[IsraelTimes] Talks are ongoing to save agreement as Sudan pushes for removal from US terror list and future protection from victim lawsuits
The Trump administration reportedly offered victims of the 9/11 terror attacks some $700 million to drop their claims against Sudan as part of an effort to save an agreement that would see the African country normalize ties with Israel in exchange for a removal of Sudan from the US’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Lawyers for the 9/11 claimants asked for $4 billion, a price the administration and Senate Republicans rejected, according to an ABC News report on Friday citing sources familiar with the negotiations. The talks are ongoing, ABC News said.
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Erdogan Asks Turkish Parliament to Extend Troop Deployment in Libya
“...If the Libyan National Army attacks, Turkey’s interests both in the Mediterranean basin and North Africa will be adversely affected”...#Libya#LibyaReviewhttps://t.co/ELcKVHycBS
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] The US adopted Saturday a "new official" map of Morocco that includes the disputed territory of Western Sahara, the ambassador to Rabat said.
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"This map is a tangible representation of President Trump’s bold proclamation two days ago -- recognizing Morocco’s illusory sovereignty over Western Sahara," Ambassador David Fischer said before signing the "new official US government map of the kingdom of Morocco".
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[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia on Friday condemned US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s decision to recognize Morocco’s illusory sovereignty over Western Sahara, saying it contravened international law.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov called the US decision "unilateral," Russian news agencies reported, adding that "there are relevant resolutions, there is the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara."
"This is a violation of international law," Bogdanov said.
Western Sahara is a disputed and divided former Spanish colony, mostly under Morocco’s control, where tensions with the pro-independence Polisario Front have simmered since the 1970s.
The Algerian-backed movement holds a fifth of Western Sahara and has campaigned for a vote on self-determination through decades of war and deadlock.
With barely a month left in office, Trump fulfilled a decades-old goal of Morocco’s by backing its illusory sovereignty in Western Sahara. The move was part of the outgoing US leader’s diplomatic push to bring Israel and Arab states together.
He announced on Thursday that Morocco was now the fourth Arab state this year to recognize Israel.
Russia’s Bogdanov said Moscow saluted better ties between Morocco and Israel.
"That Arab countries are building bridges with Israel is positive, we can only support this," he said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Algerian Prime Minister, Abdelaziz Djerad, said that his country is targeted from several directions, in addition to the imminent regional danger and instability in the area, calling for the union to confront the threats.During his participation in a historical symposium on the events of December 12, 1960, Djerad said, "There is a real will for the Zionist entity to reach our borders within the framework of an external scheme to target Algeria."
The minister stressed the need to intensify the efforts of all Algerians to solve internal problems.
The comments by the Algerian Prime Minister come just two days after Morocco announced its historic normalization agreement with Israel, which was mediated by the United States.
As a result of Morocco’s decision to normalize relations with Israel, the United States has agreed to recognize Rabat’s illusory sovereignty over Western Sahara, a move that received heavy condemnation from several countries.
Furthermore, the U.S. is in the process of selling Morocco their MQ-9 reaper drones, which Rooters said was close to be completed.
Morocco was the fourth Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... country in the last three months to normalize relations with Israel; it is expected that a few more will do so by the end of U.S. President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s tenure.
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[IsraelTimes] Saad-Eddine El Othmani, who previously expressed opposition to normalization with Jewish state, lashes out at White House peace framework and alleged efforts to ’Judaize’ Jerusalem.
King Mohammed VI has the last say over major diplomatic decisions.
Morocco’s prime minister on Friday said the decision to normalize ties with Israel as part of a US-brokered agreement would not affect Rabat’s support for the Paleostinians.
Saad-Eddine El Othmani, noted Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s phone call Thursday to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
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[IsraelTimes] At the mall, Rafi and Nissim sip coffee and shop, while a Syria-born salesman at Sephora initially flinches but then decides his Israeli customers are in fact very nice.
Hard to put into words my disgust w/ the human rights industry. It's like pulling teeth for them to flag abuses; then they craft reports omitting the worst crimes & obscuring their systematic state-backed nature.
Wikipedia: Ismail Enver Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: اسماعیل انور پاشا; Turkish: İsmail Enver Paşa; 22 November 1881 – 4 August 1922) was an Ottoman military officer and a leader of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. He became the main leader of the Ottoman Empire in both the Balkan Wars (1912–13) and in World War I (1914–18). In the course of his career he was known by increasingly elevated titles as he rose through military ranks, including Enver Efendi (انور افندي), Enver Bey (انور بك), and finally Enver Pasha, "pasha" being the honorary title Ottoman military officers gained on promotion to the rank of Mirliva (major general).
After the Ottoman coup d’état of January 1913, Enver Pasha became (4 January 1914) the Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire, forming one-third of the triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas" (along with Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha) who held de facto rule over the Empire from 1913 until the end of World War I in 1918. As war minister and de facto Commander-in-Chief (despite his role as the de jure Deputy Commander-in-Chief, as the Sultan formally held the title), Enver Pasha was one of the most powerful figures of the government of the Ottoman Empire.[2][3][4] Along with Talaat and Djemal, he was one of the principal perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide,[5][6][7] of the Assyrian Genocide and of the Greek Genocide and thus is held responsible for the death of between 800,000 and 1,800,000[8][9][10][11] Armenians, 300,000 Assyrians and 350,000 Greeks.
Prior to World War I, he was hailed at home as "the hero of the revolution", and Europeans often spoke of Ottoman Turkey as "Enverland".[12]
Poor guys? And they couldn’t even loot civilian homes the way they did in Libya! Bigger issue: TR will shuttle them to the next attempted occupation, as there have been no consequences for bringing them to Libya and Azerbaijan.
[PJMedia] The ’Little Red House" in Portland has become another lightning rod for activists looking to upend the system and ordinary people wanting sanity to prevail. Essentially, a black family, the Kinneys, lost the house through foreclosure in 2018 and have refused to leave, leading to confrontations between police and protesters wishing to stop the "gentrification" of the neighborhood.
Another victim of capitalism, right? Well, not exactly. Instead of the poor black family getting thrown out into the street, as they are being portrayed by activists and the media, are doing quite nicely in a second home they own.
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The Kinney family has continued legal challenges to their eviction, and they have stayed at a second home during the protests that’s located less than 2 miles from the "Red House," OPB reported.
When OPB news hounds visited the home, the Kinneys’ son Michael answered the door, confirming that the family owned it, but then told the outlet they needed to schedule an interview for any further questions.
Both the red house and the home the Kinneys are living in now were purchased by the mother, Pauline, in the 1950s. After paying off the house, the family was forced to take out another mortgage to pay for legal fees after a family member was arrested in 2002.
Roman Ozeruga, 33, bought the house through a foreclosure sale in 2018 for $260,000. Any family that owns two homes in a city with property values as high as Portland’s should not be pleading poverty.
Ozeruga has offered to sell the house at cost back to the Kinneys if it will cool off the situation.
"We appreciate the opportunity to listen to what people have to say," Ozeruga said in a statement to Portland TV station KGW. "We are very much open to listen to proposals that can de-escalate and prevent violence that would benefit the neighborhood & community."
It’s amazing that the Kinneys are trying to make this a BLM issue.
"The tactics we are facing, of sneaky and illegal foreclosure tactics, predatory banking and loans, elected judges who take campaign contributions from the real estate industry, coupled with violence from law enforcement and no real due process, have been used across this historically Black neighborhood to displace Black and poor people," Julie Metcalf Kinney, the family matriarch, said in a statement. "If Black and Indigenous lives matter in Portland, this must stop."
Did they miss any left-wing catchphrases? "Illegal foreclosure tactics"? "Predatory banking"? Judges who "take campaign contributions from the real estate industry"? Nope, they didn’t.
They don’t have to prove any of that. They don’t have to cite examples. They don’t even have to offer any evidence. We must believe every word they utter because...well, just because.
Like many shootings of unarmed or poorly armed black kids, this issue hasn’t been created to help a family or even prove a point about "gentrification." It’s been made into an issue because it will draw national attention and, with expert enough spinning, it can be twisted into an issue of race.
A not-very-poor family was evicted for not paying what they rightfully and legally owed on a house. How that translates into racism is a matter for the expert propagandists at Black Lives Matter.
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We are at the point where in many places just being black is considered sufficient cause to feel that criminal and civil law shouldn’t apply, and any remedy is inherently racist. Once this privileged status is imprinted its never going to be completely erased. Society with a numerical majority of white people being assigned inferior rights will inevitably split in violence. Sadly, with voter fraud, they have seized the government powers which will hasten civil war I think.
Everyone wants to get things tied up with a ribbon before a hypothetical Biden administration starts throwing its weight around?
[IsraelTimes] Israeli envoy to India hosts signing ceremony with Bhutanese ambassador; small Himalayan kingdom maintains full ties with just over 50 countries.
Israel has established full diplomatic ties with Bhutan, a small, majority-Buddhist landlocked kingdom in the Himalayas neighboring India and China.
The agreement was signed on Saturday at a ceremony held at the residence of Israel’s Ambassador to India Ron Malka, with the ambassador of Bhutan to India Major General Vetsop Namgyel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the development, calling it an "additional fruit of the peace agreements."
"We are in contact with additional countries that want to join and establish relations with us," Netanyahu added.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi spoke with his Bhutanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Tandy Dorji, last week, where the two agreed on the signing date as well as a joint work plan to collaborate in the areas of water management, agriculture, and health.
"The circle of recognition of Israel is growing and expanding," Ashkenazi said in a Foreign Ministry statement. "The establishment of relations between us and the Kingdom of Bhutan will serve as another milestone in deepening Israeli ties to Asia."
Israel’s previous lack of relations with Bhutan was not linked to the conflict with the Paleostinians nor to the US-brokered agreements seeking normalization with Israel from Moslem states, but rather a result of Bhutan’s isolationist policies. The remote kingdom has a population of just over 770,000 people and only began allowing foreign tourists into the country in 1970. TV and internet were legalized in 1999.
The foreign ministry said Israel has maintained secret contacts with Bhutan in recent years that have included visits by delegations from Israel to the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu, and by Bhutan officials to Israel.
This secret contacts thingy is a leit motif in each of the reports thus far...
Bhutan has diplomatic relations with just over 50 countries, a list that includes Canada, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Brazil, Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , and Cuba. The US and the UK, countries that don’t have full diplomatic relations with the kingdom, maintain informal contacts with Bhutan via India.
Bhutan famously measures quality of life by Gross National Happiness (GNH) rather than Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] Various attempts to dismantle Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s heavily criticized domestic worker sponsorship program have failed over the years, and now, new research shows that some in Lebanon benefit financially from the system, leaving little impetus for a corrupt ruling elite to abolish it.
Activists estimate that one to two migrant workers die in Lebanon every week, yet the kafala system persists as it props up a financially lucrative industry where recruiters, government entities, and service providers benefit, argue researchers Jonathan Dagher, David Wood, and Jacob Boswall.
The primary beneficiaries from the kafala system are local recruitment agencies who earned approximately $57.5 million in revenues in 2019 alone, according to the findings of Beirut-based Triangle Research, Policy and Media Centre.
This is assuming the minimum recruitment fee is earned, estimated to range between $1,800 and $4,300 by the Syndicate of Owners of Recruitment Agencies in Lebanon (SORAL); the fees depend on the agency and the worker’s nationality.
There is no definitive data on the profit generated by beneficiaries of the kafala system due to lack of transparency in the industry, but "it is definitely profitable," said Boswall, who is an economic researcher at Triangle.
Deemed as a form of "modern day slavery" by Human Rights Watch, the kafala system excludes migrant workers from Lebanon’s labor laws and gives authority of their immigration status and employment to a sponsor (kafeel) instead.
There were attempts to reform aspects of the current system over the past months, but they have been struck down.
"The lobbying led by SORAL against reforms in the last few months was motivated by private economic interests," he told Al Arabiya English. SORAL was the main group that lobbied against reform attempts.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
