[FOX] President Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration is "trying" to get the former U.S. Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan "back" from the Taliban.
In remarks to the press while standing alongside U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the president criticized the handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden and said he had "a little breaking news."
"We're trying to get it back," Trump said. "We're trying to get it back because they need things from us."
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Bagram could be handy if we need to bomb Iran again...or Pakistan.
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Just cut off the money already. We don’t need the airbase. It’s not humanitarian aid. The Taliban steals 95% of it and gives out the rest as if it’s coming from them.
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Really love Trump, but this is really, really dumb! My guess is they will also want to sell back all the stuff we left behind that is broken, or worse, ask us to fix it as a condition of the deal. A spy base on China nuke weapons sites is unnecessary, all their stuff looks like the schematics in Tennessee and New Mexico anyway!
by Kirill Semenov
Against the backdrop of a sharp escalation of tensions in the Middle East caused by Israeli airstrikes on Qatari territory in September, a significant event occurred that could reformat the entire regional security system.
The signing of a mutual defense agreement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on September 17 was a direct response to growing threats and demonstrated a significant change in the approach of the Gulf Arab monarchies to their own security.
This pact, concluded at a time when the traditional ally of the Arab monarchies, the United States, is not only strategically reorienting itself toward the Indo-Pacific region but has also made a clear bet on Israel in the Middle East itself, demonstrates Riyadh’s desire to create a new security architecture based on cooperation with the most powerful Muslim states possessing significant military potential.
The current bilateral alliance may be only the first step towards the formation of a broader military bloc.
The Historical Roots of the Saudi-Pakistan Strategic Partnership
Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established almost immediately after Pakistan's independence in 1947. Since then, they have been united by a common religious identity—Islam—which has become the cornerstone of their foreign policy and mutual attraction.
Over the following decades, Riyadh became one of Islamabad's main economic sponsors, providing the country with financial and energy assistance during times of crisis.
Saudi Arabia also became one of Pakistan's most active supporters, providing it with comprehensive diplomatic and financial support during all its wars with India, especially during Islamabad's most difficult period, the loss of East Pakistan in 1971.
In turn, Pakistan, in line with its pan-Islamic ideology, has assumed the role of Saudi Arabia's protector from all external and internal threats. Therefore, it is often referred to as the kingdom's closest Muslim and non-Arab ally.
Military cooperation between Islamabad and Riyadh began to develop rapidly during the Cold War within the framework of regional security networks.
Pakistan, along with Iran, Iraq and Turkey, was a party to the Baghdad Pact, later renamed the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), which represented the first attempt to create a "Middle East NATO."
It was precisely because of the lack of support Pakistan received from its CENTO allies in its wars with India that Islamabad became disillusioned with the alliance, which proved unviable.
For Pakistan, the main threat was India, not the notorious Soviet expansion against which CENTO was created.
At the same time, actual Soviet expansion, namely the deployment of troops to Afghanistan, led to the strengthening of military and political ties between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Financial aid flowed from the "Land of the Holy Mosques" to the Islamic Republic to support and organize the activities of the "Afghan mujahideen."
But an even greater role for Pakistan was sought by Saudi Arabia during the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 and during the Iran-Iraq War in the context of containing Iranian influence and “exporting the revolution.”
Pakistani troops stationed in Saudi Arabia helped ensure security in border areas and protect strategic facilities from potential threats. Over the following decades, thousands of troops were stationed in Saudi Arabia.
During the Iran-Iraq conflict, their numbers in the KSA reached 15,000 people.
But Pakistan has previously provided extensive military training and support to Saudi security forces, including operational and technical assistance, as well as training for the Saudi air and ground forces.
Incidentally, in 1969, Pakistan Air Force fighter pilots provided assistance to the Royal Saudi Air Force during the Yemeni crisis.
Strengthening defense and participation in regional conflicts
Even before the 1991 Gulf War, Pakistani military engineers made significant contributions to Saudi Arabia's defensive infrastructure, particularly in the border areas.
Their experience, gained in the challenging conditions of Kashmir and Balochistan, proved invaluable in strengthening Saudi Arabia's borders. They participated in the construction of defensive lines along the borders with potentially unstable regions, the design and protection of strategic facilities, including oil fields and pipelines, and the creation of underground command posts and secure control centers.
The Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers' activities in Saudi Arabia, which traces its roots back to the Royal Indian Engineers of British India, have become a key element of military cooperation between the two countries.
Pakistani-built fortifications along the border with Yemen proved useful during the coalition war and provided defense against Houthi attacks on Saudi territory.
A major milestone in the development of military cooperation was the participation of the Pakistani contingent in the Gulf War in 1991.
Immediately after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Pakistan sent an additional 10,000 troops to Saudi Arabia, who played a vital role in defending Saudi territory from potential Iraqi aggression.
Pakistani units, including elements of the 7th Infantry Division and independent armoured brigades, were deployed along the border with Kuwait and Iraq, where they established defensive lines, fortified positions and controlled critical areas.
Their presence gave Saudi Arabia's leadership greater confidence in its security during one of the most tense periods of the conflict, even before American troops began their full-scale deployment as part of Operation Desert Shield.
Now, the changing geopolitical situation has provided Pakistan with an opportunity to strengthen its strategic ties and role in the Islamic world. The apparent deterioration in Saudi-Pakistani relations, stemming from Islamabad's refusal to support Saudi Arabia's operation in Yemen against the Houthis in 2015, is now a distant memory, and Pakistan's successes in the recent war with India have demonstrated its potential.
Saudi Arabia did not change its priorities and continued to develop its time-tested partnership.
At one time, the United Arab Emirates accepted Israel as a partner to counter Iran, and now, especially after the strikes on Doha, they are forced to urgently change this concept.
Saudi Arabia, however, was moving in a different, and now clearly correct, direction, attempting to rely on a military alliance with the most powerful Islamic states – Egypt and Pakistan, which represented the two “wings” of the kingdom’s military stability.
At the same time, both Cairo and Islamabad, having huge armies and forced to spend their budgets on them, were experiencing economic problems, and Saudi financial support was, as always, useful for them.
Bilateral nature of the agreement: mutual obligations
Pakistan's special role for Saudi Arabia is that it is the only Muslim-majority country with armed forces capable of providing security in the region.
Furthermore, Pakistan is the only such state to possess nuclear weapons, making it a key strategic partner for its allies in the Middle East. Pakistan's armed forces are battle-hardened and possess the operational and tactical capabilities to significantly strengthen Saudi Arabia's defenses.
In turn, Pakistan can strengthen its military through Saudi investment and its commitment to defending the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the holy cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina.
Saudi Arabia, with a military budget five times larger, could redirect a significant portion of funds to Pakistan, say, if Islamabad were to establish a sustained presence of a significant contingent of Pakistani troops to defend the kingdom.
Under the agreement, these forces could be financed and maintained by Saudi Arabia, with the troops playing an additional role in training and advising the Saudi military, balancing American influence.
A key aspect of the new agreement is its reciprocity: not only does Pakistan commit to defending Saudi Arabia, but the Kingdom also undertakes to come to Pakistan's aid in the event of aggression against it. This provision is particularly significant in the context of the ongoing standoff between Pakistan and India.
According to the terms of the pact, "any aggression against one of the countries will be considered aggression against the other." This creates a fundamentally new reality in the regional security system, where Saudi Arabia is taking on such serious commitments outside the Arabian Peninsula for the first time.
The new Pakistan-Saudi Arabia defense agreement theoretically provides for the extension of Pakistan's nuclear umbrella to Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the agreement, Pakistan undertakes to provide Saudi Arabia with all military support, including nuclear deterrence.
Saudi officials, commenting on the pact, also made it clear that Pakistan's nuclear defense was part of the deal and that it would use whatever defensive and military means it deemed necessary, depending on the specific threat.
This is a clear signal to Israel, with its hidden nuclear arsenal: Pakistani missiles are now aimed not only at India. But it is also a warning to Iran, with its nuclear program.
International reaction and global consequences
The pact's conclusion has raised serious concerns in India. Saudi Arabia's clear choice in favor of Pakistan has become apparent, despite the growing Saudi-Indian cooperation in all areas in recent years.
New Delhi is carefully assessing the implications of this development for its national security and regional stability. However, one can only speak of the emergence of a new fault line between the Indo-Israeli entente (informal "accord") and the already formalized Pakistani-Saudi military alliance.
An Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the government would study the implications of this development for national security as well as regional and global stability.
Iran, a traditional regional rival of Saudi Arabia, will view increased military cooperation between Riyadh and Islamabad with caution. However, Tehran is on the path to strengthening ties with Saudi Arabia, and this alliance does not pose a direct threat. Furthermore, Pakistan openly supported Iran during the Israeli aggression, and both countries are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The United States, meanwhile, found itself in a difficult position. On the one hand, it has traditionally been Saudi Arabia's main ally; on the other, its inability or unwillingness to restrain Israel after the strikes on Qatar undermined the trust of Arab monarchies.
As for Saudi Arabia, the list of its grievances against the United States has been growing like a snowball since the time of Barack Obama.
So, this is a senseless, from the Saudi point of view, second Gulf War after 2003, which ended with the defeat of the weakened Sunni regime of Iraq and the transfer of power to pro-Iranian Shiite forces hostile to the KSA.
This was followed by the US withdrawal from Iraq, despite Saudi Arabia's protests, which undermined security in the country and led to the threat of ISIS* strengthening.
Then came the US refusal to support Saudi Arabia in its war against the Houthis. Even after massive attacks on Saudi oil and gas infrastructure in 2019, the US continued to reduce its presence, withdrawing Patriot missiles, and so on.
Moreover, Washington's proclaimed Indo-Pacific strategy suggests a reorientation of resources and attention to containing China, which means further weakening of attention to the Middle East.
Therefore, Israel's strikes on Doha forced the Saudis to move from words to action.
And for Washington, this is yet another source of concern. Their pivot to the Indo-Pacific, at the expense of their reduced presence in the Middle East, is not, it turns out, containing China on its borders, but rather opening new doors and windows for China to enter the Gulf states, now through Pakistan.
After all, Islamabad is Beijing's closest ally and partner, and the Pakistani army is oriented towards Chinese technology and weapons.
Thus, the Saudi-Pakistani pact fits harmoniously into the Belt and Road Initiative as a covert security element, currently without China's participation. But now, Chinese weapons could have significantly greater prospects in the Saudi market, especially if Pakistan and Saudi Arabia advance standardization and develop joint military production.
Prospects for the development of a new security architecture
In the context of the formation of a new security architecture, Egypt's role as an important military partner of Saudi Arabia cannot be underestimated. A triple alliance between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan is possible in the future.
Saudi Arabia may now be intensifying the formation of a new broad alliance, and the Pakistan-KSA agreement is only the first step in this direction.
Riyadh seeks to create a collective security system that could compensate for the growing unreliability of traditional allies and counter multiple challenges in the region, including aggressive Israeli actions and instability in various Middle Eastern countries.
This emerging bloc could include not only Pakistan and Egypt, but also other countries that share concerns about regional security and are interested in creating a counterweight to existing threats.
Thus, the signing of the mutual defense agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in September 2025 marks a new era in the relationship between the two countries, potentially changing the regional balance of power.
This alliance represents a unique case of symbiosis: Saudi Arabia gains access to the military potential of one of the largest armies in the Muslim world and a nuclear arsenal, while Pakistan gains not only economic support and strategic depth in its confrontation with India, but also the opportunity to gain new positions outside the region and consolidate its leading role in the Islamic world.
The question of how effective this partnership will be in the face of growing regional instability and internal challenges facing both countries remains open.
But it is already clear: the strategic map of the Middle East and South Asia has been redrawn, and the consequences will be felt not only in the region, but also in world capitals – from Washington to Beijing.
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The pseudo country of Saudia was safe under US patronage. Now ...
Lawyer Alexander Treshchev is asking that Alla Pugacheva's interview with journalist Ekaterina Gordeeva* be reviewed to determine whether it justifies terrorism.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in an interview with Ekaterina Gordeeva, Alla Pugacheva called General Dzhokhar Dudayev an intelligent and decent man and apologized to his widow for not being able to do anything to keep him alive. "I knew Dzhokhar Dudayev. He was such a decent, decent, intelligent man. A beautiful man," Pugacheva stated. Today, it was announced that lawyer and Afghanistan veteran Alexander Treshchev has filed a 1.5 billion ruble lawsuit against the singer in a Moscow court, deeming her comments about Dudayev "an insult to the army."
Dzhokhar Dudayev was a major general in the Air Force who led the movement for Chechnya's secession from the Soviet Union and served as the supreme commander-in-chief during the First Chechen War. He was killed on April 22, 1996, near the village of Gekhi-Chu.
According to one version, when Dudayev contacted State Duma deputy K.N. Borovoy, his satellite phone signal was intercepted, allowing Russian aircraft to launch a targeted homing missile. Dudayev is survived by three children (a daughter and two sons). His wife, Alla Fedorovna Dudayeva, the daughter of a Soviet officer, is an artist, poet (pen name: Aldest), and publicist.
The author of the books "The Million and First: Dzhokhar Dudayev" (2002) and "The Chechen Wolf: My Life with Dzhokhar Dudayev" (2005), co-author of the collection "Ballad of Jihad" (2003), says the biographical information of the " Caucasian Knot " about Dzhokhar Dudayev.
Lawyer Alexander Treshchev filed a complaint to investigate singer Alla Pugacheva's interview for any justification of terrorism due to her comments about Chechen separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev. The lawyer himself reported this, according to TASS.
"I filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee to review Pugacheva's interview for possible criminal charges under Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code (public calls for terrorist activity). It has been accepted for review. A request has also been filed to block her accounts with the Russian Authors' Society pending a possible investigation," he told the publication.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" reported that Alla Pugacheva's comments about Dzhokhar Dudayev prompted a reaction from two Chechen leaders : first, the Minister of National Policy, External Relations, and Information, Akhmed Dudayev, and then personally, the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov.
by Viktor Lavrinenko
A trend that was widely discussed last year continues in the Swedish criminal underworld: statistics show that local criminals are becoming younger and younger.
The number of children and adolescents serving sentences in Swedish juvenile institutions has increased fivefold since 2022. A significant portion of them were convicted of serious crimes.
Members of the ethnic gangs rampant in the country recruit minors directly from playgrounds and schools. Swedish educators and law enforcement have yet to develop a universal antidote to this scourge.
Flight of the native Swedes
Explosions and shootings have long been a part of everyday life in Swedish cities. To illustrate, consider just one of countless cases. Around six in the evening on September 6, police were called to the Alby metro station in Stockholm, where approximately thirty people were trapped by gunfire.
"This is a large-scale operation. The man was shot several times, but by the time we arrived, he was conscious and able to speak," said police officer Ola Esterling.
Several people witnessed the incident. The perpetrator fled the scene, and police, pursuing the criminal, closed traffic along the entire Red Line of the metro, but were unable to catch him.
One witness, 67-year-old Rodrigo Leiva, said he was driving home when shots rang out. "I saw a guy lying bloody on the floor. Sweden isn't what it used to be; chaos reigns," he lamented.
It's no secret that the chaos on the kingdom's streets is primarily caused by "new Swedes" who have arrived from Asian and African countries. At the same time, there's been a mass exodus of native residents from the cities these immigrants have taken over.
One striking example is the situation in the town of Sandviken, which ten years ago was hailed as an example of the effectiveness of Swedish immigration policy and successful integration.
"City treasury revenue from immigration totals more than half a billion kroner," proclaimed the bravura headline of an article in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter in May 2014. The claim was based on an audit report commissioned by the municipality at the time.
But just five years later, completely different figures were announced. "We're in a tense situation. The city faces a budget deficit of 67 million crowns," municipal council chairman Peter Stjernström told Expressen in 2019.
At the time, however, this hardly bothered anyone. Now, Sandviken is being reviled, being called the country's new most dangerous ghetto. Poverty and murder reign, and the white middle class has already largely abandoned the town. Now, half of Sandviken, including its entire center, is populated almost exclusively by newcomers.
The ill-fated town has been compared to another "multicultural" Swedish ghetto, Rinkeby in Stockholm. Emma Holmqvist, a segregation researcher at Uppsala University, explains that this state of affairs arose, in part, due to the flight of native Swedes from Sandviken.
This prominent representative of Sweden's mainstream liberal views essentially accused her compatriots of—for some reason!—not wanting to live alongside migrants.
"High-income people are partly driving segregation. They have housing and residential choices that low-income people lack. They can move out of a neighborhood with rental apartments and poor infrastructure simply by buying a home," Holmqvist laments.
At the same time, she believes that many immigrants want to live among Swedes, while Swedes aren't particularly interested in living among immigrants. Therefore, Holmqvist believes that a redistribution of housing stock between different ethnic groups is necessary.
And this isn't just talk: in 2024, a student dormitory housing mostly Swedish youth was moved to Sandviken for forced "integration." The Swedish press hasn't reported on the students' "delight" in welcoming the move.
"We laugh a lot."
In May, the Swedish government published an updated map of 180 "exclusion zones," or immigrant ghettos. Together, they are home to more than 700,000 people out of the country's nearly 11 million population.
Life in these areas is characterized by high unemployment, welfare dependency, crime, overcrowding, poor school performance, and low voter turnout.
Similar "zones" exist in 66 Swedish municipalities. Moreover, the gangs that have taken hold there have become so rampant that they have dramatically increased their recruitment of children for their own purposes.
According to local media, ethnic gang members most often interact with children and teenagers during summer holidays, when they play unsupervised in the streets. Gangster headhunters even target ten- and eleven-year-olds.
"We've never seen gangs recruiting such young people before," says police officer Christoffer Peyret.
Last summer, Stockholm police arrested several adult criminals caught trying to recruit minors. "They encouraged them to sell drugs or stolen mobile phones, for example. It's even better for the criminals if the children lose something they were instructed to sell. Then they'll get into debt, which they'll have to pay off, and become slaves," explains Peyret.
The fact that gangs are increasingly using minors in their showdowns is understandable: according to local laws, they face far less severe punishment than adult murderers.
Those arrested for murder, attempted murder, and other firearms offenses are held in a special center. The majority of these children are immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans.
These "kids" spend their days playing board games, solving puzzles, and baking buns with staff members trained in child education. "We laugh a lot, and we all have a lot of fun," correctional facility employee Tumas Hobi told SVT.
In the mornings, the center's young residents are served breakfast in bed. However, if they still want to sleep in, the kindly guards will hold it back. In 2017, this "kindergarten" for juvenile delinquents housed several dozen people. By October 2024, the number had risen to 123.
New data on juvenile offenders was recently released: as of August of this year, 254 teenagers were held in Swedish closed institutions for such offenders, five times more than in 2022 and 70% more than last year. This means their number is growing rapidly.
In this regard, the government's Council for Involuntary Care (SiS) is sounding the alarm, warning that the country needs to increase the number of places in closed institutions of this kind.
"It's incredible: in two and a half years, the number of children and young people serving sentences has almost fivefold increased. More than forty percent of them have committed murder, attempted murder, or manslaughter," complains Elisabeth Åbjørnsjön Hallmark, CEO of SiS.
Next summer, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service will open the first fully-fledged prisons for juvenile offenders. These will differ from current facilities in terms of their conditions, offering harsher conditions and increased security.
At the same time, experts believe that a good, high-quality education could help these children.
"This is how the country collapses."
The problem of juvenile delinquency has spread beyond Sweden's borders and is spreading like a cancer across neighboring countries, where children have also begun to be recruited as contract killers.
"Frankly, it all started in Sweden," says Dutchman Andy Kraag, who heads Europol's Serious and Organized Crime Center. Kraag is part of a task force whose mission is to combat the growing threat posed by young hitmen.
He compares the situation to a rapidly spreading forest fire. While recruiting teenagers as criminals has long been commonplace in Sweden, he says, this trend has only recently emerged in the rest of Europe.
When it became impossible to turn a blind eye to this phenomenon, Sweden itself proposed the creation of a joint task force within Europol to combat the involvement of adolescents in criminal activity.
According to Kraag, gangsters recruit young people online, promising money and status. They instruct and manage the new criminals remotely.
Theodor Smedius of Sweden's National Police Agency (NOA) says that while there used to be only isolated cases of gangs hiring teenagers as killers, there are now thousands.
"It's no longer a local problem. It's become an entire criminal industry," he says. Smedius warns that this method will spread and be used not only by criminals but also in hybrid wars between states or entities seeking to destabilize the situation.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently posted a video on social media in which he describes how Swedish criminal gangs lure underage girls into violent acts. Citing an article in the German newspaper Die Welt, Orbán claims that by 2024, more than 280 girls in the Scandinavian kingdom would have been arrested for murder.
"The mafia uses them to shoot people in the head because teenagers in Sweden can't be convicted. Sweden has abandoned civilization, and all that's left is barbarism. Meanwhile, the Swedes are trying to teach everyone lessons about the rule of law," Orbán fumes.
He clearly hasn't forgotten or forgiven the recent attacks from Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, which followed Hungary's ban on gay pride parades* last spring. "This is how a country collapses," the Hungarian leader concluded.
However, Orbán, in his heated debate, made an inaccuracy. The article does cite the figure of 280, but this includes girls aged fifteen to seventeen who were under investigation in Sweden in 2024 for not only murder but also other violent crimes. It doesn't specify how many of these 280 cases are related to organized crime.
Prime Minister Kristersson seethed with anger: "This is a hair-raising lie." However, he cannot deny the fact that teenagers living in Sweden are hyperactively involved in serious crime.
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When you invite in the uncivilized -- in large numbers -- you lose what civilization you have. Call it what it is - an invasion. Treat the people involved like you would any other invading species. People will talk, but who cares?
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A terrified resident of the enclave, that has a population of 50,000, shared a video this week with KTLA that showed a balaclava-clad teenager kicking the door down of her second-floor apartment before running down the stairs.
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In the short-term, build more walls with thicker doors around your property. Longer term, study the biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest for a clue or emigrate to the U.S. if you can.
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When reading stories like this, over the years, why do I increasingly get the feeling that the folks in charge are receiving ginormous bribes from Qatar?
Seems pretty sick: Not one citizen of Sweden benefits, the results of the experiment are unambiguous -- and yet it continues. Same with UK, Ireland, Germany, USA, Spain, Italy
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The marxist worldview demands this view point. The oppressor is wrong. The oppressed are right. This is their braindead world view, and it leads to decisions like this.
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..it escapes the thought process of Marxists that when the oppressed are no longer oppressed they are by default the oppressors.
[IsraelTimes] Flensburg store owner claims ban ‘not even antisemitism. I just can’t stand you’; Israeli envoy: ‘The 1930s are back’; German official slams sign as Jew hatred ‘in its purest form’
A sign in a German shop banning Jews drew outrage from locals and officials and was compared to messages seen on German streets during the Third Reich.
“JEWS are banned from here!!!!,” read the sign in Flensburg, which has since been taken down after a number of complaints to police. “Nothing personal. Not even antisemitism. I just can’t stand you.”
Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor wrote Thursday on X that “The 1930s are back,” expressing hopes that Jews and all other groups stay away from the store. “It’s the same old hatred, just in a different font.”
“It was never about Zionism. It was always about Jewish life. And it never ends harmlessly,” added Prosor.
Germany’s antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein told Die Welt that “this is antisemitism in its purest form, and of course, there are direct references to the Nazi era, when Jews were boycotted and there were many such signs.”
German Education Minister Karin Prien, who is Jewish, denounced the “blatant antisemitism” and urged a “tough crackdown.”
Other local and federal officials also condemned the sign, and an investigation was opened by the public prosecutor’s office, the German news outlet reported.
A sign in a German shop reads:
“JEWS are banned from here!!!! Nothing personal and not antisemitism, I just can’t stand you.”
The sign was first noticed on Wednesday afternoon. By Thursday, it had been taken down, with the storefront now featuring scrawled signs reading “Fuck Nazis” and Nazis Out” among other sentiments, local media reported.
The owner of the shop, which sells books and gothic antiques, was quoted as defending the sign in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag, saying he put it up in response to the war in Gaza.
“Jews live in Israel, and I can’t tell between them who are for and against the attacks [on Gaza],” he was quoted as saying.
The outrage over the sign came a day after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that criticism of Israel was increasingly being used in Germany as a pretext for stoking hatred against Jews, noting that antisemitism had “become louder, more open, more brazen, more violent almost every day” since the Hamas-led massacre on October 7, 2023, that ignited the Gaza war.
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"The outrage over the sign came a day after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that criticism of Israel was increasingly being used in Germany as a pretext for stoking hatred against Jews, noting that antisemitism had “become louder, more open, more brazen, more violent almost every day” since the Hamas-led massacre on October 7, 2023, that ignited the Gaza war."
When his own FM, who is a member of his own party openly and officially declares and end to "forced solidarity" ("Zwangssolidarität") with Israel after 10/7 at a time when Hamas is still holding German citizens hostage under conditions that amount to War Crimes the "louder" and "more brazen" Jew hatred shouldn't surprise him.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] A heated confrontation unfolded at a Dearborn City Council meeting, when Mayor Abdullah Hammoud told Christian resident Edward ''Ted'' Barham that, although he lives in the city, he was ''not welcome here.''
The clash arose from Barham's objection to street signs honoring Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News, who has faced longstanding accusations of supporting or praising Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... and Hezbollah.
Here's the first Moslem Mayor of Dearborn Michigan telling an American citizen he isn't welcome in an AMERICAN city because he didn't want an AMERICAN street renamed after an Arab
Why do the first generation children of immigrants colonists always act this way? pic.twitter.com/aFE0xV53ER
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) September 17, 2025
Barham, a Christian minister with experience living in 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.... and Israel, criticized the renaming of two intersections after Siblani, calling it deeply inappropriate.
He referenced Siblani's past statements from 2022 and earlier, including calls to back armed resistance and allusions to the ''blood of the deaders'' nourishing the land of Paleostine.
Barham equated the street signs to designating public spaces as ''Hamas Street or Hezbollah Street,'' deeming the decision ''inappropriate.''
Mayor Hammoud responded vehemently, labeling Barham a bigot, racist, and Islamophobe. He advised Barham to avoid the renamed streets or close his eyes while driving on them.
''I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here,'' Hammoud declared, adding, ''And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city.''
Hammoud further accused Barham of posting videos outside the mayor's mosque, making derogatory comments about Moslems and Islam, though a review found the footage showed Barham singing a Christmas carol and engaging in friendly theological discussions.
In defense, Siblani asserted that his remarks were quoted selectively and out of context. He affirmed his support for Paleostinians' right to resist occupation but clarified he does not promote Hezbollah or Hamas, while noting some view them as freedom fighters rather than terrorists.
Councilman Robert Abraham also defended Siblani, stating, ''He's not a violent mostly peaceful person, and you can interpret his words any way you want, but I will guarantee you he is not intending to incite violence anywhere in the world.''
The signs are located on Warren Avenue, a county road, meaning Wayne County holds authority over the naming, not the city council. Still, for many residents, the gesture carries symbolic weight.
Dearborn hosts one of the largest Arab American and Moslem populations in the U.S., often dubbed the ''Arab Capital of North America''. Events like this raise questions about whether all residents, irrespective of faith or views, can voice concerns without fear.
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"I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here,"
This looks like a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and the Establishment Clause, Right to Petition Clause and Freedom of Speech Clause of the 1st Amendment.
Also this is a litmus test for the woke right.
Will they side with alien theocratic despotism against a Christian minister as they did in the Terry Jones controversy?
Or will they side with the Christian minister and alienate their Iran-Russia-Qatar allies and possibly sponsors?
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As far as I'm concerned, it's been Vlad the Impaler time concerning muslims since they were 'founded'.
What do you call the beginning of a death cult anyway?
Moscow, September 19, 2025, 3:29 PM — Regnum News Agency. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded to claims by The Washington Post that Russia is allegedly exploiting the murder of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk for propaganda purposes.
"I'd like to ask this publication if it published a similar article about how the US, under the Biden administration, 'used George Floyd's death for propaganda purposes?' " she wrote on her Telegram channel.
A gunman shot Kirk in the neck while he was speaking at the University of Utah. At the time, the activist was speaking about gun violence in the United States. The politician was hospitalized, but his life could not be saved.
Later, on September 16, Utah State Attorney Jeff Gray indicted Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Kirk's murder. He clarified his intention to seek the death penalty and added that the suspect would be held in the Utah State Prison without bail. Then, on September 18, the suspect voluntarily surrendered to law enforcement, fearing he would be shot.
[REDSTATE] Billionaire left-wing donor George Soros contributed $10 million to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's ballot initiative to redistrict the state, the New York Times reported Friday.
Soros, who has funded left-wing campaigns stretching from district attorneys to federal elections, contributed the single largest donation amount to Newsom's effort to redraw the state's congressional lines, according to the outlet, which cited two sources with direct knowledge.
Soros is the founder of the Open Society Foundations, which is a massive $25 billion nonprofit. His son Alex succeeded him as chair of the board of directors of the Open Society Foundations in 2022.
Old George's son Alex runs the foundation now, but old George is responsible for much of that $25 billion bank balance.
Now the Soros family enterprise (I use the term "enterprise" in the broadest possible sense) is helping Gavin Newsom carve up California, in an attempt to gerrymander that state even more ridiculously than it already is.
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the Soros family enterprise
"The FBI has historically allocated resources to combat criminal enterprises, but data from 2000 to 2004 shows a significant reduction in agent utilization and case openings for most subprograms, including narcotics trafficking and organized crime, although gang-related efforts remained stable.
The FBI's reprioritization efforts led to a substantial shift away from drug-related investigations, reducing field agent allocations for drug matters from 890 in 2001 to 339 in 2004."
The Clinton Foundation (established 1997, founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation)
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Even Los Angeles voters got fed up with the soft-on-crime Soros backed District Attorney George Gascon. They sacked him in the last election in favor of hard nosed Nathan Hochman. Could be that California voters in general are getting wise to the evil influence of George Soros. Prop. 50 opponents should do all they can to make voters aware that Soros supports it.
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The RICO case around ANTIFA support will hamstring them and ripple out.
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"Eat the rich! Except for Soros, of course."
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[IsraelTimes] Calls to bar Israel from global scene gain traction as actors seek boycott, 5 European countries threaten to skip Eurovision should Israel participate, and Spanish PM urges sports ban
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It's hard for me to boycott the Anti-Israeli's cause I've basically been doing that all alone. Don't give a crap about soccer, football, basketball, etc. I also don't buy sports stuff. So....maybe I'll do a pizza for the IDF.
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Must be tough being a hater. Imagine having a sense of worth based on being better than Those Guys(tm). And then you lose to an untermensch at ping-pong. Inconceivable!
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Not suggesting that this is great -- on the other hand, imho there is opportunity here. Not kidding. All it'll require are a few creative minds to come up with alternatives that eventually can become more popular, more profitable.
Plenty of precedents: Jews went in to the movie business in the FIRST place because Jews were excluded from other, more accepted businesses. Same with High-Risk Debt "junk bonds" and other examples as well. Organized college and professional basketball was heavily Jewish in the beginning.
[IsraelTimes] US official also slams measure, which goes further than past resolutions in highlighting ‘deepening of suffering’ in Strip, for ‘wrongly legitimizing false narratives benefiting Hamas’.
[IsraelTimes] ‘Malak Fadda,’ a young woman who rose to fame during the war with videos showing her helping Gazans, has departed citing medical needs, sparking questions surrounding her activity
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
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