What idiots. These things are usually labelled so that the students, ignorant darlings that they are, will learn who is held up before them as examples.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Pro-Palestinian activists who claimed to have 'beheaded' a bust of Israel's first president also mistakenly stole a statue of a CBE-winning professor.
Campaigners from Palestine Action were filmed on Saturday violently smashing their way through a glass cabinet with hammers before grabbing a pair of statues.
They said that both portrayed Chaim Weizmann, but it has been revealed that one was actually a professor who pushed for women's education.
The group later posted an image of one of the statues without a head and declared the 'first bust of Weizmann is dead'.
The University of Manchester said they believe the decapitated figure was Weizmann, but the other is of Harold Dixon, a former professor of chemistry.
Prof Dixon specialised in the cause of mine explosions, and used this knowledge in the First World War as the Deputy Inspector of High Explosives for Manchester.
He was also an amateur footballer who played for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final and an early supporter of women's education in physics.
Prof Dixon spent much of his life living in Fallowfield, more than 3,000 miles away from Israel. It's not yet known which sculpture Palestine Action has 'beheaded'.
The group shared a post on X on Tuesday (November 5), showing one of the sculptures without its head, alongside the comment: 'First bust of Weizmann is dead. Soon, his zionist project will be too!'
In a previous post on Wednesday, both busts were shown wearing a keffiyeh, a Palestinian scarf. The group wrote: 'Weizmann is now under Palestine Action's control.'
The group shared video footage over the weekend of the moment the two busts were taken from the university. GMP has been investigating the incident this week and no arrests have been made so far.
Politician and life peer John Woodcock, known as Lord Walney, said the chilling action by the activists 'may be interpreted as incitement'.
He said: 'The latest provocation from Palestine Action - 'beheading' the statue of President Weizmann while the memory of terrorist atrocities on 7 October is fresh and hostages are still held. It may be interpreted as incitement.
'It is certainly designed to terrorise British Jews.'
Advocacy group Campaign Against Antisemitism denounced the incident as 'macabre' and said the authorities had failed to clamp down on a group now 'terrorising' the Jewish community. A spokesperson said: 'Palestine Action is now carrying out a macabre mock beheading.
'It is a criminal enterprise operating freely in the UK and terrorising the Jewish community.
'The authorities have been too lax on Palestine Action. Given the events of this weekend, it is clear that Palestine Action will only continue to escalate its campaign of criminality, and the authorities are failing to stand in its way.
'Whether that's due to an unwillingness to take action or an inability to do so due to the constraints of existing legislation, the result is that a group of petty vandals continue to terrorise the British public and, in particular, the Jewish community and its institutions.
'This has got to change. We are talking to the Government and our legal team is reviewing existing legislation to assess its effectiveness in tackling what has become essentially a criminal organisation that wrecks businesses and charities, and terrorises the Jewish community.
'The police and the Government must take urgent steps to ensure that Palestine Action faces enforcement action.'
Prior to becoming an Israeli statesman, Weizmann was a renowned biochemist and a lecturer at Manchester University during the early 1900s.
Palestine Action took responsibility for the stunt, saying on X they had 'abducted' the busts. In the campaign group's X page, formerly Twitter, it said: 'Palestine Action abduct sculptures of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, from the University of Manchester.
'Weizmann secured the Balfour Declaration, a British pledge written 107 years ago, which began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by signing the land away.'
A day later, an image appeared of the busts, one wrapped in a red keffiyeh, the other in a white one, with the group saying 'Weizmann is now under Palestine Action's control'.
On Monday, the group posted again on X, showing a video of the busts which were now defaced with the words 'Smash' and 'Zionism' written on each of them in red paint.
Just hours later, the group have beheaded one of the busts.
In a longer statement posted on its website, Palestine Action said on Saturday: 'Today, Palestine Action have marked, by taking two sculptures of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, from its display case at University of Manchester.'
The statement went on to say: 'Over several meetings, Weizmann who as 'the rocks of Judea, obstacles that had to be cleared on a difficult path', lobbied Balfour into assisting the Zionist colonisation of Palestine.
Duncan Ivison, the President and Vice-Chancellor at The University of Manchester said: 'On the evening of Friday, 1 November, intruders to the Chemistry Building smashed the window of a display cabinet and stole a bust of former University of Manchester academic, Chaim Weizmann, who later became the first President of Israel. It was one of several incidents committed around the country.
'We have notified the police, who are investigating. This was an act of vandalism and makes no contribution whatsoever to a better understanding of the current conflict in the Middle East.
'Over more than a year, we have seen peaceful protests on campus and the exchange of strongly held views. We welcome this as part of our fundamental role as a university – a place dedicated to the discussion of often difficult ideas and beliefs.
'Alongside our deep commitment to academic freedom is our commitment to the values of community, tolerance and respect. Freedom and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do.
'We regularly host many events which discuss all sides of the current conflict in the Middle East, including a debate last week in Whitworth Hall. Although attempts were made to stop the event, it proceeded in full, and as difficult as the discussion was, different perspectives on the conflict were aired and debated, as they should be.
'We know these issues are of great concern to our University community, particularly those with friends, family or close ties to the region, and we express our sympathy for all those caught up in the escalating conflict, as well as our hope for peace.
'None of these discussions are easy. They can cause discomfort and pain to many in our community. However, it is crucial in a free society that they occur, within the law, and always with the aim of seeking mutual understanding, and not vilification or hate.'
A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police told MailOnline earlier this week: 'Shortly before midnight last night (1 November 2024), we received a report of a burglary at a university building on Oxford Road, Manchester.
Officers have attended the scene and liaised with the university and their security team as part of their ongoing enquiries.
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say man who attacked anti-Islam rally in western city of Mannheim in May harbors ‘sympathy’ for ISIS and ‘shares its ideology’
An Afghan man has been charged with killing a police officer and wounding several others in an Islamist-inspired knife attack earlier this year that shocked Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The attack in the western city of Mannheim in late May took place just before the scheduled start of a rally organized by Pax Europa, a campaign group against radical Islam.
The suspect, named as Sulaiman A., harbors "sympathy" for 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.... group and "shares its ideology," federal prosecutors said in a statement.
He showed up at the city’s market square armed with a large hunting knife and intended to carry out an attack on those he considered "infidels" or unbelievers, they said. He "pounced on a police officer who had rushed to the scene and stabbed him forcefully and deliberately in the head and upper body," the statement said.
The officer died as a result of his severe injuries. The other victims also suffered injuries, some of them potentially life-threatening, the prosecutors said.
At the time of the attack, Der Spiegel magazine reported that Sulaiman A. was a 25-year-old who was born in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Afghanistan, and lived in Hesse state.
The stabbing revived debate in Germany about deporting serious criminals even if they come from countries deemed unsafe, including Afghanistan and Syria.
In August, Germany carried out its first deportation of Afghans convicted of criminal offenses to their home country since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took power in August 2021.
Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced on Wednesday that Afghan asylum seeker Suleiman Atayi
Ah hah! A full name for better identification!
has been formally charged with the murder of a German police officer and injuring several others. According to the prosecutor, Atayi has shown “sympathy” and “ideological alignment” with ISIS.
Suleiman Atayi, a 25-year-old from Herat, Afghanistan, allegedly attacked an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim earlier this year in mid-June, killing one police officer and injuring five civilians.
In a separate incident, a 22-year-old Afghan man attacked police with a knife in mid-June on the island of Rügen in northeastern Germany.
[IsraelTimes] Swedish prosecutors charge three men for their alleged involvement in planting explosives outside an Israeli military technology firm in Gothenburg, court documents obtained by AFP show.
Two insulated flasks packed with plastic explosives were found outside the offices of Elbit Systems, known for its unmanned aerial systems, in Sweden’s second-largest city on June 4.
The national bomb squad removed the objects and no damage or injuries were reported.
Two of the accused, a 17-year-old and a 24-year-old, were charged with “aggravated unlawful threat” and “attempted destruction causing public endangerment” for placing the explosives at the scene.
The third suspect, 29, is accused of storing the explosives in his home and transporting them to his two accomplices near the scene.
All three suspects have denied the charges.
The action was directed at “the company’s security guard, representatives and employees” and aimed to cause “serious fear for their and others’ personal and property safety,” prosecutor Johan Uden says in the charge sheet.
Since the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault on Israel and the subsequent war, there have been several incidents targeting Israeli interests in Sweden.
The Swedish intelligence agency Sapo in late May accused Iran of recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs to commit “acts of violence” against Israeli and other interests in Sweden.
[NY Post] A military judge ruled Wednesday that plea deals sparing accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other terrorists the death penalty must remain in effect.
The stunning move comes three months after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin revoked the shocking plea deals handed out to Mohammed and two alleged accomplices by the Office of Military Commissions in July.
The order, issued by Air Force Col. and Judge Matthew McCall in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was first reported by the Associated Press and has not yet been posted publicly.
Family members of the victims of the heinous terror attack, which killed nearly 3,000, were outraged by the judge’s ruling.
"I am livid that this judge overturned the decision and is allowing these defendants to take a plea deal," retired police officer, Jimmy Smith, whose wife Moira was killed on Sept. 11, 2001, told The Post.
"They committed the highest crime in this country and they should receive the worst punishment which in this case is the death penalty," Smith argued. "Also I don’t believe in coincidences, they waited to release this decision until after the election. They overturned it before to help the Democrats in the election."
Dan D’Allara, twin brother of NYPD officer John D’Allara who was killed on 9/11, told The Post that President-elect Donald Trump should use his executive powers to ensure Mohammed and his accomplices are put to death.
"The first Executive Order President Trump should sign is an Executive Order of Execution for the 5 admitted 9/11 plotters", D’Allara said. "They are cowards and they killed a lot of innocent people that day and are continuing to kill people going forward."
New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry described Wednesday’s ruling as "shameful" and called for an immediate fix.
"This is yet another shameful twist in a case that has seen far too many," Hendry said. "The cycle of revicitimizating our hero 9/11 families needs to end. Our government needs to find a way to fix this immediately."
"Justice cannot wait any longer," he added.
The pre-trial agreements pertaining to Mohammed — the accused principal architect of the al Qaeda attacks — and two alleged co-conspirators, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, spare the men the death penalty in exchange for guilty pleas in the government’s long-running effort to prosecute the alleged terrorists.
The trio has been held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay since 2003.
The deals initially offered by the Office of Military Commissions in July sparked a furor among family members of 9/11 victims and survivors of the attacks, with many slamming them as a miscarriage of justice and preferring that the alleged 9/11 co-conspirators face trial.
Austin, 70, subsequently announced that he had relieved the official responsible for signing off on the widely criticized plea agreements from authority and would instead assert his own authority in the matter.
"There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think of 9/11 and the Americans that were murdered that day; also those who died trying to save lives and the troops and their families who gave so much for this country in the years following that,"
Austin told reporters of his decision. "I’m deeply mindful of my duty to all those whose lives were lost or changed forever on 9/11, and I fully understand that no measure of justice can ever make up for their loss."
"So this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly, but I have long believed that the families of the victims, our servicemembers, and the American public deserve the opportunity to see military commissions — commission trials carried out in this case," he added.
Lawyers for the alleged terrorists slammed the defense secretary’s move as "corrupt," arguing that they were "years" in the making and made in "good faith."
"We have had an unprecedented act by a government official to pull back what was a valid agreement," Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for al Hawsawi, said during a hearing in Guantanamo Bay, according to CNN.
"For us, it raises very serious questions about continuing to engage in a system that seems so obviously corrupt and rigged," he added.
Kathy Vigiano, a retired police officer and widow of Detective Joseph Vigiano, who died on 9/11, told The Post that while she can’t fathom that the alleged terrorists are not going to put to death, she now hopes they are at least locked up for life.
"It’s unbelievable to me that these terrorist won’t get death," Vigiano said. "I can only hope that they get life without the possibility of parole."
[IsraelTimes] Lebanon says it has filed a complaint with the United Nations’ labor agency
…why does the UN have one of those?
over deadly attacks on communication devices held by Hezbollah operatives across the country in September, which it blames on Israel.
Lebanese Labor Minister Mustafa Bayram claims the attack was an “egregious war against humanity, against technology, against work,” saying his country has filed the complaint with the International Labour Organization in Geneva. "I can't make the peace sign without my fingers!"
“It’s a very dangerous precedent,” he tells journalists in the Swiss city at an event organized by the UN correspondents’ association ACANU.
In September, before Israel launched a ground operation in Lebanon following a year of non-stop cross-border attacks by the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah exploded, killing dozens of people and injuring thousands more across Lebanon, in what has widely been reported as a successful Mossad operation.
Israel has not officially taken responsibility for the attacks, but Bayram says it is “widely accepted internationally… that Israel was behind this heinous act.”
“In a few minutes, more than 4,000 civilians fell, between martyrs and injured and maimed,” he says, speaking through a translator, while avoiding mentioning that the attack was directed against terror operatives, not civilians.
Among the victims not killed, he says many people “lost their fingers; some have totally lost their eyesight.”
“We are in a situation where ordinary objects, objects you use in daily life, become dangerous and lethal,” he claims.
“If left unchecked, this crime could become normalized,” he says, adding that filing the complaint is meant “to prevent such crimes from happening in the future.”
I had such high hopes for President General al-Sisi, once upon a time.
[IsraelTimes] Egypt joins a call led by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and backed by dozens of countries urging the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... to halt arms deliveries to Israel, citing concerns over their use.
The call comes as Israel battles Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in the Gazoo Strip while also fighting a war against Hezbollah in Leb.
A foreign ministry statement says Egypt has joined the call as part of "international efforts to pressure Israel to cease its continuous violations of international law and international humanitarian law."
It also aims to stop "Israeli violations" against Paleostinians and protect civilians, the statement reads.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Monday accused Turkey of "malice" after Ankara submitted a letter signed by 52 countries calling for a halt in arms deliveries to Israel.
Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, followed by Jordan in 1994.
In 2020, the Abraham Accords, mediated by the United States, saw the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco recognize Israel.
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[IsraelTimes] Lawmakers give final approval to legislation that would allow the government to deport the family members of bandidosbandidos hard boys who are Israeli citizens, passing the bill in the two final Knesset plenum readings it must clear to become law.
Sixty-one MKs vote in favor of the measure, with 41 opposing it.
The controversial legislation, sponsored by Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky, gives the interior minister the power to expel a first-degree relative of someone who carried out an attack if he or she had advance knowledge and either: (a) failed to report the matter to the police or (b) "expressed support or identification with an act of terrorism or published words of praise, sympathy or encouragement for an act of terrorism or a terrorist organization."
The bill expressly applies to Israeli citizens, who would retain their citizenship even after being expelled from the country. It stipulates that after receiving information regarding an individual, the minister will convene a hearing during which a suspect will have the right to present a defense. The minister will then have 14 days to make a decision and sign a deportation order.
Both the Justice Ministry and the Attorney General’s Office have raised concerns about the legislation, which stipulates that those being expelled would be sent either to 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 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... Strip or other destinations, depending on circumstances, for between 7-15 years for citizens and 10-20 years for legal residents.
[IsraelTimes] WHO works with COGAT to transport Gazans to Ramon Airport near Eilat for treatment in UAE and Romania, in largest such operation in months
Israel and the World Health Organization said Wednesday that more than 200 Gazans, both patients and their caregivers, were evacuated to the United Arab Emirates and Romania on Wednesday for medical treatment.
In total, the group numbered 231 people, according to COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body responsible for civil affairs coordination with the Palestinians.
“This is the largest number of patients and caregivers who have left through the Kerem Shalom crossing in recent months,” COGAT said in a statement.
The operation was carried out in cooperation with the UAE, the European Union and the WHO, it added.
The WHO said the “patients included those with autoimmune diseases, blood diseases, cancer, kidney conditions and trauma injuries.”
The patients were transferred from Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing into Israel, and then to Ramon Airport near Eilat in southern Israel.
In a joint operation with the UAE and EU, we facilitated the safe passage of 231 patients and caregivers from Gaza to receive medical treatment abroad today.
The WHO’s representative in the Palestinian territories, Rik Peeperkorn, had said Tuesday that those on the evacuation list were among up to 14,000 people currently waiting in Gaza to be evacuated for medical reasons, amid the ongoing war there between Israel and the Hamas terror group.
Peeperkorn said Tuesday that fewer than 5,000 people had been granted medical evacuations out of the territory since the war began last year, when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
In October, the High Court of Justice ordered the government to draw up a formal procedure for the evacuation of sick and injured Gazans.
The ruling followed a June petition by three human rights organizations, filed after Egypt shut down the Rafah Border Crossing for such evacuations when Israel took control of the crossing in May.
Before Egypt shut down the crossing, some 50 Gazan civilians had been evacuated for treatment daily, since the beginning of the war, according to the left-wing Physicians for Human Rights NGO in Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Israel says that the Polio vaccination campaign in Gaza conducted in recent weeks has been completed, with some 1.1 million vaccines administered and a vaccination rate among children of over 90 percent.
According to the Coordinator of Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT), a Defense Ministry agency that coordinates the provision of humanitarian aid into Gaza, 211,170 children were vaccinated in northern Gaza; 379,361 children were vaccinated in central Gaza; and 517,070 were vaccinated in southern Gaza.
COGAT says the campaign was carried out in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, and that the Israeli agency facilitated tactical humanitarian pauses in the fighting in Gaza in order to facilitate the distribution of the vaccines.
The vaccination drive that has just been completed is the second in three months, after an initial campaign was undertaken and completed in September.
That drive came after an unvaccinated 10-month-old baby from central Gaza contracted polio and suffered partial paralysis in September, the first case of the disease in the enclave in 25 years.
To ensure the success of the campaign, COGAT says it and the aid organizations involved facilitated the entry of polio specialists to Gaza, as well as the delivery of medical and logistical equipment, refrigeration equipment to store and transport the vaccines, and essential vitamins.
“The State of Israel, through COGAT, will continue to act in accordance with international law, addressing the medical situation of civilians in Gaza,” COGAT says.
Wishful thinking.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas congratulates Donald Trump on his US presidential election victory, expressing confidence he will support Palestinians’ “legitimate aspirations” for statehood.
“We are confident that the United States will support, under your leadership, the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people,” Abbas says in a statement carried by the official PA news agency WAFA, reaffirming what he calls the Palestinian commitment to “the pursuit of freedom, self-determination and statehood, in accordance with international law.”
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A Paleostinian state is a great idea! The only question is where to put it. Anywhere near the Juice is obviously out of the question. Maybe we could get the Chinese to build them one of those man-made islands in the South China Sea.
#2
I chose to listen to my local NPR station today while running errands, just to see what they’re saying in precincts I no longer inhabit. Among other things, they had on Politico’s big turban, who said that the Two State Solution is accepted as no longer possible, and the only question is whether Israel formally absorbs the West Bank or continues on the current informal course.
I almost nearly crashed the car. What other miracles has President Trump accomplished after only two days as the future president?
#3
America's trick on the victor:
In Al-Nakba, District of Sitka,
A black turban's wife
Endures marital strife
With her bodyguard built like Mike Ditka.
#4
He needs to meet with Putin. London, Geneva, Rome, someplace. Iron out a Ukie ceasefire. I think he could do it. Ivan WANTS a solid relationships, trade and otherwise with the US.
[NEWARAB] Paleostinians, locked in war with Israel for more than a year, expressed fear at Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... 's return to the White House, while the leaders of the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... group and the Paleostinian Authority urged him to act for peace.
In Khan Younis in the southern 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... Strip, Abu Osama, who has been displaced by unrelenting Israeli bombardments, called Trump's election victory a "new catastrophe in the history of the Paleostinian people".
"Despite the destruction, death, and displacement that we have witnessed, what is coming will be more difficult, it will be politically devastating," Abu Osama told Rooters.
More than 43,300 Paleostinians have been killed in more than a year of war in Gaza, most of them civilians, Hamas health authorities in the enclave say. Much of the territory has been laid to waste.
The war erupted after Hamas-led fighters attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. Hamas says its attack came in response to Israel's decades long occupation of Paleostine and siege on Gaza.
Efforts by the United States and Arab mediators Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Egypt have so far failed to arrange a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that would end the fighting and see the release of Israeli and foreign captives in Gaza as well as Paleostinians tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by Israel.
Hamas said the U.S. election was a matter for the American people but it called for an end to the "blind support" for Israel from the United States.
"We urge Trump to learn from Biden's mistakes," Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... told Rooters.
Abu Zuhri said Trump would be tested on his statements that he can stop the war within hours of taking office as U.S. president.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... 's administration has provided Israel with unflinching diplomatic support and military aid even as 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... worked on ceasefire proposals. Trump's future policy is not yet clear although he was supportive of Israel in his previous term as president.
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[IsraelTimes] A spokesperson for US President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... says that he wants to see Israel wrap up its wars soon with decisive victories.
Speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 TV in the wake of Trump’s win, Elizabeth Pipko is asked about Trump’s comments in his victory speech where he declared, "I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars."
"He wants the wars to end as soon as possible, but he wants it to end with a decisive victory [for Israel]," Pipko says trying to allay fears in Israel that Trump could force Israel to halt the fighting against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... 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 Hezbollah 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... without achieving its war goals.
Pipko also says that the Biden administration has not been "decisive" in its support for Israel.
She declines to comment on whether Trump will give Israel a green light to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying that it was up to the incoming president to express his views on that subject and that he would do so when he takes office in January.
[Jpost] On November 5, I spent a day with the Israel Defense Forces in northern Gaza. The trip took me from the border of Israel and Gaza into the heart of Jabalya, where the IDF has been fighting Hamas for the last month. Jabalya is a large, sprawling neighborhood north and northeast of Gaza City. It has a refugee camp that dates back to 1948, and the camp became the heart of a dense urban neighborhood.
[IsraelTimes] An Iranian student who stripped to her underwear in Tehran in protest at alleged harassment over her clothing was transferred to a center of “specialized care,” Iran’s embassy to Paris says.
“The student in question suffers from psychological fragility and was transferred by an ambulance of the emergency social services to a specialized care center,” it says in a statement, without giving further details on the nature of the center.
Concern has grown over the whereabouts and welfare of the young woman, with activists worried authorities could confine her in a psychiatric institution.
[NAHARNET] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil has marked 40 days since Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> by publishing a eulogy and political statement in al-Akhbar newspaper.
Lamenting that he ''lost a friend who will not be repeated,'' Bassil noted that only ex-president, FPM founder and his father-in-law General Michel Aoun ...former president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... was dearer than Nasrallah to his heart.
''You wanted to avoid war and you believed in your ability to avert it through the deterrence equation, but it chased you and targeted you. You wanted to liberate Jerusalem, betting on the unity of arenas for that, but the capabilities of the Axis (of Resistance®) were smaller than your will,'' Bassil added, addressing Nasrallah.
Much, much smaller.
''Protecting 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... will remain in our conscience and Israel's occupation of it will remain impossible. But we want to be frank with you as we have always been: that can no longer be achieved without a strong and just state that can lead a defense strategy that preserves all the elements of strength,'' Bassil went on to say. "Yadda yadda yadda" he added
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[NEWARAB] Hezbollah said Wednesday that tens of thousands of its bully boyz were ready to fight Israel, adding that the US election result would have no bearing on the war 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 Iran-backed group's leader also warned that nowhere in Israel would be "off-limits" to attacks, as the Israeli military said about 120 projectiles had been fired across the border on Wednesday.
The Israeli military struck Hezbollah's main bastion in the southern suburbs of Beirut after issuing an evacuation warning.
Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire since October last year when Hezbollah said it was opening a "support front" for 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... . The violence dramatically escalated when Israel widened its war on Lebanon in mid-September.
Efforts to end the war in Gaza have yet to bear fruit, and the war in Lebanon has killed over 3,000 people, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Most of the civilian toll has been accounted for in the past six to seven weeks.
"We have tens of thousands of trained resistance combatants" ready to fight, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said from Tehran
in a televised speech marking 40 days since his predecessor His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> was killed in a massive Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... south of Beirut.
The address was aired after Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's victory in the US election was announced, but had been recorded earlier.
He said the result in the race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor would have no impact on any possible ceasefire deal for Lebanon.
"We don't base our expectations for a halt of the aggression on political developments," he said.
"Whether Harris wins or Trump wins, it means nothing to us.
"What will stop this... war is the battlefield" he said, citing fighting in south Lebanon and Hezbollah attacks on Israel.
Earlier on Wednesday, Hezbollah said it targeted a military base near Israel's main airport close to commercial hub Tel Aviv, an attack that Israel's Airports Authority said did not disrupt operations.
In a pre-recorded televised address, Qassem says that the war will only end once Israel stops its “aggression” against Lebanon, and only at that point will the terror group agree to indirect negotiations, under the mediation of its ally Nabih Berri, president of the Lebanese Parliament.
Your conditions are acceptable.
Qassem does not indicate a ceasefire in Gaza as a precondition for a halt to its war against Israel.
Qassem claims that the terror group is conducting a defensive war of attrition and has been preparing for a long confrontation since the end of the Second Lebanon War in 2006. He further claims that Hezbollah has “tens of thousands of jihadis that are ready to die as martyrs,” strengthened by their Islamic ideology, their training and their weapons.
Qassem further accuses Israel of aiming to defeat the terror group as a first step toconquering Lebanon, and subsequently to “change the map of the Middle East.”
In response to the Israeli “aggression,” Qassem says that the terror group will continue firing rockets and drones at Israel, and that the launches of the past days are only a taste of what is to come next.
Touching on the heavy toll the war has imposed on the Lebanese civilian population, Qassem claims that it is the “price to pay for victory” and denies that there are frictions between displaced Shiites and other groups inside Lebanon, despite evidence to the contrary.
Qassem also comments on the abduction of a top Hezbollah naval operative in north Lebanon by Israeli commandos last week, saying that it was a “humiliation” for Lebanon and demanding explanations from the Lebanese Armed Forces and UNIFIL, in particular from the German contingent, which mans a naval patrol.
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...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...
