Headlines:
- Broken America: Grim US Coronavirus Milestone Leaves Europe Aghast
- UAE-Jewish Treaty will Boost Trade, Drive Real Estate Market
- China Launches Advanced Warship for Pakistan Navy
- Europe Threatened by Turkish activity in the Eastern Mediterranean
- Military Incident Indication of American Control over Russian Operations in Syria
- Saudi Eager to Normalise Relations with Illegal Crusader Jewish entity
Broken America: Grim US Coronavirus Milestone Leaves Europe Aghast
Perhaps nowhere outside the US is America’s bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe’s epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outbreak exploded in February, and the country still has one of the world’s highest official death tolls at 35,000. After a strict nationwide, 10-week lockdown, vigilant tracing of new clusters and general acceptance of masks and social distancing, Italy has become a model of virus containment. “Don’t they care about their health?” a mask-clad Patrizia Antonini asked about people in the United States as she walked with friends along the banks of Lake Bracciano, north of Rome on Sunday. “They need to take our precautions. … They need a real lockdown. That the most powerful nation on Earth could be found wanting has led to complete bewilderment on the other side of the Atlantic. Much of the incredulity in Europe stems from the fact that America had the benefit of time, European experience and medical know-how to treat the virus that the continent itself didn’t have when the first COVID-19 patients started filling intensive care units. Confirmed coronavirus cases in the US hit 5 million on Sunday – a bleak milestone met with astonishment and alarm in Europe. “Yet more than four months into a sustained outbreak, the US has reached 5 million cases, according to the running count kept by Johns Hopkins University. Even so, health officials believe the actual number is perhaps 10 times higher, or closer to 50 million, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40 per cent of those infected have no symptoms. “We Italians always saw America as a model,” said Massimo Franco, a columnist with daily Corriere della Sera. “But with this virus we’ve discovered a country that is very fragile, with bad infrastructure and a public health system that is non-existent.” Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza hasn’t shied away from criticising the US, officially condemning as “wrong” Washington’s decision to withhold funding from the World Health Organisation and expressing amazement at US President Donald Trump’s virus response. After Trump finally donned a mask last month, Speranza told La7 television: “I’m not surprised by Trump’s behaviour now; I’m profoundly surprised by his behaviour before.” With America’s world record death toll of more than 160,000, its politicised resistance to masks and its rising caseload, European Union nations have barred American tourists and visitors from other countries with growing cases from freely travelling to the bloc. [Source: The Sydney Morning Herald]
Covid-19 has exposed the multiple facets of American life where the system is broken and beyond repair. Whether Trump or Biden wins the general election America’s demise is sealed and cannot be reversed.
UAE-Jewish Treaty will Boost Trade, Drive Real Estate Market
The peace treaty between the UAE and Israel is a game-changing initiative and will open up new horizons that would benefit key economic sectors and bring prosperity to the region, industry experts say. On Saturday, the UAE scrapped an economic boycott against Israel, allowing trade and financial agreements between the countries in another key step towards normalizing ties. The two countries are expected to hold talk this week to promote bilateral cooperation in sectors such aviation, tourism, trade, finance, health, energy and security. The strategic deal, which still awaits negotiations on details such as opening embassies, trade and travel links before it is officially signed, will benefit the Dubai real estate sector and attract more investment from an untapped market in the region. Latest data from real estate consultancy ValuStrat indicated that there were significant demand-supply imbalances during 2012-14, where Dubai had an average of 90,000 additional residential units. However, the emirate is expected to have less than 70,000 additional residential units during 2018-21 that will help stabilize the market and attract huge investment from Israeli investors. Leading developers said the landmark move will help absorb surplus inventory and create more demand for residential units in one of the best cities offering excellent infrastructure and life style in the region. Atif Rahman, director and partner at Danube Properties, welcomed the peace treaty and said it is a step in the right direction that will bring economic stability and prosperity in the region. “It’s a big initiative and will benefit the UAE economy in general and Dubai real estate in particular. The strategic move will help bring more investment into the UAE economy and property sector will be major beneficiary of it,” he said. The real estate sector plays a big role in the UAE’s economy, primarily in Dubai. In addition, the other emirates, notably the capital Abu Dhabi, have shown great strides in developing their local. Gary Dalton, managing director of Zoomproperty, said the recent announcement that the UAE and Israel are to normalise diplomatic relations has largely been welcomed by the international community, and has been seen as a bold and progressive step by the UAE government. “It is still early days but the economic benefits to the UAE could be wide reaching across investment, tourism, security and telecommunications among others, and potentially on the real estate sector,” Dalton told Khaleej Times on Saturday. He said the announcement of the first flight from Israel to the UAE is a highly significant milestone and is a precursor to one immediate benefit, which is the influx of Israeli tourists into the UAE, giving this sector a much-needed boost. [Source: Khaleej Times]
The economic benefits accruing from UAE’s normalization with the Jewish state are highly questionable and will never override clear cut injections from Allah (swt),﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا عَدُوِّي وَعَدُوَّكُمْ أَوْلِيَاءَ تُلْقُونَ إِلَيْهِم بِالْمَوَدَّةِ وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا بِمَا جَاءَكُم مِّنَ الْحَقِّ يُخْرِجُونَ الرَّسُولَ وَإِيَّاكُمْ أَن تُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّـهِ رَبِّكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ خَرَجْتُمْ جِهَادًا فِي سَبِيلِي وَابْتِغَاءَ مَرْضَاتِي تُسِرُّونَ إِلَيْهِم بِالْمَوَدَّةِ وَأَنَا أَعْلَمُ بِمَا أَخْفَيْتُمْ وَمَا أَعْلَنتُمْ وَمَن يَفْعَلْهُ مِنكُمْ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَاءَ السَّبِيلِ﴾ “Oh you who have believed, do not take My enemies and your enemies as allies, extending to them affection while they have disbelieved in what came to you of the truth, having driven out the Prophet and yourselves [only] because you believe in Allah, your Lord. If you have come out for jihad in My cause and seeking means to My approval, [take them not as friends]. You confide to them affection, but I am most knowing of what you have concealed and what you have declared. And whoever does it among you has certainly strayed from the soundness of the way.” [Al-Mumtahina 60:1] Palestine like Kashmir are Muslims lands and Islam forbids normalization of relations with the Jewish state and India.
China Launches Advanced Warship for Pakistan Navy
China has launched the first of four “most advanced” warships it is building for Pakistan amid deepening defense and economic ties between the two allied nations. The development comes as both the countries are locked in border tensions with their mutual neighbor India. The Pakistan Navy said Sunday that Chinese state-owned Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai held the launching ceremony for the Type-054A/P frigate, with top officials from the service in attendance. The Navy said in a statement the vessels are state of the art frigates equipped with modern surface, subsurface and anti-air weapons and sensors. “These ships will significantly contribute in maintaining peace and security in our area of responsibility,” it added. The statement did not mention the cost of military vessels, but reported estimates are more than $350 million each. Once constructed, the ships will be one of the largest and technologically advanced surface platforms of the Pakistan Navy fleet, boosting its capability to respond to future challenges, the service said. The Chinese builder is expected to deliver all four units to Pakistan by 2021, which Chinese media said could “double the combat power” of the Pakistan Navy fleet. Pakistani officials said the Type-054A/P frigate is in service with China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and recognized as its backbone. China and Pakistan are jointly producing various military-related hardware, including the JF-17 multirole combat aircraft, demonstrating the strong mutual defense ties. The two allies in recent years have also cemented economic cooperation under Beijing’s global infrastructure Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI-related China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has brought nearly $30 billion in Chinese investment over the past six years, building Pakistani roads, ports and power plants. Critics, however, see the investments as a burden on heavily indebted Pakistan. U.S. officials have termed CPEC loans as a “debt trap” for Islamabad, though Pakistan and China dismiss the criticism, saying it has stemmed from “a lack of information and misunderstandings” about the collaboration. Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to visit Islamabad later this year that Pakistani officials say will boost the BRI-linked economic cooperation. Xi was expected to visit Pakistan in May but the trip was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week hosted his Pakistani counterpart, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, for a bilateral “strategic dialogue,” where the two sides agreed to push ahead with new mega projects under CPEC. [Source: Voice of America].
It is quite obvious that China is strengthening Pakistan’s navy to offset India’s naval ascendency in the Indian ocean. Nevertheless, it is inexcusable for Pakistan’s civil and militarily leaders to allow China and America to play with Pakistani assets to score points in their struggle for Eurasia.
Europe Threatened by Turkish Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean
According to the Hill:
The European Union is preparing to sanction Turkey over its actions in the eastern Mediterranean, where a confrontation between Turkish and Greek military ships is raising the risk of open conflict between NATO allies over claims of drilling rights for natural gas.
Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borell on Friday said EU was expressing solidarity with Greece and Cyprus and against Turkey’s violation of their territorial waters. Ankara maintains that the sovereign boundaries of the waters are contested.
“We are clear and determined in defending European Union’s interests and solidarity with Greece and Cyprus,” Borell said, following an informal meeting of the 27-nation bloc’s foreign ministers.
“Turkey has to refrain from unilateral actions. … For this reason, we must walk a fine line between preserving a true space for dialogue and, at the same time, showing collective strength in the defence of our common interests,” he added.
Europeans are threatened by Turkey’s activity in the Eastern Mediterranean, even though the Turkish state represents only a small fraction of the combined potential of the Muslim world. Furthermore, Turkish President Erdogan is an American agent, and America surreptitiously supports Turkey’s more aggressive posture against Europe.
Erdogan is making a catastrophic mistake by aligning himself with one power instead of maintaining independence. But for those who have political awareness, the geopolitical space already exists for a strong and unified righteous Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) State on the method of the Prophet ﷺ.
Military Incident Indication of American Control over Russian Operations in Syria
According to Politico:
Leaders from U.S. and Russian militaries are stepping up their war of words over a collision involving armored vehicles in Syria on Tuesday that injured seven U.S. service members.
The Russians displayed “deliberately provocative and aggressive behavior” and did not use established channels to request passage through the eastern Syria security area near Dayrick on Tuesday, U.S. Central Command spokesperson Capt. Bill Urban said in a late Thursday statement.
In reality it is America that dominates all aspects of the conflict in Syria. Russian operations are tightly controlled, just as are the operations of Turkey, Iran and other powers intervening there. America has been orchestrating a complex interplay of competing forces towards a common objective: the preservation of the Syrian regime and the defeat of the Syrian revolution. But it is only particular Syrian groups that have been defeated; the revolution lives on and will rise again, with Allah’s permission.
Saudi Eager to Normalise Relations with Illegal Crusader Jewish entity
According to a report at the Middle East Eye, Mohammad bin Salman was fully locked into a meeting in Washington with Benjamin Netanyahu, and this was cancelled at the last minute not because of fear of disgrace in the Muslim Ummah but because of fear that President Trump’s political opponents within the American Congress would undermine the value of the meeting for Trump’s re-election.
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, pulled out of a planned visit to Washington DC next week to meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he feared that the news had leaked and that his presence in the US capital would become a “nightmare”.
It had not yet been agreed whether the meeting between the crown prince and Netanyahu would have been recorded and then announced or conducted live in front of the cameras.
But those pushing for it to happen, which included US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, see the prospect of a handshake between the men as a way to relaunch Mohammed bin Salman’s image as a young Arab peacemaker and shore up regional support for the US-brokered deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
In the ensuing statement, the crown prince would have stopped short of announcing recognition of Israel, but the meeting itself would have been the strongest hint that the kingdom was also on a path towards normalising relations.
A date for the visit had been agreed and a protocol team had already been dispatched.
He would have arrived on 31 August after the end of the Republican Convention. It would have been his first visit to the US since March 2018 when he stayed for around three weeks in a big PR exercise.
Not wanting to stay either in the Saudi embassy nor the ambassador’s residence, known locations which would have attracted demonstrations, four houses had been purchased at a secret location just for his stay, MEE was told.
The plan fell apart on Saturday when the crown prince received reports that the visit had been leaked. His bottom-line condition with the White House was that the visit should go ahead in total secrecy and that his presence in the capital would only be known once the event itself was taking place.
That way, his advisers calculated, the crown prince’s many opponents in Congress would have no time to prepare statements, and campaigners for the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and lawyers acting for the former interior minister Saad al-Jabri, who is in hiding in Canada, would have no time to prepare legal actions.
Trump and Kushner had desperately wanted this visit to take place. Within hours of its cancellation, Trump had dispatched both US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kushner to the Middle East to drum up regional support for the UAE’s pact with Israel.
The illegal Jewish entity is an extension of the West into the heart of the Muslim world and a repeat of the failed Christian crusader entity almost a thousand years previously. Hence, it is the Western powers, much more than the Jews themselves, who are desperate for the survival of the entity, and it is they that instruct their agents in the Muslim world to accommodate and secure this illegal presence in Muslim lands.
With Allah’s permission, the Muslim Ummah shall rise and overthrow the entire agent class of rulers that serves Western interests alone, and re-establish the righteous Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) State on the method of the Prophet ﷺ, that shall liberate all occupied territories, reunify Muslim lands, comprehensively reintroduce the Islamic way of life, and carry its light to all of humankind.