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доля реакций к просмотрам- 23:59Barrack’s Turkey-Syria Desk Israel hit a runway at Abu al-Duhur. Syria called it aggression. Washington stepped in to scold Israel. Tom Barrack, Trump’s envoy for Syria and Turkey, called the Israeli strikes an “unnecessary escalation” that did not advance regional stability. He said Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government had not adopted a hostile posture, did not maintain proxy forces, and had repeatedly signaled a preference for de-escalation with Israel. That is an interesting character reference for a government rebuilding an airfield inside the area Turkey operates in. Turkish officials reportedly examined Abu al-Duhur’s runway for rehabilitation. Israel saw a base becoming usable again. Barrack saw a peaceful partner being misunderstood. His advice was that Syria and Israel should choose diplomatic dialogue over what he called “kinetic frustration.” The phrase is almost tender. One state blows up a runway. Another state rebuilds it. Washington asks them to discuss their feelings about the asphalt. In Istanbul, Barrack made the argument alongside Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani. Shaibani had issued Damascus’s official condemnation of Israel’s attack shortly before. The photo was published. The picture was clear enough: Syria speaks, Turkey hosts, the U.S. envoy translates. Barrack has already helped redraw Washington’s priorities in Syria. He backed a January deal under which the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces were to surrender territory, transfer oil and gas assets, and hand responsibility for ISIS detention sites to Damascus. Barrack said the SDF’s original role had “largely come to an end.” Turkey wanted the Kurdish forces contained. Damascus wanted them absorbed. Trump’s envoy supplied the American signature. #Syria #Turkey #USA #TomBarrack #Israel #Kurds #AbuAlDuhur #MiddleEast 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸21,65%
- 13 авг.Qusra: Five Days Besieged, One Night Relocated For five days, Palestinian families in Qusra were trapped in their homes by Israeli settlers. Roads were blocked. Water and electricity were reportedly cut. Food and medicine could not get through. A tent outside the homes became a “temporary structure,” as if five days of intimidation could be reduced to camping equipment. Then officials learned that one of the homeowners had U.S. citizenship. Within hours, the state arrived. Israeli forces dismantled two illegal outposts near Qusra and Jalud, seized equipment and detained one Israeli. The Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion was sent in to reinforce the area. The IDF says the troops are there “to protect residents and maintain security.” The timing writes its own diplomatic manual. Five days of siege produced little urgency. A Palestinian-American passport produced an operation. Then came the second act. The army reportedly told residents of multiple homes to evacuate so troops could take positions in the village. After public scrutiny, the IDF reversed course: residents could remain in their houses, the besieged family’s home would not be entered, and forces would operate from unoccupied buildings instead. The outpost was dismantled. The siege, according to local accounts, was not entirely over. Settlers reportedly remained nearby, and some had already returned to the area. Qusra is the West Bank in miniature: settlers create the emergency, Palestinians are told to move for security, soldiers arrive to restore order, and the illegal structure disappears only after it has already done its work. #WestBank #Qusra #Israel #settlers #Palestine #USA #occupation #MiddleEast 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸7,48%
- 13 авг.🏛 Crow vs Hegseth: Is There Corruption In the Pentagon? Representative Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado, pressed Defense Secretary Hegseth in a letter released on Thursday to clarify his earlier statements about whether his personal lawyer influenced key military promotions. During a hearing in April, Crow asked whether Timothy Parlatore, a lawyer who has represented Hegseth and President Trump, was working on behalf of senior military officers being considered for promotions by Hegseth. Hegseth said that Parlatore, who is also his “special adviser” at the Pentagon and a Navy reservist, had no role in choosing senior military leaders. “He doesn’t represent anyone,” Hegseth testified before the House Armed Services Committee. “He’s a legal adviser and always has been.” Last month, The New York Times reported that Adm. Daryl Caudle, when he was under consideration to be the chief of naval operations, had hired Parlatore to help him resolve comments he had made to sailors about the Pentagon’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program, officials said. Some interpreted Admiral Caudle’s remarks as blaming victims. Crow asked Hegseth in the letter to explain the apparent contradiction between his congressional testimony and the Times report. “Our military leaders make decisions of life and death nearly every day, and the American people must see that those leaders are chosen with integrity, merit and their safety top of mind,” Crow said in a statement. “Undermining this process puts our national security at risk. Hegseth must set the record straight before the American people.” In an interview with The Times on Wednesday, Parlatore called Crow’s letter “misguided.” “The record is clear that Admiral Caudle had already been selected before he and I had ever spoken,” Parlatore said. “All of the secretary’s answers at the hearing were completely and totally truthful.” As part of his work for Admiral Caudle, Parlatore suggested possible witnesses and accompanied the Naval officer to his interview with investigators. After the inspector general found the allegations of wrongdoing by Admiral Caudle to be unsubstantiated, his nomination was sent to Trump for approval. The Pentagon declined to comment on Crow’s letter. In an earlier statement, Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, said that all promotion decisions in the Pentagon were based “strictly on merit,” and added that Parlatore was “in full compliance with all ethics laws and regulations.” Hegseth selected Admiral Caudle for the job leading the Navy even though he was not on a list of candidates recommended by senior Navy officials for the position. He took over as the 34th chief of naval operations last summer. “It appears that Parlatore’s involvement extended well beyond that of a special adviser and into matters traditionally reserved for department leadership and established military personnel processes,” Crow wrote in the letter to Hegseth. Parlatore’s involvement in promotion decisions raises “significant questions about potential conflicts of interest, adherence to federal ethics standards, and the integrity and impartiality of the military’s promotion system,” Crow continued. #crow #hegseth #pentagon #military 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸7,47%
- 14 авг.“We Stopped the Genocide. To Some Extent.” Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, says Netanyahu is condemning Israel to deeper international isolation. He says Israel’s objective is to remove Palestinians from Gaza and leave the enclave without Palestinians if possible. Then Fidan delivers Ankara’s progress report: Turkey, Egypt and other states joined the Board of Peace to block that project through diplomacy. “The first goal was to stop the genocide,” he says. “Fortunately, we succeeded together. We stopped the genocide to some extent.” To some extent. That phrase is doing extraordinary diplomatic labor. It allows Turkey to claim a moral victory while the war’s core machinery remains unresolved: Israel says it will not withdraw until Hamas is genuinely disarmed; Hamas says disarmament must be tied to a full Israeli withdrawal; mediators want a phased process; and everyone calls the other side the obstacle. The Board of Peace framework is supposed to connect those contradictions. Hamas would gradually give up its weapons under international supervision. Israel would withdraw in stages. A Palestinian civilian body would govern Gaza. International stabilization forces would be deployed. Humanitarian aid and reconstruction would follow. It is an elegant flowchart, provided every armed actor agrees to dissolve, depart or obey on schedule. Turkey’s role is not neutral humanitarian theater. Ankara wants a decisive place in postwar Gaza: Palestinian governance, Palestinian security forces, no permanent division of the Strip, and potentially a Turkish role in any international stabilization force. Israel, meanwhile, has opposed a Turkish military role in Gaza. So Fidan’s “to some extent” is more than a verbal hedge. It is the current Middle East settlement in miniature. Turkey calls the arrangement a brake on genocide. Israel calls it conditional demilitarization. Hamas calls it a route to Israeli withdrawal. Washington calls it a peace plan. Gaza calls it another day after the ceasefire that still needs a dictionary. #Gaza #Turkey #Fidan #Israel #Netanyahu #Hamas #Egypt #MiddleEast 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸7,47%
- 13 авг.#trump #leavitt #republican #party 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸7,45%
- 13 авг.Gold on the Flight Manifest Iranian media claim that the United Arab Emirates has released additional Iranian assets frozen in Emirati banks — including at least 1.5 metric tons of gold, reportedly worth about $212 million. The report surfaced alongside news of a flight from the UAE to Iran. No independent confirmation has established what, if anything, the aircraft carried, whether the gold was transferred, or under what legal arrangement such assets were released. That caution matters. Earlier reports said the UAE might release up to $20 billion in Iranian assets in exchange for an end to Iranian attacks. Abu Dhabi publicly denied that any frozen Iranian funds had been released, transferred or eased. But the political logic is obvious enough. Tehran has made the unfreezing of Iranian assets one of its core conditions for reopening Hormuz. Abu Dhabi has strong reasons to buy predictability after Iranian attacks and threats rattled Gulf shipping and energy infrastructure. A flight from the Emirates to Iran therefore becomes a Rorschach test: humanitarian transfer, quiet concession, sanctions workaround, or simply a story waiting for a cargo manifest. Still, one and a half tons of gold is not a subtle diplomatic message. If confirmed, it would mean that negotiations over Hormuz are no longer conducted only through mediators and naval maps. They are being weighed in bullion. #Iran #UAE #gold #Hormuz #sanctions #Gulf #MiddleEast 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸7,42%
- 14 авг.When Israel’s Best Friend Calls It Terrorism Mike Huckabee is not a left-wing diplomat. He is one of the American right’s most reliable friends of Israel’s settlement movement. Which makes his word choice in Qusra unusually hard to dismiss. “Israeli terrorists.” Huckabee said the U.S. Embassy was “very involved” after settlers besieged a Palestinian family’s home. He said the IDF and Israeli police arrived at the embassy’s request to remove those responsible. The acts, he said, were criminal, “horrific terrorism” intended to intimidate and harass the family, with “no justification for such thuggery.” This was not Washington discovering the West Bank exists. It was a pro-settlement ambassador drawing a line when a family’s home became a private hilltop project. Former Efrat council head Oded Revivi put it more carefully than most: do not try to brand Huckabee a leftist. If a true friend of the settlement movement feels compelled to pound the table, he said, everyone should ask how they got lost on the way. Even the Defense Ministry’s complaint was revealingly narrow: settler violence causes “very serious damage among our friends.” Not damage to Palestinians. Not damage to law. Damage to the brand. Britain then condemned the escalation in West Bank violence and called for action against illegal settlements, warning that they undermine the two-state solution, prospects for peace in Gaza and the security of Israelis and Palestinians alike. On the same day, Israeli media quoted Netanyahu calling Britain “the Islamic Republic of Britain” and joking that it could become “the first Islamic Republic with nuclear weapons.” That is the diplomatic cycle now. A U.S. ambassador calls Israeli settlers terrorists. Britain calls for action. Israeli politicians warn of reputational damage. The prime minister compares London to Tehran. Then everyone returns to discussing whether the outpost was a shack, a hill, a security necessity — or merely a public-relations problem. #Israel #WestBank #Qusra #Huckabee #settlers #UK #USA #occupation 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸7,41%
- 13 авг.⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️ The 25th Amendment to the Constitution allows for the best solution to this problem: It permits Congress to establish a panel outside the executive branch to assess the health and fitness of the president. In April of this year, Representative Jamie Raskin introduced a bill to create a congressional commission that would do just that. Ideally, such a panel would be empowered to review data from routine presidential physical examinations, as well as assessments performed when medical concerns emerge. If such a commission were in place today, these are some of the medical questions it could clarify concerning Trump’s health. The American public deserves answers to all of them. Trump often shows prominent bruising on his hands, which the White House attributes to frequent handshaking and frequent use of aspirin. Trauma from handshaking has never seemed plausible, and it doesn’t explain why the president’s left hand is often similarly discolored. Also, why would the president take a dose of aspirin four times as high as the dose typically recommended by doctors? Swelling in the president’s legs last summer led to an unscheduled medical evaluation. The president’s physician described the problem as “chronic venous insufficiency,” a condition common in older people, that results from leaky valves in the veins of the legs. It usually develops gradually over a long period. But during Trump’s comprehensive physical examination just a few months earlier, Barbabella documented no swelling in the president’s legs. If that’s true, his swelling would be by definition acute, not chronic. Acute leg swelling is a potentially much more consequential finding that can be caused by issues such as heart and kidney disease. What’s the reason for this discrepancy? Trump often appears to struggle to stay awake, signs of a condition doctors refer to as excessive daytime somnolence. This problem, which is sometimes evident during Oval Office events, was not addressed in the report after Trump’s comprehensive physical exam in May. Although the president is a renowned night owl, his sleepiness seems relatively new. There are several possible causes for the president’s symptoms, some of which could have serious complications if left untreated. Past Trump medical reports have disclosed the president’s use of the drug finasteride, which prevents hair loss. The drug was not mentioned in the report after Trump’s most recent medical examination. In response to a query from The Washington Post about its absence, the White House responded, “The current report reflects all medications deemed clinically relevant to disclose at this time.” It does not matter, in any material way, if the president is or isn’t taking a hair-loss drug. The more important question is, what medications prescribed for Trump, if any, has the White House decided to withhold from the public? The president has spoken about how well he performs on cognitive testing. However, the exam that Trump describes, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, is a brief and basic screening tool, with simple questions (draw a clock, identify a camel), often performed in response to a concern from the patient or a member of the family. Why has the president undergone this test numerous times, and have there been more sophisticated neurocognitive assessments performed? Some people would argue that these personal medical details are more than the public deserves to know: After all, Buckingham Palace has not revealed many details about King Charles’s cancer or his treatment. #trump #health #medical #reports #problems 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸7,38%
- 13 авг.Mecca Pact: Egypt Is Out, the Numbers Are In Egypt did not sign the Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Now the regional gossip industry is trying to decide who rejected whom. One report says Saudi Arabia opposed Egypt’s entry because Cairo is too close to the UAE and still cooperates with Israel. Another says Egypt chose neutrality and does not plan to join anytime soon. Both versions reach the same diplomatic destination: Egypt is outside the room, and each side gets to call it a principled decision. The official explanation is thinner. Cairo has not publicly explained why it did not sign. Egypt has participated in the four-country consultation format with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan still calls Egypt a “natural partner” who may join after unspecified “technical issues” are resolved. Then come the PowerPoint numbers. The three founding states claim roughly 1.4 million active personnel, more than 3,400 military aircraft, about 6,000 tanks and over 340 naval vessels. Turkey supplies a NATO-scale military machine. Saudi Arabia supplies the money. Pakistan supplies manpower — and nuclear weapons. Pakistan’s defense budget is the smallest of the three, yet it is the only member with nuclear bombs. That is the Mecca Pact in one line: Saudi money, Turkish force, Pakistani nuclear insurance. The totals look impressive because military alliances always look impressive when listed as columns. The harder question is whether Riyadh, Ankara and Islamabad would actually fight for one another when the missiles arrive, the oil terminals burn and Washington calls every capital separately. Egypt understands that question better than most. Cairo may not be rejecting the alliance. It may simply be refusing to buy a ticket before learning where the bus is going. #Egypt #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Pakistan #MeccaPact #MiddleEast #nuclearcrisis #Israel 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸7,36%
- 14 авг.Ganim Returns: Twenty-One Years and One Morning Prayer Twenty-one years after Israel dismantled Ganim during the 2005 disengagement, the settlement is back. Thirty families moved into dozens of caravans in northern Samaria, a morning prayer was held, and the state called it historical repair. For Bezalel Smotrich, the message came with an election threat attached. The government is “erasing the disgrace of the expulsion,” he said, while warning that an Eisenkot-Liberman-Golan government would evacuate the new settlements. In Israeli politics, every caravan now comes with a campaign speech pre-installed. Ganim is not an isolated revival. It is part of an approved plan to establish or legalize 19 settlements across the West Bank, including Ganim and Kadim, also dismantled during disengagement. The Samaria Regional Council says it plans 19 new communities in northern Samaria, with 11 expected to be launched immediately. The biblical symmetry is almost too neat. Ganim takes its name from Ein Ganim, mentioned in the Book of Joshua. Many associate the modern name Jenin with the same ancient root. One side sees a return home. The other sees a settlement reconstructed near a Palestinian city under military control. Both sides can point to the same map and call it proof. Hamas condemned the move as an escalation of settlement expansion and called for resistance. Settlement leaders called it the reversal of a national trauma. The Palestinian news agency WAFA described settlers rebuilding the site on land belonging to residents east of Jenin. Everyone agrees on one fact: Ganim is no longer a memory of 2005. It is now a forecast for the next evacuation, the next confrontation, and the next election. #Israel #WestBank #Ganim #Jenin #settlements #Smotrich #Palestine #MiddleEast 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸7,33%
- 21:59Abu al-Duhur: Four Strikes, Eight Strikes, One Runway Four strikes or eight, depending on who was counting. The runway got the message. Syrian outlets first reported unidentified warplanes hitting Abu al-Duhur military airbase in eastern Idlib before dawn. State television later cited a military source saying eight strikes damaged the runway, storage facilities and abandoned aircraft shelters. No casualties were reported. Al Jazeera counted four strikes. Israel declined to comment. The number matters less than the target. Bombing a runway is not an assassination. It is a veto on the future. Abu al-Duhur lies about 70 kilometers from Turkey’s border, inside the area Turkey operates in. Syrian military sources and regional outlets say the base had become part of Damascus’s effort to revive its post-Assad air arm. They reported roughly two refurbished Su-22 fighter-bombers, several L-39 trainer jets and aging helicopters at the site. Footage of Su-22 training flights over northern Syria appeared shortly before the strikes. A Turkish military delegation had reportedly visited the airfield to assess runway rehabilitation. That created the obvious interpretation. Before Syrian or Turkish combat jets could use the facility, someone made the runway unusable again. Satellite imagery reportedly shows new construction at the base since May, alongside ongoing runway and taxiway repairs. The site was not merely a relic of the Assad era. It was becoming a working base again. In Syria, reconstruction is often a countdown. #Syria #Israel #Turkey #Idlib #AbuAlDuhur #AirForce #MiddleEast 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸3,49%
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