Is Israel’s hidden hand behind the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn? By Jonathan Cook

25 August 2018 — Jonathan Cook

Israeli group submits freedom of information request as evidence grows of meddling by Netanyahu government in UK politics

Middle East Eye – 25 August 2018

Has Israel been covertly fuelling claims of an “anti-Semitism crisis” purportedly plaguing Britain’s Labour Party since it elected a new leader, Jeremy Corbyn, three years ago?

That question is raised by a new freedom of information request submitted this week by a group of Israeli lawyers, academics and human rights activists.

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U.S. Prepares New Strikes On Government Facilities In Syria: Russian Military

25 August 2018 — South Front

Militants of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), aided by British intelligence, are preparing to stage a chemical attack in northern Syria that will be used as a pretext for a new missile strike by the U.S., the UK and France on facilities of the Damascus government, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov announced on August 25. Continue reading

Ex-Obama Official: We Fueled the Syria War Rather Than Stopping It

23 August 2018 — TRNN

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad bears criminal responsibility for the Syrian crisis, says Robert Malley, a former top White House official and now the CEO of the International Crisis Group. But once the US became part of the proxy war against Assad, Malley argues, “we were part of what fueled the conflict rather than stopped it.”

[This is the third part of an extended interview on US policy in Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Syria with Robert Malley, a senior Obama administration official on Middle East affairs]. (Inc. trnscript)

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