[ToloNews] Instructors who were interviewed by TOLOnews confirmed that "Teacher Training Centers" have been dissolved.
The Ministry of Education (MoE) in a letter which was released 6 days ago said that the instructors and employees of Teacher Training Centers will be recruited to fill vacancies of schools, Darul-Uloom and seminaries.
Some of the instructors of Teacher Training Centers told TOLOnews that the centers were dissolved based on the decree outlined in the letter.
They expressed their concerns and urged the Islamic Emirate to review its decision.
"In a letter, a special guideline, unfortunately, an educational entity, an administration of the Ministry of Education, a backbone of the society, has been demolished," said Hamid Ahmadzada, an instructor of Parwan Darul-Mualimeen.
The instructors of these centers said that more than 4,000 academic figures working in the Teacher Training Centers across the country would face an uncertain future.
"The Ministry of Education on one hand claims that the school teachers are not professionals and on the other hand, it separates 4,000 academic teachers from the education (sector)," said Zabiullah Hashimi, an instructor of the Teacher Training Center in Parwan.
Despite multiple attempts, TOLOnews was unable to obtain a comment from the Ministry of Education.
"It is not wise that thousands of instructors lose their jobs and also we will face a shortage of teachers in the future," said Farhad Ibrar, university instructor.
According to available numbers, more than 6,000 instructors and civil employees are working in "Teacher Training Centers" across the country.
Despite the Biden administration's best efforts, the Israelis are there openly by invitation for the international gaming event. But since they’ve been prevented from negotiating a formal peace, both will have to be satisfied with informally spiting the Bidenator.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli team sings Hatikva, holds flag at game tournament, but Riyadh hosts prevent repetition at actual opening event.
Two days ago the UNHRC popped up on our radar blithering ineffectually about Israel. Today there’s this bit of meaninglessness:
[KhaamaPress] In response to the burning of a Koran in Sweden, the the U.N. Human Rights Council
... ...established in 2006 because its predecessor, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, was too openly a tool of the most evil countries on the planet. Unfortunately, the UNHRC uses the same format and has the same members, so the same problems continue......
endorsed a divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... resolution against religious hatred on Wednesday.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the United States opposed the resolution because they claim it goes against their stance on freedom of expression and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... Voting results were 28 countries in favor, 12 countries opposed, and 7 countries abstained.
The motion, brought by Pakistain in response to the incident last month, sought to pass the resolution for the U.N. rights chief to publish a report on the subject and call on states to review their laws and close any loopholes that may "impede the prevention and prosecution of acts and advocacy of religious hatred".
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... the Taliban ...Arabic for students... authorities suspended all activities by Sweden in Afghanistan on Tuesday due to the Koran-burning incident.
"After insulting the Holy Koran and the Moslem faith in Sweden, the Islamic Emirate suspends Sweden’s activities in Afghanistan until they apologize to the Moslems for this heinous act. IEA’s relevant organizations are obliged to comply with this directive," a statement said.
According to the statement, all Moslem nations should protest Sweden’s savage treatment of the Holy Koran and stop interacting with it.
"Looking into the rude act of Sweden, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan wants other Moslem countries to reconsider their interaction with this country," the statement added.
An immigrant from Iraq burned the Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm last month, inciting outrage across the Moslem world.
This should be a no-brainer, but apparently for some people it is not.
[IsraelTimes] The High Court of Justice rules that state prosecutors as well as lawyers who are employed by the state are not allowed to take part in the mass protests against the government’s judicial overhaul plans.
A three-justice panel rejects an appeal against a lower court ruling on the issue, writing that while they have no intention of curbing free speech, they also must give weight to balancing issues, including “public faith in state officials and objectivity of employees of public legal services.”
Active IDF soldiers above the rank of lieutenant colonel are also not allowed to participate in protests.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian security forces deploy in West Bank city and camp as PA leader arrives by helicopter, in visit that analysts believe will do little to boost his waning authority there.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... arrived Wednesday in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on his first visit in over a decade, a week after the largest Israeli counterterror raid there in years.
Twelve Paleostinians — all of whom Israel says were combatants — and one Israeli soldier were killed in the two-day raid on Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp, a regular site of fierce fighting between Israeli forces and armed Paleostinian factions.
Soon after the raid, several brass hats of Abbas’s Fatah party, including deputy chairman Mahmoud Aloul, visited the camp only to be heckled by crowds of angry residents.
Abbas arrived on Wednesday by helicopter.
He laid a wreath at "the new deaders’ cemetery," according to the PA’s official Wafa news agency, which made a point of stressing that "nine deaders who died in the recent aggression" were buried there.
Ahead of Abbas’s arrival, hundreds of soldiers from the presidential guard were seen patrolling the streets of the camp and snipers took positions on rooftops.
Video shared on Paleostinian social media showed PA security forces appearing to block several Israeli military vehicles from entering Jenin. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
The Jenin refugee camp was established in 1953 when the West Bank was under Jordanian annexation to house some of the 760,000 Paleostinians who fled or were expelled from their homes during the fighting surrounding Israel’s founding in 1948, an event Paleostinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe." Israel captured Jenin and the rest of the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. The PA later established a presence in Jenin and other parts of the West Bank as part of the 1990s Oslo Accords.
Over time, the camp’s original tents have been replaced by concrete, and it now resembles something closer to a neighborhood.
Looking at the photo at the link, it looks exactly like a Palestinian neighbourhood.
The camp, which houses some 18,000 people, was also a hotbed of terror activity during the Second Intifada of the early 2000s, which for Israelis became synonymous with the suicide kabooms and bus bombings that led to the deaths of over 1,000 civilians and soldiers. The uprising also saw intense festivities with Israelis troops that left over 3,000 Paleostinians dead.
Over the past 18 months, the security situation in the camp has tanked, with the Ramallah-based Paleostinian Authority having little real presence there.
Abbas, 87, last visited Jenin in 2012 but did not tour the camp at the time.
While the PA remains somewhat present in the city, it has largely abandoned the camp to local gangs such as the Jenin Brigade, which Israel alleges is backed by Iran.
Abbas had previously visited the camp itself in 2004 while running for the PA presidential election after the death of leader Yasser Arafat.
Abbas’s leadership has come under criticism from Paleostinians over rampant corruption in the PA and the lack of any progress toward independence. Just 17% of Paleostinians are satisfied with Abbas’s leadership and 80% want him to resign, according to a Paleostinian public opinion poll in June.
“Nice country ya got there, O Israelis. Be a shame if sumthin bad happened to it.”
[IsraelTimes] Columnist says Biden administration believes Israeli coalition is using judicial overhaul as cover for ’unprecedented radical behavior... that is undermining our shared interests’
Remember back in 2003 or so when Mr. Friedman pretended that he’d proposed a new solution to the Israel-Palestianian problem at a dinner party hosted by the king of Saudi Arabia, and the king was enthusiastic? He dined off that story for months, while Israel was pressured to withdraw behind the 1948 Green Line in order to buy Saudi support. He always writes about Israel more in sorrow than in anger, but that’s because the Israel he fell in love with is the Israel of the communist kibbutz where he spent his high school summers, back in the late 1960s. He clearly finds the non-communist version completely unacceptable, and has for decades done his bit from his desk at the New York Times to drive it back to lefty GoodThink. Thus he eagerly carries water for the Israel-loathing Biden administration and its Corbynized Democratic Party. Ugh.
New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... columnist Thomas Friedman penned a column Tuesday warning that the Biden administration is reassessing its ties with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, amid growing American alarm over the actions of the hard-right Israeli coalition.
*shrug* They would be alarmed no matter the manufactured issue. They are always happy to take advantage of any opportunity, no matter how flimsy.
Friedman said US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... believes the government is using its judicial overhaul push as a smokescreen to engage "in unprecedented radical behavior... that is undermining our shared interests with Israel, our shared values and the vitally important shared fiction about the status of the West Bank that has kept peace hopes there just barely alive."
Shared fiction? So the White House wants to claim that a series of American and Israeli governments have jointly conspired to fool the Palestinians and the rest of the world about their intentions? Lovely.
The op-ed, headlined "The US Reassessment of Netanyahu’s Government Has Begun,"
...Begun began during Jimmy Carter’s presidency when Menachem Begin was elected prime minister in 1977. It continues whenever Democrats are in the White House, and only pauses while the Israeli Left is in control...
is the latest of several he’s published since Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc’s victory in the November elections.
Stressing the administration’s dismay, Friedman noted a number of public comments against the Israeli government made recently by senior American officials, including Biden’s calling it "one of the most extreme" he’s ever seen and departing Ambassador Tom Nides’s remark that the US is seeking to prevent Israel from "going off the rails."
"There is a sense of shock today among US diplomats who’ve been dealing with Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and a man of considerable smarts and political talent," Friedman continued, rejecting the premier’s argument that he’s in control of far-right allies like National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
"They just find it hard to believe that Bibi [Netanyahu] would allow himself to be led around by the nose by people like Ben Gvir, would be ready to risk Israel’s relations with America and with global investors and WOULD BE READY TO RISK A CIVIL WAR IN ISRAEL just to stay in power with a group of ciphers and ultranationalists."
Friedman, whose columns are understood to be closely read by Biden, attributed the "breakdown in shared values" between the US and Israel to the government’s efforts to push through far-reaching changes to weaken the judiciary, "the only independent check on political power" in Israel’s constitution-less unicameral parliamentary system. The coalition is currently advancing a bill that would block courts from exercising judicial review over the "reasonableness" of elected officials’ decisions as part of the judicial shakeup.
"Such a huge change to Israel’s widely respected judicial system, which has guided the emergence of a remarkable start-up economy, is something that should be done only after study by nonpartisan experts and with a broad national consensus," Friedman wrote. "That is how real democracies do these things, but there has been none of that in Netanyahu’s case. It underscores that this whole farce has nothing to do with judicial ’reform’ and everything to do with a naked power grab by each segment of Netanyahu’s coalition."
Friedman also cited a Monday op-ed by The Times of Israel’s editor David Horovitz, who wrote regarding the so-called reasonableness bill: "Only a government bent on doing the unreasonable would move to ensure that the justices — the only brake on majority power in a country with no constitution and no enshrined, unbreachable defense of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and other basic rights — cannot review the reasonableness of its policies."
Beyond the domestic implications for Israel, Friedman warned that the overhaul was endangering "shared interests" between Israel and the US, citing as an example "the shared fiction that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was only temporary and one day there could be a two-state solution."
"This Israeli government is now doing its best to destroy that time-buying fiction," he said, pointing to the rapid clip at which settlement construction is being approved and the passage of a law aimed at reestablishing several northern West Bank communities that had been evacuated alongside the 2005 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 Hamaswith 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... withdrawal.
Friedman went on to charge that "Netanyahu’s steady destruction of this shared fiction is now posing a real problem for other US and Israeli shared interests," such as the stability of neighboring Jordan and the effort to ink a normalization deal between Israel 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... "If Netanyahu’s government is going to behave as if the West Bank is Israel, then the US will have to insist on two things," Friedman said, calling for a potential visa waiver agreement to apply to West Bank Paleostinians and questioning why the US should defend Israel in international forums like the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... and the International Criminal Court.
The NYT columnist concluded by saying that President Isaac Herzog’s trip to Washington next week is meant as a signal by Biden "that his problem is not with the Israeli people but with Bibi’s bully boy cabinet."
"I have no doubt that the US president will arm the Israeli president with the message — out of sorrow, not anger — that when the interests and values of a US government and an Israeli government diverge this much, a reassessment of the relationship is inevitable," he said.
"I am not talking about a reassessment of our military and intelligence cooperation with Israel, which remains strong and vital. I am talking about our basic diplomatic approach to an Israel that is unabashedly locking in a one-state solution: a Jewish state only, with the fate and rights of the Paleostinians [to be determined]."
"Such a reassessment based on US interests and values would be some tough love for Israel but a real necessity before it truly does go off the rails. That Biden is prepared to get in Netanyahu’s face before America’s 2024 election suggests that our president believes he has the support not only of most Americans for this but of most American Jews and even most Israeli Jews," Friedman added.
Not actually, no. President LOLeightymillion just cares about having the support of the leaders of the Democratic Party and leftwing cultural elites.
The column appeared the same day the US administration urged Israeli authorities to "protect and respect the right of peaceful assembly" during mass demonstrations, with a statement issued by the White House National Security Council appearing similar to some of the responses the US has issued regarding crackdowns on protests by authoritarian regimes around the globe.
Except these are not peaceful assemblies deserving of respect — they’re your standard Black Bloc events demanding rejection of the results of actual democratic elections, only this time with Israeli flags.
The judicial overhaul has inspired months of massive protests, with critics warning that it will effectively snuff out Israel’s democratic system of checks and balances by concentrating power in government hands.
Despite clashing with the Biden administration on several matters, Netanyahu has shown himself to be sensitive to US criticism, and his government’s decision to alter the proposed legislation and pass it piecemeal may have been aimed at swatting away potential White House brickbats.
Before Netanyahu agreed to pause the overhaul in late March in order to allow for talks with the opposition, the Biden administration had been gradually raising its voice against the plan, noting that the countries’ shared commitment to strong democratic institutions is what has helped bolster their bilateral relationship for so many decades.
In his Monday speech, Trump blasted Biden for refusing to invite Netanyahu to WH, despite — what he claimed in interview w/ @BarakRavid — Netanyahu’s rush to congratulate Biden after 2020 results were announced. ⬇️https://t.co/2KouJw1oe1pic.twitter.com/md9at2bCje
[IsraelTimes] A day after NY Times’s Thomas Friedman says White House revisiting relationship, US officials say no such ‘formal’ process is underway, though Washington is ‘worried’.
[IsraelTimes] After New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... columnist Thomas Friedman warned in a column that the Biden administration is reassessing its ties with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, a senior Israeli official says in a statement that "we are not aware of any decision about ’reassessment’ by the US government."
The official also says that even if Biden were reassessing ties, it would not be anything new in the history of the bilateral relationship, pointing at ostensibly similar decisions by Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush.
"It is not secret that we have disagreements with the US government around establishing a Paleostinian state, returning to the dangerous nuclear agreement with Iran, and PM Netanyahu’s stance against the ’no surprises’ policy around Israeli actions against Iran."
The official stresses that "the ties between Israel and the US have grown close over the course of decades, and security cooperation has reached an all-time high under Prime Minister Netanyahu’s leadership."
"Prime Minister Netanyahu will make sure this trend continues."
The official does not mention US President Joe Biden by name in the statement.
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It sure looks like the demokrat/Marxist party is increasingly losing interest in the Jewish partnership that had historically been a key component of their political coalition. Perhaps its just coincidence it seems roughly correspondent to the massive increase in influence of the ValJar, Samantha Power, Light-bringer anti-Semitic contingent and their undisclosed dark money allies overseas?
[NPASyria] On Tuesday, a US State Department front man stressed the continuation of partnership with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a comment on the impacts of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s approval for Sweden’s NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... bid on situation in northeast Syria.
This came in a press briefing by Matthew Miller, the US State Department Spokesperson, in response to a question about "the new position in supporting the Kurdish fighters, the SDF."
Miller said, "The SDF have been a critical counterterrorism partner, and they remain a critical counterterrorism partner," but he refused to speak about special diplomatic talks in a reference to issues taking place between the NATO allies.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... has agreed to submit Sweden’s request to join NATO to the Ottoman Turkish parliament, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in a tweet days ago.
He added, "They [SDF] fought bravely to liberate vast stretches of Syria from ISIS control...they will continue to be a partner of ours."
The State Department Spokesperson stressed the importance of the partnership between the US and the SDF in term of "preventing ISIS from realizing its aspirations for a reconstitution."
The US has warned successively Turkey of launching any military operation against northern Syria that will result in impeding the fight against ISIS and destabilized the region.
ISIS lost its final stronghold in Syria in March 2019. The SDF, with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, defeated ISIS after fierce battles in the town of Baghouz in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist ISIS.
After Baghouz, thousands of ISIS fighters were transferred to prisons, while their families were transferred to Hawl and Roj camps in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)-held areas.
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The SDF is composed in the main of ethnic minorities, primarily Kurdish but also Turkoman, Syriac, some Arab, and even lesser ethnicities. They control much of the northeastern region and the same borderlands with Turkey. Recognizing a fait accompli, Turkey's Erdogan (to curry favor with the USA while it plays a game against us elsewhere) has recognized the SDF. It remains to be seen how the battle within Syria will shake out. If it were to end realistically (which it won't), the Syria territory controlled by the SDF would unite with northern Iraq to create the Kurdistan state that Woodrow Wilson rejected more than a century ago.
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[ToloNews] Instructors who were interviewed by TOLOnews confirmed that "Teacher Training Centers" have been dissolved.
...Arabic for 
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
...46th president of the U.S. 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
