US Delays Announcing Timetable for Iraq ‘Withdrawal’

Talks between Baghdad and Washington regarding an end to the US coalition’s combat mission in Iraq have failed to take off

The US has backtracked from a decision to announce a timeframe for a reduction in the number of its forces in Iraq, sources told Al Mayadeen on 8 July.

“The American side backed down from its decision to announce the reduction of forces during internal deliberations before meeting with the Iraqi side, within the framework of the Iraqi–American bilateral committee,” the sources said.

“There is a link between the decision to postpone the announcement of the reduction in Iraq, after the process of withdrawing American forces from Niger took priority,” they added.

The US army withdrew its forces from Air Base 101 in Niger on 7 July, in line with an order issued by the country’s ruling military council in April – which demanded the withdrawal of Washington’s troops.

The US is also set to withdraw from a major drone base in Niger’s desert city of Agadez in the coming weeks.

Baghdad and Washington renewed talks in January aimed at ending the mission of the US coalition in Iraq and transitioning it to an advisory role from a combat role. That month, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) coalition, which banded together in October in support of Gaza, halted the attacks it had been carrying out against US bases in the country since the start of the war.

The decision was a result of pressure from the Iraqi government and followed the killing of three US soldiers on the Jordanian–Syrian border in an Iraqi resistance drone attack on 28 January. At the time, the IRI said it would stop its attacks to allow Baghdad to continue negotiations with the US...

However, talks between Baghdad and Washington continue to stall.

...Pentagon press secretary General Patrick Ryder confirmed earlier that month that the US has no plans to withdraw its forces from Iraq.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

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7/26/23 — The End of The PetroDollar, The Rise of BRICS is Here

The real question is why should the sovereign country of Iraq ... have to beg the US permission to conduct business with its neighbor that is in its own interest?

Somewhere in the answer to that question, is the prime reason for why BRICS is rising.

...7/25/23 — Washington Names Itself ‘Custodian’ of Iraqi Debt Payments to Iran via Oman

And thus, its no wonder the global south is breaking away from US control, when it so often overrides their own interests[and sovereignty]

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Netanyahu Responds to ICC Prosecutor Issuing Arrest Warrants Against Him For War Crimes

That insane moment when all evidence is in our faces and Netanyahu still denied it!

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Rania

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12/8 — Netanyahu: Investigating Israel's War Crimes is "Pure Anti-Semitism"

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❗Israeli soldiers film themselves threatening Palestinian civilians from Gaza, displaying them while they were made to kneel execution-style, handcuffed, and blindfolded.

US Proxies in Syria Anxious Over Possible Damascus–Ankara Reconciliation

Despite longstanding tension with Damascus, US-backed Kurds have expressed openness to coordinating with Syria against Turkish occupation

The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has expressed concerns over a potential advancement in reconciliation between Damascus and Ankara.

“The recent unrest in Afrin, Al-Bab, Al-Rai, and Azaz is a direct result of Turkey's closer ties with Damascus, which has demanded Turkish withdrawal from all Syrian territories,” Fathullah Husseini, representative of the AANES in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, told The New Arab on 3 July.

He added that Turkiye’s promise to protect armed opposition groups on its payroll, namely the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) coalition of factions, has been undermined by talks between Damascus and Ankara.

Husseini said that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the US-backed Kurdish militia linked to the AANES, has “no military plans” aimed at the city of Afrin in northeast Syria and is committed to agreements for “self-protection and anti-terrorism” with the illegal occupying US army in the country.

“Any Turkish–Syrian agreement on northwest Syria would primarily impact Kurds [negatively], including the AANES and the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, where Turkey has intensified operations against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases,” Husseini warned.

He also condemned Damascus’ “limited commitment” to talks between the AANES and the Syrian government.

There is a longstanding tension between the Arabs and the US-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria. Last year, Arab tribes rallied together in an armed rebellion against the SDF in several areas, including northeastern Deir Ezzor.

Several months earlier, AANES and SDF representatives had been holding dialogue with the Syrian government. Despite tension between Damascus and the Kurds due to the latter’s aspirations for autonomy and independence in Syria, the SDF has expressed openness to coordinating with Syria against Turkish occupation.

The deputy co-chair of the AANES Executive Council, Hassan Kocher, told Hawar news agency on Wednesday that the autonomous administration is ready for talks with Damascus and for “the liberation of [Turkish] occupied areas alongside the Syrian army.”

He warned that Ankara takes advantage of all parties to advance its agenda and that Damascus “should not be fooled by these tricks.”

“The Damascus government must know that if it enters into any alliance with Turkey, it will lose Syria, and if it is in favor of dialogue or any agreement, we are ready.” He added that dialogue between Syria and the AANES is ongoing, with the aim of “reaching any agreement and solution that achieves stability for the region and the country.”

He also said the government should “abandon” the view that the AANES is a threat to Syria.

“We do not pose any threat to any party and we are not enemies to any party. We seek to build Syria and preserve the sovereignty of the country's territories. We have always said that we are ready to liberate the occupied Syrian regions in partnership with the Syrian army,” Kocher said. ..

...Damascus has repeatedly vowed over the months that it will not move forward with talks unless there is a Turkish commitment to withdraw its forces from Syria and end support for extremist factions, namely the SNA coalition.

Iraqi-mediated Syrian–Turkish talks are expected to be held in Baghdad in the near future.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

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Public inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan obtains a previously deleted cache of data that could hold crucial evidence.

Files were erased from a server by a UK Special Forces contractor in 2016, during a murder investigation into the SAS

But the public inquiry team has now secured backups of the server – part of a Special Forces communications system codenamed "Sonata" – believed to have been created before the files were erased.

The backups are likely to contain information about SAS operations on which members of the elite regiment were suspected of unlawfully killing unarmed Afghan detainees and civilians.

A spokesperson for the inquiry confirmed to the BBC that they had obtained the backups, adding: “We now hold the relevant material and are exploring a technical solution to retrieve and review the data to determine its relevance to the investigation.”

The spokesperson said the inquiry team was approached during several days of hearings about computer evidence last December by someone offering them access to the backups, but the inquiry declined to comment on the source of the offer.

This is the first time backups of Sonata have been obtained by investigators outside UK Special Forces, which blocked previous efforts by the Royal Military Police (RMP) to copy the server.

To the dismay of the RMP investigators, a contractor hired by UK Special Forces (UKSF) during the murder investigation in 2016 ran a program on the server designed to permanently erase previously deleted files.

This process, known as "zeroing", flew in the face of explicit instructions the RMP had given to UKSF that no data should be tampered with before the server could be copied.

7/1 — SAS war crimes inquiry obtains huge cache of new evidence, BBC reveals

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Wikileaks

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🚨 Government Media Office:
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We warn our Palestinian people against the occupation's calls to evacuate from Gaza City to the south, as they aim to lure them into traps of death, killing, and field executions.

The "israeli" occupation army has published some misleading maps calling on our Palestinian people to evacuate from Gaza City to the south, labeling these areas as "safe". These calls are false and pose a significant danger to the lives of citizens.

We call on our honorable Palestinian people not to comply at all with the "israeli" occupation army's calls to evacuate from Gaza City to the south. The occupation aims with these false calls to lure citizens into traps of death, killing, and field executions, similar to what happened repeatedly with dozens of field executions of citizens who previously tried to evacuate along Al-Rasheed Street in western Gaza City and Salah Al-Din Street in east Gaza City. The occupation called on citizens to evacuate towards the central and southern areas, then executed them in cold blood upon reaching military checkpoints, firing at them and causing dozens of martyrs and hundreds of wounded and injured among them.

The repetition of these grave mistakes and this tragedy causes citizens to pay with their blood, lives, and souls. The "israeli" occupation's schemes are exposed and clear to all the great Palestinian people.

Be cautious of evacuations, killing, and field executions..

May Allah protect our great Palestinian people from all harm.

Government Media Office
Gaza Strip - Palestine
Monday, July 8, 2024

❗️❗️Hebrew Channel 12:

○ "Hamas tunnels are still in good condition in the camps in central Gaza, most of the city of Rafah, and in the Shujaiya neighborhood."

○ "Hamas restored many tunnels in Khan Yunis and a concrete factory produces the materials needed to build the tunnels."

○ "The condition of the tunnels in the camps in the central Gaza Strip allows for attacks to be carried out above and below ground."

○ "The army assesses that if the war stops, Hamas is still capable of launching an attack near the border and may be able to cross it."

❗️Political commentator and reporter for Israel Hayom, Shirit Avitan Cohen, on X:

"First publication: Among the dozens of tunnels that have already been uncovered between Gaza and Egypt, the IDF also located huge three-level tunnels on the Philadelphia route.

It's not just that we've been sleeping on our noses all these years, it's that our enemies have used the time with maximum effectiveness against us.

3 floors."

‘Shocking maze’ of multi-story Hamas tunnels found at Egypt border

The tunnels have allowed the Palestinian resistance to amass a sophisticated arsenal of weapons over the years

'Unacceptable': Macron Accuses Israeli Minister of Interfering in French Election in Call With Netanyahu

Days before the elections, Macron warned Netanyahu that Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli's vocal support for Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party constituted an improper interference in France's internal affairs. Israeli diplomats say Chikli has damaged relations with France

French President Emmanuel Macron complained to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli's interference in the French elections.

In a conversation held a few days before the elections, Macron warned Netanyahu that Chikli's actions, which were openly and blatantly aimed at assisting Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party, constituted "unacceptable" interference in France's internal affairs.

The conversation between Macron and Netanyahu, first reported by journalist Barak Ravid in the Israeli outlet Walla, ended with Netanyahu's commitment to prevent further statements from his ministers on France's internal matters.

Following this, Foreign Minister Israel Katz tweeted that Israel does not interfere in other countries' elections. [lol] However, Chikli, despite Netanyahu's and Katz's remarks, continued to comment on the issue in recent days, even after Le Pen's party lost the elections.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Haaretz

Related :6/25 — Kim Iverson: How is it that AIPAC isn't required to disclose themselves as foreign agents?

6/21 — Lowkey: The Israel lobby funds at least a quarter of all 'serving' UK MPs. In the US (aside from AIPAC) there are more lobbyists for arms manufacturers than there are members of Congress. Is it too much to expect to have Parliamentary representatives that actually represent constituents in their own country? A list of kick backs to these foreign agents can be found here:

6/10 — Rep. Thomas Massie explains how every GOP member of Congress other than himself has an AIPAC “babysitter”, who instructs them how and how not to vote.

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Four Day March by Israeli Hostage Family Members To Begin Tonight, Marching From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Families of abductees are calling on the people of Israel to join them in a four-day march that will leave tomorrow (Wednesday) from the Begin Gate in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The march, under the title 'Marching for a deal', will arrive in Jerusalem on Saturday evening, where there is expected to be a demonstration of support for the deal for the release of the abductees that is currently on the table.
Full details, routes and meeting points will be provided later.

Einav Tsengaoker, the lioness mother of Matan, the abductee in Gaza, is marching to Jerusalem starting tomorrow, Wednesday, until midnight, and she is calling on the public to join her and the families in the march.
The message shared with the video:
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"Walking into a deal"
From Shaar Begin to Jerusalem: families of abductees calling on the public to join them in the journey to return the abductees home. The marchers will gather tomorrow (Wednesday) at 16:00 from Shaar Begin and leave at 16:30.

Einav Tsengaoker, Matan's mother:
"I miss Matan so much, there is a deal on the table that the government must not miss, I want my son and all the other abductees at home. The people want them at home, only public pressure on the government will prevent another trepidation. If there is one moment when we need to get up from the couch and make a voice - this moment This has arrived! Let's march with us, let's rise together from despair, let's bring our families back home and save lives. The people proved on October 7 that they know how to mobilize for the sake of the abducted There will be no deal, there will be no resurrection, and until they return, we are all kidnapped."

🔗SOURCE ➡️Or-ly Barlev 🎗 אור-לי ברלב

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7/6 — Hostage Families: 'We Have The Chance To Meet With US Politicians and Ensure They Pressure Netanyahu To Take The Deal, Please Help Us Make This Happen'

7/6 — Nationwide Anti-Netanyahu Protests in Israel

7/4 — Public Announcement on Behalf of We Are All Hostages / Hostage Families:

Today we were informed by all parties involved in the hostage deal negotiations that Hamas has become flexible, and that the negotiations can in fact move forward.

The only person continuing to dole out 'instructions', and hide behind nameless 'government officials', is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

We are once again asking of all individuals involved, from Israel's Security Forces, and members of the negotiating team - DO NOT allow him to sabotage this deal!

7/4 - US, Israeli Officials Brief ‘Breakthrough’ Achieved in Israel-Hamas Deal - Live Updates

7/3 — 🚨🚨Israeli Hostage Family Press Statement🚨🚨

Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan is held captive...: “Once again Netanyahu hides behind a nameless ‘government official’, once again he sticks spokes in the wheels of the hostage release deal negotiations, and once again he refuses to save the lives of those who he abandoned....Netanyahu! Enough with your briefings and your sabotage.

6/27 — Poll Shows Netanyahu's Coalition Continues to Lose Popularity, Smotrich Out of Knesset

6/25 — Hostage Families: Read Our Joint Piece in the forward Today:

6/23 — Hostage Families: "We Are Out On The Streets Every Day Getting Beaten and Arrested by The Police Because We Have Demanded... A Hostage Deal and Ceasefire"

6/22 — LARGEST ISRAELI PROTEST RALLY SINCE OCTOBER 7

6/6 - Was October 7th Allowed to Happen To Further The Greater Israel Agenda? Did The Hannibal Directive Ever End? [X] — @PsyopDaily Original / Part 4 of TheMcgwire's Oct 7th series

Over the past few months, protests have continued to gain momentum, led by families and friends of the hostages,... This is the culmination of months of... Netanyahu ... sabotaging hostage negotiations.

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Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud praises the Palestinian Authority for providing security to Israel.

Speaking at the European Council on Foreign Relations conference in Madrid on 5 July, the foreign minister explained that the PA has lived up to its primary responsibility to Israel under the Oslo Accords, which is to provide security to Israel.

He claimed that despite its flaws, the PA is fully capable of governing a future Palestinian state alongside its 'neighbor' Israel, in the context of Israel's full integration into the region.

He stated that Israel sought to undermine the PA in the West Bank while bolstering Hamas in Gaza before the start of the war on 7 October as part of a strategy to prevent Palestinian unity and progress toward the establishment of a state.

Prince Faisal also expressed his support for the deployment of an international force in Gaza under a UN mandate to support the Palestinian Authority (PA) after the war.

In response, the Palestinian resistance made it clear that it will not allow any international force to be deployed in Gaza, and that the future of the Palestinians will be decided only by Palestinians.

BRICS to Launch Independent Financial System – Moscow

Introduction of a new single currency is also on the table, Russia’s envoy to Beijing says

Countries of the BRICS economic bloc are currently working on the launch of a financial system that would be independent of the dominance of third parties, according to the Russian Ambassador to China...

The volume of Russia’s transactions in national currencies with fellow BRICS nations is constantly growing, the envoy said on Saturday in Beijing, speaking at the 12th World Peace Forum (WPF). Morgulov highlighted that Russia-China trade turnover had reached $240 billion and that 92% of settlements were being conducted in rubles and yuans.

“We are leaving the dollar-dominated space and developing the mechanism and tools for a truly independent financial system,” the ambassador said, as cited by RIA Novosti.

Morgulov also said that introducing a new single currency is still some way off but stressed that the group – which recently expanded and now comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iran and Egypt – is “moving in this direction.”

Last month, Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov told media that Russia was working on creating a settlement-and-payment infrastructure together with BRICS member states’ central banks. The senior state official specified that the economic bloc was working on launching the BRICS Bridge platform for settlements in national currencies...

Russia has been promoting its own domestic payment system as a reliable alternative to SWIFT, after many of the country’s financial institutions were cut off from the Western financial network in 2022....

Moscow has also accelerated efforts to move away from SWIFT by trading with international partners using their respective national currencies. The trend has been increasingly supported by members of the BRICS group, which have shifted from using the dollar and euro for trade settlements. The share of national currencies in Russia’s settlements with BRICS countries jumped to 85% at the end of 2023, up from 26% two years ago.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ RT [Headline]

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As part of the effort to form prosperous economic alliances, Turkish President... Erdogan has shown interest in joining China’s... SCO

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3/6 — BRICS Will Create Payment System Based on Digital Currencies and Blockchain: Report

8/25/23 — BRICS Doubles Share of Global Oil Production In Welcoming Six New Members at BRICS Summit in S. Africa " "

7/26/23 —  The End of The PetroDollar, The Rise of BRICS is Here — @PsyopDaily Original

"Columnist at Foreign Policy and fellow for international political economy at the CFR,.. Zoe Liu... Sept. 2022

”China Is Quietly Trying to Dethrone the Dollar”......
"At their recent summit in Uzbekistan, members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO... agreed on a road map to expanding trade in local currencies. A road map for using local currencies in trade and developing alternative payment and settlement systems has been part of the SCO’s economic plan for years...."

...As you can see the first quarter of 2023 saw rapid momentum in expression of interest to join BRICS. More countries sought to coordinate intentions to join BRICS+ as well as seeking greater cooperation with alternative institutions challenging the west such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) and New Development Bank(NDB).

March 2022 Flashback: US Hegemony Threatened As Saudis, UAE, India Ignore Threats of Sanctions, Turn to Russia/China

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Israeli Knesset member Amit Halevi from Netanyahu’s Likud party on [@ kann_news]

“Gaza is our homeland. From the river to the sea the national rights are only for one people. The nation of Israel. There is nothing called Palestinian people, never was, and will never be.”

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Younis Tirawi | يونس

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6/18 — Israeli Lawmakers Unite To Push for Jewish Colonization of Gaza

6/6 — Part 4: Was October 7th Allowed to Happen To Further The Greater Israel Agenda? Did The Hannibal Directive Ever End?

12/3 — Part 3: Blueprints Possessed by Israel Year Before Attack - MORE Evidence Oct. 7th Was an Intelligence Stand-Down

11/28 — Part 2: More Israeli Military Personnel, Witnesses Speak Out, Substantiating Oct. 7 "Conspiracy Theories" That IDF Killed Israeli Civilians and Israeli Leadership Ignored Intelligence Prior to Attack

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Meta Expands Hate Speech Policy To Remove More Posts Targeting ‘Zionists’

Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab said on Tuesday it would start taking down more posts that target "Zionists", where the term is used to refer to Jewish people and Israelis rather than representing supporters of the political movement.

The Facebook and Instagram parent said in a blog post, opens new tab it would remove content "attacking 'Zionists' when it is not explicitly about the political movement" and uses antisemitic stereotypes or threatens harm through intimidation or violence directed against Jews or Israelis.

Meta's hate speech policy prohibits direct attacks on people on the basis of what it calls protected characteristics, which include race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, disability and gender identity, among others.

The social media giant said its existing policies, which treat the term "Zionist" as a proxy for Jewish or Israeli people in just two narrow circumstances, did not sufficiently address the ways people use the word more broadly.

...Meta has been criticized for years on how it handles content involving the Middle East, and those criticisms shot up further after the start of the war, with rights groups accusing the company of suppressing content supportive of Palestinians on Facebook and Instagram.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Reuters

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