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Re: The Iran & Syria War
By: patrick jane Date: June 29, 2020, 5:30 pm
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Iran issues arrest warrant for President Trump over Qassem
Soleimani killing
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Iran has issued an arrest warrant for President Trump and 35
others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has
requested Interpol for help, according to the Fars news agency.
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Re: The Iran & Syria War
By: patrick jane Date: July 13, 2020, 12:23 pm
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Third major explosion in Iran in 3 weeks; Gen. Jack Keane reacts
5 minutes
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Re: The Iran & Syria War
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Third major explosion in Iran in 3 weeks; Gen. Jack Keane reacts
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He served our country and I thank Him. interesting topic
Blade
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Re: The Iran & Syria War
By: patrick jane Date: August 14, 2020, 5:41 pm
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Re: The Iran & Syria War
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A build up to the Psalm 83 War?
Blade
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Re: The Iran & Syria War
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Bahrain Makes Peace with Israel, Following United Arab Emirates
Today’s deal will normalize diplomatic, commercial, and security
ties. Trump administration hopes more Arab nations soon follow.
Bahrain has become the latest Arab nation to agree to normalize
ties with Israel as part of a broader diplomatic push by
President Donald Trump and his administration to fully integrate
the Jewish state into the Middle East.
Trump announced the agreement on Friday, following a three-way
phone call he had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The three leaders
also issued a brief six-paragraph joint statement, attesting to
the deal.
“Another HISTORIC breakthrough today!” Trump tweeted.
The announcement on the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001
terrorist attacks came less than a week before Trump hosts a
White House ceremony to mark the establishment of full relations
between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Bahrain’s
foreign minister will attend the event.
“There’s no more powerful response to the hatred that spawned
9/11 than this agreement,” Trump told reporters at the White
House.
It represents another diplomatic win for Trump less than two
months before the presidential election and an opportunity to
shore up support among pro-Israel evangelicals. Just last week,
Trump announced agreements in principle for Kosovo to recognize
Israel and for Serbia to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem.
“This is a historic breakthrough to further peace in the Middle
East,” Trump, Netanyahu, and King Hamad said in the statement.
“Opening direct dialogue and ties between these two dynamic
societies and advanced economies will continue the positive
transformation of the Middle East and increase stability,
security, and prosperity in the region.”
Most people vividly remember where they were on the dreadful
day, 19 years ago, when terrorists hijacked planes, weaponizing
them as bombs to be flown into buildings. As a sophomore
studying at Union University (Jackson, TN), I remember the
images flashing across the TV screen as we paused our “Becoming
a Global Christian” class. The professor, the students, we were
all speechless as we witnessed live coverage of the second plane
hitting the second tower.
Like the UAE agreement, Friday’s Bahrain-Israel deal will
normalize diplomatic, commercial, security, and other relations
between the two countries. Bahrain, along with Saudi Arabia, had
already dropped a prohibition on Israeli flights using its
airspace. Saudi acquiescence to the agreements has been
considered key to the deals.
Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner noted that
the agreement is the second Israel has reached with an Arab
country in 30 days after having made peace with only two Arab
nations—Egypt and Jordan—in 72 years of its independence.
“This is very fast,” Kushner told The Associated Press. “The
region is responding very favorably to the UAE deal and
hopefully it’s a sign that even more will come.”
Netanyahu welcomed the agreement and thanked Trump. “It took us
26 years between the second peace agreement with an Arab country
and the third, but only 29 days between the third and the
fourth, and there will be more,” he said, referring to the 1994
peace treaty with Jordan and the more recent agreements.
The agreement will likely be seen as a further setback to the
Palestinians who tried unsuccessfully to have the Arab League
condemn normalization with Israel until they have secured an
independent state. That was one of the few cards still held by
Palestinians in negotiations as peace talks remain stalled.
The joint statement made passing mention of the Palestinians,
saying the parties will continue efforts “to achieve a just,
comprehensive, and enduring resolution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict to enable the Palestinian people to
realize their full potential.”
The agreement makes Bahrain the fourth Arab country, after
Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE, to have full diplomatic ties with
Israel. Other Arab nations believed to be on the cusp of fully
recognizing Israel include Oman and Sudan. While tacitly
blessing the deals, Saudi Arabia—the regional power player—is
not expected to move as quickly.
Like the UAE, Bahrain has never fought a war against Israel and
doesn’t share a border with it. But Bahrain, like most of the
Arab world, long rejected diplomatic ties with Israel in the
absence of a peace deal establishing a Palestinian state on
lands captured by Israel in 1967.
The agreement could give a boost to Netanyahu, who was indicted
on corruption charges last year. Deals with Gulf Arab states
“are the direct result of the policy that I have led for two
decades,” namely “peace for peace, peace through strength,”
Netanyahu has said.
The Israeli-UAE deal required Israel to halt its contentious
plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the
Palestinians. Telephone calls soon began working between the
nations as they continue to discuss other deals, including
direct flights.
While the UAE’s population remains small and the federation has
no tradition of standing up to the country’s autocracy, Bahrain
represents a far-different country.
Just off the coast of Saudi Arabia, the island of Bahrain is
among the world’s smallest countries, only about 760 square
kilometers (290 square miles). Bahrain’s location in the Persian
Gulf long has made it a trading stop and a naval defensive
position. The island is home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet and a
recently built British naval base.
Bahrain is acutely aware of threats posed by Iran, an anxiety
that comes from Bahrain’s majority Shiite population, despite
being ruled since 1783 by the Sunni Al Khalifa family. Iran
under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had pushed to take over the
island after the British left, though Bahrainis in 1970
overwhelmingly supported becoming an independent nation and the
UN Security Council unanimously backed that.
Since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, Bahrain’s rulers have
blamed Iran for arming militants on the island. Iran denies the
accusations, though weapons experts suggest explosives found
there bear similarities to others linked to Iran. Israel and
Iran view each other as top regional enemies.
Outside of those tensions, Bahrain’s Shiite majority has accused
the government of treating them like second-class citizens. The
Shiites joined pro-democracy activists in demanding more
political freedoms in 2011, as Arab Spring protests swept across
the wider Middle East. Saudi and Emirati troops ultimately
helped violently put down the demonstrations.
In recent years, Bahrain has cracked down on all dissent,
imprisoned activists, and hampered independent reporting on the
island. While the Obama administration halted the sale of F-16
fighter jets to Bahrain over human rights concerns, the Trump
administration dropped that after coming into office.
Bahrain’s royal family and officials have come out in support of
the Israel-UAE agreement. However, civil society groups and
others have condemned the move and warned the monarchy not to
follow in the UAE’s footsteps—despite Bahrain’s yearslong
flirtation with Israel and Jewish leaders. Unlike the Emirates,
Jews had a historical presence on the island and some still live
there.
In 2017, two prominent US rabbis said Bahrain’s king told them
he hoped the Arab boycott of Israel would end. An interfaith
group from Bahrain that year also visited Israel, though the
state-run Bahrain News Agency later said that it didn’t
“represent any official entity” after an uproar erupted on
social media.
Bahrain has increasingly relied on support from other nations as
it struggles with its debts, particularly neighboring Saudi
Arabia. In that way, Bahrain has followed in lockstep with
Riyadh, meaning any normalization with Israel likely got the
kingdom’s approval though Saudi Arabia has for its part remained
silent since the Emirati announcement.
Associated Press writers Aya Batrawy in Dubai, United Arab
Emirates, and Ilan Ben Zion and Joseph Krauss in Jerusalem
contributed to this report.
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