The timing here was exquisite. Directly after traitor Greenwald appeared on Tucker Carlson's podcast. on Carlson's show he said Israel + Mossad is spying on America, and controls the CIA and government.
Mossad motto: "It's never a coincidence."
Glenn Greenwald has got to disappear. He is causing active harm and personalities like Tucker Carlson keep platforming his antisemitic conspiracy theories.
He endorsed RT's propaganda and Osama bin Laden's infamous "Letter to America" which was so vile that even Al-Guardian removed it off their website after it started trending in TikTok. No platform for antisemites.
Let's remember who Greenwald's friends are: traitor Snowden, traitor Assange, bin Laden (fine, he's not a traitor), the list of disgusting personalities just goes on and on.
He's such a raging America First patriot that he lives in Brazil. He's a gay man, just like all those gay men who ruined treasured institutions like the Boy Scouts.
He doesn’t seem the Boy Scout type, at least not the camping and things.
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....On the one hand, Greenwald's right: two people in their private lives, indulging in consensual behavior.
On the other hand, Greenwald appears to have never heard the rule: if you are in a position like Mr. Greenwald's, don't do things that you don't want to see on the news.
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He doesn’t seem the Boy Scout type, at least not the camping and things.
Ouch! You're a mean girl, tw
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I am part way through the Tucker video. I have not seen Greenwald say anything inaccurate so far. I don’t intend to watch the other tape. Greenwald seems to believe that that the Israeli uses intelligence ops to influence American policy. I consider myself to be a supporter of Israel, but I certainly don’t support this type of leak. If the Mossad or CIA, for that matter, was pimping out kids as part of Epstein’s operation, I will look for them to be held accountable.
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Mr, Greenwald acknowledged Jewish ethnicity, but appears to have avoided both the faith and the community. Self-hating Jew is the usual description for a Jewish antisemite.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali government troops and allied local militia forces have mobilised along the border between the central regions of Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle, raising fears of renewed fighting with al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... bully boys, security sources and residents said Saturday.
The military buildup comes amid heightened tensions following weeks of festivities in the contested area, particularly around the Ceel Hareeri—Aadan Yabaal corridor.
Senior Somali National Army (SNA) officers have arrived in the region to oversee operations aimed at reclaiming territory from the jihadist group, which has recently made territorial gains in parts of Middle Shabelle.
"The forces are preparing for an offensive to push al-Shabaab out of strategic areas," a local security official told Shabelle Radio on condition of anonymity.
The federal government has also delivered new arms and supplies to the Macawiisley, a community militia allied with the SNA, in a bid to strengthen the campaign against the bully boys.
Military activity is said to be concentrated around Ceel Baraf and Aadan Yabaal, areas considered flashpoints in the conflict. Residents fear that a new round of violence could erupt at any moment.
Al-Shabaab, which has waged a bloody insurgency in Somalia for over 15 years, continues to control swathes of rural territory despite pressure from Somali and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... forces.
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The Commander of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP), General Abdourahamane Tiani, alleged that France is supporting terrorists in the Lake Chad region.
He claimed that these terrorists have become stronger than the country's armed forces. pic.twitter.com/Id4fHGYI0w
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The cost of the Hajj for pilgrims from Ingushetia in 2025 increased by one hundred dollars due to the rise in the cost of living in Saudi Arabia. This year, 1,441 people from the republic went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, but not everyone who wanted to could get to Mecca.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", the first group of 180 pilgrims departed from the airport in Magas for the Hajj to Saudi Arabia on May 25. 90% of the free Hajj vouchers allocated to Ingushetia by Suleiman Kerimov were distributed among the families of the SVO participants. Commentators on the social network emphasized that the families of the fighters who signed the contract in other regions were left without vouchers, while other users believed that priority should have been given to the poor.
Hajj is a pilgrimage to the Muslim holy sites in Mecca, and is one of the five main pillars of Islam=. Every Muslim who has reached adulthood and has the opportunity to do so is required to perform the hajj at least once in their life. The pilgrimage to Mecca usually takes place at the beginning of the 12th month of the Muslim lunar calendar and ends with the feast of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha. In addition, there is the so-called "small hajj" - Umrah.
In 2024, the cost of the Hajj for believers from Ingushetia increased by $100 compared to last year. The main reason for the increase was changes in hotel prices in Saudi Arabia, Adam Merzhoev, a representative of the Hajj Committee of the Republic, told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
"The cost of the Hajj this year is $5,600 for a direct flight and $4,900 for a combined flight. Last year it was $5,500 and $4,800, respectively," he said.
According to Merzhoev, the increase in prices is connected not only with the increase in hotel prices, but also with changes in logistics and exchange rate fluctuations. "The price-forming factors are hotels, especially in Mecca, as well as transfers and flights," he said.
The quota for Ingushetia was increased this year. Initially, the republic was allocated 1,300 places, but after an appeal to the relevant authorities, an additional 142 places were provided. In total, 1,442 pilgrims from the Republic planned to go to Hajj this year.
"There were more applicants than quota places. We even kept a reserve list, but, unfortunately, we were unable to satisfy all applications," the Committee representative noted.
Of the pilgrims registered to participate in the Hajj, all but one flew out. "One pilgrim died before the flight. May Allah have mercy on him," Merzhoev said. Thus, 1,441 people arrived in Mecca, and 12 staff members-organizers were added to them, the source said.
There are two programs available for pilgrims this year - a direct route and a combined route. The bulk of the pilgrims took a direct flight from Magas Airport. One group of 49 people followed a combined route: from Grozny to Dubai, and then by bus to Saudi Arabia.
"On average, there are 45 people in each group. Each group has a guide-alim who accompanies them from the very beginning, consults, explains the procedure for performing the Hajj and other rituals," said a representative of the Hajj committee.
[IsraelTimes] FMs from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, other Arab states say Jerusalem’s refusal to allow landmark trip to Ramallah reflects government’s ‘disregard for international law’
The foreign ministers of Arab countries who had planned to visit the West Bank over the weekend condemned on Saturday Israel’s decision to block their trip.
The ministers panned "Israel’s decision to ban the delegation’s visit to Ramallah [on Sunday] to meet with the president of the State of Paleostine, the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> ," the Jordanian foreign ministry said.
Ministers from 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... , Egypt, Jordan, 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... , Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates had been expected to take part alongside The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , according to the statement.
The joint statement from the ministers said the decision to block the visit "reflects the extent of the Israeli government’s arrogance, its disregard for international law, and its continued illegitimate measures and policies that besiege the brotherly Paleostinian people and their legitimate leadership."
The ministers added that Israel was seeking to perpetuate "the occupation and undermine the chances of achieving a just and comprehensive peace."
Israel decided to block the delegation of Middle Eastern foreign ministers, led by Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat, from making a landmark visit to the West Bank. A senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel that the PA was planning to use the delegation’s visit to "promote the establishment of a Paleostinian state."
"Israel will not cooperate with moves designed to harm it and its security," the Israeli official asserted, claiming that a Paleostinian state would become "a terrorist state in the heart of the Land of Israel."
Since Israel controls the borders of the West Bank, its approval was required for the ministers to enter the territory.
The visit by Prince Faisal bin Farhan was supposed to be the first by a Saudi foreign minister since Israel took over the West Bank in 1967. The ministers were supposed to arrive in Ramallah via helicopters from Jordan, a source familiar with the matter said.
The Israeli entry ban is likely to further strain Israel’s relations with its Arab neighbors, which have already deteriorated significantly since the outbreak of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war.
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... personally supported the trip, which was also intended to show support for the embattled PA, according to the Axios news site.
The Israeli decision is likely to further distance efforts to secure a normalization deal between Jerusalem and Riyadh. Israeli officials have claimed that an agreement is possible, downplaying repeated Saudi assertions that it won’t happen absent an Israeli acquiescence to creating a pathway for a future Paleostinian state.
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[IsraelTimes] Odeh, the leader of the predominantly Arab Hadash-Ta’al Knesset party, said at an anti-war rally in Haifa on Saturday that “Gaza has won, and Gaza will win,” drawing condemnation from the right wing.
“Israel has become a pariah state across the world, among all nations and in the West. After more than 600 days [of war], a majority among both peoples says: ‘If only those days had never happened,'” Odeh told the crowd. “It’s a historic loss to the right-wing ideology that was crushed in Gaza. Gaza won, and Gaza will win.”
According to Haaretz,
…which for some reason prides itself on being the New York Times of Israel…
about 2,000 people attended the left-wing rally, including representatives from 20 peace organizations.
Or in real numbers, probably somewhere between 200 and 1000. And thus we have achieved the entire point of posting this article.
“The [Benjamin] Netanyahu government has normalized the war, and we will normalize the opposition to it,” he continued. “This demonstration marks a turning point in the struggle to end the war, both in the number of participants
…ie. not many….
and in the sharpened political messages.”
…ie. stupid.
Odeh also addressed the weekly anti-government protesters calling for a hostage-ceasefire deal.
[IsraelTimes] Demonstrations take place in Tel Aviv and across the country, as terror group seeks changes to latest US-backed proposal
Israelis rallied across the country on Saturday evening to demand a ceasefire and hostage release deal 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... , as Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... delivered its response to a US-backed proposal that Israel has agreed to in principle.
The terror group was seeking changes to the latest American offer, making it unlikely that an agreement between the sides would be imminent.
Earlier in the day, the Kibbutz Movement led a tractor convoy to Tel Aviv to mark the holiday of Shavuot — a festival closely tied to agricultural communities — while calling for the return of the 58 hostages still in the Strip. The convoy ended at Hostages Square outside the Tel Aviv Museum. The movement was deeply impacted by the October 7 attack, in which many kibbutz residents were killed and kidnapped.
The main rally began at 8 p.m. at Hostages Square, organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, where relatives of captives and others addressed the crowd. Speakers included Yaniv Yaakov, the brother of Yair Yakaov who was killed on October 7 and whose body is still held by Hamas; Lishay Miran-Lavi, wife of hostage Omri Miran; Rivka Bohbot, wife of hostage Elkana Bohbot; Sharon Alony Cunio, a survivor of Hamas captivity and wife of hostage David Cunio; Alon Nimrodi, father of hostage Tamir Nimrodi; Yehuda Cohen, father of hostage Nimrod Cohen; Shimon Buskila, father of Yarden Buskila who was murdered at the Nova music festival; and Lior Simcha, secretary general of the Kibbutz Movement.
Similar demonstrations were held in Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba, Herzliya, and other cities around the country.
The protests come amid renewed diplomatic efforts to secure a hostage release agreement, and days after rallies around the country marked 600 days of captivity for the hostages.
[NYPOST] Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... responded Saturday to the US cease-fire proposal with a bevy of new conditions, which were swiftly ripped by special envoy Steve Witkoff as ''totally unacceptable.''
The terror group's demands effectively stalled negotiations on the 60-day truce by demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consider a permanent cease-fire after an initial release of hostages, along with the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from 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... . Hamas also demanded unrestricted humanitarian aid pour into the region.
If a permanent truce is not reached within 60 days, Hamas also wanted to halt the Jewish State from resuming fighting, according to the outlet. And they seemed interested in a longer timeline to conduct hostage and prisoner exchanges with Israel.
''I received the Hamas response to the United States' proposal. It is totally unacceptable and only takes us backward,'' Witkoff posted on X. ''Hamas should accept the framework proposal we put forward as the basis for proximity talks, which we can begin immediately this coming week.''
Without accepting the initial framework, Witkoff — whose plan didn't include a permanent cease-fire or full withdrawal — cautioned that a lasting peace would remain out of reach.
''That is the only way we can close a 60-day ceasefire deal in the coming days in which half of the living hostages and half of those who are deceased will come home to their families and in which we can have — substantive negotiations in good-faith to try to reach a permanent ceasefire,'' he said.
The most recent cease-fire proposal pitched Thursday by Witkoff calls for a 60-day truce as well as the release of the 10 living Israeli hostages and the bodies of 18 deceased captives.
The deal would also prompt the release of 125 Paleostinian Lions of Islam serving life sentences in Israel and 1,111 more from Gaza who have been detained since the war broke out on Oct. 7, 2023, following Hamas' massacre of 1,200 Israelis.
Another 180 bodies of dead Paleostinians in Israel would also be returned under the terms of the proposal.
It marked the second attempt by Witkoff to halt the fighting in Gaza.
Terror group seeks amendments regarding ‘US guarantees, timing of hostage release, delivery of aid, withdrawal of Israeli forces’; Israel says it sees the edits as a rejection
Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... on Saturday responded to US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s latest proposal for a hostage and ceasefire deal 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... with amendments and demands, leading the mediator to blast the stance as one that is "totally unacceptable and only takes us backward."
A Hamas official, speaking to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the talks, said proposed amendments focused on "US guarantees, the timing of hostage release, the delivery of aid and the withdrawal of Israeli forces."
A source directly involved in the negotiations told The Times of Israel that Hamas’s response included a demand that would make it more difficult for Israel to resume fighting if talks on a permanent ceasefire are not completed by the end of the 60-day truce. The updated proposal submitted by Hamas envisions the release of the 10 hostages being spread out more throughout the 60-day truce, rather than in two batches on the first and seventh day, as the US offer envisioned. The source said this change was aimed at preventing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from abandoning talks on a permanent ceasefire after the 10 hostages are released or refusing to engage in the talks altogether, as he did during the previous ceasefire in January.
An Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Hamas had also requested a ceasefire lasting up to seven years.
Witkoff said: "Hamas should accept the framework proposal we put forward as the basis for proximity talks, which we can begin immediately this coming week."
He added: "That is the only way we can close a 60-day ceasefire deal in the coming days, in which half of the living hostages and half of those who are deceased will come home to their families, and in which we can have at the proximity talks substantive negotiations in good faith to try to reach a permanent ceasefire."
The Witkoff proposal stipulates that the parties would have to reach an agreement on the parameters of Israel’s partial withdrawal from Gaza during the 60-day truce. It also provides for further negotiations during the truce on a potential settlement to end the war.
An Israeli official told news hounds on condition of anonymity that Jerusalem was treating Hamas’s response to the proposal as an "effective rejection."
The latest US proposal was sent to Hamas earlier this week after Israel’s lead negotiator, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, signed off on it.
Arab mediators are still working with the group to soften some of the edits it demanded, a source involved in the process told The Times of Israel.
In a statement on Saturday, Hamas said it seeks a permanent ceasefire and a comprehensive Israeli withdrawal from Gaza — demands the Israeli government has largely rejected at this stage — and an ensured flow of aid.
In its own response to Hamas, the Prime Minister’s Office said: "While Israel has agreed to the updated Witkoff framework for the release of our hostages, Hamas continues to cling to its refusal."
Echoing Witkoff’s statement, the PMO said, "It is unacceptable and sets the process back."
"Israel will continue its efforts to bring our hostages home and to defeat Hamas," it said.
Channel 12 reported that Israeli officials involved in talks told families of hostages on Saturday that, if carried out, the Witkoff proposal would ultimately lead to the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and would not be only a partial deal for some of the hostages.
There are currently 58 hostages held in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF, and 20 hostages who are believed to be alive. There are grave concerns for the well-being of three others, Israeli officials have said.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... had said that mediators were "very close" to reaching a deal between Israel and Hamas. "We’ll let you know about it during the day or maybe tomorrow, and we have a chance of that," Trump told news hounds in the Oval Office.
Asked later Friday if he thought Hamas would accept the proposal, Trump said, "I think they want to — they want to get out of that mess."
Sources familiar with the negotiations told The Times of Israel that Hamas was disappointed with the proposal, since it still gives Israel the option to resume fighting at the end of the temporary truce.
While Netanyahu told hostage families on Thursday that he was principally supportive of the deal on the table, he has yet to bring it before the cabinet to be approved, and several far-right members of his coalition have come out against it.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday that Hamas must agree to the proposal or be destroyed. "The Hamas murderers will now be forced to choose: accept the terms of the ’Witkoff Deal’ for the release of the hostages — or be annihilated," he said.
Israel has repeatedly said that the destruction of the terror group is a key aim of the war.
Negotiations to end nearly 20 months of war in Gaza have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough, with Israel resuming operations in March following a short-lived truce. Conditions on the ground for Gaza’s civilians are dire, with the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... warning that the entire population is at risk of famine.
According to a copy of Witkoff’s latest proposal, the authenticity of which was confirmed to The Times of Israel by two sources familiar with the negotiations, Hamas would release 10 living Israeli hostages held in Gaza and return the bodies of 18 deceased hostages during a 60-day ceasefire. In return, Israel would release 125 Paleostinian terror convicts serving life sentences, 1,111 Gazooks detained since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, and 180 bodies of Paleostinians currently held by Israel. The IDF would also pull back from some areas where troops are currently deployed; the parameters of the pullback would be finalized "during proximity negotiations."
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar declared on Saturday that Hamas is responsible for the continuation of the war.
"Hamas initiated this war with the 7/10 massacre [and] is responsible for its continuation by refusing to release our hostages and disarm," Sa’ar wrote in an English-language post on X.
"If La Belle France and the UK want to reach a ceasefire, pressure should be put on Hamas that continues to say No, instead of attacking Israel, which says Yes," he added, referring to the increasing criticism from Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... over the war.
Technically true — the words “We reject it,” were not spoken. Their counterproposal, however, is insulting.
Instead, he insists, Israel’s response to Witkoff’s proposal was incompatible with what the group agreed on.
He adds that Witkoff’s position toward the terror group is “unfair” and shows “complete bias” toward Israel.
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How about if France provides a guarantee of "disarmament of terrorist organizations" by paying Israel $100 million every time an Israeli is killed by terrorists from the "demilitarized state?" If the terrorist groups are really disarmed and the state demilitarized, France should… https://t.co/o3I7Kz79Si
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"Huckabee observed succinctly: “Oct. 7 changed a lot of things.” Then he offered a modest proposal to the French diplomats who apparently plan to establish a Palestinian state without any input at all from the Israelis: “If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I have a suggestion for them–carve out a piece of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state.”
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Feast in the east! Indulge your scholarly side at a fine fat university fairly oozing opportunities for graft! For collegiality! For recruiting radicalized retards to train at your flaming-hoops-ready encampment from which pretend tanks launch Blitzkrieg on holy days! Flash hangry eyes at sun-bronzed thighs till bright moon's rise over calanques known worldwide for attracting uncovered meat! Ideally situated for smuggling! For staging raids on passenger ferries or whatnot! For dumping trash in the traditional French fashion! All this and more awaits you at Islam's next most holiest place for stylish Mohammedan living in the spacious, gracious 9th of Marseilles!
[IsraelTimes] Israeli Air Force fighter jets dropped over 50 munitions in 30 seconds in the strike that eliminated Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar in southern Gaza on May 13, according to the military.
The strike targeted a tunnel system that ran underneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis. Alongside Sinwar, the strike also killed Muhammad Shabana, commander of the terror group’s Rafah Brigade, and Mahdi Quara, commander of the South Khan Younis Battalion.
According to the IDF, the “precise” missiles hit the underground Hamas command center and tunnel system, killing the senior commanders, without harming the hospital itself.
[IsraelTimes] After the military confirmed the death of Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar in an airstrike several weeks ago, Defense Minister Israel Katz warns the remaining leaders of the terror group in Gaza and abroad that they are next.
“Now it is official: The murderer Muhammad Sinwar has been eliminated with the Rafah Brigade commander Muhammad Shabana and the wicked gang who were with them under the European Hospital in Gaza, and he was sent to meet his brother at the gates of hell,” Katz says in a statement
“Izz al-Din Haddad in Gaza and Khalil al-Hayya abroad, and all their partners in crime, you are next in line,” he adds.
Haddad is Hamas’s Gaza City commander — the de facto most senior official in the Strip — and al-Hayya is a member of Hamas’s leadership council abroad.
Mr. al-Hayya met with the PM of Qatar two weeks ago, in case anyone needs to know figure out where he is now…
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annoying that the Israel Times put the word "precise" in quotations
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It is an imperfect source, Lord Garth, but they cover the stories, are not at the Ha’aret end of the spectrum, and don’t repeatedly crash my iPad, which greatly slows my ability to post articles.
[IsraelTimes] Ian Austin’s trip to Haifa reportedly did not include meetings with Israeli officials, only businesses
The UK’s trade envoy to Israel visited Haifa this week, the British embassy said, despite London cutting off trade talks with Jerusalem in protest of Israeli policies in its war against Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... 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 envoy, Ian Austin, was in Haifa visiting a customs scanning center, the local port, the Haifa-Nazareth light rail project, and the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, the UK Embassy in Israel posted on X.
Austin’s visit came only days after British Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced that the UK would be suspending free trade agreement negotiations with Israel and taking other punitive measures, including the imposition of sanctions on West Bank settlers, in response to Israel’s wartime policies.
Crossed wires, non-communications, or the hope that the entie situation will soon be resolved so he can do his job?
The announcement followed comments by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday that he was "horrified" by Israel’s expanded ground campaign in Gaza.
Nobody likes Sir Keir anymore. How soon until he is voted out of office?
The UK government defended Austin’s visit, saying that while the free trade agreement talks had been suspended, the UK still seeks to maintain existing business relationships, the Financial Times reported.
Possibly Israel will decide to do unto them back, like President Trump did to China.
"We suspended talks with Israel on a new FTA because it is not possible to advance discussions with a Netanyahu government pursuing such egregious policies in Gaza and the West Bank," a statement said. "Lord Austin is in Israel this week in his capacity as trade envoy to maintain our relationship with Israeli businesses."
According to the Financial Times, Austin was in Israel until Friday and did not hold any meetings with government officials during his stay.
Austin did not provide a comment to the Financial Times.
Austin, a former member of the Labour Party, quit the faction in 2019 during the leadership of anti-Israel politician Jeremy Corbyn, because of what he said was an internal "culture of extremism, antisemitism and intolerance."
And now? Sir Keir took the Labour Party away from Jeremy Corbyn on a platform of Jew-positivity, among other issues, but that pretense has clearly ended.
The UK and Israel began negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement to bolster bilateral trade in July 2022, working off a 2019 UK-Israel trade continuity agreement. In July 2024, the UK’s new Labour government announced its intention to resume FTA talks with Israel, making it one of the six FTAs the government committed to restarting.
That was back when Sir Keir loved the Jews and Israel.
Israel sees the UK as its fourth-largest provider of foreign direct investment, with $1.13 billion invested in 2023, according to data shared by the British Embassy in Israel in March.
[Rudaw] More than 800 Iraqis left al-Hol in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Saturday as Baghdad continues to repatriate its nationals from the camp for suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) family members and supporters, according to a Kurdish official.
About 10,000 Iraqis remain in the camp after the group of 832 people left on Saturday, Sheikhmous Ahmed, who oversees all internally displaced persons (IDP) and refugee camps in Rojava, told Rudaw.
Thousands of individuals with suspected ISIS ties are being held in al-Hol and Roj camps, which are controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Rojava’s Hasaka province. al-Hol is the larger of the two camps. As of April, it housed 34,927 people. Of these, 15,681 were Iraqis, 15,861 were Syrians, and 6,385 were foreigners, according to data obtained by Rudaw English from Ahmed.
Iraq has repatriated its nationals in groups, bringing them to al-Jada camp south of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... where they go through a rehabilitation program before reintegrating into the community.
The repatriation of people affiliated with ISIS is a contentious issue in Iraq, given the heinous human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violations and war crimes the group committed when it controlled territory in the north and west from 2014 through 2017. While some tribes and communities have expressed willingness to integrate individuals linked to the group, others argue that reintegration should be limited to family members, particularly those who were not directly involved in severe crimes.
Baghdad has set a goal of repatriating all Iraqi citizens from camps in Rojava by 2027.
The SDF has agreed to hand control of the camp over to the interim Syrian government, which plans to focus on rehabilitation of camp residents.
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[Regnum] Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa may be overthrown by foreign Islamists who helped him come to power. This was reported on May 31 by The Washington Post.
The threat comes from the thousands of armed men who helped al-Sharaa overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, many of whom are Islamists from Europe and Central Asia.
Ah. The reporter means the allied jihadi groups, not the government of Turkey.
Al-Sharaa appointed some of them to senior positions in the Defense Ministry, hoping that ordinary soldiers would be able to obtain Syrian citizenship. These plans were thwarted by demands put forward by Washington. The foreigners must leave Syria - under these conditions, US President Donald Trump promised to ease sanctions against the republic.
Some of these radical Sunni Muslims from al-Sharaa's entourage are already causing him problems, the newspaper notes. The blood of hundreds of members of the Alawite religious minority is on their hands. At the same time, the most radical of them are already openly irritated by the fact that their former comrade-in-arms al-Sharaa has still not introduced Sharia law in Syria.
There are currently 5,000 foreign armed Islamists remaining in Syria. Many of them are integrated into local communities, especially in the northwest, and are married to Syrian wives with children who are growing up in Syria.
[IsraelTimes] Findings include 2003 tests of detonator for nuclear bomb; UN watchdog also says Tehran now has enough uranium, if enriched further, for 9 bombs; Netanyahu’s office urges world to ‘act now to stop Iran’
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... carried out secret nuclear activities with material not declared to the UN nuclear watchdog at three locations that have long been under investigation, the watchdog said in a wide-ranging, confidential report to member states seen by Rooters.
Oh? So much for adamant CIA and intelligence community claims that Iran is absolutely not continuing its nuclear bomb program. Are we to believe they have been abysmally stupid or merely vicious liars? There is work for the new Trump appointees, clearing out the inadequate and unacceptable on staff, at
The findings in the "comprehensive" ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency report, requested by the agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors in November, pave the way for a push by the United States, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany for the board to declare Iran in violation of its non-proliferation obligations.
A resolution would infuriate Iran and could further complicate nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington.
Using the IAEA report’s findings, the four Western powers plan to submit a draft resolution for the board to adopt at its next meeting the week of June 9, diplomats say. It would be the first time in almost 20 years that Iran has formally been found in non-compliance.
Iran’s foreign ministry rejected the report as "politically motivated" and said Tehran will take "appropriate measures" in response to any effort to take action against the country at the Board of Governors meeting, state media reported, without elaborating.
Tehran, which openly seeks Israel’s destruction, claims it wants to master nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and has long denied accusations by Western powers that it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons. But it has been enriching increasing quantities of uranium to levels that can only be used for nuclear weaponry.
While many of the findings relate to activities dating back decades and have been made before, the IAEA report’s conclusions were more definitive. It summarized developments in recent years and pointed more clearly towards coordinated, secret activities, some of which were relevant to producing nuclear weapons.
It also spelled out that Iran’s cooperation with IAEA continues to be "less than satisfactory" in "a number of respects." The IAEA is still seeking explanations for uranium traces found years ago at two of four sites it has been investigating. Three hosted secret experiments, it found.
The IAEA has concluded that "these three locations, and other possible related locations, were part of an undeclared structured nuclear program carried out by Iran until the early 2000s" and that "some activities used undeclared nuclear material," the report said.
Nuclear material and/or heavily contaminated equipment from that program was stored at the fourth site, Turquzabad, between 2009 and 2018, it said.
The Turquzabad site became known publicly in 2018 after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed it at the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... and called it a clandestine nuclear warehouse hidden at a rug-cleaning plant.
Iran denied this, but in 2019, IAEA inspectors detected the presence of manmade uranium particles there.
"The Agency concludes that Iran did not declare nuclear material and nuclear-related activities at three undeclared locations in Iran, specifically, Lavisan-Shian, Varamin, and Turquzabad," the report said.
At Lavisan-Shian in Tehran, a disc made of uranium metal was "used in the production of explosively-driven neutron sources" at least twice in 2003, a process designed to initiate the earth-shattering kaboom in a nuclear weapon, the report said, adding that it was part of "small-scale" tests.
The report is likely to lead to Iran being referred to the UN Security Council, though that would probably happen at a later IAEA board meeting, diplomats said.
More immediately, it is likely to lead to Iran again accelerating or expanding its rapidly advancing program, as it has done after previous rebukes at the board. It could also further complicate talks with the United States aimed at reining in that program.
ENOUGH FOR NINE BOMBS
A separate IAEA report sent to member states on Saturday said Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% of weapons grade, had grown by roughly half to 408.6 kg. That is enough, if enriched further, for nine nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick.
Approximately 42 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium is theoretically enough to produce one atomic bomb, if enriched further to 90%, according to the watchdog.
The IAEA report raised a stern warning, saying that Iran is now "the only non-nuclear-weapon state to produce such material" — something the agency said was of "serious concern."
There was no immediate comment from Tehran on the new IAEA report.
NETANYAHU: ACT NOW
In a rare statement on a Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, Netanyahu’s office said the report showed that Iran’s nuclear program was not peaceful and that Tehran remained determined to complete its nuclear weapons plans.
"The international community must act now to stop Iran," Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, adding that the level of uranium enrichment Iran had reached "exists only in countries actively pursuing nuclear weapons and has no civilian justification whatsoever."
Iiran has maintained its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, but the IAEA chief, Rafael Mariano Grossi, has previously warned that Tehran has enough uranium enriched to near-weapons-grade levels to make "several" nuclear bombs if it chose to do so.
Iranian officials have increasingly suggested that Tehran could pursue an atomic bomb.
US intelligence agencies assess that Iran has yet to seriously begin a weapons program, but has "undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so."
CALL FOR IRANIAN COOPERATION
Grossi said Saturday that he "reiterates his urgent call upon Iran to cooperate fully and effectively" with the IAEA’s years-long investigation into uranium traces discovered at several sites in Iran.
In Saturday’s report, the IAEA said that the "lack of answers and clarifications provided by Iran" has led the agency to conclude that the secret locations, and other possible related locations, were part of an undeclared structured nuclear program carried out by Iran until the early 2000s and that "some activities used undeclared nuclear material."
It specifically noted Tehran’s lack of progress in explaining nuclear material found at undeclared sites.
"In particular, Iran has repeatedly either not answered or not provided technically credible answers to the agency’s questions and has sanitized locations as listed in this report, which has impeded agency verification activities."
US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... has said he told Netanyahu to hold off on a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear sites to give the US administration more time to push for a new deal with Tehran.
The US president said on Friday that he still thinks a deal could be completed in the "not too distant future."
"They don’t want to be blown up. They would rather make a deal," Trump said of Iran. He added, "That would be a great thing that we could have a deal without bombs being dropped all over the Middle East."
On Thursday, senior Iranian officials dismissed speculation about an imminent nuclear deal with the United States, emphasizing that any agreement must fully lift sanctions and allow the country’s nuclear program to continue.
Iran, which avowedly seeks Israel’s destruction, has consistently denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... it has been enriching uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, has obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities, and its officials have increasingly warned that they could pursue the bomb.
According to the IAEA, Iran is the only country in the world that enriches uranium up to 60%, a level that has no civilian use. That rate is still just below the 90% threshold required for a nuclear weapon, but far above the 3.67% limit set under a 2015 agreement with world powers.
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