[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s president said the defeat of the Death Eater ISIS group in Iraq and Syria was likely to have forced bandidosbully boyz to seek a safe haven in neighboring Libya, from which they will later cross into his country where his security forces have been battling bandidosbully boyz in the Sinai peninsula and, more recently, in its vast western desert.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi also said Egypt’s ongoing arms buildup was designed in part to equip the country to deal with terrorism and redress the "strategic imbalance" in the region created by conflict and turmoil engulfing several countries in the area like Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen.
El-Sisi would not be drawn into specifics about bandidosbully boyz leaving the battlefields in Iraq and Syria after they lost almost all territory they seized in 2013 and 2014. He said it was only "natural" for them to move to Libya, where mostly Islamist militias wield influence over large swathes of territory, and eventually to Egypt.
"We must have the military capabilities that compensate for that imbalance in the region and to counter terrorism," he said. "This is a threat not just faced by us, but also by Europe," he told during a two-hour news conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in southern Sinai.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Saudi Arabia on a surprise trip, Thursday night, coming from the United Arab Emirates and met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who welcomed him at the airport, reported Saudi Press Agency.
Macron said he made the decision earlier in the morning about heading to Saudi Arabia, in part over Houthi militia in Yemen launching a ballistic missile that targeted Riyadh, the Kingdom’s capital and to discuss issues concerning Iran. He bluntly blamed Iran for the attack, saying that while he still supported Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a new agreement needed to be reached over Iran’s missile program.
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Crawls on his belly and licks Ibn Salman boots?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Seven of the 208 accused of corruption have been released, according to a statement by the Attorney-General of the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , in the latest development related to the action initiated by the recently instituted High Commission against Corruption.
Sheikh Saud Al Moaajeb, Attorney General of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and member of the Supreme Committee for Combating Corruption, said on Thursday that the investigations of the individuals who have been summoned are proceeding rapidly and updates will be provided.
The Attorney General said that "the number of persons tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! was 208, while seven were released, for lack of sufficient evidence."
Earlier on Thursday, Saudi Arabia also announced a new list of people suspected of corruption.
Funds were frozen, with arrests also involving managers and officials of government and judicial institutions.
Sheikh Saud said "the financial value of these decades-long practices amounts to very large amount of misappropriated and unutilized public funds, and the potential value of these amounts may exceed $100 billion, according to initial investigations."
Sheikh Saud said "the financial value of these decades-long practices amounts to very large amount of misappropriated and unutilized public funds, and the potential value of these amounts may exceed $100 billion, according to initial investigations."
Further evidence to substantiate the facts in these cases will continue to be collected he said, and "as announced on Tuesday, the Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) has accepted my request to freeze their personal assets in this investigation. This action confirms the findings of our preliminary investigation over the past three years on the scale of these corrupt and large practices."
Next stage of investigations
Sheikh Saud made it clear that "given the magnitude of these charges, under the Royal Order of 4 November, there is a clear legal mandate to move to the next stage of investigations with the suspects, and there is a great deal of speculation around the world about the identities of the individuals concerned and the details of the charges against them. However, ars longa, vita brevis... we will not disclose any details at this time, to ensure that they enjoy the full legal rights granted to them by the Kingdom, and ask to respect their privacy while undergoing judicial proceedings."
However, ars longa, vita brevis... he said normal commercial activity in the Kingdom will not be affected by these investigations. "Only personal bank accounts were frozen, and companies and banks have the freedom to continue transactions and transfers as usual, something that the official authorities in the Kingdom had pointed out and reiterated."
The work of the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of the King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques , King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdul-Aziz, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is within a clear legal and institutional framework to maintain transparency and integrity in the Saudi market.
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The other 201 were released from a plane at 30000 feet without a parachute?
[IsraelTimes] The Hague decides not to prosecute city councilman Abdoe Khoulani for invective against Israel supporter
Calling Israeli children "Zionist holy warriors in training" and "future child murderers and occupiers" does not constitute incitement to hate, Dutch prosecutors said.
The Public Prosecution Service decided Wednesday not to prosecute Abdoe Khoulani, a city councilman in The Hague, on the basis of a criminal complaint filed against him over statements he made in May about schoolchildren from Israel who visited his city, the Telegraaf daily reported.
The service cited how Zionists are "indistinguishable" from other people by race, complexion or origins. Khoulani would have been prosecuted had he spoken about Jews, the service also said. Furthermore, the decision said, schoolchildren did not complain themselves against Khoulani, making it procedurally difficult to prosecute him for intending to cause them offense.
The youth movement of the Reformed Political Party, which hosted the visiting Israeli Young Ambassadors program in The Hague, filed the complaint with police against Khoulani for hate speech. Facebook has removed the post with his remarks.
But the prosecution service said it would prosecute Khoulani, who represents the Islamist Party of Unity and is Moslem, for repeatedly insulting Anneke Brons, who has defended Israel on social media and criticized his comment about the children.
In one message, he called Brons a "blonde bitch."
Khoulani continued: "And you know what you should do, Anneke? You should leave the Netherlands immediately and go live in an Israeli colony. Happily steal Paleostinian land and see Paleostinian children being rubbed out. That’s what you should do. You belong there. With the Zionist scum."
Yanki Jacobs, a well-known local rabbi for Chabad on Campus, criticized the decision not to prosecute and called on other Jews to protest it.
"When the judiciary decides to allow such speech by an elected official, who calls children who happened to possess an Israeli passport murderers, we as Jews need to stand up and say that this is unacceptable," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Lawmakers from pro-immigrant, Moslem rights party claim Jewish journalist Cnaan Liphshiz and naturalized citizen spying on 'pro-Paleostine activists in Europe'.
This week, only six months after I became a Dutch citizen, my wife congratulated me for being mentioned in parliament for my reporting on the Netherlands’ relations with Israel
There was just one tiny problem: The mention, which local Jewish leaders later condemned as anti-Semitic, was by a pro-immigrant, Moslem rights party that insinuated that I am a Zionist spy for Israeli intelligence.
The charges appear in a set of questions submitted to the chamber by Denk ("think" in Dutch), a party founded by two Dutch-Ottoman Turkish politicians. Citing my reporting for JTA and prior service in the Israel Defense Forces, they suggested to Cabinet ministers that as a former member of the military, I am part of an effort by Israel to "spy on pro-Paleostine activists in Europe."
To me, Denk’s attack demonstrated that my roots can be used against me ‐ and maybe against my children, too ‐ even in the once-tolerant society into which I thought I had integrated.
What seemed to have inspired the party’s attack was my reporting about the appointment of Cabinet minister Sigrid Kaag, a former staffer for UNRWA, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... agency for Paleostinian refugees, who is married to a former ambassador of the Paleostinian Authority to Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... This prompted Tunahan Kuzu, a Denk politician, to flag me in a query sent to the minister of general affairs and the minister of foreign affairs. Such queries, like congressional resolutions in the United States, are often used by politicians to draw attention to an issue and usually disappear into a digital archive.
Among the nine questions, Kuzu asked: "Is it true that Liphshiz worked for the intelligence services during his service as researcher for the Israeli army?" Followed directly by: "How do you view the fact that Israel uses its intelligence service to spy on pro-Paleostine activists in Europe?"
My accusers entered the parliament in the March elections, courting Moslems with a platform that resists integration in favor a multicultural vision of Dutch society. Denk has been accused of anti-Semitism, and of countering discrimination against immigrants colonists with its own radical vision of a Balkanized Holland.
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So, I'm guessing that referring to Dutch prosecutors as Islamist puppets would be OK, too?
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Of course, calling Muslim children "terrorists in training" would be prosecuted as incitement.
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Can't wait til the Muzzies become a super-minority/majority in some European country, and establish Sharia (rhymes with diarrhea) Law. Liberals will be faced with praying to the demon allan 5 times a day or else.
[RUDAW.NET] A number of Italian senators and members of parliament have voiced their support for the Kurdistan Region after Iraq’s military operations against the Kurdish-held areas. They demand Italia make its position clear by supporting Erbil and urge Baghdad to respect the constitutional rights of the Kurds.
Senator Ricardo Mazzoni, deputy head of the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... office at the senate, described events in Iraq as "unfortunate," highlighting the fact that the Peshmerga were the first to put up a fight against ISIS in 2014 while the Iraqi army was in retreat.
He said that the people of Kurdistan have earned the right to determine their fate through a referendum after decades of sacrifices.
"The referendum had a clear outcome that the majority of the Kurdish people want independence for Kurdistan," Senator Mazzoni said.
This legitimate right of the Kurdish people needs to be supported by the international community, "especially the Italian government has to work in this regard knowing that it has always been close to the Kurdish people," he added.
He said it is time for Italia to break the silence against Iraq’s punitive measures and help the Kurds return to areas they previously held, including the oil-rich and diverse city of Kirkuk.
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[RUDAW.NET] A Ottoman Turkish court has issued an arrest warrant for the spokesperson of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Osman Baydemir on Thursday after he failed to attend a court hearing.
The warrant was issued after Baydemir failed to attend a hearing of a court in Urfa, southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , on charges related to terrorist propaganda stemming from a Newroz, Kurdish new year, event.
His lawyer requested the court postpone the session instead of issuing the warrant so that Baydemir could appear before the court and defend himself.
The Fifth Heavy Penal Court in Urfa refused the request and ordered security forces to bring the HDP spokesperson to court to give his testimony before the prosecutor.
The same court postponed a hearing for another HDP MP, Dilek Ocalan, until March 2018. She is the niece of the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... called on the United States to stop arming Kurdish forces in Syria as the war against ISIS there is drawing to a conclusion and the Kurds are alleged to be using the US-supplied weapons against Turkey.
Turkey’s Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli explained his country’s position in a conversation with US Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday on the sidelines of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... meeting in Brussels.
Noting that ISIS is nearly defeated in Syria, Canikli told news hounds on Thursday that he "clearly told" Mattis that "the shipment of weapons should now end," according to Hurriyet Daily News.
He said he also provided photographic evidence to Mattis that weapons supplied to the Syrian Kurdish forces, the People's Protection Units (YPG), had been used in a recent attack against Ottoman Turkish forces in the southeast of Turkey. He named the AT-4 anti-tank rocket launcher "and expressed our belief that it might be one of the weapons given by the Americans to the YPG."
In their meeting "Secretary Mattis acknowledged the threats posed to Turkey, and reiterated that the US will continue to stand with turkey in its fight against the PKK and all terrorist threats," according to a US read out.
Ankara has repeatedly complained that the United States has aligned with Death Eaters in their backing of the YPG in Syria’s ground war against ISIS. Canikli said he provided evidence to Mattis that the YPG was under the same command as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ‐ designated a terrorist organization by both Turkey and the United States.
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[RUDAW.NET] The United States Congress has taken the first steps to impose "terrorist sanctions" on Iranian-proxy militias operating in Iraq.
Hezbollah al-Nujaba and As-Saib Ahl-Haq are alleged to have been "provided training, funding, and arms by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), IRGC-Quds Force, and mentored by Lebanese Hezbollah."
Rep. Ted Poe sponsored the bill on Friday which will first be referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The text also claims Ahl-Haq leader, Qais al-Khazali, "has pledged allegiance to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei."
Ahl-Haq "conducted numerous attacks" against US and Coalition forces since its inception in 2006, according to the bill.
Rights agencies like the UNHCR and Human Rights Watch have alleged the two groups have carried out human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses in Iraq and Syria during the war against ISIS and Syria’s internal conflict. Alleged abuses include execution of civilians during the 2016 siege of Aleppo and extrajudicial killings of Sunni and Kurdish civilians in areas liberated from ISIS.
The two Iraqi Shiite militias are part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which is officially under Iraqi government control.
Nujaba, made up of Iraqis, is known to have close ties to Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah. They participated in operations in October when Iraqi forces and the PMF took federal control of disputed or Kurdistani areas claimed by both Baghdad and Erbil. The group stated it was deployed at the Syria-Iraq border near Rabia.
Ahl-Haq leader Qais al-Khazali in October demanded US forces withdraw from Iraq after ISIS is defeated in the country, reacting to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s earlier remark that "Iranian militias" in Iraq should "go home."
If the bill passes the House and Senate and US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... signs it into law, the president will have 90 days to impose sanctions.
Typically, US sanctions are enacted through the Department of Treasury and people and entities are forbidden from transacting with them.
The European Parliament's delegation to Iraq has called for "Iranian proxy Shiite militias forces" to leave Iraq.
"These batallions, such as Kataib Hezbollah, have no place in a free and democratic Iraq, and only help to inflame the already fragile situation," read a statement from David Cambell Bannerman, the chair of its delegation to Iraq.
Kataib was founded by Abu Mahdi Muhandis in 2007. The brigade killed one American civilian in an improvised mortar attack at a base southeast of Baghdad in February 2008. They joined the PMF in May 2016.
"Their immediate withdrawal is the only option," added the European statement.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called the PMF ‐ who are primarily comprised of Hashd al-Shaabi fighters ‐ "the pride of Iraq."
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[RUDAW.NET] Kurdistan Region’s Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani has asked the influential Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... to mediate talks between his government and Baghdad on the basis of the Iraqi constitution, a statement from the office of the Shiite holy man read.
In a phone call on Thursday, Talabani asked the Shiite holy man to aid a renewed commitment to the Iraqi constitution, the statement detailed.
Sadr’s stance echoes that of Baghdad, arguing that the referendum result must be annulled.
"Holding the referendum was not constitutional in the first place, so how can the constitution be adhered to without cancelling the referendum?" asked the statement from his office.
Talabani’s spokesperson Samir Hawrami confirmed to Rudaw that the phone call took place. The two "reaffirmed the need for dialogue to solve the problems between the Kurdistan Region and Baghdad," Hawrami said.
Sadr’s statement said they also discussed Iraq’s 2018 budget.
Baghdad has allocated over 12 percent of the budget for the Kurdistan Region in its draft bill. Erbil insists it is entitled to 17 percent.
Sadr said that the Iraqi state is in a difficult financial situation and people in the south and centre of the country are no better off than the Kurds.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has offered to freeze the outcome of the independence vote in return for open dialogue with Iraq in light of the Iraqi constitution, but Baghdad has so far rejected this and demanded Erbil declare the vote null and void before any talks begin.
Baghdad also asked Erbil to respect the verdict issued by the Iraqi Federal Court earlier this week that ruled the constitution does not allow the secession of any part of the country.
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[RUDAW.NET] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... in Iraq has criticized a draft Iraqi law that would allow girls as young as nine years old to be married and has asked for wider consultations in order to ensure women’s rights are fully respected and protected.
"I call upon the Council of Representatives to seize this opportunity of the process to amend the Personal Status Law," said Jan Kubis, the special representative to Iraq of the UN Secretary-General through a statement on Thursday.
The draft, based on the Jaafari school of Shiite religious jurisprudence, is again on the table for Iraqi politicians. The House of Representatives voted "in principle" on Nov. 1 to approve amendments which could allow girls as young as 9 to marry.
If passed, the law would only apply to the country's Shiite citizens and residents.
Versions of the bill, which was also proposed in 2014, have included provisions that prohibit Moslem men from marrying non-Moslems, legalize marital rape by stating that a husband is entitled to have sex regardless of his wife’s consent, and prevent women from leaving the house without permission from their husbands, according to Human Rights Watch.
Kubis called upon the Council of Representatives to "conduct a wider consultation on the draft amendments in a participatory manner to recommit to and ensure the full respect, protection and fulfillment of women and girls’ rights in Iraq in relation to matrimonial and other matters."
The suggested changes could violate child protections enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The 1994 treaty defines a child as any human being under the age of 18 unless the age of majority is decided through national legislation. Iraq is a signatory of the Convention.
Women’s rights campaigners have protested the law, including Yezidi victims of ISIS. Others have complained that this is the Iraq the world wants Kurdistan to remain a part of.
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Drawing ire? Did the UN use a Sharpie or a crayon?
[IsraelTimes] Deal between organization and the PA fulfills key demand raised by Paleostinian hunger strikers earlier this year.
The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) has signed an agreement with the Paleostinian Authority to partially fund family visits to Paleostinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Wednesday’s agreement fulfills one of the main demands raised by more than 1,000 Paleostinian security prisoners who carried out a hunger strike in Israeli jails earlier this year.
The prisoners ended their 40-day hunger strike, during which they called for better incarceration conditions, at the end of May. One of their primary demands was that they be allowed two monthly visits from family members, rather than one.
Last year, the ICRC, which organized all of the visits, cut back on the number allowed, citing a lack of funds and little family interest in the initiative.
Rima Kamal, an official with the ICRC, told The Times of Israel in an email that, in May, the PA committed to taking over "organizing and funding" the second monthly family visit.
On Wednesday, she said, the ICRC and PA signed "a letter of technical agreement... in accordance with which the ICRC committed to providing technical support to the PA and helping establish a framework that will empower and enable the PA to provide this essential humanitarian service."
The support includes six months of coaching by ICRC staff to PA employees who will run the visits, continued help from the ICRC in liaising with Israeli authorities to attain necessary permits. "If necessary," ICRC employees will accompany the busses that bring the family members to the prisons, Kamal said.
"The responsibility to facilitate family visits for detainees held in Israel is foremost the responsibility of the State of Israel as an occupying power," she added.
The night the hunger strike was declared over, Israeli officials denied Paleostinian claims both that Israel had negotiated with the inmates to end the mass protest, and that it had acceded to any of the prisoners’ demands.
Prison officials told Channel 2 at the time that the hunger strike’s leader, Marwan Barghouti, negotiated the additional monthly visits in a phone conversation with PA Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh.
According to the Israeli officials, Barghouti and the other prisoners agreed to call off the strike after the PA promised to pay for the additional visits, at an estimated cost of $6 million per year.
The hunger strike was initiated by Barghouti, a prominent Fatah terrorist and political figure, on April 17. Barghouti is serving five life sentences for murders committed during the second Paleostinian intifada.
While Paleostinians said the strike was aimed at improving conditions for inmates and ensuring they were given their rights according to international law, Israeli officials maintained the strike was largely a political maneuver by Barghouti, who had recently failed to be reinstated into his usual powerful position in the Fatah party.
While visitation rights had been a key demand for the hunger strikers, in reality the reduction by the ICRC had changed little on the ground.
In the first of half of 2016, before the new ICRC policy was set in place, 6,542 Paleostinian prisoners were visited. In the latter half of 2016, after the number of visits was decreased to one per month, a total of 6,231 Paleostinian prisoners were visited, making for a difference of 311 visits.
Family members visiting Paleostinians in Israeli jails say they would visit more often if it weren’t for the difficult and time-consuming journeys. Another of the demands of the hunger strikers was that they be moved to facilities in the West Bank territory, thereby making the visits less arduous.
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No G and sadly I do not recall anyone doing that. I could be wrong.
Maybe 10-15 years ago there was massive flooding in NW Minnesota. The Red River overflowed its banks by miles. It was astounding in its mass area.
Long story short, with local media support donations poured into the Red Cross. I can not remember how much actually made it to the victims. But a very healthy portion made it into their general funds. 9-11, same thing.
Come to think of it, rather odd that the Red Crescent wouldn't be overseeing this. Not the Red Cross.
[IsraelTimes] Protest against Israeli presence in Golan Heights sees demonstrators vow to keep up 'struggle' of 'shahids [deaders]'
Arab students in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem protested Israel’s presence in the Golan Heights on Wednesday in a demonstration which also saw protesters call for the expulsion of "Zionists" from the country.
"Zionists, out. My land [must be] Arab and free. There is no solution, no solution, but to get rid of the occupier," students said, according to footage obtained by Channel 2.
"Shahid [martyr] be calm, we will continue the struggle," the demonstrators also chanted during the rally at the Mount Scopus campus, which was organized by the student branch of the communist Hadash party.
"From Jerusalem to the Golan, one nation will not be weakened," they called, waving Paleostinian flags. "Paleostine is Arab, and the Golan is Syrian."
A complaint about the slogans was later lodged with police on the grounds of incitement to violence, the TV report said.
In May, Arab students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem rallied in solidarity with hunger-striking Paleostinian security prisoners, brandishing photos of convicted terrorists, while calling for an "intifada" uprising against Israel and the expulsion of Zionists, Channel 2 reported at the time.
That display was defended by the university faculty, who said the demonstration was held in accordance with its internal regulations and did not breach Israeli law.
The May rally, also organized by the student branch of the communist Hadash party, saw students scream: "Intifada and victory! From Jerusalem to Ashkelon!" and "Let’s talk exile! We don’t want to see any Zionists."
Some students carried a photo of Ihrima Majdi Al Rimawi, who was convicted in the 2001 liquidation of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi in Jerusalem, the report said.
A security guard reportedly held back activists from the right-wing Im Tirzu group, who sought to stage a counter-demonstration, saying they had no permission from the university to hold a rally.
A statement from the university to Channel 2 in May backed the Hadash protesters and criticized the right-wing activists for engaging them.
Earlier in May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and politicians lined up to slam the Hebrew University of Jerusalem over a report that said the national anthem would not be sung at a graduation ceremony so as not to offend Arab students.
Army Radio reported that it had obtained a recording of a student querying the decision to not sing Hatikva during the ceremony at the Mount Scopus campus, and being told by an employee of the Humanities Faculty that it was out of "consideration for the other side" ‐ an apparent reference to Arab students.
The university said the graduation ceremony "has followed the same format for years," and that there had been no new decision taken to "cancel" the anthem. It said the national anthem is always played at the state ceremonies that it holds, and that the university president had made this clear to the education minister.
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Army Radio reported that it had obtained a recording of a student querying the decision to not sing Hatikva during the ceremony at the Mount Scopus campus, and being told by an employee of the Humanities Faculty that it was out of "consideration for the other side" ‐ an apparent reference to Arab students.
Fuck the other side. Israel has bent over backwards to try to get along with them. All they have ever received for their troubles is more attacks and death.
Kick 'em out and if they try shit kill them all. Only way to deal with these barbarians.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has asked its nationals residing in Leb to leave immediatly in a travel warning issued on Thursday, November 9.
The travel warning also called for Saudi nationals not to travel to Leb from any point of origin.
Due to the situations in the Republic of Leb, an official source at the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Saudi nationals visiting or residing in Leb are asked to leave the country as soon as possible, the Saudi news Agency reported.
"The Kingdom advised all citizens not to travel to Leb from any other international destinations," the statement .
Kuwait on Thursday evening called for the return of its citizens from Leb and has issued a travel warning to the country.
The United Arab Emirates also renewed its travel warning to Leb that has been in place since February 2016.
This follows a similar warning issued by the Kingdom of Bahrain on November 5 urghing its nationals residing in Leb to leave immediately and to "exercise caution."
The Bahraini call came a day after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. announced his resignation.
The Bahraini foreign ministry said in a statement received by AFP that its call was "in the interest of its citizens’ safety and to avoid any risks they may be exposed due to the conditions and developments" that Leb is going through.
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Something seems to be accelerating?
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[DAWN] President Hassan Rouhani warned Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Wednesday that it will achieve nothing by threatening the might of Iran, as a war of words between the regional heavyweights intensifies.
His comments came after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused Iran of delivering missiles to Yemeni rebels for use against targets in the kingdom that he described as "direct military aggression".
Iran has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! supplying any missiles to the rebels, saying that it would have been impossible to do so in any case in the face of a Saudi-led air and sea blockade.
Tehran has hit back against the increasingly fierce rhetoric from Riyadh with strong words of its own, troubling international oil markets.
"You know the might and place of the Islamic republic. People more powerful than you have been unable to do anything against the Iranian people," Rouhani said at a cabinet meeting in remarks aimed at Saudi leaders. "The United States and their allies have mobilised all their capabilities against us and achieved nothing."
Rouhani referred to the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, in which revolutionary Iran successfully resisted an invasion by Saddam Hussein’s regime supported by Gulf Arab and Western governments.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
Moqtada 
[RUDAW.NET] The 
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
