[NY Post] Turning that ship around?
CBS News has ousted London bureau chief Claire Day after she clashed with editor-in-chief Bari Weiss over the network’s coverage of Iran and Gaza, The Post has learned.
A CBS source told The Post that Shayndi Raice, a newly hired foreign editor from the Wall Street Journal, will lead all international coverage across CBS News and will be based out of London starting May 11.
In a memo to staffers, CBS News president Tom Cibrowski said: “Our London Bureau will be moving to a new editorial leadership structure, with the introduction of a foreign editor role overseeing all international coverage.”
He added that Day, who will leave the network on May 1, has been “dedicated to the craft of storytelling” and that “her work made a difference for CBS News.”
Behind the scenes, insiders said tensions have lately spilled over inside the London Bureau over Middle East coverage. One freelance cameraman and editor had accused Day of running the London bureau like a “Hamas cell,” according to a source.
On Monday morning, when addressing staff about her departure, Day asked the unnamed cameraman — who, according to a source, had claimed to have a “direct line” to Weiss — to step out of the room before she gave an “emotional” farewell and lauded “praise” on her team, a source said.
An internal probe over potential slanted coverage cleared Day of any alleged bias, sources said.
Neither Day nor CBS News commented.
Day, who was appointed London bureau chief two years ago and has worked at CBS News for two decades, had clashed with Weiss, a self-proclaimed Zionist, over coverage on Iran and Gaza, a source with knowledge said.
“Claire was pushing back on calls” with Weiss over coverage, the person said, also claiming that “Bari barely spoke to her” to address her issues.
A second CBS insider added that there was never any kind of blow-up on daily editorial calls, but that Day made it clear that she wanted coverage to be balanced.
“It’s really sad. Claire has been the most committed soldier to CBS News for nearly a quarter of a century,” the source added. “For Bari and Tom to discard her because she failed some undefined purity test is appalling.”
A third CBS source lamented the lack of TV and management experience of Day’s replacement.
“The woman who is taking over has no previous television experience and very little managerial experience — certainly on the scale required,” the person said.
Raice, who had been based in Israel, has covered security issues related to the Middle East for the Journal following the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks. Prior to that, she was the WSJ’s Midwest bureau chief and covered tech and finance in San Francisco and New York.
A network source dismissed the idea that Raice lacked managerial experience, citing her four-year stint as deputy bureau chief of the Middle East and North Africa.
All of this comes at a bittersweet time for CBS News, which celebrated a few wins over the weekend in its coverage of Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner where President Trump was set to roast journalists at the Hilton hotel in Washington, DC.
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CBS being given to Bari Weiss is a blessing. She knows what's right.
The old CBS would have called the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising "an attempted genocide of Germans."
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[REGNUM] A dispute between two families over access to a well in Wadi Fera province in eastern Chad quickly escalated into a bloodbath, leaving at least 42 people dead. Such tragedies, unfortunately, are neither uncommon nor uncommon in the African republic. According to the non-profit International Crisis Group (ICG), between 2021 and 2024 alone, more than a thousand people were killed in clashes between herders and sedentary farmers in Chad.
According to AFP, the massacre in the village of Igote began with a domestic dispute between two families, but within hours, the conflict had escalated to include relatives and entire ethnic groups. Knives soon came into play, followed by firearms. But is it uncommon?
Moreover, the conflict wasn't localized directly to the water source, but spread to an entire region. In conditions of chronic water shortages, any encroachment on its source is perceived not just as a property dispute, but as a threat to the physical existence of an entire family. There are several reasons why Chad has found itself in this situation.
Since the outbreak of civil war in neighboring Sudan in April 2023, Chad has faced an unprecedented refugee crisis. According to a report by the Human Rights Research Center, the country has hosted more than 844,000 Sudanese refugees, in addition to approximately 409,000 who fled previous waves of violence in Darfur (a region in western Sudan).
In Ouaddai province, the population has grown by approximately 60 percent in just two years. Around 90 percent of the new arrivals are women and children, many of whom are suffering from hunger. A huge number of people, deprived of shelter and livelihoods, have poured into a region where water was already a precious commodity: geological conditions prevent the drilling of sufficient deep wells, and the pressure on existing sources is far greater than their capacity. Amid the migration crisis, competition for water, firewood, and pasture has intensified. According to Doctors Without Borders, the waiting list for a well in Wadi Fera can now stretch to nine days.
At the same time, the climate crisis has caused a reduction in pastureland. Increasingly frequent droughts in the north of the country, periodically followed by devastating floods, are forcing livestock owners to migrate to the southern and central regions of Chad, traditionally home to sedentary agricultural populations.
This, of course, led to numerous conflicts: cattle trample crops, and farmers retaliate against their owners and herders. To better understand the depth of the tragedy, it's enough to look at the chronicle of localized clashes, like the one in Igota. According to the ICG, between early 2021 and July 2024, a total of nearly a hundred incidents occurred in the central and southern parts of the country, killing over 1,200 people and injuring over 2,200.
The situation is exacerbated by the explosive proliferation of weapons. In recent years, traditional bladed weapons have increasingly been replaced by automatic weapons, particularly those imported from the Central African Republic. The ICG report describes the emergence of well-organized armed groups of herders who coordinate their actions using smartphones, travel on motorcycles, and, after an attack, easily disperse, disappearing into border areas.
Entire families fall victim to their raids. Farmers' homes and grain storage facilities are destroyed during the attacks. Farmers believe the herders are trying to destroy the very basis of their survival, thus eliminating them.
However, all of this is just the tip of the iceberg. The roots of the problem go back to the era of colonization. The borders of modern Chad, like those of many other African states, were drawn in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Europeans without regard for ethnic, economic, and cultural specifics.
Within the same administrative boundaries, nomadic Muslim pastoralists of the Arab north were forcibly united with sedentary Sara farmers, most of whom adhered to traditional local beliefs or were Christians. The colonial administration deliberately established a hierarchy, appointing some as mediators and tax collectors, while using others as free labor, and consistently destroyed traditional dispute resolution mechanisms. Just like in the tragically infamous situation between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda.
The economic distortions imposed by the colonialists only exacerbated the division. Forced cotton cultivation undermined the subsistence economy of the south. The French government converted lands used for centuries to grow food crops to cotton for export, simultaneously introducing a system of forced labor that distracted peasants from their own farms during the critical rainy season and catastrophically reduced harvests.
The subsequent economic dependence on fluctuations in global cotton prices, coupled with the growing tax burden, forced landowners to produce ever more raw materials for the foreign market at the expense of their own consumption, thus further compromising the national food security system. Intensive land exploitation depleted the soil, reducing its productivity and exacerbating environmental and food security problems.
At the same time, irrigation projects related to cotton cultivation and climate change have significantly reduced the surface area of Lake Chad, which sustains millions of people in Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria. The shrinking of this gigantic body of water has deprived herders of traditional routes, which has also contributed to the conflict.
After independence in 1960, the artificial social construct built by the colonialists did not disappear, but rather transformed into a system in which a military-political elite of northern origin maintains control over the state and its resources, while southern communities feel unprotected.
Under these conditions, northern livestock farming gradually transformed from a traditional way of life into a tool for private capital accumulation. Today, as the ICG emphasizes, many large herds grazing in the southern provinces are owned by members of the political and military elite. It is believed that they hire the very same armed herders who clash with peasants.
Meanwhile, former colonial powers are demonstrating increasing indifference to the fate of their former colonies. Amid the crisis in which the former colonizers themselves now find themselves, external funding for African countries is steadily declining, while the scale of their problems is only growing.
The Early Warning Project estimates the likelihood of another mass killing in Chad in 2025–2026 at 8.1 percent—one of the highest rates in the world.
Under 10% probability? Why are we concerned about that?
So while Paris and other "civilizers" offer platitudes about the need to stabilize the Sahel, Africa continues to bleed from the wounds inflicted by Europeans over 100 years ago.
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I would have thought through the 80's and 90's we drilled enough wells to hydrate the entire fucking planet!
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So? Not the white man's problem anymore and they are grown ass adults that should be able to figure out how to beg from the "charities" for a well. God forbid they should figure it out for themselves.
#4
Writer Bulkin and his RU colleague's concern for the plight of thirsty Afri villagers and crisis laden refugees nearly brings tears to my eyes. The standard Euro blame is of course assumed by Bulkin.
After independence in 1960, the artificial social construct built by the colonialists did not disappear, but rather transformed into a system in which a military-political elite of northern origin maintains control over the state and its resources, while southern communities feel unprotected.
"Military political elite"....? Quickly please, someone add a Kremlin reviewing stand 'May Day' photo.
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#8
"Get yer REGNUM! Ten kopecks a dime!
Man, it's mammoth, SSSR Prime!
Every line is a treat...
And it's all you can eat!
You have nothing to lose but your time!"
Fresh Fish (from de area of de Nile)? Epidemic of Opacity? I mean, REGNUM's "paid by the word" tone's amusing, even endearing (to me, anyway), but sheesh... [Sunday NYT side of Choice graphic here]
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Photos from Mali after repelling the militant offensive.
The results: Mali lost Kidal, a small number of local soldiers, and it's still unclear whether the Malian Minister of Defense is alive or not.
Our forces suffered several dead, dozens wounded, and lost a helicopter (shot down by a MANPADS), an armored personnel carrier (BTR-82) (lost), and a Typhoon (captured). The cut-off units in Mali, following agreements between the government and the militants, retreated in an organized manner to Gao.
The militants (a conglomerate of local al-Qaeda
…JNIM…
and Azawad separatists) suffered over 1,000 dead, a large number wounded, several dozen captured, and several dozen lynched by local residents. Overall, the militants managed to capture a fairly large settlement at a high cost, which Wagner and the Malian army had recaptured from them two years earlier. But they failed to achieve the overall goals of the offensive.
Visual confirmation of IS-Sahel in control of Labbezanga, on the Mali-Niger border after the hasty withdrawal of the Russian Africa Corps and the Malian army, the exit was not negotiated as the withdrawing convoy ended up getting ambushed by Islamic State militants later on. https://t.co/BMQkILZ0zSpic.twitter.com/iyEJhPCd32
Kidal and Tessalit are now under Tuareg control. Russian and government forces continue to withdraw from northern Mali. 🇷🇺🇲🇱🏴 Following the complete withdrawal of the PMC Wagner "Africa Corps" and the FAMa from Kidal and Tessalit after an agreement with the FAL/JNIM coalition,… pic.twitter.com/0k8Y5E2Nij
Kidal and Tessalit are now under Tuareg control. Russian and government forces continue to withdraw from northern Mali.
Following the complete withdrawal of the PMC Wagner "Africa Corps" and the FAMa from Kidal and Tessalit after an agreement with the FAL/JNIM coalition, Tuareg forces took full control of the two cities and their military bases.
The withdrawal from Aguelhok continues toward Anefif, which has also been under siege since the April 25 offensive and will likewise be abandoned without resistance.
[MSN] The United Arab Emirates has announced plans to leave the world's leading oil exporters group, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and OPEC+, on May 1.
The abrupt decision by the UAE -- which has been a member of OPEC for six decades -- reflects an intensified rivalry with Saudi Arabia and current pressures from the Iran war on Gulf countries exporting oil.
#1
If the MoronMedia weren't so busy suggesting that last Saturday night at the Washington Hilton was just kabuki theater, they might be realizing that this is a BIG thing. Stay tuned....
#2
"neocon" is an antisemitic slur.
Where do you work?
I bet your boss and co-workers would like to know you use this kind of language.
It also may be legally punishable in your jurisdiction, Aisha.
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There was a time when neocon was cutting edge — and only a few of them were Jewish. Haters are annoyingly ignorant idiots.
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UAE seems to be on both sides of the strait of Hormuz. Can they get 6 mb/day to the world markets?
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They have placed their bet on whether the US or Iran is the strong horse. If the US / Israel elect to go one more round, then hopefully their infrastructure will be protected accordingly.
[IsraelTimes] Bahrain revoked the citizenship of 69 people and their families for “expressing support for Iranian attacks,” the interior ministry says.
Bahrain has been among Gulf countries that were subject to attacks by Iran in retaliation for US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran that began on February
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors at hearing in high-security court say anti-Israel activists shouted pro-Palestinian slogans as they vandalized Ulm office of Israeli defense firm
Five people appeared in court in Stuttgart, Germany, on Monday, on charges of causing about 1 million euros’ ($1.17 million) worth of damage at the German site of an Israeli defense company, the court said.
News outlets including Stuttgarter Zeitung and broadcaster SWR said the vandalized office belonged to Israeli defense electronics firm Elbit Systems, the latest office of the company to be attacked.
Prosecutors say the defendants, aged 25 to 40, trespassed and shouted pro-Paleostinian statements as they smashed office equipment, measuring devices, and windows at the business in the southern city of Ulm, the court added.
According to the charges, the defendants acted as members of anti-Israel organization Paleostine Action Germany, which later published videos claiming responsibility for the attack.
The defendants, who were not named, are Irish, British, Spanish, and German, prosecutors said.
Monday’s hearing took place in a high-security facility at the court, officials said. The Stuttgart court has previously said that more than a dozen hearings have been scheduled in the case through the end of July.
Elbit, which has an office in Ulm, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The court did not identify Elbit as the target of the Ulm attack but said the company had been the target of attacks by Paleostine Action groups in 2024. The defense did suggest the target was Elbit.
"We intend to use the proceedings to essentially turn the tables," said Benjamin Dusberg, one of the lawyers for the defendants, according to the Guardian. "We want to show that it’s not our clients who should be on the hook, but rather the Elbit bosses, who continued delivering weapons even during the genocide."
[IsraelTimes] French President Emmanuel Macron says he will talk to Iranian authorities after his two-day trip to Andorra and will insist on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
“We have established a coalition whose purpose is precisely to ensure security, to secure and stabilize, to demonstrate that the international community supports an opening [of the Strait of Hormuz], and so I hope that we will be able to convince the stakeholders in the coming days,” he tells reporters in Andorra.
Meanwhile France’s top diplomat says Iran must be ready to make “major concessions” in talks to end the ongoing crisis.
“There can be no lasting solution to this crisis unless the Iranian regime agrees to major concessions and a radical shift in its stance,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot tells a UN Security Council session.
[IsraelTimes] Russian President Vladimir Putin tells Iran’s top diplomat that Moscow will do everything it can to help secure peace in the Middle East, during a meeting in Saint Petersburg.
“For our part, we will do everything that serves your interests, the interests of all the people of the region, so that peace can be achieved as soon as possible,” Russian state media quotes Putin as telling Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Putin says Russia hopes the Iranian people will weather what he describes as a “difficult period” and that peace will prevail, the state-run RIA news agency reports.
#2
Precisely. Still, France has a long history of expertise in diplomacy. There is an infinitely greater than zero chance they might come up with something useful.
[Breitbart] A study from the Wall Street Journal shows that anti-government violence hit a 30-year high in 2025, a trend that has held into 2026.
Analyzing U.S. terrorism incidents compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies between 1994 and 2025, the study found that “domestic attacks and plots against the U.S. government are at their highest levels since at least 1994,” with attacks from the “extreme left” edging out over the extreme right.
That’ll be the work of Black Block/Antifa anarcho-communist syndicalists. Nice to see it acknowledged by… wait — the Wall Street Journal admitted it?? I feel faint.
“For the first time in 20 years, they are coming from extremists on the left in greater numbers than the right, the center’s data shows,” it noted. “Of the 20 attacks and plots recorded in 2025, the center categorized 10 as originating from the extreme left and eight as coming from the extreme right”
[IsraelTimes] Officials from the United States and Iran clash over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions at the opening of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review, a dispute almost certain to continue during the four-week meeting.
At issue is the election of Iran as one of 34 vice-presidents of the conference. Iran was a candidate of the Nonaligned Movement, including 121 mainly developing countries.
The United States was backed by Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. France and Germany also expressed “concern.” Russia objected to singling out Iran.
The US representative says the Trump administration is “deeply shocked” that a country that has demonstrated “contempt” for the treaty is now a vice president.
Iran’s ambassador to the UN in Vienna, Reza Najafi, categorically rejects the US statement, calling the allegations “baseless and politically motivated.”
[IsraelTimes] US envoy tells conference that Tehran’s selection an ‘affront’ to the NPT given that the Islamic Republic has ‘long demonstrated its contempt for non-proliferation commitments’.
[Rudaw] The United States on Monday announced a reward of up to $10 million for information on the leader of a shadowy Iraqi gang that recently gained notoriety for deadly attacks on alleged American targets during the six-week 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. The move comes just days after Washington offered a similar reward for information on the whereabouts of another Iran-aligned Iraqi gang commander.
The US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program said in a statement that it is offering "a reward of up to $10 million for information" on "Haydar Muzhir Ma’lak al-Sa’idi, also known as Haydar al-Gharawi," whom it identified as "the leader and secretary-general of Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (HAAA), an Iran-aligned terrorist group in Iraq."
According to the State Department, Sa’idi’s group "has attacked U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq, as well as U.S. military bases and personnel in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria, killing U.S. service members," adding that those who share information on the gang leader may be "eligible for relocation and a reward."
Both Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya and its leader have been on the State Department’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) since mid-2024 over their activities as part of the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq (IRI).
The IRI emerged in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak of the 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... war in October 2023, bringing together several influential Iran-aligned Iraqi armed factions that often operate through shadow groups. The umbrella entity is believed to include Kata’ib Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... al-Shuhada, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, Kata’ib Hezbollah, and Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba.
The US and Israel on February 28 launched a widescale aerial campaign against Iran, targeting more than 17,000 sites across the country over six weeks.
In response, Tehran carried out drone and missile strikes across the Middle East, targeting alleged US assets - particularly in Gulf Arab states - as well as launching retaliatory attacks against Israel.
The Iranian response also involved Iraqi gangs aligned with the Tehran-led ’Axis of Resistance®’ and operating under the banner of the IRI claiming responsibility for attacks on alleged US targets in the region, including in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
In its capacity as the IRI, the entity in early April claimed it carried out 753 attacks against alleged US targets across the country, over the first six-week Iran war. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... that number has since risen.
Notably, the reward for information on Sa’idi comes just days after the State Department on Friday announced a similar offer for information on Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji, also known as Abu Ala al-Wala’i, the leader and secretary-general of Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, citing the group’s involvement in the killing of Iraqi civilians and attacks on "U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq, as well as U.S. military bases and personnel in Iraq and Syria."
No peace treaty with the Palestinians? Yes more construction of Jewish homes in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] The cornerstone for a new neighborhood in the settlement city of Ariel is laid in a celebratory ceremony attended by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other senior cabinet ministers.
The new neighborhood constitutes the first part of plans to build some 12,000 housing units west of the city in the northern West Bank, and the expansion of the city from its current population of approximately 22,000 residents to 80,000, according to a statement by Ariel Mayor Yair Chetboun’s office.
Only 730 units of the planned 12,000 have, however, received planning permission so far.
“There is no more joyful noise than the noise of the bulldozers that are building Israel and destroying the idea of the Palestinian state,” says Smotrich at the ceremony.
“We are doing everything to build the Land of Israel and destroy the terrible idea of those who are trying to take over the region in order to harm the State of Israel,” he continues.
Chetboun praises Smotrich and other cabinet ministers for their collaboration in advancing the project.
“The finance minister builds houses, Aliyah and Absorption Minister Ofir Sofer brings immigrants to settle here, and all of this is happening with the full support of Construction and Housing Minister Haim Katz, who backs and supports the development and upgrade for the capital of Samaria [the northern West Bank],” says Chetboun.
[IsraelTimes] Mossad ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... chief David Barnea says the agency has penetrated "the core of the enemy’s secrets" and carried out "groundbreaking" operations in Iran and beyond, during a ceremony honoring outstanding missions from 2025.
Speaking at the Mossad headquarters last night, Barnea highlighted what he described as a shift in the agency’s role during wartime, saying it has become a more offensive and effective organization alongside the IDF in campaigns against Iran and its proxy terror group Hezbollah.
"We obtained strategic and tactical intelligence at the core of the enemy’s secrets," he said. "We demonstrated new and groundbreaking operational capabilities in target countries."
Barnea said Mossad operations had helped enable strikes "in the heart of Tehran," the "thwarting of senior operatives," and efforts to secure Israel’s air superiority and defend the home front.
"The operations recognized this year enabled us to break boundaries in Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... and Iran," he said, adding that the agency had also "carried out the covert diplomatic campaign, whose importance is critical for forging regional alliances and expanding Israel’s strategic depth."
He stressed that cooperation with the military had "changed Israel’s strategic posture," but warned that threats remain.
"We will not rest on our laurels," Barnea said. "When we identify a threat, we will act with full force."
#3
Sometimes it helps to poke the enemy to see how they react. Mossad (and US agencies) may see an increase in signal chatter and it'll make Israel's enemies even more paranoid, possibly leading to more executions of IRGC leadership.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian Authority prime minister says Israeli policy is meant to ‘destroy institutions of the State of Palestine,’ has left PA cash-strapped and unable to pay employees
The Finance Ministry confirmed that it has not released Paleostinian Authority tax revenues for a year, after PA Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said that the lack of transfers has left the authority cash-strapped and unable to pay employees.
Speaking at a presser Sunday marking the conclusion of local elections in PA areas the previous day, Mustafa said, referring to Israel, "The occupation has been cutting our funds for years, but the intensity of the cuts has increased over the past 12 months."
He added, "In the past year, not a single shekel of tax revenues has been transferred to us. We are living without tax income in an attempt to destroy the institutions of the State of Paleostine. All residents are suffering, particularly PA employees."
The funds in question are tax revenues on goods entering Israel that are destined for the Paleostinian Authority. Israel collects these funds and is supposed to transfer them to the PA, which is based in the West Bank city of Ramallah and governs daily affairs in the territory’s Paleostinian population centers, under the terms of the 1990s Oslo Accords. The revenues account for roughly 60 percent of the PA’s income.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich confirmed that he had withheld April’s clearance revenues, totaling NIS 740 million ($248.7 million), continuing a policy that has been in place for about a year.
Smotrich is an adamant opponent of Paleostinian statehood and has called for the PA to be dismantled.
On April 19, the Paleostinian Authority Finance Ministry announced in an unusual statement that, in light of what it described as Israel "stealing tax revenues" for the past year, all public sector employees would receive only NIS 2,000 ($672) for their January salaries, which were paid with significant delay.
Since 2019, Israel has deducted amounts from tax revenues that are equivalent to the Paleostinian Authority’s payments to security prisoners held by Israel and the families of those who carry out terror attacks targeting Israelis. Ramallah insisted that it halted that policy last year.
Beginning in November 2023, following the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... -led October 7, 2023, attack and outbreak of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , Israel has transferred only partial funds, also deducting sums the PA had allocated to Gaza (including salaries for former PA employees and services such as electricity and water). The PA said at the time that it would refuse to accept partial transfers.
According to a statement from the Finance Ministry, the remaining funds — beyond those allocated to Gaza — "have been frozen for about a year due to the minister’s policy not to transfer funds to the Paleostinian Authority in light of its actions against the State of Israel in the international arena and its support for incitement to terrorism."
The clearance revenues mainly include import value-added taxes, customs duties, purchase taxes, and fuel excise on goods destined for the West Bank.
The Trump administration has pressed Israel to release the funds, including during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s December meeting with US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States... in Florida.
Despite the US pressure, the premier has refrained from bringing the matter before the cabinet. In November, he shelved plans to prevent Smotrich from trying to collapse the Paleostinian Authority, after the far-right minister threatened to resign and bring down the government.
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Palestinian Authority prime minister says Israeli policy is meant to ‘destroy institutions of the State of Palestine
There is no "State of Palestine" because there are no "Palestinian People" - it's just something KGB invented for their Arab allies after the later failed to destroy the Jewish state by brute force 3 times in a row.
If all the Jews disappeared from Israel tomorrow, the country would be divided between Egypt, Jordan, and Syria - and any Falestinian daring to protest, would get to meet Allan.
[IsraelTimes] Nitrogen-based fertilizers must be applied each season; but with prices of staple crops low, farmers lack the revenue to absorb the expense caused by closure of Strait of Hormuz.
The farm economy has been pummeled by low crop prices caused by a grain oversupply, tit-for-tat tariffs triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war and skyrocketing prices of fertilizer and diesel. But pulses - which include peas, lentils and chickpeas - have been a bright spot due to rising demand for protein-infused foods beyond traditional sources like meat, poultry and fish.
Growers of the protein-rich crops see planting them as a way to weather an agricultural economy that has been in a yearslong downward spiral. U.S. farmers are facing the fourth straight year of low-to-negative profit margins despite near-record government payouts, and farm bankruptcies increased by 46% from 2024 to 2025, court records show.
A version of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal made by General Mills (GIS.N), opens new tab in partnership with Ghost, a sports nutrition brand, features 17 grams of protein per serving, compared to 2 grams in the original version. Protein isolates extracted from peas are being infused into fruit-flavored sodas, while lentil flour is increasingly being processed into pastas.
McKade Mahlen, a fourth-generation farmer in Montana’s rolling prairieland, said peas and lentils may be his only two crops that generate a profit this year. He estimated he’ll lose roughly $35 for every acre of wheat planted, but will make $8 for every acre of lentils.
“Finally, we’ve found something that has a positive margin for us,” Mahlen said, without providing additional details on his plantings.
Many farmers already rotate grain plantings with pulses to prevent disease and imbue the soil with nitrogen crucial for healthy crop growth. The seeds are relatively cheap, and the nitrogen means they require little additional fertilizer to grow, a quality that has made them more attractive as the U.S.-Iran war chokes off the flow of fertilizer.
GIVEN:
The U.S. Dairy farms and beef ranches produce about 7,343,955,917 pounds of dairy manure annually with a capture rate of about 60%. Which is a significant source of fertilizer for US crops.
The US has over 21 fertilizer production facilities scattered around the US, which have a vast majority (86%+) of its needed Raw Materials that are used in Fertilizer Production.
Likely more than 86%, given Trump has the fore-thought to handle South American countries, and they are once again funneling many materials to the USA, and not the CCP and others like under the previous US (D). Admins.
Question: Given the predictable shortages and world hunger issues.
Will the NGO's and the DC Swamp be running another
#4
I can guess the next Tucker podcast.
"The evil Zionists no longer satisfied with starving the children of Gaza. Now, acting through their orange puppet, they are going to starve all the Third World children!"
#5
I’m on the county Farm Bureau board of directors and we’ve talked about the local impact on our folks the last two monthly meetings. It’s not going to be pretty
[Rudaw] The Syrian interior ministry on Sunday released a video confession of Amjad Youseef, key suspect in the April 2013 massacre of at least 41 people in the Tadamoun neighborhood south of Damascus, two days after his arrest.
"We placed tires under them, then more tires on top, and set them on fire so that no smell would spread in the area," said Youssef in the video, describing how they dug a pit by a bulldozer and shot the victims individually before placing them in the mass grave.
The ministry posted the confession footage on X under the title "The Tadamoun Butcher".
Youssef was arrested on Friday in the west-central city of Hama in a "tightly executed security operation," said Mulham al-Shantout, commander of Hama’s security forces, in the video.
He served as a warrant officer in the military intelligence directorate under the ousted dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... . He was responsible for security operations in southern Damascus during the Syrian civil war from 2011 to 2024.
The key suspect became visible in April 2022 when a leaked video footage showed him and other military men forcing blindfolded and bound individuals to run before opening fire and disposing of their bodies in a mass grave.
"We brought about 40 individuals assuming they were, back then, murderous Moslems or funding terrorism," Youssef said in the video, adding that he was not ordered by his superiors to commit the slaughter, but the victims were selected based on intelligence reports.
A team from Human Rights Watch visited the site in December 2024 after the overthrow of the Assad regime. It confirmed finding "scores of human remains" in the areas and suggested that it could have been a spot for more summary executions.
The interior ministry announced on Friday that earlier arrests of former military personnel for the same case have led them to place the total corpse count in the neighborhood at around 500.
"We promise the Syrian people that we are determined to fulfill transitional justice and to arrest every criminal who spilled the blood of Syrians," Hama’s security commander said.
Tadamoun was split by early 2013 following the outbreak of an intense series of battles in July 2012 between the Syrian government and opposition forces. The neighborhood was one of the primary entry points the rebels seized.
Because it was a frontline, the area was saturated with checkpoints run by Branch 227 of military intelligence, in which Youssef served, and pro-regime militias. The checkpoints were used to screen, arrest, and execute the people who were attempting to cross between the different zones of control.
… coordinate with Iran, get our permission or we'll blow you up and you pay us...”
“Thats not opening the straits!”
“Those are international waterways.”
“They cannot normalize, nor can we tolerate them trying to normalize a system in which the Iranians decide who gets to use an international waterway and how much you have you pay them to use it.” …
Rubio rejects new Iranian proposal to reopen Strait of Hormuz, with future of talks in limbo
Iran’s plan is ‘We’ll blow you up and you pay us,’ says top US diplomat; tanker traffic muted in strait, which Iran says it controls; Germany’s Merz: Iran ‘humiliating’ US in talks
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... said Monday that a reported recent offer from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to reopen the Strait of Hormuz under strict conditions is not acceptable to the United States or other countries.
Speaking in an interview with Fox News, Rubio said Iran has a different view of the strategic waterway than most of the rest of the world does: "What they mean by opening the straits is, yes, the straits are open, as long as you coordinate with Iran, get our permission, or we’ll blow you up, and you pay us."
"That’s not opening the straits," the top US diplomat said. "Those are international waterways. They cannot normalize, nor can we tolerate them trying to normalize, a system in which the Iranians decide who gets to use them."
Rubio’s statement came after Axios reported that Iran had proposed an agreement on reopening the strait and ending the war, while delaying negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program for a later stage.
Later Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told news hounds that Trump had discussed a new proposal from Iran with top national security aides, while also indicating that Washington was not fully satisfied with what Tehran was offering.
"I wouldn’t say they were considering it," Leavitt adds, regarding an Iranian suggestion to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for ending the US blockade. "I would say there’s a discussion."
Separately, Iran insisted it was still in control of the strait, a key pathway for the global oil supply.
Negotiations between the sides were meant to take place in Pakistain last week, during an ongoing ceasefire in the US-Israeli war with Iran, but the talks did not come together. According to Axios, Iran’s attempt to kickstart negotiations again by solving the issues centered on the Strait of Hormuz was conveyed to the US by Pak mediators.
US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... was expected to discuss the Iranian proposal and other issues held up in the stalled negotiations during a Situation Room meeting with national security and foreign policy teams on Monday, the report added.
The path forward for negotiations remains unclear. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signaled on Monday that Iran was not desperate for talks. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday that Iran was "humiliating" the US in the drama surrounding the talks.
[IsraelTimes] Businesses working with Iranian airlines risk US sanctions, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says, calling the warning a part of a campaign to put economic pressure on Tehran amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Iranian state media reported over the weekend that Iran has resumed commercial flights from Tehran’s international airport for the first time since the start of the war.
Iran’s state media reported that flights were scheduled to depart for Istanbul, Oman’s capital of Muscat, the Saudi city of Medina and for Iraq and Qatar.
The US Treasury Department has said Washington is imposing a “financial stranglehold” on the Iranian government.
“Doing business with sanctioned Iranian airlines risks exposure to US sanctions,” Bessent says in a post on X.
“Foreign governments should take all actions necessary to ensure that companies in their jurisdictions do not provide services to those aircraft, including the provision of jet fuel, catering, landing fees or maintenance,” he says.
Bessent says the Treasury Department “will not hesitate to act against any third parties that facilitate or conduct business with Iranian entities.”
A Trump administration official says the Treasury Department will impose secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions “that continue to facilitate Iran’s activities.”
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 term meaning 
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
Lord of the Baath...
...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 
