[KhaamaPress] Two Afghan citizens were fatally shot in separate incidents across the U.S., raising concerns about the safety of refugees.
Sources have reported that two more Afghan citizens were killed in separate incidents in different U.S. states. These tragic events occurred yesterday and Tuesday, June 3.
The victims have been identified as Rasul Jan, a young man from Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... , and Zarmin Shinwari, a resident of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province. According to sources, Rasul Jan was shot and killed by armed robbers in Kentucky, while the motive behind Zarmin Shinwari’s killing in Oklahoma remains unclear.
U.S. police have not yet released any official statements regarding these cases. These killings mark the fourth such incident in the past week involving Afghan nationals targeted by armed assailants or armed robbers, and even U.S. coppers.
On Sunday, June 1, another Afghan citizen named Rais Silab, originally from Khost province in southern Afghanistan, was shot and killed near his home in Texas. Rais received a phone call from friends, and shortly after leaving his house, he was shot. The motive and perpetrators remain unknown.
AmuTV has the same story with the same photos, but with names spelt differently and a little more information:
Two Afghan nationals were fatally shot in separate incidents in the United States on Sunday and Monday, sources told Amu TV. The victims, identified as Rasool Jan and Zarmin Shinwari, were originally from Khost and Nangarhar provinces.
Rasool Jan was killed in Kentucky during an attempted carjacking by armed assailants, while Zarmin Shinwari was shot by unidentified gunmen in Oklahoma, sources said.
Law enforcement officials in the US have yet to comment on either incident.
These latest killings mark the third and fourth reported deaths of Afghan citizens in the US over the past week. On Monday, sources confirmed that Rais Selaab, another Afghan national from Khost province, was shot near his home in Texas after reportedly receiving a phone call from friends and stepping outside.
The motives behind these attacks remain unclear, and no suspects have been identified or apprehended. Authorities in the United States have not issued public statements on any of the cases.
The incidents have raised concerns among Afghan diaspora communities, many of whom sought refuge in the US after the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021.
This is the first thing that popped up when I searched the name. I have no way of doing due diligence to prove any of the claims here, or that this is indeed the man in the story above., but anasfar as there are details, they match the reports from the Afghan news sites.
[GoFundMe] Zarmin Shinwari—a former Afghan soldier who served alongside the U.S. Special Forces 02 unit for over 12 years in Jalalabad—tragically lost his life in a car accident while driving for Uber in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May31, 2025. He was the sole provider for his beloved wife and three young children, ages 11, 9, and 6.
After years of loyal service, Zarmin resettled in the U.S. to build a safer life for his family. Now, his wife and children face unimaginable loss and financial hardship.
We are raising funds to cover Zarmin’s burial and to support his grieving family during this devastating time. His children have lost not just their father, but their hero, their protector, and their future.
”How dare that little pipsqueak of a Jew stop us from doing as we please, as if he were our equal!
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s decision to block a Saudi-led delegation from visiting the West Bank earlier this week may have harmed the prospect of normalization between the two countries, a Saudi official warned on Tuesday.
A delegation comprising the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan had been slated to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday, but was prevented by Israel from visiting the territory.
The visit, which would have been the visit by a Saudi foreign minister since Israel took over the West Bank in 1967, had been intended to boost the legitimacy of the PA as a viable candidate to replace Hamas as the governing body of Gaza after the war.
Ah. There’s the mistake that triggered the block: the PA is not a viable candidate to replace Hamas.
Speaking to the Kan public broadcaster on Tuesday, an unnamed source within the Saudi royal family said that the prevailing view in Riyadh was that “Israel made a mistake in its decision” to bar the delegation from entering.
Yeah? The prevailing view in Jerusalem is that Riyadh made a mistake in refusing to formalize an Abraham Accord with Israel, just for a little snit over Hamas, whom you guys do not like very much at all despite being brotherly Moslems.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s behavior is improper; he is trying to protect himself because of his own interests,” the source was quoted as saying. “He doesn’t want peace, he only wants to make problems.”
Correction: He does not want surrender. Thus he needs to make the kind of problems that will prevent another 10/7.
[Modernity] Migrant households are siphoning almost £1 billion in welfare benefits every month in Britain, a report has claimed.
The Telegraph highlights government figures from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) which reveal that registered households with at least one foreign national in March received £941 million in universal credit.
The welfare scheme allows low-income or unemployed people in Britain to claim government subsidies.
It’s hardly surprising given the massive increase in mass migration to the country under the so called Conservative government.
2023 saw migration climb to a record of 906,000. The latest data shows that 948,000 people came to Britain in 2024.
Migrants are eligible to apply for universal credit as soon as they acquire residential or refugee status in the Britain.
The report notes, however, that the total cost to the taxpayer of foreigners is way higher, when healthcare, education, and housing are factored in.
A recent study conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) discovered that housing asylum seekers, a great deal of whom are in the country illegally, has increased to approximately £4.7 billion a year.
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[IsraelTimes] Damage from cyberattacks, most of them on public and federal institutions, cost a record $204 billion last year, Berlin says
Cybercrime in Germany rose to a record level last year, driven by hacker attacks from pro-Russian and anti-Israeli groups, the BKA Federal Crime Office reported on Tuesday, as the government said it would boost countermeasures to combat it.
"Cybercrime is an increasing threat to our security," said German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt. "It is getting more aggressive, but our counter-strategies are also becoming more professional."
Some 131,391 cases of cybercrime took place in Germany last year, and a further 201,877 cases were committed from abroad or an unknown location, a BKA report said.
The actors behind the hacker attacks on German targets were primarily either pro-Russian or anti-Israeli, said the BKA, adding targets were mostly public and federal institutions.
Ransomware, when criminals copy and encrypt data, is one of the main threats, said the BKA, with 950 companies and institutes reporting cases in 2024.
German digital association Bitkom said damage caused by cyberattacks there totaled 178.6 billion euros ($203.87 billion) last year, some 30.4 billion euros ($34.7 billion) more than in the previous year.
Dobrindt said the government planned to extend the legal capabilities authorities could use to combat cybercrime and set higher security standards for companies.
[IsraelTimes] The ethics watchdog for Norway’s $1.9 trillion wealth fund is scrutinizing Israeli banks’ practice of underwriting Israeli settlers’ housebuilding commitments in the West Bank, in a review that could prompt up to $500 million in divestments.
The Council on Ethics, a public body set up by Norway’s Finance Ministry, has, however, decided not to object to the Fund’s investments in accommodation platforms such as Airbnb that offer rentals in the Jewish settlements.
The body checks that firms in the portfolio of the world’s largest wealth fund meet ethical guidelines set by Norway’s parliament.
In an interview with Reuters on May 22, Council head Svein Richard Brandtzaeg said it was examining how Israeli banks offer guarantees that protect Israeli settlers’ money if the company building their home in the West Bank should fold.
Other practices are also being looked at “but this is what we can see so far,” he said. “That is what is well documented.” He declined to say how long the review would take.
Brandtzaeg did not name the banks but, at the end of 2024, the fund owned about 5 billion crowns ($500 million) in shares in the five largest Israeli lenders, up 62% in 12 months, according to the latest data.
The banks – Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, Israel Discount Bank, Mizrahi Tefahot Bank and First International Bank of Israel – did not answer requests for comment.
Since 2020, they have been included in a list of companies with ties to settlements in the Palestinian territories compiled by a UN mission assessing the implications for Palestinian rights.
[ZERO] The Swedish Social Democratic Party has approved a new integration strategy that aims to forcibly diversify the country’s residential areas, pushing for what party officials call a "socio-economic mix" of Swedes and migrants in housing developments.
The policy, adopted at the party congress ahead of the 2026 general election, includes proposals to limit immigration to vulnerable areas and to use housing construction to engineer a more integrated society.
That’ll be mostly Moslem colonists, I suspect, rather than the Poles and Romanians who came to work…
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A strategy doomed to fail. The Swedes will simply move away and the result will be homogeneous migrant ghettos. Someone has not done their homework.
[IsraelTimes] Withdrawal from deal to buy 168 launchers and 1,680 missiles, signed days before the Oct. 7 attack, comes as Madrid calls for sanctions and arms embargo on Israel over Gaza war
Spain has canceled another arms deal with Israel, the Spanish Defense Ministry said Tuesday, confirming local media reports, as Madrid and other European governments urged sanctions on Jerusalem due to the Gaza war.
More for the IDF to use in the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon. The fix, too, is easy: any future contract with Spain for at least a generation needs a 100% penalty for cancellation or alteration-of-terms clause. Come to think of it, what is the cancellation penalty in these two contracts?
The cancellation will affect the purchase of SPIKE LR2 anti-tank missile systems with an estimated value of 285 million euros ($325 million). The systems would have been developed in Spain by Pap Tecnos, a subsidiary of Israel’s Rafael Advance Defense Systems, according to local press.
The deal included 168 launchers and 1,680 missiles, according to Israel’s market daily Globes, which added that Spain might purchase American-made Javelin missiles instead.
This could be fun. Untrustworthy customers discover they are presented with a large security mark-up and cancellation fee built into the contract. Perhaps they should go straight to Russia or China, despite the quality downgrade.
The Rafael deal was finalized four days before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, when thousands of terrorists invaded southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the Gaza war.
Responding to Spanish reports that the deal was scrapped, Rafael said it was unaware that Madrid had reneged on the purchase.
Spain had in April canceled an order for 15 million Israeli-made bullets. The government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had been briefly thrown into disarray after he had announced the purchase would go forth despite earlier promising to scrap the deal. Sanchez canceled the sale after his hard-left coalition partners threatened to resign.
Spain is a long-time critic of Israel’s policies toward Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Speaking in the Spanish parliament last month, Sanchez called Israel a “genocidal state.”
His foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, told reporters last month that Spain would request the “immediate suspension” of the European Union’s cooperation deal with Israel, and would also urge partners to impose an arms embargo on Israel.
The EU commenced a review of its cooperation deal with Israel last month, as Israel launched a renewed offensive in Gaza that aims to seize 75 percent of the Strip. The renewed offensive was accompanied by a US- and Israel-backed aid distribution scheme meant to circumvent Hamas, after some two months in which no aid entered the Strip at all.
Spain had already outraged Jerusalem by recognizing Palestinian statehood in May 2024, in a joint move with Ireland and Norway, which have also been highly critical of Israel’s policies in Palestinian territories.
Amid the aid block and renewed offensive, countries that have had warmer ties with Israel have also stepped up criticism of the war in Gaza.
French President Emmanuel Macron has recently indicated his country would recognize a Palestinian state as well. Macron, who last year expressed support for an arms embargo on Israel, has also been accused by Jerusalem of blocking Israeli arms firms from holding displays in French weapons expos.
Germany, Israel’s largest arms supplier after the United States, has also recently hardened its tone against the war in Gaza, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz last month saying Israel’s conduct “is no longer comprehensible.”
His foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, has threatened “steps” against Israel, and last week said Berlin would decide whether to approve new arms shipments based on an assessment of the humanitarian situation in the Strip.
Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom have also threatened “concrete actions” against Israel if it doesn’t end the war and increase the flow of aid into Gaza. Canada and the UK have already suspended some arms export licenses to Israel.
The UK has also frozen trade talks with Israel over what London said was the “indefensible” decision to widen the Gaza war and halt the flow of aid to the Strip. Canada, meanwhile, confirmed Monday that it has been investigating war crimes in Gaza.
[NY Post] A "Jew hater" who protested against Israel on Columbia University’s campus and contemplated setting a student on fire allegedly had a direct link to Hamas’ deadly al-Qassam Brigades militant group, The Post can reveal.
Tarek Bazrouk — currently awaiting trial charged indicted on three federal hate crimes against Jewish people — was "a member of a chat group that received regular updates from Abu Obeida," the official spokesperson for the brigades, according to allegations in federal documents.
The accusation is the first evidence of an agitator receiving information directly from Hamas and taking action during protests on the University campus.
Bazrouk, 20, who was not a Columbia student, also frequently wore the green headband used by Hamas terrorists and boasted to friends about having relatives overseas who were part of the terror group, prosecutors claim in a court filed letter.
While on Columbia’s campus during protests in April 2024, Bazrouk allegedly texted a pal saying he lit a flare and considered lighting someone on fire, but that there were "too many" people around for him to take on, otherwise he "would’ve hurted (sic) them."
Bazrouk, a US citizen born and raised in New York, was also arrested next to the campus in December 2024 for one of the three attacks against Jewish people he stands accused of.
It is not clear how Bazrouk got on campus, which is private university property, but Columbia was beset with anti-Israel protesters shielded by masks throughout 2024, resulting in the NYPD being called to flush them out in April that year.
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[IsraelTimes] Canadian police confirm reports they are investigating alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip, without detailing the scope of the investigation, the Toronto Star reports.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police began a probe into the Israel-Hamas war in early 2024, according to the report.
The report does not explicitly say if a specific Israeli is being investigated.
The RCMP probe is a “structural investigation” — a fact-finding mission that aims to hold war criminals accountable and prevent them from finding safe haven by handing information collected to other authorities or trying suspects in court.
According to The Star, cases rarely end up in Canadian courts.
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One good thing about this Gaza war is it it is excellent at flushing out all the hidden antisemites in the West.
Usually they stay hidden.
I must admit I have been ASTONISHED at just how many of them there are.
Good thing Israel is so strong politically in the West, otherwise it could get bad, really bad.
I don't know if Canada has an equivalent to AIPAC, but I'm guessing they do.
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It’s an intellectual fad — all those bright college kids and their educated elders enjoying the frisson of edginess by picking on the Jews in their vicinity. Especially because under the Biden-Harris Politburo there were not only no repercussions, but rewards for displaying the signal that one was part of the in crowd. Only blue collar types and American heartlanders, many conservatives and Trump voters love Israel and accept Jews as just like everyone else. The VFW post here interviewed my mother for their archive and put her and the trailing daughters in the lead car for the Memorial Day parade when she moved here after my father died, and her speaking engagements around the region for the Holocaust society were always well attended.
That’s changing, now that Donald Trump is in charge — the costs, as our elite universities and even poor Santa Ono, almost-president of the University of Florida, are discovering to their anger, are become very, very high indeed. And in the red states that change, I think, will be permanent as a mark of differentiation — we are people of conscience, and so trust all to be as human as ourselves and hold all to the same standards, while the mark of the Progressive is the hatred he cherishes in his bosom. If we can hold on to the federal government for one more term, able to keep federal funding away from hate-filled blue enclaves, that might be enough to reset outward behaviours at least, invoking self-censorship in public on certain topics.
[IsraelTimes] A member of the Boulder, Colorado, city council refuses to sign onto a statement condemning the firebombing attack against a rally for Israeli hostages because it calls the attack antisemitic, and not anti-Zionist.
“I could not sign into the joint letter because my request to add the anti-Zionist to the antisemitism attack sentence or the word anywhere in the document was denied,” council member Taishya Adams writes on Facebook.
“I cannot sign a letter that equates the calls for a ‘Free Palestine’ with antisemitism. Without the anti-Zionist part, the reader will fail to understand a key driver of this terrible attack,” she writes. “Also, the perpetrator, whose actions I condemn fully and that resulted in harm to our community members, was explicit about ending Zionism.”
The US city’s statement calls the firebombing a “targeted, antisemitic attack.”
“We cannot – and will not – allow antisemitism to become normalized here,” the statement says.
Adams is the “sister city liaison” between Boulder and the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus.
Oh?
A member of the hostages’ advocacy group in Boulder has previously accused Adams of anti-Jewish discrimination, including by blocking the hostages’ group on her official Instagram account.
Much is explained.
Before the attack, the Boulder city council was repeatedly disrupted by anti-Israel protests, prompting a Jewish council member to say she felt unsafe at the meetings, according to Boulder Reporting Lab, a local news site
How long before they revert to type, dear Reader? Days, weeks? Certainly not months…
[IsraelTimes] Frimet and Arnold Roth, the parents of Malki Roth, an American citizen killed at age 15 in the 2001 Sbarro Pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem, met last month with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to deliver a petition urging the extradition of the attack’s orchestrator, Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, from Jordan, according to a statement shared by the parents today.
"This is a matter of justice for the families of murdered Americans," Arnold told Huckabee during a May 13 meeting at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, according to the family’s statement.
The Roths presented Huckabee with a petition bearing 30,000 signatures and demanding that Washington press Jordan to extradite Tamimi, who was convicted in an Israeli court for playing a central role in the suicide kaboom that killed 16 people, including seven children and a pregnant woman, and injured 130 more. Temimi later found shelter in Jordan after being released from prison in the 2011 deal in which Israel freed 1,027 forces of Evil in exchange for captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
"What brought us to the embassy was remembrance, but also justice," Arnold continued. "Justice in the Tamimi prosecution has been thwarted for years and barely mentioned publicly by the very US officials who bear the responsibility of bringing the runaway to trial. We came to implore the government represented by Ambassador Huckabee to carry out its duty to protect and stand for American victims of terrorism abroad."
The petition was submitted for delivery to US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... , US Attorney General Pam Bondi, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... , the statement adds, and urges Jordan to honor its 1995 extradition treaty with the US. Despite the treaty, Jordan’s high court blocked Tamimi’s extradition in 2017, reportedly claiming the agreement was never ratified, a contention disputed by Washington.
The Roths also presented Huckabee with a photo of Malki’s shattered phone, recovered from the attack site, on which she had written a Hebrew message about the Jewish prohibition against speaking ill of others. "This phone is one of the few physical traces we have left of Malki," he said.
Shortly before King Abdullah II’s February meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, Arab media reported that Jordanian intelligence had warned Hamas Tamimi might be handed over unless another country agreed to take her in. No official sources confirmed the reports.
Since her release, Tamimi has lived openly in Jordan, where she holds citizenship, and has publicly glorified the bombing. In a 2017 News Agency that Dare Not be Named interview, she stated that Paleostinians have the right to resist Israel "by any means," including deadly attacks.
"Tamimi has never shown the smallest degree of remorse. The massacre she spearheaded made her a celebrity in Jordan and beyond...It is unconscionable that Jordan, a lavishly funded beneficiary of US tax-payer-funded aid, has enabled her to be glorified as an icon while her victims’ families — including American families — are ignored," Arnold said in the meeting.
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I had a mall job once and ate Sbarros frequently, this sucide bombing hit close to home. I always thought that that it could very well of been me in line that day getting pizza only to be blown up b/c I wanted some lunch.
Day 2 reports were here and here, and Day 1 is here..
[IsraelTimes] Mohamed Soliman says he carried out firebombing to avenge ‘his people’ and hoped to die during the attack; Jewish community announces vigil and fundraising for the victims
The suspect in the firekaboom on a rally for Israeli hostages in Colorado on Sunday disguised himself as a gardener to approach the group and has no regrets about the attack that aimed to kill all of the participants at the demonstration, according to an affidavit for an arrest warrant filed by a Boulder detective.
The affidavit, filed by a detective who interviewed Mohammed Sabry Soliman after the attack, came alongside a statement filed by an FBI agent who also spoke with the suspect. Soliman is being charged by both state and federal authorities for the attack that maimed 12 in the city of Boulder.
Police first heard about the attack when they received a call at 1:27 p.m. about a man with a "blow torch" who was lighting people on fire. Officers arrived at the scene three minutes later. Witnesses directed them to Soliman, who was shirtless, standing on a patch of grass, facing the bystanders and shouting. He was arrested two minutes after officers arrived.
Witnesses said Soliman, 45, threw the homemade Molotov cocktails into the crowd, "which burst upon impact, creating large flames," the detective said. Eight people were burned or caught on fire, and four victims with minor injuries later came forward. The victims’ names were redacted.
Soliman also used a commercial weed sprayer, mounted on his back and filled with gasoline, as a makeshift flamethrower. The device malfunctioned and caught on fire, prompting Soliman to drop the sprayer and remove his shirt, witnesses later said.
Police located a silver Toyota Prius registered to Soliman a few blocks away. Inside were cans of gasoline, rags and a Koran.
Soliman, who was lightly injured, told medical personnel that he attacked the group to avenge "his people."
Soliman has a valid Colorado driver’s license, lives in Colorado Springs, and has no criminal history in the state.
The report said Soliman was born in Egypt, lived in Kuwait for 17 years at some point, and moved to Colorado Springs three years ago. The US Department of Homeland Security said Soliman’s tourist visa expired and he was in the US illegally.
Soliman planned the attack for a year and learned to make Molotov cocktails on YouTube. He took a class to acquire a concealed firearms permit and learned to fire a gun, but was unable to buy a firearm because he is not a legal US citizen.
He bought glass containers for the Molotov cocktails at a Target, filled them with gas from a gas station he stopped at on his way to the attack, and put them in a black storage bin. Investigators later recovered 16 unused Molotov cocktails from the scene. Soliman told police he only threw two Molotov cocktails at the group "because he got scared."
In order to approach the protest group without raising suspicion, Soliman disguised himself as a gardener, wearing an orange vest, carrying flowers he bought at Home Depot, and wearing the weed sprayer filled with gasoline.
He waited to carry out the attack until his oldest daughter graduated from high school on Thursday. He searched online for "Zionist groups," found the weekly gathering in Boulder, and attended its first gathering after his daughter’s graduation. He arrived at the scene 10 minutes before the group was scheduled to gather.
Soliman said "he wanted them all to die" and that he would "go back and do it again and had no regret." He told the detective that anyone who supports the existence of Israel on "our land," meaning Paleostine, is a Zionist. It was not clear if Soliman has Paleostinian ancestry.
Soliman said no one knew about his attack plan, including his family, who had cooperated with Sherlocks.
He repeatedly told police that he sought his own death.
"He said he had to do it, he should do it, and he would not forgive himself if he did not do it," the detective wrote. "Mohammed described his hopes for everyone in the Zionist group to die."
Soliman made similar statements to the FBI, telling an agent he wanted to "kill all Zionist people" and that he had vowed to "do it again." The FBI said Soliman had shouted "Free Paleostine" during the attack. Some legal filings spell his first name as Mohammed.
The victims ranged in age from 52 to 88. The 88-year-old woman was the most severely injured and was at death's door after the attack. Her current status is unclear.
Soliman has been charged with hate crimes by the federal government and with 16 counts of attempted murder by the State of Colorado, plus additional charges related to the use of incendiary devices. He faces life in prison if convicted.
The Boulder Jewish community said in a Tuesday statement that a vigil will be held for the victims on Wednesday.
The Boulder Jewish Festival is scheduled for Sunday and will be restructured to focus on the hostages. Details about the event are still being finalized. The Jewish Family Service of Boulder is offering free mental health services to anyone impacted by the attack.
JEWISHcolorado, a community group, launched an emergency fundraising effort for the victims.
The Boulder Jewish community is working on security with the Secure Community Network, a national Jewish security group, the police and the FBI to protect the local Jewish community center, synagogues and community events. There are no known additional threats to the community.
Organizers of the hostages rally, called Run for Their Lives, plan to continue marching for the hostages.
The march attracted about 50 participants a week for the first nine months, and now gets about 30 each time, Amaru said. At certain points, like when the bodies of six hostages were discovered murdered in Gaza at the end of last August, several hundred joined the march, she noted.
Marches have always been done in cooperation with police, Amaru said, and the group had requested additional security forces after the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum on May 21.
Neither Amaru nor Shaffer was in Boulder at the time of the attack on Sunday, one of the few times they both missed it, and the event was supervised by an experienced volunteer, they said.
Amaru said the weekly march had become an important safe space for pro-Israel residents of Boulder to gather. The city’s estimated 10,000 Jews now comprise about 10 percent of its population, although the majority are not affiliated with a synagogue or are particularly vocal about Israel, she noted.
“The people who participate in our Run For Their Lives community have been so aligned in its mission, and really care about Israel,” Amaru said. “We have gotten so much support from the Jewish communities around us since the attack.”
However, Shaffer added, the climate of the city is a “cesspool” of violent hatred toward Jews and Israel, encouraged in part by local government officials.
“I am deeply angry and profoundly disappointed over the failure of non-Jewish faith groups and other civic organizations to step up to support us,” he said. “Even after the October 7 attack, some individuals paid quiet, polite condolences, but public condemnation has been completely missing in action.”
The Boulder municipality issued a statement Monday condemning the attack and pledging solidarity with the victims and members of the city’s Jewish community. City Council Member Taishya Adams, a figure frequently accused of antisemitism by local Jewish representatives, declined to endorse that statement.
“I cannot sign into a letter that equates the calls for a ‘Free Palestine’ with antisemitism,” she posted in a comment on the city’s Facebook page. “Without the anti-Zionist part, the reader will fail to understand a key driver of this terrible attack.”
Boulder has one of the fastest-growing Jewish communities in the United States, with people from diverse backgrounds coming from all over the US, Amaru noted. “It’s different from a place like Denver, where you have families that have been deeply rooted there for a long time,” she added.
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Six One-Way Tickets for Mohamed’s Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon. ✈️ pic.twitter.com/R32j1Ic8Ml
Soliman, an Egyptian national, came to the US on a tourist visa in 2022. He stayed after the visa expired and was in the US illegally, the department has said.
“Today the Department of Homeland Security and ICE are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colorado, terrorist and illegal alien Mohamed Soliman into ICE custody,” Noem says on X.
“Mohamed’s despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but we’re also investigating to what extent his family knew about his horrific attack, if they had any knowledge of it or if they provided any support,” she says.
Soliman lived in Colorado Springs with his wife and five children.
Authorities have said the family is cooperating with the investigation.
The videos are posted on an Arabic-language Telegram channel called Taufan al-Ummah that has 30,000 followers. The name of the channel translates to “Flood of the Muslims” and refers to Hamas’s October 2023 onslaught in Israel, which is referred to as the “Al-Aqsa Flood” by the Palestinian terror group.
Yesterday, the channel shared two videos that claim to show the Colorado suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, immediately before the attack. The channel claims to have received the video from a private source who is “close to the hero.”
The ADL says the videos have not been verified and should be treated with suspicion, although the underlying purpose — stoking terrorism and antisemitism — is clear.
In one of the clips, Soliman says in Arabic: “God is greater than anything. Greater than the Zionists, greater than America and her weapons, greater than F-35 fighters, greater than everything.”
In another video, Soliman says: “For my mother, my wife, my children, my sister, my family. I bear witness for Allah and for you, in Allah and his prophet, and for love of Jihad that is greater than the love of you, the world, and everything in it, and with faith in Allah.”
Another post in the channel says, in reference to the Colorado attack: “With the simplest tools, you can inflict a heavy toll on the accursed Zionists and seek forgiveness before God. And you can contribute to the nation’s flood that has begun.”
From Skidmark’s Daily Mail link in comments, we have the daughter’s name. Note that the girl is a hijabi:
Habiba Soliman had applied for a scholarship from The Denver Gazette, and shared how much she has learned and grown as a person since immigrating from Kuwait two years ago.
Already seeing the sob stories about the terrorist’s poor children who had big dreams before their dad tried burning a bunch of Jews to death in broad daylight.
When do we hear the sob stories of the actual victims, mainstream media? Jackasses.
The headscarf is the political symbol of Jihad, Sharia and Dhimmitude. This is fully in line with MB ideology that intends to transform the entire world into an Islamic slave empire.
The MB also isn't "extremist." It is one of the mainstream political schools of thought in the present day Islamic world represented and fostered by the Western political classes' (Trump 47 included) bestest friends, the Qataris.
Ultimately these asymmetrical 'terrorist' attacks are not the existential threat to the West.
The existential threat is the acquisition of political power by totalitarian, theocratic forces.
Susanna Dvortsin, who petitioned the court to stay the deportation of the firebomber's wife and children--called the "Next Friend"--was barred from the practice of law owing to misconduct in an immigration matter in South Dakota in 2019. https://t.co/AddTjJfQMP
[IsraelTimes] Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit New York in September to participate in the United Nations General Assembly, according to Sky News Arabic.
Reports of Sharaa’s intention to address the UN have emerged in Arabic-language media in recent weeks.
This would mark the first time a Syrian president has addressed the UN since June 1967, when Nureddin al-Atassi did so after Israel’s victory in the Six Day War.
Israel initially dismissed the prospect of constructive interaction with Sharaa, a former leader in Syria’s local al-Qaeda branch who has been branded a terrorist by Jerusalem.
After US President Donald Trump met with Sharaa and agreed to ease sanctions, Israel’s approach has shifted, including holding secret talks with Syrian officials.
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[IsraelTimes] The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announces that 157 humanitarian aid trucks carrying flour and food entered the Gaza Strip yesterday.
Israel resumed aid deliveries to Gaza on May 19, after a pause since March 2.
Some of the truckloads have been taken to the new aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Those sites are closed today in order to give time for the US- and Israeli-backed organization to carry out logistical work needed to safely accommodate larger crowds.
The contents of many of the trucks that entered Gaza in recent weeks are still awaiting picking up on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom crossing.
The aid underwent an inspection by Israeli authorities before entering Gaza via the crossing.
The UN has said 600 trucks of aid need to be distributed each day in order to properly feed the Strip’s roughly two million people.
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Major partners continue to abandon the GHF, which was launched with vocal support from US government officials. Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a US consulting firm, said it had cancelled its contract with the GHF on Tuesday amid growing media scrutiny into the group’s work and sources of funding.
This is the third CEO — the group has a seriously deep bench at the C-Suite level.
[IsraelTimes] Boston Consulting Group’s termination of contract with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will make agency’s job harder, sources say; GHF names interfaith leader Johnnie Moore as new CEO
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a US management consulting firm that helped establish the new American- and Israeli-backed aid distribution mechanism 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... , has abandoned the project, a spokesperson for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said Monday.
Confirming a report by The Washington Post, the spokesperson said BCG had called back its team from Tel Aviv on Friday.
The report came as GHF announced it would appoint US evangelical interfaith leader Rev. Johnnie Moore as its new executive chairman, following the departure of CEO Jack Wood last month.
According to the report, BCG had been responsible for setting the payment and procurement rates for a network of contractors tasked with constructing four GHF aid centers in southern Gaza, one of which is not yet active. GHF began handing out food boxes in Gaza last week in a scheme supported by Washington and Jerusalem to circumvent Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in the distribution of aid.
A BCG spokesperson cited by the Post said the consultancy had ended its contract with GHF and placed a senior partner overseeing the project on leave pending an internal review.
BCG had offered its services to the humanitarian effort on a pro bono basis and did not receive any compensation for its work, said the BCG spokesperson. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... another person familiar with the project disputed the spokesperson’s account and said BCG had submitted invoices for more than $1 million each month, according to the Post.
The newspaper cited "three people closely connected" to both BCG and GHF as saying the consultancy’s withdrawal would make it more difficult for the new aid distribution to continue operating.
The BCG withdrawal adds to the challenges faced by the GHF since it began operations, including the rejection of the new distribution scheme by the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... and other humanitarian groups; the departure of Wood, who left before any of the distribution sites opened, citing concern that the agency could not adhere to humanitarian principles; and reports, denied by GHF, that Israeli troops have killed dozens of Paleostinian aid seekers.
After nearly three months in which it had halted aid to Gaza, Israel announced last week the start of the new distribution system, meant to keep supplies from reaching Hamas members.
Israel has accused the terror group of hoarding humanitarian supplies that the country began letting into the Strip. The ongoing war was sparked by Hamas’s terror onslaught of October 7, 2023.
The new system has come under harsh condemnation from the United Nations, rights groups and foreign countries that say it does not sufficiently address the Strip’s humanitarian needs.
Humanitarian agencies have said the GHF system requires aid seekers to walk long distances in dangerous areas, and risks overcrowding the distribution sites. The UN has also said the Strip needs some 500-600 truckloads of aid a day, while GHF has reported distributing a few dozen truckloads each day.
According to GHF, the agency has to date distributed 7 million meals at three distribution sites. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the number is based on boxes of dry food products that require cooking equipment or community kitchens, which are limited throughout the war-torn Strip.
Moore, the agency’s new CEO, said shortly before his appointment that he has had "several really encouraging meetings" in recent weeks with the Red Thingy, which has refused to participate in the GHF.
"We don’t always see eye-to-eye, but we have always found ways to collaborate meaningfully together," he said. "We trust one another."
Commenting on his new job, Moore added, "GHF believes that serving the people of Gaza with dignity and compassion must be the top priority."
"We welcome others to join us and urge extreme caution against sharing unverified information from sources that have repeatedly issued demonstrably false reports," said Moore, referring to the dozens of Paleostinians reported killed near the GHF sites.
"False reporting of violence at our sites has a chilling effect on the local population and we can think of no greater disservice to a community in dire need."
Moore has served as a liaison between evangelical Christians and US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... and is a commissioner on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is outspoken on religious freedom and toleration, and meets regularly with Middle Eastern heads of state.
[IsraelTimes] Aid group says it’s working to accommodate larger crowds and has made a series of requests to IDF aimed at boosting safety measures after three straight days of mass-casualty incidents "Thursday is Soylent Orange Day!"
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... Humanitarian Foundation announced that its aid distribution sites would not operate on Wednesday in order to give time for the US- and Israeli-backed organization to carry out logistical work needed to accommodate larger crowds.
The extra day will also give the IDF time to prepare safer access routes to distribution sites before operations resume on Thursday, a GHF spokesperson said, after a third consecutive day saw a mass-casualty incident targeting Paleostinians seeking to pick up boxes of food.
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson also issued a statement warning Paleostinians that travel on roads leading to the aid sites would be prohibited in the interim, as they are considered combat zones.
Another GHF spokesperson told The Times of Israel that the organization is actively engaged in talks with the IDF to enhance the army’s security measures beyond the immediate perimeter of GHF sites.
To support civilian safety outside distribution sites, the spokesperson said GHF has asked the IDF to introduce measures that guide foot traffic in a way that minimizes confusion or escalation risks near the IDF-operated perimeter around the sites; develop clearer IDF-issued guidelines to help Paleostinians safely reach the distribution sites; and boost IDF training and refine internal procedures to ensure the safety of Paleostinians.
On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the IDF opened fire toward Paleostinians who had approached troops after straying off a pre-approved path for reaching a Rafah distribution site.
Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... health authorities claimed 31 people were killed and 170 others were maimed in the Sunday incident; three people were killed and 35 were maimed in the Monday incident; and 27 were killed and 90 were maimed in the Tuesday incident.
The figures were not verified, and the IDF asserted on Tuesday that Hamas was inflating them.
A senior IDF official told the Axios news site Tuesday that initial findings from a probe into the shootings near indicated that Paleostinians mistakenly approached soldiers after getting lost on their way to the aid center.
The UN and aid organizations warned for weeks that such incidents would result from forcing Gaza’s entire population of two million people to travel long distances and pass through IDF lines in order to reach the GHF’s distribution sites.
Israel and the US have promoted the GHF model, arguing that it can effectively box Hamas out of the aid distribution process after the terror group managed to divert much of the aid that was coming in through the UN and other international organizations — charges that those groups have denied.
GHF has been operating between one and three sites each day since beginning operations on May 26. Two of the sites are located in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, while a third is located adjacent to the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza.
While much of Gaza’s population of about two million is located in southern Gaza, their tent encampments are not adjacent to GHF distribution sites, and those in northern and central Gaza have reported having to walk dozens of kilometers, sometimes while dodging IDF fire, in order to pick up a box of food.
GHF has said that it is working to open new distribution sites, including in northern Gaza, but it has not given any timetable, as the tens of thousands of Paleostinians amassing at distribution sites indicate that the need for food in Gaza remains dire.
Israel blocked any aid from entering the Strip for almost all of March, April and May in an effort to squeeze Hamas in the ongoing hostage negotiations, but IDF officials privately acknowledged that the blockade brought the Strip to the brink of starvation.
For its part, GHF has boasted being able to distribute over 7 million meals from over 100,000 boxes distributed over nine days. The boxes contain mostly dry food products, though, that require cooking equipment and community kitchens, which are very limited in the Strip, as fuel remains very limited.
Separately on Tuesday, UN diplomats told Rooters that 10 Security Council members have asked the 15-member body to hold a Wednesday vote on a draft resolution that demands "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties."
A resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the permanent members — the United States, Russia, China, Britannia or La Belle France — to pass. This one is likely to be vetoed by the US, though, which has ardently defended Israel at the UN, while placing sole blame for the conflict on Hamas.
“Yeah, guess we are lying Jew-haters who gladly fall for the truthy instead of doing the due diligence required by ethical journalists and editors. But really, who can blame us, given what those Nazi-Jews are like. *shrug* Ya caught us — our bad.”
The Washington Post admitted Tuesday that a claim in its recent report that Israeli soldiers killed dozens of civilians in Gaza could not be verified.
The outlet shared a post on X stating it had updated its Sunday article to reflect that it could not verify that Israeli troops killed around 30 civilians near a U.S. aid site in Gaza. The previous version of the piece reported that the Israeli military had committed the killings.
"The article and headline were updated on Sunday evening making it clear that there was no consensus about who was responsible for the shootings and that there was a dispute over that question," the outlet’s social media post read.
At least 26 Palestinians were reportedly killed and some 175 were wounded over the weekend as they made their way to receive food in the Gaza Strip, according to officials from the Hamas-run health ministry and witnesses.
Witnesses said Israeli forces fired on crowds around 1,000 yards away from an aid site run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). A Palestinian journalist told the BBC that thousands of Palestinians had gathered near the aid site near Gaza's southern city of Rafah when Israeli tanks approached and opened fire on the crowd.
However, the IDF has disputed these allegations, saying they are "currently unaware of injuries caused by IDF fire within the Humanitarian Aid distribution site," adding that "the matter is still under review."
There is video of men in civilian clothes shooting from within the crowd at a distribution site neither guarded by the IDF nor connected to GHF, suggesting it was either Hamas or other Gazans who dunnit, whatever it was. And yes, Hama Health Ministry numbers can end up very far from anything close to reality — it’s all grist for the Holy Propaganda Mill.
"It is false and fabricated. All aid was distributed today without incident," the GHF said. "No injuries or fatalities as noted in our daily update sent out earlier. We have heard that these fake reports have been actively fomented by Hamas. They are untrue and fabricated."
However, as an editor’s note in the updated Washington Post piece said, The Post had reported on Sunday that "Israeli troops had killed more than 30 people near a U.S. aid site, with the headline attributing the action to ‘health officials.’"
"The article failed to make clear if attributing the deaths to Israel was the position of the Gaza health ministry or a fact verified by The Post," the note read.
The body of the updated piece reported the casualties, but this time, did not blame the IDF. It said, "At least 31 people were killed and another 170 wounded, most of them with gunshot wounds to the extremities and upper body, according to local health officials and medics who treated the victims."
"While three witnesses said the gunfire came from Israeli military positions, the Israel Defense Forces denied the allegations, saying in a statement that an initial inquiry indicated that its soldiers did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the distribution site," the new piece added.
The editor’s note confirmed that "The article and headline were updated on Sunday evening and for the print edition on Monday making it clear that there was no consensus about who was responsible for the shooting and that there was a dispute over that question."
It added, "The Post didn’t give proper weight to Israel’s denial and gave improper certitude about what was known about any Israeli role in the shootings. The early versions fell short of Washington Post standards of fairness and should not have been published in that form."
Reps for The Washington Post did not immediately reply to Fox News Digital's request for additional comment.
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Congress passed a law banning antisemitism. Using the ADL's (wide) definition.
I'm looking forward to long prison sentences for everyone involved in this.
Retractions are never given the same attention or placement. Thus insuring the Retractions are seen by less than 1% of the original readers/viewers ever getting it from the original source.
Also, knowing, the misinformed reader of any retraction news published by other sources will likely be written off as counter political info.
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[REGNUM] Volunteers and humanitarians are challenging the Israeli authorities. The well-known European confederation of NGOs, the Freedom Flotilla, has announced the dispatch of a new vessel to the shores of blockaded Gaza. And this time, on board are not ordinary pro-Palestinian activists, but celebrities, well-known volunteers and politicians.
However, even such a “star ship” does not guarantee that the Israelis will abandon their previous strategy.
Quite the opposite: under the close attention of the international community, Tel Aviv is not ready to give in to weakness.
HUMANITARIAN FLEET
The International Confederation of Volunteer Organizations "Freedom Flotilla" was created in 2010. Although its founders prefer to count the years since 2006, when Israel imposed a partial blockade on the Gaza Strip.
The Flotilla considers its first successful mission to be the breakthrough of the blockade of the ships Freedom and Free Gaza, which arrived in the enclave at the end of August 2008 with a cargo of building materials, fuel and food products.
Today, the coalition includes about twenty foundations and non-profit associations from Canada, Italy, Spain, Malaysia, New Zealand, Brazil, Sweden, South Africa and Turkey.
Recently, French and Norwegian NGOs have also joined the Flotilla.
Throughout the history of the project, the activists' missions have been predominantly symbolic.
Flotilla representatives reported from the Gaza Strip, visited hospitals and educational institutions in the enclave, and organized video conferences with local residents and representatives of Palestinian factions, including some moderate Hamas commanders.
The humanitarian aid they brought, although inferior in volume to that supplied on behalf of the UN and other international organizations, still made it possible to cover some of the primary needs of the residents.
According to the Flotilla auditors, during the project’s existence, activists equipped several hundred small-tonnage vessels and collected about 25 thousand tons of various humanitarian aid.
A significant part of it, however, was detained by Israeli police and was unable to reach the shores of the enclave.
The first missions of the Flotilla really did evoke a lively response from the population of European countries.
And the incident with the attack by the Shayetet 13 special forces (naval commandos) on a humanitarian convoy in 2010, which claimed the lives of dozens of activists, is something that Israel prefers not to remember at all.
SECOND BIRTH
However, as time went on – and as the blockade around Gaza tightened – the humanitarian operations began to yield less and less results. The missions that took place during the active phase of fighting in the enclave (2023–2025) were not crowned with success.
Moreover, due to the high risk of becoming an accidental target of Israeli aircraft, the movement in 2024 temporarily shifted its activities to conducting political actions in Europe.
Naturally, such a sharp change in positioning did not have the best effect on the reputation of the Flotilla, nor on the volume of donations it received.
Some patrons who had worked with the activists for years broke off contact, accusing them of cowardice and betrayal of the Palestinians. By early 2025, the movement had almost completely dropped out of the news.
However, by summer, the activists suddenly reminded us of themselves. On June 1, the ship Maldin, the flagship of the Flotilla, left the Italian port of Catania. There were many celebrities on board.
Among them are environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who has taken on the role of “spokesperson” for the Palestinian issue in recent years, French MEP Rima Hassan, Irish actor Liam Cunningham and others.
In many ways, the vessel's departure was a response to the "maritime intimidation" of May 2025. At that time, an activist ship heading to Gaza was attacked in neutral waters near Malta by drones of unknown origin.
Although the perpetrators of the attack could not be identified, both Thunberg and her colleagues placed the blame on Tel Aviv.
ISRAEL IS SILENT
Flotilla activists have already recorded several video messages to the Israeli leadership, and supporters of the expedition have literally flooded the official social networks of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his associates with tags and reposts.
Israel, however, maintains absolute silence both at the civil and military levels. Even the most ardent "hawks", who previously never missed an opportunity to speak out in defense of the actions of official Tel Aviv, do not comment on the intention of European activists to "break through" to Gaza.
This silence is causing serious concern for the UN. The Israeli side has not given public guarantees that it will allow the ship to enter Gaza and will not take hostile actions against the activists. The risk of a repeat of the 2010 crisis has increased many times over.
It is not surprising that at the moment when the ship had covered about half of its journey and reached the territorial waters of Greece, the UN issued an appeal to official Tel Aviv, asking it to refrain from violent actions. However, the Israelis ignored it as well.
There are about two days left before the Maldin is scheduled to arrive in Gaza. And there is still hope that the Israelis will not dare to attack the ship.
Moreover, there are not just ordinary activists on board, but celebrities and current parliamentarians. Applying “anti-terrorism regulations” to them will be problematic.
On the other hand, given previous incidents – such as the shooting by an army patrol towards a diplomatic delegation in the West Bank in late May – fame and political immunity seem like a dubious tool of deterrence, especially when it comes to maintaining the long-standing blockade of Gaza.
Israeli "hawks" are convinced that if they give in and allow humanitarian aid into the enclave by sea, this will give Hamas a chance to strengthen its influence over the remaining residents of Gaza. And at the same time, it will multiply the duration of the military operation. And therefore, its costs.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says a US proposal for a nuclear deal is against Tehran’s national interests, and that the country will not give up uranium enrichment.
The issue of uranium enrichment has been a sticking point in negotiations between the US and Iran. Uranium enrichment remained key to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, Khamenei says in a speech.
“Independence means not waiting for the green light from America and the likes of America,” Khamenei says, adding that the proposal is “100 percent against” the ideals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Tehran says it wants to master nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and has denied longstanding accusations by Western powers that it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
[IsraelTimes] Iran is open to basing a nuclear agreement with the United States around the idea of a regional uranium enrichment consortium based in Iran, Axios reports, citing a senior Iranian official.
[IsraelTimes] Surface-to-air systems and radars being relocated and diversified, with some deployed closer to key nuke facilities, Financial Times reports
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... is repairing and preparing its air defense systems, battered last year by Israel, to be ready against a possible US or Israeli strike on its nuclear sites, the Financial Times reported, citing analysts familiar with Western intelligence assessments and satellite imagery.
Data indicates that Iran has relocated a number of air defense systems, including Russian-made S-300 launchers, to prime nuclear sites, among them its uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz and Fordo.
Isn’t that the one that couldn’t do anything about IDF F-16s over Syria for the past decade or more, not to mention Iran using the same system could do nothing about the IAF rampaging through last year?
"We are witnessing a remarkable improvement in the capability and readiness of the country’s air defense," Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, said last month, according to the Sunday report. "The enemies of the land of the Medes and the Persians must understand that any violation of our country’s airspace will inflict significant damage upon them."
You go ahrad thinking that, dude. At least until the IAF rampages through again, this time with added stealth F-35s.
The developments come with Israel said to be poised to launch Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Iran’s nuclear sites despite ongoing US efforts to negotiate a new deal aimed at preventing Tehran from building nuclear weapons. US has insisted Iran not enrich uranium, a right that Tehran is adamant about preserving. The Trump administration has threatened to take military action if the talks fail.
Iran’s regional proxies began attacking Israel in late 2023 in support of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , which started the ongoing war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... with its October 7 invasion of southern Israel. The fighting, as many had feared, eventually drew Iran and Israel into direct conflict. Iran twice fired barrages of hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, first in April 2024, then again in October. The attacks were largely thwarted by Israeli air defense working in cooperation with the US and its regional allies.
After the first attack, Israel carried out a limited strike in Iran, and after the second, it bombed numerous sites, reportedly targeting air defense systems, including the much vaunted S-300s.
Tolja so.
Assessments of the success varied. Israeli officials claimed significant damage, with one, speaking anonymously to Fox News, saying that Iran was left "essentially naked."
However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... according to the FT, open source imagery showed many air defense sites may have been empty, making it unclear just how many launchers were destroyed.
Since then, Iran has been striving to rebuild its capabilities, and two unnamed sources familiar with intelligence reports said that it has moved and diversified its launchers and radars.
In a show of force, an S-300 launcher and a radar truck participated in "Army Day" celebrations in Tehran last month, and during a February military exercise, an S-300 was shown firing a missile using an Iranian-designed radar system. Analysts have said that this may have been because the original Russian system was destroyed, the report noted.
In addition to Russian equipment, Iran also has domestically produced surface-to-air systems, including long and medium-range missiles.
"While everyone pays attention to the S-300, Iran attaches great importance to the creation of the most mobile, modern air defense systems which can quickly change positions, hide in shelters, making them less vulnerable to stand off strikes with long-range missiles," Yuri Lyamin, an air defense specialist at Moscow’s Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, was quoted as saying.
Experts who spoke to the newspaper noted the capabilities that Israel has in penetrating Iran’s airspace, but the limited bombloads that its jets can carry, which would likely require several runs over many hours, if not days, to achieve the goal of destroying nuclear sites buried in underground bunkers. At the same time, the attacking planes would have to repeatedly evade Iran’s defense systems.
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In a show of force, an S-300 launcher and a radar truck participated in "Army Day" celebrations in Tehran last month, and during a February military exercise, an S-300 was shown firing a missile using an Iranian-designed radar system.
...A dear, dear friend of mine worked as a strategic analyst - lost him to the 'vid just a month or two before the vaccines got here - and he once explained how the Iranians got the S-300.
RUSSIANS: "Buy this cool new missile, the S-300!"
IRANIANS: "Is it better than the S-200?"
RUSSIANS: "Of course it is - see, it has a THREE instead of a two!"
IRANIANS: "Sold!"
We laughed, but he cautioned us that it wasn't entirely off target. The guys who do their weapons purchasing have the job because they kick back enough to the Grand High Poohbah, or whatever the hell they call him, not because they know what they're talking about.
[Strong] Security sources say US military equipment was already being consolidated in eastern Syria back in April, as envoy Thomas Barrack says goal is to go down to one base from eight
The United States will scale down its military presence in Syria to one base from eight, and US policies will shift in the country "because none of them worked" over the last century, the new US special envoy has said.
Thomas Barrack, who US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... named special envoy last month shortly after he unexpectedly lifted US sanctions on Syria, made the comments in an interview with Ottoman Turkish broadcaster NTV late on Monday.
The US military has about 2,000 US troops in Syria, mostly in the northeast. They are working with local forces to prevent a resurgence of the 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.... , which in 2014 seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria but was later pushed back.
Since rebels ousted Syria’s former president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... in December, the United States and other countries are re-engaging with Damascus under Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Barrack, also the US ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... member, but not the most reliable... , raised the American flag over the ambassador’s residence in Damascus last week for the first time since 2012.
When asked how the Trump administration will shape its Syria policy and whether the US is considering troop withdrawal from Syria, Barrack said: "What I can assure you is that our current Syria policy will not be close to the Syria policy of the last 100 years, because none of these have worked."
Reducing the number of bases to one from eight was an important part of that shift, he said, according to an interview transcript.
Two security sources in bases where US troops are deployed told Rooters in April that military equipment and vehicles had already moved out of eastern Deir el-Zor and were being consolidated in the province of Hasakah.
One of the sources said the consolidation plan involved pulling all US troops out of Deir el-Zor province.
A US State Department official said separately that the military presence would be reduced "if and when appropriate" based on conditions, adding that troops are routinely calibrated based on operational needs and contingencies.
Barrack said that the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were a US ally and a "very important factor" for the US Congress, and that directing them to integrate into a new Syrian government was also very important.
"Everyone needs to be reasonable in their expectations," he said.
The SDF is the main ally in a US coalition against ISIS in Syria. It is spearheaded by the YPG militia, which Ankara sees as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK decided to disband last month after a 40-year conflict with the Ottoman Turkish state.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said last week that the SDF was using "stalling tactics," despite a deal with the Syrian government to integrate into Syria’s armed forces.
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Al-Nusra, the Syrian Al-Qaeda franchise is ALLIED with the US deep state.
There is tape of them launching US-made Javelin missiles against Syrian tanks.
Allah-Ackbaring all the way.
Tell me again how US troops are there to fight them.
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Assad is gone and the partition of Syria is complete. Those were the stated goals in all the White Papers I read on the matter.
Regarding Skid's remark about Russia in Libya - Haftar has been doing a commendable job of being a regional African Warlord vs the EU and Turkey + Western Deep State, but man - if Russia could start arming and providing telemetry and logistics, Haftar might get a leg up in the conflict and drive the EU out and burn all the slave markets to the ground. Fan fiction maybe.
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[Modernity] Migrant households are siphoning almost £1 billion in welfare benefits every month in Britain, a report has claimed.
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
