Image: Mahmoud Abbas (far right) in Moscow at the opening of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque. Photo: www.kremlin.ru (http://www.kremlin.ru/) . Abbas, Vladimir Putin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin) , and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan) opened Moscow's Cathedral Mosque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Cathedral_Mosque) , 23 September 2015. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: the announced Palestinian elections. Will they be held? Often an election is announced there and never comes. Mahmoud Abbas at age 84 is still manipulating it; he’s thought not to allow any election. An alternative slate is forming called on Marwan Barghouti (who’s still in jail)) to stand on a united slate. Palestinians are tired of and upset at the enormous Palestinian kleptocracy. SO far, no one has emerged to run against Abbas, which controls all the mechanisms. Money missing: 2020 budget no longer has Ministry of Prison Affairs, which has been giving major aid to murderers; looks as though $157 million has gone to terrorists, who also get free medical coverage and education. Officials tried to hide it in the PLO budget. Iran: Speaker of the Majlis said any discussions with the IAEA goes beyond what’s permissible. No snapback. “Parliamentary law must be implemented this week” – to 60% enrichment; 90% is weapons-grade. Zarif said if Israel attacks it’ll be suicide for Israel. Uranium metal . . . particles found. Iran and Russia having talks; supposedly, Iran is sending certain excess nuclear material to Russia for reprocessing. IAEA demands to know where a lot of nuclear material is coming from. No answer. All the components of a nuclear program are emerging. Building a war-crimes case against Assad. A photographer who was ordered to keep photos of the dead (reminiscent of the Nazis’s careful record-keeping); he smuggled out thousands of pictures of people who’d been tortured to death, including children; bombing hospitals, gassing of innocents. Arrow 4 defense system. New technology, a game-changer. https://jcpa.org/pitfalls-on-the-way-to-palestinian-elections-in-the-territories/