[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said on Wednesday that those who did not support Sudan during the current conflict with an armed opposition group will have no role in the country’s future leadership.
Addressing worshippers at a Gedaref mosque, al-Burhan stressed that "the state will only be run by those who have withstood the injustice and violations."
He stated that there would be no discussion about the return of democratic rule until the conflict ended. He said the conflict had exposed who truly supported Sudan, both domestically and internationally.
The military leader performed Eid al-Fitr prayers in Um Shajara, Gedaref, following a recent drone attack on the city.
Al-Burhan’s remarks suggest the military’s continued opposition to including civilian forces from the previous transitional government. They had previously proposed a technocratic government to be followed by elections.
Al-Burhan’s remarks confirm the military’s stance against further participation by civilian forces that signed the Political Framework Agreement in December 2022. The military previously proposed a technocratic government followed by an elected one.
The military accuses the Forces for Freedom and Change coalition of backing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the Sudanese army. The military views itself as the defender of national illusory sovereignty.
Al-Burhan said, "Everyone now understands that this armed opposition group must be completely defeated." He added, "The people deserve reassurance that the armed forces, with the support of civilian backers and local communities, can end the conflict and defeat this group."
He continued, expressing confidence in a swift victory, indicating the conflict with the RSF would end with the military’s triumph.
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[AFRICANEWS] Malian authorities on Wednesday issued a decree banning political party activities amid calls on the ruling army junta to organize elections.
The announcement was made by the government spokesperson on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Wednesday evening. Abdoulaye Maiga said the ban on political activities was made in the interest of maintaining public order.
The statement did not specify any threats to public order emanating from political parties.
There was no indication on when the suspension would be lifted.
Mali has been under army rule since August 2020. Last September, the junta indicated it would renege on a promise to organise elections meant to bring back civilian rule this past February citing technical reasons.
No new election promises have been made.
After the March transition deadline passed without a vote, many political parties and civil society organizations reacted by demanding elections.
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[Regnum] Some countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), including Ukraine, did not express condolences in connection with the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow. This was stated on April 11 by the Russian permanent representative to the OSCE, Alexander Lukashevich, at a special meeting of the organization’s permanent council, at which he presented information about the terrorist attack in the Moscow region.
“It is appropriate to say that a number of OSCE participating States refrained from offering condolences and also did not find any words to condemn acts of terror against Russian citizens,” the diplomat said.
He added that no such words were heard from representatives of the Kyiv regime. On the contrary, he clarified, they made comments that were unthinkable in their absurdity in order to divert attention from the indisputable facts pointing to the Ukrainian trace.
Lukashevich said that Russia is grateful to the OSCE participating states that share the pain of the Russian Federation from terrorist attacks and do not impose “political filters” on these manifestations. According to the diplomat, terrorism is a common threat to all.
As IA Regnum reported, on the evening of March 22, armed terrorists attacked Crocus City Hall. They opened fire on visitors with machine guns and set fire to the auditorium. The terrorist attack killed 145 people, including six children. 551 people were injured.
FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said on March 27 that the testimony of those detained in the Crocus terrorist attack case confirms the Ukrainian trace. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the investigation had discovered an irrefutable Ukrainian trace in a number of terrorist attacks that occurred in Russia.
On April 8, the Investigative Committee stated that it continues to identify the perpetrators, accomplices and organizers of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. The department noted that the investigation received significant information about the training of terrorists, which may indicate their connection with the special services of Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin promised that Russia will reach all the beneficiaries and customers of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
The adopted daughter of one of the alleged accomplices of the terrorists who carried out the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow said that she had not seen her stepfather for a long time, reported this on April 11.
The girl, in a conversation with the agency, said that the last time she called her stepfather was “a couple of weeks ago”; she did not answer clarifying questions and hung up. However, she later told reporters that allegedly the day before her mother had spoken with her stepfather and he was in Poland, where he “repairs cars, he is a master.”
According to her, the man was in Russia “for a very long time, maybe in winter.” After the terrorist attack, the stepfather did not contact him.
As the agency found out, the man was married from 2005 to 2011, and after the divorce he sued his ex-wife over unpaid utilities. In addition, he demanded that the ownership rights to the garage in Korolev be recognized through the court.
As IA Regnum reported, on the evening of March 22, armed terrorists attacked Crocus City Hall. They opened fire on visitors with machine guns and set fire to the auditorium. The terrorist attack killed 145 people, including six children. 551 people were injured.
The Investigative Committee previously stated that it continues to identify the perpetrators, accomplices and organizers of the terrorist attack in Crocus. The department noted that the investigation received significant information about the training of terrorists, which may indicate their connection with the special services of Ukraine.
Four accused of committing a terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall were taken into custody on March 25 by a decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow. The court placed under arrest Muhammadsobir Fayzov, Dalerjon Mirzoev, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda and Shamsidin Fariduni.
On the same day, March 25, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested three more defendants in the criminal case of a terrorist attack and murder of people. On March 26, the court arrested the eighth defendant - a native of Kyrgyzstan, Russian citizen Alisher Kasimov, who rented out an apartment to those accused of attacking Crocus City Hall.
The ninth person involved, Nazrimad Lutfulloi, was arrested until May 22. On March 26, the court arrested the defendants in the case of Dilovar Islomov, his father Isroiland brother Aminchon.
On April 1, the Basmanny Court of Moscow made a decision to place in custody the tenth defendant in the criminal case, Yakubjon Yusufzoda until May 22.
FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said on March 27 that the testimony of those detained in the Crocus terrorist attack case confirms the Ukrainian trace. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the investigation had discovered an irrefutable Ukrainian trace in a number of terrorist attacks that occurred in Russia. President Vladimir Putin promised that Russia will reach all the beneficiaries and customers of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
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[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors in the Netherlands do not intend to prosecute a man who is said to have beaten a rabbi at a department store, they say, prompting the rabbi to mull filing an appeal.
Herman Loonstein, the lawyer of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Heintz, announces the former suspect’s release and Heintz’s "dismay." The RTV broadcaster reports that the prosecutors had no evidence against the man, who turned himself in on March 31 after news of the alleged assault broke.
"The antisemitic motive [of the suspect] is very clear," Loonstein writes in a statement. The ex-suspect, aged 40, has been free since April 2, when police released him following his detention over the alleged assault of Heintz in Utrecht on March 29.
Heintz’s complaint to police alleges that the ex-suspect told the rabbi he had no business being at the shopping center "while being dressed like a Jew" before allegedly beating the rabbi on his head.
The prosecutors’ decision not to prosecute the man follows news that antisemitic incidents reached an all-time record in 2023 due to a 245% increase over the previous record year, which was 2022.
Bas Belder, a European Parliament politician form the Netherlands, condemns the decision as "unacceptable" and a case of "ignoring Jew-hatred," he writes on X.
The Utrecht prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The Times of Israel.
Dutch prosecutors have dismissed a case against a Moslem man accused of assaulting a rabbi while making antisemitic statements, saying they did not have evidence of a crime, but the rabbi is considering legal action to force a prosecution, saying it is necessary both for his own justice and to set an example of the need for the criminal-justice system to protect Jews.
"Many of these cases are never prosecuted, and antisemitism in the Netherlands is increasing," the victim, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Heintz, told Hamodia.
On Friday, March 29, Rabbi Heintz, Chabad shliach in the city of Utrecht, was doing some Shabbos shopping when he was accosted by what he described to Hamodia as "a Moslem Moroccan man, about 40."
"I was just walking with my shopping bags, and the guy comes up to me and says, ’What are you doing here?’" Rabbi Heintz told Hamodia shortly after the incident. "I looked at him and shrugged my shoulders. Then he says, ’What are you doing here dressed like a Jew?’ And he gave me a smack on top of my head. I was wearing my hat, Baruch Hashem, so that picked up some of the blow."
Rabbi Heintz took out his phone to take a picture of the assailant, who then began chasing him. The rabbi entered an Action supermarket, and the assailant left.
Later, the rabbi returned to the Action supermarket — and there he saw the assailant, who, he said, went after him again.
"He pushed me with both hands," Rabbi Heintz said. "Two ladies, who were also Morrocan, tried holding him back, but he kept swinging and they received blows from him that he wanted to give to me."
To add insult to injury, Rabbi Heintz said, he was berated by the manager at Action for taking out his phone to photograph the assailant and for calling the police from the store, which she said violated their company policy.
The story of the alleged assault made local media, and the Moslem man turned himself into police. According to Rabbi Heintz, the suspect was initially charged with assault and discrimination.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the Public Prosecution Service has declined to prosecute the man, citing a lack of evidence.
The rabbi’s lawyer, Herman Loonstein, told Hamodia on Thursday that the suspect told prosecutors he did not made antisemitic statements or strike the rabbi; he merely tapped his hat.
The suspect’s purported reason for confronting the rabbi and tapping his hat was that he saw "that there were two women in Moslem clothing walking on the street, and Rabbi Heintz walked away from them," Loonstein says.
"That’s a bunch of nonsense," Rabbi Heintz told Hamodia on Thursday. "That’s absolutely not true. I don’t remember who was walking on that street or what they were wearing. I don’t know anything about it at all. It’s complete nonsense."
The cameras outside the supermarket were not working and did not capture the incident.
Loonstein says he did not get a clear answer from the prosecutor as to why no charges were filed for the subsequent incident inside the supermarket, but said he plans to go to the prosecutor’s office to review the documents.
In the Netherlands, a victim may appeals the prosecutor’s decision to drop a case. The rabbi and his attorney say they are considering bringing this "Article 12" filing to force prosecution — both for their own case, and for what they see as a larger problem of lack of prosecution in the Netherlands.
"My son had a similar case around 20 years ago," Rabbi Heintz says. "He was attacked at a gas station by a man saying things about bin Laden. We filed Article 12 and we were able to force a prosecution."
The Netherlands, like much of Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the rest of the world, has seen an increase in antisemitic incidents since Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
"Lack of prosecution is a big problem here in the Netherlands," says Rabbi Heintz, a Houston native who became shliach to Utrecht in 1987.
Don’t mess with Texas.
"I don’t know if it’s antisemitism or just a liberal criminal-justice system or if the prosecutor’s office has too much work. What I do know is that many of these cases are never prosecuted, and antisemitism in the Netherlands is increasing.
"Just a few days ago, two Dutch women shouting ’From the river to the sea, Paleostine will be free’ threw red paint on the wife of an Israeli. But she said she is too afraid to report the incident to the police."
Loonstein says he wants prosecutors in the Netherlands to be more aggressive in pursuing antisemitic crimes.
"The problem in the Netherlands is that prosecutors and police are not very serious about prosecuting antisemitic incidents," he says. "They don’t have any experience with it; for them it’s new. If they don’t find evidence, they drop the case too quickly; they see it as a standard case. But they have to do more to protect the Jews, especially these days."
The Public Prosecution Service said in a statement reported by Telegraaf, "The investigation has not provided any legal and convincing evidence of abuse."
"That is not to say that the situation could not be considered unpleasant, undesirable or indecent," the statement continued. "However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... that is not something that is up to the Public Prosecution Service to judge. The task of the Public Prosecution Service is limited to detecting and prosecuting criminal offenses laid down by law."
[FoxNews] An Alabama man with suspected Antifa sympathies was indicted for terrorism for his alleged role in detonating an explosive device filled with nails to maximize its destructive capability, according to the Department of Justice.
Law enforcement arrested Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, Wednesday on federal terrorism charges of malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device. Calvert had previously posted Antifa content on social media and "expressed his belief that violence should be directed against the government," the DOJ said.
Furthermore, the DOJ's investigation found that Calvert had placed Antifa stickers near the scene of the crime, the press release said.
Court documents also said the man was "dangerous" as he had "described his inability to control his own violent, aggressive impulses."
Calvert detonated an explosive device outside of the Alabama Attorney General's Office
…in Montgomery…
in February,
and "added a substantial number of nails and other shrapnel to increase [the explosive's] destructive capability," the DOJ alleged.
The stickers placed on state buildings included, "Support your local antifa."
"[Antifa is] a group that law enforcement has a singular focus on, particularly based on their core set of values and beliefs, individuals that are willing to engage in violent behavior, completely contrary to the structure of our Constitution," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall told Fox News Digital. "It is a group that should be on the radar screen of law enforcement agencies across our state and as well as our nation, and are extremely disturbing and concerning to those of us who serve in public office."
He added that while Antifa is on the radar of law enforcement, there is "a lack of awareness" about the group among the American public.
Breaking exclusive: Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, the Antifa member suspect arrested over a nail bombing of the Alabama Attorney General's office, is trans nonbinary. Federal prosecutors have requested the court detain Calvert without bond because he is extremely violent and… pic.twitter.com/TjPP5q47SR
[IsraelTimes] Advocates from both sides threaten to protest the vote in the large NYC suburb after the council spent months trying to land on language both sides could agree on
After months of discussions and weeks of debate, the Yonkers City Council has shelved a 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... ceasefire resolution that aimed to thread a narrow needle — calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war while also defending Israel’s right to exist. The council announced that it would set aside the resolution at the start of the meeting Tuesday evening when it had been on the agenda. The move followed opposition from all sides in Yonkers.
Despite having called for months for a ceasefire, a coalition of pro-Paleostinian organizations, including an anti-Zionist Jewish group, protested the proposed resolution. The Yonkers Ceasefire Coalition called it a "Zionist resolution," condemned it as a "distorted version of the original resolution that appears to minimize the severity of the atrocities" and put forward its own draft that removes language recognizing Israel’s right to exist.
A definite sticking point for the pro-Israel side, except for those only pretending to be pro-Israel.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... a deluge of emails from Jewish residents had also filled the council’s inbox protesting the move to call for a ceasefire at all.
Both groups announced their intention to protest during the meeting, leaving the council unwilling to proceed with the resolution.
"My position is, if the group that asked for the resolution does not support it because it doesn’t go as far as they want, and the Jewish community does not support it because they don’t want a ceasefire without the release of hostages, which is totally understandable, then why are we bringing this to a vote?" City Council President Lakisha Collins-Bellamy told the New York Jewish Week before the meeting.
The dispute over the resolution in a large New York City suburb reflects shifting rhetoric surrounding the Israel-Hamas war six months after it began on October 7 with the Hamas-led invasion of Israel that saw 1,200 people in the country’s south butchered, and another 253 kidnapped to the Gaza Strip. A number of cities have passed ceasefire resolutions. But while competing texts have been put before some city councils, the debates until now have mainly focused on whether or not to call for a ceasefire.
The Yonkers debate, by contrast, comes at a time when calls to stop or at least immediately pause the fighting have gained increasing purchase among US politicians as well as left-wing pro-Israel groups. Jewish groups on the center and right have generally opposed ceasefire calls. Israel and Hamas have been engaging in indirect talks over a ceasefire for months; this week, Hamas again rejected an Israeli proposal for a pause in the fighting.
Collins-Bellamy said that in addition to the pro-Paleostinian protest, members of the Jewish community had sent around 1,000 emails to the city council opposing the measure. Thirty Yonkers community members signed up to speak at the council meeting and Collins-Bellamy believed all planned to oppose the resolution.
The draft that the council would have considered was in line with the stance of left-wing Jewish groups and many Democratic officials, who have stood behind Israel’s right to exist while increasingly opposing the continuation of the war.
The draft resolution holds Hamas responsible for the outbreak of the conflict due to its devastating October 7 massacre, decries the "unjust captivity" of 129 remaining Israeli hostages; mourns the killing of Israelis; and recognizes the right of Israelis to "live in Israel in peace and the existence of the democratic Jewish state."
The text also acknowledges the tens of thousands of Paleostinians killed and injured, enumerates a right to Paleostinian self-determination and calls for an end to the suffering and displacement in Gaza.
"The City Council of Yonkers believes that all human life is precious," the resolution says. "We acknowledge the immediate need for a ceasefire," it continues, adding calls to facilitate humanitarian aid, return the hostages, and halt the displacement and violence against Paleostinians.
Collins-Bellamy said "the tide has shifted" since the start of the war, when supporters of Israel were more firmly behind Israel’s effort to fight back. The mounting civilian corpse count "tugs at people’s heartstrings," she said, and a growing number of Democratic politicians have endorsed a ceasefire.
"They made it OK as opposed to taboo to say, ’Hey, Israel, maybe we even take a temporary break to get the hostages released and get some humanitarian aid in there,’" she said.
Collins-Bellamy said the council had been approached by the pro-Paleostinian activists about a ceasefire resolution in January. Collins-Bellamy said she had little knowledge of the conflict at that point and began to do research to formulate a resolution. But successive drafts floated by the council were rejected by the activist group.
"They still are opposing it because it is not the version that they drafted," Collins-Bellamy told the New York Jewish Week on Tuesday, adding that the alternate resolution the pro-Paleostinian coalition drafted would likely only receive two votes on the seven-seat council.
"I asked them, ’Do you want a resolution that says explicitly what you asked for but will be voted down?’" she said. "We are absolutely condemning Hamas and they don’t want us to go that route and they want us to use language that is more harsh toward Israel."
This week, the activists called to "flood" the city hall in protest ahead of the vote, using a term commonly employed by pro-Paleostinian activists that echoes Hamas’s name for the October 7 attack, "Al-Aqsa Flood."
The campaign is led by a group called the Yonkers Ceasefire Coalition that includes Jewish Voice for Peace Westchester, an anti-Zionist group; the local chapter of Democratic Socialists of America; Westchester for Paleostine; and WESPAC, a nonprofit that facilitates funding for prominent pro-Paleostinian groups around the United States.
Hadil Sam, an activist with the group, said the coalition had gone back and forth with the City Council over the resolution’s text for months and had offered alternatives.
"They went with one that is very biased and does not represent the community," Sam told the New York Jewish Week. "They don’t really want to work with us, they just want to put something out there that says ’ceasefire.’"
The activists took issue with the city council’s call to recognize Israel’s existence, saying the demand would "force Paleostinians to accept their status as non-citizens, second-class citizens, and refugees in their own land, with no national rights and no right of return." Arab citizens of Israel have equal rights under the law, though many have protested discrimination. Most Israelis view advocacy for a Paleostinian right of return as tantamount to calling for the end of Israel as a Jewish-majority state.
The pro-Paleostinian activists also objected to blaming Hamas for the outbreak of the conflict and not calling for the "release of Paleostinian hostages" — an apparent reference to prisoners detained by Israeli forces on security offenses. Sam said the group also objected to the draft’s leaving out an "explicit description of the violence that Israel has been committing."
Sam said the statement supporting Israel’s existence was outside the scope of the resolution, and that she felt the clause in support of Paleostinian self-determination was insufficient because it focused on only Gaza.
"This is a ceasefire resolution, we’re not talking about declaring states," Sam said.
The alternate resolution from the coalition, drafted last week, calls to "recognize the rights of Paleostinians and Israelis to live with respect, dignity, freedom, and self-determination"; focuses more extensively on Paleostinian casualties; condemns the killing of civilians and "collective punishment"; urges the release of hostages and Paleostinian political prisoners; and calls for a permanent ceasefire.
The Westchester Jewish Council issued a "call to action" urging followers to gather outside City Hall, around the same time pro-Paleostinian activists planned to at the same location.
One of the people who signed up to speak on behalf of the Jewish council was Rabbi Bini Krauss, principal of the Orthodox SAR Academy, located blocks outside of Yonkers’ borders in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He planned to call attention to the hostages held by Hamas — including US citizens — in opposing the ceasefire resolution.
"How can we call for a ceasefire when our fellow Americans are being held and tortured?" Krauss said he planned to say in his remarks to the council. "This council, by rejecting a resolution being furthered by those who do not respect the right of Israel to exist, will stand on the right side of decency, of justice, and of history."
Phylisa Wisdom, the executive director of the New York Jewish Agenda liberal advocacy group, said she was dismayed by both sides’ opposition to the resolution. Wisdom’s group has advocated for a ceasefire that includes the release of hostages since early in the war.
"I am surprised and disappointed that anyone who wants peace and for this war to end would reject such a statement," she told the New York Jewish Week, adding that ceasefire resolutions earlier in the war had aimed to simply gather as much support for the measures as possible.
"I understand that there’s a lot of specifics around what a ceasefire could look like," she said, "but for those who are interested in freeing the hostages, in getting aid into Gaza, in stopping the hunger and death of Paleostinians in Gaza, I really don’t know how you could oppose a statement like this."
[IsraelTimes] Members of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on a longshot bid by Paleostinians for full UN membership, according to the body’s chair.
"There was no consensus" during a closed-door meeting, says Maltese Ambassador Vanessa Frazier, who holds the council’s rotating presidency for April. "However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the majority were very clearly in favor to move on with membership."
[IsraelTimes] Head of economic forum said to broker deal that could see world’s largest Moslem nation establish relationship in exchange for Jerusalem smoothing way into developed countries club
Does that mean Indonesia would be kicked out again when they return to being horrible?
Indonesia could normalize ties with Israel as part of a deal to smooth the entry of the world’s most populous Moslem nation into a global forum for developed countries, an Israeli official said Thursday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report in Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth detailing months of hush-hush talks between Jerusalem, Jakarta, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Secretary-General Mathias Cormann.
Normalization would mark a stunning about-face for Indonesia at a time when anti-Israel sentiment in the Moslem world is running higher than it has in years due to 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.
But establishing ties would also spell an end to Israeli opposition to Indonesia joining the OECD, according to the report.
The OECD began the process of adding Jakarta to the 38-nation forum in February, but Israel had reportedly objected to its accession due to the lack of diplomatic relations. Countries must receive unanimous support to join the bloc, which is dedicated to advancing economic growth via neo-liberal fiscal policies.
Cormann initially secured a promise from Indonesia to shift its critical stance toward Israel, but Foreign Minister Israel Katz balked at pulling Jerusalem’s opposition, saying normalization would be needed, Yedioth reported.
After several weeks of negotiations, Cormann sent a letter to Katz two weeks ago in which he said he had brokered an agreement according to which Indonesia will not be allowed to join the bloc until it has normalized ties, the paper said. The wording of the letter was approved by Indonesia, according to Yedioth.
An OECD spokesperson noted the adoption of a multi-year accession roadmap for Indonesia by the OECD Council on March 29. The roadmap includes the requirement that candidates "demonstrate ... like-mindedness in their statements and actions in their relations with the Organisation and its Members."
"Any decision to invite Indonesia to become an OECD Member would need to be taken by unanimity of all OECD Members," the spokesperson said.
There was no comment on the report from authorities in Indonesia.
On Tuesday, Israel allowed Indonesia to participate in an airdrop relief mission over Gaza for the first time, a possible signal of burgeoning ties.
Under outgoing Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Indonesia tolerated low-level, quiet contacts with Israel, mainly on trade, but largely shunned open ties with the Jewish state.
In March, Widodo’s office denied a report No, no! Certainly not! that Jakarta and Jerusalem had intended to normalize relations in October 2023 before the October 7 Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... attack in Israel and the resulting war caused the plan to be shelved, the Jakarta Post reported.
Moves toward normalization between the countries have been rumored for years, but Indonesia has refused to cement ties until an independent Paleostinian state is established and has been a staunch supporter of the Paleostinians. The country has a tiny Jewish community.
Anti-Israel protests are common in Indonesia, where support for the Paleostinians runs high.
In March last year, the country was stripped of its role as host of the men’s Under-20 World Cup amid massive domestic opposition to the participation of an Israeli soccer team in the tourney.
Even without official ties, direct and indirect Israel-Indonesia trade comes to about $500 million per year, Israel-Asia Center executive director Rebecca Zeffert told The Times of Israel in 2022.
Widodo has repeatedly condemned the violence in Gaza and has urged parties to "stop the escalation, to stop the use of violence, to focus on humanitarian issues, and to solve the root of the problem, namely the Israeli occupation of Paleostine."
In January, Jakarta filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. It has also backed South Africa’s genocide accusation at that court over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
[NINANEWS] The Head of the National State Forces Alliance, Ammar al-Hakim, condemned the Zionist entity’s crime of assassinating 3 of the sons of the head of the Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... Political Bureau, 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... Al-Hakim said in a statement, "We condemn in the strongest terms the systematic targeting by the Zionist entity of the family of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, as three of his sons and a number of grandchildren were martyred as a result of this targeting."
He stated that "the crimes of the Zionist entity in targeting the Paleostinian human being without distinguishing between what is civilian and military are evidence of the bankruptcy and suffocation from the steadfastness of the resistance 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... Al-Hakim added, "We seize the opportunity to renew our demand on the international community to assume its responsibilities in stopping the war, and implementing the UN Security Council resolution to stop the war, bring in aid, and rebuild the city."
If the purpose of the talks is to delay Israeli action until Iran attacks or the world applies enough pressure to get Israel to lay down her arms, of course it won’t.
[IsraelTimes] Pro-Israel Christians pick Jaffa oranges in southern Israel, which their organization then buys from farmers to sell without profit in the Netherlands.
The action in recent weeks in southern Israel lands more than 13 tons of premium oranges bearing the iconic Jaffa brand in the warehouse of the Israel Product Center, which is the commercial arm of the Christians for Israel group, spokesperson Sara van Oordt tells The Times of Israel.
The oranges are preordered and sold out even before their arrival, and stay very briefly at the warehouse of the Israel Products Center inside the three-story headquarters of the Christians for Israel group in Nijkerek near Utrecht. Members and supporters of the group from across the kingdom pick up their Jaffa orders in Nijkerk, van Oordt says.
Each kilogram (2 lbs) costs 2 euros ($2.15), which is significantly cheaper than the standard price of oranges of comparable premium brands at non-discount supermarket chains.
"It’s as Israeli as any product can be, symbolizing Zionism and the establishment of statehood," van Oordt says.
The 13 tons in Nijkerek are a fraction of what Christians for Israel volunteers picked last month in a concentrated action to support Israeli agriculture, she adds. The fact the Jaffas are sold out "shows many Christians in the Netherlands stand squarely behind Israel, in prayer, in action — and also in enjoying the best Israel has to offer."
There’s also a Dutch connection, she notes. "Orange is the Netherlands’ national color. It’s only appropriate they are on offer here."
[IsraelTimes] The United States expects an attack by 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... against Israel but one that would not be big enough to draw Washington into war, US official says.
The White House said earlier that Washington did not want conflict to spread in the Middle East and the US had told Iran it was not involved in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... against a top Iranian military commander in Damascus.
The White House added that it warned Iran to not use that attack as a pretext to escalate further in the region.
#9
Being as you couldn't drag the Obama/Biden people into a war with Iran with a bulldozer, likely not.
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So did nobody really give AF about the WCKN people and used them as leverage for this strike, or were the WCKN people up to no good and the evidence was out?
#14
How about we stop bankrolling Iran and giving them info on when we will bomb their proxies. Those are the two sanctions I would like to see.
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Considering the Conspiracy Theorist's batting average, and the media giving away the signs, I'm just going to figure the CTs had a perfect game at the plate.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] U.S. President, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... has promised Israel "ironclad" support amid fears that Tehran could launch reprisals for an attack that killed senior Iranians. "I like cake.”
Biden warned that 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... is threatening to launch a "significant attack" after Israel struck the Iranian consulate in Syria 10 days ago. "I like to eat it too."
"We're going to do all we can to protect Israel's security," he added. "Are you frightened yet?"
Biden gave the assurance while speaking to journalists at the White House on Wednesday alongside Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, BBC reports. "I am."
"As I told Prime Minister Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel's security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad — let me say it again, ironclad," Biden said. "Let me say it again. My first wife was killed by a drunk driver. My son Beau died in Vietnam."
His comments come one day after Biden, in an interview, called for 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 said he disagreed with Netanyahu's war strategy. Which means Netanyahu is on the right track...
"I think what he's doing is a mistake. I don't agree with his approach," he said in an interview with Univision that was recorded a week ago. ... and for which Joe will try to take credit if it succeeds.
It also comes nearly a week after a tense phone call between Biden and Netanyahu in the wake of the Israeli killing of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza.
Biden has sharpened his rhetoric over Israel's conduct in the nearly six-month-old war sparked by Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... 's 7 October attack, and voiced his growing frustration with Netanyahu.
US officials have been attempting to send a message to the Iranians that, despite differences of opinion between Biden and Netanyahu, any attack on Israel will be met with an aggressive US response.
In an effort to ease tensions, the foreign ministers of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the UAE, 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 Iraq spoke to their Iranian counterpart this week, according to Axios.
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#1
Biden's trying to walk a tightrope but he can barely make it through the Rose Garden without stumbling and falling on his face.
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I guess that's what happens when you don't have any convictions of your own.
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US President Biden Vows 'Ironclad' Support For Israel Amid Iran Attack Fears
#7
He’s just reading the notecards. They let him sit in the Oval Office and some poor Secret Service guy has to change him. Still better duty than the Hillary detail.
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^ Or shaving Big Mike's back every day
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Secret Service guy has to change him. Still better duty than the Hillary detail.
Indeed. Hillary!'s duty leaks through her clothing.
The content of 600 aid trucks is waiting to be collected by the @UN on the Gaza side of Kerem Shalom in a way that prevents the transfer of additional trucks. We extended crossing hours and scaled up our capacities. @un, Do your job. The bottlenecks are not on the Israeli side. pic.twitter.com/xe0HsfTQEN
[IsraelTimes] In addition to an insufficient number of trucks, there has also been a decrease in the number of aid organizations willing to distribute aid throughout Gaza following last week’s deadly IDF strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy. US Envoy David Satterfield says the WCK and the United Arab Emirates are conditioning their return to Gaza on Israel showing “in a concrete, demonstrable fashion that lessons have been learned, not just from the WCK tragedy, but from the period of time before that” when the US alleges roughly 200 aid workers were killed amid its repeated calls for Israel to improve its deconfliction mechanisms.
Israel established a new deconfliction hub between the IDF and aid groups days after the WCK strike, but international organizations are ostensibly looking for improvements to be demonstrated over a long period of time in addition to better assurances from Israel that aid workers will be protected.
The US is also working to have a maritime corridor up and running in the coming weeks, which will be able to bring in at least 100 trucks a day, Satterfield says. We’re going to get well over 500 trucks a day of commercial and humanitarian assistance. But we’ll still have to be able to distribute it efficiently.”
Asked whether Hamas has been siphoning off the aid coming into Gaza, Satterfield says the vast majority of assistance being distributed by the UN has reached civilians. He acknowledges that some of the aid may have reached Hamas. However, “Gaza’s population of 2.2 million are not… starving today because the bulk of the assistance delivered has gone to them, not to Hamas; and that’s the fundamental fact.”
Satterfield goes on to hail the Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories for the work that the quasi-military body has done in facilitating aid into Gaza. “We could not do what we have been able to and could not have achieved the progress that we’ve seen without the engagement of COGAT… They took this on because they had to, and they have done an exceptional job under extremely challenging and difficult circumstances.”
The praise indicates that Washington’s frustration with Israel regarding aid is directed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s political leadership.
Then why are they leaning so hard on Israel to negotiate with Hamas?
[NY Post] US intelligence officials estimate that most of the 133 hostages being held by Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, 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 Hamaswith 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... are already dead, according to a new report.
While the Israel Defense Forces estimate that as many as 34 hostages have died — either during the initial Oct. 7 terror attack or in the past six months of captivity — some American officials believe the actual number is more than twice as high, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The officials, who are familiar with US and Israeli intelligence on the hostage situation, told the Journal that some of the dead hostages were likely killed by injuries, illnesses or by the IDF’s ongoing Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] Israel believes Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s 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... chief Yahya Sinwar is delaying a response to the current hostage-truce proposal in the hope that 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... will attack Israel and help spark the wider conflict he sought to trigger on October 7, according to unnamed sources in Jerusalem quoted by Channel 12 news.
"Sinwar has not given up on his ambition to see a regional war, and he is pinning his hopes on an Iranian attack and an Israeli response, which could bring about a ’unification of the [various] fronts’ [against Israel]," the TV report quotes the sources saying.
A proposed deal said to be broadly accepted by Israel reportedly provides for the release of 40 living hostages in a "humanitarian category" — women, children, elderly and ill — in return for some 900 Paleostinian security prisoners during a 42-day truce.
Hamas officials have publicly said the terms are unacceptable and reiterated demands for an Israeli commitment to end the war and to allow northern Gazooks to return home, but have not issued a definitive rejection.
[UNDEFINED] Perhaps the most worrisome news of the day is the Iranian threat to launch a massive drone and missile attack against Israel. Up to this time, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... has worked with considerable effect through its proxies, principally the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in 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... , Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, 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 Hamaswith 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... , Hezbollah in southern Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... , and — if it is not too far-fetched to suggest — Iran’s increasingly reliable proxy outrider the United States of America under the feckless and incompetent Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan... .
Like his mentor Obama before him, Biden is one of Israel’s most consistent and determined critics and, judging from his betrayal of Israel at the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , a capricious and untrustworthy ally as well. Indeed, Biden cares more about Democrat constituents in Dearborn, Mich., the Somalian capital of the U.S., who chant "Death to America," than about one of America’s most reliable friends and partners.
Israel has reacted to the Iranian threat as it must, with its foreign minister stating bluntly that "If Iran attacks from its own territory, Israel will respond and attack in Iran." Israel’s retaliatory and justified invasion of Gaza after Hamas’ barbaric terror strike inside Israel has been called a mistake by Biden, who has emboldened Iran, flush with billions in American bribe money, to threaten Israel with extinction.
His recent pledge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that "our commitment to Israel's security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad" is certainly not heartfelt and is likely duplicitous. Probably the most favorable interpretation we can put on Biden’s bravado may be that he has realized that he allowed the situation, which he helped to provoke, to get out of hand and is now verbally backtracking in a feeble effort to defuse the Iranian menace and the specter of a Mideast war.
When Israel faced catastrophic defeat in the 1973 war, then-Prime Minister Golda Meir refused to consider the nuclear option, even though the situation was existential. Today things may be different. Hezbollah is estimated to deploy up to 150,000 rockets aimed at Israel, more than enough to devastate the country. No less alarming, according to reports, Iran is now agonizingly close to achieving a nuclear breakthrough, and there is no guarantee that the Mullahs would not activate their arsenal, whether conventional or thermonuclear, against the Jewish state.
We know that Iran is a Shi’ite nation, a branch of Islam that believes in the return of the so-called Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who is descended from Mohammed’s son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph assassinated in 661 in a succession war, after which the split between Sunnis and Shi’ites eventually became permanent. Historian Emmanuel Sivan in "Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics" warned that an integral part of Shi’a Islam’s belief and thought involves the igniting of a worldwide conflagration.
Shi’ites believe that Allah’s kingdom will be established on earth by the Twelfth or Hidden Imam, whose "second coming" can be accelerated by creating the right set of circumstances, namely, the fomenting of violent mostly peaceful upheavals in a holocaust of blood and fire among the nations of the earth — in particular, Israel. And the mullahs are just crazy enough to bring such a cataclysm to pass.
Joe Biden, his advisors, regional "experts," and his party in general are too ignorant of Islamic teachings and readily available Shia scholarship to know any of this or even to consider it worthy of study in order to familiarize themselves with the explosive politics of the sector. As Lesley Hazleton remarks in "After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split," "history is often made by the heedless." But the Israeli leadership is educated and alert to the threat. That is why I suspect they would not respond to imminent destruction as did Golda Meir but would repay annihilating fire with annihilating fire — or, if convinced the missiles are poised to rain from the sky, may well initiate a pre-emptive strike. This is the nuclear tinderbox that Biden through his actions and policies is about to toss his cigar butt into.
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According to a report, Iran plans to launch attack on Israel in next 24-48 hours; Gallant tells U.S. counterpart that if Israel comes under attack it would respond by striking Iranian territory
#4
They won't be any strike*. Iran prefers to work through expendable Arab proxies - if only because they know that once Israel breaks their military, all their neighboors (including the Pakis) will invade.
*Possibly a terror attack on Israeli embassy in one of the "pro-Palestinian" EUrodreck countries - so they don't have to fear local police/military.
#5
Agreed, Iran is once again blowing hot air. If they directly attack Israel, they'll get neutered. They won't dare actually do it, since then all bets are off.
I get the feeling this is Biden trying to walk back holding up military aid for Israel via "Iran might attack" excuse so he can attempt to win back a few voters.
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors in the Netherlands do not intend to prosecute a man who is said to have beaten a rabbi at a department store, they say, prompting the rabbi to mull filing an appeal.
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
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