[FoxNews] Walz proposed $10M emergency relief package while Minneapolis Mayor Frey claimed $203M economic impact in January.
Border czar Tom Homan said Minnesota leaders should be grateful that the Trump administration made their state safer after some called on the federal government to reimburse damages they claim were caused during immigration enforcement operations.
"A lot of things were broken, but it wasn't because of Trump administration," Homan said Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
"The border — last four years, over 10 million illegal immigrants crossed that border. That was broken. Where were they then? Did Gov. Walz speak out against that, with the overdose deaths and the sex trafficking and... terrorists? No."
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I’d rather you say “thank you “ and be on your way. Otherwise I don’t have a damn what you think you are entitled to.
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I'd rather see Walz and Frey in jail for sedition, obstruction of justice, interfering with Federal law enforcement and any other felony charges an US Distract Attorney can think up. There are supposed to be some very red counties in that judicial district for the jury pool.
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[Regnum] A Tbilisi family has reported the possible sale of newborn babies by a local hospital. The relatives are searching for their daughter, who may have been taken by a medic and taken to Russia. They have launched an investigation. This was reported to the Telegram channel " 112 " by one of the missing woman's relatives, Ilona.
Her aunt, Inessa, has been searching for her daughter for 26 years, but the story began even earlier. In 1995, the woman gave birth to a son, but was told he died ten days after birth. The body was not given to Inessa, who was assured that they would bury the boy in the hospital cemetery.
In January 2000, Inessa gave birth to a daughter at a different maternity hospital in Tbilisi. However, after the birth, the girl was taken to a children's hospital, separated from her mother. The father was not allowed into the hospital, and the next day, the baby was reported to have died of natural causes. The family was asked to pay $150 for a burial on the hospital grounds. Inessa and her husband attempted to retrieve the baby's body, but were denied it.
Twenty-five years later, Inessa learned that there was no cemetery at the hospital and never had been. The family began searching the archives for the children's medical records, but only found the girl's perinatal record—it had no indication of the child's death. And no documents for the deceased son were found at all—supposedly, all the archives had been destroyed.
The family then contacted the ultrasound doctor who had supervised Inessa's last pregnancy. He was the one who told Ilona about the children's purchase order and that they were supposedly supposed to be bought, but the potential buyers backed out.
"Then a hospital worker decided to take the child for herself. A hospital worker, not a maternity hospital worker. The parents never gave up the girl; they were deceived and told their daughter had died," Ilona assured.
The family is at a loss to explain who the employee is, what the child looks like, and where the girl might be now. According to one theory, the woman from the hospital may have taken the child to Russia. The girl may live in the Caucasus or other regions bordering Georgia.
Ilona and Inessa stumbled upon an online chat where people shared similar stories. They shared how families had managed to find many children, thought lost or even dead, decades later. The women claim the number of "sold" children could be as high as 2,000.
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[KhaamaPress] The U.S. State Department has started paying Afghans stranded in 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... to return home, prompting warnings from veterans and advocates about betrayal.
According to Rooters, more than 1,100 Afghans have been stranded at Camp As Sayliyah, a former U.S. Army base in Qatar, since early 2025 after resettlement programs halted under the Trump administration.
The group includes civilian refugees, women who served as U.S. special operations personnel, and family members of U.S. servicemembers, many of whom face security risks if returned.
Assistant Secretary of State S. Paul Kapur told politicians that roughly 150 Afghans have accepted payments, which reportedly include $4,500 for main applicants and $1,200 per additional family member, though third-country relocation options remain uncertain.
Veterans and advocacy groups, including AfghanEvac,
…who did their very best with the information they could find at the time…
have condemned the program, warning that the so-called voluntary repatriation amounts to a betrayal of Afghan allies who assisted U.S. forces.
Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... in Congress have criticized the initiative, calling the payments a coercive measure and highlighting risks to those returning to Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... -controlled areas.
Camp As Sayliyah has long served as a temporary processing facility for Afghan evacuees pending U.S. resettlement, particularly for those who aided U.S. military operations during the 20-year Afghanistan war.
Prolonged delays and uncertainty have left refugees in limbo, exposing shortcomings in U.S. migration policy and raising international concerns over humanitarian and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... obligations.
Observers warn that closing the camp and offering financial incentives without secure relocation plans undermines trust in U.S. commitments and risks endangering vulnerable Afghan refugees.
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[Regnum] The Second Western District Military Court will hold closed-door closing arguments in the criminal case regarding the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk.
As Lyudmila Aivar, the victims' lawyer, told TASS, the defense will insist on the harshest punishment for the 19 defendants—life imprisonment.
"This isn't about revenge or slogans, but about justice and protecting society, since terrorism is a crime that affects not only specific individuals but also the very sense of security in the country," Aivar explained.
The victims' position is that responsibility for all the accused for their actions "must be inevitable," and their punishment "commensurate with the scale of the grief and public danger caused," the lawyer added.
A previously classified witness in the criminal case surrounding the Crocus terrorist attack confirmed during questioning the involvement of all 19 defendants, who have already been identified and are in the dock, in organizing and participating in the attack on spectators.
The terrorist attack at the Crocus Theater occurred on March 22, 2024. Four terrorists stormed the building, where a concert by the band Piknik was scheduled to take place, opened fire on unarmed people, and started a fire. The gunmen then left the building and fled in a car. They were detained in the Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine. During interrogation, the perpetrators admitted that the attack was organized by Ukrainian intelligence services.
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So the original attackers claimed to e acting for the glory of ISIS. But shortly thereafter the Russian authorities insisted it was hired and organized by Ukraine, and ISIS is no longer mentioned. I’m inclined to keep it under War on Terror, but an argument could be made that it ought to be categorized as Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union.
[IsraelTimes] Trade union calls Col. Moshe Tetro’s participation in defense ministry tour ‘unacceptable’ as workers halt production; Hind Rajab Foundation chief lauds day-long strike
Factory workers for Belgium’s largest weapons manufacturer went on strike Thursday after a high-ranking IDF officer took part in a tour of its facilities, Belgian outlets reported.
A tour of the FN Herstal factory, organized by the Belgian Defense Ministry, was intended for military attachés stationed in Brussels and thus included Israel’s representative, Col. Moshe Tetro.
Upon hearing that the Israeli officer was visiting the premises, some factory employees declared a spontaneous strike last week, halting the production line. Many demonstrated outside the factory, and its gates remained closed until Friday night as part of the action, Belgian media reported.
The workers were spurred to action by the General Labour Federation of Belgium (FTGB), a socialist union which called Tetro’s visit "unacceptable" in a statement quoted by Israel’s Channel 12 News.
"It is unacceptable that the factory premises are being used as a meeting place for the Defense Ministry to promote diplomatic-security goals, when among those present is the representative of a country that blatantly violates international law," the union said, per the Hebrew outlet.
Within hours, factory management issued a statement saying it had not received any delegation from the IDF, and instead hosted a group of military attachés at the explicit request of Belgium’s defense ministry. The factory also noted that it hadn’t sold weapons or any other military equipment to Israel for several decades.
Dyab Abou Jahjah, chairman of the Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation,
…a Hezbollah front project launched 2024 by the March 30 Movement, itself named in memory of the anti-Israel general strike in the West Bank on that date in 1976. Both groups are lawfare boiler rooms generating endless lawsuits against Israelis and those who support Israel in Western Europe and elsewhere, and between times propagandizing against Israel using the currently fashionable far left shibboleths. March 30 is the hobby of lawyer Haroon Raza, appearing in 2023 …
a legal group that works to get IDF soldiers arrested for alleged war crimes when they travel abroad, hailed the strike and denounced Tetro as a "war criminal."
"A clear message was sent: no complicity from a weapons plant while 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... is being devastated," Abou Jahjah wrote on X. "If it is confirmed that the officer present was the Israeli military attaché in Belgium, then we are speaking about Moshe Tetro — implicated in attacks on hospitals and in managing the policy of hunger imposed on Gaza."
He noted that the Hind Rajab Foundation has called on the Belgian government to expel Tetro and even filed complaints against the officer in the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his role in overseeing the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza during the war.
When filing a war crimes complaint in December 2024, the foundation claimed that Tetro, in his former position as head of COGAT’s Coordination and Liaison Administration to Gaza, was responsible for implementing a policy of starvation in the Strip.
"Here we are dealing with a key figure in the implementation of Israeli policy toward hospitals and the strategy of famine and thirst as a weapon of war," Abou Jahjah claimed at the time.
Israel has repeatedly rejected accusations that a policy of starvation is being implemented in Gaza, claiming it has allowed hundreds of thousands of tons of aid, including food, into the enclave.
[KhaamaPress] German authorities transferred 47 Afghan nationals from Pakistain to Berlin after completing migration procedures under a previously approved humanitarian admission program this week.
German officials confirmed that the group of Afghan citizens, who had been staying in Pakistain, arrived in Germany after their relocation process was finalized.
According to Germany’s Interior Ministry, the transfer was conducted under an admission mechanism previously created to receive certain Afghan nationals facing risk.
Thousands of Afghans relocated to Pakistain after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover in 2021 while awaiting resettlement decisions from European countries and other international partners.
Delays in processing migration cases have left many Afghan families stranded for months, facing visa uncertainties, financial hardship, and limited access to employment or education.
The relocated individuals reportedly spent a long period in Pakistain awaiting final approval and travel documents before being allowed to travel to Germany.
Authorities said the arrivals reached Berlin after completing all administrative and security screenings required under German immigration regulations.
Although Germany earlier announced suspension of the broader relocation program, officials confirmed some previously registered cases are still being processed individually.
The latest relocation shows that despite restrictions, limited humanitarian transfers of vulnerable Afghan nationals to European countries continue on a case-by-case basis.
[Daily Wire] Few organizations know more about leadership than the United States Army. Yet for years, the Army paid an outside consultant for instruction on the topic: A fly-by-night company co-founded by a Pakistani who sits on the board of an organization once linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Between 2021 and 2025, the Army Corps of Engineers shelled out $1.7 million across eight contracts to the vaguely-named Nonprofit Empowerment Group. The group is actually a for-profit, bare-bones operation configured to scoop up federal contracts using woman-owned "set-asides."
The company’s only listed employee is a former bank teller who hardly seemed to meet the government’s call for an academic institution to provide "graduate level instruction" on "leadership development skills." Yet the so-called "Nonprofit Empowerment Group" advertised a qualification that helped it gain access to the military: Its status as a "Disadvantaged Women Small Owned Business" [sic].
The saga raises questions about whether the government’s affirmative action contracting law, known as 8(a), not only wastes money by padding the wallets of middlemen, but could potentially undermine readiness and even risk foreign influence. The Army canceled the Nonprofit Endowment Group’s contracts this week, the Daily Wire can exclusively report.
Its only known employee, Angela Massey, declined to discuss the company’s work with The Daily Wire. According to Illinois corporation filings, Massey is the company’s president, while its secretary is Tariq H. Cheema.
At the same address in Lombard, Illinois, the pair once operated a nonprofit called the World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists. It was a reverse configuration — with Massey as secretary and Cheema as president, according to tax-exempt filings.
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Little wonder the Army cannot pass a financial audit. Muslim Brotherhood linked contracts such as this were never meant to see the light of day.
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Lots going on at 101 W 22nd St Ste 108 Lombard IL, but do they have a Minneapolis chapter? I'm curious about 'Learing centers' as well. Sleep Teaching ? (Aldous Huxley's 'A Brave New World') Lastly, VA approved? Please advise.
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The saga raises questions about whether the government’s affirmative action contracting law, known as 8(a), not only wastes money by padding the wallets of middlemen
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s chief negotiators have warned that striking a “good” nuclear agreement with Tehran is historically “difficult to impossible,” as he declared regime change “would be the best thing that could happen” and ordered additional U.S. forces into position ahead of renewed talks.
Ready to go as soon as the talks fail, additional impetus for Iran to consider working to find a real solution. Not that they’ll surrender to the infidel Great Satan, but at least they won’t be surprised afterward.
Trump asked U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner what the odds were of reaching an agreement with the Islamic Republic, according to reporting published Saturday.
The two advisers told the president that history shows the West has never been able to secure a durable, positive deal with Iran’s rulers, though they pledged to continue negotiations while holding a firm line.
“If they agree to what we are asking for, we will give you the option and you decide,” Witkoff and Kushner reportedly told Trump.
The assessment comes ahead of a second round of negotiations scheduled for Tuesday in Geneva, following an initial round in Oman that failed to produce a breakthrough. While his negotiators delivered a sober internal warning, Trump has publicly kept both tracks open — diplomacy and deterrence.
Speaking Friday after an event at Fort Bragg, Trump argued Iran has spent decades stalling.
“For 47 years, they’ve been talking and talking and talking,” he said, adding that regime change “would be the best thing that could happen.”
He also confirmed that another aircraft carrier is heading to the region as U.S. posture tightens.
Asked why he decided to send a second carrier strike group, Trump said the move is contingency planning if diplomacy fails.
“Well, in case we don’t make a deal, we’ll need it,” he said, adding that if an agreement is reached, “We could cut it short.” He noted the carrier would be leaving very soon and emphasized that the United States would have “a very big force” ready if necessary.
Pressed on how confident he is that negotiations will succeed, Trump projected optimism — but paired it with a warning.
“I think they’ll be successful, and if they’re not, it’s going to be a bad day for Iran. Very bad,” he said.
Reuters reported Friday that U.S. military planning now includes the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against the Islamic Republic if Trump orders action, with officials describing a campaign that could extend beyond nuclear infrastructure to state and security facilities.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio reinforced the administration’s dual-track posture Saturday, vowing Iran will never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons while acknowledging the diplomatic path is narrow.
The military buildup is meant to “ensure that they don’t make a mistake and come after us and trigger something larger,” Rubio said, while stressing the president prefers a deal, even though it is “very hard to do.”
The effort unfolds against Tehran’s declared red lines, with Iranian officials publicly insisting negotiations be limited strictly to enrichment levels — not dismantling enrichment — and rejecting any discussion of ballistic missiles or its regional proxy network.
Senior regime figures, including Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — Tehran’s lead negotiator — appeared this week at revolution anniversary rallies marked by chants of “Death to America,” missile displays, and staged mock coffins bearing the names of U.S. generals.
Meanwhile, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed this week to increase economic pressure on Iran’s oil exports, particularly shipments to China, as part of a maximum-pressure campaign running parallel to the talks.
An executive order signed earlier this month allows the administration to recommend tariffs of up to 25 percent on countries that conduct business with Iran.
U.S. officials have described the diplomatic track as conditional.
“If it is not a real deal, we will not take it,” a U.S. official said in reporting published Saturday.
With talks set to resume Tuesday in Geneva, the administration’s position is clear: pursue a deal — but prepare for the alternative.
“If they give us the right deal, we won’t do that,” Trump said of military action. “But historically, they haven’t done that.”
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Ready for war, guys? Are you sure? Because Hamas doesn’t seem ready to play nice.
[IsraelTimes] US president says members of Board of Peace, meant to oversee the postwar Strip, pledging over $5 billion toward reconstruction and ‘thousands of personnel’ to oversee security
Indonesia’s military said on Sunday that up to 8,000 troops are expected to be ready by the end of June for a potential deployment in a humanitarian and peace mission to 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... , as US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... said countries had committed "thousands of personnel" to a postwar force for the Strip.
Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza envisions an International Stabilization Force overseeing the territory’s security as the Israel Defense Forces gradually withdraws. But Trump has struggled to get countries to commit soldiers to the mission, amid uncertainty over whether Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... will agree to disarm and conflict will again escalate in the territory.
On Sunday, however, he broadcast optimism over the force coming together. The Board of Peace, chaired by Trump and meant to oversee postwar Gaza, will hold its first meeting on Thursday in Washington, DC.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that over $5 billion in pledges toward the reconstruction of Gaza will be announced at Thursday’s Washington summit.
The Times of Israel first revealed the planned donations last week, with two Arab diplomats saying that the US was aiming to announce donations from the United Arab Emirates, 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... , and Kuwait at around $1.25 billion each. The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported that the US is also planning on making a similar donation.
Trump said in his Sunday Truth Social post that the Thursday meeting will also see countries announce plans to contribute "thousands of personnel to the International Stabilization Force (ISF) and local police to maintain security and peace for Gazooks."
"Very importantly, Hamas must uphold its commitment to full and immediate demilitarization," Trump said.
Hamas officials have denied ever making such a commitment and have pledged to hold on to their weapons.
The Indonesian commitment, first announced last week, marks a step forward for the peacekeeping force. Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Donny Pramono said the Indonesian National Armed Forces, known as TNI, has finalized its proposed troop structure and a timeline for their movement to Gaza, though the government has yet to decide when the deployment will take place.
"In principle, we are ready to be assigned anywhere," Pramono told the AP. "Our troops are fully prepared and can be dispatched at short notice once the government gives formal approval."
Pramono said the Indonesian military prepared a composite brigade of 8,000 personnel, based on decisions made during a February 12 meeting about the mission.
Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry has repeatedly said any Indonesian role in Gaza will be strictly humanitarian. Indonesia’s contribution would focus on civilian protection, medical services and reconstruction.
Indonesian troops would not take part in any combat operations or actions that could lead to direct confrontation with gangs, making it unlikely that the country would play a meaningful role in the effort to get Hamas to disarm.
Under the Indonesian military’s schedule, troops will undergo health checks and paperwork throughout February, followed by a force readiness review at the end of the month, Pramono said. He also revealed that about 1,000 personnel are expected to be ready to deploy as an advance team by April, with the rest following by June.
Pramono said that being ready does not mean the troops will depart. The deployment still requires a political decision and depends on international mechanisms, he said. Last week, the Indonesian ministry denied reports in Israeli media that the deployment of Indonesian troops would be in southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Moslem-majority nation, does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel and has long been a strong supporter of a two-state solution, which would see a Paleostinian state established alongside Israel. It has been deeply involved in providing humanitarian aid to Gaza, including funding a hospital.
Indonesian officials have justified joining the Board of Peace by saying it was necessary to defend Paleostinian interests from within, since Israel is included on the board but there is no Paleostinian representation.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is due to attend the meeting of the board this week. His front man Prasetyo Hadi said last week that there would be negotiations before Indonesia paid the $1 billion being asked for permanent membership on the Board of Peace. He did not clarify whom the negotiations would be with.
The Southeast Asian country has experience in peacekeeping operations as one of the top 10 contributors to United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... missions, including in Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... Addressing the UN General Assembly in September, Subianto said the world must respect Israel’s right to live in security, and ended his speech saying, "Shalom."
The BBC article is unfortunately paywalled, but the Times of Israel has the details here. It was in somewhere called Bnei Brak, there were hundreds of furious men, and the police intervened to get the girls to safety. 23 rioters were arrested after a police car was flipped and a motorcycle set ablaze.
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Technically they are too busy studying, thus saving the soul of the nation (or perhaps of the entirety of the world’s 15 million Jews), and therefore already protecting the nation, and not one can be spared to pick up a gun, SteveS.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas disarmament means “it must give up its weapons, not [just] its main weapons,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the 51st annual Conference of Presidents Leadership Mission to Israel.
Netanyahu says that there has been talk about Hamas giving up only its “heavy weapons.”
“There’s practically no heavy weapons in Gaza,” he says. “There’s no artillery. There’s no tanks. There’s nothing.”
“The heavy weapon, the one that does the most damage, is called an AK-47,” he says. “That’s how they execute people. That’s how they shoot our people. That’s what they use. Assault rifles. That’s what they used in the massacre of October 7. That’s what they used. They did the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust with AK-47s.”
He says there are 60,000 rifles in Hamas hands. “They have to go outside,” as do RPGs and rocket.
Demilitarizing Gaza means Hamas’s remaining 350 kilometers (some 217 miles) of tunnels must be destroyed, and the same for any weapons factories, he says.
A report in The New York Times last week said Hamas would be allowed to keep “some small arms,” at least initially, while surrendering all weapons that are “capable of striking Israel,” according to a draft plan drawn up by officials involved in the US-led Board of Peace.
According to the report, a team including US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace Gaza envoy, plans on sharing the document in question with Hamas in the coming weeks.
[IsraelTimes] After Doctors Without Borders said it had suspended nonessential medical activities at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza due to the presence of armed men at the medical facility, the Israeli military says it has intel proving Hamas used the site as a headquarters for senior operatives.
“For over two years, the IDF and the defense establishment has warned about the cynical use by terrorist organizations in Gaza of hospitals and humanitarian shelters as human shields to conceal terrorist activity,” the military says in an English-language statement.
The army says Doctors Without Borders’ move is “an important decision, but one that comes too late. This is further proof that reinforces the necessity for the disarmament of the Hamas terror organization.”
[IsraelTimes] Discussion of potential attack is ongoing, CBS reports; as 2nd round of US-Iran talks set to start, PM demands Iran remove enriched uranium, dismantle facilities, limit missiles
US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... told Prime Minister Netanyahu in December that he would support Israeli strikes on Iran’s ballistic missile program if the US and 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... could not reach a deal, CBS News reported on Sunday, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
The US outlet reported that discussions about such an attack, roughly eight months after the 12-day Israel-Iran war in June, are ongoing. During last year’s war, the US joined the Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. This time, the American role in an Israeli attack would involve helping jets refuel in midair or aiding Israel in receiving permission to fly over neighboring countries, CBS reported.
Several countries have said they would not let their airspace be used for an attack on Iran.
The report came as Iran’s foreign minister departed for Geneva on Sunday ahead of a second round of talks with the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program, and as Netanyahu voiced skepticism that the negotiations would succeed.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... also acknowledged that the talks could fail, while emphasizing that Trump remains committed to seeing them through. Iran, meanwhile, signaled flexibility on its nuclear program and urged Washington to pursue a deal with mutual economic benefits.
The talks, which began earlier this month in Oman, came after Trump threatened to strike Iran over its crackdown on mass anti-regime protests in January, which rights groups say killed thousands. Tehran has threatened to respond to any American attack with strikes on Israel and US targets in the region.
Since making the threats, Trump has pursued the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, saying after his White House meeting with Netanyahu last week that he "insisted" diplomacy be given a chance.
At the same time, however, he has built up US military force in the Middle East and warned Tehran of dire consequences if the talks fail. He said last week, regarding regime change in Iran, that it "seems like that would be the best thing that could happen."
Netanyahu has consistently accused Iran of duplicity, a claim he repeated in a speech on Sunday. Speaking in Jerusalem, he told US Jewish leaders that Trump was "determined to exhaust the possibilities of achieving a deal, which he believes can be achieved now" with Iran, before resorting to force.
"I will not hide from you that I express my skepticism of any deal with Iran," he told a delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, "because, frankly, Iran is reliable on one thing — that they lie and they cheat."
Netanyahu laid out four Israeli demands regarding any deal with Iran, including the removal of the country’s entire stock of enriched uranium and the dismantling of its nuclear facilities.
"The first is that all enriched material has to leave Iran," he said. "The second is that there should be no enrichment capability... dismantle the equipment and the infrastructure that allows you to enrich in the first place."
He also demanded that the talks limit Iran’s ballistic missile program and address its support for proxy terror groups — issues that Iran has said should not be part of the current negotiations.
US Secretary of State Rubio, also speaking on Sunday, said Trump would prefer a negotiated settlement but likewise expressed skepticism.
"No one’s ever been able to do a successful deal with Iran, but we’re going to try," he said at a news conference in Bratislava.
An unnamed source told Rooters last week that a US delegation, including envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, would meet Iranian officials in Geneva on Tuesday, a meeting confirmed to Rooters by a senior Iranian official on Sunday.
"Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will be traveling, I think they are traveling right now, to have important meetings, and we’ll see how that turns out," Rubio said, without providing further details.
Considerable uncertainty surrounds the fate of Iran’s stockpile of more than 400 kilograms of 60-percent enriched uranium that was last seen by nuclear watchdog inspectors in June.
Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi signaled Iran’s readiness to compromise on its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief, telling the BBC earlier on Sunday that the ball was "in America’s court to prove that they want to do a deal."
The bigwig referred to the Iranian atomic chief’s statement the week prior that the country could agree to dilute its most highly enriched uranium in exchange for the lifting of sanctions as an example of Iran’s flexibility.
However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... he reiterated that Tehran would not accept zero uranium enrichment, a key sticking point in past negotiations, with Washington viewing enrichment inside Iran as a potential pathway to nuclear weapons.
Another Iranian official touted potential energy, mining, and aircraft deals that are on the table in the talks with the US.
"For the sake of an agreement’s durability, it is essential that the US also benefits in areas with high and quick economic returns," foreign ministry deputy director for economic diplomacy Hamid Ghanbari said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. "Common interests in the oil and gas fields, joint fields, mining investments, and even aircraft purchases are included in the negotiations."
The talks are the second attempt at negotiations between Iran and the US since Trump returned to office early last year. Previous talks between the two countries fell apart shortly before the Israel-Iran war in June 2025.
In 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... -era Iran deal, which reduced sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs to its nuclear program. Washington claimed Iranian non-compliance at the time of the withdrawal and began reimposing tough economic sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
While talks leading to the 2015 nuclear pact were multilateral, the current negotiations are confined to Iran and the United States, with Muscat acting as mediator.
[IsraelTimes] An initial NIS 244 million is allocated for land registration for years 2026-2030, process could take 30 years. Levin, Smotrich laud ‘deepening grip’ on West Bank.
This could be stopped in an instant, and even reversed by the PA signing a peace treaty with Israel — or at least that was so before 10/7; afterward the PA is going to have to work harder to persuade Israel to trust them. But since they won’t even pretend to negotiate, lest their own people murder them like the Egyptian Islamic Jihad murdered Anwar Sadat for signing the Camp David Accords, Israel expands.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] The military base abandoned by the United States in the city of Ash-Shaddadi
alternate spelling Al-Shadadi
(Hasakah Province) has come under the control of the Syrian army. This was reported on February 15 by the SANA news agency, citing the Ministry of Defense of the transitional government of the Arab Republic.
According to the agency, the operation was carried out in coordination with the United States. The American side also confirmed the transfer of the military base.
On April 18, 2025, the Pentagon confirmed the reduction of American troops in Syria. The US announced it would begin a phased withdrawal of several hundred troops from northeastern Syria. The US military also decided to close three of its eight small operational bases in northeastern Syria.
The United States began withdrawing its troops and equipment from the Shaddadi base in April 2025. In May, a convoy of 200 American military vehicles left bases in Deir ez-Zor province in Syria and headed to Iraq.
I bet if they started using Syrian airbases they'd have the legs to to get to Iran and back.
Air-to-air refueling of Israeli Air Force airplanes got them to Iran and back just fine for the bombing runs they did leading up to and during the Twelve Day War (June 13-24, 2025), so I’m not sure why they would need Syrian airbase access now. Still, it would be salutary for those big, strong jihadis to meet real Jews face to face for the first time in their lives.
In an unprecedented development that signals a total restructuring of the Middle Eastern security architecture, Israeli Air Force (IAF) aerial refueling tankers have been detected operating openly within Syrian airspace. This marks the first recorded instance in history where... pic.twitter.com/jqqvQZ9H7d
…in history where Israeli heavy logistical air assets have entered Syrian territory without stealth or electronic masking, operating with active transponders.
Intercepted Flight Data:
Asset: Boeing 707-300 (Re’em)
Registration: 264
Operator: Israeli Air Force (IAF)
Squawk Code: 4512
Visibility: Unrestricted / "Open"
The "Shadow War" is over; a new phase of overt coordination has begun. The Syrian sky, once the densest air-defense environment in the region hostile to Israel, has effectively become a permissive corridor for the IAF. This fundamentally alters the strategic calculus for Tehran, as the buffer zone they relied upon in Syria has now been transformed into a forward operating base for their primary adversary.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it US tankers that refueled them? From the big airbase in Qatar.
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The new Syrian 'government' is not a Iranian ally any more.
Per a quick search and AI response:
"Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, the longstanding alliance between Syria and Iran has effectively collapsed, with the new Sunni-led government in Damascus severing ties with Tehran and banning Iranian nationals
. This marks a dramatic shift from their decades-long, close strategic partnership, which was largely focused on anti-Western and anti-Israel initiatives"
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