[LIBYAREVIEW] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has transferred tens of thousands of Syrian mercenaries to western Libya, since it announced its intention to intervene militarily in Libya in December 2019. It did so under a security agreement it signed with the outgoing Government of National Accord (GNA)The Ottoman Turkish government also sent Syrian fighters to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is a disputed region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, to participate in the war alongside the Azerbaijani forces.
Sources have told Libya Review that Turkey, in coordination with 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... now intends to transfer loyal Syrian fighters, in Azerbaijan & Libya to Afghanistan.
Libya Review sources have confirmed that Turkey’s move to transfer mercenaries in Libya and Azerbaijan to Afghanistan is "supported by the change in Ottoman Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East."
These moves indicate that Turkey has begun to retreat from the "provocative" roles it used to play in a number of countries in the region, especially Libya. This step has come after an increase in international demands calling for the expulsion of imported muscle from the North-African country.
On October 8th, Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) signed a comprehensive action plan, which it described as the cornerstone of a gradual, balanced and sequential process for the withdrawal of mercenaries, imported muscle and foreign forces from Libyan territory.
Following the announcement of the Action Plan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... (UN), António Guterres, called on all Libyan and international parties to work towards implementing the plan for the withdrawal of mercenaries and imported muscle from Libya.
In a previous statement, La Belle France, Germany, Britannia, the United States (US) and Italia also supported the Libya’s JMC in implementing its comprehensive Action Plan for the withdrawal of mercenaries, imported muscle and foreign forces from Libyan territory.
International and regional calls for the necessity of removing the mercenaries from Libya put Turkey in a dilemma. This prompted it to go directly to coordination efforts with its ally Qatar, to get the mercenaries out of Libya.
The sources indicated that Turkey and Qatar are "working with full force to manage & operate Kabul Airport to enable them to transport Syrians from Libya and Azerbaijan to Afghanistan."
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As long as the United States is not involved, I could care less who they send to AFG.
[AlAhram] The World Food Programme said Wednesday it was "forced" to cut aid to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... due to lack of funds, and warned of a surge in hunger in the war-torn country.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition revealed on Sunday evidence proving the involvement of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... ’s Shia Hezbollah militia in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and in using the country’s airport to target Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... .The Coalition showed pictures of Hezbollah members training the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia to launch explosive-laden drones.
Coalition front man Brigadier General Turki al-Malki said in a presser: "The Houthis do not have the ability to make the decision to be part of the political solution in Yemen."
"The terrorist organization Hezbollah has spread destruction in the region and the world, and it bears the responsibility for targeting civilians in Saudi Arabia and Yemen," he added.
Malki stressed that "the Iranian regime sponsors its proxies in the region to carry out destruction and devastation", adding that "the Houthi militia adopted its sectarian ideology from Iran."
The Coalition said that the Houthis had fired 430 ballistic missiles and 851 explosive laden drones at Saudi Arabia since the Yemen war began in 2015, leading to the deaths of 59 Saudi civilians.
Yemen’s Houthis have in recent months ramped up their attacks on the Kingdom and launched dozens of cross-border aerial attacks on Saudi Arabia.
The Iran-backed militia targeted civilian areas and energy facilities in the Kingdom with explosive-laden drones and ballistic missiles.
The Arab Coalition has been conducting strikes against Houthi militia’s sites in Yemen targeting their weaponry and their core bases.
Coalition front man Turki al-Malki told a news conference the Huthis were "militarising" Sanaa airport and using it as a "main centre for launching ballistic missiles and drones" towards the kingdom.Malki showed news hounds a video clip which he said depicted "the headquarters of Iranian and Hezbollah experts at the airport" where, he alleged, "Hezbollah is training the Iran's Houthi sock puppetss to booby-trap and use drones".
Malki showed other clips which he said depicted a Hezbollah member placing explosives in a drone, and a man he identified as a Hezbollah official telling Houthi members "we must strengthen our ranks".
The footage could not be independently verified.
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Iraq will evacuate more than one hundred Iraqi nationals stranded at the Belarusian borders with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , spokesperson to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed al-Sahhaf, said on Sunday.
Al-Sahhaf said in a statement earlier today that 110 Iraqis have applied for voluntary repatriation after contacting the Iraqi embassy in Poland.
"Their repatriation, in coordination with the Belarusian, will take place via Baghdad and Erbil airports," he said.
On December 19, al-Sahhaf stated, "we were able to make ten evacuation flights from Minsk, with a number of 3,718 passengers, in coordination with Iraqi Airways."
"We have so far granted 515 laissez-passers to those who lost their passports, in Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland," he added.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish leader, long critical of Israel, tells spiritual leaders he values renewed dialogue with Herzog, Bennett; says he supports rebuilding local synagogues, condemns Holocaust
Rabbis from across the world filled the halls of Istanbul’s Conrad hotel this week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance of Rabbis in 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.... s (ARIS). They were expecting two days of networking, discussions of Jewish law and simple camaraderie over their shared experience of supporting Jewish life in Moslem-majority countries.
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"Let's entice the Juice back and maybe they can jump-start the economy."
[IsraelTimes] Status will grant almost all the same rights as citizens, except voting in elections; can be renewed after 6 months if they prove their lives are centered in Israel
Israel will next week begin granting temporary residency to 2,440 Sudanese asylum seekers who have been waiting several years for a decision on their requests to stay in the country, the Haaretz daily reported Saturday.
The status, which is being allowed in accordance with a High Court of Justice ruling earlier this year, will be granted until a final decision on their fate is made.
The temporary status will be given to asylum seekers from the Darfur, Nuba Mounts and Blue Nile River regions in Sudan who filed their applications before 2017, according to notifications sent to various courts that were dealing with the petitions filed by the asylum seekers.
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It grants the recipients almost all of the rights of Israeli citizens other than voting in elections or running for office, the report said.
After half a year has passed, recipients will be able to apply for an extension from the Population and Immigration Authority if they can show that their lives are centered in Israel, and upon payment of a fee.
The process will begin in the coming days with the publication of a list on the Immigration and Population Authority website of all those entitled to temporary status. The individuals will be called into the authority where they will be given certification by the end of January, Haaretz reported.
In April the High Court had demanded that a decision on the asylum requests be made by the end of this year or the applications must be automatically granted temporary status.
The ruling pushed the Immigration and Population Authority to carry out a curtailed security check into candidates. Rather than holding a personal interview with each applicant, their details were passed to police and the Shin Bet security service who did background investigations. Those with a significant criminal past or other security issues will not get the temporary status, the report said.
Sudanese immigrant Monim Haron, a key figure in the community, last week told Haaretz that the developments are "a significant step for us as some are waiting more than eight years for a decision on our requests."
He said asylum seekers had hoped Israel would recognize the genocides that they beat feet from and grant the status without the need for a High Court decision.
[IsraelTimes] 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... , the Paleostinian Authority and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith 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... ’s electrical company sign a deal to advance a long-term project to supply Gaza’s only power plant with Israeli natural gas.
Qatar’s envoy to the Gaza Strip, Mohammad al-Emadi, says that today’s memorandum contains a pledge to invest $60 million in laying the pipeline for the proposed project.
The so-called Gas for Gaza initiative is a complex diplomatic dance, involving Israel, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the PA, Qatar, Egypt and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , among other players. But the basic idea is simple: to replace the diesel fuel that currently powers Gaza’s electrical plant with Israeli gas.
Under the proposal, natural gas will flow from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, which lies off Gaza’s coast, to a power station in southern Israel. The EU and Qatar will then fund extensions to the pipeline to Gaza’s power plant.
The project has been in the works for years, and has been repeatedly delayed due to wars between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers. In February, al-Emadi said he hoped a final deal could be reached soon, only to see another battle between Israel and Hamas break out a few months later, in May.
[JPost] Creating facts on the ground
The approval of the NIS one billion plan strengthens Israel's presence in the Golan Heights territory
Israel's government is expected to approve a NIS one billion plan to develop the Golan Heights that will at least double its Jewish population and allow for the creation of two new towns in the region.
"We are making history in the Golan," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tweeted in advance of the vote, which will take place during a special government meeting in the Golan Heights.
He tweeted a photograph of himself landing via helicopter on the Golan, stating that was the "beginning of an important day on the Golan."
At the start of the government meeting, Bennett said, "Friends, this is our moment, this is the Golan Heights moment," he said.
"A combination of circumstances led us today to a dramatic government decision to direct many resources, about one billion shekels, to strengthen the settlement of the Golan Heights," Bennett exclaimed.
"First, it must be said - the Golan Heights is Israeli. This goes without saying," he stated.
The government's allocation of resources strengthens Israel's presence in the Golan Heights territory which it captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and which it annexed in 1981.
The United States recognized Israel's sovereignty over the Golan in 2019 and is the only country to have done so. Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked former US president Donald Trump for that recognition by creating a town in the Golan in his name.
Israel has insistent that retention of that mountain range is essential for Israel's security.
"After about ten years of terrible civil war in Syria, every sane person in the world understands that a peaceful, flourishing and green Israeli heights [here] is preferable to another alternative," Bennett explained.
"The fact that the Trump administration has recognized this [Israeli sovereignty on the Golan], and the fact that the Biden administration has made it clear that there is no change in this policy, is also important," Bennett said.
The goal of the development plan is to double the population on the Golan, including through the construction of two new neighborhoods in the town of Katzrin and the creation of two new towns already named Asif and Matal, Bennett explained.
The plan calls for half-a-billion shekels for housing construction, NIS 162m. for tourism, industry and commerce and NIS 160m. for transportation systems and health care facilities, Bennett said.
Changes in the way people in the 21st-century work allow for people who work virtually to consider living in places such as the Golan, Bennett said
"To Israelis looking for a place to build their home, I say - this plateau is waiting for you. Come to the Golan," Bennett exclaimed.
[Rudaw] 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.... group (ISIS) has conducted over 300 terrorist operations, killing hundreds of people in northern Syria, including Rojava, in the course of this year, a conflict monitor reported on Sunday as the re-emergence of the murderous Moslem group threatens the security of the area.
The terror group launched over 342 armed attacks in Deir ez-Zor, Hasaka, Raqqa and Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said in a recent report.
The attacks killed 228 people, among them are five children, nine women and 135 security members including officers of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), it added.
In joint operations with the US-led coalition, the SDF arrested 858 ISIS suspects since the beginning of the year.
Four hundred and nine of them were later released while the rest are still in detention, noted the monitor.
The SDF on Saturday announced the arrest of a prominent ISIS leader who was involved in a 2014 attack on the Kurdish town of Kobane in Rojava.
An alleged ISIS financier was arrested in Deir ez-Zor last month.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed it conducted two attacks in Syria from December 16 to 22, killing and injuring 5 people.
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The head of #Iran's judiciary grants Christian prisoners 10 days' liberty to spend the holidays with families, in a rare move towards the minority community.https://t.co/XTaUfSEwAr
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