[JustTheNews] Lobbying, university reports detail a vast influence campaign by Arab states on U.S. soil, dwarfing the paid efforts of long-time ally Israel.
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No, they have influenced US education and politics.
Personally, I think Qatar should be carpet bombed. If only to keep from having another 'Doha Round'.
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[FoxNews] "At least OUR journolistic standards, OK??"
Palestinian freelancer Soliman Hijjy contributed to the Times' widely-panned coverage of the Gaza hospital explosion
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on Thursday that his country will open an embassy in the Paleostinian city of Ramallah, following his meeting with officials at the Israeli and Paleostinian embassies in Bogota.
This came in a post on his account in the "X" platform, in which he shared photographs taken with the Zionist entity ambassador, Gali Dagan, and Paleostinian ambassador, Rauf al-Malki.
"I expressed my position on reaching an international peace conference that would pave the way for the establishment of two independent and free states," Petro said in his post.
He added: "I stressed my solidarity with Paleostinian children, who must live in peace. We will send a plane carrying humanitarian aid 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... . Colombia will open its embassy in Ramallah, Paleostine."
Relations between Colombia and the Zionist entity are witnessing tension after a post by Petro on October 9 through his account on the "X" website, in which he criticized the Israeli response to the Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... attack and published a picture of Paleostinian children killed as a result of the Israeli attacks.
In response to Petro’s post, the Israel occupation entity announced the cessation of its military exports to Colombia, which in turn responded and decided to "suspend foreign relations with Israel."
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Drug dealers and Hamas - a marriage made in Heaven.
[IsraelTimes] The Swiss judiciary is investigating possible financing of Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... from Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... despite the country not classifying the group as a terrorist organization, its attorney general says.
The investigation was opened "several weeks" before the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel, Stefan Blaettler says, on Swiss public radio station SRF, without revealing further details.
The Attorney General’s office later tells AFP that the investigation was launched "on suspicion of financing Hamas from Switzerland".
The investigation is expected to be laborious because, unlike 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, Switzerland has not placed bans on Hamas.
But since the attack, mounting calls for the Swiss government to take action has prompted it to respond.
Four days after the attack, the government said it was "of the opinion that Hamas must be classified a terrorist organization".
Former members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) who returned to Sweden work in public institutions, raising concerns about the country’s policy on handling and monitoring these individuals, a Swedish media outlet reported on Friday.
According to an investigation led by Swedish media Expressen, out of 83 ex-ISIS fighters who have returned to Sweden, 21 are currently employed in professions involving children, young people, and vulnerable individuals.
Sweden’s Minister for Schools, Lotta Edholm, has called the government’s approach "naive."
Despite warnings from security services about the risks associated with returning jihadists, 24 ex-ISIS fighters have managed to secure jobs with public employers.
The concern is that these individuals, having lived in and fought for ISIS-controlled territories, can potentially contribute to radicalization and recruitment within Sweden.
Edholm told news hounds, "It is completely unacceptable that people who are ISIS bully boyz work in Swedish schools, leisure centers and the like. This should not be allowed to happen."
She argued that Swedish society has been too naive and called for increased diligence from employers, especially within the education system, to thoroughly screen the backgrounds of potential employees.
She emphasizes the need to collaborate more between the police, social services, and schools.
"The authorities need to work together. We are now looking at how we can break down the secrecy between agencies so that the police, social services and schools can talk to each other without secrecy getting in the way," she said.
In response to these revelations, an investigation has been announced to further examine the employment of former jihadists in Swedish institutions.
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So, not really work.
More like 'community organizers'.
[GEO.TV] The Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) has reacted strongly to Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... ’s return to the country, saying the "coward runaway is returning under judicial asylum".
In a statement on Saturday, a PTI spokesperson said "state has buried shame, modesty, law and justice with its own hands" to pave the way for "national criminal's return" to the country from London.
The three-time former prime minister has returned to Pakistain after ending a 4-year self-imposed exile in London and is hoping to make a political comeback in the upcoming general elections expected to be held in the last week of January next year.
His smooth return to the country was ensured after he secured relief from the Islamabad High Court and an accountability court, averting the threat of immediate arrest upon landing.
Nawaz has been prime minister three times, but was ousted in 2017 and given a lifetime disqualification from politics after being convicted for not declaring a receivable salary.
Referring to the ouster of the Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who anti-establishment Pak premier, who was hounded out of office, arrested, jailed, and will likely be hung by his political opponents... -led government in April 2022, the PTI spokesperson said after the regime change conspiracy, the state elements after ridiculing the Constitution and democracy "tied the country and the nation in the chains of dictatorship and thrown it to the corrupt wolves".
The statement further said that incarcerated PTI chairman Imran Khan launched a political struggle against the nexus between the criminals and the state 27 years ago.
It said that the nation is standing against thieves, mafia and plunderers under the leadership of Khan.
"The nation is ready to ’welcome’ its criminal who has been ’adopted’ by the state," the PTI spokesperson said adding that the people will hold accountable the criminals who have robbed the nation from generation to generation.
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Arutz Sheva - Israel National News joined Eran Casher, a first responder in the town of Netiv HaAsara in southern Israel, as he spoke with a group of MKs and ambassadors who came to visit the terror-stricken communities about the emotions filling his community in the wake of the Hamas invasion.
"It doesn't matter how much land we give them," he says. "We took out our people, we gave them land, we gave thousands of them jobs, people ruled by Hamas, and tried to help them have better lives. I hope this helps people better understand what we're facing. I knew it all the way, I never believed in it for a single second. It is hard to see those who still had hope crack, but now we can see what we're facing, and we need to see how we will rise up from it."
Casher warns the visitors that this will not stop in Israel: "I don't know where you're coming from, but if you think it's only happening because it's us, you're wrong. You guys are next, so you'd better wake up."
"We have our own thing, we're trying to deal in a Western way in a Middle Eastern environment. We need to wake up as well and understand that it is not only the language that is different but the environment. What I'm doing as a Western man - they don't see it the same way. There is a different mentality, a different way to do things."
Their goal is Islamic conquest and oppression - ultimately deriving from their feelings of inferiority (is it still "complex" if it's true?). The only way they can be stopped is by brutality that exceeds their own - that's why Chechens serve Russia instead of running wild like European Muslims.
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Breaking news: Israeli Chief of Staff: We will enter the Gaza Strip and carry out an operational mission aimed at eliminating Hamas elements pic.twitter.com/tUTfwU1RGP
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get on with it. Be nice about it though: First issue a call for unconditional surrender. If you don't actually do something it's just wind. They'll declare victory again and have another parade and I'll die of boredom right where I sit.
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[GEO.TV] Arab leaders attending the Cairo Summit for Peace on Saturday condemned the Israeli bombardment of 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... , while European nations emphasised the need to protect civilians amid relentless Israeli bombing.
Notably, Israel and high-ranking US officials were absent from the meeting, and as a result, there was no consensus reached on how to contain the ongoing violence.
The summit was initiated and hosted by Egypt, with the hope of gathering support for peace and reigniting efforts to address the long-standing Paleostinian quest for statehood.
Unfortunately, the meeting concluded without leaders and foreign ministers agreeing on a joint statement.
This occurred two weeks into a conflict that has claimed the lives of thousands and resulted in a humanitarian crisis in the blockaded Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million people.
Diplomats present at the talks had limited expectations of a breakthrough, as Israel was preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza with the goal of eliminating the bad boy Paleostinian group Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , which had launched attacks on Israeli towns on October 7, causing the death of 1,400 people.
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, Israel's Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and missile strikes had, by that point, resulted in the deaths of at least 4,385 Paleostinians since the Hamas attack.
While Arab and Moslem nations called for an immediate halt to Israel's offensive, Western countries generally focused on more modest objectives, such as providing humanitarian relief to civilians.
King Abdullah of Jordan decried what he described as global silence regarding Israel's attacks, which had led to the deaths of thousands in Hamas-ruled Gaza and left over a million people homeless. He called for a balanced approach to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
"The message the Arab world is hearing is that Paleostinian lives matter less than Israeli ones," he said, adding he was outraged and grieved by acts of violence waged against innocent civilians in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Israel.
Paleostinian 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.... said Paleostinians would not be displaced or driven off their land.
"We won't leave, we won't leave," he told the summit.
La Belle France called for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza that it said could lead to a ceasefire. Britannia and Germany both urged Israel's military to show restraint and Italia said it was important to avoid escalation.
The following two articles courtesy of badanov:
German Foreign Minister Bärbock called for continuing the war against Hamas Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock called for continuing the war against the Palestinian Hamas movement, but to do so taking into account the humanitarian situation.
Ah, the omnipresent Yes, but... that means present your bare neck to the sword of the killers — you don’t get to fight back.
She announced this at the summit in Cairo, her words were quoted by Der Spiegel magazine.
That would be the summit Israel was not invited to.
According to the German Foreign Minister, Hamas wants “greater escalation in the region” and rejects diplomatic ways to resolve the crisis.
“I call on everyone to stand up against terrorism... the war against Hamas must continue, but taking into account the humanitarian situation affecting the innocent men and women in the Gaza Strip,” she said.
They voted Hamas into power, then did so again.
Burbock added that the summit was unanimous that the Middle East region needs a new peace process that "will allow Palestinians and Jews to live side by side in peace and security in two independent states."
And who, other than Israel, is going to bell that particular cat?
As Regnum reported , on October 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that regardless of the escalation of the Middle East conflict, Russia stands for the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.
That’s nice. Except that Israel long ago made the united Jerusalem their capitol, so the so-called Palestinians are out of luck.
He clarified that the Palestinian community must independently achieve its unity.
On October 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Russia’s commitment to the decisions of the UN Security Council on the need to create the State of Palestine within the 1967 borders.
No.
He stressed that these decisions have not been canceled.
Palestinians in the city of Hebron on October 21 held a rally against Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip with portraits of the Russian president and Russian flags. Protesters also carried a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Axis of Evil v.2.0.
Russia proposes steps to resolve the conflict in the Middle East Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Russia calls on other countries to join forces to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on October 21, speaking at the peace summit in Cairo.
“Along with addressing the urgent tasks of ending the current spiral of violence, it is necessary to urgently begin to agree on a strategy of collective action for a political settlement of the conflict,” he said.
Bogdanov noted that US actions in the UN Security Council prevented the adoption of emergency measures to normalize the situation in the Middle East, as a result of which the escalation of the conflict continues and the number of civilian casualties continues to grow.
The peace summit in Cairo is being held on the initiative of Egyptian President Abdel Fattahaas-Sisi. The event was also attended by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni , head of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas , foreign ministers of Japan, France, Germany and Great Britain and other European officials. No one arrived from the United States; the American side is represented by US Chargé d'Affaires in Egypt Beth Jones.
And no one was invited from Israel.
As Regnum reported, Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya on October 18 accused a number of members of the UN Security Council of delaying the adoption of a peace resolution to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He noted that the Russian side proposed urgent measures that would avoid an increase in the number of victims, but they were blocked. Nebenzya emphasized that the document did not contain political assessments or even mention the parties to the conflict.
The conflict, which began on October 7 with a large-scale attack by the Palestinian Hamas movement on Israel, continues. Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adri said on October 21 that the Gaza Strip is under a total blockade. He added that the military operation will last as long as necessary.
[IsraelTimes] Israel criticizes a peace summit in Cairo where Arab and Western representatives failed to agree on condemning Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... for its massacres in southern Israel on October 7.
"It is unfortunate that even when faced with those horrific atrocities, there were some who had difficulty condemning terrorism or acknowledging the danger," a Foreign Ministry statement says.
"Israel will do what it has to do and expects the international community to recognize its justified battle," it adds.
Western delegates demanded “a clear condemnation placing responsibility for the escalation on Hamas” but Arab leaders refused, a diplomat tells AFP on condition of anonymity.
Instead the Egyptian hosts released a statement — drafted with the approval of Arab delegates — criticizing world leaders for seeking to “manage the conflict and not end it permanently.”
The statement says such “temporary solutions and palliatives… do not live up to even the lowest aspirations” of the Palestinian people.
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ICYMI: A top official with #Hezbollah vows that Israel would pay a high price whenever it starts a ground offensive in the #Gaza Strip. He says that his militant group based in #Lebanon already is “in the heart of the battle.”https://t.co/KUSkY3zelR
[An Nahar] Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Saturday that Hezbollah "has decided to participate in the fighting" that is raging between Israel and the 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... -based Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... movement.
"Hezbollah has decided to participate in the fighting, and we are exacting a heavy price for this," said Gallant during a visit to the border with Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , referring to the deadly cross-border exchanges with the Iran-backed group that have been ongoing since the day that followed Hamas' Oct. 7 massive attack on Israel.
At least 22 people have been killed in south Lebanon in the hostilities. Most of them have been Hezbollah and Paleostinian combatants, but at least four civilians, including a Rooters journalist, have also been killed. At least three Israeli troops and a civilian have been killed in Israel.
Hezbollah last fought a major conflict with Israel in 2006.
That war left more than 1,200 dead in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 in Israel, mostly soldiers.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...always the voice of sweet reason...
...always the voice of sweet reason...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
