Mexico is actively fomenting civil unrest within the illegals it forced across our border for financial gain
When Russia was accused of meddling in American politics it was used as justification for sanctions and possible military action https://t.co/Rucr2702Vg
Imagine if ICE had a database & the IRS could collect Tax Revenues for all wired $$$$$ / funds to Mexico and etc.?
A process that required the sender to show a State issued Legal ID & SSN, that is recorded. Then a 5% per transfer fee applied.
Of course, allowing any US Citizen sender to apply with the IRS for a refund, and it be issued in 45 days.
EL PASO TIMES (June 8th, 2025)
"In 2024, immigrants living abroad sent home $160.9 billion to the countries in Latin America, according to data from the Inter-American Development Bank. Mexico and Guatemala receive the highest amount of money as remittances, with Mexico receiving $64.745 billion and Guatemala receiving $21.510 billion in 2024."
The collected $9 Billion, would take care of a lot of the estimated 350,000 homeless US Citizens & US Vet's @ $25,000 each p/yr.
[IsraelTimes] Scheduled to speak at events to raise money for Magen David Adom, Fuld had his visa rescinded as he was accused of being a ‘merchant of Zionist hate speech’
Pro-Israel activist and influencer Hillel Fuld has been barred from entering Australia because his presence would constitute a risk to "the health, safety or good order" of the country, according to Australia’s Department of Home Affairs.
Fuld, a citizen of both Israel and the United States, was due to speak at events for Magen David Adom in Sydney and Melbourne to raise money for the medical organization’s new facility in Lehavim in southern Israel. His visit was canceled due to fears he would use the platform to incite hatred "against particular segments of the community, namely the Islamic population," according to the letter sent to him Friday by the Department of Home Affairs.
The decision has sparked outrage from Jewish communities in Australia and worldwide.
Fuld told The Times of Israel that he had received his travel visa for the trip months ago without any problems. "But on Thursday, someone brought to my attention a post on X calling for people to contact the immigration office to get me blocked from entering the country. Sure enough, the next morning, I got an email from them telling me I wouldn’t be allowed to come."
The coordinated social media campaign by pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel activists called Fuld "a well-known merchant of Zionist hate speech," saying he has "a well-documented history of spreading hate speech, Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... , and dangerous misinformation." It included detailed information on how to file a complaint with
Fuld said the decision is drawing diplomatic blowback, with United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Gilad Erdan, and others taking up the case.
In a letter to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, Huckabee said Fuld "poses no threat to the people of Australia by his actions or words."
Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... opposition leaders in Australia called on Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to explain the cancellation.
"If there is a new political precedent in the standard for issuing entry visas to Australia, the Australian people should be informed as soon as possible," shadow home affairs minister Andrew Hastie said in a statement Sunday.
It’s not the first time a visa has been denied to an Israeli on political grounds, however. Last November, former justice minister Ayelet Shaked was barred from entering Australia for similar reasons when she was slated to address a conference organized by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. US conservative political commentator Candace Owens was also banned from entering the country last year.
Fuld, a long-time influencer in Israel’s high-tech scene, began advocating for Israel full-time after Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... launched its war against Israel on October 7, 2023. His social media reach in the Jewish world is considerable, with 177,000 followers on X, 156,000 followers on Facebook, 87,00 followers on Instagram, 16,800 subscribers to his YouTube channel, and 3,300 followers on TikTok.
He is also known for being the brother of Ari Fuld, an activist and social media personality who was stabbed to death by a 17-year-old terrorist in the parking lot of a shopping mall at the Gush Etzion Junction in 2018. Ari’s death was mourned by tens of thousands around the world at the time, and he is still memorialized by different funds and causes in his name.
In the letter canceling his visa, the Home Affairs Ministry cited several of Fuld’s posts that they said "denied documented atrocities and Islamophobia rhetoric, which has been received by members of the Australian community as inflammatory and concerning."
"Based on this information, I consider there is sufficient reason to conclude that the visa holder’s use of various online platforms to promote his controversial views and ideologies may lead to fostering division in the community," the letter said.
In one example cited, the Home Affairs Ministry said Fuld had contradicted "reports made by many reliable news sources that at least 112 Paleostinians had been killed and more than 750 maimed after Israeli troops opened fire" on people waiting for aid near 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 a rusty 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... City on March 1, 2024.
Fuld had called the reports "propaganda" and "fabricated" in a lengthy post on Instagram, writing: "There was no massacre of Paleostinians in Gaza today."
An IDF probe into the incident eventually determined that the vast majority of civilian casualties in the incident were the result of thousands of people swarming the aid trucks, creating a stampede and causing people to get run over.
Friends of Magen David Adom attacked the ruling on Fuld’s visa. "We absolutely reject this," it said in a statement. Hillel has spoken to large audiences across North America, Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Asia with no incident."
"The decision "is difficult to reconcile with the actual purpose of his visit, which is to speak about entrepreneurship and help raise money for emergency medical services in Israel that treat everyone, regardless of faith or background," Zionist Federation of Australia President Jeremy Leibler added. He said his organization was in direct contact with the government regarding the decision.
Fuld is now expected to address the fundraiser event by video conferencing instead of in person, Fuld noted.
ATTACK ON THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
The decision is a slap in the face for Australia’s 120,000-strong Jewish community, which has been among the hardest hit by antisemitism in the world since October 7, 2023. The country experienced more than 2,000 anti-Jewish incidents between October 2023 and September 2024, more than quadruple the number from the year before Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault that sparked the Gaza war, according to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ).
In recent months, Jews there have experienced synagogues, schools, and homes Molotov cocktailed, two nurses threatening to kill Jewish patients in their hospital, and the discovery of a trailer filled with explosives said to be intended for a mass-casualty event at a Sydney synagogue.
Residents have been overwhelmingly frustrated by the failure of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government to rein in skyrocketing antisemitism, but were mildly hopeful that, after his Labor Party’s reelection last month, he would do more to protect the Jewish community in his second term. While the party now understands that antisemitism is a significant domestic issue, and has begun to make stronger efforts to fight it, Fuld’s snub is a sign that things are unlikely to improve shortly.
As the head of his country’s labour party, he is professionally required to hate Jews and Israel. Why would they expect anything else?
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The Department of Homeland Security is funding one of the groups that is staging protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which falls under DHS. War Room's Natalie Winters shared the shocking information on X, showing that DHS, under the Biden administration, gave a project grant to Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) in the amount of $450,000.
CHIRLA has been engaging in and staging protests opposing ICE. Protesters with CHIRLA carry signs saying "Stop deportations: full rights for immigrants colonists," "ICE: out of our communities," "Education not Deportation," "Stop the starvation, stop the deportations," and "The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now."
CHIRLA representatives spoke to the crowd. "Our community is under attack and has been terrorized," said CHIRLA executive director Angelica Salas. "These are workers, these are fathers, these are mothers." Of the initial award, $100,000 remains to be disbursed to the group.
On Friday, Salas spoke at a presser of the CHIRLA-run LA Rapid Response Network "following the series of ICE raids conducted" that morning. On Facebook, publicizing the remarks, CHIRLA wrote "To our immigrant community: we see you, we hear you, and we will NOT stop fighting for you. We say NO deportations. NO to mass detentions. Families belong together! We belong here!"
Salas spoke about the group's "indignation as to what happened in our city, in our neighborhoods, in our workplaces. Our community is under attack and is being terrorized."
"These are workers," Salas continued, "these are fathers, these are mothers, and this has to stop. Immigration enforcement that is terrorizing our families throughout this country and picking up our people that we love must stop now.
"My call today is to all US citizens, because I want you to know if our rights are violated, if our constitutional rights are violated, if our due process rights are violated, then anybody's right can be violated.
"You think that you are protected because you are not an immigrant. I am here to tell you what is happening in this country and what we observe today is unprecedented, and we are in a situation where every single person who believes in democracy and believes in the ability of us to live free in this country is under attack," Salas said.
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[IsraelTimes] New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces an executive order to recognize the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.
The order directs city agencies to use the IHRA definition to identify and address incidents of antisemitism, the mayor’s office says.
Adams’s office also says he is introducing legislation to the city council, calling on the council to codify the IHRA definition.
The IHRA definition of antisemitism has been adopted by groups and governments worldwide, but is contested because it covers some examples of anti-Israel rhetoric, such as denying the Jewish people the right to self determination.
Last month, Adams announced a new task force under his purview aimed at combating antisemitism, responding to major spikes in antisemitic hate crimes in New York City in recent years. The Office to Combat Antisemitism is the first of its kind in a major US city.
The mayor is seeking re-election in November, and has petitioned to run on an “EndAntisemitism” ballot line.
Israel and Jewish issues are prominent topics in the high-profile race for the city’s Democratic party mayoral primary later this month. Adams is running as an independent.
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Outstanding. The right of Israel to exist must be protected at all levels of US government, not just Congress.
Israel's Basic Law proclaims the right of Israel to exist. Denying this right is a hate crime and must be prosecuted as such. No matter which country you're in in the world.
The State of Israel
a) Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people in which the State of Israel was established.
b) The state of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, in which it fulfills its natural, religious, and historic right to self-determination.
c) The fulfillment of the right of national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the US by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries takes effect.
Trump had tied the move to the firebomb attack on a Colorado rally for the hostages held in Gaza despite the attacker, an Egyptian, not coming from a listed nation.
The new proclamation, which Trump signed on Wednesday, applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It also imposes heightened restrictions on people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela who are outside the US and don’t hold a valid visa.
The new ban does not revoke visas previously issued to people from countries on the list, according to guidance issued Friday to all US diplomatic missions. However, unless an applicant meets narrow criteria for an exemption to the ban, his or her application will be rejected starting today. Travelers with previously issued visas should still be able to enter the US even after the ban takes
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[IsraelTimes] Saudi television station Asharq reports that France, Britain and Canada have set preconditions for the Palestinian Authority and Hamas for the recognition of a Palestinian state.
The outlet says these include significant political reforms in the PA and the demilitarization of Gaza.
Citing Western and regional sources, it says the nations are demanding in the West Bank the renewal of a functioning parliament, free and fair elections, and the commitment to a peaceful transfer of power. In Gaza, they say Hamas must hand over rule to an elected Palestinian government and undergo demilitarization.
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[IsraelTimes] In unverified quotes, anti-Hamas militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab says coordination with Israel would only take place through mediators and for humanitarian purposes
The head of an anti-Hamas militia in Gaza was quoted on Sunday giving comments to an Israeli media outlet and a US nonprofit on his group’s operations in the enclave, in which he denied ties to Israel.
Defense sources confirmed on Thursday that Israel has been arming a criminal gang in the Strip as part of an effort to strengthen opposition to Hamas in the enclave. The group in question is led by Yasser Abu Shabab, a member of a large clan in southern Gaza. It has been linked in the past to smuggling operations with Egyptian jihadist groups.
The revelation led to intense criticism within Israel.
Ostensibly speaking to Army Radio in a series of text messages, the veracity of which has not been confirmed, Abu Shabab said: “We do not work with Israel. Our goal is to protect the Palestinians from Hamas terror. Our weapons are not from Israel — they are simple arms we collected from the local population.”
He added that “these rumors are meant to harm our reputation and create hostility between us, Israel, and Arab states.”
Abu Shabab denied having any meetings with Israeli officials, while saying that “if any coordination takes place it will be humanitarian, for the benefit of our people in eastern Rafah, and will be carried out through mediation channels.”
Meanwhile, the Center for Peace Communications, which bills itself as an organization committed to revealing the plight of those living under the rule of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, published what it called an “exclusive first public statement” from Abu Shabab. It is not clear how it obtained the audio clip, which also could not be verified.
In it, the person identifying himself as Abu Shabab also denied “working with the occupation,” while calling on Hamas to “step down from government.” He asserted, “We have hundreds of families heading to the areas we control daily.”
Abu Shabab’s gang has been documented in recent days operating in an area near the Kerem Shalom border crossing, which is under Israeli military control.
In the footage, published online by Abu Shabab, members of the group can be seen wearing military-style uniforms with the Palestinian flag and the words “Counter-Terrorism Mechanism” emblazoned on them.
Sources have confirmed that Israel has been arming the gang with Kalashnikov rifles, including some that were seized from Hamas during the ongoing war.
The decision to start arming the group was made without the approval of Israel’s security cabinet, forgoing normal procedure. It was instead led by Israeli security bodies, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval, the defense sources said.
The militia has been operating in Rafah, in an area under Israeli military control. Abu Shabab has claimed to be securing the humanitarian aid convoys entering Israel through the southern border crossings, although others have accused his gang of looting them.
According to Hamas sources who spoke with the Lebanese Al-Akhbar outlet, the militia comprises some 300 people, of whom Abu Shabab personally recruited around 50. They alleged that the remaining 250 members were recruited through the Palestinian Authority’s intelligence service.
The Hamas sources did not offer proof of Abu Shabab’s alleged ties to the Ramallah-based PA, and Al-Akhbar did not verify any of the terror group’s claims.
The group emerged in Rafah in May 2024, following the IDF invasion of the Strip’s southernmost city, the Hamas sources said. They told Al-Akhbar that the Al-Qassam Brigades have “already started carrying out direct assassinations” of members of Abu Shabab’s gang, and that its continued existence has fast become a “central issue” for the terror group.
According to the sources, some members of the group belong to an extremist Salafi faction that had run-ins with Hamas prior to the war as well.
This is not the first time that Netanyahu has been involved in or accused of propping up militias and terror groups to undermine a common enemy.
Various reports over the years have indicated that Israel’s policy under Netanyahu was to treat Hamas as an asset that could be used to weaken the Palestinian Authority.
[IsraelTimes] Hostage talks between Israel and Hamas remain at an impasse, two sources familiar with the negotiations tell The Times of Israel, after some of the mediators expressed optimism last week that Hamas would agree to soften its response to US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s hostage deal proposal.
Witkoff told hostage families he met with in Washington last week that he was optimistic about the chances for a breakthrough before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which began on Friday, according to a source present in the meeting. Even if such a breakthrough had been reached, though, the sides still need to hold a round of proximity talks to close final details, such as the exact parameters of Israel’s partial military withdrawal.
But Hamas is standing by its demand for clearer wording that prevents Israel from resuming the war if terms on a permanent ceasefire are not reached during the 60-day truce and hostage release deal that Witkoff has proposed, an Arab official from one of the mediating countries says.
The proposal crafted by Witkoff leaves open a window for Israel to resume fighting if talks on a permanent ceasefire do not bear fruit within 60 days.
Witkoff has been urging mediators to lean on Hamas to soften its demands, insisting that once a deal is reached on a temporary truce, the US will make sure that the ceasefire is made permanent, the Arab official says.
However, Hamas does not want to trust Witkoff’s word alone, pointing to Israel’s decision to resume the war in March, rather than hold talks on a permanent ceasefire, as a January ceasefire had stipulated, the Arab official says.
The Arab official maintains that the US to date has mistakenly accepted Israel’s aversion to a temporary ceasefire, arguing that Jerusalem needed to be pressured by Washington to change course.
“If Israel agreed to a permanent ceasefire, [it] could get all of the hostages back at once,” the Arab official says. “Instead [it’s] trying to fight until the last Hamas fighter, and this will never end.”
Asked whether pressure needed to also be placed on Hamas, the Arab official insisted that the mediators have been leaning on the terror group and that it has resulted in its willingness to accept a temporary framework.
But given the wording, Hamas is seeking to block Israel from resuming the war, the temporary truce would effectively be a permanent one, the Arab official acknowledges.
Still, a second source familiar says that mediators are continuing to push Hamas to soften the response it issued to Witkoff’s proposal late last month, which the US envoy called “unacceptable.”
Witkoff has called on Hamas to accept his proposal, so that proximity talks on final gaps can commence.
If enough progress is made in moving Hamas, Witkoff may be dispatched to the region to finalize an agreement, the second source says, adding that mediators don’t want the US envoy to make the trip unless they’re confident a deal can be closed.
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[IsraelTimes] Documents show a request to transfer individuals working in civilian agencies to military duties, among them Mahmoud Basal, who is widely quoted in international media
The Israel Defense Forces published intelligence documents on Sunday, captured during operations in Gaza, that it said prove that the spokesperson for the Civil Defense Agency in the Strip is an “active terrorist” in Hamas and a member of the terror group’s military wing.
Mahmoud Basal “has served as a spokesperson for the Civil Defense for a long time and exploits his position to spread false and unverified information to international media outlets, falsely attributing war crimes to Israel and presenting distorted data,” the military said in a statement.
“This information has received media exposure worldwide and has severely distorted the reality on the ground,” the statement said.
The documents recovered by the IDF in Gaza show that Basal “is a terrorist in the Hamas terror group, and as part of his role, he serves the purposes of psychological warfare and propaganda,” according to the military.
The documents appeared to show Basal listed on a roster of operatives for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing.
The documents requested that the listed individuals, who it said were working in civilian agencies and as civilian staff at the time, be transferred to military duties, noting that their expertise is needed and that they will be assigned according to their specialties.
In a clip published by the IDF, Basal can be seen being interviewed on television and quoted by prominent media outlets like CNN, The Guardian and The Washington Post.
A Google search of Basal’s name shows that many major English-language media outlets have cited his statements when reporting on casualties in Gaza.
Citing documents found during its forces’ Gaza offensive, the IDF said Bassal was “an active terrorist” in the group whose October 2023 attack on Israel sparked the Gaza war. It issued copies of what it said were Hamas membership lists to the media. The military accused Bassal of serving Hamas’s objectives by spreading false and unverified information about its operations in Gaza.
“This is a false accusation,” Bassal tells AFP. “I do not work for any military organization,” he says, adding that the agency’s mission is guided by international law.
Beyond the IDF’s latest specific accusation against Bassal, all organizations operating in Gaza do so at the pleasure of Hamas since its 2007 violent takeover of the enclave.
📄EXPOSED: Mahmoud Bassal poses as a “Gaza Civil Spokesperson”. However, intelligence documents expose him as an active Hamas operative.
[IsraelTimes] In a first, members of the IDF’s new brigade for ultra-Orthodox soldiers, known as the Hasmonean Brigade, entered the Gaza Strip as part of the offensive against Hamas.
The soldiers, who are all part of the Hasmonean Brigade’s reserve company, are set to operate in the northern Gaza area to assist with defensive and mop-up operations.
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[IsraelTimes] The IDF and Shin Bet confirm that the body of Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar was found by troops in a tunnel that ran underneath the European Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
The body was taken from the tunnel, used by Hamas as a command center, on Saturday, after troops reached the hospital several days prior. Several other bodies, belonging to other Hamas operatives, were also taken.
The military says that following an identification process, it is now confirmed that one of the bodies belongs to Sinwar, who was killed in an Israeli strike on the tunnel on May 13.
The strike also killed Muhammad Shabana, commander of the terror group’s Rafah Brigade, and Mahdi Quara, commander of the South Khan Younis Battalion.
Also in the tunnel, the military says it located several items belonging to Sinwar and Shabana, including ID cards. Weapons were also found.
The IDF says the other bodies are still undergoing an identification process.
[IsraelTimes] Papers apparently seized in Gaza show Hamas political chief told Doha its funds were the group’s ‘main artery’ and Sinwar wanted more supportive Qatar to take leading role in mediation
Documents seized in Gazoo over the course of the war against Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... and published by an Israeli TV channel Sunday night purport to shine a light on Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s intensive collaboration with the terror group spanning a number of years, including attempts to thwart regional peace efforts by the US, marginalize Egyptian influence on Gaza, and bolster the roles of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and Iran.
The documents appear to contradict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent characterization of Qatar as a "complicated state, but not an enemy state," and his attempts to downplay years of Qatari cash infusions of millions of dollars a month to Hamas in Gaza, which he recently claimed didn’t play a significant role in allowing the terror group to prepare for, and execute, its ongoing war against the Jewish state, which erupted with the October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre in southern Israel.
According to Channel 12 news, the documents show that the payments, which were transferred with Israel’s blessing, were significant enough that in December 2019, then-Hamas politburo leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction... told Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani that the Gulf state’s cash to Gaza was "Hamas’s main artery."
In May 2021, immediately after the conclusion of an 11-day mini war between Israel and Hamas, Haniyeh told the terror group’s leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar that Qatari emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani had privately "agreed on discreet financial support" for the group’s "resistance" efforts, according to the report.
"He agreed in principle to supply the resistance discreetly, but he does not want anyone in the world to know. Until now, $11 million dollars have been raised from the emir for the leadership of the movement," Haniyeh reportedly wrote.
The political leader asked Sinwar to "write a letter, in which you will focus on the military campaign, your urgent needs —and dedicate the victory [in the war] to His Highness."
In addition to Doha’s cash, Qatari intelligence officials reportedly met with a Hamas representative at one point — the report did not provide a date — to discuss supervising special training units for Hamas fighters on military bases in Qatar and Turkey, and for the integration of Syrian Paleostinians who fled to Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... amid the Syrian civil war into Hamas’s Lebanese battalions.
That meeting was recorded, according to Channel 12, in a classified document belonging to the Paleostinian Authority.
Qatar’s role in supporting Hamas, including years of monthly cash grants officially earmarked for fuel purchases intended to help keep a lid on economic pressures in the beleaguered Strip, have become a major issue in Israel in recent months as critics examine its role in the ongoing war. The questions have been compounded by an active criminal investigation into alleged illicit ties between members of Netanyahu’s staff and Doha.
Both Haniyeh and Sinwar have since been killed amid the ongoing war — Haniyeh while visiting Iran, in an liquidation that Israel later took credit for, and Sinwar by Israel Defense Forces soldiers operating in the southern Gaza Strip.
DEAL OF THE CENTURY
Several of the documents cited by Channel 12 covered Hamas and Qatar’s response to US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... ’s so-called "Deal of the Century" in 2020 for a permanent resolution to Israel’s conflict with the Paleostinians, and the American leader’s efforts to forge normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries in the Middle East.
Trump’s plan, framed as a "realistic" two-state solution, offered the Paleostinians a state on roughly 70 percent of the West Bank that wouldn’t include Israel’s settlements, as well as a chunk of the Negev desert and a hefty economic aid package. It was rejected by the PA and has since largely been discarded.
In June 2019, over a year before the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain agreed to normalize relations with Israel in August 2020, Qatari Emir Al Thani told Hamas leaders that Oman was signaling an openness to forging ties with Jerusalem.
"With respect to Paleostine — Oman is on one side and we are on the other side," he reportedly told them during the emergency meeting.
At the meeting, Khaled Mashaal told the emir: "We must work together to oppose the Deal of the Century and eliminate it."
Some six months later, a Hamas delegation traveled to 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... for the funeral of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Qassem Soleimani , who was killed in an American Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Iraq in early January 2020. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh thanked the Qataris for flying the delegation to Iran, according to the papers.
When Hamas, internally, considered what would happen if Qatar itself were to normalize relations with Israel, it determined such a deal would mean "the elimination of the Paleostinian national project," according to Channel 12, citing a secret brief from the terror group.
BOOSTING QATAR, MARGINALIZING EGYPT
In another document — parts of which were previously reported by Channel 12 — Sinwar told Haniyeh that Hamas should push for Qatar to have a larger role in mediating to end flare-ups with Israel rather than Egypt, describing Doha as more loyal to the group than Cairo.
"We can help with this and open big doors for them, as happened around the escalation of the incendiary balloons in August 2020," the Gaza leader wrote, referring to a months-long campaign in which the terror group and others in Gaza sent daily arson balloons into Israel, sparking damaging fires and drawing reprisal Israeli airstrikes.
"The Egyptians were attempting to restrain the escalation, and we caused them to leave the picture with empty hands. In their place, the Qataris came, and we gave them an opportunity to dictate the fruits of diplomacy," wrote Sinwar, who went on to criminal mastermind the October 7, 2023, attack.
Amid the ongoing war sparked by the 2023 attack — in which some 5,000 Hamas-led faceless myrmidons invaded southern Israel from Gaza, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 captives — both Qatar and Egypt have functioned as mediators amid ceasefire-hostage negotiations between Israel and the terror group.
Two of Netanyahu’s senior aides are currently suspected of taking money to spread pro-Qatari messaging to news hounds, in order to boost the Gulf state’s image as a mediator.
A judge in the case — known in Israel as "Qatargate" — said that Qatar also wanted one of the aides, the premier’s former front man Eli Feldstein, to spread negative messaging about Egypt’s role in the negotiations.
Qatar has denied making moves aimed at marginalizing Egypt.
LEAD-UP TO OCTOBER 7
In May 2022 — some 17 months before the surprise invasion of Israel that sparked the ongoing war, and as US-backed normalization efforts between Israel and Arab states continued — Sinwar wrote to Haniyeh that Turkey, which has ties with Israel, should also take a leading role in efforts against Israel.
"It is on you all to begin to prepare the campaign," he wrote to the political chief of the terror group. "We must begin immediately with our allies — Iran, Qatar, and Turkey. Qatari and Ottoman Turkish diplomacy must be in a leading role. Our role is to make it hard for the occupation to breathe and ensure the severing of international actors’ diplomatic ties with them."
Likewise, when a Hamas delegation was visiting Iran — in another incident whose date was unclear from the report — the head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s strategic policy office told the terror group officials, "We are happy about the Qatari-Ottoman Turkish support for you."
Seven months before the October 2023 attack, Sinwar spoke with Haniyeh about Iran’s opposition to the drive for normalization, which was largely centered on bringing Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... into the Abraham Accords.
At the time, Iran had just agreed to a China-brokered rapprochement with Saudi Arabia, ending years of strained relations between the countries. According to the documents cited by Channel 12, Sinwar told Haniyeh that Tehran had no interest in Hamas also reaching out to countries in the Saudi sphere of influence.
"They don’t want calm or agreements," he said of the Iranians. "They don’t want us to establish relations with their rivals or enemies, countries that are establishing normalization with America and the Zionist enemy. But they are ready for ties with Qatar and Turkey."
[IsraelTimes] Israel reportedly backs ending UNIFIL’s operations, considers its presence redundant as Lebanese army beats back Hezbollah; UN set to renew peacekeeping force’s mandate in August
US officials are considering pulling American support from UNIFIL, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... peacekeeping force in southern Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... , in a bid to cut costs associated with its operations, Israel Hayom reported Sunday evening, with US sources later confirming to The Times of Israel that the option was on the table.
Should the US move ahead with its decision to pull support from the UN body, Israel will back the decision, Israel Hayom reported, both out of a desire to align itself with the administration of US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... and in light of the security establishment’s cooperation with the Lebanese army since the ceasefire in November.
According to the outlet, the presence of the Lebanese Armed Forces in southern Lebanon has proven relatively effective in beating back the threat of Hezbollah and keeping the terror group from rearming itself, making redundant much of UNIFIL’s operations in the region.
Sources familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel that the US has not yet made up its mind regarding its future support for UNIFIL, but that it wants to see major reforms, which could mean pulling support.
As UNIFIL’s mandate is granted through a UN Security Council resolution each year, the US could simply veto the next resolution, due to be put forward in August.
UNIFIL has been operating in southern Lebanon since 1978, when it was created to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the area following the end of a conflict between the two nations.
The UN peacekeeping force expanded its mission following the 2006 Second Lebanon War between Israel and Hezbollah, allowing peacekeepers to deploy along the Israeli border to help the Lebanese military extend its authority into the country’s south for the first time in decades.
Aimed at ending the 2006 war, Resolution 1701 also called for a full cessation of Israeli-Hezbollah hostilities and the disarmament of Hezbollah. UNIFIL’s mandate has been renewed annually ever since, although critics have questioned the efficacy of the force.
Following the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, which put an end to more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war, the Lebanese army moved into southern Lebanon to enforce the terms of the ceasefire, which itself is based on Resolution 1701.
The resolution requires Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters north of the Litani River — about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the border — and dismantle all military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam told the Wall Street Journal last month that his government had achieved 80 percent of its objectives regarding the disarmament of Hezbollah and other militias in the country’s south.
At the same time, the IDF has continued to launch targeted strikes on Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure, alleging violations of the truce agreement. According to the IDF, over 180 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in that time.
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[Rudaw] Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned new United States sanctions targeting the country’s alleged “shadow banking” network and oil trade.
"The new US sanctions against Iran, imposed within the framework of the inhumane and failed policy of maximum pressure against the Iranian people, are illegal and violate international legal principles and standards, and are further evidence of the deep and ongoing hostility of the US ruling regime towards the Iranian people," said Esmail Baghei, Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
The US on Friday announced new sanctions on more than 35 individuals and entities linked to Iran’s “shadow banking” and oil smuggling networks.
“This network has laundered billions of dollars through Iranian exchange houses and foreign front companies to sustain Tehran’s campaigns of terror that undermine international peace and security and line the pockets of regime elites,” said the Department of State.
Washington has continued to impose new sanctions on Iran while it is engaged in talks with Tehran about its nuclear program and sanctions relief.
The indirect, Oman-mediated negotiations began in April. A key roadblock in the revived talks is the issue of uranium enrichment. While US negotiators are pushing for zero enrichment, Tehran maintains that this is a nonstarter.
The talks mark the most significant engagement since 2018, when US President Donald Trump, during his first term in office, withdrew Washington from the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran. Under that deal, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Following the US withdrawal and reimposition of sweeping sanctions, Tehran gradually reduced its compliance.
One hopes today’s CIA is working hard to make up for the bunch in charge in 2003 and the years that followed, who either covered up a critical enemy action because they held themselves higher than the elected president of the United States or for whatever reason completely missed it.
[IsraelTimes] Iran conducted and covered up “a number” of implosion tests that are key to developing a nuclear weapon in 2003, an analysis of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s May 31 report on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program reveals.
According to the Washington, DC-based Institute for Science and International Security think tank, which analysed and published key points from the IAEA report, the activities carried out by Iran were in preparation for a “cold test” in the development of a nuclear bomb, which involves the creation of “a fully assembled nuclear device with a surrogate core of natural or depleted uranium rather than weapons-grade uranium.”
Four tests were carried out in Marivan that “utilized ‘full-scale hemispherical implosion systems,’ involving the initiation of high explosives, with the generation of a spherically inward shock wave, and a resulting compression of a nuclear explosive core, minus the weapons-grade uranium and EDNS,” according to the institute, citing the IAEA report.
Explosively driven neutron sources are devices that utilize high explosives to create a burst of neutrons, and are key for the building of nuclear weapons.
According to ISIS, the IAEA’s report reveals for the first time that activities at the four nuclear sites — Marivan, Lavisan-Shian, Varamin, and Turquz-Abad — are deeply connected with the issue of missing nuclear material.
Iran, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction, has denied seeking to build a nuclear weapon while enriching uranium to levels that have no use for civilian purposes
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..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
