World Peace “Lennon Ivan Style” – Part 201:

As a continuation from my last blog whereby I believe the root of “World Peace” is centered on peace in the Middle East with the first step being negotiated peace between Israel and the Palestinians, I would like to remain objective and independent in my views such that I would like to today bring Iraq into my views as they seem to be the closest at this time to a full fledge civil war of rage like wild animals stuck together in a cage. However, it is important to note that Israel and Palestine seem to be awakening from their hatred induced coma state with the potential for peace negotiations to be resumed in the near future in the United States, while Egypt continues to operate in supremacy domination mode whereby the minority Christian military continues to hold on to power while the Muslim majority is fuming at the seams hoping to awaken from this horrible dream. As for the Syrians, both sides are still in anger induced coma state for the mentally insane such that millions of Syrians continue to suffer each and every day. In terms of the Russians and Ukrainians, they seem to have entered into a political war game whereby neither party wishes to concede but rather seems to prefer to enter into a civil war and commit dirty deeds. While Israelis, Palestinians, Egyptians, Syrians, Russians and Ukrainians continue along their respective paths toward enlightenment, it is now time for the Iraqis to be enlightened as to the path of quelling their current tensions before any more civil war breaks out which bears the risk of leading to a third and final world war on this earth, after which, there will be no place for anyone left to run. In summary, Observers around the world are stunned by the speed and scope of assaults on every major city in the upper Tigris River Valley, including Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. However, as the ISIS rebels extend their reach across Iraq, the U.S. Air Force was forced to intervene in order to prevent Genocide while Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki relinquished power opening a new political chapter that U.S. officials hope will move Iraq toward a more unified front against Islamic jihadists currently running wild and literally beheading “Infidels” like pigs without shedding a tear as blood spills out of their victims giving everybody creepy chills. During the week ending on Sunday, July 3, 2016, Turkey continued with their aggressive siege of CIZRE, SILOPI, DIYARBAKIR and NUSAYBIN, predominantly KURDISH, converting a suburban area into a war zone whereby one of the perpetrators of the February 17’th car bomb attacks in Ankara, Turkey by the name of Mehmet Sirin Kocakaya, code named Sirin, was killed in an operation in the southeastern province of DIYARBAKIR. As a friendly reminder, a total of 29 people were killed and dozens wounded in the car bomb attack staged during the passing of a shuttle carrying military personnel on February 17’th. A splinter group from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in retaliation for the situation in the southeastern district of CIZRE and the policies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the KURDS. Moving on to Iraq, the long-awaited liberation of FALLUJAH this week came with minimal damage to the city’s infrastructure unlike the disastrous campaign to free Ramadi from ISIS in which bomb damage and civilian casualties resulted in significant collateral damage. That is, backed by U.S. air power that took out a convoy of 250 fleeing ISIS fighters on the outskirts of the city, IRAQI government forces, with the assistance of SHIA militias, carefully recaptured FALLUJAH over a five-week period. Although FALLUJAH has been fully liberated, there are still too many explosives for civilians to go back which should take several weeks to clear. Moving on to SYRIA, rebels say they shot down a Syrian air force jet and blamed an al-Qaeda-linked group for killing the pilot. Two leading groups, Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham, which formed a pact last year, both say the plane was shot down. Jaysh al-Islam said militants from the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, who were supposed to hand him over, killed him instead. Meanwhile, Russia and Turkey agreed in principal to “coordinate” their policies over SYRIA in a major diplomatic realignment that could be a major blow for the US led goal of ousting SYRIAN president Bashar al-Assad. The announcement came after the U.S. agreed to long-standing Russian policies by offering a military alliance with RUSSIA against ISIS in SYRIA. In my opinion, Turkey’s participation in the military battle against ISIS is a positive addition to the ALLIANCE albeit Turkey’s negative stance against the PKK which in my opinion is currently unwarranted and deteriorating. However, with the recent majority victory by the governing AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it appears that Turkey’s future is heading for more war and bloodshed. Unfortunately, the governing AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have chosen the path of war with the PKK as opposed to diplomacy via the KURDISH HDP political party which secured close to 11% during recent Turkish elections. Therefore, in my opinion, the governing AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will learn the hard way that nobody on the outside world looking in is stupid but rather everyone chooses to close their eyes and allow Turkey to continue with its ethnic cleansing campaign of the KURDS in exchange for Turkey signing a deal with the European Union (EU) to stem the flow of refugees arriving in Greece. In exchange for reducing human trafficking and improving living conditions for 2.5 million refugees within its borders, Turkey will receive Euro 3 billion in financial aid in return, the possibility of visa-free travel for its citizens, and a reopening of EU membership talks. In my opinion, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the governing AKP will learn the hard way that taking out the extremist factions of the KURDISH resistance is like covering up an open wound with a band-aid in the sense that it solves the short-term problem of a specific imminent threat albeit creating a spiral effect of vengeance which tends to fornicate to produce multiple exponential resistance of extremist factions. That is, until President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the governing AKP acknowledge the root of the underlying problem which is Turkish repression of the minority ethnic KURDS, Turkey will never again see peace as their current extermination of the resistance tends to breed a new legion of extremist factions. Therefore, in my opinion, the pre-condition for peace within the borders of Turkey is a negotiated ceasefire deal between Turkey and ALL Kurdish factions which can only be attained by Turkey recognizing the KURDISH HDP political party as the legitimate democratic voice of the KURDISH people. In my opinion, the KURDISH HDP political party seems to be respected by the extremist factions of the KURDISH resistance such that the KURDISH HDP is the only current viable median to broker a sustainable ceasefire and peace deal with Turkey. However, it takes two to tango while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the governing AKP prefer to dance the solo “rattlesnake shake, make all KURDISH bodies ache”. In regards to the liberation of FALLUJAH, first and foremost, all of the brave IRAQI soldiers and SHIA militia who sacrificed their lives for the liberation should be commended followed by the US led air support that ISIS could no longer withstand. The competitive advantage of the ALLIANCE is its air power capabilities when the soldiers on the ground are fighting without fear of death at the hands of ISIS that was finally demonstrated by the IRAQI forces and the SHIA militias. It is this fear of death which allowed ISIS to conquer vast territories or IRAQ and SYRIA that has finally boomeranged back at ISIS as ISIS has way too much blood on their hands such that the IRAQI and SHIA militias thirst for vengeance was too strong for ISIS to overcome. However, although the ALLIANCE may have won the battle, the war is far from over as ISIS still controls key strategic territory, most notably MOSUL, its northern IRAQI stronghold, and RAQQA, its de-facto capital in SYRIA. In regards to Jaysh al-Islam claiming militants from the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, who were supposed to hand over the SYRIAN pilot, killed him instead, this demonstrates the tactical mess on the ground in SYRIA whereby there are so many different factions with similar names that nobody from the outside world looking in can seem to clearly define where the actual battle lines are drawed which works in the favor of ISIS. While the SYRIANS fight amongst themselves, ISIS tends to retreat, reorganize and strike when the opposition is caught with their pants down giving ISIS the opportunity to focus on bombarding the SYRIANS from the rear. In regards to Russia and Turkey who agreed in principal to “coordinate” their policies over SYRIA and the U.S. agreement to a military alliance with RUSSIA against ISIS in SYRIA, all signs point to SYRIAN president Bashar al-Assad remaining in power, at least in the short-term, until some sort of negotiated power sharing deal can be sealed. In summary, I refer to “World Peace Lennon Ivan Style – Part 201” as the belief that FALLUJAH victory over ISIS by IRAQI and SHIA militia soldiers backed by US air power is boomerang effect of ISIS carnage which triggered vengeance without fear of death. Spirit of John Lennon – Kurdish Guerrilla Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQCoD91TXY July 3, 2016