#7
"Still sporting your little black ears
Though the tables have turned, eh, my dears?"
"Yesirree, Mr. Jack!"
"Well, I'd better get back
To the game." *cottontail disappears*
[Garowe] U.S. Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed 16 Lions of Islam affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist group in northern Somalia, officials there said Monday.
A spokesperson for security operations in the Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... region, Brigadier General Mohamud Mohammed Ahmed, disclosed the corpse count in an interview with VOA’s Somali Service.
"The strike carried out by our international security partners killed at least 16 Lions of Islam including two senior members identified as the group’s bomb-makers, and a bomb factory was destroyed," Ahmed said.
He said local officials are working to verify the names and nationalities of the bomb-makers.
Ahmed said that the United Arab Emirates played a role in Sunday’s attack.
"The United States government and the United Arab Emirates, both our partners supporting us in the fight against terrorists, were involved [in] the strikes on Sunday night," he added.
Ahmed said the strikes targeted Godka Kunle and Xankookin, two villages in the Cal Miskaad mountain range in Puntland’s Bari region.
Ahmed said during the airstrikes, the Lions of Islam launched drone attacks on the bases of the Puntland security forces in the area.
"Trying to hit back the bases of our security forces, the Lions of Islam used seven drones. Puntland forces shot down five of them and two others, apparently with explosives, went off," Ahmed claimed.
Somali and U.S. authorities have been working to root out Islamic State groups that established hideouts in mountainous parts of Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in northern Somalia.
The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a statement Monday that it conducted an airstrike against ISIS-Somalia in the country’s northeast Sunday, killing two terrorists, according to an initial assessment.
AFRICOM said no civilians were harmed in the operation and said it would continue to evaluate the results and provide updates as necessary.
Speaking in Mogadishu, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud commended the U.S. airstrikes.
"The latest U.S. precision strikes against terrorist elements in Puntland reaffirms the strong partnership between Somalia and the United States in the fight against terrorism," Mohamud said in a statement posted by the Somali National News Agency (SONNA).
Sunday’s airstrike is the second the U.S. military carried out in Somalia this month.
A similar operation on Feb. 1, which targeted senior ISIS-Somalia leadership in a network of cave complexes in Puntland’s Golis Mountains, killed approximately 14 ISIS operatives, including Ahmed Maeleninine, who the U.S. identified as a key recruiter and financier responsible for coordinating jihadi movements into the U.S. and Europe.
Puntland authorities recently launched a military offensive against krazed killer groups in the region following months of preparations.
Puntland claims to have since killed more than 200 Islamic State fighters, dozens of them imported muscle and captured villages and bases in the mountainous area controlled by IS.
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The use of Reapers, which are capable of being armed, comes amid talk of unprecedented direct action by American forces against Mexico’s cartels, operations that could include drone strikes as TWZ previously highlighted in an in-depth feature.
Drone strikes? Cut out messing around. Hit 'em with an arclight.
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Somebody has seen the movie! But this time, Harrison won't need to rescue anybody, because Lindo Coffee will be a vacant building.
[NYPOST] The CIA has sent drones on secret missions over Mexico to spy on narco mobs — and may use them for armed strikes, according to former and current officials.
Some secret — unless they want the cartels to know they’re being hunted.
The covert missions, carried out with MQ-9 Reaper drones, are sizing up the narco gangs and their laboratories over the southern US border as a possible precursor to trying to eliminate them by air, sources told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... The drone flights, which were begun under the Biden administration but previously unreported, go ''well into sovereign Mexico,'' a US official told the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... ’'Countering narco mobs in Mexico and regionally is a priority for the CIA as a part of the Trump administration's broader efforts to end the grave threat from narco-trafficking,'' a CIA rep said, according to CNN. ''Director [John] Ratcliffe is determined to put the CIA's unique expertise to work against this multi-faceted challenge.''
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been conducting surveillance flights with drones over Mexico in partnership with the U.S. neighbor to the south, to gather intelligence on cartels and fentanyl laboratories, according to a senior U.S. official.
The Biden administration authorized the use of MQ9 Reaper drones, which the official said are not armed and "not lethal," over Mexico to focus on locating fentanyl labs and cartels.
President Donald Trump’s administration continued the program, which is being done in coordination with the Mexican government.
The intelligence is shared with the Mexican government, which in turn has the authority to act on shutting down any illegal activities associated with the cartels and labs.
"This is not the Pakistan model," a senior U.S. official told Fox News. "It is being done in partnership with the Mexican government."
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As long as Americans want drugs,
Americans will have drug problems;
and American cities/towns will have drug problems;
and American families will have drug problems;
and American employers will have drug problems.
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RFKJr apparently no longer abuses opiates.
Not because his supply was cut off.
Not because opiates are no longer available to him.
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The US will continue to have drug addiction problems as long as the US has drug addicts -- who, by definition, continue to use drugs despite negative consequences.
Mexico could disappear tomorrow ---> The US would still have the exact same drug addiction problems.
China could disappear tomorrow ---> The US would still have the exact same drug addiction problems.
Afghanistan could disappear this afternoon ---> The addicts in the US would just find an alternative supply.
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And,, of course , as long as there is DEMAND for a thing,
there will be a SUPPLY for that thing, supplied by somebody -- either legally, or illegally, or quasi-legally, whatever.
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All true. But at least lot of vicious suppliers won’t get to enjoy the outcome. Which includes China.
#6
The intelligence is shared with the Mexican government, which in turn has the authority to act on shutting down any illegal activities associated with the cartels and labs.
#8
#6 one way to know the players is to feed info to 'Mexican officials' and see if they intended target takes any actions, thus identifying the specific leak. Keeping the campaign chaotic, so the Mexican side doesn't know for sure what is good info and what is bait.
#9
That's the spirit, Franklin. Sit back and do nothing because nothing can be done, right? Let the Chinese and Mexicans flood our streets with fentanyl and wring our hands while Americans drop dead right and left. Let the death merchants get rich. We're helpless and hopeless. We might as well all shoot ourselves and get it over with. Do I need a /sarc tag?
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The most powerful country in the world can't defend its own borders, can't stop a handful of Third World narco-terrorists, right? Is Franklin Throckmorton with the CCP? Or is he getting a piece of the action?
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#11
See it in the headlines
You hear it every day
They say they're gonna stop it
But it doesn't go away
They move it through Miami
Sell it in L.A
They hide it up in Telluride
I mean it's here to stay
It's propping up the governments
Of Columbia and Peru
You ask any DEA man
He'll say there's nothing we can do
From the office of the President
Right down
To me and you
Me and you
It's a losing proposition
But one you can't refuse
It's the politics of contraband
It's the smuggler's blues
I still like Smuggler's Blues by Glenn Frey, 1985
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Come on Franklin, its a non-serious position to pretend that convenience doesn't feed into addiction.
[NYPost] An anti-Israel protest erupted into violence and mayhem as a swarm of demonstrators flooded a primarily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn Tuesday night.
One person was arrested after dozens of agitators chanting "Zionists go to hell" and waving Paleostinian flags descended to Borough Park to protest a real estate event, according to police and reports.
"How many kids did you kill today?" anti-Israel protesters chanted to the beat of a snare drum, as some flashed Jewish residents the middle finger, The Times of Israel reported.
The demonstration, organized by anti-Israel activist group Pal-Awda, gathered to protest what they claimed was Paleostinian land being sold off to the Jewish state, the group shared in a post on X Monday afternoon.
Amidst the chaos, the protest organizer yelled "There is only one solution, intifada revolution" through a megaphone as others shouted, "settlers settlers go back home, Paleostine is ours alone," the outlet reported.
Pro-Israel demonstrators, along with a crowd of locals, carrying Israel’s flag, also gathered in the area, with barricades separating the opposing groups.
At one point, the dueling groups converged, and a brawl ignited with the sounds of screams blaring in the background as police forcefully separated the sparring crowd, according to videos shared on X.
Local leaders condemned the protest Monday night when plans for the controversial event spread on social media, with many calling on the city and police to put a stop to demonstrators gathering in the Jewish neighborhood.
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres blasted protesters for targeting Borough Park "simply because it is Jewish."
"It should come as a shock to no one that the pro-Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... mob targeting Jews and promising to ’flood’ Boro Park has descended into violence," posted to X Tuesday night.
"Violence is not a bug but a feature of the so-called ’Free Paleostine’ movement, which has no desire to free Paleostinians from Hamas."
Activist group End Jew Hatred called out other city leaders for failing to "stand up" against the anti-Israel protesters.
"Hamas apologists and supporters, cloaked in the tired and well-worn pretense of supporting "Paleostine," showed their true nature as violent mostly peaceful thugs looking for any reason to attack Jews," the group said in a statement.
Charges are pending against the one protestor taken into custody, police said.
Countless demonstrations organized by anti-Israel activists have erupted in the Big Apple since the Paleostinian terror group Hamas attacked the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023. The latest protest flared just hours after Hamas made a ghoulish announcement confirming its youngest hostages, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, 2 and 5, and their mother, Shiri Bibas, are dead and their bodies will be returned to Israel this week. Bibas and her boys quickly became symbols of the horrors of the terrorist attack.
Around 200 anti-Israel protesters gathered on a street in the neighborhood within a barricaded area set up by police. A crowd of Jewish neighborhood residents and other pro-Israel counterprotesters demonstrated on the sidewalk across the street. Dozens of police officers separated the two sides. The protest began just after sundown and the temperature was below freezing.
On the Jewish side, dozens of adults and children from the neighborhood and other counterprotesters lined a police barricade across the street. Some were actively protesting, while others were curious passersby who stopped to take photos on their phones. Several held Israeli flags and shouted at the anti-Israel crowd. One woman held up the yellow flag of the far-right Jewish Defense League.
Several fights broke out. A couple of anti-Israel activists who walked into the Jewish side were shouted at and pushed out. Some participants traded blows on the sidelines of the rally. As the protest wound down, the two opposing groups walked down opposite sides of the street, with some crossing back and forth, leading to further scuffles. The police struggled to keep participants separated, and on the sidewalks, away from traffic.
As the anti-Israel group headed toward a subway station, NYPD Deputy Chief Richie Taylor, the highest-ranking Orthodox Jewish police officer in the city, urged neighborhood residents to not follow them any longer.
“There’s no reason for it. They’re leaving,” he told a crowd of young men.
The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment on arrests.
Anti-Israel activists have held hundreds of protests in New York since the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel, but Tuesday’s rally stood out because protests in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods are rare.
The protest was widely condemned by New York political leaders before it took place.
“This ‘protest’ is in fact targeted harassment aimed at a neighborhood with one of the highest populations of Orthodox Jews in the US,” said Representative Daniel Goldman, a New York Democrat. “To harass and intimidate Jews because of the actions of Israel is textbook antisemitism. True progressives must speak out against this hate.”
Anti-Israel street protests in New York have spiked since the Hamas attack on Israel, starting with a celebration the following day, and have continued since the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The activists’ targets have included cancer patients, museums, memorials to the dead, libraries, transportation hubs and holiday events.
10/7 showed Israeli weakness which brought shame on Israel, the Jews, and the West and honor to the Islamic world. 10/7 empowered the Islamic world.
In turn, from a Western perspective, Israeli military supremacy and any suffering it causes, deserved or not, causes guilt in the West which weakens the West and empowers its adversaries. Ditto for NATO/Afghanistan etc.
Who are we?
Do we deserve to exist?
Do we have a right to preserve our existence?
These are the questions the West needs to answer asap.
#2
QUESTION:
What has happened to all the Liberal Democrats, Race Pimps & the MSM in the USA? They used to be the 1st ones demanding & screaming Hate Speech Laws must be enforced for far, far less?
But! The current lack of action or commentary by the usual the Liberal Elite and MSM yapping heads, on such clearly racist actions, does kinda speak volumes.
Raising the other questions. Are the Liberal/ Democrat Elite and their controlled MSM arm actually Anti-Semitic? Or just playing it for $$$$ donations and votes?
#5
In turn, from a Western perspective, Israeli military supremacy and any suffering it causes, deserved or not, causes guilt in the West which weakens the West
Anyone applying a Western perspective to feel guilt over the Israeli response to the Hamas invasion and its sequalae is at best a vicious fool and at worst deliberately evil. The proper Western perspective to the Israeli response should be pride and eagerness to assist them in indelibly punishing Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, their master Iran, and anyone at home and abroad who supports them.
#6
The proper Western perspective to the Israeli response should be pride and eagerness to assist them in indelibly punishing Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, their master Iran, and anyone at home and abroad who supports them.
Well said!
Where is the pressure on New York politicians for allowing this to happen?
[KhaamaPress] Armed Death Eaters attacked humanitarian aid trucks carrying food, medicine, and other essential supplies in Kurram, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, on Monday. The attack resulted in the deaths of two people and left at least 15 others injured, raising concerns about the security of aid convoys in the region.
This was the third attack on supply convoys in Kurram since the beginning of January. The region has been one of the most unstable parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, making it increasingly difficult to deliver aid to those in need.
According to reports, the attack took place while the aid trucks were traveling toward Parachinar. Police confirmed that one of the truck drivers and a security officer escorting the convoy were killed. The injured were taken to medical facilities for treatment.
Authorities have launched an operation to arrest those responsible for the attack. Officials also reported that several aid trucks were looted and set on fire by the attackers, further worsening the humanitarian situation in the area.
In recent months, at least 130 people have died in sectarian festivities between Shia and Sunni groups in Kurram. Militant groups have increased their attacks on security forces in North and South Wazoo, near the Afghanistan border. These regions have seen a surge in turban activity, making it difficult for law enforcement to maintain stability.
In a separate attack on Saturday, four soldiers and 15 armed Death Eaters were killed. The military identified the Death Eaters as members of Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP).
[Rudaw] Iraq’s ministry of immigration and displacement confirmed on Monday the repatriation of over 12,500 Iraqi nationals linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) from the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria’s (Rojava) Hasaka province.
The ministry spokesperson Ali Jahangir told Rudaw that 21 convoys of ISIS fighters’ relatives "have been returned from al-Hol, where 3,062 Iraqi families currently reside, totaling more than 12,500 members."
Most of the repatriated individuals are being temporarily housed in al-Jada camp in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province for rehabilitation and reintegration into their communities, according to Jahangir.
The ministry spokesperson also mentioned that around 15,000 Iraqi nationals linked to ISIS remain in al-Hol camp, awaiting repatriation. The process is being conducted with coordination between the Kurdish-led administration in Rojava and the Iraqi government.
In late January, Baghdad announced plans to repatriate all its nationals residing in camps for people with links to ISIS in northeast Syria, based on an agreement with the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the 40,000 ISIS-linked individuals at the al-Hol, which has been described as a breeding ground for extremism and terrorism.
The repatriation of ISIS-linked citizens has sparked division in Iraq. Some communities and tribes are opposed to accepting ISIS-linked individuals and their families, citing the group’s brutal human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations during its rise in 2014 and subsequent fall in 2017.
Others argue that reintegration should be considered for families of ISIS members, especially those who were not directly involved in severe crimes.
[IsraelTimes] Tens of thousands of Paleostinians living in refugee camps in the West Bank have left their homes as a weeks-long Israeli counter-terror offensive has demolished houses and torn up vital infrastructure in the heavily built up townships, Paleostinian authorities say.
Israeli forces began their operation in the refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on January 21, deploying hundreds of troops and bulldozers that demolished houses and dug up roads, driving almost all of the camp’s residents out. dug up roads looking for IEDs
The IDF says it carries out these demolitions because many of the roads and homes in these northern West Bank refugee camps are laced with IEDs set up by terror groups in order to deter Israeli operations.
"We don’t know what’s going on in the camp but there is continuous demolition and roads being dug up," says Mohammed al-Sabbagh, head of the Jenin camp services committee.
The operation, which Israel says is aimed at thwarting Iranian-backed terror groups in the West Bank, has since been extended to other camps, notably the Tulkarem refugee camp and the nearby Nur Shams camp, both of which have also been devastated.
The camps, built for descendants of Paleostinian refugees who fled or were driven from their homes in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, have long been major centers for armed terror groups.
They have been raided repeatedly by the Israeli military but the current operation, which began as a ceasefire was agreed 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... , has been on an unusually large scale.
According to figures from the Paleostinian Authority, around 17,000 people have now left Jenin refugee camp, leaving the site almost completely deserted, while in Nur Shams 6,000 people, or about two-thirds of the total, have left, with another 10,000 leaving from Tulkarem camp.
"The ones who are left are trapped," says Nihad al-Shawish, head of the Nur Shams camp services committee. "The Civil Defense, the Red Islamic Thingy and the Paleostinian security forces brought them some food yesterday but the army is still bulldozing and destroying the camp."
The Israeli raids have demolished dozens of houses and torn up large stretches of roadway as well as cutting off water and power, but the military has denied forcing residents to leave their homes.
"People obviously have the possibility to move or go where they want, if they will. But if they don’t, they’re allowed to stay," IDF Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani tells news hounds.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Islamic Resistance® Movement ''Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... '' said on Tuesday that escalating resistance and confrontation against the Israeli occupation and exhausting it is the only option to curb its crimes and put an end to its violations against the Paleostinian people, their land, and their holy sites.
The movement stressed in its statement issued today that the Israeli occupation's crimes of demolition, destruction, and displacement in Tulkarm and its camp, Nour Shams camp, and all parts of the West Bank will not deter the Paleostinian people from continuing the path of resistance and confronting the criminal plans.
Hamas indicated that what Tulkarm and its camps are witnessing in terms of demolition and forced displacement reflects the fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... nature of the occupation and shows its insistence on adopting a policy of genocide, displacement, and ethnic cleansing against Paleostinians wherever they are.
The movement stressed that the stage that the West Bank is going through is a pivotal one, which calls for unifying efforts, strengthening resistance work, and intensifying efforts to thwart the occupation's plans.
It also called on the Paleostinian people, wherever they are, to support the people of Tulkarm, Jenin and the rest of the West Bank governorates, and to confront the ongoing aggression, in addition to intensifying popular efforts to provide relief to the displaced and shelter families who lost their homes.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it fired warning shots at Palestinian suspects who approached troops and “posed a threat” in several areas in the Gaza Strip today.
In one incident in southern Gaza, the IDF says forces opened fire directly on a suspect who did not withdraw after warning shots.
Additionally, a drone strike was carried out as a warning in central Gaza today to prevent a vehicle from driving to the Strip’s north via an unapproved route, the military says.
Vehicular traffic is only permitted on the Salah a-Din road, where a private company is inspecting Palestinian cars heading north.
“The IDF calls the residents of Gaza to follow its instructions and avoid approaching the troops deployed in the area,” the military adds.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel reportedly readying for potential resumption of war if ceasefire collapses, amassing troops and equipment along Gaza border; delegation yet to depart for latest Doha talks
Unlike the first phase of the deal which required Hamas to release several hostages each week over the course of six weeks, the terror group submitted an offer to Israel via mediators to release all the hostages in phase two at once, to prevent Israel from resuming the war.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told cabinet ministers during a recent meeting that Israel’s conditions in upcoming negotiations on the terms of the second phase of the ceasefire and hostage release deal are for the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group to disarm and have no presence 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 for the Paleostinian Authority to be barred from the post-war management of the enclave, Israeli television reported Tuesday.
The Channel 12 news report came after the security cabinet met Monday night to discuss negotiations for the second stage of the ceasefire agreement, which have yet to begin despite originally being expected to start on February 3. Kan news said Netanyahu is also demanding the demilitarization of the Strip.
Following the meeting, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Tuesday that the talks on the second phase — which is expected to provide for the release of all remaining hostages, the withdrawal of all IDF troops from Gazoo and the end of the war — would begin "this week."
Hinting at the stance Israel is expected to adopt in the upcoming negotiations, Sa’ar warned that Jerusalem "will not accept the continued presence of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... or any other terrorist organization in Gaza."
But, he added, if the negotiations are constructive, Israel will remain engaged and may prolong the ceasefire.
"If we will see there is a constructive dialogue with a possible horizon of getting to an agreement (then) we will make this timeframe work longer," he said.
It is unclear how Netanyahu’s reported demands regarding the ousting of Hamas, which reflect his public insistence that the terror group must be completely destroyed, can be reconciled with his pledge to secure the release of all remaining Israeli captives. Many analysts have assessed that the only way to enable the release of all the hostages would be for Israel to agree to end the war with the terror group functional in Gaza in some form, a scenario Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected.
Although Sa’ar said that the security cabinet had agreed to begin phase two talks later this week, an Israeli official told the Times of Israel that the negotiating team was still awaiting approval to head to 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... for the talks.
To that end, Netanyahu told cabinet ministers that there would be a separate meeting held regarding the phase two negotiations before the Israeli delegation departs for Doha.
He also asked ministers not to leak what was discussed during Monday night’s meeting, Channel 12 said, and explained that doing so would risk the lives of the hostages.
Citing unnamed Israeli sources, the Kan public broadcaster reported that Israel’s delegation will not depart for Doha before US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff returns to Israel later this week.
DERMER AT THE HELM
When it does depart, the delegation will be headed by Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Netanyahu’s longtime confidant, after the premier pushed aside the heads of the Shin Bet, Mosssd ...... and IDF hostage point man Nitzan Alon, with whom he sparred throughout the negotiations.
The security chiefs have long felt that a deal could and should have been reached earlier but that political considerations in Israel hampered those efforts.
Some families of the hostages are concerned about Dermer’s appointment to head the negotiating team, Channel 12 reported, due to his ostensible hardline views.
The families pointed to cited Dermer made in recent meetings with them, in which they cited him saying that he would not support any hostage deal that brings about an end to the war before Hamas has been fully dismantled.
Since the first phase of the ceasefire and hostage release deal came into effect on January 19, Hamas has released 19 Israeli civilians and female soldiers, along with five Thai nationals.
All six remaining living hostages slated to be released in the first phase of the deal are to be freed this Saturday, in a surprise move reportedly linked to growing worries that the deal could collapse. Hamas will also return the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, and another four the following Thursday.
Fifty-nine Israelis will remain in captivity after the completion of phase one of the deal, 24 of whom are believed to be alive. The other 35 have been confirmed dead by Israeli authorities.
ALL AT ONCE?
Unlike the first phase of the deal which required Hamas to release several hostages each week over the course of six weeks, Kan reported on Tuesday that the terror group submitted an offer to Israel via mediators to release all the hostages in phase two at once, instead of a gradual process.
The offer stems from the terrorist organization’s desire to prevent Israel from resuming the war, the report said, and as a way for it to prioritize its own survival, even over the issue of the Paleostinian security prisoners who are also slated to be released in phase two.
Even as Israel readies for negotiations regarding phase two, it is also preparing for the potential resumption of fighting in the event that the deal collapses, with large amounts of troops and equipment being amassed along the Gaza border, Channel 12 reported.
The report added that the return to fighting, should it occur, will be substantial but complex, given that roughly two dozen living hostages are still being held throughout Gaza.
Amid the ongoing ceasefire in Gaza, the IDF has continued to take action against Paleostinians it deems to be posing a threat to troops or violating the terms of the truce agreement.
On Tuesday, it said it fired warning shots at Paleostinian suspects who approached troops and "posed a threat" in several areas of the Strip.
In one incident in southern Gaza, the IDF said forces opened fire directly on a suspect who did not withdraw after warning shots.
Additionally, the military said that a dronezap was carried out as a warning in central Gaza to prevent a vehicle from driving to the Strip’s north via an unapproved route.
Vehicular traffic is only permitted on the Salah a-Din road, where a private company is inspecting Paleostinian cars heading north.
"The IDF calls the residents of Gaza to follow its instructions and avoid approaching the troops deployed in the area," the military warned.
[IsraelTimes] UN refugee body says police, Jerusalem officials storm Qalandiya vocational training facility with tear gas and sound grenades; two schools said to defy order to shutter
Israeli forces raided a vocational center and shuttered three East Jerusalem schools, the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees said Tuesday.
The actions, which the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Relief and Works Agency said affected some 600 students, were the latest move by Israeli authorities to banish the body from operating in its territory.
According to UNRWA, police and Jerusalem municipality staff entered the Kalandia Training Centre by force Tuesday morning, firing tear gas and sound grenades and ordering its evacuation. It said 350 students and 30 staff were present during the raid on the job-training facility, which is located just outside the Qalandiya refugee camp bordering East Jerusalem.
Police and city officials also ordered the closure of three other schools in East Jerusalem attended by around 250 children, UNRWA said. Two of the schools, which were not named by UNRWA, reportedly continued operating despite the order.
A spokesperson for the Israel Police said officers were carrying out an order from Jerusalem City Hall. A spokesperson for the municipality could not be reached.
In a statement, UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini called the moves "a violation of the basic right to education as well as of United Nations privileges and immunities."
What the children are getting in those schools is brainwashing, with a side order of education skills. They’re taught to dream of dying while killing Jews. The wonder is that relatively so few act on their training.
"Children’s access to education must be preserved and United Nations facilities must be protected and respected at all times wherever they are," he said.
If the UN were worth respecting, they would not need to demand it.
Roland Friedrich,
…is he double dipping on the Hamas payroll, too, or on the PLO one?
UNRWA director for the West Bank and East Jerusalem, said the raids were "unacceptable" and a "denial of the right to education for children and trainees."
It’s time for Israel to step up and provide a proper Israeli education for these kids; it’s become clear that leaving the responsibility to the PA and UNWRA was a bad idea for all involved.
Israel last month severed all ties between its officials and UNRWA and barred the agency from operating in Israeli territory.
The ban was passed by the Knesset in November with a wide majority, with the support of opposition parties, amid a series of revelations about employees of the agency who were actively involved in terror groups in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, participation of some of its staff in the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... invasion and slaughter, and repeated use of UNRWA infrastructure for terror activities.
…including imprisoning some of the hostages taken on 10/7.
Israel has also provided evidence that the agency’s schools incited hatred of Israel and glorification of attacks against Israelis.
UNRWA has for decades run schools and clinics in East Jerusalem for tens of thousands of registered refugees there.
That’s “refugees”, who need not have been. Their cousins who stayed behind not only kept their homes, but have had the benefits of full Israeli citizenship all this time, and vociferously reject the possibility of being traded to the benevolent rule of the PA. On the other hand, Israeli citizenship has long been available to just about any East Jerusalem Palestinian resident who wants it, requiring little more than stepping forward to fill out the paperwork.
The agency was established in 1949 following Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. It provides aid, health and education to millions of Paleostinians in Gaza, the West Bank and neighboring Arab countries — Syria, Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... and Jordan.
Some 5.9 million people are registered as Paleostinian refugees by UNRWA because they are descended from Arabs displaced in the 1948 war.
Israel has long argued that UNRWA perpetuates the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict by using this definition of refugee, the only case in which the status is passed down generationally.
The hostility between Israel and the UN body intensified in the wake of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, which saw some 3,000 forces of Evil burst across the border, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages.
Israel has provided evidence that a dozen UNRWA employees were involved in the deadly 2023 attack and insists that other agencies can pick up the slack to provide essential services, aid and reconstruction — something the UN and many donor governments dispute.
A series of investigations, including one led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna, found some "neutrality-related issues" at UNRWA, but claimed Israel had not provided evidence for its headline allegation.
You want evidence? Buddy, we gotcher evidence right here:
[IsraelTimes] UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office confirms to Channel 12 that it has formally decided to again reconsider its over $16 million in annual funding to the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA.
The decision comes after Starmer’s phone call with recently released British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari who told the premier that she was held during parts of her captivity in UNRWA facilities and that she did not receive necessary medical treatment.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Israeli occupation warplanes launched on Monday night Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting the course of the Litani River in southern Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , in a new violation of ceasefire agreement.
Sources in southern Lebanon reported that the occupation aircraft launched two airstrikes targeting the course of the Litani River between the Lahed Bridge and Mahmoudiyeh in Aaichiyehin, Jezzine.
Earlier in the day, the occupation aircraft also targeted the Ain ez Zarqa area on the outskirts of Tayr Harfa in the southern district of Tyre.
The sources added that Israeli forces set off two blasts in Odaisseh in southern Lebanon's Marjayoun district.
These airstrikes come just before the Tuesday deadline for Israel to withdraw from towns it occupied in southern Lebanon during its recent military operation, while insisting on maintaining its forces at five border points, most of which are strategic hills overlooking Israeli settlements.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out airstrikes against several weapon sites belonging to the former Syrian regime in southern Syria a short while ago.
The military releases footage of the strikes, which took place some 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) from Israel’s border.
The strikes had targeted Syrian tanks used to store weapons, according to military sources. In the footage, armored vehicles can be seen targeted in the strikes.
Israel has vowed to destroy weapons belonging to the former Assad regime to prevent them from falling into the hands of hostile forces.
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Correct me if I'm am wrong, but I am of the opinion that anything published by HODHODYEMENNEWS is just pure propaganda at best. Anything they publish as fact, I presume that the opposite is true.
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They are our source for events in their part of Yemen. For the rest, they inform us of the Iran Mullahs party line.
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Also, it’s useful and interesting — to me, at least — to compare the Hodhod Yemen News version of events and one of our Israeli sources — I just added that to the article post. Enjoy!
[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops remain in 5 strategic outposts inside southern Lebanon; Katz warns Israel will ‘forcefully’ enforce terms of truce; Lebanon to seek UN’s help on ‘Israeli violations’
The Israel Defense Forces pulled out of southern Lebanese villages but remained in five key positions Tuesday morning, around an hour before the deadline for the withdrawal expired under the ceasefire deal with Hezbollah.
The IDF did not officially confirm completing the pullout, but the matter was confirmed by observers on both sides. Defense Minister Israel Katz said the IDF was remaining in "a buffer zone," with "five strategic outposts," and would enforce the ceasefire "against any violation by Hezbollah."
"The Israeli army has withdrawn from all border villages except for five points, while the Lebanese army is gradually deploying due to the presence of explosives in some areas and damage to the roads," a Lebanese security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
The Lebanese Armed Forces said Tuesday morning that it had deployed overnight to several villages and towns in southern Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... after the IDF withdrawal.
LAF troops entered Aabbasiyyeh, Majidieh, Kafr Kila, Marjaayoun, Odaisseh, Markaba, Houla, Mays al-Jabal, Blida, Mahbib, Maroun al-Ras, Yaron, Bint Jbeil, and several other locations near the Israeli border, the Lebanese military said in a statement.
The deployment was being carried out in coordination with a US-led committee supervising the November 27 ceasefire with Israel and the UN observer force UNIFIL, the LAF added.
The LAF said engineering units were surveying the areas, opening roads, and safely removing unwent kaboom! ordnance left behind from the fighting.
Several local authorities, including Mays al-Jabal’s municipality, have called on displaced residents to wait for the LAF to deploy there before coming back, so as to guarantee their "safe" return.
Israel said it would meet the February 18 deadline to withdraw under a ceasefire but remain deployed in five strategic positions in southern Lebanon.
A spokesperson for the Lebanese presidency said late Tuesday morning that Beirut would consider any remaining Israeli presence on its lands an occupation and has the right to use all means to ensure an Israeli withdrawal, without mentioning the five posts.
After a meeting between Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and parliament speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , the three leaders said the Lebanese army was ready "to assume all its duties along the... borders," according to presidency spokeswoman Najat Charafeddine.
She added that Lebanon would also seek the UN Security Council’s help to "address Israeli violations and compel Israel to immediately withdraw."
In a statement earlier on Tuesday, Katz said the IDF would "forcefully" enforce the terms of the ceasefire deal in Lebanon and act against any Hezbollah threat.
"Starting today, the IDF will remain in a buffer zone in Lebanon in five strategic outposts and will continue to enforce [the deal] forcefully and without compromise against any violation by Hezbollah," he said.
"Hezbollah must withdraw fully beyond the Litani River line and the Lebanese army must enforce and disarm it under the supervision of the mechanism established under the leadership of the US," Katz added. "We are determined to provide full security to all northern communities."
Under a ceasefire deal brokered by the United States in November, Israeli troops were granted 60 days to withdraw from southern Lebanon, where they had waged a ground offensive against fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group since early October.
Hezbollah operatives were to leave the zone and Lebanese troops were to deploy in the area within the same period. The original deadline was January 26, but was extended until February 18 as Israel argued Lebanese army deployment was not happening quickly enough.
Last week, the US authorized the IDF to remain in the five points, though it was not clear how long troops would stay there.
The military said on Monday that it was prepared to stay at the posts for a lengthy period, until Hezbollah fully withdraws beyond the Litani River and the Israeli politicianship instructs it to leave.
At the five positions, the IDF constructed military posts that will be manned by troops.
The IDF also ramped up its defenses on the Israeli side of the border, with several new posts, one in front of every Israeli border community; better surveillance capabilities, including more cameras, radars, and sensors; and triple the number of troops compared to before the war.
The ceasefire deal ended two months of full-scale war that followed months of lower-intensity exchanges.
Should the ceasefire continue to hold after the IDF withdrawal, tens of thousands of displaced residents of northern Israel will begin to return to their homes on March 2.
“Specialized teams today… managed to remove 14 bodies from Mais al-Jabal, three from Markaba and three from Kfar Kila, in addition to three from Odaisseh,” says the civil defense statement published by the state-run National News Agency.
Lebanese search for dead in devastated villages as Israel withdraws
[IsraelTimes] Residents of south Lebanon have returned to devastated villages, searching for the bodies of relatives killed in last year’s war between Israel and Hezbollah, as Israeli troops withdrew from most of the territory.
In the frontline village of Kfar Kila, barely a building was left standing. “I reached my neighborhood and I couldn’t tell where my house had been,” says one resident, Noha Hammoud.
“The entire neighborhood is destroyed.”
Rescue workers had pulled several bodies from the rubble, and had even found two people still alive, she says. Local sources say those found dead and alive were fighters from Hezbollah, thousands of whom were killed in the war.
Senior Lebanese politician Ali Hassan Khalil, who hails from the south, says hundreds of residents have gone to inspect more than a half dozen villages that became accessible, adding that the Lebanese army was still working to clear roads.
However, Israel’s continued presence in five south Lebanon posts left “an open wound,” he adds.
The conflict, which began when Hezbollah opened fire on October 8, 2023 in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, displaced tens of thousands of Israelis from northern Israel and more than a million people in Lebanon.
At the Israeli Kibbutz Misgav Am, next to the border with Lebanon, some residents visited and planted trees.
“Although we had to evacuate, our hearts stayed here,” says one of the kibbutz members, Daniel Malik. “We really want to come back but there is big uncertainty because we don’t know when it will be safe.”
In Yaroun, another frontline village in Lebanon, a woman holds a bouquet of spring flowers in one hand and Hezbollah’s yellow flag in another as she surveyed the destruction.
Rescue workers pulled at least one body from the rubble.
“Our feeling is a mix of joy and sadness because there are still martyrs we have yet to find,” says returning resident Suhaila Daher. “All the destruction can be replaced, thank God, but the martyrs will not return.”
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah, speaking to Reuters in Yaroun, says: “The Israeli enemy is still occupying Lebanese land and this Lebanese land must be liberated and now the primary responsibility falls on the Lebanese state.”
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..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
