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Africa North
Mali: Armed Group Attacks in the Sahel, August, 2026

Translated Text:

AUGUST 2026 BALANCE – Armed Group Attacks in the Sahel 🇲🇱🇳🇪🇧🇫

🔷Despite the reassuring communication from Malian President 🇲🇱 Goïta on the occasion of the country's 66th anniversary of independence, Mali has indisputably become the epicenter of terrorist attacks in the Sahel in recent weeks.

🔹While the FLA is in a phase of strategic withdrawal within its controlled territories around Kidal, the JNIM has multiplied critical attacks against the FAMa and their Africa Corps 🇷🇺 auxiliaries, with the Dioura attack (at least 150 FAMa neutralized) as the peak.

⚠️ In Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, the JNIM has launched an impressive number of offensives, but with less devastating human tolls than in Mali.

Niger 🇳🇪 is the country most "spared" quantitatively in August, but the security situation remains extremely critical with the horrific Tessa attack on 08/21 (20 FAN killed) and the pseudo coup d'état in Niamey.

VERIFIED STATISTICAL BALANCE

➡️Burkina Faso 🇧🇫:
- 29 attacks claimed by the JNIM

➡️Mali 🇲🇱
- 19 attacks claimed by the JNIM
- 1 attack claimed by the FLA

➡️Niger 🇳🇪
- 2 attacks claimed by the JNIM
- 2 attacks attributed to the EIS
- 1 attack claimed by the MPLJ

ℹ️ All these attacks are listed and mapped daily on our site:

Posted by: badanov || 09/23/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [51 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
'Absurd Carousel': Britons Ask Trump to Save Them from Migrants
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
by Mikhail Kolovangin

[Regnum] The English village of Piddington has decided to become the 51st US state. It sounds like the plot of a political satire, but behind this oddity lies a very real conflict between the British government and the local residents.

Following the recent symbolic referendum on secession from the United Kingdom, the local council announced plans to send a letter to US President Donald Trump and handed over a dossier of arguments in favor of joining the American embassy. Direct negotiations with the White House, of course, are not taking place, and the plebiscite itself has no legal force.

But it was precisely this nonsense that made the protest noticeable far beyond Oxfordshire. Only 312 people turned out to vote—almost 92% of voters. 285 residents voted for separation, 26 against, and one ballot was deemed spoiled.

The reason for this was the Ministry of Internal Affairs' plans to house up to 1,256 asylum seekers on the territory of a former Ministry of Defense base near a village with a population of approximately 350–400. As a result, the site's population will be more than three times that of the village itself.

There's no mechanism in British law that would allow a village to secede from the country on its own. "Independence," and then the idea of ​​a 51st state, is a way to force the central government to listen to people who feel the decision has been made for them and without them. And in this sense, the referendum has already worked: the small village received coverage in the British and international media, whereas a simple appeal from a local council would hardly have made it beyond departmental correspondence.

The village of Barnham in Suffolk has also attracted similar attention, with the Independent reporting that it is in a similar situation and plans to hold a similar show vote.

The Piddington project involves not only the conversion of an existing building on a former Ministry of Defence site, but also the demolition of some structures, the installation of residential modules, the creation of medical and social facilities, roads, fencing, parking and its own wastewater treatment system.

All of this is intended to temporarily accommodate up to 1,256 people. In other words, we're essentially building a new settlement near the old village.

Local authorities also claim they were presented with a fait accompli. Municipal representatives reported that they learned of the project only a few hours before the Ministry of Internal Affairs' public announcement. The decision is being made through the urgent state development procedure, which allows for the consideration of a nationally significant project, bypassing the usual local approval process.

The government explains the choice of former military bases by the need to avoid expensive hotels for immigrants. Piddington is one of three announced sites with a total capacity of approximately 3,700 people.

A similar project is being discussed in Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire. The former airbase is to house up to 1,200 people for at least three years, although a final decision has not yet been made. The local council has opposed the plan, arguing that it lacks the necessary transport, medical, and social resources.

For London, the scheme appears to be a convenient response to criticism of the hotel idea: larger properties are easier to secure, maintain, and present to voters as evidence of savings. In August, the government reported the closure of 13 more hotels and expected savings of £51 million.

But for the villages this is a big problem, since the state is reducing one item of political costs and simultaneously creating another.

While the British hinterland protests against the new centers, London is trying to demonstrate its control over the cross-Channel route itself. The main diplomatic tool was the "one in, one out" scheme created by then-British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Britain will be granted the right to return people arriving on small boats to the Fifth Republic, but in exchange will accept the same number of asylum seekers through legal channels – after screening and subject to selection criteria.

Political advertising portrayed this as a turning point: the illegal route would supposedly become pointless. In practice, everything was initially designed for limited volumes—around 50 returns per week, while tens of thousands of people pass through the strait annually.

By June 30, 2026, 1,087 people had been returned to France, and 1,117 had arrived in Britain via the counter-channel. By September, the number of returns had risen to approximately 1,400, although Interior Minister Shabana Mahmoud acknowledged that the scale remained relatively small.

The cost of the issue is particularly telling. According to the minister, a single refund costs an average of £56,000. The total cost for 1,400 cases is approximately £78 million. Mahmood defended this figure by arguing that a year's stay in a hotel costs a comparable amount.

The result is an absurd carousel: the taxpayer pays for the detention, lawyers, security, and transportation of one person to France, after which the country accepts another participant in the program legally.

Separately, Britain has pledged to provide France with up to £662 million over three years to strengthen patrols, surveillance, and prevent boat launches from its shores. Thus, international cooperation creates costly infrastructure for managing the flow, but does not address the reasons driving people to the British border or address the issue of their accommodation.

In 2026, the number of arrivals on small vessels nevertheless declined: by mid-September, the Ministry of Internal Affairs recorded 17,425 people, 44% less than for the same period in 2025. The official report from the Border Command also noted a 41% decrease for the first half of the year.

However, even the reduced flow is not comparable to the number of returns, and a direct causal link between the decline and the one-for-one scheme has not been proven: crossings are affected by weather, police actions, smuggler tactics, and route changes.

To enhance the demonstrative effect of the fight against migration, Germany, which has long been a logistical hub for the smuggling business, was also brought into the fight. In the spring, German, French, and British investigators conducted a joint operation in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The secret warehouse contained more than 9,000 life jackets, dozens of nine-meter inflatable boats and motors, and 360 pumps. According to the British National Crime Agency, the confiscated equipment would have been enough to transport over 2,000 people.

The paradox is that Germany remained a convenient transit point for years, in part because of the legal loophole that emerged after Brexit.

Key German regulations against facilitating illegal migration applied to the transfer of people to countries in the EU's free movement zone, which Britain no longer belongs to.

Raids have been carried out before, but usually on the basis of French or Belgian warrants. Now, facilitating illegal crossings into the United Kingdom is a separate criminal offense, and this spring's operation marks the first time German authorities have used these new powers.

Warehouses in western Germany are integrated into an international supply chain: boats and life jackets are manufactured primarily in China, transported through Turkey and Bulgaria, stored in Germany, and then delivered to the French coast. British investigators believe Kurdish criminal networks play a significant role in this business.

London is already using the German operation as proof of the effectiveness of international cooperation, so the confiscated warehouse gives the authorities a compelling report card, but it doesn't yet prove a turning point.

After all, as long as demand, profits, and extensive international logistics remain, the liquidation of a single shipment of equipment is more likely to force smugglers to adapt than to abandon transportation.

That's why the agreement looks much more impressive in a government press release than in the eyes of the public. It establishes procedures and allows for reporting on returned people, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem: thousands of applicants still need accommodation.

The consequences are no longer limited to symbolic referendums. In Thetford, near the planned center on a former air force base, protests escalated into riots in August.

Over three nights, crowds attempted to break into houses believed to be housing asylum seekers. Windows and fences were smashed, police officers were injured, and arrests ensued. The violence demonstrates how quickly a loss of control can transform an administrative dispute into a threat to public safety.

Tensions are also evident on the French side. In September, a GB News film crew reported an attack at a camp near Calais: journalists were chased, objects were thrown at their cars, and several staff members were injured.

No independent, detailed French police report was published, so the circumstances of the episode should be described as the TV channel's version, although the hostile environment surrounding the informal camps and illegal routes remains further evidence that diplomatic formulas have not made the English Channel a zone of order.

The agreements with the French are clearly insufficient to address the political crisis within the UK. Their scope does not cover the actual flow, and the cost is extremely high.

As a result, treaties serve more of an informal function: they must convince the public that the government is acting.

The Cabinet demonstrates patrols, refunds, and new international mechanisms, but at the local level, people see something different: decisions without full coordination, centers that are larger than their towns, and bills running into tens and hundreds of millions of pounds.

Piddington, of course, won't become an American exclave, and the letter to Trump won't initiate the process of becoming the 51st state. However, the small village's demarche proved more effective than a simple petition because it accurately expressed the sentiments of a large segment of the British public.

They no longer believe that traditional approaches to government work. When people consider a request to join the United States a more appropriate tool than dialogue with their own government, the problem extends far beyond immigration statistics.

London can enter into new pacts with Paris, increase funding for patrols, and move people from hotels to military bases. But agreements designed primarily to demonstrate control will not reassure the population if they remain dissatisfied with what's happening near their homes.

And the longer the British government substitutes expensive international gestures for engagement with local communities, the more often protests will take on increasingly dangerous forms.
Posted by: badanov || 09/23/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [150 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1 
Whats this?
The 3rd time in 250 Years, that the English people have come begging the US to save and free them?

This time is its from a do nothing Bi-Sexual King, and their own invited in invaders.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/23/2026 6:15 Comments || Top||

#2 
Whats this?
The 3rd time in 250 Years, that the English people have come begging the US to save and free them?

This time is its from a do nothing Bi-Sexual King, and their own invited in invaders.


BTW: Using my USA locations to access Rantburg gets a lot of "Unable to connect to Postgres server!warnings. or many connections warning also.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/23/2026 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3  ^LOL
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/23/2026 7:41 Comments || Top||


#5  /\ The UK is in the lead on this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/23/2026 9:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Europe is pretty fucked as far as muzzie takeover it concerned. And the US isn't coming to help this time unless you fucks are ready to actually ready to defend yourselves and get your hands bloody.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/23/2026 9:40 Comments || Top||

#7  It would seem the logical thing to do would be to send those 1,256 asylum seekers back to their country of origin. But I must be missing something.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/23/2026 11:13 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Populations are in decline nearly everywhere. Big governments require big constituencies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/23/2026 14:55 Comments || Top||

#9  True, that^, But don't they need taxpayers, not tax takers?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/23/2026 16:10 Comments || Top||


Europe
Spain allows US extradition case against alleged Hamas donor to proceed
[israelTimes] Trump administration reportedly accuses James Cox Chambers of funneling $7.5 million to terror group, among other charges

Spain on Tuesday allowed a US extradition request for alleged Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
donor James Cox Chambers to proceed to court, despite protests from the government’s left-wing coalition partners who argue the case is politically motivated.

The case is politically sensitive for Spain’s Socialist-led government, whose pro-Paleostinian stance has drawn rebuke from the Trump administration and contributed to wider tensions with Washington.

Chambers, 41, an American multimillionaire media heir known as Fergie, was arrested at the request of US authorities on July 10 while on holiday in Ibiza. He is currently in pre-trial detention in Madrid.

A self-described anti-imperialist and communist, Chambers has called in interviews and on social media for the destruction of the United States. He received $250 million after divesting from his family’s media conglomerate, Cox Enterprises, in 2023, his spokesperson said.

The US wants Chambers for, among other charges, allegedly sending $7.5 million from the US to a Tunisian bank account several years ago when he lived in that country, according to the UK’s Guardian newspaper, which cited Chambers’s legal representative. The money was allegedly then used to support Hamas.

The Guardian also noted that a week after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, Chambers posted to X, "No faction of the Paleostinian resistance, Hamas or other, has done *anything* wrong."

The Spanish government has started a process that could lead to the extradition of James Cox Chambers Jr to the US https://t.co/o6E5wwo2YE

— Bloomberg (@business) September 22, 2026

Chambers has also donated over $1 million to humanitarian causes 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...
and paid legal fees for some members of the activist group Paleostine Action, according to his legal team.

The group was designated as a terrorist organization by the US and UK for actions that include targeting Israel-linked defense companies. The UK ban came into force on July 5, 2025, shortly after a break-in at the Royal Air Force’s Brize Norton base in June 2025, when activists damaged two military planes. In June, a judge jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
four activists for raiding a site of Israeli defense company Elbit near Bristol, in western England, in 2024 and causing over a million pounds in damage. One of them hit a police officer twice on the back with a sledgehammer, leaving her with a fractured spine.

The United States has not publicly detailed the charges against Chambers. His legal team says they include money laundering and conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct.

The US Department of Justice declined to comment on the charges.

The case has attracted widespread attention from pro-Paleostinian figures, with 150 prominent activists and celebrities, including Richard Gere, Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now...
and Fatima Bhutto, signing a letter urging Spain not to move forward with the extradition proceedings.

Both Chambers’s lawyers and Sumar, the Socialists’ junior coalition partner, say that the lack of publicly available evidence suggests he is being targeted for his political views. Under Spanish law, extradition cannot proceed if a request is found to be politically motivated.

"This extradition would set an alarming precedent in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
if Spain permits the Trump administration to criminalize humanitarian aid vital to the Paleostinian people," said Chambers’s lawyer Baltasar Garzon, who has filed an application for asylum for Chambers in Spain.

Government spokesperson Elma Saiz said the decision to advance the case was "purely procedural," adding that the cabinet would make the final determination after the court process concludes.

A date for the hearing would be set in the coming weeks, a court spokesperson said.

Posted by: trailing wife || 09/23/2026 2026-09-23 02:42 || Comments || Link || [58 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

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Posted by: trailing wife || 09/23/2026 14:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Cox recently merged with Spectrum and the new company claims 70 million customers. That sounds like a pretty big deal. How many millions more that $250 would Mr. Chambers be worth now if he had stayed the course instead of going out to fund the communist/muslim nexus? But no, he went rogue and now he's under federal indictment sitting in a Spanish jail awaiting extradition to stand trial for his crimes. What a moron.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/23/2026 14:15 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
From Austin to New York, pro-China network fuels week of anti-US protests as Xi meets Trump
[FOX]
NEW YORK, N.Y. – As President Donald Trump readies for high-stakes negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a network of pro-China organizations funded by pro-communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham is taking to the streets from New York City to Austin, creating the image of rolling street unrest that lawmakers warn China can exploit to project a perception of chaos in the United States.

Yesterday, Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, wore a trademark fuchsia straw hat and protested across the street from the United Nations on E. 47th Street, between First and Second Avenue, under an arch at Katharine Hepburn Garden, smiling widely next to agitators from the far-left CodePink nonprofit she co-founded and her American-born husband helped fund from his base in Shanghai. As part of their elaborate weeklong calendar, the activists railed against the U.S. military and its "all-out climate and environmental devastation." and then they marched to the offices of Open AI to demonstrate against data centers they allege "drive war" and "economic degradation."

The week’s protests reflect a pattern of rapid mobilization around breaking news and political flashpoints. The sequencing of events — combined with messaging sharply critical of the United States and silent about China’s human-rights, environmental and civil-liberties record — raises questions lawmakers debated last week about whether some activists function as "Trojan horses" for foreign adversaries such as China. Recently, Evans posted a video lauding China for building an economy that helps citizens "grow and thrive." Last year, Singham delivered a speech in China supporting the Chinese Communist Party and Xi's "new world order."
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/23/2026 07:24 || Comments || Link || [66 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  For out of Zion shall go forth the Torah and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/23/2026 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, wore a trademark fuchsia straw hat and protested across the street from the United Nations

The fact she hasn't swung from the gallows for treason shows how weak we have become as a nation.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/23/2026 10:07 Comments || Top||

#3  All paid for by China!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/23/2026 13:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Re Grom's "historical event" story at #1, how about an unintentional humor classic (from Linton Kwesi Goldstein's 1984 Making History)? "How I wish I had been there!" And how the teapot tempest fugit!
Posted by: Lionel Photh6206 || 09/23/2026 15:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Rubio's meme-worthy job collection takes new turn with permanent Trump upgrade
[FOX]
Trump recently signed a commission formally making Rubio his national security adviser, a senior State Department official, White House official and senior administration official confirmed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday.

The move makes permanent a role Rubio has held since May 2025, when Trump tapped him to replace Michael Waltz on an interim basis.

Rubio will continue to manage the National Security Council process and serve as a direct line to the president on national security matters.

The former Florida senator has been a prominent figure in the Trump administration, holding multiple official posts while becoming the subject of online jokes about just how many jobs he could take on.

The move puts Rubio in rare company, being only the second person in U.S. history to simultaneously serve as secretary of state and national security adviser, after Henry Kissinger held both posts under President Richard Nixon in the 1970s.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/23/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [85 views] Top|| File under:



International-UN-NGOs
At the UN: Netanyahu decries Macron's 'grotesque' claim that Hamas 'never operated' in West Bank
Idiotic. We have plenty of evidence in the Rantburg archives of Hamas operating in the West Bank. Hebron is particularly well-populate with ‘em.
[israelTimes] PM notes Israeli with French citizenship was killed by a Palestinian terrorist just days before, as French official tells ToI that Macron meant Hamas ‘doesn’t govern’ the territory

Israel shot back angrily Tuesday at French President Emmanuel Macron who criticized Israeli actions in the West Bank by claiming Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
was never active in the territory that is home to the Paleostinian Authority.

"The grotesque absurdity of Emmanuel Macron’s statement is staggering," said a statement from the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is expected to deliver a defiant address to the world body on Thursday.

"Hamas murderous Moslems carry out attacks against Jews almost every day. They have murdered countless Israeli civilians in Judea and Samaria," it said, using the Biblical name for the West Bank, which Israel seized in 1967. "Ignorance is no excuse for erasing their blood."

Netanyahu’s office pointed to the deadly terror shooting in the West Bank on Sunday, the eve of Judaism’s holiest day of Yom Kippur. Israel said that the victim, father of six Netanel Shukrun, also had French citizenship.

Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu’s main challenger in next month’s Knesset elections, joined the premier in condemning Macron, calling the French president’s remark "extremely divorced from the reality on the ground."

"As someone who commanded the Judea and Samaria Division and as someone who fought to defeat Hamas terrorism, I am very familiar with the terror organization’s operations in Judea and Samaria and the threat it poses to Israeli citizens," Eisenkot wrote on X. "The fight against terror is not up for negotiation, and we will not accept international hypocrisy at the expense of Israeli citizens’ security."

Macron in his speech to the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
deplored the humanitarian situation 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...
— from which Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, in the deadliest ever attack against in the Jewish state’s history. He also decried Israel’s actions in the West Bank, where Paleostinian attacks as well as settler violence have soared since the Hamas-led atrocities that triggered the Gaza war.

"A year ago, here in this very hall, about a dozen states had recognized Paleostine. I hear the cynicism of some people: ’Recognition is just a piece of paper, look at the reality,'" Macron said, banging his fist on the podium in his last speech at the United Nations before stepping down next May.

"But what credibility do we have if we continue to remain inactive in the face of Gaza? Some boast of a supposed peace. But that peace has not reopened humanitarian access for a single second. Are we simply to stand by and watch this spectacle that should shame us all?"

"Look at what is happening in the West Bank, where every day violations are committed. In whose name? Hamas has never operated in the West Bank," Macron continued.

"What is happening there is building, day by day, the impossibility of a project that should be based on respect for the legitimate right of the Paleostinian people to exist."

Responding to the Israeli criticism, a French diplomatic official told The Times of Israel that Macron "meant to say that Hamas does not govern the West Bank."

"His remarks should therefore not be misrepresented," the French official added.

While Hamas does not rule the West Bank, it has long had a presence there and has carried out attacks in the area against Israelis. The Ramallah-based Paleostinian Authority, led by Hamas’s rivals, has semi-autonomy in major urban areas of the West Bank, with Israel controlling most of the territory. Hamas bloodily ejected the PA from Gaza in 2007, two years after Israel pulled out and dismantled settlements.

Netanyahu has poor relations with Macron, who led the push by Western nations at last year’s UN General Assembly to recognize a Paleostinian state.

La Belle France recently joined Britannia in imposing sanctions on products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, again angering Israel.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham defended those sanctions during his speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, while calling the October 7 terror onslaught "utterly horrific" and saying Britannia condemns Hamas and Iranian threats.

"But this does not justify the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza or the West Bank," he said. "We will not stand by as the horrific suffering continues to grow and the prospect of a two-state solution... comes under attack."

Burnham slammed Israel for issuing tenders for the controversial E1 settlement project near Jerusalem, which he said would "threaten to put a viable Paleostinian state beyond reach."

"We live in an age of low trust in politics. If we were to continue to talk about the two-state solution, but fail to back those words with deeds, that trust will fall even lower and our enemies will seek to exploit the alienation that follows from that. We won’t let it happen," he added.

The remarks came hours after Burnham met with US President Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
, who claimed that he was unfamiliar with the British decision to outlaw trade with settlements.

"I don’t know about the [decision]. Do you know about the [decision]?" Trump asked Burnham during a bilateral meeting on the UN General Assembly sidelines.

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But Trump was actually briefed by Burnham before London’s announcement of the sanctions regime targeting Israeli settlements but refrained from pushing back on the initiative, a Western official told The Times of Israel earlier this month.

Asked about the ban two weeks ago, Trump said he planned to speak to Israel and other countries to understand why it was made "all of a sudden."

While 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...
has separately clarified that the US will not be joining other Western countries in sanctioning Israeli settlements, Washington has quite notably avoided condemning the move, which infuriated Jerusalem.

More at the UN:
US and Iranian negotiators hold talks at UN that Trump says ‘went very well’
[IsraelTimes] Witkoff clarifies that mediators ‘shuttled’ between the sides; Trump gripes that members of Iran’s delegation were ‘not the highest level,’ as Rubio says US president open to meeting his Iranian counterpart while he’s in NYC for General Assembly

PA president’s son unsuccessfully sought to skirt US ban on Palestinian officials
[IsraelTimes] Canadian passport proves insufficient as Yasser Abbas not allowed on flight from Dubai to NYC, where he planned to meet foreign delegations on UN sidelines, sources tell ToI

Cuba Storms Out. Delcy Pouts. These Dictatorships Didn't Care for Trump's UN Speech.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/23/2026 2026-09-23 03:31 || Comments || Link || [86 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I blame the Russians - before Soviet Union broke up, Europeans knew their place.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/23/2026 4:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "The West Bank!" I hear it, I shiver,
For what am I, Zion, chopped liver?
Sure, dirt should be dumb,
But I cannot keep shtum,
Mum!

Your "Israel side of the river"

p.s. Seriously, like Herb says, it's hurtful! Give your little TicTocter a break here, okay? It's not like I'm asking you to use my pronouns or something.
Posted by: Lionel Photh6206 || 09/23/2026 16:37 Comments || Top||

#3  *happy sigh*
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/23/2026 21:00 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Over three years, Hamas's military infrastructure has been severely damaged

Translated Text:

🔻 After three years of war, the terrorist Hamas movement is no longer what it was on October 6, 2023.

⭕️ With its capabilities waning, Hamas is attempting to compensate for its losses through old stockpiles of weapons and locally produced explosive materials, alongside smuggling attempts across the borders, which are being thwarted through field operations and the closure of smuggling routes.

🔻 One of the most prominent indicators of Hamas's decline is the strikes that have targeted its operatives and leadership: in the recent period, approximately 60 members of the movement have been eliminated, including brigade commanders, in an additional blow to its chain of command and ability to reorganize its ranks.

🔻 Over three years, Hamas's military infrastructure has been severely damaged.

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Reuters: Iran ready to open Strait of Hormuz if US lifts blockade
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Iranian authorities may reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the United States meets certain conditions, including easing military pressure and lifting the blockade of Iranian ports. A senior Iranian official told Reuters on September 22.

According to the source, Tehran has already conveyed its demands to Washington. However, no clear response has been forthcoming. The Iranian side is particularly eager for the US to lift the port blockade, which continues to be enforced.

"The US must declare that it wants to resolve the issue diplomatically, do so officially, and then agree on a timeline for moving the process forward," the official explained to the publication.

The interlocutor recalled that the Iranian delegation is in New York for the UN General Assembly and has every authority to resume diplomatic relations with the other side of the conflict.

Iranian authorities conveyed to the United States, through a Qatari mediator , the conditions for ending the military conflict, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei announced on September 19.

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#1  Notice the Iranians are no longer demanding a pony. I think Trump is getting to them.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/23/2026 8:32 Comments || Top||


#3 
A IRAN willing to deal, is an Iran that knows it is losing it ass.

Mass Protests in their streets and other citizenry discourse. Are all clear indicators the leader are losing the support of the Iranian people.

Until the last of the multiple Radical Islamic groups claiming leadership are buried, why trust them?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/23/2026 17:20 Comments || Top||

#4 
A IRAN willing to deal, is an Iran that knows it is losing it ass.

Mass Protests in their streets and other citizenry discourse. Are all clear indicators the leader are losing the support of the Iranian people.

Until the last of the multiple Radical Islamic groups claiming leadership are buried, why trust them?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/23/2026 17:23 Comments || Top||


Could the September 18 incident in the village of Deir Mimas in southern Lebanon have been avoided
[IsraelAlma] Could the September 18 incident in the village of Deir Mimas in southern Lebanon, between the IDF and the LAF, have been avoided had the Lebanese force not been commanded by a Shiite officer?

by Tal Beeri


According to a statement issued by the Lebanese Armed Forces, its soldiers from the 7th Brigade established a temporary observation post near the village of Deir Mimas, approximately three kilometers north of Kfar Kila and four kilometers northwest of Metula, “in order to secure local farmers who had arrived to inspect the condition of their lands.”

When an IDF force arrived in the vicinity of the post, tensions developed between the Israeli troops and the Lebanese soldiers. During the confrontation, stun grenades were thrown toward the area where the Lebanese soldiers were positioned, prompting them to withdraw and evacuate the post. Deir Mimas lies within the IDF security zone and has not been designated as a pilot area. According to the Lebanese Armed Forces, the deployment of its troops had been coordinated with the international coordination mechanism.

More at the link
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Iran killed...
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text taken from the Telegram channel of voiceofiran_ru

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics

[ColonelCassad] Iran killed...

February 20: Iran killed 32,000 protesters.

February 24: Iran killed 32,000 protesters.

March 3: Iran killed 35,000 protesters.

March 17: Iran killed more than 32,000 protesters.

April 16: Iran killed more than 42,000 protesters.

April 21: Iran killed 42,000 protesters.

April 30: Iran killed 42,000 protesters.

May 5: Iran killed 42,000 protesters.

July 13: Iran killed 52,000 protesters.

July 14: Iran killed 52,000 protesters.

August 30: Iran killed more than 52,000 protesters.

September 2: Iran killed about 65,000 protesters.

September 22: Iran killed 72,000 protesters.

Solzhenitsyn came up with figures for repressions in approximately the same way.

The comparison between Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the US government are fatuous, but the point that should be noted is that a lot of questionable data from both sides are being taken as the Gospel truth, when they should not be.
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