Palestinian Authority signs up to International Criminal Court, desperate to prevent a third intifada, or popular uprising, which would be directed also against the PA./ The ICC’s Track Record of Selective Prosecution./ Turkey arrests 20 police accused of wiretapping state officials. Erdogan has blamed US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of concocting the corruption scandal./ Russia and Turkey’s Gas Pipeline Deal to include Iran? ==== ==== ==== ====> Palestine Palestinian Authority signs up to International Criminal Court. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has signed up to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) as part of signing onto 22 United Nations conventions and institutions. Israel and its main backer, the United States, are prime candidates to face prosecution. Both have refused to sign the Rome Statute and predictably opposed the Palestinian move. The move by Abbas and his Fatah-dominated PA, backed by the Arab regimes, is a last-ditch attempt to preserve their credibility. They are desperate to prevent a third intifada, or popular uprising, which would be directed not just against Israel, but also against the PA. https://wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/03/pale-j03.html ====> Palestine’s ICC bid likely to backfire considering the ICC’s Track Record of Selective Prosecution; Analyst. Experts in international law: the ICC is a quasi-legal UN body that primarily serves as an instrument for endowing western-backed, politically motivated, and selective prosecution with an aura of legitimacy, rather than serving the function of upholding intentional law. nsnbc.me/2015/01/05/palestines-icc-bid-likely-to-backfire-considering-the-iccs-track-record-of-selective-prosecution-analyst/ ====> Turkey arrests 20 police accused of wiretapping state officials. Turkish authorities on Monday detained at least 20 police officers on suspicion of illegally eavesdropping on top officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media said. Erdogan has blamed US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of concocting the corruption scandal and has purged thousands of his followers from the police and the judiciary. The authorities last month launched raids against pro-Gulen media in a move sharply criticized by the EU as marking a new erosion of press freedom in Turkey. english.al-akhbar/content/turkey-arrests-20-police-accused-wiretapping-state-officials ====> Russia and Turkey’s Gas Pipeline Deal - Implications for the European Union Iran was always looking for rapprochement with Turkey. Iran wanted to be part of Nabucco, and made the offer as early as 2009 before the outbreak of hostilities, and now it looks like they will have that opportunity. Indeed Erdogan told a gathering of Nabucco partner countries and regional countries in that same year, which included Iraq and Georgia: “We desire Iranian gas to be included in Nabucco when conditions allow,” But the US’s own special energy envoy Richard Morningstar was clear that Washington would not allow the Iranians to take part. The strangeness of the US opposition may have escaped the average American reader, here. Nabucco in no way involves the US directly, it is not a trans-Atlantic project. This is, at the very most, a question which only ought to be of concern to those countries that will be involved in the production, transport, and consumption of the goods and services provided. What the US offered instead to Turkey was that it should throw its international reputation into the wind, and facilitate an ultimately failed attempt to make ‘regime change’ in Syria. One critical factor which is often ignored by analysts looking at the ‘Triangle’ of Atlanticist Europe, Eurasia, and the ‘Near East’ (the Balkans, Turkey, and Arab World) is that this is actually a ‘Square’. Europe is being threatened by the US that it will lose access to Latin America. globalresearch.ca/russia-and-turkeys-gas-deal-implications-for-the-european-union/5421746
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