[IsraelTimes] Veteran left-wing political maverick George Galloway ... a British national embarrassment, not particularly honest, more fond of dictators and terrorists than he is of his native countrymen except at the peak of the election cycle ... , known for his heated anti-Israel rhetoric, wins a vote to become the new politician for the English town of Rochdale
…home of a number of “Asian” groom-and-rape gangs specializing in white schoolgirls. For decades the Asian traffickers were protected by the local authorities, who legitimately feared prosecution as racist were they to act to enforce the laws forbidding anyone to so use underage girls….
after a chaotic campaign which saw the main opposition Labour Party withdraw support from its candidate.
After running a pro-Paleostinian campaign, Galloway won over many of Rochdale’s Moslem community by attacking both Labour and Britannia’s governing Conservatives for supporting Israel in its war against Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... , making a foreign conflict the major issue — unusual in a by-election when local concerns usually dominate.
Elected to parliament for the seventh time, Galloway will be an irritant to Labour, a party he once belonged to before being ejected for criticizing then-prime minister Tony Blair over the Iraq War. He even went so far as saying the liquidation of Blair would be "morally justified" for Britannia’s involvement.
His victory underlines the divisions in Britannia over the Israel-Hamas war, which is in its fifth month and has brought protesters onto British streets in support of both sides.
With the national election later this year, Galloway’s return to parliament will be short-lived but explosive. He has accused Labour leader Keir Starmer of being in the "pocket of Israel."
Galloway won 12,335 votes compared with 6,638 for second-placed David Tully, an independent candidate. The former Labour candidate, Azhar Ali, came fourth after the opposition party pulled its support from him after his claims that Israel allowed the brutal Hamas-led October 7 massacres.
In other words, the locals were determined to elect a Jew-hater, and Mr Galloway was very happy to supply their need.
"(Labour leader) Keir Starmer, this is for 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... ," Galloway says in his victory speech.
It will be the first time Galloway’s left-wing Workers Party of Britannia has been represented in parliament.
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[KavkazUzel] The court in Malgobek remanded Leila Gatagazheva, accused of involvement in Syrian militants, in custody until March 31.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on December 29, 2023, the Malgobek City Court, at the request of the defense, changed the preventive measure for Leila Gatagazheva from detention to house arrest for two months. A representative of the investigation insisted on extending the arrest, saying that if free, Gatagazheva could hide and put pressure on witnesses. On February 1, the court, at the insistence of the prosecutor, transferred Gatagazheva back to the pre-trial detention center. The investigation excluded the article on complicity in terrorist activities from the charges in the case of a native of Ingushetia, Leila Gatagazheva, a young mother of two children. However, Leila remains in the pre-trial detention center despite the arguments of her lawyers, human rights activists reported.
Leila Gatagazheva, born in 2001, is a mother of two children, she was accused of aiding terrorist activities (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and participating in an illegal armed formation on the territory of Syria (Part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Leila's mother took her from Ingushetia to Syria at the age of 12 and married her there when she was 13 years old. She has already served five years in an Iraqi prison on a similar charge of working for Islamic State militants, said the defense, which is seeking to have the criminal case dropped.
The Malgobek City Court, at the request of the investigation, extended the period of detention of a native of Ingushetia, Leila Gatagazheva, accused of participating in an illegal armed group in Syria. Gatagazheva will remain in custody until at least March 31, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported today on its website.
By 17.33 Moscow time, the court’s website does not contain information about the extension of Gatagazheva’s arrest.
In fine company with our very own ruling elite.
[KavkazUzel] The head of Chechnya, quoting Putin’s message to the Federal Assembly in his Telegram channel, censored a fragment where the Russian President mentioned in a positive way the military from among the followers of Judaism.
In his message to the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin listed several religions that are part of the Russian people. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, quoting Putin’s words, censored them, removing the mention of Jews among the soldiers who “fight for one, common Motherland,
…about what we’d expect from the gentleman…
today drew attention to the project “Freedom (is) just around the corner” in his Telegram channel.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking today with a message to the Federal Assembly, mentioned in a positive light the role of representatives of different religions in Russian society. “Our soldiers and officers - Christians and Muslims, Buddhists and followers of Judaism, representatives of different ethnic groups, cultures, regions - in fact, have proven better than a thousand words that the centuries-old cohesion and unity of the people of Russia is a colossal, all-conquering force. All together, shoulder to shoulder “They fight side by side for one common Motherland,” Putin said in his speech, a transcript of which was published on the Kremlin website.
Ramzan Kadyrov cited this quote with a denomination, namely by removing the mention of followers of Judaism. “Our soldiers and officers - Christians and Muslims, Buddhists [...] - have proven that the centuries-old cohesion and unity of Russia is a colossal, all-conquering force,” Putin’s words are quoted as such in the Telegram channel of the head of Chechnya.
In Kadyrov’s Telegram channel, which has more than 2 million subscribers, the word “Jews” has been mentioned only once since May 2017, judging by the search, on November 10, 2023, when Kadyrov asks Allah to call for a speedy reckoning “Zionist Jews who kill peaceful Muslims of Palestine,” analyzed the “Caucasian Knot.”
At the same time, Kadyrov, since the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, regularly publishes posts about the situation in the Gaza Strip, speaking out in support of the residents of Palestine, and speaks of the need to call “Zionist criminals” and “oppressors of Muslims” to account.
Muslims in the North Caucasus reacted sharply to the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that began in October 2023. You can read about who and how in the North Caucasian Federal District expressed support for Palestine in the “Caucasian Knot” document “ Actions in support of Palestine in the North Caucasus.”
The fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement began on October 7, 2023, with the firing of hundreds of rockets into Israeli territory, including civilian targets and civilians. The Israel Defense Forces responded by launching a military operation against Hamas, after which Israel announced a blockade of the Gaza Strip: supplies of water, food, electricity, medicine, and fuel were suspended. Since October 7, 2023, 26,637 people have been killed and another 65,387 injured in the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported on January 29, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Israeli Social Security Agency published 1,139 deaths, including 695 civilians, including 36 children, France 24 reported on December 15, 2023. Israel says 132 people remain missing after being taken into the Gaza Strip during Hamas attacks on October 7. Of these, 25 are considered dead. Hamas previously released 105 hostages, the BBC reported on January 9, publishing a list of people who remain hostage. The "Caucasian Knot" cannot verify the accuracy of data on the number of victims and hostages.
The Islamic movement Hamas is recognized as terrorist, in particular, in the United States and the European Union. In Russia, the movement has not been declared terrorist, since none of its representatives have been convicted in Russia, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in response to a request from a deputy from St. Petersburg.
[IsraelTimes] Oslo says more funds on the way in coming days, after agreeing to Smotrich’s plan to hold funds previously earmarked for transfer from Ramallah to 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... The Paleostinian Authority has received NIS 407 million ($114 million) from Israel with more funds on the way "in the coming days," following a deal to release frozen tax funds via Oslo, the Norwegian government said on Thursday.
Norway on February 18 said it had agreed to assist in the transfer of funds earmarked for the Paleostinian Authority that were collected by Israel but withheld over Jerusalem’s refusal to transfer money destined for Gaza following Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s October 7 terror onslaught.
Israel argued the portion of the funds that Ramallah uses to pay for services and employees in Gaza — roughly NIS 260 million ($73 million) monthly — could wind up in the hands of Hamas, the terror group it has vowed to eliminate.
The PA has refused to accept any of the tax revenues unless amounts for Gaza were included, leaving it without the vast majority of its annual budget. Unable to pay employees in full for months, the move put the PA at risk of complete financial collapse until Norway approved an Israeli plan to serve as an intermediary.
"This money is absolutely necessary to prevent the collapse of the Paleostinian Authority, to ensure that the Paleostinians receive vital services, and that teachers and health workers are paid," Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said on Thursday.
Under interim peace accords reached in the 1990s, the Finance Ministry collects tax on behalf of the Paleostinians and makes monthly transfers to the PA.
Israel collects taxes on goods being imported to the Paleostinian territories via Israeli territory, taking a 3 percent commission before transferring the rest to the PA. Israel controls all the frontiers of the Paleostinian territories, bar the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
Under the agreed solution, approved by the cabinet last month, the Gaza portion of the funds are transferred to Norway, which is required to hold onto the funds until Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signs off on their release to the PA.
The cabinet decision bars those funds from ever being sent to Gaza and risks the permanent cessation of all future transfers if that restriction is violated.
[IsraelTimes] Gennaro Sangiuliano pushes back against open letter protesting Jewish state’s participation in art fair, saying it ’has the duty to bear witness to its people’ after October 7.
Italia’s culture minister firmly backed Israel’s participation in the Venice Biennale after thousands of artists, curators and critics signed an open letter calling to exclude the Israeli national pavilion from this year’s contemporary art fair due to the war against Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... 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... The online letter was signed by more than 17,000 people through Wednesday, including current and past Biennale participants as well as winners of the Turner Prize, an annual prize presented to a British visual artist.
Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano expressed solidarity with Israel in a statement Tuesday, saying it "not only has the right to express its art but has the duty to bear witness to its people precisely in a moment during which it was struck hard by merciless terrorists."
Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar affirmed Israel’s participation and thanked Sangiuliano for "his strong, professional support."
"Art is a bridge between cultures and between people — and we will continue to firmly set out against attempts to boycott Israel in international forums," Zohar said in a statement.
The Biennale ruled out excluding Israel or Iran, the object of a second petition, saying that any country recognized by the Italian government may request to participate.
The letter, by an ad-hoc group called "Art Not Genocide Alliance," noted that the Venice Biennale previously banned South Africa over its apartheid policy of white minority rule, and excluded Russia in the wake of the Kremlin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The group’s statement made no mention of the October 7 Hamas attack or the atrocities Death Eaters carried out.
"The Biennale has been silent about Israel’s atrocities against Paleostinians," the letter said. "We are appalled by this double standard."
Signatories include the 2023 Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling, who participated in the 2019 Biennale, as well as Faisal Saleh, the director of the Paleostine Museum US who said a proposed exhibit for this edition was rejected.
Israel is among 88 national participants in the 60th Venice Biennale of contemporary art, which runs from April 20-November 24. The exhibition in the Israeli Pavilion is titled "Motherland" by artist Ruth Patir.
Paleostinian artists are participating in collateral events, and will appear in the main show, titled "Foreigners Everywhere" curated by Adriano Pedrosa, the artistic director of Brazil’s Sao Paulo Museum of Art.
[Ynet] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met reporters on Thursday evening in Tel Aviv and tried to put out the fire ignited in his government coalition by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant's statement regarding the conscription law. Netanyahu said that even though the government will advance targets for ultra-Orthodox recruitment and reward military veterans, "complete agreement" will not be reached. Gallant himself had spoken only of agreement within the coalition. They should serve, or they should leave Israel. Why my son has to, and their children - with madrassa like pseudo-scholarship do not!?
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[IsraelTimes] Biden official says expanded air campaign could lead to ground op; IDF says ‘suspicious’ object downed after sirens blare in Haifa; IDF strikes Hezbollah rocket launchers
Officials close to US President Joe Biden are concerned that Israel is planning to launch a ground operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon in the coming months, US media reported Thursday.
According to the CNN report, the Biden administration has held intelligence briefings on the matter, preparing for the possibility that the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group cannot be made to retreat from the border through diplomatic measures.
Speaking to the network on the condition of anonymity, one senior official said that the Biden administration was “operating in the assumption” that a ground operation would occur in the coming months
The official added that it does not expect an operation to be imminent “in the next few weeks” but “perhaps later this spring.”
“An Israeli military operation is a distinct possibility,” the official stated.
A US intelligence official said Washington feared deepening strikes in Lebanon will “grow to an expansive air campaign reaching much further north into populated areas of Lebanon and eventually grow to a ground component as well.”
Since October 8, Hezbollah has been trading fire with the Israeli military across Lebanon’s southern border in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, which launched a devastating assault on Israel on October 7.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in six civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 219 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, 34 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 30 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.
The Biden administration has tasked special envoy Amos Hochstein to forge a deal between to end the fighting. Additionally, France delivered a written proposal to Beirut aimed at ending hostilities earlier this month. It included negotiations to settle the disputed Lebanon-Israel frontier and a withdrawal of Hezbollah’s Radwan elite unit 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border.
Israel has warned that it will no longer tolerate the presence of Hezbollah along the Lebanon frontier, where it could attempt to carry out an attack similar to the massacre committed by Hamas in the south on October 7. A failure of international diplomacy to force Hezbollah away from the border would necessitate an Israeli offensive, the country has said.
“If Amos were to successfully negotiate a standoff arrangement, then the probability of a military operation later this year would decline considerably,” the senior official said.
In an overnight phone call Wednesday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stressed to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that Israel will not “tolerate threats against its citizens and violations of its sovereignty, and will take the measures required to ensure their security,” Gallant’s office said in a statement.
But even if there is an agreement, a ground incursion may be inevitable, according to the first US official, which would allow Israel to “mow the grass,” destroying Hezbollah’s vast infrastructure near the border to slow down any attempted resurgence.
“Whatever kilometer buffer is negotiated will not keep Hezbollah out forever but will provide at least some assurance that they’re not going to return immediately,” the official said, adding that if an invasion doesn’t happen, the UNIFIL peacekeeping force and Lebanese Army would need to be deployed in vast numbers inside the planned buffer zone.
“The State of Israel will not return to the pre-war status quo in which Hezbollah poses a direct and immediate military threat to its security along the Israel-Lebanon border.” the US embassy in Israel told CNN in response to the report.
SIRENS TRIGGERED IN HAIFA, ‘SUSPICIOUS’ TARGET DOWNED
Sirens sounded near the northern city of Haifa on Thursday due to an interceptor missile being fired at a “suspicious aerial target,” the Israel Defense Forces said, as fighting persisted along the northern border.
The IDF said the target appears to have been successfully downed. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
Also on Thursday, the IDF said fighter jets carried out strikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, including at rocket launchers. The targets in Jabal Blat included a complex where members of the terror group were gathered and several rocket launchers, the IDF said.
The IDF also said it shelled rocket launch sites following attacks this morning on the northern Israeli communities of Adamit and Shlomi.
There were no injuries in the rocket attacks.
Meanwhile, Syria’s pro-government Sham FM radio reported an alleged drone strike on a vehicle in the village of al-Nahariya, on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Qusayr, near the Lebanon border. Sham FM said a “civilian” was killed in the strike.
Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib urged for a deal for a disputed stretch of the Israel-Lebanon border, similar to the deal reached through US mediation in 2022 over the two countries’ disputed maritime border. He said the problem could be solved when Israel withdraws from disputed areas, including the Mount Dov area, also known as Shebaa Farms, that Israel captured from Syria in 1967.
“Israel would return all the Lebanese land to us and then the problem of Hezbollah and Israel will be at least partly solved,” Bouhabib said.
Uh huh. For some reason Lebanon has been trying to get that corner for ages.
Both Israel and the UN say that Mount Dov was not Lebanese land before its capture in the Six Day War.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] It comes after it was made aware of 'Israeli plans to invade southern Gaza city'
Iran has reportedly given Hezbollah the green light to escalate attacks along Israel's northern border.
The country allegedly ordered the terror group to launch a 'large-scale assault' on Israel in a new wave of terror described in Israeli media as 'October 7, part two'.
Iran's order was made after it became aware of Israeli plans to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The regime under leader Ali Khamenei fears that southern Lebanon 'will be next', mirroring US warnings that the Israeli military is planning to launch a ground operation in Lebanon in late spring or early summer.
Thus far Israel exchanged near-daily missile fire with Hezbollah, hitting locations in Lebanon - but the IDF has refrained from a full-out ground invasion.
Hezbollah allegedly called for the meeting with Iran after 'information was obtained' that Israel was due to launch a ground assault and the secretary-general of the terror group, Hassan Nasrallah, asked for 'complete freedom in how he intends to attack'.
Meanwhile Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant warned on Tuesday that Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas could use the upcoming Muslim holiday month of Ramadan to provoke Palestinians in the West Bank and Muslims across the region to escalate tensions and attack Israel.
Hamas-ally Hezbollah has been fighting with the Israeli army since war erupted between Israel and Hamas in October, displacing tens of thousands of Lebanese and Israeli residents from their homes.
Just last night Israeli strikes killed two people in Lebanon's south, according to Lebanon's state-run national news agency.
There was also fire in the other direction, as Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement Wednesday morning that it targeted two Israeli military sites with two barrages of 'Grad rockets'.
The attack from south Lebanon came in 'response to Zionist massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip and the assassination of martyred leaders and their brothers in the southern suburbs' of Beirut, the statement by the agency added.
The Israeli military said in a statement that 'approximately 10 launches which crossed from Lebanon into northern Israel were identified', adding that sirens had sounded in north Israel's Kiryat Shmona area.
Air defences 'successfully intercepted a number of the launches,' the statement said, adding that the army 'struck the sources of the fire in Lebanon'.
Israeli police reported property damage in the Kiryat Shmona area but no wounded.
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...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
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