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- ADL: ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate’
- DPS: "So far the story has been primarily about the self-absorbed "we-are-the-story" media's having been duped. But the really important aspect of the story is the arrogant, uninformed, ideologically driven worldview of the administration and the damage that has been done to America and our allies all over the world as a result. Mike Makovsky covers the real story here"
- Newton, MA: Orthodox rabbi quotes Isaiah, warning Jewish community who turned a blind eye to antisemitic curriculum, "Your destroyers and demolishers will come from your own"
- “The poll suggests that majorities of Hispanic, black and young male Republican voters “believe the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen”
- On #MemorialDay or any other day, the cemeteries for those Americans who fell in battle offer profound lessons
- E.U. countries continue to do business with China, Iran, and Turkey despite blatant, glaring human rights violations and occupations in Tibet, Syria, and Northern Cyprus. But it's only with Israel they draw the line.
- What Tel Aviv Looks Like In 60 Seconds from a drone [VIDEO]
- Former Likud MK Yehudah Glick: "Police officers are in my house at midnight after a day of harassing me"
Tag Archives: PKK
“Inconveniently, Michael Doran has proven to be right on very big questions on which nearly everyone else in Washington turned out to be wrong”
TABLET MAG If Michael Doran were on Wall Street, he’d be a billionaire by Liel Leibovitz October 30, 2019 …While Americans fondly speak of “the Kurds,” Doran insisted, there was in fact no such unified entity: The Kurds in Iraq … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Iraq, Kurds, Michael Doran, PKK, Syria, Turkey
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Turkey’s Big Con
WORLD AFFAIRS JOURNAL by Michael J. Totten August 4, 2015 ….Turkey just can’t stand to see an autonomous Kurdish region take shape along its border in Northern Syria. It’s understandable up to a point. The Syrian Kurdish militias are aligned … Continue reading
Turkey and the Battle for Kobane
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE by Soner Cagaptay October 8, 2014 Turkey’s primary objective in Syria is to oust the Assad regime, so it is unlikely to materially help the besieged enclave without U.S. and Kurdish commitments toward that goal. In the past … Continue reading
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Tagged al-Sham, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq, Kobane, Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, PYD, Syria, Turkey
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Defending New Kurdish Borders with the PKK: The Battle For Iraq [CLICK FOR VIDEO]
VICE NEWS August 29, 2014 After conquering large swathes of Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State is now tearing up the near century-old map of the region and drawing new boundaries. The ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK
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