#4
The Burg has been getting hammered for a while. Iran, China, Russia, among others. Fred and badanov are brilliant, so they’ll catch up with this round of overexcited miscreants, but it may take a bit.
Last night it took me precisely twice as long as it should have to submit my articles, because of all the times I had to repeat my work when it disappeared into the ether.
[IsraelTimes] Group of countries also calls on Iran to stop arming Houthis; UK, France pledge ‘defensive’ support to Saudi Arabia to secure energy supply; Trump speaks with Yemen’s leader
Saudi-led strikes on the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha killed at least six people and maimed eight others, a news agency affiliated with the 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... s said on Tuesday, as international calls mounted for the Iran-backed group in 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... to halt its fighting.
The Houthis have staged a lightning offensive in recent weeks to take over Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, including Mokha, leaving the country’s Saudi-backed government scrambling to respond. The war in impoverished Yemen, which began in 2014 with the Houthi capture of the capital Sanaa, had been largely frozen since 2022 but resumed in July.
"Six civilians, including two children and a woman, were killed and eight others, including a child and a woman, were maimed in Saudi-led coalition Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Mokha," the Houthi-affiliated news agency Saba reported on Tuesday.
On Monday, the UK and La Belle France said they would provide defensive assistance to Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , which the Houthis have repeatedly struck during the renewed conflict. That same day, the foreign ministers of the G7 condemned the "unacceptable continued strikes" waged from Yemen against Saudi Arabia and urged the Iran-backed group to immediately hold its fire.
"We call on the Houthis to immediately cease all military actions, all threats and attacks against civilian shipping, and to return to the political process in good faith," said the statement from leaders representing Canada, La Belle France, Germany, Italia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
They also called on Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... "to end its arming of and support for the Houthis," alleging Tehran is in violation of past UN Security Council resolutions.
The statement came a day after the head of Yemen’s Saudi-backed governing body, Rashad al-Alimi, held a call with US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... to request American support against the pro-Iranian fighters, a source in Alimi’s office told AFP, echoing calls from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists... Trump did not promise military support, the source said, adding that the call was intended as a show of solidarity with Yemen’s embattled government. On Sunday, Trump reportedly called off airstrikes against the Houthis at the last minute.
UK PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR SAUDI ’DEFENSIVE’ MISSIONS
Other Western allies of Saudi Arabia are pledging assistance. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday that Britannia has agreed to provide limited military support to Saudi Arabia to repel Houthi attacks.
UK officials say the agreement will start in the coming days, and involve one RAF Voyager refueling Saudi planes on "defensive" missions.
Burnham told news hounds as he flew to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... General Assembly in New York that he had agreed the Royal Air Force will provide air-to-air refueling of Saudi planes. The agreement is for a matter of weeks, but Burnham said it will be kept under review.
Burnham said he was "acting to secure the interests of Britannia and the wider region, because of course Saudi Arabia has been experiencing attack, is looking at potential further disruption, and we need to keep those pathways [for oil] open."
Britannia has condemned the Houthi attacks and said the UK will "work with partners to support regional stability, protect civilians and support humanitarian access."
FRANCE OFFERS TO HELP SECURE SAUDI ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE La Belle France, meanwhile, is ready to work on "securing" Saudi energy infrastructure targeted by the Houthis, adopting a "strictly defensive approach," a diplomatic source said Monday.
"La Belle France is ready to contribute to securing Saudi energy infrastructure in Yanbu and along the East-West Pipeline, within the framework of a strictly defensive approach," the source said, emphasizing that "this in no way involves taking part in the conflict with the Houthis."
The Houthis have carried out attacks against facilities belonging to the Saudi oil giant Aramco in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu. The East-West Pipeline — a crucial crude oil export route — has also been shut down following drone attacks launched from Iraq, according to Riyadh.
#Yemen 🇾🇪: Ansar Allah (#Houthis) carried out multiple strikes against PLC Forces. Numerous PLC vehicles destroyed and PLC members were killed.
Fighters used a possible 9M133-1 “Kornet-E / Dehlavieh” missile (ATGM) and Hexacopter “Rajum” Drones with HE82 pattern mortar bombs. pic.twitter.com/Q00A1gAhoM
[IsraelTimes] Suspects, in their 30s, detained in ‘long-running’ terror probe; searches made in Salford and Liverpool but officers say there is no ongoing threat
British counter-terrorism police said on Tuesday that they had arrested two people as part of an investigation into a suspected terrorist plot to target the Jewish community in northern England.
Police said the two men, both in their 30s, were held in central Manchester on Sunday, with searches also carried out in Salford and Liverpool.
"This has been a long-running proactive investigation which has led to the disruption of what we believe to be a plot to target the Jewish community in the Manchester area," Vicki Evans, Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said in a statement.
She said detectives did not believe that there was any ongoing threat, but police in Manchester said they had stepped up a policing operation over the Jewish High Holy Days.
"We are pursuing a number of lines of enquiry, and we anticipate these will continue over the coming days as this investigation continues," Evans said.
Sunday night marked the beginning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Last year, Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53, were killed in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur that was committed by a British citizen of Syrian descent who had said he was acting for 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.... "We are acutely aware this news will cause further concern to the Jewish community, as well as the wider public, especially given the significant High Holy Day period," Evans said.
"I want to reassure them we are working incredibly closely with colleagues in Greater Manchester Police and partners to ensure we’re doing everything we can to keep them and the wider public safe," she said.
"This is utterly chilling, coming so close to the anniversary of the terrorist attack at Heaton Park Synagogue last year," the Community Service Trust, a Jewish security charity, said in a statement.
The CST said it "is another reminder of the serious terrorist threat facing Jewish communities in this current time" and that it was in contact with local and national police as part of its security operations for the High Holy Days.
Marc Levy, CEO of the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region, said in a statement that the fact that "a terrorist plot has been foiled which could once again have targeted Jews in Manchester makes this an incredibly concerning time for Jewish people in the UK."
He called on the government to "redouble its efforts to tackle the root causes of the hatred and extremism that are espoused in places of worship and other community spaces that continue to motivate people to target Jews."
Earlier, Greater Manchester Police said in a statement that a "robust policing presence, including dedicated patrols and an enhanced command structure" was in place over the High Holy Day period.
"We’re well aware that events over recent days will have only added to already heightened concerns in our Jewish communities, especially at such an important time of year," said Chief Superintendent Dave Meeney of Greater Manchester Police, in an apparent reference to a shooting attack on a Canadian synagogue that seriously injured a police officer. The gunman was apprehended.
"While we don’t currently believe there is any ongoing risk to our communities linked to Counter Terrorism Policing’s activity in Greater Manchester this week, we’ll continue to listen and respond to your concerns in the most proportionate and effective way," he said.
The world Jewish community is halfway through the High Holy Day period, which began with Rosh Hashanah earlier this month. The next festival is Sukkot, which begins on Friday night and continues for a week, ending the holiday period.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian defendants held high-ranking government positions, while Lebanese suspect was Hezbollah member; the charges, made in absentia, may lead to trial over attack that killed 85
An Argentine judge on Monday formally charged seven Iranians and a Lebanese citizen over their alleged involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Trying yet again, 22 years later. Hopefully this time it’ll work.
The decision marks the latest step toward a possible trial in absentia over the attack at the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, which killed 85 people and injured more than 300. It caused devastation in Latin America’s biggest Jewish community and was the deadliest antisemitic attack outside Israel since the Holocaust, but no one has ever been arrested for it.
Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , the United States and Israel have long suspected the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah of carrying out the attack at the request of its patron, Iran. An Argentine court ruled in 2024 that 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 were responsible, and, in a move backed by President Javier Milei’s right-wing administration, Argentine courts authorized the possibility of a trial in absentia last year.
In June, ahead of Monday’s charges, Argentine Judge Daniel Rafecas ruled that the Iranian and Lebanese suspects could be tried in absentia. The seven Iranian defendants held high-ranking positions in Iran when the attack occurred. The Lebanese national was a member of Hezbollah. Two other defendants were removed from the case due to lack of evidence.
According to Argentine media reports, the individuals who have been charged are: Ali Fallahijan, a former intelligence minister; Ali Akbar Velayati, then foreign minister; Mohsen Rezaei, the former commander in chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Ahmad Vahidi, then head of the Quds Force; Hadi Soleimanpour, then Iran’s ambassador to Argentina; Mohsen Rabbani, then cultural adviser at the Iranian embassy; and Ahmad Reza Asghari, an intelligence agent. The Lebanese citizen charged is Salman Raouf Salman.
Rezaei was named last month as the head of Iran’s highest national security body, the Supreme National Security Council.
Most of these names were also published on a list of the INTERPOL General Assembly in 2007. Argentina requested they be added to the international wanted-person alert system.
"The decision to carry out the attack was made in August 1993 by the highest echelons of the Iranian regime and entrusted to Hezbollah," Rafecas wrote in a statement.
Argentine President Javier Milei, a staunch ally of Israel, celebrated the decision on social media.
"Morality as state policy," he wrote on X.
While a trial is now a real possibility, the charged individuals may appeal the indictment.
"There’s still a whole process to go through," Rafecas told AFP, noting other necessary procedural steps before a trial could happen.
Two years before the attack on the AMIA center, a bomb at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires claimed 29 lives.
Monday’s ruling suggested that the two incidents could be related. It sought the Argentine Supreme Court’s opinion on potentially linking the two cases given Hezbollah’s alleged involvement in both.
The bombings have roiled the Argentine political and judicial systems for decades, along with claims that the Argentine government covered up Iran’s role in the attacks. In 2004, special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was appointed by Argentina to investigate the AMIA bombing. But he was found dead in 2015, hours before he was scheduled to present allegations that Argentina’s then-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, along with other bigwigs, had participated in a cover-up.
Initially, his death was deemed a suicide but Argentina has subsequently acknowledged it was a homicide.
In addition, former Argentine president Carlos Menem, who was in office at the time of both attacks, was tried for covering up the AMIA bombing. But he was ultimately acquitted and died in 2021.
Argentina’s former intelligence chief, Hugo Anzorreguy, was sentenced to four and a half years in jail for his role in obstructing the probe.
Anzorreguy was among some one dozen defendants who faced a slew of corruption and obstruction of justice charges in the case, including the former judge who led the investigation into the attack, Juan Jose Galeano. In 2019, he was tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for six years for concealment and violation of evidence.
In 2024, prosecutors requested an arrest warrant in connection with the bombing for former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> . Khamenei, who was in power at the time of the attack, was killed in February by an Israeli strike at the beginning of the Iran war.
This was not Yom Kippur. This is a protest that stole Yom Kippur’s language. Yizkor is a memorial for the dead of your own people. They turned it into a stage where "Jews" confess “the sin of genocide” and hand the microphone to Mahmoud Khalil a campus protest leader, not a… pic.twitter.com/68LbqTG608
Jewish New York Congressional candidate Brad Lander and the anti-Zionist activist Mahmoud Khalil accused Israel of genocide during a Yom Kippur ceremony in New York City on Monday.
"As someone who feels the connection to Israel, who care about it, I feel today so deeply that my vidui, my confession, must center on my, on our, complicity in what I view as genocide 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... ," Lander told a crowd at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn.
Lander is the former New York City comptroller and an ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He won a Democratic primary for a US House seat earlier this year and is expected to win the general election.
He acknowledged hesitancy about labeling the war in Gaza as a "genocide" and rising antisemitism.
"For those Jews who share that connection to Israel, when we confess our collective transgressions today before God, how can you not join me in seeing the wanton destruction of Gaza, the famine exacerbated by lack of aid, the land theft and murders in the West Bank, at the center of our shared transgressions?" he said. "We have been culpable."
The event podium had a sign that read, "For the sin of genocide we atone."
Khalil, a former Columbia University protest organizer, said, "It’s tough to repent at a time where our tuition fees, our tax dollars, our votes are being used to kill, to maim, to displace Paleostinians."
"The Zionist project is trying to make us forget that we’re all one, that we’re all humans," he said.
"May God remember that Israel is committing genocide," he said. "May God, through all of us, hold Israel accountable."
The Yom Kippur event was led by the far-left groups Jews for Economic and Racial Justice and Rabbis for Ceasefire. Organizers said the anti-Zionist groups IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace were collaborators.
Several hundred, including several far-left New York City councilmembers, were expected to attend, organizers said ahead of the event.
Lander is a longtime fixture in leftist Jewish circles in the city who has leaned into anti-Israel politics since the start of the war in Gaza, while identifying as a "liberal Zionist."
He defeated US Rep. Dan Goldman in the primary campaign earlier this year. Both Lander and Goldman are Jewish progressives, but Lander is more anti-Israel and made criticism of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC central to his campaign.
Lander told The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in June that the AIPAC attack line made him "queasy" given antisemitic tropes about Jews and money, but said, "I have to."
Late last month, anti-Zionist activists at a protest berated Lander as a "little Zionist bitch," among other epithets.
Khalil was a prominent organizer at Columbia University as anti-Zionist protests rocked the campus. He gained prominence when the Trump administration detained and attempted to deport him last year. The case remains in the courts.
Speaking to other audiences, Khalil has demonized Israel and Zionism, demanding that the "Zionist genocidal project and the ideology of supremacy that it’s built on collapse completely."
Genocide is an international crime with a strict legal definition, and anti-Israel organizations have been accusing of trying to change that definition to vilify the Jewish state. No international courts have determined that Israel committed genocide.
Some Jewish scholars and activists consider the genocide charge libelous and harmful to Jews, along with charges of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
The Jews featured in this video represent Jewish Voice for Peace, a group that has called for the “death of Israel.” Right after October 7 JVP declared, “our solidarity with Palestine must encompass any and all modes of resistance,” and stated, “We stand in full solidarity with…
[IsraelTimes] 29-year-old shot by police during exchange of fire in which he injured officer; investigators yet to officially confirm if Jewish community was target of attack
The gunman who was shot by Canadian police after firing on officers outside a synagogue at the start of Yom Kippur on Sunday evening has died, an official said Tuesday.
The 29-year-old man carrying a shotgun approached a synagogue in Belleville, a city in southeastern Ontario, as worshipers gathered to mark the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
He shot at police, prompting officers guarding the Sons of Jacob congregation to return fire.
The man was hospitalized after the shooting and died on Monday night, said Kristy Dennette, a spokesperson for Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, which probes shootings involving police.
Dennette told AFP an injured officer remains in stable, pH balanced condition in the hospital.
At a presser on Monday, Belleville’s deputy police chief Sheri Meeks identified the shooter as Sean Ward, from the neighboring city of Quinte West, and the injured officer as Constable Jeff Smith.
Police have not confirmed that Belleville’s Jewish community was the target of the attack, but Dennette told news hounds that "common sense" would suggest the gunman was trying to attack the synagogue.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford both condemned the shooting.
Like many Western countries, Canada has seen a rise in reported incidents of antisemitism over the last three years amid criticism of Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror onslaught.
Sunday’s shooting comes months after Carney warned that Canada was failing its Jewish community amid a surge in antisemitism.
Carney cited shootings at Jewish schools, Molotov cocktailings of synagogues and attacks on community centers and Jewish-owned businesses. His government announced millions in additional funding to help faith-based institutions pay for security infrastructure, training and personnel.
Synagogues in the Toronto area have also previously been targeted by gunfire. In March, shots damaged the entrances of synagogues in Vaughan and Toronto. No one was injured. Police later arrested three suspects in connection with those shootings.
[IsraelTimes] The Haifa District Court on Tuesday sentenced a man to four and a half years in prison for spying on behalf of Iran, including making a recording near the home of former defense minister Yoav Gallant.
Fares Abu al-Hija, 32, from the small Arab town of Kaukab in northern Israel, was convicted of contact with a foreign agent as part of a plea deal and sentenced to 55 months.
He was accused of carrying out several tasks for 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... between October 2025 and January 2026, ending with the mission outside Gallant’s home in northern Israel’s Amikam, where Abu al-Hija was arrested.
Other tasks included recording a Tel Aviv cafe and hiding cellphones, money and a password for a cryptocurrency wallet. The tasks earned Abu al-Hija a total of some $3,600, prosecutors said.
Abu al-Hija received the tasks and the payments from an account he corresponded with on Telegram. He suspected the contact was an Iranian agent, but neglected to investigate the matter, the court said.
The court said Abu al-Hija had no prior criminal record and expressed regret for his actions. He was given two years’ probation in addition to his jail time.
Israel has, over the past two years, arrested dozens of people on suspicion of carrying out acts on behalf of Iran in exchange for money. The suspects typically make initial contact with Iranian agents through social media, especially the messaging platform Telegram.
The tasks typically begin with low-level acts such as graffiti and sometimes escalate to espionage and even liquidation plots.
Last week, the Lod District Court sentenced a Petah Tikva man to 13.5 years in prison for espionage and vandalism on behalf of Iran, the harshest such sentence yet.
Israel carried out two strikes in Gaza today. An airstrike targeted a jeep in Khan Younis’ Al-Asdaa area, with no casualties reported.
A second strike near the Al-Alami Mosque in eastern Gaza City killed two terrorists.
Katz claims Hamas plotting to kidnap soldier; threatens to depopulate, raze Gaza City
[IsraelTimes] Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... is planning new kidnappings of Israelis, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday, citing "various intentions and intelligence," and threatened to flatten 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... City if the terror organization acts upon those plans.
Katz, speaking at an annual memorial ceremony for soldiers killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War at the Mount Herzl military cemetery, directed his warning to Hamas and two of its backers, 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 Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... His warning came amid continued conflict in the Strip between Hamas and the IDF, despite a nearly year-old ceasefire that saw the release of all of the terror group’s remaining hostages, living and dead. In its October 7, 2023, attack nearly three years ago, Hamas and other gunnies who invaded Israel took 251 people captive, a mix of soldiers and civilians including children and the elderly. The hostage-taking sparked a crisis that agonized Israel, prompted a global activist movement, and was at the center of the subsequent war.
"I warn the terror organization and its supporters, from Iran to Erdogan: if even one Israeli soldier or civilian is kidnapped, the entire Gaza City’s... one million residents will be evacuated southward," Katz said.
He also threatened to take out the city’s "homes and terror towers."
Gaza City is a major population center in the Strip, along with the al-Mawasi area to the south. Israel controls much of the enclave, but almost all of its population is in areas controlled by Hamas.
Katz’s threat to flatten the city is his latest bout of bellicose language in the lead-up to the October 27 election. He has also floated facilitating emigration from in Gaza and boasted of destroying villages in Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... "This is the language that the jihadist terror organizations in Gaza and Lebanon understand, and this is the language we speak: evacuating the population, destroying the infrastructure and taking the territory," Katz said.
"It will be dealt with in the same way that Rafah and Beit Hanoun and 70 percent of the Gaza Strip were dealt with, until [any future captives] are returned," he continued, referring to sections of the Strip that the IDF razed during the war against Hamas following the October 7 onslaught.
Referring to the line dividing Gaza between Israeli and Hamas control, Katz reiterated that the IDF "will not withdraw from the Yellow Line in Gaza to new lines of deployment inside Gaza as long as Hamas has not been eliminated and Gaza has not been disarmed of weapons and tunnels."
IDF STRIKES HAMAS SITES AFTER BOMB HITS ENGINEERING VEHICLE
On Monday evening, the IDF confirmed carrying out strikes against Hamas infrastructure sites in the Gaza Strip in response to a bomb that struck an engineering vehicle earlier in the day.
During routine operations on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line in northern Gaza, an unmanned engineering vehicle was hit by a roadside kaboom, the army said.
No injuries were caused in the incident, which the IDF called a "blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement by the Hamas terror group."
In response, several Hamas sites used by the terror group to advance attacks on troops and Israeli civilians were struck, the military said.
Reports indicate the IDF carried out 53 strikes across southern Lebanon in the past 24 hours, hitting areas from Nabatieh and Ali al-Taher to Khiam, Houla, Mays al-Jabal and Mansouri.
Reports indicate the IDF carried out 53 strikes across southern Lebanon in the past 24 hours, hitting areas from Nabatieh and Ali al-Taher to Khiam, Houla, Mays al-Jabal and Mansouri.
Lebanese media confirms a major wave of Israeli airstrikes, artillery fire and other military activity across the south continuing into Monday morning.
This is not a single targeted strike. It is a broad military operation across the entire southern front.
[North Press] Israeli forces entered Saida al-Golan in southern Quneitra, south Syria on Tuesday, with three military vehicles and set up a temporary checkpoint to inspect passersby.
Local sources told North Press that Israeli forces entered the village and established a temporary checkpoint to search people passing through the area.
Earlier Tuesday, local sources told North Press that Israeli forces shelled the outskirts of several villages in the Yarmouk Basin area in western Daraa with heavy artillery the previous evening, marking the second shelling in one day.
The sources also reported that an Israeli military patrol entered al-Rafid in the Quneitra countryside earlier Tuesday. The patrol entered the western neighborhood near a United Nations post and searched several homes.
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.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...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 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
