[FoxNews] Hyrum Baquedano-Rodriguez, an illegally present Honduran national, was nabbed by ICE agents after local authorities dropped his charges
An illegally present Honduran national was nabbed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after they said local authorities dropped a series of his charges, which included child abduction and home invasion.
Agents with ICE in Washington, D.C., arrested Hyrum Baquedano-Rodriguez, 26, in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 2, officials said in a news release.
"Though the court saw fit to drop his most recent charges, Hyrum Baquedano-Rodriguez has been convicted of numerous crimes in Virginia and represents a calamitous hazard to our Virginia residents," said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Washington, D.C., Field Office Director Russell Hott.
Officials said his charges include abduction of a person with intent to defile and burglary, entering a house to murder, rape, etc.
"Every one of his convictions represents another one of our neighbors that Baquedano-Rodriguez has victimized. ICE Washington D.C. will continue to prioritize public safety by arresting and removing criminal alien offenders from our Washington, D.C. and Virginia communities," Hott said.
ICE officials said Baquedano-Rodriguez was first arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Aug. 25, 2018, after he illegally entered the United States near Yuma, Arizona.
Baquedano-Rodriguez was then released on an immigration bond by a DOJ immigration judge in Eloy, Arizona, on Jan. 22, 2019.
Fairfax County police arrested Baquedano-Rodriguez on Nov. 9, 2021, and charged him with three counts of indecent liberties, including exposing genitals to child and indecent exposure.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said his administration's top priority is "protecting Virginians."
"Protecting Virginians has been a top priority of our administration since day one, and it should be a priority for every leader at the federal, state and local level," Youngkin said. "That’s exactly why the Virginia Homeland Security Task Force is so important. I’m grateful to our law enforcement officers at every level for working hard to keep Virginians and Americans safe, and I’ll always stand with them."
Homeland Security also confirmed the arrest and said Baquedano-Rodriguez remains in ICE custody.
"MAKING AMERICA SAFE AGAIN: @ICEgov arrested Hyrum Baquedano-Rodriguez, an illegal alien, after a Fairfax County court dropped charges for abduction of a person with intent to defile and burglary. This child sexual predator will remain in ICE custody pending his removal," the department shared in a post on X.
Officials said Baquedano-Rodriguez was convicted in September 2022 of entering property with intent to damage by a Fairfax County General District Court and sentenced to 18 months in prison and imposed restitution.
Less than two weeks later, officials said the Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court convicted him of disorderly conduct and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and he was sentenced to 12 months in prison for each conviction.
Baquedano-Rodriguez was convicted again, officials said, in March 2023 of entering property with intent to damage by Fairfax County General District Court and sentenced to 12 months in prison.
Then, in June 2024, officials said a DOJ immigration judge in Annandale, Virginia, ordered Baquedano-Rodriguez removed from the United States to Honduras.
On May 2, 2025, the Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court dismissed Baquedano-Rodriguez’s charges for abduction of a person with intent to defile and burglary: entering a house to murder, rape, etc.
However, later that day, officers with ICE Washington D.C. arrested him in Fairfax, Virginia, and served him with a warrant of removal. Baquedano-Rodriguez remains in ICE custody.
This was not the first time a Honduran national with a criminal background was released by Fairfax County officials.
Last April, Fairfax County repeatedly released a Honduran national charged with sex crimes and ignored an ICE detainer request.
Immigration officials arrested the 30-year-old Honduran national at his residence in Bladensburg, Maryland, on April 15, after Fairfax County twice released him.
[NYPOST] The three men who allegedly murdered an Israeli businessman late last month in his Los Angeles home are all illegal immigrants from Georgia — one of whom was released after an earlier crime by a sanctuary city, sources told The Post.
The three attackers allegedly broke into Alexander Modebadze's Los Angeles home, where they held the 47-year-old captive for hours before savagely beating him to death, police said in a statement.
Cops later arrested Pata Kochiashvili, Zaza Otarashvili and Besiki Khutsishvili and charged them with murder — and all three now have federal immigration detainers lodged against them, according to sources.
[IsraelTimes] Two waitresses fired and a Temple University student suspended as Jewish founder of Barstool Sports rages over antisemitic incident in his Philadelphia establishment
Two waitresses were fired and a Temple University student suspended on Sunday, after video emerged of a "Fuck the Jews" sign being held up, to a raucous reception among a small crowd, at a bar in downtown Philadelphia owned by Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.
According to Portnoy, who is Jewish, two students requested a sign as part of the bar’s bottle service, asking that it say "Fuck the Jews." Two waitresses then fulfilled the order, he said, one enthusiastically and the other reluctantly, and neither of them consulted with the management of the bar before doing so.
In an online rant, Portnoy at first threatened "consequences," but later said that the suspended student and one other student agreed to take a tour of the Auschwitz concentration camp site in Poland. Portnoy said he hoped it would be a "learning experience," rather than strictly punitive, and urged his followers to stand down amid the online fracas.
The bar said in a statement it was "saddened, embarrassed, and frustrated by the deplorable actions of a customer and misguided staff."
Temple University president John Fry called the incident "deeply disturbing" and vowed further disciplinary action for anyone involved.
"I’ve been shaking, I’ve been so fucking mad," said a red-faced Portnoy, whose bro-culture website reaches millions each month, in a video posted to X on Sunday.
"I have just sat, and for the last two hours, I have been on the trail," he said. "You think I’m going to put up with this shit at my bar?"
Portnoy said he’d conducted his own investigation into how the sign was put up, because "I want fucking consequences for fucking actions."
In a second video, posted some two hours later, Portnoy said that two waitresses and two Temple students were involved in the incident.
He said he’d fired both the waitresses, but that he had spoken to both of the students and their families and wanted to use the situation as a "teaching moment."
"The more I thought about it, these are young fucking morons who did this. They were drunk. It’s like, do you really want to ruin someone’s life?" he said. "Let’s try to turn a hideous incident into maybe a learning experience."
"We’re going to send these kids to Auschwitz, and they’re going to do a tour of the concentration camps in Germany and hopefully learn something, and maybe their lives aren’t ruined, and most people see it’s not just words you’re throwing around — so to me, that’s a fair outcome of this event."
The Barstool founder’s insistence on consequences was applauded online — though some who praised Portnoy’s righteous indignation at first said they were disappointed by his decision to take a reparative approach.
Shlomo Litvin, a prominent Chabad rabbi based in Kentucky, said on X, "Touring a Nazi Polish death camp, controlled by the Polish government alone, does little to combat antisemitism.
"Don’t take them to Poland. Bring them to a Nova exhibit. Have them sit through the Israeli government footage. Have them speak to a survivor of both the Holocaust and Nova, then bring them to a Chabad House for a class and to a Friendship circle to volunteer for a few dozen hours," he said.
"I can do both," Portnoy responded.
He also received plaudits from some elected officials. US Rep. Elise Stefanik, a conservative firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... from New York who’s made antisemitism a focus, called Portnoy "an American icon."
US Senator Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania commended Portnoy "for not only immediately working to address the horrific display of hate... but also using it as an opportunity to educate on the tragic history of anti-Jewish hatred and violence."
Jason Holtzman of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia condemned the incident at the bar and told CBS news, "Ever since [October 7, 2023] we’ve really seen an uptick of hate against Jewish people, vandalism of Jewish institutions, it’s really a disturbing sign of the times."
Anti-Jewish hate crimes have surged worldwide in the year and a half since the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terror group attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, starting the ongoing war 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he would send two customers to tour a former Nazi concentration camp after they allegedly engaged in antisemitic behavior at a Barstool pub in Philadelphia, then later retracted that offer for at least one of them because he said the person was denying responsibility for what happened.
Portnoy said in posts on social media that in an initial conversation Sunday the customer took 100% responsibility for his actions with his friend and agreed to take a learning trip to Auschwitz in Poland. But on Monday, Portnoy posted that the customer “did a 180” and told him he had nothing to do with the antisemitic behavior and that he was just being a citizen journalist by sharing video of what happened.
“His trip to Poland has been revoked,” Portnoy said in the post. “Whatever ramifications come his way he 100% earned.”
It wasn’t clear if the trip had been revoked for the other customer.
In a video posted on social media Saturday night, a woman at the bar who appears to be a server holds a sign with an anti-Jewish message on it while a man repeats the message multiple times.
The bar said in a statement posted to social media that several employees, against their training and organization’s written discrimination policies, complied with a customer’s request for the sign in connection with ordering bottle service.
“We are saddened, embarrassed, and frustrated by the deplorable actions of a customer and misguided staff,” Barstool Samson Street said in the post.
Philadelphia police said they were investigating. No charges were immediately filed.
Temple University said one of the customers is believed to be one of their students. The student was put on interim suspension while an investigation continues, President John Fry said in a statement posted on the university’s website.
Kappa Delta Rho said in a post on its website that it is also investigating because the customer involved was allegedly a member of their fraternity at Temple.
“To be clear, our organization firmly opposes all forms of hate, which have no place in our fraternity,” said Xavier Romano, executive director of the national fraternity.
Portnoy, who is Jewish, had said he hoped to turn the event into a teachable moment. He did not initially identify the culprits, but identified one of them on Monday when saying he would not be sending them to Auschwitz. The customer didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Portnoy said he has experienced increased antisemitism, as the war between Israel and Hamas continues.
He founded Barstool Sports in 2003, a digital platform covering sports, lifestyle and entertainment, in the Boston area. He also owns several Barstool bars in locations around the country.
[IsraelTimes] A concert in Central Park for the anti-Israel singer Kehlani is canceled after pressure from the New York City mayor’s office.
Kehlani was supposed to perform next month at a show called “Pride with Kehlani,” during the city’s LGBTQ Pride month. The show was hosted by the City Parks Foundation, a nonprofit that partners with the city’s department of parks and recreation and receives public funding.
Kehlani has said, “Fuck Israel,” “Fuck Zionism,” “Dismantle Israel,” and shared other calls for Israel’s destruction on social media. Last year, she put out a music video that flashed the message, “Long live the intifada.”
The office of New York City Mayor Eric Adams pressured the foundation to cancel the show, citing security concerns, The New York Post reports.
The foundation canceled the show following a letter from the mayor’s office, the report says.
Adams’ press secretary, Kayla Mamelak Altus, says on X, “We are grateful to the City Parks Foundation for responding to our concerns and canceling the Kehlani concert in Central Park.”
New York Rep. Ritchie Torres also pushed for the show’s cancellation.
“Antisemitism becomes unacceptable only when we, as a society, have the courage to reject it,” Torres says after the show’s cancellation.
Cornell University in upstate New York canceled a Kehlani performance last month, due to her anti-Israel rhetoric.
…in this case a solidly Indian subcontinent name. He also likes to be videoed throwing water on sleeping vagrants, for some reason…
is no longer taking any responsibility or involvement for the “Fuck the Jews” sign at Barstool Samson. His is basically lawyering up and blaming it all on his friend now and is saying he was just a citizen journalist. It is a 180 from my convo with him yesterday. Needless to say his trip to Poland has been revoked
#3
Meet that wandering Muslim Mo Kahn
From a ghetto in north Pakistan
Who has never known peace...
Till Trump grants him release
And he settles just west of Amman.
In my defense, I just sat through all of Raazi (and, boy, is my Bhatt tired!).
#4
If Columbia, Harvard, et al are any indication, education for these people is not the solution. As the Dalai Lama said of terrorists - their minds are closed.
#5
I'm afraid Mr. Portnoy is going to find his previously quiet sector is going to be on the front line from a flanking move.
Been trying to get him since he had only one website and didn't censor comments counter to that time's Censor's Approval, allowing salty commentary and good looking women.
[IsraelTimes] Diaspora Ministry dubs Canada ‘champion of antisemitism,’ tying Trudeau’s condemnation of military action in Gaza to 670% spike in anti-Jewish incidents
Israel on Monday crowned Canada the "champion of antisemitism" and published a report blaming world leaders, universities, media outlets, and social networks for allowing or encouraging skyrocketing anti-Semitism around the world last year.
Relying on media accounts and data from international hate monitors, the Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry publication released Monday found that Jewish communities around the world were increasingly threatened due to a rising tide of anti-Israel criticism from friend and foe alike in the wake of Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’s October 7, 2023, attack and the war 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Among those singled out in the 153-page English-language report were the governments of South Africa, Ireland and Spain, which were accused of leading the way in antisemitic rhetoric by voicing opposition to Israeli actions or policies. Political leaders speaking out against Israel were accused of bolstering anti-Semitism, as were the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... , the TikTok social network, and Columbia University.
Several organizations have documented a sharp rise in antisemitic rhetoric and actions after Hamas mounted its shock assault on Israel on October 7, 2023, killing more than 1,200 people and kidnapping 251. The Diaspora Ministry report, in contrast, devoted much of its focus to assigning blame to different entities for allowing hate speech and activity to persist and went further than others in linking anti-Israel sentiment to antisemitism.
"This shocking data highlights the ongoing failure of international institutions and many Western countries," Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli said in a blurb. "The Israeli government will not hesitate to point out those who encourage antisemitism — be it governments, universities, or social networks."
The report synthesized data from various sources, including watchdog organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and UN Watch, global research institutions, and Jewish umbrella organizations in different countries, the ministry said.
The publication comes just over a month after the ministry was lambasted for embracing far-right European politicians and disparaging left-wing organizations at an international conference on combating antisemitism it organized in Jerusalem.
While the ministry devoted a handful of pages to the Arab and Moslem world, where accusations of endemic antisemitism persist, the lion’s share of the report focuses on the West; Iran, where some 8,000 Jews live under the regime’s Islamist repression, is mentioned only in the context of Tehran’s support for anti-Israel activities and terror.
In Canada, the report found a "significant increase in antisemitic incidents in intensity and forms not previously seen" in the country following October 7, 2023, counting a 670 percent jump in anti-Jewish incidents over the previous year.
"In 2024, Canada earned the dubious distinction as ’champion of antisemitism," a ministry blurb accompanying the report read.
Former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North... ’s condemnation of Israel at the United Nations in December 2023, just two months after the October 7 massacre, helped fuel that country’s rampant Jew-hatred, the report alleged.
Trudeau stepped down from his position in January 2025, and was replaced by Liberal Mark Carney in national elections last week.
Canada has made efforts to quell rising antisemitism within its borders, although Jewish groups say much more is needed.
In Australia, where a string of arson attacks and other vandalism at synagogues and elsewhere has shaken the Jewish community, the report recorded a 320% jump in antisemitic incidents compared to the months before the October 7 Hamas attack.
In the United States, antisemitic incidents rose by 200%, the report said.
The report also quoted from surveys showing many European Jews fearing for their future in the Continent. A CRIF poll cited in the study found 64% of French citizens believe Jews have valid reasons to fear living there. In Germany, the ADL found that 80% of Jews reported feeling less safe, while in Britannia, 90% of Jewish respondents told the Campaign Against Antisemitism that they avoid city centers during anti-Israel demonstrations.
The report largely tied countries’ responses to antisemitism to the level of official criticism aimed at the Jewish state.
South Africa, Ireland and Spain were all highlighted for unfriendly stances toward Israel, which the ministry alleged heightened uneasiness among Jews there.
"Their asymmetrical application of normative principles directly undermines Jewish communities’ senses of belonging and security within these societies, as documented through both quantitative and qualitative research," the report said.
La Belle France, Britannia, Canada and Australia were described as "morally ambiguous" for taking steps to fight antisemitism while simultaneously criticizing Israel to a "disproportionate" extent, endangering local Jewish communities.
The report accused French President Emmanuel Macron of helping legitimize antisemitic rhetoric from La Belle France’s far-left by making harmful statements about Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
In the UK, the Labour government was criticized for its arms embargo against Israel, and the state-owned broadcaster BBC was called out for refusing to call Hamas members "terrorists" and for covering up antisemitic complaints.
Only the United States and Germany were recognized as fully supporting the fight against antisemitism in the report.
International organizations were criticized for maintaining a double standard on Israel compared to the rest of the world. In 2024, the United Nations General Assembly passed 17 resolutions condemning Israel, and only six against all other countries combined, the report said.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which the report urged governments worldwide to adopt, says criticism of Israel that places a double standard on the country is a form of anti-Jewish hate.
The report also backed the government’s contention that cases against Israel in the the Hague are antisemitic. Arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in Gaza were listed in the report as "among the most severe antisemitic incidents of 2024."
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan has vociferously denied antisemitic motivations.
On social media, TikTok was singled out as a major source of antisemitic content, with the report quoting a former bigwig at TikTok Israel who called the platform an "existential danger to Israel."
Many of the people responsible for TikTok’s advertising policies support Hamas, 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, and other terrorist organizations, while Israel’s sponsored campaigns on the short-form video platform have all been blocked, the report alleges.
TikTok has said it works to block hate speech on its platform. The social network, which features short-form videos, has initiated several projects to promote Holocaust remembrance on its site, among other causes.
The report noted that all major social media networks, including TikTok, made efforts to curb antisemitic messaging after the October 7 attack.
However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... these efforts have been insufficiently enforced. During the most recent US elections, Instagram removed 40% of antisemitic content from its platform, Facebook removed 24%, X removed 22%, and TikTok removed just 17%, the report claims.
According to the report, 2,087 antisemitic incidents were recorded on college campuses between June 2023 and May 2024, 477% more than a year earlier.
Columbia University in New York was labeled the most antisemitic campus in the US, with 127 antisemitic incidents in 2024, of which 90% were linked with far-left movements. UCLA earned a distant second with 63 incidents, followed by the University of Michigan (35) and Harvard University (32), according to data from the Amcha Initiative cited in the report.
"Under Biden’s administration, I was considered persona non grata. Under Trump, I was welcomed at Mar-a-Lago and was able to speak," Ben-Gvir told Fox News Digital. He added that having "an American president who supports us and stands behind us makes a difference" in wartime.
[IsraelTimes] According to British reports, suspects may have been ‘hours away’ from major attack, with some outlets claiming synagogues, Jewish community may have been target
British police said Monday that they had secured warrants to further question four Iranian men arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences this weekend.
Police arrested five Iranian men aged between 29 and 46 in Saturday’s operation, four of whom were detained under the Terrorism Act, while the fifth was detained under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act.
"Warrants of further detention have today (Monday, 5 May) been secured for those four men, meaning they can be detained and questioned until Saturday, 10 May," said the Met Police’s Counter Terrorism Command.
The fifth man detained under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act has been released on bail to a date in May, added the force.
"Our officers and staff are progressing what is a significant and highly complex investigation, and we still have searches and activity underway at multiple addresses across the country," said Dominic Murphy, head of the Counter Terrorism Command.
"We believe that a specific premises was the target of this suspected plot and Counter Terrorism Policing officers remain in close contact with the affected premises," he added.
In a separate operation on Saturday, police detained three other men on suspicion of terrorism offenses, two of whom were also Iranian nationals. The arrests were carried out in London, Swindon, and the Greater Manchester area.
According to British media reports, speculation is mounting that those arrested were "hours away" from carrying out an attack on a synagogue or other Jewish target. There has been no confirmation of the reports.
According to The Telegraph, "the target may have been a synagogue or another target linked to the Jewish community." The Daily Mail said a "major attack" was planned.
The embassy of 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... in London did not respond to a request for comment on the arrests.
The arrests come at a time of heightened scrutiny of Iran-backed activities in the UK, with Britannia saying it has responded to more than 20 such plots since 2022, and imposing sanctions on a Swedish-based criminal network linked to Iran for targeting Israeli and Jewish interests in Europe.
[RT] The UAE-backed G42 group’s reported expansion plans come amid growing AI competition, with China and others closing the gap with the US
The United Arab Emirates’ artificial intelligence group G42, backed by Abu Dhabi’s state-owned Mubadala investment company, is set to expand into the US, Financial Times has reported, citing corporate filings. It plans to invest tens of billions of dollars to establish itself in the market, the newspaper said.
While the US has dominated the domain, as well as the semiconductor segment, more and more nations are making concerted efforts to develop and promote globally indigenous AI technologies and chips.
In an article on Sunday, FT quoted a G42 representative as confirming that it is “committed to the USA market expansion and has established a legal entity towards that strategy.”
The publication noted that the AI company is chaired by the UAE’s national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who has spearheaded the country’s AI-centered economic diversification push.
Last April, Microsoft pledged to invest $1.5 billion into G42 in exchange for a minority stake in the UAE group, which has also attracted other US investors, including Ray Dalio’s family office and private equity firm Silver Lake.
In 2023, G42 announced it was cutting ties with Chinese hardware suppliers such as Huawei in favor of their American competitors to ensure compliance with US regulations.
As recently as January, the debut of DeepSeek in China cast doubt on the dominance of US-based ChatGPT. Unlike its American rival, the Chinese model is freely available without a subscription, and swiftly became the most downloaded app on Apple’s and Google’s stores in nearly 60 countries. On top of that, it is said to be far less expensive to run compared to ChatGPT.
Back in March, researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) unveiled a new superconducting quantum computing prototype, which is said to be a million times faster than Google’s top quantum processors. The Chinese chip, named Zuchongzhi-3, is also a quadrillion times more efficient than any conventionally built supercomputer, according to its developers.
In February, the newspaper Mint, citing Indian officials, claimed that New Delhi was developing its own artificial intelligence chip from scratch, with a view to reducing the country’s dependence on Western tech companies by 2027.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … as protesters blame Irish government for 'inviting the whole third world to come in'
Huge crowds have staged anti-migrant protests in Ireland amid growing anger at the government over an increase in arrivals and asylum claims.
More than a thousand are believed to have joined a march in County Donegal's Letterkenny over the weekend, with several hundred having organised a counter-protest.
Ireland has seen anti-migrant anger growing in recent months, over the sheer number of asylum seekers being housed across the nation. Many of them are unable to get accommodation, forcing them to sleep in tents which has further incited anger.
The 'Letterkenny Peaceful Assembly/Protest Against Illegal Immigration' started at the lower end of Port Road, in the town's eastern side, and and concluded at Market Square.
Over in Carrickmacross, a similar protest, this one attended by around 800, was launched on Friday, where speakers criticised the Irish government and landlords profiting from housing asylum seekers.
Local independent councillor Seamus Treanor said people living in his ward did not feel safe in their own homes, given heightened levels of anti-social behaviour.
'I want to get one thing straight - the reason we have a housing problem in this county is because our government opened our borders, and invited the whole third world to come in.
'They came in their tens of thousands, and communities like Carrickmacross are suffering the consequences.
'The so-called opposition are in step with the government, and agree with their policy.'
Many were seen waving Irish and Donegal flags in protest against what they believed was a surge of illegal migration to the country.
One little girl was seen holding a large sign that read: 'TRAITORS ARE LIVING AMONGST US.'
But hundreds of counter-protesters were also present at the Letterkenny march, railing against the anti-migrant sentiment seen across the nation in recent months.
The United Against Racism Donegal Group invited speakers, who spoke in favour of inclusion, respect and equality for all, and rejected the incitement to hatred.
Cops reportedly managed to watch over the incident without any confrontations, having erected a physical barrier between the two groups.
In February, Ireland saw a wave of violence, with anti-migrant anger at an all time high - after the number of people applying to come into the country rocketed by nearly 300 per cent in five years.
Shocking videos showed Dublin descending into chaos - with fighting thugs throwing themselves into busses, knife fights on their streets and mass brawls sparking in residential roads.
In others, men patrol the capital to keep the city 'safe' while police can be seen using riot shields and pepper spray as they crack down on protests.
As many as 150,000 people moved to Ireland in 2023-24, Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures revealed, the highest number in 17 years.
Many of them are being accommodated in poor areas of central Dublin or small provincial towns. Only 30,000 of these were returning Irish citizens.
There are now nearly 33,000 international protection applicants being housed across the nation, up from 7,244 in 2017. Alongside arrivals from Africa and the Middle East, 100,000 refugees flocked to the country following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Each costs the nation nearly £70 a day, a figure that has increased by a third in two years. At the end of last year the Irish Refugee Council revealed there were a record 3,001 asylum seekers homeless in Ireland.
The budget for housing Ukranian refugees has been slashed from £910million in 2023 to less than £340million this year, with officials saying the reduction is expected to continue.
Once sleepy towns are now homes to hundreds of asylum seekers while tent cities have been set up along Dublin's Grand Canal.
And with hard-right sentiment at fever pitch the country is on a knife edge - with even Ireland's left-wing politicians admitting that the influx of migrants was driving a spike in homelessness.
Aoife Gallagher, from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, who monitors hard-right activity, has previously said that there has been an escalation in migrants being targeted in Ireland.
'We see consistently, a couple of times every week, horrific attacks on migrants,' she told the BBC.
'We see people standing outside IPAS centres waiting for asylum seekers in order to confront them and intimidate them.
'There's a level of political violence that we haven't seen before.'
The Irish Refugee Council say there are now more than 3,000 asylum seekers homeless in Ireland. Since December 2023, 5,671 of 6,407 have been refused accommodation, while only 736 were immediately accommodated after a vulnerability triage.
Irish Refugee Council CEO, Nick Henderson, said: 'We can’t continue to normalise homelessness and have the State effectively delegate its duties to volunteers and under resourced charities. It puts both people seeking protection and those helping them at risk of harm.'
Last year UK Government ministers flatly rejected Dublin's demands to take back asylum seekers crossing from Northern Ireland.
The Republic has voiced alarm that large numbers are taking advantage of the invisible border on the island to avoid being deported to Rwanda, with ministers saying more than 80 per cent of the country's asylum seekers arrive this way.
Then-Taoiseach Simon Harris vowed to pass new laws to facilitate returns of migrants, after the country's courts declared the UK cannot be classed as 'safe' due to the pact with the African state.
The government has previously spoken favourably about migration. Jamie Drummond, Co-Founder and Executive Director of NGO ONE and a friend of U2 star Bono, told the International Development Committee in 2015 that young immigrants were needed to help with Ireland's 'senile' aging population.
She said: 'Just as this country and this continent will be at its most senile demographically speaking, Africa will be the world’s youth and the supply of the world’s energy, creativity and dynamism.
'If we have invested properly in their education, governance and long-term security and the ability and belief that people can make a contribution in their economies and societies.
'If we fail to make those long-term investments because we are lurching in response from crisis to crisis or because we are indifferent, we will significantly regret the missed opportunity of having their engagement in a positive way and we will regret unfolding increased crises at that time.'
Project Ireland 2040 - an initiative unveiled in 2018 - forecasting nearly two million extra people in Ireland in 15 years time who would need an extra £96billion in investment for infrastructure and housing.
This huge figure was intended to be used to expand cities and settle rural areas, although it has quickly been left in the dust as the number of arrivals has reached more than double the initial estimates, The Telegraph reports.
A study by the London School of Economics found that hard-right protests in Ireland had seen structural racism and existing views 'supercharged' by social media.
And they blamed the government for cutting funding to anti-racism initiatives in the wake of the 2008 financial crash for allowing views to spiral.
They concluded: 'More needs to be done to ensure already woefully neglected communities receive sufficient state resources to facilitate greater community integration of asylum seekers and migrants, allowing these communities to view immigration as beneficial, hence helping to tackle embedded racism.
'It is this issue of distribution which needs to be at the centre of public debate on immigration, rather than the toxic, polarising and racist frames favoured by the far right and, increasingly, some "mainstream" politicians.
The hashtag 'Ireland is full' frequently trends on social media as experts fear sites like X have fanned suspicion within communities.
Researchers from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found misinformation by hard-right Irish figures is rising across all social media platforms in analysis of 13million posts from 1,640 accounts over the last three years.
They found that the pandemic had brought together previously fringe groups including those holding right-wing views and anti-vaxx campaigners around Covid conspiracy theories.
And when this passed the links 'didn't disappear', with many moving on to target refugees and the LGBT community, The Irish Times reports.
X is the most common platform for hateful posts, with researchers finding 1,158 accounts that posted 11.7million tweets between January 2020 and April 2023. The creation of these spiked following 2022 immigration protests and Elon Musk taking over the site in 2023.
Kremlin disinformation also sparked a flood of disinformation following the invasion of Ukraine, including claims the war was started by the West and that Zelensky's government was controlled by Nazis.
ISD said: 'These narratives also aim to downplay the severity of the war and fuel animosity towards Ukrainian refugees by suggesting they receive preferential treatment over the local population.'
You see, it isn't that the natives can't afford housing and may get stabbed in the street, it's that the messaging funding concerning acceptance to their fate needed to be greater.
[NYPOST] Dozens of lefty groups behind the country's supposedly ''grassroots'' May Day protests have been largely bankrolled by two billionaires and a dark-money network of progressive nonprofits.
More than $500 million from Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss' organizations, hedge-fund tycoon George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true. Maybe both.... ' Open Society Foundations and the dark-money Arabella network flowed to the progressive groups between fiscal years 2016 and 2023, according to an analysis shared with The Post.
The funding wasn't intended for the May Day protests per se, but it has been propping up many of the self-styled ''grassroots'' progressive activist groups over time.
''The hypocrisy of the May Day protests is glaring,'' said Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, to The Post.
''These organizations project the illusion of being driven by everyday Americans, but in reality they're being bankrolled by some of the biggest dark-money megadonors in politics.''
Starting Thursday, on May Day, organizers put together more than 1,000 protests across the country to demonstrate against President Trump, activity that spilled into the weekend.
Although the day is not generally a significant phenomenon in the US, in some countries, it is a holiday to mark International Workers’ Day and spring festivities. Oftentimes, labor movements overseas use it to protest for certain causes.
The "50501" movement — or "50 protests, 50 states, 1" effort, an anti-Trump organization that formed in January — is widely credited for trying to move that international energy into the US by orchestrating the widespread stateside protests last week.
US organizers framed the demonstrations as a fight against "Trump and his billionaire profiteers" — despite records showing that prominent plutocrats were funding many of the participating activist groups.
Many of the protests were also directed at tech baron Elon Musk, who is poised to dramatically reduce his cost-cutting role in the Trump administration by the month’s end.
"Trump and his billionaire profiteers are trying to create a race to the bottom — on wages, on benefits, on dignity itself," the "50501" movement said on its website ahead of the demonstrations.
"We are demanding a country that puts our families over their fortunes — public schools over private profits, healthcare over hedge funds, prosperity over free market politics."
About three dozen of the participating groups have raked in about $293.6 million from Wyss’ groups, $47 million from the Arabella network and $194.2 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundations, according to an assessment reviewed and checked by The Post.
Some of the most prominent left-wing activist groups in the anti-Trump demonstrations last week were the Sunrise Movement, Indivisible and Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party... Tax filings and other records show that the Sunrise Movement took in $2,070,000 from funders in the so-called Arabella network, and Indivisible got $107,000 from the Arabella network, $6.5 million from Wyss groups and $7.6 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundations, while Planned Parenthood Federation of America accrued $1.6 million from the Arabella network, almost $6 million from Wyss’ groups and $19.7 million from Soros’ group.
"The Open Society Foundations did not fund or coordinate the May Day protests," a rep for the Open Society Foundations told The Post.
"We support a wide range of organizations committed to justice and democratic participation, but how they choose to engage in political moments is up to them."
An Arabella representative said, "Arabella Advisors has no connection to the May Day protests.
"We are a nonpartisan professional services firm that provides operational and administrative support to philanthropists and nonprofit organizations."
The Arabella network data includes IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... Form 990 information for the Sixteen Thirty Fund, North Fund, New Venture Fund and Hopewell Fund — nonprofit groups that the Washington, DC-based Arabella Advisors services with operational and administrative support.
Wyss’ groups include activities from the eponymous Wyss Foundation — his charitable group — and the Berger Action Fund, his advocacy arm.
Because of his Swiss citizenship, Wyss, 89, is precluded from donating to US political candidates. But he has emerged as a top backer of lefty causes in America nonetheless by pumping cash into dark-money groups.
Dark money in these cases refers to political spending that is not subject to financial disclosure requirements, which helps shield donor identities.
Wyss made his fortune from the medical-device-maker company Synthes, which he sold more than a decade ago to Johnson & Johnson.
One of the largest groups to partake in protests that benefited from Wyss was Families Over Billionaires, the trade name for the massive liberal dark-money Sixteen Thirty Fund, which received more than $278 million from his organizations, records show.
A Wyss representative did not return a Post request for comment.
The May Day demonstrations across the US were the latest in anti-Trump protests that have taken place since his 2024 election victory, which have been orchestrated by groups that have, in part, received billionaire cash.
[FoxNews] 'We’re going to shift resources from bloated headquarters elements to our warfighters,' Hegseth says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that the U.S. military will soon be seeing a dramatic reduction in the number of general officers across all branches.
He called the reduction a "historic" move to fulfill President Donald Trump’s commitment to "achieving peace through strength."
"We’re going to shift resources from bloated headquarters elements to our warfighters," said Hegseth.
According to Hegseth, there are currently 44 four-star and flag officers across the military, making for a ratio of one general to 1,400 troops, compared to the ratio during World War II of one general to 6,000 troops.
Hegseth, who has pledged to transform the military into a "leaner, more lethal force," issued a memo to senior Pentagon personnel on Monday in which he ordered the reductions to be carried out in two phases.
In the first phase, Hegseth ordered a "minimum" 20% reduction of four-star generals and flag officers in the active-duty component as well as a 20% reduction in the National Guard.
In phase two, the secretary is ordering an additional 10% reduction in general and flag officers across the military.
The secretary called the reductions part of his "less generals, more GIs policy."
In a video announcing the change, he said the reductions will be done "carefully, but it's going to be done expeditiously."
He said "this is not a slash-and-burn exercise meant to punish high-ranking officers" but rather a "deliberative process, working with the joint chiefs with one goal: maximizing strategic readiness and operational effectiveness by making prudent reductions."
"We got to be lean and mean. And in this case, it means general officer reductions," said Hegseth.
Congress sets the number of general officers allowed in the military. The total number of active-duty general or flag officers is capped at 219 for the Army, 150 for the Navy, 171 for the Air Force, 64 for the Marine Corps and 21 for the Space Force.
#1
Really? Historical? Check the number of union generals in January 1865 and the number in January 1867. Custer went from general to colonel. However, that was a time before the courts started to interfere in the process. Check this one's ups and downs in rank in the old system.
But, its a start. Make colonel an important rank again.
#3
...empire building.
- Creating new commands
- Multi-national organizations
- A division back in WW2 has one general officer as its commander. Today a division has three, the division commander and deputy commander for maneuver and support.
[IsraelTimes] Likud’s Ariel Kallner says law will ‘preserve’ Israel’s Jewish and democratic character; Hadash-Ta’al MK Tibi counters that it is intended to suppress Arab vote
Lawmakers in the Knesset
…Israel’s parliament…
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Monday began debating a controversial bill that would levy massive taxes on nongovernment organizations funded by foreign governments, and erode their right to file lawsuits in Israeli courts.
The bill, sponsored by Likud MK Ariel Kallner, would allow the government to tax foreign government donations to domestic nonprofits at a rate of 80 percent, while also stipulating that courts need not consider petitions by groups "primarily financed by a foreign political entity."
If passed into law, the legislation would apply to NGOs that do not also receive Israeli state funding. The finance minister, with the approval of the Knesset Finance Committee, would be allowed to exempt organizations from the new rules "in special circumstances."
Arguing in favor of the legislation, which passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset plenum in February, Kallner argued that sanctions imposed on violent mostly peaceful settlers by the Biden administration "came as a result of despicable blood libels by delegitimization organizations such as Breaking the Silence and others" — adding that between 2012 and 2024, "a little more than NIS 1.3 billion ($360 million) flowed from foreign countries to 83 left-wing organizations, some of which are downright anti-Zionist."
"This is a psychotic reality that distorts the discourse," he declared, railing against "foreign-funded legal warfare against the state" by human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups petitioning the High Court of Justice.
"The law is not against civil society, but for it, against its distortion," Kallner asserted. "The law will preserve a Jewish state, preserve democracy, and block illegal foreign intervention."
Committee chairman Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism) agreed, claiming that foreign money funded opposition to the coalition’s judicial overhaul agenda, while "the attorney general prohibited the justice minister from using state money to produce public diplomacy [relating to] the reform."
Groups such as B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, and the New Israel Fund have long been targeted by the Israeli right and even the political center over their focus on alleged Israeli human rights abuses against the Paleostinians.
"When it comes to the Arab public, there is no doubt that part of the politician’s intention is to prevent campaigns to encourage voting in Arab society," Hadash-Ta’al MK Ahmad Tibi told the committee.
Accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party of seeking to harm Arab political representation, Tibi lamented that the coalition was also working to pass a bill "that aims to make it easier to disqualify Arab lists."
Where the Arab lists are funded by foreign interests — like the US State Department during the Obama and Biden administrations — yes.
Last month, politicians voted 22-0 to approve the first reading of a bill to disqualify a candidate or list of candidates from running in municipal elections on the grounds that they have denied the existence of the State of Israel as Jewish and democratic, or expressed support for terrorism or armed struggle against Israel.
"If anyone is worried about foreign interference, let them go check past laws to see where the money of oligarchs who support political parties over the years went, and what happened in the Prime Minister’s Office," declared Yesh Atid MK Yoav Segalovich, alluding to the ongoing 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... gate scandal.
The Shin Bet and police are currently investigating members of Netanyahu’s inner circle over alleged ties between them and Doha as part of the probe. They are suspected of multiple offenses tied to their alleged work for a pro-Qatar lobbying firm, including contact with a foreign agent and a series of corruption charges involving lobbyists and businessmen.
Speaking with The Times of Israel in February, Noa Sattath, the executive director of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, accused the government of attacking liberal civil society groups while leaving right-wing organizations untouched.
"This proposed legislation is a direct assault on Israel’s democracy and part of the ongoing judicial coup. It represents a systematic attack on all institutions that check government power, and specifically targets human rights organizations working to protect minorities in Israel and Paleostinians in the occupied territories," Sattath said.
"The selective taxation targets only foreign state funding from Israel’s closest allies — including the United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member states — who support democracy, human rights, and minority protection. Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... right-wing organizations relying on private donations remain unaffected, and the finance minister has discretionary power to exempt certain organizations, while those receiving state funding are automatically excluded."
A previous version of the bill was shelved during an international uproar, nearly two years ago.
That proposal, also sponsored by Kallner, did not touch on NGOs’ legal standing, but mandated that any nonprofit group that engaged in public advocacy two years before or after receiving a donation from a foreign government would lose its status as a public institution and would no longer be eligible for tax exemptions, and in addition would be hit with a 65% income tax.
President Biden has always claimed he had Israel’s back. An explosive new report confirmed by nine of his top national security officials refutes that claim.
The most disturbing revelation is that only months after the October 7 attack, Biden and his aides secretly sought to interfere in Israel’s politics and dethrone Israel’s democratically elected prime minister.
One former Biden official says there were discussions to "scramble Israeli politics, and see if you can trigger elections, or Gd knows what."
The revelation is based on extensive interviews with former top Biden administration officials that aired on Israeli Channel 13 on April 27.
The new report was delivered by Raviv Drucker, the host of Israel’s Channel 13 "Hamakor" investigative program.
Unfortunately, the show and its deeply troubling revelations have received scant attention in the United States.
But Drucker’s wide-ranging investigative report showcases the Biden administration’s deep antagonism towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even as Israelis were reeling from the brutal October 7 attack.
Drucker is a nationally known Israeli journalist who has broadcast many investigative reports. He also has published many brutally critical accounts of Netanyahu and his family. He’s not a fan of the current Prime Minister. And Channel 13 has aired many other anti-Netanyahu programs.
Sure, it’s true that President Biden’s hostility towards the Israeli head of state was never quite a secret. But former Biden officials decided to publicly admit this truth.
It’s interesting that they did so on Israeli national television, not on American TV. Did they do so to advance their own previous animas against Netanyahu?
It is vital to understand their comments came as anti-Netanyahu organizers are escalating their political attacks on the prime minister.
Last Saturday, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called for a "civil insurrection" to topple the Netanyahu government, according to the Jewish News Service. His call came even as Israel is calling up reserves and the country is facing active wars 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... , 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... and possibly a war with Iran.
"We need to get to a civil insurrection," he proclaimed also on Channel 13. Barak is calling for hundreds of thousands to take to the streets for "the shutdown of the country until the government falls."
The sense that Biden wasn’t fully in Israel’s corner have certainly rumbled below the surface since October 7, including charges that Washington withheld key weapons from Israel during the war.
But it’s his administration’s anti-democratic maneuvering against a major ally that’s most alarming.
Tablet, the highly regarded Jewish investigative publication reported in August 2024 about President Biden’s anti-democratic ploys against Netanyahu. "The Biden administration has assembled an interagency team of targeteers...to weaken if not. Topple the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu," they reported.
Here's a little bit of information people should know about Netanyahu and democracy. In 1996 at the age of 47, he became Israel’s youngest prime minister. Netanyahu also became the first Israeli prime minister elected directly by popular vote.
He was re-elected to the country’s highest post in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2020 and in 2022.
The former Biden officials on Channel 13 described their efforts to remove him from office. Hamakor reports that internally, Biden administration openly discussed the idea of forcing out Netanyahu.
One of the nine former Biden officials on his show was Ilan Goldenberg, who served in national security positions for Presidents Obama and Biden and in 2023 became Vice President Harris’ Middle East advisor. Goldenberg also served as Harris’ Jewish liaison during her 2024 Presidential run.
I reached out to Goldenberg, who now is a senior executive at J Street, an organization that for years has been highly antagonistic towards the Israeli prime minister. He did not return my call.
Not well known is that Goldenberger was born in Jerusalem as an Israeli citizen. He renounced his Israeli citizenship to work for President Obama in his first term. The Jewish critic originally focused on advancing the administration’s controversial 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... policy.
In the Channel 13 interview, Goldenberg was quite candid about Biden. He suggested the administration was considering measures to trigger new elections and force Netanyahu out even as the October 7 atrocities were still fresh in Israeli minds.
Goldenberger explained the former President’s strategy, saying, "The idea would be to either force Netanyahu to come on board (with the Biden policy), or scramble Israeli politics, and see if you can trigger elections, or Gd knows what."
The idea that Biden would "scramble Israeli politics," supposedly a staunch American ally, shows its deep disrespect for Israeli democracy. And it deeply tarnishes Biden’s image in Israel.
In the Channel 13 program, Tom Nides, Biden’s former U.S. Ambassador to Israel continued the narrative of the former President’s antagonism toward Netanyahu saying the former President regularly demonized Netanyahu. He said Biden considered the Israeli leader to be "a manipulator, a magician."
Biden, who in public tried to appear softspoken, frequently used coarse and ugly language behind the scenes. And his antipathy towards Netanyahu often was on full display to his aides.
In a commentary, Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution posted comments about these ugly revelations. "This startling disclosure...raises critical concerns about the Biden administration’s respect for Israeli democracy, particularly during one of the darkest periods in the nation’s modern history, when Israel was reeling from an unprecedented terrorist onslaught that claimed over 1,200 lives and left hundreds kidnapped into Gaza.
Hansen added, "At a time when Israel was battling for its very survival against genocidal terrorism, the Biden administration, according to Goldenberg’s account, was actively seeking to leverage the crisis for political ends, rather than offering unconditional support to an ally under siege."
I suspect we can expect more details to emerge of how the former president — and his fellow Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... — aggressively tried to subvert America’s biggest democratic ally in the Middle East.
#1
Coming from the same people who flooded US with millions illegals - mostly "Latino-Americans" not wanted in their own countries - that's hardly a surprise.
#3
IMO, Globalism is a worldwide movement centered in EUrope. They've a lot of local branches (like Dems in US) but they'll all the same. US are a target because the mightiest western country. Israel is a target because all totalitarians hate Jews.
#4
I suspect we can expect more details to emerge of how the former president — and his fellow Democrats
aggressively tried to subvert America’s biggest democratic ally in the Middle East.
The cause justifies the means. Jarrett and Brennan photo here please,
[IsraelTimes] PM says military will no longer withdraw from seized territory; IDF spokesman says new ‘wide-scale attack’ will move ‘majority’ of Gazan population to areas ‘sterile of Hamas’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the military will stay stationed in whatever areas of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip are captured until all the goals of the war are reached, a day after the cabinet voted to intensify combat operations against the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group.
In a video posted on his personal X account, Netanyahu said that "last night we sat late into the night in the cabinet and decided on an intensified operation in Gaza."
"This was the recommendation of [IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir] — to move, as he put it, toward the defeat of Hamas," he continued.
"He believes this will also help us rescue the hostages along the way. I agree with him. We are not letting up on this effort, and we will not give up on a single one. That is what we are doing," he said.
"We won’t talk about the details because we’ve already spoken in detail about both of these matters: what we’re doing for the hostages, and what we’re doing for the defeat [of Hamas]," Netanyahu added.
"One thing will be clear — we’re not going in and out [of Gaza] just to call up reserves so they’ll come and seize territory, we withdraw from territory, and carry out raids on what remains... That’s not the intention. What’s our intention? The opposite," he concluded.
IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said Monday evening that the goal of the "new and intensified phase" of the war, dubbed Operation Gideon’s Chariots, "is the return of our hostages and the defeat of Hamas’s rule."
"These two goals are combined with each other," he said, adding that the offensive "will include a wide-scale attack and the movement of the majority of the Strip’s population — this is to protect them in an area sterile of Hamas. And continued Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, elimination of terrorists, and dismantling of infrastructure."
Defrin said the IDF will implement the "Rafah model," whereby all Hamas infrastructure is razed and the area is declared part of Israel’s buffer zone, in other parts of the Strip.
An Israeli official said earlier Monday that the new plan provided for the "conquering of Gaza," retaining the territory, moving of the Paleostinian civilian population toward the south of the Strip, attacking Hamas, and preventing the terror group from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies.
According to the official, "a central component of the plan is the extensive evacuation of the entire Gazook population from combat zones, including from northern Gaza, to areas in southern Gaza, while creating separation between them and Hamas terrorists, to allow the IDF operational freedom of action."
Netanyahu’s video, along with the statements from the IDF front man and the official, affirmed what many government figures have said since the cabinet’s decision was announced Sunday night, namely that the IDF will no longer withdraw from captured areas as it has done during much of the first year and a half of the war against Hamas in Gaza.
Some government figures even went a step further than the prime minister, saying that Israel’s goal is to "occupy" the Strip, a word Netanyahu did not use in his statement.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 414.
More than 52,500 Paleostinians have been killed since the war began, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry. The figures cannot be independently verified, and do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January, and another 1,600 holy warriors inside Israel during the Hamas onslaught.
Official: IDF to launch major Gaza op if no deal signed by end of Trump’s Mideast visit
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces will launch a major offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip if no hostage deal is reached with the terror group by the end of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the region next week, a senior Israeli defense official said Monday.
The warning came after the security cabinet on Sunday night approved a plan to significantly broaden the military offensive against Hamas, and as the IDF was calling up tens of thousands of reservists.
Trump is set to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates between May 13 and May 16, the White House has said.
The official added that plans to allow Gazans to voluntarily emigrate abroad, “especially those concentrated in the south outside of Hamas control,” were also part of the offensive’s objectives.
The overhaul to the aid delivery system, approved by the cabinet late Sunday and first reported by The Times of Israel on Friday, would entail the IDF transitioning away from wholesale distribution and warehousing of aid and instead have international organizations and private security contractors hand out boxes of food to individual Gazan families.
According to Israeli and Arab officials familiar with the matter, the IDF would not be directly involved in the distribution of aid, amid pushback from Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, but troops would be tasked with providing an outer layer of security for the private contractors and international organizations handing out the assistance. Israel believes this method will make it harder for Hamas to divert aid to its fighters, the officials said.
The UN in a statement Sunday said it would not participate in the plan as presented, saying it violates its core principles.
According to a memo by the defense body in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, COGAT, seen by The Associated Press, all aid will enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, on approximately 60 trucks daily, and be distributed directly to people. Some 500 trucks entered Gaza every day before the war.
The memo said that facial-recognition technology will be used to identify Palestinians at logistics hubs, and text message alerts will notify people in the area that they can collect aid.
COGAT did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After Israel said it was going to assert more control over aid distribution in Gaza, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs sent an email to aid groups, urging them to reject any “draconian restrictions on humanitarian work.”
The email, which OCHA sent Monday to aid groups and was shared with the AP, further stated that there are mechanisms in place to ensure aid is not diverted.
Earlier, OCHA said in a statement that the plan would leave large parts of the population, including the most vulnerable, without supplies. It said the plan “appears designed to reinforce control over life-sustaining items as a pressure tactic — as part of a military strategy.”
The plan to take over the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza is “fundamentally against humanitarian principles,” the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) told AFP on Monday.
He said, “The United Nations agencies, all other international humanitarian groups and NGOs have said no to be part of this idea coming from the Israeli cabinet and from the Israeli military.”
Egeland said the Israeli government wanted to “militarise, manipulate, politicise the aid by allowing only aid to a few concentration hubs in the south, a scheme where people will be screened, where it’s a completely inoperable system.”
“That would force people to move to get aid, and it would continue the starvation of the civilian population,” he said, adding: “We will have no part in that.”
“If one side in a bitter armed conflict tries to control, manipulate, ration aid among the civilians on the other side, it is against everything we stand for,” he stressed.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, the only one to vote against the cabinet’s aid proposal, asserted that “the only aid that ought to enter Gaza should be for voluntary migration, to allow them to emigrate voluntarily.”
“As long as we have hostages languishing in the tunnels, I don’t understand this discussion at all,” he told members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party during its weekly faction meeting in the Knesset.
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[NYPOST] The three men who allegedly murdered an Israeli businessman late last month in his 
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...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 
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true. Maybe both....
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
President Biden has always claimed he had Israel’s back. An explosive new report confirmed by nine of his top national security officials refutes that claim.
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
