Headline News 24/12/2016

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• Sisi makes a fool of himself as he is caught between two US Presidents

• Trump reveals true reality of American arms race agenda

• Syrian tyrant Assad calling for peace after brutal assault on Aleppo

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Sisi makes a fool of himself as he is caught between two US Presidents

President Sisi of Egypt has foolishly demonstrated his shallow-minded obedience to America’s instructions over submission of a resolution against illegal Jewish settlements on Muslim Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. As described in the Atlantic, on Friday:

“What happens when the most powerful country in the world effectively has two presidents at once? Its policy regarding one of the most complex conflicts on the planet collapses into a muddled mess.

Or, more precisely, you have what unfolded over the last 48 hours: The Egyptian government submits to the UN Security Council a resolution against Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. This raises the possibility that the Obama administration could express its opposition to Israeli settlement policy by abstaining from the vote, rather than vetoing the resolution as it had with a similar one in 2011. Enraged Israeli officials call up Donald Trump, who tweets that the United States should veto. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the president of Egypt, abruptly calls off the vote. At some point during all this, Trump has a phone conversation with Sisi where they chat about jointly solving various issues in the Middle East. Anonymous Israeli officials, essentially siding with the incoming Trump administration, criticize Obama in unusually harsh terms for plotting with the Palestinians to abandon Israel at the United Nations. A day later, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, and Venezuela reintroduce the resolution, which comes to a vote and is adopted by the Security Council, including Egypt, with the United States abstaining. Barack Obama delivers a powerful parting message to Israel’s leaders that is powerfully undercut by Donald Trump’s opening message. “As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” Trump tweets shortly after the vote.

Despite Obama’s denials, it is very obvious that Obama pushed Egypt to submit the resolution and then Trump persuaded Egypt to withdraw it. Sisi has no mind of his own and only follows what his American masters direct.

This UN Security Council resolution, as many before it, carries no practical significance. America is fully-committed to Israel’s security and continued existence as an alien Western implant in the body of the Muslim Ummah and a forward base in our heartland that they hope can be used militarily when needed. America only tries to caution its evil offspring because it knows that blind arrogance is in the nature of the Jewish people, and America does not want Palestinians to know they have no hope of a homeland. Obama had wanted to make a low-key, subtle gesture at this time, but Trump’s noisy intervention has resulted in boldly highlighting America’s action. It is expected that Trump’s inexperience in political manoeuvres will lead to many more errors and blunders in American foreign policy during his presidential term.

Trump reveals true reality of American arms race agenda

US President-elect Donald Trump continues to boisterously impose himself on American policy even during his transition period, now regarding nuclear policy.

In a series of impromptu statements about nuclear weapons, Donald Trump is threatening to upend longstanding U.S. nonproliferation policy, even as his advisers contradict him and muddy his intentions.

The president-elect had alarmed and perplexed some experts and others in Washington when he pronounced, without offering more details, via Twitter on Thursday that the U.S. “must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.”

He further escalated his call on Friday, telling the MSNBC program “Morning Joe” that he is fine with the country taking part in an “arms race” if it puts the U.S. in a stronger position against foreign adversaries.
“Let it be an arms race ... we will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all,” Trump said in an off-air conversation on Friday.

In fact, as with other Trump statements, this is merely making explicit what has long been actual America policy. There is a deep and unresolvable contradiction in the Western ideology between Capitalist imperialism and the liberal ideals of freedom and democracy. As a consequence, Western leaders usually choose to hide or obscure their capitalist and imperialist policies under the rubric of such philosophies as the ‘free market’ in economics or ‘realism’ in international affairs. Trump, relatively unencumbered by idealism, simply states existing American policy in more stark terms.

America is already the paramount military spender in the world, with almost a thousand bases spanning the globe. America knows that it must continue to spend vast resources on maintaining its imperial domination of world affairs.

Syrian tyrant Assad calling for peace after brutal assault on Aleppo

Following the established Western procedure of using peace for the sake of war, Bashar al-Assad is now calling for peace after brutally bombarding eastern Aleppo only in order that he can retain his gains. According to Reuters:
On Friday, Assad thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for having been Syria's main partner in the battle, and said the city's fall had opened the door to a political process.

Putin said Russia, Iran, Turkey and Assad had agreed the Kazakh capital of Astana should be the venue for new peace negotiations, and Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the defeat of the rebels in the city could pave the way to a political solution.

Meanwhile, Press TV is reporting that the tyrant, Assad, is turning his attention towards Homs:

The Syrian military, in high spirits after liberating Syria’s second city of Aleppo from militants, has stepped up its counterterrorism push in Homs Province farther to the south.

Assad has to depend on Russia and others because he is unable to use the full strength of the Syrian army, whom he does not trust fully to wage war against their own population. But it is time now for the army to make its stance clear and stand either with the tyrant or with the people of Syria. Peace and justice cannot be truly established in Syria unless Muslims succeed in re-establishing the righteous Khilafah "Caliphate" State on the method of Prophethood that will end the rule of false regimes and tyrants in the entire region.