Could the Syrian Kurds Awakening Lead to Greater Kurdistan?
Jacques Neriah, JCPA
Vol. 13, No. 23 August 15, 2013
Vol. 13, No. 23 August 15, 2013
- After largely sitting on the sidelines of the Syrian revolution, political groups from Syria’s Kurdish minority have moved decisively to claim control of Kurdish-populated areas.
- For the first time in modern Syrian Kurdish history, Kurds have created an exclusively Kurdish-controlled enclave. Kurdish spokesmen have indicated that they are planning to form a provisional Kurdish government due to the absence of any central authority.
- The Kurds have faced resistance to their new gains from the jihadist groups Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
Very Good News Israel
The Jewish State in its true light.
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In the 18th Aug 2013 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
· An Israeli sensor can make artificial skin sensitive to touch, temperature and humidity.
· The latest Pillcam internal camera is giving new life to Crohn’s sufferers.
· 1 million Palestinian Arab tourists visited Israel during Ramadan and Eid.
· Weizmann scientists have built microscopic wires for more powerful microchips.
· Israeli crops are “the solution to the world food crisis”
· IBM has bought its 13th Israeli company.
· Emotional Israeli reunion for 10 Yemenite children and their parents.
· Last week’s JPost Israel Good News descriptive summary
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Egypt’s Christians Attack Western Media Coverage
My sentiments exactly. Ted Belman
Referring to perceived sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood by western media outlets, the statement, translated by Al Arabiya, called on the West to “read objectively the facts of events, and not give international and political cover to these terrorists and bloody groups.”
The church reaffirmed its support for the Egyptian authorities, following the ouster of Muhammed Morsi.
“The Egyptian Coptic Church is following the unfortunate developments on the ground of our country Egypt and emphasizes its strong stance with the Egyptian police, armed forces and other organizations of the Egyptian people in the face of groups of armed violence and black terrorism.
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State media: Muslim Brotherhood supporters face murder, terrorism probe
250 of group’s members to be investigated, over 1,000 arrested, following violent weekend clashes, state news agency says. Confrontations between Morsi supporters, Egyptian security forces, leave more than 170 dead
Egyptian prosecutors have placed 250 Muslim Brotherhood supporters under investigation for murder, attempted murder and terrorism, the state MENA news agency said on Saturday.
Police arrested more than 1,000 Brotherhood sympathisers in the wake of clashes on Friday that pitted followers of deposed IslamistPresident Mohamed Morsi against the security forces. More than 170 people died nationwide in the violence that day.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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