Bahrain's King calls for ‘Intensified Efforts’ to Implement Two-State Solution…
25 September 2020
 At UN, Hamad hails normalisation with Israel as ’embodiment of our resolute approach to openness and coexistence with all,’ urges Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa [pictured above] on Thursday hailed his decision to normalise relations with Israel but also called for the establishment of a Palestinian state based on previous peace plans. “From of our keenness to preserve the security and stability of the region, and as an embodiment of our resolute approach to openness and coexistence with all, we have announced the establishment of relations with the State of Israel, sending a civilized message affirming that our hand is extended for a just and comprehensive peace, as it is the best guarantee for the future of all peoples of the region,” he declared in a taped speech screened to UN delegates in New York. The monarch welcomed the United Arab Emirates’ “courageous” decision to establish full diplomatic relations with the Jewish state “in exchange for stopping Israel’s annexation of the Palestinian lands.” With this step, Abu Dhabi has “enhanced opportunities for peace, reduced tensions, and given the people of the region a new era of understanding, rapprochement and peaceful coexistence, while preserving its firm position on the Palestinian issue.” Bahrain calls for “intensified efforts to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in accordance with the two-state solution,” King Hamad went on in his UN address.
 “We consider this a cornerstone for achieving a just and comprehensive peace leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, based on the resolutions of international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative, in order to enter a new stage of work in which we extend bridges of good neighbourly relations to build and develop the common interests of the countries of the region.” Jordan, Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia also spoke of the importance of a two-state solution at the pre-1967 lines when they addressed the UNGA. That vision runs counter to US President Donald Trump’s two-state plan, which recognises existing Israeli sovereignty over most of Jerusalem and allows for Israel to annex up to 30% of the West Bank. This madness continues and worsens by the day. The 2-State Solution is already dead in the water and the PLO will NEVER agree to the annexation of Judea and Samaria! Yet the leaders involved seem absolutely blind to the reality of all these absurd plans coming to nothing as they always have and always will. God alone must have sent them such a great delusion?
Arab Aid to Palestinians Slashed by 85%………….
September 26, 2020
 How's this for putting money where the mouth is?….. Ramallah has reportedly received only $38 million from the wealthy Arab states this year compared with $267 million in the same period in 2019, according to the New Arab. The publication claims that US President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he urged the wealthy Arab nations to slash the funding for the Arab so-called Palestinians when they established normal ties with Israel. The Palestinians have reacted by running to Turkey, as well as to the rejectionist Hizballah, Qatar and Iran.
 Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas [pictured above] has held several conversations with President Recep Erdogan since the UAE and Bahrain signed normalisation pacts with Israel. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met Erdogan in Istanbul last month. [pictured above] The Turkish leader is trying to effect a reconciliation between the rival Arab Palestinian factions together with others ways of facing up to the US-Israel-Gulf Arab line-up. Developing………….
First Formal Israel-Lebanese Talks Mediated by the US start next month….
September 26, 2020
 Reliable Washington sources reveal that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to launch formal negotiations, under Trump administration mediation, on their long-standing maritime and land disputes after the Succoth festival in mid-October. The live wire in bringing the sides together was US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenkar. [pictured above] Our sources disclosed on September 20 that his mission was off to a good start under the impetus of President Trump’s drive for yet another Middle East coup in the run-up to the November elections, after the normalisation deals between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain.. Trump’s election campaign is giving new impetus to talks on the Israel-Lebanon controversies over their maritime and land borders – another deep-rooted Mid East dispute attacked by President Donald Trump’s diplomats after he achieved the coup of UAE-Bahrain ties with Israel. How to finally demarcate the overlapping Israeli and Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zones has defeated previous mediators. An agreement would allow Lebanon to start exploiting its offshore gas and oil reserves and help haul that country out of a deep economic hole – with timely kudos for Trump diplomacy.
 Reliable sources report that the talks underway at the UN camp in Naqura on the Lebanon-Israeli border are focusing on the two border issues between the two countries. The land border marked by the Blue Line Since 2011 is more or less accepted, excepting for the small pocket of Shabaa Farms. It is based on the 1949 armistice agreement and the British-French agreement which demarcated the boundary between Mandatory Palestine and Mandatory Syria and Lebanon. The maritime dispute is trickier: it is over an 856-square km elongated triangle of energy-rich east Mediterranean Sea, In earlier negotiations, Israel agreed to assign 58% of the disputed piece of ocean to Lebanon and retain 42% for itself. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker has been shuttling between Beirut and Jerusalem in recent days to try and go forward on this basis. He found Lebanese officials he met, instead of the usual foot-dragging, raring for a deal, as the key to drawing investments and lifting its bankrupt finances out of the pit. With the White House pressing for quick results, Schenkar, who is a seasoned diplomat and knowledgeable on Mid East corridors of power, may be expected to find the right buttons to push in Beirut for bringing the Trump administration another coup and arresting Lebanon’s disastrous slump. Developing..…
High-ranking Sudanese hold talks in UAE with Emirati and US officials……...
September 25, 2020
 General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, [pictured above] head of Sudan’s sovereign council, is holding talks with UAE leaders on “regional issues” amid reports concerning a Sudanese decision to normalise relations with Israel. Justice Minister Naser-Eddin Abdelbari is meeting separately with US officials. present in Abu Dhabi to discuss the “removal of Sudan from the list of states sponsoring terrorism.” This is the Khartoum government’s main proviso for going forward on formal ties with Israel as well as a demand for approximately $3bn in humanitarian assistance and direct budgetary aid.
Inside the White House
By William Koenig
White House Correspondent
26 September 2020 Arabs and the EU this week: Is the Arab Peace Initiative and previous UN resolutions trumping the “not-so-genius” Abraham Accords and Peace to Prosperity Plan? The Arab Peace Initiative and UN resolutions are overshadowing the not-so-genius Kushner-designed Abraham Accords. UAE and Bahrain said at the UN this week their agreement with Israel was meant to stop annexation talks and promote a Palestinian two-state plan [see top article]. The Jerusalem Post wrote that in Amman on Thursday, the foreign ministers of Egypt, France, Germany and Jordan and the EU special representative for the Middle East peace process met to discuss ways to advance a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines and the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. Netanyahu and Gantz have spoken of the approval of 5000 new homes in the settlement communities in an attempt to appease leaders in Judea and Samaria. I am sure that will get a rebuke from the Arabs and the EU. Abraham Accords TV ads and Rosh Hashanah message and Tropical Storm Beta This week we have Israel going into their second coronavirus lockdown. The Arab nations and the EU are acknowledging two states and pre-1967 lines (based on the Arab Peace Initiative, which is also based on UN Resolution including Palestinians refugees) and fully endorsing that the UAE and Bahrain normalisation was to stop Israel’s annexation. On Thursday of last week, President Trump’s campaign launched a TV commercial about the Abraham Accords agreement between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
 That same day Tropical Depression 22 began. Moreover, President Trump, touting the Abraham Accords, released his Rosh Hashanah message to Jews in the United States. On Tuesday, as President Trump was speaking of the Abraham Accords in his annual UN General Assembly (UNGA) message and mentioning that other nations will be joining, Tropical Storm Beta (the former Tropical Depression 22), a massive rain producer, stalled over Houston. Bahrain to UNGA: Peace with Israel was in exchange for halting annexation; Jordan, Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia speak of pre-1967 lines Jordan, Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia also spoke of the importance of a two-state solution at the pre-1967 lines when they addressed the UNGA. As a Jerusalem Post article stated, that vision runs counter to U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-state plan, which recognises existing Israeli sovereignty over most of Jerusalem and allows for Israel to annex up to 30 percent of the West Bank. Twenty-four hours after Benjamin Netanyahu’s signing of the Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain at the White House, he arrived back in Israel facing another coronavirus national lockdown. On Monday, Israeli Defence Minister Gantz ordered the IDF to build field hospitals for coronavirus cases as hospitals fill up.
 The next day he was at the White House to meet with Kushner [pictured above] and the defence department to discuss concerns over F-35s being sold to the UAE. This occurred as COVID cases on Tuesday and Wednesday exploded to 7000 per day with talks to further tighten the national lockdown, stricter than in March. Netanyahu said the nation is at war with COVID-19. On Wednesday, September 23, Israel’s health ministry said 6923 new virus cases had been diagnosed the previous day. This was a jump of 100,000 cases in 30 days (back to August 23), now totalling 200,041 since the beginning of the pandemic in Israel. The Israel-UAE Abraham Accords was announced at the White House on August 14, halting talks of annexation/extended sovereignty discussions. Today a new stricter lock-down went into effect in Israel at 2:00 p.m., as Israeli lawmakers continued to argue over possible restrictions for protests and public prayers. The COVID-19 disruption continues in Israel and the United States. COVID-19 worries are rapidly increasing in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and other European countries.
***** [Certain waivers were announced on Friday, listing the essential services that will continue to operate full or part-time during the lock-down.
They include limited bus and rail services, high-tech industries, the Defence Ministry and defence industries, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Security Commission, the IDF, the Shin Bet security service, police, prison services, the local fire brigades, local authority offices, the power grid, water, ports, building, the stock exchange, national insurance, social welfare, medical facilities for the disabled, private kindergartens for children of essential personnel, and youth-at-risk classes. Restaurants will be closed except for home deliveries. Prayer services and demonstrations alike are be restricted to 20 participants outdoors. Both chief rabbis ordered the closure of synagogues even on Yom Kippur the holiest day of the Jewish year, as well as the subsequent Succoth festival, for the sake of saving lives. Anti-government protesters will be confined like the rest of the population to within 1km of their homes, thereby breaking up the unruly, mass outbreaks taking place weekly outside the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem.]
Turkey's military deterrence breaks down in Syria's last rebel stronghold….
26 September 2020
 Despite Turkey’s efforts to maintain the status quo in Idlib, a Russian-backed Syrian assault seems increasingly likely. Clashes between the Syrian government forces and rebels in Idlib have significantly increased following Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s [pictured below] visit to Syria early September, marking a turning point for the Russian-Turkish cease-fire deal in the last rebel bastion. The Syrian government forces and Russian fighter jets have intensified their attacks on Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other jihadist groups’ positions in and around Idlib province. In the past two weeks, Zawiyah Mountain between Idlib and Hama, Gap Plains to the south-west of Idlib and the Latakia countryside have been witnessing unprecedented heavy bombardments since the Russian-brokered cease-fire deal on March 5. In response, HTS and other jihadist groups are trying to stop the advance of the Syrian troops by mortar fire and rocket attacks on Saraqib and Kafr Nabl along the M5 highway that links the country’s north and south. The escalation has taken a dangerous turn after the Russian Centre for Reconciliation in Syria at the Khmeimim air base accused HTS of plotting a conspiracy by using chemical weapons in an effort to provoke the international community.
 Turkey, in turn, has scaled up its military deployments to Idlib’s de-escalation zone that was set up as part of the March 5 deal that also calls for the reopening of the critical M4 highway linking the country’s east and west and cleansing the Idlib area from radical elements. The number of Turkish military vehicles dispatched to the area has exceeded 9,750 over the past seven months.
The Syrian government, meanwhile, has reinforced its positions in southern Idlib and western Aleppo with dispatching its troops to eastern and southern Idlib from Deir ez-Zor where they became idle after the fighting in the area mainly abated. Damascus’ patience with Idlib has worn thin as now it wants to concentrate its force on the eastern Euphrates where American troops are deployed along with Turkish and Kurdish forces. Intensifying clashes are the latest sign that the technical talks between the Turkish and Russian militaries are stumbling. In the last round of the talks September 16 in Ankara, Russia reportedly asked Turkey to disband its checkpoints in the Syrian-government controlled areas of Idlib’s de-escalation zone, decrease the number of its troops, withdraw its heavy weapons in the region, and remove the armed rebels from the vicinity of the M4 highway. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s position on withdrawal demands is intransigent. “If Turkey withdraws from Syria, would Syria suddenly regain its peace and prosperity?" Erdogan said
 Turkey's insistence on holding its ground in Syria has also reshaped the military calculations on the ground. The financial collapse triggered by the American sanctions, impeding political talks and reconstruction process have fuelled the fears of Damascus and Moscow that the three-way territorial split of Syria could become permanent. Damascus is troubled with Moscow’s slow-moving game plan. In summary, although Ankara’s game plan is to maintain the status quo in Idlib through military deterrence, further escalation in Idlib seems likely. Russia is dragging along Turkey to a new turning point at a time when Ankara has already been disturbed by its inefficacious Libya policy abroad and deepening financial woes at home. Rushing toward a convergence culminating as described in Isaiah 17?
The US military is quietly killing terrorist leaders in Syria with its secret missile packed with swords…………...
September 26, 2020
 The US military has been quietly eliminating terrorist leaders in Syria with the Hellfire AGM-114R9X, a non-explosive Hellfire missile that kills its enemies by crushing them with 100 pounds of metal or by cutting them apart with the swords stored inside. The most recent strike, according to The New York Times, was about two weeks ago and eliminated a senior attack planner for al Qaeda. Thursday, Director of the National Counterterrorism Centre Christopher Miller revealed that in Syria, “Hurras al-Din” a group made up of several al Qaeda veterans ”has suffered successive losses of key leaders and operatives.” The so-called “Ninja Bomb” or “Flying Ginsu,” a modified Hellfire equipped with a non-explosive warhead that kills enemies with 100 pounds of metal, sheer force, and six blades, first became public knowledge when The Wall Street Journal reported its existence in May 2019. The weapon’s development began during the Obama administration as an airstrike armament less likely to kill civilians than other battlefield options.
Don Stewart's BREAKING NEWS 25 September 2020
“None of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand”. [Daniel 12;10]
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