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Israel defence minister announces deployment of additional troops in Rafah
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
State Department issues 'worldwide caution' alert for Americans [and queers] overseas
[FoxNews] Americans traveling abroad are being urged to exercise caution worldwide, the State Department said Friday.

The agency issued a security alert because of the "potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations, or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests."

"The Department of State is aware of the increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence against LGBTQI+ persons and events and advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution," the alert states.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Human rights activists recognize Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev as political prisoners
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The case against Abdulmumin Gazhdiev,
…a typo, intended to be Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, also spelt Abdulmumin Hajiyev, he’s the editor of the Chernovik newspaper. Along with Abubakar Rizvanov, head of the Ansar charity fund and Kemal Tambiev he was convicted of financing terrorism — collecting 68 million rubles and 200 thousand dollars for ISIS under the pretext of building mosques and helping poor Muslims. Israil Akhmednabiev (Abu Umar Sasitlinsky), a Dagestan preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation, had suggested they join forces for the work...
Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev is politically motivated, human rights activists said. They recognized Rizvanov and Tambiev as political prisoners, demanding that the criminal prosecution of those convicted on charges of financing terrorism be stopped and that they be released, as well as an investigation into the torture of Kemal Tambiev.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, one of the three judges who passed sentence in the case of "Chernovik" journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, head of the "Ansar" foundation Abubakar Rizvanov and businessman Kemal Tambiev, Rizvan Zubairov, in his dissenting opinion criticized the grounds for the guilty verdict and, in fact, acquitted the journalist. Gadzhiev’s relatives expressed hope that the appellate court would take into account the defense’s arguments and the judge’s dissenting opinion.
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Posted by: badanov || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Uhm...

Biden Grants Asylum to Cuban Communist Official as Political Prisoner Count Surpasses 1,100

and how many J6 remain?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 10:20 Comments || Top||


Europe
Belgium’s Ghent university severs ties with three Israeli institutions
[IsraelTimes] Belgium’s University of Ghent (UGent) is severing ties with three Israeli educational or research institutions which it says no longer align with UGent’s human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
policy, its rector says.

Pro-Paleostinian demonstrators in Ghent have been protesting against Israel’s operations in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and have been occupying parts of the university since early this month.

The university’s rector, Rik Van de Walle, says in a statement that ties are being cut with the Holon Institute of Technology, MIGAL Galilee Research Institute and the Volcani Center, which carries out agricultural research.

"We currently assess these three partners as problematic according to the Ghent University human rights test, in contrast to the positive evaluation we gave these partners at the start of our collaboration," Van de Walle says.

Partnerships with MIGAL Galilee Research Institute and the Volcani Center "were no longer desirable" due to their affiliation with Israeli ministries, an investigation by the University of Ghent found, and collaboration with the Holon Institute "was problematic" because it provided material support to the army for actions in Gaza, the university claims.

The three Israeli institutions did not immediately comment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2024-05-18 01:11 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Belgium cuts off ticket sales for soccer match against Israel over ‘security concerns’
[IsraelTimes] No details given for move affecting September UEFA Nations League game; Asian soccer federation backs Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel from FIFA over Gaza war.

Ticket sales for a Belgium-Israel soccer match in Brussels as part of the UEFA Nations League have been paused because of security concerns.

No details were available over what concerns led officials to stop selling tickets for the game, scheduled for September 6 at King Baudouin Stadium.

"The Royal Belgian Football Union is in constant contact with the security services, the city of Brussels and the federal government," the Belgian soccer body said in a statement on Thursday. "The security situation is being analyzed and developments are being closely monitored."

"Safety comes first, always," Belgian soccer chief Piet Vandendriessche said.

Ticket sales for other Belgium home matches against La Belle France on October 14 and Italia on November 14 are going ahead as planned.

Hundreds of anti-Israel and pro-Paleostinian demonstrators have repeatedly taken to the streets of Brussels since the start of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, sparked by Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel.

Belgium has been hit repeatedly by holy warrior attacks. Last year, a soccer game between Belgium and Sweden was suspended at halftime following a gunman fatally shooting two Swedes in Brussels before kickoff.

Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung...
the Asian Football Confederation gave its backing to a Paleostinian proposal to suspend Israel from FIFA due to the ongoing war in Gaza at its congress in Bangkok on Thursday, as the regional body also abolished term limits for its senior office bearers.

AFC president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa voiced his support for the Paleostine Football Association’s motion ahead of Friday’s FIFA congress, which seeks to "adopt immediate and appropriate sanctions against Israeli teams."

The proposal was sent by the Paleostinians to FIFA on March 11 and will be discussed during the body’s annual gathering after being added to the agenda with the support of the Algerian, Jordanian, Syrian and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i federations.

AFC delegates stood for a minute’s silence in remembrance of the victims of the war in Gaza and were shown a video produced by the Paleostine FA highlighting the destruction caused by fighting between Israel and the Hamas terror group.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino touched on the matter in remarks to delegates as he called for a united front in efforts to deal with issues both within and outside the sport.

"We are all suffering with what is going on in Paleostine. We pray for the mothers who lose their children and we pray for the mothers who lose their children everywhere in the world," he said.

"Football can do only very little because to change situations everywhere in the world which are tragic, all we can do is to show unity because football is what unites everyone."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [54 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 

Likely, the root cause of those "security concerns" that were made possible by the EU's, often unchecked, Open Borders.

Just as we are seeing here in the USA.



BTW: I'd love to see an Iran vs Israel Soccer team match.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/18/2024 7:55 Comments || Top||

#2  It would be embarrassing to lose at sports to Untermenschen like the Juice. Better just not to play.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/18/2024 10:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Wait just a second.
If Diversity Is Our Strength, why the security concern?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/18/2024 14:16 Comments || Top||


Spain to recognize Palestinian state together with other countries
[Jpost] Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday that Madrid would only recognize a Palestinian state in a joint action with other countries.
How very progressive of you. Would that be the Palestinian/PLO state that is barely holding on in the West Bank or the Hamas state triggering the destruction of Gaza? Because as far as both are concerned, there can be only one.
In an interview with TV channel La Sexta, Sanchez also denied reports that the recognition would occur on May 21.
Probably better to postpone indefinitely, or until there is only one Palestinian terrorist government ruling over both statelets.

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [50 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-ut-Tahrir

#1  Actually, click link, that they're saying is that Spain will recognize Palestine if others do.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Tit for tat: Israel should recognize E.T.A. as the representative of a sovereign free Basque homeland. (yes, I know they are terrorists and I am waxing sarcastic)
Posted by: magpie || 05/18/2024 9:36 Comments || Top||


Spain will not authorize calling of ships carrying weapons for Israel
[Jpost] Spain will not authorize ships carrying weapons for Israel to call at its ports, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Friday, after the country refused to let a ship call at the southeastern port of Cartagena.

The ship was the first to be denied access to a Spanish port, Albares said, adding the refusal was consistent with the government's decision not to grant weapon export licenses to Israel since Oct. 7, as Spain doesn't "want to contribute to war."

Spain has refused permission for an Israel-bound ship carrying arms to call at the southeastern port of Cartagena, Transport Minister Oscar Puente said on Thursday.

The Marianne Danica was carrying a cargo of arms to Israel and had requested permission to call at Cartagena on May 21, Transport Minister Oscar Puente said on X on Thursday.

EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL ONBOARD
It was carrying nearly 27 tons of explosive material from India's Madras, El Pais reported.

The Foreign Ministry, which Puente said denied the authorization, did not immediately reply to repeated requests for comment.

Danica Maritime, the company managing the Marianne Danica, did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

The reports come amid a spat between the ruling Socialists and their hard-left partners over allowing the transit of vessels carrying arms to Israeli ports.

Courtesy of Elmerert Hupens2660, US News adds:
H. Folmer & Co, the company operating the Marianne Danica, did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [49 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Spain is the country that invented racism based anti-Semitism - even if one converts to Christianity, one stays a Jew. And they did it 500 years before the Nazis.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:36 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
California college professor to stand trial in death of pro-Israel protester last year
[IsraelTimes] Loay Abdelfattah AlnajiIf accused of striking Paul Kessler with megaphone; could face over 4 years in jail if found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and battery

A judge decided Wednesday that a Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, college professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counter-protester during demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
war last year.

Superior Court Judge Ryan Wright judge declared after a two-day preliminary hearing that there’s enough evidence to try Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji,
…previously in our archives as Loay Alnaji, he has been a faculty advisor for Moorpark College’s Muslim Student Association — a long-established youth arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America — and is an active member of the Islamic Society of Simi Valley. His YouTube channel, shut down after his arrest, while said to be an adjunct to his classroom teaching, was reportedly chock full of videos in Arabic. Make of that what you will, dear Reader…
according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.

Alnaji, 51, is accused of striking Paul Kessler with a megaphone in November during a confrontation at an event that started as a pro-Paleostinian demonstration in Thousand Oaks, a suburb northwest of Los Angeles.

Kessler, 69, fell backward and struck his head on the pavement. He died the next day at a hospital.

Alnaji was charged with two felonies: involuntary manslaughter and battery causing serious bodily injury, with special allegations of personally inflicting great bodily harm injury on each count, the DA’s office said.

If found guilty of all charges, he could be sentenced to more than four years in prison.

Alnaji posted $50,000 bail. An email and phone message for Alnaji’s lawyer, Ron Bamieh, weren’t immediately returned Wednesday.

Alnaji, a professor of computer science at Moorpark College, had espoused pro-Paleostinian views on his Facebook page and other social media accounts, many of which were taken down in the days after Kessler’s death, according to the Los Angeles Times.



Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2024-05-18 01:01 || Comments || Link || [43 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


The Grand Turk
They tried to overthrow Erdogan again. Who was preparing the coup this time?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Kamran Hasanov

[REGNUM] On May 15, media reports appeared about the prevention of a conspiracy in Turkey. The purpose of the conspiracy is declared to be the overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But very few details of this event are known. So what really happened there?
I ran a quick internet search on Turkey, as well as looking through the Daily Mail, the New York Post, Breitbart, the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post’s breaking news feed., and Rudaw. I found nothing about a plot against the Erdogan government. While this does not mean nothing happened, Hurriyet became a government mouthpiece during the Gulen nonsense back in 2015 or so.
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Posted by: badanov || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [63 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder...

RETRO
Turkey Recalls Ambassador to Israel for Consultations; Erdogan 'Erases' Netanyahu
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Erdojuan has at least nine lives.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/18/2024 16:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'I Can No Longer in Good Conscience Continue to Represent This Administration' – Biden Interior Department Staffer Abruptly Resigns
[Gateway] An Interior Department staffer abruptly resigned on Wednesday in protest over the Biden Regime’s stance on the Israel-Gaza war.

Lily Greenberg Call, a Jewish special assistant to the chief of staff in the Department of Interior, resigned in protest and blasted Joe Biden in a phone call with the AP.

In a phone interview with The Associated Press, Call blasted Joe Biden’s comments on Israel and Jews.

"In an interview with The Associated Press, Call pointed to comments by Biden, including at a White House Hanukkah event where he said "Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who was safe" and at an event at Washington’s Holocaust Memorial last week in which he said the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks that triggered the war were driven by an "ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people."" The AP reported.

"He is making Jews the face of the American war machine. And that is so deeply wrong," Call told the AP, noting that ancestors of hers were killed by "state-sponsored violence."

In her resignation letter, Call said she was initially excited to join the Biden Administration: "However, I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration," she wrote in a letter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2024 03:27 || Comments || Link || [183 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The scales have fallen from her eyes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2024 3:35 Comments || Top||


#3  Lily Greenberg Call girl?
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 5:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Ironies abound. From the NY Post:

The dad of the Department of Interior staffer who dramatically resigned this week to protest the Biden administration’s support for Israel is a senior executive at a defense giant that supplies American weapons to the Land of Milk and Honey.

Lily Greenberg-Call, a special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, went out with a bang Wednesday with a red-hot resignation letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

“I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide,” wrote Greenberg-Call, 26 who additionally condemned Israel’s “violations of international law” perpetrated with “American weapons.”


That’s Raytheon. And the kid was a big Israel supporter until she went off to Berkeley. Now, of course, she is stupid and unemployed, while her father grits his teeth, telling himself over and over again that it’s just a phase.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 10:24 Comments || Top||

#5  The scales have fallen from her eyes.

That happens when a snake sheds its skin.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/18/2024 10:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Pardon the slight chuckle. Kapo is the Estonian internal security service.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/18/2024 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  She could learn to code.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 05/18/2024 12:16 Comments || Top||

#8  telling himself over and over again that it’s just a phase

But apparently a permissive phase.
He could always lock her in the basement,
like the Hamas captives.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 12:49 Comments || Top||



Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli military gov’t in Gaza would cost NIS 20 billion annually, require 5 divisions — report
As has been pointed out here before, losing the war is more expensive.
[IsraelTimes] Senior security officials recently requested an assessment on the cost of having an Israeli military government in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
after the war against Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, with the price tag coming out to an estimated NIS 20 billion per year, according to the Ynet news site.

Citing a copy of the document, the report says that in addition to the cost of standing up a military government, Israel would have to shell out a yet-to-be-determined amount on rebuilding and repairing infrastructure in the enclave.

The report also says 400 people will be needed to staff the military government and that five IDF divisions would have to remain in Gaza, requiring Israel to shrink the number of troops on the northern border and in the West Bank as well as necessitate a significant increase in the deployment of reservists on operational duty.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2024-05-18 01:12 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Seems like a 10yr rotation between a Arab peacekeeping collision would be in order.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 12:52 Comments || Top||


White House says there will be a 'small US military component' protecting the new $320 million pier...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A 'small' contingent of U.S. military personnel will provide security for a new $320 million floating pier bringing food aid to hungry residents of Gaza amid Israel's war on Hamas, the White House said.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters the U.S. military members would be there to provide security and assist in the complex orchestration of moving relief by sea and then distributing it to desperate residents by truck.

He said there would be a 'small U.S. military component on the pier itself.'

'One is to provide a modicum of security for it. But also to assist with the logistics. You're going to have ships pulling up to this pier. Not the big cargo ships. They'll transport it to smaller ships off the coast of Gaza ... You're going to need some logistical support to get it from the ships onto the trucks,' he said.

His comments to reporters come just two days after U.S. Central Command announced it had successfully anchored the pier to the beach in Gaza.

It stressed that no U.S. troops entered Gaza proper.

'As part of this effort, no U.S. troops entered Gaza. Trucks carrying humanitarian assistance are expected to begin moving ashore in the coming days. The United Nations will receive the aid and coordinate its distribution into Gaza,' according to the statement.

Kirby was emphatic that 'there are no U.S. servicemembers in Gaza.' President Biden, while providing billions in U.S. congressionally-appropriated military support to Gaza and using naval assets to protect navigation while helping foil attacks on Israel, has not involved U.S. forces in Israel's operation in Gaza.

Kirby's comments about U.S. forces came as he said there was a 'robust security plan' for the effort, and that the administration was 'laser focused on ensuring the safety of everybody involved in this effort,' amid concerns it could be vulnerable to attack.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 00:07 || Comments || Link || [159 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Iraq II?
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2 
Could we be looking at apossible US Floating Pier vs. a Hamas acquired Russian/China remote controlled torpedo-drone. Or may be even a Magura V5 clone situation in the coming weeks?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/18/2024 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  NN21, I am waiting for Turkish warships escorting Moslem Brotherhood 'blockade runners' ...and the pier getting blasted in the confusion.
Posted by: magpie || 05/18/2024 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Gulf of Tonkin II?
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 05/18/2024 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Hamas will wait until the dock is full of Americans to blow it up.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 05/18/2024 10:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Gulf of Tonkin II?

Channel the Sea of Cortez into Death Valley.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 10:15 Comments || Top||

#7 
Even a Gulf Of Tonkin II could NOT save Biden's butt now. If anything, it would hasten his departure.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/18/2024 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8  This misministration has botched everything else, why wouldn't they botch an October Surprise?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/18/2024 11:01 Comments || Top||

#9  I thought it was a $100 million dollar pier?

It stressed that no U.S. troops entered Gaza proper.

Fuck.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/18/2024 11:52 Comments || Top||

#10  So as long as they are standing on the pier, even the last foot of it on the beach, we are pretending they haven't "entered" Gaza? This is third grade reasoning for the moronic, faithful demokrat base.

Aside from stopping local thieves with small arms hijacking trucks, how exactly will they provide security for the 20 foot wide strip of pier against any kind of RPG, mortar, artillery or drone attack? Not sure they have plans for CIWS or a 5"/38 turret mount on the pier, so essentially they are pop-up targets for Hamas when not acting as stevedores and crossing guards? The infamous Army MOS 1369!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/18/2024 12:26 Comments || Top||

#11  It will, of course, be the IDF's fault if any tangos manage to attack the wharf.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/18/2024 12:39 Comments || Top||


Netanyahu accuses Egypt of holding Gazans ‘hostage’ in Rafah Border Crossing row
From a few days ago.
[IsraelTimes] PM says he hopes to reach understanding with Cairo over entry point for aid amid deteriorating ties; Egyptian officials: Cairo rejects Israel’s coordination plan to reopen crossing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday pressed Egypt to reopen the Rafah Border Crossing, suggesting Cairo was holding the people of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
"hostage" by not working with Israel on the key aid gateway amid a mounting rift between the two nations.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2024-05-18 00:02 || Comments || Link || [42 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Methinks El Sisi has been a president for life too long.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:03 Comments || Top||


Arab League calls for peacekeepers in 'occupied Palestinian territories'
[GEO.TV] The Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
on Thursday called for a United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
peacekeeping force in the Paleostinian territories at a summit dominated by the ongoing Israel-Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

The meeting of Arab heads of state and government convened in Bahrain more than seven months into the conflict in Gaza that has convulsed the wider region.

The "Manama Declaration" issued by the 22-member bloc called for "international protection and peacekeeping forces of the United Nations in the occupied Paleostinian territories" until a two-state solution is implemented.

The declaration also called on "all Paleostinian factions to join under the umbrella of the Paleostine Liberation Organization," which is dominated by Hamas' political rivals, the ruling Fatah movement.

The Arab League added that it considered the PLO "the sole legitimate representative of the Paleostinian people".
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [81 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Why bother? It's been done before with no actual peacekeeping being done.

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/18/2024 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  The subject of of "Arab Peacekeepers" (an oxymoron) was addressed in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973.
In 1973 it took Soviet Union & USA working together to save Egypt from a defeat that would destroy them as a country.
Things are a lot different now: the imbalance between Israel and Arabs - using borrowed tech they don't really understand - is much greater.
Also, Israel no longer has any illusions about it's Great Ally & post-civilized West in general.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 1:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Jordan's turn.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  In 1948 the surrounding arsb muslim countries declared war on israel the second the british administrators left

It is their fault that their fellow arab muslims were displaced, because the Arab League told them to flee the war and after they defeat Israel and push the Jews into the sea and they could all return to an Islamic state.

That is the history.

There were less than a million displaced arab muslims, from that original war started bt the Arab Muslim states.

They lost.

There are now about 5 million? Several million Arab Muslim descendants now claiming a new ethnicity “palestinian” using the pan-arab flag from the Arab Revolt and Syrian Ba’ath party.

They are the arab muslims of gaza who voted in hamas and support hamas in the west bank.

They do ths brcause hamas is muslim brotherhood.

They know that if they “free palestine” theywill demographically swamp the small Jewish democracy woth arab muslims and it will cease to exist as a jewish state.

This is the goal.

That is why the arab muslims of Gaza and west bank need to be resettled once and for all in Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi who were the main belligerents in the original 1948 war.

Then they can get on with their lives peacefully among their brothers and sisters.

The only reason these countries do not willingly take them is because they are using them as a weapon against israel hoping to destroy it as they failed to do in 1948.

This is a religious imperative. It is not about land, it is about ensuring that Islam rules over the Jews, since Islam once held that territory.

But these countries simply must be made to take the, because no teo-state solution is possible.

Peace is not now and never will be possible unless the Arab Muslims of Gaza and West Bank are all resettled with their brothers and sisters in those neighbouring lands, where they share a culture, arabic language, and sunni Islam.

Also Qatar should be made to take some as it is Muslim Brotherhood HQ and hosts the hamas leadership.

So Hamas, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi should all be made to resettle the refugees of Gaza and also move there the Arab Muslims of West Bank.

Otherwise long-term Israel cannot defend that tiny sliver of land they are on. Muslim Brotherhood will get drones and they wont be able to defend it.

It is too small. So i fear Israel will not survive at all long-term, and I think they should have gone hard the day after that October 7 attack.

i think that not to do so was a strategic error for Israel, since Muslim Brotherhood propaganda is so well-integrated now into Western Media. Israel had only a small window to act before the Muslim Brotherhood diaspora was able to kick in to the western countries and destroy support.


Posted by: Anon1 || 05/18/2024 14:33 Comments || Top||


Hamas urges Arab countries to 'compel' end to Israeli offensive
[GEO.TV] Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
called on Arab countries to "compel" Israel to end its offensive in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
after Arab heads of state meeting in Bahrain demanded an "immediate and permanent ceasefire".

In a statement, the Paleostinian resistance group urged "brotherly Arab states to take the necessary measures to compel the (Israeli) occupation to stop its aggression."
Compel? Even the powerhouses of Egypt and Jordan can’t do more than carp and whine.
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  'The Power of Christ compels you!'
Posted by: Raj || 05/18/2024 0:47 Comments || Top||


13 foreign ministers warn Israel to halt Rafah assault: report
Hope that made y’all feel better, because that’s all your dear little letter will accomplish.
[GEO.TV] Foreign ministers from 13 countries have reportedly signed a letter advising Israel to stop its ground assault of Rafah in the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip and to permit more humanitarian aid to reach the Paleostinian population, Germany's DPA news agency reported.

DPA cited an article in the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung which claimed that all seven main industrialised nations (G7), with the exception of the United States, had signed the four-page letter on Wednesday.

The foreign ministers of six G7 states — Germany, La Belle France, the UK, Italia, Japan and Canada — as well as their counterparts from Australia, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea and Sweden signed the letter, Al Jazeera reported.
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The war against Globalism is just starting.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:20 Comments || Top||


Hamas says it rejects any military presence on Palestinian land
You demilitarize first, O Hamasniks.
[GEO.TV] Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
issued a statement on Friday saying the US-built pier off the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip is no alternative to opening all land crossings under Paleostinian supervision, adding that they reject any military presence on Paleostinian land.
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [75 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  There is no Palestinian land - there are parts of the Land of Israel currently occupied by Arab squatters.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2 
"Hamas ... rejects any military presence on Palestinian land". But of course that does not include Hamas, or other Iranian sponsored Islamic Terrorist groups.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/18/2024 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Hamas rejects any Jewish existence. FIFY
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 05/18/2024 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  ......does that include the Mulberry Harbor?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/18/2024 14:17 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Safieddine warns Israel 'Hezbollah ready to use new weapons'
Will they be as effective as the recent salvo from Iran, an embarrassing percent of which did not make it past Iran’s borders?
[An Nahar] Head of Hezbollah's executive council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, warned Israel on Friday that Hezbollah is ready to use new weapons in the battlefield.

Hezbollah has regularly fired missiles across the border with Israel over the past seven months, but has on Thursday launched its first successful missile Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
from within Israeli airspace, using a drone that fired two missiles. The attack maimed three soldiers, one of them seriously, according to the Israeli military.

The group has stepped up its attacks on Israel in recent weeks, particularly since the Israeli incursion into the southern city of Rafah in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip. It has struck deeper inside Israel and introduced new and more advanced weaponry.

"The resistance on the southern border has proven that it has many options in the battlefield," Safieddine said.

Also this week, Hezbollah launched three anti-tank guided missiles at an Israeli military post that controlled a surveillance balloon flying over the border. They released camera footage afterward to show they had hit their mark. Hours later, the Israeli military confirmed that the spy balloon had been shot down over Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
"We have multiple options that are guaranteed to succeed and to exhaust the enemy," Safieddine said. "If the enemy wants to continue the fight, we are ready to use new weapons," he added.

Hezbollah's use of more advanced weaponry, including drones capable of firing missiles, explosive drones and the small type of guided missile known as Almas, or Diamond, that was used to attack the base controlling the balloon has raised alarms within the Israeli military.

"This is a time of major changes," Safieddine said. "What is happening in Gaza, on the (southern) border, and in the region undoubtedly carries great implications."

"It shows the fragility and apparent confusion of the Israeli enemy," he added.

Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [50 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  And Israel is ready to stop playing by Globalist rules.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Is that your new word for the day?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 12:55 Comments || Top||



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