Syrian Drone over Golan follows Trump-Putin Disagreement on Syrian Buffer Zones…...
November 11, 2017
The Syrian UAV was sent over the Golan, likely with Russian approval, to probe Israel’s flexibility on the buffer zones for keeping Syrian/Iranian/Hizballah forces far from its borders.
The Syrian UAV which flew over the Golan demilitarised zone Saturday, November 11, was a direct result of the failure of US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to reach an agreement in time for the Danang summit in Vietnam on the political and military future of Syria.
They were at odds in particular on the depth of the buffer zone to be carved out between Syria and Israel.
The Syrian UAV was sent over the Golan to probe Israel’s reactions and find out how far into Israeli air space the drone would be permitted to enter.
This probe was to be taken as a measure of Israeli flexibility and willingness to accept a buffer zone between IDF positions and Syrian/Iranian/Hizballah forces of less than 30-40km deep.
Israel struck back and launched a Patriot missile defence system which intercepted the Syrian drone before it crossed the border and reached Israeli air space over the Golan.
No breach of Israel’s sovereignty was allowed to occur.
Neither did a “high-ranking IDF source” need to offer reassurance that the Russian liaison apparatus was kept in the picture, since the Russian officers in Syria must have tracked the UAV and taken note of the message Israel relayed by shooting it down.
Our sources add that the Trump administration, as well as Moscow, ispushing Israel hard for flexibility as to the depth of the Syrian buffer zone.
But the Netanyahu government has not so far given way, in the knowledge that Tehran fully intends to maintain military strength together with its proxies, including Hizballah, in post-war Syria.
The revelation of Friday, revealed by the BBC November 11, supported by large satellite images, that Iran is building a permanent base in Syria just 50km from the Israeli-Syrian Golan border, was intended to show that Israeli leaders don’t mean what they say.
The site cited by “Western intelligence sources” is El-Kiswah, 14km from Damascus, where Syrian military facilities already exist
This British report contains several quotes of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s declarations that Israel will not permit Iran to establish a military presence in Syria that threatens its borders.
The May government in the U.K. has a bone to pick with Netanyahu on other issues.
The Brits, whom both Washington and Moscow have cut out of decision-making on Syria’s future, were also taking a dig at them both by showing that Tehran is out of their control.
The buffer zone is not the only topic on which Trump and Putin are in discord on the shape of post-war Syria.
The plan for a US-Russian deal on a final accommodation was meant to ride on the momentum of the recent military successes in pushing ISIS back from eastern Syria and into western Iraq.
Both presidents felt that these victories were too good not to use for working together on Syria’s future.
Therefore, when ISIS strongholds in Al Qaim, Iraq and Abu Kamal, Syria fell to joint Iraqi-Syrian-Hizballah-pro-Iranian Shiite militia forces in the last two weeks, both the US and Russia were eager to seize star roles as victors by forging a final accord for ending the Syrian war.
However, the US and Russian teams working on a draft accord found the gaps between them too great to bridge at this time.
They are at loggerheads on major issues such as the political future ofBashar Assad – how long he would remain president and how much power must he hand over to Syrian opposition groups in a government coalition.
Neither do they see eye to eye on the disposition of foreign armies to remain in the country, specifically Iran’s role in the new Syria.
The differences between Trump and Putin on the Syrian issue had prevented the release of a statement of accord.
The US president insisted that without an accord there would be no formal sit-down at the Vietnam Asian summit.
Nonetheless, the negotiating teams did achieve progress on two points, reliable sources report:
It was decided to expand the de-escalation zones already operating in Syria and also to boost the joint US-Russian Monitoring Centre based in Amman – not only to prevent accidental clashes between Russian and US forces, but also between their local allies.
Pope Denounces 'Short-sighted'Human Activity for Global Warming…..
12 November 2017
Pope Francis listens to President of Nauru
Baron Waqa on the occasion of his meeting
with a delegation of Pacific leaders in the
Clementine Hall, at the Vatican, Saturday,
November 11, 2017.
VATICAN CITY; Globalist Jesuit pope Francis on Saturday blasted "short-sighted human activity" for global warming and rising sea levels and urged leaders at climate talks in Germany to take a global outlook as they negotiate ways to curb heat-trapping [?] emissions.
Francis met with a delegation of Pacific leaders and told them he shares their concerns about rising sea levels and increasingly intense weather systems that are threatening their small islands.
He decried in particular the state of oceans, where over-fishing and pollution by plastics and micro-plastics are killing fish stocks and sea life that are critical to Pacific island livelihoods.
While several causes are to blame he said, "sadly, many of them are due to short-sighted human activity connected with certain ways of exploiting natural and human resources, the impact of which ultimately reaches the ocean bed itself," the pope warned.
History's first Latin American Jesuit pope has frequently spoken out against global warming and the impact he believes it has in particular on poor and indigenous peoples.
His landmark 2015 encyclical "Praise Be" denounced how wealthy countries exploit the poor, risking turning God's creation into an "immense pile of filth."
The Pacific leaders praised the encyclical for drawing attention to those most vulnerable to climate change, including residents of small Pacific islands for whom rising sea levels pose an existential threat. [?]
The president of Nauru, Baron Waqa, told Francis that Pacific island leaders would urge negotiators at Bonn to uphold the Paris climate accord, where governments made commitments to keep global temperature rise this century below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Waqa warned that the 1.5-degree rise was a crucial threshold: "There only remains a few years before we exceed carbon dioxide levels that will make temperature rise to levels that will see many parts of the Pacific disappear," he said.
What is this man smoking?
Francis told the Pacific leaders that he hoped the Bonn talks would take their plight into consideration, and look for a shared strategy to confront the "grave problems" facing the environment and oceans.
What a load of rubbish! This man has yet to visit these regions - If he did he'd find out that what he is suggesting is happening is simply not?
The globe has now been in a cooling phase for many years. The oceans are NOT rising, and the northern hemisphere is now experiencing one of itsearliest plunges into bitterly cold winter weather conditions.
China Races to Make FIRST CONTACT with Aliens Using World’s Largest Dish….
12 November 2017
China is racing to become a major space superpower and could be the first nation to make contact with alien life by using the world’s largest radio dish which can detect signals from the deepest depths of space.
This will not please the Vatican – they are all set up to greet and baptise the new arrivals – China would probably prefer them to become confirmed atheists? Or Buddhists?
Last year Earth’s most-populous country became a space exploration powerhouse after it fired its brand new lab Tiangong 2 into low orbit – joining only the US and Russia.
China made the move following numerous reports of suspected-extraterrestrial encounters, including claims that a UFO was seen over the Great Wall of China last week.
The superpower has now poured billions of Yuan into space exploration and the world’s largest dish to detect alien signals coming from other galaxies.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said the bold project would “enable us to take larger and further steps in space exploration, and make new contributions to building up China as a space power.”
The 500-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope is about twice the size of the US’ Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Liu Cixin, a top Chinese researcher into alien life, described the dish as something “out of science fiction”.
Mr Liu has written a number of books about the risks of first contact and warns that the “appearance of this ‘other’” could end with mankind’s extinction.
In one of his books, he said: “Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent”.
“But perhaps tomorrow we’ll wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit.”
Wheelchair-bound space boffin Stephen Hawking has also warned researchers about the risks of contacting aliens.
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