[BBC] Israel's prison service has released a video purportedly showing the leader of a three-week-old hunger strike by Palestinian inmates eating in his cell.
The service said Marwan Barghouti had been filmed consuming cookies in secret on 27 April and a snack bar on 5 May.
It did not say how he obtained the food, but sources told the Haaretz newspaper that he had been set up.
Barghouti's wife said the footage was "fake" and intended to break the morale of the hunger strike's participants.
More than 890 prisoners have been refusing food since 17 April in protest at conditions in Israeli jails.
They have issued a list of demands including better medical services, more frequent family visits and an end to detention without trial.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan government reacted at the remarks of a Pak general regarding the killing of at least 50 Afghan troops during the clash in Spin Boldak district located along the Durand Line, dismissing the claims as baseless.
The head of the Government Media and Information Center Sediq Sediqi the Afghan government rejects the claim by Pak general regarding the killing of 50 Afghan troops by the Pak militia forces.
Sediqi further added that only two border police forces bit the dust along with civilians and not what the Pak authorities are claiming.
He said the claims that 50 Afghan troops were killed are absolutely wrong and the Afghan government strongly rejects the claims.
Sediqi further added that the Afghan troops prevented the illegal movements of the Pak militia forces inside the Afghan soil and it was the Pak troops who launched the attack first.
This comes as Pakistain’s Inspector General Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) Major General Nadeem Ahmed claimed today that Afghan forces targeted civilian population while Pakistain targeted their check-posts, leaving 50 Afghan troops dead and 100 others maimed.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the Afghan officials are saying that the Pak militia forces were conducting census inside the Loqman village which is located inside the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar and the festivities started after the Afghan border forces interfered to prevent the Pak forces activities inside the Afghan soil.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Kenyan has released 48 Somali nationals, including women and kiddies from jail and transferred to Jubbaland authorities in Dhoobley town in southern Somalia on Saturday.
One of the freed Somali citizens have told Radio Shabelle that they been held in containers, abused and tortured by Kenya Police for illegally entering Kenya.
The people have been smuggled through Somali-Kenyan border by smugglers before being captured by the border Police last month, according to an official in the town of Dhoobley.
"They were transported in containers and smuggled in Kenya in the pretense they will be taken to Dadaab refugee camp. But they were held in Mingi village near Garissa, he said.
Some of the released citizens were airlifted to Somali capital, Mogadishu, and willing to reunite their families, while the rest are still being held in the border town of Dhoobley.
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[Iran Press TV] Following Saudi deputy crown prince's comments about moving the battle to Iran, Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan says if the Saudis do anything stupid, all of the kingdom -- apart from Mecca and Medina -- will be destroyed.
Dehqan gave the warning in an interview broadcast on Arabic-language al-Manar TV on Sunday in response to remarks made by Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who said any battle between Riyadh and Tehran would take place on Iranian soil. "We will work to have the battle in Iran rather than in 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... ," prince Mohammed had said.
"We warn them against doing anything ignorant, but if they do something ignorant, we will leave nowhere untouched apart from Mecca and Medina," said Dehqan.
He referred to the Saudi bombing campaign on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... -- in which over 12,000 people have died -- and said the Saudis think they can do anything because they have an air force.
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[Iran Press TV] The Turkish army is set to deploy forces to Syria’s holy warrior-controlled northwestern Idlib province and establish military bases there, a report says.
The Beirut-based al-Mayadeen TV channel cited sources as saying on Saturday that the Turkish military had sent a telegram to holy warrior groups operating in Idlib and informed them of the deployment.
Turkish forces, it said, would not attack the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, but would engage in a "diplomatic" process and push them to evacuate Idlib and hand over their positions to the Turkish army.
A Turkish envoy had personally conveyed the message during a meeting with holy warrior ringleaders in Idlib, the report said.
"The Turkish forces will temporarily deploy inside the border villages with armored vehicles and infantry forces as a first step," the telegram read.
It further urged the gunnies not to consider the Turkish troops as forces of occupation as it issued "security warning" against any resistance.
The report quoted a breakaway Syrian officer with the gunnies as confirming the Turkish army's preparation to enter Idlib and establish military bases there.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the governor's office in the southern Turkish province of Hatay denied the report.
"Such statements that were claimed by some Arabic websites and social media accounts saying that the Turkish army will enter the Idlib region are not reflecting the truth," it said in a statement.
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[Daily Excelsior] Security agencies are not ruling out the possibility of the banned ISIS trying to create a base in the Kashmire valley, noting that internet chats and establishing of contacts with possible handlers in Syria and Iraq by some youths have grown in the last six months.
Officials in the security establishment, who are not authorised to speak to the media, said on condition of anonymity that there have been small pockets in the Valley from where some youths are trying to get in touch with one or more handlers in Syria and Iraq.
Last month, two masked gunnies appeared at the grave of a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist in Pulwama during which they asked the gathering to follow the rules laid down by Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and ISIS and not support or raise slogans in favour of Pakistain.
They gave fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches for over three minutes in which they spoke about pan-Islamisation and the importance of having Shariat as a law, the officials said.
While Death Eater outfits including United Jehad Council, a conglomerate of terror outfits based out of Pakistain-occupied Kashmire, as well as the local unit of Hizbul Mujahideen were quick to downplay the incident, security officials viewed it with more seriousness.
The agencies felt if the growing influence of ISIS was not checked, it could be detrimental to the situation in the Valley.
The officials said that the activities on the internet from the Valley to some accounts in Syria and Iraq have been tracked during last one year.
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[IsraelNationalNews] "We’re not going to give up territory. We’re not going to give gifts for the huge opportunity to talk to the Arabs. I think it’s important that we focus on building a powerful economy, high tech entrepreneurship and co-existence with our neighbors, but everyone knows we’re not going to form another Palestinian state," added Bennett. If Paleos want their own state, let them immigrate to France.
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Naftali Bennett's Wikipedia page is here. An interesting man who heads the party I would be voting for, were I Israeli, his path is similar to Bibi Netanyahu's a generation earlier, and therefore he became a serial tech entrepreneur rather than a highly educated business consultant. I love his image of his soldier comrade choosing to live with shrapnel in his bottom because the operation to remove it would cripple him -- an evocative formulation of not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
He has apparently been saying things like this for a while, which has not been a barrier to serving in Prime Minister Netanyahu's cabinet in various capacities.
[Iran Press TV] Israel is pushing for a bill, which, if passed, will downgrade Arabic from its current status as an official language in the occupied Paleostinian territories to a non-official language.
The provocative bill was approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday and now waits to pass a number of rounds of legislation in the Israeli parliament, Knesset, for further readings before becoming law.
Both Arabic and Hebrew are now the official languages of Israel, but according to the new bill, "the national language [of Israel] is Hebrew." The bill further states that "the right to realize self-determination" within Israel "is unique to the Jewish people" and the occupied territories are their "national home."
The bill was initially proposed in 2011 by a member of the hard-line Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It came up for ministerial consideration in 2015. The bill, however, failed to pass through the ministerial committee at the time.
If the proposed law, which substantially harms the rights of minorities, is ultimately passed by the Knesset, it will turn into a fundamental law and will become an essential ingredient of Israel's central body of legislation. It will also encode the structure of the occupying regime.
This has been proposed in the past, but thus far has never passed.
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You know that Arabs' (& their friends) biggest problem? They vastly overestimate Israel's self-restraint.
[An Nahar] Jordan and the United States kicked off annual military exercises Sunday known as "Eager Lion", with about 7,400 troops from more than 20 nations taking part, officials said.
U.S. and Jordanian officials said the maneuvers would include border security, cyber defense, and "command and control" exercises, to bolster coordination in response to threats including terrorism.
"Joint efforts and coordination and the exchange of expertise... are needed at the time when the region is facing the threat of terrorism," Jordanian Brigadier General Khalid al-Shara, who will head the exercises, told news hounds.
U.S. Major General Bill Hickman, deputy commanding general for the American army in the region, said this year's "Eager Lion" exercises -- the seventh so far -- are "the largest and most complex to date."
The highlight of this year's exercise, he said, will be that "for the first time ever a global strike mission" will be conducted by "two U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber aircraft" -- a long-range multi-mission bomber.
A statement by the Jordanian army said troops from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Arab Gulf region are taking part in the exercises which run to May 18, including from Britannia, Japan, Kenya and 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... About 6,000 troops from Jordan and the U.S. took part in last year's exercises -- a joint operation first launched in 2011.
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In parliamentary democracies like Israel and Germany, the president is an elected ceremonial figure with only the power of moral suasion garnered from his achievements. It's the actions of Germany's prime minister and foreign minister that matter.
[An Nahar] German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sought to move past a diplomatic dispute between his country and Israel while visiting Sunday, saying ties were strong enough to endure "turbulence."
Steinmeier's visit, his first to Israel since becoming president in March and first to any country in that capacity outside Europe, comes after a recent row between Germany's foreign minister and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"The foundations (of the Israeli-German) relationship are so broad that I think they can endure some turbulence like that taking place in the last 14 days," Steinmeier said at the residence of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
Netanyahu had canceled an April 25 meeting with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel after the visiting diplomat declined to call off meetings with rights groups critical of Israel's government.
"The unique relationship of our two states is too important to be measured solely by the question of who a legitimate interlocutor should be," Steinmeier said.
Steinmeier, who is not scheduled to meet any potentially controversial group during his visit, said trust and understanding between Israel and Germany should result in no limitations.
"We should not impose any restrictions," he said.
Gabriel had met members of Breaking the Silence, which seeks to document alleged Israeli military abuses in the occupied Paleostinian territories, and B'Tselem, which works on a number of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... issues and strongly opposes Israeli settlement building.
Netanyahu's rightwing government says the groups unfairly tarnish Israel and strengthen the arguments of its enemies.
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"Just because we still trying to solve 'the Jewish Problem' (using 'Palestinians'), doesn't mean we can't be friends - does it?"
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The candidates running for the upcoming Iranian presidential elections on May 19 exchanged accusations during the second round of debates that took place on Friday and were broadcasted live on the Iranian state TV channel. The debate tackled political and cultural issues.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has strongly criticized his conservative presidential rivals, for trying to disrupt the nuclear deal with the West. He accused the Revolutionary Guards of working to sabotage the deal through their ballistic missiles program.
During the debate that was held between six candidates, Rouhani said there are some who appraised the range of ballistic missiles and wrote slogans on missiles in an attempt to sabotage the nuclear deal.
He also accused the conservative candidate, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, of launching a campaign that harms the negotiating team, by waging a counter-campaign by covering Tehran with billboards against the nuclear deal.
The debate was attended by Iran’s current President Hassan Rouhani, his deputy Eshaq Jahangiri, member of the Assembly of Experts Ebrahim Raisi, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, and two former ministers Mustapha Mir-Salim and Mostafa Hashemitaba.
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Raisi accused Rouhani’s government of signing "some points in the nuclear deal that are bad for Iran, allowing other parties to target Iran’s facilities," adding that this is "a very bad message for the negotiations."
Despite all its problems, Raisi considered "the nuclear deal to be a national document for Iran and its counterparties."
He also criticized the performance of Rouhani’s government regarding the outcome of the nuclear agreement, saying that it did not improve the economic and living conditions and did not lift the economic sanctions on Iran.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Agreement has been reached to evacuate maimed fighters of the hardline Islamist group formerly known as Nusra Front from Yarmouk, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, to rebel-held Idlib province, Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV reported on Sunday.
The agreement is the second phase of an earlier deal to evacuate people from two towns besieged by rebels, and two towns besieged by pro-government forces, the first phase of which was implemented last month, al-Manar reported.
The maimed fighters and some others accompanying them would form a group of about 50, reported the television channel, which is based in Leb. Hezbollah, also from Leb, is a close military ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... Nusra Front was the official branch of al-Qaeda in Syria until a year ago, when it broke formal allegiance to the global jihadist movement and renamed itself. It has since joined a number of other Death Eater groups under the new name Tahrir al-Sham.
Both Nusra Front and later Tahrir al-Sham have at times fought alongside other rebel groups, including those that operate under the banner of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... , against the government and at times have clashed with them.
Yarmouk, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, is the location of a large Paleostinian refugee camp. Parts of the area are held by the government, parts by rebels including Tahrir al-Sham, and parts by 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.... An earlier deal involved evacuating civilians from the rebel-besieged Shi'ite Moslem towns of Kefraya and al-Foua in Idlib province in return for the departure of civilians and Death Eater fighters from Zabadani and Madaya, near Damascus.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS mufti Hussam Naji, who was captured in late 2014 by Iraqi security forces, tells Al Arabiya how he met the Death Eater group’s leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... in US prison in 2004.
Naji told Al Arabiya News Channel’s correspondent Majid Hameed in Baghdad in an interview for the weekly "Death Making" program that the ISIS leader was an "isolationist" who "did not talk very much" during their time in prison in Camp Bucca in southern Iraq.
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Unlike his quiet demeanor at Camp Bucca, Naji said Baghdadi’s "personality was different."
"He became sharp-tempered, aggressive and no longer the introvert I used to knew in Bucca," adding: "He drove a fancy car."
Ones Islamic personality changes when one finds out the jizyah tax can be great boodle. The best way to show infidels how inferior they are is for the Imam to drive a fancy car when colleting jizyah protection money.
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Imposing a Muslim tax on believers might not be a bad way to get Muslims to renounce their religion. The jizya was how Islam became the dominant religion almost everywhere a Muslim ruler held sway.
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[BBC] Israel's prison service has released a video purportedly showing the leader of a three-week-old hunger strike by Palestinian inmates eating in his cell.
[Daily Excelsior] Security agencies are not ruling out the possibility of the banned ISIS trying to create a base in the 
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS mufti Hussam Naji, who was captured in late 2014 by Iraqi security forces, tells Al Arabiya how he met the
