[IsraelTimes] The IDF confirms carrying out an airstrike against a Hezbollah “strategic weapons” manufacturing and storage facility in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley a short while ago.
“The IDF will continue to work to remove any threat to the State of Israel,” the military adds.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese media reports an Israeli airstrike in the Beqaa Valley area in northeastern Lebanon.
The target of the strike is reportedly a Hezbollah facility that has been hit several times by Israel in recent months.
The site has previously been described by the IDF as a “strategic weapons” manufacturing and storage facility belonging to the terror group. The IDF has previously targeted it after identifying Hezbollah activity there.
[IsraelTimes] An 18-year-old Israeli civilian wounded in a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Ariel this evening was taken to Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva for treatment.
Magen David Adom says the victim is in moderate and stable condition, after he was shot in the arm.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out a drone strike against a group of terror operatives in the central Gaza Strip today after they were spotted trying to plant a bomb in the ground.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas has renewed a demand for Israeli troops to withdraw from south Gaza, accusing Israel of seeking to breach the terms of a ceasefire in talks on the next phase of the accord.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem tells AFP that Israeli forces should have pulled out of a strip of land along the Gaza-Egypt border under the first phase of the ceasefire that started on January 19. "Ummmm. No."
Hamas has accused Israel of keeping troops in the strategic Philadelphi Corridor. Israel has insisted it needs to maintain control of the corridor to prevent weapons smuggling into the Palestinian territory from Egypt. Not that Egypt could do anything about it, right?
Qassem indicates that the corridor had become one of the sticking points at Qatari-US mediated talks in Doha on the next phase of the ceasefire.
“Reports indicate new proposals are being presented aimed at circumventing the Gaza agreement,” Qassem tells AFP.
“Meetings are continuing with mediators in Doha. We adhere to what was agreed upon and to entering into the second phase,” he adds.
But he insists that Israel must also fulfill its obligations “withdrawing from the entire Gaza Strip” and “begin the withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor” for any second phase deal to end the war.
“Israel has not implemented the humanitarian protocol of the Gaza agreement,” Qassem adds. Israel has stopped humanitarian aid from entering Gaza since March 2 to back its demand that Hamas release all remaining hostages held since the 2023 attacks.
“We do not want to return to war again, and if the occupation resumes its aggression, we have no choice but to defend our people,” the spokesman says.
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"The Juice should abide by the agreement because you know that we are certainly not going to and if no one is abiding by these agreements what is the point of having complicated agreements and protocols in the first place?"
-- some Hamass spokesdude
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"How do you pronounce your name?"
"52ee7567952ff614493e2b3b8a1f8d2a"
"We'll go with Zelda? Is that OK?"
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I was just asking the wife, "Do you think that is mom or grandma?" Life was hard back then during the time of long exposures and mercury mist in development. Damn baby moved.
#4
If the weather in my neck of the woods had a picture.
Seriously though, you all downwind of this getting tornado alerts, pay attention, because Ms. Gulch has traded in her bicycle for Ming The Merciless' Ajax rocket.
[NY Post] Department of Homeland Security agents executed search warrants on two Columbia University residences on Thursday night — just days after anti-Israel agitator Mahomoud Khlil
…generally spelt Mahmoud Khalil…
was arrested by ICE at an off-campus apartment, the Ivy League school announced.
Interim President Katrina Armstrong revealed the raids in a letter to the Columbia community and noted that nobody was arrested or detained when the feds searched the rooms of two students.
"Federal agents from the DHS served Columbia University with two judicial search warrants signed by a federal magistrate judge authorizing DHS to enter non-public areas of the University and conduct searches of two student rooms," Armstrong said.
"The University has a clear protocol in place. Consistent with this protocol, our longstanding practice, and the practices of cities and institutions throughout the country, the University requires that law enforcement have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including residential University buildings."
The "heartbroken" leader said she was "obligated" to comply with the law, adding that no items were removed and no additional action was taken by the feds.
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Wow, EH. That is disturbing. Fits Columbia to a T as far as I am concerned.
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Mugambe, who also serves as a high court judge in Uganda, brought the victim to Britain under the guise of securing her a job in a diplomatic household
Why? The UK Government is handing out 11 year old Welch Girls as moving compensation.
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Thanks to draining the swamps and DDT, that stopped being a concern for a while, along with bedbugs. Thanks to no DDT, bedbugs are a concern once again, and given the current love affair with the idea of marshlands, no doubt at some point malaria will rejoin West Nile fever and other mosquito-borne diseases as a concern.
Dozens of activists, including actress Debra Winger, occupied Trump Tower in NYC to protest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, who faces deportation for his role in Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/BHBszpezGU
Scare quotes mine because the organization pushes their few real Jews in front of the amorphous Black Bloc mob that “identifies” as Jew-ish.
[IsraelTimes] NYPD confirms multiple arrests as demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace rally to demand release of detained Columbia University anti-Israel activist
Dozens of protesters stormed Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to demand the release of detained Columbia University protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil.
The protest came amid furious backlash over the Trump administration’s detention of Khalil, which has set off a legal battle and daily protests in New York since his arrest on Saturday night.
The anti-Zionist activist group Jewish Voice for Peace posted images showing dozens of protesters chanting in the midtown Manhattan building lobby.
"Free Mahmoud, free them all," the protesters chanted.
The demonstrators carried signs that said, "Fight Nazis, not students," and "Jews for Paleostinian Freedom," and wore red shirts that said "Stop arming Israel."
"As Jews, we are taking over the Trump Tower to register our mass refusal," JVP said in a statement. "We will not stand by as this fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... regime attempts to criminalize Paleostinians and all those calling for an end to the Israeli government’s US-funded genocide of the Paleostinian people."
The group posted footage of police removing protesters from the building.
The NYPD told The Times of Israel that multiple individuals were taken into custody but that the number of arrests and charges had not been finalized.
The furious crowd of about 150 demonstrators — who were from the Palestinian support group “Jewish Voice for Peace” — wore red shirts emblazoned with the message, “Jews Say Stop Arming Israel” as they gathered at about noon in a public, downstairs atrium filled with dining tables outside the Trump Grill restaurant.
NYPD officers descended on the throng around 12:30 p.m. and made 98 arrests of rally-goers, who they zip-tied, hauled away and loaded onto buses for a trip to jail.
“Those arrests are for trespassing, obstructing government administration, and resisting arrest by virtue of us having to carry some of the people out of the escalator, which you saw,” said NYPD Chief of Department John Chell.
“We gave warnings on our pager system and once we did that warning three times, the NYPD with its professionalism, as you saw, went in and made the arrests, there were no injuries. There were no incidents. There was no damaged property.”
Days after US agents arrested recent Columbia University student and anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, school administrators warned foreign faculty and students of the journalism department to keep a low profile over Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and protests against his arrest, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
According to the report, Stuart Karle, a First Amendment lawyer and adjunct professor, advised non-US citizen students to avoid publishing material on those topics.
“If you have a social media page, make sure it is not filled with commentary on the Middle East,” he reportedly said.
“Nobody can protect you,” journalism school dean Jelani Cobb reportely said at the meeting. “These are dangerous times.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday the school had refused to help officials identify people “engaged in pro-Hamas activities,” according to the report.
Earlier this week, the US Department of Education sent letters to 60 colleges and universities warning them that they could face consequences if they did not fulfill their responsibility to protect Jewish students.
“We expect all America’s colleges and universities to comply with this administration’s policy,” Leavitt told reporters.
Khalil’s arrest is one of the first efforts by US President Donald Trump, a Republican who returned to the White House in January, to fulfill his promise to seek deportation of some foreign students involved in the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest movement over its alleged support for terror groups and antisemitism.
The university’s judicial board issued “multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions,” for the takeover of Hamilton Hall — briefly renamed Hind’s Hall by the protesters — the university says.
There are no details about the number of students punished.
Columbia is under heavy pressure from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress over anti-Zionist activism on campus.
A Congressional investigative committee has demanded the university turn over all disciplinary records related to anti-Zionist activism.
The administration has cut $400 million in funding to Columbia and threatened billions more.
Federal immigration agents detained a campus anti-Israel activist leader on Saturday, setting off furious backlash.
A major protest by dozens of groups is planned for the campus gates tomorrow.
Khalil – a Columbia grad who was arrested by ICE over the weekend – is suing the two affiliated schools and the House Committee on Education and Workforce after Chair Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) last month demanded the universities divulge information about students allegedly involved in “pervasive antisemitism.”
The suit claims that turning over the “confidential information” of students would violate their First Amendment right to free speech by exposing them to negative publicity and forcing the institutions to punish them.
“The Committee’s attempt to force the Universities to chastise and intimidate student organizers for protected speech is an abuse of its investigative powers,” the Manhattan federal court filing charges.
Khalil brought the new case alongside seven anonymous students — all of whom claim they were harmed when Columbia provided their records to the committee.
A Syrian native of Palestinian descent, Khalil, 30, entered the United States on a student visa in 2022 to pursue a public administration degree at Columbia. He became a prominent member of Columbia's protest movement, married his American citizen wife in 2023, and last year secured lawful permanent residency, making him a "green card" holder.
The suit claims that turning over the “confidential information” of students would violate their First Amendment right to free speech by exposing them to negative publicity and forcing the institutions to punish them.
Negative publicity is free speech too.
All in all this looks like the Trump admin struck a nerve.
Perhaps some interested parties concluded that Trump ultimately lost in 2020 beacause of BLM mayhem and decided to reprise such unrest to prevent Trump from winning in 2024.
They decided to stoke some unrest using British agents of influence since US services can't legally operate in the US.
The Trump administration picked Khalil as their first target because he is such a British agent of influence, striking the nerve.
[Fox] As Tax Day nears, fiscally conservative leaders in several states are pushing to abolish property taxes, with one Pennsylvania lawmaker arguing that homeowners shouldn’t have to "pay rent" to the government.
"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" (alternatively "You'll own nothing and be happy") is a phrase from 2016 predictions for 2030 published by the World Economic Forum (WEF),[1] cited as being based on input from members of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Councils, likely in turn based on a 2016 article in which Danish Social Democrat Ida Auken outlines her vision of the future.[2] The phrase has been used by critics who accuse the WEF of desiring restrictions on ownership of private property. The phrase has also been used by critics of the subscription business model, and software as a service. Wiki
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I agree... How about 1 flat tax, not the many we have now.
Remember, if it is taxed, you don't own it.
It has gotten to the point if you work and acquired anything. You are paying the Government rent, or a survival fee. (car, fuel, electricity, house, clothing, medical supplies, food, and more etc.)
But, if you don't work and have nothing taxable. Then it uses Tax collected $$$$ to give a person what they need at others expense?
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My mom is in a HOA.
When the new neighbors (Mexicans, probably illegals) moved in across the street and started building an 8 foot chain link fence so they could start breeding pitbulls for dog fights, the HOA stepped in and mad e them tear it down.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The corpse count from a deadly attack by al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Lions of Islam on a hotel in central Somalia has risen to 10, with most victims being civilians, a police official confirmed on Wednesday.
The attack occurred on Tuesday in the town of Beledweyne, where clan leaders had gathered at the hotel for a meeting.
The al Qaeda-linked group launched the assault with a boom-mobile before button men stormed the building, engaging in a prolonged siege against government forces.
Security forces battled the attackers for hours before regaining control of the hotel late Tuesday night, Rooters reports.
"The siege was concluded last night at midnight. Four attackers blew themselves up, and the other two were rubbed out," said Major Nur Aden, a police officer in Beledweyne.
Authorities reported that 10 people, including elders and soldiers, gave up the ghost at the hospital.
The number was initially estimated at seven but later revised as more victims were confirmed.
Ahmed Ismail, a resident near the hotel, said gunfire ceased around midnight, signaling the end of the standoff.
Al-Shabaab, which has waged a violent mostly peaceful insurgency in Somalia for nearly two decades, grabbed credit for the attack.
In a statement, the hard boy group claimed its fighters had killed 20 people, including soldiers and elders, though such figures often differ from official reports.
Syrian people have triumphed over years of oppression, and a new constitutional declaration has been unveiled, paving the way for a future built on justice, dignity, and freedom.
The historic document ensures: ✅ Equality for all citizens ✅ Protection of human rights ✅… pic.twitter.com/CyQQcgRWDy
🚨BREAKING: Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has CAVED, announcing he will now back the continuing resolution passed by the House. pic.twitter.com/P7zlOzJwjf
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Much of Chuck’s power was derived from his ability to bribe McConnell to provide the required GOP votes to thwart a conservative agenda. That vehicle brake down like an 87 Nissan Sentra on the Cross Bronx Expressway. Musk will have it on blocks minus all four hubs and the catalytic converter over the course of the next several election cycles.
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Gotta wonder if somebody from DoJ is investigating old Chuck. Some of the threats he's made against POTUS (seven ways to Sunday) and SCOTUS (reap the whirlwind) just might be actionable. Then again, you never know what other dirt they might have on this scumbag.
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See also: 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in New York § District 14
In May, the DSA debated whether to endorse Ocasio-Cortez. Some members argued that she was more committed to the Democratic Party and that her positions on Palestine had become weaker.[128] On June 23, the DSA National Political Committee (NPC) voted to endorse her so long as she fulfilled its list of demands, most concerning Palestine. The New York City chapter, which endorsed her, rejected the deal. On July 10, the NPC withdrew its endorsement of Ocasio-Cortez. It mainly cited a panel she held with Jewish leaders that supposedly conflated antisemitism with anti-Zionism. Other concerns included her support for a resolution that characterized denial of Israel's right to exist as antisemitism and her support of the Iron Dome defense system.[129][130][131]
Investment banker Marty Dolan, a moderate Democrat, ran against Ocasio-Cortez in the primary. Ocasio-Cortez won overwhelmingly.[132]
Ocasio-Cortez again easily won the general election against Forte.[133] Notably, some voters in her district split their tickets, voting for Ocasio-Cortez and for Trump in the presidential election.[134] Harris won 65% of the district's vote and Trump 33%, an increase from 2020. A political analyst said this was because both Trump and Ocasio-Cortez "were leading with the message of working-class pocketbook issues".[135] Ocasio-Cortez asked those who split their tickets why they did so; some said that they both cared about the working class and were "less establishment", while others cited the Israel-Hamas war and the economy.[136]
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[DailyFetched] The first episode, released on Wednesday, features her older brother, Craig Robinson, where they recalled their "diverse and changing neighborhood" and guidance from their late parents, Marian Shields Robinson and Fraser C. Robinson III.
However, the show is failing to connect with viewers.
The show's first three episodes failed to clear 20,000 views on YouTube's disastrous start for a former first lady who even has big tech propping her up.
------------------------------------------ The less than 20k is the average. The first podcast hit about 40k, the second and third were much less. The low viewership is to be compared to the much higher viewership she had back in 2020, although that was for just one podcast and also, it was in the pioneering stage of podcasts. Also she shares the screen with her brother in the 2025 podcasts which may offput some women
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Perhaps she can do a podcast with Meghan "Sussex"? The vacuity, narcissism, and hubris would be outstanding
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[GEO.TV] A UK court on Thursday upheld lengthy prison terms handed to the father and stepmother of a 10-year-old British-Pak girl who was killed after suffering years of torture and abuse.
The trial of Urfan Sharif and his wife Beinash Batool caused waves of revulsion in the UK at the horrific way they had treated Sara Sharif.
There was anger too at how the bright, bubbly youngster had been failed by the authorities supposed to be in charge of her care.
Sharif, 43, Batool, 30, and her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, all lost bids on Thursday to appeal against their sentences.
The court also refused a plea by the solicitor general's office to impose a stiffer whole-life sentence on Sharif.
Sara's father was sentenced in December to 40 years in prison for her murder, while her stepmother was ordered to remain in jail for at least 33 years.
Her uncle was sentenced to 16 years after being found guilty of causing or allowing her death.
Sara's body was found in bed at the family home in August 2023 covered in bites and bruises with broken bones and burns inflicted by an electric iron and boiling water.
Seeking to reduce Sharif's term, lawyer Naeem Majid Mian argued that although Sara's treatment had been "horrendous" it did not merit his 40-year sentence.
"There was no intention to kill... and (the death) was not premeditated," he added.
But documents submitted to the court on behalf of the solicitor general, one of the government's top legal officers, called for Sharif to have an indefinite sentence imposed.
"It is submitted that the judge was wrong not to impose a whole life order on the offender," said lawyer Tom Little in a text submission.
A lawyer for Sara's stepmother also told the court that her sentence of 33 years was too long and did not "justly reflect her role".
Dismissing Sharif's appeal, Lady Chief Justice Sue Carr, the highest-ranking judge in England and Wales, said: "We can see no arguable basis to challenge the conclusion of the trial judge."
Passing sentence in December after the trial, judge John Cavanagh said Sara had been subjected to "acts of extreme cruelty" but that Sharif and Batool had not shown "a shred of remorse".
They had treated Sara as "worthless" and as "a skivvy", because she was a girl. And because she was not Batool's child by birth, the stepmother had failed to protect her, he said.
"This poor child was battered with great force again and again."
A post-mortem examination of Sara's body revealed she had 71 fresh injuries and at least 25 broken bones.
She had been beaten with a metal pole and cricket bat and "trussed up" with a "grotesque combination of parcel tape, a rope and a plastic bag" over her head.
A hole was cut in the bag so she could breathe and she was left to soil herself in nappies as she was prevented from using the bathroom.
Police called the case "one of the most difficult and distressing" they had ever dealt with.
The day after Sara died, the three adults fled their home in Woking, southwest of London, and flew to Pakistain with five other children.
Her father, a taxi driver, left behind a handwritten note saying he had not meant to kill his daughter.
After a month on the run, the three returned to the UK and were arrested after they landed. The five other children remain in Pakistain.
[GEO.TV] A day after the successful rescue operation, the Foreign Office said on Thursday that the gunnies involved in the attack on the Jaffar Express were in contact with ring leaders in Afghanistan.
"India has been involved in terrorism in Pakistain. In the particular attack on Jaffar express, the gunnies had been in contact with their handlers and ring leaders in Afghanistan," FO spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan said during his weekly press briefing.
The rescue operation for the Jaffar Express attack has been completed, and intelligence suggests that the gunnies were in contact with their associates in Afghanistan, he mentioned.
The statement comes after security forces eliminated all 33 Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Liberation Army (BLA) gunnies who had hijacked the Jaffar Express which was carrying more than 400 passengers — who were taken hostage.
The military has said that all hostages have been freed, but 21 passengers were martyred by the gunnies before the clearance operation had commenced. Also, four FC personnel were also martyred during the attack in the Mushqaf area of the Bolan district.
The Foreign Office spokesperson added that intercepted calls confirmed links between the attackers and Afghanistan. "The gunnies have safe havens in Afghanistan, and Pakistain has repeatedly urged the Afghan interim government to prevent groups like the BLA from using its soil for terrorism," he said.
He also mentioned that Pakistain does not discuss diplomatic contacts on public forums but has consistently shared detailed evidence of such incidents with Afghanistan.
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[GEO.TV] A US federal judge has ordered six government agencies to reinstate thousands of recently sacked workers, ruling that the mass dismissals carried out under President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States... 's administration were improperly enforced.
The ruling by US District Judge William Alsup during a hearing in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... was the most significant blow yet to the effort by Trump and top adviser Elon Musk to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy. Government agencies face a Thursday deadline to submit plans for a second wave of mass redundancies and to slash their budgets.
Alsup's ruling applies to probationary employees at the US Department of Defence, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, and the Treasury Department.
The judge said the US Office of Personnel Management, the human resources department for federal agencies, had improperly ordered those agencies to sack workers en masse even though it lacked the power to do so.
''It is a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that's a lie,'' said Alsup, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... , a Democrat.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in a statement, said Alsup lacked the power to issue the ruling and that the administration would "immediately fight back."
''The President has the authority to exercise the power of the entire executive branch — singular district court judges cannot abuse the power of the entire judiciary to thwart the President's agenda," Leavitt said.
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" I'm getting tire of all those judges trying to usurp he authority and powers of he POTUS." 'getting tired'?? I was disgusted with the insanity of the federal judiciary since early 2017. Next to nothing done about this from then to now.
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The problem with the judiciary is the same problem with any government that relies upon 'the right people'. There are no 'right people'. Much of the power and purview the American judiciary exercises are powers they granted themselves, not by Congress. It has devolved into a priesthood that restricts any citizen, as those who fill Congress or the President, from attaining. You must go to the right schools, get the right degree, be anointed by the judicial gate keepers of whom are all members of the caste. That they sit for life is an anathema to very nature of a republic no different than life long bureaucrats (ie. Fauci).
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Fed workers will restart their jobs only to rehired a couple weeks later. This will go on and on until the supreme court steps in and reminds the judge that he is not the president.
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The issue with lower courts making nationwide rulings will continue until Barrett or Roberts agrees to stop the abuse. Alternatively, Kagan and Sotomayer could step down for health reasons.
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[Breitbart] A group of activists discovered a cartel-connected killing field near the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. In an abandoned property, activists found more than 14 separate burn sites, metal drums, and hundreds of bone fragments.
The discovery occurred on Sunday afternoon in the Arcos neighborhood in Reynosa. Members of the group Colectivo Amor por Los Desaparecidos (Love for the Missing) searched the property and almost immediately discovered charred bone fragments.
The group is made up of volunteers who search for mass graves and abducted individuals in hopes of finding closure for the victims’ families. According to the group, they found 17 clandestine gravesites in and around Reynosa since the start of the year. Once the group finds the remains, they turn the scene over to the state authorities, who document the crime scene and begin forensic work.
In the most recent discovery, the group reported the finding of what appear to be 14 separate burn sites, a large metal drum believed to have been used to incinerate people, and hundreds of bone fragments.
By Wednesday afternoon, the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office issued a statement claiming that there was no cartel killing field but that it was, in fact, the site of a funeral parlor that was in the process of being built and was abandoned. The Tamaulipas government has a long history of lying in an attempt to hide the cartel violence plaguing the state, Breitbart Texas has reported.
As Breitbart Texas reported, the city of Reynosa is controlled by the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel, which is linked to hundreds of kidnappings, murders, and forced disappearances. The Gulf Cartel has used similar killing fields in the past to dispose of their victims as a way to avoid drawing too much attention to their operations. Without a body, Mexican government officials do not document the cases as murders and simply list them as missing. These stats are usually left out of their crime reports, thus allowing government officials to claim to have a low crime rate artificially.
[Rudaw] A military base housing Ottoman Turkish troops in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh was targeted by an explosive-laden drone on Tuesday night without inflicting casualties, Kurdish counter-terrorism forces reported.
"A bomb-laden drone targeted the Ottoman Turkish army’s Zilkan military base in Bashiqa district of Nineveh province, and there were no casualties," the Erbil-based Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD), also known as Kurdistan CT, said in a statement.
Zilkan military base has been frequently targeted in recent years, and the attacks have largely been attributed to Iran-backed Iraqi militias. The attacks, however, have simmered down over the past year.
The presence of Ottoman Turkish forces in the base has been widely condemned by the Iraqi government, and tensions reached a boiling point in July 2022 when a deadly shelling in the Kurdistan Region’s Zakho blamed on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... killed nine Iraqi tourists and injured tens of others.
That incident harmed diplomatic relations between the two countries, with Iraq filing a complaint against Turkey at the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council.
Iraq has also frequently condemned Turkey for its military incursions into the Kurdistan Region under the pretext of targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems based in the Region’s northern mountainous regions.
But Baghdad also labeled the PKK a banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization last year, under pressure from Ankara.
Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the Druze spiritual leader in Syria, rejects reconciliation with Damascus, calling the Syrian government "extremist and accountable to international justice." #Syria#Suwayda#Druze#Politicshttps://t.co/cMkzjGdTN2
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"Reconciliation" is a western concept which could lead to peace and civility. We shall have none of it.
Ashley Ingram, who served as the Director of Finance and Operations for Habitat for Humanity of Central South Carolina, was sentenced to two years in federal prison today after pleading guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the government. She worked as the… pic.twitter.com/M0bEfCHRI3
… worked as the Finance & Operations Director for the ACLU of SC. Ingram worked as the accounting manager at Cactus Family Farms in Orangeburg.
Ashley Clark Ingram, 35, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to two years in federal prison on February 11, 2025, after pleading guilty to theft of government funds. She misappropriated $514,672.37 from Habitat for Humanity of Central South Carolina and the U.S. government… pic.twitter.com/HujgR6X3Fb
… and the U.S. government by claiming an employee retention tax credit during the COVID-19 pandemic without the nonprofit's knowledge, depositing the funds into an account she controlled, and transferring them to her personal accounts. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis imposed the 24-month sentence, two years of supervised release, a $10,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment fee.
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[IsraelTimes] The US Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism tells the leaders of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston that the task force will visit to “discuss their responses to incidents of antisemitism at schools and on college campuses” over the past two years.
The task force plans to meet with mayors, district attorneys, local law enforcement, students and community members, the US Department of Justice says in a statement.
“Too many elected officials chose not to stand up to a rising tide of antisemitism in our cities and campuses following the horrific events of October 7, 2023,” says US Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Actions have consequences – inaction does, too.”
The statement says the visits will happen soon without providing a date.
The visits are part of a broader crackdown on antisemitism by the Trump administration that has mostly focused on college campuses.
The task force has also announced plans to visit 10 campuses around the country to discuss antisemitism, including some in the cities the group will visit, such as Columbia University in New York City and Harvard University, outside of Boston.
[IsraelTimes] The military releases footage showing Monday night’s wave of airstrikes in southern Syria.
The Israeli Air Force strikes had targeted radars and other intelligence-collecting systems, along with military headquarters and weapon depots, belonging to the former Syrian regime, the IDF says.
In all, some 40 targets were hit by some 60 munitions dropped by 22 IAF fighter jets, according to the military.
[IsraelTimes] The Palestinian Authority condemns Hamas for holding negotiations with the United States regarding Gaza’s future, saying this harms Palestinian unity and violates a law against communications with foreign parties.
In a statement issued on PA mouthpiece WAFA last night, presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh alleges the talks circumvent and “weaken” the Arab consensus in favor of Egypt’s plan for postwar Gaza, as well as the efforts to confront US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace all the Strip’s population.
Highlighting the longstanding split between the PA-controlled West Bank and the Hamas-ruled Gaza, Abu Rudeineh urges the terror group “to come back to national sanity, end the intra-Palestinian division, and hand over the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian National Authority, so that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would be reunited under the rule of a single national authority, a single law, a single weapon, and a single legitimate political representation.”
[GEO.TV] The Pakistain Army on Thursday thwarted a terrorist attack on checkpost and killed 10 Death Eaters following a suicide kaboom in the Jandola area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's South Wazoo district, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The military's media wing said that the attempt to enter the post was effectively thwarted by the troops, forcing the holy warriors to "ram an explosive laden vehicle into the perimeter wall".
"Own troops fought bravely, effectively engaged the assailant and after an intense fire exchange all ten khwarij including a jacket wallah were sent to hell, outside the perimeter wall of the post," said the ISPR.
"Sanitization operation is being conducted to eliminate any other Kharji found in the area as the security forces of Pakistain are determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country," added the military's media wing.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi paid tribute to the security forces for repulsing the attack and killing the terrorists. He said that the nation was standing by the security forces to eliminate the terrorism from the country.
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[IsraelTimes] The IDF shot dead two suspects from Jordan who crossed into Israel near the northern town of Beit Shan, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The two suspects were part of a group of eight who were trying to cross into Israel together. The other six suspects were arrested by Israeli troops.
The eight were identified by IDF cameras, and troops nearby were alerted. When the soldiers arrived at the scene, two of the suspects jumped out of the bushes. The sudden movement led the troops to believe that they were under threat, so they opened fire.
The pair of suspects succumbed to their wounds, while the other six were taken into custody for questioning.
Citing an initial IDF assessment, Kan says that all of the suspects appeared to be migrants looking for work.
No IDF soldiers were injured during the incident.
Fill out a work visa form and present yourself at the border crossing checkpoint — that’s how to avoid getting shot dead. If that’s not an option? Here’s your sign.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar asserts the need to combat terrorism in Israel and Africa during a press conference with his Ethiopian counterpart Gedion Timotheos.
“Terrorism is a shared threat to our peoples,” says Sa’ar at the event in Jerusalem. “We are witnessing radical Islamic terror in our regions — Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, jihadists in Syria, and Al-Shabaab in Africa. Terror must be eradicated.”
Sa’ar points to ties between the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia and the Houthis rebels in Yemen. The Houthis began launching attacks against Israel after the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023 attack, and today threatened to resume attacks on Israeli vessels traveling on Mideast waters as a response to Israel halting aid trucks entering into Gaza during an uncertain ceasefire with Hamas.
“Ethiopia plays a critical role in combating the Al-Shabaab terrorist organization,” says Sa’ar, explaining that Al-Shabaab “collaborates with the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, further destabilizing the region. Since October 7, the Houthis have launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israeli civilians, disrupted global trade routes, and now threaten to block Israeli ships from the Red Sea. They are a threat to Israel, Africa, and the global order.”
The foreign minister adds that Timotheos’s visit is “the first in an initiative…to deepen ties with African nations,” calling Ethiopia “one of the leading countries” in the region.
He says relations between the countries “go back to biblical times”
…King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba…
and that Israel’s “community of immigrants originally from Ethiopia is a central part of Israeli society, integrated into all walks of life.”
Sa’ar adds that he will soon make a reciprocal visit to Ethiopia, according to the Foreign Ministry.
[NYPost] It took nearly a year for a Lebanese illegal migrant who arrived under the Biden administration and admitted that he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping "to make a bomb" to get his deportation papers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Post Monday.
Now, the Trump administration is working to finally boot him from the country.
New York-bound migrant Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, admitted his ties to the terrorist group, and ambitions when he was captured by border agents in El Paso, Texas, on March 9, 2024 — and was immediately held in federal custody.
During a medical screening in a processing center, Ebbadi was asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied, "I’m going to try to make a bomb," according to a Border Patrol document previously obtained by The Post.
Ebbadi was transferred to ICE nearly a week later with "order of expedited removal," the agency said.
But because of administrative hurdles and a federal prison sentence he served, he’s only just now gotten a deportation order.
He was then convicted of entering the country illegally and sentenced to five months in federal prison on April 26.
Ebbadi was back in ICE custody after serving his sentence and was finally ordered deported by an immigration judge on Jan. 13.
The Lebanese migrant remains in ICE custody and has yet to be kicked out.
After he was captured at the border, Ebbadi claimed in an interview that he wanted to flee Leb ...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?... and Hezbollah because he "didn’t want to kill people" and said "once you’re in, you can never get out."
He also admitted that had received Hezbollah training for seven years and served as weapons guard for the terrorist organization for four more years.
Ebbadi’s training focused on "jihad" and killing non-Moslems, he said at the time.
The suspected terrorist didn’t have documents when he entered the US, claiming they were stolen at knifepoint in Costa Rica.
During the Biden administration, border agents caught nearly 400 suspected bandidosgunnies crossing the southern border illegally and let go countless others due to the overwhelming migrant surges.
In one case, Border Patrol released an al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... terrorist from Somalia who roamed the US for nearly a year before ICE realized the mistake and nabbed him in Minnesota.
The Trump administration is also still hunting down more than 100 migrants colonists with suspected ties to ISIS who crossed illegally into the US and were released under the Biden admin.
In an effort to crack down on the issue, the Trump administration has stopped the problematic "catch and release" policy that allowed millions of migrants colonists to go free into the country.
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah-linked outlet reports that 14 Lebanese detainees still held by Israel, including 7 alleged members of the Iran-backed terror group
The Lebanese army on Thursday confirmed receiving the last of five detainees that Israel said it would free as part of what the Prime Minister’s Office called a "gesture to the Lebanese president," following rare talks between the countries.
The transfer comes after Tuesday’s military-to-military meeting at the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... peacekeeping headquarters in southern Leb ...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?... ’s Naqoura, during which Israel and Lebanon agreed to open negotiations to delineate their border, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
The US and La Belle France also participated in the meeting.
The prisoner, who was not named, was brought to Lebanon by the Red Thingy and taken to a hospital, the Lebanese Army wrote on X, after Israel released four other prisoners on Tuesday.
Citing two US officials, Axios reported that one of those released is a member of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite terror group based in Lebanon that Israel has battled for decades.
Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar, which is affiliated with 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 Hezbollah, named the final detainee expected for release as Ziad Shibli, saying he was returned separately due to injuries he sustained.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office called the return of the detainees a "gesture" to new Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who has said he will work on improving relations with Arab countries and implementing reforms and whose election in January was seen as a setback for Hezbollah.
Al-Akhbar also reported that 14 Lebanese detainees remain in Israel, including seven others who Israel says are Hezbollah members.
The remaining prisoners could be used as future bargaining chips by Israel, becoming "a price Israel pays in installments whenever it secures a concession from across the border," sources told al-Akhbar.
DISPUTES ON ’NORMALIZATION’
Following the four-way meeting in Naqoura, Israel and Lebanon announced that three joint working groups would be established, focusing on the five points Israel still occupies inside of Lebanon; the Blue Line that marks the de facto border between the two countries; the 13 points that are under dispute; and Lebanese citizens held by Israel.
The working groups could meet as early as next month, according to Axios.
While an Israeli official said the aim of the discussions "is to reach normalization," a Lebanese source told the pro-Iran al-Mayadeen channel on Wednesday afternoon that ties with Israel are not on the table.
The three working groups, said the source, "are not separate from Resolution 1701, and will not engage in direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel."
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the previous round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.
"Everything being said about these working groups being a prelude to normalization is completely false," said the Lebanese source.
LAND BORDER NEGOTIATIONS Al-Akhbar cited "informed sources" on Thursday, saying that "Lebanon does not want to bring non-military personnel into the [negotiation] process, and that the [working groups] will be composed of Lebanese officers, including experts and technicians, similar to the officers who participated in the Maritime Demarcation Committee."
Jerusalem and Beirut negotiated a maritime boundary in 2022 — an agreement brokered by the US that Netanyahu assailed at the time while serving as opposition leader — but the two countries have yet to adopt an official land border.
Lebanon is "ready for land demarcation" but fears that negotiations "will lead to the loss of areas it is entitled to," sources told al-Akhbar.
In addition to the five strategic points Israel currently operates in Lebanon, the border conflict centers on 13 disputed points along the border.
The most recent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon began on November 27, 2024, halting more than a year of hostilities initiated by Hezbollah, including two months of full-blown war during which Israel sent in ground troops across the northern border.
The fighting began with attacks by Hezbollah on the Jewish state on October 8, 2023, in support of Paleostinian ally Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... , which invaded southern Israel from 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 a rusty 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 day earlier. Persistent rocket fire from Lebanon displaced some 60,000 Israeli civilians.
"Everyone involved remains committed to maintaining the ceasefire agreement and to fully implement all its terms," US Deputy Special Envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus said in a statement on the new negotiations. "We look forward to quickly convening these diplomat-led working groups to resolve outstanding issues, along with our international partners."
[IsraelTimes] Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub praises Abbas and urges US to engage with him, looking to remain in the Palestinian Authority chief’s good graces while no new election is slated
the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> may be the last Paleostinian leader who believes in a two-state solution and opposes violence as a means for bringing it about, a potential successor to the PA president told The Times of Israel in a recent interview.
And thank goodness for that. It’s not going to happen for at least another generation or two, and it had become tiresome to listen to everyone going on about it.
Abbas "is the last founding pillar of the Paleostinian national movement who believes in two things: making historic reconciliation [with Israel] based on the two-state solution [and] that blood-shedding should not be a choice to achieve [that goal]," said Jibril Rajoub, the secretary-general of Abbas’s Fatah party and a former head of the PA’s security forces.
Rajoub said that Fatah and most of the factions in the Paleostine Liberation Organization still back a two-state solution, "but I don’t think anyone after Abu Mazen (Abbas) could have the courage... to lead [toward a] peace treaty."
Accordingly, Rajoub urged the Trump administration to engage with the PA leader without delay. "Whether we like him or not, [Abbas] is still legitimate, and his baby remains settling this conflict through peaceful means."
It is rare for PLO officials to criticize Abbas, but Rajoub’s decision to go out of his way to hail the PA president in a rare interview with an English-language news outlet pointed to his desire to remain in good standing with him.
While no elections are in the offing and the nearly 90-year-old Abbas has not named a successor, the 71-year-old Rajoub is often listed among those who could replace the PA president, given his strong positioning within Fatah along with other Paleostinian factions.
Those factions include Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , which Rajoub said could be part of the Paleostinian leadership if it accepts PLO obligations, including recognition of Israel and accepting "non-violence as a strategic choice."
Implying an equivalence, he suggested those questioning whether Hamas should be included in Paleostinian politics — particularly after the terror group’s atrocities on October 7, 2023 — were not treating Israeli hardliners with the same skepticism.
"What about the same crazy groups inside Israel? No one is asking about [Itamar] Ben Gvir and [Bezalel] Smotrich," he claimed, referring to the two far-right party leaders whom Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu partnered with two years ago to form the government.
Still, Rajoub denounced Hamas’s actions on October 7.
"I know that innocent people, including peace activists, along with women and kiddies were killed that day. No one can support something like that," said Rajoub, who is also the chairman of the Paleostinian Football Association.
"However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the conflict did not start that day," Rajoub argued, pointing to decades of "home demolitions, settlement building, humiliations and killing" of Paleostinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty 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.
He claimed that the uptick in these actions under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule has led to an uptick in antisemitism outside of Israel, which has hit record levels in some Western countries following the October 7 attack and subsequent war in Gaza.
"Israelis are now instructed to remove their kippa when abroad," Rajoub said. "Is this what they want?"
Pressed on calls for Paleostinian political reform, given that the entire West Bank-based PA system is dominated by Abbas, Rajoub acknowledged that doing so was necessary and "in our national interest."
The PA has not held elections in nearly 20 years, and Rajoub said such a step would be essential, adding that a future Paleostinian state must uphold the values of "democracy and political pluralism under the principle of one authority, one law and one gun."
"I think that we do need to make reforms... But the corruption in the PA is kindergarten compared to Mr. Bibi and his mafia," he claimed, referencing the Israeli premier’s ongoing criminal trial.
"Still, we should not lose hope, and we should not give up" on the goal of mutual recognition, Rajoub maintained.
"Trust between us is zero. They have their reasons, and we have ours," he continued, arguing that a third party is needed to move the parties in the right direction.
"The third party is the international community, but it should be led by the Americans," Rajoub said. "The Americans are the only ones who can exert pressure on these Israelis."
There was initial optimism in Ramallah that the US would be willing to play such a role in the lead-up to President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... ’s return to office when his Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, managed to coax Netanyahu into agreeing to a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas after months of deadlock.
But that feeling dissipated rather quickly, with Trump declaring his desire last month for the US to take over Gaza and permanently relocate all of its residents.
"It’s a shame for this administration to abuse the suffering of innocent people," Rajoub said.
In the more immediate term, though, Washington is more focused on extending the ceasefire in Gaza through additional hostage-prisoner swaps between Israel and Hamas.
Rajoub has a unique perspective on this issue, as he once was released from an Israeli prison during the 1980s through such a deal.
He spent 17 years in jug for violence against Israel. Rajoub said he used the time to study the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
"My conclusion was that without making space for Israelis’ rational concerns... I can’t achieve my national aspirations," Rajoub said.
"The Israelis — like the Paleostinians — have the right to live in peace, in security, with normalizations... but within the internationally recognized borders," he added, referring to the armistice lines prior to the 1967 Six-Day War.
Speaking to the kind of hostage deal that he would support, Rajoub said, "It should be everybody for everybody, so we can open a new chapter."
[IsraelTimes] The US Treasury Department issues sanctions against Iran’s oil minister Mohsen Paknejad, as President Donald Trump seeks to increase pressure on Tehran.
“The Iranian regime continues to use the proceeds from the nation’s vast oil resources to advance its narrow, alarming self-interests at the expense of the Iranian people,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says in a statement.
The sanctions also designate three entities engaged in the Iranian oil trade in China, and names three shipping vessels as blocked property for their use in the transactions.
“These entities provide services to the ghost fleet vessels…enabling Iran’s attempts to disguise its illicit oil trade,” US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce says in a statement.
“Today’s action advances President Trump’s policy of maximum pressure on the Iranian regime.”
Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has called for a new nuclear deal with Tehran while reinstating his “maximum pressure” policy of sanctions.
The latest sanctions come after the Trump administration sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urging negotiations and warning of possible military action if Iran refused.
[X] Senator John Fetterman has indicated his intention to vote in favor of the GOP's continuing resolution (CR) to prevent a government shutdown. This move has sparked a significant reaction within his party, with some Democrats ...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... viewing it as a departure from expected party lines, while others see it as a pragmatic decision to avoid economic turmoil. The debate around this decision reflects internal party dynamics and the broader implications for government stability.
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Fetterman is demonstrating that he's one of the last few liberals left in what is now a commie kleptocracy party. The rest have gone RINO joining the country club GOPe.
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If Fetterman votes for the CR, then it is no longer just talk.
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He still votes with the Dems.
Senator Fetterman is an old-fashioned liberal Democrat, not a rabid Progressive. Some issues he’ll vote with the Republicans on, others with the Democrats.
[IsraelTimes] Armenia’s foreign ministry says that a draft peace agreement with Azerbaijan has been finalized from its side and that it is ready to discuss a date and location to sign a final deal.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a series of wars since the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan that had a mostly Armenian population at the time, broke away from Baku with Yerevan’s support.
In September 2023, Azerbaijan retook Karabakh by force, prompting almost all of the territory’s 100,000 Armenians to flee to Armenia.
Both sides have long said they want to sign a treaty to end the long-running conflict but have wrangled for years over the details of what it might look like.
“The peace agreement is ready for signing. The Republic of Armenia is ready to start consultations with the Republic of Azerbaijan on the date and place of signing the agreement,” Armenia’s Foreign Ministry says in a statement.
[Rudaw] Iraq’s migration and displaced ministry said on Wednesday that about 23,000 Iraqi families remain in camps in the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil and Duhok provinces but that returns have slowed down.
"The number of families remaining in camps in Erbil and Duhok provinces is approximately 23,000, while the IDP camps in Sulaimani province have been closed," ministry spokesperson Ali Abbas told Rudaw.
Abbas said that the ministry supports IDPs who seek to return to their hometowns but that "the return of IDPs has slowed down ... it will increase with the start of the summer break and the end of the current school year."
On Saturday, Abbas told Rudaw that compensation for IDPs who want to return to their homes has been paused due to a lack of funds, which has slowed down the return process.
The Iraqi government last year said it would give four million dinars (about $3,050) to each returning family, one of several measures to encourage people to leave the camps. Other incentives include providing job opportunities in both the public and private sectors, providing monthly social security stipends for low-income and needy individuals, and offering interest-free bank loans.
In 2024, "more than 10,000 displaced families, which is more than 100,000 people, have returned to their homes across Iraq," Abbas told Rudaw in December.
Many of the camps in the Kurdistan Region suffer from a lack of funds, as the humanitarian focus has shifted from emergency response to development and stabilization.
Human rights advocates have expressed concern about Iraq’s push to close the camps, stressing that all returns must be safe, voluntary, and dignified.
Despite the incentives from Baghdad, many families are reluctant to leave the camps because of continued violence in their home areas, a lack of reconstruction following the destruction of their houses, and little in the way of basic services. Some who voluntarily left the camps have been forced to return.
[IsraelTimes] After arriving in Doha earlier this week, US special envoy Steve Witkoff has presented Israel and Hamas with a new outline to extend the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Axios reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The proposal, which differs from a previous outline put forward by Witkoff, would extend the current ceasefire by several weeks, until the end of both Ramadan and Passover, in exchange for the release of additional hostages, Axios says.
At the same time, Israel would also be required to resume the flow of humanitarian aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave, it says.
One source with knowledge of the proposal’s contents says that Hamas will be required to release at least five living hostages and return the bodies of nine others on the first day of the extended truce.
Citing two named sources, Axios reports that the extension, should all parties agree to implement it, will give the US additional time to negotiate a more concrete, long-term truce agreement.
Should a long-term ceasefire agreement be reached, the report says that Hamas will be required to hand over all remaining hostages, living and dead, on the last day of the temporary truce extension, before the concrete ceasefire comes into effect.
Citing two unnamed sources, Axios says that the extension, should all parties agree, will give the US additional time to negotiate a more concrete truce agreement.
According to the report, Israel has given “a positive response” to Witkoff’s latest proposal, while Qatar and Egypt are still awaiting Hamas’s response after delivering it the details of the outline last night.
[IsraelTimes] Israel sent 10,000 food packages to Druze in Syria in recent weeks, the Foreign Ministry says.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who is credited by his office with initiating the effort, says the packages are part of a pact between minority communities in the Middle East.
“We have a courageous alliance with our Druze brothers,” he says in a statement. “It is a privilege to help them. In a region where we will always be a minority – it is necessary and right to help other minorities.”
Most of the packages reached the Suwayda area, some 75 kilometers from the border with Israel, while others were given to Druze communities closer to the border, says the Foreign Ministry.
The packages contain oil, salt, flour, sugar, rice, and other staples.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the operation was conducted in cooperation with the IDF; Sheikh Muafak Tarif, who is spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel; the Druze Religious Council; and “other parties in the region.”
Syria’s Kurdish Administration (AANES) rejects the newly issued "Constitutional Declaration" in Damascus, calling it an exclusionary document that ignores Syria’s diversity. #Syria#AANES#Democracy#SDFhttps://t.co/BF5KYaS9Ww
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There are going to be jolly good times in Syria.
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My first reaction as well, but maybe, just maybe it's a start. Hell, I can hope.
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Give Trump credit. Instead of pouring gasoline on the fire like Biden did, Trump is attempting to extinguish the fire. Biden didn't care how many people died. He didn't care about the risk of a wider war. He wanted NATO troops right up on Russia's border, as if that would make us all more secure, and he didn't give a rat's ass about all the death and destruction he caused.
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Dunno what happened to my cookie.
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„в принципе“
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[X] I’ve made no secret of the absurdity (and the hypocrisy, in my opinion) of opposing fossil fuel production in this country, while supporting the policies that allow us to import those very same fossil fuels from other places. In fact, I’ve described those policies the "height of duplicity," and the epitome of a "Not-In-My-Backyard.
I still stand by that criticism, mostly. I say "mostly," because I’ve just learned that we do the exact same thing with lumber, to a degree that's no less befuddling. Our reliance on wood is extraordinary, and we’re blessed to live in a country with over 800 million acres of forest. That’s literally a third of America, covered in trees. Unfortunately, we've decimated out timber industry. Today, we act as if forest land and timber reserves are in short supply. They are not. In fact, according to Mike Albrecht, President of The American Loggers Council, our forests are burning and rotting at record levels, due to decades of mismanagement, and we are, at the same time, squandering one of our most valuable resources.
Obviously, some people will doubt this claim, but one thing is indisputable: In spite of our unprecedented abundance, America imports more wood products than any other nation. In other words, we could easily be "wood independent," just as we could easily be "energy independent." And yet, we choose not to. We choose instead, to rely on other countries to provide us with the raw materials we need.
The question is why, and I suspect the answer will not sit well with everyone.
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I get nice, clear 1x4s from Lowes, imported from New Zealand. For several years.
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Going to the big box hardware store I was noticing plywood marked "PRODUCT OF FINLAND". Finland? Why are we importing bulk construction plywood all the way from Finland? ...Oh, treehugging Greens pushing NIMBY silliness.
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If Newsom was to allow a bit of tree harvesting in California, it just might reduce the frequency and severity of our wild fires.
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RICHMOND CO. So far has collected 4.8 million cubic yards of trees due Hurricsne Helene. There is no shortage of wood for lumber just using this area as a resource.
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A lot of the problems harvesting timber are applications of the regulation regime. Getting permits for cutting, getting permits for road construction in forests, approval of remediation plans, etc. are a big part of the problem.
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getting permits for road construction in forests,
Easy, just use some buzz words in the application, like COP30, and they will think you are one of them, which could be useful if you end up on a Director's Board.
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The Tahoe bowl had drought/bug infestations that led to clearly observed "dead" areas of trees around 5-10 years ago. The "Enviros" tried to stop all haulout of diseased/dead trees to avoid temp roads being cut in. Short story: Roads cut, harvested dead trees and the basin looks healthy
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[Rudaw] The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Rawa Majid, the Kurdish leader of Foxtrot Network, a transnational criminal organization based in Sweden over his reported involvement in arms and drugs trafficking and cooperation with 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... in "attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets in Europe."
"The United States is sanctioning the Foxtrot Network, a transnational criminal organization, and its runaway leader Rawa Majid," the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... said in a statement, adding that the network "is involved in arms trafficking and contributes to rising violence in Northern Europe, including shootings, contract killings, and assaults."
Rawa Majid, widely known as the Kurdish Fox, is an Iranian-born Kurdish-Swedish national wanted on multiple charges in Sweden. His group is accused of orchestrating drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and violent mostly peaceful crimes such as shootings and contract killings across Northern Europe.
The statement additionally accused Iran of "leveraging the Foxtrot Network to carry out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets in Europe, including the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, in January 2024." It said Majid had cooperated with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security that are already under US sanctions.
According to Rubio’s statement, the US State and Treasury Department "will continue to expose and impose costs on the Iranian regime for its malign activities as part of the [US President Donald] Trump Administration's renewed maximum pressure campaigns."
Trump in early February restored the maximum pressure policy against Iran, arguing that Tehran is "too close" to obtaining nuclear weapons, but expressed interest in negotiating a deal with Iran.
In late February, the US Treasury Department imposed new sanctions on over 30 individuals and vessels for their "involvement" in importing Iranian petroleum-related products.
Amid the increased US sanctions, Iran’s foreign minister said on Monday that his country will "not even consider" negotiating under pressure and intimidation. The Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> in February slammed negotiations with the US as "unwise."
[IsraelTimes] The prestigious Johns Hopkins University says it is being forced to lay off more than 2,000 employees in the aftermath of the Trump administration’s massive reduction in foreign aid funding.
The poor darlings. Cut off from government monies that were being improperly spent… at best. Enjoy your slimming diet as you are right-sized, guys.
“This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally,” the school — a top research institute barely an hour’s drive from the US capital — says in a statement.
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I am happy they are winding down strong>internationally, work using US Taxpayer $$$$. Maybe the strong>international will now pay for what it gets free, at our expense.
Out of curiosity, were they charging for the services paid for by the US Taxpayers?
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Don’t have to fire tenured faculty when you get rid of faculty positions, Grom, and then shut down the department. Over the past decade, my sister has twice been the last man standing after the university retrenched. This May when she turns out the lights and locks up, she’ll leave academia, too — and she teaches computer programming, not the fluff courses we all love to mock.
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If you have no pay for classes to indoctrinate teach, grants to whore, facilities to use, or access to internal communications...you are effectively fired
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We need to face the fact that we're not all cut out for college. It's for people whose families can afford to support them while they stay in school until their mid-20s and for people who have an aptitude for science, technology, engineering and math. If you're not one of those people you'd be better off going directly into a trade of some sort.
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Bypass college. Bypass frickin high school. Get into an apprenticeship program to be a plumber. You'll be making big bucks and laughing at all your friends who are still studying French literature at the university.
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Another prestigious PRIVATE institution on the welfare? In Baltimore yet. Who'd have thunk it?
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#11; the VA was central to my getting through college. Voc Rehab.
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John Hopkins has an endowment fund of over 13 Billion dollars. But they don't want to dip into their own pocket to pay their employees - they want someone else to pay for their own staff.
[Rudaw] The Governor of Syria’s coastal province of Latakia on Wednesday blamed loyalists of the ousted Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... regime for the recent violence that erupted in Alawite-majority regions west of the country, rejecting claims that the violence was sectarian.
Loyalists of ousted Syrian dictator Assad on Thursday launched an attack on security forces affiliated with the new Syrian leadership in regions to the west of Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday reported that around 1,500 people, mostly Alawites, have been killed in the violence by government or government-affiliated forces.
Governor of Latakia Mohammed Othman questioned the reported number of casualties, stating that "the statistics are highly exaggerated. The number [of fatalities] was not as high as reported and may have reached 500, with fatalities from various sects, not just the Alawite community."
He further explained that "the killings occurred due to numerous violations... committed by individuals from both official and unofficial bodies," but insisted that they "were not driven by sectarian motives." He pointed out that members of the Christian, Murshidi
…a slightly mystical, Sunni Muslim religious community founded in 1923 in that part of Syria, comprising some 300,000-500,000 souls aimed at personal and communal moral improvement. HTS probably considers them as heretical as the Alawites, Shiites, and Druze…
and Sunni communities were also killed, and not only the Alawite community, to which Assad belongs.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... on Sunday slammed "radical Islamist terrorists" for committing "massacres" against minorities in Syria, calling on the new leadership in Damascus to hold the perpetrators accountable. Several other Western countries and the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... have urged that the perpetrators of violations are held to account.
The Latakia governor said that the unrest began when "very large numbers of people poured into Latakia" after watching "images of [Damascus] security forces being killed or surrounded." This influx of people, which included both affiliated forces and unaffiliated forces led to a series of violent mostly peaceful events.
Othman also accused the Assad loyalists of "committing massacres" during their withdrawal, saying they disguised themselves as government security and military personnel, and explained that the authorities are still pursuing affiliates of the former regime "some of whom have been arrested while others fled to the mountains."
Despite ongoing security challenges, Othman stated that the situation was gradually returning to normal "with shops reopening and residents returning to their homes."
[IsraelTimes] Member of terror group says Ziad Nakhaleh wasn’t home and building was ’empty’ when struck, though war monitor reports one person killed
Israeli fighter jets on Thursday struck a residential building that the military said served as a Damascus headquarters for 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... to plan and carry out terror activities.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor of unclear funding, said the targeted building was located in the suburb of Dummar, northwest of the capital, and was inhabited by Paleostinians. It said one person was killed.
"The IDF will not allow terrorist organizations to entrench themselves in Syrian territory and operate against the State of Israel, and will respond forcefully to any such entrenchment," the Israel Defense Forces said. It released footage of the strikes.
A Paleostinian Islamic Jihad member at the scene of the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Syria told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the apartment that was targeted was the home of the terrorist organization’s leader Ziad Nakhaleh.
It was not immediately clear where Nakhaleh was, but he is believed to spend his time between Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... , 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 Syria.
The PIJ member, Ismail Sindak, said the apartment had been empty for years, adding that Nakhaleh was not in Syria. Asked whether anyone was killed in the strike, Sindak said, "The house was empty."
Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terror group sworn to Israel’s destruction, participated alongside Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... in the October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel 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 a rusty 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 which over 5,000 bandidosbully boyz killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, sparking the subsequent war.
PIJ, which was part of the Gaza ceasefire negotiated in January and currently up in the air, has held a number of the hostages, and likely continues to hold some of the remaining captives, of whom 24 are still believed to be alive. The bodies of 34 dead — as well as the body of a soldier killed in 2014 — are also held in the Strip.
Israel blasts ’extreme Islamic’ Syrian leader
Defense Minister Israel Katz, confirming Thursday’s strike, said, "Wherever terror activity against Israel is organized, the extreme Islamic leader al-Jolani will find the Air Force aircraft flying above and striking terror targets."
Katz was referring to Syria’s interim leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, by his nom de guerre, which he used as the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) rebel group, an Islamist offshoot of al-Qaeda.
"Islamic terrorism will not have immunity in Damascus nor anywhere else," Katz added.
In the months since his coalition ousted longtime president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , Sharaa and his government have projected a moderate image, repeatedly declaring a commitment to protect minorities, including Jews, as well as Druze and Kurds, in the country.
The interim leader has objected to Israel’s continued military presence in southern Syria and to its strikes throughout the country, but he has declined to threaten Israel itself.
On Thursday, Sharaa signed the country’s constitutional declaration, which will be enforced throughout a five-year transitional period.
The interim leader said he hoped the constitutional declaration would mark the start of "a new history for Syria, where we replace oppression with justice," as he signed the document setting out the transitional period.
Israeli leaders, including Katz, have consistently stated that they do not trust Sharaa.
Jerusalem has been especially tough in its criticism in light of massacres of Alawite civilians that began last Thursday, blamed on the interim government’s security forces, amid festivities with turbans loyal to the old regime. Government reinforcements eventually restored order, and calm appeared to hold by late Monday.
[IsraelTimes] Hostage families petition High Court over Gaza electricity cut, saying it endangers loved ones’ lives; Trump backtracks from plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza
One of the recently released hostages9 told Israeli authorities that he saw fellow hostage Avinatan Or alive while they were in captivity, Israel’s Channel 12 reported Wednesday, marking the first public sign of life since he was taken into captivity.
The 32-year-old is one of the 24 hostages whom Israel believes remain alive in the Strip, including 22 Israelis, one Thai and one Nepali. The network did not specify when the freed hostage came into contact with him.
All are young men who would go free in the current hostage-ceasefire agreement’s second phase, however, discussions for the next phase fell flat, leaving the truce between Israel and Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... in a fragile state.
Or, 32, was kidnapped from the Nova festival and separated from his girlfriend, Noa Argamani, who was rescued by Israeli soldiers in June 2024.
Later that day, a Hamas video of Or and Argamani was posted on Telegram, showing Argamani on an all-terrain vehicle, as she called in fear, crying, "Don’t kill me!" reaching out her arms to Or, who was being marched away from her, surrounded by at least three terrorists.
After the report was published, Argamani, who has campaigned relentlessly around the world for the hostages, posted on Instagram, that "until Avinatan comes back, my heart is in captivity."
Or, who grew up in the West Bank settlement of Shilo, is an electrical engineer and works for Nvidia. Before his abduction, he lived in Tel Aviv, where he and Argamani were planning to move in together.
The revelation came as an Israeli delegation was meeting mediators in Doha to discuss the so-called "Witkoff proposal" according to an Israeli official speaking to The Times of Israel.
The Israeli negotiating team was scheduled to return home Wednesday night, said the official, but could remain in Doha on the chance of a breakthrough.
The Witkoff outline envisions a roughly two-month extension of the ceasefire, during which Hamas would release about half of the living hostages up front, and the rest at the end along with an end to the war.
However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Hamas has been adamant on extending the deal in its current form and moving to its second phase, which requires Israel to pull out from the Philadelphi Corridor, a buffer zone along 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 a rusty 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 border with Egypt.
Hamas has accused Israel of reneging on the ceasefire deal, stating in a statement on Monday that Israel "refuses to commence the second phase, exposing its intentions of evasion and stalling." Israel has already stopped aid deliveries to Gaza amid the deadlock over the ceasefire.
Also Wednesday, some 50 relatives of hostages being held in Gaza filed a petition to the High Court of Justice demanding the reversal of Israel’s decision to cut the electricity supply to Gaza as a means to pressure Hamas, on the grounds that it endangers their loved ones.
"This is a decision that directly and immediately endangers the lives of the hostages, Israeli citizens, who cannot protect themselves," the families said in a statement announcing the petition.
The petitioners contended that Energy Minister Eli Cohen’s decision to cut electricity to Gaza was made without the necessary authority. They argued that immediate action needs to be taken by the court to oblige the government to reverse the decision through an interim order.
Families have repeatedly argued that military pressure or punitive actions against Hamas do not work and the best way to ensure their release is through a deal.
That’s one perspective…
Highlighting this, the mother of freed Israeli hostage Omer Shem-Tov revealed on Wednesday that Hamas snuffies threatened to kill her son when they heard IDF soldiers above the ground while holding him in a tunnel.
Shem-Tov was included in the final group of captives released in the first stage of the hostage-ceasefire deal.
Omer "heard the tanks above and the voices of the soldiers. The captors had their weapons drawn on him and told him, ’If the IDF arrives, we’ll shoot you in the head,’" Omer’s mother, Shelly Shem-Tov, told the Kan public broadcaster.
Shelly described the daily conditions Omer faced — he was kept in "a confined space with four guards. It was even harder when the army was in the area, everything was tense."
Shelly also commented on Omer’s recent meeting with US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... in Washington.
"Omer got the impression that the president was genuinely committed... and intended to bring everyone back. That was meaningful for him. He was disappointed that it took so long to bring him home," she said.
Amid continued frustration by the families, a Channel 13 news poll revealed Wednesday that half of Israelis believe US President Donald Trump is more concerned about the fate of the hostages than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Half of Israelis are fools, it appears.
Asked which of the two they believe is more concerned, 50 percent of respondents say Trump, 29 percent responded Netanyahu, while the rest were unsure.
The Trump administration had been conducting its own negotiations with Hamas focused on the American hostages, in parallel to indirect talks mediated by 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... and Egypt.
The direct negotiations bore no fruit, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... Also Wednesday, Trump appeared to back down from his proposal to relocate Gazans during reconstruction of the Strip.
During an Oval Office spray with Ireland’s Prime Minister Michael Martin, a reporter asked the Irish leader about Trump’s plan to “expel Palestinians out of Gaza,” to which the president piped in: “Nobody’s expelling any Palestinians.”
The comment appeared to amount to an about-face for Trump, who, when introducing his proposal to take over Gaza last month, said that all of the Strip’s population of roughly 2 million people would be permanently relocated.
No, he said they would want to go somewhere safe and healthy, and that a few would come back to work after clean-up and construction were complete.
REPORTER: What about the president's plan to expel Palestinians out of Gaza?
TRUMP: Nobody is expelling any Palestinians. Who are you with?
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem welcomed what he viewed as a retreat by Trump from his stance, urging him to refrain from aligning with the vision of the "extreme Zionist right."
When pressed last month as to whether he would relocate Paleostinians by force, Trump insisted that no people in Gaza actually want to remain there.
Earlier in the meeting, Trump lamented that people are forgetting what Hamas did on October 7, reiterating the brutal treatment of the hostages by the terror group.
"We’re working hard with Israel... to see [how] we can solve the problem," Trump said.
[IsraelTimes] Kamel Nashef, 21, from Taybeh arrested, set to be indicted for contacting and swearing allegiance to ISIS, tipping off West Bank terror operatives to IDF movements
Police announced Thursday that they had arrested and intend to indict a man from the Arab town of Taybeh who swore allegiance to 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) terror group and sought to carry out attacks to avenge the war 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 a rusty 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... The suspect, named in a statement from the police and Shin Bet as Kamel Nashef, 21, was also accused of tipping off terror operatives in the West Bank city of Tulkarem by sending them photos of Israeli troops on their way there as part of a large-scale counterterror operation there in recent months.
Nashef is accused of making contact with figures who identify with ISIS, also known as ISIS, starting in the summer of 2024.
"Nashef swore allegiance to the ISIS terror group, saw himself as part of the group and even held materials identified with the group which were seized during his arrest," the statement read.
A video published by police of the arrest showed a rifle and Paleostinian and Islamic State flags allegedly found in his home. It was unclear when the arrest took place.
Nashef was set to be indicted on Thursday, the statement said.
This is the second time in several months that residents of Taybeh in central Israel are accused of ISIS-linked terrorist plots.
In October, police and the Shin Bet said they had thwarted a plot by five Taybeh residents to carry out a car-bombing attack at Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Mall under the banner of the fanatical terror group that originated in Iraq and Syria.
Paleostinian assailants have also been recently accused of ISIS ties. Last month one of them, a terrorist from the West Bank’s Hebron who murdered three people and maimed others in a series of attacks in Jerusalem in recent years, was sentenced to three life sentences and another 40-year prison sentence.
[IsraelTimes] Elnaz Rekabi largely vanished from public view after declining to cover her hair at 2022 event overseas as demonstrations raged against the Islamic Republic’s dress code for women
An Iranian sports climber, widely praised in 2022 for competing without a hijab at the height of nationwide protests, has left the country, her brother and an Iranian official said.
Elnaz Rekabi gained global attention in October 2022 when she took part in championships in South Korea without wearing the headscarf required for women in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
She returned home and largely vanished from public view, with some Persian-language media based outside 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... reporting she had been placed under house arrest and banned from competing abroad.
The protests erupted in September 2022 after the death in jug of Mahsa Amini who had been arrested for allegedly flouting the obligatory headscarf rule. The movement lasted for months before fading in the face of a deadly crackdown.
Rekabi has left Iran, her brother Davood wrote in an Instagram story quoted by the IranWire website and Iran International television channel, which also expressed hope she could return in the future.
Iran International also shared another Instagram post by a fellow climber showing Rekabi training on an indoor wall in a vest and without a headscarf. It said that according to its information she had moved to Spain.
In Iran, the ISNA news agency also said that she had moved to Spain and quoted the head of Iran’s National Olympic Committee Mehdi Alinejad as saying he was aware of Davood Rekabi’s Instagram post.
"If they want to pursue their professional sports, they should be in Iran. The National Olympic Committee has supported Rekabi for the past two years, and she herself will acknowledge this," he told news hounds on Tuesday.
But he added: "Everyone has the choice over where to live."
It is not clear when and under what circumstances Elnaz Rekabi left Iran.
In another development, the International Federation for Sport Climbing announced last month that Rekabi has been appointed as the "athlete role model" for sport climbing in the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar in 2026.
It said her role was confirmed in a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... between the climber herself, IFSC president Marco Scolaris and International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach.
IranWire and other outlets have reported previously that the IOC had been closely watching her case and were deeply concerned over her inability to travel outside of Iran.
At the time of the incident, she had issued an apology on Instagram and insisted her bare-headed appearance had been "unintentional."
Some reports suggested she had been pressured by Iranian officials while in South Korea, although this was vehemently denied by Iran’s Seoul embassy.
Russia confirms sheltering 8,000 Syrians at Hmeimim Airbase after violent clashes in Syria’s coastal region. Moscow condemns civilian casualties and urges accountability. #Syria#Russia#MiddleEasthttps://t.co/FjaN2CIVaZ
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Democracy? won't go there.
Republics are unnatural. That's the failure of old conservatives. It's hard. Man is naturally inclined to hierarchical order. A republic is rare. It requires a constant fight against the concentration and centralization of power.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] A 27-year-old Nigerian woman who identified herself as Francis Julianah Omowunmi, who was trafficked to Iraq has made a desperate plea for help to return home after she was allegedly raped and abused by her employer.
Omowunmi, who said she was living in Ekiti State in Southwestern Nigeria, told SaharaReporters that she was trafficked to Iraq on October 7, 2023 by a friend of her sister’s husband.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[DailyFetched] The first episode, released on Wednesday, features her older brother, Craig Robinson, where they recalled their "diverse and changing neighborhood" and guidance from their late parents, Marian Shields Robinson and Fraser C. Robinson III.
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
Unless the Task Force brings the proper equipment, nothing will come of this. 
Wazoo
[NYPost] It took nearly a year for a Lebanese illegal migrant who arrived under the Biden administration and admitted that he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping "to make a bomb" to get his deportation papers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Post Monday.
...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?...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...every time you hear the phrase 
...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 
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...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 
...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 
