Friday, March 10, 2017
Thursday, March 9, 2017
إلكين: الروس سيسمحون لإسرائيل بحرية التحليق بسورية
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ركز رئيس الحكومة الإسرائيلية، بنيامين نتنياهو، على مهاجمة إيران في مستهل لقائه مع الرئيس الروسي، فلاديمير بوتين، في موسكو اليوم، الخميس. وسبق ذلك نفي الكرملين تقارير تحدثت عن سماح روسيا لإسرائيل باستهداف حزب الله في سورية.
واعتبر نتنياهو، مخاطبا بوتين، أن "أحد الأمور التي نحاربها معا هو الإرهاب الذي يمارسه الإسلام المتطرف. وبالطبع خلال العام المنصرم تم تحقيق تقدم ملموس في مكافحة الإرهاب السني المتطرف الذي يقوده (تنظيما) داعش والقاعدة. ولروسيا مساهمة مهمة جدا في ذلك. ومن البديهي أننا لا نريد استبدال هذا الإرهاب بالإرهاب الشيعي المتطرف الذي تقوده إيران".
وأضاف نتنياهو أن "إسرائيل هي دولة لها جيش ونحن قادرون على الدفاع عن أنفسنا ولكن التهديد الذي يشكله الإسلام المتطرف الشيعي ليس موجها ضدنا فقط، بل أيضا ضد المنطقة والسلام العالمي. وأعلم أننا نتشاطر الرغبة بمنع الإسلام المتطرف مهما كان صنفه من تحقيق أي انتصار".
وقبل ذلك، نفى الكرملين تقارير إعلامية تحدثت عن موافقة موسكو على عمليات إسرائيلية ضد حزب الله من الأجواء السورية.
وقال دميتري بيسكوف، الناطق الصحفي باسم الرئيس الروسي، إنه "لا مكان لهذه المزاعم بالواقع على الإطلاق". وشدد على أن هذا الموضوع لم يطرح في سياق الاتصالات الروسية الإسرائيلية وغير وارد بتاتا.
وقال الوزير الإسرائيلي زئيف إلكين للإذاعة العامة الإسرائيلية، إن المحادثات التي يجريها نتنياهو في موسكو هامة للغاية، وأن موسكو ستسمح لإسرائيل بالتحليق بحرية تامة في المجال الجوي السوري فيما يخص متابعة نشاطات حزب الله. وشدد على أن الروس "يسمحون لنا بعمل ما هو مطلوب".
واستهدفت إسرائيل، بواسطة طيرانها وصواريخها، مرات عديد مواقع في عمق الأراضي السورية، بادعاء منع حزب الله من نقل أسلحة إلى لبنان. لكن تقارير عديدة أشارت إلى أن الصواريخ تطلقها إسرائيل من موقع قريب من بحيرة طبرية، بينما القصف الجوي يتم من الأجواء اللبنانية.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Knife-wielding group attacks women’s day event at Turkish university
Injuries caused by stab wounds were reported with students saying they had been threatened on Twitter before the incident
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ISTANBUL, Turkey - A group of 30-40 people wielding knives attacked students celebrating International Women’s Day on a university campus in central Istanbul, injuring some participants.
A tent set up to mark the event was attacked by the assailants and there were reported injuries caused by stab wounds at the private Bilgi University after the assailants jumped over turnstiles and entered the campus illegally.
The university’s private security guards intervened after the attack began and the assailants fled.
Students at the scene claimed that the assailants shouted “Allah u Ekber” (God is great) before attacking them.
The participating students then started protesting against the university’s administrators saying such incidents had occurred previously but no security measures were put in place.
In a video, a student can be heard telling university staff: “We are talking about knives here. They dragged one girl by the hair and slammed her head on the ground… we were threatened on Twitter, we informed you…you didn’t take any steps and they were encouraged and came here.”
Yazıklar olsun verilen dilekçeler okunmamış @BiLGiOfficial Güvenliğimizi de mi biz sağlıyalım bu iş turnike ile çözülmez
Scores of small-scale rallies and marches were planned and being held in various cities across Turkey on Wednesday to mark International Women's Day, which takes place on 8 March each year.
Under the state of emergency, which Turkey has been under since 20 July following a failed coup bid, authorities have the power to ban any gathering.
There were conflicting reports about whether bans were imposed for Women’s Day marches across the country. A ban initially announced in Diyarbakir was lifted later. The same appears to have been the case in most cases.
Turkey has a mixed record on women’s rights. It granted women the right to vote in municipal elections in 1930 and women enjoy considerably more rights in Turkey in comparison to most countries in the region.
Turkey is also grappling with problems such as honour killings and the issue of underage marriages (legally prohibited but frequent in the south and southeast of the country).
Attacks over dress
In the past few years, however, attacks on women in major urban centres have increased, particularly in opposition to the way they dress.
One of the major cases of recent times is that of Aysegul Terzi, a 24-year-old nurse who was attacked and kicked by a man on her way to work on a public bus for dressing “inappropriately”. She was wearing shorts.
Her assailant, Abdullah Cakiroglu, was initially sentenced to imprisonment but then released.
The final hearing in the case is also expected today, with a group of women’s right activists gathered in front of Istanbul’s Caglayan court complex to show solidarity.
The campus attack came around the same time as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent out Twitter messages in multiple languages congratulating women in Turkey and the world on the occasion of women’s day:
In a video prepared for women’s day Erdogan also appears in a message calling violence against women a betrayal of humanity:
The president’s wife, Emine Erdogan, was also a keynote speaker at a Women’s Day event organised in Ankara on Tuesday where she hailed the role of women in society both in Turkey and across the globe.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Egypt bread riots: Protests erupt after proposed cut to subsidies
Crowds take to streets in Alexandria, Giza and other areas after government proposes limit on supply of bread amid economic crisis
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Egyptians took to the streets on Tuesday in protest at the proposed limits on bread supplies and a cancellation of subsidies, as the country sinks depper into economic crisis.
Reports and videos on social media showed crowds in central Alexandria, in what was dubbed on social media the "Intifada of supplies". Many became angry after bakeries refused to take their subsidy cards, which Egyptians use to get a government quota of bread.
Social media reports suggested police had fired warning shots over the heads of demonstrators in the Cairo suburb of Imbaba, although Middle East Eye is unable to verify the reports.
The protests come a day after the minister of supplies [REMINDS ME OF THE "MINISTRY OF PLENTY" IN GEORGE ORWELL'S 1984], Ali Moselhy, announced he was considering limiting bread to three loaves per person a day and cancelling subsidies.
Protesters also blocked railways station in Desouk, 80km east of Alexandria in the Kafr el-Sheikh province.
"We want to eat! We want bread!" protesters chanted in what seem peaceful protests, according to Egyptian journalists on the ground.
A correspondent for Middle East Eye said there were also protests in Giza, south of Cairo - leading to clashes with police, road blocking and minor rioting.
Police officials and national security agents have asked protesters to return home, saying their demands would be satisfied if they stopped protesting, according to tweets from protesters.
The protesters included families and older Egyptians, the correspondent said.
Social reports said the rail link between Cairo and Minya in upper Egypt had also been blocked by protesters.
The government recently lifted subsidies on staple foods, and has suffered shortages of other basic foodstuffs, as Egypt faces a debt crisis and rampant inflation that has hit more than 20 percent.
Moselhy replaced Major General Mohammed Ali el-Sheikh as minister of supplies in February following widespread shortages of sugar.
In Egypt, bread is called "life" (bread) because the poor depend on it. That's why when it is threatened there is revolt.
#انتفاضة_التموين
Bread uprising #انتفاضة_التموين is the most trending hashtag in #Egypt as bread protests erupt across the country.
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