Muriel Bowser requested National Guard help dealing with the some-4,000 migrants Texas and Arizona have left at Washington, D.C.'s doorstep
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said officials are considering the request but Republicans were 'wrong' to use migrants as a 'political pawn'
'So they're concerned about migrants coming to America illegally within their cities - have they ever been to the border?' McCarthy, R-Calif., said
'They were concerned about bringing the National Guard in after what was happening here during the summer,' he said referring to police protests in 2020
not much of a surprise to any rantburg readers; what is amusing is that Amnesty Intl is able to, with a straight face, do a substantial piece without using the word "Islam" or "Sharia"
[NOWTHISNEWS] Amnesty said the Taliban have also decimated protections for those facing domestic violence, detained women and girls for minor violations and contributed to a surge in child marriages. The report also documented the torture and abuse of women arrested by the Taliban for protesting against restrictions.
"Taken together, these policies form a system of repression that discriminates against women and girls in almost every aspect of their lives," the report said. "This suffocating crackdown against Afghanistan’s female population is increasing day by day."
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So what can we do? Amnesty should have dialogue with the Taliban directly about it. Why does every bit of Amnesty's work have to conclude in drumming up a 'global response' to everything out there?
How is the civilized world responsible for what goes on in islamic societies?
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AI was just another useful idiot working to take down Trump rather than address their reason to exist. You'll never hear them say - we were wrong, very wrong.
[Free Beacon] A United Nations official investigating alleged Israeli crimes said in an interview that social media platforms are controlled by an all-powerful "Jewish lobby."
Miloon Kothari, a member of a U.N. Commission of Inquiry that is leading what critics say is a biased investigation against Israel, made the comments during an interview this week with Mondoweiss, an anti-Zionist blog that has been dogged by accusations it amplifies anti-Semitic hatred of Israel and Jews.
"We are very disheartened by the social media that is controlled largely by whether it's the Jewish lobby or it's the specific [nonprofit groups]," Kothari said. "A lot of money is being thrown into trying to discredit us."
Pro-Israel organizations say the investigation into Israel is biased due to its broad mandate and open-ended nature and that Kothari's comments are another sign the investigation will be unfair to Israel. The commission is tasked with identifying the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It already has concluded in one report that "Israel has no intention of ending the occupation"—language that critics of the probe say reveals the inquiry's implicit bias against the Jewish state.
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Just another phony, a hypocrite academic piggybacking on the easiest fcuking thing to piggyback on. Human rights. Opportunistic merc activist building a career as a global consultant based on useless moral policing.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect accused of participating in a violent mostly peaceful attack against a Jewish man in the northern town during the May 2021 riots; victim sustained life-threatening injuries.
An Arab Israeli man has been indicted on terror charges for participating in a mob attack against a Jewish resident of Acre during the May 2021 riots that left the victim, Mor Ganashvili, with life-threatening injuries.
Rani Piran, 28, a resident of Acre, was charged on Thursday with committing a terrorist act causing serious injury with aggravated intent, racially motivated rioting, arson, and a series of other offenses over several days.
The riots in Acre were part of a series of violent mostly peaceful inter-communal disturbances, particularly in Israel’s mixed Jewish-Arab cities, that took place in the days following the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", 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 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... on May 10 last year.
Piran is the fourth person to be indicted on terror offenses for the attack on Ganashvili, who was beaten with iron bars and other blunt instruments that rendered him unconscious and left him with two brain hemorrhages, internal bleeding, and numerous other injuries.
Ganashvili was rescued by another Arab Israeli resident of Acre, nurse Fadi Qassem, who gave him first aid treatment and helped save his life before security forces and emergency medical services took him to the hospital.
In total, 239 people have been indicted as of May 2022 for terror offenses during the May 2021 riots, of whom 15 percent are Jews and 85% are Arabs, according to figures from the State Attorney’s Office.
According to the indictment, Piran was one of dozens of masked rioters who were roaming the streets of Acre on the night of May 12, throwing stones and launching fireworks at coppers and destroying public property.
They set up a roadblock using furniture and other objects, which Ganashvili encountered while driving to visit his mother whom he was worried about due to the ongoing riots.
The rioters, including Piran according to the indictment, pelted Ganashvili’s car, which had Israeli flags on it, with stones and other objects, causing him to lose control and crash into a wall.
Ganashvili got out of the car and tried to escape but was stopped and severely beaten by the mob, until he was rescued by Qassem.
Piran has also been charged with the arson of the Uri Buri restaurant in the old city of Acre on the night of May 11.
The indictment alleges that all of the offenses he was charged with were motivated by a nationalistic ideology.
Piran was arrested on June 20 and has been in jug since then. The State Attorney’s Office has requested that he remain in prison until the end of his legal proceedings.
[IsraelTimes] In rare event, 12 year old with PTSD from conflict permitted to visit with dad, meet Israelis; ’Unfortunately there are children 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 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... who think monsters live in Israel,’ he says
Facing repeated wars and neverending military conflict, a 12-year-old Gaza Strip resident developed post-traumatic stress disorder, her parents say. The girl’s condition worsened to the point where she feared day-to-day activities and always sought to remain physically close to her parents.
Recently the girl, whose name remains withheld and who is identified here only by the first letter of her name in Hebrew, "Gimel," received rare permission to visit Israel with her father in what has been dubbed a "resilience visit."
Gimel was granted permission to enter by the Coordination and Liaison Headquarters at the Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel in a process facilitated by the Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth media outlets (Hebrew link).
"Her fears ruled her," Gimel’s father, who regularly crosses into Israel to work, told Ynet.
"Every time I go into Israel she fears something will happen to me," he said. "I tell her again and again there’s nothing to worry about, that I go to Israel to earn a living for us."
He hoped that seeing Israel and meeting Israelis might help to quell her fears.
"Unfortunately, there are children in Gaza who think that there are monsters living in Israel who only want to kill Arabs," he added.
Once out of Gaza, the report said, Gimel hardly put down her phone’s camera. "What a beautiful view," she told her father. "I like the green fields."
Gimel visited several towns across Israel, including Jerusalem, Jaffa, Ashkelon and Tel Aviv. She met with other children from Kibbutz Nir Am, an Israeli community near the Strip where she and her father stayed throughout their four-day visit.
Despite the language barrier, Gimel and Shoham, a 12-year-old resident of the kibbutz, managed to communicate using translation apps on their phones and spoke about topics ranging from social media and music to school and summer break.
Shoham noted that she was surprised, and concerned, to hear that Gimel did not have a bomb shelter in her home the way she did.
The two exchanged Instagram accounts at the end of their meeting. Shoham, who had sprained her leg before the meeting, had a difficult time walking out.
"Lean on me, I’ll take you," Gimel told her and they hopped outside.
"I wish you’d come again and we have more time together," Shoham said.
Gimel and her father also held a larger meeting with children from Nir Am.
"I live in Gaza, who’s afraid of me?" Gimel’s father asked at the start, a question to which all of the children in attendance raised their hands. After a question-and-answer session, Gimel’s father again asked the children if they were afraid of him. This time, none of them said yes.
Gimel also visited a petting zoo run by the Hossen ("Resilience") Center in the Gaza-adjacent town of Sderot. Over the years Sderot has been one of the towns most affected by rocket attacks from Lions of Islam in the Strip. The treatment center uses various means, including animal care, to help people deal with psychological trauma.
Gimel was accompanied there by Ibrahim al-Etauna, director of the Bedouin Resilience Center in the Negev.
"I got the impression that now she understands that reality is not black and white, but the thought of war still scares her. In any case, she said that now she will be less worried when her father goes to work in Israel," he told Ynet of a private conversation he and Gimel had after the visit.
At the end of the visit, Gimel noted that she wished she could stay longer.
"We want to live like good neighbors, with love and cooperation," Gimel’s father said at the end of the visit. "I hope that one day everything will be over and the children of Gaza and Israel will be able to live as good neighbors. If it was up to [the children], there would already be peace and everything would be fine. I hope my daughter can visit Israel again."
As for Gimel, her fears amid conflict certainly won’t evaporate, but her views have unquestionably changed.
"I thought that in Israel everyone wore military uniforms and held guns, but the Jews were really nice," she said.
[An Nahar] Prime Minister-designate and caretaker PM Najib Mikati on Friday said that he is seeking to “halt the collapse” of the country.
“We need to address a lot of social issues and to organize the living matters and salaries so that we launch the rescue process and revive Lebanon,” Mikati said during his sponsorship of the launch of a touristic campaign in Tripoli.
“The problems that we are facing are the result of long accumulations and we have grabbed the burning cinder with our hand for the sake of salvation,” the PM added.
“We assumed responsibility while the country was in a state of total bankruptcy, and what we’re doing today is transforming the country from bankruptcy into insolvency,” Mikati went on to say.
“We understand the current crises and we know what the current inflation has done at all levels, in addition to the political conflicts that are blocking a lot of solutions,” he said.
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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.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect accused of participating in a 
[An Nahar] Prime Minister-designate and caretaker PM Najib Mikati on Friday said that he is seeking to “halt the collapse” of the country.
