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Hmm..watching in 4D...

SalamRushdie:
Restraint over a place thatvhas been their capital for decades ? Any resistance of that embassy is nothing but mischief and will be met with brute force no matter how many lives are lost

Restraint against the use of force, that's what I mean...

Deputy US secretary of state just announced the official opening of US embassy in Jerusalem, Israel.

Happening now.. It's official, US finally opens Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel.
The US anthem has just be sung there now..



The United States has officially relocated its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in a deeply controversial move that angered Palestinians and drew widespread international condemnation.

The ceremony on Monday took place amid road closures and heavy police presence in anticipation of Palestinian protests.

US President Donald Trump - who in December 2017 declared Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move long-sought by Israel - addressed the ceremony via a recorded video message.

"Today we follow through on this recognition and open our embassy in the historic and sacred land of Jerusalem and we're opening it many, many years ahead of schedule," Trump said.

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He added that the US "remains fully committed to facilitating a lasting peace agreement".

According to Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld, up to 1,000 officers were posted around the embassy's new location in the southwest neighbourhood of Arnona and its surrounding areas.

The closures spread to occupied East Jerusalem, where access to the Old City was curtailed from areas extending to it such as al-Tur, Mount of Olives, Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.

Protests have spread across the occupied Palestinian territories.

At least 41 people killed in Gaza and nearly 2,000 wounded during demonstrations that are part of a weeks-long protest calling for the right of return for Palestinian refugees to the areas they were forcibly expelled from in 1948.
Tear gas and rubber bullets

At the Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at Palestinian youth who were throwing stones.

Later on Monday, a protest rally was expected to make its way to the new US embassy location, but with the road closures the demonstration is not expected to reach its destination.


In a statement released on Monday, the Palestinian Authority described Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the US embassy move as "blatant violations of international law and disregard to the core values of justice and morality".

"Choosing a tragic day in Palestinian history shows great insensibility and disrespect for the core principles of the peace process," the statement said, referring to the Nakba, where Palestinians commemorate their ethnic cleansing by Zionist paramilitaries back in 1948.

"We convey our sincere gratitude to all countries that had the moral responsibility to stand by international legitimacy to protect Jerusalem and support the Palestinians hope for peace."

Riyad al-Malki, the Palestinian foreign minister, said on Monday that the Palestinian leadership will go to the International Criminal Court and was preparing to file documents on crimes committed by Israel.

Speaking to old a local radio station, al-Malki called for an urgent meeting of the Arab League, which he said would be followed by meetings at the UN Security Council.

Leaders from Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon and other countries in the region strongly condemned the US move.

Courtesy : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/jerusalem-lockdown-moves-israeli-mission-180514112733896.html

Where is the bride?

tyup:
they're packed and loaded even against Russia combine

Russia??

Hmm... No go there oh...

Middle East crises just got hotter....

Meanwhile Israel is responding with more strikes...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onlyjsnIius

Just in now ... Iranian forces have fired rockets at Israel from Syria ( Golan heights)...
Israel has reportedly shot some rockets down..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLw51I_Ikow

(Reuters) - Iranian forces on the Syrian-held side of the Golan Heights shelled Israeli army outposts on the strategic plateau on Thursday but caused no casualties, the Israeli military said.

Israel retaliated for the attack, military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus said, without elaborating.

The late-night incident followed a surge in tensions between Israel and Syria, where Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces have been helping Damascus beat back a 7-year-old rebellion.

Fearing that Iran and Hezbollah are setting up a Lebanese-Syrian front against it, Israel has occasionally struck at their forces. Iran blamed it for an April 9 air strike that killed seven of its military personnel in Syria, and vowed revenge.

Conricus said that, in Thursday's attack, around 20 projectiles, most likely rockets, were fired by the Quds Force, an external arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, at around 12.10 a.m.

"A few of those rockets were intercepted" by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system, Conricus told reporters. "We are not aware of any casualties. The amount of damage that we currently assess is low."

Asked if Israel retaliated for the salvo, he said: "We have retaliated but I have no further details about this."

Expectations of a regional flare-up were stoked by U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement on Tuesday that he was withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear deal. Hours later, an Israeli air strike in Syria killed 15 people, including 8 Iranians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Israel has neither confirmed or denied responsibility.


Courtesy: Reuters https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1IA3GF?__twitter_impression=true

There is a thread on this already.. See below

https://www.nairaland.com/4493944/breaking-trump-pulls-out-nuclear

Just in now, Trump pulls out of Nuclear deal with Iran....

US President Donald Trump has announced that the United States is effectively withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, defying last-ditch diplomatic efforts by his European allies to convince him otherwise.

"I made clear that if the deal could not be fixed, the United States would no longer be a party to the agreement," Trump said in a highly-anticipated on Tuesday.

"The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we will know what exactly will happen.

"Therefore, I am announcing today, that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal," he said

Courtesy :
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/donald-trump-declares-withdrawal-iran-nuclear-deal-180508141155625.html