[ZERO] A new force in British politics is making waves with an uncompromising vision for national restoration. Just weeks after its launch as a full political party in February, Restore Britain has already overtaken the Conservative Party in membership numbers, reaching over 114,000 supporters and becoming the fourth largest party in the country.
The growth has been entirely organic through social media and grassroots efforts, with almost no mainstream coverage.
Campaigns director and spokesman Charlie Downes laid out the bold agenda clearly: "We will not lie to the British people. Restoring Britain will require decisions that are controversial and unpleasant."
He continued: "We are going to strip millions of healthy Brits who refuse to work of benefits. If that causes outrage from those who think the taxpayer owes them a living, so be it."
"We are going to deport all illegal and burdensome migrants. If that means millions go, so be it," Downes added.
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That seems more right wing than MAGA although 90% of MAGA would not disagree with most of that agenda.
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The Nazis — National Socialists, as opposed to the international socialists if the Soviet only look like the right to those of the very, very far left. From the center, both are creatures of the far left.
We’ve got rid of three million illegals by sending the authorities to arrest the worst of them and by cutting off the money flow.
We got rid of unknown millions of illegal Moslems after 9/11 by requiring all adult males to register. They fled with their families — many back home, many more to Canada — rather than do so.
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Getting the Nazis labeled as far right is one of the greatest cons carried out by academia in the 20th century. The party platform is both nationalistic and socialist. It was also done to down play the even more destructive nature of communism, who's pillars of the 20th century were Stalin and Mao. and achieved democide numbers that easily eclipsed those of the Nazis.
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Say what you will about the commies, and many do, but they had no racial component and thought all workers were equal. The far right is the only one who wants to wipe out all the Jews.
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#7 - That's a LOT of agitprop stupidity packed into two sentences
Streamers and AI bots are failing your "education", Mr. Well Read
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Greta supports the Palestinians. Who knew that they were righ wingers?
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but they had no racial component and thought all workers were equal.
The Communists were and are really big on a strong divergence between theory and practice.
In practice, in the Soviet Union, having that J on your papers at best limited your school and job prospects and at worst got you beaten regularly in the Siberian gulag you were sent to because Comrade Stalin decided his doctors were plotting to kill him.
Also in practice, wide-eyed brown and black university scholarship students, invited from all over the world to be trained as the Communist vanguard in their own countries, were regularly beaten onthe streets by the friendly, racist Russian natives.
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The commies thought all WORKERS were equal.
The Nazis thought all ARYANS were equal.
One class-based, the other race-based. White supremacy is what separates the two.
They both elevated the working man who created value with his hands and sweat to the top and thought very poorly of bankers, interest, usury and the very concept of money itself.
And Stalin would have very likely been overthrown had he not done his Great Purge. Then nobody would have been there to do the hard fighting against the Nazis and the Jews of Europe would have been completely wiped out.
A single empire would have dominated the whole continent and only a matter of time before the transports started landing on the East Coast in a reverse Operation Overlord. Combined with the Japanese from the west coast we would have been crushed in a pincer move.
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Anyone who believes the Soviets were "better" than the National Socialists in Germany because the Soviets "only" killed Christians and not Jews* is a dangerous mental case.
*Oh, and for the record - the Soviets ended up killing lots of Jews because they were Jews, eventually.
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One class-based, the other race-based. White supremacy is what separates the two.
Again, in theory. In practice the Soviets “knew” that Russian communists were superior to all other communists because the serfs shared all and owned nothing, so they’d been practicing communists for over a thousand years, unlike those Johnny-come-latelies of the 20th century. And in practice it just happened that nobody is whiter than a Russian in winter.
And the Nazis knew all Aryans were not equal, keen Social Darwinists that they were with their Great Man as well as Great Race theory of history. They just knew that unequal though they were within the group, all Aryans were superior to everyone else, with Black Africans and Jews fighting for the bottom of the hierarchy.
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Really? The Nazis went to war to exterminate the Slavs. And Poles. And Gypsies. And German communists, the KPD. There were whole concentration camps full of them. Jewish people had separate ones. Lots of Slavs didn't even get concentration camps, POWs were just herded into open fields surrounded by barbed wire and starved or frozen to death. Kind of like the Confederacy's Andersonville. This was the Hungerplan.
The wrong kind of Naziswent to the camps too, Strasserites and homosexuals like the Ernst Rohm wing.
You know how gays are into leather and peaked hats? That's the Nazi aesthetic.
Generalplan Ost was a complete ethnic cleansing of the entirety of Europe until the Ural mountains. Afterwards it was to be resettled with Bauer-soldier colonists.
Do not mistake fair-skinned for Aryan, or Germanic-Nordic as it is better put without the funky Indian word. Heck, lots of Jewish people are fair-skinned!
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Anyway, it's nice to hear that at least some Brits are beginning to wake up. Maybe it's not too late. Maybe. Hopefully.
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The Nazis went to war to exterminate the Slavs. And
All true. Being efficient types, they first dealt with those within reach before working to conquer and clear the rest of the world of all the various tribes of Untermeschen.
But the Russian Communists, knowing that the Nazis were wrong by definition, were not concerned about the Nazis’ stupid definition of who was innately superior since they put the wrong people at the top of the pyramid.
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The Japanese had no problem slaughtering Koreans and Chinese they considered inferiors. Western POWs would also experience the same attitude.
China itself considered the outside world to be nothing less than barbaric and unworthy of the energies of the Middle Kingdom, till 19the Century European expansion arrived.
Devout Muslims consider all infidels to be inferior and unclean. They were running a lively slave business from south Sahara long before the Europeans had boat to reach the New World.
No one has had a monopoly on racism.
[IsraelTimes] New testimonies from former hostage Emily Damari and others added to report that UK All-Party Parliamentary Group commissioned to push back on denials of the Hamas-led massacre
A British parliamentary group on Wednesday morning published an updated version of what has been praised as the most comprehensive English-language report on the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... attack of October 7, 2023.
The 340-page report includes new material not included in the first edition released last March, including testimonies from former hostage Emily Damari and Anat Ron-Kendall, the only known British survivor of the attack.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Israel commissioned the project, chaired by renowned historian Andrew Roberts, as a response to attempts to deny and minimize the atrocities that began even while the massacre was still happening.
"Parliamentarians were saying that they were being confronted with October 7 denial from constituents, so the group decided to put together an authoritative body of work to document what actually happened," said a source connected with the commission.
The report is not an official parliamentary inquiry, but an initiative of a cross-party group of politicians. Roberts oversaw a research team that compiled official data, testimonies and open-source material into the document, whose first version had printed copies mailed to every member of the House of Commons and House of Lords.
The second edition will rely mainly on online distribution, though a limited number of hard copies will be available.
The October 7 attack was one of the worst terror outrages in the annals of history, the report said. Some 7,000 individuals participated in the massacre, in which 1,182 people were murdered, over 4,000 were maimed, and 251 were taken hostage.
Citizens from 44 nations were either killed or taken hostage by Hamas and other terrorist groups, the report said. These included 18 UK citizens, marking the largest number of UK deaths from a terror attack in the Middle East, and the second highest worldwide since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The report details the meticulous planning that went into the massacre, including a 6-page memo by Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of 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... , with instructions for the day. It includes information on the nature and scale of the murders, including Hamas’s youngest victim, a fetus shot in the womb, as well as its oldest victim, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor killed in his safe room by a grenade.
The updated edition maintains the structure of the original report, but adds fresh material and analysis detailing the murder, torture and sexual violence which took place, and also sheds new light on the planning process and terror organizations involved in the assault, the APPG said in a blurb.
This includes testimonies by Damari, Ron-Kendall, and a dozen hostages released after the first edition was published. It also incorporates data from IDF inquiries to display "heat maps" visualizing where bandidosmurderous Moslems were concentrated and where the worst violence occurred.
Consolidating this information into one English-language volume is critical for politicians who do not follow Israeli or Hebrew media closely, the source said.
"This audience doesn’t see a lot of the media that comes out of Israel, so this was a useful way to present the information," the source said.
The report is written in an unemotional, analytic style that details the attacks without any emotive adjectives or judgment of the events. That allows the document to function as a reference point, rather than a manifesto for one side of the conflict, according to the insider.
The report also fills a gap left by the absence of a formal Israeli state inquiry into the attacks, even as various investigative efforts continue.
Perhaps most importantly, the report comes against a backdrop of rising antisemitism across Britannia. Some 3,700 antisemitic incidents were recorded in the United Kingdom in 2025, the second-highest level on record, according to a report released last month by the Community Security Trust.
Earlier this week, a poll commissioned by the British Union of Jewish Students showed that one in five university students in the UK would be "reluctant" or unwilling to share an apartment with a Jewish student.
Much of this is built on widespread denial about what actually happened on October 7, which many anti-Israel activists refuse to believe or simply ignore, the source said.
In his introduction to the first version of the report last year, Roberts noted that, while Holocaust denial took years to take root in certain portions of society, denial of the October 7 massacre began just hours after it started.
The first protests against Israel in the UK were already being organized while Hamas was still in the midst of its killing and kidnapping spree in Israel, before the IDF began fighting back, the source alleged.
"This report is there so that people know exactly what happened in the attacks," said the insider.
[Hot Air] Is Russia looking for conflict with the United States? Several recent reports suggest it is doing its best to continue to help its allies, Cuba and Iran.
Earlier this month there was a report that Russia was providing Iran with intelligence which could be used to target US service members.
Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence...
Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
"It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive effort," one of the people said.
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported that same activity is still happening. In fact Russia's efforts appear to be expanding to include the transfer of new drone technology.
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De minimus assistance to maintain some credibility with other alliances, but hardly a massive effort? I still think Trump and Putie have some mutual agreements about Iran, Ukraine, Europe and economic realignment!
President Donald Trump issued a 60-day waiver of a longstanding U.S. shipping law in an attempt to stabilize oil markets amid the Iran war, the White House confirmed to CNBC.
The Jones Act requires that the transport of goods between U.S. ports must be conducted by U.S. vessels.
The waiver “will allow vital resources like oil, natural gas, fertilizer, and coal to flow freely to U.S. ports for sixty days,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
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Now illegal aliens and H1Bs will be able to replace American union workers in one of their last strongholds.
Republicans have been trying to repeal the Jones Act forever.
This "temporary emergency" will be like the USA-Patriot Act. It will never go away.
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I think OS is proposing all H1B workers in the USA must report to the dock yards etc. immediately for 60 days conscript labor using heavy, dangerous machinery and zero training. Failure to show is arrest and deportation, failure to increase production over historic average is arrest and deportation, or...there's the door.
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If you've been in the maritime industry ever, it is 100% third worlders with the only westerners the officers and not even those any more.
That's what happened when that ship collapsed that bridge in Baltimore and killed all those people. Inshallah maintenance and it lost power at a critical time.
US Merchant marine used to be a good career for a young man. Not since Liberian flagged ships took over. The Jones Act is the only thing keeping US flagged ships in business. Think of illegal alien truck drivers running over our minivans full of children, but driving 50,000 ton ships instead.
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I think we see the next career path to institute a required in-person, mandatory ID, written English proficiency exam— with Homeland Security officers standing at the exit door to ship the illegals back home immediately.
[IsraelTimes] After 11 years in Die Linke, Andreas Büttner submits resignation over party’s condemnation of ‘existing political manifestations of Zionism’; party leaders vow to keep working with him
The antisemitism commissioner for the German state of Brandenburg has resigned from his far-left party over a resolution passed Sunday condemning Israel.
After 11 years in Die Linke (The Left), Andreas Buttner has quit its ranks over the position taken by members in Lower Saxony, in former West Germany. But it’s also personal: Buttner said he’s had enough of what he has described as harassment from within his party.
"It’s no longer possible. And I can’t go on... without betraying my own convictions," Buttner wrote in a statement to party leaders. The letter was shared with the dpa, the German press association.
Die Linke is the successor to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the ruling communist party of former East Germany, and has a platform that is critical of capitalism and of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... . Die Linke notched a better-than-expected finish in last year’s national elections, drawing 9% of the vote despite internal tensions over Israel and Germany’s handling of antisemitism.
According to news reports about Buttner’s resignation, Brandenburg’s party leaders expressed "great regret and respect," and promised to continue fighting antisemitism with him.
"This is not a question of party affiliation," wrote Stefan Wollenberg, the party’s managing director in Brandenburg.
The trigger for Buttner’s move was a resolution condemning current forms of Zionism, put forward by the party’s youth delegation in Lower Saxony. They insisted that the resolution — passed at their convention in Hanover last weekend — was not against Zionism per se, only against "existing political manifestations of Zionism."
But Buttner, who has long stood up for Israel in defiance of his party, and has openly criticized antisemitism from all corners, said the message was unmistakable.
Resolutions that condemn Israel as a "genocidal state" and an "apartheid state" are "no longer acceptable to me," he wrote in his resignation. He criticized the Lower Saxony party for coming perilously close to questioning Israel’s right to exist.
The fight against antisemitism should transcend party lines, he added. "All the more shocking for me is what I have had to experience within my own party for years," he wrote, as cited in the Tagesspiegel newspaper.
Buttner, a former police officer who was elected in 2024 to his position as Brandenburg’s first commissioner for combating antisemitism, has had his differences with his party for some time over its views on Israel. Departing from his party’s official stance, Buttner supports the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, known as IHRA, which labels some criticism of Israel as eliminationist and thus antisemitic.
In 2025, members of his party tried and failed to have him expelled over his solidarity with Israel.
Buttner also has been targeted by unknown perpetrators, who in 2024 vandalized his car with swastikas and other Nazi symbols, and in January set fire to a building on his property, leaving a Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... symbol as their calling card.
The new resolution, which condemns Hamas as well as Israel, characterizes terrorism as a result of "occupation, disenfranchisement, and a lack of prospects."
It rejects "the Zionism that actually exists today" and recognizes "ethnonationalism and political Zionism as a major obstacle to a peaceful future for all people in the region."
So they’re all for Zionism, so long as it is not about Israel, and doesn’t involve Jews. Aren’t they clever.
It says that both Israel and Hamas "harbor fantasies of annihilation" against one another.
The resolution refers to "two years of genocide" 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... , calls for an "end to apartheid in Israel and the occupied territories" and criticizes the alleged instrumentalization of antisemitism "to delegitimize criticism of actually existing political Zionism." It presents a list of demands on Israel, but none on the Paleostinian leadership or Hamas.
Israel, which has Arab Israeli parliamentarians, denies allegations of apartheid and says that it goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties when fighting terror organizations such as Hamas, which embed themselves among civilians and operate from mosques, hospitals and schools.
Die Linke has a long history of anti-Israel activism: In 2010, prominent party members took part in the ill-fated Gaza Freedom Flotilla, aboard the Mavi Marmara, which the Israeli military intercepted in an operation that killed 10 activists. The German politicians were among those arrested and deported home.
[Just The News] Its roots extend back to December, when AG Pam Bondi ordered federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to investigate and, when appropriate, prosecute "extremist" individuals and groups, including those that are part of the antifa movement.
A new initiative to investigate nonprofit organizations’ suspected ties to domestic terrorism is being formed, with FBI and IRS agents working together, CBS News is reporting.
Its roots extend back to December, when Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to investigate and, when appropriate, prosecute "extremist" individuals and groups, including those that are part of the antifa movement.
"These domestic terrorists use violence or the threat of violence to advance political and social agendas, including opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity," Bondi wrote in the Dec. 4 memo.
A complete reversal of the Biden Politburo, in fact. Good.
The potential Internal Revenue Service involvement would be related to "tax crimes" when extremist groups are "suspected of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service."
"The Department of Justice is fully committed to preserving the rule of law, protecting law enforcement from coordinated attacks, ensuring everyone has the freedom to speak in the public square, participate freely in the electoral process, and practice their faith without fear of violence or harm, and bringing to justice the full range of criminal actors engaged in criminal conduct matching Congress's definition of domestic terrorism," according to a Justice Department spokesperson.
The initiative's "mission control command center" will be based at the FBI, with agents from IRS Criminal Investigations working on one-year temporary assignments, according to the outlet.
The FBI will develop a list of groups that are engaged in acts that "may constitute domestic terrorism," as defined by federal law.
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[REGNUM] The war between the United States and Israel against Iran instantly eclipsed other global conflicts in the eyes of the global public. Meanwhile, the less high-profile but bloody conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan, which began in February, continues. Indeed. Long may it last, with many bad guys killed on both sides.
Hundreds of people are dying—not only and not primarily the military. Kabul is now accusing Islamabad of a targeted attack on a drug addiction hospital in the Afghan capital on March 16. More than 400 patients were killed and another 250 were injured.
So the Talibs claim. But the hospital was next to the arms depot, so was hit by the glorious secondaries. Someone did not pay attention to the zoning laws when they decided to build there.
Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid condemned the attack as a "crime against humanity."
Of course — mistaking Pakistan for Westerners who care about such things, as opposed to like the Taliban and other jihadis making it the objective.
"We categorically deny and reject these accusations. Pakistan only targeted terrorist infrastructure and military installations," Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar responded.
Pro forma rejection noted, but not believed. Y’all need to work on your delivery.
There is a possibility that the Pakistanis were indeed mistaken—the rehab was located on the territory of a former American military base, and it is possible that some Afghan military facilities were located nearby.
Whoa — an admission against interest. Bold!
The escalation began when Pakistan accused the Afghans of harboring "Pakistani Taliban"—Pashtuns from the Tribal Areas who regularly stage attacks against government officials. Following a series of terrorist attacks on Pakistani territory, the military began bombing Afghanistan on the night of February 21–22.
Over the past month, Islamabad has launched a series of strikes on Kandahar and Kabul, as well as on Taliban military installations along the border.
In response, Afghan forces have been firing missiles and drones at Pakistani cities, including Islamabad, and regularly report the destruction of Pakistani border posts.
Pakistan has made demands on Afghanistan to end the fighting. Islamabad is demanding that Kabul stop supporting the "Pakistani Taliban" and other separatist organizations in Pakistan.
According to Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir, "peace between the two sides can only prevail if the Afghan Taliban stop supporting terrorism and terrorist organizations "
The odds of that happening being somewhere between slim and none, just like Pakistan’s response when India makes the same demands of them …
However, everyone understands perfectly well that Afghanistan will not comply. Afghanistan cannot refuse to support the Pashtuns of the Tribal Areas, primarily due to the tribal nature of Afghan society and the local elite.
"The tribes on both sides of the Durand Line have close ties, including kinship ties. They may have some disagreements, but in times of crisis, they stick together," Gleb Makarevich, a research fellow at the Indian Ocean Region Center at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, explained to Regnum News Agency.
According to him, the idea of Pashtun identity will not allow one to simply “give up” one’s brothers in faith, blood, and arms.
Especially not to whiskey-drinking kaffirs like the general of the Army of the Pure.
The Afghan authorities do not recognise the border drawn by the British between the two countries and regard the Pashtuns on the other side of the Durand Line as part of the Afghan people.
The Pakistanis also cannot force Afghanistan into submission.
"It will be very difficult for them to conduct a ground operation. Pakistan is already engulfed in the peat bog of civil conflict, and it makes no sense for the Pakistani military to expand it by occupying any territory in Afghanistan," says Makarevich.
In turn, the Afghans are also limited in their capabilities.
Yes, they carry out missile and drone strikes on Pakistani cities and regularly report the capture of Pakistani border posts, but this is essentially their limit.
“They are unlikely to be able to carry out a successful offensive operation on any major Pakistani city,” the expert believes.
The only chance for reconciliation remains diplomacy mediated by external powers. But it is slim.
There is not much hope for India, since New Delhi is happy with what is happening.
"India is interested in deepening Pakistani-Afghan differences, since any problems Islamabad faces in Afghanistan automatically mean a decrease in Pakistan's attention to Kashmir," Alexey Kupriyanov, head of the Indian Ocean Region Center at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), explained to Regnum News Agency.
At the same time, the war not only weakens Pakistan and drives additional wedges into the future of Afghan-Pakistani relations, but also creates the basis for further rapprochement between New Delhi and Kabul.
“A fruitful dialogue between Afghanistan and India has been going on for about a year now, and it is built, among other things, on mutual understanding on the Pakistani issue,” the analyst continues.
The United States also has no intention of mediating. Washington has withdrawn from the conflict and stated that Pakistan has the right to self-defense.
The Chinese are trying to reconcile the two sides. Beijing doesn't need this war—Pakistan is an important ally of China, and the Chinese are currently building new, mutually beneficial relations with the Afghans—in the areas of mineral extraction and the fight against anti-Chinese radical Islamist groups.
According to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the Chinese special envoy is currently conducting shuttle diplomacy sessions between Kabul and Islamabad.
The problem is that even if the Chinese diplomatic mission is successful, it will only lead to a temporary ceasefire.
Hudna, hudna, hudna!
The key differences exacerbating relations between Pakistan and Kabul cannot be resolved.
A possible way to resolve the ethnic conflict would be to refocus Pakistan's Pashtun identity on the domestic level. And the government is trying to work on this.
"Official Islamabad will continue to combat Pashtun nationalism and encourage those who are loyal to Pakistan and able to combine Pashtun and Pakistani nationalism. They will attempt to somehow integrate the tribes into Pakistan's provincial agenda," Makarevich believes.
“Because those inbred Pashtun/Pakhton rubes are so stupid they’ll believe anything wrapped up in the right packaging.”
However, the idea of a supranational Pakistani identity is currently, if not in its infancy, then at least in an underdeveloped state.
Pakistan has been and will be divided into ethnic communities of varying degrees of isolation for the foreseeable future, meaning that Pashtun tribes will continue to resent the federal Pakistani government.
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Pakistan has announced a temporary pause in military operations against Afghanistan during Eid al-Fitr, following requests from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.
The ceasefire will last until midnight on March 24.
Pakistan has announced a temporary pause in military operations against Afghanistan during Eid al-Fitr, following requests from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.
The ceasefire will last until midnight on March 24.
However, Pakistan warned that any cross-border attack or terrorist incident would lead to an immediate resumption of operations with greater intensity.
[IsraelTimes] In Israel to discuss growing defense ties, Margus Tsahkna says that his country firmly backs the war against Iran, praises the spirit of the Israeli people.
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[REGNUM] An Israeli airstrike on Tehran killed Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and considered one of the heavyweights of the Islamic Republic's state system.
Israeli officials are calling the incident a continuation of Iran's "squeeze strategy," hinting that any high-ranking politician is a target.
Meanwhile, the furor surrounding Larijani's assassination is obscuring another operational strategy the Israelis are playing out. If successful, it could cause even greater damage to Tehran than the loss of key officials.
DE FACTO LEADER
Ali Larijani met the February conflict with the United States and Israel in his post as Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, where he had been personally invited six months earlier by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
By the time he joined the Security Council, Larijani had been largely in the shadows for over five years—although he had attempted to run for president in 2021, being considered one of the unofficial leaders in that race.
Throughout this time, he was engaged in complex political and diplomatic issues—for example, he participated in closed consultations with the US and EU countries on easing sanctions pressure on the country and creating new mechanisms for regulating the national nuclear program, and he developed a system of “hidden oil trade” with friendly countries.
He also invested heavily in acquiring advanced technologies to accelerate Iran's missile program, which enabled Iran to successfully develop and test hypersonic weapons.
Despite his affiliation with the conservative wing, Larijani was considered a pragmatist and strategist, as well as a sort of "balancer" between the theologians and the security forces. In both these areas, the deceased politician had significant connections (including prominent relatives), which allowed him to quickly reconfigure governance systems practically manually during crises.
It's no wonder that the Israelis considered him the "grey cardinal" of the Iranian court. And after the death of Khamenei Sr. in February 2026, he also became the de facto leader of the republic, wielding unlimited influence over the new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.
And therefore, a priority goal.
THEY FIGURED IT OUT OVER THE PHONE
However, it was only towards the end of the third week of the war that Larijani managed to reach the Secretary of the Security Council – before that, Larijani had repeatedly deceived Israeli operatives and evaded attacks at the last moment.
In response to the anger of the Prime Minister's Office, Israeli security officials merely shrugged their shoulders: the "priority target" had not appeared in any of the bunkers known to intelligence and had not used communications equipment.
Orders to the IRGC and officials, as was later discovered, were issued the old-fashioned way—via paper dispatches. Moreover, some of them were written in the dead Middle Persian language, which Larijani had spoken since his graduate studies, reducing the risk of rapid leaks.
The Security Council Secretary was discovered, as often happens, by accident: a military intelligence agent detected brief activity in a suburban area of Tehran on the mobile phone of Larijani's eldest son, a businessman who oversaw the work of at least half of the "shadow fleet" companies.
A square in which he could be located was quickly established. Even though the chances of success were slim, the operation was given the green light. In less than an hour, Israel launched a strike squadron and struck the coordinates provided by intelligence.
Even in Israel, doubts about Larijani's death persisted until the very end. But this didn't stop Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar from declaring during an evening briefing that the Jewish state had "performed a free service" to the United States by killing Larijani, whose capture Washington had offered $10 million.
Iran's reaction was predictably harsh. President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed to "avenge the martyrs" and predicted "new punishments" for Israel and its regional allies.
Over the past 24 hours, the IRGC and Lebanese Hezbollah carried out more than 100 strikes on Israeli territory, primarily targeting government institutions and intelligence facilities.
ATTACKS ON THE MILITIA
Meanwhile, Israel does not limit itself to just killing managers.
In addition, he is trying to undermine another pillar of the Islamic Republic: the Basij resistance forces, a local militia that carries out territorial defense functions.
Israelis are well aware that the Basij is an auxiliary force within the IRGC. It is also used by the authorities to address operational needs that cannot be quickly addressed by the army. This primarily concerns issues related to containing protests and restoring law and order.
It was members of the Basij who, in June 2025, launched an operation to comb the areas into which Israeli commandos had been deployed, which subsequently helped to detain some of the enemy agents on their way to evacuation points.
In February 2026, when Israel and the United States launched an anti-Iranian campaign, the militias were tasked with patrolling border areas and identifying foreign (including Kurdish) saboteurs.
The organization boasts a huge mobilization resource—16.5 million people (almost 50 times more than what the regular army can offer)—but its Achilles heel is its territorial principle and dependence on local consolidation.
For this reason, in the hunt for the Basij, the Israelis are not focusing only on the top command, although they did not miss the opportunity to kill the militia commander, Gulamreza Soleimani, but are trying to act comprehensively.
According to operational reports, at least forty attacks on Basij facilities and posts (primarily in the western and northwestern provinces) have been recorded in various parts of Iran over the past week.
Some of these attacks were carried out using FPV drones launched from the republic's territory. Only five of these attacks targeted senior officers; the remaining attacks targeted junior commanders and even individual soldiers respected within the organization.
Apparently, the Israelis are counting on the fact that with the chain of command splitting both from above and below, the Basij forces will become a loosely organized mob and will be unable to mount organized resistance to the invaders. Even if they are confronted not by professional soldiers, but by underground fighters or street provocateurs.
It's noteworthy that Israeli military officials are paying virtually no attention to the progress of the operation against the Basij, focusing instead on the assassinations of high-ranking officials and military leaders. This suggests that weakening the militias isn't a priority for the Israelis, and that casualties among rank-and-file Basij members are incidental.
However, in conditions where the issue of conducting a ground operation against Iran is still on the agenda, such a weakening of control “on the ground” could become one of the trump cards of the anti-Iranian coalition.
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This suggests that weakening the militias isn't a priority for the Israelis, and that casualties among rank-and-file Basij members are incidental.
Alternative Eplanation: The Israelis are taking care of first things first and will deal with the Basij in their time.
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The rank-and-file Basij are the responsibilities of the local Iranian citizenry. I saw a Facebook Reel the other day — so it may even be true — of some locals giggling on their balcony as they played the sound of a drone buzz overhead, terrifying the uniformed Basij men until they split up and fled.
[IsraelTimes] Lod-Central District Court finds Jewish man committed manslaughter when he hurled a rock at her car; court ‘refutes lies, contradictions’ of defendant
The Lod-Central District Court found on Monday that an krazed killer settler youth committed acts of nationalist-motivated manslaughter, aggravated stone throwing at a vehicle, and deliberately damaging a vehicle, all as acts of terror, over a 2018 stone throwing attack he carried out in which Aisha Rabi, a Paleostinian mother of eight, was killed when the rock he threw struck her in the head as she was driving.
Rabi’s killing generated outrage in Israel and internationally at the time, with diplomats from the US, UN and beyond decrying the attack and urging Israeli authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Monday’s verdict comes amid an unprecedented wave of krazed killer settler violence against Paleostinian civilians in the West Bank. Six Paleostinians have been rubbed out by settlers in March alone.
Although it was reported on Monday that the court had found the youth did commit at least some of the acts he was accused of in the indictment, it was not known which specific offenses those were, or whether he was found to have committed them as acts of terrorism.
Because the individual, a resident of the Benjamin region in the West Bank, was a 16-year old minor at the time, he is not technically convicted but rather found to have committed the crimes he is accused of.
The court issued its ruling on Monday in a 2-1 decision. A summary of the ruling, and not the full decision, was published on Tuesday because full details of rulings related to minors cannot be disclosed.
The summary of the ruling said the court "refuted the alibi claimed by the defendant," "the lies of the defendant," and the "contradictions in the later and more elaborate versions he gave," during the criminal proceedings against him. The court found that the rock killed Rabi and that the defendant’s DNA was found on the rock itself by Sherlocks.
The two judges for the majority determined that arguments by the defense, that there was some hypothetical scenario in which the defendant’s DNA was "randomly and innocently" transferred to the rock, "is not reasonable and not supported by the evidence," the summary said.
The court in its ruling ordered the young man be sent for review by the Youth Probation Service in order to proceed with arguments for sentencing.
Manslaughter as an act of terrorism is punishable by up to 25 years in prison, depending on the gravity of the incident.
Rabi was killed after the youth hurled a rock weighing two kilograms (five pounds) and measuring some 20 centimeters (eight inches) across at the windshield of her car as she traveled with her husband and daughter near the northern West Bank’s Tapuah Junction.
According to the indictment, the youth departed from the Pri Haaretz yeshiva in the settlement of Rehelim, where he studied, accompanied by several other students, on the evening of October 12, 2018.
The group arrived at a hilltop between the Rehelim Junction and the Tapuah Junction overlooking Route 60, the West Bank’s main north-south artery. The convicted youth then hurled the rock "out of an ideological motive of racism and hostility toward Arabs everywhere," the indictment said.
[Reuters] The difficult task of refueling U.S. military fighter jets as they carry out strikes on Iran mostly rests on an aging fleet of Boeing KC-135 refueling aircrafts built in the 1950s and 1960s.
These aging tankers were in the spotlight after two collided mid-air over Iraq, killing all six crew, on Thursday, March 5. U.S. military said one crashed in Western Iraq, while the other tanker managed to land safely.
[The Hill] Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan said Wednesday he doesn’t believe the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran will last six more months.
"From our point of view, removing a threat to global security, and definitely to Israel, because for Israel, Iran poses an existential threat, it’s worth even another six months. I don’t know," Erdan told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on "The Hill."
"Do you think it goes that long? I mean, in Am—" Burman started to ask.
"No, not at all. But I don’t like the fact that the Western world, the free world, keeps asking itself, how long is [it] going to take? That is exactly what the radical Muslims and the terrorists, they want us to do, because they want to extend the war, to lengthen the time of the war," Erdan responded.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans shot down a Democratic-led motion to advance a war powers resolution to stop President Trump’s military strikes against Iran.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.),
…a.k.a. the fiercely heterosexual Spartacus…
the lead sponsor of the measure, stated that the Iran conflict was getting out of hand and beginning to have a sizable negative impact on Americans abroad and at home.
"U.S. diplomatic posts and military facilities in the Middle East are under constant attack. The war has expanded, now impacting at least 15 different countries, from the bases of our European allies to our allies in the region," Booker said on the Senate floor.
Over the weekend, Trump said he was not prepared to declare victory against Iran, despite saying the U.S. had decimated the country on the military and economic fronts.
"No, I’m not going to do that. There’s no reason to," Trump told The Hill while speaking with reporters on Air Force One.
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[IsraelTimes] Photos from first days of war reveal ships ablaze in Iran, military buildings destroyed in Abu Dhabi, and a fire at the world’s busiest airport for international travel in Dubai
Satellite images, newly released, are beginning to show a glimpse of the toll of the 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... war, with ships ablaze in an Iranian port and destroyed buildings at an American base.
Information has so far been scarce about the damage being done across the Middle East since the start of the war on February 28, particularly when it’s inside closed military facilities.
The images come from Planet Labs PBC, a US-based firm used by media outlets, including The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Planet Labs has put a two-week delay on its imagery becoming public, citing concerns its imagery could be used by "adversarial actors."
High-resolution images have also been published by competing firms. Other providers, like the US Geological Survey, have been publishing lower-resolution imagery as well.
The US and Israel have been striking a wide variety of targets, including leadership figures, military bases, missile and air defense sites and positions of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and its volunteer force, the Basij.
Iran has responded with drone and missile fire targeting Israel and nearby Gulf Arab nations.
Here’s a look at what’s visible in a selection of Planet Labs’ pictures, as well as others.
BURNING SHIPS IN BANDAR ABBAS, IRAN
Some of the most dramatic images from Planet Labs so far have been in Bandar Abbas, home to a major Iranian military port next to the crucial Strait of Hormuz connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.
Images taken on March 2 show ships ablaze at the port. The US military’s Central Command has been targeting Iran’s naval assets and says it has sunk or damaged more than 100 Iranian vessels so far in the war.
MAJOR IMPACT AT 5TH FLEET HEADQUARTERS IN BAHRAIN
The island kingdom of Bahrain, home of the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, has seen heavy Iranian fire targeting both military bases and oil installations.
A March 1 image shot by Planet Labs shows a major building at the base as well as two radomes — geodesic domes covering radar antennas — destroyed, likely by Iranian missile and drone fire.
The US Navy has not offered a clear breakdown of the damage done so far at the base, but Iran has repeatedly claimed to have attacked it. Online videos have also shown incoming fire targeting the base.
During the 12-day war in June, Iran attacked and destroyed a similar radome at al-Udeid Air Base 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... , used for secure communications.
FRENCH NAVAL BASE HIT IN ABU DHABI
In Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, there’s damage seen at La Belle France’s Camp de la Paix naval base.
Satellite images from March 3 show damage to two large hangar-like buildings at the facility.
The base is near Zayed Port, in Abu Dhabi, and close to its Cultural District that includes the Louvre Abu Dhabi and other major museums, some of which are open while others are still under construction.
FIRES SEEN BURNING
The US Geological Survey’s Landsat satellites have also been key in spotting major fires.
Imagery from Landsat taken on Monday showed a fire at Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest airport for international travel, after an Iranian dronezap set a fuel tanker ablaze, causing a plume of noxious black smoke.
Another fire was also seen on Monday at Oman’s southern port in Salalah, which came under attack from suspected Iranian drones on March 11, though Tehran has denied it launched them in its campaign targeting Gulf Arab states.
The fire apparently has been burning since then.
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