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Legal? Despite Withdrawal Pledge, Trump's Massive Mission Creep in Syria
Australia is actively assisting ISIL and Al Qaeda in Syria while jailing its citizens for doing the same. It has always supported Israel in its support of terrorists as well. (ODT)
"The US is warning Syria against attempting to recover lands lost to rebels south of Damascus.
Some of those rebels are ISIL or affiliated in some way to al-Qaeda. That is, the US is now doing the opposite of what it said it was going in to Syria to do.
Observers suspect that the US is simply running interference for the Israelis, who have occupied part of the Golan Heights and the permanent annexation of which the US is preparing to recognize. The Israeli government does not want Syria going south because they don’t trust Damascus to keep the Lebanese Shiite militia, Hizbullah, away from the Israeli border. The de facto Syrian side of the Golan is largely held by the a group (formerly known as Nusra Front) with ties to al-Qaeda.
That doesn’t sound like self-defense.
So de facto, the US and Israel are protecting some al-Qaeda fighters (among a large number of non-extremists).
Mission creep can go very wrong very quickly, as the US discovered in Vietnam."
Israel’s High Court just made an ICC investigation more likely | +972 Magazine
Greg Sheridan of News Corp argued on Q&A that Israel was "highly capable" of investigating itself in any investigation of the massacre of unarmed protesters in Gaza. Shari Markson for News Corp also was fully aware that Israel was supporting Al Nusra an al Qaeda affiliate terrorist group in Syria and was acting as their de facto air force. Doesn't fact that she was their to interview these terrorists make her complicit? If so why hasn't she been arrested? (ODT)The court’s rejection of a lawsuit challenging the shooting of protesters in Gaza is a reminder that the Israeli legal system simply isn’t set up to investigate the policy makers and policies that result in alleged war crimes.
Six Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups had filed two parallel emergency petitions weeks earlier, before the worst of the violence had occurred, hoping to change the rules of engagement in time to prevent more killing.
But their motions to hold emergency hearings were not granted and by the time the justices reached a decision last week, the Israeli army had killed over 110 Palestinians in Gaza — more than half of them on a single day. Israeli snipers shot and wounded more than 3,600 others during the seven weeks of protests that culminated on May 14th.
Weeks earlier, the army had already announced that it was investigating a few of the killings, but it was the policy — the rules of engagement — that authorized Israeli sniper teams to shoot some 3,600 Palestinians that the rights groups had asked the court to review. The court said no.
Council denies conflict of interest despite Adani paying staff wages
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Adani will bankroll the jobs of local government staff tasked with assessing activities around its Queensland mine proposal — a deal anti-corruption campaigners say raises "serious questions" about independent oversight.
The Indian mining giant has struck an unusual deal to pay up to $1.15 million in wages, housing and vehicle costs for four Isaac Regional Council employees to deal with the "extraordinary workload" created by the Carmichael coal project.Anti-corruption think tank Transparency International Australia called the scenario unprecedented, saying it would raise questions about the independence of council decisions and perceptions of conflict of interest.
But the council said the staff were under its direction and not controlled by Adani.
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