[IsraelTimes] A judge is considering a Trump administration request to end a decades-old policy on protections for immigrant children in federal custody that the government says is inhibiting its immigration crackdown.
The administration asked US District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles during a hearing to dissolve the policy, which limits how long Customs and Border Protection can hold immigrant children and requires them to be kept in safe and sanitary conditions.
Gee, who oversees what is known as the Flores agreement, expressed skepticism at the government’s request but did not immediately issue a ruling. It is not clear how soon she will rule.
The judge pressed government attorney Joshua McCroskey on why President Donald Trump’s administration was holding children at the border for longer than the 72 hours laid out in the agreement when border arrests have reached record lows. She said it seems like conditions should be improving but they “are deteriorating.”
“It seems counterintuitive that should happen unless it’s willful,” said Gee, who was nominated to the court by President Barack Obama.
McCroskey said some children are being held for longer because Trump as part of his crackdown ended the Biden administration’s policy that allowed expedited releases of immigrants. McCroskey also pointed to logistical challenges that resulted from the closure of temporary facilities that were set up under President Joe Biden to handle an influx of immigrants.
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When 2 illegals, illegally enter into the USA and has a child here.
Isn't the whole process, the result of a crime?
Even it was conceived, here, it was still the results of a criminal act.
Looking at this another way.
Say a person robbed a bank, stole $100,000, and then gave it to their child.
Does that child have a legal right to the stolen $$$$$$? NO!
HOW ABOUT 2 SIMPLE SMALL STEPS
1. Say the person does not have a valid VISA or US ID and wants to send $$$$ back home.
Simply start adding a 25% Federal tax/tariff to all money flowing from the USA to other countries.
2. PLUS ! Start deducting US Foreign Aid $$$$ to offending nations for each Illegal arrested and to cover damages and admin handling fees incurred.
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DACA was instituted 30 years ago by Janet Reno! How long is temporary supposed to last. Everyone effected is at least in their 30's by now. Enough is enough. Send them back and they can take their kids with them!
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[ShabelleMedia] The United States has officially withdrawn its financial and military support for Somalia’s elite Danab forces and funding for the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeeping mission (AUSSOM), signaling a significant deterioration in its cooperation with the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS).
Multiple sources familiar with the matter said that the decision follows low cooperation between Washington and Mogadishu over diverging views on security architecture and the management of counter-terrorism operations. This comes at a time when Somalia faces increasing political instability and persistent security threats from al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... and ISIS-affiliated groups.
In contrast, the US appears to be strengthening its ties with the semi-autonomous Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... State and 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.... , both of which maintain relative stability and have shown a consistent commitment to fighting gunnies in their regions.
In Bosaso on Thursday, Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni hosted a farewell ceremony for Colonel ED Norris, outgoing commander of US Special Operations in East Africa. He also welcomed his successor, Colonel Benander, during a meeting that underscored the deepening security cooperation between the US and Puntland.
President Deni presented Colonel Norris with a traditional Somali gift in appreciation of the US government’s support in counter-terrorism operations in the rugged Cal Miskaad mountains. He expressed hope that Colonel Benander would continue to bolster Puntland-US collaboration, particularly in securing the region and dismantling holy warrior cells.
In his remarks, Colonel Norris praised the Puntland authorities for their unwavering resolve against terrorism. As a symbolic gesture, he handed over a US-fired missile shell used in a recent strike that eliminated holy warrior targets in the Alleelo-yar area of the Cal Miskaad range.
He also awarded medals of recognition to PMPF Director General Gen. Abdulrabi Abdusamad and other senior officers for their critical roles in joint operations during his tenure.
Washington’s pivot away from the federal government towards more localized actors like Puntland and Somaliland is expected to have wide-ranging implications for Somalia’s internal power dynamics and regional security.
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A convicted drug dealer & knife offender from Guinea has won the right to stay in Britain after 18 years of failed deportation attempts, judges ruled he was 'socially integrated' into the UK@PatrickChristys says without mass deportations, the migrant crisis will never be solved pic.twitter.com/1bngKrscH3
Of course they aren’t. Not such superior specimens as themselves. It’s not their fault they have to accommodate fans who are… well you know how they are.
[IsraelTimes] The chairman of Fortuna Düsseldorf has defended the German soccer club’s decision to pull out of signing Israeli player Shon Weissman after fan backlash over his social media posts about Gaza, saying it’s “absurd” to accuse the second-division team of antisemitism.
Düsseldorf announced Tuesday that it would not recruit Weissman from Spanish team Granada despite having been in advanced negotiations.
Fans had opposed the planned signing of the 29-year-old Weissman because of his social media posts expressing support for Israel’s conduct in Gaza following the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Weissman’s Instagram account was set to “private” today.
In the social media post on Tuesday announcing the decision, the club did not say why it had called off the transfer. But Fortuna issued a statement yesterday saying Weissman’s “statements on social media and the subsequent handling of them were not consistent with our values.”
Chairman Klaus Allofs defends the club’s decision before the team’s match against Hannover today, but acknowledges that a faster process to reach the decision would have been preferable.
“I wouldn’t say it was a mistake. We tried to sign a player and I think that’s legitimate,” Allofs says. “It’s also part of our values, that we don’t limit ourselves with prejudices and rule things out from the start.”
Allofs says the club deliberately waited to consult with Jewish community members in Düsseldorf before deciding against the signing.
Asked about accusations of antisemitism, Allofs says: “It’s absurd, to put it bluntly.”
[IsraelTimes] Mediators from Egypt and Qatar are working on a new framework which will include the release of all hostages — dead and alive — in one go in return for an end of the war in Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the strip, according to two Arab officials speaking to The Associated Press anonymously due to the sensitivity of the discussions.
One is involved directly in the deliberations and the second was briefed on the efforts.
The efforts have the backing of major Arab Gulf monarchies, the officials say, as they are concerned about further regional destabilization if Israel’s government proceeds with a full reoccupation of Gaza, two decades after its unilateral withdrawal from the strip.
The yet-to-be finalized framework aims to address the contentious issue of what to do with Hamas’s weapons, with Israel seeking full disarmament and Hamas refusing. The official directly involved in the efforts says discussions are underway about “freezing arms,” which may involve Hamas retaining but not using its weapons. It also calls for the group to relinquish power in the strip.
A Palestinian-Arab committee would run Gaza and oversee the reconstruction efforts until the establishment of a Palestinian administration with a new police force, trained by two US allies in the Middle East, to take over the strip, he says. It is unclear what role the Western-backed Palestinian Authority would play.
The second official says that a powerful Gulf country is supporting the Egyptian-Qatari efforts.
A senior Hamas official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to brief the media, says the group’s leadership has been aware of the Arab mediators’ efforts to revive the ceasefire talks, but has yet to receive details.
AP has reached out to the governments in Qatar, Egypt and Israel for comment.
[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee demands "accountability" for the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... and its "massive funding," which he declares is "either incompetent or corrupt," after a new research paper finds that aid diversion is a recurring problem in war zones across the world.
The paper, titled "Aiding Who? Humanitarian Aid and the Continuation of War by Other Means," by Netta Barak Corren and Jonathan Boxman, was published on August 5 on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Barak Corren is the Haim H. Cohn Chair in Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Law, and Boxman is a health sciences and quantitative science independent researcher.
The paper examines records and documents kept by humanitarian groups across eight different prolonged conflicts — Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , 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... , Æthiopia and 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... Strip — to examine the impact of the "humanity-first" aid model, which the authors argue leads to aid diversion not as a "deviation from normative humanitarian practices," but as an issue "deeply embedded" in all stages of the process.
The humanitarian groups examined by the authors include UNRWA, USAID and Human Rights Watch, among others.
The report highlights what it says are issues in the aid distribution practices across all eight conflict zones.
In Somalia, it says the World Food Programme entrusted aid transport, storage and security to three clans, which use the proceeds from their tenders to fund armed militias and which have previously been estimated to divert some 30% of aid away from its intended recipients.
In Afghanistan, the authors write that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... imposes a 10-15% tax rate on humanitarian groups and also regularly physically diverts aid through a variety of tactics, including by securing jobs for its own people within various aid groups.
The researchers find that during the 2011-2024 Syrian civil war, aid would regularly be diverted to then-president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... ’s loyalist strongholds and withheld from rebel-controlled areas, as the aid groups allowed the Syrian regime to determine which areas were safe to deliver to and which were not. The paper reports on similar practices, which it describes as "denial of aid through bureaucratization" during the ongoing Sudanese civil war.
Finally, in the Gaza Strip, the paper’s authors say that in all its years of operations, from 1949 until now, UNRWA, the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, has never acknowledged any aid diversion in Gaza, nor any preventative methods to prevent aid diversion.
However,
a woman is only as old as she admits... the paper says there is "an abundance of evidence" pointing to frequent aid diversion.
It cites an old internal Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... document calling to appropriate 25% of all aid delivered to the Strip for redistribution and sale, as well as a failure to exempt humanitarian aid from a 20% tax that, as of 2016, was imposed on all goods entering the Gaza Strip.
The authors point to other instances, including the participation of some UNRWA employees in the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault in southern Israel, as proof that the agency "has been intertwined with Hamas to a degree that allowed Hamas to use its resources as it pleases."
The paper concludes that the current prevailing method of aid distribution is no longer effective, and that, as such, a new model "which seeks to truly alleviate human suffering" must be introduced, with strong anti-diversion safeguards in place.
Notably, the authors chose to focus their research on the Middle East and Africa, and did not examine past or present wars in other areas of the world, such as the ongoing war in Ukraine or any other conflicts in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in the late 20th and early 21st century.
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Sure would be nice if this leads to something like getting the U.N. out of business altogether!! What a waste, almost as bad as the Portland city council.
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^ More socialists on the Portland City Council
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[Rudaw] Iraq’s oil marketing agency on Friday denied reports of smuggling or blending Iraqi oil with that of neighboring countries, after United States sanctions targeted an Iraqi-linked network accused of disguising Iranian oil.
"Talk about the existence of places that allow the smuggling of Iraqi oil and blending it with the oil of neighboring countries is untrue," Ali Nizar Faiq, general director of the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO), told state-run Iraqi News Agency (INA).
"There are no blending or smuggling operations inside Iraqi ports or regional waters," he added.
Last month, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against a network accused of smuggling "billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil." The sanctions target companies allegedly controlled by Iraqi-British businessman Salim Ahmed Said, who is accused of using fraudulent documentation and ship-to-ship transfers to disguise Iranian oil as Iraqi, including through blending.
"There is no evidence in any international body that confirms the existence of this kind of blending or smuggling," Faiq said.
The sanctions are part of renewed US pressure on 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... following the reimposition of Washington’s "maximum pressure" policy in February. The July measures came shortly after a 12-day war between Iran and Israel, during which the US struck Iranian nuclear facilities.
KURDISTAN REGION OIL EXPORTS
Faiq also said Iraq is prepared to resume oil exports from the Kurdistan Region once producing companies begin deliveries.
SOMO "has completed all preparations, and has completed contracts with the purchasing companies, and is fully prepared to start exporting oil from the region as soon as the producing companies in the region start delivering the produced quantities," he said.
Under a recent agreement between Erbil and Baghdad, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) committed to exporting its oil - about 230,000 barrels per day - through SOMO. In return, Baghdad agreed to release delayed salaries for the KRG’s public servants.
Kurdistan Region’s oil exports through the Iraq-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... pipeline have been halted since March 2023, when a Gay Paree-based arbitration court ruled Ankara had violated a 1973 agreement by allowing the KRG to export oil independently starting in 2014.
Talks between Baghdad, Erbil, and international oil companies continue about a long-term framework to fully restore the Region’s exports.
[Rudaw] 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 has ordered the dismissal of two Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) brigade commanders and their referral to the judiciary in connection with a deadly armed assault on Baghdad’s Karkh Agriculture Department last month, his spokesperson said on Saturday.
"The armed elements that committed this breach are affiliated with the Hezbollah Brigades formation and are members of the 45th and 46th Brigades of the Popular Mobilization Forces," Sabah al-Numan said in a statement.
Three people were killed during the assault on the agriculture ministry office in western Baghdad on July 27. More than a dozen suspects linked to the Iran-backed PMF have already been arrested in connection with the attack.
Brigades 45 and 46 are part of Kata’ib Hezbollah, a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi militia designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Numan said the brigades moved without orders or approval, violating military protocols, and used weapons against security personnel, causing deaths and injuries, including civilians.
The findings of the committee formed by Sudani to investigate the assault also implicated the dismissed director of the Karkh Agriculture Department, Ayad Kazim Ali, in coordinating the gang’s deployment. Official documents and Ali’s administrative file revealed his involvement in corruption, impersonation, forgery of official documents, and fraudulent contracts that led to the seizure of agricultural lands, according to the committee’s findings.
Numan also noted serious flaws in the PMF’s command and control, including the existence of units operating outside military regulations.
Based on these findings, the prime minister approved recommendations that included dismissing the commanders of the 45th and 46th Brigades.
An investigative council has also been formed to look into negligence by the commander of the PMF’s al-Jazeera Operations. Numan also said that a committee made up of relevant ministries and big shotship will review unit deployments, professional efficiency, and the competency of commanders.
This is not the first time Kata’ib Hezbollah has clashed with Iraqi state forces. Previous incidents include a firefight with federal police in Baghdad in May 2023 and a confrontation with the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service at Camp Speicher in March 2023.
The group has also been accused of violent mostly peacefully cracking down on the 2019 Tishreen Movement pro-reform protests and involvement in a November 2021 drone liquidation attempt on then-Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi at his Green Zone residence. While Kata’ib Hezbollah has denied involvement, the use of explosive-laden drones - a hallmark of Iran-backed Iraqi militias - and Kadhimi’s perceived alignment with the US fueled widespread suspicions of their responsibility.
Washington holds Kata’ib Hezbollah, a key player in the Iran-led "Axis of Resistance®," responsible for numerous attacks on American targets since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... conflict in October 2023.
[IsraelTimes] An unnamed Israeli official hints at the possibility of bringing Hamas back to the negotiating table for a ceasefire-hostage release deal, speaking to Channel 12 news.
“With the flooding of the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid, Hamas’s starvation campaign is fading away. Hamas understands that it shot itself in the foot with the videos of starving hostages, and therefore, the possibility that they will return to negotiations can’t be dismissed,” the official says.
“The mediators are already seeing positive signs of this,” the official adds.
[IsraelTimes] Mike Huckabee outraged by Britain’s positions on war: ‘So Israel is expected to surrender to Hamas & feed them even though Israeli hostages are being starved?’
The US ambassador to Israel on Friday launched a furious attack on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, saying that Britannia would have lost World War II to Nazi Germany under his leadership.
Starmer is among several world leaders to oppose Israel’s plan to wrest control of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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 — and ambassador Mike Huckabee expressed his disagreement in trenchant terms.
"So Israel is expected to surrender to Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... & feed them even though Israeli hostages are being starved?" Huckabee wrote on social media.
"Did UK surrender to Nazis and drop food to them?... If you had been PM then UK would be speaking German!"
Israel’s military will push to take control of Gaza City under a new plan approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet, touching off a wave of criticism.
"This action will do nothing to bring an end to this conflict or to help secure the release of the hostages," Starmer said, adding that it would "only bring more bloodshed."
Starmer also drew anger in Israel late last month when he announced that the UK would recognize a Paleostinian state in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the war and humanitarian crisis in the Strip, and meets several other conditions, including recommitting to a grinding of the peace processor.
Starmer said that Israel could forestall the measure by reaching a ceasefire in Gaza and ending the "appalling situation" there, making clear that it will not annex the West Bank, and committing to a grinding of the peace processor that results in a two-state solution.
"The Paleostinian people have endured terrible suffering," Starmer told news hounds. "Now, in Gaza, because of a catastrophic failure of aid, we see starving babies, children too weak to stand, images that will stay with us for a lifetime. The suffering must end."
Starmer has worked hard to build ties with US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , inviting him for a state visit next month hosted by King Chuck ...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years... III.
On Thursday, British Ambassador to Israel Simon Walters said it "would be a huge mistake" for Israel to occupy all of Gaza, and pushed back on American and Israeli accusations that the planned UK recognition of Paleostinian statehood would reward Hamas.
Hosting a briefing for Israeli news hounds, Walters also condemned settler violence in the West Bank, "for which [Israel] seems to [impose] no consequences," and highlighted Gaza’s "horrifying" humanitarian situation, calling on Israel to allow "full unrestricted access to aid."
Responding to reports on the decision to conquer Gaza, Walters said, "That would be a huge mistake."
"The IDF has done all that it can do in Gaza — it’s not going to achieve any more by fighting any longer," said Walters. "Extending the war any further will simply lead to more deaths — deaths of soldiers, deaths of Paleostinians, and, likely, deaths of hostages."
He added that if Israel wants to defeat Hamas, "it can’t do that only militarily — it requires politics and diplomacy, and giving Gazooks an alternative to Hamas" as Gaza’s post-war government.
Gantz says Western nations’ anti-Israel rhetoric harming chances for hostage deal
[IsraelTimes] Blue and White-National Unity party chairman Benny Gantz accuses the foreign ministers of multiple nations of harming the chances of reaching a hostage deal, after they condemned Israel’s decision to launch an operation to take over Gaza City.
“Actions like unilateral illusionary Palestinian recognition, weapon sanctions & critical letters of Israel are harming the prospects of securing a hostage deal,” Gantz writes in an English-language post on X.
“Not only do they inadvertently reward terror and harden Hamas’ position — they are prolonging the war. As an Israeli opposition leader, let me say this very clearly — instead of pressuring Israel, the west should focus on putting an end to Hamas leadership’s impunity abroad.”
Gantz’s statement comes in response to a joint statement by the foreign ministers of Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom, and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs in which they “strongly reject the decision of the Israeli Security Cabinet on 8th August to launch an additional large-scale military operation in Gaza.”
Such an operation “will aggravate the catastrophic humanitarian situation, endanger the lives of the hostages, and further risk the mass displacement of civilians,” they wrote, adding that Israel’s plans “risk violating international humanitarian law.”
"Talks with Hamas fell apart on the day Macron made the unilateral decision that he’s going to recognize the Palestinian state ... So those messages, while largely symbolic in their minds, actually have made it harder to get peace and harder to achieve a deal with Hamas. " —… pic.twitter.com/Xt74bu7umF
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The decision of the Israeli authorities to expand the plan of the military operation in the Gaza Strip with the capture of the central region, which was previously the most densely populated, will worsen the situation in the region. This was stated by the Russian Foreign Ministry on August 9.
"It is expected that in the near future there will not be a single civilian left there. They will all be subject to forced expulsion," the ministry's website says.
The Foreign Ministry also pointed out that Tel Aviv does not hide its plans to occupy the entire Palestinian enclave. Russia condemns such decisions, as they will lead to an aggravation of the situation in the Gaza Strip, where a humanitarian catastrophe has already begun.
“It is obvious that this will significantly complicate international efforts to de-escalate the conflict zone, with serious negative consequences for the entire Middle East region,” the Foreign Ministry emphasized.
Russia continues to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the release of all hostages and the restoration of unimpeded humanitarian access to the region. Moscow is also convinced that the conflict cannot be resolved without the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with its capital in East Jerusalem, the ministry stressed.
That’s nice. It doesn’t matter, but at least you feel better for saying it, right?
On August 7, it became known that the Israeli government approved the decision of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to occupy the city of Gaza. It is planned to evict about 1 million Palestinians from it. Tel Aviv expects that the operation will take several months.
We are not going to occupy Gaza - we are going to free Gaza from Hamas.
Gaza will be demilitarized, and a peaceful civilian administration will be established, one that is not the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas, and not any other terrorist organization.
This will help free…
— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) August 8, 2025
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirms that the security cabinet has approved his plan for the IDF to take over Gaza City in the north of the enclave.
Israel will provide humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside of combat zones, the PMO says in a statement on what it says was the decision by the cabinet to back Netanyahu’s “proposal to defeat Hamas.”
A majority of cabinet members also backed a list of five principles that Israel will demand in exchange for ending the war with Hamas, the Prime Minister’s Office says, describing them as follows.
1. The disarmament of Hamas
2. The return of all 50 remaining hostages, 20 of whom are believed to be alive
3. The demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.
4. Israeli security control over the Gaza Strip.
5. The existence of an alternative civilian government that is not Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.
An overwhelming majority of ministers determined that the alternative plan presented to the security cabinet would not have secured the defeat of Hamas or the return of the hostages, the PMO says.
The statement doesn’t elaborate on the aforementioned alternative plan, but it appears to be referring to a proposal presented by IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, who has expressed his opposition to occupying the Gaza Strip, fearing it will lead to a humanitarian disaster, while risking the lives of the hostages.
It’s unclear why the statement only refers to conquering Gaza City and not the occupation of the entirety of the Gaza Strip, as Netanyahu declared on Thursday was his plan.
Gaza City is part of the 25 percent of the Strip that the IDF has yet to conquer, along with several refugee camps in central Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] At least 15 top researchers moved to secure locations, The Telegraph reports, amid calls to improve protection after Israeli assassinations that opened June war
Iranian nuclear scientists have been sent into hiding after dozens were killed by Israel during its 12-day offensive against Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic-missile programs in June, The Telegraph reported on Saturday.
The British daily said that over 15 of the surviving researchers, among 100 on an Israeli list, are no longer living in their homes or lecturing at universities amid fears of renewed Israeli strikes. It cited a senior Iranian official.
The scientists have been moved to secure villas in Tehran and along the country’s northern coast with their families, while those teaching at universities were "replaced with people who have no connection with the nuclear program," the official said.
The move came after 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... executed a man on Wednesday convicted of spying for Israel by passing on information about a nuclear scientist killed during the war with Israel, the judiciary said.
Israeli experts cited by The Telegraph said that researchers ready to take over the work of assassinated scientists were "dead men walking" despite the increased security provided to them.
They added that some of the surviving scientists have already replaced their dead colleagues at Iran’s nuclear weaponization program at the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, known by its Persian acronym, SPND, including scientists with expertise in explosives, neutron physics, and warhead design.
"They saw what happened to their colleagues, and as we learned from 2010 when we eliminated the other scientists, it’s not changing their way of thinking in terms of their willingness to support the regime," said Danny Citrinowicz, the former head of the Iranian strategic desk in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate.
"Those who are left will be at the forefront of any Iranian attempt to reach a nuclear bomb, hence they will automatically become targets for Israel, as Israel has shown in the past. I have no doubt about it. Any scientist who deals with the nuclear issue will be eliminated or will be threatened with elimination," he continued.
Iran has reportedly overhauled its security protocols for nuclear scientists after Israel killed more than 30 security bigshots and 11 senior nuclear scientists in June.
The liquidation campaign spurred domestic calls for tighter protection of surviving scientists and their families, as well as for Iran to abandon its stated restraint and openly pursue a nuclear weapon.
Previously, protection of scientists had been the sole responsibility of a single Revolutionary Guards unit, but distrust has led to the involvement of multiple agencies, according to an Iranian official.
"They were all asked if they still trust their bodyguards — some said no and were provided with new ones," he said to The Telegraph.
Israel killed senior military commanders, nuclear scientists, and hundreds of others, striking both military sites and residential areas in mid-June, after launching an unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran, triggering a war during which Iran responded with missile and dronezaps.
Israel said its large-scale assault on the country’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program was necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its plan to destroy the Jewish state.
Iran responded to the attacks by firing hundreds of missiles at Israeli cities, which killed 29 people and injured over 3,000. It has faced continuing internal instability since the war ended and has launched a sweeping internal crackdown aimed at rooting out Israeli spies, dissidents, and opposition figures.
[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday said that gangs backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and aligned with Damascus have carried out more than 22 attacks in northeast Syria (Rojava), in violation of a ceasefire agreement, and called for an immediate halt to the attacks.
"The factions supported by Turkey and operating under the umbrella of the Damascus Government continue to commit repeated violations of the ceasefire in several areas, including Deir Ezzor, Deir Hafer, the Tishreen Dam, and Tal Tamir," the SDF said in a statement.
"These factions have attacked areas of North and East Syria for more than 22 times, using heavy weapons, launching ground assaults, and attempting to cross the Euphrates River to target our bases in Deir Ezzor," it added.
The most recent incident took place on Friday evening when armed individuals on the Damascus-controlled side of the Euphrates River "targeted four civilians" on the riverbank, the SDF said on Saturday. The injured, including a 12-year-old child, were taken to hospital.
After an incident last week, the federal defense ministry blamed the SDF, saying that their forces were responding to fire.
The SDF said these attacks contradict the deal signed on March 10 between Damascus and Rojava and an April agreement about administration of Kurdish neighbourhoods in Aleppo. It said it was ready for dialogue and called on Damascus and its affiliated factions to "immediately cease all violations and adhere to the terms of the agreement."
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[Rudaw] 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... on Friday returned more than 600 prisoners to Evin Prison, weeks after an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed dozens and damaged the notorious facility.
"The transfer of inmates to prison has been carried out based on security protocols (having prisoners handcuffed during transfer) and with full observance of legal regulations and individuals’ rights," said the public relations office of Tehran’s prison system, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported.
Israel struck the prison facility in June during their 12-day war after Iran executed a man accused of spying for Israel. At the time, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the attack on Evin was intended to deter Iran’s executions. The strike killed 79 people and destroyed part of the facility’s administrative building.
Iranian authorities moved inmates from Evin to other facilities, but families of prisoners raised concerns as many were left in the dark about the whereabouts of their relatives.
Returning the prisoners to Evin was also done without notifying family members, according to Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, which said the transfer of 600 prisoners began at 4:00am.
"During the mass transfer of political prisoners from the Greater Tehran Prison to Evin Prison, six political prisoners on death row - Mohammad Taghavi, Shahrokh Daneshvarkar, Vahid Bani-Amrian, Pouya Ghobadi, Babak Alipour, and Babak Shahbazi - were violent mostly peacefully beaten and separated from other inmates by security forces and taken to an unknown location. This move has raised serious concerns about the imminent execution of their sentences," Hengaw stated.
Human rights activist and Evin inmate Mehdi Mahmoudian said in a post on X that reconstruction of the prison was not complete and described the return of prisoners as "a stubborn and irrational move by the authorities to project a return to the previous state of affairs."
Established in 1972, Evin Prison in northwestern Tehran has long been a symbol of political repression in Iran. It is known for holding political prisoners, journalists, student activists and foreign nationals. The facility has been widely condemned by human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... organizations for systematic abuse, including alleged torture.
[IsraelTimes] A Syrian government official says that authorities would not participate in planned talks in Gay Paree on integrating the Kurdish semi-autonomous administration into the Syrian state and demanded that future negotiations be held in Damascus.
The move came a day after the Kurdish administration, which controls swathes of the north and northeast, held a conference involving several Syrian minority communities, the first such event since Islamists overthrew longtime ruler Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo... in December.
Participants included the head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Mazloum Abdi, who on March 10 signed a deal with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to integrate the Kurds’ civil and military institutions into the state.
The conference’s final statement called for "a democratic constitution that... establishes a decentralized state," guaranteeing the participation of all components of Syrian society.
Damascus has previously rejected calls for decentralization.
"This conference was a blow to current negotiating efforts, and based on this, [the government] will not participate in any meetings scheduled in Gay Paree," state news agency SANA quotes an unidentified government official as saying.
The government "calls on international mediators to move all negotiations to Damascus, as this is the legitimate, national location for dialogue among Syrians," the official says.
The government will not "sit at the negotiating table with any party that seeks to revive the era of the former regime under any cover," the official tells SANA, condemning the hosting of "separatist figures involved in hostile acts."
"The government sees the conference as an attempt to internationalize Syrian affairs" and invite foreign interference, the official adds.
[Rudaw] The Syrian transitional government on Saturday canceled planned negotiations with the Kurdish-led administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) in Paris after Rojava hosted representatives of the country’s minority groups for a unity conference.
“The government affirms that this conference has dealt a blow to the ongoing negotiation effort. Accordingly, it will not participate in any meetings scheduled in Paris, nor will it sit at the negotiating table with any party seeking to revive the era of the former regime,” a Syrian government source told state media.
The conference in Hasaka on Friday brought together the country’s minorities to call for changes to the transitional constitution, which has been criticized as exclusionary.
Damascus condemned the event, saying it violated the March 10 agreement signed between Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) chief Mazloum Abdi and Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa. That deal seeks to integrate the SDF into the Syrian state apparatus and recognizes the Kurds as an integral part of Syria.
Damascus and Rojava officials were expected to meet in Paris in the near future to advance stalled talks on implementing the agreement.
“The government calls on the SDF to seriously engage in implementing the March 10 agreement, and calls on international mediators to transfer all negotiations to Damascus, as it is the legitimate and national address for dialogue among Syrians,” the government source stated.
The source condemned the conference as “a fragile alliance that includes parties harmed by the victory of the Syrian people and the fall of the former regime,” and said it was holding the SDF “fully responsible” for any repercussions.
More than 400 representatives from Syria’s minority communities, including Kurds, Druze, Alawites, and Christians, attended the conference.
Syria’s minority communities have concerns about their future in the country and decisions made by interim President Sharaa and his Islamist-led government.
In March, Sharaa approved a constitutional declaration granting himself sweeping powers, including the authority to appoint all the judges of the constitutional court - the only institution capable of holding him accountable. In addition, 70 of the 210 seats in the parliament will be appointed by presidential decree. Critics have warned the interim constitution could entrench authoritarianism and marginalize minority communities.
The final statement from the conference called for the interim constitution to be amended “to ensure broader participation and fair representation.”
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MP Raad: Lebanese Government decision to disarm Hezbollah can never be implemented Hey, buddy — is that one of those cool new cell phones I see in your pocket? I hear the new batteries last practically forever!
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Head of Loyalty to Resistance® bloc MP Mohammad Raad stressed on Friday that the Lebanese government decision to disarm Hezbollah is improvised and imposed by the foreign dictates, away from the national pact and illusory sovereignty.
"The Americans and the Israelis insist on a set timetable to implement what they have dictated to the government, because time is not in their favor. In reality, the presence of the resistance is what truly spoils their plans," MP Raad said in an interview with al-Manar TV.
MP Raad indicated that the decision to disarm Hezbollah reveals to the enemy a new arena for tampering with internal stability, adding its goal may be to turn it into a domestic problem instead of a Lebanese—Israeli one.
"On Tuesday, diplomats following up on U.S. pressure contacted some figures to call the president and congratulate him."
MP Raad wondered how the state, with its own capabilities, can impose its authority — but it cannot confront the enemy.
The resistance’s weapons have protected Leb ...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?... from 1982 to 2025, liberated the land, achieved victory, established a balance of deterrence, and foiled the enemy’s expansionist project, MP Raad maintained.
The resistance’s weapons have protected Lebanon, liberated the land, established a balance of deterrence with the enemy, and brought down its expansionist project, he recalled.
The state can begin reconstruction despite the debts, but there is no authority willing to bear this responsibility, MP Raad added.
"The decision is hasty and dangerous, undermines illusory sovereignty, and exposes to the enemy a new arena for destabilizing the country from within. The aim of this decision may be to turn the problem into an internal one instead of a Lebanese—Israeli conflict."
In a post on X, Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry says it “condemns the recent declarations by Mr. Ali Akbar Velayati… which constitute flagrant and unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of Lebanon.”
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...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....
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...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 
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..always the voice of sweet reason...
...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 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
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Terror of Aleppo...
...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?...
