[Breitbart] Racing levels of mass migration causing the population to soar is “the biggest issue that faces our country” because growth is far outstripping new infrastructure, Nigel Farage warns as new figures project ten million new migrants in the coming decade.
The population of the United Kingdom may rise to 72.5 million by 2032 and 75.3 million by 2042, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) projects, based on its latest data on births and deaths, life expectancy, and migration. The UK population is presently thought to be around 69 million, yet as recently stated, the number of people in some cities is unclear and a large resident population of illegals existing in the so-called black economy makes accurate counts difficult.
Indeed, very nearly all of this projected population growth will be from mass migration. As stated rather bluntly by the ONS, between 2022 and 2023 “6.8 million people will be born… 6.8 million people will die” meaning natural population growth will essentially be zero. But ten million people will “immigrate long term” to the country while five million are projected to leave, leaving net growth of five million new residents from migration alone.
In all, population growth in the decade to 2032 is projected to be 7.3 per cent, up from, 6.1 per cent for the preceding decade.
These figures are based on the ONS’s migration main prediction, but they have also published their “high migration” scenario where half a million people net arrive every year past 2028, which would push the population projection for 2042 from 75 million to nearly 79 million. Yet even this high scenario with its half million a year increase from migration still relies on the government statistician’s assumption that migration will actually fall considerably in the coming years, with net migration having hit 900,000 in 2023.
Migration Watch Chairman Alp Mehmet addressed the issue of the ONS assumption of migration levels suddenly declining this decade and levelling out at a constant half million in the future, remarking: “The projections are based on the assumption that net migration will fall to an annual 340,000, from 2029, which is unlikely without radical policy change.
“Beside the massive, negative, economic impact, such population increase will lead to a further significant fall in the percentage of the indigenous (white British) population. This has already fallen from 95% in 1991 to 75% in 2021. No wonder 71% are now saying immigration has been too high.”
While the ONS provides a population visualiser tool while allows users to project future population growth by editing factors like life expectancy and migration levels, it doesn’t even permit user input to simulate migration continuing at 2023 levels, as the net migration level tops out at 525,000 a year. It may be the statistician has judged now Boris Johnson is no longer a likely candidate for Prime Minister, such colossal levels of arrivals could never again be possible.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, whose party seems to get a polling bump every time Britain’s historic levels of immigration hit the news, responded to the latest ONS projections and stated “this is the biggest issue that faces our country”. Both Labour and Conservatives are to blame for the surge of arrivals, he said, while drawing attention to population growth — which is practically all migration-driven now, with natural population growth projected to go negative in the 2030s — totally outstripping the ability to build new infrastructure to accommodate them.
Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Farage said it was pointless to build endless new homes without the infrastructure to serve the people living in them and rhetorically asked whether any Members of Parliament from the Labour or Conservative Parties ever “levelled” with their own constituents about the causes for strained services.
Mr Farage further said in a statement to the public: “Labour say they’ll build [houses], that won’t even be enough to come with the numbers coming over the course of the next four years, never mind the backlog we have. You want to get a GP appointment? Forget it, it’s going to get even more difficult. Have you noticed how clogged the roads are? Our quality of life for all of us is diminishing directly as a result of the population explosion and here’s the other thing that really matters: the steeper our population rises through immigration, the poorer per head we get in this country.
“This is a complete betrayal by our political class and I promise you it’s on this issue that Reform are going to win the next General Election.”
[ET via Zero] A bulletin released by the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico said a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" advisory has been issued for parts of Tamaulipas state. It cites Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle Hermoso, and San Fernando, where IEDs have been found. The area borders the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
The warning also confirmed that officials are "aware of increasingly frequent gun battles occurring in and around Reynosa in the late night and early morning hours."
"An IED destroyed a Government of Mexico (Conagua) official vehicle in Rio Bravo and injured its occupant on January 23," the statement said. As a result, U.S. government officials were ordered to avoid travel near Rio Bravo and Reynosa outside of daytime and to stay away from dirt roads across Tamaulipas state, which shares a lengthy border with southern Texas.
The entirety of Tamaulipas is under a "Level 4" travel warning due to kidnappings and crime, said the bulletin, which was released on Monday evening.
"Organized crime activity—including gun battles, murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, forced disappearances, extortion, and sexual assault—is common along the northern border and in Ciudad Victoria," the bulletin said.
Americans traveling in the state are advised to avoid dirt roads and stay on paved roads. They should not touch unknown objects near roads, plan their travel during daytime hours, and check local media for updates. They’re also advised to be aware of their surroundings and to inform friends or family of their safety.
The State Department notice did not elaborate on whether the gun battles were occurring between Mexican criminal organizations or those groups and the Mexican government.
While the State Department has not issued a Level 4 travel advisory for all of Mexico, several states and regions are under that designation, according to a map provided by the agency.
#4
So they've regularized things there. Used to be, you were occaisionally in danger there.
Now it's continuous.
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Now that Trump is in office, the cartels no longer will be hesitant in the use of fore and intimidation to protect their territory on either side of the border. Any bets on how long before SOCOM/Delta/players-to-be-named-later begin to be involved in Mexico?
Someone was going to — so generous of Brazil to nominate themselves for the finding out. Enjoy the results you asked for.
[Breitbart] Brazil’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the head of the U.S. embassy in Brasilia Gabriel Escobar to demand explanations on the “degrading treatment” that a group of 88 Brazilian deportees were allegedly subjected to, local outlets reported.
Escobar, who presently leads the U.S. embassy as Charge d’Affaires until President Donald Trump appoints a new ambassador to Brasilia, reportedly conversed with Márcia Loureiro, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry’s Secretary of Consular Affairs, who asked the U.S. diplomat for “clarification” on reports of alleged mistreatment of the 88 Brazilian deportees that arrived on Friday.
Loureiro reiterated Brazil’s position to Escobar that the nation considers the treatment of the Brazilian deportees “unacceptable.” Both officials reportedly discussed the use of handcuffs, a practice that Brazil has called to replace with a more “dignified procedure.” Escobar reportedly promised to check the conditions of the flight.
On Friday, a plane with 88 Brazilian deportees was scheduled to land in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte but was forced to make a stopover in the northern city of Manaus after it encountered a technical issue. Brazilian outlets reported that the deportees descended from the airplane handcuffed and with their ankles shackled, leading to a disagreement with local authorities, who demanded the removal of the restraints.
Some of the deportees denounced to the Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Sunday that they were allegedly denied water and bathroom access during the fight. They claimed some of the deportees fainted from heat. Brazilian Human Rights Minister Macae Evaristo told journalists that “children with autism … who went through very serious experiences” were also on the flight.
The Brazilian government protested the “indiscriminate” use of handcuffs and said it would demand explanations from the United States for the “degrading” treatment of the deportees. According to local outlets, U.S. officials demanded that the Brazilians remain handcuffed on the stretch between Manaus and Belo Horizonte — leading to the Brazilian government not authorizing the plane to continue its scheduled arrival to Belo Horizonte.
Radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had the deportees taken on a Brazilian Air Force plane to Belo Horizonte instead.
At Brazilian expense. Just like Colombia.
The Brazilian government’s demands for clarification from the U.S. diplomat come right after far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro caused a brief diplomatic crisis between Colombia and the United States after he blocked the arrival of a flight of Colombian deportees on Sunday.
President Donald Trump responded to Petro’s actions with 25-percent tariffs on Colombian goods and other retaliatory measures. Petro, after issuing a long and incoherent rant on Twitter, ultimately caved and “agreed to all” of President Trump’s terms.
Brazil’s Federal Police explained to local outlets on Monday that, while the use of handcuffs on deportees is “standard practice” in the United States, Brazil does not apply the same protocol to deportees and, as such, the deportees could not disembark on Brazilian soil handcuffed because “they are not prisoners.”
They were prisoners, actually, until Brazil accepted receipt. That’s the point.
The Federal Police argued that the use of handcuffs upon disembarking was in violation of constitutional norms and treaties signed between both nations.
“There is no justification for people who are not prisoners, who pose no risk because they are in their own country, to be chained up and subjugated and mistreated there,” head of Brazil’s Federal Police Andrei Rodrigues said on Monday. “Our stance was to welcome them, it was the decision of the federal government and of [Justice] Minister Ricardo Lewandowski.”
Brazilian Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski told the state-owned Radio Agencia on Monday that the deportees were subjected to “unacceptable constraints.” Lewandowski asserted that the Brazilian reaction was “sober” and that the intention was not to provoke the American government, but to demand “respect for people’s fundamental rights, especially those who are not criminals.”
In America they were criminals. And now they are Brazil’s problem again..
“We don’t want provocation, we don’t want to create an affront anyone, but we want the innocent Brazilians who went there to look for work that they may not have had here – and today we have this worldwide phenomenon of forced migrations all over the world – we want them to be treated with the dignity they deserve,” Lewandowski said, adding that the deportations must be carried out with “respect and dignity.”
They were being treated like illegal aliens, ie. criminals. Also, the current round is intended to be the worst of the worst, so most of them are guilty of heinous crimes as well as of illegally entering the United States. And so handcuffs and chains are totally justified — would Brazil’s amour propre be satisfied if each had a card around his/her neck listing those crimes in two languages so that all are properly informed?
According to local outlets, President Lula da Silva met with his Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira on Monday to discuss the treatment given to deportees. Lula is expected to participate via videoconference in a Thursday meeting of Presidents of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) that far-left President of Honduras Xiomara Castro urgently called for to discuss President Trump’s crackdown on migrants and deportation policies.
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The alleged treatment of children with autism sent my daughter into the stratosphere. The Yahoo article she posted to Facebook noted near the end, A government source told AFP the deportation flight was not directly linked to any immigration orders issued by Trump upon taking office Monday, but rather stemmed from a 2017 bilateral agreement.
No pictures, no numbers, no explanation, just screeching TDS. I hate the media.
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…a project launched last October by the March 30 Movement, itself named in memory of the Palestinian general strike on that date in 1976 in the West Bank against the Israeli government, since referred to as Land Day. Both groups are lawfare boiler rooms generating endless lawsuits against Israelis and those who support Israel in Western Europe and elsewhere, and between times propagandizing against Israel using the currently fashionable far left shibboleths. March 30 is the hobby of lawyer Haroon Raza, appearing at the end of 2023, but at bottom it’s a Hezbollah front founded by Dyab Abou Jahjah (Dyab Abu Jahjah) …
says that its president recently filed a criminal complaint against Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli for allegedly “making terrorist threats against him.”
Chikli was forced to cancel a visit to the European Parliament in Brussels this week, reportedly over concerns that pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups would seek a warrant for his arrest after Belgium officials said that he would not have diplomatic immunity due to the unofficial nature of the visit.
The foundation, which is named for a 6-year-old Gazan girl killed in January 2024, has sparked alarm in Israel recently by seeking the arrest of Israeli officials and soldiers traveling abroad over alleged war crimes.
The foundation says in a statement that its founder, Dyab Abou Jahjah,
…a serial founder of Hezbollah fronts — his first, the Arab European League, was stirring up trouble between Moslem colonists and native Europeans since 2002……
filed a criminal complaint accusing Chikli of “making terrorist threats against him, a Belgian national, with the intent to intimidate and suppress the foundation’s advocacy for justice and accountability for war crimes.”
The complaint cites a comment made by Chikli on X on January 6, in which he told Abou Jahjah to “watch your pager,” in reference to the Hezbollah pagers detonated by Israel in a September operation.
“By evoking this event, Mr. Chikli threats Mr. Abou Jahjah with death or at least with the intentional infliction of blows and injuries resulting in mutilation,” the foundation says, charging that Chikli’s comment “constitutes an act of terrorism under Belgian law.”
The foundation claims that the reason Chikli wouldn’t have had diplomatic immunity while in Belgium was not because his visit was unofficial, but rather due to “Belgium’s commitment to upholding its international obligations to address crimes effectively.”
[IsraelTimes] Decision on where to send the prisoners is coordinated with Israel, officials tell ToI; Hamas said to vow Fatah and PFLP terror chiefs will be released in ceasefire’s 2nd phase
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 The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... are slated to host the Paleostinian murder convicts who were released and subsequently deported to Egypt as part of the hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , two officials tell The Times of Israel.
Israel demanded that the Paleostinians convicted of the most series crimes not be released to 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... or the West Bank. Egypt agreed to serve as a temporary landing spot for those murder convicts, 70 of whom were released last week and now reside in Cairo.
Turkey has agreed to take in around 15 of those Paleostinians and Qatar is expected to take in the remainder, though talks are ongoing and an additional country may be asked to host some of the prisoners deported later on in the deal, according to a regional official and an Arab diplomat familiar with the matter.
The decision on where to send the various Paleostinian murder convicts is done in coordination with Israel, the two officials said.
A number of senior Hamas members already live in Qatar, where Israeli officials frequently travel to for hostage negotiations, and Turkey has previously hosted top members of the terror group.
Israel has committed to releasing 1,904 prisoners, including 737 serving life sentences, in return for 33 women, children, men over 50 and those considered especially ill, during the ceasefire deal’s 42-day first phase. Seven Israeli hostages have already been released, in return for 290 Paleostinian prisoners, including 121 serving life sentences.
Talks have yet to begin on the deal’s second stage, in which Hamas is expected to release young, relatively healthy male hostages, including soldiers, for whom the terrorist organization is likely to demand Israel pay a heavier price.
The Kan public broadcaster reported Tuesday that Hamas has promised the families of prominent terror convicts Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat that they will be released from Israeli prison in the second phase.
According to the source, Hamas is preparing a strategic plan to take over the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority after the latter’s elderly leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> is no longer in office. If Hamas secures his release, Barghouti, a member of Abbas’s Fatah movement, will owe the terror group his life and freedom, Kan said.
Earlier this month, Kan cited a Paleostinian source as saying Hamas had prepared a list of five "heavy" prisoners that it wants Israel to release in the deal’s next phases: Barghouti, and four Hamas prisoners cumulatively serving over 200 life sentences for the murders of dozens of Israelis. Saadat was not on the list.
Israel has reportedly ruled out releasing Barghouti — a demand Hamas is said to have made as early as December 2023, two months into the Gaza war.
Saadat and Barghouti are senior terror chiefs considered icons by many Paleostinians. Both were arrested in 2002, at the height of the 2000-2005 Second Intifada.
Saadat, 72, the leader of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), was sentenced in 2008 to 30 years behind bars for criminal masterminding the 2001 liquidation of then-Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi, who advocated for Israel to "transfer" Paleostinians abroad.
Barghouti, 64, was sentenced in 2004 to five life sentences for his part in planning three terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada.
Barghouti had been a leader of the Tanzim, an offshoot of Fatah. He is a popular political figure, especially among younger Paleostinians who see him as untainted by Fatah’s corruption and cooperation with Israel. He is considered a leading candidate to win potential Paleostinian national elections and has also been touted as someone who can bring both the West Bank and Gaza his wing.
Barghouti has petitioned the High Court of Justice against his prison conditions following his transfer to solitary confinement after October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led holy warriors stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
Hamas banished the Fatah-dominated PA from the Strip in 2007, a year after besting the secularist faction in the last Paleostinian legislative elections.
Although both belong to Fatah, Barghouti had launched a slate of candidates separate from Abbas’s during the 2021 legislative election, which Abbas ultimately canceled, accusing Israel of blocking East Jerusalem Paleostinians from voting.
Observers believe Abbas has avoided holding elections for years due to fear of defeat, despite his term officially expiring in 2009. He took power in 2004, following the death of Fatah founder Yasser Arafat.
[IsraelTimes] John Fetterman is lone Democrat to vote to advance bill, which House already approved; GOP lawmakers now likely need to resume compromise talks in order to overcome filibuster
US Senate Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... on Tuesday blocked a Republican effort to advance legislation sanctioning the International Criminal Court over the arrest warrants it issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant over Israel’s military campaign 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... against Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... A vote to invoke cloture fell six politicians short of the 60 needed in order to bring the legislation to a floor vote.
The 54-45 vote result allows Democrats to continue filibustering the legislation and will likely require Republicans to resume negotiations with the Democrats aimed at reaching a compromise on the matter — one that at the very least will likely necessitate tweaking the legislation that already passed the Republican-led House.
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat who votes with Republicans to advance the bill.
While denouncing the warrants, the Biden administration had refrained from backing the effort, and Democrats seem to have decided to double down on that stance by blocking the bill.
"Deeply disappointed by the outcome of the ICC sanctions bill," Fetterman said. "My vote follows Israel — not the ICC that equivocated the democratically elected leader of our special ally to the hard boyz and rapists of Hamas."
Despite the outcome of the vote, it’s unclear whether the Congressional legislation is necessary, as US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... signed an executive order on his first day in office restoring sanctions that were imposed during his first term against the ICC, which former president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy... revoked with his own executive order.
Along with the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction... and Mohammad Deif over the terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack that started the Gaza war. All three of them have have since been killed, though the warrant for Deif remains standing as Hamas has yet to confirm his death.
[Breitbart] Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) is introducing legislation to help President Donald Trump deliver on his number one campaign promise.
Banks is introducing the Border Security is National Security Act Wednesday to authorize $10 billion for the Department of Defense to execute its national security role at the border, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Trump wasted little time in declaring a national emergency on the southern border, and the Pentagon is already lawfully using existing appropriated funds to carry out border security operations using the military. Banks’ bill would specifically authorize funding for that purpose.
“For four years, Joe Biden allowed terrorists, drug traffickers, and violent criminals to invade our country and infiltrate our communities” Banks told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement. “My bill gives President Trump critical funding for the military to help secure our border and deport millions of illegal immigrants. This is a matter of national security and Congress must help the President get the job done.”
Tom Homan, President Trump’s Border Czar, recently called for Congress to allocate Pentagon funding for border security, saying, “Congress needs to come to the table quick and give us the money we need to secure that border.”
After authorizing funding, Congress must still allocate funding through the appropriations process. But Trump, who has also called for congressional action on border security, has made clear he will take whatever steps are within his power to act.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that the “protection of the sovereign territory of the United States is the job of the Defense Department,” pledging “whatever is needed at the border will be provided.”
Hegseth acknowledged the Pentagon’s embrace of its national security role at the border will be a “shift” from prior administrations, particularly after four years of the Biden administration.
“This is not the way it was done in the past,” he said. “The Defense Department will support the defense of the territorial integrity of the United States of America’s southern border, including reservists, National Guardsmen and active-duty [personnel] in compliance with the Constitution and the laws of our land, and the directives of the commander in chief.”
In addition to military personnel and training costs, Banks’ bill will authorize surveillance systems, including autonomous surveillance towers, as well as installation of fences, barriers, patrol roads, and lighting.
The Border Security is National Security Act also will authorize military aviation costs, including deporting individuals in support of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations, counter-drone technology, and ground vehicles, including high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles. In addition to personnel and equipment, the bill will authorize funding for intelligence analysis.
Banks, a close ally of Trump, serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and was one of Hegseth’s staunchest supporters during his confirmation battle.
“He conducted himself in a way that I think everyone in the room can agree that he’s qualified for the job, and time is of the essence to get him over to the Pentagon to get to work,” Banks told Breitbart News after Hegseth’s confirmation hearing.
[FoxNews] Governor says there are nearly 5,400 migrants with active warrants statewide
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the state's Department of Public Safety (DPS) tactical strike teams to assist with the Trump administration’s operation to locate and arrest criminal illegal immigrants statewide.
"Texas is expanding our operations to assist President Donald Trump to protect Americans and enforce the rule of law," Abbott said Tuesday. "Today, I directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to deploy tactical strike teams to work alongside our federal partners to enforce immigration laws throughout the state.
"These teams will coordinate with Homeland Security agencies to track down the thousands of illegal immigrants with active warrants across Texas and deport them from our country," Abbott added. "After four years of failed policies, Texas finally has a partner in President Trump. Together, we will end this crisis and make America safe once again."
Abbott’s office said DPS tactical strike teams will work with the Homeland Security Task Force to utilize personnel and resources in order to identify and arrest the nearly 5,400 illegal immigrants with active warrants from across Texas.
The order comes just days after Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis announced that her department will not assist federal agents with civil immigration enforcement efforts.
Austin PD did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the matter.
Still, the Austin American-Stateman reported on Monday that ICE arrests were conducted in Austin over the weekend, and in response, Davis contacted federal officials about the operations. She was told by federal officials the operation targeted "wanted violent offenders."
She also told the publication that even though Austin police officers were not involved in the raids, "these are people APD would be looking for as well. They were wanted for violent offenses."
[IsraelTimes] US representative tells Security Council Jerusalem justified in effort to shutter UN agency over its ties to Hamas, rejects claims that doing so will spark humanitarian disaster
Breaking with the previous Biden administration, the Trump administration came out on Tuesday in favor of Israeli legislation to sever Jerusalem’s ties with the UN relief agency for Paleostinian refugees UNRWA and to severely restrict its operations 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 the West Bank.
"It is Israel’s sovereign decision to close UNRWA’s offices in Jerusalem on January 30. The United States supports the implementation of this decision," US chargé d’affaires ad interim Dorothy Shea said in remarks during the UN Security Council’s monthly session on the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
The Biden administration raised concerns over the extent to which Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... has managed to infiltrate UNRWA and moved to freeze US funding to the agency following revelations that a number of its members actively participated in Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... it came out against Congress’s decision to extend that freeze to this coming March — when politicians are expected to maintain the hold indefinitely.
Biden officials argued that UNRWA plays too essential of a role in Gaza’s humanitarian operations, and that it therefore should not be shuttered. It is behind many logistical aspects of aid delivery, including storage and transport.
The Knesset legislation passed last fall also bars Israeli officials from any contact with UNWRA, which the agency says will lead to the collapse of its operations in Gaza and the West Bank where coordination with Israeli authorities is essential.
Israel after passing the legislation said it would work with international organizations to ensure that a vacuum in the humanitarian effort would not be created by UNRWA’s departure, but Israeli officials have acknowledged to The Times of Israel that those preparations have not yet been completed as the law comes into place.
These concerns were not voiced by Trump’s interim envoy at the UN, who echoed Israeli stances questioning the UN’s objectivity.
"We are concerned about reports that returned Israeli hostages were held by Hamas in UN facilities during their prolonged captivity in Gaza. It is vital for a full and independent investigation to assess these very serious allegations," Shea said. "Unfortunately, this follows a pattern of serious allegations on the misuse of UN facilities — particularly UNRWA facilities — by Hamas terrorists."
For his part, UNRWA’s chief told the UN Security Council that the ban — due to come into effect on Thursday — would be disastrous and cripple the body’s work in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, claimed the ban would "heighten instability and deepen despair in the occupied Paleostinian territory at a critical moment," undermine the ceasefire in Gaza, and sabotage the enclave’s recovery and political transition.
"The relentless assault on UNRWA is harming the lives and future of Paleostinians across the occupied Paleostinian territory. It is eroding their trust in the international community, jeopardizing any prospect for peace and security," he contended.
Shea, in turn, criticized UNRWA for "exaggerating the effects" of the Knesset legislation by "irresponsibly and dangerously... suggesting that they will force the entire humanitarian response to halt."
"What is needed is a nuanced discussion about how we can ensure that there is no interruption in the delivery of humanitarian aid and essential services," the US envoy said.
"UNRWA is not — and never has been — the only option for providing humanitarian assistance in Gaza. Many other agencies have experience and expertise to do this work and have done this work," she said, echoing the Israeli stance. "UNRWA’s work has been tainted and its credibility questioned due to the terrorist ties to Hamas that UNRWA staff had that were exposed as a result of Hamas’s October 7 attack."
Shea still urged Security Council members to support the US, 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... i and Egyptian efforts to scale up aid into Gaza.
"We must ensure Hamas or other terrorist groups are not permitted to seize, divert, or profit from this assistance — and that if it does so, it is reported immediately and held accountable," she said, adding that Gaza must all be fully demilitarized and without a governing role for Hamas.
Notably, Shea said the US is "strongly committed" to implementing the ceasefire and hostage release deal. It appeared to be one of the Trump administration’s firmest statements yet in support of implementing all three stages of the agreement, amid calls from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners to resume the war after the first phase ends next month.
"The United States is strongly committed to implementing the ceasefire agreement, so that the hostages can return home and the people of Gaza can look toward a brighter future under new leadership," Shea said.
US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... and his Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff have also spoken about the importance of returning all of the hostages, but the former has also said he’s not confident the ceasefire will hold.
Netanyahu says he has received assurances from Trump that the US will back Israel in resuming the war if Hamas violates the terms of the ceasefire or stops negotiating in good faith regarding the terms of the second phase. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has suggested that the premier has given him an assurance to resume fighting that isn’t conditional on whether Hamas violates the deal.
Shea — who is part of an interim staff running the US Mission to the UN until Trump’s nominee Rep. Elise Stefanik is confirmed by the Senate — was careful not to criticize Israel in her remarks or even suggest that Netanyahu is not supportive of sticking with the hostage deal.
The speech was overall a clear departure from the previous Biden administration, which also consistently sought to defend Israel at the UN, but did so while criticizing Israeli policy in the West Bank and for not doing enough to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza — and sometimes even exacerbating it.
Shea avoided criticizing Israel altogether, placing all of the onus for civilian casualties on Hamas.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said at a presser that UNRWA must vacate all of its properties in Jerusalem.
"UNRWA must cease its operations and evacuate all premises it operates in Jerusalem."
"Israel will terminate all communication with UNRWA or anyone acting on its behalf."
Danon said the ban on UNRWA "was not a political decision. It was simply a necessary one."
"UNRWA has failed in its mandate. It has failed the people who were supposed to benefit from its services."
He said UNRWA "had failed to investigate the widespread infiltration of its ranks by Hamas and other terrorist organizations."
"No sovereign state should facilitate operations of an agency that threatens its national security and blatantly violates its laws."
Israel, he said, is ready to cooperate with other UN agencies "that are not tainted by terror."
[Rudaw] Around 150 high-ranking Syrian military officers remain in Iraq and all other soldiers who previously fled to Iraq after the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s regime have been repatriated, the mayor of a border district said Sunday.
"Besides 150, mostly high-ranking officials, who have not returned and been sent to Baghdad, all others [Syrian soldiers] have returned to Syria," Imad al-Dulaimi, the district mayor of Rutba in Anbar province, told Rudaw.
"No Syrian soldiers are left in the camp where they were settled about a month and a half ago," he added.
Iraq said in mid-December that it had sent back approximately 2,000 Syrian soldiers, who had sought refuge in the country a day before the collapse of the Assad regime to Syrian authorities.
The soldiers fled to Iraq through the al-Qaim border crossing on December 7. Iraqi officials said at the time that they had entered the country with Baghdad’s permission.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) led a blistering offensive against Assad’s Syrian army in late November, ending over five decades of Baathist rule in less than two weeks.
Thousands of former Syrian soldiers have surrendered to HTS under a national reconciliation process aimed at reintegrating Assad's former forces into the new administration.
More normalcy now that Donald Trump is returned to the White House.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announces that Israel will be opening an embassy in Zambia.
A statement from the Foreign Ministry calls Zambia a “friend of Israel” and says opening an embassy there will advance bilateral relations and is also “part of a broader move to strengthen relations with countries in Africa.” Sa’ar invites his Zambian counterpart, Mulambo Haimbe, to visit Israel.
Diplomat Ofra Farhi currently serves as a non-residential ambassador to Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema visited Israel in August 2023. Zambia and Israel re-established ties in 1991 and the African nation opened an embassy in Tel Aviv in 2015.
[IsraelTimes] UAE-based advanced defense technology group EDGE will invest $10 million to buy a 30% stake in Israel’s Thirdeye Systems, a developer of AI-based electro-optical systems to detect drone threats.
The deal is subject to approval by Israel’s Defense Ministry. The Netanya-based defense tech startup says that Abu Dhabi’s EDGE group has also committed to investing $12 million to create a joint venture with Thirdeye that will be tasked with development and sales of electro-optical object recognition systems to new global regions and markets.
Founded in 2010 by CEO Lior Segal, Yoel Motola and Gil Barak, Thirdeye develops fully automated electro-optical scanning systems to detect fast-evolving threats on the battlefield, including UAVs and enemy drones.
EDGE, an Abu Dhabi-based conglomerate of private firms and government-owned bodies, has 25 subsidiaries and employs 12,000 workers across various sectors: defense platforms and systems; missiles and precision-guided weapons; cyber defense; electronic warfare and intelligence; and mission support.
[IsraelTimes] Armed with hard-won experience from first release, central Israel medical center preps rooms and staff amid speculation that 10 foreign nationals could be released in side deal
At least 31 Thai nationals were among the more that 250 people kidnapped from southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Nearly 16 months later, eight of them remain in captivity.
As speculation ramps up over a possible side arrangement that would free the eight and two other foreign nationals, Shamir Medical Center in central Israel is gearing up for the possibility that it may once again be tasked with the challenging but rewarding job of treating them upon their released.
The hospital near Rishon Lezion — one of six medical centers preparing to receive hostages, according to the Health Ministry — was the first stop for 23 Thai nationals and one Filipino who were released by Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in late November 2023 as part of a deal brokered by 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... between the Paleostinian terror group and Bangkok. It did not receive any Israeli hostages.
"Although it was complicated, we did, objectively speaking, an amazing, amazing job," recalled Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach, the director of the hospital formerly known as Assaf Harofeh.
Levtzion-Korach told The Times of Israel that when the medical center took in the foreign nationals, it "involved a lot of common sense because no one knew what to do."
This time, they are armed with that experience and will have teams and procedures in place to best help those emerging from Gazook captivity.
"We will be privileged to treat them again," she said.
There are eight Thai nationals still held 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... : Surasak Lamnau, Pingsa Nattapong, Bannawat Seathao, Sathian Suwankam, Sriaoun Watchara, and Pongsak Tanna, as well as Sudthisak Rinthalak and Sonthaya Oakkharasr, both of whom are confirmed dead.
Nepal’s Bipin Joshi and the remains of slain Tanzanian captive Joshua Loitu Mollel are also thought likely to be released alongside the eight Thai hostages.
The Thais are not part of the 33 Israeli hostages expected to be set free during the first stage of a hostage-ceasefire deal agreed to by Israel and Hamas earlier this month.
Seven Israeli women have so far been released under that arrangement, with Jerusalem freeing hundreds of Paleostinian prisoners in exchange. The rest of the hostages are set to be released in later stages of the deal, which have yet to be negotiated.
A pity your opinion no longer contains the threat of serious force, which proves that Allah wants you to learn to suck it up.
[GEO.TV] Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said on Monday that the group would not accept any justifications to extend the period given for Israeli troops' withdrawal from southern Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... Israel said on Friday that its army's withdrawal would last beyond the 60-day period stipulated in the ceasefire agreement with the Lebanese group, saying the terms of the deal had not been fully enforced by the Lebanese state.
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[Breitbart] The governments of Egypt and Jordan categorically rejected the possibility of offering shelter to displaced Gaza refugees on Monday after President Donald Trump lamented the state of the Hamas-controlled region as a “demolition site” and suggested it needed to be “cleaned out” before civilians could live there in peace.
Gaza has seen tremendous levels of destruction since October 7, 2023, when Hamas, a jihadist terrorist organization that controls the area, invaded Israel and conducted targeted massacres of civilians, killing families in their own homes and engaging in widespread torture, gang rape, and other atrocities. Israel declared war on Hamas the next day, with the goal of making it impossible for the Iran-backed terrorists to conduct a second similar operation. Israel lost an estimated 1,200 people on October 7.
The war has resulted in the elimination of some of the most prominent leaders in Hamas, including Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, “political” chief Ismail Haniyeh, and and al-Qassam Brigades leader Mohammed Deif. Israel has also successfully dismantled much of Iran’s terrorist proxy network, including the leadership of Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon.
Israel agreed to a ceasefire deal with Hamas this month that has allowed the slow return of civilians to Gaza. Given that Hamas often uses schools, hospitals, and other civilian infrastructure to hide its terrorist operations, the war required the destruction of much of that infrastructure, meaning Gaza will require extensive rebuilding before it can sustain any large civilian population comfortably.
“It’s literally a demolition site right now,” President Trump said of Gaza in remarks to reporters on Saturday. “Almost everything is demolished and people are dying there.”
Trump suggested that Jordan and Egypt, Gaza’s immediate Arab neighbors, take in displaced Palestinian refugees while Gaza rebuilds.
“You’re talking about probably a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. You know, over the centuries it’s had many, many conflicts, that site. And I don’t know, something has to happen,” Trump said.
The president said that he had raised the possibility of Jordan taking in Palestinian refugees with the country’s king, Abdullah II, in a phone call last week, and that he would suggest to Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the same.
The governments of both nations offered statements that enthusiastically rejected the possibility of offering refuge to displaced Gazans given the unlivable conditions in the Strip. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry stated plainly that the country “rejected” letting any Palestinians in, while Egypt described its opposition to helping displaced Palestinians as “categorical.”
“All talk about an alternative homeland for Palestinians is rejected. We will not accept it and will continue to confront it,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi asserted on Monday.
“Jordan is for Jordanians,” he continued, “and Palestine is for Palestinians. The resolution of the Palestinian issue must be on Palestinian soil.”
The Jordanian House of Representatives separately insisted in its own statement, “We reaffirm our rejection of all illusions of displacement aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause at the expense of Jordan and Egypt.”
“Jordan will not be an alternative homeland for attempts to displace the steadfast Palestinian people,” it added.
In Egypt, the Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday that affirmed what it described as the “resilience of the Palestinian people on their land,” suggesting Palestinians must endure the current harrowing conditions in Gaza while rebuilding occurs.
The Sisi government “reaffirmed its unwavering support for the resilience of the Palestinian people on their land and their commitment to their inalienable rights under international law and humanitarian law,” the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram reported. “The foreign ministry underscored its categorical rejection of any actions that undermine these rights, including settlement expansion, annexation of land, or the displacement of Palestinians—whether through temporary or permanent means.”
Trump nonetheless repeated his assertions that he did not support Palestinians being forced to live in the “hell” of Gaza.
“I’d like to get them living in an area where they can live without disruption and revolution and violence,” Trump told reporters. “When you look at the Gaza Strip, it’s been hell for so many years.”
“There have been various civilizations on that strip. It didn’t start here. It started thousands of years before,” he continued, “and there’s always been violence associated with it. You could get people living in areas that are a lot safer and maybe a lot better and maybe a lot more comfortable.”
But this is The Donald — stupid, brash, and ignorant! How can he possibly know about the deep history of the Gaza Strip???
The American president expressed optimism that Sisi and King Abdullah would eventually welcome Palestinians.
“I wish [Sisi] would take some. We helped them a lot, and I’m sure he’d help us. He’s a friend of mine. He’s in… a rough neighborhood,” Trump said. “But I think he would do it, and I think the King of Jordan would do it too.”
“Awfully nice countries you guys have there. It’d be a real shame if you couldn’t afford to have them anymore…”
Among those most opposed to liberating Palestinians from Hamas-controlled Gaza are the remaining leaders of Hamas.
No!!! Reeeeeeeely???
A senior Hamas terrorist told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) this week that Hamas would “foil” attempts to rescue Palestinians from living under the jihadists. The Emirati newspaper The National reported on Tuesday that a “high-level” delegation of Hamas jihadists is in Egypt today to discuss the situation in Gaza with top officials.
We can confirm they are there.
“Mr. Trump’s comments sparked a flurry of behind-the-scenes diplomacy across much of the Arab world to formulate a unified stance to reject the suggestions,” The National observed, citing anonymous sources, “and the issue figured prominently in the talks between Hamas and Egyptian officials.”
Egypt is also reportedly planning street protests to oppose accepting Palestinian refugees.
The spontaneous, grassroots kind, no doubt.
Egyptians, while claiming to support the Palestinian cause, have soundly rejected helping Palestinians by offering them shelter throughout the war. Shortly after the October 7 attacks, The National spoke to Egyptian citizens who complained, “Egypt has enough refugees living in it.”
“Just over the past 10 years or so, many Syrians came here to flee their war, then many thousands of Yemenis came when war broke out over there too,” an antiques dealer told the newspaper. “Then just this year, when war broke out in Sudan, the same happened and we allowed Sudanese refugees in.”
Egypt has been a refuge for thousands of years. Abraham and Sarah took their flocks down to escape a drought (that was when he persuaded her to lie and say she was his sister), and Jacob’s brothers did the same a generation later, staying on for four hundred years until Moses led them out again.
Syrians have begun to return home by the thousands following the end of the Assad family regime there in December, but that does not appear to have changed Cairo’s disposition towards Palestinians.
The Egyptians believe Palestinians, especially the Gazas they know better, to be conmen and thieves at best, and are uninterested in being persuaded otherwise.
Egypt is the only country besides Israel to share a land border with Gaza. Egyptian authorities repeatedly fortified their border with Gaza throughout the war to keep Palestinians from entering their country.
And then allowed tunnels underneath for smuggling, a lucrative venture for those on both sides of the border, especially President al Sisi’s nephew.
In Jordan, King Abdullah has used international platforms to oppose sheltering Palestinian refugees.
“Now is the time to ensure the protection of the Palestinian people,” he said during his most recent address to the United Nations General Assembly in September. “It is the moral duty of this international community to establish a protection mechanism for them across the occupied territories.”
But, he added, “extremist” ideas like “the idea of Jordan as an alternative homeland” must be rejected.
“Let me be very, very clear: that will never happen,” he promised. “We will never accept the forced displacement of Palestinians, which is a war crime.”
Ah, but if they accept a polite invitation to be helped to relocate to a better neighbourhood, that’s quite another thing.
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Why don't they just ship them all to Iran? They've been supporting them right along.
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Western Shara is mostly empty, ideal for the Palos.
A couple water purifiers plants and maybe a couple power plants will help the Palos just what they can do to showcase how superior their agriculture and manufacturing prowess are.
That's a win-win!
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80% of Jordanians are Palestinians - the Hashemites and their allied tribes are just a British implant.
[IsraelTimes] The Hezbollah terror group has reportedly handed over an underground missile facility to the Lebanese Armed Forces, as Jerusalem and Beirut agreed to extend the deadline for Israeli troops to depart southern Lebanon as part of a truce that came into effect in late November.
Al-Arabiya reports that the subterranean facility in southern Lebanon, which has large tunnels through which trucks can drive, was emptied of all heavy equipment before the LAF took control of it.
The Saudi-owned outlet airs footage purporting to show Lebanese troops inspecting the premises.
Hezbollah boasted about the missile facility, dubbed Imad 4, in an August propaganda video — before Israel launched its military campaign that wiped out most of the Iran-backed terror group’s top leadership, including long-time chief Hassan Nasrallah.
Israel has said that it needs to stay past the 60-day deadline stipulated in the ceasefire agreement to ensure that Hezbollah does not reestablish its presence in southern Lebanon, because the LAF has not deployed to all areas south of the Litani River — about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the border with Israel, as agreed.
The White House said in a statement on Sunday that the deadline for the IDF to withdraw has been extended to February 18.
[Rudaw] Thousands of Arab settlers have left the Kurdish city of Afrin in northern Syria and returned to their hometowns since the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... ’s regime, a local council member said on Monday, and over 70 thousand Kurds have returned.
"The local police in Afrin have given us the latest figures, saying that 71,000 Kurds have returned to their homes in Afrin, but it is not clear how many families they are," Azad Osman, an Afrin local council member, told Rudaw.
Osman, however, lamented that "gangs" have occupied Kurdish houses, demanding money as ransom for returning the properties.
"They continue to take money from the Kurds who are returning," Osman stated. "Some groups either take no money or very little, but the al-Amshat group requires a lot of money and they now charge $1,000 to $1,500 for any family that wants to return to the area they control."
The Suleiman Shah Brigade, also known as al-Amshat after its commander Mohammad Hussein al-Jassim (Abu Amsha), is sanctioned by the US Treasury over grave human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations committed in Afrin, including abductions and extortion.
Osman said they expect all Arab settlers to leave Afrin by May "because they want to return to their hometowns," adding that thousands continue to leave the Kurdish city.
The return process to Afrin has also seen arrests. Osman said that young people returning have been detained by gangs on charges of links to the Kurdish-led administration in Rojava.
According to Osman, an administrative decision has been made to replace gangs in Afrin with a local police force - a decision he called "important" for the city’s Kurds.
"With the withdrawal of the gangs, the police force will replace them," he said.
Afrin, previously under the control of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), was seized by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and its allied Syrian militia groups in a military campaign code-named Operation Olive Branch in 2018. The YPG is the backbone of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that control northeast Syria.
Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled Afrin in the face of the offensive, mostly residing in the nearby Shahba region.
As a coalition of rebels led by the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) were marching on Damascus and toppling Assad’s regime, Ankara-backed gunnies who call themselves the Syrian National Army (SNA) attacked the SDF in Shahba and took control of the area, causing a new wave of displacement from the region to other areas under Kurdish control.
[IsraelTimes] Visiting position on Syrian side of Mount Hermon, Katz vows Israel will not allow ‘hostile forces’ to gain a foothold in area, or be dependent on others for security in area
Defense Minister Israel Katz said during a visit to the Syrian side of Mount Hermon on Tuesday that the Israel Defense Forces will remain there indefinitely, apparently backtracking on repeated assurances from Israel that the move was temporary.
"The IDF will remain at the summit of the Hermon and the security zone indefinitely to ensure the security of the communities of the Golan Heights and the north, and all the residents of Israel," Katz said, apparently referring to a buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border that Israel seized following the fall of the Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... regime last month.
"We will not allow hostile forces to establish themselves in the security zone in southern Syria... we will act against any threat," he said. "We will not be dependent on others for our security."
Katz said Israel will make contact with "friendly populations" in the southern Syria area, "with an emphasis on the large Druze community which has historic and close family relations with our Druze brothers in Israel."
The defense minister visited an army post at the Mount Hermon summit, where he held an assessment with senior officers and spoke with troops, according to his office.
Israel has previously described its takeover of the buffer zone as a temporary measure aimed at preventing hostile forces from taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to enter the strategic zone and threaten Israeli territory.
Katz’s remarks came as the IDF published footage showing the construction of what it called a "temporary" army posts atop the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, where troops have been deployed since last month.
The military says the Technological and Logistics Directorate provided troops with insulated structures and equipment to reside on the mountain during the harsh winter weather.
Among the structures erected in the army posts is a medical building that is equipped to treat cold weather injuries.
The IDF provided the forces with generators, heating devices, and clothing and shoes for snow.
After the fall of Assad’s regime in Syria on December 8, the country’s de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, responded to Israeli concerns and offered reassurance that the new Syrian government would not threaten the Jewish state or allow 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... to reestablish itself in Syria.
Sharaa has also asserted that Israel had a right to target Iranian-backed forces, who supported Assad and backed Hezbollah, prior to the former Syrian leader’s fall, but he said that Israel has no legitimate basis to keep operating in Syria since the regime change.
Israel has also signaled its desire to have "correct ties" with the new regime, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in early December, but "if this regime allows Iran to reestablish itself in Syria, or allows the transfer of Iranian weapons or any other weapons to Hezbollah, or attacks us, we will respond forcefully and we will exact a heavy price from it."
Israel and Syria do not have diplomatic relations and have formally been in a state of war since Israel declared independence in 1948.
While the fall of the Assad regime, which stood for over five decades, could provide a historic opportunity for recognition between Israel and its neighbor, the Jewish state maintains concern that the new leadership in Syria could lead to further chaos and serve as a breeding ground for a resurgence of terror in the region.
[GEO.TV] Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> said Tuesday that 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... had brought Israel "to its knees", in a reference to the recent ceasefire in the Paleostinian territory.
The ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Iran's arch-enemy Israel and Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... went into effect just over a week ago, aiming to put an end to more than 15 months of war.
"The small, limited Gaza brought the Zionist regime, armed to the teeth, and fully supported by America, to its knees," Khamenei said during a meeting with officials in Tehran.
Also on Tuesday, Iran's foreign ministry front man, Esmaeil Baqaei, criticised US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... 's idea to move Paleostinians out of Gaza to other locations such as Egypt or Jordan.
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Don't confuse "its" with "yours".
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Says the man wearing a bulletproof vest to Friday prayers.
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Snark all you want, IDF has been at war with a refugee camp for over a year and still hasn't won.
Maybe the same training as the US generals who lost against the goat fuckers in Afghanistan.
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Palestinians fought on several (actually more than 2) sides in the Syrian Civil War (or Wars). Some supported Assad, some opposed Assad, some let themselves be subsidized by Iran or Turkey.
HTS emir knows this.
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[Regnum] The Russian interdepartmental delegation held talks in Damascus with the head of the Syrian administration, Ahmad al-Sharaa. The nearly three-hour meeting was generally constructive, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Bogdanov told journalists on January 28.
"The conversation was mainly led by the head of the new administration of the interim government of Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the negotiations were also attended by Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani, and the Minister of Health Maher al-Sharaa, who is Ahmad al-Sharaa's older brother, and our interdepartmental delegation... There was a good atmosphere. But we understand how difficult the situation is (in the country. - Ed.)," the Russian diplomat noted.
According to Bogdanov, the parties discussed trade and economic ties and further mutually beneficial cooperation. During the talks, the Russian delegation emphasized the traditionally friendly nature of relations since Syria gained independence after World War II. In addition, Russians and the Syrian people are linked by ties of friendship and cooperation, the Deputy Foreign Minister added.
Also at the meeting, Russia called for the resolution of problematic issues in Syria through dialogue with the participation of all political forces in the country and ethno-confessional groups. This kind of work should be built on the principles of national accord, since this is the key to preserving the unity and territorial integrity of the republic, Bogdanov concluded, wishing prosperity to the Syrian people.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on December 8, 2024, Bashar al-Assad resigned as president and left Syria, ordering a peaceful transfer of power. He and his family arrived in Russia, where they were granted asylum. On December 10, 2024, Mohammed al-Bashir announced his appointment as head of the Syrian government for a transitional period that will last until March 1, 2025. The de facto leader of Syria was Ahmed al-Sharaa, head of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (banned in Russia and recognized as terrorist).
For several years, Russia has supported the Syrian government led by Assad in their fight against terrorist forces. The country has pledged to provide support as long as the Syrian state itself is conducting military operations, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted earlier. At the same time, back in 2015, the head of state indicated that "we are not going to be more Syrian than the Syrians themselves," since this problem is an internal matter for Damascus. Nevertheless, Moscow has always advocated for the normalization of dialogue between political and religious Syrian forces and organizations, stating the need to conduct the most fruitful negotiations under the auspices of the UN in Geneva.
Adds Boris Rozhin:
The main issues are the preservation of the Russian Khmeimim airbase and the Russian Navy logistics center in Tartus, recognition of the new Syrian authorities, the work of the embassy in Damascus and issues of humanitarian aid to Syria. This visit should clarify the prospects for preserving Russian bases in Syria. At the current stage, it would be advantageous for Russia to preserve these bases even in a truncated version.
If an agreement cannot be reached, then the bases will most likely be withdrawn to the African continent, where the Russian military presence continues to expand. I believe that everything will become clear by mid-February.
The bases themselves are currently operating and are not being withdrawn, although the air group at Khmeimim has already been reduced, since the need for a large group of strike aircraft has disappeared (they managed to slap on a few hundred militants before Assad's fall, sweetening the pill).
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