[AFRICANEWS] "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... 's moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad," warned Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaeda leader, in an October 2022 manifesto.
His words may have seemed premature at the time, but a year of brutal civil war has now plunged Sudan into the kind of chaos in which terrorist groups thrive. The risk of al-Qaeda gaining ground in Sudan is now very real and imperils, I believe, not only the country itself but also regional — and potentially global — security.
In April 2023, fighting broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, creating a power vacuum that Lions of Islam are eager to fill.
At the same time, the Rapid Support Forces — a group that developed under and was once allied to Sudan's al-Qaeda-harboring former president Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...> — has been solidifying its grip in strategic areas such as Darfur and southern Khartoum.
Indeed, both the paramilitary group and the armed forces have been accused of recruiting Islamist fighters, fueling fears that the civil war will — regardless of the victor — prove a toehold for bully boy groups.
As a defense policy researcher and counterterrorism expert, I'm concerned that Sudan risks becoming an al-Qaeda stronghold — and a potential base for orchestrating attacks on the U.S. and its allies. A potential Rapid Support Forces takeover in Sudan could mirror pre-9/11 Afghanistan, where Taliban
...Arabic for students... control facilitated al-Qaeda's rise.
Al-Qaeda members, seeking opportunities to achieve what they couldn't in the Middle East, are already heeding calls to head to Sudan.
DECADES OF TURMOIL AND EXTREMISM
Sudan's civil strife predates the current fighting by decades. It ignited in 1989 when al-Bashir seized power, aligning the nation with radical Islamist ideologies. He imposed Sharia law and in 1991 sheltered al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse...... . Under al-Bashir's regime, bin Laden established training camps and expanded al-Qaeda's financial network, laying the groundwork for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Facing international sanctions over its support of terrorism, Sudan expelled bin Laden in 1996.
But al-Bashir's sponsorship of the Janjaweed militia group, the architects of the 2003 Darfur genocide, further solidified his alignment with Islamist bully boys. Under scrutiny, al-Bashir rebranded the Janjaweed as the Rapid Support Forces in 2013, appointing ex-Janjaweed member Mohammed Hamdan "Hemeti" Dagalo as its leader and retaining their brutal tactics.
The 2021 coup, orchestrated by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the Sudanese Armed Forces and Hemeti of the Rapid Support Forces, soon devolved into a power struggle between the two men, igniting Sudan's current conflict.
Today, with Hemeti at the helm, the paramilitary group continues its oppressive campaign in West Darfur, engaging in alleged ethnic cleansing against the Indigenous Masalit people.
Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... a prison attack in April 2023, which the Sudanese army blamed on Rapid Support Forces rebels, facilitated the escape of al-Bashir's allies, though the former president remains hospitalized under guard.
SUDAN AT THE HEART OF JIHAD
With conflicts in the Middle Eastand Eastern Europe, the West might be overlooking the crisis in Sudan and the potential it holds for al-Qaeda, a group that has long harbored ambitions of returning to Sudan.
Despite his expulsion, bin Laden continued to emphasize Sudan's importance in his plans for global jihad. This was evident in his 2006 audiotape and diary entries in which he referred to Sudan as a pivotal operational base.
A 2023 publication by key al-Qaeda figure Ibrahim al-Qussi titled "Fragments from al-Qaeda's History" revealed that bin Laden directed an investment of US$12 million solely for jihad in Sudan, highlighting the region's ongoing relevance to al-Qaeda's objectives.
Sudan's appeal to Lions of Islam extends beyond its connections to bin Laden. Strategically bridging North and sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan is a key location for Islamist Lions of Islam aiming to expand their influence across the region.
After the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban's return to power, al-Qaeda reestablished a presence in the country, reopening training camps and madrassas.
Well before that, however, al-Qaeda had long since evolved from a centralized organization in Afghanistan into a decentralized network with global affiliates — from the Arabian Peninsula to the Indian subcontinent all the way to sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel.
HISTORIC TIES, NEW AMBITIONS
Recent developments highlight al-Qaeda's increased focus on Sudan and are driven by detailed expansion plans of Sudanese al-Qaeda leader Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani. A former bin Laden associate with a notorious background in Afghanistan and Iraq, al-Sudani issued a renewed call for jihad.
Following the onset of civil war in Sudan, al-Sudani's 2022 manifesto, "Now the fighting has come: War messages to the Mujahideen in Sudan," not only prescribes a military strategy of targeted strikes and guerrilla warfare across Sudan but also a vision for jihad extending from Dongola in the country's north to Darfur in its south, with Khartoum as the command center.
Al-Qaeda further articulated its threat in a message on the 22nd anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the U.S., promising, "It is only a matter of time before the next strike eclipses the horrors of 9/11."
This declaration, combined with the group's escalating presence in conflict zones such as Niger and Libya, actively positions them to target U.S. interests worldwide. Indeed, a 2022 United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... report indicated that al-Qaeda was planning high-profile attacks, possibly at sea.
What an bully boy takeover would mean
Al-Qaeda's potential in resource-rich Sudan should not be underestimated. Historically, the group's operations from resource-limited Afghanistan were devastating; in Sudan, with its abundance of oil, gold and fertile land, their capabilities could be significantly magnified.
Sudan provides a lucrative base for whoever holds power. Forging links with both sides of the civil war would no doubt be of huge financial benefit to al-Qaeda should either side prevail, in the same way al-Bashir's rule was a generation earlier.
And Sudan's Red Sea access makes it potentially an even greater threat than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Gaining a Sudanese stronghold could empower al-Qaeda affiliates across 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... , Somalia and the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , exacerbating regional conflicts and threatening crucial Red Sea trade routes. Interestingly, a United Nations July 2022 report revealed that al-Qaeda's Yemen branch had been boosting its maritime capabilities.
The resurgence of al-Qaeda capabilities in the region could lead to increased piracy, militarized blockades and unregulated arms flow, escalating regional tensions and causing broader geopolitical unrest.
But as the United States redirects resources and attention to wars in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the Middle East and countering China, Sudan has seemingly slipped down its priority list. Complicating matters further, U.S. responses are tangled in the conflicting interests of its Gulf allies supporting various factions in Sudan's civil war.
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"Al-Qaeda's potential in resource-rich Sudan should not be underestimated. Historically, the group's operations from resource-limited Afghanistan were devastating; in Sudan, with its abundance of oil, gold and fertile land, their capabilities could be significantly magnified." Doesn't explain the continuous famines, the inability of the nation to feed itself. That the South Sudan has the major oil fields, or that the gold mined reach the international market without ever going through the government. Sudan is an ethnic quagmire and an economic basket case. As was the case in 1991, Al Qaeda is welcome to it. Despite an Islamist military government it couldn't move fast enough to remove itself to Afghanistan in 1996.
[AFRICANEWS] A recent national dialogue in Mali concluded with recommendations supporting the extension of military rule for several more years.
Participants, mainly from the military, proposed that Colonel Assimi Goita, the leader of the junta that seized power in 2020, should be allowed to run for the presidency in future elections. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the dialogue was marked by significant opposition boycotts, with critics accusing the military of using the process to prolong its hold on power.
Mali has experienced successive coups in 2020 and 2021, leading to military rule. Initially, promises were made to transition to civilian governance through democratic elections, but these plans have been indefinitely postponed due to security concerns stemming from jihadist attacks.
In April, the military authorities further tightened their grip by suspending all political activities and clamping down on opposition figures, journalists, and human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activists.
[AFRICANEWS] Tensions between Niger and Benin ...Benin, a French-speaking West African nation, that they put where Dahomey used to be. It is a birthplace of voodoo and zombies. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom’s past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!... have escalated further over a decision by Cotonou to prevent its landlocked neighbour from using its port to export its first crude oil, as a border dispute between the two rages on.
Niger's Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said on Saturday that Benin's blockade of its oil exports violated trade agreements between the two countries and with Niamey's Chinese partners.
In a comment that further escalated the dispute, Zeine said Niger could not fully reopen its border with Benin for security reasons.
In response, Cotonou said it would only back down once Niamey reopened its border to goods coming from Benin and normalised relations.
The blockade jeopardises Niger's plan to start exporting crude oil to China under a $400 million deal.
A 2,000 kilometre-long Chinese-built pipeline links Niger’s Agadem oil field to Benin’s port in the capital.
Relations have been strained between Niamey and Cotonou since a military coup in Niger last year.
It led Benin and the West African regional bloc (ECOWAS) to impose strict sanctions on Niger, including border closures, in a bid to force the military to hand power back to the elected government.
These were eased in February, but Niger has refused to reopen is land border to goods coming from Benin.
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Wiki: Niger aims to export 90,000 barrels per day via the export terminal off the coast of Benin. In April 2024, Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine entered into a 12-month agreement with China National Petroleum, awarding the rights to the sale of the Nigerien state's share of the exported oil (25.4 percent).
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[REGNUM] The results of the presidential elections have been announced in Chad. The winner was determined in the first round of voting, the result was predictable. The representative of the ruling Movement of Patriotic Salvation (MPS) party and the leader of the “Deby clan”, General Mahamat Deby dealt with the formalities and entered into a period of legitimate rule of the country (the presidential term in Chad is 5 years).
[NEWARAB] Pro-Paleostine groups in the UK, including the prominent Paleostine Action, may soon find themselves branded like terror groups under a proposal by the British government's adviser on political violence.
The BBC reported on Sunday that excerpts of a report it had seen recommended that the government legislate a new category for designating and banning "extreme protest groups".
The report was compiled by former Labour MP and now non-affiliated peer John Woodcock, who sits in the House of Lords as Lord Walney.
Woodcock defines the new category as comprising groups that employ "criminal tactics" to achieve their aims.
The report recommends that the government implement sanctions on these groups to restrict their right to assemble and their ability to raise funds.
"Militant groups like Paleostine Action and Just Stop Oil are using criminal tactics to create mayhem and hold the public and workers to ransom without fear of consequence," Woodcock stated, as reported by the BBC.
"Banning terror groups has made it harder for their activists to plan crimes - that approach should be extended to extreme protest groups too," he added.
Founded in 2020, Paleostine Action is known for its use of direct action to shut down and disrupt primarily UK and European-based corporations that sell arms to Israel.
[American Liberty] ANALYSIS — For those who may not know the logistics behind the massive illegal alien invasion of the United States via our southern border with Mexico, note that the foreigners breaking into our country today are no longer mostly Mexican, or even Central American.
Many are from Africa, Asia and South America. And the U.N. and international aid groups are their facilitators.
But the one thing all these foreigners have in common is that they travel north through a narrow stretch in Panama called the Darién Gap.
Half a million illegals went through there last year.
As Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, notes: "It's a bottleneck, so the Panamanians actually have tremendous control over the volumes of people coming through there."
Shutting down that critical transit point would severely disrupt the flow of illegals coming to the U.S. I was hoping former President Donald Trump would consider that option during his next term, but having a willing partner in Panama is critical.
Well, now he will. But Trump's Panamanian partner isn't waiting for a Trump reelection.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin met with Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... leaders including 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 continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... in Doha today to discuss efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and the access of humanitarian aid into the Paleostinian enclave, according to a Ottoman Turkish security source.
Unverified posts on social media claim Haniyeh passed over a dossier to be used in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... recently announced that it will join.
The ICJ ordered Israel in January to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention and to ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts against Paleostinians, after South Africa accused Israel of state-led genocide in the ongoing war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
It did not find that Israel was committing genocide.
[GEO.TV] Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that the United States and European countries were not doing enough to pressure Israel to agree a ceasefire in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , after Paleostinian resistance group Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ' move to accept a truce proposal.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has denounced Israel's attacks on Gaza, called for an immediate ceasefire, and criticised what it calls unconditional support for Israel by the West.
Ankara has halted all trade with Israel and said it had decided to join South Africa's initiative to have Israel tried for genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Speaking to Moslem scholars in Istanbul, Erdogan said Hamas had accepted a ceasefire proposal by 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... and Egypt in a "step in the path toward a lasting ceasefire", but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government did not want the war to end.
"The response of the Netanyahu government was to attack the innocent people in Rafah," he said, referring to the Gazook city that Israel is targeting. "It has become clear who sides with peace and dialogue, and who wants festivities continuing and more bloodshed.
"And did Netanyahu see any serious reaction for his spoiled behaviour? No. Neither Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... nor America showed a reaction that would force Israel into a ceasefire."
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The US is doing well enough to muddy the entire endeavor.
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I'm glad Israel is ignoring Biden and they should. If someone had done Oct 7th to us, we'd tell the world to f*ck off and smash the crap out of whoever did it. Except for Biden, who would bend over and spread em cause that's the kind of worthless turd he is.
[IsraelTimes] Former Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley tells panel an onslaught of comparative scale would have killed 50,000-100,000 in US, ‘no way around’ Gaza’s brutal urban warfare
Former US Army chief Mark Milley on Tuesday defended Israel’s conduct of the war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip after Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s October 7 massacre, saying that a massacre equivalent in scale in the United States would have meant "50,000-100,000 people" being killed in a single morning.
"Israel has a right to defend itself. They were the ones who were attacked, brutally, on the 7th of October. Twelve hundred people were slaughtered — not just killed in the conduct of war, they were slaughtered, beheaded, butchered, raped in front of their husbands," Milley, who ended his four-year term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September, said at a geopolitics panel in Washington DC.
During Hamas’s brutal incursion, 252 hostages were also taken, 128 of whom remain in Gaza, not all of them alive.
"And it was stuff that was not even a hair’s breadth removed from what the Nazis did," he continued. "And if you take the math and do 1,200 and apply it to the United States, that’d be 50,000-100,000 people dead in a morning. Can you imagine what we would do?"
Milley added that in his own experience, "war is a horrible thing" and that such a war fought in "dense urban areas" inevitably would produce "very high levels of collateral damage," appearing to reference the significant destruction in the Strip amid the military offensive against Hamas, which is taking place in densely populated Gaza.
"There’s almost no way around it, but if there’s any morality at all, you need to get into it, achieve your political objectives, get it done, get it done fast, and get it over with," he said.
The general’s comments came as Israel faces growing international pressure to bring about a ceasefire amid the mounting corpse count in Gaza. The Biden administration has also been increasingly critical of the high civilian toll.
The US president said Wednesday he would halt certain arms transfers to Israel if it launches a wide-scale invasion in the southern Gaza city of Rafah after the White House confirmed a delay in the transfer of 2,000- and 500-pound bombs over concerns that the IDF could use them in Rafah, as it has in other parts of Gaza.
Israel stresses that it is only targeting terror groups in its offensive, but faces an uphill battle in limiting civilian casualties in the conflict, and has provided overwhelming evidence that Hamas and other terror organizations use civilian areas as cover for their activities.
[GEO.TV] The caretaker government's report on May 9 said that it was an organised and dangerous strategy not only to pressurise the Pakistain Army for a political deal to meet Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... 's demands but a brazen attempt to incite rebellion from within the armed forces in Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... 's (PTI) favour.
"The party had been emboldened by a lack of firm response to its earlier violence by state institutions. A frontal assault on military installations was to weaken the army’s morale and pressure it into political deal making. This was also a brazen and a mistaken attempt at inciting rebellion from within the armed forces in its favour," says the report.
It added, "The events of May 9, 2023 were neither isolated nor entirely spontaneous. They were part of an organised and dangerous strategy to pressure state institutions into acceding to Mr Khan’s demands."
The report said that the events of May 9 were the culmination of a narrative built around a personality cult, and a strategy that justified violence against his opponents as national service.
The caretaker government's cabinet committee, which probed the matter, noted with "profound pain" that a popular political party would elect to hurt national interest through such reckless plans.
The Constitution guarantees the right of political association to advance the interests of the people, not to harm state institutions and national interests.
According to the report, "[Imran] Khan had long seen the military establishment as, both, the entity responsible for his ouster from the government and the only institution he was open to negotiating with.
"He [Khan] had repeatedly voiced his contempt for other political parties and their leaders and his constant refusal to even sit in Parliament with them. He had also expressed a desire to engage with the military establishment to find political solutions.
"Khan refused to respect the constitutional role for the armed forces that require them to remain apolitical. He desired active engagement by the armed forces in politics in violation of their constitutional mandate. When the armed forces refused to be dragged into politics, Khan and his party sought to create an environment that would pressure them into engaging with him.
"This was augmented by a media strategy through local and external platforms. Khan at no point denounced or disowned the May 9 events, rather twisted its facts to widen the divide between the people and the armed forces, nor he has publicly acknowledged the consequences of this event on the national security of Pakistain.
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[IsraelTimes] A conference of international donors in Kuwait pledges over $2 billion in aid for Paleostinians in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip over seven months into the war between Israel and Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... Organized by the International Islamic Charitable Organization (IICO) and the UN’s humanitarian coordination agency OCHA, the conference says the funds would be dispersed over two years, with the possibility of extension, in efforts to support life-saving humanitarian interventions in the Paleostinian territory. The same people who wouldn't take Paleos as refugees. Pledges are cheap
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It keeps the Paleos out of the donor's countries and makes Israel look bad. Sounds like a worthwhile investment if you care about keeping the Paleos out of your country and making Israel look bad. Me, I'd spend the money on moving the Gazooks to somewhere like New Guinea. Cannibals have to eat too, you know.
[IsraelTimes] Observers say return likely for planned 2025 parliamentary election, could pose threat to rival Shiite parties and armed factions close to Iran, undermining relative stability
Powerful Iraqi Shiite Moslemholy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival al-Khoei assassinated shortly after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... is laying the groundwork for a political comeback two years after a failed and ultimately deadly high-stakes move to form a government without his Shi’ite rivals, multiple sources said.
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[IsraelTimes] Twenty-nine of the protesters who were detained during last night’s protests in Tel Aviv have been released overnight, the Walla news site reports.
The demonstrators were calling for a hostage deal and new elections.
Those detained and later released included Ayala Metzger, the daughter-in-law of hostage Yoram Metzger.
According to the outlet, one person remains in jug on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.
[IsraelTimes] The peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is a "strategic choice," Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is quoted as saying during a presser, seemingly contradicting earlier comments from Cairo that the pact was at high risk.
"The peace agreement with Israel has been Egypt’s strategic choice for 40 years, and it represents a main pillar of peace in the region to achieve peace and stability," Shoukry is quoted by the Ottoman Turkish Anadolu news agency.
He adds that there are "set mechanisms" for dealing with any violations of the treaty, according to Anadolu.
His comments come after a senior Egyptian official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Cairo had lodged protests with Israel, the United States and European governments, saying the Rafah operation has put its peace treaty with Israel — a cornerstone of regional stability — at high risk.
Yesterday, the Israeli military began calling on Paleostinians in additional neighborhoods of Rafah to evacuate the area, as it pressed on with an operation against the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group in the city in the 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 an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
[IsraelTimes] Finance Ministry says it is preventing transfer of tax revenues, said to amount to $46 million, citing Ramallah’s diplomatic efforts against Israel
The Paleostinian Authority said Sunday it will only be able to pay a part of public sector salaries this week as the Finance Ministry is continuing to withhold tax revenues that it collects for Ramallah, keeping up a squeeze on payrolls that has lasted for months.
Channel 12 reported over the weekend that Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich had been holding back NIS 170 million shekels ($46 million) in tax revenue for nine days, in protest of PA efforts "fighting against the State of Israel." It was an apparent reference to reports that Ramallah has been pushing for the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for top Israeli officials for alleged breaches of international law
…one can indeed see how that might rankle…
in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... during the war against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... The PA said it would pay Paleostinian public sector employees 50 percent of their March salaries on Tuesday after Israel withheld a transfer due for the month of April.
It said the arrears would be paid once the financial situation allowed.
The Finance Ministry confirmed it had been decided not to transfer tax revenues this month but declined to provide details.
The squeeze on public sector salaries, and the fact that tens of thousands of Paleostinians have been prevented from working in Israel since the start of the war in Gaza in October, have added to growing economic hardship in the West Bank. Those jobs will be filled by others: Indians, Thai, ...
Israel collects hundreds of millions of shekels in Paleostinian tax revenue, which Smotrich held up earlier in the war over concerns that the portion of the funds that Ramallah uses to pay for services and employees in Gaza — roughly NIS 260 million ($73 million) monthly — could wind up in the hands of Hamas.
Although Hamas wrested control of Gaza from the rival Fatah faction in 2007, the Paleostinian Authority, which is dominated by Fatah, continues to fund some health and education services in the enclave.
An agreement was eventually reached in February to transfer the payments via Norway to ensure no money is diverted to the terror group.
But in a letter sent last month to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and widely reported by Hebrew media, Smotrich wrote that the PA is an immediate danger to Israel and called on the premier to annex the West Bank if the Paleostinians don’t desist from their diplomatic efforts against Israel.
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.
...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...
...Benin, a French-speaking West African nation, that they put where Dahomey used to be. It is a birthplace of voodoo and zombies. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom’s past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
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..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
