This morning's key headlines from
GenerationalDynamics.com:
- Death of Ethiopia's prime minister could affect Mideast security
- Jewish Israeli youths lynch Palestinians in Jerusalem as hundreds watched
- Armenian terrorist group threatens Turkey over Syria
Death of Ethiopia's prime minister could affect Mideast security
For years, a lynchpin in the fight against al-Qaeda affiliates in the
horn of Africa, especially Somalia, was Meles Zenawi Asres, the Prime
Minister of Ethiopia and a close American ally. His death could
weaken the fight against terrorist militants in the region. However,
Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, who will become acting
prime minister, says that nothing will change, and that Ethiopia will
continue to be a leader in the fight against Islamist militancy.
LA Times
Jewish Israeli youths lynch Palestinians in Jerusalem as hundreds watched
I've reported on several occasions
about so-call "price tag" attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians
in the West Bank. The phrase "price tag" is frequently used by
far-right Israeli settlers to denote revenge attacks against
Palestinians or IDF soldiers in response to moves by the Israeli
government to evacuate illegal West Bank outposts, or as retribution
for attacks by Palestinians.
However, the attempted lynching of four
Arab youths by dozens of Jewish teens on Friday is a substantially
more serious matter and indicates that the mutual xenophobia between
Jews and Arabs is becoming increasingly critical. According to one
suspect's brother, it was the four Arab youths who had provoked
passersby and "made passes at Jewish girls." He added: "Why should an
Arab make passes at my sister? They shouldn't be here, it's our
area. For what other reason would they come here if not to make passes
at Jewish girls?"
This was not an attack by settlers, but it's part
of the overall framework of increased violence against Paletinians by
a small fringe of Israelis. According to an analysis, the number of
"price tag" attacks by Israeli settlers has been increasing because
the attacks have been achieving their goals. The Benjamin Netanyahu
government would like to close down some West Bank settlements, but
the "price tag" attacks make it much more difficult to do so.
Generational Dynamics predicts that there will be a new Mideast
war, re-fighting the war between Jews and Arabs that followed the
1948 partitioning of Palestine and creation of the state of Israel.
Haaretz and Foreign Affairs
Armenian terrorist group threatens Turkey over Syria
The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA),
a group that conducted numerous terrorist murders during the
1970s-80s, but has been mostly inactive since 1985, is now
threatening Turkey because of its policy in Syria:
The aggressive policy against Iraq's integrity, the
direct military intervention in the bloody crisis of Syria, the
continuation for more than 20 years of the blockade imposed on
Armenia, the conspiratorial and double-faced policy towards Iran,
the non-stopping threats against the territorial integrity of
Greece and Cyprus and the augmenting coercive measures against the
Kurdish people have transformed Turkey into a center of danger for
the stability of the region. The conspiratorial and hostile
policy of the Turkish state against the neighboring countries
reached its peak and has led Turkey in a total isolation in the
whole region.
Like the Russians, Armenians are historic enemies of Turkey. Russians
and Armenians are Orthodox Christians, while Turks are Sunni Muslims.
The last major crisis war in the region was the World War I time
frame, while the previous one was the Crimean War of the 1850s. So
these countries are all well into generational Crisis eras, and highly
susceptible to all out war. Zaman (Istanbul)
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