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"How do you pronounce your name?"
"52ee7567952ff614493e2b3b8a1f8d2a"
"We'll go with Zelda? Is that OK?"
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I was just asking the wife, "Do you think that is mom or grandma?" Life was hard back then during the time of long exposures and mercury mist in development. Damn baby moved.
#4
If the weather in my neck of the woods had a picture.
Seriously though, you all downwind of this getting tornado alerts, pay attention, because Ms. Gulch has traded in her bicycle for Ming The Merciless' Ajax rocket.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The corpse count from a deadly attack by al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Lions of Islam on a hotel in central Somalia has risen to 10, with most victims being civilians, a police official confirmed on Wednesday.
The attack occurred on Tuesday in the town of Beledweyne, where clan leaders had gathered at the hotel for a meeting.
The al Qaeda-linked group launched the assault with a boom-mobile before button men stormed the building, engaging in a prolonged siege against government forces.
Security forces battled the attackers for hours before regaining control of the hotel late Tuesday night, Rooters reports.
"The siege was concluded last night at midnight. Four attackers blew themselves up, and the other two were rubbed out," said Major Nur Aden, a police officer in Beledweyne.
Authorities reported that 10 people, including elders and soldiers, gave up the ghost at the hospital.
The number was initially estimated at seven but later revised as more victims were confirmed.
Ahmed Ismail, a resident near the hotel, said gunfire ceased around midnight, signaling the end of the standoff.
Al-Shabaab, which has waged a violent mostly peaceful insurgency in Somalia for nearly two decades, grabbed credit for the attack.
In a statement, the hard boy group claimed its fighters had killed 20 people, including soldiers and elders, though such figures often differ from official reports.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] A 27-year-old Nigerian woman who identified herself as Francis Julianah Omowunmi, who was trafficked to Iraq has made a desperate plea for help to return home after she was allegedly raped and abused by her employer.
Omowunmi, who said she was living in Ekiti State in Southwestern Nigeria, told SaharaReporters that she was trafficked to Iraq on October 7, 2023 by a friend of her sister’s husband.
[Breitbart] A group of activists discovered a cartel-connected killing field near the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. In an abandoned property, activists found more than 14 separate burn sites, metal drums, and hundreds of bone fragments.
The discovery occurred on Sunday afternoon in the Arcos neighborhood in Reynosa. Members of the group Colectivo Amor por Los Desaparecidos (Love for the Missing) searched the property and almost immediately discovered charred bone fragments.
The group is made up of volunteers who search for mass graves and abducted individuals in hopes of finding closure for the victims’ families. According to the group, they found 17 clandestine gravesites in and around Reynosa since the start of the year. Once the group finds the remains, they turn the scene over to the state authorities, who document the crime scene and begin forensic work.
In the most recent discovery, the group reported the finding of what appear to be 14 separate burn sites, a large metal drum believed to have been used to incinerate people, and hundreds of bone fragments.
By Wednesday afternoon, the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office issued a statement claiming that there was no cartel killing field but that it was, in fact, the site of a funeral parlor that was in the process of being built and was abandoned. The Tamaulipas government has a long history of lying in an attempt to hide the cartel violence plaguing the state, Breitbart Texas has reported.
As Breitbart Texas reported, the city of Reynosa is controlled by the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel, which is linked to hundreds of kidnappings, murders, and forced disappearances. The Gulf Cartel has used similar killing fields in the past to dispose of their victims as a way to avoid drawing too much attention to their operations. Without a body, Mexican government officials do not document the cases as murders and simply list them as missing. These stats are usually left out of their crime reports, thus allowing government officials to claim to have a low crime rate artificially.
[NY Post] Department of Homeland Security agents executed search warrants on two Columbia University residences on Thursday night — just days after anti-Israel agitator Mahomoud Khlil
…generally spelt Mahmoud Khalil…
was arrested by ICE at an off-campus apartment, the Ivy League school announced.
Interim President Katrina Armstrong revealed the raids in a letter to the Columbia community and noted that nobody was arrested or detained when the feds searched the rooms of two students.
"Federal agents from the DHS served Columbia University with two judicial search warrants signed by a federal magistrate judge authorizing DHS to enter non-public areas of the University and conduct searches of two student rooms," Armstrong said.
"The University has a clear protocol in place. Consistent with this protocol, our longstanding practice, and the practices of cities and institutions throughout the country, the University requires that law enforcement have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including residential University buildings."
The "heartbroken" leader said she was "obligated" to comply with the law, adding that no items were removed and no additional action was taken by the feds.
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Wow, EH. That is disturbing. Fits Columbia to a T as far as I am concerned.
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Mugambe, who also serves as a high court judge in Uganda, brought the victim to Britain under the guise of securing her a job in a diplomatic household
Why? The UK Government is handing out 11 year old Welch Girls as moving compensation.
#9
Thanks to draining the swamps and DDT, that stopped being a concern for a while, along with bedbugs. Thanks to no DDT, bedbugs are a concern once again, and given the current love affair with the idea of marshlands, no doubt at some point malaria will rejoin West Nile fever and other mosquito-borne diseases as a concern.
Dozens of activists, including actress Debra Winger, occupied Trump Tower in NYC to protest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, who faces deportation for his role in Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/BHBszpezGU
Scare quotes mine because the organization pushes their few real Jews in front of the amorphous Black Bloc mob that “identifies” as Jew-ish.
[IsraelTimes] NYPD confirms multiple arrests as demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace rally to demand release of detained Columbia University anti-Israel activist
Dozens of protesters stormed Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to demand the release of detained Columbia University protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil.
The protest came amid furious backlash over the Trump administration’s detention of Khalil, which has set off a legal battle and daily protests in New York since his arrest on Saturday night.
The anti-Zionist activist group Jewish Voice for Peace posted images showing dozens of protesters chanting in the midtown Manhattan building lobby.
"Free Mahmoud, free them all," the protesters chanted.
The demonstrators carried signs that said, "Fight Nazis, not students," and "Jews for Paleostinian Freedom," and wore red shirts that said "Stop arming Israel."
"As Jews, we are taking over the Trump Tower to register our mass refusal," JVP said in a statement. "We will not stand by as this fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... regime attempts to criminalize Paleostinians and all those calling for an end to the Israeli government’s US-funded genocide of the Paleostinian people."
The group posted footage of police removing protesters from the building.
The NYPD told The Times of Israel that multiple individuals were taken into custody but that the number of arrests and charges had not been finalized.
The furious crowd of about 150 demonstrators — who were from the Palestinian support group “Jewish Voice for Peace” — wore red shirts emblazoned with the message, “Jews Say Stop Arming Israel” as they gathered at about noon in a public, downstairs atrium filled with dining tables outside the Trump Grill restaurant.
NYPD officers descended on the throng around 12:30 p.m. and made 98 arrests of rally-goers, who they zip-tied, hauled away and loaded onto buses for a trip to jail.
“Those arrests are for trespassing, obstructing government administration, and resisting arrest by virtue of us having to carry some of the people out of the escalator, which you saw,” said NYPD Chief of Department John Chell.
“We gave warnings on our pager system and once we did that warning three times, the NYPD with its professionalism, as you saw, went in and made the arrests, there were no injuries. There were no incidents. There was no damaged property.”
Days after US agents arrested recent Columbia University student and anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, school administrators warned foreign faculty and students of the journalism department to keep a low profile over Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and protests against his arrest, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
According to the report, Stuart Karle, a First Amendment lawyer and adjunct professor, advised non-US citizen students to avoid publishing material on those topics.
“If you have a social media page, make sure it is not filled with commentary on the Middle East,” he reportedly said.
“Nobody can protect you,” journalism school dean Jelani Cobb reportely said at the meeting. “These are dangerous times.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday the school had refused to help officials identify people “engaged in pro-Hamas activities,” according to the report.
Earlier this week, the US Department of Education sent letters to 60 colleges and universities warning them that they could face consequences if they did not fulfill their responsibility to protect Jewish students.
“We expect all America’s colleges and universities to comply with this administration’s policy,” Leavitt told reporters.
Khalil’s arrest is one of the first efforts by US President Donald Trump, a Republican who returned to the White House in January, to fulfill his promise to seek deportation of some foreign students involved in the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest movement over its alleged support for terror groups and antisemitism.
The university’s judicial board issued “multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions,” for the takeover of Hamilton Hall — briefly renamed Hind’s Hall by the protesters — the university says.
There are no details about the number of students punished.
Columbia is under heavy pressure from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress over anti-Zionist activism on campus.
A Congressional investigative committee has demanded the university turn over all disciplinary records related to anti-Zionist activism.
The administration has cut $400 million in funding to Columbia and threatened billions more.
Federal immigration agents detained a campus anti-Israel activist leader on Saturday, setting off furious backlash.
A major protest by dozens of groups is planned for the campus gates tomorrow.
Khalil – a Columbia grad who was arrested by ICE over the weekend – is suing the two affiliated schools and the House Committee on Education and Workforce after Chair Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) last month demanded the universities divulge information about students allegedly involved in “pervasive antisemitism.”
The suit claims that turning over the “confidential information” of students would violate their First Amendment right to free speech by exposing them to negative publicity and forcing the institutions to punish them.
“The Committee’s attempt to force the Universities to chastise and intimidate student organizers for protected speech is an abuse of its investigative powers,” the Manhattan federal court filing charges.
Khalil brought the new case alongside seven anonymous students — all of whom claim they were harmed when Columbia provided their records to the committee.
A Syrian native of Palestinian descent, Khalil, 30, entered the United States on a student visa in 2022 to pursue a public administration degree at Columbia. He became a prominent member of Columbia's protest movement, married his American citizen wife in 2023, and last year secured lawful permanent residency, making him a "green card" holder.
The suit claims that turning over the “confidential information” of students would violate their First Amendment right to free speech by exposing them to negative publicity and forcing the institutions to punish them.
Negative publicity is free speech too.
All in all this looks like the Trump admin struck a nerve.
Perhaps some interested parties concluded that Trump ultimately lost in 2020 beacause of BLM mayhem and decided to reprise such unrest to prevent Trump from winning in 2024.
They decided to stoke some unrest using British agents of influence since US services can't legally operate in the US.
The Trump administration picked Khalil as their first target because he is such a British agent of influence, striking the nerve.
[GEO.TV] A day after the successful rescue operation, the Foreign Office said on Thursday that the gunnies involved in the attack on the Jaffar Express were in contact with ring leaders in Afghanistan.
"India has been involved in terrorism in Pakistain. In the particular attack on Jaffar express, the gunnies had been in contact with their handlers and ring leaders in Afghanistan," FO spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan said during his weekly press briefing.
The rescue operation for the Jaffar Express attack has been completed, and intelligence suggests that the gunnies were in contact with their associates in Afghanistan, he mentioned.
The statement comes after security forces eliminated all 33 Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Liberation Army (BLA) gunnies who had hijacked the Jaffar Express which was carrying more than 400 passengers — who were taken hostage.
The military has said that all hostages have been freed, but 21 passengers were martyred by the gunnies before the clearance operation had commenced. Also, four FC personnel were also martyred during the attack in the Mushqaf area of the Bolan district.
The Foreign Office spokesperson added that intercepted calls confirmed links between the attackers and Afghanistan. "The gunnies have safe havens in Afghanistan, and Pakistain has repeatedly urged the Afghan interim government to prevent groups like the BLA from using its soil for terrorism," he said.
He also mentioned that Pakistain does not discuss diplomatic contacts on public forums but has consistently shared detailed evidence of such incidents with Afghanistan.
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[GEO.TV] The Pakistain Army on Thursday thwarted a terrorist attack on checkpost and killed 10 Death Eaters following a suicide kaboom in the Jandola area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's South Wazoo district, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The military's media wing said that the attempt to enter the post was effectively thwarted by the troops, forcing the holy warriors to "ram an explosive laden vehicle into the perimeter wall".
"Own troops fought bravely, effectively engaged the assailant and after an intense fire exchange all ten khwarij including a jacket wallah were sent to hell, outside the perimeter wall of the post," said the ISPR.
"Sanitization operation is being conducted to eliminate any other Kharji found in the area as the security forces of Pakistain are determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country," added the military's media wing.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi paid tribute to the security forces for repulsing the attack and killing the terrorists. He said that the nation was standing by the security forces to eliminate the terrorism from the country.
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[Rudaw] A military base housing Ottoman Turkish troops in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh was targeted by an explosive-laden drone on Tuesday night without inflicting casualties, Kurdish counter-terrorism forces reported.
"A bomb-laden drone targeted the Ottoman Turkish army’s Zilkan military base in Bashiqa district of Nineveh province, and there were no casualties," the Erbil-based Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD), also known as Kurdistan CT, said in a statement.
Zilkan military base has been frequently targeted in recent years, and the attacks have largely been attributed to Iran-backed Iraqi militias. The attacks, however, have simmered down over the past year.
The presence of Ottoman Turkish forces in the base has been widely condemned by the Iraqi government, and tensions reached a boiling point in July 2022 when a deadly shelling in the Kurdistan Region’s Zakho blamed on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... killed nine Iraqi tourists and injured tens of others.
That incident harmed diplomatic relations between the two countries, with Iraq filing a complaint against Turkey at the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council.
Iraq has also frequently condemned Turkey for its military incursions into the Kurdistan Region under the pretext of targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems based in the Region’s northern mountainous regions.
But Baghdad also labeled the PKK a banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization last year, under pressure from Ankara.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out a drone strike against a group of terror operatives in the central Gaza Strip today after they were spotted trying to plant a bomb in the ground.
[IsraelTimes] An 18-year-old Israeli civilian wounded in a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Ariel this evening was taken to Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva for treatment.
Magen David Adom says the victim is in moderate and stable condition, after he was shot in the arm.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF shot dead two suspects from Jordan who crossed into Israel near the northern town of Beit Shan, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The two suspects were part of a group of eight who were trying to cross into Israel together. The other six suspects were arrested by Israeli troops.
The eight were identified by IDF cameras, and troops nearby were alerted. When the soldiers arrived at the scene, two of the suspects jumped out of the bushes. The sudden movement led the troops to believe that they were under threat, so they opened fire.
The pair of suspects succumbed to their wounds, while the other six were taken into custody for questioning.
Citing an initial IDF assessment, Kan says that all of the suspects appeared to be migrants looking for work.
No IDF soldiers were injured during the incident.
Fill out a work visa form and present yourself at the border crossing checkpoint — that’s how to avoid getting shot dead. If that’s not an option? Here’s your sign.
[IsraelTimes] Kamel Nashef, 21, from Taybeh arrested, set to be indicted for contacting and swearing allegiance to ISIS, tipping off West Bank terror operatives to IDF movements
Police announced Thursday that they had arrested and intend to indict a man from the Arab town of Taybeh who swore allegiance 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) terror group and sought to carry out attacks to avenge the war 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... The suspect, named in a statement from the police and Shin Bet as Kamel Nashef, 21, was also accused of tipping off terror operatives in the West Bank city of Tulkarem by sending them photos of Israeli troops on their way there as part of a large-scale counterterror operation there in recent months.
Nashef is accused of making contact with figures who identify with ISIS, also known as ISIS, starting in the summer of 2024.
"Nashef swore allegiance to the ISIS terror group, saw himself as part of the group and even held materials identified with the group which were seized during his arrest," the statement read.
A video published by police of the arrest showed a rifle and Paleostinian and Islamic State flags allegedly found in his home. It was unclear when the arrest took place.
Nashef was set to be indicted on Thursday, the statement said.
This is the second time in several months that residents of Taybeh in central Israel are accused of ISIS-linked terrorist plots.
In October, police and the Shin Bet said they had thwarted a plot by five Taybeh residents to carry out a car-bombing attack at Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Mall under the banner of the fanatical terror group that originated in Iraq and Syria.
Paleostinian assailants have also been recently accused of ISIS ties. Last month one of them, a terrorist from the West Bank’s Hebron who murdered three people and maimed others in a series of attacks in Jerusalem in recent years, was sentenced to three life sentences and another 40-year prison sentence.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF confirms carrying out an airstrike against a Hezbollah “strategic weapons” manufacturing and storage facility in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley a short while ago.
“The IDF will continue to work to remove any threat to the State of Israel,” the military adds.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese media reports an Israeli airstrike in the Beqaa Valley area in northeastern Lebanon.
The target of the strike is reportedly a Hezbollah facility that has been hit several times by Israel in recent months.
The site has previously been described by the IDF as a “strategic weapons” manufacturing and storage facility belonging to the terror group. The IDF has previously targeted it after identifying Hezbollah activity there.
[IsraelTimes] The military releases footage showing Monday night’s wave of airstrikes in southern Syria.
The Israeli Air Force strikes had targeted radars and other intelligence-collecting systems, along with military headquarters and weapon depots, belonging to the former Syrian regime, the IDF says.
In all, some 40 targets were hit by some 60 munitions dropped by 22 IAF fighter jets, according to the military.
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Russia confirms sheltering 8,000 Syrians at Hmeimim Airbase after violent clashes in Syria’s coastal region. Moscow condemns civilian casualties and urges accountability. #Syria#Russia#MiddleEasthttps://t.co/FjaN2CIVaZ
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 13, 2025
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[IsraelTimes] Member of terror group says Ziad Nakhaleh wasn’t home and building was ’empty’ when struck, though war monitor reports one person killed
Israeli fighter jets on Thursday struck a residential building that the military said served as a Damascus headquarters for Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... to plan and carry out terror activities.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor of unclear funding, said the targeted building was located in the suburb of Dummar, northwest of the capital, and was inhabited by Paleostinians. It said one person was killed.
"The IDF will not allow terrorist organizations to entrench themselves in Syrian territory and operate against the State of Israel, and will respond forcefully to any such entrenchment," the Israel Defense Forces said. It released footage of the strikes.
A Paleostinian Islamic Jihad member at the scene of the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Syria told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the apartment that was targeted was the home of the terrorist organization’s leader Ziad Nakhaleh.
It was not immediately clear where Nakhaleh was, but he is believed to spend his time between Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... , Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Syria.
The PIJ member, Ismail Sindak, said the apartment had been empty for years, adding that Nakhaleh was not in Syria. Asked whether anyone was killed in the strike, Sindak said, "The house was empty."
Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terror group sworn to Israel’s destruction, participated alongside Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... in the October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel from 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, in which over 5,000 bandidosbully boyz killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, sparking the subsequent war.
PIJ, which was part of the Gaza ceasefire negotiated in January and currently up in the air, has held a number of the hostages, and likely continues to hold some of the remaining captives, of whom 24 are still believed to be alive. The bodies of 34 dead — as well as the body of a soldier killed in 2014 — are also held in the Strip.
Israel blasts ’extreme Islamic’ Syrian leader
Defense Minister Israel Katz, confirming Thursday’s strike, said, "Wherever terror activity against Israel is organized, the extreme Islamic leader al-Jolani will find the Air Force aircraft flying above and striking terror targets."
Katz was referring to Syria’s interim leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, by his nom de guerre, which he used as the leader of the Hayat 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) rebel group, an Islamist offshoot of al-Qaeda.
"Islamic terrorism will not have immunity in Damascus nor anywhere else," Katz added.
In the months since his coalition ousted longtime president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , Sharaa and his government have projected a moderate image, repeatedly declaring a commitment to protect minorities, including Jews, as well as Druze and Kurds, in the country.
The interim leader has objected to Israel’s continued military presence in southern Syria and to its strikes throughout the country, but he has declined to threaten Israel itself.
On Thursday, Sharaa signed the country’s constitutional declaration, which will be enforced throughout a five-year transitional period.
The interim leader said he hoped the constitutional declaration would mark the start of "a new history for Syria, where we replace oppression with justice," as he signed the document setting out the transitional period.
Israeli leaders, including Katz, have consistently stated that they do not trust Sharaa.
Jerusalem has been especially tough in its criticism in light of massacres of Alawite civilians that began last Thursday, blamed on the interim government’s security forces, amid festivities with turbans loyal to the old regime. Government reinforcements eventually restored order, and calm appeared to hold by late Monday.
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...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
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...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...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 
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