[Shafaq News] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
The top 10 largest importers of arms in the Middle East were: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain, and Iraq.
, 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... and Egypt ranked among the top ten largest importers of weapons and arms in the world in the five years through 2022, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) think-tank said on Monday.
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[ToloNews] Human Rights Watch said on Twitter that Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans girls from going to secondary school.
"Without educated girls and women, Afghanistan is facing a dark future," HRW said.
This comes as Sheikh Abdul Sami Ghaznawi, an instructor from Central Jihadi Madrassa in Kabul, said in a video that there is no conflict regarding girls' education. He says that "Hadiths" have indicated that "modern knowledge is obligatory" and if anyone wants to deny it, they should first refer to "the Koran and Hadith."
"We will solve the issue (education). We will sit with the scholars and they will make a decision. I am surprised about this dispute," he said.
The UN Assistant Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) also said that access to education is a human right and that quality education is considered an international priority.
"The barring of girls and women from education is not only damaging the females in Afghan society but will also severely harm the social fundamentals of Afghanistan gradually, which will be difficult to recover from," said Marriam Arveen, a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... defender.
"It has been three years that we have not gone to school. A one-year stop was due to Covid-19 and the rest of the time-- two years--was due to the Islamic Emirate’s takeover. We hope that as the schools are reopened for boys, the Islamic Emirate will reopen it for girls as well," said Nargis, a student.
This comes as residents of Kabul called on the interim government to provide educational opportunities for women and to reopen secondary schools for girls.
"If we want to have a brilliant future and a developed country, then it is essential that the schools for our sisters be reopened," said Ameen, a resident of Kabul.
"Without universities and educational institutions, good governance and enduring stability will be difficult," said Mohammad Sarwar, a resident of Kabul.
It has been nearly 560 days since female students above grade six have been banned from schools, and their fate has yet to be clarified.
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Their fate has not been clarified and the Islamic scholars agree that it is OK to educate women. Officials say that girls are not banned, but they remain out of school. If their father’s are not well connected, female students are hunted down for marriage. Leftist NGOs make statements saying this is not a good idea.
Eventually, Christians will husband assets to provide for online schooling. I am surprised it has not already happened. If it is, I don’t want to know any details.
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Evidently their 20+ year experiment with human rights and democracy didn't take. Surely someone in Washington could have predicted such an outcome.
Historical reference and middle Eastern religions, why do they hate us ?
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The Old Swamp: Make the world safe for democracy
The New Swamp: Democracy, what's that. [Oh, if we don't like it, we'll call up Websters to change the meaning.]
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Duchamp as the pinnacle of Western Art and Culture?
I'd stop paying attention too, nevermind the facilities being Woke. Not interested in my daughter learning the 57 Genders or Tranny Poetry Slam either.
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Officials say that girls are not banned, but they remain out of school.
Indeed. De facto versus de jure, or Alice in Wonderland’s “Jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, but never jam today.” Just like the “interim government” of the conquering Taliban will never be replaced via the promised elections. So long as the masses keep quiet while waiting forever — it’s clearly an effective technique much favoured by Allah, the father of lies.
There was a women-run radio station in Badakhshan that was providing school lessons over the air. The Taliban government shut it down the other day, claiming they were playing forbidden singing during Ramadan.
On-line school lessons for girls would be an ink blot kind of thing, as most Afghans do not have computers or internet access.
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Let me pull on my Nomex jumpsuit and play Devil's Advocate:
Are the Taliban behind the curve on this, or ahead of it? Here in the West, the results from sending girls to school have been kind of a mixed bag.
[ToloNews] Officials at the Ministry of Defense said that they have prevented the trafficking of military equipment and weapons abroad over the last year.
A front man for the Ministry of Defense, Enayatullah Khwarizmi, said that dozens of people were arrested on charges of trafficking the military equipment and weapons to neighboring countries.
"We have recently received information from the 203 Mansour corps in Paktia, where more than 1,000 weapons were found by intelligence," he said.
Khwarazmi didn’t provide details about the exact figures but said that they have recently prevented trafficking of military equipment in Paktia province.
"The trafficking of weapons and military equipment from Afghanistan to neighboring countries is first of all damaging the Taliban ...Arabic for students... government because the Taliban cannot provide these weapons and ammunition or purchase it from other countries," said Asadullah Nadim, a political analyst.
Khwarazmi said that a lot of military equipment, including 60 choppers, have been repaired by the maintenance of the Defense Ministry.
"We have so far repaired more than 60 aircraft with our maintenance and engineers. There have been no foreign engineers or assistance," he said.
This comes as military veterans said the protection of military equipment is important for the country’s future.
"Regarding reconstruction, the upgrading and serious maintenance of the military equipment is vitally essential because in war the weapons create victory for an officer or a soldier," said Mohammad Mateen Mohammad Khail, a military veteran.
After the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan, the US Department of Defense in a report to US congress said that $7.12 billion worth of military equipment was in Afghanistan.
[AMUtv] A women’s hostel at Badakhshan University in north-eastern Afghanistan has been handed over to male students in a move seen as yet another attempt to restrict the role of women in society.
Universities for women were closed in December 2022 by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s higher education ministry — which said this would be "until further notice". The move was followed just days later by another edict banning women from working for non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
An official from Badakhshan University said at least 250 male students will be resettled into the hostel in the city of Faizabad, the center of Badakhshan province.
The officials said the move was only a temporary one as the mens hostel was under construction. "The hostel for men is under construction and they will return to their hostel after a month," the official said.
The move was criticized by female students from Badakhshan University who said it should not have happened as it will affect the "already-weakened" hopes among women.
"It is unbearable," said Freshta, a third year student from the economics faculty of Badakhshan University. "When I was informed about the transfer of boys to the hostel, I completely lost hope about reopening of universities (for women) and I threw away all my books today."
A representative of students from Shughnan district in Badakhshan, Shakiba Azizi, said students from this district will need a hostel in Faizabad; otherwise, they will be deprived of higher education if the hostel does not reopen.
"At least 323 women students from Shughnan were staying at the hostel. This was the number from one district. Many were from other districts. Women’s dresses and books are still at the hostel," said Azizi.
A literature student from Badakhshan University, Sorosh, said he is hopeful that women will be able to at least continue their education under new circumstances.
"It will be hard for women. Many will not have the ability to afford expenses without a hostel," he said.
"I am fed up with back-to-back promises of Taliban on reopening of universities and schools for girls and I no longer believe in their pledges because these steps are part of a tactic to keep protests calm," said Halima, a student.
But an official from Badakhshan University said on condition of anonymity that the university will be reopened for women "conditionally."
"The condition (for reopening) will be that every woman should stay at their relatives’ house at night and based on the leadership’s remarks, no woman will be allowed to stay at hostels anymore," said the official.
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USAID can provide them with tuition for online attendance to US Christian Universities. The schedules will jibe better if this occurs at night when the Taliban is sleeping.
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/\ Excellent clandestine agent recruitment tool. If it worked for a Kenyan, it can work for a Badakhshani.
[ShabelleMedia] An official in Gedo region, southwestern Somalia said Æthiopia has troops into Somalia to take part second military offensive against al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... hard boys.
Gedo’s regional administration front man, Ali Yussuf Abdullahi, said the Æthiopian troops have been crossing in the border since last month and established bases in and around Dolow town.
Ali Juba, speaking to Radio Shabelle said the troops are preparing to join current war on al-Shabaab which the neighbouring countries will be involved at the request of Somali government.
Addis Ababa is on alert since last year after the terrorist group’s new attacks in the border areas with Bakool region, where Somali regional Liyu police are protecting.
Asked whether the federal government of Somalia knew about the arrival of Æthiopia’s fresh non-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... mission troops in the region, he replied by saying that the government knew the troops were coming to fight the hard boy group.
The Æthiopian troop deployment in Somalia comes after the Æthiopian military said its security forces killed more than 800 al-Shabaab fighters in response to a rare cross-border attack.
The Æthiopian military increased their presence at border points following Late last year attack which, hundreds of al-Shabaab fighters crossed the border with Æthiopia and clashed with specially trained counterterrorism forces known as the Liyu police.
It’ll be interesting to see if anything comes of it this time, after so many failures.
[IsraelTimes] The trial of a 69-year-old Lebanese-Canadian charged over a fatal 1980 kaboom outside a Gay Paree synagogue has opened in La Belle France after more than four decades of legal wrangling, though the suspect remains a free man in Canada.
Hassan Diab, who denies any involvement in the attack which killed four and maimed dozens, told the court during preliminary hearings that he would not show up for the trial, after accusations against him had been dropped in an earlier investigation.
In the early evening of October 3, 1980, explosives placed on a cycle of violence detonated close to a synagogue in Rue Copernic in Gay Paree’s chic 16th district, killing four people — a student passing by on a cycle of violence, a driver, an Israeli journalist and a caretaker.
Forty-six people were maimed in the blast. No organization ever grabbed credit but police suspected a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine.
French intelligence in 1999 accused Diab, a sociology professor, of having made the 10-kilogram (22-pound) bomb and he was extradited from Canada in 2014.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... investigating judges were unable to prove his guilt conclusively during the investigation and Diab was released, leaving La Belle France for Canada a free man in 2018.
Three years later, a French court overturned the earlier decision and ordered Diab to stand trial after all, on charges of murder, attempted murder and destruction of property in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
French authorities stopped short of issuing a new international arrest warrant for Diab, effectively leaving it up to him to attend his trial or not.
He could be sentenced to life in prison in absentia if found guilty.
[The Nation (Pak)] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s persecuted proKurdish party has emerged as a kingmaker in the country’s upcoming election, playing a decisive role that may just tip the balance enough to unseat two-decade ruler 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... . In a key setback to the Ottoman Turkish president and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) last month announced that it would not put forward its own presidential candidate, a move analysts say allows its supporters to vote for Erdogan’s main rival.
"We are facing a turning point that will shape the future of Turkey and (its) society," said the HDP in a statement on March 23. "To fulfill our historical responsibility against the one-man rule, we will not field a presidential candidate in May 14 elections." It is a twist of irony for the Ottoman Turkish strongman, who spent the better half of the past decade cracking down on the party after it began chipping away at his voter base.
Its former leader Selahattin Demirtas has been in prison for nearly seven years and the party faces possible closure by a court for suspected collusion with the murderous Moslem Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and affiliated groups. But its influence may nonetheless determine the course of Turkey’s politics. The HDP’s decision not to field a candidate came just three days after head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Erdogan’s main rival, visited the party’s co-chairs.
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[The Nation (Pak)] The president bishop of the Anglican Church of Pakistain has condemned the recent spate of assassinations of members of minority communities, and called on the government to take immediate action to protect their citizens.
In a press statement, Bishop Dr Azad Marshall expressed deep concern over the rising incidents of violence against minority groups, including Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs.
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms the targeting of innocent civilians because of their religious beliefs or ethnicity," Bishop Marshall said. "It is unacceptable and goes against the fundamental principles of humanity."
The statement comes on the heels of attacks on a Christian and Sikh in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... and a Hindu doctor in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... last week.
"The assassinations of Kashif Masih and Diyal Singh in Peshawar and of Dr Birbal Genani in Karachi within a span of two days in the Moslem holy month of Ramadan have instilled shock and fear in all three communities. The government must get its act together and ensure safety and security of our people," he said.
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[The Nation (Pak)] Acting British High Commissioner in Pakistain Andrew Dalgleish called on the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chairman Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... at his Zaman Park residence here and discussed with him bilateral issues and the current political situation in Pakistain.
Acting Deputy High Commissioner Zoe Ware and Political Advisor Talal Raza also accompanied him.
According to a communiqué issued by the PTI’s media wing, Imran Khan shared with the British diplomat the vision of Tehrik-e-Insaf on the promotion and stability of democracy in Pakistain, the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. He told him that the supremacy of Constitution and law were the key points of PTI's political agenda.
He also briefed him about the alleged serious violations of basic human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... in Pakistain and the concern found against it at the international level. The PTI chief further stated that his party believed in advancing the political process and finding solutions to the political crises based on public opinion. He said democracy was based on the promotion and protection of human rights. Khan alleged that the present ruling alliance was engaged in the worst violations of human rights to deprive the people of their right to vote. "Rights of people from freedom of expression to personal dignity were being brutally violated", he said. Imran Khan also told the British diplomat that the Constitution of the state determined the timeframe within which free and transparent elections should be held. Imran Khan said that the entire constitutional scheme was being harmed by attacks on political freedoms and rights. "I want the international community to raise its voice for the protection of democratic values in Pakistain", he demanded. British High Commission officials stressed the importance of promoting democracy in Pakistain, according to the communiqué. Separately, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Monday warned that Pakistain was standing at the crossroad in its constitutional history where it can be like Turkiye or become another Myanmar. "Today we stand at a turning point in our Constitutional history where we can be like Turkiye or become another Myanmar," he said in a statement. Imran Khan said that it was a decisive moment for the people of Pakistain to decide whether they stood with the Constitution and the rule of law or with the corrupt mafia and the law of the jungle.
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I chose a roast beef sandwich. I rejected the imposition of a mandatory choice.
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[Dawn] Pakistain witnessed a rather peaceful March with the number of bully boy attacks declining as compared to February. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the number of deaths remained almost the same, according to an Islamabad-based think tank.
In its report, Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) stated that in March there was a 36 per cent decline in bully boy attacks as compared to February.
The number of attacks stood at 37 in which 57 people bit the dust and 72 others were maimed. In February, 59 people were killed in 58 attacks while 134 were maimed.
The report also recorded a decline in suicide kaboom in March, as only one such attack was reported, compared to three in February.
According to the province-wise data, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... witnessed a 50pc decline in the number of bully boy attacks in March, but the corpse count increased. The gunnies carried out 11 attacks in March, killing 28 people and injuring 35.
The lone suicide kaboom in March was also reported from the Bolan area of the province where 10 people bit the dust. The attack was separately claimed by the bully boyIslamic 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... group and a new outfit Tehrik-e-Jihad Pakistain.
The most significant improvement in the security situation was observed in KP’s tribal districts. Six bully boy attacks were recorded in March against 16 in February, while the number of deaths declined from 16 to five.
Mainland KP witnessed a rise in militancy with 16 reported attacks in which 21 people were killed and 30 injured. In February, 13 attacks were recorded, killing six people and leaving eight maimed.
During March, no bully boy attack was reported in Punjab, while three people were killed in four attacks reported from Sindh. In February, 10 people were killed and 18 others injured in three attacks in Sindh.
No bully boy activity was reported from Punjab, Islamabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... and Gilgit-Baltistan in March.
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Also in March, security forces conducted at least 25 operations and successfully foiled several attacks. In Chaman a huge cache of arms and ammunition including 10 boom jackets, 15 anti-tank mines, IEDs, was seized from a compound.
In another operation, security forces killed a controller of the Feb 11 suicide attack in North Wazoo. According to the report, the IBOs resulted in the arrest of 35 suspected bully boys, while 38 were rubbed out.
[Dawn] Despite a reduction in the frequency of targeted attacks on the community, why are the Hazaras still so determined to leave Pakistan?
On a rainy March morning in Quetta, I make my way through the streets of the Nasirabad area, which lies under the shadow of the Koh-e-Murdar Mountains. Situated near the Nasirabad Imambargah, next door to a massive, gushing nullah [sewer], is the residence of the late Shahida Raza.
Normally, Shahida’s name used to appear in the sports section of Pakistani newspapers, given that she was a gifted hockey player who also played football professionally. However, the circumstances of Shahida’s untimely death made her name appear on the front page of newspapers. The 27-year-old died after the wooden boat carrying her and 200 other migrants crashed against rocks, near the southern Italian coast on February 26, 2023.
SHAHIDA’S LAST JOURNEY
When I arrive to meet Sadia Raza, one of Shahida’s four siblings, she is dressed in black clothes from head to toe and is also wearing a black face mask. We sit in the guest room inside the house, which is filled with Shahida’s awards and certificates. On one wall hangs the iconic green coat donned by members of Pakistan’s national hockey team. Sadia speaks in a sombre, grief-stricken tone as she sits surrounded by her family members and loved ones.
Over the past two decades, it has become the norm for members of the Hazara community to emigrate from Pakistan due to the security and financial issues they have been facing here. However, as demonstrated by Shahida’s death, the journey they undertake in order to find a new home for themselves abroad is a treacherous and potentially fatal one.
They first enter Iran by acquiring the necessary visa before illegally travelling to Turkey and, from there, to the West. Unfortunately, Shahida’s journey and story is not an uncommon one. Over the years, many of her Hazara brethren have lost their lives in the pursuit of a better future, the ticket for which lies aboard rickety boats traversing perilous waters.
I ask Sadia why her sister felt the need to leave the country despite having been a celebrated member of Pakistan’s women’s hockey team. She listens to my question without raising her head, as her eyes remain glued to the floor. After slightly lifting her head and with tears rolling down her cheeks, she says, “Shahida had a sick and paralysed son. That is why she was on the boat.”
After the birth of her son, Shahida had searched everywhere in Quetta and in Karachi for someone who could treat her child, but to no avail. “She was concerned about her son all the time,” Sadia says, “Concerned about what would happen to him and what others were saying about him.” Her predicament was worsened after she had a falling out with her husband, which resulted in a divorce.
Naturally, the challenges faced by the Hazara community in Pakistan also fuelled Shahida’s desire to look for a better future elsewhere. Hazaras, who are predominantly Shias, have faced constant attacks in Balochistan, particularly Quetta, where they are ghettoised in the city’s western and eastern localities: Marriabad and Hazara town. From sectarian killings to a lack of economic opportunities, the ill-fated and beleaguered Hazara community has had to endure countless hardships.
Sadia sums up the plight of Shahida, and by extension the plight of the Hazaras, in one sentence, “She wanted a future for her son.”
Sadia and her family were well aware of the dangerous route she would have to take if she wished to construct a new future for her son and herself in Europe. Sadia reveals that the family wanted to stop her from making the journey. “But our requests fell on deaf ears,” Sadia recalls, “Because she [Shahida] really wanted to go, for the sake of her son. She wanted to grasp a future for her son no matter the cost.”
Shahida was one of 60 individuals that died in the boat accident. “Ever since her childhood, Shahida had a great passion for sports,” Sadia informs me while gesturing toward her sister’s array of sports medals. “Due to her passion, she joined Pakistan’s national hockey team and hoped to make her family and country proud.”
Is there such a thing as negative genius? Because the Biden administration is swimming in it.
[IsraelTimes] Washington raises proposal that would have 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... limit enrichment to 60% in exchange for sanctions relief, but Tehran only wants return to full 2015 agreement, reports say
The US has discussed with its allies a proposal for resuming talks with Iran aimed at reaching an interim deal to freeze Iran’s nuclear program, according to Monday reports.
Iran has raced ahead with enrichment activity in recent months while talks on restoring the 2015 nuclear agreement have stalled.
US officials informed counterparts in Israel, La Belle France, the UK and Germany that they were considering proposing a deal in which Tehran would curb nuclear enrichment above 60 percent purity, a step nearing weapons-grade levels, in exchange for sanctions relief, the Axios and Walla news websites reported.
US officials began discussing the proposal in January, and the US allies were informed about the idea in February, according to the reports, which cited 10 sources, including Israeli officials and Western diplomats.
Iran knows about the US proposal, but the Iranians are not on board, saying they only want to return to the full agreement, the reports said.
The White House told the news sites in response that it "refuses to comment on second-hand rumors."
The US National Security Council said President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... is committed to stopping Iran "and we still believe diplomacy is the best way to achieve that objective."
Talks between Iran and the US to revive the deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), restarted in 2021 but fell apart last year, after months of halting progress. Israel opposed a resumption of the deal.
Iran and the Western powers that are party to the talks reached several interim deals to freeze enrichment and suspend sanctions in the years leading up to the 2015 JCPOA agreement.
The Biden administration has long supported a diplomatic path to halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but talks stalled as Iran started supporting Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, and cracked down on domestic rights protesters, irking the US and other Western countries.
Raising tensions further, inspectors from the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... nuclear watchdog in February found uranium particles enriched up to 83.7 percent in Iran’s underground Fordo nuclear site.
Uranium at nearly 84% is almost at weapons-grade levels of 90% — meaning any stockpile of that material could be quickly enriched for the purposes of building an atomic bomb if Iran chooses. The inspectors only mentioned finding "particles" at that level, suggesting Iran wasn’t yet stockpiling above 60% — the level it has been enriching at for some time, which nonproliferation experts already say has no civilian use for Tehran.
The US intelligence community has continued to maintain its assessment that Iran isn’t pursuing an atomic bomb, but American officials have said Iran could produce enough fissile material for a weapon within weeks and would only need several additional months to assemble a weapon for use.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened military action against Tehran, and Israel and Iran have been engaged in a high-stakes shadow war across the wider Middle East since the nuclear deal’s collapse.
Tensions between Israel and Iran have escalated in recent weeks amid a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s attributed to Israel in Syria, a terror attack in northern Israel that is believed to have been carried out by an intruder from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , and threats between Israeli officials and Iran.
Israel has acknowledged conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in Syria over the last decade. Two Iranian advisers were allegedly killed in Israeli airstrikes in Syria in the past month.
A military source said Monday that Iran appears to have been behind the launch of a drone that was brought down over Israeli airspace this week.
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Obama losing his influence on Slow Joe? Obama's got a major hard-on for this deal.
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Iran will need financial help from somewhere to keep its regime in power. That Obama would like to provide that help, indicates that he has never been dedicated to American interests. Realistically, Jim Jordan had it right. We don’t need to send them money, they would hate us just the same for free.
Let Russia and China will provide Ayatollah propping cash instead for a time. Eventually, both sponsors will become distracted with other issues and the money flow will dry up. By then Iran will own a useless arsenal of a couple rudimentary nukes that they can demonstrate but will only be good to hit Israel or us once in limited fashion.
In the end, their chain stitch magic carpet regime is snagged and will pull apart in midair.
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Amusingly RAJ, ValJar has the hard-on for this, and she undoubtedly has a dedicated landline into Susan Rice's Office. ValJar still lives with Chicago Jesus and Big Mike at the Kalorama Central Committee Headquarters, so you do have to wonder how that woodie works on a Saturday night?
[Shafaq News] According to a Peshmerga military commander, the majority of ISIS members have fled from areas between Khanaqin and the Kurdistan Region, except for the "hot" spots.
Lt. Jalil Mam Fayek, a Peshmerga commander, told Shafaq News agency that areas under the Kurdish forces' control extending from the Saleh Agha on the outskirts of Khanaqin to Dhaka at the borders of the Kurdistan Region are devoid of ISIS.
He added that most of the terrorist elements fled from nearby areas and moved towards areas between Tuz Khurmato and the borders of the Kifri district, taking advantage of the security vacuums.
Fayek noted that ISIS elements are still present in some villages where the citizens cooperate with the organization in the villages between the borders of Qara Tappa district, Saladin Governorate, and the outskirts of the Islah Basin, north of Jalawla.
He also revealed that the high-level coordination between the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga in the outskirts of Khanaqin resulted in the end of the so-called "Ramadan Invasions."
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[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , Egypt, Morocco send top envoys; amid tensions with new allies, FM Eli Cohen hails Abraham Accords as ’Israel’s greatest achievement’ in recent years
Against a backdrop of recent signs of frustration from Israel’s Arab partners, the Foreign Ministry hosted an iftar dinner Sunday evening for diplomats from Moslem countries serving in Israel and local Moslem leaders.
The ambassadors from Turkey and Egypt joined Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and Director General Ronen Levy to end the day’s Ramadan fast, as did Abderrahim Beyyoudh, head of Morocco’s liaison office in Israel.
Notably, the ambassadors from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), did not attend, sending lower-level diplomats in their place. Jordan’s envoy Ghassan Majali also stayed away from the event.
Foreign Ministry officials insisted that every ambassador who was free to attend did so on Sunday, and that any absences were due to travel or scheduling conflicts. The ministry said that also in attendance Sunday were representatives from the embassies of Albania, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Tanzania, Chad and Azerbaijan, the latter two participating for the first time in the iftar meal at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.
The UAE, Bahrain and Morocco normalized ties with Israel as part of the 2020 Abraham Accords. There have been indications since the early days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 3-month-old government — which includes far-right and ultra-Orthodox partners of his ruling right-wing Likud party — that the countries are pumping the brakes on the agreements, seemingly avoiding high-profile meetings. No senior Israeli officials have been invited to state visits in the three countries, and they have not sent senior representatives to Israel.
Moreover, the second Israeli-Arab Negev Summit, which was initially meant to take place in Morocco last month, has been delayed until after Ramadan. The inaugural Negev Summit in Sde Boker took place in March 2022, initiated and hosted by then-foreign minister Yair Lapid.
In a speech on Sunday at the iftar meal, Cohen said "Israel’s greatest achievement in recent years" was the signing of the Abraham Accords, which he said proved that "we can act together for the benefit of our people and improve the lives of millions in the region."
"The Abraham Accords brought about a change in the relationship with the governments and no less, with the people in the Middle East," said Cohen, adding that trade and tourism with signatories to the US-brokered accords were on the rise, allowing "many to enjoy the fruits of the historic peace."
Netanyahu has been eager to demonstrate his determination and ability to advance the Abraham Accords — which the Naftali Bennett-Lapid government was unable to do — by visiting the UAE early in his term. A Middle Eastern diplomat told The Times of Israel in February that those plans are on hold until Abu Dhabi sees what unfolds during Ramadan, when tensions can flare.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... there has been no significant progress expanding the accords and despite Netanyahu repeatedly saying he hoped to clinch a major normalization deal with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the influential kingdom has moved further away, instead renewing diplomatic ties with Israel’s arch-foe 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... and moving to restore relations with Syria.
The month-long fasting holiday began on March 23.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Israel’s Arab partners have publicly condemned comments and actions by ministers in Netanyahu’s government, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who in a speech in Gay Paree last month said the Paleostinian people were an "invention," speaking in front of a map that showed the "Greater Land of Israel," including Jordan. He also previously called for the West Bank town of Huwara to be "wiped out" following a terror attack there in which two Israeli brothers were killed. The far-right Religious Zionism politician has since apologized for the Huwara remarks.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... decry ’betrayal of the resistance’ after prominent businessmen from Hebron area seen mingling with Israelis
Paleostinian terror groups reacted with anger after footage emerged of prominent West Bank Paleostinians hosting an iftar meal in recent days with several Israel Defense Force officers.
The festive meal, held to end the day-long fast during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, was hosted Saturday evening by leading businessmen near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Among those invited were several IDF officers from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Defense Ministry body responsible for Paleostinian civil affairs.
One of the participants posted a video to TikTok, showing the officers mingling with locals, including several people who are seen as close to the Paleostinian Authority, with the caption "mutual benefits."
The video sparked an outcry among Paleostinians on social media and was quickly deleted.
It also drew condemnation from Paleostinian terror groups, who condemned the participants for collaborating with Israel’s military rule.
The Hamas terror group issued a statement on Sunday that condemned the meeting as a "completely unacceptable normalization that contradicts the values of our nation of boycotting and opposing the terror regime."
"This behavior betrays the legacy of our brave deaders that calls for an escalation of resistance and a call to arms," Hamas said.
Paleostinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Liberation Front for Paleostine also condemned the meeting.
"This completely unacceptable act comes in the shadow of the crimes of the occupation and the continued terror against our people," Islamic Jihad said. "It is a knife in the back of our brave resistance."
[IsraelTimes] Abdullah II meets with delegation led by PA president, weeks after diplomatic tiff with Israel over Smotrich’s comments on Paleostinians while standing behind ’Greater Israel’ map
Jordan’s King Abdullah II expressed on Sunday a commitment to "safeguard" Jerusalem’s holy sites, in a meeting in Amman with Moslem and Christian religious leaders from the city.
A statement from the royal court said the king told the delegation, led by Paleostinian Authority President 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.... , that Jordan "will always be with you."
"It is the duty of every Moslem to deter Israeli escalations against... holy sites in Jerusalem," the king said, according to the statement.
The king touted a longtime commitment to preserving "peace and harmony" at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Temple Mount site, which houses the al-Aqsa mosque compound or the Noble Sanctuary, Islam’s third holiest site. The Temple Mount is revered by Jews as the historic location of the two Jewish Temples, making it Judaism’s holiest site.
Jordan views itself as a custodian of the Temple Mount — a status Israel does not recognize, though it acknowledged the kingdom’s "special role" at the site in the countries’ peace treaty. Jordan in 1994 became the second Arab country to recognize and sign a peace treaty with neighboring Israel, after Egypt.
Many Paleostinians reject the notion that the Temple Mount is holy to Jews, having accused Israel and Zionists for around a century of plotting to destroy the mosque and replace it with a Jewish temple — a move that is not supported by mainstream Israeli society.
Israel captured the Temple Mount and Jerusalem’s Old City from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War, almost two decades after Amman conquered it during the War of Independence in 1948. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Israel allowed the Jordanian Waqf to continue to maintain religious authority atop the mount.
Under an arrangement that has prevailed for decades under Jordan’s custodianship, Jews and other non-Moslems are permitted to visit the Temple Mount during certain hours but may not pray there. In recent years, Jewish religious nationalists, including members of the new governing coalition like far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, have increasingly visited the site and demanded equal prayer rights for Jews there, infuriating the Paleostinians and Moslems around the world.
In January, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a previously unannounced visit to Amman to meet with King Abdullah II, in a sit-down where he reportedly promised that this status quo on the Temple Mount would be preserved.
In his remarks on Sunday, Abdullah also hailed "Jerusalemites’... efforts to safeguard" the holy sites and "stressed the need to stop the displacement of Christians, as well as the repeated attacks on churches, religious figures and Christian property in Jerusalem," according to the statement.
Christian places of worship in Jerusalem have seen a wave of attacks in recent months, some of them blamed on Jewish bully boys.
Churches in Jerusalem appealed to the government on Friday to ensure Christians are able to worship freely during Easter and its run-up, expressing concern at mounting violence and acts of desecration over the past year.
Jerusalem’s Catholic Christian community marked Palm Sunday with masses attending religious processions in the Old City.
The Jordanian king’s remarks followed tensions with the Israeli government over a far-right minister’s remarks denying the existence of the Paleostinian people and fears of a flare-up of violence during the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, which began on March 23.
During Sunday’s meeting the Jordanian king "called on the international community to take a stand against the exclusionary and racist statements made recently by some Israeli officials," the statement said.
Last month, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the far-right Religious Zionism party caused an international outcry after saying in a speech at a conference in Gay Paree that the Paleostinian people are an "invention" while standing behind a map of "Greater Israel" that includes modern-day Jordan.
Tensions with Jordan flared and the kingdom summoned the Israeli envoy in protest, with Amman panning the "reckless incitement and a violation of international norms."
The Israeli Foreign Ministry sought to tamp down the backlash, tweeting that "Israel is committed to the 1994 peace agreement with Jordan" and that "there has been no change in the position of the State of Israel, which recognizes the territorial integrity of the Hashemite Kingdom," in both Hebrew and English.
National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi later phoned Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi to offer a similar assurance regarding Israel’s commitment to its peace with Jordan.
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...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
...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...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
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...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
...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 
...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....
