[AFRICANEWS] Kenyan President William Ruto and his Angolan counterpart Joao Lourenco have called on the M23 rebels fighting government forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC), to join a military garrison
The two men were speaking at a presser in Nairobi following talks during a two-day state visit by Lourenco to Kenya.
"Jointly we have made good progress but we have become stagnant on one item. We need to have the M23 cantonment carried out," said Lourenco.
The two leaders said that if the M23 militia were to join a military garrison, it would facilitate achieving peace in the eastern part of the DRC.
The Rwanda-backed rebels launched an offensive in the region in late 2021, defeating the Congolese army and capturing swathes of North Kivu, driving over one million people from their homes.
The eastern part of the DRC has been plagued by violence from local and foreign gangs for nearly 30 years.
"We believe that it is an achievable aim to engage in consultation, stabilise the eastern part of the DRC, and allow the people of the country in general, to benefit from their progress, from their development, and from stability and progress in their region," said Ruto.
During the talks, the two men also said they would push for the resumption of direct flights between Nairobi and Luanda as part of efforts to spur bilateral trade between their countries.
Ruto said Kenya-Angola trade has been on the rise in the past four years, but said more needs to be done to unlock the potential.
They also announced the activation of a visa-free regime to ease the free movement of people and facilitate a wider interaction of diverse ideas, resources, and businesses.
In addition, Kenya pledged to support Angola’s candidature for membership in the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Peace and Security Council, and 11 legal instruments were signed.
[Hot Air] The union representing academics at the University of Oxford is calling an extraordinary general meeting on Thursday to debate a vote that expresses solidarity with Palestinian terrorists, the establishment of a "Socialist Federation of the Middle East," and "Intifada until victory."
Academia is trash. Complete and utter trash.
The union in question is the University and College Union, which represents 120,000 members in the UK. It has a long and glorious history of radical activism, and its members clearly do not represent the views of all academics in the UK. It’s membership skews to academics and university employees at the lower end of the prestige and income scale, but with 120,000 members it represents over 50% of academic staff in the UK.
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...In 1933, the Oxford Union debated the following topic:
"RESOLVED: That this house will not fight for King and Country."
The resolution passed overwhelmingly, and Winston Churchill would insist for the rest of his life that Hitler and Mussolini pointed to that moment as proof that the UK would not fight.
History may not exactly repeat itself, my fellow 'Burgers...but it sure as hell rhymes.
#4
Yes,please do. Many of us have tired of the Kabuki. This fight is going to happen and the sooner the better - hence the constant delaying tactics by all those at war with civilization.
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One minute a statistics lesson. The next minute treat a "poll" as if it's up there with Planck's Constant.
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*Shrug* Remember the nasty little counterinsurgency campaign the UK had in that 'shitty little Palestine' that was briefly interrupted by WW2? I am sure that there are plenty of upper class Brits that are still mad at the Jews about that ...and the usual thinly veiled anti-Semitism, of course.
[IsraelTimes] The United States says it has ordered non-emergency staff and eligible family members to leave its embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in Arbil, Iraq.
The directive, which was announced today but issued Friday, was given "due to increased security threats against US personnel and interests," the State Department says.
The department also updates its travel advisory to a level four, the highest possible, warning US citizens not to travel to Iraq.s
[DM] Black Lives Matter activist Shaun I do be black! King ...a Wannabe Negro black activist. Really. He's black. Just look at his haircut. They need his leadership! You're supposed to be intimidated, even though he looks like a dweeb.... has been branded a liar by the family of two American hostages who he claims he 'worked frantically behind the scenes' to free from Hamas.
Natalie Shoshana Raanan, 17, and her mother Judith Tai Raanan, 59, arrived back in Israel late on Friday having left Gaza via an Egyptian-controlled crossing.
King, who has a history of contentious statements, claimed on Instagram he had helped free the women.
The Raanans were two of over 200 hostages taken by the Islamic terror group following their shock slaughter of at least 1,400 in Israel on October 7.
King said that 'dozens of us' worked on their freeing and that the Raanan family 'have been supporters of mine, and protested police violence in America alongside us.'
But the family say King is lying and he did nothing to help the two women to their freedom, saying in a statement that: 'First and foremost, we make it clear he is lying!'
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[Regnum] The second convoy of 17 trucks with humanitarian aid for civilians in the Gaza Strip affected by rocket attacks arrived in the region through the Rafah checkpoint. Al-Qahera Al-Ihbarya TV channel reported this on October 22
The checkpoint is located on the border between the enclave and Egypt. According to the TV channel, three trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent Society were also among those who arrived.
As Regnum reported, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on October 22 that the country's authorities will send humanitarian aid and doctors to the Gaza Strip. According to him, the plane is scheduled to fly to Egypt in the morning of the same day, and it will transport 20 doctors to the site, who will determine the list of necessary drugs and medical equipment.
Before this, the presidents of Russia and Syria , Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad, also spoke about the need to urgently send humanitarian aid . The heads of state spoke out against the forced displacement of the population of the enclave. After that, on October 19, an Il-76 plane of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations with humanitarian cargo landed at the Egyptian El-Arish airport. The special flight delivered 27 tons of food, including sugar and flour.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict escalated on October 7 when Hamas militants fired rockets at Israel. In response, the Israeli side did the same. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the start of Operation Iron Swords; it later became known that the ground part of the operation was planned. Israel has admitted that there is no plan for the post-war future of the Gaza Strip. Putin said that a ground operation using heavy equipment threatens to have dire consequences. He later noted that Moscow favors the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state . The position was supported by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov , who recalled the decisions of the UN Security Council on the need to create the state of Palestine within the 1967 borders.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces have evicted a prominent Paleostinian activist from his home in the southern West Bank city of Hebron where the army also reportedly significantly intensified its curbs on Paleostinian movement since the outbreak of 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... war.
Issa Amro says IDF soldiers came to his home last Wednesday and told him he should leave Hebron for the duration of the war before coming back two days later and handing him a military order forcing him to vacate the premises. Amro lives in the H2 section of Hebron, which is under Israeli military control. The military order directed him to move to H1, which is under Paleostinian Authority control.
He says the soldiers arrived on Friday after they saw a Breaking the Silence activist arrive, along with a British journalist.
Amro has appealed the eviction order through a pair of Israeli human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... attorneys who wrote to the IDF’s West Bank legal adviser, noting that "the forced transfer of a protected population from an occupied territory is a violation of the laws of war and can constitute a criminal offense."
The IDF says in a statement that it has received Amro’s appeal against the eviction order and that it is currently under adjudication.
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... says Israel should be devising a strategy for who will rule 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... after the IDF completes its mission of toppling Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... "There are different ideas out there about what could follow, but all of that needs to be worked and it’s something that needs to be worked even as Israel is dealing with the current threat," Blinken tells NBC’s "Meet the Press."
This appears to be the first time that Washington is publicly urging Israel to think about its "day after" strategy, after US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... and other administration officials have privately been pressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides to come up with one in order to avoid making the same mistakes that the US made after 9/11, which led to it being bogged down in Mideast wars for years.
Asked what Israel’s strategy is for who will govern Gaza after the war is over, Blinken tells "Meet the Press," "We can’t go back to the status quo. They can’t go back to the status quo, with Hamas being in a position in terms of its governance of Gaza to repeat what it did... At the same time, what I’ve heard from the Israelis — is absolutely no intent, no desire to be running Gaza themselves."
"So, something needs to be found that ensures that Hamas can’t do this again, but that also doesn’t revert to Israeli governance of Gaza, which they do not want and do not intend to do," the secretary says.
Blinken tells CBS’s "Face the Nation" that the US also continues to work to evacuate US citizens who are trying to leave Gaza but that "Hamas has blocked them from leaving, showing, once again, its total disregard for civilians of any kind who are stuck in Gaza."
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So, Skid, you think our Hollyweirdans might like some Mediterranean beachfront estates, to go along with the Maui land that was just freed up for them to purchase at fire sale prices?
[IsraelTimes] Movements set up to oppose government’s judicial overhaul bid metamorphose overnight to coordinate unprecedented civilian rescue and relief effort.
“Please don’t blame us for Iran believing Israel ripe to be conquered, and pushing Hamas to erupt!”
During the harrowing days since over 2,500 Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... Death Eaters poured into Israel to slaughter 1,400 people, injure thousands, commit barbaric acts of atrocity against people of all ages and kidnap more than 200 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... , civil society has quickly mobilized to an almost overwhelming degree. At the massive situation hub in Tel Aviv, volunteers organize everything from medical supplies, psychological support, and clothing and equipment for evacuees from the Gaza border area — many of whom left just with the clothes on their backs — to a system that unites families with their pets.
"From 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 7, we began to get lots of messages from places like Kfar Aza," explained anti-judicial reform activist Tamir Reicher. More than 70 kibbutz members were murdered by the Death Eaters that day, including many children and babies, with testimony that some of them had their heads chopped off.
Initially working from their homes, a group of friends quickly established a situation room at Kama Junction in southern Israel, which is still operating, and by 11 a.m. they were dispatching volunteers, not all of them armed, to rescue people under terrorist siege.
MILITARY PRECISION
The Civilian Operations Center at Expo Tel Aviv, which began operating the next day, is run with military precision.
At an entrance table is a row of QR codes people can use to register to volunteer, access the hub’s website, or donate money.
At a massive underground parking lot, hundreds of volunteers were unloading donated equipment, unpacking and sorting it, and repacking it into boxes for transport all over the land.
In the clothing area, there were different sections for men, women, children and babies. In the women’s section, for example, signs stuck to the floor were aligned with boxes for "long skirts and tights for religious women," or "women’s pajamas," or scarves, hats, socks, or bras. There were separate lines of cartons for different sizes of women’s pants.
There were piles and piles of toys, children’s books and baby equipment, and separate lines for toiletries, deodorants and toothpaste, for baby food, diapers of different sizes and more.
IDENTIFYING THE MISSING AND THE KIDNAPPED
One of the most remarkable first steps taken by the Civilian Operations Hub was to create a space where some 2,000 volunteers from the high-tech sector could use their skills to identify missing and kidnapped Israelis, now known to number more than 200.
"For 10 days, we were the only contact point for families to find information about their loved ones," said Chava Rotman of Building an Alternative.
The high-tech unit, headed by internet expert Prof. Karine Nahon, used artificial intelligence to try to identify the missing, with volunteers going through hours of video material, frame by frame, looking for clues, and identifying hundreds of people who were missing or dead so that their families could be updated.
"We did facial recognition, matching social media with visual material from different scenes and used AI to identify clothes. We even identified distinguishing marks like tattoos because some of the bodies had been decapitated," Rotman said.
"The high-tech people came here and invented new algorithms to find out where the missing people were" and were able to whittle the names of thousands of missing people down to a couple of hundred, she said.
The unit was now handing the job, and the software, over to the state to continue the work.
Also being dismantled as state institutions started to function was a unit that matched evacuees with accommodation. That task is now being undertaken by local authorities.
Military equipment, which was being distributed directly to soldiers who needed it, is now being managed together with the Defense Ministry.
SHIFTING FOCUS
If the priority was to rescue families from terror in the south, the focus now is on those who have been bereaved and the more than 100,000 Israelis who have been evacuated and displaced. (An IDF front man has put that number at half a million.)
A huge open space, with people sitting in groups, or in front of laptops and smartphones, at tables, or in armchairs, had the modern, buzzy vibe of a tech conference. Running along the center were long tables where people were dealing with requests from the public.
"The first message on the system (from Saturday, October 7), reads, ’Family trapped in the safe room, Death Eaters are in the house,'" said a young man called Or.
"Today, the requests are more practical. I’m currently dealing with a woman who was evacuated to a hotel in Tel Aviv and needs psychological help. We have the names of psychologists (willing to volunteer) in a WhatsApp group, which we’ve sent her."
Elsewhere in the hub, volunteer teams were coordinating incoming equipment, matching that equipment with those needing it, and organizing the logistics to get it out. Daniel Sweig, who works for a Tel Aviv startup, popped out from behind a sliding door to explain that almost every truck and bus company had volunteered vehicles to transport civilian equipment around the country and that teams of 18 at any one time were matching transport solutions to needs. (The use of private cars was being coordinated in a different room).
"We might be sending a washing machine to people who have lost their house, or 400 mattresses to a place where evacuees are staying, or 5,000 (donated) portions of food from a restaurant in Tel Aviv," Sweig explained, adding, "We’re people who haven’t been mobilized [to the army] yet but want to help, rather than sit at home."
Yariv Wegrzyn, also from Tel Aviv, was one of some 15 people in a room further along where the focus was on fundraising. Wegrzyn, who runs a nonprofit organization that uses marine sports as an educational and therapeutic tool for special needs populations (his "secondary" occupation is raising funds for startup companies,) said he came to volunteer after attending two funerals.
"It’s not hierarchical here," he said, "Lots of people are coming with amazing abilities. People can’t understand how 15,000 volunteers left their homes to manage the country."
In yet another group, volunteers were sifting through and cataloging social media posts and files that could be distributed to different audiences. On Thursday, volunteer Deena Sokolov, a Texas native now living in Even Yehuda in central Israel, was spending her 50th birthday organizing materials in English.
Further along was the graphics table, which produces materials such as directional signs, stickers and brochures.
Lawyer Galia Scherf, whose brother Ron co-founded Brothers in Arms (now renamed Brothers and Sisters for Israel), was working with a team that was distributing shiva kits.
"Bereaved people need two things," she explained. "Equipment for a shiva that can be attended by hundreds of people, and psychological support."
"Sometimes people are sitting shiva for more than one person," she went on. "Entire families have been murdered."
Volunteers call the bereaved, send people to make up minyans where necessary (the ten-man quorum needed for prayers), and connect them with the not-for-profit Bereaved Parents Circle.
Outside, Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n asylum seekers were serving food for everyone — 300 portions per day — which the community’s women had cooked at home. Each day, around 150 to 170 of these volunteers come from different areas to help; on Thursday, it was the turn of those from Jerusalem.
Dozens of Eritrean men, dressed in light-blue T-shirts that signified their opposition to the Eritrean regime, helped sort boxes in the underground parking lot.
WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO
Eyal Naveh, a veteran of Israel’s most prestigious special forces unit, Sayeret Matkal, and a senior figure in Brothers in Arms, finished addressing a group of government officials when The Times of Israel asked what people could do to help.
"Come and volunteer," he said, "and donate equipment for soldiers — socks, underwear, thermal clothing, hats, tents, field kits for making coffee, donations of dry foods, hygiene products such as deodorant...."
People abroad could send or donate money for equipment.
"And we need a lot of PR. People have to understand that more than 200 people have been kidnapped — women, children and seniors. In the Koran, it’s forbidden to take such hostages. Talk to members of Congress, people you know, the media — do whatever you can to keep it on the agenda."
AFTERWARD, A LESS POLARIZED PEOPLE?
The hub has turned into something of a VIP hotspot. On Thursday, the high-profile visitors ranged from Opposition Leader Yair Lapid to former prime minister Naftali Bennett and American-Israeli businesswoman and philanthropist Shari Arison. Also there was Jewish Agency chairman Doron Almog, two of whose family members were murdered at Kfar Aza and four of whom are being held hostage by Hamas.
Earlier visitors have included German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, a minister in the national emergency government, and former chief of staff and defense minister, Moshe "Bogie" Ya’alon.
The Civilian Hub’s activities have also led to previously unthinkable dialogue with some of those who staunchly opposed organizations such as Brothers in Arms before the war broke out.
Israel Cohen, an ultra-Orthodox journalist, visited the hub and then wrote on X, "Wow! This group of patriots for Israel has established a crazy monster (of an operation) that’s helping the maimed, and soldiers, locating the missing, and helping families from the south. And it’s all completely voluntary. Kudos!"
Also writing on X, right-wing Channel 12 TV political correspondent Amit Segal said he left the hub thinking, "How much strength this nation has, how much courage."
Yishai Cohen, an ultra-Orthodox journalist for the Haredi news site Kikar Shabbat, who refused for six months to talk to members of Brothers in Arms, interviewed tech entrepreneur and Brothers in Arms co-founder Noam Lanir this week. "If you told me two weeks ago that I’d sit with you for a conversation, I would say, Wake up from the dream, and quickly," he began.
Last week he visited the situation room at Beit Kama, where he saw Brothers in Arms and Orthodox Israelis working together to get boxes out to those in need. "After nine months of hate, we’ve understood that we are brothers," he said.
None of the senior figures at the Expo wanted to talk about the government’s failures at this time.
A wise choice.
The prime minister and most government ministers have stayed well away from the hub.
Gigi Levy-Weiss, a former Air Force pilot, one of the country’s top tech investors and a senior figure in the High Tech Protest against the overhaul, told The Times of Israel, "We have an incredible people — here you can see the heart of the Israeli spirit. There isn’t a single person we’ve turned to who hasn’t volunteered to help, who hears what we’re doing and who doesn’t ask to be involved. People are opening their hearts, their homes, and their pockets."
He added: "One of the worst things to happen to the Jewish people, and certainly to Israel, provides an opportunity for a reset. Beyond vanquishing our enemies, and making sure that such a thing can never happen again — and there’s no doubt that we’ll win — I hope we will come out of this as a different people, less polarized, more understanding of our common destiny here."
"This is the time for whoever wants to be part of a constructive, creative, volunteering, caring, cooperative Israel. I hope that the bandidosforces of Evil will be isolated and the rest of us will unite."
Around 15,000 Israelis have answered the clarion call of movements that metamorphosed overnight from activists against the government’s 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... judicial reform proposals to coordinators of a massive infrastructure to rescue and support fellow citizens in distress.
That infrastructure, based at the Expo Tel Aviv International Convention Center since the day after the massacres, subsequently evacuated 3,000 citizens from the Gaza border communities, 200 of them under fire.
As of Thursday morning, when this news hound visited the convention center, it had distributed nearly two-thirds of 12,526 items of civilian equipment donated, found accommodation for nearly 8,000 displaced families, distributed 120,000 food portions and 200 packs of medical supplies, transported 8,000 civilians and soldiers, provided more than 1,000 activities for evacuated children, and sent out 150 sets of shiva (seven-day mourning period) equipment — gazebos, plastic tables and chairs, fans, water heaters and refreshments. It had even rescued 120 pets.
For months, anti-overhaul organizations such as Brothers in Arms (made up of military reserve soldiers), Building an Alternative (a women’s group founded by Moran Zer Katzenstein), and the tech worker, student and lawyer protest groups, were castigated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his ministers and much of the right-wing as leftist traitors who wanted to bring Israeli democracy and the country down.
But as the government scrambled to react to the Hamas invasion that it and Israel’s security establishment had failed to foresee, these groups were able to utilize their nationwide networks and organizational skills to step into the breach.
Who needs government to take the lead when the people can self-organize to do it so much better, freeing the government to take care of national security and international diplomacy — the things government is actually needed for.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says Israel’s impending ground invasion into Gaza can be "more difficult than the 9-month assault the US led against ISIS in Mosul." pic.twitter.com/V3tL5BAayu
[MSN -TheTelegraph] An overwhelming majority of Israelis believe that Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the deadly Hamas attacks.
A total of 80 per cent said the prime minister should publicly accept the blame for the failures that led to the deaths of at least 1,400 Israelis on the deadliest day in the country’s 75-year-old history.
The figure includes 69 per cent of those who voted for the premier’s Likud party in last year’s election.
Just eight per cent of the public think Mr Netanyahu is not responsible.
Israelis have been fiercely divided over the state response to the terror attacks on Oct 7, but these new figures suggest a united opposition to Mr Netanyahu.
Critics argue that Mr Netanyahu largely ignored military provocation from Hamas since the last major Israeli ground incursion of 2014, and has simultaneously allowed huge sums of cash to flow into Gaza.
Others say that the ongoing corruption scandal that has plagued Mr Netanyahu distracted him from keeping the country secure.
Opening the Knesset’s winter session last week, Mr Netanyahu said there were "many questions surrounding the disaster that befell us 10 days ago" and promised they would be investigated in "every aspect" after the current military mission was completed.
Mr Netanyahu’s coalition partner, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, said the government leadership and security leadership had failed to protect the country but the premier himself has yet to make a clear statement of responsibility.
Israeli politicians have described the attacks as "the greatest failure in the history of Israel".
Meh. The polls always say Bibi is hated, and yet Israelis keep voting him back into office anyway, as each proposed alternative proves to be considerably less capable.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...a Wannabe Negro black activist. Really. He's black. Just look at his haircut. They need his leadership! You're supposed to be intimidated, even though he looks like a dweeb....
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces have evicted a prominent Paleostinian activist from his home in the southern West Bank city of Hebron where the army also reportedly significantly intensified its curbs on Paleostinian movement since the outbreak of the 
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
