In addition Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hamas in Gaza? It’s a very, very good thing they’ve been shut down — they enabled pure evil.
[BUSINESSDAY.NG] Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno South wants the Federal Government to look into serious claims that United States Agency for International Development USAID funded Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... and other terrorist groups.
The story began when US Congressman, Scott Perry from Pennsylvania said during a government meeting that $697 million in US aid money was going to terrorist groups like Boko Haram, ISIS, and al-Qaeda. Perry also claimed that $136 million meant to build schools in Pakistain showed no results.
''You can't say it's just an allegation; it's more than that,'' said Senator Ali Ndume, who represents Borno South, an area heavily affected by Boko Haram attacks. ''That's why the Nigerian government and the National Assembly, especially, need to look into it to investigate and verify the veracity of such a very weighty allegation,'' Ndume said whilst speaking on Channels Television's Sunday Politics.
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I've said it for a long time: Good vs Evil
It's not a meme, but the truth. Hundreds of govt officials should be hung for their terror ties.
To be fair, they’ve also been getting pots of money from the Moslem political establishment in Nigeria, as well as from the sale of those kidnapped schoolchildren who were not ransomed or kept for their own use.
[CHANNELSTV] The Chief of Defence Standards and Evaluations at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) Major General Adekunle Ariyibi says foreign collaborators are funding Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... and other terrorists.
Ariyibi made the comment on Channels Television's The Morning Brief saying Boko Haram and 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.... in West African Province (ISWAP)'s foreign backing is one of the reasons the war against terrorism has lingered in Nigeria.
''There's no doubt about it that this sort of operation cannot be sustainable for the past 15 years without some sort of external collaboration and assistance,'' he said on Monday's edition of the breakfast show.
''It's obvious that the operations of Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West African Province (ISWAP) have metamorphosized since their allegiance with ISIS, and they have had access to international funding which is beyond the shores of Nigeria. It's obvious in the caliber of weapons you see them display. It's obvious in the sort of sustainability plans that they have. Right now, they are moving into drones and not only surveillance drones but also drones that can deliver lethal weaponry.''
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[DAILYPOST.NG] The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has ordered the deployment of additional tactical squads to Osun State to bolster security and restore law and order.
This comes as the Nigeria Police Force condemned, in strong terms, the incidents that have disrupted peace and safety in the state, vowing to bring the perpetrators to justice.
This was contained in a statement by ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Abuja.
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[IsraelTimes] New York political leaders issue warnings about an anti-Israel protest planned for tomorrow in Boro Park, a neighborhood in Brooklyn with a large Orthodox Jewish population.
The anti-Israel protest group PAL-Awda
…the local branch of Al Awda (the return), The Palestine Right to Return Coalition…
says it will hold a protest tomorrow evening in the area.
And who is covering their expenses, pray tell?
The starting point for the protest is near a number of synagogues. The group says the protest is aimed at an event selling real estate in Israel, although the location for the event has reportedly been changed.
“Flood Boro Park to stop the sale of stolen Palestinian land,” the group says in a post announcing the event. Anti-Israel groups in New York often refer to their events as “floods,” an homage to the Hamas term for the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, the “Al-Aqsa Flood.”
Simcha Eisenstein, a Jewish politician who represents the area in the New York State Assembly, calls on the NYPD and mayor to “prevent this hateful, targeted protest against our local Jewish community.”
Kalman Yeger, a Jewish New York State assembly member from another area of Brooklyn, said, “Hamas terrorists plan to storm our community on Tuesday. NYPD can and must stop this.”
New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, from the Bronx, says, “PAL-Awda is targeting Boro Park simply because it is Jewish.”
“The pervasive post-Oct 7 atmosphere of amplified antisemitism has driven antisemitic hate crimes to historic highs in New York — a profound failure of public safety on the part of both the city and the state,” Torres says.
The local community board says it is in contact with the NYPD.
“We’ve been assured that they are fully prepared and will not allow any illegal activities, intimidation, or harassment of our residents,” the board says. Rep. Daniel Goldman, of Manhattan, says, “This ‘protest’ is in fact targeted harassment aimed at a neighborhood with one of the highest populations of Orthodox Jews in the US.”
“To harass and intimidate Jews because of the actions of Israel is textbook antisemitism. True progressives must speak out against this hate,” Goldman says.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign minister also discusses developments related to Iran’s nuclear program with US delegation that includes deputy Middle East envoy
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on monday accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... of cooperating with Iranian attempts to smuggle money to Hezbollah in a meeting with a bipartisan group of US senators.
During the meeting at the Foreign Ministry, in which seven senators and Deputy Middle East Special Envoy Morgan Ortagus were present, Sa’ar told the group 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... has stepped up its efforts to finance Hezbollah, and that Turkey has been an active participant in the process.
"There is an intensified Iranian effort to smuggle money into Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... for Hezbollah to restore its power and status," Sa’ar said, according to his office. "This effort is being carried out, among other channels, via Turkey and with its cooperation."
Turkey’s 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... has been vocal in denouncing Israel since the beginning of its war on 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... last year and has consistently expressed support for Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , which like the Ottoman Turkish leader’s AKP party has close ties to the Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund movement. His rhetoric has been more lukewarm, however, on the gains Israel has made against Hezbollah in the past year, including the killing of the Shiite terror group’s leader, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , in September 2024.
At the time, analysts said Turkey could seize the opportunity to strengthen its regional influence in the face of Iran.
Turkey and Iran have usually had complicated ties, standing at odds over a host of issues, primarily the Syrian civil war, though Ottoman Turkish banks have also been accused by the United States of providing financing to Hezbollah.
The IDF has recently alleged that Tehran is using civilian aircraft to smuggle cash to Beirut to arm Hezbollah.
Iran’s nuclear program also came up during Monday’s meeting. According to Sa’ar’s office, the foreign minister said there are "worrying developments" from Iran’s nuclear program, which he attributed to Tehran’s efforts to compensate for the series of blows that the so-called Axis of Resistance® it leads suffered over the past year.
Iran’s nuclear program also featured in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting Sunday with visiting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... The US intelligence community recently presented assessments that Israel is considering strikes on the nuclear program, and that the attacks could come this year, according to the Washington Post.
Iran, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction, insists its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA has said that Iran is currently enriching uranium to levels that have no civilian use, and the country has obstructed international inspectors seeking to visit its facilities.
In addition, The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported earlier this month that American intelligence indicated a covert team of Iranian scientists was exploring ways to quickly develop a nuclear weapon if the country’s leadership decided to pursue one.
Another topic raised during Sa’ar’s meeting with the US delegation was the potential withdrawal of American troops from Syria. According to his office, he said that the time is not right, given the ongoing fight against ISIS, and the "new situation" in Syria since the Assad regime fell, including threats to Kurdish autonomy.
The group that met with Sa’ar, which was headed by Senators Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... and Dan Sullivan, also included Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, Joni Ernst, Adam Schiff >...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation" Elected to rgw Debate in 2024...> and Andy Kim.
[NYPOST] President Trump's border czar Tom Homan on Monday vowed not to stop until every criminal migrant is ''eradicated'' — as he touted a staggering drop in daily encounters at the US border.
''In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under Biden,'' Homan said in an X post.
''President Trump promised a secure border and he is delivering,'' he added.
The figures emerged as Homeland Security data showed the number of arrests of migrants with criminal records and suspected gangbangers had soared under the Trump administration's nationwide immigration crackdown.
[IsraelTimes] 24-year-old agriculture student came to Israel 2 months before Oct. 7; he deflected grenade thrown at sheltering farmhands; is not slated for release in hostage deal’s 1st stage
When Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... turbans stormed the farm he was working on in Kibbutz Alumim, Nepali agriculture student Bipin Joshi risked his life to save his friends, who fear for his fate after 500 days he has been in captivity 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... Unlike some others seized during the October 7, 2023 attack — when thousands of turbans killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 in southern Israel, sparking the war in Gaza — there has been no information about the 24-year-old since that day.
"He knew nothing about this war, and it’s been 16 months that he is captive," said Himanchal Kattel, a close friend who has Joshi to thank for surviving the attack.
"People should talk more about him," said Kattel, also a Nepali agriculture student who was working with Joshi at the farm in Alumim, near the Gaza border.
Few in Israel remember Joshi’s name or recognize the face of one of the five foreign hostages still held in Gaza since the 2023 attack — just two of whom, including Joshi, are thought to be alive.
In Nepal, his father Mahananda Joshi told AFP the family was extremely worried, waiting "for any news — anything — about him."
"So many others have been released but our son remains captive," said the father.
"If something happens to me, you have to take care of my family. Be strong and always look to the future."
Bipin Joshi had arrived in Israel just two months before the Hamas attack, to work on a farm as part of his studies.
When turbans reached Alumim, Kattel recalled, they hurled a grenade into a bunker where a group of Nepali workers were sheltering after hearing warning sirens in the early morning.
Without hesitating, Joshi picked up the grenade and threw it back at the assailants, said Kattel, one of the few survivors of the attack on the farm.
"He saved our lives. I wouldn’t have been alive today" if it weren’t for his swift action, he added.
Twenty-two foreign farm workers, 10 from Nepal and 12 from Thailand, were killed in Alumim before the Israel Defense Forces regained control of the area.
Since a truce in the Israel-Hamas war went into effect nearly a month ago, the terror group has released 19 Israeli hostages, in six groups, as well as five Thai captives freed outside the scope of the ceasefire agreement.
More releases are expected, but Joshi’s name did not appear on the list of hostages to be freed under the first phase of the truce.
"Perhaps our government’s efforts have not been strong enough," said his father.
In the first phase of the hostage-ceasefire deal, Hamas is slated to release 33 women, children and civilian men over 50 and those deemed "humanitarian cases," in return for some 1,900 Paleostinian prisoners.
An Israeli official told The Times of Israel Monday that negotiations for the second phase, when remaining living male hostages are slated for release, will begin this week.
The talks were supposed to commence on February 3, day 16 of the first deal, but had been deferred by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose right-wing flank is opposed to ending the Gaza war, which the second phase would require.
Nepalese Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba has said of Joshi that the country’s "prime minister and the foreign minister are engaging with other leaders to request his release."
Deuba met with her Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, on the sidelines of the Indian Ocean Conference in Muscat, Oman, on Monday, and asked him to help secure Joshi’s release, Nepal’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
Araghchi, whose country funds Hamas and is committed to Israel’s destruction, "reiterated his commitment to liaise with the concerned parties" to secure Joshi’s early release, the statement said.
’HE IS LIKE MY BROTHER’
Kattel said Joshi "taught me a lot of things. He is actually a very spiritual person."
"He is like my brother. More than a friend."
Joshi was seized after the group of farm workers had left the first shelter for a larger one, but that too came under attack.
"They broke the lock, and they came inside and they just shot at us... and they took Bipin," Kattel said.
He showed an AFP correspondent videos of the workers, their faces pale with fear, huddled behind rice sacks in the shelter moments before the shooting.
The last known image of Joshi came from a surveillance camera near a cowshed in Alumim, showing him standing on his feet but held by his captors as they led him toward Gaza.
On that very spot, the kibbutz has placed a Nepali flag and candles in memory of the victims.
Just before the attack, Joshi had taken some photos on his phone, smiling alongside his friends.
The Thai farm workers’ residence was completely burned down during the assault, leaving only a single wall standing.
Now known as the "Wall of Remembrance," it serves as a solemn tribute, said kibbutz resident Gad Shparer, who was responsible for the Thai and Nepali workers at the time.
The 45-year-old said the hours he spent locked inside a shelter during the attack were agonizing not only for fears that turbans would reach him, but also because he had no news from the workers.
Hours later, when he was finally able to venture out, "I thought that they all had died," Shparer said.
He recalled seeing the bodies of the victims and learning that Joshi had been taken.
"When I got to the hospital room, I saw Kattel. We hugged, and I started crying there."
Shparer spoke of his deep connection to the workers, having toiled alongside them in the fields and orchards.
Since the attack, he has joined weekly rallies demanding the release of hostages.
Kattel, who has remained in Israel after the attack to continue his studies, is waiting for his friend to return.
"I want every hostage to be released, along with Bipin," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group said to have punished critics by beating up their wives; Israel reportedly played clips to Biden officials in failed bid to fend off pressure to let in more aid
In unencrypted radio communications intercepted by Israel in early 2024, low-level Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... operatives 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... can be heard accusing their leaders of hoarding humanitarian aid and of ordering an attack on the wives of fighters who criticized them.
The recordings were broadcast by Channel 12 on Sunday. The report said that Israeli officials had played the recordings to counterparts in the Biden administration, in a failed bid to counter White House pressure to keep letting some 250 trucks of aid enter the Strip daily after the November 2023 truce-hostage deal fell apart.
Israel has accused Hamas of stealing the aid. The network, citing the recordings, said the aid reached Hamas’s leaders but not the operatives in the field..
"Tell the leadership in Khan Younis, we’ll beat you up," one irate operative can be heard yelling. "You only take care of yourselves, there is no leadership."
Even as aid flows in, the Hamas fighters can be heard complaining about dwindling supplies and growing casualties.
"Our condition is very harsh. We haven’t had an allotment for a long time. What is the leadership’s response?" one low-level operative can be heard saying. "They took everything, stole everything. Soon we won’t find anything to eat or drink."
In a clip played separately, an identical-sounding operative says: "Regarding the funds we spoke about yesterday, almost nothing is left. We bought cigarettes for ourselves, some of [the money] went to cover our expenses. We want to bring flour."
"It’s urgent, please," says the operative. "I’m responsible for 170 souls, I told you 20 are maimed... there had been a few cans [of food]... we went [to get supplies] and there was nothing."
Those who accused Hamas of hoarding the supplies soon received notice that their wives had been attacked in a Rafah mosque, Channel 12 said. At the reported time of the recordings, the Strip’s southernmost city was inundated with displaced people from north Gaza, many of whom sheltered in mosques.
On the radio network, operatives blamed Hamas leadership for the attack on their wives. "I swear I’ll rain blows on all of you," one operative yells.
"This is unacceptable to us. We’ll redeem our people with our soul and blood," he continues, saying of the leadership: "These are not men. They should all wear head covers."
Another critic adds: "Convey our message to the most senior person in Gaza."
A third operative pushes back on the accusation: "Guys, calm down, the leadership has nothing to do with the incident and has been following it from the first moment."
The first operative is undeterred: "Amer, spare me these stories."
"Everyone needs to understand that our honor is more important to us than our souls. Our blood is worthless when it comes to our souls," he says. "Despite our entire situation, this [incident] is what burns us up inside. The war is tangential — the war, the rockets, nothing scares us, up to this. This is what kills us — our honor, you dogs."
Gaza received about 500 trucks daily before the war there was sparked on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led turbans stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and take 251 hostages.
After the invasion and massacre, Israel all but cut off aid to the Strip. Some 250 trucks started entering daily during the weeklong November 2023 truce, which saw Hamas release 105 women and kiddies in return for 240 Paleostinian prisoners. After the deal fell apart, aid continued to flow, at Washington’s behest.
A security official quoted by Channel 12 said, "The Americans helped us a lot at the start of the war, but at some point, they tied one of our hands. Not only did the flow of humanitarian aid not feed Gazook civilians — it actually revived Hamas, and in that sense, we helped them get back on their feet."
[IsraelTimes] One of the recently released hostages has informed the family of captive David Cunio that they recently saw him alive in Gaza, Hebrew media reports.
Cunio, 34, was taken hostage from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.
David was abducted along with his wife, Sharon Aloni Cunio, 33, their 3-year-old twin daughters, Yuli and Emma, as well as Sharon’s sister, Danielle Aloni, 44, and her daughter, Emilia, 5, who were visiting them for the holiday weekend.
Sharon and the twins were released on November 27 as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar and the United States between Hamas and Israel. Danielle and Emilia were released on November 24.
[IsraelTimes] Recently released hostage Ofer Calderon’s uncle tells the Knesset Health Committee that at one point during captivity, Calderon had lost 25 kilograms (55 pounds), and that once Hamas decided it would release him as part of the ceasefire deal, the terrorists fed him large amounts of food, including rotten vegetables, so he would appear healthier upon release.
“Ofer had a difficult week, starting with a severe flu and pneumonia, to the point that his children could not meet him,” his uncle tells the committee, according to Hebrew media reports.
“Ofer said that three months ago, he weighed 25 kilograms (55 pounds) less,” he says. “When [Hamas] realized that Ofer would be among those who were freed, they fattened him so he would look the way he did.”
“He said that he was forced to eat rotten vegetables,” Calderon’s uncle adds.
[IsraelTimes] Under Gaza deal annex not made public, another 4 bodies are to be returned next week; 3 living hostages are set to be freed Saturday, but Jerusalem is hoping for more
Israel is expecting to receive the bodies of four hostages from Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... on Thursday, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Monday, under the provisions of the first stage of an ongoing ceasefire deal with the Paleostinian terror group.
The agreement with Hamas, the official said, stipulates that the bodies of a number of hostages will be returned to Israel on the 33rd day of the ceasefire, which is Thursday.
The IDF has already begun preparations for their return, though the Prime Minister’s Office has yet to publicly confirm the details.
The names of the hostages will be given to Israel on Thursday morning and the bodies will be transported to the Abu Kabir forensic institute by IDF ambulances. Families will only be updated after the bodies are properly identified, according to Hebrew media reports on Monday night.
Texts of the hostage-ceasefire deal that have been published to date indicated that human remains would only be returned after living hostages in phase one, suggesting that the arrangement is part of hitherto unpublished elements of the deal.
The full terms of the dead have never been officially released.
UPDATED SCHEDULE
The following is the schedule for the release of hostages during the remainder of the ongoing first phase of the deal, as set out in an annex whose content was revealed on Monday evening but has not been officially published.
On Thursday, February 20, Israel is slated to receive the bodies of four hostages, as stipulated in the yet-to-be-published annex. Israel expects to receive the names of those four hostages Thursday morning.
On Saturday, February 22, Hamas will release three living hostages.
On Thursday, February 27, Hamas will release four more bodies of hostages.
Between February 22 and March 2, Hamas is slated to release phase one’s final three living hostages, including Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengistu, who have been held 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... for over a decade.
In exchange for the eight bodies, Israel will release all women and kiddies who were arrested in Gaza since October 7. Hebrew media reported that these detainees were not involved in Hamas’s onslaught or in fighting against Israel since, so it was not immediately clear why they were arrested.
The Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Jerusalem was working on getting the six remaining living hostages who are to be freed in the ongoing first stage released as soon as possible, either in the course of this week or on Saturday.
MK Ze’ev Elkin, who sits on the security cabinet, said on Monday that Israel would use "any leverage" it had over Hamas to ensure the return of the remaining hostages due to come out in the first phase of the deal, and would try to expedite the process.
"Israel has a goal of bringing forward the release of the first phase hostages, certainly the living ones," he told Kan.
While Israel has denied Hamas’s accusations that it is blocking the delivery of housing materials to Gaza, Elkin confirmed on Monday that several mobile homes were standing at the border.
An Israeli official cited by the Walla news site said that the delivery of the mobile homes was one of the issues currently being discussed with mediators in Cairo. Israel was said to have approved the entry of 300 such temporary residences at this stage in the ceasefire.
With six rounds of hostage-prisoner releases completed in the ongoing Gaza ceasefire deal as of Saturday, there are 14 Israeli hostages still supposed to be freed in the first phase. Hamas has said eight of them are dead, and Israel has indicated that its information matches this claim.
Hamas has so far released 24 hostages — 19 Israeli civilians and female soldiers, and five Thai nationals — during the ceasefire. The terror group also freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that.
Earlier on Monday, the Israeli official told The Times of Israel that it was "no coincidence" that US special envoy Steve Witkoff said the previous day that talks on the second stage of the hostage deal would start this week, and that the Prime Minister’s Office announced a short while later that a team would be headed to Cairo.
But the official said that Israel’s decision was not the result of US pressure: "The moment Hamas carried out the recent hostage release, as far as we’re concerned, we’re continuing the agreement."
The ceasefire teetered last week after Hamas said it was delaying the scheduled hostage releases over alleged Israeli violations of the agreement. US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... responded by saying that the terror group should release "all" the hostages, lest "the gates of hell" be opened on Gaza.
After intense intervention from the mediating countries to solve the crisis, Saturday’s hostage-prisoner exchange took place as planned, with Sagui Dekel-Chen, Sasha Troufanov, and Iair Horn returning to Israel after 498 days of captivity in Gaza.
Though the ceasefire stipulates that the parties must begin holding negotiations regarding phase two of the deal no later than the 16th day of the first phase, which was on February 3, talks have yet to begin.
"There is no change to the continuation of the deal. That means entering now into talks on the second phase," said the official, adding that negotiations would begin after the security cabinet, which was set to convene on Monday evening, approved Israel’s positions.
An Israeli official told Channel 12 that he expected Hamas to hold onto at least one hostage until the end of phase one, as leverage to ensure that Israel is conducting substantive negotiations regarding phase two.
ISRAEL ’EMBRACING’ TRUMP’S GAZA PROPOSAL ’WITH BOTH HANDS’
The ceasefire deal has been overshadowed to some extent by Trump’s call for all Paleostinians to be permanently moved out of Gaza and for the territory to be taken over as a waterfront development under US control.
The official told The Times of Israel that Israel was "embracing (the proposal) with both hands," while stressing that it would entail voluntary rather than forced migration.
"Our goal is to allow the creation of an infrastructure to enable Gazooks to leave, and we assess that many will leave," the official said. "We are trying in the near term to implement his vision and lay out technical, operational and practical details."
Netanyahu told US Jewish leaders in Jerusalem on Sunday that Trump’s plan is the most realistic for the region. "Trump has presented a bold new vision, the only plan I think can work," Netanyahu said, calling it "right on the dot."
Defense Minister Israel Katz late Monday announced the establishment of a new directorate in the Defense Ministry tasked with enabling Paleostinians to "voluntarily" leave the Gaza Strip, as per Trump’s plan.
The new directorate will include representatives from various government ministries and defense bodies, his office said, adding that the ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has presented Katz with an initial plan on the subject.
"The plan includes extensive assistance that will allow any Gaza resident who wants to emigrate to a third state, to receive support that includes special departure arrangements through the sea, air, and land, among other things," Katz’s office said.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told news hounds earlier on Monday that he planned to demand that the security cabinet vote on Trump’s Gaza takeover plan, while insisting that Israel must also adopt the US president’s demand that Hamas return all hostages immediately.
Seventy captives remain in Gaza, including the bodies of 35 confirmed dead by the IDF.
[IsraelTimes] Brig. Gen. Hisham Ibrahim, head of the Civil Administration, a Defense Ministry body part of COGAT, which regulates daily life in the West Bank, met today with representatives of several countries and international organizations operating in the territory, his office says.
The meeting comes amid an ongoing major IDF counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank and ahead of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
The sit-down also comes shortly after Israeli legislation severely limiting the operations of UNRWA — one of the main agencies operating in the West Bank — goes into effect.
Among those participating in the meeting were representatives from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, the European Union, and other nations.
Ibrahim briefed the representatives on the situation in the West Bank, including the ongoing military operation against terror groups in the north of the territory as well as efforts to maintain daily routine for Palestinian civilians, according to the statement.
[IsraelTimes] The Kan public broadcaster publishes what it says are some of the key components of Egypt’s plan for the post-war management of Gaza, which Cairo is working to advance with the support of Arab allies, in order to thwart US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and clear the Strip of all of its Palestinians.
The Egyptian plan is in three phases, according to Kan.
The first is currently taking place and sees the mass entry of humanitarian aid.
And thus needs no planning from the Egyptians. Except how are they going to keep Hamas from stealing all the aid, as they’ve been doing — do they plan to take over the warehouses and distribute the contents to the needy?
The second phase is summarized as an initial rehabilitation, and this will ostensibly take place during the second phase of the hostage deal.
Ten years of site clearing to be done in weeks or months, using inshallah workers?
During the third phase, major reconstruction projects will commence and be backed by Arab, European, and Asian countries.
A decade from now? What odds the Egyptian plan will still be in force by then?
A temporary committee of technocrats will be established to run administrative affairs in Gaza before those powers are handed over to the Palestinian Authority.
Vetting each technocrat carefully to make sure he has no connection to either Hamas or the PA, right?
During this time, Cairo will work to train Palestinian police in Egypt before transferring them back to Gaza.
Vetting each police officer carefully to ensure no connection to Hamas, right?
The plan is largely the same as what Arab countries were working on for the past year, but Israel has long rejected the idea of giving any role to the PA, leaving many of these proposals dead on arrival.
Most critical will be Egypt’s effort in convincing Trump to get behind the plan because if Washington does, it will be easier getting Israel on board as well.
Do not try to kid the man who has dealt with Teamsters, the local Mafia, and various levels of the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, Al Arabiya reports that the Egyptian plan will also include a clause requiring various stakeholders to serve as guarantors that Israel will not resume fighting in Gaza for at least 10 years.
And what are the guarantors putting up as collateral for their hope that Hamas won’t start anything for the full decade? What are y’all willing to lose?
Egypt is planning to present its proposal by the end of the month, but Al Arabiya says the February 27 Arab summit in Cairo on the matter may be postponed, as Cairo is concerned that it needs more time to prepare.
[IsraelTimes] PM also reiterates he’s ‘committed’ to Trump’s Gaza plan; Hebrew media says Ramallah’s ‘pay-to-slay’ stipends to terrorists ongoing despite Abbas’s decree canceling them
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated in a statement Monday that "there will be neither Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... nor the Paleostinian Authority" 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... after the war there ends, responding to unconfirmed Arab media reports that the terror group had agreed to hand over the reins of the Strip to the West Bank-based PA.
According to Sky News Arabia, Hamas made the decision under pressure from Egypt, a mediator of the terror group’s month-old truce and hostage deal with Israel.
Responding to the reports, Netanyahu front man Omer Dostri wrote on X: "Not going to happen."
In a later statement, Netanyahu also said that he was "committed to US President Trump’s plan" to oust Gaza’s roughly two million residents and rebuild the Strip.
An Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Monday that Israel would not let Hamas stay in Gaza under any circumstances, whether through negotiations or by other means. The official reiterated that Israel was "embracing with both hands" Trump’s plan for Gaza, adding that emigration from the Strip would be voluntary.
"Our goal is to allow the creation of an infrastructure to enable Gazooks to leave, and we assess that many will leave," said the official. "We are trying in the near term to implement [Trump’s] vision and lay out technical, operational and practical details."
Trump announced his proposal for Gaza on February 4 during a joint presser at the White House with Netanyahu, who has applauded the plan as "revolutionary." The plan has met with backlash from the Moslem and Arab worlds as well as some Western allies of both Washington and Jerusalem.
Last month, after Israel and Hamas signed the ceasefire deal, PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> said Ramallah was ready to assume "full authority" when the ceasefire takes effect.
Before Trump’s proposal, Netanyahu had publicly ruled out any postwar role for either Hamas or the PA in Gaza but otherwise failed to specify who he wanted to see rule the Strip after the war.
While Hamas officials have said in the past that the terror group would be willing to lay down its arms if a Paleostinian state were established, there has been no indication that it is prepared to do so as part of the current Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal.
In July, three officials told The Times of Israel that Netanyahu had privately entertained a postwar role for the PA in Gaza. The White House, under then-US president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... , had advocated for the PA to take the reins in Gaza provided the unpopular body would be "revamped."
Netanyahu’s allies have cast the PA as essentially indistinguishable from Hamas and rejected any role for it in Gaza. Israel has long accused the PA of supporting terrorism in its education system and through the payment of stipends to Paleostinian security detainees and their families.
Last week, Abbas signed a decree ending the so-called pay-to-slay laws, but Israel dismissed the move as a "new fraudulent exercise" by Ramallah. The Kan public broadcaster reported on Monday that the decision has not yet been implemented and stipends have been transferred as usual despite Abbas’s decree. The report cited Paleostinian sources as saying that the decision had not been passed on to the PA’s finance ministry, so the money went through, as usual, this month in the absence of new instructions.
The sources were quoted as assessing that the change would come into effect next month.
Abbas severed ties with the US after Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017, less than a year after taking office. The US proceeded to broker the Abraham Accords, while the Paleostinians were left out of the process.
The reports on Hamas’s willingness to cede control of Gaza to the PA came during the first stage of a shaky hostage-ceasefire deal between the terror group and Israel that came into effect in January, bringing a halt to over a year of fighting in Gaza, triggered by the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught.
Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that while difficulties remain in negotiations for the continuation of the ceasefire, the second stage of the hostage deal is "absolutely going to begin." He also noted that the second phase deals with both a permanent end to the war and "Hamas not being involved in the government and being gone from Gaza."
The deal itself does not stipulate that Hamas will no longer be in power at the end of phase two, but both the Biden and Trump administrations have said they would not accept such a result, as has Israel.
Why the pretense? You’ve already given up your cell phones and other electronics because you don’t believe that.
[IsraelTimes] Islamic Republic vows to ‘not show any weakness’ on ‘peaceful’ program, slams ‘threatening’ remark after Netanyahu says Israel will ‘finish the job’ against Axis of Resistance
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... on Monday vowed to defend its nuclear program and condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that Jerusalem "can and will finish the job" against Tehran’s "axis of terror," saying that Israel and the US "cannot do a damn thing."
Netanyahu made the comment at a joint presser in Jerusalem on Sunday with visiting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... , who said Iran was "behind every terrorist group" in the region and that a nuclear Iran could "never happen."
Responding to Netanyahu, Iran’s foreign ministry front man Esmaeil Baghaei said that "threatening others is both a gross violation of international law and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... charter."
"When it comes to a country like Iran, [Israel and the US] cannot do a damn thing," he added.
"You cannot threaten Iran on one hand and claim to support dialogue on the other hand," Baghaei said according to state media.
Baghaei said Iran had defended its nuclear program and would not hesitate to continue doing so.
"Iran’s peaceful nuclear program is ongoing, and has been for the last three decades, based on Iran’s rights as a member in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons," he said. "Definitely we will not show any weakness in this regard."
Iran, whose leaders are sworn to Israel’s destruction, has formally rejected nuclear weapons. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt... it has continued to advance its nuclear program, accelerating the enrichment of uranium to up to 60 percent purity, close to the roughly 90% needed to assemble a nuclear warhead. Critics say there are no civilian purposes for such highly enriched uranium
On Friday, the UN nuclear watchdog chief said time was running out to rein in Iran’s nuclear program. Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... US intelligence has reportedly assessed that Israel would strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming year.
Netanyahu was also said to have discussed a potential strike with US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , and it is further said that the US has supplied Israel with heavy munitions required for the operation.
Trump said earlier this month that he prefers to cut a deal with Iran than "bombing the hell out of it" and that "if we made the deal, Israel wouldn’t bomb them."
In his first term, the US president had backed out of his predecessor Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... ’s 2015 deal, which saw Western powers give Iran sanctions relief in return for some oversight of its nuclear program. The deal is set to expire in October.
Military officials have said Israel was preparing to strike Iran after having taken out Syria’s air defenses, following the ousting by rebel forces in December of Syria’s Iran-backed president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... Iran’s own air defenses were already degraded following an Israeli strike, which came in response to Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile barrage — its second direct attack on Israel, following a missile and dronezap on Israel the night of April 13-14.
Iran’s October attack came days after Israel killed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , the long-time leader of Tehran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, during Israel’s 14-month war against the terror group, which ended with a November 27 ceasefire.
Nasrallah’s successor Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... announced earlier this month that the terror chief’s funeral would take place outside Beirut on February 23, after Israel’s scheduled withdrawal from south Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... under the ceasefire agreement.
Speaking to news hounds on Monday, Iran’s foreign ministry front man said Tehran would send a "high-level" delegation to the funeral.
Israel has accused Iran of smuggling supplies to its weakened proxy, including cash via civilian flights. Last week, Lebanon blocked an Iranian plane from landing following an Israeli warning, triggering violent mostly peaceful pro-Hezbollah riots.
Hezbollah is part of Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance®, which includes Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... and 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... ’s 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 proxy terror network has attacked Israel and wreaked havoc on Red Sea shipping amid the war in Gaza, sparked when thousands of Hamas-led faceless myrmidons stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
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Has Iran hired Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf?
These Iranian idiots do understand, they are no longer dealing with buffoons like Biden, or the usual DC Swamp of cloaked supporters raking in $$$$$?
Given, Trump just happens to be meeting Putin in the Middle-East, for some wheeling and dealing talks.
🤔This could be Iran's Fire Sale speech.
[IsraelTimes] Officials in Beirut announce indefinite suspension after halting 2 Iranian flights last week; IDF has said Lebanon-based terror group using funds smuggled from Iran to rearm
Lebanese authorities said on Monday they had extended the suspension of inbound and outbound flights to 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... indefinitely, after originally barring Iranian planes from landing in Beirut until February 18.
Authorities decided to "mandate the Minister of Public Works and Transport to extend the suspension period of flights to and from Iran," the Lebanese presidency’s spokeswoman Najat Charafeddine told news hounds after a cabinet meeting, without specifying when flights would resume.
The announcement came after Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... last week denied permission for two Iranian flights to land in Beirut, following allegations publicized by the Israel Defense Forces that Tehran was using civilian aircraft to smuggle cash to Beirut to arm the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah.
Lebanese security forces told AFP earlier that the ban came after the United States, which helped broker a November 27 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, warned that the IDF might shoot the planes down.
The IDF said last week that the Iran-backed terror group was using the funds to rearm and that it had passed information on the smuggling attempts to a US-led committee supervising the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Thursday it had "temporarily rescheduled" some flights, including from Iran, until February 18 as it was implementing "additional security measures."
The move prompted protests from supporters of Hezbollah, who blocked the road to the country’s only international airport in Beirut.
Charafeddine said authorities had given "strict instructions" to security forces not to allow the airport road to be closed and to reinforce the inspection of all planes at the airport.
Lebanon’s top diplomat will also follow up on the matter and "ensure the return of Lebanese travelers who are still in Iran," she said.
On Friday, as Hezbollah supporters blocked the road to Beirut airport, a United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... convoy was attacked, leaving a vehicle torched and two peacekeepers maimed.
On Sunday, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... charged that the government’s decision to halt flights from Iran was "implementing an Israeli order."
Following the announcement last week, Iran said in turn that it would not allow Lebanese flights to land until its flights were cleared to land in Beirut.
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[Regnum] Russia will maintain a military presence in Syria, including bases in the cities of Tartus and Khmeimim. Bloomberg wrote about this on February 17, citing sources familiar with the situation.
“Sources said Moscow is close to an agreement with the new Syrian government that would allow it to retain some personnel and equipment in the country,” the agency’s report said.
It is noted that Russia intends to maintain a full presence at the naval and air force bases that it controlled before the change of power in Syria in December 2024. At the same time, Moscow is close to concluding a deal with the new Syrian government that would allow it to retain some personnel and equipment in the country.
According to the source, the Syrian side, in turn, expects that the Russian presence will help balance Turkey’s growing influence in the region.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov noted in December 2024 that Russia expects to maintain military bases in Syria, since they play an important role in the fight against international terrorism.
On February 3, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov reported that the Russian side is continuing negotiations with Syria on the issue of using military bases on the country's territory.
On February 7, Syrian Defense Minister Marhaf Abu Kasra said that the country could agree to retain Russian military bases if it would be beneficial to Damascus.
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
