[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssef praised the attacks carried out by Yemeni forces in the Red Sea and considered them “a victory for Palestine.”
Mahmoud Ali Youssef made the statement during his participation in a forum, stating that his country refused to criticise the attacks launched by Yemen, “since Djibouti is an Arab and Muslim people, and the attacks are to support the Palestinians.”
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Ali Baraka, Head of the National Relations Department of Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , affirmed that the 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... i leadership stands with Paleostine through action, not mere rhetoric.
In an interview with al-Masirah channel on Wednesday evening, Baraka explained that Yemen has taken action, not only at sea but also by launching rockets and striking southern occupied Paleostine.
He considered Yemen’s actions to surpass all expectations, emphasizing that it is a genuinely faith-driven stance, not merely a political one, hence, there’s no fear for the Yemeni position.
He predicted that Yemen would continue to exert pressure on the Israeli entity, expressing the Paleostinian belief that if Yemen were at the borders of Paleostine, the situation would be different.
Baraka noted that Yemen has completely paralyzed Israeli navigation and threatened US forces, putting their presence at risk. He highlighted the US-formed coalition’s fragmentation, with several countries either withdrawing or participating symbolically to avoid entanglement with Yemen.
Baraka emphasized that Yemen’s stance has unsettled the enemy front, eased 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... ’s situation, and sent a message of solidarity, a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... one, to their people, who are greatly impacted by Yemen’s actions.
Commenting on President Biden’s threat to Gaza and the subsequent aircraft carrier sent towards Yemen, Baraka suggested that this holds significant meaning regarding Yemen’s role in the conflict.
Expressing regret for the actions of some regionally aligned countries, he stated: "While Yemen announces its operations to lift the siege on Gaza, we see some regional countries moving to lift the blockade on the entity."
[An Nahar] Australia is investigating Hezbollah's claim that Ali Bazzi, who was killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Tuesday in Bint Jbeil, was one of its fighters.
Australia's acting foreign minister Mark Dreyfus said that Ali Bazzi and his brother Ibrahim Bazzi are both Australian citizens.
Ibrahim Bazzi had arrived 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... recently from Sydney to accompany his Lebanese wife Shorouq Hammoud to Australia, news media reported. Hammoud, who had recently received an Australian visa, was also killed in the attack.
Their three coffins were draped in the flag of Hezbollah.
"Hezbollah is a listed terrorist organization under Australian law. It's an offense for any Australian to cooperate with, to support, let alone to fight with a listed terrorist organization like Hezbollah," Dreyfus told news hounds.
Dreyfus said his government had communicated with Israel about the airstrike but declined to disclose what was said.
"In the context of the current conflict, Australia has consistently called for civilian lives to be protected and we have consistently raised our concerns about the risk of this conflict spreading," Dreyfus said.
Dreyfus repeated a government warning for Australians not to travel to Lebanon. Australians already in the country should leave while commercial air services are still available.
The Australian embassy in Beirut was ready to provide consular assistance to the Bazzi family if required, he said.
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[REGNUM] For Sweden, 2023 was marked by three processes running side by side: socio-economic crisis, criminalization and Islamization. The latter has a strong influence on society, significantly shaping the new image of the country. The process of “rewiring” the Swedish state is being carried out gradually, but its results may soon become noticeable.
The country's authorities are not yet able to effectively counteract Islamization. Right-wing politicians are sounding the alarm louder, but their proposed methods of treatment, such as public burning of the Koran, are unlikely to have any real effect.
A noticeable change in the internal way of life of ordinary Swedes has become one of the most noticeable results of the past year. The country's large Muslim community, constantly receiving nourishment from more and more arriving migrants, is now laying claim to changing the age-old cultural and mental landscape of Sweden. In particular, this was reflected in the gradual implementation of a project to build a mosque in every major Swedish town.
At the beginning of 2023, at least 34.62% of Swedish residents were of foreign origin. Although, of course, not all of them came from third world countries: for example, a significant part of the migrants at one time arrived from neighboring Finland. Of people aged 35 to 44, it is about 44.12%; of those aged 25 to 34 years old - 41.19%, and of children aged 5 to 9 years old - 40.37%.
Immigrants account for the largest share of the population in large cities such as Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg.
However, the structure of emigration has changed over the years, and data for 2022 helps to understand what it looks like now: 9,869 ethnic Swedes who returned to their homeland from emigration, India - 8,009 people (an increase of 33.1% compared to 2021), Poland - 4677 (an increase of 47%), Germany - 4533 (an increase of 29.5%), Syria - 3900 (an increase of 10.2%), Pakistan - 3398 (an increase of 4.9%), Iran - 2979 ( an increase of 21.9%), Afghanistan - 2732 (an increase of 35.1%), Turkey - 2595 (an increase of 24.9%), Romania - 2281 (an increase of 46%).
There are no official statistics on the number of Swedish Muslims, but there is no doubt that there are many. And recently news appeared in the Swedish media space: the first 100 million crowns have been collected as part of the Vi Mår Bra (“We are doing well”) project, which started at the beginning of this year. The goal of this project is to build a new mosque in Sweden every month. Ideally, the authors of the initiative want at least one mosque to be present in every Swedish city.
At the moment, Swedish Muslims have chipped in to build 12 temples. Moreover, money for a mosque in the city of Vimmerby (the small homeland of the famous Astrid Lindgren ) was collected in just a few days. Judging by public data, the authors of the Vi Mår Bra project belong to the Salafis, one of the most conservative denominations in Islam.
The Swedish right-wing press reporting on Vi Mår Bra wonders what the Islamization of the country will lead to. In particular, she is interested in what kind of sermons will be read in these mosques, what kind of attitude will be broadcast there towards Swedish women, what children will be taught in Salafi schools, what attitude will be instilled towards the Swedish and Western way of life, and so on.
The leader of the far-right political party Sweden Democrats (the second most popular in the state), Yimmi Åkesson, recently made a sharp statement: “Eventually we must start taking over and demolishing mosque buildings where anti-democratic, anti-Swedish, homophobic or anti-Semitic propaganda and disinformation about Swedish society. Mosques are centers of radicalization."
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson responded with pathos : “In Sweden we constitutionally protect religious freedom—that is, people can freely practice their religion. This applies equally to everyone - Christians, Muslims, Jews and other believers."
However, statistics show that since 2000, 133 Christian church buildings have been sold, repurposed or destroyed in the country. Moreover, only 25 new Christian churches were built during the same period. The Swedish Lutherans themselves, which is typical, take this quite calmly.
“It is quite natural that sometimes you come to the conclusion that a building is no longer useful , ” says Markus Dahlberg , head of the cultural heritage department of the Church of Sweden. That is, while Christianity is gradually reducing the signs of its presence in the country, Islam is actively spreading them.
SHOW OF FORCE
According to statistics, the birth rate in Sweden is falling. From January to September this year, almost 77,300 children were born in the state. Since 1970, the total fertility rate has never been this low, says Vitor Miranda , demographer at Statistics Sweden. According to experts, such low figures are explained by the poor economic situation in the country and the recession in the labor market. But there is a danger that the places that are gradually being vacated by the dying Swedes will be occupied by representatives of more and more new migration waves.
The Swedish economy, which is now in a deplorable situation, is no longer able to offer newcomers a sufficient number of jobs. Many migrants are on benefits, which, as you might guess, does not satisfy everyone. As a result, the most active and passionate people join the ranks of lawbreakers. Nowadays, most of modern Swedish crime is “immigrant”, ethnic.
Recently, the Swedish police prepared for the Ministry of Justice a list of the most dangerous zones for living in the country; it included 59 ethnic ghettos in different cities. Their total population is about 550 thousand people. According to statistics, violent deaths occur there eight times more often than in other parts of the country.
The Financial Times notes that the rise in violent crime in Sweden is directly linked to the fact that over the past three decades the state has accepted more asylum seekers fleeing conflicts from the Balkans to the Middle East than most other EU countries. “All Swedish politicians admit that the country has failed to properly integrate many of its new citizens,” states the Financial Times.
People blame the government for failing to curb ethnic crime. Some ordinary Swedes are already ready to carry out lynching of criminals. Thus, last fall, the trial of Swedish teenagers who staged the execution of a rapist taxi driver began. But the forces are clearly unequal - on the side of the migrants there are many more passionaries who seek to demonstrate their strength to the indigenous population.
Recently, convoys of cars full of migrants from Muslim countries have repeatedly driven through the streets of Swedish cities. They vociferously expressed their support for Hamas in its fight against Israel. At the end of November, the Israeli government officially warned Stockholm that a regional branch of Hamas was operating on Swedish soil.
The Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Social Equality, Amichai Schikli, informed the head of the Swedish Ministry of Justice, Gunnar Strömmer , and the name of the head of this branch, which was not included in the press - by the way, he has Swedish citizenship.
However, it was not only Jews who began to worry about their safety in Sweden...
NEWCOMERS ARE PREPARING TO BECOME “POWER”
Yimmi Åkesson proposes deporting particularly violent Hamas supporters. “These persons should be deprived of the right to reside in Sweden ,” he advises. This proposal was sharply criticized by many politicians and other influential people in Sweden, because it completely contradicts the prevailing liberal ideas in the country.
However, a recent public opinion poll shows that the majority of Swedes - 60.5% - support Åkesson's proposal. Another thing is that there are serious doubts that the Swedish state will ever have enough determination to take tough measures.
After all, the same state for almost this entire year allowed the visiting extremist Salvan Momika to commit outrages , publicly burning more than one copy of the Koran and thereby fatally quarreling Sweden with the Muslim world.
Eventually his residence permit was taken away. But, what is significant, not for his actions, but because Momika was convicted of providing false information about himself. They also did not deport him, since the Swedish migration service considered that Momika would face “torture and inhumane treatment” in her native Iraq.
But if the state as a whole cannot yet do anything about the process of Islamization, some of its authorities are trying to hold positions in certain “sectors of the front.” Thus, in December, the Swedish labor court put an end to the question of whether Muslim women in this country are allowed to wear a hijab at work.
The case has been pending since 2020. One resident of Sweden, who worked as a security guard in the metro, complained to the judiciary against her employer, the security company Rapid Säkerhet, who forbade her to hide her face while on duty. According to the company's CEO Mats Adman , the company has an internal policy prohibiting the display of religious symbols for security reasons.
According to Adman, the hijab can cause aggression towards its wearer, and they do not want to create additional conflicts in the workplace. The Muslim woman did not agree with this ban. The “victim” contacted the NGO Civil Rights Defenders, where they helped her file a claim against her employer.
The case was first heard in the district court, which ruled in favor of Rapid Säkerhet. But the Muslim woman did not calm down and brought her case to a higher authority - the Labor Court. There, however, they fully supported the lower court's ruling. But the Muslim security guard and her assistants do not want to admit defeat. Now they are considering the possibility of bringing their claims to the European Court of Human Rights and other international organizations.
Another news is that the Swedish authorities have decided to close one of the two specialized Muslim schools that remained on Swedish territory. This educational institution was caught promoting extremist ideas, but the school management, naturally, does not agree with the decision to close and is trying to protest it.
Cases of closure of Muslim schools in Sweden have occurred before. That is, the authorities are still trying to counteract Islamization. But a critical mass of Muslims is gradually gaining. And perhaps the time is not far off when they will try to openly tell the Swedes: we are the power here.
[GEO.TV] Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar announced Thursday that all celebrations related to the New Year are banned across the country as the South Asian nation stands in solidarity with Palestinians who have been facing the worst Israeli brutality since October 7. Not celebrating New Year's will make things all better for Paleostinians.
Pakistan has time and again raised its voice for the oppressed Palestinians at international forums and condemned Israel's genocide, that's cost thousands of lives. The first thousand were Israelis...
In a televised address, Kakar said: “Pakistani nation is in a sad state [...] so keeping in mind the situation, the Government of Pakistan has decided to ban all celebrations related to New Year’s.”
“I appeal to all Pakistanis: show solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians and observe simplicity with the dawn of the new year,” Kakar said, noting that the war was catastrophic.
Israel, determined to destroy Hamas, has launched a relentless air and ground offensive that has left vast areas of Gaza in ruins and killed at least 21,320 people, mostly women and children.
[NAHARNET] Israel’s foreign minister has said Hezbollah leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... could be Israel’s next target.
Eli Cohen spoke a day after a Hezbollah strike maimed 11 people in northern Israel. The Iranian-backed group has fired missiles and rockets into Israel throughout the two-and-a-half month war between Israel and Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... . Israel has responded dozens of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and artillery barrages.
The daily battles have forced tens of thousands of Israelis to evacuate their homes from border communities and raised fears that they could escalate into a region-wide war.
Touring Israel’s border with foreign ambassadors. Cohen said Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, "must understand that he’s next."
"If he doesn't want to be next in line, he should immediately implement the U.N. Security Council's resolution (1701) and keep Hezbollah away from the north of Litani," Cohen said.
"We will work to exhaust the political option, and if it does not work, all options are on the table in order to ensure the security of the State of Israel and return the residents of the north to their homes," he added.
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Can anyone in government keep their farking mouths shut? There's no reason to telegraph potential strikes against the enemy.
[NAHARNET] A group calling itself Lobby 1701, comprised of Israelis evacuated from their settlements near Israel’s northern 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... , have told U.S. officials in a letter that American support in a move against Hezbollah is crucial for their safe return.
The organization, representing 60,000 residents of northern Israel who were evacuated from their homes, issued a letter to U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... and the head of the U.S. National Security Council, demanding that Israel be allowed to ensure the return of the displaced residents to their homes, either through diplomatic means or via a military operation.
"We speak in the name of the 60,000 residents of northern Israel who were evacuated from their homes and have been turned into refugees in our own land," the letter sent on Monday said.
"We call on President Biden to give his full support to the government of Israel to act with the necessary force and means to promise our safety and security," it added.
Their appeal comes amid reports that the U.S. government is preventing an Israeli military move on the northern border.
Efforts are meanwhile underway in the U.S. to find a diplomatic solution to the border issue.
In their letter to senior government and security officials in Washington, the Israeli citizens noted: "We all witnessed the horrific massacre committed on October 7th by Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... Death Eaters against innocent civilians in the south of Israel. Since October 7th Hezbollah has put an end to our daily lives here in northern Israel. Because of their daily missiles and UAV attacks that target our homes and communities, and the threat of many more, we were unwillingly forced to evacuate."
"For 17 years we have had to bear witness to how ineffective by UNSCR 1701 is in the face of reality. Hezbollah never acted in accordance with the resolution and openly established military positions on the border -- feet away from our homes. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... UNIFIL has been providing a false sense of security, while allowing Hezbollah to rearm, prepare and plan its invasion into Israel. This has proven especially true over the past three years," the letter added.
Lobby 1701 believes that there is no realistic chance of dealing with Hezbollah’s threat through diplomatic means.
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Not sure that we “let” Israel do anything. Hezbollah was founded to destroy Israel. They have taken a position on the border of Israel. They are going to get whacked.
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[Ynet] The phone of Michal Mor, founder and CEO of Smart Shooter, who is sitting in front of me, does not stop receiving congratulatory messages, even from abroad. The reason: on the day we met, it was announced that Israeli forces in Gaza managed to eliminate a swarm of seven attack drones using the SMASH smart fire control system, developed by the company.
And this was not the first time. SMASH proved to be particularly effective against drones in the war in the Gaza Strip, and against Hamas terrorists in face-to-face combat. The system, which has already been purchased by the IDF and other armies around the world, is now being used for the first time in wartime - and with great success. Professional military websites - including the IDF's official website — describe it as groundbreaking.
Mor previously worked as a team leader for R&D groups in the missile division of Israel’s arms manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. Then, following her husband's military reserve service in the Second Lebanon War, she came up with the idea that changed her life and sent her on a new path.
"In 2006, I was nine months pregnant, my husband who served in the Golani Infantry Brigade, got a call-up order and entered Lebanon equipped with a standard low-tech weapon. When I looked at the rifle, at the steel, I realized that I had the ability to dramatically improve the sight," she says. If you were looking for an explanation to why Israel produces so many effective military inovations, it's because every Israeli working in military industry has friends & relatives who'll be using these products.
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"If the barrel is not aimed exactly at the target, the trigger will not be pulled and the fighter, who follows the target through a screen, will encounter a small block."
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I can see some applications, but there seems to be a lot of points of potential failure. Batteries are always a concern, but there are others as well.
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...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...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...
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
