[KhaamaPress] Trade between Pakistain and Afghanistan has dropped 53 percent amid prolonged border closures, with exporters suffering heavy losses, Pak officials and media reports say.
Trade between Pakistain and Afghanistan has dropped by 53 percent, largely due to prolonged border closures, Pakistain’s The Nation newspaper reported, citing official sources.
According to the data, bilateral trade fell to $594 million in the first half of the 2025—2026 fiscal year, down from $1.26 billion in the same period of 2024—2025.
An official source told the newspaper that the main reason for the sharp decline is the continued closure of key border crossings between the two neighbours.
Pakistain reportedly closed eight border points with Afghanistan following festivities between Pak forces and Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters on October 11, 2025. As a result, Pak exporters are losing an estimated $177 million per month due to restricted cross-border trade.
Pakistain and Afghanistan share several major trade routes that are vital for the movement of food, fuel and consumer goods, particularly for landlocked Afghanistan.
Border closures in the past have repeatedly disrupted supply chains, causing economic losses for traders on both sides and increasing prices in local markets.
Pakistain’s foreign ministry has said border crossings will remain closed until written and credible assurances are provided to prevent holy warrior attacks and action is taken against the Pak Taliban, or TTP.
The prolonged shutdown has raised concerns among business groups and analysts, who warn that continued disruptions could further strain economic ties and deepen regional instability.
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the main reason for the sharp decline is the continued closure of key border crossings between the two neighbours
[IsraelTimes] Relations between Somalia and the US hit a low point as Washington says it will pause further assistance that benefits the government in Mogadishu amid a dispute over the demolition of a World Food Program warehouse.
In addition to cutting off the flow from US government benefits to fraudulant Somali daycare businesses, autism training programs, feeding indigent children and so forth. No wonder Mogadishu is annoyed.
The US State Department’s under secretary of foreign assistance says in an X post that Somali government officials had destroyed a US-funded WFP warehouse and illegally seized donor-funded food aid for vulnerable Somalis.
As a result, he says, Washington was suspending aid to Somalia. The value of the aid was not immediately clear.
A WFP spokesperson tells Reuters the program had retrieved 75 metric tons of nutritional commodities. A day earlier, another WFP spokesperson said the warehouse containing that same amount of assistance was demolished by port authorities.
A US official says Washington was “glad to hear reports that certain commodities have been recovered,” adding that the administration is continuing its investigation into diversion and misuse of assistance in Somalia.
“We’ve urged the Federal Government of Somalia to promptly follow through on their commitment to provide an account of the incident,” the official says.
Somalia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has disputed the assertion that the US-provided aid had been stolen and says it remains in WFP custody.
The chill in ties comes against the backdrop of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, which infuriated Mogadishu.
The UAE announces it will cuts funds for citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear of Emirati students being radicalized by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on British campuses.
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[IsraelTimes] Instrument was brought to England on Kindertransport by Martin Landau as a child; remarks in show by guest Helen Mirren appear cut to avoid mentioning Jews, UK media reports.
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[IsraelTimes] Venezuelan authorities are releasing a “large number” of prisoners, some of them foreigners, five days after US forces ousted authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, parliament speaker Jorge Rodriguez says.
He tells reporters the government was carrying out the immediate “release of a large number of Venezuelan and foreign nationals” in what he called a “unilateral gesture.” [and they're all coming here]
It is the first sign of possible concessions by Venezuela’s interim government since President Donald Trump’s administration said it was “in charge” in Venezuela after US forces seized Maduro and took him to New York to face trial.
Jorge Rodriguez does not say how many prisoners were being released. The non-governmental monitor Foro Penal says there are 806 political prisoners held in Venezuela, including 175 military personnel.
Trump said Tuesday that Venezuelan authorities were “closing up” a “torture chamber in the middle of Caracas,” without elaborating.
[AnNahar] U.S. President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... said on Friday he cancelled a second wave of attacks on Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... after it began releasing "large numbers" of political prisoners this week.
"Venezuela is releasing large numbers of political prisoners as a sign of "Seeking Peace."... Because of this cooperation, I have cancelled the previously expected second Wave of Attacks," he said on his Truth platform.
"At least 100 Billion Dollars will be invested by BIG OIL, all of whom I will be meeting with today at The White House," he added.
Venezuela released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists — both citizens and foreigners — Thursday in what the government described as a gesture to "seek peace" less than a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face drug-trafficking charges.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been pressuring Maduro allies now leading the country to fold to his vision for the future of the oil-rich nation, said the releases came at the request of the United States. In the interview on Fox News on Thursday night, Trump praised the government of acting President Delcy Rodríguez, saying: "they've been great. ... Everything we've wanted, they've given us."
The U.S. government and Venezuela's opposition have long demanded the widespread release of imprisoned politicians, critics and members of civil society. The Venezuelan government insists it does not hold prisoners for political reasons.
HIGH PROFILE RELEASES
Among those released was Biagio Pilieri, an opposition leader who was part of Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado's 2024 presidential campaign, according to Foro Penal, an advocacy group for prisoners based in Venezuela's capital, Caracas. Also released was Enrique Márquez, a former electoral authority and candidate in the 2024 presidential election, the organization said.
Videos posted by journalists on social media show Márquez and Pilieri embracing loved ones on the streets outside the prison. One video showed Márquez beaming and video-calling family members, saying, "Soon I will be with you all."
Five Spanish citizens — including the prominent Venezuelan-Spanish lawyer and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... activist Rocío San Miguel — were also released in the afternoon and, as the night wore on, reports trickled out of more detainees walking free. Relatives who waited for hours outside a prison in Guatire, about an hour east of Caracas, briefly chanted, "Libertad! Libertad!" meaning "Freedom! Freedom!"
Venezuela's government has a history of releasing people imprisoned for political reasons — including real and perceived opponents — during moments of high tension to signal openness to dialogue. The releases on Thursday were the first since Maduro was deposed.
'NOTHING BRINGS BACK THE STOLEN YEARS'
For opposition leader Machado — whom Trump has snubbed by endorsing Rodríguez to lead the transition — the gesture was "an act of moral restitution."
"Nothing brings back the stolen years," she said in an audio message from exile addressed to families of released detainees, urging them to take comfort in the knowledge that "injustice will not be eternal and that the truth, though badly maimed, eventually prevails."
Despite a widespread crackdown in the aftermath of the tumultuous 2024 election — in which authorities said they detained more than 2,000 people — Venezuela's government denies that there are prisoners unjustly detained, accusing them of plotting to destabilize Maduro's government.
Romero's organization said that as of Dec. 29, 2025, there were 863 people detained in Venezuela "for political reasons."
The Spanish government said Thursday that five of its citizens, including dual national San Miguel, had been released from custody in Venezuela and would soon return to Spain.
Speaking to Spanish broadcaster RNE, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares identified the other Spanish nationals released as Andrés Martínez, José María Basoa, Ernesto Gorbe and Miguel Moreno.
Two of them, Martínez and Basoa, were arrested in Venezuela in September 2024 and accused of plotting to destabilize Maduro's government as Spanish spies — allegations vehemently denied by Spain.
Spain's El País newspaper reported Thursday that another freed detainee, Gorbe, was arrested in 2024 on allegations of overstaying his visa.
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We will play nice until February, while Delta trains up.
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The reason Trump didn't endorse Machado or one of the other resistance leaders is there's gonna be a power struggle, and it's going to get messy.
Best to keep your friends out of it while the bad boys kill each other.
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[AnNahar] Russia on Friday said the United States had decided to release two Russian members of the crew of a Russian-flagged oil tanker that Washington seized earlier this week.
"In response to our request, U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to release two Russian citizens aboard the Marinera tanker, previously detained by the United States during an operation in the North Atlantic," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
"We welcome this decision and express our gratitude to the U.S. leadership," she added, without elaborating how many Russian nationals were on board of tanker.
[IsraelTimes] The head of the Munich Security Conference defends a decision to invite the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to this year’s meeting next month after repeated US accusations that European states and institutions were suppressing free speech.
The annual gathering of security experts and policymakers comes at a time of exceptional uncertainty for Europe, as its leaders struggle to adjust to the upending of decades of trans-Atlantic policy assumptions by US President Donald Trump.
Wolfgang Ischinger, the former German diplomat who heads the conference, says including two or three foreign policy specialists from the AfD, which has not been invited for the past two years, would do no harm and would be “levelling the playing field”.
“It will not allow the AfD to proclaim again that they’re being victimized and that they are marginalized and excluded from German political life,” he tells Reuters in an interview in Berlin late yesterday.
In a report last year, Germany’s intelligence services classified the anti-immigration AfD, which has faced a series of antisemitism scandals over the years, as an “extremist” group. Polls indicate that AfD has the largest backing of any party in the country,
Ischinger says the broad support for the party, the main opposition group in Germany’s parliament, makes it difficult to explain to foreign attendees why it is not possible to meet its representatives at the conference.
He said he is critical of AfD foreign policy, which is opposed to Western military support for Ukraine.
“But maybe by attending some of these speeches in Munich, they’ll have an educational experience,” he says.
The AfD has been leveraging ties with Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement over the past year and poses a direct challenge to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives in a series of state elections in 2026.
Last year’s conference was marked by US Vice President JD Vance’s attack on European leaders, whom he accused of censoring free speech and failing to control immigration.
The comments by Vance, who met AfD party leader Alice Weidel, were the first of a series of harsh criticisms of Europe by members of the Trump administration over the past year that have deeply unsettled Washington’s allies.
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Good decision. One can only hope that the political establishment filth; namely, the CDU/CSU, SPD, and the Greens, will be swept into the trash bin some day.
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We look forward to hearing what you are willing and able to share of your observations, European Conservative, to improve our understanding of your corner of the world.
[KhaamaPress] Germany received 113,000 first-time asylum applications in 2025, nearly half fewer than last year, as stricter migration policies and border controls take effect.
Germany’s Interior Ministry said asylum applications continued to fall in 2025, with more than 113,000 people submitting first-time asylum requests during the year.
The figure represents a decline of nearly 50 percent compared with 2024, signaling a sharp reversal from the migration pressures seen in recent years, officials said.
Total asylum applications, including repeat and follow-up claims, reached 168,543 cases, marking a 33 percent drop compared with 2023, according to official data released Sunday.
German authorities attributed the decline primarily to stricter migration policies, enhanced border controls, and closer coordination with neighboring European states.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the government has adopted a "clear and consistent" migration approach, stressing that those without protection rights should not enter Germany.
Migration into Germany surged after conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, placing heavy strain on asylum systems, housing, and local governments across the country.
Germany had long been the top destination for asylum seekers in Europe, but mounting political pressure pushed Berlin to tighten entry rules and speed up deportation procedures.
Experts also point to tighter border enforcement across Europe, the collapse of the Assad government in Syria, and stricter Italian migration controls limiting routes into northern Europe.
German officials confirmed that deportations rose by around 20 percent last year, reflecting faster processing of rejected asylum claims and expanded bilateral return agreements.
Analysts say while the decline eases pressure on public services, migration is likely to remain a central political issue ahead of future elections, amid debates over labor shortages and humanitarian obligations.
[KhaamaPress] Germany deported 83 Afghan asylum seekers convicted of crimes in 2025, officials said, amid stricter migration enforcement and continued debate over returns to Afghanistan.
German authorities say 83 Afghan asylum seekers convicted of crimes were deported in 2025, underscoring Berlin’s tougher stance on migration and public security.
According to the newspaper Bild, the most recent deportation took place on Friday, when an Afghan national described as a criminal offender was returned to Afghanistan.
Data from Germany’s Central Register of Foreigners show that by the end of November 2025, around 11,888 Afghan nationals were registered as legally obliged to leave the country.
Germany has faced sustained political pressure to tighten asylum rules amid public concern over crime, irregular migration and strains on social services. Deportations to Afghanistan remain highly sensitive, given security and humanitarian conditions there.
Since the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... returned to power in 2021, Berlin has largely suspended returns, but has made exceptions for individuals convicted of serious crimes, arguing these cases fall under public safety obligations.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told Bild that deportations must be possible "even to Afghanistan," stressing that German society has vital interests in ensuring that asylum seekers who commit crimes leave the country.
He said the government would enforce this policy "decisively," framing the measure as necessary to maintain public trust in the asylum system.
According to the report, the latest deportee had been convicted of drug trafficking and had already served part of a prison sentence before being removed from Germany.
The deportations signal a stricter enforcement phase in Germany’s migration policy, particularly toward offenders, as the government seeks to balance humanitarian commitments with domestic security concerns.
Rights groups are expected to continue scrutinizing such returns, while officials insist that future deportations will remain limited to criminal cases under existing legal frameworks.
[Breitbart] An unidentified protester outside the Whipple Building Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was interviewed about Wednesday’s ICE-involved shooting and said, "We have to show up with guns and end this."
The unidentified protester accused ICE of shooting people "with no cause" and said, "We have to show up with guns."
He continued, "We have to, there’s no way around it. I don’t care if I don’t have a Minnesota carry permit. I’m unarmed right now but this is the last time I show up to face these guys without a weapon."
The unidentified protester said, "The time for peace is over. They fired the first shot; it’s time to end this sh*t by any means necessary."
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Someone needs to put up the US map with red & blue counties, tell this dipstick that 90% or greater of legal gun ownership lies within same red counties. Add to that possibility of upwards of a trillion rounds of ammo if the blue demographic thinks the red are a problem now, just give them a reason to share their arsenals against a common foe. If the red counties wanted to lay siege to blue areas, the feral ‘utes might find themselves heavily outgunned and neck deep in the hoopla. Silly bastages…
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tell this dipstick that 90% or greater of legal gun ownership lies within same red counties.
Every day Wildcat, Antifa has been training their people with guns, too. Some names are the John Brown Gun Club and Redneck Revolt. There is also a women’s Antifa group whose name I’ve forgotten — not Code Pink, but something femme like that. They’re advanced training is aimed at insurrection.
Do you remember the Black group that joined a Constitutional Carry protest near Sugar Loaf Mountain some years ago — NFAC, or unabbreviated the No Fucking Around Coalition. Started by an Army veteran, they were welcomed by the 2nd Amendment types until it came out that they were really aligned with Black Lives Matter and the Black Nationalism movement. They peaked in 2021 when they commandeered the center of Austin to be their independent Black ethnostate of Orisha Land, which of course was as much of a disaster as the CHAZ enclave Antifa commandeered in Seattle in 2020 during the George Floyd protests. But the armed, separatist Black Nationalism thing has quietly been around for generations, as long as the unarmed, separatist Black Nationalist movement in this country. The Black Muslims are a branch of that.
Surrounded by Hamas and Turkish Muslim Brotherhooders? It’ll feel just like back home in Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aims to open an office in Turkey within weeks, the agency’s Commissioner-General Phillipe Lazzarini says in Ankara.
At a news conference, Lazzarini says the agency has signed the final agreement with the Turkish government for the office and is very pleased that it will have a permanent presence in the country. "First thing is we'll start some schools"
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BREAKING:
The UAE announces it will cuts funds for citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear of Emirati students being radicalized by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on British campuses.
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[GatewayPundit] Mayor Johnson issued an "ICE-free zone" executive order banning federal agents from using city property for deportation operations and called for criminal charges against federal agents who violate the order, stating that 'anyone who commits a crime should be charged.' Snelling directly contradicted this position, stating that Chicago police 'will not and cannot arrest federal agents because someone deems what they are doing is illegal.'
I introduce to you, if the real thing, the next Republican Governor of Illinois:
[KhaamaPress] AfghanEvac says the U.S. government is offering cash to Afghan refugees to abandon resettlement, warning many face serious threats if they return home.
Shawn VanDiver, head of the Afghan refugee advocacy group AfghanEvac, said reports indicate the U.S. government is offering cash to Afghan refugees at the Silia camp to abandon resettlement and return to Afghanistan.
VanDiver warned that many of those refugees would face persecution, violence or death if forced back under Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... rule.
More than half of the Afghan refugees affected are women and kiddies, according to the statement, raising humanitarian and protection concerns.
The group said the refugees include Afghan prosecutors, lawyers and former U.S. partners who worked alongside American forces during the war.
VanDiver said these are "exactly the people the Taliban have sworn to punish," stressing they trusted U.S. assurances of a legal pathway to safety.
Following the Taliban takeover in August 2021, thousands of Afghans fled the country fearing reprisals for their links to Western governments and institutions.
The United States has repeatedly pledged to protect Afghan allies through resettlement programs, though many applicants remain stranded or in temporary facilities.
VanDiver said offering money under such conditions does not make the return voluntary but instead amounts to coercion.
He added that paying approved refugees in U.S. custody to accept life-threatening returns violates international law and U.S. refugee commitments.
The AfghanEvac organization has called for immediate government transparency and urgent congressional oversight, questioning who authorized the policy and why the U.S. is withdrawing at the final stage.
Utter nonsense. The Israelis in the West Bank are under Israeli rule. The Palestinians in the West Bank are under the rule of the Palestinian Authority, a very different thing. But to call that apartheid is like claiming that America has Mexico under apartheid because the Mexicans elect their own government in Mexico City. Honestly, what ever happened to all the evil masterminds that we’re stuck with these idiots!
[IsraelTimes] Report says Israeli settlers and Palestinians residing in territory are treated ‘under two distinct bodies of law and policies,’ resulting in unequal practices
The United Nations on Wednesday said decades of discrimination and segregation of Palestinians by Israel in the West Bank were intensifying, and called on the country to end its “apartheid system.”
In a new report, the UN rights office said the “systematic discrimination” against Palestinians had “drastically deteriorated” in recent years.
“There is a systematic asphyxiation of the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank,” UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement.
“Whether accessing water, school, rushing to hospital, visiting family or friends, or harvesting olives –- every aspect of life for Palestinians in the West Bank is controlled and curtailed by Israel’s discriminatory laws, policies and practices,” he alleged.
“This is a particularly severe form of racial discrimination and segregation, that resembles the kind of apartheid system we have seen before.”
A number of independent experts affiliated with the UN have described the situation in the Palestinian territories as an “apartheid,” but this marks the first time a UN rights chief has applied the term.
Israel’s mission to the United Nations dismissed the report as “absurd and distorted accusations of racial discrimination.”
In said the report “completely ignores fundamental facts that lie at the basis of the conflict, and that inform the actions and policies of the State of Israel, mainly the grave security threats that Israel faces” and well as that the PA continues “to encourage violence” by paying stipends to terrorist who attack Israelis or their families.
It said the UN human rights office has an “inherently political driven fixation… on vilifying Israel” and questioned if the office had “demonstrated comparable attention through unmandated thematic reporting on situations such as Iran, Syria, Yemen or Sudan.”
Israel rejects any allegation of apartheid, saying its own Arab citizens enjoy equal rights. Israel also notes that it granted limited autonomy to the Palestinian Authority at the height of the peace process in the 1990s, giving it control over areas of the West Bank where the majority of Palestinians in the territory live.
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[Regnum] UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on all member countries to respect international law. His spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, made this statement during a briefing for journalists on January 9. *cough* “Lame duck!” *cough*
"His response is to redouble his message to all Member States about the need to respect the international law they themselves have created," Dujarric stressed.
The call is a response to US President Donald Trump's words, who said that he limits his powers solely by his own morality, but not by international law.
The day before, in an interview with The New York Times, Trump stated that his powers as commander-in-chief are limited only by his own morality and reason, not by international law. He also noted that he does not seek to harm people. When asked further whether his administration must comply with international law, Trump affirmatively stated that he would decide for himself when such limitations apply to the United States.
[IsraelTimes] The UN special rapporteur for the Palestinians,France'>La Belle Francesca Albanese, is ignoring a defamation lawsuit filed against her in the US, according to court filings.
Two pro-Israel US Christian groups sued Albanese in September for alleged defamation and libel, claiming she sought to harm them due to their support for Israel.
The lawsuit said Albanese sent letters to the two groups accusing them of human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity and apartheid, and published a UN report that attacked the groups.
In a legal document filed today, the plaintiffs say Albanese has not responded to the lawsuit within the timeframe allotted to her.
She was supposed to have responded to a motion by December 30, the filings say.
“That time has passed. Defendant has made no response, answer, or appearance,” lawyers for the plaintiffs tell the court.
The lawyers for the plaintiffs request that the court rule on the case absence of Albanese’s response.
Albanese is already under US sanctions, meaning she cannot travel to the US or carry out any financial transactions linked to the US.
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Revoke visa, declare her persona non grata and give her 48 hours to leave the country. If she doesnt, arrest her and charge France 3 million US dollars a day for care and feeding of her in prison.
A thought: Israel gets this money to more or less match what Egypt is given for having signed that peace treaty in exchange for getting much of the Sinai back after the Yom Kippur War. If Israel stops getting money, which they can afford, does that mean Egypt will also be cut off? Because Egypt will struggle without American help.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reveals that he’s not seeking the full renewal of a 10-year US military assistance memorandum of understanding that expires in 2028.
Netanyahu says in an interview with The Economist that Israel could give up the subsidies it receives from the US to purchase American arms.
Netanyahu again predicts the expansion of the Abraham Accords, which have stalled amid Israel’s refusal to offer a political horizon for the Palestinians.
The premier claims that Arab leaders don’t actually care about the issue.
“In private conversations, you want the truth? I mean beyond the regular things? Many of them don’t give a hoot… They don’t care about the Palestinian issue. They care about its effect on the street,” he says.
Netanyahu avoids overly commenting on the Iranian protests, saying, “It may be a moment where the people of Iran take charge of their own destiny… Revolutions are best done from within.”
He avoids committing to another Israeli strike in Iran, but says, “I’ll tell you one definite time when we would resume our military activities… If Iran attacks us, which they might, then there will be horrible consequences for Iran. That’s definite. Everything else, I think we should see what is happening inside Iran.”
While Netanyahu says he is ready to appear before a commission of inquiry, which has not yet been set up, he avoids using the word “responsibility” when asked about Hamas’s October 7 attack and is quick to spread the blame among Israel’s security agencies and the rest of his cabinet, The Economist says.
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That was Jimmy Carter's great idea.
"We're going to give Egypt a gigantic bribe not to attack Israel again.
And we're going to give Israel the same bribe, too!
A Trump-level negotiating triumph by either Yitzhak Rabin or Menachem Begin, I forget which.
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Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. All three got the Nobel Peace Prize, but then Sadat was assassinated for it a few years later by Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which is why neither the Palestinian Authority nor Hamas have ever signed off for more than a temporary ceasefire.
[IsraelTimes] Israel says it has barred entry to Gaza of foreign medical and humanitarian staff whose organizations were ordered to cease operations unless they register employee details with Israeli authorities and meet other new rules.
Fearing a renewed humanitarian crisis if medical and aid services can suddenly no longer access war-shattered Gaza, some of the 37 international nongovernmental organizations that were ordered to halt work are weighing whether to submit staff names to Israeli authorities, two aid sources tell Reuters.
Three of the aid groups say their foreign staff were told by Israeli authorities this week they could not enter Gaza.
Israel’s Diaspora Ministry, which manages the registration process, says the measures are meant to prevent diversions of aid by Palestinian terror groups. NGOs say sharing staff details poses too much of a risk, pointing to the hundreds of aid workers who were killed or injured during the two-year Gaza war — some of whom were found to have ties to Hamas.
The Diaspora Ministry says that while the NGOs had been granted 60 days to conclude operations, “the entry of foreign personnel into Gaza is not approved.” It says international staff with “approved organisations” including the United Nations could continue work as usual.
Three prominent global NGOs – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Medecins du Monde Suisse and the Danish Refugee Council – say their international staff were refused entry to Gaza this week. Foreign aid staff has generally been permitted to rotate in and out of Gaza since the start of the war.
“If we don’t have somebody in a key position, such as the emergency coordinator in charge of operations, then we either have to compensate, or we have a gap” in aid service, says Anna Halford, Gaza emergency coordinator at MSF.
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.
...Arabic for 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[Breitbart] An unidentified protester outside the Whipple Building Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was interviewed about Wednesday’s ICE-involved shooting and said, "We have to show up with guns and end this."
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
