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[IsraelTimes] Palestine Action group shares photo of sculptures of Israel’s first president wrapped in keffiyeh scarves, threatens to send ‘an ear’ to US Jewish group that offered reward
Days after Paleostine Action published footage of activists stealing two busts of Chaim Weizmann from the University of Manchester, the British anti-Israel group posted threats on social media on Monday lauding the "abduction" of the statues of Israel’s first president.
Greater Manchester Police said that they were investigating the incident on Saturday.
A photo posted to X on Monday showed the busts wrapped in keffiyeh headscarves, an emblem of solidarity with the Paleostinian cause.
Another post threatened to send "one ear" from the sculptures in exchange for the reward offered by Betar US, a right-wing pro-Israel group that traces its roots to pre-state Zionist activist Zeev Jabotinsky.
I say let them smash it to bits. If the University of Manchester can’t be bothered to protect this memento of one of their most famous scholars, they deserve to lose it just as Britain lost the man himself to Israel. There are plenty more equally artistic statues of the man, I imagine, and an entire nation to look at for those who want a trigger for memory.
On Saturday, Paleostine Action said that activists had taken the sculptures of the late Israeli leader from the university in northern England because he "secured" the 1917 Balfour Declaration, "which began the ethnic cleansing of Paleostine by signing the land away."
Over the weekend, the activist group also sprayed the London office of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) with red paint and carried out a similar protest at the Britannia Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) lobby group’s headquarters in London.
It also collaborated with students from the University of Cambridge, where Balfour was educated, to spray the university’s Institute of Manufacturing and Senate House.
The group said the activists stole the busts to mark the 107th anniversary of the declaration, in which the British government issued a commitment to "establish in Paleostine a national home for the Jewish people," which was at the time governed by the Ottoman Empire.
The declaration is considered the first of many steps that led to the creation of Israel.
Weizmann, who worked as a biochemistry professor at the University of Manchester, was a leading statesman of the Zionist movement in the early 1900s. He spearheaded the international diplomatic efforts that led to international recognition of the budding Jewish state and is considered one of Israel’s founding fathers.
[israelTimes] A law authorizing the Education Ministry to dismiss teachers who publicly identify with an act of terrorism passes its final reading in the Knesset 55-45.
According to its explanatory notes, the bill, which also allows the ministry to cut funding for schools that have shown support for or identification with a terrorist act or a terrorist organization, is primarily aimed at Arab schools in East Jerusalem where there is “incitement of minors against the State of Israel alongside the glorification of terrorists” whose “destructive and long-term effect, among other things, may be expressed in the large number of minors living in East Jerusalem who carry out or attempt to carry out terrorist attacks.”
“Education is a central and significant factor that motivates many terrorist attacks against the State of Israel,” says far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Teachers are among the most significant influences on children and the bill was “designed to make sure that a teacher does not use his influence for terrorist activity by his students and that the school does not allow this to happen,” says bill co-sponsor MK Zvika Fogel (Otzma Yehudit).
Teachers who identify with terrorism can teach “in Tehran, Gaza or Ramallah today, but not in our schools,” declares co-sponsor Likud MK Amit Halevi.
“As we know, a bomb is not created and does not explode by itself. Its basic components are the brain and the heart, the consciousness of destruction, and the emotional fervor to carry it out, and these are created first of all in the educational system,” he adds. “One teacher may raise dozens of ticking bombs every year. One idea can be more destructive than a thousand tanks.”
[IsraelTimes] Legislation would halt child allowances to parents of minors incarcerated for security offenses, cut off workplace injury compensation for non-resident terror convicts.
[IsraelTimes] A water desalination plant in Gaza is connected to Israel’s electricity grid to increase the supply of clean water in the war-torn coastal enclave.
The, plant located in the southern city of Khan Younis, is run by UNICEF and can provide 20,000 cubic meters of water daily to the nearby humanitarian zone where the vast majority of Gaza’s population is currently taking refuge from the conflict.
Israel’s security cabinet approved a decision in July to connect the desalination facility to the Israeli grid in July, but it has taken several months to complete the necessary work. The plant was finally connected on Sunday.
MK Yulia Malinovsky of the opposition Yisrael Beytenu party condemns the development, writing on X “101 hostages returning to their homes – no. The government of Israel takes care of its enemy and not its citizens.”
Israel supplied close to 50 percent of Gaza’s electricity before the current war, but cut off its electricity supply to Gaza on October 12 last year following the Hamas invasion and atrocities on October 7.
The UN and other agencies have deplored the humanitarian situation in Gaza in recent weeks, in particular in northern Gaza where a group of UN and independent organizations said last week the situation was “apocalyptic.”
[Ynet] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday offered $5 million for the release of each hostage held by Hamas, along with safe passage for the captors to a third country, in a bid to secure their freedom.
Officials are working to publicize the offer through various channels, hoping to incentivize those holding the hostages.
Israeli officials also believe that a "renewed momentum" for advancing a deal could emerge after the U.S. elections. Sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday that communication with mediators is ongoing, primarily to explore whether Hamas can be persuaded to soften its demands, which currently include ending the war and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Hamas has rejected all that, and everything else. But they may yet say yes, and in the meantime, the fact of offering such a bribe for a hudna keeps the world a little bit off Israel’s back.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The US military is set to conduct a test launch of a hypersonic nuclear missile hours after polls close on Election Day.
An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is scheduled to blast off between 11:01pm and 5:01am PT from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Some Americans have expressed concerns about the nuclear weapon test on the same day as the country is casting their votes for the next president.
But military officials noted that the 'test is routine and was scheduled years in advance.'
They said the purpose of the test was to show the 'readiness of nuclear US forces' and provide 'confidence in the nation's nuclear deterrence' amid fears of the growing threat of the outbreak of World War III.
The exercise will see the ICBM travel 4,200 miles from the base to Kwajalein Atoll, a small island in the North Pacific, which will take about 22 minutes.
The weapon can reach speeds over 15,000 miles per hour, allowing it to hit any target worldwide in just 30 minutes after launch.
Moscow sits about 5,900 miles from California, while Beijing is about 6,000 miles away - the two nations deemed a threat to the US.
ICBM is one of two currently used by America - the other is submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) that are deployed from underwater submarines.
However, the US's Titan topped speeds of 16,000mph when it was used from 1963 through 1987.
Titan was capable of traveling to a target more than 6,000 miles away in less than 30 minutes.
But the missile was phased out to make way for more advanced systems such as the MX Peacekeeper that had a similar speed and distance.
ICBM is a vital component of the US military's nuclear forces, capable of delivering a nuclear payload to targets around the world, but is scheduled to be phased out by 2029 and replaced with the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM.
The US Air Force said that 'the Sentinel weapon system is the most cost-effective option for maintaining a safe, secure, and effective land-based leg of the nuclear triad and would extend its capabilities through 2075.'
The upcoming weapon will replace the 400 Minuteman III ICBMs currently in service for more than 50 years in Air Force missile fields at F.E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB), Wyoming; Malmstrom AFB, Montana; and Minot AFB, North Dakota.
The California base conducted the same test in June
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
