Henry Herskovitz and his Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends harassing Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor every Saturday morning since 2003.
[IsraelTimes] Judge rules that lawsuit against rallies denouncing ’Jewish power’ outside Michigan synagogue for 18 years was ’frivolous,’ week after appeal sent to Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
In the latest twist in the long-running legal saga over a small group of protesters who have gathered weekly outside a Michigan synagogue for the past 18 years, a judge has ruled that Jewish worshipers who lost a lawsuit against the protesters must pay them more than $150,000 in legal fees.
[IsraelTimes] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... say they have reopened public universities for women students in two of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, a move marking a major concession to international demands by the country’s new rulers.
Since they swept into power in mid-August, the international community has watched to see whether the Taliban will impose the same harsh measures as during their 1990s rule of Afghanistan, including banning girls from education and women from the workplace and public life.
The Taliban have imposed several restrictions, many of them on women, since their takeover — women have been banned from many jobs outside the health and teaching sector, and girls have not been able to go to school after grade six. The Taliban demand women wear headscarves but have stopped short of imposing the burqa, the head-to-toe covering that was compulsory under their previous rule.
The Taliban-run culture and information ministry says that public universities in the provinces 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.. and Kandahar are now open for women in what it describes as a staggered process expected to see all students — men and women — eventually return to university.
[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... ’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani rules out normalization with Israel in an interview with Axios.
Al Thani says there had been some ties in the past "when there were prospects for peace" but that it had since "lost hope."
He laments "the absence of a real commitment to a two-state solution."
Qatar has had some ties with Jerusalem over aid to 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 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... Strip, and has transferred millions of dollars to the impoverished territory with Israel’s approval.
[IsraelTimes] Parole board gives early release to Juana Rishmawi, who was sentenced to 13 months in November for activities with organization accused of funneling money to PFLP.
An Israeli parole board judge agreed Tuesday to the early release of Spanish aid worker Juana Rishmawi, who was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in November for illegally funding a Paleostinian terror group, her lawyer said.
Attorney Avigdor Feldman said he expected Rishmawi to be freed within a week, provided the state does not appeal the parole board decision to release her early from her 13-month sentence.
"This was the right decision. It was supposed to be made a month ago and the prosecution or the state has no grounds to appeal this decision," Feldman told AFP.
"I hope she will be released [within the] next seven days."
Rishmawi was sentenced in November after a military court convicted her of working with an organization that it said was funding the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, a leftist group blamed for previous attacks on Israelis.
She had already spent some months in jug awaiting trial which were counted towards her sentence, her lawyer said.
Rishmawi had been working for a Paleostinian group, the Union of Health Work Committees, which Israel said funneled European donations to the PFLP.
In 2020, Israel banned the aid group from working in the West Bank.
In her November plea deal, Rishmawi claimed she did not know the health organization had been funding the PFLP.
The deal required her to pay a fine of NIS 50,000 (nearly $16,000). She was arrested in April last year, and Feldman said she signed the deal to avoid a lengthy trial.
"In the indictment against her, it says very clearly that she was not aware that the money was transferred from the organization to the PFLP, if it was transferred," Feldman said. "It was not proven even that the money was transferred."
Rishmawi holds Spanish citizenship and the Spanish ambassador to Israel attended the parole board hearing in Nazareth on Tuesday at which the decision was handed down.
Judge Chanan Efrati wrote that he approved Rishmawi’s early release in part because "the prisoner is an older woman and this is her first incarceration... It’s reasonable to assume that after her release she will leave Israel for Spain, where her family lives."
The military court sentenced Rishmawi just weeks after Israel outlawed six prominent Paleostinian civil society groups, charging that they too were fronts for the PFLP — an allegation the groups denied.
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... and European governments that have donated funds to the banned groups have asked to see concrete evidence from Israel of the allegations against them.
[IsraelTimes] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... has created a new naval militia made up of mercenaries from around the region to attack enemies in its neighborhood and particularly off 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... , the exiled opposition alleges.
The National Council of Resistance® of Iran (NCRI) says the unit had been created as part of the Quds Force, the arm of the Revolutionary Guards responsible for extra-territorial operations.
"The Quds Force has been recruiting mercenaries for newly created, armed and trained terrorist units to attack ships and maritime targets in the region," it says in a report based on information received from Iran.
The NCRI, which is outlawed in Iran and is the political wing of the People’s Mujahedin, says the mercenaries are being hired from Iraq, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... , Syria, Yemen and Africa.
The fighters are brought to Iran for training and then sent back to their home countries to conduct the operations, it says.
"The strategy affords the politically weakened and vulnerable Iranian regime a veneer of plausible deniability for its proxy war in the region, as it seeks to augment the export of terrorism on which it depends," the group adds.
The aim is to "disrupt maritime navigation of fat merchantmen, to attack ports, conduct ship hijackings and plant mines."
It is not immediately possible to verify the claims.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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