiated an agreement with Moscow for advance notice whenever Russian planes strike within a 55-kilometer (34-mile) radius around the garrison to ensure they did not endanger coalition forces. Hate being thwarted from kickstarting a war by higher ups saying "no" when I ask to blow up Iran's strategic port-a-potty reserve. OhFunny fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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Bellingcat did this over the weekend: quote:
It's all part of the next stage of Bellingcat's developing, opening an office in The Hague with an investigations team using our experience with the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, advice from legal experts, and working with technologists (in particular the Syrian Archive) to create a complete open source investigation and archiving process with the ultimate aim of meeting the standards required to use our research and the evidence we collect in courts.
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