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[Regnum] The administration of US President Donald Trump has begun detailed planning for a military operation against drug cartels in Mexico. This was reported on November 3 by NBC News, citing sources.
"The Trump administration has begun detailed planning for a new mission to send American troops and intelligence officers to Mexico to combat drug cartels <…> The first stages of preparation for the potential mission, which will include ground operations inside the country, have already begun," the statement said.
However, according to sources, discussions on this issue are still ongoing and a final decision on whether to conduct the operation has not yet been made.
Is it likely that the Syrians will take must as seriously as a German would? Because very few have left when told thus far. And if they do not leave willingly, how does his eminence plan to make them?
[IsraelTimes] Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that Syrian refugees in Germany must go home now that their country’s war is over, or face deportation.
In his latest hardline comments on migration, Merz says there is “no longer any reason” for Syrians who fled their country’s brutal 13-year war to seek asylum in Germany.
“For those who refuse to return to their country, we can of course expel them,” he says, during a visit to Husum, in northern Germany.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Thursday on a trip to Damascus that the potential for Syrians to return was “very limited,” since the war had destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure.
That statement caused a backlash from Merz’s and Wadephul’s conservative Christian Democratic Union, which has been struggling to avoid being outflanked by far-right parties on the explosive issue of migration.
Merz says he has invited Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose Islamist forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last year, to visit Germany to discuss “how we can resolve this together.”
Syria “needs all its strength, and, above all, Syrians, to rebuild,” Merz says, adding he is confident many would return of their own accord.
Around one million Syrians live in Germany, most having fled the war in a mass exodus in 2015 and 2016.
[IsraelTimes] Turkish foreign minister also says International Stabilization Force must be backed up by a UN mandate; Israel wary of letting Turkey have a role in Gaza
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... ’s future must be Paleostinian-led and avoid any new system of foreign hegemony, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... member, but not the most reliable... and six of its top Moslem allies said Monday, after talks in Istanbul.
Turkey’s relations with Israel collapsed during the Gaza war, and it has been a harsh critic of Jerusalem, but it also served as a key mediator of the tenuous three-week-old ceasefire. Now, it is pushing for Moslem nations to bring their influence to bear on the reconstruction and future governance of the embattled Strip.
"Our principle is that Paleostinians should govern the Paleostinians and ensure their own security. The international community should support this in the best possible way — diplomatically, institutionally, and economically," Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said after the talks.
"Nobody wants to see a new system of tutelage emerge," he told a news conference, using a term meaning foreign supremacy over a territory.
Brokered by US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , the October 10 ceasefire — which halted two years of war sparked by the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -led October 7, 2023, attack — has been tested by Hamas attacks on Israeli soldiers and fresh Israeli strikes.
The talks also involved top diplomats from Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , 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... , the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistain, and Indonesia.
All of them were called to a meeting with Trump in September on the margins of the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... General Assembly, just days before he unveiled his plan to end the Gaza war. Trump has credited their support with helping build momentum for his peace proposal.
"We’ve now reached an extremely critical stage: We do not want the genocide in Gaza to resume," Fidan added, saying all seven nations supported plans for the Paleostinians to take control of Gaza’s security and governance. Israel adamantly rejects the accusation that it has committed genocide in Gaza.
Fidan, who held talks at the weekend with a Hamas delegation led by its chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, said the terror group was "ready to hand Gaza to a committee of Paleostinians."
The future makeup of Gaza’s government has been a sticking point in the talks about the enclave. Israel has insisted that neither Hamas nor the Paleostinian Authority play a part in running Gaza after the war, but Moslem countries have favored a postwar role for the PA, which currently governs daily life in Paleostinian population centers in the West Bank.
Trump’s peace plan calls for a "technocratic, apolitical Paleostinian committee" to run Gaza under the supervision of an international body chaired by Trump called the "Board of Peace." The plan says the PA can assume control of the territory after undergoing reforms, but does not lay out a timeline.
The territory is now split between a region controlled by the IDF in the east and one effectively run by Hamas in the west. The peace plan calls for Hamas to disarm, which Trump has repeatedly demanded, but which the terror group has not agreed to do.
Fidan expressed hope that long-running reconciliation efforts between Hamas and the PA "will bear fruit as soon as possible," saying inter-Paleostinian unity would "strengthen Paleostine’s representation in the international community." Multiple previous attempts at PA-Hamas unity have failed.
Earlier, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... , who has praised Hamas, said the group was "determined to adhere to the (truce) agreement" and urged Moslem states to play "a leading role" in Gaza’s recovery.
"We believe the reconstruction plan prepared by the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... and the OIC [Organization of Islamic Cooperation] should be implemented immediately," he said of the plan unveiled in March.
Regarding security in the Strip, Fidan said it was crucial that the planned International Stabilization Force, which will oversee the Gaza ceasefire under Trump’s plan, have a "mandate defined by a UN Security Council resolution and a framework for legitimacy."
Washington is currently working with Arab and international partners to decide on the composition of the force, with Turkey hoping to play a role. Israel has long viewed Turkey’s diplomatic overtures with suspicion over Ankara’s close ties with Hamas, and adamantly opposes its joining the force.
A Ottoman Turkish disaster relief team, sent to help efforts to recover the remains of those trapped under the rubble — including deceased Israeli hostages kidnapped in the October 7 attack and held by Hamas — has been stuck at the border because of Israel’s refusal to let them in, according to Ankara.
Azerbaijan is said to have expressed interest in participating in the ISF, and Indonesia has offered to do so.
"The countries we’ve spoken with say they will decide whether to send troops based on ... the ISF’s mandate and authority," Fidan said. "First, a general consensus needs to be reached on a draft, then it needs to be approved by the members of the Security Council.
"And it needs to be free from vetoes by any of the permanent [UNSC] members," he added, referring to the US, a permanent Security Council member, which frequently vetoes resolutions in alignment with Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Anti-Discrimination Committee files federal complaint charging that new law hampers free speech, claiming teachers are too scared to teach properly
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
…founded in 1980 by James Abourezk (D-SD), the first Arab-American US senator, after he retired from politics, and Arab-American activist and pollster James Zogby. Both were Christian. and the children of immigrants. It looks like both were more interested in supporting secular Palestinian nationalism than Muslim Brotherhooder connections...
is challenging a new Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, law that is designed to protect Jewish students from discrimination, but that plaintiff teachers and students say is unconstitutionally vague and violates their free speech rights.
The federal complaint, filed Sunday in San Jose, seeks to invalidate legislation Governor Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... signed last month, creating an Office of Civil Rights to help schools identify and prevent antisemitism. State politicians approved the legislation as political tensions have flared in the US over the Israel-Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... 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 new law, which takes effect January 1, does not define antisemitism but gives educators the impression that they could be charged with discrimination "if they expose their students to ideas, information, and instructional materials that may be considered critical of the State of Israel and the philosophy of Zionism," according to the complaint.
The civil rights office does not need legislative approval for educational materials for teachers. But some educators have criticized a part of the law requiring that all teacher instruction "be factually accurate" because they say it could unintentionally stifle learning.
Jenin Younes, national legal director at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, says the lack of guidance has a chilling effect on speech among educators.
"They censor themselves very broadly because they don’t know what’s going to get them into trouble," she said.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of individual teachers and students in California public schools, and the Los Angeles Educators for Justice in Paleostine.
In the complaint, middle school science teacher Jonah Olson says students at his rural, largely Christian school district often ask him what it means to be Jewish. He responds in part by saying that his Judaism does not include support for the State of Israel, and now he fears that might violate the law.
Does he also point out that in this he differs from about 95% of Jews, and explain why they feel otherwise? If not, he is ignoring his responsibility to teach accurately, not to mention the fact that it is not his Judaism that informs his preferrence, but his politics and possibly cowardice.
Parents who are part of the lawsuit say they fear their children will be prevented from learning about differing perspectives on Israel, the Paleostinians and the Middle East.
Students in public schools across the US are generally protected against discrimination through state, federal and district policies, but supporters of the law say they need to do more given a surge in harassment and bullying of Jewish and Israeli students.
The Anti-Defamation League, which supports the new law, said 860 antisemitic acts such as harassment, vandalism and assault were reported to the group last year at non-Jewish K-12 schools nationwide. The number is a 26-percent decrease from the previous year, but much higher than the 494 reported in 2022.
Lev Miller Ruderman, a Jewish student at San Lorenzo Valley High School near the coastal city of Santa Cruz, said at a legislative hearing that school officials did not take an antisemitic act on campus seriously during his freshman year. Another student used school materials to make a Nazi flag and pinned it to Ruderman’s back, he said. Ruderman walked past numerous students across campus before a teacher asked him about it, he said.
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I'm just not sold that criticism of Israel goes unpunished anymore. The prior DEI was all of the woke stuff, which has been replaced by total devotion to Israel. I'm not liking the trend (and I'm not one to go protest on behalf of the Palestinians, either, and all that).
51500. (a) (1) A teacher shall not give instruction and a school district shall not sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias on the basis of race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, or sexual orientation, or pursuant to a characteristic listed in Section 220.
(2) Discriminatory bias in instruction and school-sponsored activities does not require a showing of direct harm to members of a protected group. Members of a protected group do not need to be present while the discriminatory bias is occurring for the act to be considered discriminatory bias.
(3) If the governing board or body of a local educational agency finds that instruction or school-sponsored activities are discriminatory pursuant to this section, corrective action shall be taken.
(b) Teacher instruction shall be factually accurate and align with the adopted curriculum and standards as described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 60200, and be consistent with accepted standards of professional responsibility, rather than advocacy, personal opinion, bias, or partisanship.
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I agree. This all sounds very vague. Who will decide what is "bias" and what is "factually correct"?
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Example: Anything "factually accurate" you might teach about what's in the Koran will certainly be viewed as "bias" by many, if not all Muslims.
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Actually, I view the current situation in US as Americans regaining their natural right. Before the Holocaust, anti-semitism was fairly common in US. But, after the civil rights movement, only African-Americans were allowed to be openly anti-semitic. Now, all Americans regained that important natural right.
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Experience teaches that Newsom and the super majority Democrats in the state legislature do not pass good laws. All they ever do is lie, cheat and steal. This law might sound good but I'd bet good money something is terribly wrong with it, somewhere buried in the fine print. If they're getting sued by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee then it's red on red.
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^^^
What the pavers of the road to Hell in Sackomanna do (repeatedly) is knowingly pass unconditional laws which are quickly overturned. I'm embracing the power of and thinking they're both devious and stupid.
[IsraelTimes] Court filing says suspects Momed Ali and Majed Mahmoud were inspired by Islamic State ideology, had scouted out LGBTQ+ bars
Two men were charged with terrorism-related crimes in the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... area after federal authorities made arrests and seized a cache of weapons last week in a storage unit and elsewhere, officials said Monday.
The men had scouted LGBTQ+ bars in Ferndale, a Detroit suburb, according to a 72-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court.
"Our American heroes prevented a terror attack," US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X.
FBI Director Kash Patel had announced arrests on Friday, but no other details were released at the time, while agents searched a home in Dearborn and a storage unit in nearby Inkster.
The court filing says the two men who were charged, Momed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, and other co-conspirators were inspired by 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.... extremism. Investigators say a minor was also involved in the discussions.
The FBI said the men repeatedly referred to "pumpkins" in their conversations, a reference to a Halloween attack.
Ali and Mahmoud were charged with receiving and transferring guns and ammunition for terrorism.
They will appear in court on Monday afternoon for their initial appearance. Mahmoud’s lawyer, William Swor, declined to comment. Messages seeking comment from Ali’s lawyer, Amir Makled, were not immediately answered.
Over the weekend, Makled seemed to wave off the allegations, saying they were the result of "hysteria" and "fearmongering."
Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, both of whom are reportedly naturalized citizens from an as-of-now undisclosed country in the Middle East…
Search warrants of their homes and a storage unit revealed a stockpile of weapons, ammunition, tactical vests, and GoPro cameras, with the latter reminiscent of the livestreaming that took place during the October 7th attacks.
All of this began in Dearborn, which has become the most Islamicized city in the United States and a growing haven for extremism. Recently, the Muslim mayor screamed at a concerned resident to "get out," accusing him of being an "Islamophobe." His sin? Opposing the naming of a street after Hamas supporter Osama Siblani.
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Dearborn-based jihadi whisperer's father was sought for guidance by recently-indicted would-be jihadis who allegedly plotted a Halloween massacre. He seemed to tell them to go right ahead with their attack ASAP pic.twitter.com/YuY7JLkoZw
Think about the implications of that. In the complaint, one individual is described as the "Islamic Ideologue," and that person allegedly has a long history of publicly espousing support for ISIS. One of the attackers had posted videos from that person on their Instagram, and apparently, none of this seemed at all out of line to everyone in Dearborn. The attacker then called the father of the "Islamic Ideologue," claiming he had a dream to do a "good deed," and instead of showing any suspicion, the response was to encourage them.
Two Michigan men have been charged in a foiled ISIS-inspired terror attack that allegedly would have involved a massacre in a Detroit suburb on Halloween, according to an FBI affidavit.
Ali practiced shooting at a local gun range multiple times, including with Mahmoud, a juvenile suspect referred to as "Person 1" and under the alias "Athari" — and once with an unnamed "Co-conspirator 4," according to the complaint.
The charges come after Amir Makled, a lawyer for Ali, who was arrested Friday, claimed to The Associated Press that there was no plot and that he did not expect charges to be filed. Makled did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital Monday.
Fox News Digital is putting this mildly. In the AP report, Makled outright dismissed this alleged terror plot as "hysteria" and "fearmongering," saying the group these young men belonged to was simply "gamers."
“I don’t know where this hysteria and this fearmongering came from,” Makled said.
He described the all-male group of U.S. citizens as gamers, and said they range in age from 16 to 20.
“If these young men were on forums that they should not have been on or things of that nature, then we’ll have to wait and see,” Makled said. “But I don’t believe that there’s anything illegal about any of the activity they were doing.”
The criminal complaint draws a different picture and names at least FIVE additional co-conspirators.
Person 1, ALI, MAHMOUD, Co-conspirator 4, and Co-conspirator 5 also regularly communicated with each other and with other individuals who separately indicated that they have knowledge of the potential attack plans and related information. In addition to meeting in person, Person 1, ALI, MAHMOUD, Co-conspirator 4, and Coconspirator 5 have used online encrypted communications and social media applications to share extremist and ISIS-related materials that encourage attacks similar to what they planned. Further, Person 1 and ALI discussed when to conduct their attack, which they appeared to set for Halloween, and they sought guidance from the father of a local Islamic extremist ideologue (the “Islamic Ideologue”) on this question.
Along with the communications, the FBI seized a stockpile of weapons that the suspects had purchased to carry out their intended attack.
Finally, on October 31, 2025, pursuant to federal search warrants, agents recovered, among other things, three AR-15 style rifles, two shotguns, four handguns, more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition compatible with the three AR-15 style rifles, optical sights, two GoPro cameras, a flash suppressor, tactical vests, and other related firearms parts and accessories at ALI’s and MAHMOUD’s residences. And in a storage unit rented by ALI and visited by MAHMOUD, agents recovered two more chest rig vests, two black tactical backpacks, and 24 empty magazines compatible with the three seized AR-15 style rifles.
One of the co-conspirators allegedly had internet search results for "ISIS" and "Islamic State." Two of the juvenile suspects named under aliases are reportedly the ones who wanted their "pumpkin" attack to mirror the 2015 ISIS attack in France.
Ali and Athari, the juvenile suspect's alias, were allegedly planning to do the "same thing as France," in an alleged reference to the Nov. 13, 2015 ISIS attack in France that left 137 dead and more than 400 injured after gunmen and suicide bombers launched a coordinated assault on multiple locations in the French capital.
"Co-conspirator 1" allegedly met with Ali and Athari in late June and early July before traveling abroad. When he returned to the U.S., Customs and Border Patrol agents asked to review his phone — where they allegedly found Google searches involving "ISIS," the "Islamic State" and selfies showing Co-conspirator 1 wearing tactical gear and holding weapons.
Although ISIS suffered a military defeat in 2019 at the hands of the U.S. and allied forces, the group continues to operate as a terror network, according to the complaint.
[IsraelTimes] Iraq has pledged to bring all weapons under the control of the state, but that will not work so long as there is a US-led coalition in the country that some Iraqi factions view as an occupying force, the prime minister says.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani says a plan is still in place to have the multinational anti-Islamic State coalition completely leave Iraq, one of Iran’s closest Arab allies, by September 2026 because the threat from Islamist terror groups has eased considerably.
“There is no ISIS. Security and stability? Thank God it’s there… so give me the excuse for the presence of 86 states [in a coalition],” he tells Reuters in an interview in Baghdad, referring to the number of countries that have participated in the coalition since it was formed in 2014.
“Then, for sure there will be a clear program to end any arms outside of state institutions. This is the demand of all,” he says, noting factions could enter official security forces or get into politics by laying down their arms.
Iraq is navigating a politically sensitive effort to disarm Iran-backed militias amid pressure from the US, which has said it would like Sudani to dismantle armed groups affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly Shi’ite factions. The PMF was formally integrated into Iraq’s state forces and includes several groups aligned with Iran.
At the same time, the US and Iraq have agreed on a phased withdrawal of American troops, with a full exit expected by the end of 2026. An initial drawdown began in 2025.
Asked about growing international pressure on non-state armed groups in the region such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, part of Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance created to counter US and Israeli influence in the Middle East, Sudani says: “There is time enough, God willing. The situation here is different than Lebanon.”
[IsraelTimes] Israel needs a large army, with its reserve formations at its core, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a conference with senior reserve officers.
“The reserve force is a fundamental component, a core element,” says Netanyahu, alongside Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir. “We need a large, strong, and also smart army.”
For decades before the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, the IDF had been closing reserve units, moving toward a “small, smart” military based on highly-trained active duty forces.
The two years of multi-front ground combat since the Hamas invasion relied heavily on reservists, who served in repeated rounds of call-ups.
“We have not only changed the Middle East — we have changed ourselves,” says Netanyahu. “There is no more containment. There is constant initiative and proactivity.”
Reserve formations, says Netanyahu, “once again showed up, contrary to everything the enemy thought. They were wrong. They misjudged us. They misjudged you.”
The IDF and defense establishment have said the army is in need of 12,000 additional combat soldiers due to the country’s heightened security needs and the deaths and injury to thousands of soldiers in the two years of war since the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion and massacre.
Netanyahu’s government has come under sharp criticism over its failure to take effective enforcement measures against ultra-Orthodox draft evaders and its efforts to enshrine exemptions in law.
A controversial bill being pushed by the government would, five years from its passage, draft only 50% of Haredi men eligible for the draft every year.
Turkey ranks as the 9th strongest military in the world in 2025, with approximately 355,000 active personnel and a significant reserve force, showcasing a diverse and modernized military capability.
[IsraelTimes] Hossam al-Astal, a militia leader in the Khan Younis area of Gaza supported by Israel, filmed himself in a live video on Facebook burning a Hamas flag.
In the video, al-Astal is seen denying reports that Hamas arrested militia members and confiscated their weapons.
He calls Hamas “liars,” adds that “Hamas is finished,” and then sets a Hamas flag on fire.
May God watch over him and them — Hamas enjoys being a viciously totalitarian ruling class.
The militia led by al-Astal is positioned right along the “Yellow Line” to which IDF troops withdrew at the start of the ceasefire, near Israeli forces.
[IsraelTimes] Israel handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians yesterday, the Red Cross says, a day after Hamas returned the remains of three hostages. Israeli officials identified the three as soldiers who were killed in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that triggered the war in Gaza.
The exchange marked another step forward for the tenuous, US-brokered ceasefire. For each deceased Israeli hostage returned, Israel has been releasing the remains of 15 Palestinians.
The Red Cross says it facilitated the transfer of 45 Palestinian bodies to Gaza on Monday morning. Zaher al-Wahidi, a spokesperson at the Gaza Health Ministry, told The Associated Press that Nasser Hospital received the bodies around noon.
Only 78 of the bodies returned so far have been identified, the ministry says. Forensic work is complicated by a lack of DNA testing kits in Gaza, it adds. The ministry posts photos of the remains online, in the hope that families will recognize them.
Neutra and Daniel, members of the same tank crew, were slain together on October 7 as they fought to repel the Hamas attack on southern Israel, and their bodies were kidnapped that day and held for two years.
Netanyahu spoke earlier today with the family of Col. Asaf Hamami, whose remains were also returned last night.
He adds that Washington has also begun to show willingness to accept the idea of Hamas surrendering only its heavy weapons, within the broader concept of disarming the group that appears in the White House plan for ending the Gaza war.
He emphasizes that he spoke with senior US officials who said there is a possibility Hamas would be allowed to retain light weapons “for self-defense.”
There is no additional confirmation of the report. Hamas has repeatedly made clear in the past that it will not disarm, except in the context of the establishment of a Palestinian state.
For those outside of Israel, yes, we too have a deep state.
And right now, it looks like something big is cracking open.
Israel Police’s elite Lahav 433 unit (our version of the FBI) has arrested dozens of suspects, including senior officials in the Histadrut,
..the big Israeli trade union. It predates Israeli independence…
local authorities, and state-owned companies, in a sweeping probe into bribery, fraud, money laundering, and tax crimes.
The investigation has been running covertly for two years. Homes and offices were raided, assets seized, and remand hearings are already set for today.
Something major is shifting, the question is:
👉 Is this a genuine cleanup, or a power struggle within Israel’s own deep state?
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Is this a genuine cleanup, or a power struggle within Israel’s own deep state?
Embrace the wondrous power of 'AND'. Still, it is a sign that old 'understandings' are being rethought.
The IDF military advocate always acted like a branch of the ICC - I've unfond memories of them from Intifada I. Finally, they've crossed the line!
[Jpost] Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Judge Shelly Kutin on Monday extended the detention of former IDF military advocate general Maj. Gen. (res.) Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi, until Wednesday, voiced concerns that she might obstruct the probe into the case against her.
Yerushalmi is being investigated for allegedly leaking a video relating to the Sde Teiman Palestinian prisoner abuse case, in a dramatic decision showing the continuing fall of one of the IDF's top officials until just days ago.
While the state prosecution had sought five additional days of detention to question Tomer-Yerushalmi regarding her role in the leak, her defense lawyers argued that five of the other suspects have already been questioned and that many of the text messages which incriminate her are already in the possession of the police when they seized those other suspects' phones.
Further, the defense lawyers argued that she has not tried to contact the other suspects to get them to obstruct the probe for over a week since her legal situation became clear to her, a sign that she will not do so going forward, which would support freeing her from detention.
However, the police pointed out that it is possible that all of the mysterious events surrounding her disappearance on Sunday night may have been an elaborate scheme to destroy her phone in the Mediterranean Sea, a major form of obstruction of the investigation.
The detention extension hearing for Tomer Yerushalmi also involves former chief military prosecutor Col. Matan Solomesh.
...Tomer-Yerushalmi is likely to be questioned on suspicion of obstructing an investigation, submitting a false document to the High Court of Justice, fraud and breach of trust, abuse of authority, and concealment of evidence.
Solomesh is expected to be questioned on suspicion of obstruction of an investigation, fraud, and breach of trust. Among other things, the two are accused of lying to two (consecutive) chiefs of staff and government ministers. There is also a chance to implicate Gali Baharav-Miara - Israel's answer to Ketanji Brown Jackson
The right-wing Honenu legal aid organization, which is representing two of the five defendants in the case, states that the Military Advocate General’s Office informed its attorneys today of the development.
“We call on the Military Advocate General’s Office to annul the indictments immediately,” says Honenu in response to the new information.
Five IDF reservists from the Force 100 Military Police unit were indicted in February this year on charges of causing severe injury, and assault under aggravated circumstances for their alleged role in the abuse of the Palestinian detainee which left him with broken ribs and a tear in his rectum.
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Defense Minister Katz appoints Adv. Itai Ofir as Military Advocate General Katz added that Ofir’s appointment would help restore integrity to the military justice system: "Ad. Ofir will act to clean up, restore, and strengthen the military advocate system according to principled values - first and foremost, the protection of IDF soldiers who fight heroically under difficult and complex conditions for the security of the State of Israel. Certainly, he will not initiate or participate in blood libels that defame IDF soldiers, damage their honor, or expose them to persecution around the world."
[IsraelTimes] Supreme leader says US military bases, Washington’s regional ‘interference’ another block, but if removed, along with backing of ‘accursed Zionist regime,’ he would consider it.
So arrogant. Lets hit them again until they understand that Allah will not rescue them.
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What worries me is that their water crisis will push them to attack Israel (obviously, the rulers - whether ayatollahs or IRGC) don't care about civi casualties.
#6
Hmm, looks like removing Khameni and the Mullahs would solve the entire problem.
We should have regime changed Iran years and years ago when we had the chance with people like Dick Cheney in office.
Disarm Iran's WMD program and make the entire Middle East a peaceful place.
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Thomas Jefferson on Muslim demands in 1786: "The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."
Islam wants to establish a global theocratic empire. Non-Muslims must at least submit to Muslim rule and accept Dhimmitude.
This has been the demand since the seventh century.
"...Allah will not rescue them."
Last time Trump rescued them. They rewarded him with a fatwa.
[IsraelTimes] Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman denies claim that internal acts of sabotage contributed to terrorist leader’s assassination in Tehran
The liquidation of former Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction... in Tehran last year was carried out using a precision missile that tracked him via his cellphone, the spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday, sharing what he said were new details about the Israeli operation that took out the top terror official.
Haniyeh was killed on July 31, 2024, in a blast in the Iranian capital, hours after he attended the inauguration of Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian.
Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed in December that Israel was behind the liquidation.
Initial reports had suggested that he was killed by a missile, but a report in the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... last year alleged that a sophisticated, remote-controlled bomb had been smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse he was staying in months before the liquidation, and finally detonated when Haniyeh was present.
On Sunday, however, IRGC front man Ali Mohammad Naini denied that report, insisting that there had been no internal acts of sabotage within the Iranian paramilitary body, meaning that nobody had smuggled a bomb into the guest house.
Instead, he said in comments to the Iranian press and to pro-Hezbollah outlet Al Mayadeen, the liquidation was carried out with a precision missile that tracked Haniyeh’s location via his cellphone.
"The liquidation of the martyr Ismail Haniyeh did not involve any act of sabotage," Naini said. "A missile was fired from a certain distance and struck the window directly, hitting him while he was on a phone call from the same direction the missile came from."
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... initially refrained from launching a retaliatory attack against Israel in response to the liquidation of Haniyeh on its soil, but two months later, on October 1, 2024, it launched some 80 ballistic missiles at Israel, saying it was in response to the liquidation of Haniyeh as well as the liquidation of Hezbollah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> and IRGC general Abbas Nilforoushan in Beirut in September.
Naini explained on Sunday that although Tehran had waited two months to launch its retaliatory response, there had been no question that it would attack, and that it had always been a matter of when, not if.
He said that after Haniyeh was killed, Iran’s national security council "concluded that there must be a definitive response. The timing of the retaliation was left to the military command."
The delay, he claimed, was caused by difficulties that arose following Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel, in April 2024.
It was not clear what difficulties he was referring to.
Naini also acknowledged that there had been some debate as to whether Iran should carry out the October 1 strike against Israel, or whether it should have been left to its allies across the region, which include Hamas 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... , Hezbollah in Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... , and the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Ultimately, he said, "a unified decision was made" to launch the attack from Iranian soil.
The attack, which sent almost 10 million people into bomb shelters, killed one Paleostinian in the West Bank, and two Israelis were maimed by falling shrapnel and debris. Overall, the attack caused an estimated NIS 150-200 million ($46-61 million) in damage to private property, with one of the missiles impacting a school in Gadera, central Israel, causing severe damage.
Israel responded weeks later, on October 26, 2024 by targeting strategic drone and missile manufacturing sites and air defense batteries in Iran in a series of precision strikes.
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.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
..always the voice of sweet reason...
...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 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
