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Good Morning



White House says 'The View' could be
cancelled next following Joy Behar''s anti-Trump tirade
Friday 07/25/2025

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Europe
Hungary bans anti-Israel rap group
Kneecap from entering country for festival gig
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Amnesty International accuses
Iran of firing cluster munitions at Israel
Britain
Former UK Labour chief Jeremy
Corbyn launches new anti-Israel party
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli and Syrian ministers meet for
1st time since 2000, in US-facilitated dialogue
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Fifth Column
Josh Shapiro: Mamdani must check %u2018blatantly
antisemitic%u2019 rhetoric among supporters
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
%u2018This war no longer has a security purpose%u2019: %u2018Thousands%u2019 rally for hostages in Tel Aviv, dozens arrested
Wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan dead at 71


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#1  They bite!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/25/2025 1:59 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
For years, US-approved visas meant for abused children went to adults, criminals and gang members, DHS finds

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/25/2025 01:25 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Money talks?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/25/2025 2:06 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
27 civilians killed and 43 injured in RSF attack on Brima Rashid village, West Kordofan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  And, since Israel is not involved, nobody gives a f*ck!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/25/2025 2:29 Comments || Top||


Somalia: Local forces in Hiiraan launched a successful operation against Al-Shabaab
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Togo is considering building forward combat posts in the region which borders Burkina Faso, Benin, and Ghana
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Cameroon: ISWAP attacked an army base in Goulidjouan, killing one soldier and injuring three
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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: ISWAP


Mozambique: Since January, Al-Shabaab militants have abducted at least 120 children in Cabo Delgado
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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (IS-Mozambique)


Arabia
Reports of a large explosion in Sana'a, Yemen
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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  What is really needed is biological weapon that attacks the Catha edulis plants.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/25/2025 2:14 Comments || Top||


Explosions were heard at a weapons depot in Yemen's Al-Anad military base
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Al Anad Air Base is a Yemeni military air base located in Tuban district of the Lahij Governorate. It is the biggest air base in Yemen. It is the biggest air base in Yemen.

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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Reports Yemen Houthis Hijacked An Israel-Linked Ship In The Red Sea
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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [40 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


India-Pakistan
Army officer among two martyred in Mastung anti-terror operation
[GEO.TV] An army major and another security personnel were martyred during an operation in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
's Mastung district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday.

In a statement, the military's media wing said the incident took place on Wednesday when the security Forces were conducting an intelligence-based operation in the district, on the reported presence of holy warriors belonging to the Indian proxy, Fitna al-Hindustan.

During the conduct of the operation, the Pak troops effectively engaged the terrorists' location and as a result, three holy warriors were sent to hell, the military's media wing said.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
during the intense fire exchange, Major Zeeyyad Salim Awal, 31, a resident of Khushab, a brave officer who was leading his troops from the front, fought gallantly, paid the ultimate sacrifice and embraced shahadat.

The ISPR statement added that apart from the major, another brave son of the soil, Sepoy Nazam Hussain, 22, a resident of Jhelum district, embraced martyrdom.

A sanitisation operation is being conducted to eliminate any other Indian sponsored holy warriors found in the area.

The security forces of Pakistain, it said, are determined to wipe out the menace of Indian Sponsored Terrorism from the country, and such sacrifices of our brave men further strengthen our resolve.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Baloch Liberation Army


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Three Palestinians from East Jerusalem arrested on suspicion of joining ISIS, plotting to attack security forces
[IsraelTimes] Three Palestinians from East Jerusalem were arrested recently on suspicion of plotting a terror attack against security forces at a checkpoint in the area, police say.

The three suspects had allegedly planned to target the Sheikh Saed checkpoint in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood with a car bomb.

According to police, all three suspects had joined ISIS and were in contact with the terror group’s operatives in the West Bank and Syria. They had planned to travel to Syria to be trained in bombmaking. The suspects also consumed large amounts of online ISIS content, including propaganda and execution videos from warzones abroad, police say.

Operating off Shin Bet intelligence, the police arrested one of the suspects, a resident of Sur Baher in his 20s, several weeks ago. In the days following the initial arrest, police detained two additional suspects, also in their 20s, for questioning.

Officers searched the home of the initial suspect a few days later and discovered he had been in possession of a pistol, as well as ammunition concealed inside one of his socks.

One of the suspects had purchased a firearm with the stated intent of “killing Jews,” police say.

The three explored several methods of carrying out their thwarted terror attack. They had considered shooting at checkpoint security forces and also weighed using a drone, but eventually settled on detonating a car bomb at the checkpoint, believing it would cause greater damage and more deaths, police say.

The suspects’ remand has been extended several times by the court since their initial arrest. Law enforcement says that it expects prosecutors to file charges against all three, after a prosecutor’s statement was filed against two of the detainees earlier.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/25/2025 2025-07-25 02:58 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


IDF: We intercepted drone from Yemen
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it intercepted a UAV from Yemen, adding that no sirens were triggered, as there was no threat posed to civilians.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/25/2025 2025-07-25 01:59 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


‘This war no longer has a security purpose’: ‘Thousands’ rally for hostages in Tel Aviv, dozens arrested
The photos at the link look like it’s dozens, not thousands, but perhaps somewhere there are photos that show more.
[IsraelTimes] Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Thursday for a protest demanding an end to 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 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...
war and return of the hostages after Israel announced it had recalled its negotiators from 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...
where they’d been holding indirect talks with Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
The rally, which began with a moment of silence for fallen soldiers, a prayer for the safety of the troops and the release of the hostages, featured parents of hostages, parents of soldiers, and reservists demanding that the war — on its 657th day — finally come to a close.

"In the beginning, this was a just war. But after 22 months, this war no longer has a security purpose," declared Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Noam Tibon.

"The war has turned into a political war, and while the best of us are falling in Gaza, the October 7 Government — the government of the failure and neglect, is passing a disgraceful draft-evasion bill, weakening the IDF and playing politics on the backs of our fighters," he said, referring to efforts by the government to keep the coalition together by exempting ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from mandatory military service.

"Today, as the hostage negotiating team is again being recalled, we all already know and understand that the only way to bring all the hostages home is to make a deal to end the war," Tibon said, adding: "Everyone knows that it’s entirely possible and must happen in one go, without ’selections,'" — a reference to the partial deal being advanced by the government, which only envisions the initial release of roughly half of the remaining hostages.
What they demand is impossible. Why do they want to keep the government from actually accomplishing anything, to win the war and get the hostages back?
While Hamas has offered to release all 50 remaining hostages in one batch in exchange for an end to the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the trade, arguing that it would leave Hamas in power.
If Hamas remains in power, they will do another 10/7, then another and anther until Israel surrenders — so they have promised. The only possibility for Israel is to defeat Hamas and drive them far away from Gaza.
Hostage families have decried partial hostage deals, comparing the process to the "selections" Nazis made during the Holocaust, between Jews who would be kept alive for forced labor and Jews who would be sent straight to the gas chambers.
Oh grow up.
At the end of the protest, demonstrators burned tires and blocked roads in two different parts of Tel Aviv.

Thick smoke could be seen near Begin Road and on King George Street before officers put out the flames. Demonstrators also sat in the road to block traffic before being forcibly cleared by police.

There were at least two arrests, according to Hebrew media. The Protest Detainee Legal Support Front, which confirmed one arrest, published footage of coppers yanking a man by his shirt out of a crowd of protesters near Begin Road.

24 ARREST AT ANTI-WAR PROTEST IN HAIFA
In Haifa, police arrested 24 protesters at a small anti-war demonstration held in the city’s German Colony.

Officers were filmed attempting to disperse the demonstrators while tearing up signs only a few minutes after the protest began.

Later on, officers started tackling protesters to the ground, handcuffing them and carrying them to a police van.

Police described the 24 detained protesters as rioters, saying they "did not respond to officers’ orders, held up signs and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza."

In a video from the site of the protest, one handcuffed demonstrator shouted to news hounds that officers had beaten several female protesters inside the van before she herself was pushed into a police car.

The protest was one of several anti-war demonstrations organized by Haifa’s Arab residents, which often see mass arrests.

A small number of left-wing Jewish Israelis also attend these demonstrations, which typically amount to a few dozen participants.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The kindest thing (and probably not factual) is to assume that these people driven mad by worry.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/25/2025 1:53 Comments || Top||


IDF eliminated key Hamxs terrorist Muhammad al-'Amour near Khan Yunis, and more
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More Gaza excitements from the Times of Israel:
Additionally, eight IDF soldiers were wounded, including two moderately and six lightly, in an “operational accident” in the northern Gaza Strip earlier today, the military said

The troops were taken to a hospital, and their families were notified, the army added.
Earlier from the Times of Israel:
Soldier seriously hurt in Gaza combat; IDF chief says war at ‘significant juncture’​​
[IsraelTimes] IDF says 70 aid trucks entered Gaza as Israel pushes back on claims of starvation crisis; Katz: If hostages not returned soon, ‘gates of hell will open’

A tank soldier was seriously maimed during fighting in southern 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...
on Wednesday, as Israeli security chiefs suggested the war was at a turning point and could intensify while talks on a possible ceasefire and hostage release deal continued.

The IDF announced Thursday that the soldier, in the 188th Armored Brigade’s 71st Battalion, was taken to a hospital for treatment and his family was notified.

The incident occurred a day after four soldiers were maimed in Gaza, three of them in the south’s Rafah and another in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, where the IDF recently began ground operations.

Also on Thursday morning, the military said Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
had launched a rocket at one of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid distribution sites in the southern Gaza Strip overnight. According to the IDF, the rocket was launched from Khan Younis toward the area of the GHF sites in Rafah. The projectile impacted some 250 meters from one of the aid sites, close to the army’s Morag Corridor.

The aid site opened for Paleostinians to collect food packages Thursday despite the attack. The IDF said the rocket attack "adds to the attempts by the terror organizations, who operate cruelly and systematically, to sabotage the aid distribution sites program... while attempting to disrupt the distribution of humanitarian aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip."

The fighting is continuing as global criticism over reports of starvation in Gaza has mounted. Israel has rejected the claims and said it was making extensive efforts to let in aid.

On Wednesday, Zamir said that "we are at a very significant juncture that will impact the continuation of the campaign."

"There has never been a war like this in the history of the IDF. We are operating in Tehran, Sanaa, Beirut, Syria, Jenin, and in the main center of gravity, the Gaza Strip," he said, according to remarks provided by the IDF.

Hamas-linked health officials in Gaza said on Wednesday that more than 100 people had been killed in 24 hours by Israeli strikes or gunfire. The figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters. The IDF said it had struck over 100 terror targets in the Strip, including cells of operatives, booby-trapped buildings, tunnels, and other infrastructure.

Ten more Paleostinians died of starvation, the health officials said, bringing the total number of people who have allegedly starved to death to 111, most of them in recent weeks as a wave of hunger has intensified in the Paleostinian enclave.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that 21 children under the age of five were among those who had died of malnutrition so far this year. Citing the Israeli ban on aid entering Gaza that was in place from March to May, it said the resumption of food deliveries was still far below what is needed.

Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said Thursday that 70 humanitarian aid trucks, primarily containing food, entered the Gaza Strip the previous day.

Some of the trucks entered southern Gaza via the Kerem Shalom Crossing, and others entered the northern part of the Strip through the Zikim Crossing. COGAT said the aid was delivered following thorough security inspections.

Assistant United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
Secretary-General Khaled Khiari told the UN Security Council that UNRWA, the agency that assists Paleostinian refugees, will soon run out of money. Khiari said that current forecasts show insufficient funds to sustain operations beyond 2025.

Israel has accused the agency of working with Hamas and has provided evidence of several of its employees taking part in the terror group’s October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel. Evidence and testimony from hostages indicate that they were at times held at UNRWA facilities.

Israel passed a law last year prohibiting the UN refugee agency from operating within Israel, though the legislation does not apply to the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli aircraft bombard Hezbollah assets in southern Lebanon — IDF
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli Air Force killed a Hezbollah operative and struck several of the terror group’s military facilities in southern Lebanon today, the IDF says.

The operative was killed in a drone strike in Ayta ash-Shab, also in southern Lebanon, according to the military.

Elsewhere, fighter jets bombed Hezbollah sites that the IDF says contained weapons caches and rocket launchers.

The military says the presence of the weapons and Hezbollah’s activities in the area “constitute a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
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Massive explosion in Idlib, SYRIA
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Who's in the News
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6Houthis
3Govt of Syria/HTS
3Palestinian Authority
2Govt of Pakistan
1Govt of Iran
1Govt of Iran Proxies
1Govt of Sudan
1al-Shabaab (IS-Mozambique)
1al-Shabaab (AQ)
1Hezbollah
1al-Qaeda
1Human Trafficking
1Islamic State
1ISWAP
1Migrants/Illegal Immigrants
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1Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
1Devout Moslems
1Baloch Liberation Army

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  Houthis Hijack Israel-Linked Ship In The Red Sea
Thu 2025-07-24
  Shin Bet detained a woman accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Netanyahu using an improvised explosive device
Wed 2025-07-23
  Illegal immigrants are now 'going on strike' to protest ICE raids
Tue 2025-07-22
  Syria starts evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida in bid to restore calm after more than 1260 killed
Mon 2025-07-21
  Mali: FAMa announced that over 70 terrorists were neutralized
Sun 2025-07-20
  Clashes end in Suwayda after govt forces deployment, 940 dead
Sat 2025-07-19
  Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem: We're ready to fight — no to disarming, no to surrender.
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  Libya: Armed clashes reported in Najila between militia forces and Dbeibah's defense units
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  Israeli airstrikes hit the Syrian Presidential Palace and the Syrian General Staff HQ in Damascus
Wed 2025-07-16
  Syrian Internal security with Ministry of Defense expelled outlawed groups from Suwayda, over 100 Druze dead
Tue 2025-07-15
  At least 30 people killed in armed clashes in Syria's Sweida, says interior ministry
Mon 2025-07-14
  IDF seizes 3 tons of arms from ex-Assad regime sites
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