[Garowe] Authorities in Somalia are investigating a university don over allegations that he defected to al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... Lions of Islam recently, at the time the country is fighting the group from various frontlines with assistance from the US Africa Command and the 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... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS].
Nageye Ali Khalif, a lecturer at the Somali National University, is said to have joined the al-Shabaab Lions of Islam and has been cooperating with them for a while now. Following the tip about his move, investigations are being undertaken to establish the claims.
The lecturer is also a renowned poet and a promoter of the Somali language in the literary world for a while now. According to multiple sources, Khalif is also a trainer of the media, shaping journalists and media practitioners from the national university in Mogadishu.
For some days now, sources said, Khalif has been missing from his home, and throughout his absence, his phones have remained switched off quite uncharacteristic of him. In the coming days, security teams will give an update on the claims.
On the situation of Khalif, his employer; the Somali National University, has declined to give updates on his whereabouts. al-Shabaab, which recruits professionals and scholars, has also not committed over the latest matter, which is a blow in the fight against violent mostly peaceful extremism.
Security analysts in the Horn of Africa believe that Khalif had admired al-Shabaab ideology in his recently published book, "Dibadwareeg." In this literature, Khalif revealed visiting areas controlled by al-Shabaab, where he claimed to have been warmly ushered in by group members.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has often targeted religious leaders and scholars as one of his strategies to fight al-Shabaab Death Eaters. He says opinion leaders and scholars matter a lot in preaching against violent mostly peaceful extremism and religious fundamentalism.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi uses his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... to falsely claim that Egypt never persecuted its now no longer existent Jewish minority.
"You said that you are a Jewish person," Sissi says to Blinken in remarks in front of news hounds.
Jewish, or of Jewish descent? UPDATE: Wikipedia says he grew up Jewish, back when Democrats were Zionists, so now we know.
"I am an Egyptian person who grew up next to Jews in Egypt. They have never been subjected to any form of oppression or targeting and it has never happened in our region that Jews were targeted."
Egypt’s Jewish community, which dates back millennia, numbered around 80,000 in the 1940s, but today stands at fewer than 20 people.
That’s because a law was passed making it illegal for male Jews over the age of seventeen to be in the country. Shockingly, most left instead of staying and converting, having heard from Maimonides and others who escaped from Spain at the end of the Reconquista.
The departure of Egypt’s Jews was fueled by rising nationalist sentiment after Israel’s founding in 1948 and during the Arab-Israeli wars, harassment, and some direct expulsions by then-Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Sissi, whose country shares a narrow border with 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 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... Strip that has remained largely blocked over the past week, also said during the meeting that Israel’s "reaction went beyond the right to self-defense, turning into collective punishment for 2.3 million people in Gaza," according to Egypt’s state-run media.
The US State Department issues a readout on the Blinken-Sissi meeting, which says the two "agreed on the importance of addressing the humanitarian situation in Gaza to ensure assistance can reach people who need it and help keep civilians out of harm’s way.
Blinken also stressed the US focus on preventing the conflict from spreading and facilitating the safe passage of American citizens and their family members from Gaza.
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At the start of the 1967 Six Day War a Egyptian Jewish friend was arrested. He was sent to the Western Desert where he was caged. When he was finally released four months later he returned to Alexandria where he died before the end of the year. The reason here weren't more such stories is that the large Jewish community of Alexandria had already left Egypt. Following the war there were less than fifty left.
[Breitbart] The government of Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that the Saudi and Chinese navies have commenced a three-week joint exercise known as “Blue Sword.”
The first Blue Sword drill was held in 2019, near Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port city of Jeddah. This year’s exercise was launched from the southern Chinese city of Zhanjiang, with a ceremony attended by hundreds of troops.
“The goal of the exercise is to boost the mutual trust and friendly relations between the Chinese and the Saudi Arabian navies, enhance the participants’ capabilities in naval combat and comprehensively improve the joint operational capabilities of overseas armed rescue units,” said China’s state-run Global Times.
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Perhaps China will master carrier groups in a blue-water navy before they run short of military age males to man the things, Grom, though the odds don’t appear to run that way.
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^Actually I'm thinking of something different, TW. Unlike Americans, Chinese are NOT suckers. If Saudi ruling clan ally with China, they'll soon stop running things in Saudia.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Australians have been warned to leave Lebanon as tensions escalate between Israel and Hamas - amid fears Hezbollah could get involved in the conflict.
Foreign Affairs minister Penny Wong warned Aussies on Sunday that commercial flights may not be available out of the country in a crisis.
'I am now saying to Australians, if you are in Lebanon you should consider whether your need to remain there is essential,' she said.
The warning comes after the government changed its travel advice for Israel, Gaza, and the Gaza border earlier this month.
Australians are advised to reconsider travel to Israel and not to travel to Gaza or the Gaza border.
Meanwhile, the Federal government has been scrambling more rescue flights to help Australians who want to leave Israel.
Senator Wong said Australian Defence Force planes had been called in to help after many commercial flights were cancelled.
'I can confirm that the Australian Government is planning multiple flights to depart from Tel Aviv today for Australians wanting to leave,' she said on Sunday.
'This is a mixture of government chartered and Air Force planes. I want to stress, these flights remain subject to factors including the security environment.
'We are also coordinating options with partners who are held helping their own citizens with departures.'
[h/t Instapundit] On the same day that the former leader of the terror group Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... , Khaled Meshaal, called for a "day of jihad" to show solidarity with Paleostinians under siege 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 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... , an 18-year-old Chechen immigrant, Mohammed Mogouchkov, attacked Dominique Bernard, a 57-year-old teacher at Gambetta High School in the Northern French city of Arras with a knife, killing him.
To be fair, Mr Mogouchkov intended to rampage through the school, killing all within, but Mr Bernard died holding him off while other teachers got the students to safety and locked the wannabe knifeman out.
...Macron’s Interior Minister called for the "systematic expulsion" of any foreigner who’s considered "dangerous." Gérald Darmanin issued a strong statement about the new policy.
"The line of firmness is extremely clear. The identification throughout the national territory of all those who are dangerous, the systematic withdrawal of the residence permit for these foreigners, and the systematic expulsion of any foreigner considered dangerous by the intelligence services," he stated.
A laudable goal. We’ll see if France follows through to actual expulsions.
There are about 1,500 people currently registered within the FSPRT, which is "the file for the treatment of reports for the prevention of radicalization of a terrorist nature," according to Euro Weekly.
[NYPOST] A petition to oust a controversial Columbia University professor with an ugly track record against Israel has already garnered more than 20,000 signatures — after he praised last week’s Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... terror attacks as "awesome."
Tenured politics and history teacher Joseph Massad — who was previously probed by the Ivy League school in Manhattan for alleged anti-Israel remarks in class — is now under fire for "condoning and supporting terrorism," according to a student who mounted the petition to have him booted.
Maya Platek, a 23-year-old junior and former student-body president, rips Massad in the Change.org petition she started Friday, saying he "refuses to condemn Hamas ...for its horrific actions," instead callously showing support for the "recognized terrorist organization."
The petition targets Massad over his screed on a site called "Electronic Intifada" that was posted one day after the brutal Hamas massacres on the Jewish nation — and in which he hails "the stunning victory of the Paleostinian resistance" against "cruel colonizers."
Massad — a professor of Columbia’s Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History departments who has been employed by Columbia since 1999 — gushed about the "astonishing," "astounding," "awesome," and "incredible" nature of the terror attacks against thousands of Israelis, 1,300 of whom were murdered and 3,000 more maimed.
"The sight of the Paleostinian resistance fighters storming Israeli checkpoints separating 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 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... from Israel was astounding," wrote Massad — who once called Israel "a racist Jewish state" — while gleefully noting the "astonishing takeover" of "several Israeli settler-colonies.
"Perhaps the major achievement of the resistance in the temporary takeover of these settler-colonies is the death blow to any confidence that Israeli colonists had in their military and its ability to protect them," the teacher added.
[GEO.TV] In a bid to step up the accountability process following the Supreme Court’s verdict resurrecting graft cases, the Establishment Division notified the posting of four military officers in different departments of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), The News reported on Saturday.
According to the notification, Brigadier Muhammad Khalid of infantry has been appointed Director National Accountability Bureau in (BS-20), Lt Col Nadeem Muzaffar as Additional Director in (BS-19), Major Waleed Khalid of Military Intelligence as Deputy Director (BS-18), and Major Qais Kamran Syed of Military Intelligence as Deputy Director (BS-18).
These military officers have been appointed on secondment basis on standard terms and conditions as contained in JSI-4/85 with immediate effect. The notification was issued after approval by Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar.
It is worth mentioning that after approval by the NAB Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Nazir Ahmed, a letter was written to the Establishment Division for the deputation of officers from the military departments.
Sources said besides the services of intelligence agencies, the NAB had also sought the services of officials from the State Bank of Pakistain, FBR, FIA and other departments for technical support to investigate white-collar corruption.
The sources added that the intelligence officers and officials appointed on deputation will perform their duties on their own scale and salary. They said a strong and effective intelligence system will be established in the NAB to speed up the accountability process.
On September 15, a three-member bench of the apex in a majority 2-1 verdict approved Pakistain 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 anti-establishment Pak premier, who was hounded out of office, arrested, jailed, and will likely be hung by his political opponents... 's petition challenging amendments made to the country's accountability laws during the tenure of the previous Pakistain Democratic Movement (PDM)-led government.
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[Regnum] The Israeli army's planned ground operation in the Gaza Strip could lead to genocide of the local population, the Arab League and the African Union said in a joint statement published on October 15.
They have to spout such stupidities — it’s in the contract.
“Israel’s ground operation will undoubtedly entail a large number of civilian casualties, including women and children, which could lead to unprecedented genocide,” said a statement adopted following a meeting between League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Union Commission head Musa Faqi Mahamata.
Not if most of the civilians make their way to the southern end of the Gaza Strip, where the water is once again running, leaving only jihadis of various flavours to be crushed by the israeli juggernaut.
The League and Union are calling for an immediate ceasefire in the sector and urgent humanitarian assistance to local residents to avoid the development of “a catastrophe that is happening right before our eyes,” the statement noted.
No. They beheaded babies and tortured children, so now they get to reap the consequences.
As Regnum reported, earlier the Prime Minister and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud , said that the Israeli army must stop the escalation of the conflict, lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip and stop military operations that are taking the lives of civilians.
Again: no.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in turn, noted that if the Israeli army does not stop striking residents of the Gaza Strip, the scale of the conflict may expand.
Oh dear. How dreadful that would be for those in Israel’s crosshairs, to be sure.
He called for the collective mobilization of Islamic countries "to end the Zionist regime's war crimes against the people of Gaza."
The leaders of the EU countries, in their joint statement, previously condemned Hamas for taking hostages and called for their release, expressed their readiness to provide humanitarian assistance to the residents of the Gaza Strip and declared recognition of Israel's right to self-defense, emphasizing that the rights of civilians must be respected. At the same time, they called for the resumption of the “Middle East peace process” and its conduct on the principles of “two states” (Israel and Palestine).
Later, perhaps. At the moment Israel is otherwise occupied.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously noted that in order to resolve the situation in Israel, it is necessary to implement the UN decision on the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state.
Ah. It’ll be a while, then.
It is important to prevent the conflict from expanding; Russia is ready to contribute to resolving the situation and calls on others to also seek a compromise, the president said. The one-sided position of the United States has led the Palestinian-Israeli settlement to a dead end, Vladimir Putin emphasized.
The military conflict in Israel escalated on October 7. The radical Palestinian movement Hamas carried out a rocket attack on Israeli territory, and several settlements were captured.
A little more happened than that...
Israel launched retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip, regaining control over the cities. The parties continue to exchange blows; Israel has blocked the supply of water and electricity to Gaza. Israeli authorities announced a ground operation in the sector. In addition, Syrian authorities said that the Israeli army shelled the airports of Aleppo and Damascus, and Israeli authorities reported strikes on Hezbollah bases in Lebanon.
A ground operation in the Gaza Strip is unprofitable for Israel, but it also cannot refuse to carry it out, Andrei Zeltyn, a senior lecturer at the HSE School of Oriental Studies, said in an interview with a Regnum correspondent. An operation in a densely populated region will lead to numerous casualties and condemnation of Israel’s actions, and refusal from it will be a demonstration of Israel’s weakness, as a result of which other groups, following Hamas, may attack its territory, the expert noted.
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Arabs been practicing genocide in Africa for hundreds of years. And Africans been practicing it on each other for thousands. They must be considered experts.
[Shafaq News] In a recent revelation, a military leader in the Peshmerga forces disclosed clandestine plans by ISIS in the border regions between the Kurdistan Region (KRI) and the outskirts of Diyala and Saladin governorates.
Brigadier Jamal Warani, the commander of Brigade 731, Second Axis of the Peshmerga (Karatepe - Khanaqin), informed Shafaq News Agency that ISIS faceless myrmidons are moving through security vacuums between the borders of KRI and the outskirts of eastern Saladin and the Hamreen Basin in Diyala. They employ noiseless cycle of violences to evade security pursuit.
He explained that ISIS members are maneuvering within the unguarded areas, stretching from the outskirts of Hamreen, the borders of Khanaqin, eastern Saladin, and the areas of the three villages of Balakana, Shawra, and Gura. The rugged terrains in these regions and the inaccessibility by vehicles make them difficult for security forces to reach.
Warani confirmed that the Peshmerga areas are free of ISIS, except for the security vacuums shared between federal and Peshmerga forces. He noted that security forces are continuing to monitor ISIS hideouts and movements and are addressing them with Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and airborne operations.
The vacant areas, often referred to as "death gaps," between the Peshmerga and federal forces serve as strongholds and hideouts for ISIS in regions extending from the outskirts of Khanaqin in Diyala to KRI’s areas in Kirkuk and Nineveh.
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[Shafaq News] The gradual transfer of ISIS families from al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria to Iraq's Jadaa camp in southeast djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... has raised significant concerns regarding the ideologies they might bring with them, potentially acting as ticking "time bombs" that could detonate in the future.
Their numbers exceed 30,000 individuals distributed across al-Anbar with more than 18,000, Nineveh with over 8,000, and the remainder from Babil, Baghdad, Saladin, Kirkuk, and Diyala... 1,393 families.
Al-Hol camp, meticulously guarded by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), currently shelters around 48,000 individuals, a decrease from its previous population of 73,000. This diverse population includes Syrians and Iraqis, along with hundreds from almost 60 different countries.
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[Ynet] U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview on the CBS network's 60 Minutes that Israel "must" eliminate Hamas - but stressed that he is opposed to Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip. OK. No occupation.
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[Treehouse] Against the backdrop of current events, it is worthwhile revisiting the speech President Donald Trump gave in 2017 from Riyad, Saudi Arabia. This speech led to the longest timeline of peace in the Arab world and was the foundation of the historic Abraham Accords.
Within the speech, President Trump provides a clarity that none in the audience had heard before. After this speech, all of the nations attending began a process to isolate the terrorists and confront the financiers (Qatar). WATCH (Transcript Below):
[Jpost] Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the actions and policies of terrorist group Hamas do not represent Palestinian people, according to official news agency WTF? WAFA.
In a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Abbas also called the Palestine Liberation Organization the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," WAFA said.
"The president affirmed his rejection of the killing of civilians on both sides and called for the release of civilians, prisoners and detainees on both sides," added the news agency. A message to brown girls of the world.
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So - getting what they voted for - good and hard.
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Background: "Many Iranians believe Suleiman has ruthlessly used his appointment as head of the Quds Force, which was formed during Iran's eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s, to further his own political ambitions. This was certainly the impression he sought to give when, in 2008, he sent General David Petraeus, the [then] CIA director who was then commanding US forces in Iraq, a phone text informing him that he should always deal with Suleimani if he wanted a discussion of Iranian foreign policy.
"General Petraeus," the text read, "you should know that I, Qassem Suleimani, control the policy for Iran with respect to Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, and Afghanistan.... The Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan is a Quds Force member, while Quds Force units have been sent to Syria to support the Assad regime's barbaric campaign to silence anti-government protests.
The Quds force, which takes its name from the Arabic for Jerusalem, actively supports a number of radical Islamist groups throughout the Middle East that are committed to the destruction of Israel, such as Hizbollah in Lebanon and Gaza. Israeli forces have intercepted several weapons caches bound for Hamas militants in Gaza and Hizbollah in southern Lebanon.
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But - here in the USA - every gun owner "has blood on their hands" every time some freak goes nuts with a gun. Every white man is responsible for the twisted rhetoric of a skinhead.
Or so the media and liberal pols tell us.
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PA president Abbas has been all over the map on this one: first praising Hamas, then condemning Hamas, then saying that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians… and that is only in English —who knows what he is saying in Arabic.
Trying to maximize gain and minimize harm in all directions at once, it appears to me. And also not be assassinated.
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I went to Engineering College and worked with a lot of Iranian immigrants. All were, to my knowledge, pre-Ayatollah-era (Shah) or sympathetic. Good peeps, fun to party with, and despairing what happened to Iran. I suspect most of the Iranian people are hating what's happened since 1979
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Those not already murdered, that is. Though Hamas is just as willing to trade Israeli corpses as Israelis for their imprisoned terrorists.
[IsraelTimes] A front man for the Israel Defense Forces says the top priority in the military operation is to rescue the hostages, who are "most likely" being held underground.
Noting the "elaborate network of tunnels" in 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 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... Strip, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus tells CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... the 150-200 people kidnapped by Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... holy warriors are "most likely held underground in various locations."
"It is extremely difficult for any modern military to fight in such a dense urban area," he says.
Conricus additionally says the IDF will not target civilians.
"But again, we must remember... we are going to fight a ruthless enemy that has no problems using everything available... civilians as human shields and using civilian infrastructure for military purposes," he adds.
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Targetting is what Hamas and Islamic Jihad did when they went looking for babies to behead.
Collateral damage is what happens when civilians happen to be there when a military target is hit, or when the military target deliberately pulls in civilians to be meat shields.
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Pity there is not some magic filter that could separate Hamas from your generic Paleostinian. Even ex-Gen. Weasely Clark in that CNN interview says Hamas must be destroyed. Doing so is left as an Exercise for the Reader. Bonus points if you can do it without killing everybody.
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Yes, ever wonder where "Hitler Youth" come from?
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Half of the population of Gaza are minors.
Which is why Israel told their parents to get out of the way of the bombing runs in the north. You can’t have it both ways, you disingenuous idiot: it is Hamas that is trapping civilians in the danger zone so they’ll be killed, while Israel is trying to get them off the target so they’ll be safe.
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Re # 8 I seem to recall the minors celebrating after 9/11 and the latest attack in Israel. I see no difference in age when you are an enemy. Get .the fuck over your holier than thou self and stfu
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Remember the Hitler Jugend equipped with panzerfausts defending Berlin? Were they "helpless noncombatants"? The *elasticity* of the term 'minors' makes me suspicious whenever I see it brought up.
As set on the sand by Mack Sennett:
"That stuff you been sayin', you meant it?"
"Yeah! How many kids
Did you kill today, [bang] You, a terrorist, too, Mr. Bennett?
...Althæabud..."
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Hamas terror army has two arms.
First Hamas attacks, shoots missiles, whatever.
Then millions of Gurly-Browns in the West World swing into action - of behalf of Gazan women & children.
Western politicians respond to the "call of the people" and Israel is stopped.
Then Hamas attacks again.
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I’m tired of his vicious idiocy. He’s posted enough to be predictable, so no need to actually see which of his small selection of concepts he is going to choose next time.
Moderators, feel free to spamcop Otto Gurly-Brown9938 on sight, no matter what nym he might assume to pretend he is actually someone else.
[NYPOST] Israel plans to capture 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 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... City — the largest Paleostinian enclave — with the goal of destroying Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’ leadership in its imminent ground invasion of the Gaza strip, Israeli military officials said.
Tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers will storm into Gaza in the coming days with orders to capture Gaza City and destroy Hamas leadership there, three senior Israeli military officers told the New York Times about the unclassified plan.
It’s not clear what Israel intends to do with Gaza City if captured, the Times reported. The city, which is home to more than half a million people, is where Hamas government offices are located.
It also is unclear what military officials meant when they said it plans to destroy the holy warrior group’s leadership — although an Israeli military front man told the paper said forces are intent on killing Yahya Sinwar, the top Hamas official.
The invasion is expected days after Israel Defense Forces ordered the evacuation of up to 1.1 million Paleostinians from northern Gaza — where Gaza City is located.
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[Newsmax] Iran warned in a social media post that if Israel's "war crimes and genocide" are not stopped then the situation could spiral out of control with "far-reaching consequences."
The post on X by Iran's mission to the United Nations came after Axios reported Saturday that Tehran warned Israel - in a message sent via the U.N. - that it would have to respond if Israel carries out a ground offensive in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
"If the Israeli apartheid's war crimes & genocide are not halted immediately, the situation could spiral out of control & ricochet far-reaching consequences - the responsibility of which lies with the UN, the Security Council & the states steering the Council toward a dead end," Iran's U.N. mission posted.
On Sunday, Iran made it official. Iran warned Israel of escalation if it failed to end aggressions against Palestinians, with its foreign minister saying other parties in the region were ready to act, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
"If the Zionist aggressions do not stop, the hands of all parties in the region are on the trigger," Hossein Amirabdollahian was quoted as saying.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to "demolish Hamas" as his military prepared to move into the Gaza Strip in search of Islamist militants whose deadly rampage through Israeli border towns shocked the world.
"The responsibility for the possible opening of new fronts of resistance in the region and any escalation of today's war directly falls on the United States and the Zionist regime (Israel)," Amirabdollahian said.
Amirabdollahian met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday in Qatar, where they discussed the Palestinian militant group's deadly attack in Israel "and agreed to continue cooperation" to achieve the group's goals, the Iran-backed Hamas said in a statement.
Earlier, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi urged France to help "prevent oppression" of Palestinians in a phone call with his counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
Israeli jets and artillery have already subjected Gaza to the most intense bombardment it has ever seen, putting the enclave, home to 2.3 million Palestinians, under total siege. Gaza authorities say more than 2,200 people have been killed.
The United States has been working to keep Iran out of the conflict and broader international diplomacy has been focused on preventing it from spilling over - particularly into Lebanon - and sparking a regional war.
Lebanon's Iran-backed, heavily armed Hezbollah group has clashed with Israel across the Lebanese border multiple times in the past week in the deadliest confrontations since they fought a month-long war in 2006.
U.N. Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland met with Iran's Amirabdollahian in Beirut on Saturday, the United Nations said. Abdollahian then met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar, Al Jazeera TV reported.
When asked about the Axios report, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said: "All of (Wennesland's) meetings have been to discuss diplomatic efforts to release hostages, secure humanitarian access and prevent a spillover of the conflict to the wider region. This includes his recent meetings in Lebanon."
Israel's mission to the United Nations declined to comment on the Axios report or the social media post by Iran.
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[Korrespondent] The evacuation of Ukrainians from Israel continues; more than 200 people have already been taken to Romania - mostly women and children;
I suppose getting to live like a Gazan is punishment enough for falling for one. One does wonder how many will choose to go back afterward, having escaped...
new flights are being prepared.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that there are about 260 Ukrainians in the Gaza Strip, and diplomats are working with partners to evacuate them.
"Ukrainian diplomats, intelligence, and security forces continue to work to help our citizens stranded in the Middle East - in Israel and the Gaza Strip. The evacuation of Ukrainians from Israel continues. More than 200 people have already been taken to Romania - mostly women and children, and more are being prepared flights. Almost 260 of our people are known to be currently in the Gaza Strip. Exit from there is blocked for citizens of all countries, but we are working with partners to evacuate our citizens," Zelensky said in his traditional evening address.
The President assured that Ukrainian diplomats are ready to help every citizen in need.
Let us recall that Israel has resumed water supply to the Gaza Strip, which was stopped after the Hamas attack on Israel last Saturday.
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Interesting that Western Outlets were rumoring that Wagner was involved in training Hamas, but is not the Russians Reporting that they have a butt load of civilians in Gaza that are in need of evacuation.
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[Regnum] Deputy Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General for Strategic Affairs Joshua Zarka accused Iran of trying to deliver strategic weapons to or through Syria to open a second front in the north of the Jewish state while the Israel Defense Forces are conducting an operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in the south of the country. He wrote about this on his page on the social network.
“Israeli strikes to disable Damascus and Aleppo airports are, in my opinion, compelling evidence that 1) the Iranian regime is trying to move strategic weapons into or through Syria to open up a front in the north and 2) the Israelis are determined to prevent this", the message says.
As Regnum reported , the Syrian Ministry of Defense reported that the Syrian Aleppo International Airport was again completely disabled after air strikes by the Israeli military. Israel launched another strike on October 14 at 23:35 local time. The arrival of IDF missiles at Aleppo airport caused material damage and disabled the air harbor and runways. At the same time, the airport was only restored after Israeli missile attacks on October 12.
The Israel Defense Forces said it continues to carry out retaliatory strikes at the source of the shelling, which is located in Syria.
Israeli army spokesman Avichai Edrai confirmed the airstrikes on Syrian airports, explaining that missiles had previously been fired from Syria at Israel, and said that there would be more airstrikes on Syria.
An employee of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israeli political scientist Simon Tsipis said that the conflict in Israel was unleashed as a pretext for the return of the United States to the Middle East. The United States was expelled from the Middle East after Russia sent its troops into Syria and prevented its president Bashar al-Assad from being “overthrown,” the expert recalled.
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[Regnum] Aleppo International Airport will resume operations on Monday, October 16. Its operations were interrupted due to damage to the landing strip as a result of an attack by the Israeli army, the Syrian agency SANA reported , citing the Arab Republic's Ministry of Transport.
“Air traffic through Aleppo airport, where the runway was damaged as a result of a repeated Israeli missile attack, will resume from 08:00 (coincides with Moscow - approx. IA Regnum),” the material says .
Until the next Israeli airstrikes, anyway.
It is noted that the consequences of the Israeli attack were promptly eliminated by the repair teams of the Civil Aviation Administration.
As Regnum reported , Aleppo airport was completely disabled after a new missile strike by the Israeli Army (IDF) on the night of October 15. The airport's operations were suspended.
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