Biden keeps repeating that he was bound by Trump’s planned withdrawal. Really?
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Dispatch Michigan: James Craig: Whitmer has made it all about her
By Salena Zito
“The people who are in charge of governing our state need to make decisions that are in the best interest of the state,” Craig said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. “They need to include the people who live in vulnerable communities, who, by the way, happened to be people of color, and nobody speaks to them. The same can be said of the isolated rural communities, both of which, by the way, share many of the same problems.”
Click here for the full story.
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Enlightening and interesting but fails to justify this amoral act because nothing can.
A Short History of Slavery | PragerU
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Afghanistan Didn't Fall: It Never Existed - Frontpagemag
"Afghanistan's collapse: Did US intelligence get it wrong?" ABC News asks. "Afghanistan Is Your Fault," barks Tom Nichols at The Atlantic. “Why Afghan Forces So Quickly Laid Down Their Arms,” Politico ponders.
The one thing that the Taliban's conquest of Afghanistan is good for is more media hot takes.
Afghanistan didn't fall because it never existed. The Afghan army laid down its arms because it also never existed. And not just because many of the 300,000 soldiers were imaginary. Its Pashtun members surrendered to their fellow Taliban Pashtuns, or fled to Iran or Uzbekistan, depending on their tribal or religious affiliations which, unlike Afghanistan, are very real.
The Afghan army was there because we spent $90 billion on it. Much like Afghanistan with its president, its constitution, and its elections existed because we spent a fortune on it. When we left, the president fled, the army collapsed, and Afghanistan: The Musical closed in Kabul.
Afghanistan isn’t a country. It’s a stone age Brigadoon of quarreling tribes, ethnic groups, Islamic denominations, and warlords manned by young men with old Russian and American rifles. Unlike the fiction of a democratic Afghanistan, that is something they will die for.
And in the coming years you will see some of those same soldiers who laid down their guns fighting and dying for tribes and warlords, even fighting the Taliban, in the real endless war.
The forever war isn’t something we invented after 9/11: Afghanistan has always been at war.
Americans are impressed that the Taliban held out for 20 years. They shouldn’t be.
There’s no time in Afghanistan. Two decades of war are horrifyingly incomprehensible to Americans. To Afghans, it’s the way things have always been. We stepped into a place that has been a war zone for centuries, took sides, supplied weapons, and then left as everyone knew we would. The British and the Russians came and went. After us, the Chinese will come and go.
And the forever war will go on endlessly.
Before us, the Russians wanted the Afghans to pretend to be Communists. We wanted them to pretend that they were Democrats. But the Afghans aren’t ‘Afghans’, they’re Pashtuns, Uzbeks, Balochs, Hazaras, Sunni and Shiite Muslims, everything else is just a temporary costume.
The Taliban, another Pashtun bid to seize power, will be met with resistance, not by the proponents of a free and democratic Afghanistan, but by rival tribes and warlords.
We’ll probably end up funding some of them. And maybe this time we won’t be stupid enough to ask them to hold elections or any of the other nation-building nonsense from Foggy Bottom.
Our Afghanistan campaign after September 11 was fast, clever, and ruthless. The men who conducted it understood the society. They worked together with warlords to crush the Taliban. Their goal was a quick and dirty victory that would make an example out of the Taliban.
Our allies were anyone whose current factional interests in the endless power struggle aligned with ours. As the years went on, some of our allies became enemies, and some enemies became allies. The Taliban were the bad guys, but just like in Syria, so was everyone else. There were plenty of innocents caught in the crossfire, but innocents have no power.
The average Afghan rural villager doesn’t think of being a citizen of some country called Afghanistan. He cares little for elections and his elders confuse Americans with the Russians and sometimes even the British. The elites in Kabul are happy to dress up their power grabs in presidential titles and constitutions that no one else in the country cares about. USAID pays girls in Kabul to play at feminism and college graduates to talk about international relations.
None of it mattered a damn in the vast majority of the country as we are now finding out.
But, Afghanistan didn’t become a complete disaster for us. Until Obama.
American forces peaked at 25,000 under Bush. Obama quadrupled them to 100,000. That’s the year more American soldiers were wounded than during the entire Bush administration.
1,200 Americans died during Obama's Afghanistan surge, not just because he quadrupled the number of soldiers, but because the military was told to stop trying to defeat the Taliban.
Our soldiers became community organizers with guns who were told not to fight.
No hearts and minds were won. But cemeteries filled up with boys from Texas and West Virginia who weren’t allowed to shoot back because Obama wanted to win Muslim hearts and minds.
The military brass who embraced Obama’s strategy buried and crippled a generation of young men. Countless men and women came home wounded inside. They overdosed or killed themselves.
The surge receded. The military brass pulled back to secure the cities while the Taliban secured the rural areas that we spent so many lives on. All they had to do was wait for us to leave.
The speed with which the Taliban took the country only seems magical to CNN viewers.
The country was theirs for the taking. The Taliban fought few battles. The various warlords and leaders began switching sides when Biden announced his withdrawal to join the winning team. That’s the Islamic team backed by Pakistan, China, Turkey who are the big boys still standing.
But that doesn’t mean that they won’t switch sides next month or next year.
The hated government in Kabul was backed by our money and our air power. We’re out, so are they. But the locals will hate the Taliban too. And as the Chinese come in to set up mines, run roads, and offend the locals, they’ll find out what we, the British, and the Russians learned.
Afghanistan doesn’t belong to anyone. It’s its own forever war of quarreling tribes.
The forever war will continue whether or not we’re there. But we’ll probably be there in one form or another. We never really understood Afghanistan or Iraq. And so we can’t escape them.
Al Qaeda and ISIS will operate out of Afghanistan. So will countless other Jihadi fighters.
Americans didn’t invent the forever war. It’s been going on in the Islamic parts of the world for over a thousand years. It’s unfashionable and politically incorrect to mention it. That’s why the media carefully describes the Taliban as “religious students” without naming the religion. It’ll refer to Sunni and Shiite infighting in Iraq while leaving off the “Islam” part of the group.
We came to defeat the Jihadists behind September 11 and we stayed behind to reform Afghanistan. But what were we reforming it from? We couldn’t name the problem.
And when you can’t name a problem, you never come up with a solution.
Having failed to fix Afghanistan, the process is now underway to bring as many Afghans as possible to America. The old plan to bring 100,000 “interpreters” and their family members has been vastly expanded to make any Afghan who did any work for American organizations, from aid groups to the media, eligible to come to America. By the time they’re done, we may end up with a million Afghan refugees in America. Some of them will become Islamic terrorists.
The final act of fighting terrorism is bringing the terrorists to America to create more terror.
The real tragedy of Afghanistan isn’t just that we lost so many of our best and brightest in the dust, it’s that we learned nothing from the experience. Nothing except to blame ourselves.
We didn’t fail Afghanistan. Nor did we lose Afghanistan. It was never ours or anyone’s.
Afghanistan wasn’t our forever war. It’s the forever war of the warlords and tribesmen who will keep on fighting it until the water dries up, the cattle die, and they all move to Fremont where 25,000 Afghans already live. Our mistake was not recognizing what Afghanistan was.
Americans like to believe that everyone is like us. It’s an easy trap to fall into. Wherever we go, the people speak English, listen to our music, and wear Nike shirts. They have opinions about our presidents and want to know how easy it is to move to Fremont. And we cheerfully supply them with more Nike shirts, bad music, worse movies, and try to persuade them to create a United States of Iraq or a United States of Afghanistan. Then when it doesn’t work out, they move to Fremont, Minnesota, or New York City, run for Congress, and tell us they hate us.
If we learn anything from Afghanistan, from Iraq, and from September 11, let it be this.
There have to be boundaries, physical and conceptual borders, between us and the rest of the world. American exceptionalism can’t be a narcissistic belief that everyone ought to be like us. If everyone could become us, there would be nothing exceptional about us. Our exceptionalism is that the rest of the world isn’t like us and never will be. And that if we want to protect ourselves, we have to stop trying to define the world or allowing the rest of the world to redefine America.
We could have won in Afghanistan, swiftly and decisively, and left, if we hadn’t been seduced into believing that Afghanistan could be America and that Afghans deserved to be Americans.
Likewise, Iraq.
Victories became defeats and cemeteries filled with the dead because we lost sight of the truth about Afghanistan and about ourselves. The more we think about Afghanistan or any place in terms of ourselves, the less we see it for what it is. And that can be a deadly illusion.
Americans have spent the last century trying to turn the world into America. Let’s spend this century making America what it was always intended to be: a refuge from the rest of the world.
We won’t win wars anymore because we can no longer remember what we’re fighting for. Unable to draw boundaries between the enemy and ourselves, between our nation and the world, we’ve lost touch with the fundamental purpose and even the concept of what a war is.
To win a war, we have to remember what we’re fighting for. Ourselves.
The Afghans understand that concept. Perhaps they understand it too well. But it’s time we learned it too. If we can’t go to war for ourselves, not for democracy, human rights, or so that Afghan girls can go to school, then we will lose soldiers, lose wars, and lose our nation.
All wars are endless and forever when you don’t understand what it takes to win.
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This from a dear friend and fellow memo reader and sometime tennis partner:
We are back to square one when Obama refused to allow government bureaucrats and our military to use the phrase radical Muslim terrorists or Jihadists. Words have meanings and when linked to actions the meaning become more evident. When you deny linkage of words to actions you are in denial and increase the prospect you will eventually become victim of that denial.
Obama was an empty suit but he knew what he was about. He re-located Somalians so they could become Radicalized Congresspersons. He apologized for America's past in the hope it would birth divisiveness and start organizations that would eventually attack our grade level education system knowing our universities had already become petri dishes for socialism. And he obviously intended to seed the attacks on American culture claiming we are a systematic racist nation. This from an alleged light weight College Constitutional Law Professor.
Since we no longer teach history we are destined to repeat mistakes we no longer have any familiarity with - how cool can you get..
Obama did everything he could to make sure his party would downgrade our relationship with Israel while elevating the prospects of a nuclear Iran and so it goes.
Now we have elected Obama's sidekick VP as our president who made sure Biden's Presidency/Administration was sprinkled/saturated with holdovers loyal to Obama so Obama's policies would endure while Biden disrobed the nation of any clothing labeled Trump.
Wake up America the time is late, events are fleeting and the ship is taking on water at rate beyond Bilge Pump Biden's ability to bail.
A WORLD HISTORY LESSON WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET!!!
Eighty Four Percent (84%) of those who receive this Email will probably not completely read it, if they read any of it at all.
Ten Percent (10%) will read it, but they will choose not to forward it on to others.
The remaining 6% most likely will forward it.
(I'M ONE OF THE 6%)
The War started in the 7th Century and lasted through the 17th Century. Many will contend it never stopped; the Facts below are Historically correct.
That is why many of us choke when we hear someone say we will defeat or contain these Islamic Terrorists in a few Years, or even "30 Years" as has been stated by Leon Panetta. If the latest batch of Murders, Beheadings, and killing of Innocent Christians has at all shocked you, it is time for you to read this Compilation of Historical Facts about the Intense Hatred that Muslims have for ANY and ALL who are NOT Muslims!
WE ARE THE STUPID!
In 732 A.D., the Muslim Army, which was moving on Paris, was Defeated and turned back at Tours, France, by Charles Martell.
In 1571 A.D., the Muslim Army/Navy was defeated by the Italians and Austrians as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Attack Southern Europe in the Battle of Le panto.
In 1683 A.D., the Turkish Muslim Army, attacking Eastern Europe, was finally Defeated in the Battle of Vienna by German and Polish Christian Armies.
This Nonsense has been going on for 1,400 years!?? The SAD thing is that more than half of all Politicians do not even know any of this.
If these Battles had not been Won, we would most likely be speaking Arabic. And Christianity could be Non-existent. Judaism certainly would NOT exist!
Reality check: A lot of Americans have become so Insulated from Reality that they Imagine America can Suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.
Think: The following events are true historical facts.?? It has been many years since 1968, but History keeps repeating itself.
1. In 1968, Robert Kennedy was Shot and Killed by a Muslim Male.
2. In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, Israeli Athletes were Kidnapped and Massacred by Muslim Males.
3. In 1972, a Pan Am 747 was Hijacked and eventually Diverted to Cairo where a Fuse was lit on Final Approach.?? Shortly after Landing, it was blown up by Muslim Males.
4. In 1973, a Pan Am 707 was Destroyed in Rome With 33 People Killed, when it was Attacked with Grenades by Muslim Males.
5. In 1979, the United States Embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim Males.
6. During the 1980's, a number of Americans were Kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim Males.
7. In 1983, the United States Marine Barracks in Beirut was Blown up by Muslim Males.
8. In 1985, the Cruise Ship Achilles-Lauro was Hijacked, and a 70-year-old American Passenger was Murdered and thrown Overboard inhis Wheelchair by Muslim Males.
9. In 1985, TWA Flight 847 was Hijacked at Athens, and a United States Navy Diver, who was trying to Rescue Passengers - was murdered by Muslim Males.
10. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim Males.
11. In 1993, the World Trade Center was Bombed for the First Time by Muslim Males.
12. In 1998, the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were Bombed by Muslim Males.
13. On 09/11/01, FOUR Airliners were Hijacked. Two of the Planes were used as Missiles to take down the World Trade Centers. One Plane Crashed into the United States Pentagon, and the other Plane was Diverted and Crashed by the Passengers. Thousands of People were Killed by Muslim Males.
14. In 2002, the United States fought a War in Afghanistan against Muslim Males.
15. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was Kidnapped and Beheaded by you guessed it - a Muslim Male (Plus two other American Journalists who had just recently been Beheaded.)
16. In 2013, the Boston Marathon Bombing resulted in Four Innocent People, including a Child, being Killed and 264 other People injured by Muslim Males.
NO, I really do not see a pattern here to justify profiling. Do YOU? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone - particularly Fanatics intent on killing US - Airport Security Screeners will NO longer be allowed to Profile certain people.
So, ask yourself: "Just how Stupid are we?!?!"
Have Americans completely lost their Minds or just their "Power of Reason?"
As the writer of the Award Winning story "Forrest Gump" so aptly put it, "Stupid is as Stupid does."
You now have the Opportunity to send this on to other Email Contacts. Please do that!
Or you can just sit back, keep complaining and do nothing.
NOW JUST THINK ABOUT THE NUMBER OF MUSLIMS NOW IN POLITICAL POSITIONS ACROSS THE U.S.
A LARGE PERCENT OF THE ILLEGAL IMMIGARNTST COMING ACROSS OUR OPEN BORDER ON THE SOUTH ARE NOT HISPANICS, BUT ISLAMISTS. IT DID NOT TAKE THEM LONG TO DISCOVER THIS EASY ENTRY TO OUR COUNTRY WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY.
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BREAKING: U.N. Drops DEVASTATING Taliban Report - Please Read This
A devastating discovery >>
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https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/08/23/iran-has-doubled-forces-on-israeli-border-since-2018-report-
claims/
Iran has doubled forces on Israeli border since
2018, report claims
Istanbul-based Jusoor research institute, which has close ties to
Syrian opposition forces, says the number of bases used by pro-
Iranian militias and Iranian satellite Hezbollah has increased
from 40 to 88 since 2018.
Iran has doubled forces on Israeli border since 2018, report claims
The Iranian presence on the Syrian-Israel border is a well-known fact, but a new report from a
Syrian research institute reveals just how deeply Iran has entrenched itself on Israel's northern
brder.
The report was compiled by the Istanbul-based research institute Jusoor for Studies, which
maintains close contact with the forces that oppose Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
According to the report, in the two years since Russia, the US, Jordan and Israel signed a 2018
agreement promising to lessen Iran's presence on the Syrian Golan heights, the Iranian military
presence in southern Syria has more than doubled, and it is deployed in preparation for a future
confrontation with Israel.
The report claims that from 2018-2021, the number of military bases and outposts of pro-Iranian
militias and Hezbollah in southern Syria has increased from 40 to 88. It also reveals that bases of
the Syrian Army, particularly the 90th Brigade deployed from southern Syrian to Damascus, serve
a logistics backing for the pro-Iranian militias in the country.
In addition, the report claims that the militia personnel includes fighters from Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, and that its command echelon is mostly comprised of members of
the Revolutionary Guards Corps serving in Syria disguised as militia members or Syrian army
officers.
The report presents two main lines of bases belonging to the militias, Hezbollah, and bases used
by both groups. One line is located very close to the Israeli border and the center of it is located
near the Druze village of Khader in the northern Syrian Golan. The second line runs for some 30
km. (18.5 miles) eastward, and its purpose is to supply equipment and launching sport for rockets
and artillery fire for frontline fighters.
According to the report, the forces loyal to Iran in Syria also help the Assad forces oppress the
local population, which in July led an uprising near the city Daraa.
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The buck does not stop on top of the Oval Office Desk. It extends wherever it wants to in view
of a president who is hopelessly incapable.
How Biden's Afghanistan failure has emboldened Iran
Iranian military
Anyone with even a small amount of knowledge on world politics knows that America's hasty
retreat from Afghanistan will have geopolitical consequences for years to come. And it looks
like some of those consequences are starting to materialize.
Thanks to the increased instability in the region, Iran now plans to hold joint military drills
with Russia and China, according to Russian and Iranian leaders.
That's a worst-case scenario for the US, as three of our nation's fiercest enemies are banding
together as the power vacuum grows stronger in the Middle East.
It won't be long before the countries stake claims in Afghanistan. And that doesn't bode well
for American interests around the world. And our allies will quickly blame us for this mess as
it gets worse.
But Joe Biden refuses to admit that he messed up the Afghanistan withdrawal as he
continues to claim it was the best he could do.
Our political standing on the global stage will continue to fade as this problem
encourages our enemies and forces our allies to think twice about helping us in the future.
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I have consistently maintained inter marriage will not solve all of man's problems but it will go a long way
toward making those who engage in such realize we all basically seek the same thing regardless of our color
and heritage except for tribal peoples and those consumed by religious hatred.
Love across the color line
by Jeff Jacoby - The Boston Globe
Relationships in the United States don't stop at the color line. Today, 1 in 6 American newlyweds marries someone of a different race or ethnicity.
TRUE OR FALSE: The white population of the United States decreased between 2010 and 2020.
If you saw any of the coverage this month about the release of detailed data from the 2020 census, that
question may seem like a no-brainer. Nearly every news outlet played up the dwindling of America's white
population as the most important finding of last year's national enumeration, and most put it right in the
headline. A handful of examples:
"Census data shows widening diversity; number of white people falls for first time" (Washington Post)
"Census data shows white population shrinking below 60 percent" (Politico)
"Census: US sees unprecedented multiracial growth, decline in the white population for first time in history"
In reality, the population of white Americans increased modestly over the past decade. According to the
Census Bureau, the number of people who checked the box marked "White" on the census questionnaire
grew from 231 million in 2010 to more than 235 million in 2020 — a rise of 1.9 percent.
What all those headlines were referring to was the 87 percent of white respondents — 204 million — who
listed themselves only as white and nothing else. If you count just them, the "white" tally was down
considerably from 10 years ago, when it totaled 223.5 million. But why would you count just them? To put it
the other way around, why would you not count the 31 million people who identified themselves on the
Census questionnaire as being both "White" and one or more other races?
Set those questions aside for a moment, and consider a different one: In 2010, only 7.5 million respondents
checked the "White" box along with one or more others. How did that number more than quadruple in just a
decade? Populations change, but rarely do they change so quickly. What happened?
The answer is twofold.
First, the population is changing, dramatically and for the better, because relationships in America doesn't
stop at the color line. "Nearly three in 10 Asian, one in four Latino, and one in five Black newlyweds are
married to a member of a different ethnic or racial group," scholars Richard Alba, Morris Levy, and Dowell
Myers wrote in The Atlantic in June. "More than three-quarters of these unions are with a white partner. For
more and more Americans, racial integration is embedded in their closest relationships."
When the Supreme Court ruled in the 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia that laws against interracial marriage
were unconstitutional, only 1 in 33 newlyweds married someone from a different racial background. Today,
1 in 6 newlyweds intermarries — so many that by now, fully 10 percent of all marriages in America are
between partners of different races. The wholesome disregard for color modeled by these adults naturally
becomes the standard for their children. Today, 1 in 9 American kids is growing up in a household with one
white parent and one nonwhite or Hispanic parent.
"This proportion is well above the number of Asian-only children and not far below the number of Black-only
infants," writes Alba, a sociologist at the City University of New York, in his recent book, The Great
Demographic Illusion. A new multiracial mainstream is gradually emerging, one that is neither "majority"
nor "minority" but simply American.
But — and here's the second part of the answer — the surge in our "mixed" population wasn't captured by
past censuses, because earlier questionnaires didn't make a point of encouraging respondents to claim all
the racial categories with which they identify.
On the 2010 questionnaire, the instructions did allow people to "mark one or more boxes," but only one
check box apiece was provided for the racial categories of "White" and "Black." On the 2020 questionnaire,
however, that changed. Now the instructions read: "Mark one or more boxes AND print origins." Not only
was that crucial word "and" printed in all-caps, italics, and boldface, but room was provided to supply
additional background information. The invitation to self-identify as multiracial was much more explicit, and
the results reflected the new emphasis. A decade ago, 9 million people identified themselves as multiracial.
This time around, the number of Americans claiming more than one racial identity skyrocketed to nearly 34
million — a jump of 276 percent. But most of that seeming jump, as the Census Bureau itself acknowledged,
was "largely due to improvements in the design of the . . . questions for race data collection.
Nearly every media outlet reported that America's white population had dwindled since 2010. But that isn't
what the census data showed.
Which returns us to those 31 million US residents who specified that they are white and some other race(s).
The reason not to exclude them from the total white population is that census data are based entirely on self-
description, and they described themselves as — among other things — white. As long as we have a
census system that asks people to label themselves by race, the only consistent way to report the data is to
take them at their word.
Granted, that may not yield a scientifically precise analysis of America's racial makeup. But then, race has
no scientifically precise reality. It is a social construct, not a genetic fact. The DNA of Blacks cannot be
distinguished from the DNA of Asians or the DNA of whites — or the DNA of all of them combined.
For all our talk about "people of color," the term has very little objective meaning. In the 1750s, Benjamin
Franklin railed against the influx of German immigrants to the colony of Pennsylvania, describing them as
being of such a "swarthy complexion" that they could never hope to assimilate into mainstream America. To
our minds, Franklin's racial distinction between "swarthy" Germans and white Anglos is ridiculous on its face.
But what racial category isn't equally ridiculous?
The census questionnaire used to distinguish solemnly between "Negroes," "mulattoes," "quadroons," and
"octoroons." In 1930, it designated "Mexican" as a separate race; then it eliminated that label in 1940. All
that can be said with certainty about these and all the other racial hair-splitting with which so many
Americans have been obsessed for so long is that none of them has any empirical authenticity. The same is
true of the current fixation with classifying Americans into "majority" or "minority" races and assuming that
one group's gain must mean another's loss.
"The view of American society as cleaved into two discrete blocs by race is too simplistic to describe the
likely future of the country," writes Alba. The best evidence of that is in the soaring numbers of young people
of racially mixed backgrounds. Their numbers continue to climb, as ever more of us meet, marry, and
become mothers and fathers without regard to racial divisions. Loud and influential voices — in academia,
politics, and the media — keep telling us how important race is. But tens of millions of Americans, who love
and are loved across the color line, know better.
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Israel could teach Biden a few things. First never trust the word of radical Muslims. Never cede territory believing that will calm the beats. Radical Muslim culture is totally different than western culture. They are more suited to live in cages along with other wild animals.
T. Belman. Why is Israel appeasing Hamas. Why is she negotiating. There shouldn’t be any dilemma here. The stronger you are, the less you should negotiate. The violence is intended to bring Israel to the table. Don’t let the violence win.
Hamas went ahead with mass rally and inevitable riots, even after deal to resupply Qatari funds; Bennett, just like his predecessor, has to carefully gauge Israel’s response
By AVI ISSACHAROFF, TOI
Palestinian protesters lift national flags gesture during a demonstration by the border fence with Israel, east
of Gaza City, to denounce the Israeli siege of the Palestinian strip and express support for Jerusalem’s
Al-Aqsa mosque, on August 21, 2021. – (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
Israeli troops fired live rounds at Palestinian protesters who hurled firebombs and burned tyres from behind
the Gaza Strip’s border fence, with medics reporting 23 Palestinians injured. The protest called for by the
Palestinian Hamas movement that rules Gaza marks the burning 52 years ago of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa
Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam.
While the knee-jerk reaction to the violence on the Gaza border Saturday, including a Palestinian opening
fire at point-blank range and critically injuring a border guard, would be for a forceful response against
Hamas, it is doubtful such action would lead to calm or have any other desirable effect for Israel.
And:
E3 Statement on the JCPoA: 19 August 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
We, the governments of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, note with grave concern the
latest reports by the IAEA confirming that Iran has produced uranium metal enriched up to 20%
for the first time, and has significantly increased its production capacity of uranium enriched up t
o 60%.
We reiterate that these are serious violations of Iran’s commitments under the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA). Both are key steps in the development of a nuclear
weapon and Iran has no credible civilian need for either measure. Our concerns are deepened by
the fact that Iran has significantly limited IAEA access through withdrawing from JCPoA-agreed
monitoring arrangements and ceasing application of the Additional Protocol.
Iran‘s activities are all the more troubling given the fact talks in Vienna have been interrupted
upon Tehran’s request for two months now and that Iran has not yet committed to a date for their
resumption. While refusing to negotiate, Iran is instead establishing facts on the ground which
make a return to the JCPOA more complicated.
Iran must halt all activities in violation of the JCPoA without delay. We urge Iran to return to the
negotiations in Vienna as soon as possible with a view to bringing them to a swift, successful
conclusion. We have repeatedly stressed that time is on no-one’s side.
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