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[repulsewarrior]

...the word, oil, comes to mind. who wants the end of the world as we know it? Petrodollars fall if the US dollar falls, it's an issue only appealing to the wanna be's who don't like the idea but whose only real interest is getting some; the poor, they will always be with us, so to speak.

[Oceanside50]

...the word, oil, comes to mind. who wants the end of the world as we know it? Petrodollars fall if the US dollar falls, it's an issue only appealing to the wanna be's who don't like the idea but whose only real interest is getting some; the poor, they will always be with us, so to speak.

I've got a nice tree for you to hug RW

[kurupetos]

...the word, oil, comes to mind. who wants the end of the world as we know it? Petrodollars fall if the US dollar falls, it's an issue only appealing to the wanna be's who don't like the idea but whose only real interest is getting some; the poor, they will always be with us, so to speak.

I've got a nice tree for you to hug RW

[repulsewarrior]

...indeed, it is a little off the wall but consider the pablum we are fed by those whose conspiracy theories include a Cabal that boils down to "Jews" controlling the world. who is willing to do the real grunt work, to feed and house, to demonstrate that there exists a Rule of Law defined by custom, the People, not by a leadership that is there to serve. in any case, the poor, the cause for all this concern are not really the center of the attention.

[Get Real!]

Obama, the worst president America has ever had, time for a change, we can not tolerate longer these savages.

King of idiots, enjoy a session of savages congregating…

[GreekIslandGirl]

The pretense is over: 'Turkey' = 'Islamic State'

Islamic State (Isis) has launched an attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey ....

There was no comment from Ankara on Saturday about Isis fighters launching the assault from Turkish soil.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/n ... first-time

[Tim Drayton]

There is a story that Iran has staged air raids on DAESH targets without coordinating this action with the US.

[Cap]

Of the 600 Anatolian Jihadis who went to support ISIS, 100 of them ate Western iron and met their virgins.

http://www.rferl.org/content/isis-turke ... 09983.html

Can anybody confirm that.
Believing Anatolian media is like believing in the tooth fairy.

[kurupetos]

Believing Zionist-controlled, CIA-funded rferl is much worse, Cap...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_J._Pattiz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Isaacson

[Get Real!]

UN reveals Israeli links with Syrian rebels

Reports by UN observers in the Golan Heights over the past 18 months reveal the type and extent of cooperation between Israel and Syrian opposition figures. The reports, submitted to the 15 members of the UN Security Council and available on the UN’s website, detail regular contacts held on the border between IDF officers and soldiers and armed Syrian figures.

The observer force, UNDOF, was established in 1974 as part of the separation of forces agreement between Israel and Syria. The agreement set up a buffer zone several kilometers wide. About 1,000 UN observers supervised the implementation of the agreement until 2013, when the Syrian civil war severely reduced the force’s ability to function.

While Croatia and Austria pulled out and Ireland, Fiji and India agreed to send troops, the increase of attacks on UN forces in recent months caused the force to abandon many of its positions along the front and to transfer its command to the Israeli side of the border.

The observers have continued to file reports to New York, which were relatively mundane; but their content changed in March 2013, when Israel started admitting injured Syrians for medical treatment in Safed and Nahariya hospitals. The Syrian ambassador to the UN complained of widespread cooperation between Israel and Syrian rebels, not only treatment of the wounded but also other aid.

Israel at first asserted the injured were civilians reaching the border of their own initiative and without prior coordination because they could not obtain suitable treatment in Syria. Later, as the numbers increased, Israel said it was coordinating with civilians but not opposition groups. However, the reports reveal direct contact between the IDF and armed opposition members.

According to a report from December 3, 2013, a person wounded on September 15 “was taken by armed members of the opposition across the ceasefire line, where he was transferred to a civilian ambulance escorted by an IDF vehicle." Moreover, from November 9 to 19 the “UNDOF observed at least 10 wounded persons being transferred by armed members of the opposition from the Bravo side across the ceasefire line to IDF."

Further reports indicated similar incidents. However, cooperation between the IDF and Syrian rebels that was revealed in UN observer reports does not just include transferring the wounded. Observers remarked in the report distributed on June 10 that they identified IDF soldiers on the Israeli side handing over two boxes to armed Syrian opposition members on the Syrian side.

The last report distributed to Security Council members, on December 1, described another meeting between IDF soldiers and Syrian opposition members that two UN representatives witnessed on October 27 some three kilometers east of Moshav Yonatan. The observers said they saw two IDF soldiers on the eastern side of the border fence opening the gate and letting two people enter Israel. The report, contrary to previous ones, did not note that the two exiting Syria were injured or why they entered Israel.

This specific event is of particular interest in light of what happened on the Syrian side of the border in the exact same region. According to the report, UN observers stated that tents were set up about 300 meters from the Israeli position for some 70 families of Syrian deserters. The Syrian army sent a letter of complaint to UNDOF in September, claiming this tent camp was a base for “armed terrorists” crossing the border into Israel. The Syrians also warned that if the UN would not evacuate the tent camp, the Syrian army would view it as a legitimate target.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... m-1.630359