[IsraelTimes] Republican politicians in Pennsylvania defeated legislation to send $33.5 million to the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school over criticism that the school has tolerated antisemitism, as statehouses across the US eye how higher education is handling tensions around the Israel-Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... war.
The bill’s defeat is perhaps the starkest example of how some politicians and governors around the country are trying to keep universities from taking sides and to toughen the schools’ response to acts of hate and discrimination, including antisemitism and Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... The vote came four days after Penn President Liz Magill resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was questioned about whether calls on campus for the genocide of Jewish people would violate the Ivy League school’s conduct policy.
Annual state aid for Penn’s veterinary school normally draws strong bipartisan support in Pennsylvania’s Legislature and, earlier Wednesday, had won overwhelming approval in the Republican-controlled Senate.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... it failed late Wednesday night in the House after the Republican floor leader spoke against it, saying Penn must do more to make it clear that it opposes antisemitism.
"Until more is done at the university in terms of rooting out, calling out and making an official stance on antisemitism being against the values of the university, I cannot in good conscience support this funding," GOP House Minority Leader Bryan Cutler said during floor debate.
Magill’s resignation was a start for the university, Cutler said, but not enough.
In the end, every Democrat voted in favor of it, all but 25 of the 101 Republicans in the chamber opposed it, ensuring it fell short by a handful of votes of the two-thirds majority required by the state Constitution.
In a statement, Penn said it was deeply disappointed in the vote and that it hoped the House would reconsider when it returns to session next year.
But what will U Penn do in the meantime to convince those politicians to change their minds?
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Virtue signalling by the GOPe. Get serious. Oh, wait, next year is an election year. You think the founders were smart in making sure your job was a two contract?
[IsraelTimes] Rutgers University, Tulane University, Santa Monica College, among list of 12 colleges, school districts facing allegations they failed to respond adequately to antisemitism.
The others in the announcement: Union College (Schenectedy, NY),Montana State University, the University of Washington-Seattle and the University of California-San Diego, UCLA, Stanford, Whitman College, and the University of Cincinnati.
The US Department of Education has opened 12 new investigations into the handling of discrimination at colleges and school districts since Thanksgiving, in the latest expansion of the department’s scrutiny of civil rights issues since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war following the Gaza-ruling terror group’s October 7 massacres in southern Israel. At least five — and almost certainly more — of the new investigations are related to antisemitism, which the department vowed in October to combat on college campuses using all of its available tools.
Rutgers University, Tulane University, Santa Monica College, Union College and Montana State University are all facing allegations that they failed to respond adequately to antisemitism, spokespeople for each of the schools confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency or other outlets.
Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs signed an executive order deploying members of the National Guard to Arizona's southern border
The border crossing at Lukeville was shut down following record breaking border crossing in the Tucson sector and has created a humanitarian crisis
Border patrol agents have been warned to be vigilant after Mexico's military seized ten improvised explosive devices at the Arizona border
Hobbs, a Democrat, issued the order Friday sighting the federal government's decision to shut down the Lukeville, Arizona port of entry which she said has caused an 'unmitigated humanitarian crisis' in the area. sighting? Quality journalism there
The governor has accused President Joe Biden of failing to secure the southern border, and is seeking half a billion dollars in federal reimbursement for the state's spending on the crisis.
'Yet again, the federal government is refusing to do its job to secure our border and keep our communities safe,' Hobbs said.
'With this Executive Order, I am taking action where the federal government won’t. But we can’t stand alone, Arizona needs resources and manpower to reopen the Lukeville crossing, manage the flow of migrants, and maintain a secure, orderly and humane border.'
In the executive order, the governor said there are already approximately 2,500 National Guard members on the southern border, 243 of which are in the Tucson sector.
However, the federal government has denied prior request to move more members to Arizona and help reopen Lukeville.
It is not specified how many National Guard members the governor is requesting. AZ Family reported the members will be stationed at multiple border locations, including Lukeville and the San Miguel crossing.
The Tucson area, which Lukeville is part of, saw a record breaking 12,000 migrant crossings in one day last week.
Which led to 17,500 encounters in a single week - the highest weekly total ever recorded.
US Customs and Border Protection data reported 253,315 southwest land border encounters in December so far.
[Twitter-X] This also avoids Houthi missiles in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Win-win!
The truck line from Dubai and Bahrain to Haifa is working, with Saudi blessing. A day and a half of driving instead of two weeks in the sea, and a great saving in costs. Assuming it will increase, this is the most important news for the Middle East in recent years, and the birth… pic.twitter.com/lnRMRhK74s
[IsraelTimes] Two more major shipping firms, Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA CGM, said on Saturday they were suspending passage through a Red Sea strait vital for global trade after Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i rebel attacks in the area.
The announcement by Italian-Swiss giant MSC and La Belle France’s CMA CGM follows a similar decision on Friday by two of the world’s largest shipping companies, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, in response to a warning by the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels.
The Houthis, who control much of Yemen, said they were targeting vessels to pressure Israel over its war with Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
A CMA CGM vessel with ties to Israel came under attack in the Indian Ocean in November.
The new statements came after a ballistic missile fired by Houthis slammed into a cargo ship, the MSC Palatium III, on Friday in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, following another attack only hours earlier that struck the Al Jasrah, setting it ablaze, authorities said.
The two missile attacks escalated a maritime campaign by the Iranian-backed Houthis.
The attacks endanger ships traveling through a vital corridor for cargo and energy shipments for both Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Asia from the Suez Canal out to the Indian Ocean.
The Houthis say their attacks aim to end Israel’s war with the Hamas terror group. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the links to the ships targeted in the rebel assaults have grown more tenuous as the attacks continue.
[GEO.TV] Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah has been named as Kuwait's new emir following the death of Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the 86-year-old former ruler of the oil-rich country on Saturday.
Mishal was born on September 27, 1940, to Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the ninth ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait. His father, Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, was the ruler of Kuwait from 1921 to 1950.
The paternal younger half-brother of three successive emirs of Kuwait, namely Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (1977—2006), Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (2006—2020), and Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (2020—2023), Mishal is Ahmad’s eighth son.
After completing his elementary education at Kuwait's Al Mubarakiya School, Mishal travelled to Great Britannia to enroll in the Hendon Police College, where he eventually graduated in 1960.
Mishal began working for the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior (MOI) after receiving his degree from Hendon.
In 2006, not long after his half-brother Sabah assumed the throne, Mishal was regarded as one of the al-Sabah royal family's top three decision-makers.
Mishal allegedly declined more prominent positions throughout his time there in order to stay out of political controversies and keep his family ties intact.
Crown Prince Mishal declared the dissolution of the Kuwait National Assembly on April 17, 2023, claiming in a television address legislation that entitled the emir to do so in reaction to political unrest and impasse in Kuwait.
Mishal has also represented Kuwait at significant international occasions, such as Hussein, the Crown Prince of Jordan,'s wedding in 2023 and Queen Elizabeth II's state burial at Westminster Abbey in London in 2022.
[IsraelTimes] A Dutch court rejects a request by a group of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... and humanitarian organizations to order a halt to the transfer to Israel of parts for F-35 fighter jets.
The organizations went to court Dec. 4 arguing that delivery of parts for F-35 jets makes the Netherlands complicit in possible war crimes committed by Israel in its war with Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... . The parts are stored in a warehouse in the Dutch town of Woensdrecht.
In a written statement, the Hague District Court says the judge who heard the civil case concluded that the government of the Netherlands "weighed the relevant interests" before agreeing to the delivery of parts.
Lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld told the court that the Dutch government decided to continue transferring F-35 parts to Israel even after the deadly October 7 attacks by Hamas triggered the Israel-Hamas war.
"The warning that the fighter jets can contribute to serious breaches of the laws of war does not, for the state, outweigh its economic interests and diplomatic reputation," Zegveld said.
Government lawyer Reimer Veldhuis told the judge hearing the civil case that a ban on transfers from the Netherlands would effectively be meaningless as "the United States would deliver these parts to Israel from another place."
[IsraelTimes] A German-Israeli and her family scrap plans for their life in the German capital and gear up to move to Israel, as Hamas war spurs hatred on the street against Jews and Israelis.
[Rudaw] The United States Congress has passed a bill that includes equipping Peshmerga and Iraqi forces with air defense systems next year. The bill, the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), is now waiting for President Joe Biden’s signature.
“Not later than February 1, 2024, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall develop a plan of action to equip and train Iraqi security forces and Kurdish Peshmerga forces to defend against attack by missiles, rockets, and unmanned systems,” reads a provision in the $886 billion defense policy bill that was passed this week by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The plan must include “provision of available equipment to Iraq and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to counter the air and missile threats addressed in the report, to include air defense systems, to counter attack by missiles, rockets, and unmanned systems,” as well as training on using the equipment.
The plan must be implemented by the defense secretary within 90 days of its development, however, implementation can be delayed if it “would adversely impact United States stock and readiness,” the bill reads.
Representative Don Bacon, who introduced the provision, said it was to increase the defensive capabilities of Kurdish and Iraqi forces “under frequent attack by Iran and its proxy forces in the region.”
Iran-backed militias in Iraq have frequently carried out rocket and drone attacks on bases housing US forces in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, demanding the Americans leave the country. The militias renewed their attacks in mid-October, angry over Washington’s support for Israel in its war against Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip. US troops have come under at least 89 separate attacks in the past two months, according to the Pentagon.
A pro-Iran Iraqi militia group under the name of “the Islamic Resistance in Iraq” has claimed responsibility. Washington has repeatedly condemned the strikes and called on Baghdad to put a stop to them. The US has also stated that it reserves the right to self-defense and has retaliated with air and drone strikes.
Last week, the US embassy in Baghdad was the target of a rocket attack. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani condemned attacks on diplomatic missions as terrorism. He issued a directive to pursue the perpetrators and reiterated Iraq’s commitment to protect diplomatic missions, but warned against any direct response without Baghdad’s approval.
The increase in attacks has imposed on the US a need to defend itself and its interests in the region, according to Bilal Wahab, a researcher at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
“The threat is tough… and the attacks are less random… The number of attacks has increased and became more dangerous, in terms of quality,” Wahab told Rudaw’s Nwenar Fatih on Friday.
“Maybe the US does not want to get into a war with the militias or get into a war with Iran, these are strategic topics and big questions, but the matter of protecting itself, it is the basics of every force,” he said.
In June, after the air defense provision was introduced into the NDAA, Iran was not happy and requested an explanation from the Iraqi government.
“Both the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional authorities should act responsibly and adhere to maintaining the neighborly policy in relations with Iran," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani was quoted by the Tehran Times.
"The Iraqi government will definitely clarify this issue and the regional authorities should also explain in this regard and we should see what their explanation is in this regard," he added.
Both Iraq and the Kurdistan Region maintain good neighborly relations with Iran. The two countries have a new border security pact in which Iraq promised to disarm Iranian Kurdish opposition forces on the border. Iran has fired ballistic missiles at these groups in the Kurdistan Region. Tehran accuses them of stoking unrest in Iran.
On Thursday, Kurdistan Region’s Interior Minister Rebar Ahmed met with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian who commended Iraq for implementing the security agreement.
I know we’ve had some of these stories, but I can’t think of the proper search terms to find them.
[IsraelTimes] A Washington Post report calls into a question several stories in other news outlets about anonymous letters purportedly signed by hundreds of federal government staffers expressing their opposition to the Biden administration’s support of Israel in the war against Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... NBC News reported on a letter signed by what it said were 40 White House interns; Huffington Post reported on another such letter it said was signed by 140 Capitol Hill staffers; The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on a letter signed by 500 political appointees and staff members from 40 government agencies; and Foreign Policy wrote about another letter signed by 370 US Agency for International Development employees.
The signatories in each letter maintained anonymity, however.
"In each case, it was impossible to identify or enumerate the letters’ purported signatories. The stories said supporters declined to make their names public. That left open claims that dozens of people stood behind the underlying sentiments," The Washington Post reports.
The USAID letter explained that staffers withheld their names due to "concern for our personal safety and risk of potentially losing our jobs."
Each news outlet that reported on the letters told the Post that it stands by the reporting but declined to elaborate further on their veracity.
A screenshot obtained by the Post indicates that the intern letter was organized by an individual who lives 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... where they work as a doctor.
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Why would you lose your job for opposing Israeli interests? It's a nutso conspiracy theory that Israel can do that to the US government. Drooling, pants-on-head stupidity.
#4
"Anonymous letters" signed? Once they are signed they are no longer anonymous! We're getting closer to 'Idiocracy' every day.
Jeez! Stuff like this makes my head hurt!
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^^^^#4 "Almost Anonymous letters" signed? Once they are signed they are no longer Almostanonymous! We're getting closer to 'Idiocracy' every day.
Jeez! Stuff like this makes my head hurt!
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Dec 6
[GreaterKashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ] Police in Bandipora attached a 14-marla residential land at Ashtengoo Bandipora belonging to the family of a "terror associate" of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT), under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday.
A statement of J&K Police issued here said that the land, registered in the name of Mukhtar Bhat, the father of the accused Irfan Ahmad Bhat, was identified as "proceeds of terrorism" in a case filed against him in 2022, the Police said in a notice sent to the accused.
They said that the case pertains to the recovery of explosives and other incriminating material from his possession under case FIR No 43/2022 under sections 23 UA(P) Act, 04 and Explosive Substance Act of Police Station Bandipora.
The Police said that the land had been put under restrictions and could not be transferred, leased out, disposed of, or changed in any way without the prior permission of the designated authority.
The statement said that any violation of this order would attract penal provisions of law, they warned.
The Police also said that Irfan’s brother had exfiltrated to Pakistain in 2000 and was suspected to be involved in terrorist activities.
The Police also tweeted about the action on Wednesday, saying: "Bandipora Police has attached 14 Marla of residential land at Ashtengoo Bandipora in case FIR No 43/2022. The land had been identified as proceeds of terrorism and was attached under the UAPA. The land belongs to the family of a terror associate of LeT, Irfan Ahmad Bhat. His brother had also exfiltrated to Pakistain in 2000."
The ICRC refused to admit Israel’s Magen David Adom for almost a century — the first application was in 1931, acceptance finally happened in 2006 after the American Red Cross had withheld their annual donation to the ICRC since 2000.
[IsraelTimes] International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger refused to take a picture with the families of the hostages during their highly charged meeting yesterday in Tel Aviv, Hebrew media reports.
Spoljaric has also pushed back on Israeli calls to publicly pressure Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... to allow for Red Thingy visits of the hostages, arguing that the terror group won’t be moved and that taking such steps risks her agency losing its influence to operate in such conflict.
They have no influence with Hamas anyway, so there is no downside to them showing a touch of spine.
It’s unclear why she refused the photograph if she took one with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that same day.
I think the answer is obvious.
The hostages’ families have rejected the Red Thingy’s arguments outright, saying the ICRC is failing to do its job, refusing to make an effort to at least get medicine transferred to their loved ones and only willing to criticize the Israeli government.
During their meeting, one of the fathers of the hostages got up from his chair and demanded that Spoljaric take his son’s inhaler and ensure that he receives it. The Red Thingy chair uncomfortably tried to explain why she didn’t have the power to heed the request but the father refused to accept her argument.
[Rudaw] Hundreds of Yazidis on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Lafarge in a bid to hold the French industrial company accountable for providing material support 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) in Syria and Iraq during the group’s reign of terror.
The plaintiffs are a group of Yazidis led by Nobel laureate Nadia Murad who are survivors of ISIS violence in their homeland and the Yazidi heartland of Shingal.
The lawsuit seeks to hold Lafarge accountable for "its admitted criminal conspiracy with ISIS and to obtain justice for Yazidi people," according to a statement from lawyers for the plaintiffs.
In October 2022, Gay Paree-based Lafarge pled guilty to having negotiated deals with armed factions in the Syrian civil war, including ISIS and al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, to ensure the continued operation of a cement plant in Syria despite the outbreak of war. A federal court in New York ordered Lafarge and its Syrian subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS) to pay financial penalties totaling $777.78 million.
Despite pleading guilty and agreeing to pay the penalty to the United States, none of the money was used to pay compensation for the victims and their families.
"It is shocking that a leading global corporation worked hand in hand with ISIS while ISIS was executing American civilians and committing genocide against Yazidis," human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... lawyer and representative of the plaintiffs, Amal Clooney, said in a statement.
"We hope that this case will send a clear message that supporting bully boyz cannot be ’business as usual’ and that there will be justice for the victims," she added.
According to the complaint filed by the plaintiffs, Lafarge breached the US anti-terrorism act that holds accountable those who provide support to, aid, and abet, a "foreign terrorist organization."
Nadia Murad, who was kidnapped by ISIS during the genocide the group committed against Yazidis in Shingal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 and is an advocate for survivors of violence.
"Unfortunately, my story is not unique among Yazidis. It is the reality of thousands of Yazidi women. Even more tragic is that our horror took place under the awareness of and thanks to the support of powerful corporations like Lafarge," she said in a statement.
From August 2013 to October 2014, Lafarge and LCS made approximately $70.3 million in sales revenue. During that time it paid $5.92 million to ISIS and al-Nusra Front and $1.11 million to third-party intermediaries. ISIS obtained an additional $3.21 million after it took possession of the cement plant when LCS abandoned it in September 2014.
ISIS was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019. Years later, however, thousands of Yazidis are still living in difficult conditions in camps, unable to return to their homes because of insecurity and lack of reconstruction.
[IsraelTimes] A prolonged communications blackout that severed telephone and internet connections in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... enters its third day.
Internet and telephone lines went down Thursday evening and were still inaccessible this morning, according to internet access advocacy group NetBlocks.org.
Betcha satellite phones still work.
"The internet blackout is ongoing, and based on our records it is the longest such incident" in the over-two-month war, says Alp Toker, the group’s director.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ’ humanitarian affairs department said communications with Gaza were "severely disrupted" due to damage to telecommunications lines in the south.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli intelligence obtained comprehensive details of Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s financial empire in 2018 but did nothing to shut it down and stem the flow of funds to the terror group, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Continued on Page 49
[IsraelTimes] At the continuing Tel Aviv presser, Netanyahu is asked whether US envoy Amos Hochstein is mediating efforts regarding Hezbollah and the northern border.
He doesn’t answer directly regarding Hochstein. But he says there is a series of imperatives Israel is dealing with.
First, there needs to be "crushing victory" over Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... , with Hezbollah deterred in the north, he says. Once Hamas is destroyed, Israel will focus on the north, where almost 100,000 Israelis are currently displaced from their homes.
Either there will be a diplomatic situation on the northern border, "or there will be a different way" to solve the situation, he says.
War cabinet minister Benny Gantz, alongside Netanyahu, is asked whether he is prepared to state categorically that he opposes Paleostinian statehood. Gantz says that first the war must be won, "and dealing with anything else is politics, and I don’t intend to get into that."
Netanyahu is asked whether he passed up an opportunity to send the head of the Mossad to talks in 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... on a new hostage deal a few days ago. He says he won’t make the mistake of telling Israel’s enemies about its considerations. He says Israel is also "negotiating" with the enemy via "blood, fire and pillars of smoke."
He says the combination of military force and diplomatic efforts secured the release of 110 hostages last month.
Regarding Hamas’s conditions for a deal, he says "they have all kinds of demands" including that "the war end and [Israel’s] troops are booted out... The minute we capitulate to that, Hamas wins. And we are obligated to eliminate [Hamas] and to get all the hostages back."
Asked what his vision is for Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... on the day after the war, Netanyahu says: "I said there will be demilitarization. I said the IDF will be responsible for security in the Gaza Strip, because there is no other factor that will ensure the fight against terrorism. And I can tell you that there will be a civil governance that does not educate its children to destroy Israel... I’m very clear on this."
He says much of Israel backs this, and that he has championed it for a long, long time.
Regarding a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report on Mossad revelations regarding Hamas’s money machine, and Israel’s failure to tackle the issue, Netanyahu says he is not aware of the report. "After the war," all these and other matters will be thoroughly investigated, he says.
[IsraelTimes] Continuing to address the nation in a press conference from IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Netanyahu argues that “only military pressure” secured the release of hostages in last month’s truce and only military pressure will secure the release of the rest of the hostages.
“Without it, we have nothing,” he says.
He reiterates that he will not allow “‘Hamastan’ to turn into ‘Fatahstan'” with the Palestinian Authority returning to govern Gaza, even if this is the wish of Israel’s staunchest ally.
He cites a survey last week that found 82% of Palestinians in the West Bank justify the October 7 slaughter, and notes that the PA has yet to condemn the onslaught. “They should control Gaza?” he asks, referring to the PA, and stresses that he won’t let that happen.
Rather, says, after Hamas is destroyed, “Gaza will be demilitarized” and pose no threat to Israel.
At the Tel Aviv press conference, Netanyahu is asked by a reporter why he did not withdraw from the Oslo Accords, given that he keeps criticizing them.
“I inherited the Oslo Accords,” he says. “The decision to bring the PLO from Tunis, and plant it in the heart of Judea and Samaria [West Bank], and in Gaza, was a decision made and implemented before I became prime minister. I thought it was a terrible mistake and I still do.”
Turning on the reporter, he says: “You and your journalist friends have been blaming me for almost 30 years for putting the brakes on the Oslo Accords, and preventing the Palestinian state. That’s true,” he says.
“I’m proud that I prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state because today everybody understands what that Palestine state could have been, now that we’ve seen the little Palestinian state in Gaza. Everyone understands what would have happened if we had capitulated to international pressures and enabled a state like that in Judea and Samaria, surrounding Jerusalem and on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.”
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant describes his own role in the 1990s as a senior IDF officer in Jenin tackling terrorism, and reducing it to a low. Then came the Oslo Accords, “and after a short time, 500 armed Palestinian policemen landed” in the Jenin area, “another 5,000 elsewhere in Judea and Samaria and 7,000 in Gaza.” That started a process with dire consequences, including the vast proliferation of weapons. “The Oslo Accords started that process” and the accords were rife with errors, Gallant says.
Answering a question about the Houthi threat, Gallant says the Yemeni rebels started out attacking ostensibly Israel-affiliated ships and are now attacking all kinds of shipping. “It’s a world problem that also affects Israel,” he says.
He adds that the Houthis have fired “dozens of missiles” at Israel, most of which were destroyed. “We are ready to act. We know what to do. We will find the timing,” says Gallant.
“We are giving a chance” for the international community to deal with the threat to shipping.
[IsraelTimes] After the cabinet voted earlier today to reopen its Kerem Shalom Crossing for humanitarian aid to be able to enter Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... directly through Israel for the first time since the outbreak of the war, two US and Israeli officials tell The Times of Israel that the Biden administration has set its sites on its next ask from Israel: to allow commercial goods into the Strip.
Since Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7 onslaught, only basic humanitarian goods have — food, water, medicine and fuel — have been entering Gaza.
The officials tell The Times of Israel that the US aims to get Gaza’s albeit limited economy up and running again after it effectively stopped operating on October 7.
In the middle of a war zone?? Nuts.
Both the US and Israeli officials say that Jerusalem is currently resistant to the idea, but the US official expresses optimism that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will come around, as it did on reopening Kerem Shalom, allowing in fuel and allowing in humanitarian trucks from Egypt after initially rejecting all three requests.
"The Israelis understand that the more aid that gets in, the more time they’ll have to continue operations in Gaza," the US official says.
The Biden administration’s point being to “Yes, but —“ Israel’s war against Hamas step by pressured step into Israel’s surrender
[IsraelTimes] German airline says it will initially offer 20 connections a week to and from Tel Aviv, around 30% of its flights before Hamas attack on Oct. 7.
[IsraelTimes] One of the 3 killed in tragic mistake shouted ’Help’ in Hebrew; IDF says soldiers fired against protocols; on Wed., troops found ’SOS’ and ’Help, 3 hostages’ spray-painted nearby
Three hostages rubbed out by Israeli troops in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City’s Shejaiya neighborhood Friday were shirtless, and one of them was carrying a stick with a makeshift white flag, the IDF said Saturday after an initial probe into the tragic incident.
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A day before that 9 IDF soldiers were killed by a suicide boomer - the odds he got close enough are by pretending to surrender. That would make me trigger happy. Day after, three hostages, miraculously managed to escape only to be shoot by IDF.
#2
Confirmation bias. When you are convinced that the enemy is subhuman, why bother doing anything but shooting the ones foolish enough to show themselves. Trying to surrender is just another Gazan trick.
#5
^ that's the point in the convention to wearing uniforms or clear display of combatant status. Hamas doesn't. Thus they created the situation by their actions. However, don't let Hama's violation of the convention stop you from blaming the other side for such events.
#7
We are going to see this spun in all sorts of ways, mostly those that make Netanyahu and the IDF look bad.
Can you really call it confirmation bias when you are working in an environment where nearly everyone and every thing you come across is trying to kill you?
"Oh, look! Some poor child dropped this cute pink teddy bear that *BOOM*." Oopsie! Your dead.
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! I am innocent Palestin*BOOM*" Oopsie! You and your 3 buddies are dead.
In a high-stress environment, people make mistakes. I wish it were otherwise, but it is not.
Hamas’s opening position being First Israel lays down her arms, then we’ll talk about the hostages.
[GEO.TV] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Israeli intelligence agency Mossad chief David Barnea will be meeting in Norway's capital Oslo on Saturday (today) for renewed discussions over the release of the remaining 129 hostages in Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ' captivity, reported Al Jazeera citing The Wall Street Journal.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the Israeli spy chief is also expected to hold discussions with Egyptian officials.
The development comes amid growing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach an agreement with Hamas to secure the release of Israeli hostages.
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[GEO.TV] Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... official Osama Hamdan on Saturday commended the resilience of Paleostinian people and success on the battlefield to the Al Qassam Brigades' fighters, which is "pushing many countries in the world to change their stances", Al Jazeera reported.
He said that a lot of politicians have refrained from adopting the Israeli narrative that is "filled with the blood of our civilians".
"The Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian statements calling for a ceasefire, the vote at the UN General Assembly to stop 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 an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... shows the enemy is being exposed in the international community.
"The Unites States' stance that is 'shifting' — we are still doubtful and do not trust the US. Its position is emanating from a crisis that could cost President Biden the upcoming election. If they wanted, they could stop providing weapons to Israel and not use their veto at the UN Security Council," said Hamdan.
"They are still complicit in this occupation, ethnic cleansing, and killing of women and kiddies. We call on all European countries that reject this aggression against us to pressure the United States to stop the ’green light’ to Israel for the genocide of our people."
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