Schlagwort: USA

„Der Artikel des Time-Magazins vom 15. Oktober 2015 befasst sich mit dem Tod von Baha Alijan. ‚Alijan, ein Grafik-Designer aus dem überwiegend palästinensischen Viertel Dschabel Mukaber, wurde von israelischen Sicherheitskräften getötet, nachdem er angeblich einen Terroranschlag in Jerusalem verüben wollte.‘ Die Überschrift des Artikels lautet ‚Die Verzweiflung, die junge Palästinenser…

„Iran’s supreme leader said Sunday Washington has continued its animosity toward Tehran, despite a friendly message by President Barack Obama marking the Persian New Year. In a New Year’s speech on Sunday in the northern city of Mashhad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US had not kept to its commitment…

„As with the president’s comments, largely missing from this formulation was what the Palestinians have been doing. Neither the president nor the Times think the fact that the Palestinians have repeatedly turned offers of peace and statehood from Israel is significant. Nor do they seem to care much about the…

„Iran’s top cleric has declared that Tehran must establish relations with the ‚whole world‘ besides for the United States and the ‚Zionist regime,‘ the country’s semi-official state news agency Mehr reported on Thursday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the statement during a meeting of the newly elected Assembly of Experts, the body charged…

„The United States said on Friday air strikes by Syrian government forces that reportedly hit civilians were a clear violation of the cessation of hostilities.“ (Kurzmeldung auf euronews: „U.S. says Syrian air strikes a violation of truce deal“)

„The Romans had a word for it: principiis obsta, meaning ‚resist the beginnings‘ to avoid an unpleasant end. Syria is a perfect case study. Obama drew his vaunted ‚red line‘ over the use of chemical weapons in Syria before Bashar al-Assad massacred civilians with sarin, a nerve gas, in 2013.…

„U. S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday criticized the silence of Palestinian leaders following a wave of Palestinian gun and knife attacks against Israeli Jews, including the stabbing death of an American tourist. The visiting vice president said there was no justification for Palestinians attacking Israelis and that the…

„‚Today we did not get any reports of ceasefire violations,‘ the US State Department spokesperson said dully on Tuesday, while even the Russians conceded that 18 ‚serious violations‘ of the ceasefire were committed, and social media had non-stop reports on dozens of battles with over 100 killed in Syria.  So…

„A combination of war fatigue, the financial crisis, energy self-sufficiency, and a desire to shift focus to Asia contributed to a scaling-back of American strategic engagement in the region. This was demonstrated most concretely by what regional allies saw as a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 and by…

„The breathless reports this weekend that a ceasefire for Syria had been reached ‚in principle’ reveal once again how unrealistic our thinking has become about this particular national security issue. If a temporary ceasefire can help get food to the starving, that is excellent news. Beyond that, however, it is…

„Escalating his rhetoric against the United States and Israel, Iran’s supreme leader claimed Wednesday that a Zionist ‚network‘ dominates US and EU policy, and that Iranian slogans of ‚Death to America‘ are a natural response to US ‚hostility,‘ an Iranian news site reported. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ‚said the global Zionism…

„Despite the nuclear deal, and the best efforts of Iran’s president and foreign minister, there will be no détente. In fact, just like in 1988 at the close of the war with Iraq, Iran will only become more ‚steadfast‘ in the face of ‚imperialism.‘ The nuclear deal may have slowed…

„Die amerikanischen Optionen in Syrien sind fast auf null geschrumpft. Wie es dort weitergeht, scheint vor allem Moskau entscheiden zu können. Verantwortlich dafür ist Washington selber. … Wie andere Fehlentscheidungen rächen sich auch Versäumnisse. Man darf hoffen, dass der nächste Präsident der USA nicht wie Obama vor allem die Fehler…

„In a move uncharacteristic of U.S. policy as it has been carried out for decades, the Obama administration recently endorsed Europe’s version of a soft Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) campaign targeting Israeli merchandise. In late January, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency changed its policy on imports from…

„The troubling thing is that the Putin policy on Syria has become hard to distinguish from the Obama policy. Sure, the Obama administration still pays lip service to the notion that Assad is part of the problem and not the solution, and that if the Syrian leader may survive through…