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8-Jul-14 World View -- Young Jewish males confess to lynching, as Israel and Gaza prepare for war

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8-Jul-14 World View -- Young Jewish males confess to lynching, as Israel and Gaza prepare for war

Russia's Vladimir Putin appears to be the loser in Ukraine

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Israel and Gaza prepare for war after rocket barrage
Three young Jewish males confess to killing Palestinian teen
Russia's Vladimir Putin appears to be the loser in Ukraine
Photos shared with the #GazaUnderAttack hashtag are often deceptive

Israel and Gaza prepare for war after rocket barrage

A rocket being launched from the Gaza Strip in 2012

A rocket being launched from the Gaza Strip in 2012

Izz al-Din al-Qassam, the military wing of Hamas in Gaza, is taking a responsibility for the barrage of 80 rockets launched from Gaza into southern Israel on Monday. A source in Israel's Defense Force (IDF) is saying that a decision has been made to launch a military offensive into Gaza. 1,500 reservists have been called up, and infantry assault units are deployed on the Gaza border. These will be backed up by intensified air strikes against the Gaza rocket launchers. Jerusalem Post and Debka and Daily Star (Lebanon)

Three young Jewish males confess to killing Palestinian teen

Of the six young Jewish extremists arrested on Sunday for the murder of Palestinian teen Muhammad Abu Khdeir, three have confessed under intensive questioning, according to Israeli officials. According to one source, one of the suspects is cooperating with police, and has incriminated the others. The confessions are supported by security footage taken from a camera in a nearby building, showing the faces of two of the suspects. However, the suspects have not yet been permitted to see their lawyers.

It's thought that 15-year-old Khdeir was lynched and burnt to death in revenge for the abduction and killing on June 10 of three Israeli teens. The lynching triggered massive riots and demonstrations by Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and may also have triggered the barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza. Israeli officials moved quickly to investigate and find the murders of Khdeir in the hope of cooling the tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. On Monday evening, after the announcement of the confessions, the rioting had quieted down considerably.

It's believed that the murderers of the three Israeli teens are hiding out in the West Bank, and that the Palestinian Authority is doing little or nothing to bring them to justice. There have been no arrests in the case of the three Israeli teens. Jerusalem Post

Russia's Vladimir Putin appears to be the loser in Ukraine

Last week's announcement by Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko to end the unilateral cease-fire apparently caught Russia by surprise, though the greatest surprise was Saturday's decisive victory over the pro-Russian separatists in Slovyansk. The working assumption was that Poroshenko would keep extending the truce, thus allowing the conflict to "freeze" and making possible the establishment of a de-facto independent "Novorossiya" (New Russia) in eastern Ukraine.

Russia's president Vladimir Putin has been using such a strategy to "freeze" the foreign policy of the U.S. and Europe for several years. The strategy was to use the United Nations Security Council. By vetoing every resolution, Putin was able to cripple American and European foreign policy, but since Putin's Russia ignored the Security Council in its own actions, he essentially had a free hand on the world stage. This was particularly true in Syria, where Putin provided an unlimited supply of heavy weapons to Syria's president Bashar al-Assad for use in his genocidal attacks against his own people.

Putin had expected Poroshenko to yield to international demands to keep extending the cease-fire. In fact on Thursday, just before Saturday's victory, France's president François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were strongly pressuring Poroshenko to resume the cease-fire, and they were also asking Putin to mediate between the two sides. At that point, Putin must surely have thought he was going to get everything he wanted, and so reports indicate that the loss of Slovyansk was an unpleasant shock.

So here's the summary:

The US only does things with the permission of the Security Council, so it has been effective crippled by Russia's veto.

Russia never asks the Security Council for permission, so it invades anyone it wants, and ignores international law all it likes.

Similar, China annexes other countries' territories without asking permission from the Security Council, and without even allowing the United Nations to mediate border disputes.

But Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko ignored all the demands to continue its unilateral cease-fire, and won a victory in Slovyansk that was apparently a surprise to everyone.

That ends today's geopolitical lesson. Jamestown and Reuters (7/3)

Photos shared with the #GazaUnderAttack hashtag are often deceptive

The hashtag #GazaUnderAttack is being used to organize worldwide protests against Israel for bombing Gaza, by showing photos of the results of the bombing. A BBC investigation has revealed that many of the images are not from the latest conflict, and not even from Gaza. Some date as far back as 2009 and others are from conflicts in Syria and Iraq. BBC

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