[AlAhram] Thirty one politicians from Tunisia's ruling Nidaa Tounes party resigned from their parliamentary bloc on Monday, deepening a row over party succession
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The secularist Nidaa Tounes, elected to power last year in a vote hailed as a democratic victory after Tunisia's Arab Spring revolt, has been riven by months of infighting.
The deputies who resigned Monday, nearly a week after suspending their membership in the party's parliamentary bloc, are supporters of Nidaa Tounes secretary general Mohsen Marzouk.
Marzouk's supporters accuse President Beji Caid Essebsi's son Hafedh of trying to seize control of the party.
"We had to resign from the parliamentary bloc as a first step toward our defence of democracy and parliamentary credibility," one of them, Hajer Laaroussi, told news hounds.
The crisis came to a head at the end of October after accusations that Essebsi supporters armed with sticks blocked rival party members from a meeting of its executive committee.
The rivalry threatens to potentially tear apart the government in a country held up as a rare success story for the Arab Spring after its 2011 overthrow of longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
According to sources quoted by London-based Al Sharq Al Awsat newspaper, the Houthis are opening up new roads that could link Shabwa and Bayda, and that these roads are leading to the oil facilities.
Local sources in southern Yemeni governorate of Shabwa have warned that the oil and gas fields there are in danger due to expansion of the militias, while a spokesman of the Arab Coalition, Brigadier Ahmed Al Assiri, denied reports that the coalition forces were late in liberating the governorate of Taiz.
According to reports published in Arabic newspapers on Monday, Saudi woman Rema Al Greish, who arrived in Syria to join Daesh two years ago along with four of her children, sustained injuries due to the Russian bombing of Al Riqqa city, the stronghold of Daesh.
According to sources quoted by London-based Al Sharq Al Awsat newspaper, the Houthis are opening up new roads that could link Shabwa and Bayda, and that these roads are leading to the oil facilities.
The sources said that the most common movements of the Houthis are at the areas that are lying between Behan directorate in Shabwa and other directorates adjacent to Al Bayda. The sources pointed out that the Houthis have put up Katyusha rocket launchers in this area, and have dug tunnels into mountains.
Elsewhere, Brigadier Ahmed Al Assiri denied that coalition forces were late in liberating the governorate of Taiz, referring to the fact that the military action is subject to many changes.
Assiri said the Arab coalition forces made success in Yemen, which could not be achieved by alliance of over 20 countries. He said, for example, the US and the NATO, which comprises 28 countries, have been in Afghanistan for 11 years, and failed to achieve what the Arab coalition had gained in seven months.
Regarding the military operations in Yemen, Al Assiri said every operation has its own confidential schedule that is not made public so that the enemy could not take it as an advantage.
Abu Dhabi: The trial of 11 individuals accused of being members of Daesh and fighting with the group in Syria began at the Federal Supreme Court here on Monday.
The suspects comprise eight Emiratis, a Bahraini, a Mauritanian and a Syrian.
All the defendants, including five who are being tried in absentia, are also facing charges of collecting funds for the organisation and handing them over to ‘Abu Dujana’ who reportedly delivered the money to Daesh.
The offenders are also believed to have set up a Twitter handle @azazyp to promote Daesh ideology.
Five of the Emirati suspects, including a 17-year-old, succeeded in joining the group and are being tried in absentia.
The other six accused were present in court and denied their charges.
O.S.O., 22, from Mauritania, is also accused of providing financial aid to a member of Daesh called Abu Dujana in Syria. It is also alleged he helped three other defendants to flee to Syria to join the group.
He is also accused of publicly promoting the Daesh ideology and Jabhat Al Nusra.
Another defendant, Emirati A.H.M., 22, is accused of providing funds to Daesh and helping four defendants reach Syria through border exits to get to Muscat airport and then travel to Turkey to get to Syria.
He also created a Twitter account under the alias Abu Nooh (@khaled992200), which he used to publish information about Daesh. He also used the handle to insult the UAE leadership.
Similarly, Syrian M.A.A., 34, is accused of transferring funds to two existing members of Daesh, where he received two instalments of Dh4,000 from O.S.O. to be delivered to Abu Dujana.
A.A.A., 25, from Bahrain, is accused of providing supplements and hormones to one of the defendants.
Two brothers, A.A.S., 22, and M.A.S., 24, are accused of being aware of the crime and failing to report it to the authorities.
Another defendant, A.S.N., 25, is also accused of creating and managing a Twitter account under the name id @azazyp where he promoted Daesh ideology. The defendant was not present in court.
Lawyers representing the defendants requested an adjournment to prepare their defence, as well as get witnesses.
The group will be tried in accordance with anti-terror, cyber crime and juvenile laws.
The case was adjourned to December 7.
In another case heard on Monday, an Indian Mina Zayed administrative worker, M.B., 42, was accused of disseminating confidential information to Indian Embassy officials. He is also accused of using his employer’s website to gain access to confidential information. However, his lawyer, Fayza Mousa, argued that her client could not have done so as the information was already made public by several public channels.
The case has been adjourned until December 14 when the verdict will be announced.
The prosecution accused him of providing confidential information on naval ships to the Indian embassy.
His lawyer, Fayza Mousa, had previously said in court that the defendant had verified known information, and that the information on the vessels were constantly broadcast on the news.
On Monday, Fayza provided the court with translated news articles that show the information given by her client cannot be categorised as confidential since they have been published on a public platform.
[AnNahar] Up to 115 migrants from the Middle East staying at a British military base on Cyprus will be deported if they do not claim asylum with Cypriot authorities, British officials said Monday.
"The options are either claim asylum in Cyprus or the process of deportation will begin," British Forces Cyprus spokesperson Sean Tully told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The 29 children, 19 women and 67 men landed at the Akrotiri Royal Air Force Base in two fishing boats on October 21 and were later moved to Dhekelia, the largest of Britannia's two military bases on the Mediterranean resort island.
Authorities initially said there were 114 migrants aboard the boats.
Britannia retained illusory sovereignty over both base areas when Cyprus won independence in 1960.
But "the bases are not a back door to Britannia," Tully said.
The mostly Syrian, Paleostinian and Lebanese migrants -- who were originally heading for mainland Greece not Cyprus -- have been handed a "notification of intention to deport", Tully said.
"Each individual has an opportunity to challenge this, so we don't how long this process will take," he said.
He said the country to which they are deported will be determined during this process.
A handful of the 115 migrants have requested to be voluntarily repatriated to Leb rather than stay at the camp which saw disturbances last week due to frustrations over their fate, he said.
Around 15 have asked for asylum in Cyprus, and the Cypriot authorities will process their claims.
But the rest cannot stay on the base, he said.
"We are in a difficult position and our options are limited," said Tully.
The British defence ministry said in October that the migrants should be handed over to Cyprus in line with a 2003 agreement for them to "take responsibility in circumstances like this".
Before that deal was signed, migrants landing on the bases had been left in legal limbo.
British Forces Cyprus said it was working closely with the Cypriot authorities on the asylum process and what steps to take next.
In 1998, a ramshackle fishing boat crammed with 75 migrants landed at Akrotiri.
Seventeen years on, some of them are still living on the Dhekelia base, after repeated appeals for asylum in Britannia were turned down.
[AnNahar] Britannia's top court on Monday began hearings in a landmark case involving a Libyan man who accuses the British government of conspiring with the CIA in his "rendition" to Libya for torture in 2004.
The Supreme Court is hearing the case after the state appealed a previous Court of Appeals ruling in October 2014 that gave Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and his wife the right to take the government to court.
"For years the British government has sought to shut the door of the British courts to victims of torture and state-sponsored kidnapping," said Cori Crider, from the legal charity Reprieve.
Campaigners believe the Belhaj case could open the door to similar legal action in torture cases.
Belhaj, a former Islamist Death Eater who became Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's military commander after Libyan strongman Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... was ousted in the 2011 revolution, claims British involvement in his illegal rendition.
He and his wife said they were detained by U.S. intelligence officers at Bangkok airport in Thailand in 2004 when Belhaj was leader of the anti-Qadaffy Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
His wife was several months pregnant at the time.
The couple were then taken to Tripoli, where Belhaj was jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for six years. Files unearthed from Qadaffy's archives after his fall suggest he was captured due to a British tip-off after he initially made an attempt to seek asylum in Britannia.
The legal action he has launched is against the British government, including the MI5 and MI6 intelligence agencies.
The couple have offered to settle the case for an apology, and a token £1 (1.4 euros, $1.5) payment from the former head of counter terrorism at MI6, Britannia's former foreign minister and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The government has argued that evidence should not be heard because the claims involved other countries.
Campaigners say Britannia is only concerned about damaging its relations with the United States.
[Mail] A thousand more spies will be hired across Britain's secret services to foil terror plots such as the one feared to have brought down a Russian passenger plane.
George Osborne announced today that a pot of funding has been earmarked for the intelligence agencies to hire new staff to meet the challenges posed by Islamic extremism.
The Chancellor said the internet 'provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us' and this requires a 'substantial increase' in the number of cyber-experts to meet the threat.
He also announced nine new prisons are to be built under plans to close Victorian jails and sell them for housing.
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spies wont help
this is an ideological war
challenging the ideas of islamofascism will help
stopping islamist immigration will help
holding up apostates and giving them refugee status will help
outlawing sharia in practice will help. ban it, outright, no apology. deport any who participate in sharia courts
outlawing religious education will help -- the only religion that should be taught in school is comparative religion. the indoctrination should only be given at home
[Hurriyet] In investigation by the Turkish Interior Ministry has revealed that millions of pages of documents used to build an indictment in a 2012 espionage case were actually leaked through the Interior Ministry at the time.
Inspectors from the Interior Ministry discovered the documents in a database called "Pandora" were leaked by the-then head of the Information Technologies Department of the Interior Ministry, Ilhan Uran, who had set up a special line that enabled him access to all of the information on Pandora, daily Milliyet newspaper reported yesterday. Through this special line, Uran was able to follow all significant correspondence. Uran also provided himself clearance to see all computers at the ministry, including the one used by the minister, when they were on.
The 2012 espionage case involved the trial of 357 people, including soldiers, accused of possessing secret military information and documents. Those defendants have been released but the case continues.
On Nov. 3, Turkish police detained dozens of people including senior coppers and civil servants allegedly linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's foe Fethullah Gulen. The prosecutor's office in the western city of Izmir said it ordered the arrest of 57 people believed to be members of the "Gulenist terror group" on allegations they sought a purge of the army by engineering a 2012 espionage trial. Gulen was the "number one" suspect in the latest investigation, according to the Dogan News Agency. There are several cases against Gulenists, or followers of Gulen who are accused of building "a parallel structure" or "parallel state," particularly through their followers holding influential posts in the judiciary and police.
Police detained 44 of the suspects in dawn raids, including a former Izmir police chief and three state governors, in an operation covering 18 provinces, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Arrest warrants were issued for the other 13.
Tender for document scanning system
The Izmir prosecutor's office said in a statement there was "serious evidence" that the 57 suspects sought to use the 2012 case to orchestrate a purge in the state civil service and the military. The Interior Ministry assigned inspectors around a year ago to investigate whether documents used as evidence in the military espionage case were "classified" and whether they were leaked from the ministry, Milliyet said.
The Prime Ministry had instructed all state institutions with a 2008 circular to set up Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) in line with the TSE 13298 certificate.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... it took long for the Interior Ministry to set up this system, as it was completed by late August 2013, Milliyet said. Underlining that the military espionage case in Izmir started in May 2012, operations involving those documents in Pandora from 2008 to 2012 could not have been tracked yet, the report said.
[AlAhram] More US troops could "absolutely" be deployed to Syria if Washington identifies more "capable local forces" as partners in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said in an interview aired Sunday.
Carter's comments to ABC News came about a week after the White House announced the deployment of "fewer than 50" special operations personnel in the north of the war-ravaged nation, in a bid to strengthen forces battling IS fighters.
"In order to have victory stick, you have to have local forces involved who can keep the peace after you've helped them win the peace," Carter said in an interview taped aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the South China Sea.
"Now those are hard to find in Iraq and Syria," he told the "This Week" news program.
"If we find additional groups that are willing to fight ISIL and are capable and motivated, we'll do more. The president has indicated a willingness to do more, I certainly am prepared to recommend he do more, but you need to have capable local forces -- that's the key to sustainable victory."
When asked if that could mean more American forces on the ground, Carter replied: "Absolutely."
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Past time for Congress to table the officer promotion lists. They can get their offices and titles and pay hikes from Caesar.
Once is a tragedy, twice is a farce. Marxist have no history to learn from.
[AlAhram] Arab foreign ministers searched on Monday for ways to halt what one called Israel's "dangerous escalation" of violence against Paleostinians.
Long list of grievances against the ebil juices snipped as uninteresting. No suggestion made, nor thought of, that the Palestinians might work to build their civil society and be good neighbours to the Israelis instead, and that short of a successful war, there is nothing the Arab nations can do to force Israel to do anything.
This emergency meeting comes with the dangerous escalation by the Israeli government, the settlers, the Jewish holy warrior groups, and the Israeli forces in the blessed city of Jerusalem," United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan told the meeting, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
He chaired the gathering of the 22-member bloc, and said the Paleostinian issue is key to peace and security in the region.
"We gather today to take a decision about what we can do to stop these crimes and violations," the UAE minister said.
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... Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi urged the UN Security Council and others to work towards an end to the conflict, SPA reported.
The meeting came on the eve of the Fourth Summit of Arab and South American countries, to be held in the Saudi capital.
[Hurriyet] Iraqi Defense Ministry has sent back two aircrafts carrying weapons to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Kuwait after detaining them for a few days, the Dogan News Agency (DHA) reported.
"Upon an order by the Iraqi Armed Forces Command, the two planes which were carrying weapons to Kurdistan have been deported and sent back with their entire cargo to their bases in Kuwait and Turkey after being withheld at Baghdad International Airport for a few days," DHA quoted a written statement released by the Iraqi Defense Ministry on Nov. 9.
As of Nov. 2, an English-language Iranian news agency, the Fars News Agency (FNA), reported that the Iraqi government seized two planes of the member states of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that were carrying weapons to KRG without prior coordination or information-sharing with Baghdad.
"The inspection committee in Baghdad International Airport has found a huge number of rifles equipped with silencers, as well as light and mid-sized weapons," the agency quoted the head of the Iraqi Parliament's Security and Defense Commission, Hakem al-Zameli, as saying at the time.
Zameli told the agency that a Swedish and a Canadian airplane were going to fly to the same region but were seized after arms cargo was discovered.
Turkish officials have not yet been available for comment on the news reports.
[Rudaw] A Kurdish official claimed Monday there is a risk djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Dam--Iraq's largest dam--might collapse, said the central Iraqi government would be responsible for any damage to the dam and urged it to start maintenance work on the structure.
"It is the Iraqi government's responsibility to repair sites of the dam that are about to collapse," Ari Harsin, a Kurdistan Democratic Party MP in the Kurdistan parliament, told Rudaw Monday.
The dam annually needs maintenance, but "it has been so long since it has not been worked on and neglected by the Iraqi government," he claimed. "To repair the dam's shortcomings $250 million to $500 million has to be allotted."
He also said the US has recognized the risk to the strategic dam, and looked into finding private contractors to conduct maintenance and repairs.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... managed to capture the dam in July 2014 when the group seized Iraq's second largest city Mosul, but the Kurdish Peshmerga reclaimed the dam soon after despite the dam still being in the bully boys' hands.
That last seems to suggest that the Iraqi government wouldn't be able to do anything about the dam anyway, so long as ISIS controls it.
In the case of the dam's collapse, the resultant flood would be life-threatening to humans, animals and agriculture in the Nineveh, Kirkuk and Salahadin provinces.
Mosul Dam, once called Saddam Dam, was constructed in 1983. It is located on the Tigris River in the western province of Nineveh, upstream from the city of Mosul. It is the fourth-largest reservoir in the Arab world, with a capacity of about 8 billion cubic meters, and provides electricity to 1.7 million residents in Mosul.
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I have been wondering about things like this. With all the chaos the past couple decades, and with Islamic upkeep the way it is, how long before the major infrastructure starts to fail?
Damns, power stations, sewage (ok that never worked anyway but still), etc. are all close to failing I think. Given that the Arab world relies on 50% of it caloric intake from other nations and with their countries in a constant state of war, what will happen when everything starts failing?
Well besides the famine, disease and death unlike anything ever seen in modern times that is.
[AlAhram] The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... is expecting huge numbers of civilians to flee when Iraqi forces mount an offensive to retake the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... myrmidons.
It is not clear when Iraqi forces will be ready to attack the northern city. The much anticipated counter-offensive has been repeatedly postponed because Iraqi forces are unprepared and bogged down in battle elsewhere.
Bruno Geddo, UNHCR representative in Iraq, said the agency was preparing to help people fleeing Mosul and potential sites had been identified for new camps, although there will not be enough room for all.
A large part of Mosul's population of more than 1 million remained in the city after it was overrun by Islamic State in June 2014 and are now banned from leaving by the hardline myrmidons, who have proclaimed a caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria.
"This time the humanitarian community is acutely aware that there will be no justification if we are caught unprepared again," Geddo told Rooters in an interview. "This will probably entail massive civilian displacement".
That will compound an intensifying humanitarian crisis in Iraq, where the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has reached 3.2 million - about a tenth of the population.
The governments in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan region are encouraging civilians to return to areas that have been retaken from Islamic State, but Geddo said rushing the process could backfire.
"If there is still total destruction and complete insecurity or lack of acceptance for returning IDPs on the part of those who remained behind, returns, which should be the corollary of reconciliation, could actually end up creating even more tension and therefore it would defeat the purpose," Geddo said.
The immediate priority is to prepare for winter, but with humanitarian operations in Iraq suffering from a shortfall in funding, resources are limited.
[Ynet] Map created from statistics compiled by political analyst and freelance strategist Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho shows the development of the current wave of terror in Israel and the West Bank.
The development of the current terror wave that has enveloped Israel and the West Bank has been charted through an interactive map, created by political analyist and freelance strategist Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho and Judge Dan.
Gershuni-Aylho, who refers to the current wave as a "stabbing intifada," and whose statistics on the burgeoning violence start as of September 6, has sorted the incidents by date, type of event (e.g. stabbing, stone-throwing) and location. Additionally, the density of events per area and time appear as a "heat map" which ebbs and flows as the map moves through the weeks. This allows the map's users to track the main centers of violence and trace how the hotspots have shifted as time has gone on.
For example, while the West Bank and Jerusalem have consistently remained deep red, meaning that they have witnessed constant high levels of violence over the past two months, one can see how the number of incidents in central and northern Israel, for example, has gradually waned during the last couple of weeks.
The data sets that Judge Dan mapped are also available to the user. Here, the breakdown of incidents goes even further - one can see, for example, whether the attacker was Paleostinian, Israeli-Arab or Jewish, or where they were from. The target of the attack - Israeli police, civilians, soldiers - has also been logged.
[Jpost] Ya'alon: Paleostinian terrorism may last indefinitely; Army has thwarted attempts by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to get involved in latest violence.
Due to persisting Paleostinian attacks, the IDF's Central Command will call up reserves at the start of 2016 to free up conscripted battalions for training, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said on Monday.
"The situation can continue -- I don't know for how long," he told news hounds at the ministry in Tel Aviv.
Again: as long as Paleos have access to Israel for work or study, these incidents will continue. You Israelis need a fence without gates separating yourselves from the West Bank.
All of the recent attacks have been carried out by lone attackers, and in recent weeks, no Paleostinian organizations have been able to pull off any organized attacks, though this could change in the future, Ya'alon said.
"More significant hostile action is a possibility," he cautioned.
He said Hamas and other organizations have been trying to organize shootings and bombings in the West Bank and Israel, but have so far failed due to Israel's intelligence and operational grip. "Hence, we are left with lone attackers," he said.
The current wave of terrorism started on September 11, when east Jerusalem youths snuck into the al-Aksa Mosque with Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs, and used them to attack Jewish visitors, Ya'alon said. He rejected Paleostinian accusations that Israel planned to change the status quo on the Temple Mount.
Although the Paleostinian Authority and its president, the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , have toned down their incitement for fear of the violence spreading anarchy to their own turf, the Internet remains filled with calls to violence, triggering individuals to commit attacks, Ya'alon said.
Images of murder promoted by ISIS in Iraq and Syria are also influencing Paleostinian youths, he said. "The deeper background is what is taught in the PA. Its eduction system does not prepare the next generation for coexistence."
Israel has refrained from imposing a closure on the West Bank, as "there is no need, so far," Ya'alon said. "We are safeguarding the economic routine for Paleostinians -- this is of course our interest."
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... in Gazoo, Hamas is continuing to keep to stick to a truce achieved last year, due to Israeli deterrence, Ya'alon said. More than 800 trucks ferry goods into Gazoo everyday via the Kerem Shalom crossing, Ya'alon said, and described the crossing as Gazoo's "oxygen supply."
A small Salafist terrorist organization in Gazoo fired a rocket at Israel on Sunday night, after feuding with Hamas, due to arrests made by the regime in Gazoo, Ya'alon said.
The Israel Air Force bombed a target affiliated with Hamas on Monday in response to the rocket, which went kaboom! in an open area in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council.
Israel holds Hamas responsible for all attacks against Israel from Gazoo.
"A situation has been created in which Hamas has no interest in an escalation in Gazoo, but it is interested in escalating the situation in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria," Ya'alon said.
"Hamas did not want Gazooks to hold demonstrations on the Gazoo-Israel border, but it accepted them. Hamas is not happy about rocket and sniper fire from Gazoo. It is working to stop this," Ya'alon said.
Ultimately, he said, Israel's policy is based on the concept of punishing terrorists, while enabling the general Paleostinian population to live its life with dignity.
In the long term, Ya'alon expressed doubts about the chances of reaching a peace agreement with the PA, but said Israel will refrain from taking steps that would undermine achieving a potential outline for a peace accord in the future.
[Jpost] Unlike some past conversations, "there were no arguments or confrontation," says Netanyahu.
The photo at the link is interesting for those interested in facial expressions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... attempted to lay to rest their long history as diplomatic sparring partners, as they smiled and shook hands in front of television cameras at the start of their much anticipated meeting at the White House on Monday morning.
"It was a very good and constructive meeting," Netanyahu told news hounds after his two-and-a-half hour conversation with Obama, which ran 45 minutes beyond its scheduled time.
"It was one of the best," he added.
Unlike some past conversations, "there were no arguments or confrontation," he explained.
It was the first face-to-face meeting between the two men in 13 months, during which time they held a ferocious public battle over the Iran deal.
On Monday, Netanyahu and Obama went to great lengths to show the public that their dueling days are over, particularly when it comes to the issue of the Iran deal, which has since been approved and executed.
Earnest characterized the " professional relationship" between Obama and Netanyahu as "Effective..[which] allows them to advance the interests of their two countries and most importantly, advance our shared interests."
"That is what you would expect the leaders of allied nations to do," he said.
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...probably mentioned on the side that Hillary is going to need a lot of campaign donations to keep his crew out of jail and most of his executive decrees on the books in little over a year.
[Hurriyet] Russia has finalized a contract for the delivery of advanced air-defense missile systems to Iran, the head of a Russian state-controlled industrial conglomerate said on Nov. 9.
Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russian Technologies, the holding company that includes the Rosoboronexport arms trader, said on a trip to Dubai that "the contract with Iran for the S-300 has entered into force," according to Russian news agencies.
Russia in 2010 froze a deal to supply advanced S-300 missile systems to Iran, linking the decision to U.N. sanctions. President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... lifted the suspension earlier this year following Iran's deal with six world powers that curbed its nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
Once the first part of the contract is fulfilled, Moscow expects Iran to drop its lawsuit at a court in Geneva seeking damages for the suspension of the original deal, Chemezov said.
He wouldn't specify what version of the system Russia will supply or when the delivery will be made. Russian officials have said that the specific model of the S-300 that Russia was to deliver under the 2007 contract is no longer produced, and offered Iran a modified version of it.
The missile system deal has long worried Israel and other countries in the region, as well as the U.S., which see it as destabilizing.
Arieh Herzog, a former head of Israel's Missile Defense Program, said he didn't expect the shipment to set off a regional arms race and that as far as Israel was concerned its main impact was to complicate any potential Israeli Arclight airstrike against Iran.
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[Hurriyet] European authorities have taken action to shut down a cyber espionage operation linked to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard in the first operation of its kind since Tehran signed a nuclear treaty, according to security researchers who located computers used to launch attacks.
The hacker group - dubbed "Rocket Kitten" by security experts who have been hunting the hacker group since early 2014 - has mounted cyberattacks on high-profile political and defence figures globally since that time.
The action is likely to hamper Tehran's efforts to gather sensitive intelligence from rivals including 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... , Israel, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the United States and Venezuela, which were among the nations targeted.
Researchers from U.S.-Israeli security firm Check Point Software said the 1,600 high-profile targets include members of the Saudi royal family, Israeli nuclear scientists, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... officials and Iranian dissidents and even the wives of high-ranking generals from unnamed countries.
The company said it had informed national computer security response teams in Britannia, Germany and the Netherlands, who in turn alerted police in those countries to the locations of "command and control" servers used to mount attacks controlled from Iran.
Europol, the FBI and Israel's internal security service Shin Bet declined immediate comment.
The actions come as U.S. President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepare to meet on Nov. 9 for the first time since the Israeli leader lost his battle against the Iran nuclear deal and security issues top the agenda.
Check Point plans to issue a report later on Nov. 9. According to an advance copy obtained by Rooters, the report details how its experts burrowed inside the hacker group's database, giving them a map of malicious software tools and remote-controlled computers used by the group.
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