[IsraelTimes) Military, state-run TV push back following court appeal from European Legal Support Center alleging ship with materiel for Elbit Systems docked at Alexandria
Egypt’s army on Thursday denied it assisted Israeli military operations after media reports that an Egyptian port received a shipment of explosives bound for an Israeli defense contractor.
"The Egyptian Armed Forces categorically deny what has been circulated on social media and suspicious accounts and what is being promoted about assisting Israel in its military operations in general and in detail," the army said in a statement.
Human rights lawyers on Wednesday filed a court appeal in Berlin seeking to block a 150-metric-ton shipment of military-grade explosives aboard German fat merchantman MV Kathrin which they said was for Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest defense contractor.
LSEG data and vessel-tracking website Marine Traffic showed the MV Kathrin docked in Egypt’s port at Alexandria on Monday.
Egypt’s state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV, citing a high-level source, said earlier there was no truth to reports by some media outlets that the MV Kathrin delivered military supplies for Israel to Alexandria.
The European Legal Support Center’s case argued the explosives could be used in munitions for Israel’s war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... , potentially contributing to alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Because of the explosives bound for Israel, the MV Kathrin was denied entry at several African and Mediterranean ports, including in Angola, Slovenia, Montenegro and Malta, according to the ELSC. It said Portuguese authorities recently required the ship to switch from a Portuguese flag to a German flag before it could continue.
Germany said the cargo was neither loaded nor dispatched from its territory thus did not require an export license.
[IsraelTimes] FM Lavrov says pact with Tehran to be signed in ‘near future’; ties seen as major threat by US and Israel as Middle East, Ukraine wars escalate
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia and 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... intend to sign a "comprehensive" treaty, which will include closer defense cooperation.
"The treaty on a comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and Iran that is being prepared will become a serious factor in strengthening Russian-Iranian relations," Lavrov told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?He said the agreement was being prepared for signing "in the near future." Russia has said it expects Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian to visit Moscow before the end of the year.
"It will confirm the parties’ desire for closer cooperation in the field of defense and interaction in the interests of peace and security at the regional and global levels," Lavrov said. He did not specify what form the defense ties would take.
Deepening ties between the two authoritarian powers is seen as a threat to Israel, which has been fighting a war against Iranian-backed terror groups Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... and Hezbollah for over a year.
Israel and Iran have also engaged in direct hostilities, including ballistic missiles fired by Tehran on Israel and Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on military sites in Iran in retaliation.
Closer cooperation between Iran and Russia is also seen by the West as a serious threat to progress in the war in Ukraine, which is entering its third winter of intense fighting.
The United States accused Tehran in September of delivering close-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine, and imposed sanctions on ships and companies it said were involved in delivering Iranian weapons.
Tehran denies providing Moscow with the missiles or with thousands of drones that Kyiv and Western officials have said Russia uses against military targets and to destroy civilian infrastructure, including Ukraine’s electrical grid.
The Kremlin declined to confirm its receipt of Iranian missiles but acknowledged that its cooperation with Iran included "the most sensitive areas."
Russia has also deepened its ties with Iran and North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... , which are both strongly antagonistic toward the United States, since the start of its war with Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... signed a similarly titled "comprehensive" treaty in June, including a mutual defense clause, and the US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... say Pyongyang has sent some 10,000 soldiers to Russia for possible deployment in the war.
Russia has not denied their presence, and says it will implement the treaty as it sees fit.
[Euractiv via Gates of Vienna] Spain is cancelling a €6.5 million contract with an Israeli military company to buy ammunition for the country’s militarised police, the Interior Ministry said after the case was revealed in the media.
So the Spanish deep state is perfectly happy to buy from Israel, it’s just the prime minister and his coterie. Good to know
Sources in the ministry, led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska (PSOE/S&D), said on Tuesday that other Israeli arms companies would also be excluded from future contracts with Madrid as long as the conflict 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... continues.
"The Spanish government maintains its commitment not to sell or buy arms to the Israeli state since the outbreak of the armed conflict in the territory of Gaza," a statement issued by the Interior Ministry reads.
The Interior Ministry's reaction comes after partners of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) asked the progressive executive to shed light on a contract to purchase ammunition for the Guardia Civil after the case was revealed by Cadena SER.
The controversial contract was awarded on 21 October by Madrid to Guardian Homeland Security SA for more than 15 million 9 x 19-millimetre Parabellum-NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... bullets.
As soon as the executive became aware of the award to the Israeli company, a process was quickly initiated to "terminate the contract with this company", government spokeswoman Pilar Alegría stressed on Tuesday.
"The Spanish government's commitment not to buy or sell arms to Israel remains intact," said Alegría, as reported by Spanish public broadcaster RTVE.
Both the left-wing Sumar platform, a junior partner in Sánchez's government, and its former ally Podemos, as well as other far-left parties, including Izquierda Unida, have urged the government to suspend arms sales to Israel, and some want Madrid to break diplomatic and trade relations with Tel Aviv.
Last weekend, Podemos Death Eaters voted internally to stop supporting Sánchez unless Madrid cuts ties with Israel.
It looks like they’re still mad Iran executed their [dual] citizen.
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Islamic process.
Migrate to infidel nations.
Increase numbers.
Create communities and a political voice.
Start demanding self rule in the guest country.
Start protests.
Move from assualts to honor killings.
Terrorism.
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[PostMillennial] The unidentified ballot box bombing suspect in the Pacific Northwest could strike again, authorities warned. Portland Police Bureau spokesperson Mike Benner told news hounds during a Wednesday press brief: "Investigators believe it is very possible the suspect intends to continue these assassinations across the area."
Benner described the alleged suspect as a thin-faced white male between the ages of 30 and 40 years old with balding or very short hair, a medium to thin build, and was wearing dark clothing.
Could be an Antifa cadre…
Detectives believe the suspect has "a wealth of experience in metal fabrication and welding."
An interesting description. What could have triggered that?
Benner told news hounds case Sherlocks would be conducting a second presser later in the evening to provide more detailed information on the alleged suspect.
The briefing came in response to Monday's arson attacks, in which a suspect set fire by igniting incendiary devices to electoral ballot drop boxes in Portland, Oregon, and the neighboring city of Vancouver, Washington, just days before the highly anticipated US Presidential election.
Nearly 500 ballots were burned at the Vancouver bombing site located at Fisher's Landing on 3510 SE 164th Ave, the Clark County Auditor's Office said. Only three ballots were lightly burned at the Portland bombing site, according to Multnomah County election officials, who credited the state's ballot boxes being equipped with dry chemical fire suppressant systems that activate in response to heat.
"It worked exactly as it was supposed to," Oregon Elections Director Tim Scott said. "As soon as there was heat, it discharged the contents and immediately put out the flames." Washington state ballot boxes also are equipped with fire suppressant systems, but it had failed to go off, officials said.
Wheels within wheels. Does he really think this will help the VP with Moslem voters?
[IsraelTimes] Former US president Bill Clinton defended Israel’s war against Hamas while campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in Michigan yesterday.
“Let me talk about the hardest issue here in Michigan, the Middle East. I have to be careful what I say because there’s only one president at a time, and none of us can get ahead of where we’re going. But I think we’re going to have to essentially start again on the peace process,” says a hoarse Clinton.
“I understand why young Palestinian and Arab Americans in Michigan think too many people have died, but if you lived in one of those kibbutzim in Israel, right next to Gaza, where the people there were the most pro-friendship with Palestine — the most pro-two-state solution of any of the Israeli communities were the ones right next to Gaza, and Hamas butchered them,” he notes.
“The people who criticize [Israel’s response] are essentially saying, ‘Yeah, but look how many people you’ve killed in retaliation, how many is enough for you to kill to punish them for the terrible things they did?'”
“That all sounds nice until you realize what you would do if it was your family and you hadn’t done anything but support a homeland for the Palestinians, and one day they come for you and slaughter the people in your village.”
“You would say, ‘You have to forgive me, but I’m not keeping score that way.’ It isn’t how many we’ve had to kill because Hamas makes sure that they’re shielded by civilians. They’ll force you to kill civilians if you want to defend yourself,” Clinton says.
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There is Bill Clinton and Fetterman and a few others in the D party who are willing to put themselves out on this. The Hamasholes in the D party are younger and more numerous.
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I cannot but wonder if Bill speaks the relative truth in significant part because he feels the remembered warmth of attention and relevance, however fleeting. His ability to draw big speech money seems greatly lessened, and I'm not sure what benefactor billionaires still seek him out. And because I suspect CGI major fundraising is virtually moribund, the travel the world in style marry-go-round is ending.
If he can't get more speaking gigs, he faces spending more time with the chardonnay harridan and her endless anger tour! Who could willingly come home to that Chappaquiddick nightmare?
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NMBS, the sad fact is Bill doesn't really stay around Hillary all that much. He actually spends a lot of time with (are you ready for this) the Bushes. Elder George (now deceased) once refered to Bill being there at Thanksgiving as his "extra son". This to a newspaper.
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#7 relative truth
"The Clinton clan's compound is cluttered
With limos on cinderblocks," muttered
A hick up the hollow,
"But follow the dollar!
Hubb's double knows where their bread's buttered."
[NYPost] The illegal migrant who allegedly opened fire on a Jewish man walking to synagogue in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... last weekend was hit with new hate crime and terrorism charges on Thursday, according to authorities.
Sidi Mohammed Abdallahi, 22, was slapped with the additional charges after he allegedly shot and maimed a 39-year-old Jewish man Saturday morning in the city’s West Ridge neighborhood — and then got into an ensuing shootout with authorities leading up to his arrest.
Just before he exchanged gunfire with police, the alleged gunman reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar." He was critically maimed in the shootout where medics were also caught in the crossfire. Abdallahi remained hospitalized on Thursday.
The victim fortunately did not sustain life-threatening injuries and no first responders were hurt.
Abdallahi was initially charged with counts of attempted murder, attempted murder of a police officer, aggravated battery and aggravated discharge of a firearm.
The lack of hate crime charges at the start of the case infuriated members of the Jewish community. But Snelling said Sherlocks needed time to firm up the felony count as a hate crime and terrorism charge.
"There must be sufficient evidence to support hate crimes and terrorism charges and it was important we took our time to thoroughly investigate and confirm that this was indeed a crime of that nature," he said. "We did not secure these charges because of public pressure or media attention."
Detectives combed through the suspect’s phone which showed he planned to target Jewish community members leading up to the shooting, Snelling added.
”Note to self: Make sure all I kill are actually juices, and not just Jooish looking Italians or Arabs or Russians. It’s really hard to tell sometimes — some of them look almost human.”
A terrorism charge is rarely lodged, Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx
...one of the so-called Soros DAs, though other Progressive Very Rich People also donate to the project...
noted.
"We underscore the gravity of targeting specific communities with violence intended to intimidate or terrorize," she said. "This charge sends a clear message."
Mayor Brandon Johnson ...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodlng Commissioners from 2018 to 2023... , who was blasted earlier the week for not acknowledging that the victim was Jewish in an initial statement, called the hate directed at the Jewish community "hideous."
"There is absolutely no place in Chicago for antisemitism," Johnson said during the presser. "There’s no place in our city for hatred toward the Jewish community."
Sure there is. If there weren’t, you wouldn’t have equivocated in your first response.
Abdallahi, who is from the West African country Mauritania,
…good to know. The initial description of his homeland as western North Africa was awfully vague…
entered San Diego in March 2023 and was screened by border agents before he was released into the country, officials previously told The Post.
They do that a lot under the current administration. That’s why their union endorsed President Trump.
When the migrant was caught at the border last year, authorities didn’t find any criminal or terrorist histories linked to him, sources said.
Except that he broke the law when he entered the country…
Abdallahi was due in court on Tuesday, but that’s been delayed because he remains in the hospital, Foxx said.
[IsraelTimes] The newly appointed president of the Chicago Board of Education has tendered his resignation after coming under fire for past antisemitic and conspiratorial social media posts.
The Chicago Sun Times reports that Rev. Mitchell Johnson’s decision came at the request of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (no relation).
A day earlier, the Chicago mayor had defended the embattled CBE president, saying he had “expressed sorrow and is seeking atonement.”
But the mayor apparently shifted his approach after Illinois Governor JB Pritzker joined the super-majority of Chicago council members who called for Johnson’s ouster.
Many of Johnson’s most controversial posts — uncovered by Jewish Insider — came amid Hamas’s October 7 onslaught and the ensuing war in Gaza.
“People have an absolute right to attack their oppressors by any means necessary,” he wrote in one post.
“My Jewish colleagues appear drunk with the Israeli power and will live to see their payment,” Johnson said in another.
Johnson had been sworn in by the Chicago mayor just last week.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli intelligence suggests Iran is preparing to attack Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming days, possibly before the US presidential election on November 5, Axios reports, citing two unidentified Israeli sources.
The attack is expected to be carried out from Iraq using a large number of drones and ballistic missiles, the Axios report adds.
The report says that carrying out the attack through pro-Iran militias in Iraq could be an attempt by Tehran to avoid another Israeli attack against strategic targets in Iran.
No wonder the Iraqi government is nervous about Israeli retaliation,and wants the Harris-Biden administration to guarantee protection.
[IsraelTimes] According to fresh IDF data, some 1,300 drones have been launched at Israel since the start of the war last year, from all fronts — Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
The IDF says that 231 of the drones struck Israel, causing causalities and damage in some cases. Drones that exploded in open areas are also counted as having struck Israel.
Some 80 percent of drones have been intercepted, according to the military.
The IDF says it is increasing its efforts against Hezbollah’s aerial forces, known as Unit 127, which is responsible for drone attacks on Israel.
So far, the commander of the unit has been killed, along with other officers. In all, around 10% of the unit’s members have been killed or wounded, according to the IDF.
The Hezbollah aerial forces are currently left with some 30% of the drones it had before the war — thought to be in the hundreds — according to IDF assessments.
The military says that it has struck 54 sites used by the aerial forces to store drones, 24 sites used to store cruise missiles, eight sites where drones and cruise missiles were assembled, six underground sites, and seven weapon depots.
[IsraelTimes] Speaking at the end of an IDF combat officers training course at Bahad 1 near Mitzpe Ramon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israeli freedom to stop Hezbollah attacks is more important than ceasefire agreements in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... "The agreements, the papers, the proposals, the numbers [UN Security Council Resolution] 1509, 1701 — all these have their place, but they are not the main thing," he says, hours after meeting and making a similar point to top White House Middle East aides. "The main thing is our ability and our determination to enforce security, to thwart attacks against us and to act against the arming of our enemies as much as is necessary despite all the pressures and constraints — that is the main thing."
Amid chants of "Bibi, Bibi" and regular applause, Netanyahu says Israel attacked Iran’s "soft underbelly" in its recent strikes.
"The brash words of the leaders of the regime in 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... cannot cover up the fact that Israel has greater freedom of action in Iran today than ever before. We can reach anywhere in Iran as needed."
Last week, the Israeli Air Force attacked anti-aircraft batteries and radar sites in Iran in retaliation for a massive Iranian ballistic missile attack on October 1.
The IDF’s supreme goal is stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the premier says.
"I have not removed, we have not removed and we will not remove our eyes from this goal. For obvious reasons, I cannot detail our plans for achieving this supreme goal."
Netanyahu says that the fight against the Iranian axis is guided by the "total victory concept."
"I am not establishing a date for the end of the war, but I am establishing clear goals for victory in the war," he says.
Seemingly pushing back against criticism that the military effort since October 7, 2023, has been mismanaged, the premier says: "There is a path, there is a direction. There are clear goals."
"We chose to focus initially on pounding Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... militarily 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 not to divide our forces between two main efforts at the same time," Netanyahu explains.
"After we destroyed Hamas’s organized force, after 90 percent of the residents returned home safely in the south, we focused our efforts on the north."
Israel is "changing the strategic reality in the Middle East," he boasts, but warns that Israel is still "in the eye of the storm."
"I really, really appreciate the support of the US," says Netanyahu. "When possible — I say yes. When I have to — I say no."
Netanyahu blasts "those who pushed for a premature diplomatic arrangement in Lebanon before we destroyed the tunnel network on our border, before we eliminated [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah and his replacement, and his replacement’s replacement. Before we destroyed much of Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal."
He notes that more than half of the hostages taken in Hamas’s October 7 onslaught have been brought home from Gaza, and adds that Israel is working to get the rest back, but contends that this is a matter for action behind the scenes rather than talking about publicly.
Netanyahu also goes out of his way to praise IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.
Rightfully is Ha’aretz called the New York Times of Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Newspaper boss also tells its conference in London that Israel is imposing ‘apartheid,’ should be sanctioned; some ministries cut ties with it; government consider complete boycott
The ministries of the interior, education, and Diaspora affairs cut ties with the Haaretz newspaper Thursday, while the communications minister proposed a boycott covering all government bodies, after publisher Amos Schocken told a conference that Israel is imposing an "apartheid regime" on the Paleostinians and referred to "Paleostinian freedom fighters that Israel calls terrorists."
Some have to learn by peeing on the electric fence, as Fred so picturesquely says in one of his auto-translations.
In a letter to its spokesperson’s department, Interior Ministry Director General Ronen Peretz wrote that Schocken’s remarks "provoke disgust and show a disconnect from basic values."
He said that Israel is in the midst of a war "that could not be more justified" following the Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
The action would cover all advertising and announcements of government tenders in both the printed edition and on the Haaretz website, Channel 12 reported.
"Our ministry is entrusted with the campaign against the delegitimization of Israel, and it is astounding to specifically see a supposedly ’Israeli’ organization acting against Israel from within," Diaspora Affairs Ministry Director-General Avi Cohen-Scali said.
Education Ministry Director General Meir Shimoni likewise ordered an end to all cooperation with Haaretz, telling staff in a letter that Schocken’s remarks "contradict the values of the education system."
Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi proposed to the government that it end all interaction with Haaretz, including ads by the Government Press Office.
Such action, he wrote in the proposal, "will reduce the hard impact that Israeli citizens feel, not just from the newspaper’s publications, but also because they are required to fund it from their tax money."
The boycott would not entail a disproportionate impact on freedom of speech, Karhi said. He noted that Haaretz must have taken into account that its stance, as expressed by Schocken, would upset some of its clients, including the State of Israel.
In his remarks, made Sunday at a Haaretz conference in London and circulated on social media in a video apparently compiled from several excerpts from his speech, Schocken was seen saying, "The Netanyahu government doesn’t care about imposing a cruel apartheid regime on the Paleostinian population. It dismisses the costs to both sides for defending the [West Bank] settlements while fighting the Paleostinian freedom fighters that Israel calls terrorists."
"In a sense, what is taking place in the occupied territories and parts of 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... is a second Nakba," Schocken said, invoking a term describing the displacement of Paleostinians during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948.
He said the only way to establish a necessary Paleostinian state is "to apply sanctions against Israel, against the leaders who oppose it, and against the settlers."
In a statement issued on Thursday evening, Schocken said he had reconsidered his remarks and should have used different wording regarding Paleostinian freedom fighters.
"I’ve reconsidered what I said," Schocken said. "There are many freedom fighters in the world and through history, perhaps also on the path to the establishment of the State of Israel, who carried out shocking and dreadful terrorist activities and harmed innocent people in order to achieve their goals.
"I should have said, ’Freedom fighters who also use terrorist methods and need to be fought against.’ The use of terrorism is not legitimate," Schocken said.
Israel rejects accusations of apartheid in the Paleostinian territories by pointing out that the Paleostinians living there are citizens of the Paleostinian Authority, which has a form of self-rule, and that Arab Israelis enjoy rights equal to those of their Jewish counterparts.
The Choose Life forum, which represents some terror victims and their families, said they had filed a complaint with police accusing Schocken of incitement and of encouraging harm to the state and its security forces.
"Such remarks are beyond the bounds of free speech and cross into incitement," the forum said in a statement. By calling turbans "freedom fighters," it wrote, Schocken was "supporting the enemies of the state."
Karhi had already called for ending government ties to Haaretz in November last year, citing the left-leaning newspaper’s reporting on the war.
[IsraelTimes] As Qatari interlocutors reportedly try to coax terror group back to negotiating table with various short-term ceasefire offers, senior official says demands haven’t changed.
[IsraelTimes] In first interview with Israeli outlet, former spy chief Maciej Hunia says allied nations’ fights over Holocaust history are in the past.
What a lovely thing to say. Interview at the link.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli TV reports progress in Israel-US talks; WSJ says Hezbollah and Lebanon unlikely to agree to Israel’s demand for ‘active enforcement’ of ceasefire; Blinken: More work to do
Top Israeli officials and senior Biden aides made significant progress in their meetings aimed at securing a ceasefire in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , according to a Channel 12 report on Thursday that said Israel is seeking a side letter from the US in which Washington will commit to allowing Israel freedom of action to respond to any violation of the ceasefire deal by Hezbollah.
A US official told The Times of Israel that US special envoy Amos Hochstein and White House Mideast czar Brett McGurk’s meetings with top Israeli officials in Jerusalem on Thursday were "substantive and constructive and focused on a number of issues in depth, including Iran, Lebanon, 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 securing the release of hostages."
Hochstein and McGurk met over the course of the day with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Shin Bet director Ronan Bar, Mossad director David Barnea and other senior Israeli officials.
"There was a particular focus on efforts to secure a ceasefire deal in Lebanon that allows people on both sides of the Blue Line to return safely to their homes as well as new initiatives to secure the release of hostages, which Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... must do without delay," the US official said, adding that Washington "will not negotiate either issue in public."
Netanyahu’s office said "the main issue" that the premier discussed with Hochstein and McGurk were "Israel’s ability and determination to enforce the agreement and thwart any threat to its security from Lebanon."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... said on Thursday that Israel and Lebanon were moving toward understandings on what is required for implementing UN Resolution 1701 that would result in a sustainable end to the conflict.
"It’s important to make sure we have clarity, both from Lebanon and from Israel, about what would be required under 1701 to get its effective implementation," Blinken told a presser. "I can tell you that based on my recent trip to the region, the work that’s ongoing right now, we have made good progress on those understandings."
While good progress had been made, there was still more work to do, Blinken said.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council adopted Resolution 1701 in 2006 with the aim of keeping peace on the border between Lebanon and Israel, but provisions on Hezbollah’s disarmament and the prevention of their presence near the Israeli border were quickly ignored.
Lebanon’s prime minister expressed hope on Wednesday that a ceasefire deal with Israel would be announced within days as Israel’s public broadcaster published what it said was a draft agreement providing for an initial 60-day truce.
According to the US news site Axios, Israel’s main demand is to be able to conduct "active enforcement" of Resolution 1701, which requires that the Lebanese Armed Forces be the only force with arms in southern Lebanon.
A report in The Wall Street Journal said that demand is likely to face steep resistance from both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government over concerns it violates the country’s illusory sovereignty.
The report said Hezbollah told mediators the 60-day ceasefire leaves the door open to "Israeli aggression in Lebanon," and that the terror group is staunchly against any modification of resolution 1701.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that there seemed to be progress in convincing Hezbollah to drop its insistence that there be no halt to the fighting in Lebanon until there’s a ceasefire in Gaza.
The attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 39 civilians.
According to the IDF, 61 soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.
According to the Lebanese health ministry, over 2,800 people have been killed in Lebanon over the past year, with most of the deaths coming since the conflict escalated last month. The IDF estimates that more than 2,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict.
[IsraelTimes] Extension comes after pressure from US and Western allies; US urges Israel to lift restrictions on Palestinian economy, fearing collapse.
If they ran their economy properly instead of being yet another corrupt Arab polity, they wouldn’t have this problem.
[IsraelTimes] Republican nominee has repeatedly called for Israel to end war quickly, but ex-Trump aide and Israeli official are first to reveal that the request has a timeline attached.
One of the ex-Trump aides who loves him or one of those who loathes him? Whether we believe this claim depends on who is making it.
Former US president Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants Israel to wrap up the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office if he wins the election, two sources familiar with the matter revealed to The Times of Israel this week.
Woo hoo! Ring the bell, guys, we’ve got us an EXCLUSIVE!
The message was first conveyed when the Republican presidential nominee hosted the Israeli premier at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort in July, according to a former Trump administration official and an Israeli official.
While Trump has publicly confirmed having told Netanyahu that he wants Israel to win the war quickly, the sources speaking to The Times of Israel are the first to reveal that a timeline was attached to that request.
The former US official stressed that Trump wasn’t specific in his appeal to Netanyahu and could well back “residual” IDF activity in Gaza, so long as Jerusalem has officially ended the war.
Netanyahu has long stressed that Israel will maintain overriding security control of Gaza for the foreseeable future after the war, and other Israeli officials have spoken about the IDF maintaining a buffer zone inside the Strip while regularly re-entering areas throughout the enclave when it detects Hamas trying to regroup.
But the prime minister indicated on Monday that Israel is not yet at the conflict wrap-up stage, telling Likud MKs in a quickly leaked recording from a faction meeting that he cannot agree to Hamas’s demand to end the war in exchange for the 101 hostages it still holds.
Trump in recent weeks has indicated that he’d give Israel freer reign to make decisions, slamming US President Joe Biden for trying to restrict the potential targets of Jerusalem’s retaliation to Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile attack.
The former US official clarified that the pre-inauguration day victory that Trump wants Israel to secure in Gaza also includes the return of the hostages.
Trump, himself, warned at the Republican National Convention in July that those holding American hostages abroad will “pay a very big price” if they aren’t released before he assumes office.
The Trump campaign and Netanyahu’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump and Netanyahu have spoken several times since their July Mar-a-Lago meeting, and Trump said last week that the prime minister had just called him two days in a row.
Earlier this month, two senior Israeli officials told The Times of Israel that they were concerned about Trump’s repeated calls for Israel to end the Gaza war quickly, fearing an inability to do so will lead to a clash if the former US president wins next week’s election and returns to office in January.
“There are internal political constraints to ending the war quickly,” one of the Israeli officials from the security establishment said at the time.
While declining to elaborate, he appeared to refer to the makeup of Netanyahu’s coalition, which includes far-right elements who have opposed hostage deal proposals conditioned on a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
There is also near-unanimity within the Netanyahu government against allowing the Palestinian Authority to play a role in the governance of Gaza. A second Israeli official said this has contributed to the war dragging on, as Jerusalem struggles to find a viable alternative to fill the power vacuum in Gaza, thereby allowing Hamas to regain its footing in areas where the IDF has left.
A lawmaker from the opposition — also speaking on condition of anonymity — acknowledged that dragging out the war through the January 20 inauguration would also sour relations with Vice President Kamala Harris, if she were to win in November.
However, “Netanyahu has managed clashes with Democratic presidents without paying a heavy price. In fact, he campaigns on his ability to stand up to them,” the lawmaker said.
“A fight with Trump is something he hasn’t really had to deal with, and I think it’s something he’d want to avoid, but [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir may not let him,” the MK added, referring to the far-right cabinet ministers whose support the premier needs to remain in power.
Hmmmm…. both the former Trump official/aide and the Israeli are anonymous. So after all that, we can have no idea of the validity of the exclusive report. And the Israel Times dislikes both President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, making me skeptical in both directions.
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Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants Israel to wrap up the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office
"So get busy and get it done. Y'all got some moles to whack!"
I have not spoken to The Donald personally, but I suspect the results are more important than any timeline.
Too many times we've seen Mr. Anonymous talked with Mr. Nobody in the media which have been a 'news story' under commissioned instruction to try and shoehorn a policy.
What is interesting is the ground prepping of a Trump election.
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The proper response has to do with 'you want with one hand', and something else in the other.
Never hurry the cook. If you wanted earlier, it should have started earlier.
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He may mean for Israel to go all out instead of meaning them to walk away like the current administration and the noisy part of the world have been demanding.
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I take Israeli opinion on American Politics based on anonymous sources and their interpretations as seriously as I take Australian
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^ And as seriously as they should take my (partially) informed opinions on their respective internal politics
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Trump...says we have to get Lebanon conflict over with
We are in "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is" territory here. And let's not forget that this story has been passed through the Journalism Filter which makes everything more awful than it is.
Traditionally in the ME, getting a conflict over with meant kicking the can far enough down the road that the news cycle died down and everyone could get back to grifting. Having the Gaza war over makes life better for everyone in the neighborhood except Hamas and UNRWA.
Being a successful businessman implies Trump is a practical guy. Solving a problem once and for all is better than letting it fester eternally. Especially if someone else does the heavy lifting.
tl;dr: I interpret this story as Trump to told Netanyahu: Weapons Free!
[Rudaw] Iran’s ministry of foreign affairs on Tuesday rejected criticism by Germany over Tehran’s execution of dual national Jamshid Sharmahd, saying that a European passport does not guarantee freedom from punishment.
"No terrorist enjoys impunity in Iran. Even if supported by Germany," the foreign ministry announced, resharing a post on X by Minister Abbas Araghchi.
He defended the use of capital punishment for Sharmahd, who was executed in 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 on charges of "corruption on Earth" and "leading terror operations," according to state media.
"A German passport does not provide impunity to anyone..." Iran’s foreign ministry added, stating that Sharmahd led an attack on a mosque in 2008 that killed 14 people and injured 200.
Sharmahd, 69, was a German journalist of Iranian descent who was sentenced to death in February 2023. He was accused of heading a pro-monarchist group responsible for the bombing. Tehran does not recognize dual citizenship.
Germany’s foreign ministry in the "strongest possible terms" protested the Iranian regime’s execution, recalling its ambassador to Tehran and Iran’s envoy to Berlin on Tuesday.
"Our ambassador in Tehran today delivered a demarche to the Iranian Foreign Minister and protested in the strongest possible terms against the murder of Jamshid Sharmahd," read a post on X by Germany’s foreign office.
"We have conveyed our strong protest against the actions of the regime and reserve the right to take further action," the post added.
Sharmahd was kidnapped from Dubai in July 2020 by agents of the ministry of intelligence and was taken to Iran, Amnesty International reported the following month.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s top diplomat Josep Borrell also condemned the execution.
Iran executed at least 853 people in 2023, Amnesty reported in a research report published in April, adding that it was the highest recorded total for Iran since 2015.
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Khamenei stated that Israel’s attack and the high number of casualties were too significant to overlook,… pic.twitter.com/GLhqDKiQeY
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