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I have fond memories of my undergraduate time at CWRU.The iranian students marched in support of the siege of the American Embassy. Beer bottles were thrown. Among other things. The University Circle cops laughed. The iranian students were segregated in one dormitory on campus "for their own protection." Good times.
Good times.
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I'd love to see someone go over these pro-Hamas students transcripts and see how many really had the grades to get into Stanford or Harvard and how many weaseled in on diversity.
Also, the generation in college were not born (or were super-young) when Sept 11th happened and most have been brainwashed their entire education. I'm surprised there aren't more woke kids joining the anti-Israel nonsense.
[TOWNHALL] In the wake of Hamas’ brutal surprise attack against Israel, 34 Harvard student organizations recently signed a joint statement blaming Israel for the attack and expressing support for Palestine.
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” the letter read.
“The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years.”
To date, the Hamas invasion has killed over 900 Israeli citizens, and at least 11 American citizens. Reports of Hamas raping Israeli women, and videos of militants holding Israeli children in cages, have flooded social media. In one violent spectacle, Hamas militants paraded the naked, dead body of a German woman through the streets of Gaza in the back of a vehicle.
In some cases, Hamas terrorists even uploaded images or videos of their victims on the victims’ own social media accounts.
Despite such horrific brutality, the Harvard student groups offered Hamas their public support and blamed Israel for the murder and rape of its own citizens.
Townhall has identified the student leaders of several of those groups. Their names are listed below.
GRADUATE STUDENT LEADERS WHOSE GROUPS SUPPORT THE HAMAS INVASION
Harvard Muslim Law School Association
Hussain Awan ’25 (Co-President)
Hussain Awan is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past July, Awan worked as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, under Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah.
Before that, Awan worked in Tunisia as a legal intern for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). IDEA is an “intergovernmental organization (IGO) with a mandate to support sustainable democracy worldwide.” IDEA also received $320,000 from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation between 2016 and 2017.
Reema Doleh ’25 (Co-President)
Reema Doleh is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past summer, Doleh worked as a legal intern for Legal Services NYC. Before that, she worked as a paralegal in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office from January 2022 to July 2022.
Ariq Hatibie ’24 (Executive Board Member)
Ariq Hatibie is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. Hatibie is currently the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
This past summer, Hatibie worked as a summer associate at White & Case LLP. The previous summer, Hatibie worked as a legal intern for TRIAL International, a Soros-funded legal group which claims to fight against “impunity for international crimes and supporting victims in their quest for justice.”
Additionally, Hatibie works as a research assistant for Harvard Law Professor Salma Waheedi. In 2022, Waheedi signed a letter with Harvard faculty expressing “solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and self-determination.”
In the letter, Waheedi and her colleagues claim “Unwavering US financial, military, and political support has fueled an apartheid system that institutionalizes the domination and repression of Palestinians.”
Waheedi currently teaches a course on “Law, Human Rights, and Social Justice in Israel-Palestine.”
Saeed Ahmad ’24 (Executive Board Member)
Saeed Ahmad is third-year student at Harvard Law School. He currently works as a Research Assistant to Professor Intisar Rabb, in Harvard’s Program in Islamic Law.
This past summer, Ahmad worked as a Summer Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, under Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah. After graduation, Ahmad will work as an associate for the prestigious law firm Sidley Austin LLP, according to his LinkedIn.
Saeed is also a member of the Harvard South Asian Law Students Association, another student group that signed the statement supporting Hamas.
Hejir Rashidzadeh ’25 (Executive Board Member)
Hejir Rashidzadeh is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past summer, Rashidzadeh worked as an associate at Alston & Bird, a prestigious law firm known for its intellectual property work.
Hurya Ahmed ’25 (Vice President of Communications)
Hurya Ahmed is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past summer, Ahmed interned with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from June 2023 to August 2023.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LEADERS WHOSE GROUPS SUPPORT THE HAMAS INVASION
African American Resistance Organization
Leadership
Kojo Acheampong ’26 (Co-Founder)
Kiersten B. Hash ’25 (Co-Founder)
Amari M. Butler ’25 (Co-Founder)
Clyve Lawrence ’25 (Co-Founder)
Prince A. Williams ’25 (Co-Founder)
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[Regnum] The first French soldiers began to leave Niger, AFP reported on October 10, citing the country's General Staff.
“The first departures (of the military) began. They are proceeding according to plan, coordination continues,” the statement says.
According to the new leadership of Niger, the first to leave the country will be the military based in the city of Ouallam.
As Regnum reported, a coup d'état took place in Niger on July 26. The military personnel who came to power announced that they were removing President Mohamed Bazoum from power.
On August 30, the new Niger authorities demanded that Paris withdraw its troops from the territory of the republic by September 3. At the same time, on August 5, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna stated that France was not considering the issue of withdrawing troops from Niger.
At the end of September, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the republic would withdraw its military by the end of 2023.
[Jpost] United Arab Emirates trade minister Thani al Zeyoudi said on Tuesday that "we don't mix the economy and trade with politics" when asked whether the conflict between Israel and Hamas would have an impact on trade.
The UAE has signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with Israel. In other words: f&ck Palestinians
This war is an Iran play — they’ve been trying to gin it up since 2014, if I recall correctly. This war is why they’ve been giving Hamas and Islamic Jihad all that money, not to mention the stuff they’ve sent over.
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[Regnum] Russian citizens in Israel can leave this country, since flights continue to operate, and the issue of evacuating Russian citizens from Palestine is being worked out, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on October 10.
Russians citizens in Gaza? Why would Russian citizens go there?
Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova
“The possibility of evacuating fellow citizens who asked for help from the combat zone is being explored. And Russian diplomatic missions are preparing relevant lists and providing the necessary assistance to those in need,” Zakharova said at a ministry briefing.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has instructed diplomatic departments to maintain close contacts with fellow citizens, and citizens themselves are also recommended to be in touch with diplomats to minimize threats, she noted.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian mission to the Palestinian National Authority, Aliya Zaripova, said that 400 people had already expressed a desire to leave the Gaza Strip, including citizens of Ukraine and Belarus.
On October 10, the Israel Defense Forces announced the launch of a large-scale attack on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. The autonomy authorities, in turn, reported that the death toll from Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank of the Jordan River reached 788 people.
As a result of attacks by Hamas in Israel, two Russian citizens were killed, the Russian Embassy reported. One of the dead was a 47-year-old native of the Kaliningrad region, who worked in the Israeli police, reported IA Regnum . Hamas representatives stated that among those captured were dozens of people with dual citizenship, including Russian. This information is being verified, the Kremlin noted. The Russian Foreign Ministry previously urged Russian citizens not to travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories, and fellow citizens already there to exercise maximum caution.
On October 7, Hamas launched a rocket attack on Israeli territory, and several settlements were also captured. Israel launched retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip. According to official data, more than 900 people were killed in Israel, more than 100 people were captured, and almost 800 people were killed in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli authorities announced the transfer of the state to a state of war. The Israel Defense Forces said that 300,000 reservists had been called up for service and that the operation was moving “to the phase of the complete destruction of Hamas.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the start of a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas strike on Israel was an unexpected catastrophe for the local authorities and a failure for Washington, an expert at the Association of Military Political Scientists, an associate professor of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the Russian Economic University, noted earlier in an interview with IA Regnum . G. V. Plekhanov Oleg Glazunov . The incident indicates the loss of influence of the United States in the Middle East, the expert believes.
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[Regnum] The Islamic State (ISIS) regularly receives large sponsorship contributions from the Kiev regime led by Vladimir Zelensky, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev wrote on October 10 in his Telegram channel.
Claiming stuff is easy. Proof is harder.
In addition, he noted, ISIS receives from Kyiv a variety of weapons that were stolen by the Ukrainians from NATO supplies.
“ISIS members have secret accounts in Ukrainian banks and secretly buy Ukrainian real estate,” added the deputy chairman of the Security Council.
According to Medvedev, ISIS is a traditional partner of the Ukrainian regime, carrying out its terrorist missions throughout the planet. The Ukrainian authorities, he added, recognize the similarity of the positions of Bandera’s ideology and the ideology of ISIS.
As reported by Regnum news agency, the day before, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council said that the weapons transferred by Western partners to Ukraine are actively used in Israel. Medvedev warned that things will only get worse, and missiles, tanks and planes from Kyiv will appear on the black market.
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[Dawn] Outraged residents say they will resist a "racist" Danish law which allows large numbers of people to be evicted from social housing in areas where the authorities say there are too many immigrants colonists.
"It’s straight-up racism," said Jawad, a doctor from Mjolnerparken in central Copenhagen, which is surrounded by rapidly gentrifying areas.
"Even though I was born and raised in Denmark, in the statistics I’m a non-Western immigrant," the 29-year-old, whose parents were born in Pakistain, told AFP.
Denmark passed a controversial law in 2018 to redevelop poor urban "ghettos" with high concentrations of immigrant populations by 2030.
It involves rebuilding and renovating rundown estates and changing the social mix by renting at least 60 per cent of the homes at market rates.
For decades, Denmark has had one of Europe’s most restrictive immigration policies, with populist right-wing parties often stoking anti-immigrant rhetoric.
"Our apartments are not for sale!" said banners strung across Mjolnerparken, with locals saying that using their ethnicity to decide where they can live is discriminatory and illegal.
Eight out of 10 people in Mjolnerparken are deemed "non-Western", with people from non-EU countries in the Balkans and Eastern Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... also falling into that category.
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[Regnum] Iraq is grateful to Russia for the supply of weapons, which have had a significant impact on the fight against terrorism in the region. This was stated by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani during negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He emphasized that Russia is a friendly country with which Iraq has deep historical relations.
“I would like to express Iraq’s gratitude to Russia for its support during the fight against terrorism, for providing us with weapons and weapons so that we could resist armed terrorist groups,” he said .
At the meeting with Putin, the Iraqi Prime Minister also emphasized the importance of cooperation with the Russian Federation within the framework of OPEC+.
He noted that Russia and Iraq play an important role in the oil market, so the parties must continue coordination both bilaterally and within OPEC+.
“This coordination should be based on the mechanism of supply and demand and take into account the demand of investors, oil producers and consumers,” he specified.
As Regnum reported , Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani began negotiations. A meeting with the participation of delegations is taking place on October 10 in the Kremlin. Press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov said that after the meeting with the participation of delegations, Putin and al-Sudani will continue to communicate in a tete-a-tete format.
The leaders of the two countries will discuss the development of multifaceted Russian-Iraqi cooperation, as well as current topics on the international agenda and, above all, the situation in the Middle East.
On February 6, Iraqi President Abdel Latif Rashid received Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov , who arrived in Baghdad . At the meeting, President Rashid praised Russia's support for Iraq in its fight against terrorism, as well as its efforts to ensure security.
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[REGNUM] The command of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged not only the damage to manpower - the death of at least ninety reservists, special forces and tank crews in the very first hours of the Hamas invasion - but also significant losses of equipment.
According to preliminary data, the Islamists were able to temporarily capture several dozen Merkava 4 tanks, dozens of heavy armored personnel carriers Achzarit, Namer, and M113 and Nakpadon armored personnel carriers.
During Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, Hamas forces, we recall, temporarily took control of several Israeli army bases. According to materials published on the Internet, there were a large number of armored vehicles at military bases that never left for combat positions.
The fate of most of the equipment remains unknown. Some armored vehicles were hijacked by militants into the Gaza Strip. But most likely, most of them were destroyed at IDF bases. This opinion, based on data from the conflict zone, was expressed in a commentary to IA Regnum by military expert, reserve tank forces officer Alexander Mikhailovsky.
Another part of the armored vehicles managed to enter the battle, but were destroyed by the militants. At least one Merkava 4 tank was hit by a drone dropping ammunition. The vehicle was subsequently seized by Hamas, which revealed the bodies of the dead crew members. At least one tank was disabled by anti-tank missile fire, and another as a result of a hit from a grenade launcher.
Didn't pass the "Competition"
The published footage showed the serious vulnerability of Israeli armored vehicles, which were previously positioned as the most modern and adapted to modern warfare, experts say.
The Merkava IV tank was adopted by the IDF by defense industry standards recently - in 2004. Israeli developers stated that unique alloys were used in the development of tank armor, as well as modern hull layout methods. A modified version of the tank, the Merkava IVM, entered service in 2009. The vehicle is equipped with the Trophy active protection complex (APS), which is considered the most modern development in this area.
The developers emphasized that when installing the complex, the tank is equipped with sensors for detecting anti-tank missiles and hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher ammunition. The computer manages to analyze the missile’s flight path and fire a charge towards it, destroying it on approach. At least that's what it was in theory.
“The destruction or even defeat of tanks is the main image failure of the Israeli defense complex,” Mikhailovsky emphasized.
If one of the vehicles was hit by an ATGM, the Trophy system did not work, and in the case of a grenade being dropped from a copter, it did not work either. Why this happened is a separate question, but now the Merkava has lost its status as the “best tank in the world”, like the Abrams previously.
To destroy the tanks, they used not modern weapons, but Soviet-made anti-tank systems - “Fagot” and “Konkurs” and RPG-7 grenade launchers with tandem ammunition. Previously, these weapons, developed in the 1970s, similarly buried the reputation of the Abrams tanks used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
On the other hand, none of the cases of tank destruction led to the detonation of ammunition or other fatal damage to the vehicle. It was possible to destroy the Merkava only by blowing it up from the inside. However, in a number of cases, Israeli equipment was unable to save the lives of the crew.
“How can we storm Gaza with this?”
Experts note: the Trophy active protection complex was most likely greatly overestimated, which instilled a false sense of security in the Israeli tank crews.
“After this, the main question is how the crews will storm Gaza with these tanks,” Mikhailovsky noted. The main idea of the Israeli defense industry is the safety of the crew: they talk about this in schools, they talk about it to foreign delegations and customers. Now it turns out that their armored vehicles are simply not ready for the realities of modern war.
Palestinians drive an Israeli military jeep through the streets of GazaConsequences of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv
The same concept of crew safety formed the basis of the Israeli program to develop armored vehicles for transporting infantry.
The Israeli army uses Achzarit armored personnel carriers, made on the basis of T-54/55 tanks taken as a trophy in the wars with Egypt and Syria. Using the concept of turning a tank into a heavy armored personnel carrier, Israeli industry produced the Namer armored vehicle based on early modifications of the Merkava tank. Israeli armored personnel carriers were also considered the best in their class, but were unable to protect the lives of the crews.
A separate question is raised by the level of training of Israeli tank crews, who were not ready to participate in hostilities. According to videos published by Hamas, the crews of the armored vehicles are not trained in anti-infantry tactics.
In conditions where the enemy has a large number of hand-held weapons to destroy armored vehicles, tank crews have to actively maneuver, preventing the enemy from aiming at the target and simply “dodging” missiles. For an unknown reason, some Israeli tank crews did not maneuver, but took the battle head-on.
“Apparently, they relied too much on the same Trophy active protection complex, which did not work. This is a fatal mistake, and I think that in the future the developers of the complex will be asked fair questions,” adds Mikhailovsky.
What can the Palestinians gain from captured equipment?
The main intrigue is whether Hamas managed to take at least some of the captured equipment to the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian factions do not have trained crews to operate tanks and heavy armored vehicles. It is possible that an “anti-theft system” is built into the armored vehicles - a beacon that allows you to determine the location of the vehicle. Unable to drive the armored vehicles to Gaza, the militants destroyed some of the vehicles by blowing them up from the inside. However, it is impossible to completely exclude the possibility that some of the trophies could eventually be delivered to Gaza and hidden in Hamas bases.
In this case, captured armored vehicles may be of some interest to foreign observers. Israeli tanks, despite all the identified shortcomings, are equipped with advanced electronics, fire control systems (FCS), and communication systems. The heaviest loss for the IDF was when the latest modification of the Merkava Barak tank, which appeared in one of the videos made by the militants, fell into the hands of Palestinian groups.
The armored vehicles were only put into service in 2023 and are equipped with the most modern equipment, including an all-weather camera with a 360-degree viewing radius, allowing for round-the-clock surveillance. The tanks received a full-fledged on-board computer with advanced data processing systems and a modified Trophy active protection system.
And now all this could fall into the hands of the Palestinians or their allies.
If even one captured armored vehicle was hidden in the tunnels under Gaza, Israel may have serious problems in the future. At one time, Iranian specialists developed a single captured Israeli drone and created a whole range of drones based on it.
If some captured Israeli developments leak to Hamas’s allies, they can be used in the development of new armored vehicles produced in Iran or Pakistan.
Disassembly and analysis of the “stuffing” of Israeli tanks also opens up opportunities for the development of new anti-tank weapons, which in the future means even greater problems for Israeli tank crews.
While the Israeli army is preparing for revenge for the Hamas invasion, the results of the militants' actions have yet to be assessed. Regardless of how the operation in Gaza proceeds, the Israeli army will have to rethink the entire concept of developing and using heavy armored vehicles.
Perhaps some of their “best in the world” tanks will have to be written off or seriously modernized to suit the realities of modern warfare, which will require large costs and organizational decisions. However, the main blow was dealt on the image front. And now the Merkava is no longer the “best tank” in the world.
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And all tanks are vulnerable to drones unless they have an active drone defense. Russians are experts about their tanks turned into scrap metal due to drones.
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Doubt is a genuine force-degradation tool, and this Russian author has flavored his effort at it with a heavy dose of sour-grapes and frustration. Perhaps a result of reading the after-action, BDA and Lessons Learned literature from his own homelands less-than-stellar armor forces performance.
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Drones are the new New Thing and *everyone* will deal with them in their next war. Adapt or die.
I wonder if Trophy is capable of even seeing a drone. Wiki says it was designed to defend against ATGMs and RPGs, all of which move much faster than a drone, and have a different approach trajectory.
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Combined Arms Warfare. Designated anti-drone vehicles will support the tanks ...you simply can't build an affordable weapon system that does everything.
[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu offers arrangement without preconditions, Gantz wants narrow war cabinet, his party says deal now likely; Lapid’s Yesh Atid not involved in negotiations I'll admit to really disliking Tommy's boy.
Representatives of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and MK Benny Gantz’s opposition National Unity party met Monday to discuss the possibility of forming an emergency unity government, with a potential breakthrough in the offing.
The discussions came amid urgent calls for such an arrangement among the opposition and coalition, with Israel facing an unprecedented war against Gazan terror groups following the massacre of over 900 civilians and soldiers in Saturday’s assault and the hostage-taking of over 100 people.
A source in Gantz’s National Unity said Monday night that progress has been made in the discussions to bring the party into the government and that a deal is now likely. This too is important
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[MEMRI.ORG] Amad Rwaidy, the Paleostinian Authority’s ambassador to Iraq, said on an October 7, 2023 show on al-Rashid TV (Iraq) that Israeli civilians are not innocent people, but rather soldiers facilitating the siege on the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip. Addressing the Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... invasion of southern Israel which resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths, he asked how else the people of Gaza were supposed to defend themselves. Rwaidy was appointed in September by PA President Muhammad Abbas.
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All these self indentifying scum should have immediate targets placed on them and be shot, any time any where.
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...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[MEMRI.ORG] Amad Rwaidy, the Paleostinian Authority’s ambassador to Iraq, said on an October 7, 2023 show on al-Rashid TV (Iraq) that Israeli civilians are not innocent people, but rather soldiers facilitating the siege on the 
