[X] "I support Hamas, you f**king Jew," screamed a NYC high school basketball player during her girls varsity game against a Jewish high school team.
This statement followed an aggressive game that was described by a player from the Jewish school as having "substantially more jabs and comments thrown" than usual.
The other team members from the public school began screaming "free Palestine" at the Jewish girls, as well as "antisemitic slurs and curses."
By the end of the 3rd quarter, the Jewish players were getting injured by the rough plays.
Yonkers canned a high school girls basketball coach and booted a player off the team after an ugly antisemitic incident at a recent game against a Jewish high school, city officials said Sunday.
The Thursday night game between the Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, ended early after some kids from Roosevelt shot antisemitic slurs at their opponents — including one who allegedly said, “I support Hamas, you f–king Jew.”
Security guards had to escort Leffell School players off the court following the hostile contest.
On Sunday, Yonkers Public Schools Interim Superintendent Dr. Luis Rodriguez and city Mayor Mike Spano issued a joint statement denouncing the hatred and apologizing for the vitriol the visiting team faced.
“The Yonkers Public Schools, along with the City of Yonkers, sincerely apologize to the students and community of The Leffell School for the painful and offensive comments made to their women’s basketball team during a recent game with Roosevelt High School,” the statement said.
“Collectively, we do not and will not tolerate hate speech of any kind from our students and community,” the statement continued.
“The antisemitic rhetoric reportedly made against the student athletes of The Leffell School are abhorrent, inappropriate and not in line with the values we set forth for our young people.”
The game went off the rails almost immediately, with “substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past,” senior player Robin Bosworth wrote in an op-ed for the Lion’s Roar, Leffell’s student-run newspaper.
The Yonkers kids played rough, and throughout the contest they yelled “Free Palestine” or other anti-Jewish statements, Bosworth wrote.
“I have played a sport every athletic season throughout my high school career, and I have never experienced this kind of hatred directed at one of my teams before,” Bosworth said.
An hour into the game, the Leffell players walked off during a timeout as the coaches conferred with each other, then the referees.
Meanwhile, the Roosevelt players kept having words with the Leffell players — until security stepped in, and the refs ended the game.
Roosevelt agreed to a voluntary forfeit, a school spokesperson said.
The next day, Roosevelt’s athletic director and principal apologized to Michael Kay, Leffell’s head of school.
The school’s administration investigated the incident, and “after a thorough review of videos taken at the game and interviews with those who witnessed the incident, the Yonkers Public Schools dismissed the coach and one player from the Roosevelt basketball team,” the joint statement said.
Neither the coach nor the player was identified in the statement.
The district will also give further counseling and guided training sessions to the school community so such a thing doesn’t happen again, Spano and Rodriguez wrote.
Just before their announcement, Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said he wanted the state Board of Regents to investigate as well, according to Patch.
“No one should be subject to abuse and hate on the grounds of any school district in New York State because of their religion,” Feiner wrote in his letter to the state.
“As history has taught us, silence from good people, particularly silence from leaders, can lead to horrendous consequences.”
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese Communist Party (SCP) has publicly criticized the Addis Ababa Declaration, arguing that it endorsed political partnership and failed to address the pressing issues of halting the war and providing humanitarian aid to affected civilians.
On January 2, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Coordination of Civilian Democratic Forces (CCDF) signed the "Addis Ababa Declaration" outlining a path towards ending the current conflict. Also, it touched the political process to reshape the political system in Sudan.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the SCP argues that the agreement strays from its intended purpose, delving into broader discussions on the form of government and the reconstruction of the Sudanese state while neglecting the urgent humanitarian crisis and the escalating conflict.
The SCP’s Political Bureau, in a statement released on Saturday, vehemently condemned the Addis Ababa Declaration, stating that it "departs from its expected tasks of urgently stopping the war and delivering humanitarian aid to affected civilians to a political agreement with the Rapid Support Forces, which is complicit in war crimes and violations alongside the other party to the conflict."
The SCP’s concerns stem from the perceived perpetuation of the RSF’s presence and influence, which the party believes could exacerbate instability and further prolong the conflict. The SCP emphasizes that the civilian bloc lacks the authority to supersede the Constitutional Conference in determining the form of government and must prioritize the cessation of hostilities.
The SCP also criticizes the declaration’s handling of transitional justice, expressing fears that the emphasis on "transitional justice" could provide a loophole for perpetrators of war crimes, the dispersal of the sit-in protest, and other atrocities against humanity to evade accountability.
The left party expressed disapproval of the agreement’s willingness to work with existing institutions until a unified professional national army is established. This, the SCP argued, amounted to overlooking the crimes and violations committed by these institutions and perpetuating the partnership with the RSF and the military.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] A prominent leader in the Coordination of Civilian Democratic Forces (Tagadum) has reiterated the need for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to withdraw from civilians’ homes, emphasizing the importance of establishing specific arrangements to safeguard civilian protection.
Since the escalation of the ongoing conflict, the RSF has occupied thousands of homes in the capital, Khartoum, for diverse purposes, including weapon storage, missile launching platforms, makeshift hospitals, and detention centres.
The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army has mandated the withdrawal of RSF fighters as a precondition to any ceasefire agreement, stating that they should be assembled in cantonment sites outside urban areas.
Reacting to the absence of explicit provisions pertaining to the RSF’s withdrawal from homes within the Addis Ababa Declaration, Arman asserted, "The RSF’s intrusion into people’s homes is deplorable and unacceptable. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... this issue should not be isolated and should not be exploited for political propaganda."
The withdrawal must be integrated within a comprehensive framework of measures to halt the war, including forces separating the warring parties and putting an end to aerial bombardments of these homes.
"We must complete the cessation of hostilities between Burhan and Hemetti and promote peace and respect to proceed towards ending this war and alleviating the people’s suffering," he added in statements to al-Jazeera TV.
Yasir Arman called upon the Sudanese belligerents to set aside animosity and refrain from engaging in propaganda that could exacerbate tensions between the two sides.
On January 2, the pro-democracy civil forces signed the Addis Ababa Declaration with the Commander of the Rapid Support Forces. The declaration reflected the RSF’s readiness to participate in immediate and unconditional cease-fire negotiations with the armed forces, with a commitment to reaching a binding ceasefire agreement under national and international oversight.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, rejected the Addis Ababa Declaration, deeming it unacceptable. Despite this rejection, al-Burhan expressed his openness to dialogue with political forces and invited them to convene in Port Sudan, the administrative capital.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo "Hemetti", the head of the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese paramilitary group Rapid Support Force (RSF), has reaffirmed his commitment to facilitate the safe return of Abyei natives and South Sudanese nationals who have fled the conflict in Sudan.
The pledge was made during a meeting with Abyei leaders Francis Mading Deng and Luka Biong Deng in Nairobi, Kenya on January 3, 2024. The meeting, which lasted for an hour, was characterized as amicable, open, and forward-looking by Francis Kuol, a former Sudan cabinet affairs minister.
The primary purpose of the meeting was to follow up on previous discussions held in Khartoum regarding the final status of Abyei and the repatriation of Abyei citizens who had sought refuge in Sudan prior to the Sudanese crisis. Francis Deng, who has also engaged in similar discussions with General Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, in New York, USA during his participation to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... General Assembly in September 2022, added that he had also held similar dialogues with General Malik Agar, the Deputy Chairman of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, during his visits to Juba.
The Abyei leaders expressed their appreciation to Daglo for his endeavours to bring an end to the brutal civil war in Sudan and his historic diplomatic initiatives to neighbouring African countries in pursuit of peace.
The meeting touched upon three critical issues: peace in Sudan, the potential role of South Sudan under the leadership of President Salva Kiir in facilitating Sudanese peace, and the repatriation of Abyei natives displaced and stranded in RSF-controlled areas.
Deng highlighted the pivotal role that South Sudan, under the leadership of President Salva Kiir Mayardit, could play in mediating Sudanese peace. He emphasized the urgent need to establish secure conditions to enable the return of Abyei citizens displaced by the conflict in Sudan and the crucial role of the RSF in securing transit routes for the return of South Sudanese citizens.
The authorization of the meeting by President Salva Kiir and members of his administration remains unclear. The South Sudanese ambassador in Kenya declined to comment when asked if he had been informed of the arrangement.
Hemetti, heads the paramilitary Rapid Support Force, which has been engaged in a war against the Sudan Armed Forces under the command of its chief and Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, since April 2023.
The RSF has been out of the public eye for several months. He utilized this period to embark on diplomatic missions to neighbouring countries and participate in global events and functions.
In late December 2023, the head of the Sudanese paramilitary group made his first wartime diplomatic trip to Uganda, where he met with President Yoweri Museveni ...President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote... . He also met with leaders from Uganda, Æthiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, South Africa, and Rwanda.
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Abyei, home to south Sudanese Ngok Dinka, has been disputed territory. The RSF not only controls South Darfur, it now seems to have ejected the Misseriya Arabs from bordering Abyei. Elsewhere it has penetrated south along the Blue Nile into the Sudan Arab homeland. It has pushed the Arab force south of Omdurman. In other words, Sudan is falling apart. Someone or some nation will try to save the Humpty-Dumpty; pray to God it is not the USA.
[AFRICANEWS] On Saturday (Jan. 06), Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed a law nullifying the memorandum of understanding signed between the Government of Æthiopia & Somaliland ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells.... The symbolic move comes as Æthiopia and a breakaway Somali region announced a deal on January 1st.
As part of the deal, Somaliland plans to lease a 20-km stretch of land along its coastline to Æthiopia to establish a naval base, Æthiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed said at the signing.
Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi said the agreement included a statement that Æthiopia would soon recognize the territory as an independent country.
That is where the bone of contention lies. Somaliland has always contested the legally binding character of the state of union which was to form a unified country after Somalia and Somaliland respectively gained independence from Italia and Britannia.
Somalia has described the move as an act of "aggression" and recalled its ambassador from Æthiopia.
The AU chairperson urged Æthiopia and Soamlia to engage without delay in a negotiation process to settle their differences
Æthiopia lost its access to the sea when 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... seceded in 1993. Æthiopia has been using the port in neighboring Djibouti for most of its imports and exports.
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The Ethiopia-Somaliland agreement makes great common sense. It creates a buffer between the former British and Italian colonies, and allows Somaliland to effectively split from Somalia. But whenever has common sense ever been employed in the Horn?
[Breitbart] The coalition stood up by the Biden administration to deter missile and drone attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea is “entirely defensive,” the region’s top naval commander said during a briefing Thursday, amid calls from critics and lawmakers to take a tougher stance.
“Let me just say right out front and out of the chute, this operation is entirely defensive in nature,” said U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Commander Vice Admiral Brad Cooper during a Pentagon briefing.
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'Entirely Defensive' is very nice, and I'm sure makes some idiot in DC feel very nice. It doesn't matter. They're going to keep throwing things at us until they get dead Americans.
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Gah damn, I'm so sick of pandering to the ball less shitheads in the world. Just fuck em up and don't give any excuses. Just do it and shut the fuck up.
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IMO its time to go on offense. Iran is the enemy. occupy Chah Bahar and attack from there.
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[KavkazUzel] The Daimohk Foundation has donated aid for refugees from Palestine, collected by residents of Chechnya, the head of the Ministry of Nationalities of Chechnya announced today. The foundation reported collecting 5.9 million rubles to help refugees.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, 206 refugees from Palestine arrived in Chechnya. In honor of the New Year, theatrical skits and a circus show were organized for them in Grozny, and New Year's gifts were also distributed to them.
Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Nationalities of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, at a meeting with refugees, said that they should maintain cleanliness and be more organized, and they should not rush the Chechen authorities to solve their problems.
Oooooh SLAM!!!
Dudayev’s reproaches to the guests contradict the Chechen traditions of hospitality, Caucasus experts and human rights activists noted.
Palestinian refugees were given humanitarian aid from the residents of Chechnya, the head of the Ministry of Nationalities of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, said today. The collection for internally displaced persons was announced by the Daimohk charitable foundation in December 2023. Once again, food, clothing, children's toys, and stationery were delivered to the refugees. In total, we managed to collect and donate 2,713 items of clothing, 1,188 children's supplies and various types of food to refugees. Fundraising is also underway,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
He noted that all the “essentials for refugees” are provided by the Kadyrov Foundation and the director of the department of preschool education of the Grozny mayor’s office, Khadizhat Kadyrova. “However, residents of the region also want to take part in helping our brothers and sisters from the Gaza Strip,” Dudayev wrote.
As follows from the video attached to the publication, the aid was brought in three cars, it was packed in boxes with the name of the fund.
On January 1, the Daimohk Foundation reported in its Telegram channel that 5.9 million rubles had been collected for refugees from Palestine. Among the things that are collected for refugees are new clothes (preferably warm), products with a shelf life of more than six months, personal hygiene products, including diapers, as well as new toys and art supplies - plasticine, pencils, felt-tip pens.
Muslims in the North Caucasus reacted sharply to the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that began in October. You can read about who and how in the North Caucasian Federal District expressed support for Palestine in the “Caucasian Knot” document “ Actions in support of Palestine in the North Caucasus.”
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To be fair, the Russians were not invited guests, but a traditional income stream who should have been grateful not to be sold into even more traditional slavery.
/Chechen apologist.
And these Palestinian cousins may yet find themselves contributing to the national income in slave markets somewhere. Who, after all, will protect such as them?
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[Regnum] Saudi Arabia, against the backdrop of declining market demand, has decided to reduce oil prices for buyers in all regions, including Asia, Bloomberg writes on January 7.
The state-owned company Saudi Aramco has reduced prices for Arab Light oil for supplies to Asian countries by $1.5-2 per barrel. In addition, the company reduced prices for oil supplies in February for the countries of North-Western Europe, the Mediterranean and North America, the material says.
In February and March, there will be a decrease in oil consumption, and refineries will be closed during this period for scheduled maintenance, the authors noted. In addition, the decision to reduce prices was made against the background of the risk of a supply surplus due to an increase in oil supplies from the United States.
As Regnum reported, on November 30, OPEC+ countries reached a preliminary agreement on a new reduction in oil production by more than 1 million barrels per day.
On the same day, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak announced that Russia would deepen the voluntary reduction in oil supplies to a total volume of 500 thousand barrels per day and extend it until the end of the first quarter of 2024. According to him, Russia fully confirms its full commitment to the agreements on a voluntary additional reduction in the export of oil and petroleum products by 500 thousand barrels per day (300 thousand barrels of oil and 200 thousand barrels of petroleum products), starting in January 2024.
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Of COURSE Slow Joe will refill the SPR with the lower priced oil, right? Right?
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Short of setting the SPR up so it can't be manipulated as Joe has done over the past three years, it should just be left empty.
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This does surprise me. The current US economy is strong (I'm not saying the long term is good), and Russia has to be gobbling oil like there's no tomorrow. India is growing at their usual rapid pace. Is the slowdown in China really that bad?
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China is being built up (by the usual suspects in the US) as the Godzilla sized boogyman of the USA. China may be closer to a Potemkin village on the verge of collapse than any of the "experts" are willing to admit.
Remember how surprised the CIA was when the USSR collapsed?
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Everything I’ve read for years suggests China is just a bunch of economic bubbles that started popping just before the Covid shutdown.. compounded by what looks like a long-term below-replacement birthrate leading to falling population. Possibly the bubbles would have been popping all along, but the shutdown masked those problems with more urgent problems.
[Rudaw] An unidentified assailant on Sunday evening opened fire near a tent set up by Kurdish residents of a Kirkuk neighborhood who have been protesting an Iraqi army attempt to seize their homes. No injuries were reported.
Forces of the Iraqi army have been stationed in Kirkuk city’s Newroz neighborhood since Tuesday. They have demanded families residing there to evacuate their homes on the grounds that the neighborhood is property of the defense ministry.
The residents have staged sit-in protests as Kurdish officials continue their discussions with Baghdad to stop the takeover.
Security footage obtained by Rudaw shows a group of the protesters sitting outside the tent, guarded by a police vehicle and armed officers. They are seen running away in a panic after the assailant fired in their direction.
"At around 9:32 pm, several bullets were fired towards the tent, even though there are security forces present and three police cars have been assigned to protect the security of the tent," Hemin, one of the protesters, told Rudaw’s Hiwa Hussamadin.
Eyewitnesses confirmed to Rudaw that no one was injured, but complained that security forces failed to prevent the incident. The shooter was "no more than 50 meters away from the police cars," said one eyewitness.
Kurdish officials in Baghdad have previously claimed that Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i directed the army forces to withdraw from Newroz, but soldiers and Humvees are still present in the neighborhood. A large number of police cars and coppers have also been stationed in the area in recent days.
A total of 172 families, mostly Kurds, reside in the Newroz’s 122 houses. The Iraqi army has seized at least six houses of residents who were not home when the operation began and continue to occupy them to this day.
"That is my house, where my wife and children used to live," said Dana, a resident of Newroz, pointing at his home which has been seized by Iraqi troops. "Three to four Iraqi soldiers are currently in the house, as well as two police cars to protect the situation from escalating."
Dana was detained by Iraqi forces after asking them to leave his home and was only released after pledging not to return to the house again.
The houses in the neighborhood were previously inhabited by members of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party. After the fall of the regime, Kurdish families from Kirkuk who were displaced to other parts of the country, returned to the neighborhood and took up residence in those houses.
Paul Bremer, the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority which oversaw Iraq after 2003, issued a decree to register these houses as properties of the finance ministry.
A decree issued by the former Kirkuk provincial council granted the families the right to remain in the houses until the federal government provided them with compensation.
198 humanitarian aid trucks were inspected and transferred to Gaza today (Jan. 7). 113 carried food, the rest carried water, medical and shelter equipment/farm implements. 121 trucks inspected at Nitzana and transferred via Rafah Crossing. 77 trucks inspected and transferred via Kerem Shalom. pic.twitter.com/RSMWjuw9Cn
[IsraelTimes] Arab Israeli author Suleiman Daghash was considered an ambassador of Paleostinian poetry — until his eulogy for his grandson, who fell fighting for IDF 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...
The Paleostinian Authority Ministry of Culture condemned the Israeli Arab poet Suleiman Daghash on Saturday for participating in the funeral of his grandson Sufian, an IDF soldier who was killed in Gaza last week at age 21.
The ministry called for the withdrawal of all honors conferred on the poet, an Israeli citizen from the Druze minority, mentioning in particular an award bestowed upon him by the General Union of Arab Writers in 2017.
Daghash hails from the Druze-majority city of Maghar, in northern Israel, and is considered an outsider figure among Israeli Druze. Unlike the vast majority of his community, he rejects the idea of allegiance to the State of Israel, and throughout his work he asserted his Paleostinian national identity.
In the Druze minority, all men are drafted and serve in combat units at a higher rate than Jewish Israelis — about 80% versus 50%. Daghash refused to serve in the Israeli army and so did two of his sons, according to Paleostinian journalist Younis Tirawi.
A video circulated on social media showed Daghash at the funeral, eulogizing his grandson, whose coffin was covered in an Israeli flag. A number of IDF officers and soldiers were also present at the ceremony and carried the coffin.
In his speech, the poet said: "How can I accept that I will carry your pure coffin, and that you will be buried before me? Wouldn’t it be fair for me to be in your place, and you in my place?" He then added: "I hope that Sufyan’s blood will be the last blood that falls in this war or in any other, and that a just and comprehensive peace will be achieved in our region."
Druze holy mans, including the sect’s spiritual leader in Israel, Sheikh Muakfak Tarif, also attended the funeral.
Daghash was the first author to be awarded a special literary award for "1948 Paleostinian writers," assigned to Arab citizens of Israel by the General Union of Arab Writers in Algeria in 2017 to celebrate their "steadfastness" as Paleostinian citizens of Israel, according to the Paleostinian news agency Wafa.
Paleostinian intellectuals reacted with outrage to Daghash’s presence at a military event.
Murad al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i, Secretary-General of the Union of Paleostinian Writers, wrote on the Union’s official page that the body rejects the eulogy by a Paleostinian poet for "a soldier who contributed to the killing of our people in Gaza... Whoever is awarded the literary prize for 1948 Paleostinians [i.e. Arab Israelis] must respect Paleostine and its culture of resistance, and be humble in the face of the blood spilled in Gaza and the West Bank."
The secretary-general called for stripping Daghash of his awards, saying: "The author removed himself from the cultural context of Paleostine."
Various Paleostinian authors also condemned Daghash’s appearance at the funeral next to IDF soldiers, lambasting him for presenting himself in his Facebook profile as "an ambassador of Paleostinian poetry in the global poets’ movement."
Author Yassin Ezz El-Din, quoted by the UK-based daily al-Quds al-Araby, wrote that "many Paleostinians live this dichotomy: Their hearts are with Paleostine and their swords are with Israel. The excuse is always that there are specific personal circumstances. But today, there is no room for ambiguous positions or for standing in the middle. If you are not with Paleostine in words and deeds, you are with Israel."
[IsraelTimes] At Ben-Gurion University, administration seeks suspension in a similar case after disciplinary committee hands out community service.
Eight Arab Israeli students at the University of Haifa who were suspended last week for post-October 7 social media comments that were seen as expressing support for Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... have had their suspension repealed.
The university announced Saturday that the suspension was no longer in effect, after an appeal by Adalah, a civil rights organization focusing on Israel’s Arab citizens, Haaretz reported on Sunday.
The students were to have been suspended pending the results of a disciplinary process, which the students will still undergo. The university has also started a mediation process with the students in question.
The disciplinary panel said in its original ruling that the presence of students accused of incitement could cause damage to the campus atmosphere after university rector Guy Alroey said that their continued presence could cause "extreme situations."
The students in response said the suspension would negatively impact their education, and that the university did not specify what damage their presence would cause to campus life.
Alroey told the Haaretz daily that students shared photos of the Hamas onslaught on their accounts, captioning them with "good morning" and "they deserve it." Witnesses present at the initial disciplinary hearing said Alroey controversially showed seven minutes of disturbing footage from the October 7 massacres, intending to justify the swift suspension of the students.
The decision to reverse the suspension will avoid causing the students "major damage" in their academic careers, and "we hope that the mediation procedure will indeed lead to an understanding between the two" sides, commented Adi Mansour, Adalah Center attorney, Haaretz reported.
Mansour added that the case has "greatly contributed to difficult feelings among students and faculty members, as the current climate at the university harms the safety of Arab students."
In a similar situation, administrators at Ben-Gurion University said Sunday that they would seek suspension of a student accused of writing inflammatory posts after October 7. The university’s own disciplinary committee had initially given the student a reprimand and 40 hours of community service.
The student’s identity and the exact details of the posting are confidential, but it was an "inappropriate and disturbing reaction to the massacre," according to a university statement.
Although the student took down the post and sent a letter of apology, the university will seek suspension, a university spokesperson told the Times of Israel.
"Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s administration strongly condemns the way the student addressed the October 7 massacre on social media. There is no room here for narratives or context — Hamas and its collaborators perpetrated murder and crimes against humanity. Any other way to present the events of that day is a lie and there is no place for the propagation of ’fake news’ by anyone in the university community. The university will not tolerate any form of support for terrorism, the horrific murders of October 7, or racism, and will deal with any instances to the fullest," the administration said in its statement.
Out of the hundreds of disciplinary processes that have been launched against students, mostly Arab, for allegedly supporting terror, rulings have so far been issued in 65 cases, according to data from Adalah. Only 12 of those have ended in the expulsion of a student.
About half of the rulings have found the students innocent, six students were given an "educational punishment" — such as writing an apology letter or performing community service, and 14 processes have ended in temporary suspensions, according to the group.
[AFRICANEWS] 3 months of Israeli military intervention have decimated families, wiped out cities and left thousands maimed and bereaved.
Some dig to retrieve bodies from under the rubble.
More than 22,700 Paleostinians have been killed.
A possibly imaginary number, but never mind — it may well be a comparative proportion to the real population of Gaza compared to the official number. Bottom line: Don’t start none, won’t be none. But they did start it, and now they’re finding out.They should be more careful about complaining though, because as in all else, Allah wills this.
"There is no safe place 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, we are all under bombardment. We are all under death, and destruction. [Naked women under the rubble, that no one can recognize, who they were? we couldn't distinguish between one or the other]. Children killed for no reason; they did nothing wrong," Inas who lost family member says.
"Everything happening here is outside the realms of law, outside the realms of reason. Our brains can’t fully comprehend all this that is happening to us," she laments.
Israel's war with Gaza followed Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel in which the turbans killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 people hostage.
"A week ago, I felt that the public is forgetting the hostages", Osnat Sharabi, the sister of Yossi and Eli, kidnapped from their homes in Beeri said. Eli’s wife and 2 daughters were murdered, and Yossi's family was rescued.
"The public got used to the situation. I felt the government and the world stopped doing any actions to bring them home. And I have this very, distressing feeling. And then I wanted to do something, to do like an act, like a movement....." Osnat Sharabi concludes.
The display, organised 90 days after the hostages were kidnapped, sits under a banner reading: "Let's show the kidnapped the way home".
Organisers collected shoes from people from communities in the south and people from Tel Aviv added to the donations.
An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... hit a house between Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah, killing at least seven people whose bodies were taken to the nearby European Hospital, according to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named journalist at the facility.
An apparent Israeli airstrike killed two Paleostinian journalists in southern Gaza on Sunday, including the son of veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh, whose wife, two other children and a grandson were killed earlier in the war.
TWO-STATE SOLUTION
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted the war will not end until the objectives of eliminating Hamas, getting Israel’s hostages returned and ensuring that Gaza won’t be a threat to Israel are met.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s foreign policy chief said Saturday (Jan.06) during a visit to Beirut (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... ) in an attempt to tamp down tensions on the Lebanon-Israel border that he aims to jumpstart a European-Arab initiative to revive a grinding of the peace processor that would result in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
"It is time to make our idea of two state solution a reality, otherwise the cycle of violence will continue generation after generation, funerals after funerals, because you cannot kill an idea. You can kill people, but you cannot kill an idea. The only way of killing a bad idea is to bring a good one. And the good one is to make the Paleostinians and the Israelis live together in peace and security sharing the land. ...
Or contrariwise, there will be no peace until the Palestinians and the Israel-hating portion of the world give up the idea of a separate Palestinian nation as the first step toward making the entire territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea Judenrein.
ISRAEL'S POST-WAR VISION
Israel's Gaza post-war plan unveiled Thursday (Jan. 04) doesn't include a political solution for all of Paleostine.
Israeli defence minister Gallant's statement underlined that the war would go on until Hamas' military and government capabilities are eliminated and the more than 100 hostages still in captivity are returned.
In the north, the statement said, forces will shift to a new approach that includes raids, destruction of tunnels, "air and ground activities and special operations." The aim would be "the erosion" of the remaining Hamas presence.
There was no word whether northern Gaza's population, which has almost entirely been driven south, would be allowed to return.
It will take years to make it habitable, and anyway, something like 75% of the population wanted to leave before the war started, so this is a good opportunity to get while the getting is possible.
The statement did not clarify how the new approach would differ from current operations. Israel began last week to withdraw some troops from northern Gaza, where the military says it has largely gained operational control after weeks of heavy fighting with Hamas. Still, Gallant has said several thousand Hamas fighters remain there.
In the south, he said, fighting would continue "as long as is deemed necessary."
After the war, the statement said, Israel will keep security control, taking military action in Gaza when necessary to ensure there are no threats and maintaining inspections of all goods entering the territory.
Gallant said there would be no Israeli civilians in Gaza, ruling out calls by some in Israel's far-right for a return of Jewish settlers to the territory.
Unnamed Paleostinian entities would run the territory, with Israel providing "information to guide civilian operations," the statement said without elaborating. A multinational task force, led by the U.S., would be in charge of rebuilding.
It won’t be Hamas, nor the Palestinian Authority/PLO/Fatah. There is some talk of turning communities over to their leading tribes to administer locally, but that is thus far nothing more than an airy concept.
The apparent picture of an Israeli-dominated Paleostinian administration for Gaza differs starkly from U.S. calls for a revitalized Paleostinian Authority to take control of the territory and a start to new negotiations toward creating a Paleostinian state alongside Israel. Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have rejected that idea.
President Biden is incapable of leading on this or any other issue, poor man.
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#1
It is time to make our idea of two state solution a reality, otherwise the cycle of violence will continue generation after generation, funerals after funerals, because you cannot kill an idea. You can kill people, but you cannot kill an idea.
Tell it to National Socialist German Workers' Party, Hoselito.
#2
How would a two state solution fix anything? The Paleo fucktards will still support terrorist attacks on Israel, the official war will be declared and we are back in the current situation.
#6
"A multinational task force, led by the U.S., would be in charge of rebuilding." Of course, let Uncle Sugar take over. To that I say, if the Europeans want to take charge, let them, but stay the hell out.
[IsraelTimes] 33-year-old Roya Heshmati accused by Tehran’s judiciary of having ’encouraged permissiveness’ after violating mandatory dress code in public.
Iranian authorities have whipped a woman 74 times for "violating public morals" and fined her for not covering her head, the judiciary said.
"The convicted, Roya Heshmati, encouraged permissiveness [by appearing] disgracefully in busy public places in Tehran," the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said late on Saturday.
"Her penalty of 74 strokes of the lash was carried out in accordance with the law and with sharia," and "for violating public morals," Mizan said.
Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw identified Heshmati as a 33-year-old woman of Kurdish origins.
She was arrested in April "for publishing a photo on social media without wearing a headscarf," her lawyer Maziar Tatai told the reformist Shargh daily.
Heshmati was also ordered to pay a fine of 12 million rials (around $25)
Seriously? Inflation over there has been killer!
for "not wearing the Moslem veil in public," Tatai said.
All women in 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... have been required by law to cover their neck and head since shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Whippings for breaching the dress code are uncommon in Iran, although officials have increasingly cracked down on those defying the rules after the practice surged during anti-government protests that began in late 2022.
The protests were triggered by the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd arrested for an alleged breach of the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s strict dress code for women.
Amini died a few days after her arrest by inquisitors religious police for allegedly violating the strict dress code. Her family says she died from a blow to the head while in jug, but this is disputed by Iranian authorities.
Following her death and the widespread protest movement that came about as a result, a growing number of Iranian women have been seen in public without hijab head scarves or observing the rules against clothes that are deemed too tight-fitting or otherwise revealing.
Officials have installed surveillance cameras in public places to monitor violations and have shut down businesses that breached the rules.
Iran’s parliament has also discussed a bill to toughen penalties for those breaching the dress code.
In October 2023, shortly after the first anniversary of Amini’s death, Iranian teenager Armita Geravand was injured in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf and passed away several weeks later. At the time, Geravand’s parents appeared in state media footage saying a blood pressure issue, a fall or perhaps both contributed to their daughter’s injury. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... activists abroad have alleged Geravand may have been pushed or attacked for not wearing the hijab.
For observant Moslem women, the head covering is a sign of piety before God and modesty in front of men outside their families. In Iran, the hijab — and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some — has long been a political symbol as well, particularly after becoming mandatory in the years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iran and neighboring Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... -ruled Afghanistan are the only countries where the hijab remains mandatory for women.
[IsraelTimes] The information display screens at Beirut’s international airport were hacked by domestic anti-Hezbollah groups Sunday, as festivities between the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group and the Israeli military continue to intensify along the border.
Departure and arrival information was replaced by a message accusing the Hezbollah group of putting 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... at risk of an all-out war with Israel.
The screens displayed a message with logos from a hardline Christian group dubbed Soldiers of God, which has garnered attention over the past year for its campaigns against the LGBTQ+ community in Lebanon, and a little-known group that calls itself The One Who Spoke. In a video statement, the Christian group denied its involvement, while the other group shared photos of the screens on its social media channels.
"His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... , you will no longer have supporters if you curse Lebanon with a war for which you will bear responsibility and consequences," the message read, echoing similar sentiments to critics over the years who have accused Hezbollah of smuggling weapons and munitions through the tiny Mediterranean country’s only civilian airport.
The message said the airport was "not the airport of Hezbollah and Iran," according to the reports.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said "the cyberattack on the departure and arrival screens at the airport disrupted the BHS baggage inspection system."
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...
...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
...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...
