[IsraelTimes] Organizers mute celebrations as focus turns to hostages and ongoing war in Gaza; mayor says he resisted pressure to cancel, as participants insist event as important as ever
People chanted "Bring them home now!" and waved Israeli flags as they marched up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for what this year is being called "Israel Day on Fifth.”
Marchers chanted for the release of hostages on Sunday at a New York City parade for Israel that drew thousands of people under heightened security. The parade kicked off almost eight months after the unprecedented October 7 terror attack by Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood... , the deadliest in Israel’s history. The annual parade in the past was dubbed "Celebrate Israel," but organizers said the exuberant atmosphere would be toned down this year given the war and hostages still being held in captivity in Gazoo
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No. Go sit in a corner and mourn your exposed smuggling tunnels while the IDF gets on with what must be done.
[GEO.TV] Officials from the United States, Israel and Egypt ended a meeting in Cairo on Sunday with Egypt sticking to its position that Israel must withdraw from the Paleostinian side of the Rafah crossing for it to operate again, two Egyptian security sources said.
The Egyptian security sources said Sunday's meeting was positive despite there being no agreement on reopening of the crossing. Egypt's delegation at the meeting said it would be open to European monitors at the border to oversee its operation by Paleostinian authorities if Paleostinian authorities agreed to resume work.
Israeli and US officials said they would work quickly to remove the obstacles to the operation of the crossing, the Egyptian sources said.
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El Sisi been rais (head) too long - he's developed the autocrat infallibility complex.
[IsraelTimes] Supporters rally under banner ‘United we bring them home,’ for largest pro-Israel gathering in UK since October 7; speakers include relatives of Hamas captives
Tens of thousands of people marched through London Sunday, calling for the return of Israeli hostages held captive by terror groups 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 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... since Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s October 7 massacre.
Under the banner "United we bring them home," the peaceful rally garnered some 40,000 participants, according to organizers, making it the largest pro-Israel gathering in the UK since war erupted in Gaza after the terror onslaught.
There were no reports of violence or arrests at the march, which set out from Central London’s Lincoln’s Inn Fields and ended at Whitehall, accompanied by police guard. Supporters waved Israeli flags and held placards with photos of the hostages.
Family members of hostages joined the march, including relatives of Omer Neutra, who has been held captive since October 7, and the parents of Sgt. Oz Daniel, whose body is held in Gaza.
"It’s very hard for us to travel the world and to speak to people. But we cannot just sit at home and cry," Daniel’s father Amir Daniel told the BBC.
At the culmination of the event, yellow balloons were released, the color that has been adopted to symbolize the plight of the captives, usually in the form of yellow ribbons.
Along with the hostages’ families, speakers included the former head of the Conservative Friends of Israel, Stuart Polak, and Prof. Daniel Shek, former Israeli ambassador to La Belle France, according to the BBC.
"You can really see that London stands with Israel today," Orly Goldschmidt, a spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in London, said in a video posted to X. "It’s been 240 days since our hostages were taken by Hamas bully boyz into Gaza and we need to do everything to bring them home back now."
The march took place in parallel with the annual Israel Day parade in New York City, which also marked the largest pro-Israel gathering there since October 7, but was also held under heavy security.
Since the outbreak of war, launched when Hamas bully boyz carried out a massacre inside Israel on October 7, UK Jewish residents say they have come under increased attack and have cited fears around repeated pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel marches through London that feature people glorifying Hamas, and anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric.
Though the pro-Paleostinian marches have been largely peaceful, a British counterterrorism official said in March that the protests had made the streets of London "a no-go zone for Jews every weekend."
British Jews say they have been subject to verbal abuse by some pro-Paleostinian supporters since October 7, and there have been recorded incidents of physical violence as well.
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[Regnum] The proposal to ban the wearing of a niqab (fabric or veil that covers the face) in Russia has sparked a discussion about the admissibility and expediency of such a step, wrote the author of the Islam News portal Aidar Bariev.
He recalled that the niqab is not “Islamic clothing” and therefore is not regulated in any way by the legal norms of Islam. We are talking about clothing worn by some southern tribes of pre-Islamic times.
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[Regnum] French Culture Minister Rachida Dati has called on the Justice Ministry to introduce criminal penalties for protests in which participants “attack” paintings and other works of art, Le Figaro newspaper reported on June 2.
What a clever idea!
“This destruction of art by criminals cannot be justified in any way. This needs to end,” the head of the department told reporters.
Duthie called for legislation to be adapted to what she considers a new type of crime. The minister said that vandals who desecrate works of art are attacking the most noble component of the unity of France - culture.
As Regnum reported, on June 1, an environmental activist calling for the fight against climate change covered the painting “Poppies” by the impressionist artist Claude Monet with a red poster. She also glued her hand to the wall and shouted that the world by 2100 will look like the Sahara Desert, and not what is shown in the painting.
In February, at the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts, two environmental activists also chose a Monet painting for their vandalism action. They poured soup on the “Spring” canvas.The purpose of the action was also to declare that the world was allegedly facing an environmental disaster.
In January, environmental vandals poured soup on Leonardo da Vinci's La Gioconda (Mona Lisa) in the Louvre Museum in Paris. They explained their action as a desire to promote the right to healthy and sustainable food.
With the world economy slowing, is now a good time to drive away paying customers?
[GEO.TV] The Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives will ban Israelis from the luxury tourist hot spot, the office of the president said Sunday, announcing a national rally in "solidarity with Paleostine".
President Mohammed Muizzu has "resolved to impose a ban on Israeli passports," a spokesperson for his office said in a statement, without giving details of when the new law would take effect.
Muizzu also announced a national fundraising campaign called "Maldivians in Solidarity with Paleostine".
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I’ve probably said it before, but anyone visiting the Maldives should watch their six. It is, IMO, a prime location for terrorist activity. Target rich and home field advantage.
5/31/2024
[Rudaw] Over 850 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in Sulaimani camps returned to their original places of residence in Salahaddin and Nineveh provinces, Iraq’s migration and displaced minister announced on Thursday.
Iraqi Minister of Migration and Displaced Evan Faeq Jabro on Thursday announced the return of 872 people from the Ashti IDP camp in Sulaimani, according to a statement from the ministry. Ashti camp is the last IDP camp that houses displaced persons in the Sulaimani province.
The IDPs returned to Salahaddin’s Yathrib district and the Yazidi town of Shingal in Nineveh.
"Based on the directives of the minister, the ministry's staff delivered financial grant checks amounting to four million dinars," continued the statement adding that the returnees were given goods such as a TV, stove and refrigerator as well as relief material.
The return of the IDPs comes as the July 30 deadline set by the ministry to stop aid to the displaced persons and close the camps approaches.
In March, officials from the Iraqi migration ministry told Rudaw that it would stop all aid for the displaced persons in the Kurdistan Region by July 30, adding that the displaced persons would receive 4 million dinars [about $2,670] in aid as an incentive to encourage their return.
Iraq says there are over 30,000 IDPs from Iraq’s southern and central provinces living in the Kurdistan Region’s camps.
Despite the financial incentive, many IDPs are reluctant to return home because of continuing violence in their hometowns, a lack of reconstruction following the destruction of their homes, and little in the way of basic services. Some who voluntarily left the camps have been forced to return, because they could not secure basic needs in their hometowns.
The camps in the Kurdistan Region also suffer from a lack of funds. In December, a Sulaimani migration department official told Rudaw that residents of Arbat camp were moved to Ashti camp to save money after aid was cut off.
There are more than 630,000 IDPs in the Kurdistan Region, though most of them reside outside of the 23 camps established across Duhok, Erbil, and Sulaimani provinces, according to figures from the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Joint Crisis Coordination Center. The Kurdistan Region was hosting several million IDPs at the peak of the conflict with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
[IsraelTimes] Israel has accomplished most of its military goals in the war against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... , White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says.
Asked for the basis of US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... ’s assertion on Friday that the Hamas terror group can no longer carry out another attack akin to the one it launched against Israel on October 7, Kirby responds, "It is based on accumulation of our own intelligence assessments across the intelligence agencies."
Oh. That.
"We’re also not saying that Hamas has been wiped off the face of the map. We have not said that Hamas has no military capabilities," Kirby says in an interview on ABC News’ "This Week" program. "We have not said that they don’t still represent a viable threat to the Israeli people. Of course they do." Then Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
"But they don’t have the military capabilities to do what they did on the 7th of October. From a military perspective only — as President Biden said — the Israelis have accomplished most of their goals 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 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... ," Kirby asserts.
This gap between Hamas being unable to carry out another October 7-like attack and still representing a viable threat to Israel will likely lie at the heart of deliberations by Israel as to whether it will stick with the hostage deal proposal its war cabinet authorized last week.
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The IDF was caught unprepared on Oct 7 for the kind of attack that happened. This won't happen again and another Oct 7 attack by Hamas will not work.
There will be a different type of attack.
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It's not even the end of the beginning until the hostages are recovered, dead or alive.
5/28/2024 See more of Dr. Baram’s observations here.
[RUDAW] Kurdish physician Baxtiyar Baram, who spent weeks treating the maimed in two different hospitals in the war-battered 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... said on Tuesday that people are plagued by hunger and terribly in need of "a sip of water," adding that Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
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5/17/2024
[Rudaw] Nearly 30 people have been killed in Syria by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attacks in the first two weeks of May, a war monitor reported on Friday.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, reported that ISIS launched 18 attacks in the first half of May, 13 of which were in the areas under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Deir ez-Zor, and five in the areas held by the Syrian regime.
Around 29 people were killed in the attacks, including a civilian.
ISIS attacks in Syria, particularly in the vast expanses of its eastern and northern desert where the group is active amid a security vacuum, have been on the rise in recent months, sparking fears of a possible resurgence.
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Is this another instance where the best strategy for us is to provide arms or intelligence to whoever is losing?
5/29/2024 See more of Dr. Baxtiyar Baram‘s observations here.
[Rudaw] Basim Naim, former Paleostinian health minister and a Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... politburo member, said on Wednesday that he was unaware of Paleostinian funds being spent on building settlements in the Kurdish city of Afrin in Syria, stating that Paleostinians cannot build their homes at the expense of other people.
Speaking to Rudaw’s Sangar Abdulrahman from Doha, Naim said that he was unaware of claims by a Kurdish doctor who served 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 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... , that funds collected by Gazooks were being used to build Paleostinian settlements in Afrin
"We cannot build our rights, our homes, and our freedom at the expense of any other human. We cannot accept the construction of our homes and residents at the expense of other people," Naim said.
During a Rudaw news bulletin on Tuesday, Dr Baxtiyar Baram, a Kurdish doctor who traveled to Gaza from April 28 to May 22 with the Norwegian NORWAC Association, stated that Hamas and Gazooks "hate Kurds" and that his Kurdish name was a problem for him during his stay at the Strip.
"The Paleostinians recognize that the Kurds have done great favors to Paleostine and its people... We consider the role of the Kurdish people in defending Paleostine, not as a secondary, marginal or political, but the Kurdish role is an authentic, historic and permanent role," Naim said, denying Baram’s claims.
"We are indebted to the Kurdish people for all the sacrifices they have given throughout centuries for Paleostine, and for the freedom and the dignity of the Paleostinian people," he added.
Israel accuses Hamas leaders of hiding in hospitals and using civilians as a human shield against the Israeli campaign, a claim that was reiterated by Dr Baram during his stay in the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Baram said he is an eyewitness to Hamas leaders take shelters at hospitals and he has personally spoken with one of the founders of the group inside one of the hospitals.
"Hamas, as a political and military organization, needed to exploit everywhere to shelter them in their strategic positions... I have seen it with my eyes that the hospitals have been used for hiding Hamas leaders," Baram said. "Yes, yes, we saw them and even spoke with them, including one of the founders of Hamas, Mr. Munir Albursh."
Naim did not reject Baram’s claim of Albursh being at the hospital at the time. Still, he elaborated that Albursh was the director general of the health ministry and it is a wartime practice that the health ministry officials move into the hospitals to be present on the field.
"When I was a [health] minister, during wartime the ministry administration is moved into the hospitals in order to be able to perform on-field and administrative work for these emergency operations," Naim said, stating that Baram was not "informed about the nature of fieldwork" during the war.
Naim thanked the doctor "who risked his life, and was adamant to join a European medical team under the banner of the Norwegian NORWAC, to help and aid our maimed Paleostinian people."
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
