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[Regnum] The Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah's claim of a successful attack on the US Navy cargo ship Ocean Jazz is untrue, the press service of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet said on Monday, January 22.
“The report by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of an alleged successful attack on the merchant ship Ocean Jazz is patently false. The navigation support center maintains constant contact with Ocean Jazz along its route for safety purposes,” the message says.
Earlier on Monday, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saria on his page on the social network X announced an attack on the Ocean Jazz cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden. According to him, this attack was a response to US and British attacks on Yemen. The representative stressed that the Houthis will continue to prevent ships from entering the ports of “occupied Palestine” until the fighting in the Gaza Strip ceases.
As Regnum news agency reported, on January 19, the United States of America and Great Britain carried out further strikes on Yemeni Houthi targets located in Hodeidah. At least two airstrikes, according to Sky News Arabiya, were carried out in the Al-Jabana area in the coastal part of the city.
Slovakia is ready to support a possible EU security mission in the Red Sea. This statement was made by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, Juraj Blanar, in a conversation with journalists.
As Blanar pointed out, Slovakia will always be on the side of international law and will not support actions that violate international law, that is, attacks on sovereign territories.
“The interest is to ensure the security of the ships that make up 15-20% of global trade that pass through this route, and to prevent the casualties that are associated with this. Slovakia will support such legal instruments for protecting these vessels,” Blanar said.
They’re going to send lawyers?
Also, the head of the Slovak Foreign Ministry noted that although his country does not have a fleet, it is interested in ensuring that international rights are not violated.
Lawyers and pious hopes. Although possibly not lawyers.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell called on Yemeni rebels from the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) to show restraint to prevent further escalation in the Red Sea and in the Middle East as a whole.
Borrell stressed that the EU welcomes the adoption by the UN Security Council of Resolution No. 2722 condemning attacks on ships in the Red Sea. He added that the European Union will continue to contribute to regional stability.
According to Bloomberg, more tankers carrying crude oil and fuel are now chartered for routes to Asia rather than Europe, as well as bypassing Africa.
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[KavkazUzel] A fourth group of 32 Palestinian refugees, including 23 children, arrived in Ingushetia. There are already 129 displaced people from the Gaza Strip at the temporary accommodation center in Nazran, the government of the republic reported.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, 73 displaced people from Palestine were accommodated in comfortable hotel rooms in Nazran, they were provided with medical care, representatives of the authorities of Ingushetia reported on December 14, 2023. On January 1, the third group of 14 Palestinian refugees, including 11 children, arrived in Ingushetia \. They were also accommodated at the Assa Hotel in Nazran.
On December 5, 2023, the head of Ingushetia, Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov, announced that the republic was ready to accept 100 refugees from Palestine. On December 12, the first group of refugees arrived in Ingushetia, and on December 13, another 18 refugees arrived. The authorities voiced their readiness to resolve issues of employment of adult refugees and education of children.
The fourth group of internally displaced persons from the Gaza Strip has arrived in Ingushetia, the government of the republic announced today. “The group included 32 people, 23 of whom are children. […] In total, there are already 129 people at the temporary accommodation center in Nazran, about 80 of them are children. Now forced migrants from the Gaza Strip are being taught the Russian language and the cultural characteristics of Ingushetia,” - says the publication in the Telegram channel of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Children from Palestine who arrived earlier are already studying at a school located next to the Assa Hotel, the report notes.
Let us remind you that students from Palestine who arrived in Ingushetia expressed a desire to continue their studies at local universities. The government has been instructed to find an opportunity for this, the head of the republic announced on December 21, 2023.
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Thenonlynplace that the Arab Muslims of Gaza should be resettled in
Is another arab muslim nation: egypt, jordan, iraq. Saudi
They should take them being among the original beligerents to attack israel in 1948 causing the refugees in the first place
[Breitbart] Chinese exporters are feeling the pinch of rising shipping costs due to Red Sea terrorist attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis of Yemen, to the point that Premier Li Qiang made an oblique reference to the crisis in his speech to the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Li stressed the need to keep the world’s supply chains “stable and smooth” in his remarks to the WEF last week and there is no bigger problem facing supply chains at the moment than the virtual shutdown of the shipping route through the Red Sea and Suez Canal – a route that carried almost 13 percent of global shipping at its peak.
Reuters on Sunday quoted Chinese exporters who said higher costs and longer shipping times due to the Red Sea blockade have “wiped out our already thin profits,” as automobile exporter Han Changming put it.
“Some companies, such as U.S.-based BDI Furniture, have said they are relying more on factories in places such as Turkey and Vietnam to mitigate the impact of the disruptions, adding to recent moves by Western countries to reduce dependence on China amid geopolitical tensions,” Reuters noted.
The Houthis on Friday promised safe passage for Russian and Chinese ships, but this pledge means little to a massive export market that cannot rely entirely on Chinese-flagged ships to haul its cargo.
China may have underestimated just how much its export market relied on that Red Sea shipping route, which provided fast and cheap service between Asia and Europe. With costs tripling or quadrupling, and weeks added to shipping times because nervous companies must divert their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, buyers in the West are turning to alternative suppliers.
Some analysts believe the shift in supply chains will be permanent, even if the Houthis stop attacking cargo ships tomorrow, because Western companies were already looking for alternatives to China and, after the Houthi crisis, they will never be comfortable with putting their vital supply lines at the mercy of Iran and its proxy forces again.
Some Chinese exporters are so nervous about the realignment of global shipping that they are reportedly already making plans to lay off workers to account for permanently lost business. On the other end of the Suez Canal, small companies whose business models were based on low-cost “just in time” shipping are struggling to make ends meet.
Marco Castelli, founder of a company called IC Trade that exports Chinese mechanical parts to European buyers, told Reuters that the general public notion of companies simply raising prices a little and dealing with some backorders to get through the Red Sea crisis is mistaken. On both sides of the Red Sea supply chain, exporters and importers built companies with very thin profit margins on the assumption of cheap, fast shipping, and they cannot survive without it.
Castelli pointed out that China’s factories usually are not paid until buyers in the West receive their shipments, “so if their payment is delayed, they can’t pay their suppliers, they can’t pay their workers.”
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) pointed out on Monday that Lunar New Year usually puts enormous stress on supply lines and there is nowhere near enough rail and air capacity to make up for a 30-percent reduction in cargo passing through the Red Sea. China has been pushing Western importers to consider its railroad lines as an alternative, but in addition to its slower speed and higher cost, those railroads are risky because they run close to the Russia-Ukraine conflict zone.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said shipping disruptions are beginning to create “ripples across supply chains in Europe and the U.S.,” including cost increases in shipping lines that do not even run through the Red Sea. Consumers at the far end of the supply chain have been largely protected from the cost increases so far, but that would likely change if the disruptions continue beyond the Lunar New Year holiday season.
China’s state-run Global Times, on the other hand, claimed the impact of the Red Sea crisis is already “gradually diminishing” because demand is slipping and keeping prices from skyrocketing further.
That relief will probably only be temporary, as the Global Times conceded, because the next surge of shipping demand is due in March. If the Houthis continue to disrupt shipping after March, shipping analysts said higher rates will become locked in, and consumers are likely to begin feeling the pinch.
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China been saber-rattling for decades. How about they send some of their mighty navy to deal with the over-greedy* desert rats.
*Support for Gaza is just an excuse. Yemen doesn't have enough water to grow both qat and food. So they're being a nuisance to get some "humanitarian" aid.
It's a start...
[Regnum] Member of the Swedish Parliament from the right-wing Sweden Democrats party, head of the parliamentary committee on justice, Richard Yumshof, called for a ban on Islamic symbols in the country along with the Nazi swastika. He stated this in an interview published on January 22 by the Aftonbladet newspaper.
“Minarets and the crescent are symbols that represent the values that Islam stands fohttps://regnum.ru/news/3861735r. In the opinion of many people, and also in my opinion, this represents something very dangerous, very bad,” he said.
Humshof called the possible ban on displaying Islamic symbols in public places a step forward for the country. At the same time, he stated that he does not consider Islam and Nazism to be the same thing, but opposes the symbols of this religion, such as the veil.
As reported by IA Regnum, the founder of the Danish far-right party “Hard Course” Rasmus Paludan carried out dozens of actions in Denmark and Sweden, during which he burned the Koran. His actions caused the greatest resonance in January 2023 after the burning of the holy Islamic book near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson condemned the act, but noted that freedom of speech is a fundamental part of democracy.
This caused a sharp reaction in Ankara; Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced that he refused to support Sweden's application to join NATO. He noted that the Swedish authorities, by not stopping anti-Islamic actions, show disrespect for the Turkish side and Muslims. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reproached Erdogan for this position, noting that Paludan’s actions did not violate the law. At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry called for measures to be taken against vandals hiding behind freedom of speech.
A week later, Paludan repeated the burning of the Koran in front of a mosque in Copenhagen. He stated that he would do this until Turkey supported Sweden's entry into NATO. The Koran was also burned in front of the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen in July 2023 by members of the radical Danish Patriots movement.
In December, the Danish Parliament passed a law banning the burning of religious texts. This also applies to the Torah, Bible and Koran. The maximum penalty for violation is imprisonment for up to two years.
[IsraelTimes] In rebuttal of opposition politician’s concerns Italian arms being used for ’war crimes,’ Antonio Tajani states weapons exports were halted at war’s outset.
Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani told local media Saturday that his country had halted all arms shipments to Israel since Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’s brutal October 7 onslaught.
The minister’s comments, made in an interview with Italian newspapers Nazione, Giorno, and Resto del Carlino, were a response to a demand by opposition leader Elly Schlein that the Italian government stop weapons exports to the Middle East. Tajani accused her of being "misinformed."
"Since October 7, we have decided not to send any more arms to Israel, so there is no need to discuss this point," said Tajani, according to a report from Italian news agency ANSA.
Speaking at a Friday meeting of the center-left Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... , which she heads, Schlein said that "we must face the issue of avoiding fueling these conflicts, of avoiding sending arms and exporting arms to conflicts, to the conflict in the Middle East, in this case particularly to Israel," according to ANSA.
"We cannot risk weapons being used to commit what could be construed as war crimes," added the opposition politician.
According to Israeli news site Walla, some five percent of Israeli arms purchases over the past decade have come from Italia, which include helicopters and naval artillery.
Oh. So the stoppage is more in the way of an annoyance than an existential crisis.
In separate news, Tajani said in an interview with Italian radio Friday that his country would be willing to send troops to a peacekeeping mission 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... , ANSA reported.
That’s nice.
On Sunday, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated refusal to accept a two-state formula for peace, Tajani told news hounds that President Isaac Herzog is nonetheless open to such a solution, according to a report in Italian daily Il Tempo.
But the president of Israel is a ceremonial post without power, like an elected constitutional monarch. His agreement or disagreement matters not in the least.
Tajani, a former air force officer
...he was an air defense controller on a radar base in the middle of Italy...
who has led the conservative Forza Italia party since the death of its chairman Silvio Berlusconi in July, made an early solidarity visit to Israel at the start of the war on Hamas, and in November reaffirmed with other G7 nations his belief in Israel’s right to defend itself, within the bounds of international law, against Hamas aggression.
By December, the Italian foreign minister struck a more critical tone, condemning Israel for shooting inside a Gaza church.
Wasn’t that shown to actually have been the work of Hamas?
In January, as president of the G7, Tajani explored with other foreign ministers in the group the possibility of applying pressure on Israel to bring the war to a "rapid" end.
Hamas has promised to repeat the October 7th massacre over and over until the Jews are all gone. Forcing a premature end to the Israeli response will just bring the next kidnap-and-massacre attack that much closer.
On the subject of South Africa’s ongoing claim at the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing "genocide" against Gazooks, Tajani has said that although Israel has hit civilians in Gaza, it is not committing genocide.
Good to hear.
Berlusconi, the erstwhile leader of Tajani’s party, and a colorful, scandal-ridden, media mogul who served as Italia’s prime minister for a cumulative nine years, was known to be a strong supporter of Israel, even raising the possibility that the Jewish state join the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . It was under Berlusconi that Italia sold 30 jet trainers to Israel, in a billion-dollar deal. Though critical of Israel’s West Bank settlements, Berlusconi at one time stated that the West should support Israel in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
[Ynet] A U.S.-based news outlet The Washington Post reported Sunday on a disturbing phenomenon that is gaining momentum: the denial of the massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7. The newspaper said despite numerous pieces of evidence indicating that Hamas committed these horrible acts, including footage captured by the terrorists themselves, denial continues to spread. If you ever wondered how the counterfactual belief in "Palestinian people displaced from their homeland" became common...
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This despicable phenomenon is only going to get worse because now we can have fake video generated by AI by anyone
Soon people won’t know anything
We have to give up the censorship idea snd get busy teaching people how to evaluate evidence and basic critical thinking and analysis skills
Holocaust denial: Bad whenever it can be used as a club.
Oct 7 denial: "Well, all righty then!"
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Jan. 6
Dec. 7
Oct. 7
Ides of March
Pattern there somewhere?
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I do not believe the American public is in denial of 10/7. The libs in DC might be but not the public. There is widespread support (in America) for Israel to punish Gaza and Hamas.
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[Center For Immigration Studies] TAPACHULA, Mexico — The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), which receives billions in U.S. taxpayer money, is handing out cash debit cards and other funds for lodging and prescription medicines to U.S.-bound migrants who spill out into this southern Mexican city by the hundreds of thousands.
Every day, word of the UN’s cash assistance draws long lines of hopeful U.S.-bound migrants to a large, grey building staffed by application-takers and interviewers who determine who gets the money.
Haitian Luis Ponce was in line one recent day, not to get his application going, but to complain to the officials inside that the UN is in arrears. The international agency had not recharged his debit card-linked local bank account, a yellow and gray plastic affair with a UNHCR/ACNUR insignia in the upper third left corner, with the 3,600 pesos owed (about $180).
"We don’t have money now," Ponce complained, flashing the empty card.
And, as the Center for Immigration Studies has previously reported after first seeing the cash cards distributed at a Reynosa, Mexico, migrant camp, the United Nations is sharply escalating the amounts of cash and other direct financial assistance to immigrants all along the migrant trail from Panama to Texas, at an uncharted series of some 100 waystations like this one in Tapachula. It is part of a program the United Nations calls "cash-based interventions" (CBI). UN documents say the program is meant to "restore feelings of choice and empowerment to beneficiaries", a part of which may well mean that migrants are able to keep moving north rather than returning home
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But remember: Every year American school teachers have to buy classroom supplies out of their own pockets because your taxes aren't high enough, you greedy what supremaciss prole MAGA deplorable.
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The United States remains the largest donor to the United Nations. It contributed more than $12 billion in 2021 alone.
In 2023, the United Nations assessed the United States’ share of the regular UN budget at 22% and its share of the peacekeeping budget at 27%.
So when the UN gives cash to ILLEGALS to invade the USA, We The People are largely funding it.
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Cut it out, Chris.
— trailing wife for the moderators at 10:16 a.m. ET
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^ Not a fan of the idea but what else is there? The voting box is no longer available. We're down to that last box we never thought we'd have to reach for. Surrender is an option, though.
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^^^ they would do the same to you if they could get away with it.
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We are nearing the end of the slowly part of "Slowly, then all at once."
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None of us gets out alive. never saw a hearse with
a u-haul. Be prepared to die for what you believe.
If 2024 election is not clean throw the sh-t in the fan.
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@#9 Keep your head in the sand then. You have statistics on everything. How is that way of going about it working out for ANYONE at this point? Let me guess your answer, GET OUT AN VOTE. Shit don't work anymore.
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At the point where we are being rounded up for the camps it will be too late.
That much is true.
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I'm not the only 1 thinking it TW, just not afraid to say it.
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The irony we face is that we are being endlessly prodded to create the massive civil protests that will be defined as the predicate for the declaration of a national emergency (and thus cancellation of national elections), by the behavior of a Malignant Administration whose failure to obey the law is in fact a predicate for an actual national emergency.
But this forum must not lose it's ability to inform and observe. There are historic precedents for such things in our history that some here might recall as more apt however.
You know the rules, Chris. Here at Rantburg we don’t cause Fred problems by saying things that physically threaten Americans.
It’s not funny when that group in the FBI thinks they’ve found a target for creating their next Whitmer kidnap plot. Or idiots on the left pretending to be sympathetic conservatives, putting racism, Jew-hate, and violent threats into the comments to make us look bad. We don’t want to attract that kind of thing here.
[Rudaw] The United States Department of Treasury on Monday announced its sanctioning of Iraqi airline Fly Baghdad and several members of Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah
...spelt in some sources Kataeb Hezbollah...
for providing assistance to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that it has designated Fly Baghdad and its CEO Basheer Abdulkadhim Alwan al-Shabbani, "for providing assistance" to the IRGC’s Quds Force and its proxy groups in Iraq, Syria, and Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah 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 dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original 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... According to the US Treasury, Fly Baghdad "has supported the operations of the IRGC-QF [Quds Force] and its proxies by delivering materials and personnel throughout the region."
"Fly Baghdad flights have delivered shipments of weapons to Damascus International Airport in Syria for transfer to members of the IRGC-QF and Iran-aligned militia groups on the ground in Syria, including the Syrian Arab Elite Republican Guard, Lebanese Hizballah, KH [Kataib Hezbollah], and the KH-affiliated Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigade," read the statement.
The US Department of Treasury added that Fly Baghdad was also involved in transferring hundreds of Iraqi fighters, including fighters of the Iran-backed militia group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, in support of the Iranian proxies’ attacks on Israel, in October.
Along with Fly Baghdad, the OFAC also designated three leaders and supporters of the Iran-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah, "as well as a business that moves and launders" for the group.
The statement named Hossein Moanes al-Ibudi, a senior member of the Kataib Hezbollah and a member of the Iraqi parliament, Riyad Ali Hussein al-Azzawi, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) specialist and an engineer for the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), and Awqad Muhsin Faraj al-Hamidawi, who directs Kataib Hezbollah’s "businesses and aspects of the financial portfolio," as part of the list of individuals sanctioned by the US "for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support" of the group.
A travel company, al-Massal, was also sanctioned on the grounds that it was used by Kataib Hezbollah to generate revenue and launder money.
"Al-Massal is being designated ... for being owned, controlled, or directed by Awqad al-Hamidawi," according to the statement.
"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 its proxies have sought to abuse regional economies and use seemingly legitimate businesses as cover for funding and facilitating their attacks," said US Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson, adding that the US will "continue to disrupt Iran’s illicit activities aimed at undermining the stability of the region."
As a result of this move, all assets and property belonging to the specified legal persons, "that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons," are blocked and must be disclosed to the Treasury’s OFAC. Furthermore, any organizations that are owned, whether directly or indirectly, individually or collectively, by 50 percent or more by one or more individuals subject to asset blocking are also subject to the same restrictions.
Two Fly Baghdad-owned, Iraqi-registered aircraft were identified as "blocked property in which Fly Baghdad has an interest."
The US treasury designated the IRGC’s Quds Force as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT)" in 2007, and the US Department of State designated Kataib Hezbollah as an STDG and a "foreign terrorist organization (FTO)" in 2009.
The sanctions come at a time when US interests across Iraq and Syria are the target of dronezaps from IRGC-backed militia groups. On Monday, the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, an Iran-backed group, announced targeting Ain al-Asad military base in Iraq’s western Anbar province with drones.
According to the Pentagon, US bases forces have been attacked approximately 140 times in Iraq and Syria since mid-October.
The US has carried out retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq, drawing the ire of the Iraqi government, and amplifying cries of ending the US-led global coalition against 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.... (ISIS) mission in Iraq.
In November, the US Treasury Department sanctioned six individuals affiliated with Kataib Hezbollah, and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, another Iran-backed group, as well as its leader Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji.
Washington accused both militias of receiving support from Iran’s IRGC and involvement in dozens of attacks on American interests in Iraq and Syria since Israel’s war with Paleostinian Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in the Gaza Strip.
“Nuh uh. Wudn’t us,” the big guy said emphatically.
[Shafaq News] Hours after the United States imposed sanctions on Iraqi airline "Fly Baghdad," the company was compelled to cancel several flights from Baghdad International Airport. Videos on social media showed stranded passengers at the airport after Fly Baghdad's flight cancellations.
The U.S. Treasury accused Fly Baghdad of transporting weapons to Syria and supporting organizations banned by the U.S. government.
In response, the company, along with its management and owner, expressed surprise at the decision, asserting that it lacked any substantial or moral evidence. "Moral Evidence"?
Fly Baghdad denounced the decision, emphasizing its years of operation under the direct supervision of the Iraqi government, including the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority and the Ministry of Transport.
The company called on the U.S. Treasury Department to "present evidence supporting the accusations," it intends to pursue legal action to demand compensation for what it considers a decision based on misleading and unreal information that does not withstand legal scrutiny.
Negotiations courtesy of blatant Biden administration pressure. Should Hamas agree, will they be able to comply with the terms for the full two months before bursting forth, ululating and shooting off their guns as they go for the promised next round of kidnap, rapine, and murder? Place yer bets, ladies and gents — I give them less than three weeks.
[IsraelTimes] Israel has reportedly submitted a proposal through 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... i and Egyptian mediators that would see it agree to a pause in its fighting 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... for as long as two months, in exchange for a phased release of the remaining 136 hostages in Gaza.
The proposal does not heed the Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... demand for Israel to end the war completely, but does appear to go further than Israel has gone in previous offers, according to the Axios news site, which cites two Israeli officials.
The offer is publicized as White House Middle East czar Brett McGurk is in the region for meetings with Egyptian and Qatari counterparts aimed at advancing a hostage deal, a US official told The Times of Israel.
Israel is now waiting for Hamas’s response to the new proposal and is cautiously optimistic about the chance for progress in the coming days, the Israeli officials tell Axios.
The Israeli proposal reported by Axios would see the remaining children, women, men over the age of 60 and critically ill hostages released during the first stage. Subsequent stages would see female soldiers and men under the age of 60 who are not soldiers, followed by make soldiers and the bodies of hostages.
The Israeli offer states that Israel and Hamas would agree in advance as to how many security prisoners would be released by Jerusalem in each stage before holding separate negotiations on the names of these convicts..
The offer would also include a withdrawal of Israeli forces from the main population centers in Gaza and the gradual return of Paleostinians to the northern Strip, from which they were ordered to evacuate.
The offer stipulates that Israel will not agree to end the war completely, nor release all 6,000 Paleostinian security prisoners, but Israeli officials tell Axios that they are willing to release a significant number.
If implemented, IDF operations in Gaza would be significantly smaller in scope after the pause concludes, Axios says.
The offer is relatively similar to ones that have reportedly been pressed since the seven-day truce ended nearly two months ago. Hamas has insisted that it will not agree to release any hostages unless the fighting in Gaza ceases completely — a non-starter for Israel, as it would leave those who orchestrated the October 7 massacre in power.
A senior Egyptian who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity says terror group Hamas has rejected Israel’s proposal for a two-month ceasefire in which Hamas would release Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian security prisoners.
The official says Hamas leaders have also refused to leave Gaza and are demanding that Israel fully withdraw from the territory and allow Palestinians to return to their homes. Under Israel’s proposal, Yahya Sinwar and other top Hamas leaders in Gaza would be allowed to relocate to other countries.
The official says Egypt and Qatar, which have brokered past agreements between Israel and Hamas, are developing a multi-stage proposal to try to bridge the gaps. The proposal would include ending the war, releasing the hostages and putting forth a vision for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Was a good PR Move. Jew haters were starting to repeat that israelis didnt care about the hostages after the israelis recently rebuked a hamas hostage offer.
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I read this as Israel calling Hamas' bluff. At this point, few if any hostages are likely to be in releasable shape. If there are no hostages, there is no reason for Israel to play nice.
[IsraelTimes] Egypt warns Israel that any attempt to seize security control of the strip of land that separates 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... and Egypt will result in a "serious threat" to relations between the neighboring countries.
The Philadelphi corridor is a 14 kilometer (nine-mile) long slice of land on Egypt-Gaza border. Israeli leaders have talked about taking control of the corridor to prevent possible weapons smuggling into Gaza. Egypt fears that a military operation on the border could push large numbers of Paleostinians onto its territory.
Then do your job and keep the weapons out, habibi.
"It must be strictly emphasized that any Israeli move in this direction will lead to a serious threat to Egyptian-Israeli relations," Diaa Rashwan, head of Egypt’s State Information Service, says in an online statement.
Egypt isn’t going to attack Israel — they’d get their teeth kicked in. Not to mention that even the Biden administration would feel the need to cut off all funds, weapons, and other special treatment given Egypt for sticking to the peace treaty.
Rashwan says Gaza’s western border is secure and that Israeli claims that weapons were being smuggled from Egypt into Gaza are false.
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Rashwan says Gaza’s western border is secure and that Israeli claims that weapons were being smuggled from Egypt into Gaza are false.
And if you'd put him on lie detector, you'd find he really believes that. That's the problem in dealing with Arabs - half the time they live in the fantasy world.
[IsraelTimes] Prince Faisal bin Farhan tells CNN the kingdom isn’t interested in rebuilding Gaza only to return to pre-Oct. 7 status quo in a way that sets up another round of fighting
The dispute over Gaza’s future — coming as the war still rages with no end in sight — pits the United States and its Arab allies against Israel and poses a major obstacle to any plans for postwar governance or reconstruction in Gaza.
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... ’s foreign minister said the kingdom will not normalize relations with Israel nor contribute to 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... ’s reconstruction without a credible pathway to a Paleostinian state.
Prince Faisal bin Farhan’s remarks in an interview with CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... broadcast late Sunday were some of the most direct yet from Saudi officials. It puts them at odds with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has rejected Paleostinian statehood and described plans for open-ended military control over Gaza.
The dispute over Gaza’s future — coming as the war still rages with no end in sight — pits the United States and its Arab allies against Israel and poses a major obstacle to any plans for postwar governance or reconstruction in Gaza.
Before the October 7 Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... attack that triggered the war, the US had been trying to broker a landmark agreement in which Saudi Arabia would normalize relations with Israel in exchange for US security guarantees, aid in establishing a civilian nuclear program in the kingdom, and progress toward resolving the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
In September, Netanyahu had said Israel was "at the cusp" of such a deal, which he said would transform the Middle East.
In the interview with "CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS," the host asked: "Are you saying unequivocally that if there is not a credible and irreversible path to a Paleostinian state, there will not be normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel?"
"That’s the only way we’re going to get a benefit," Prince Faisal replied. "So, yes."
Earlier in the interview, when asked if oil-rich Saudi Arabia would finance reconstruction in Gaza — where Israel’s air and ground offensive has devastated vast swaths of the impoverished territory — Prince Faisal gave a similar answer.
"As long as we’re able to find a pathway to a solution, a resolution, a pathway that means that we’re not going to be here again in a year or two, then we can talk about anything," he said. "But if we are just resetting to the status quo before October 7, in a way that sets us up for another round of this, as we have seen in the past, we’re not interested in that conversation."
Does this mean if there is no path, the Magic Kingdom will not donate to rebuild Gaza? Israel’s path is clear.
The Paleostinians seek a state that would include Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War.
To be followed, as quickly as possible, by the territories Israel was given by the UN in 1948. Though given that the Arabs couldn’t close the deal then with their five well-equipped armies against Jewish civilians with personal weapons and a few crop-duster airplanes, it doesn’t seem likely they’d actually accomplish their purpose if given a do-over.
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Imho Saudi was behind this. They are the ones manipukating the US to attack their Shi’ite enemies in ymen and iran
Hamas are sunnis.
The Saudis and Qataris own the US because they control the petro dollar and spend a lot on DC lobby firms. Also fund the universities (georgetown etc) and successfully courts the CIA, NSA and military intelligence. They also have majority holdings in large corporations including those that fund the MIC. 100 years of oil money.
Our real enemy is Islamism. Saudi and Qatar are the number 1 islamist nations funding that ideology worldwide
The saudis flew planes into buildings on 9/11 but we attacked… iraq. The secular dictator. The secular are our allies against the theocrats yet here we are
It is saudi influence
Saudi is the reason Mike Baker the cia PR man goes on Joe Rogan to lie that Gazans do not support Hamas (they do). And other cia spox on other youtube channels doing the exact same thing, selling that lie, just like george bush on 9/11 saying there was no problem with islam, it is a religion of peace. No, it is not.
We are in dire straits when the world’s biggest mikitary is bought and controlled by the Saudis.
[IsraelTimes] Grassroots initiative of disillusioned veterans and soldiers camping outside the Knesset joins growing frustration, on both right and left, with Netanyahu’s war strategy.
From the point of view of the Israel Defense Forces, Captain Omer Patziniach was discharged from her duty as a reservist last month. But as Patziniach, a 27-year-old officer who coordinates artillery fire with ground forces, sees it, her military service continues. She’s one of several dozen reservists camped out near the Knesset in Jerusalem to protest what they consider a failure by the politicianship to fight Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... 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... effectively in the war that began on October 7.
"I’m in civvies but I’m on personal reserve duty, fighting to win this war," Patziniach told The Times of Israel last week in what she and fellow activists call the Reservists Tent.
The protest action, whose leaders demand a firmer hand against Hamas and permanent occupation of some land in Gaza, reflects growing frustration on the Israeli right with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet’s perceived failure to deliver on the initial stated goal for the war: dismantling the Hamas terror group and toppling the regime that it has built since its 2007 takeover of Gaza.
"We’re being fed a narrative of victory but on the ground, it’s not getting done, there’s a strategy of non-victory," Patziniach complained.
She and the reservists fear that Israel’s very survival is at stake. "If we fail to destroy Hamas, if this is just another round [of fighting], after the mini-Holocaust that was perpetrated on our soil, then we’re sealing our fate as an entity that cannot defend itself and folds in the face of the enemies around us. This is existential," she said.
Failure to topple Hamas after declaring it a war objective "is worse than not having declared it at all," argued Az Efroni, a reservist from Ein Yahav, a Negev moshav situated near the border with Jordan. "If you don’t declare it, at least you keep the other side guessing what price you’ll exact. Not delivering is showing yourself to be impotent."
Patziniach, who served in both the southern and northern theaters recently, sees Israel’s restrained response to Hezbollah on the northern border as "bunker warfare."
"There’s hardly any shooting from our side," she said. "Reduce casualties. Wait it out. Don’t stick your neck out. Remain in the sheltered area. Radio headquarters. Keep your head down."
In the south, "the troops are taking a day to hold 500 meters. We’ve been there three months and we still don’t control the territory," Patziniach said, her military expressions contrasting with her new-age appearance, complete with nose ring, multiple earrings, and a thick wooly raincoat.
Since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip over 15 years ago, the terror group’s conflict with Israel had been characterized by low-intensity warfare and periods of relative calm, punctuated by rounds of violence involving heavy rocket fire into Israel and retaliatory IDF strikes in Gaza.
Between 2008 and 2021, Israel and Gaza underwent four major combat operations, including two incursions, and dozens of more short-lived explosions of cross-border fire from Gaza, a situation that many, especially hawks residents of the south, saw as untenable and requiring a major strategic shift — though not all agreed on whether the answer was massive military action or a long-term detente.
That dynamic changed on October 7, when Hamas-led murderous Moslems invaded Israel, murdered some 1,200 people and kidnapped over 250 others, about half of whom are still being held in Gaza.
Israel invaded Gaza, killing thousands of button men and vowing to dismantle Hamas, and for many, the idea of a long-term detente with Hamas went out the window.
But for Patziniach and others in the tent, the long-awaited chance for a game-changing military operation is being squandered, despite a post-attack atmosphere of unity that would have given the government wide backing for such a move.
"The work is incomplete. So we’re staying here till it gets done," she said.
The 132 remaining hostages present a military challenge to the IDF, potentially complicating its use of artillery, Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and other explosives in targeting Hamas’s vast tunnel network, where the terror group is believed to keep captives.
Some relatives of the hostages and other demonstrators have backed calls for a ceasefire, arguing that Israel should prioritize seeking a deal for their freedom and avoid fighting that endangers them.
Patziniach allowed that the hostages "create some tactical difficulties but are not the reason for the absence of effective military action" by the IDF in Gaza.
Israel’s leaders, who claim that military pressure bolsters Israel’s position in hostage talks, have vowed to keep up the fight and rejected claims that a shift to low-intensity fighting constitutes a retreat from its goals.
But humanitarian woes and a mounting Paleostinian corpse count — unverified Hamas figures put the number of dead at over 25,000, though the tally includes an unspecified number of combatants — have led to heavy international pressure, seemingly limiting the scale of the fighting.
Those at the tent harbor deep anxiety over what they view as a slow defeat that Israel cannot afford.
"Every terrorist group and cell is watching and plotting as they see our slow-motion trainwreck, adhering to the same patterns and wrong priorities," said Efroni, a 55-year-old father of three.
He cited orders handed down from top brass to troops in Gaza demanding they erase graffiti that soldiers had left on Gaza buildings, some of it vowing a reestablishment of Israeli settlements in the Strip.
"You have generals worrying about graffiti. It just tells you all you need to know about their seriousness about winning," said the self-described political hawk, who was toting an M16 assault rifle while wearing a civilian top and IDF-issue pants, a common choice among Israel’s notoriously raggedy-looking reservists.
Patziniach insisted that the Reservists Tent is nonpartisan with some frequenters who are dyed-in-the-wool leftists, though she concedes that most — "probably 60 percent" — are right-wing.
Several hundred people pass by the tent daily and thousands have visited, regulars say.
Two right-wing supporters, Shmulik and Pnina Maslati, came from their moshav Moreshet in the Galilee to show their support and donate money to the cause, in a fund Patziniach set up earlier this month along with Gilad Ach, founder of the hawkish Ad Kan watchdog. They’d heard about the Reservists Tent on Channel 14, a conservative outlet that has remained largely supportive of Netanyahu.
Others hawks are protesting too, aiming fire at Netanyahu over his management of the war. On the Tze’elim military base in southern Israel on Monday, reservists attached banners to military Hummers reading: "We, too, were discharged without achieving victory."
But even as the fight-Hamas versus free-the-hostages debate takes on an increasingly partisan character, Patziniach believes she can keep the Reservists Tent at a safe remove from the looming political storm.
"People try to suck us into the Bibi debate [over his leadership]," she said, using Netanyahu’s nickname. But her group would not take the bait, she insisted. "We demand decisive victory. We don’t care about the rest."
How much was stolen by Hamas for themselves instead of distributed to the innocent civilians?
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says that since the beginning of the war against Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , 12,000 trucks with 1,052 tons of medical equipment have entered 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.
In a statement, the IDF says it has facilitated the delivery of hundreds of thousands of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... , tuberculosis, rotavirus, and MMR vaccines, among other aid.
It also details the number of patients treated in the various field Gaza hospitals — run by foreign nations and international aid groups — where medical aid has reached, as well as at two floating hospitals aboard a French ship and an Italian ship.
The IDF says it has also coordinated with Egypt the evacuation of hundreds of maimed Paleostinians from Gaza, who were taken to the United Arab Emirates, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , and Egypt for treatment.
"In coordination with the international community, the IDF continues to facilitate humanitarian and medical assistance efforts for Gazook civilians," the military says.
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How much was stolen by Hamas for themselves instead of distributed to the innocent civilians?
That's actually two questions.
(a) How much was stolen by Hamas?
(b) Which innocent civilians? (they were all deliriously happy on Oct 7th, it's only the aftermath that they regret)
[IsraelTimes] Britannia and the United States unveil new asset freezes and travel bans on Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... and Paleostinian 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... (PIJ) figures, in their latest coordinated asset freezes and travel bans aimed at regional terrorists.
Five "key figures" and an entity said to be involved in the leadership and financial networks of Hamas and PIJ were targeted, the British government says.
The measures "will help to cut off the flow of funding that supports these terrorist groups, including from Iran", it adds.
Western nations have imposed a growing number of sanctions on Hamas and its allies since the Paleostinian terror group’s unprecedented October 7 onslaught on Israel.
"These sanctions send a clear message to Hamas — the UK and our partners are committed to ensuring there is no hiding place for those financing terrorist activities," Foreign Secretary David Cameron ...Empty suit Brit pol, former PM, has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel... says in a statement.
"To reach a sustainable ceasefire 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... , Hamas can no longer be in power and able to threaten Israel. By disrupting the financial networks which sustain Hamas’ operation, including from Iran, these sanctions support that crucial aim."
Britannia and the United States announce multiple rounds of coordinated sanctions at the end of last year targeting Hamas and its Iranian backers.
London says its latest curbs will result in asset freezes, travel bans and arms embargoes, though it is unclear whether any of those targeted had assets in Britannia or had travelled there in recent years.
Zuheir Shamlakh is among those sanctioned, with Britannia claiming he had "an infamous reputation as Hamas’s ’main money changer’ since 2019."
He was "a key figure in the group’s shift towards cryptocurrencies," and had "exploited" digital currencies and informal money transfer systems to move "large sums of money from 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... to Hamas" before October 7, London says.
Britannia also sanctioned Ahmed Sharif Abdallah Odeh, allegedly a key operator in Hamas’s financial network, and Ismail Barhoum, a member of its political bureau in Gaza and its governing council.
Hassan al-Wardian, said to be a big shot of Hamas in the West Bank, and Jamil Yusuf Ahmad Aliyan, an alleged senior PIJ official in Gaza, were the remaining two people sanctioned, London adds.
[IsraelTimes] Vote boycotted by the coalition; opposition’s Liberman: It’s impractical to hold elections during wartime.
Thank goodness that’s over for the moment.
With the government’s popularity plummeting, a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nevertheless garnered only 18 votes in the Knesset on Monday evening, falling far short of the necessary majority to pass in the 120-strong Knesset plenum.
The vote was boycotted by the coalition, whose heads stated earlier in the day that they would “not take part in political theater during wartime.”
The measure, brought by the Labor party, cited the government’s “failure” to secure the return of the 136 Israelis still held hostage in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu’s inability to return the remaining captives has opened him up to increasing criticism from their families as well as his political opponents.
...neatly displaying the difference between politicians and statesmen.
In response, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the coalition’s far-right Religious Zionism party declared: “There is an agreed-upon election date in two and a half years. The law determined it, the Israeli public and society determined it.”
Smotrich also rejected calls for another ceasefire in Gaza, saying, “The claim that it is possible now to release hostages and return after a month or two to fight and eliminate Hamas is science fiction.”
His comments were echoed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who stated that “we have the moral duty to return [hostages] home and fight for [them] but we also have an obligation” to make sure that the rest of Israel’s millions of citizens are safe.
[IsraelTimes] No arrests at second demonstration this month; outgoing Labor head Merav Michaeli says she wants to ‘move government’ on hostage issue as pressure on Netanyahu appears to grow.
[IsraelTmes] The Kfir Brigade last night was withdrawn from 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 for a short R&R and training period, and has been replaced with other forces in the Khan Younis area, the military says.
The IDF says that after its break, the Kfir Brigade will continue operational activity in accordance with the army’s latest assessments.
In Khan Younis, the IDF says Kfir soldiers operated in the Bani Suheila area, locating many weapons used by Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , including firearms, bombs, grenades, and rockets, as well as killing dozens of terror operatives.
Before fighting in Khan Younis, Kfir operated in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, in what was the brigade’s first-ever ground maneuver.
[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian Authority agrees to receive the tax money collected by Israel on its behalf, minus the sum earmarked for 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... A Paleostinian source tells Sky News Arabia that Ramallah has walked back its previous decision to reject a partial transfer of the funds collected on its behalf by Israel since November, when the government decided to deduct the amount that the PA has earmarked for Gaza to pay for services and salaries in the coastal enclave.
According to the agreement, made under heavy American pressure, Ramallah will receive the funds from Israel through a trust fund managed by Norway. Oslo will be barred from transferring the funds to the PA or to any other party without the express permission of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
The Paleostinian source adds that the PA will still disburse payments to pensioners and needy families in Gaza that appear in the lists of its Ministry of Social Development, using funds earmarked for the West Bank.
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