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17 May 2025

Time To Take Back The Country

Pray for those in harm’s way. The world is watching. United not divided: We win!

We will never forget how the Middle East treated our President. Lots of comms. President Donald Trump addresses American troops in Qatar. He ends his Middle Eastern tour in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. More than $3 trillion worth of investments and military sales secured during the trip.

Will Trump head to Istanbul to try to work on a Ukraine peace settlement. There are even rumors he might head to Iran. There’s a lot more going on that we don’t know. Pray! Here’s more from And We Know.

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26 Feb 2025

Why Settle Ukraine War Now?

Agreements regarding territorial exchange are the last lingering components to negotiating an end to the Ukraine War. That’s the assessment of John Mearsheimer, an international relations scholar at the University of Chicago.  Much of the underpinnings of a peace deal were already resolved at a prior conference in Istanbul, Turkey.

Steve Witkoff, the American Special Envoy to the Middle East,  believes resolving the conflict now offers the best chance for  success. “Territory” is the reason.

Under the current division of land, Russia would presumably get Crimea plus the four oblasts in the easternmost quadrant of Ukraine, around Donetsk. If the war went on longer, and Russia also seized Odessa, that would be a far more difficult territory to surrender. Not only the Ukraine, but much of the European Union would balk then.

Mearsheimer explains some of the parameters here in an interview with Aaron Maté on The Jimmy Dore Show.

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17 Jun 2013

Turkey’s Civil Revolt

On Friday, May 31, Turkish riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray into a peaceful protest held to save Gezi Park, one of the last green areas in central Istanbul. This set off the biggest civil uprising in the history of the Turkish Republic, calling for Prime Minister Recep Erdogan’s resignation. The unrest has spread like wildfire to more than 60 cities where protests are still ongoing. Vice landed in Istanbul the day it all kicked off.

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12 Jun 2013

Crackdown in Turkey

Chaos, violence and anti-government anger continue on the streets of Turkey as protesters to defy the prime minister’s demand to pack up and go home. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned protesters that he will ‘not show any more tolerance’ for them while the streets of Istanbul continue to look more like scenes from a civil war. More from JewishNewsOne.

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10 Jun 2013

Artists Join Turkish Protests

Members of Turkey’s State Opera and Ballet hold a dance protest in Ankara in solidarity with demonstrators occupying Gezi Park in Istanbul. One protestor explained that dancing on stage was the only way they could express themselves, saying: “The ground is our stage, and it is the only place that we can express ourselves.”

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Music also factors heavily in “Everyday I’m Capuling,” a video produced by the protesters to express their cause. “Capuling” is a Turkish term meaning to pillage or plunder. Protesters adopted the term after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan referred to them as “looters.”

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