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-Lurid Crime Tales-
61K ‘Special Interest Aliens' Entered U.S. through Biden's Open Border in 2023, Says DHS
[Breitbart] According to a Department of Homeland Security report reviewed by Breitbart Texas, 61,471 migrants from “Special Interest Countries” entered the United States in Fiscal Year 2023. According to a source within CBP, most of the migrants, mainly single adult males from countries subject to travel warnings by the U.S. State Department due to terrorism, were released into the United States to pursue asylum claims.

The number of migrants from special interest countries climbed by more than 140% from fiscal year 2022 when Border Patrol agents encountered more than 25,500 Special Interest migrants across the southwest border. In all, more than 86,000 “Special Interest Aliens” made the crossing in two years.

According to a 2019 DHS fact sheet, the term “Significant Interest Alien” (SIA) is defined as follows:

Generally, an SIA is a non-U.S. person who, based on an analysis of travel patterns, potentially poses a national security risk to the United States or its interests. Often such individuals or groups are employing travel patterns known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism. DHS analysis includes an examination of travel patterns, points of origin, and/or travel segments that are tied to current assessments of national and international threat environments.

This does not mean that all SIAs are “terrorists,” but rather that the travel and behavior of such individuals indicate a possible nexus to nefarious activity (including terrorism) and, at a minimum, provide indicators that necessitate heightened screening and further investigation. The term SIA does not indicate any specific derogatory information about the individual – and DHS has never indicated that the SIA designation means more than that.

More than 15,000 Special Interest Migrants from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania were apprehended entering the United States from Mexico during the latest fiscal year, which ended on September 30. According to the CIA World Factbook, the Northwestern African country is still working to address a continuing practice of slavery and its vestiges. Although officially abolished in 1981, slavery was not criminalized until 2007. As of 2022, the practice of slavery still exists among most ethnic groups inside the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, according to a United Nations report.

More than 15,400 Turkish nationals were apprehended as well. Concerning travel to Turkey, the U.S. State Department cautions:

Terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in Turkey. Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, local government facilities, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, parks, major sporting and cultural events, educational institutions, airports, and other public areas.

Although most of the focus on illegal immigration at the southern border with Mexico falls on the high number of migrants from Venezuela and Central America, little media attention is focused on migrants from Special Interest countries. This is, in part, because the statistics regarding their apprehension and any disposition of their immigration cases are closely guarded by the Department of Homeland Security and not generally released to the public.

According to the source, in Fiscal Year 2023, migrants from more than 280 countries were apprehended by the Border Patrol, including those from 34 countries listed as Special Interest countries. Among the remainder of Special Interest Aliens entering the United States during FY 23 were more than 5,600 Afghans, 3,000 Egyptians, nearly 2,500 Somalis, 2,500 citizens of Bangladesh, nearly 1,300 Pakistanis, 1,200 Eritreans, and almost 1,000 nationals of Tajikistan and Kazakstan.

Nearly 1,700 special interest migrants from Iran, Syria, Morrocco, Jordan, Djibouti, Iraq, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates also made entry into the United States.

The SIAs enter in small numbers daily at almost all parts of the southwest border. As reported by Breitbart Texas, larger numbers of migrants from outside the hemisphere, including those from Special Interest countries, are more frequently encountered in Arizona.

During one recent trip to the border region near Lukeville, Arizona, Breitbart Texas observed more than 300 migrants surrender to awaiting Border Patrol agents from a multitude of non-Spanish speaking countries. The migrant group included citizens from mostly western African nations, the Middle East, India, Pakistan, and China.

In just one day in September, according to the source, more than 240 migrants from Special Interest countries entered the United States from Mexico. Most, according to the source were released to pursue asylum claims within the United States.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/08/2023 02:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [17 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  They're poor, destitute, downtrodden, and can somehow come up with the thousands of dollars to come to Mexico and bull their way across the border.
Do these people even listen to this crap before thay say it out loud?
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/08/2023 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ...why, who gets fired? Heck good old Bush II gave the CIA head a prestigious award on his retirement after 9/11. Don't even bring up Fauci.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Al Jazeera: France will withdraw troops from Niger on October 9
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] France will begin withdrawing troops from Niger on Monday, October 9. Al Jazeera TV channel reported this, citing its own sources.

According to the TV channel, the command of the French Armed Forces has determined the temporary location of units outside Niger. The military contingent will be redeployed to neighboring Chad, where the headquarters of French troops is located in the Sahel.

It is noted that representatives of the command of the French Armed Forces agreed with the Niger rebels on the procedure for the withdrawal of a limited contingent.

As Regnum reported, on September 24, French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with TF1 and France 2 TV channels, promised that the country's Armed Forces would be withdrawn from Niger by the end of this year. He noted that the operation to withdraw a limited contingent will begin in the coming weeks.
Posted by: badanov || 10/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The attack on the synagogue caused a skirmish between the rabbis of Azerbaijan and Armenia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Jews in Armenia are in danger due to Israel's close ties with Azerbaijan, and they must leave the country, said Azerbaijani rabbi Zamir Isaev. The Chief Rabbi of Armenia denied these conclusions and called them “unholy policies.” Users of social networks condemned the attack on the synagogue in Yerevan and speculation on this topic.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on October 3, the only functioning synagogue in Yerevan, "Mordechai Ha-Navi",  was attacked; a bottle, presumably with a Molotov cocktail, was thrown there, the windows were broken and paint was poured on the walls. The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and Young Freedom Fighters of Armenia (YFFA) organizations took responsibility for the desecration of the synagogue. At the same time, ASALA accused Israel and Jews in general of supplying weapons to Azerbaijan. The Jewish community of Armenia, numbering about 200 people, responded by publishing a statement calling on them not to succumb to provocations.

Chief Rabbi of Armenia Gershon-Meir Burshtein condemned the attack on the synagogue in Yerevan and linked this act with the statements and policies of the rabbi of Ashkenazi Jews in Azerbaijan.

Gershon-Meir Burshtein announced “increased speculation in recent times in Armenian-Jewish relations” and recalled “an act of aggression against the monument to the victims of genocide and the Holocaust.” “If we look at everyday life in different countries, such as France, the USA, Russia, we will see that in every country there are spiritually defective groups for whom intolerance is the main possibility of some kind of manifestation,” the rabbi said on his page on Facebook.

He added that, “unfortunately, not only these groups are a boil, today people who should be spreading peace, conveying this morality to the residents and leadership of their countries, succumbing to financial temptation, are engaged in throwing mud at the people of another country and leading wicked policy towards them."

“I didn’t want to contact you, the so-called rabbi of the Georgian Jews of Azerbaijan, leave your advice for the people of Azerbaijan, for the Jewish community of this country. And you’d better take care of your Jewish affairs a little, perhaps this will lead to the fact that those lies and the provocations that we hear and read in your media will decrease. I don’t interfere in your country, I deal with the Jews in my country, and you, too, deal with your issues,” said Gershon-Meir Burshtein.

He also addressed the rabbis of European countries and noted that their distant condemnations are groundless and “do not lead to peace.” “I wish peace to the inhabitants of Ukraine, Russia, even Azerbaijan, because if you live in peace, if there is peace in your souls, you will not strive for war,” the rabbi noted. He emphasized that Armenians are showing their indignation at the policy that Israel is pursuing today regarding military supplies. “We call on Israel to reconsider its position, and we have been making this call since the second Artsakh war to this day. It is necessary to make a distinction between politics and morality. Politics is always immoral, and morality is what can keep politics within the bounds morality," concluded Gershon-Meir Burshtein.

The reason for this statement was the statement of the rabbi, director of the Baku Jewish school, chairman of the Georgian-Sephardi Jewish community Zamir Isaev in the microblog X in connection with the attack on the synagogue in Armenia. “Several weeks ago, I warned that staying in Armenia was dangerous for Jews. The Israeli Ministry of Diaspora twice in the last month raised the issue of the possibility of violence against Jews. The reason is Israel’s close relations with Azerbaijan, and also because we, the rabbis, advocate against the use of the Holocaust for propaganda purposes.

"And then, unfortunately, in the middle of the Sukkot holiday there is an attack on a synagogue in Yerevan. But this was expected: incitement to hatred provokes violence and intolerance. Desecration of a synagogue anywhere in the world is a serious crime. We reject with disgust any threat to damage the holy places of the people of Israel. “I repeat my call to the Jews in Armenia: leave, and if you need help, I will take care of it,” he said.

Some commentators considered the rabbi's statements unacceptable. "The Armenian Jews are not in danger, because the Armenian people love and respect the Jews. I have seen this with my own eyes from top to bottom and I know the Armenian Jewish community. Armenia protects its minorities. The fact that there are anti-Semites and anti-Semitism exists is no different from any other society , and this is an evil that must be fought - but how dare you use anti-Semitism as a tool of Aliyev’s propaganda!” — wrote Emily Shrader. “Pure propaganda with the aim of discrediting Armenia,” wrote user RD. “This is what we call adding fuel to the fire,” said Laurent Vartanian. "It's sad to see Jews being drawn into this conflict,"

However, some users shared the position of the Azerbaijani rabbi, declaring intolerance towards Jews in Armenia. In the comments to Burshtein’s post on Facebook, most users supported his theses. “Jews, just like Armenians, are good neighbors in any country. They chose Armenia over Israel - this already says on whose side their hearts are. And our Foreign Ministry should work better with the state of Israel,” Marina Hakobyan wrote in the comments to this video. “Thank you for the correct and unambiguous assessment,” thanked Gor Artyom.

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Europe
Danish law that will see thousands evicted in areas deemed to have too many immigrants in a bid to eradicate 'parallel ghetto societies' sparks fury and legal battle
[DM]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/08/2023 07:44 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Well, you can have ghettos, or you can assimilate. No other choice.
The other group plans on you assimilating.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/08/2023 11:11 Comments || Top||


'Legal rape.' Hungary and Poland oppose the EU
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Evgenia Kondakova

[REGNUM] For two days, on October 5 and 6, in Granada, Spain, the leaders of European countries discussed problems that are growing like a snowball. On the first day, the meetings were held in the format of the European Political Community, on the second - in a narrower circle of EU heads of state. But both there and there it was not possible to agree on key issues.

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#1  Trouble in the garden?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/08/2023 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  If the leaderships of EU countries were not absolute traitors to their own societies, they would've exited long ago.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/08/2023 15:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Democratic Socialists of America cheer murder and kidnapping of Israelis at hands of Hamas terrorists
[NY Post] Hamas terrorists fired rockets into towns, shot at civilians from paragliders, and kidnapped women and children from their homes. Grandmothers at gunpoint, loaded onto golf carts, to be held hostage or killed by twisted, depraved thugs — supported by soulless New York City progressives.

Yes, in Times Square on Sunday, the Democratic Socialists of America will host an "All Out for Palestine" rally. Wear a mask so you’re not recognized, the organizers say. Best to just let the swastikas do the talking.

"Never mind the hundreds of Israeli civilians and children who have been murdered, wounded, abducted, and terrorized. Their lives mean nothing to the DSA. Nothing," Congressman Ritchie Torres rightly wrote Saturday. "The NYC-DSA is revealing itself for what it truly is: an antisemitic stain on the soul of America’s largest city."

The DSA is the party of Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Rashida Talib — and oh yes, New York’s very own Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal "Fire Alarm" Bowman. They are quick to lecture about "extremism" in America. What do they say about this?

Well, already Omar has called for a "deescalation and ceasefire," meaning that Israel should just accept that 300 — and likely more — of their people were brutally murdered. War crimes should be accepted, because hey, they’re Palestinians.

"Such senseless violence will only repeat the back and forth cycle we’ve seen, which we cannot allow to continue," Omar wrote.

But this ISN’T a "cycle" of violence. This is one group of people — Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah — intent on Israel’s destruction.

Israel would like nothing more than to live peacefully within its borders, to see Gaza and the West Bank flourish as neighbors. But the Palestinians, stirred up by propaganda, hate and money from Iran, can never accept that.

Consider what this unlawful invasion was in response to: a historic detente between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The "peace" the Squad claims to want.

The attack "sends a message to the Arab and Islamic world, and the international community as a whole, especially those seeking normalization with this enemy, that the Palestinian cause is an everlasting one, alive until victory and liberation," said Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

"Normalization" is their enemy. Anything that stops them from turning Palestinian children into killers, and Israelis into their targets.

The Biden administration is bending over backward to reward Iran in hopes that it returns to a toothless nuclear treaty. A country that foments terror across the region, and fuels this destruction.

This is a clarifying moment for America, which needs to stand as Israel’s unwavering ally. These are monsters, and the people who support them are despicable. To President Biden: Stop playing footsie with the Ayatollah and stand up against Iran’s warmongering. To Democrats: Denounce the representatives giving aid and comfort to murderers and kidnappers.

And to New Yorkers: Come to Times Square on Sunday at 1 p.m. Hold up Israeli flags. Shout down the DSA. Show that hate will not be tolerated.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/08/2023 09:13 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Can't wait until we can do to them what Israel is about to do to the paleos.
Posted by: Chris || 10/08/2023 9:45 Comments || Top||

#2  The Palestinian cause is just an adjunct head on the hydra of their evil being like Trans rights or abortion.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/08/2023 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  the white trash of the middle east
Posted by: Chris || 10/08/2023 15:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Y'alls givin' us Trashers a bad rap there, Chris.
Posted by: Mullah Richard OTR || 10/08/2023 15:42 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Behind the scenes of the Nobel Peace Prize
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Live Journal post of Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin. Commentary by Rozhin is in italics
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[ColonelCassad] Interesting details about the new “Nobel laureate”.

Intelligence services, drugs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Behind the scenes of the Nobel Peace Prize

In 2003, Nargiz Mohammadi joined the Center for Human Rights, founded in 2000 by Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. He holds the position Vice President of the Human Rights Defense Center (DHRC).

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DHRC was established in Tehran in 2001.

Ebadi received the Nobel Prize and Mohammadi got a job with her.

The peculiarity is that Ebadi was an activist in the campaign to strengthen the legal status of women and this played a key role in the presidential elections in May 1997, which was won by reformist Mohammad Khatami and appointed Ali Shamkhani as Minister of Defense. Ebadi's human rights activities were aimed at demonstrating the cruelty of Khatami's conservative opponents in eliminating dissident intellectuals.

Ali Khamenei pointed to the enemies of Iran, others specifically to the Israeli intelligence services, and Ebadi to the liquidation team from the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS).

So Said Emami, adviser to the Minister of Intelligence, was arrested and, under strange circumstances, passed away, hiding almost all traces.

However, the story of the murder of Iranian-Kurdish dissidents in a Greek restaurant in Berlin (09/17/1992), the details of which were reported to German investigators by Abolghassem Mesbahi, a former Iranian intelligence officer who fled the country with the assistance of Emami, led to an arrest warrant for Ali Fallahian, an influential minister intelligence from 1989 to 1997 under Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

So Khatami, having become the president of Iran (when Bill Clinton began his second presidential term, replacing Secretary of State Christopher with Madeleine Albright, a protégé of Zbigniew Brzezinski), immediately weakened the position of his predecessors. Emami was Fallahian's deputy at MOIS and became an advisor to his successor Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi.

The investigation into the “chain of murders” with the participation of Shirin Ebadi led not only to the liquidation of Emami, but also to the resignation of Dorri-Najafabadi.

Only then (in February 1999) did Khatami have his own intelligence minister, Ali Younesi, who later served as adviser to President Hassan Rouhani on political and security issues.

So, Shirin Ebadi is a very special human rights activist.

When it created its center in Tehran, Ahmadinejad was the mayor.

But what could he do against Khatami's will?

And so in 2003, Nargiz Mohammadi, born in Zanjan, got a job with Ebadi.
Perhaps then the game of Ahmadinejad or Khamenei began to introduce “their human rights activist” closer to the “alien” Ebadi (who has been living in exile in London since 2009, because she called for the cancellation of the election results in which Ahmadinejad was re-elected).

Or Mohammadi, like Ebadi, represents the Khatami/Shamkhani network.

This interpretation is also possible.

Once again: the flow of opium from Baluchistan goes by land from Iran through Armenia to Georgia, and then by sea to Odessa; the scheme strengthens the elites of southern Iran, but the influence of the Azerbaijani provinces in the West (West and East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan) decreases.

More recently, Ali Shamkhani was getting closer with the NKR and was in conflict with Azerbaijan.

The Nobel Committee, at the request of unnamed VIPs, confirmed that the influence of the Azerbaijani provinces has weakened and those who criticize the excesses of the regime are winning?

And then the multifaceted regime sent the advanced Ahmadinejad to Guatemala. First delayed due to security issues. And then he left with a beautiful woman without a hijab on the plane (maybe they were waiting for her?). Show that Azerbaijani provinces can respond brightly. Exactly in the same special field.

Almost simultaneously with Ahmadinejad's detention at the airport, some media in Colombia reported that former President Alvaro Uribe would stand trial and could receive 12 years in prison. Uribe, who has ties to Medellin and the local cartel, is on the opposite side of President Gustavo Petro's stance on drug policy splicing.

The author is transparently trying to hint that the Iranian special services continue to play Zubatovism with “special human rights activists” since the late 80s, using them as a tool to control the human rights agenda and internal squabbles. The version, of course, has only indirect confirmation, but it has a right to exist, although the very fact of working for another “Nobel laureate”, who was supervised by Iranian intelligence services, does not yet prove that the new “laureate” also worked for them.

Well, regarding drugs, the United States tried to separate Balochistan from Iranian territory as part of the 2007 “Greater Middle East” plan, which would allow them to control drug production in Balochistan, complementing other important drug countries that are under US control - Colombia , Afghanistan (until recently), Kosovo, etc. Baluchistan, if the Americans managed to destroy Iran, would be an excellent addition to this strategy of controlling the main flows of drug trafficking.Official Iran officially scolded the award of this prize, calling it an example of Western interventionism and its interference in the internal affairs of Iran.


More from RIA Novosti
Biography of Nargiz Mohammadi

Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi was born on April 21, 1972 in Zanjan (Iran).

She graduated from Imam Khomeini International University with a degree in physics. She worked as an engineer.

While at university, she co-founded an organization called the Enlightened Students Group and was arrested twice.

As a journalist, she wrote for various reformist magazines, including Payam-e Hajar. This publication was later banned. Mohammadi is also the author of political essays "Reforms, Strategy and Tactics" in Persian.

In 2003, Nargiz Mohammadi joined the Center for Human Rights, founded in 2000 by Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. He holds the position of Vice President of the Human Rights Center (DHRC).

In 2008, she was elected president of the executive committee of the National Peace Council of Iran, a coalition against war and for human rights.

Nargis Mohammadi was first arrested in 1998 for criticizing the Iranian government. Her most recent arrest occurred in November 2021, just a year after her October 2020 release . She was released on health grounds in February 2022 but was arrested again seven weeks later.

In total, Nargis Mohammadi was arrested 13 times, convicted five times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.

Nargiz Mohammadi has received many awards and honors for her human rights activities. Among them are the International Alexander Langer Prize ( 2009 ); Per Anger Prize - an international award from the Swedish government in the field of human rights ( 2011 ); Prize of the Italian Foundation "Galileo 2000" ( 2015 ); City of Paris Award from the Mayor of Paris and Reporters Without Borders (RSF, 2016 ); Human Rights Award from the German City of Weimar (2016); Andrei Sakharov Award from the American Physical Society ( 2018 ); Reporters Without Borders Award borders" ( 2022 ).

In 2023, she was awarded the UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize together with Nilufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi.

On October 6, 2023, Nargis Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for her struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all."

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Arkia, El Al add emergency flights to transport hundreds of stranded travelers
[JPost]
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A Very Somber Assessment by Caroline Glick From Israel (video)
[Last Refuge] Caroline Glick provides a somber rundown of what has happened in Israel, and starting at 06:00 of the video below, shares some pragmatic thoughts on the meaning of the war and the only way that it can end with Israel and its people safe.

Given the nature of what has been happening in Israeli politics, and the coordination Saturday in the Hamas attack, as Mrs. Glick aptly notes, all prior metrics for a regional Israeli control and defend policy has failed.

In very somber tones, Caroline Glick deconstructs the pretending model and cuts to the heart of the issue. Regardless of diplomatic costs, the strategic killing of every element of Hamas must begin immediately, with extreme prejudice and without regard for collateral damage. WATCH (Prompted):

About the author.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2023 03:30 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She is correct. The "deterrence model" has failed.

Interesting comments on the progressive effort to push female soldiers into frontline military units. Also sited, the failure of "Static defenses against a dynamic enemy."

H.N. Bialik, "The City of Slaughter"
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2023 3:50 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/08/2023 14:20 Comments || Top||


Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (just last week): '’The Middle East region is quieter than it has been in two decades.''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Then his lips fell off.
Posted by: Fred || 10/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  Feel good story of the day.
Posted by: jpal || 10/08/2023 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Thanks, Jake. I understand the US economy is fine, too.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/08/2023 10:04 Comments || Top||

#4  And the border is closed.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/08/2023 11:55 Comments || Top||

#5  There is no crime problem.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||

#6  EV mandates are a great idea.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/08/2023 14:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Its Gaza Jake...
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 10/08/2023 16:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe that was the Biden administrations international signal to invade.
Posted by: Airandee || 10/08/2023 19:52 Comments || Top||


Hamas Al-Qassam spokesman Abu Ubaida: Threatening Gaza and its people is a losing game
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

and where is Hamas Al-Qassam spokesman Abu Ubaida hiding?
Posted by: Fred || 10/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  It really isn't. Unless you can't make good on the threat that is.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/08/2023 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  More bravado.

Biden warns ‘others’ not to attack Israel, offers ‘rock solid support’
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/08/2023 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone needs to take special care to service this mutt with a Soleimani special delivery!
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Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/08/2023 12:14 Comments || Top||

#4  It was a promise, not a threat Ahmad. Bibi was Sayeret Matkal officer - he killed dozens like you personally.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/08/2023 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Promises kept
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/08/2023 13:35 Comments || Top||


Donald Trump: ‘Israel Has Every Right to Defend Itself with Overwhelming Force' from Hamas Terrorist Assaults
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Frank G || 10/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  Question: How do you 'crush' Hamas without raining fire on paleostinian schools and hospitals?

I'm okay with raining fire on paleostinian schools and hospitals. I just want to know that Israel is too.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/08/2023 1:59 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm okay with raining fire on paleostinian schools and hospitals I just want to know that Israel is too..

Israel is OK too, but Israel is not an independent country. On the other hand, Biden's admin did a 180^0 on border wall - why not on Paleosimians?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/08/2023 2:07 Comments || Top||

#4  ^All we need is 3 - 4 days without "cease fire".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/08/2023 2:09 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 10/08/2023 4:25 Comments || Top||

#6  But ACA JOE, that's where the missile launch pads, tunnel entrances, and Command Centers are.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/08/2023 5:13 Comments || Top||

#7  The POS knows. He's just being an asshole
Posted by: Frank G || 10/08/2023 7:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Now if our despicable Dept of State only treated Hamas Gaza they same way they treat Russia since the Ukrainian invasion.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2023 8:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Now if our despicable Dept of State only treated Hamas Gaza they same way they treat Russia since the Ukrainian invasion.

The onerous DoS will 'treat' Hamas and Gaza as instructed by their Klingon masters.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2023 8:23 Comments || Top||

#10  @#3 - Paleosimians....lol, I love that.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/08/2023 9:59 Comments || Top||


Russia is behind Hamas attacks - ombudsman
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] Verkhovna Rada
...the Ukrainian unicameral parliament...
Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets believes that Russia is behind Hamas attacks on Israel. He wrote about this on Saturday, October 7, on Telegram.

The Ombudsman noted that members of this group are received in Moscow at a high level.

“The last visit of Hamas representatives to the aggressor country took place after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine,” he said.

Lubinets drew parallels between Hamas and Iran, which is Russia's strategic partner.

In his opinion, Moscow hopes that an attack on Israel will temporarily distract the world’s attention from the Russian-Ukrainian war.

“The Kremlin also hopes for weakening support for Ukraine from partners, in particular the United States. After all, Washington has direct allied obligations to Israel,” the ombudsman noted.

Lubinets called on the entire civilized world to strike a blow at Russia's plans and repel the common evil - aggression and terrorism.

“Ukraine, Israel and the world have common enemies,” he added.

Germany and France said they were strengthening security at Jewish synagogues, schools and monuments in their territories.

The number of Israelis killed in the Hamas attack has risen to 250.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to use the "full power" of Israeli armed forces to destroy Hamas.

Posted by: badanov || 10/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you wanted to force the US to face enormous pressure to shift military aid and focus away from Ukraine, Iranian Proxie Hamas works perfectly. The Uni-party/MIC cannot ignore the massive political allies of Israel in the US, nor should them in my personal opinion.Israel is far more strategically, and a far better ally and friend, in an area where we have genuine national interests. The Puppet Show has spent all the money and spare parts already, the strategic petroleum reserve is at 17%, and we are facing a hard landing economically. The Russian-Iranian connection fits perfectly, and the Middle Kingdom sees nothing but benefit.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/08/2023 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ If you wanted to force the US to face enormous pressure to shift military aid and focus away from Ukraine, Iranian Proxie Hamas works perfectly.

Exactly! A timely, 'back door' exit from the Ukraine and massively unlikeable Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy.

Zelenskyy the next betrayal? Unlike many of the other betrayals, no one will notice or much care about this one.

All of this must be accomplished prior to Donald Trump taking office. No potential 'peacemaker' wins left on the table for an incoming Trump administration.



Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2023 9:31 Comments || Top||

#3  It serves Iranian needs to feed the Al Quds Force wing of the ruling theocratic kleptocrasy, to justify the nuke development due to Israeli "brutal over-reaction", and to de-rail any Israeli-Saudi rapproachment. Its a classic quid pro quo, with the Mandarins of the Middle Kingdom smiling in the background, as every bit of it serves their strategic goals.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/08/2023 11:52 Comments || Top||


Hamas terrorism in Israel: Western leaders 'strongly condemn' attacks
[NYPOST] Most of the world reacted with outrage to the deadly surprise attack on Israel by the Islamist krazed killer group Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, on Saturday, as Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country was at war.

"The United States unequivocally condemns the unprovoked attacks by Hamas gunnies against Israeli civilians," said a spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council, adding that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had spoken to his Israeli counterpart and is in "close contact with our Israeli partners."

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
is expected to speak soon with Netanyahu, according to a CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
report.

The surprise Paleostinian attack saw hundreds of rockets hit 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
More than 500 people were maimed and 40 Israelis are dead, according to Israeli officials.

Video showed Hamas button men pouring into southern Israel and carloads of Israeli citizens slaughtered in their vehicles, with others being taken at gunpoint into Gaza.

Posted by: Fred || 10/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under: Hamas



Netanyahu offered Lapid and Gantz entry into a 'broad emergency government'
[Jpost] During the meetings that Prime Minister Netanyahu initiated today with opposition leader Yair Lapid and the chairman of the state camp MK Benny Gantz, Netanyahu offered both of them entry into a broad emergency government, Israeli media reported.

This is in the same format according to which the late opposition leader Menachem Begin joined the Eshkol government on the eve of the Six-Day War.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria supports Hamas in the fight against Israel
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Damascus supports the struggle of the Palestinian Hamas movement with Israel, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in connection with the fighting that began on October 7. This was reported by the Syrian agency SANA.

“Syria reaffirms its support for the Palestinian people and their forces fighting Zionist terrorism and emphasizes that Palestine is close to achieving the desired victory,” the statement said.

The Foreign Ministry called Hamas's actions a response to Palestinian resistance forces in an effort to achieve the right to create their own independent state.

As Regnum reported , Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal said that the fighting began due to Israel's refusal to recognize a Palestinian state for many years. He added that peace in the region will be possible when Tel Aviv accepts the two-state principle.

Israel's ambassador to Russia said there would be a military and political response to the Hamas attack . He also declared Iran's involvement in the events, accusing the country of financing terrorists.

Fighting between Hamas and the Israeli army began in the morning. The Palestinian side launched massive missile attacks on Israel, and militants also entered some Israeli facilities. The head of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Yoav Galant, called what was happening a war.

Israel reported that more than 100 people were killed and more than 900 were injured from the militants' actions. In Palestine, according to the latest data, more than 160 people were killed and more than 930 were injured.

Posted by: badanov || 10/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under: Hamas



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