[JustTheNews] UN report claims al-Qaida now has eight training camps in Taliban-controlled country.
Two reports released just days apart are providing stark new evidence of the lasting consequences of President Joe Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and his administration’s dealings with the Taliban ever since.
The United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team reported late last month that the terrorist group al-Qaida, though weakened from its heyday in the early 2000s, has reconstituted as many as eight training camps and five religious training schools known as madrassas on Afghan soil under the Taliban’s rule while also increasing its propaganda operations and recruitment.
“The relationship between the Taliban and Al-Qaida remains close, and the latter maintains a holding pattern in Afghanistan under Taliban patronage,” the report stated bluntly. “Regional States assess that the presence of Al-Qaida senior figures in the country has not changed and that the group continues to pose a threat in the region, and potentially beyond.”
You can read the full report here.
While the UN report blamed the Taliban for its hosting of al-Qaida, the Biden administration continued to send massive humanitarian dollars to the Afghan regime, in many cases through the UN and global charities, according to a separate report from an American watchdog.
John Sopko, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, reported a few days after the UN report was issued that the United States accounted for all but $300 million of the $2.9 billion in humanitarian aid sent to the Taliban since the withdrawal of American troops in August 2021. Most of it, he noted, came in cash.
“The U.S. is the largest international donor, having provided about $2.6 billion in funding for the UN, other PIOs, and NGOs operating in Afghanistan since August 2021,” the report noted. “More than $1.7 billion of that funding came from State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support humanitarian activities.”
You can read Sopko's report here.
Experts said the flow of cash to help the Taliban while it allows al-Qaida to flourish sends a dangerous message to bad actors, and much of it is routed through the very UN that issued the report.
“America is the biggest funder of this thing. So the United States taxpayer is disproportionately on the hook paying for these activities,” former Deputy National Security Adviser Victoria Coates said recently.
And coupled with the billions in high-tech weaponry Biden left behind in Afghanistan, the dynamic is creating heartburn in Congress.
“This administration has a history of giving money to terrorist organizations, abandoning $80 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan so the Taliban can run around with our M4s and our Blackhawks, and all of our equipment. They have an American last agenda,” Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., told the Just the News, No Noise television show last week.
The Taliban, of course, claims it does not harbor al-Qaida and that the UN report was “propaganda.”
"There is no one related to al Qaeda in Afghanistan, nor does the Islamic Emirate allow anyone to use the territory of Afghanistan against others," the Taliban said in a statement.
But U.S. officials told Just the News they have significant intelligence of al-Qaida’s presence and reconstitution inside Afghanistan since the Taliban overthrew the democratically elected government as U.S. troops were withdrawing in 2021.
They noted that when U.S. drones killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2022, he was living inside a Taliban Cabinet member’s guest house in Kabul’s diplomatic district.
U.S. officials added they are concerned by al-Qaida’s resilience, especially since American intelligence efforts have less visibility inside Afghanistan since the bungled withdrawal.
The UN report, culled from intelligence from its various member nations, said that while al-Qaida does not have the capability to command and conduct long-range terror attacks like 9/11 right now, it is clearly showing signs of expansion and regional reach after years of diminishment from the Bush to the Trump years.
“Al-Qaida was reported to have established up to eight new training camps in Afghanistan, including four in Ghazni, Laghman, Parwan and Uruzgan Provinces, with a new base to stockpile weaponry in the Panjshir Valley,” the report said. “Some camps might be temporary.
“Five Al-Qaida madrasas operate in Laghman, Kunar, Nangarhar, Nuristan and Parwan Provinces,” it added. “The group maintains safe houses to facilitate the movement between Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Provinces of Herat, Farah and Helmand, with additional safe house locations in Kabul.”
Equally troubling, the Islamic State terrorist group is also showing resiliency in several regions of the world, particularly Afghanistan, the UN warned.
“Member States assessed that, despite the recent loss of territory, casualties, and high attrition among senior and mid-tier leadership figures, ISIL-K continued to pose a major threat in Afghanistan and the region,” it noted.
[AFRICANEWS] Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has pardoned and ordered the release of 51 people convicted of treason and other state security charges.
The beneficiaries of the presidential clemency include military and civilian figures convicted of offenses committed during the post-electoral crisis and for endangering state security.
Among those pardoned are General Dogbo Blé Brunot and Koné Kamaraté Souleymane. Souleymane was Guillaume Soro's head of protocol when he served as Prime Minister and head of the National Assembly.
General Dogbo Bruno was the commander of the Republican Guard under former President Laurent Gbagbo.
Their pardon was announced by the National Security Council in a statement on Thursday.
Allies and war comrades, Soro fell out with Ouattara in 2019. Soro, who was in 2020 sentenced in absentia to twenty years in prison for embezzlement of public funds, and then to life imprisonment for "endangering state security" has been living in exile since.
[AFRICANEWS] West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS has lifted travel, commercial and economic sanctions imposed on Niger that were aimed at reversing the coup staged in the country last year, a bigwig announced Saturday.
The sanctions will be lifted with immediate effect, the president of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Touray said after the bloc’s meeting in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, that aimed to address existential threats facing the region as well as implore three junta-led nations that have quit the bloc to rescind their decision.
The lifting of the sanctions on Niger is "on purely humanitarian grounds" to ease the suffering caused as a result, Touray told news hounds. "There are targeted (individual) sanctions as well as political sanctions that remain in force," he added.
The summit of the 15-nation regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, comes at a critical time when the 49-year-old bloc’s future is threatened as it struggles with possible disintegration and a recent surge in coups fueled by discontent over the performance of elected governments whose citizens barely benefit from mineral resources.
Decisions to be made at the summit "must be guided by our commitment to safeguarding the constitutional order, upholding democratic principles, and promoting the social and economic wellbeing of the citizens," Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, current chairman of ECOWAS, said at the start of the summit.
Top of the agenda is the recent decision by Mali, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... and Niger to leave ECOWAS, or the Economic Community of West African States, over "inhumane sanctions." That move is unprecedented since the bloc was established in 1975 and grew to become the region’s top political and economic authority.
"We must re-examine our current approach to the quest for constitutional order in our member states," Tinubu said. "I therefore urge them to reconsider the decision ... and not to perceive our organization as the enemy."
The summit is also expected to review the harsh sanctions imposed on Niger. This week, one of the bloc’s founding leaders and Nigeria’s former military ruler, Yakubu Gowon, urged regional leaders to lift the sanctions, noting that the bloc is "more than a coalition of states (but) is a community established for the good of our people."
In the past year, however, the bloc has struggled to resolve the region’s most pressing challenge: The Sahel, the vast, arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert that stretches across several West African countries, faces growing violence from Islamic bandidosmurderous Moslems and rebels, which in turn has caused soldiers to depose elected governments.
The nine coups in West and Central Africa since 2020 followed a similar pattern, with coup leaders accusing governments of failing to provide security and good governance. Most of the coup-hit countries are also among the poorest and least developed in the world.
The sanctions against Niger and the threat of military intervention to reverse the coup were "the likely triggers to an inevitable outcome" of the three countries’ withdrawal from the bloc, said Karim Manuel, an analyst for the Middle East and Africa with the Economist Intelligence Unit.
With their withdrawal, "the West African region will be increasingly fragmented and divided (while) the new alliance between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger fragments the West African bloc and reflects an axis of opposition to the traditional structures that have underpinned the region for decades," Manuel added.
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[IsraelTimes] British-born Shamima Begum, now 24, was 15 when she and 2 friends left London to marry IS terrorists in Syria; her citizenship was rescinded after she surfaced in 2019.
A woman who traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her appeal Friday against the British government’s decision to revoke her UK citizenship, with judges saying that it wasn’t for them to rule on whether it was “harsh” to do so.
Shamima Begum,
...along with her two best friends from school (Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana) — in Bethnal Green in east London — she fell in love with the romantic idea of being a jihadi wife and brood mare for the new Muslim nation, seduced by messages from early adopter Pak-Scot Aqsa Mahmood. Before running off to Syria they recruited among their English schoolmates for the ISIS cause. Umm Three-Dead-Babies thrived in her chosen environment, marrying a Dutch convert and being promoted to enforcer in the women’s branch of the ISIS morality police before it all fell apart. Now stuck in an SDF camp in Syria, she’d been doing her taqiyya best to seduce the Brits into bringing her back home for round two....
who is now 24, was 15 when she and two other girls fled from London in February 2015 to marry IS fighters in Syria at a time when the group’s online recruitment program lured many impressionable young people to its self-proclaimed caliphate. Begum married a Dutch man fighting for IS and had three children, who all died.
Authorities withdrew her British citizenship soon after she surfaced in a Syrian refugee camp in 2019, where she has been ever since. Last year, Begum lost her appeal against the decision at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, a tribunal which hears challenges to decisions to remove British citizenship on national security grounds. Her lawyers brought a further bid to overturn that decision at the Court of Appeal, with Britannia’s Home Office opposing the challenge.
All three judges dismissed her case and argued she had made a "calculated" decision to join IS even though she may have been "influenced and manipulated by others." In relaying the ruling, Chief Justice Sue Carr said it wasn’t the court’s job to decide whether the decision to strip Begum of her British citizenship was "harsh" or whether she was the "author of her own misfortune." She said the court’s sole task was to assess whether the decision to strip Begum of her citizenship was unlawful.
"Since it was not, Ms. Begum’s appeal is dismissed," the judge added.
Carr said any arguments over the consequences of the unanimous judgment, which could include a bid to appeal at Britannia’s Supreme Court, will be adjourned for seven days.
Begum’s lawyer indicated that a further challenge was on the cards.
"I think the only thing we can really say for certainty is that we are going to keep fighting," Daniel Furner said outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
Begum’s legal team argued that the decision by Britannia’s then-interior minister Sajid Javid, left her stateless and that she should have been treated as a child trafficking victim, not a security risk.
Britannia’s Conservative government claimed she could seek a Bangladeshi passport based on family ties. But Begum’s family argued that she was from the UK and never held a Bangladeshi passport.
A number of campaigners voiced their disappointment after the ruling and said the solution rests with the government shouldering its responsibility.
"It is now a political problem, and the government holds the key to solving it," said Maya Foa, director of the Reprieve human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... campaign group. "If the government thinks that Shamima Begum has committed a crime, she should be prosecuted in a British court. Citizenship stripping is not the answer."
[IsraelTimes] British ruling party announces step against Lee Anderson after he refused to apologize for saying Sadiq Khan has ’actually given our capital city away to his mates’
The UK’s governing Conservative Party has suspended ties with one if its politicians after he accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of being controlled by Islamists, as tensions over the Israel-Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... war roil British politics.
The party said on Saturday that Lee Anderson was suspended after he refused to apologize for remarks made about Khan in a television interview on Friday. The action means that Anderson, a deputy chairman of the Conservatives until last month, will sit in parliament as an independent.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and other senior Conservative leaders had come under increasing pressure to reject the comments, which the chairwoman of the opposition Labour Party called "unambiguously racist and Islamophobic."
"Following his refusal to apologize for comments made yesterday, the chief whip has suspended the Conservative whip from Lee Anderson MP," a spokesperson for Tory politician Simon Hart said.
Hart’s chief whip position makes him responsible for internal Conservative Party discipline.
The controversy comes as the Israel-Hamas war fuels tensions in British society. Pro-Paleostinian marches in London have regularly drawn hundreds of thousands of demonstrators against Israel calling for an immediate ceasefire, even as critics describe the events as "antisemitic hate marches." Figures released over the last week show that both anti-Jewish and anti-Moslem incidents have risen sharply since Hamas’s devastating onslaught against Israel on October 7, which sparked the ongoing war, with a recent report finding the former have since surged to record highs.
That anger has spilled over into parliament, where some politicians say they fear for their safety after receiving threats over their positions on the conflict 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... In his interview with GB News, Anderson criticized the police response to pro-Paleostinian demonstrations in London, where on Saturday protesters blocked traffic on the landmark Tower Bridge and shot off flares, leveling the blame on Khan, who was the first Moslem mayor of a Western capital when first elected in 2016.
Anderson said he didn’t "actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is they’ve got control of Khan and they’ve got control of London."
"He’s actually given our capital city away to his mates," added Anderson, the Tory MP for a seat in central England.
Anderson said late Saturday that he understood his comments had put Hart and Sunak in a "difficult position" but stopped short of apologizing.
"I fully accept that they had no option but to suspend the whip in these circumstances," he added.
"However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... I will continue to support the government’s efforts to call out extremism in all its forms — be that antisemitism or Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... His remarks prompted criticism from across the political spectrum and Khan flatly rejected the allegations, telling the BBC that all forms of hatred need to be rejected, including antisemitism, Islamophobia and misogyny.
#4
no civilized country should allow muslim occupancy. a muslim is one who adheres to sharia law and that law says a female is of less value than a man.
[IsraelTimes] Cyclist Leah Goldstein was the keynote address at an International Women’s Day event in Ontario targeted by anti-Israel activists.
A Canadian International Women’s Day event that drew attention for canceling its keynote speaker over her past Israeli military service has itself now been canceled.
"Circumstances beyond our control" led to the cancellation of the event in Peterborough, Ontario, that had been planned by INSPIRE, a women’s empowerment organization, the group told kawarthaNOW, a local online publication, this week.
The cancellation came just days after a Jewish Telegraphic Agency report that INSPIRE had rescinded its speaking invitation to Leah Goldstein, a Jewish motivational speaker and the first woman to win a grueling 3,000-mile bicycle race across the United States. It cited as the reason "a small but growing and extremely vocal group" that took issue with Goldstein’s IDF service more than 30 years ago.
This incident is one of a growing number of situations where athletes, musicians and other public figures have been affected by anti-Israel protests and sentiments regarding the Israel-Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... war. And the story of what happened in Peterborough quickly spread, including to the Daily Mail tabloid, igniting criticism of INSPIRE from around the world.
Amid the outcry, Goldstein posted a copy of the letter she penned to INSPIRE, expressing her feelings over what she described as "a deeply upsetting turn of events."
"Now that global media has begun publishing various articles and news posts, I feel it’s imperative that I too provide a response to my followers... the same response that I conveyed to the event organizers," Goldstein wrote on her website.
"I don’t believe you hired me because I was a soldier and a cop. While these jobs are part of my story (and I’m very grateful to have had these experiences), they do not define me as a human being," she wrote in the letter. "As a Jewish woman, I would never be offended if a Paleostinian woman were to speak about her obstacles and life journey. I thought that’s what women were supposed to do for each other — listen and support!"
She added, "Instead, it seems you have chosen to give in to threats and hate — and this is the saddest part. You removed me and made a statement to your audience, without even giving me a chance to make my own."
Heather Doughty, INSPIRE’s founder and volunteer leader, previously told JTA that she had been surprised by the pushback against Goldstein’s inclusion and that the entire experience had been "so traumatic for me." She did not respond to a request for comment about the cancellation of her group’s event. "FOR ME"
Goldstein was flooded with messages, most expressing solidarity. Many stated that they contacted INSPIRE to express outrage over its treatment of the Canadian-Israeli cyclist and motivational speaker. Some of the anger was mistakenly directed to organizers of other International Women’s Day events scheduled in the area and a law firm that sponsored the INSPIRE event last year.
"We are so grateful for the support of so many," she tweeted Thursday, adding, "But we would ask those wishing to share a complaint to be certain they are connecting with the right organization."
Murray Miskin told JTA that his firm, Miskin Law, didn’t renew its sponsorship this year because it was involved in other projects. Miskin learned his firm had been listed as a sponsor when he and his predominantly Jewish colleagues were flooded with emails accusing the office of antisemitism and questioning its association with the event.
"In this situation, we had an event where the organizers were overwhelmed by the reaction from the antisemitic and anti-Israel people, and they overreacted to that," Miskin told JTA. "Then, they were overwhelmed by the pro-Israel, pro-Jewish voices that came after and criticized the decisions they made. They basically gave up and left kind of a mess here."
Miskin said he hoped that INSPIRE would learn from the experience in planning for next year’s International Women’s Day, marked annually on March 8.
Dean Pappas is one of the community members already getting involved. Pappas, who previously served on the Peterborough city council, asked the city’s diversity, equity, and inclusion counselor to investigate INSPIRE. He said he was compelled to intervene, calling the situation, at the very least, discrimination and, at the worst, antisemitic. Pappas, who is Greek, also noted that, like in Israel, military service is mandatory in Greece and that he reached out to Goldstein and the Jewish community to offer support.
Miskin added that tremendous sympathy was expressed within the community, "mostly people thinking this was a very bad decision and wanting to help bring Leah to Peterborough to speak in the future."
Miskin recently connected with Goldstein; the two appeared this week on a Canadian podcast to talk about their reaction to the chain of events and discussed plans to bring the cyclist to Peterborough for a summer speaking engagement.
Goldstein told JTA that since her story became public, she hasn’t been sleeping — not because she’s upset over the incident but because she feels compelled to respond to the messages from supporters.
"I’ve probably slept as much as I did when racing Race Across America. This is great training for sleep deprivation," she said. "Like I have to respond to these nice people. It’s just so touching. I’m just so happy and so grateful. It’s restored my faith in humanity that good always wins."
[Breitbart] The federal government won an 8.7 percent profit of $37.5 billion from the resident population of 2.9 million refugees and asylum seekers in the 15 years before 2020, says a celebratory report by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The report also notes that the imported refugees also inflicted a 7.3 percent loss of $21.4 billion on the taxpayers who fund state and local governments.
The report calculated the costs by comparing the $739 billion in taxes paid by migrants and their families to their $723.4 billion in government aid.
The claimed razor-thin profit of 2.1 percent was enabled by the report’s exclusion of many other costs paid by taxpayers.
The excluded costs include the migration damage to Americans’ wages, housing costs, civic stability, and economic productivity, according to the report titled “The Fiscal Impact of Refugees and Asylees at the Federal, State, and Local Levels from 2005 to 2019.”
The report also excluded some welfare programs, ancillary costs, and future huge costs of the migration — such as Medicare and Social Security.
The report also hid useful information about the most expensive and least expensive categories of migrants, and it also hid regional gains and losses caused by the extra taxes and spending.
#1
On the other hand -
Since at least 1990, the federal government has relied on Extraction Migration to grow the economy after allowing investors to move the high-wage manufacturing sector to lower-wage countries.
The migration policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries. The additional workers, consumers, and renters push up stock values by shrinking Americans’ wages, subsidizing low-productivity companies, boosting rents, and spiking real estate prices.
The economic policy has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors, reduced native-born Americans’ productivity and political clout, reduced high-tech innovation, crippled civic solidarity, and allowed government officials and progressives to ignore the rising death rate of discarded Americans.
That's Breitbart's summary conclusion, not the self-serving government report.
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[IsraelTimes] Days after the Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... onslaught, filmmaker Duki Dror headed to the devastated rave site near Re’im. It is now his mission to show the world ’Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre’.
Just three days after the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught on Israel, longtime Israeli filmmaker Duki Dror visited the location of an infamous massacre from that Saturday morning — the site of the Supernova music festival.
Dror is a veteran documentarian, and his films have tended toward geopolitical subjects in recent years. Now he took on a more visceral subject. Four months after that first visit to the Supernova site, he brought the finished film to the United States: "Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre."
"It was really tough," Dror told The Times of Israel. "I think it’s the hardest film I ever made. I did a few in my career. This one was really tough, really hard emotionally."
Just under an hour in length, "Supernova" conveys the terror of the massacre at the rave, which came as thousands of Hamas-led Lions of Islam launched a widespread onslaught into southern Israel, butchering 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and abducting 253 more, while committing horrific acts of brutality including rape, torture, dismemberment and mutilation. The rampage at the festival left 360 dead, with over 40 taken hostage.
Featuring the trance and techno music that characterized the open-air festival, "Supernova" screened on February 21 at the Judy Levis Krug Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival with Dror in attendance, and had another screening on the same day in Washington, DC, attended by co-director Yossi Bloch. Now it’s moving on to Philadelphia and New York.
"There’s been a lot of attention on the film in Europe," Dror said. "Here, we just started US distribution. So far, the few screenings we’ve had have been extremely powerful. People are really extremely moved by the film."
"I felt it was my duty to tell their story, show the world this happened, bring it out," Dror said, "to show the truth, especially when there are so many voices of denial."
"I was crying a lot," Dror said of making the film. "You face so much evil, so much negativity that was thrown on these really innocent young people who were only looking for... peace, love, music and freedom. It’s heartbreaking. My kids are the same age. I still feel this is my mission, to bring it out to the world."
[GEO.TV] A disturbing video has surfaced on social media in which a police official was slapping and manhandling a woman outside a local court (kachehri) in Taxila tehsil of Rawalpindi.
The incident occurred after a police team tried to arrest a suspect Baseer from outside the local court but his mother showed resistance.
The woman decided not to let her son be arrested and held him tightly in front of the entire police team.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the cops used force to separate them and dragged the suspect, her son, to the vehicle.
When the woman held the vehicle’s door, another cop came in and brutally slapped her in the face and pushed her back.
In response, the higher police authorities took notice of the incident.
According to the spokesperson, City Police Officer Syed Khalid Hamdani suspended the assistant sub-inspector and sought a report from the Pothohar superintendent of police.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden attempted to appease Palestinians Friday by reversing a Donald Trump-era policy Friday that declared the presence of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) to be legal under international law.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has taken an increasingly hostile tone toward Israel, declared that settlements were “”inconsistent with international law,” reverting to a policy adopted by Barack Obama during the lame-duck weeks of his administration in 2016.
Trump reversed the Obama policy in 2019.
The decision was likely taken to appease domestic constituencies, including Muslim- and Arab-American voters in swing states like Michigan, who have been unhappy with the Biden administration’s (increasingly doubtful) support for Israel against Hamas.
However it also serves as a reward for Hamas terrorists, who can now claim that by launching a terror attack on October 7 that murdered 1200 people in Israel, and by seizing nearly 250 hostages, it has reversed U.S. support for Israel in Judea and Samaria.
Critics blasted both the substance of the decision and its timing. Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks said:
Today, the Biden administration added yet another lowlight to its campaign of undermining Israel by overturning the Trump-Pompeo Doctrine, which recognized that according to international law, Israelis have a right to live in Judea and Samaria, which are rightfully part of the Jewish homeland. Labeling these communities as illegal affirms the BDS [boycott, divestment, and sanctions] movement’s anti-Israel premises. The communities at issue, located west of the West Bank security barrier, are not preventing peace – Palestinian terrorism is.
In the aftermath of the horrific October 7th massacre – when America’s leaders should live up to our proud history of standing with Israel against its deadly enemies – the Biden administration has: shamefully sanctioned Israelis by a first-of-its-kind executive order; pressured Israel to recognize a Palestinian state, which would reward Hamas’ barbarism; and said that Israel’s response to Hamas terrorists in Gaza has been “over the top”, even though – according to John Spencer, the chair of urban warfare studies at West Point – the Jewish state has done more to prevent civilian casualties than any military in history.
Joe Biden’s Middle East policy doctrine has been exposed: undermining the Jewish state while it is at war, and sending signals that will embolden our shared enemies.
The Biden administration has also begun sanctioning Israelis it says are implicated in “settler violence.” The phenomenon is largely contrived, and dwarfed by Palestinian violence against Israelis. The sanctions are a gift to anti-Israel extremists, in that the language of the sanctions is broad enough for the administration to apply sanctions to a wide swath of Israeli society.
One major problem with the Biden policy is that Palestinians consider eastern Jerusalem — including the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, where Jews have lived for millennia — to be an Israeli “settlement” and illegal under international law. Israel captured that area from Jordan in 1967, after Jordan attacked Israel despite pleas for peace. Jordan occupied the area from 1948 to 1967 after expelling the Jewish residents and destroying the Jewish Quarter.
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
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[JustTheNews] UN report claims al-Qaida now has eight training camps in Taliban-controlled country.
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
[IsraelTimes] British-born 
...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,...
