[IsraelTimes] Columbia University is suspending two anti-Israel groups — Students for Justice in Paleostine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) — as official student groups through the end of the fall semester,
Or perhaps not so bold, the punishment, such as it is, lasting only a little over a month. That’s a slap on the wrist with a wet noodle in the hope of masking what they actually approve of. The donor desertions must really hurt.
the school’s senior executive vice president Gerald Rosberg announces in a statement.
"This decision was made after the two groups repeatedly violated university policies related to holding campus events, culminating in an unauthorized event Thursday afternoon that proceeded despite warnings and included threatening rhetoric and intimidation," Rosberg says.
The two groups will not be eligible to hold events on campus or receive university funding, Rosberg explains.
Off campus and outside funding are fine, though, and it doesn’t sound like they have to give back university funding that had not yet been spent. To think that my German grandmother’s first job in America when they arrived here after the war was as housekeeper for the Columbia chancellor.
"Lifting the suspension will be contingent on the two groups demonstrating a commitment to compliance with university policies and engaging in consultations at a group leadership level with university officials," he says.
"Like all student groups, SJP and JVP are required to abide by university policies and procedures. This ensures both the safety of our community and that core University activities can be conducted without disruption."
"During this especially charged time on our campus, we are strongly committed to giving space to student groups to participate in debate, advocacy, and protest. This relies on community members abiding by the rules and cooperating with University administrators who have a duty to ensure the safety of everyone in our community," the university official adds.
[IsraelTimes] The Los Angeles charter school that stirred controversy at the synagogue where it is housed after first-grade teachers taught lessons about "the genocide of Paleostine" announced steps on Friday to "repair this harm."
Two teachers have been removed from the school and the principal has been placed on leave at Citizens of the World Charter School-East Valley, announced Melissa Kaplan, the school network’s executive director, at a presser held outside Adat Ari El synagogue.
Hye-Won Gehring, the school’s principal, had relayed complaints from her staff to the synagogue’s rabbi about Israeli flags that were hung up on the campus after Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’ October 7 attack on Israel, according to Kaplan and Brian Schuldenfrei, Adat Ari El’s senior rabbi. Kaplan said Gehring would be going on a two-week leave to "focus on learning how to combat antisemitism and engage in sensitivity training to learn from this experience."
A mistake. At this point everybody knows, so the only way a lesson will be learnt is to cut them off completely, letting them marinate in the consequences of their actions,
[Task and Purpose] An American military aircraft “went down” in the eastern Mediterranean Friday night, U.S. European Command announced Saturday afternoon.
The unspecified aircraft was conducting a training flight the evening of Nov. 10 and “suffered a mishap and went down,” EUCOM reported.
It is not clear what service branch the personnel involved are a part of, nor where the aircraft was assigned to. EUCOM also did not provide any additional information regarding how many people were aboard the aircraft, how many injuries or fatalities occurred and if the incident happened over land or sea.
The incident is under investigation, per the military.
In addition to its bases in Europe, the U.S. military has the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group in the eastern Mediterranean. The strike group was deployed there following the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas. A second carrier strike group, headed by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, was initially in the eastern Mediterranean Sea but passed through the Suez Canal to the Middle East.
“However, we can definitively say that the aircraft sortie was purely related to training and there are no indications of hostile activity,” EUCOM added.
Five American service members have been killed when a military aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean during a training exercise, the US European Command (EUCOM) says.
“During a routine air refueling mission as part of military training, a US military aircraft carrying five service members suffered a mishap and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. All five of the service members onboard the aircraft were killed,” EUCOM says in a statement on the November 10 accident.
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Comment at the Times of Israel link says: God bless them. No media outlet is releasing any details about the aircraft or the crew, but with a crew of 5 it might be an Awacs radar and surveillance plane.
Refueling is that thing where two planes fly one close behind the other and transfer flammable liquids in mid-air with a hose.
A shot across their bow by an unknown actor — it was restored later in the day.
[IsraelTimes] Internet access across the war-torn nation of 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... collapsed early this morning without explanation, web monitors say.
The outage began early today and affected the YemenNet, which is now controlled by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels.
Both NetBlocks, a group tracking internet outages, and the internet services company CloudFlare report the outage. Neither offer a cause for the collapse.
The Houthis and Yemen telecommunication officials don’t immediately acknowledge the outage.
A previous outage occurred in January 2022 when the Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthis in Yemen bombed a telecommunications building in the Red City port city of Hodeida. There was no immediate word of a similar attack.
The undersea FALCON cable carries internet into Yemen through the Hodeida port along the Red Sea for TeleYemen. The FALCON cable has another landing in Yemen’s far eastern port of Ghaydah as well, but the majority of Yemen’s population lives in its west along the Red Sea.
GCX, the company that operates the cable, doesn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Well, yeah, cuz the internet is out?
The outage comes after a series of recent drone and missile attacks by the Houthis targeting Israel amid its campaign of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and a ground offensive targeting Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... in 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... Strip. That includes a claimed strike Thursday again targeting the Israeli port city of Eilat on the Red Sea. Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... the Houthis also shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone this week with a surface-to-air missile, part of a wide series of attacks in the Mideast raising concerns about a regional war breaking out.
Responding to this story from yesterday: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Or perhaps just hoping to spin fast enough to confuse the audience.
Following strong pushback in Israel, La Belle France seeks to walk back President Emmanuel Macron’s remark that there’s "no justification" for Israel’s bombing of "these babies, these ladies, these old people" in 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... "President Macron never implied, and does not think, that Israeli forces are deliberately targeting civilians. He has been consistently qualifying Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s use of hostages or civilian population as ’unacceptable blackmail,'" says a French diplomatic source.
The source also reiterates Macron’s condemnation of the October 7 Hamas onslaught.
"While President Macron is aware of Israel’s efforts to prevent collateral damage and facilitate humanitarian access, he believes that more can be done considering the dire humanitarian situation or Gaza’s civilian population," the source says. "He therefore believes that a humanitarian pause and eventually a ceasefire are opportune to help the civilian population in Gaza get the much needed aid and relief."
Netanyahu also addresses French President Emmanuel Macron’s criticism of Israel, in which Macron denounced Israel for killing babies, women and the elderly and demanded a ceasefire.
He says Macron "did good things," including visiting Israel and sending a floating hospital to GazooBut, in his comments, "he made a serious mistake, factually and morally. It’s Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... that is preventing the evacuation of civilians, not Israel," says the premier. "Israel tells them to leave."
And it’s not Israel that fires on the humanitarian corridor set up for northern Gazooks to evacuate, "it is Hamas," he adds.
"It’s not Israel that uses Gazook residents as human shields, it’s Hamas. It’s not Israel that locates itself in hospitals, in schools, in UNRWA and UN facilities, it’s Hamas. Therefore it is not Israel but Hamas that is responsible for harm to civilians," Netanyahu adds.
If the free world sanctifies the terrorists’ practice of fighting from among civilians, committing the double war crime of targeting and slaughtering civilians while hiding behind their own civilians, then this foul practice will spread, he warns. "And I say to the president of La Belle France and our other friends, it will reach you too."
Immunity must not given to turbans who carry out this double war crime. We are truly doing everything to minimize harm to civilians or noncombatants, but we will not give Hamas the license to murder our citizens without our response. We can do without the moral preaching."
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"no justification" for Israel’s bombing of "these babies, these ladies, these old people"
vs never implied, and does not think, that Israeli forces are deliberately targeting civilians.
Two statements differing completely in meaning. Sounds like the ol' Lawyerly Denial to me. With any luck, the riots will be mostly peaceful and the crocodile will eat him last.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The prosecutor's office of the German Bavaria banned the use of the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” equating it with Nazi mottos. This was stated by Munich senior prosecutor Andreas Frank , as quoted by the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
“Anyone who publicly uses propaganda materials of banned organizations will be prosecuted under Article 86a of the Criminal Code. This article previously applied to SS slogans,” Frank said.
In addition to the slogan, criminal penalties will follow the public display of green armbands that read “Knights of the Qassam Brigades” in white letters and a flag often used by Hamas.
As Regnum reported, this slogan was previously used during demonstrations in support of Palestine. Thus, at the end of October in London, almost 100 thousand people
...as measured by the participants. Probably at least 50% were imaginary...
took part in rallies in support of Palestine, including many children and women. The marchers shouted slogans: “Israel is a terrorist state,” “Stop bombing Gaza!”, “We are all Palestinians,” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” One of the most popular slogans was “Truce now.”
The slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” refers to the territories between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Many Jewish organizations interpret it as a call for the seizure of Israeli territories and the destruction of the state of Israel itself. Others argue that this is simply a call to stop the oppression of Palestinians.
[IsraelTimes] A terrorist from Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s elite Nukhba Force who was caught by Israel during the October 7 massacre told Shin Bet interrogators that he had received orders to kill Israeli children, Haaretz reports.
"They’ll grow up and become soldiers" he explained, according to Haaretz.
He went on to justify the decapitation of Israeli victims, saying it was done to "to sow fear" among the Israeli public.
The terrorist said he didn’t regret anything he had done and said that in "terms of the brutality, there’s no difference" between the acts carried out by Hamas and those done by ISIS, Haaretz reports.
[IsraelTimes] Newly released footage taken from the GoPro camera of a Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... gunman shows how members of the terror group captured an Arab Israeli man while wearing IDF uniforms.
They are seen shooting into a roadside kaboom shelter where he is hiding and ordering him to come out. They then shout at him to tell them where the town of Re’im is while threatening to slit his throat. One of them beats him with his weapon and another kicks him in the head.
They then take off his shirt, zip-tie his hands behind his back and throw him in the back of a car.
The man pleads with the Death Eaters not to kill him, saying he is not a soldier. "I beg of you in the name of Allah," he says.
"You worked for the infidel Jews. Now you know Allah?!" one of the Death Eaters responds.
It is not clear what ended up happening to the Arab Israeli man.
[IsraelTimes] The Washington Post removed from its website a cartoon that highlighted Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s use of human shields after the caricature sparked pushback within the newsroom and from readers, including claims that the depiction of the Hamas figure was "racist," Fox News reports.
The cartoon was titled "Human shields" and depicted a Hamas spokesperson saying, "How dare Israel attack civilians," while a frightened woman and four small children are bound with rope to his body.
The cartoon made it into the print edition on Wednesday before it was wiped from the news site.
"Given the many deep concerns and conversations today in our newsroom, I wanted to ensure everyone saw the notes sent out tonight by The Post’s opinions editor, David Shipley, to Post readers and to his staff in opinions," Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee wrote in an email to staffers earlier this week, which has been leaked to Fox News.
"As editor of the opinion section, I am responsible for what appears in its pages and on its screens. The section depends on my judgment. A cartoon published by Michael Ramirez on the war in 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... , a cartoon whose publication I approved, was seen by many readers as racist. This was not my intent. I saw the drawing as a caricature of a specific individual, the Hamas spokesperson, who celebrated the attacks on unarmed civilians in Israel," Shipley writes.
"However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the reaction to the image convinced me that I had missed something profound, and 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... , and I regret that. Our section is aimed at finding commonalities, understanding the bonds that hold us together, even in the darkest times. In this spirit, we have taken down the drawing. We are also pushing a selection of responses to the caricature. And we will continue to make the section home to a range of views and perspectives, including ones that challenge readers. This is the spirit of opinion journalism, to move imperfectly toward a constructive exchange of ideas at all possible speed, listening and learning along the way," he adds.
This is the editorial cartoon which the Washington Post deleted.
The cartoon by Michael Ramirez, titled “Human Shields” depicted a Hamas leader using civilians as human shields.
[IsraelTimes] Pro-Paleostinian demonstrators occupy the lobby of The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , accusing the media of betraying a bias toward Israel in its coverage of the war and demanding an immediate ceasefire in 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... Hundreds of protesters led by a group of media workers calling themselves "Writers Bloc" gather outside the publication’s Manhattan headquarters, with many of them entering the building’s atrium for a sit-in and vigil that lasts more than an hour.
It isn’t immediately clear if anyone was arrested during the sit-in. An email sent to New York Times staffers obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named describes the protest as "peaceful."
The sit-in follows a series of actions at high-profile locations in New York, including the Statue of Liberty and Grand Central Terminal, intended to bring attention to the growing corpse count in Gaza.
The protest disbanded after three hours at 6pm. Asked why the anger towards the New York Times, protesters said the paper is betraying its “mainstream liberal readers” by “printing the propagandised narrative put out by the Israeli state”. https://t.co/PyA936pB4B
[GEO.TV] Leader of the House in the Senate Ishaq Dar on Friday said 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.... 's (PTI) 2018 deal on hard boyz with Kabul and the release of Death Eaters for the increase in terror attacks in Pakistain, The News reported Saturday.
Calling for an in-camera briefing on the surge in terrorism and related history, Dar asked if anyone would tell the nation why the policy was reversed in Kabul and hundreds of hardened hard boyz forcibly got freed.
The Pakistain Moslem League Nawaz (PML-N) leader recalled that the nation came to know about that understanding only after watching images of Pakistain’s responsible people visiting Kabul and holding negotiations there.
"The matter did not end there, as hundreds of hardened hard boyz were forced to be released under an understanding. What was that understanding? Would anyone tell the nation? A policy U-turn was taken on terrorism after the installation of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... government there," he said.
He regretted that they were engaged, and afterwards, hard boyz were released from Pak jails, following which there had been a continuous increase in the acts of terrorism across the country and today no one was safe.
Dar also referred to the recent Mianwali incident and called for a realistic approach, and that the nation should without wasting a minute deal with the extremely sensitive challenge, which, he claimed, the past PML-N government had effectively dealt with by starting Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... and then Operation Raddul Fassad.
There was a time when the international community believed that Pakistain might not be able to take on the terrorists, especially in the northern areas, and it was also said that even the military regime of General Musharraf could not take action against terrorists, he said.
But in September 2013, he noted, this decision was taken and the operation was launched against the menace of terrorism.
He explained the then PML-N government moved forward with a well-defined programme to fix the economy, and extremism and deal with the electricity crisis.
Senator Dar said that the caretaker government should give an in-camera briefing on terrorism without any further delay. He also sought data on how the acts of terror dramatically fell from 2013 onwards to 2014, 15, 16 17, and till 2018, and after that the policy was changed and they (terrorists) were engaged.
Earlier, Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Raza Rabbani spoke at length on the subject and pointed out that the increase in direct attacks on the personnel and installations of the armed forces followed the return of illegal Afghans from Pakistain.
Rabbani also wanted the then-political government of the PTI and the establishment to accept the responsibility of the deal on terrorists, the details of which are still unknown.
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They think there will be no consequences for this when they go back to negotiate their own Abraham Accords.
[IsraelTimes] Arab and Moslem leaders say they reject Israeli claims of "self-defense" in 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... and demand an immediate halt to military operations there against Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... after more than a month of war.
The final statement from a summit in the Saudi capital seen by AFP says participants "reject describing this war as self-defense or justifying it under any pretext."
The leaders demand that the UN Security Council adopt "a decisive and binding resolution" to halt Israel’s "aggression" in Gaza.
The final statement says "failure to do so is complicity that allows Israel to continue its brutal aggression that kills innocent people... and turns Gaza into ruin."
The leaders also reject any proposal that would keep Gaza separate from the West Bank in a future Paleostinian state. The statement stresses the importance of "the unity of Gaza and the West Bank as the territory of the Paleostinian State," with East Jerusalem as its capital.
[IsraelTimes] According to Channel 12 Arab affairs analyst Ehud Ya’ari, most of the states present at today’s Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Riyadh sought to include in the meeting’s closing statement five additional clauses that were rejected by Israel’s Arab peace partners and some others, including the demand to sever all ties with Israel.
The rejected demands were: to prevent the transfer of US military equipment to Israel from US bases in the region; to freeze all diplomatic and economic contacts with Israel; to threaten to use oil as a means of leverage; to bar flights to and from Israel through Arab states’ airspace; and to dispatch a joint delegation to the US, Europe, and Russia to push for a ceasefire.
The countries that rejected these demands were Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco, Mauritania, Djibouti, Jordan and Egypt, Ya’ari says.
[IsraelTimes] War cabinet minister Benny Gantz, the third Israeli political leader to address the nation tonight, starts by highlighting the skepticism he says was felt by some as regards the IDF’s ability to tackle Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , and says its performance thus far is "impressive by any measure."
He says the country is united behind the IDF. "The whole world should know that the entire Israeli society is united and strong... And our only interest is in victory and the good of Israel."
All necessary resources are directed to defeating Hamas and returning the hostages, he says.
Efforts on behalf of the hostages are taking place all the time, he says.
He tells leaders in the region: "There is no fight more moral than our battle for the right to live securely in our land. You need to act so that a different reality will be possible afterward, and so that Gazoo will not again be held by those whose hands are covered in the blood of the innocent.
"It is Hamas that brought ruin upon the residents of Gaza. It should be pressured and attacked, so that the hostages are returned and so that the day will come when the war will be over."
Referring to today’s Arab summit in Riyadh, he says Israel will not countenance preaching about morals from Syria’s Assad, "the slaughterer of his own people," or "the hangman from Iran" — a reference to Iran’s President Raisi. "Those who shook hands with the leader of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... remember what Iran has done," he says.
Regional leaders can help the Paleostinians with humanitarian needs, and need to remember "that the reality requires a changed regime in Gaza."
[HotAir] Serious times used to produce serious leaders. For the moment, however, we seem to be experiencing the opposite — leaders that current events not only outmatch but outright humiliate. Two years ago, Americans saw that happen in real time when Joe Biden abandoned thousands of Americans in Afghanistan to the Taliban by botching an already ill-advised withdrawal and betraying a government we built over the course of twenty years.
That thoroughly disgraceful episode has already produced echoes in the current Middle East crisis. Despite a strong start in supporting Israel after Hamas kicked off a full-scale war on October 7, the Biden administration has increasingly sought a way to betray another ally in wartime. The sotto voce attempts to yank a leash on Israel in its effort to destroy Hamas have become more overt in the last few days, and Antony Blinken provided even more blinking late yesterday:
The top U.S. diplomat shared his assessment amid signs of a potential rift with Israel over its continuation of the war.
"Much more needs to be done to protect civilians and to make sure that humanitarian assistance reaches them," Blinken told reporters in India, where he wrapped up a nine-day diplomatic tour of the Middle East and Asia on Friday.
"Far too many Palestinians have been killed, far too many have suffered these past weeks, and we want to do everything possible to prevent harm to them and to maximize the assistance that gets to them," Blinken continued.
This is a ludicrous position to take, especially given the efforts of the IDF to keep evacuating civilians while under fire from Hamas. It plays directly into the hands of Hamas too, by validating and incentivizing their human-shield strategies in Gaza, both with Palestinians and the hostages. Israel waited three weeks to launch a ground invasion of Gaza and warned all throughout that time for civilians to evacuate. Whether they balked of their own accord or because Hamas holds them hostage, their deaths on the battlefield are the responsibility of Hamas, not Israel, especially as the clear aggressor in the war.
It’s also based on absurd and completely ahistorical application of the doctrine of proportionality, which is also based on a deliberate obfuscation: "collective punishment." We hear a lot of complaints about "collective punishment" by Israel of the Gazans, but that is a lie. That would apply if Israel still occupied Gaza, but they haven’t occupied it since 2005. This is not "collective punishment," therefore — it is war, one started by the party recognized as the government of Gaza against Israel. Once started, the offended party has the right to see the war to a conclusion of victory either by feat of arms or the capitulation of its enemies in the field.
...In no other war other than those involving Israel did the world impose a standard of civilian-death "proportionality," because that standard would be absurd and does not exist. Did the US stop attacking the Taliban when the death toll in Afghanistan exceed the estimated 3,000 Americans who died on 9/11, for instance? Of course not, and no one called the war on Nazi Germany "collective punishment" on Germans either — and the Allies carpet-bombed Germany for years before ground troops utterly vanquished the Nazis. I repeat: 90% of Islamic belligerence is due to the fact that they expect "Transnational Left" to protect them from the consequences of their actions. In effect the alliance between Left & Islam is an alliance between two groups of clinically certifiable sociopaths against normal humans.
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I don't understand why this was not already allowed, they are humans beings.
Perhaps 'multinational' rather than transnational would be a more appropriate collective reference.
[IsraelTimes] During a recent war cabinet meeting, Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar implored the small group of senior ministers present to ensure that the government transfers the tax revenues that belong to the Paleostinian Authority to Ramallah, explaining that the PA’s collapse could lead to a violent mostly peaceful intifada breaking out in the West Bank, the Maariv news site reports.
Bar stressed the importance of working to stabilize the West Bank and combating settler violence so that the IDF doesn’t have to suddenly contend with an eastern front while it is fighting Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... in 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... , Maariv says.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would bring the matter before the full cabinet. At which point he was interrupted by Bar who explained that the full cabinet is not the solution, but part of the problem as there are ministers in the government that are trying to ignite the area, Maariv says, ostensibly referring to Finace Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and other ministers from their far-right parties who have opposed steps to stabilize the PA.
Ultimately, the cabinet voted to transfer some of the tax revenues to the PA but deducted roughly NIS 100 million ($26 million) in funds that Ramallah uses to pay for services in the Gaza Strip — a cut that was still opposed by the security establishment and infuriated the Biden administration, according to a US official.
Whether truth or taqqiya, they’ve figured out something important.
[IsraelTimes] A new Israel Democracy Institute survey finds a 20-year high of both Jewish (94%) and Arab (70%) Israelis who say they feel a part of the State of Israel and its problems.
The figure for Arab Israelis has increased by 22% from the last survey published in June 2023.
Asked whether they’re optimistic about the future of the country though, just 27% of Arab Israelis — compared to 72% of Jewish Israelis — responded that they are, the lowest figure recorded since the survey first began measuring optimism in 2009.
Asked, "If you could receive American citizenship or citizenship of another Western country, would you prefer to move there to live or would you prefer to remain in Israel?" a majority of Jewish Israelis (80.5%) and a slight majority of and Arab Israelis (59%) respond that they’d prefer to stay in Israel. 59-41 is a slight majority?
Those majorities held across all political orientations, including left (66%), center (80%) and right (84%).
The survey was conducted online and over the phone on November 5 and 6, with 502 people participating. The margin of error is 4.04%.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas officers attacked at water and bread lines; locals seethe over continued rocket fire and begin to turn on one another as supermarket shelves stand empty and many taps run dry.
Hiring list for the Conservative news enterprises as the Mainstream Media continues shedding staff as the circle the drain.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A total of 750 international journalists have signed an open letter criticising the media coverage of the Zionist-American aggression against 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... and the killing of journalists while covering Gaza-related crimes.
Journalists from Rooters, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and the Washington Post criticised newsrooms for inhumane rhetoric justifying the ethnic cleansing of Paleostinians.
Over 750 American journalists signed an open letter condemning the killing of journalists in Gaza and criticizing Western media coverage of the war, as reported by The Washington Post.
The newspaper pointed out that signing the letter was, for some journalists, a bold and even dangerous step, adding that journalists in media organizations have already been expelled and fired because they adopted public political positions that might expose them to accusations of bias.
The letter’s authors said it was "a call to recommit to justice and not abandon it."
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A total of 750 international journalists have signed an open letter criticising the media coverage of the Zionist-American aggression against Gazoo...
A search turns up nothing on this claim.
[AFRICANEWS] The human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group Amnesia Amnesty International has accused Western governments that support Israel's invasion 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... of double standards.
The group's Secretary General said that Western countries rightly support Ukraine because it's been invaded by Russia but don't support Gaza when it's been invaded by Israel.
"It is reflected right now in the double standard that we are witnessing: the Western bloc demanding that we all rush to the defence of Ukraine as we should, because Ukraine has been aggressed by Russia and they are unbelievably suffering in Ukraine; and at the same time telling us not to act on the multiple bombing and absolute suffering of the people of Gaza. The double standard of those governments, you know, to me are the bigger threat to human rights right now," Agnès Callamard said on Friday.
The Gay Paree Peace Forum, an annual event involving governments, nongovernmental groups and others seeking dialogue around global problems such as climate change, children’s exposure to online violence, and threats to human rights.
Amnesty has been calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, as have many countries around the world.
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I'm so old I remember when Amnesty International was a human rights organization.
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There are no double standards. Hamas refuses to adhere to the standards of civilized warfare. That means their enemy does not have to adhere to it as well.
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[Regnum] Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, at a joint summit of the League of Arab States (LAS) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on November 11, called on Islamic countries to impose sanctions against Israel.
If he has to call on them, they aren’t doing it on their own. Although really, given that most of them have no direct dealings with the Zionist entity, what kind of sanctions could there be? Are they going to give up computers and the internet?
The Iranian leader also called for the immediate lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip and the opening of passage through the Rafah checkpoint without any restrictions.
The Iranian president demanded that Israel immediately withdraw troops from the Gaza Strip and called for all means to be used to force the United States and Israel to stop hostilities.
As Regnum reported , Raisi previously called on Muslim countries to arm the Palestinians.
On November 11, the Iranian President arrived in Saudi Arabia on his first visit since the restoration of relations between these countries.
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[NAHARNET] Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... hosted Wednesday evening a secret meeting of the leaders of the pro-Tehran factions in 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... , Iraq, Syria, Paleostine and 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... , during which he stressed the need to close ranks and defended the strategy avoiding engagement in an all-out war, which has been "clearly endorsed" by Tehran and Hezbollah in dealing with 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, a source in Khamenei’s office said.
Shhhhh.... Don’t breathe a word to anyone — it’s a SECRET!!
The source told Kuwait’s al-Jarida newspaper that Hezbollah was represented in the meeting by the head of its executive council, Sayyed Hashem Saffieddine.
"Khamenei stressed in the meeting with the leaders of the factions that the strategy is based on focusing on Gaza -- where Israel was dealt a major blow on October 7 -- and avoiding being dragged into any side battles that would deviate attention from what’s happening in the Paleostinian strip," the source said.
"Despite the cost and losses that are being incurred by the Paleostinian people, the current international circumstances are in their favor and in favor of the Paleostinian cause, after Israel lost its credibility and the international community is no longer fully on its side," the source quoted Khamenei as saying.
"Khamenei also defended the speech of Hezbollah’s secretary-general, which did not contain any declaration that the southern front against Israel will be escalated," the source added.
The supreme leader told those who criticized Nasrallah’s remarks that the speech "was coordinated with Quds Brigade chief Esmail Qaani and the relevant officials in the resistance front" and that "the main message was highlighting support for the front in Gaza without opening any other fronts that would deviate attention and waste the Paleostinian achievements."
Hezbollah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... calls to drag out the war between Israel and Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... for as long as possible.
"Pressure needs to be expanded," he says. "Time is necessary for the movements of the ’resistance.'"
He says the Israeli economy has suffered "tens of billions of dollars of losses" since the October 7 Hamas onslaught "in spite of the 14 billion of dollars of military aid provided by the US," referring to American military assistance for Israel that has yet to be approved.
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...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
[Task and Purpose] An American military aircraft “went down” in the eastern Mediterranean Friday night, U.S. European Command announced Saturday afternoon.
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
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...always the voice of sweet reason...
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A total of 750 international journalists have signed an open letter criticising the media coverage of the Zionist-American aggression against 
...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...
The source told Kuwait’s al-Jarida newspaper that Hezbollah was represented in the meeting by the head of its executive council, 
