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[Regnum] The American nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman has left the Red Sea, where it was stationed to carry out airstrikes on military facilities of the Yemeni Houthis. This was reported by the Indian publication Oneindia.
According to the online ship tracking service Marine Traffic, the aircraft carrier, which had been in the region since last fall, had passed through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea the day before.
The publication also clarified that a destroyer from an aircraft carrier strike group and a missile cruiser followed along with it.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the US Navy aircraft carrier Harry Truman has set off for the Middle East. It is specified that the ship is heading to the Red Sea against the backdrop of the return from the region of the Dwight Eisenhower, which has been in the Middle East since 2023.
Harry Truman will be accompanied by two destroyers and a guided missile cruiser. An Italian Navy frigate is also expected to join the strike group.
Earlier it became known that the United States and Britain attacked the port of Ras Isa, which is under the control of the Houthis. At least two strikes were reported on the territory of the port of Ras Isa in the As-Salif district of the Houthi-controlled Yemeni province of Hodeidah by the forces of the United States and Great Britain.
Al Masirah TV reported that the US and British air forces carried out four airstrikes each on October 4 on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the city of Hodeida, which are controlled by the Houthis. There were no reports of casualties or deaths.
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USS Harry Truman has left the Red Sea ... passed through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea
OR the US Navy aircraft carrier Harry Truman has set off for the Middle East
AND An Italian Navy frigate is also expected to join the strike group. Somewhere.
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The US Navy took their shot. Now they’re giving the IDF room to work. Hopefully they’re going to concentrate on basic drills after clearing away the Biden-Harris administration’s DEI superstructure.
i started
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to notice a trend in recent years of
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women who live in major Western European
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cities dressing differently dowdy dull
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loose- fitting and in some cases almost
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tentlike
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clothing i mean they're literally called
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tent dresses genderneutral bordering on
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anti-feminine it's a fashion trend that
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makes women almost blend into the
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background gone are the days when young
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women wanted to show off their figure
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now they appear to be doing everything
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possible to hide it are they literally
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trying to make themselves
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invisible now of course there's still
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plenty of women in Western European
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cities or to be more specific UK cities
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who choose to dress like
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this and that's a whole different debate
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but the overarching style and that being
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catered to by the fashion industry is
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clearly baggy unflattering unfeminine
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and downright boring
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the mainstream explanation for this
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fashion trend is that it's a resurgence
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of '90s nostalgia anecdotal evidence
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suggests women are choosing to dress
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this way for a different reason
… i wear baggy clothes that kind of
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make me look like a boy as a shield
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against [ __ ] men sexualizing me on
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the street it doesn't always work but it
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helps it's really sad that I need to
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wear men's clothing aka baggy when I run
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errands because otherwise I'll get
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harassed dressing in super baggy
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masculine clothing when I go out so men
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don't harass me oversized clothes
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propose a barrier between women and
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inevitable objectification vogue
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describes this summer's in trend baggy
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androgynous and oversized as a form of
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armor redditors are confused as to why
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women hit the gym seven times a week yet
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choose to hide it all anyway meanwhile
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despite the Islamic veil being a symbol
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of oppression for women in Middle
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Eastern countries our culture still
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keeps weirdly lionizing it as some kind
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of bold expression of liberation the
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Ahmedia Muslim community in Sweden
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celebrated World Hijab Day on February
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1st 2025 in five of Sweden's largest
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cities how long before the cultural
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enrichment being experienced by young
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women in Western European cities becomes
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so overbearing that dressing like this
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becomes a temptation
Arlington, Virginia bans their police from cooperating with ICE, even in the cases of illegal migrant gang members, Murderers, Rapists.
The Arlington County Board in Virginia, unanimously voted to ban Police from cooperating with ICE even in cases involving serious offenders… pic.twitter.com/zNPzpioOYG
[IsraelTimes] Eric Adams cites need for ‘decisive action’ as he announces Office to Combat Antisemitism, 1st of its kind in a major US city, amid upsurge in anti-Jewish hate crimes
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Why do we not have this in every US city? And state? And town hall?
This won't stop until people start going to prison for it.
Tons of people rotting in jail cells in Germany for the same reason. Antisemitism is a human rights violation.
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Maybe they can share office space with the task force on street crime and the task force on drug use.
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Have the DAs and criminal justice system enforce existing laws and the problem solves itself ...this is why I find the very concept of 'hate crimes' logically repulsive.
Feel the love! It’s not New Amsterdam anymore. ;-)
[IsraelTimes] Israel Day on 5th, a significant yearly celebration for the region’s Jewish community, features ex-captives and state’s political leadership
Some spectators wept as former Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... hostages marched through New York City on Sunday, while others reached out to shake the ex-captives’ hands or chanted "Bring them home" for the Israelis remaining 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... The former captives and hostages’ families were the spiritual center of the city’s annual pro-Israel parade, called Israel Day on 5th, a major event for the Jewish community that was focused on the plight of the hostages for the second year.
During the march, tens of thousands march down Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, led by the state and city’s politicianship. Marching groups include Jewish nonprofits, non-Jewish allies, dancing troupes, identity groups such as Russian-speaking Jews, and thousands of children from Jewish day schools. Organizers estimated that 50,000 people participated in Sunday’s march.
At the head of the parade, former New York State Governor Andrew Sonny Cuomo marched alongside Jewish community leaders. Cuomo is the leading candidate to become the city’s next mayor and has made combating antisemitism and support for Israel a central part of his campaign.
New York’s politicianship has remained staunchly supportive of Israel despite tensions surrounding the war. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul marched alongside Ruby Chen, the father of Itay Chen, an American-Israel from New York who was killed on October 7 and whose body is held hostage by Hamas.
An array of city and state leaders also marched, including Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... , state Attorney General Letitia James, US Reps. Dan Goldman, Jerry Fester Bestertester Nadler ...the Dem New York representative-for-life who stepped whole from a Don Martin drawing in the pages of Mad® magazine, head of the House Judiciary Committee... , Tom Lawler, Gregory Meeks and Grace Meng, and Sen. Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is NaN years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... Political leaders repeatedly brought up the hostages in speeches at the start of the march.
"We will not rest until these three words become a reality: Bring them home," Hochul said.
The New York branch of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum advocacy group led a group of hundreds who paraded with Israeli flags and a banner reading "Bring them all home now." Participants held signs that said "58," the number of hostages remaining in Gaza, and wore stickers with the number 590, the number of days they have been in captivity.
They chanted, "We will never stop, you are not alone," and, "Seal the deal."
Released hostage Ilana Gritzewsky and the family members of other hostages including Hagai Angrest, father of hostage Matan Angrest, and Yehuda and Yotam Cohen, father and brother of hostage Nimrod Cohen, were part of the delegation. Nimrod Cohen and Matan Angrest are two of the remaining soldiers held hostage in Gaza.
Gritzewsky, who recently received signs of life from her hostage partner Matan Zangauker, was at the front of the hostage forum bloc.
Standing next to her, Yehuda Cohen said that last week’s release of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, which was negotiated solely by the US, proved that the Israeli government does not care about the hostages, and is only interested in occupying Gaza.
"We hoped that Trump’s visit to 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... this week would yield something else, an end to the war and the return home of the hostages," he said.
"It’s more important to be here than to be in Israel," said Yotam Cohen. "There are more people paying attention here than in Jerusalem."
The hostage delegation at the parade was led by a float carrying released hostages Keith and Aviva Seigel, rescued captive Andrey Kozlov, and the family members of other hostages. Scott Stringer, a Jewish candidate for city mayor and former city comptroller, also marched with the group.
An additional Hostages Forum float in back of the marchers blasted the song, "Am Yisrael Chai," and last year’s Eurovision song, "Hurricane," as onlookers standing several rows deep echoed the call to bring them home.
Keith Siegel, who was freed in February 2025, said he cannot stress enough the horrendous conditions of captivity in Gaza, and noted that he personally knows four people still held in Gaza, mentioning brothers Ziv and Gali Berman, from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, by name.
"Aviva and I are on a mission and we’re doing whatever we can to get them home," he said. "We’re grateful for your support, it’s urgent."
Aviva Siegel, who was released from captivity in the November 2023 truce, thanked the crowd multiple times.
"Keith is home," she said. "I am the lucky one. I know what it feels like being held hostage in Gaza, touching death and being treated in such a brutal way."
Parade organizers also introduced Dani Miran, whose son Omri is still held hostage in Gaza. Delegations from Kibbutz Be’eri and Kibbutz Kfar Aza, two of the hardest-hit communities in the October 7 attack, marched near the start of the parade.
The march mostly retained its festive tone, with day school groups doing choreographed dances and costumed performers playing music.
The event took place under heavy police security. The NYPD used drones, helicopters, canine units and anti-terrorism officers to secure the parade’s route, and police intelligence specialists monitored security video and social media for potential threats.
The parade is a significant show of support for Israel in the city, and a moment of solidarity for the Jewish community, as Jewish New Yorkers continue to deal with the fallout from the October 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel.
The theme for this year was "Hatikvah," meaning "The hope" — the title of Israel’s national anthem.
There are near-daily anti-Israel protests on the city’s streets and college campuses, and the parade acts as a counterweight and a show of force in support of the Jewish state.
There did not appear to be any anti-Israel protesters along the parade route. Last year, a small group of demonstrators gathered on the sidelines of the march. This year, a handful of protesters were turned away from the parade route by coppers, and walked away chanting "Shame on you" at the police.
In addition to the protests, Jews in the city are targeted in hate crimes more than all other groups combined, and anti-Israel rhetoric is graffitied on the streets and rampant on social media.
The annual event is organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, with the support of the UJA-Federation of New York. Organizers strive to keep the march nonpolitical in tone.
The annual parade began in 1965 with an impromptu march by thousands of Zionist youth in support of Israel. JCRC-NY has managed the event since 2011.
The man who died bombing the fertility clinic in Palm Springs, Calif. allegedly did it as an act of war against the pro-life and pro-natalist movement. A manifesto allegedly written by the man was posted online before the bombing.
BOMBING: The bomber of the Palm Springs fertility clinic was a Democrat named Guy Edward Bartkus, a member of a anti-natalist cult who believes that it’s wrong to have more children. He’s also an abolitionist vegan and an atheist who prefers satan. pic.twitter.com/xiQbI3bT0T
The father of Guy Edward Bartkus, the suspect in the Palm Springs in vitro fertilization facility explosion, says that he was “shocked” when a relative reached out and said his son was implicated in the bombing.
Speaking to the New York Times, Richard Bartkus said that he hadn’t seen his son in a decade. He told NYT that, growing up, Guy liked “tinkering with small model rockets” and once set the family’s home on fire while playing with matches when he was nine years old.
As a teenager, Guy would make “smoke bombs” and “stink bombs” but never anything “major.”
“Nothing like a ‘bomb’ bomb, but he’d build rockets [and] shoot them in the air,” Richard Bartkus told the outlet.
FBI deems Palm Springs explosion a ‘terrorism’ act, experts explore possible motives
The New York Times reported that Bartkus, 75, said that his son was always “impressionable” and had often allowed himself to be “drawn in by friends who got him into trouble,” mentioning a time when one of Guy’s friends — whose parents owned a demolition yard — talked him into smashing cars there.
Guy was also a “pretty good shot” since the elder Bartkus taught him how to use firearms.
“If he told you he was going to hit the ‘C’ on a Coke can, he’d hit the ‘C’ on the Coke can,” Richard said. “Whatever he put his mind to, he was pretty good.”
[ShabelleMedia] : The United Nations announced Friday it is scaling back its humanitarian aid goals in Yemen and Somalia in the latest fallout from a drastic drop in funding from member states.
It said the cuts are putting millions of lives at risk around the world.
In January the UN launched an appeal for $2.4 billion to help 10.5 million people in war-torn Yemen this year, far below the 19.5 million people it deems as being in need of assistance.
But with funding down, the global body and its humanitarian aid partners established new priorities so as to be able to help at least the neediest people there.
The UN announced similar changes in strategy in Ukraine and Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks.
Now the focus in Yemen will be on 8.8 million people with a forecast budget of $1.4 billion, said Stephanie Tremblay, a spokeswoman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
In violent and unstable Somalia, an initial $1.4 billion plan to help 4.6 million people has also been trimmed back to $367 million for 1.3 million people, she said.
“This does not mean that there’s been a reduction in overall humanitarian needs and requirements,” Tremblay said.
She said huge funding cuts are forcing humanitarian aid programs to scale back, “putting millions of lives at risk across the world.”
“As in other crises, the consequence will be dire. If we fail to deliver, millions more people will be acutely hungry and lack access to clean water, education, protection and other essential services,” she added.
UN agencies are scaling back operations and staffing around the world as they grapple with big cuts in contributions from member states, in particular the United States under President Donald Trump.
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After the UN graft, the NGO graft, and the local graft is taken out the remaining "aid" does more long-term harm. The introduction of 'free food' distorts the local agriculture -- "Why lose money growing food crops when you can only make money growing khat (or marijuana or opium poppies)?" ...Then the local tribal warlords steal the food and starve their enemies.
There are always chest-puffing promises made at these conclaves. Often promises are all that appear.
[NAHARNET] Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i, whose country hosted an 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... summit, said Baghdad would provide $40 million for the reconstruction of 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.... and 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... after wars with Israel.
Iraq backs the creation of an "Arab fund to support reconstruction efforts" after crises in the region, Sudani told Arab leaders in Baghdad.
Iraq will contribute "$20 million to the reconstruction of Gaza and $20 million for the reconstruction of Lebanon," he added.
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[IsraelTimes] In days prior to assault, leader Sinwar said ‘extraordinary act’ needed quash Riyadh’s openness to diplomatic ties with Israel; other documents show great concern over issue
Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s Gazoo chief Yahya Sinwar told associates in the days prior to the terror group’s devastating October 7, 2023, attack, on Israel that an "extraordinary act" would be required to derail normalization talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , according to a document reportedly found by the IDF in Gaza.
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday on a number of documents from recent years that discussed Hamas’s concerns about Saudi movement toward diplomatic ties with Israel, and the terror group’s efforts to hamper it.
Successive American administrations have sought to broker such an agreement, framing it as the "crown jewel" of potential normalization deals, in light of Saudi Arabia’s overarching status in the Arab and Moslem worlds.
Arab intelligence officials familiar with Hamas told the Journal that the documents appeared to be genuine.
The Journal did not publish any images of the documents, and there was no official Israeli comment.
The minutes of a meeting of Hamas’s political bureau in the Strip on October 2, 2023, cite Sinwar as saying, "There is no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly." The Hamas leader warned a deal would "open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path."
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sinwar said that it was time to activate an attack plan that the terror group had been working on for some two years "to bring about a major move or a strategic shift in the paths and balances of the region with regard to the Paleostinian cause."
Without directly quoting the document, the Journal said Sinwar — who was killed by the IDF about a year into the war — expected other Iran-backed terror and proxy groups to join the fighting.
Other documents apparently seized by the IDF and reviewed by the newspaper included one from September 2023 that recommended escalating violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem to decrease the chances of normalization between Jerusalem and Riyadh.
That document criticized the Saudis for what Hamas saw as their "weak and limited steps to neutralize" the terror group and prevent it from blocking normalization.
A Hamas briefing from August 2022, marked "secret" and composed by the group’s military leadership, urged a "reposition" in order to "preserve the survival of the Paleostinian cause in the face of the broad wave of normalization by Arab countries, which aims primarily to liquidate the Paleostinian cause." That realignment increased its coordination with, among others, the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
Then, in October that year, Hamas prepared a job advertisement, also found by the Israeli military, for a position in its Department of Arab and Islamic Cooperation to lead diplomatic efforts to stop normalization. It described the job as, in part, "Marketing the movement’s programs to confront normalization" and organizing activism groups in the Arab world to call for boycotts on entities that backed having ties with Israel.
Hamas did not respond to a request for comment on the report, the Journal said.
Though Israel and Saudi Arabia have not established diplomatic relations, their clandestine ties strengthened in recent years as they confronted a shared threat in Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia in November 2020 to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists... , the first publicly reported meeting between the two.
Former US president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... ’s administration sought to include a normalization accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia in a "mega-deal" it worked to sign with Riyadh, which has long made clear, however, that such an agreement would require a political horizon for the Paleostinians.
The Biden administration had managed to make significant progress in the series of bilateral agreements with Saudi Arabia — and was slated to begin serious discussions with Riyadh regarding the exact terms of the Paleostinian component of the package — when Hamas launched its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.
The onslaught and ensuing war derailed the normalization effort and Riyadh began to recognize that it would need more concrete steps toward the establishment of a Paleostinian state, as solidarity with the Paleostinians in Saudi Arabia and the region on the lam skyrocketed due to the devastation in Gaza.
US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... has also pledged to broker an Israel-Saudi normalization deal, repeatedly asserting that additional countries would quickly join the Abraham Accords, which normalized ties between Israel and several Arab countries at the tail end of his first term. But during a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, part of a three-day regional tour that did not include Israel, he indicated his recognition that Riyadh won’t be joining as quickly as he may have hoped.
It is not the first time that documents ostensibly found in Gaza have been leaked to the international press.
[IsraelTimes] PM shifts from insistence only on limited, temporary hostage-truce deal; conditions end of conflict on Hamas fighters going into exile; announcement comes amid new IDF offensive
Israel’s negotiation team in Qatar was exhausting “every possibility” for a deal to free the hostages, including a framework that would consider an end to the war, the Prime Minister’s Office said Sunday, indicating a shift in position by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu has until now insisted that the team would only negotiate on the basis of the US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s proposal for a short-term ceasefire and limited hostage exchange.
However, in a statement, the PMO said that the team was now working toward the possibility of either Witkoff’s proposal, or an agreement to end the war through a comprehensive release of all hostages in Gaza and the complete surrender and exile of Hamas.
“Under the prime minister’s direction, even at this hour, the negotiating team in Doha is working to exhaust every possibility for a deal — whether according to the Witkoff outline or within the framework of ending the war, which would include the release of all hostages, the exile of Hamas terrorists and the disarmament of the Gaza Strip,” the statement said.
Talks are being held as the Israel Defense Force ramps up a new military offensive in Gaza aimed at seizing most of the Strip. The fighting was likely to significantly expand should the talks fail.
“Thanks to [Netanyahu’s] policy of exerting military and diplomatic pressure, the government has so far succeeded in bringing home 197 hostages, and is doing everything possible to return the 58 remaining captives,” the PMO said.
Meanwhile, an Israeli official told Ynet: “We are giving Hamas a chance to come back from the brink before we take the drastic action in Gaza. We may reach a deal after the fighting, but the conditions will be less favorable for Hamas, so it would be better for them to release our hostages now and reach a deal.”
Israel has consistently said that the war will not end without the destruction of Hamas as a military and governing power. In recent talks, Netanyahu has insisted on only agreeing to a temporary ceasefire of roughly 45 days, which would begin with Hamas releasing about 10 hostages.
However, in the past, he has floated the willingness to end the war if Hamas surrenders and disarms.
Hamas has indicated a willingness to give up power in Gaza, but has so far refused to give up its weapons.
Before addressing the negotiations in Qatar, the PMO statement began by criticizing former Israeli hostage negotiator, Brig. Gen. (res.) Oren Setter, who resigned from the team in October and in a February interview accused Netanyahu of missing two opportunities last year for a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.
In an interview with the Kan public broadcaster, Setter said that he saw an opportunity, under the current combined military and diplomatic pressure, to reach a comprehensive deal for the return of all hostages, but was “concerned it’s going to be missed — that once again, we’ll end up with a partial agreement.”
Setter “undermined government policy through deliberate leaks and biased briefings from within the cabinet that harmed the negotiations, endangered our hostages and echoed Hamas’s false propaganda,” wrote the PMO, reiterating its February denial of his statements.
“His claims that an agreement could have been reached earlier are completely baseless. As senior American officials have repeatedly testified, Hamas refused for many months to enter negotiations and was the sole obstacle to a deal,” the statement said.
The reports come as the IDF significantly ramped up its military pressure in the Gaza Strip after launching its offensive dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots,” which will seek to “seize strategic areas” of the Hamas-run Strip.
According to Israeli officials, the operation aims to seize strategic areas of the Strip, target Hamas, prevent the terror group from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies, and move Palestinians from northern to southern Gaza.
Gaza’s Hamas-run authorities reported that widespread Israeli airstrikes have killed over 400 people since Thursday, including 100 people over Saturday night. The tolls cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
Israel has blocked the entry of medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza since the start of March to try to pressure Hamas into freeing Israeli hostages and has approved plans that could involve seizing the entire Gaza Strip and controlling aid.
Mediators Egypt and Qatar, backed by the US, began a new round of indirect talks with Hamas on Saturday. However, sources close to the negotiations told Reuters there had been no breakthrough.
A Hamas official told the news agency: “Israel’s position is unchanged, they want their prisoners released, without a commitment to end the war.”
However, US hostage envoy Adam Boehler said Hamas’s release of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander last week was a “sign” that the terror group “understands” that it needs to release hostages “if they want this barrage of attacks to stop.”
Boehler told ‘Fox News Sunday’ that hostage negotiations in Doha are very “fluid,” denying reports that they were not going well.
At the same time, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who has been a major opponent of any ceasefire deal, expressed his opposition to the negotiations in Doha and emphasized that no deal had been reached in a radio interview: “If we don’t collapse Hamas, if we don’t go to war until the end, this government has no right to exist.”
“If our hostages don’t eat — there is no reason in the world for us to introduce humanitarian aid. It’s a mistake to make a deal right now and it’s a mistake to give humanitarian aid,” he said.
Ben Gvir also tweeted: “A framework to end the war without defeating Hamas will not come to pass.”
Potentially complicating the ceasefire talks further, a series of Israeli airstrikes last week killed Muhammad Sinwar, the de facto commander of Hamas in Gaza, according to reports on Sunday that said his body was found in a Khan Younis tunnel.
His brother Yahya Sinwar, the former Hamas leader in Gaza, was killed last October, and another brother, Zakaria Sinwar, was reportedly killed in an airstrike Saturday.
[IsraelTimes] Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri tells the Qatari Al Jazeera channel that a CNN report claiming Hamas is willing to release nine hostages in exchange for a two-month ceasefire is false.
The report had cited an unnamed Hamas official.
Abu Zuhri further claims that Hamas is prepared to release all the hostages in one phase, on the condition that Israel agrees to end the war with international guarantees.
He accuses Israel of trying to “confuse the public” with false reports in order to pressure Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] Legislation would bar Gulf state from serving as mediator in talks between Israel and third parties — but allows government to make exceptions
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday advanced a bill to designate 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... a "terror-supporting state," citing the controversial Gulf country’s support for Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , Hezbollah and other terror groups.
The bill was approved amid the ongoing, so-called "Qatargate" scandal, in which several of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top aides are accused of having worked for Qatar to shift public opinion in Israel. It also comes as Israeli negotiators are in Doha, attempting to reach a hostage deal with the Hamas terror group, whose leadership has long been hosted there.
The legislation, brought by Likud MKs Moshe Saada and Dan Illouz, Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer and Religious Zionism MK Michal Woldiger, has been considered several times over the last year.
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation, though not a formal part of the legislative process, is a way for the government to determine which bills it will back. The proposed legislation now awaits its preliminary reading in the Knesset.
If passed, it would establish a legal category of "terror-supporting states" for the first time, with its preamble explicitly naming Qatar as the world’s leading financier of terrorism.
Any nation given "terror-supporting" status would be subject to restrictions similar to those imposed on enemy states, including bans on donations, trade and diplomatic processes with Israel.
The proposed law would also prevent Israel from allowing a "terror-supporting state" to be involved in any negotiations between Israel and a third party. However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... this would not necessarily prevent Qatar from mediating on the issue of the Gazoo hostages, since a subsection of the bill determines that "the Ministerial Committee for National Security Affairs may determine that a specific terror-supporting state shall be exempt from this restriction."
Qatar is one of the states mediating the talks, though Israeli officials have publicly blamed Doha for Hamas not accepting recent compromise proposals.
The bill has reached the Ministerial Committee for Legislation two separate times — once at the end of 2024, and once in January — but according to a Channel 12 report citing minutes from the meetings, the National Security Council blocked it at the request of Prime Minister’s Office officials, while citing opposition from the security establishment.
The National Security Council said at the time that it did not oppose the legislation, and that, on the contrary, it supported it. The PMO called the Channel 12 report "fake news," and said the bill was being "seriously considered."
The PMO is currently embroiled in the so-called "Qatargate" scandal, in which several of Netanyahu’s top aides are suspected of taking money from the Gulf state in exchange for public relations work while working for Netanyahu, in the process committing multiple offenses.
Netanyahu has also come under criticism for allowing Qatar to fund the Hamas-run Strip, and even dispatching officials to ensure the payments continued, in the years before the October 7, 2023, attack that started the ongoing war. Some reports — rejected by the prime minister — have alleged that he ignored intelligence that the funds were going to the terror group’s military wing.
The preamble to the bill approved Sunday alleges that Qatar — "acting as a wolf in sheep’s clothing" — has, "in addition to its direct support for terror organizations," also "invested more than $1 trillion around the world with the goal of advancing global Jihad, through ’donations’ to campuses in the US, support for sports teams, [and] investments in leading lobbying groups in the US."
The Gulf state has done so, the bill says, "with the goal of directing public opinion, in the US and globally, against Israel and against Jews."
Recent investigations — in the wake of the emirate’s plan to donate a plane for US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s use — have outlined Qatar’s billion-dollar investments in American educational institutions, its retention of dozens of lobbying firms in Washington, and its personal relationships and business ties to members of Trump’s inner circle.
The Gulf state also funds the Hamas-friendly Al Jazeera network, which broadcasts to hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.
The Trump administration has praised Qatar’s role in hostage talks and in the Middle East generally. The US president visited the state at the end of his Mideast tour last week, which did not include Israel, and lauded its investment in a US air base, as well as its recently announced deals with American companies and defense contractors.
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And Trump just took an airliner from Qatar that is full of bugs built in to the skin, and dealt with Qatar without Israeli input.
When does AIPAC unleash hell on him?
There won't be a Republican left in Congress after the midterms and Trump will get impeached again.
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Consider a Herb McCoy spherical
And perfectly, um, ahysterical.
Satirical, slick
Marble gadfly! ["A prick!"]
Sure, at times he seems almost Amer-- er, a miracle.
Somebody should be terrified that Mossad agents are wandering freely across Syria and elsewhere, presumably accidentally misplacing cell phones as they go….
[IsraelTimes] Covert operation retrieves entire Syrian archive 60 years after his execution in Damascus, includes passports, final will, letters, keys to his apartment
Some 2,500 documents and personal items belonging to legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen were returned to Israel from Syria in a covert operation carried out by the Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... , the Prime Minister’s Office said Sunday.
The announcement coincided with the 60th anniversary of Cohen’s public execution in Damascus on May 18, 1965, and was made during a ceremony in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad Director David Barnea presented the materials to Cohen’s widow, Nadia Cohen.
The thousands of items collectively made up the entirety of the Syrian intelligence archive on Eli Cohen, the PMO said, calling the operation a "historic" achievement. The operation was conducted with the help of a foreign intelligence agency, according to the statement.
Among the recovered materials were handwritten letters from Cohen to his family, proof of communications between the Israeli spy and senior Syrian officials, photos taken during his years undercover in Syria, and forged passports.
The collection also featured a host of Cohen’s personal belongings, including the keys to his Damascus apartment, which were confiscated by Syrian intelligence upon his arrest.
Cohen’s original will, drafted just hours before he was hanged, was also retrieved, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Also found were extensive handwritten notes collected from his home by Syrian intelligence, which included tasks assigned to him by the Mossad such as instructions to monitor a target and gather intelligence on Syrian military bases in Quneitra.
The original document sentencing Cohen to death, as well as a letter allowing Rabbi Nissim Andabo — head of Damascus’s Jewish community at the time — to accompany Cohen in his final hours were also secured.
Finally, a thick orange folder was found, titled "Nadia Cohen," containing surveillance records tracking Cohen’s widow and her efforts to secure international intervention, including letters she sent to world leaders and the Syrian president pleading for his release.
The PMO attributed the success of the operation to decades-long efforts by the Mossad "to locate every piece of information about Eli Cohen in an attempt to shed light on his fate and burial place."
Barnea called the recovery "another step in advancing the investigation to locate the burial place of our man in Damascus."
"We will continue to work to locate and return all the missing, the fallen and the kidnapped," he added.
Netanyahu, in a statement of his own, said that the archive "will educate generations, and expresses our tireless commitment to returning all of our missing persons, prisoners of war and hostages."
Cohen, born in Egypt to a Jewish family, joined the Mossad in the early 1960s and infiltrated the top echelons of Syria’s politicianship under the alias Kamel Amin Thaabet.
The intelligence he obtained over four years was credited with playing a key role in Israel’s stunning success in the 1967 Six Day War, particularly in the capture of the Golan Heights.
He was tried and executed by the Syrian government for espionage on May 18, 1965.
His body has never been recovered, despite repeated efforts over the years by successive Israeli governments and the Mossad.
The recovery of the documents comes a week after the Mossad and the Israel Defense Forces recovered the remains of Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman, who went missing in the First Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... War’s battle of Sultan Yacoub in 1982. The body was recovered from "the heart of Syria" in a special operation.
The IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria since the fall of the Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo... regime in December, mostly within a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the countries.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the immediate resumption of humanitarian aid into Gaza during a security cabinet meeting earlier this evening.
In a statement confirming the decision, the Prime Minister’s Office says that it is being done “at the recommendation of the IDF and due to the operational need to enable the expansion of intense fighting to defeat Hamas.”
He says Israel “will allow the entry of a basic quantity of food for the population in order to prevent the development of a hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip,” as such a crisis “would endanger the continued operation to defeat Hamas.”
“Israel will act to deny Hamas the ability to seize control of the distribution of humanitarian aid in order to ensure that the aid does not reach Hamas terrorists,” he concludes.
The move comes amid increasing international pressure for Israel to end its months-long blockade on aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip and thus prevent a deepening humanitarian crisis.
Israel has thus far refused to do so, saying Hamas has been stealing the aid to benefit its own members, and that it won’t resume deliveries until a new mechanism has been put in place to circumvent Hamas
However, according to the Walla news site, the resumed transfer of aid will be facilitated through several international organizations, including the UN World Food Programme and the World Central Kitchen, until the new US and Israel-backed mechanism begins operating later this month.
According to Ynet, Netanyahu informed the security cabinet that it was necessary to resume the deliveries at once due to growing pressure from the US.
This gives President Trump ammunition to go back to the Arabs and say, “I was able to push Israel to give in on this thing, so now you have to give up something.”
He did not hold a formal vote on the issue, as would generally be expected, and instead informed the cabinet that this was what had been decided.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man who spat on a female IDF soldier earlier today has turned himself in to the Paleostinian Authority, Hebrew outlets report.
Israeli police are currently trying to extradite him to Israel.
West Bank District commander Moshe Pinchi warns that police will reach the suspect themselves should he decline to turn himself in to Israeli authorities.
"It would be better for the suspect who spat on an IDF officer in the incident that occurred in Bat Yam to turn himself in to the Judea and Samaria District... before district forces reach him," Pinchi says in a statement.
The soldier had been on the way to her IDF base on a bus from Tel Aviv to Ramat Gan when she moved away from a young man listening to videos in Arabic.
"At some point, I moved to another seat because I was uncomfortable hearing that music," she recounted to the Walla news outlet.
"Then, when he got up to get off at a stop — I believe on Herzl Street in Ramat Gan — he stood next to me, spat in my face, and got off the bus," she said.
[IsraelTimes] Project, slated to begin in June, is expected to take 3 years, cost over $1 billion; plan also calls for ‘mission centers’ in Jordan Valley to boost Israeli presence
The security cabinet on Sunday announced its approval of Defense Minister Israel Katz’s plan to construct a high-tech security barrier along the eastern border with Jordan to strengthen Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley.
The project — slated to begin in June — will include a 425-kilometer (264-mile) multi-layered defense system from Hamat Gader in Israel’s north to the Samar Sands, north of Eilat.
The NIS 5.2 billion ($1.4 billion) initiative is expected to take three years and will combine a physical barrier with advanced sensors, mobile military units and command infrastructure.
The plan also calls for bolstering Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley, which is part of the West Bank, by establishing "national mission centers," including pre-military academies and national service frameworks.
Officials said strengthening the border will deter Iranian efforts to smuggle weapons into Israel and create a new terror front via Jordan.
"The establishment of a security fence along the Israel-Jordan border...is a critical strategic step against Iran’s attempts to turn the eastern border into another terror front," said Katz.
"This is a strategic move that will bolster national security, reinforce our hold on the Jordan Valley, ensure Israel’s illusory sovereignty for years to come — and deal a blow to Iran’s efforts to turn the eastern border into a terror front," he added.
Work will begin on two priority segments totaling 80 kilometers (50 miles), while planning continues for the remainder of the fence. The project is being coordinated by an inter-ministerial team led by the Defense Ministry’s director general Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Baram.
Currently, there is an aging chain link fence equipped with sensors along some of the border that Jordan shares with Israel and the West Bank. Other sections are only equipped with barbed wire.
The new fence will run from Hamat Gader at the southern edge of the Golan Heights to the Ramon International Airport north of Eilat. A 30-kilometer (18-mile) portion of the border with Jordan, from Eilat to Ramon Airport, was already upgraded in a similar fashion to Israel’s border barriers with Egypt and 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 in the 2010s.
The border’s porousness has made it a site of frequent gun- and drug-running. Officials say that weapons that have made it over the border — likely tens of thousands over the past decade — have fueled a surge in violence in the Arab community in Israel, and have been used by Paleostinian terrorists.
It has also allowed for migrants colonists seeking work to enter Israel illegally. On Sunday, two such migrants colonists entered from Jordan and reached the community of Yardena, north of Beit She’an, before residents encountered them and called the army. A similar incident occurred on Saturday, with one suspect crossing the border from Jordan and reaching the moshav, also undetected.
The idea of boosting the border fence or building some sort of border wall has been floated repeatedly by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others for more than a decade, although many see any such effort as unrealistic due to the sheer length of the border and the enormous cost.
The project was revived after the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack started the ongoing war. The onslaught also demonstrated the limits of border infrastructure, as thousands of forces of Evil breached Israel’s NIS 3.5 billion ($1.1 billion), state-of-the-art border fence with Gaza, and proceeded to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
Late last year, the Israel Defense Forces also announced the formation of a new division that will be tasked with defending the country’s border with Jordan.
In a statement, the IDF said the decision to launch the new eastern regional division was made following an examination of the military’s "operational needs and defense capabilities in the area, in accordance with the planning of the IDF’s force build-up, in the light of the lessons of war and the situational assessment."
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Trump’s remarks as lies unworthy of a response, declared that Israel will be ELIMINATED , while the crowd repeatedly chanted “Death to America.”
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Iran would be an idiot to sign anything - they'll never give up their nukes - it's existential for them - plus trump killed their boy - why trump is even doing this in the first place is beyond me, except maybe so he can say 'i tried' before Israel wipes em out for good
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maybe so he can say 'i tried' before Israel wipes em out for good
#4
The people Trump thinks he can trust to make a deal, everyone.
AIPAC needs to destroy him in the midterms.
Wreck his shit.
He is putting Israel in mortal danger.
If Dems take the House he's getting impeached for sure. If they take the Senate he's getting convicted.
But Allah has been content to allow Israel to continue. Inshallah, dudes.
[NAHARNET] At an Arab summit in Baghdad, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam denounced "daily Israeli violations" of Lebanese illusory sovereignty and "the ongoing Israeli occupation of positions" in the South.
He said Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... was working to "fully implement" a United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council resolution that formed the basis of the ceasefire.
The resolution says Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers should be the only forces in south Lebanon, and calls for the disarmament of all non-state groups.
Salam again urged international pressure "to oblige Israel to stop its attacks and immediately and fully withdraw from all Lebanese territory."
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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.
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...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 kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
