From Correspondence – Note – Killa Saifullah District, Pakistan

26 Friday Sep 2014

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taliban with weapons roam there freely…….it seems that they are making another sawat or waziristan……no one can ask them about their activities even the tribal chief nawab is silent…..and just 100 away from killa saif ullah there comes loralai city ,a city of 5 lac population most people educated, the in loralai a young man was beheaded by taliban his video of slaughtering also came on scene…there was a letter with his body in which they had warned the people that whoever speaks against taliban would see the same fate

Posted verbatim as received 9/26/2014.

After more than a decade of effort, Taliban continue to promote and produce mayhem and murder in many districts of as yet unsecured frontiers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  The miscreants remain “hard to see” until they show up, and Out There they continue to show up in force and continue demonstrating ability to choreograph their assaults.

Pakistani Dawn reported a decapitation in Loralai back in June of this year, and I cannot tell whether the correspondent had that to rely or something new.

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Taliban have beheaded 12 civilians and torched some 60 homes in an assault on security forces in the eastern Ghazni province, an Afghan official said.

The province’s deputy police chief Asadullah Ensafi said the Taliban have attacked several villages over the past week in the Arjistan district.

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/09/26/foreign/taliban-behead-12-civilians-in-ghazni/ – 9/27/2014.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1112630 – ” Decapitated Body Found in Laralei” – 6/14/2014.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killa_Saifullah_District

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loralai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loralai_District

http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/Balochistan/index.html – “Balochistan Assessment – 2014”.

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25 Thursday Sep 2014

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Iran’s Prosecutor of the Special Court, Mohamad Mohavadi, continued that the punishment for these crimes of “anti-government views” is execution, and stated that all those who had a hand in publishing [his] book will also be killed.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4731/breaking-news-iran-executing-iran-mandela – 9/25/2014.

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Iran – Ayatollah Tortures Ayatollah

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24 Wednesday Sep 2014

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Political Islam evidently encourages the narcissistic want of power over others — supremacy — and children may obtain that social grammar early, and there is a difference between “you’re as good as anyone else” and “you’re better than everyone else”. The course of a malignant narcissism ends always in sadistic control by way of the diminishment and infantilization — induced dependence — of constituents by a despot and related demonizing, murder, and plunder of others. That’s the program. If you don’t like it, stand up together now.

The prompt:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/girl-8-calls-on-islamic-youth-to-back-jihad/story-e6frg6nf-1226475239074 – 9/17/2014.

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24 Wednesday Sep 2014

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The unity Israel showed during the Gaza conflict was deeply moving. It reminded us that in a profound existential sense we remain one people. Whether or not we share a covenant of faith, we share a covenant of fate. That is a good state to be in as we face the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, when we stand before God not just as individuals but also as a people.

As for anti-Semitism, rarely has it been more self-evident that the hate that starts with Jews never ends with Jews. The most significant enemies of the Jews today are the enemies of freedom everywhere. Worldwide we may feel uncomfortable, anxious, but there are parts of the world where Christians are being butchered, beheaded, driven from their homes and living in terror.

http://forward.com/articles/206189/on-rosh-hashanah-a-breath-of-life/#ixzz3EF9i7b5u – 9/23/2014.

“Gaza Suzerain” Becomes BackChannels Category

21 Sunday Sep 2014

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“The truth is that this started as a war against Israel, but it turned into a war between the Palestinians,” Gazans tell me. “And it’s not a war between Hamas and Fatah anymore, but rather between factions within Hamas, factions within Fatah, between individuals.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4573441,00.html – “In Gaza, hatred for Hamas and resentment of West Bankers: They may be too scared to speak publicly against Hamas, but the signs are there; and they have not forgotten that protests from their compatriots during the recent fighting were conspicuous in their absence.” by Francesca Borri – Published: 09.22.14, 00:04 / Israel News

 

It’s just not news when a blogger creates a new category.

However, I think the last Hamas war with Israel amply illustrates all of the issues with the Muslim Brotherhood, its behavior in language, and its soul-deadening program.

Billionaire Khaled Mashaal seems at the moment somewhere between stays in Qatar and Tunisia or Turkey.

“Gaza Fortress” lies in ruins.

And if Gazans have not figured out anything else, they’ve got to be figuring out this: they’re on their own.

I have made “Gaza Suzerain” a category here because . . . it’s a theme I believe the realpolitik within Gaza will make clear.

Let the residents of Gaza — Gazans — become their better selves with the human rights afforded others in the world, and let them do that for themselves with greater security provided by Egypt and Israel both.

Welcome to modernity.

Gazans may come up with something better than Israel: i.e., their own internally autonomous, democratic, and tolerant culture and state.

Other BackChannels notes on “suzerainty” (so far, with Gaza the only geopolitical space contemplated for the concept).

Update 9/22/2013

The concept of suzerainty (and protectorates) has a life longer in history than any given YNet News article, but checking back on this piece, I was surprised to find the referenced key link broken.

What sent me to look?

Last week’s Gaza “boat people” drowning, which is being spun as having been motivated by (that tired old canard) “the occupation”, which anti-Semitic truth I refer to as “The Preoccuation”.  Francesca Bourri’s article focused the spotlight where it needed to be focused: Hamas’s dismal record in governance and in war and the quite probably truth about the despair Gazans deal in their isolation between large forces: Israel, Egypt, the Arab world, the modern world.

That deadlock is not eternal.

Gazans themselves need strengthening with reference to their unfortunate relationship with Hamas, which looks to me like showbiz — good script: it just hasn’t anything to do with humanity and its real aspirations, beliefs, needs, and wants — covering kleptocracy.

I’ve tweeted Borri and Ynet News.  I want to hear how a story disappears from major Israeli media.

The talkbacks for the article still appear online:

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/App/TalkBack/CdaViewOpenTalkBack/0,11382,L-4573441,00.html

Update 9/23/2014

Since noticing the piece referenced two days ago, it appears to have been retracted by YnetNews without apology, notice, or explanation.

 

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ISIS-Held Hostages Return to Turkey – Two Observations

20 Saturday Sep 2014

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Turkish broadcaster NTV said Turkey did not pay a ransom for the hostages who were held for three months by ISIS militants.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/09/20/Turkish-hostages-seized-in-northern-Iraq-are-free.html – 9/20/2014.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is struggling to cut off the millions of dollars in oil revenue that has made the Islamic State one of the wealthiest terror groups in history but has been unable to persuade Turkey, the NATO ally where much of the oil is traded on the black market, to crack down on an extensive sales network.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/09/13/seeks-turkey-help-starve-islamic-state-oil-revenue/IQIx3EPqamJ4iMfwEhQ7wI/story.html – 9/14/2014.

In relation to “hoping the crocodile eats you last”, the definite-maybe “crocodiles” of the Islamic Small Wars may be ambivalent about whether their role is to be crocodile or the prey of one.

We’ll have to imagine the degree of leverage or rollover, either, involved in securing the 49 hostages taken by ISIS in their sweep into Mosul, Iraq.

Davutoglu said their release was the result of the Turkish intelligence agency’s “own methods”, and not a “point operation” involving special forces. He gave no further details.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/20/isis-releases-hostages-turkish-consulate-mosul – 9/20/2014..

Additional Reference

http://www.thetower.org/1057-sale-of-smuggled-oil-to-turkey-boosting-isis-coffers/ – 9/12/2014.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/analysis/2014/08/28/Experts-ISIS-makes-up-to-3-million-daily-in-oil-sales.html – 8/28/2014.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/tr/business/2014/06/turkey-syria-isis-selling-smuggled-oil.html – 8/13/2014.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-makes-million-day-selling-oil-analysts/story?id=24814359 – 8/2/2014.

Update

While the details of the hostage deal are still unclear, Ankara has had interlocutors with IS — from Arab tribes to former Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who sought refuge in Turkey — who could have been instrumental in reaching it. Such a deal, however, may include a promise of continued non-involvement in the campaign against the jihadist group, with the soldiers stationed at Suleyman Shah serving as an insurance policy for the jihadists.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/21/islamic_state_turkey_hostage – 9/21/2014.

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From Shiite Islam — Should Be Famous Last Words

18 Thursday Sep 2014

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Fahs emphasized that he backed the so-called Arab Spring from the very beginning: “I am human, I am Muslim, I am Lebanese and Arab, and I want reformation because our call for reformation includes liberation from tyrants, our call includes a renaissance which is free and not extremist in accordance with the framework of Islam.”

http://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2014/09/17/shiite-scholar-claims-iran-behind-syrian-conflict – 9/17/2014.

Related:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Sep-18/271087-anti-hezbollah-shiite-scholar-hani-fahs-dies.ashx#axzz3DiWcTZ8y – 9/18/2014.

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From Correspondence – On Survival in Hostile Surrounds

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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In some ways, every country is as many countries as the people who live in it. If you can socially navigate away from bother or threat, that’s what you do. If not: keeping quiet may be what you have to do for a while.

The “politics of hate” are difficult everywhere because the communities that generate the same — not only in Islam: look at Russia — enable criminals to acquire power, and then they are interested in being powerful and holding on to power, not in the doing of good things. The wrong personalities get their hands on the wheels and levers of governance, and then they are hard to deal with.

It’s good to hear from you.

Some people “check in” — and they’re far more interesting than me, but it’s hard to see the same fully when they feel constrained or intimidated by their political atmosphere from sharing background, insight, or news at length.

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