[ZeroHedge] The American people are expressing joy about President-elect Trump's selection of Tom Homan as the incoming "border czar" to combat Biden-Harris' illegal alien invasion at the open southern border, which has been linked to thousands of armed Venezuela prison gang Tren de Aragua members storming communities nationwide.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch is the latest official to warn about TdA members taking over his cities. He said these illegal alien criminals have been spotted in all major cities in Tennessee.
Local media outlet WVLT News quoted Rausch, who warned that TdA members have been involved in human trafficking within the state.
"They are back in all of our major cities. They are running human trafficking operations, and that's where they start," said Rausch.
Rausch told Governor Bill Lee on Tuesday that the foreign prison gang was active across the state in 2023, but after a number of arrests, activity slumped. However, he said, in just the past few months, TdA activity has surged once again.
The TBI director said TdA members were also involved in organized retail theft and drug crimes within the state.
"They will not hesitate to attack their opponents in public or in broad daylight," Rausch warned.
A recently leaked US Army North Division report showed an estimated 5,000 TdA members running amok nationwide.
Tennessee voters shifted toward Trump in last week's presidential election, signaling frustration with the globalist in the White House.
Trump 64% to Harris 34.5%. That’s pretty significant frustration.
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This is Tom Homan, President Trump's Border Czar. His message to all the illegals who crossed the border will give you goosebumps, "You better start packing now... cause you're going home."
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[REGNUM] Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez recently came up with an initiative to attract 250,000 migrants from several African countries to the country. According to the head of the government of the Iberian kingdom, Spain needs the labor force of immigrants so much that without the help of citizens of Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Niger, the country faces economic collapse.
The Prime Minister’s statement does not shine with novelty or originality – in many EU countries, it is precisely economic necessity that is used to explain the EU’s open-door policy for outsiders from the Middle East and North Africa, proclaimed several years ago.
It seems that the migration crisis of 2015-2016, when about a million refugees arrived in Germany alone – job seekers (in reality, seeking high social benefits), taught Europeans nothing. Brussels continues to put pressure on the members of the “Commonwealth of Twenty-Seven”, implementing its program of replacing the native population of European states with migrants.
Spain is one of the most ardent fans of hosting uninvited guests in this matter. The country's population, frankly, is not happy with this policy, but the opinions of ordinary citizens do not always make it onto the pages of publications. Except perhaps in the comments of readers.
And even those are preserved in small quantities only to demonstrate “pluralism.” But in such a way that the reader cannot think that there are more dissenters than agreeers.
If you look closely, the new initiative of the leader of the Spanish Socialists, who is currently at the helm of the country, is nothing more than an attempt to legalize illegal immigrants. According to Pedro Sanchez, all those wishing to enter Spain to work can be controlled, letting them into the country on a work visa for a certain period and ensuring their return home.
In principle, the idea is sound, but, according to the opposition, it is practically impossible to implement. Especially considering that only the first three states from the list officially have more than three million job seekers.
According to representatives of the People's Party, the existing police force is not enough to monitor the 250,000 migrants and their compliance with the conditions.
A quarter of a million “newcomers” per year is not a one-time event, but a permanent practice, calculated for the period up to 2050. And an additional set of police officers to monitor them will be a big problem, since this will create a large additional burden on the budget.
And, as the OKDiario publication notes, there is no guarantee that the police will be able to catch those who, after their work visa expires, decide to go into hiding rather than return to their home country.
There are currently at least 150,000 illegal immigrants living in the Iberian kingdom, sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs told the publication. And it is impossible to deport so many people home: they easily dissolve in their diasporas, which provide them with work that pays them "off the books."
Several years ago, the European Commission discussed reducing the flow of Africans wishing to settle in Europe. The idea was voiced of creating, so to speak, centers for assessing the professional qualifications of migrants in the territory of states that issue human resources for the EU.
There were also proposals to allocate money to countries whose citizens were especially active in fleeing to Europe. The funds had a specific purpose - opening businesses and recruiting personnel, that is, distracting some potential migrants from the idea of making a dash across the Mediterranean to the land that Josep Borrell called the "Garden of Eden." The calculation was that if they earned good money in Africa, they would not go to conquer Europe.
Neither idea stood the test of practice, and the allocated money, as often happens, disappeared without a trace in the vast African expanses.
Pedro Sanchez, by the way, turned out to be one of those who believed to the very end that investments in the Sahel region would bring good luck and dry up the flow of illegals to the Old World. Suffice it to say that at the end of August of this year, he visited Mauritania, presenting its authorities with €500 million as aid for economic development. The money was accepted there with gratitude. And with the hope that the Europeans would send more.
"It is worth remembering that the Sahel is a region where jihadism has flourished. And therefore the danger of radical residents of this zone penetrating into Europe is pushing the latter to seek any methods to block the routes from Africa to Europe. Including using financial plugs," OKDiario notes.
If we approach the migration problem from the point of view of Spain's real needs for labor, the statement about the need for a quarter of a million guests is surprising. The country already has 2.5 million people officially unemployed (the population of Spain is 47 million people). And if we add those who are scraping by on short-term contracts but are not formally recognized as unemployed, then the poor fellows number as many as three million.
It is also impossible to explain the attraction of foreigners by the economy: the law on minimum wages, adopted in 2023, requires that hired workers be paid at least 1080 euros, regardless of whether the enterprise is private or public.
For the Spaniards, this is a very acceptable salary (by the way, it is paid 14 times a year), local residents would gladly take up the vacancies. Moreover, according to the law, they have a preferential right: an entrepreneur can hire a foreigner only if “their own” do not want to take a specific job.
Thus, it turns out that Sanchez's idea of hiring 250,000 foreigners annually is nothing more than an "excuse" for Spain, invented for the EU authorities. Madrid has seemingly indicated its intention to follow the EU migration policy, but it can refuse at any moment, citing pressure from the population and the impossibility of controlling a quarter of a million foreign temporary workers.
[SCRIPPSNEWS] Planning to earn the half mil the Kamala Harris campaign paid him for that brief MSNBC interview he did, trying to get her into the end zone? civil rights hustler Al Sharpton ...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor... announced that he is organizing a rally in Washington on Jan. 20, coinciding with both the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... and the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday.
The outspoken Trump critic announced the rally on MSNBC earlier this week.
''While Trump supporters will be on one side of Washington watching him take the oath of office, I will be at the nation's capital working to keep the dream alive,'' Sharpton said. ''There has never been a more important time to peacefully organize and mobilize.''
In 2017, the largest anti-Trump rallies in Washington were held one day after his inauguration. Among them was the Women's March, which garnered thousands of protesters. Sharpton was among those who participated at an affiliated rally in New York.
[FreeBeacon] Tides Foundation’s donors include George Soros and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Tides Foundation, a left-wing dark money giant backed by George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... and other progressive billionaires, bankrolled the fiscal sponsor of the Samidoun Paleostinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an anti-Semitic group sanctioned in the United States for providing financial support to terrorists, according to newly released tax forms.
The foundation reported in its latest Form 990 tax return that it granted $286,000 to the Alliance for Global Justice in 2023, a group best known for serving as the fiscal sponsor of Samidoun. The Treasury Department in October sanctioned Samidoun as a "sham charity" that provided material support to a Paleostinian terrorist organization that participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terrorist rampage in Israel. Canada levied its own sanctions against Samidoun as well in October, labeling the group a "terrorist entity" under its criminal code.
Founded in 1998, the Alliance for Global Justice let Samidoun borrow its charitable tax privileges to operate and raise funds in the United States without obtaining its own organizational credentials. In other words, the Alliance for Global Justice and Samidoun are legally indistinguishable. It’s unclear if the group continued to serve as Samidoun’s fiscal sponsor after the Treasury Department sanctioned the terrorism financier in October.
The Tides Foundation said the purpose of its grant to the Alliance for Global Justice in 2023 was to support a "sustainable environment." It’s unclear if the Tides grant went to support Samidoun or one of the several dozen other fiscally sponsored organizations operating under the Alliance for Global Justice’s tax ID.
The Treasury Department in October described Samidoun as a "sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP) terrorist organization." The PFLP cut its teeth in the late 1960s by hijacking and opening fire on commercial airplanes, and later participated in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. It leverages Samidoun as a front organization in both Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and North America to bankroll its terrorist activities, the Treasury Department said in October. Samidoun is also banned in Germany for its overt support of Hamas terrorism.
Samidoun’s U.S. leaders don’t shy away from their terroristic tendencies. Its leaders, Charlotte Kates and her husband, Khaled Barakat, explicitly endorsed terrorism against Jews during a lecture in March before the anti-Israel student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The Treasury Department sanctioned Barakat in October for his "fundraising and recruitment" efforts for the PFLP’s "terrorist activity against Israel," adding that he has publicly acknowledged Samidoun’s affiliation with the terrorist network.
Tides and the Alliance for Global Justice did not return requests for comment.
Major donors to the Tides network include liberal billionaire financier George Soros, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation. In 2023, the Tides network raked in nearly $800 million, according to its audited financial statements.
The Tides network is hardly the only liberal dark money giant to bankroll the Alliance for Global Justice. In 2021, Tides and the New Venture Fund, the largest branch of the Arabella Advisors dark money behemoth, donated more than $9 million to the Alliance for Global Justice. The Arabella Advisors network donated an additional $1 million to the Alliance for Global Justice in 2022, the Free Beacon reported.
The Arabella Advisors network distanced itself from Samidoun after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, telling the Free Beacon that Samidoun "is not and has never been a client of Arabella Advisors" and that it "unequivocally condemn[s] terrorism and violence against civilians."
The Tides network has offered no such denunciation of the terrorism financier.
The second Trump administration is certainly going to be interesting.
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire closely allied with US President-elect Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... , met Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... in a bid to defuse tensions between Tehran and Washington, The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported Thursday.
The newspaper quoted anonymous Iranian sources as describing the meeting between the world’s richest person and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani as "positive."
The two met for more than an hour at a secret location on Monday, the newspaper said.
Neither the Trump transition team nor Iran’s mission to the United Nations immediately confirmed the encounter, with the Iranian mission saying it had no comment.
The meeting, if confirmed, could offer an early indication that Trump is serious about diplomacy with 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... and not choosing the more hawkish approach favored by many conservatives in his Republican Party as well as Israel.
It would also show again the extraordinary influence of Musk, the owner of Tesla and X who has been a near constant presence at Trump’s side, reportedly joining him on telephone calls with world leaders.
Trump in his last term in office tore up a deal on Iran’s nuclear program negotiated under his predecessor Barack Obama How much damage could he do in four years?... Eight, then... , instead pursuing a policy of "maximum pressure" that included working to force other nations not to buy Iran’s oil.
But Trump has cast himself as a great dealmaker and during his latest campaign has voiced an openness to diplomacy, despite his avowed support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of whose Likud party allies said Wednesday that Israel is expecting the president-elect to take a hard line on Iran.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, considered a relative moderate within the holy manal state, on Thursday told the visiting head of the UN nuclear watchdog that Tehran wanted to clear up doubts about the country’s "peaceful" nuclear program.
Iran’s ambassador also urged Musk in their meeting to seek US sanctions exemptions and conduct business in Tehran, the Times said, citing an Iranian Foreign Ministry official.
[Jpost] Defense Minister Israel Katz approved the distribution of 7,000 IDF draft notices to haredi (ultra-Orthadox) recruits, Israel's Defense Ministry said on Friday morning.
One understands Bibi’s political calculations to maintain his government, but this is long overdue.
It added that the recruitment notices will be sent out gradually, beginning on Sunday, and based on IDF considerations.
Katz's approval came after the IDF announced on Thursday that it planned on issuing 1,000 new draft notices to eligible haredi men on Sunday as part of the 7,000 that it will issue over the next six to eight weeks. The real enemy of the ultra-orthodox is not the Left but Religious Zionists.
The Defense Ministry said that the goal of the recruitment is to enable the integration of haredim into the IDF to ease the burden on conscripted soldiers and reservists while preserving the observations of the Torah world.
He also said that the "IDF would do everything possible to provide the haredim with a supportive framework that ensures their ability to fulfill their missions in the military while maintaining their religious lifestyle."
HAREDI DRAFT COMPLEXITY
Katz's approval comes after he replaced former defense minister Yoav Gallant last week. Notably, Gallant had also approved the recruitment of haredi drafts earlier this month.
Katz's decision also follows general opposition from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his haredi coalition partners to changes of policy other than solidifying the existing blanket exemption from military service.
Furthermore, 3,000 draft notices went out in an earlier round this past summer, which resulted in just under 300 new draftees. Due to this low turnout, the IDF more than doubled the number of notices in this round, hoping to reach higher total numbers.
Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition partners have pushed for the passage of a law regulating military exemptions for yeshiva students and other members of the Haredi community, after the High Court ruled in June that the dispensations, in place for decades, were illegal and violate the principle of equality.
The ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism and Shas parties have accused both Gallant and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara of being the main obstacles to a bill enshrining the decades-long Haredi draft exemption.
Following Katz’s decision to forge ahead with issuing the draft orders to Haredim, a senior UTJ official was quoted by Hebrew media as saying: “It turns out it’s not the attorney general or Gallant — the Likud has decided to declare war on the ultra-Orthodox.”
The IDF announced Thursday that it had seen a significant increase in the number of ultra-Orthodox men who have been drafted into the military this year so far. However, it is still far from reaching its conscription goals.
The military has said that it currently requires some 10,000 new soldiers — 75 percent of whom would be combat troops — but can only accommodate the enlistment of an additional 3,000 ultra-Orthodox soldiers this year, due to their special needs. This would be in addition to some 1,800 Haredi soldiers who are already drafted annually.
Over the summer, the IDF Personnel Directorate sent out 3,000 draft orders to Haredi men aged 18-26. Out of those 3,000 men, less than 10% showed up at induction centers.
The dispute over the ultra-Orthodox community serving in the military is one of the most contentious in Israel, with decades of governmental and judicial attempts to settle the issue never achieving a stable resolution. The Haredi religious and political leadership fiercely resists any effort to draft young men.
Many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that military service is incompatible with their way of life and fear that those who enlist will be secularized.
Israelis who do serve, however, say the decades-long arrangement of mass exemptions unfairly burdens them and their families, a sentiment that has intensified since the October 7, 2023, onslaught and the ensuing war, in which more than 780 soldiers have been killed and some 300,000 citizens have been called up to reserve duty.
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[ToI] That HELOC is never gonna get repaid
In a rare move, the IDF is planning to demolish the home of a Palestinian gunman who killed an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint near Jerusalem last year, after the home was rebuilt following its first demolition earlier this year.
Overnight, IDF troops operated in the West Bank city of Hebron to measure the home of Abdelqader Qawasmeh ahead of its demolition.
Qawasmeh was one of three members of the Hamas terror group who attacked the “tunnels” checkpoint on the West Bank’s Route 60, south of Jerusalem in November 2023, killing Cpl. Avraham Fetena, a Military Police soldier.
The IDF says the home was mapped out “ahead of the demolition of the house after it was rebuilt after its previous demolition.”
As a matter of policy, Israel demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks. Rarely does Israel re-demolish homes that are rebuilt.
[IsraelTimes] IMPACT-se says refugee agency has ‘deep ties’ to terror groups and has taken no meaningful steps to curb hateful content in curriculum
A Middle East education monitoring group on Thursday accused the UN Palestinian refugee agency of “deep ties” to terror groups, highlighting in a report the hateful curriculum of five UNRWA schools it said are run by senior Hamas members in the Gaza Strip.
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) said the Palestinian refugee agency “has taken no meaningful steps to address the glorification of violence or antisemitic rhetoric in these schools,” claiming many of its staff members who have participated in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad activities remain on the payroll.
Citing information released by the Israel Defense Forces, the 71-page report detailed activities at five Gaza schools it said are run by terror group members who are also employed as senior educational officers at UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
The report lists the Al Zeitoun Boys Preparatory and Elementary Schools, whose principal Mohammad Juma Shuwaideh, is allegedly a squad commander in Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade; the Al-Maghazi Boys Preparatory School B, where both the principal Khaled Said Mustafa Al-Massri and deputy principal Ahmad Samir Mahmoud El Khatib are allegedly squad commanders in Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade; the Al-Mughraqa Boys Elementary School, whose principal, Raed Khaled Abu Mukhadda, is allegedly a Hamas operative in the Deir al-Balah Battalion; Nuseirat Boys Preparatory C School, headed by Mahmoud Faez Sarraj, allegedly a Hamas military wing operative in the Nuseirat Battalion; and Ahmad Abdel Aziz Boys Preparatory School, led by Mahmoud Ahmad Hamdan, allegedly a Hamas member who openly promoted the violent “March of Return” border Gaza border protests.
Among the examples provided by the report was a blackboard in a fifth-grade classroom at the Al-Zeitoun School that featured an image of Dalal Mughrabi, one of the perpetrators of the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre that killed 38 Israelis, along with text describing her as a “fighting leader” and “hero.”
IMPACT-se said that Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, a late extremist Islamic preacher and namesake of Hamas’s military wing, was also venerated by educators as a “martyr” and “hero” in the class.
The watchdog said content at the Al-Maghazi School called a firebombing attack on an Israeli bus a “barbecue party,” and noted materials, such as maps, erasing the Jewish state or referencing Israeli cities as Palestinian.
A question on an exam paper with an UNRWA logo was also found reading, “Liberating the Al-Aqsa Mosque and making sacrifices for it is an obligation for all Muslims.”
The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem is under the administrative control of the Jordanian Waqf. Many Palestinian terrorists claim to be motivated by concern for Al-Aqsa, and the Hamas terror group called its October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel the “Al-aqsa FLood.”
IMPACT-se said that “content promoting hatred of Israel is gratuitously inserted into grammar exercises in a virtual self-evaluation exam prepared by UNRWA’s Gaza education department.”
The report alleged, as it has done in past reports, that contrary to the refugee agency’s claims, the number of members who have participated in terror activities is not “a few isolated cases” and its links to terror are “endemic.”
“This latest IMPACT-se report emphasizes that by promoting violence and demonizing Israel, UNRWA schools in Gaza foster the kind of hatred that fuelled the atrocities of 7 October 2023,” IMPACT-se said in a statement. “These latest revelations about Hamas’s central role in UNRWA schools further reinforce that UNRWA’s educational system is not fit for purpose.”
IMPACT-se’s CEO Marcus Sheff said his organization was “deeply concerned, although not surprised,” by the findings.
“UNRWA has repeatedly failed to act, despite mounting evidence and repeated warnings of the deep influence of terror groups on UNRWA’s schools. This is not just about accountability, but about protecting young minds from an education that fuels hatred and extremism,” Sheff said, according to IMPACT-se’s statement.
The organization, based in the UK and Israel, has since the late 1990s monitored school curricula around the world, with a particular focus on the Middle East.
For years, IMPACT-se has been sounding the alarm over what it says is anti-Israel incitement contained in Palestinian textbooks, including the systematic erasure of Israel’s existence and the glorification of violent jihad and martyrdom.
Israel has long had a combative relationship with UNRWA, which it argues has perpetuated the Palestinian refugee crisis by allowing the status to be passed down through generations. Frustration with UNRWA in Jerusalem has picked up over the past decade as Israel has found the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group embedded within the agency’s infrastructure.
That anger has peaked since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, in which a number of UNRWA staffers were found to have participated, including kidnapping and killing Israelis. Israel has alleged that 10 percent of the UN agency’s staff in Gaza have ties to terror groups — a charge the agency says it has no evidence of.
Two weeks ago, the Knesset passed a bill banning UNRWA from operating from Israeli territory and prohibiting Israeli government agencies from working with UNRWA. The bill takes effect in three months.
The UN has said nine UNRWA staff members may have been involved in the attack and had been fired. A Hamas commander in Lebanon killed in September by Israel was found to have had a UNRWA job.
Last month, UNRWA confirmed that a Hamas Nukhba commander killed in an Israeli strike, who led the killing and kidnapping of Israelis from a roadside bomb shelter near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7 last year, had been employed by the agency since July 2022.
In February, the IDF revealed the existence of a subterranean Hamas data center directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza Strip headquarters. The IDF has also repeatedly targeted Hamas command centers and gunmen hiding out in UNRWA schools.
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All UN are terrorism promoting. What you see with UNRWA is the final stage. The intermediate stages are promoting Muslim immigration (future "Palestinian" analogs) into non Muslim countries.
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Grom is spot on. What they’ve done with the UNRWA is what they’re doing with American universities — eg, Columbia, Michigan, Penn, UCLA, MIT, et al. It starts out seemingly innocuous and grows inexorably.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Israel could have America's backing to annex the West Bank under a Trump administration, according to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who President-elect Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... has named to be his ambassador to Israel.
After his selection was announced, Huckabee spoke to Israel's Army Radio about his nomination, according to the Times of Israel.
During the interview, he was asked if the West Bank — land formerly claimed by Jordan that Israel won during the 1967 Six-Day War — could be annexed by Israel.
''Well, of course,'' Huckabee said. ''I won't make the policy. I will carry out the policy of the president.''
Exactly so, Mr. Ambassador.
Citing Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and his action to move America's embassy to Israel there, Huckabee noted no other president had been as helpful as Trump ''in securing an understanding of the illusory sovereignty of Israel.''
''No one has done more than President Trump, and I fully expect that will continue,'' Huckabee said.
Staking out a negotiating position that shows Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just how serious his situation is — unlike the current administration, which daily for four years has demonstrated the opposite.
Huckabee would not rule out a role for Israel in rebuilding whatever emerges from the ruins 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... after the war against Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... ends.
''Well, I haven't had time to process that,'' he said. ''I don't want to make any comments about policy because those won't be mine to make.''
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... has opposed annexing the West Bank and has endorsed the creation of a Paleostinian state at some future date.
Huckabee said, he was ''a frequent visitor to Judea and Samaria,'' using the Biblical term for the West Bank.
''I also very much believe that the people of Israel deserve a secure and safe country, and anything I can do that will help accommodate, that is going to be a great privilege for me,'' he said.
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....Gee whillickers. A man denounced by the media for decades now as a primitive hick is going to loyally - and correctly - help change the face of the Middle East.
I've ordered a pallet of popcorn from Cromer's here in town. It's gonna be great.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Zionist entity is pushing to pass a proposed law that prevents the raising of the Paleostinian flag in Israeli universities and institutions supported by the entity's government.
The Hebrew broadcasting authority said on Thursday, ''The law will apply to institutions funded by the state budget, including universities, and will allow the imposition of a fine of about 10,000 new shekels ($2,700) and imprisonment for up to a year.''
The broadcasting authority stated that the Ministerial Committee for Legislation Affairs in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) would discuss the proposed law in its next session, Sunday.
It said, ''The proposed law stipulates a ban on raising the flags of a hostile country, including the Paleostinian flag, in bodies included in the official budget or supported by the government.''
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[IsraelTimes] Report says losses concentrated in commerce, tourism, hospitality and agriculture, in addition to damage to physical structures; final costs expected to be far higher
One imagines that the value of Hezbollah’s tunnels is included under physical structures, and that Lebanon will not bother paying to rebuild them — at least during the first pass.
More than a year of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel have cost Lebanon more than $5 billion in economic losses and damaged nearly 100,000 homes, the World Bank said on Thursday.
Number that will only increase until Hezbollah finally surrenders and negotiates a hudna — or a proper peace treaty, now that Donald Trump will be president.
Since September 23 of this year, Israel has been conducting a ground operation in southern Lebanon to dismantle Hezbollah’s infrastructure and push the terror group back from the Israeli border, after a year of near-daily cross-border attacks that drove some 60,000 residents of northern Israel from their homes.
Hezbollah-led forces began attacking Israeli communities and military posts along the border on October 8, 2023, with the group saying it was doing so in support of Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror onslaught in southern Israel.
The World Bank report provided estimates for damage in Lebanon between October 8, 2023, and October 27, 2024, saying “the conflict has caused $5.1 billion in economic losses,” with damage to physical structures amounting to “at least $3.4 billion” on top of that.
The losses are “largely concentrated in the commerce and tourism and hospitality sectors… as well as in the agriculture sector,” the report said.
“The final cost of damage and losses for Lebanon associated with the conflict is expected to significantly exceed those presented in this assessment,” the report said.
The conflict has also “damaged an estimated 99,209 housing units” — mainly in Lebanon’s south near the border with Israel — totaling $2.8 billion in damages, it said.
In late September, Israel dramatically ramped up its bombing across Lebanon, with strikes now regularly hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs, towns in southern Lebanon and parts of the eastern Bekaa Valley, including the border with Syria.
Eighty-one percent of damaged and destroyed houses are located in the Tyre, Nabatieh, Saida, Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun districts.
The World Bank estimates that the conflict cut Lebanon’s real GDP growth for 2024 by at least 6.6%.
Lebanon had already been reeling since 2019 from an intense economic crisis that pushed most of the population into poverty.
“This compounds five years of sustained sharp economic contraction in Lebanon that has exceeded 34 percent of real GDP, losing the equivalent of 15 years of economic growth,” the World Bank said.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) estimated in October that the war would wipe nine percent off Lebanon’s national wealth as measured by GDP, with the scale of hostilities and economic fallout set to surpass the last war in 2006.
The consequences of the war are also expected to persist for several years, the UNDP said, with Lebanon’s GDP likely to contract by 2.28% in 2025 and 2.43% in 2026.
Inside Israel, the economy is also feeling the impact of a year-long war, first with Hamas in Gaza and then with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Central Bureau of Statistics said last month that gross domestic product rose by an annualized 0.3 percent in the second quarter, far below economists’ expectations, which had ranged from 2.3% to 5% for the quarter.
Also in October, the Bank of Israel trimmed its economic growth estimate in 2024 to 0.5% from a prior estimate of 1.5%. In total, direct war costs have ballooned to an estimated NIS 250 billion ($66 billion) since October 7 last year.
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[Regnum] In Iran, women who refuse to wear the hijab will begin to receive psychological assistance. This was announced on November 14 by the head of the Iranian Women and Family Department of the Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, Mehri Talebi.
"A psychological clinic aimed at preventing the removal of the hijab will open in Tehran for teenagers, young men and women," Al Arabiya TV channel quotes Talebi as saying.
She said the clinic would educate potential patients about the ins and outs of wearing the hijab and provide "scientific and psychological" treatment for the urge to remove the hijab.
At the same time, patients will be in the clinic "on a voluntary basis," the official claims. Thus, Talebi noted, the institution's activities will promote "dignity and modesty."
As reported by Regnum news agency, on November 9, Akha Daryaei, a student at the Islamic Azad University in Tehran who stripped down to her underwear on November 2 in protest against wearing the hijab, was placed in a psychiatric hospital.
Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said she had been transferred from the police station to a rehabilitation centre, but did not specify what treatment she had been given. Mohajerani said the student was a "problem person" who needed treatment. She was not allowed to return to university and any further decisions could only be made after treatment, she added.
A university spokesman, Amir Mahjob, said the girl had been under intense psychological pressure and suffered from a mental disorder, as established at the police station. According to human rights activists, the Iranian authorities have repeatedly declared women who disagree with the government's ideology to be mentally unstable. There have been cases of forced hospitalization, notes the IranWire publication.
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"Among young Mohammedan maids
Lurk well-hung Mohammedan blades!"
At least that's the chatter
From Qom, Tehran, Sadr.
"Beware of their terror Crusades!"
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...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 
..always the voice of sweet reason...
