All for that fake daughter of Saddam Hussein, because she cut off her braid and asked them to defend her. Hopefully they will all lose.
Day 80 | Anti-Houthi Tribal Mobilization | Little publicly available reporting emerged today on anti-Houthi tribal mobilization. The decline in visible activity may be linked to a @WhatsApp message that has circulated widely among tribal media activists and local journalists. The… https://t.co/KfkxjFhABXpic.twitter.com/pmuMvrJWZI
Day 80 | Anti-Houthi Tribal Mobilization | Little publicly available reporting emerged today on anti-Houthi tribal mobilization. The decline in visible activity may be linked to a @WhatsApp message that has circulated widely among tribal media activists and local journalists.
The message instructs supporters not to publish photographs, videos, or information about tribal movements, assembly areas, force numbers, or operational plans, arguing that such material could provide valuable intelligence to the Houthis and endanger participants. The guidance urges strict operational security and asks recipients to circulate the instructions widely.
Despite the reduced public visibility, tribal-linked social media accounts continued to signal that mobilization remains active. Tribal activists, who have been documenting the mobilization effort, shared the operational security directive and subsequently posted that "tomorrow the greatest tribe, and the tribe that has fought the Imamate more than any other throughout history, will set out in a massive convoy," referring to the Zaraniq tribes. Additional posts reported that convoys from al-Mahwit Governorate were en route to the tribal encampment at Matarah al-Karama, while praising Sheikh Abdulrab bin Salem Dayman al-Uqaili for coordinating the continued arrival of delegations from the Al Uqail tribes.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back in an interview with Fox News on Sunday against US Vice President JD Vance’s recent claim that US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... is Israel’s only ally, insisting that Jerusalem still has "many friends" around the world, while still highlighting its unique relationship with Washington.
Netanyahu also took the opportunity to reiterate that he and Trump share the same goals when it comes to Iran, but stressed that even if Washington doesn’t reach a nuclear deal with Tehran, he will ensure that it never obtains a nuclear weapon so long as he is prime minister.
The premier was questioned during the interview about public disagreements between Washington and Jerusalem over the memorandum of understanding signed by the US and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to end the war that began on February 28.
Israel was not a party to the agreement and is not involved in the resulting negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, but was nevertheless required by it to halt its fight against the Islamic Theocratic Republic. Israeli officials have made their displeasure over the terms of the agreement known, and Netanyahu said last week that he would dispatch a delegation to Washington to discuss the MOU.
Nevertheless, he insisted to Fox News that he and Trump "are set on the same goal."
"We want to see Iran give up its nuclear weapons program. We want to see the nuclear-enriched material removed. We want to see the enrichment sites for nuclear material dismantled. We have other common objectives," he said.
"President Trump believes that after the battering that the two of us — Israel and the United States — gave to Iran, he thinks that he can generate enough leeway, enough pressure, through the negotiations to get these goals achieved. And, you know, we respect that, and I hope he succeeds," Netanyahu continued, before adding, "I can tell you this: Deal or no deal, as long as I’m prime minister, Iran will not have nuclear weapons."
He declined to comment on criticism from his supporters who have argued that the MOU leaves the Iranian regime intact and poised to recover, saying that the negotiations between Tehran and Washington are "not over," and he will only pass judgment once they are.
"Believe me, if I have things that I want to point out in my own opinions, I do so in a free way. And when he has things he wants to tell me, he does that in a free way, too. That’s what friends and allies do with each other," Netanyahu added, again highlighting what he said was his close relationship with the US president.
"The most important thing is that we have a common goal. And that means Iran does not have nuclear weapons or the capacity to make nuclear weapons," he said, adding that the world was "very lucky" that Trump is "leading the free world in this common effort."
[IsraelTimes] Planned dissolution comes as terror group said seeking to stall for time in talks over Trump plan implementation, believing Netanyahu doing the same ahead of election
Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... is reportedly moving toward dissolving its 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... governing body to make way for a committee of Paleostinian technocrats meant to govern the Strip in the postwar transition from its rule, the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Sunday.
Two sources in the group told the paper that Hamas’s move would be meant to usher in the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), which has not yet entered the Strip amid Hamas’s refusal to disarm.
One of the sources claimed the dissolution will be announced on Monday.
Last week, NCAG said its members held a series of "highly productive" meetings in Cyprus to prepare for the next phase of its efforts to alleviate the suffering of Paleostinians in Gaza.
On Saturday, Kan news reported that Hamas decided to stall for time in negotiations for its disarmament and for the implementation of US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... ’s plan for postwar Gaza, assessing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing the same due to the upcoming Knesset election.
The outlet cited an internal document discussed in the past few days by the group. It said Hamas believes Netanyahu views any concession on Gaza as political suicide, and that he is intentionally stalling in the indirect negotiations, which haven’t made meaningful progress in months. The terror group has therefore decided to do the same, it said, and see what the next government brings.
Israel must hold elections by the end of Ocotber.
Last month, diplomats from each of the Middle Eastern mediating countries — Egypt, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... member, but not the most reliable... — told The Times of Israel that Hamas has sought to drag out negotiations on the issue of disarmament. They also argued that Israel’s refusal to adhere to the terms of the first phase of the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire has posed a major obstacle as well.
Alongside the strikes across Gaza targeting terrorists, the Israel Defense Forces has slowly been pushing out the boundaries of the area inside the enclave still under its control, saying it now controls at least 60 percent of the Strip, rather than the roughly 53% it held following its pullback on the first day of the truce. Netanyahu said last month he had ordered the military to retake additional territory, amounting to 70% of the enclave.
In the areas not controlled by Israel, Hamas remains in place as the enclave’s de facto government.
Under Trump’s plan, Israel will only fully withdraw upon final verification that the terror groups in the Strip have disarmed.
Although battered by war, Hamas is reported to be maintaining its control over the Strip by executing its opponents and those it views as posing a threat to its rule.
Israel launched the war in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7, 2023 invasion of southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people and took another 251 hostages..
UPDATE from the Times of Israel at 11:00 a.m. EDT:
While move marks political shift, Israeli official downplays it as ‘spin’ and ‘stalling’ as civil servants set to keep their jobs; Hamas has so far refused to disarm
The Hamas government in Gaza on Monday announced the resignation of the so-called “Emergency Committee” — the Hamas-led administration that governs the Strip — in preparation for the transfer of authority to the technocratic National Committee for the Administration of Gaza.
The Hamas government said in its announcement that all civil servants will continue providing services as usual, describing them as “public employees who are ready to work under the responsibility of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG).” Hamas also said it has completed all the administrative steps necessary to transfer authority.
“The head of the government’s emergency committee Mohammed al-Farra has officially submitted his resignation,” Ismail al-Thawabta, head of Hamas’s government media office, told AFP.
The NCAG, headed by Palestinian technocrat Ali Shaath, was created by the Board of Peace that US President Donald Trump established when he brokered the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in October 2025.
The move appears intended to demonstrate that the terror group is willing to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to the technocrats, in line with Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza, despite its foot-dragging on the requirement for it to disarm.
It also appears to mark a significant political shift by Hamas, which has run Gaza since it violently seized control from rival Palestinian movement Fatah in 2007.
The Board of Peace said it would assess developments in Gaza “by actions, not promises,” after the announcement.
The Board has “taken note” of Hamas’s announcement, it said in a statement on X, adding that, “ultimately, our assessment will be guided by actions, not promises, to meet the critical needs of the people of Gaza.”
The Board said it looks forward to advancing “the implementation mechanisms necessary to enable the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza to assume full governing authority,” stressing that this will require “the consolidation of all weapons under the control of the NCAG as provided for in the Comprehensive Gaza Peace Plan and United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803.”
“A genuine transfer of authority must enable the NCAG to exercise its mandate independently, including taking the administrative and governance decisions entrusted to it,” the Board said.
An Israeli official appeared to downplay the significance of the move, calling it “spin without any meaning.”
“Hamas fears that [mediators] will declare them to be violating the agreement, and therefore it is stalling and engaging in spin,” the official told the Kan public broadcaster.
“Hamas has taken a new step in that it will no longer be in charge of the Gaza Strip, in order to remove any pretexts for the occupation, which continues its aggression and war of extermination,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told AFP.
“We hope for the swift entry of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, and Hamas affirms its readiness to hand over governmental responsibilities to the committee to ensure its success.”
A Hamas official earlier told AFP that the group had already informed other Palestinian factions about its decision at a recent meeting in Cairo.
“The factions welcomed Hamas’s decision, describing it as a serious step towards enabling the National Committee to take up its governing role,” the official said.
The NCAG has remained based outside Gaza for months, reportedly due to Israeli objections to its entry into the war-devastated territory.
Hamas and other Palestinian factions have held several rounds of talks in Cairo with mediators to narrow differences, particularly over the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire. The first phase involved the release of the last Israeli hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinians security prisoners held by Israel.
The transition to the second phase, which was to involve Hamas’s disarmament and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, has been stalled for months. Under Trump’s plan, Israel will only fully withdraw upon final verification that the terror groups in the Strip have disarmed.
Meanwhile, Hamas is demanding the establishment of a Palestinian administration before it will consider handing over any part of its arsenal.
The question of Gaza’s post-war governance remains one of the main sticking points in negotiations on implementing phase two. Israel rejects any return of Hamas to power, but also rejects a direct takeover by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, which it accuses of supporting terrorism.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian authorities have postponed the first meeting of the country’s new transitional parliament, days after announcing the inaugural session was scheduled for Monday. I seen dis movie
“The convening of the first session of the people’s assembly has been postponed to a date to be determined later,” state television reports, citing an electoral official and without specifying a reason.
Syria’s new authorities dissolved the country’s rubber-stamp legislature after toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, and adopted a temporary constitutional declaration to cover a five-year transition period.
In October last year, in a process criticized as undemocratic, local committees appointed by the electoral commission — which was in turn appointed by President Ahmed al-Sharaa — began selecting two-thirds of the 210 members of the new parliament, with Sharaa to appoint the remaining third.
He appointed 70 members this week.
Druze-majority Sweida province in the south has still not designated its members, after sectarian bloodshed there last year. Electoral authorities have said the selection process would be held there when conditions are “appropriate.”
[IsraelTimes] Maritime trade between Iran and Qatar has resumed after a roughly five-month suspension, Iran’s commercial attaché in Doha tells state media.
Abbas Abdolkhani says shipping between Iran’s Dayyer port and Qatar’s Al Ruwais port resumed following coordination between the Iranian embassy in Doha and Qatari authorities.
She was last there a year ago. Did she dress like a peasant this time, too?
[NY Post] Former Dem political darling Calla Walsh attended the funeral for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday, declaring that he was the "greatest anti-imperialist leader" in a propaganda video while covering up in a hijab and traditional garb.
Walsh, 22, who has been previously arrested for antisemitic vandalism in the US, spoke with Iran’s PressTV to talk about her attendance at Khamenei’s funeral over the weekend, where she hailed him as a heroic figure standing up to America and Israel.
"He was a leader to all people of the world who struggle against imperialism, arrogance, against Zionism, against genocide," she said.
"To me, he was the greatest anti-imperialist leader to have lived during my lifetime."
It’s the latest extremist turn for Walsh, the daughter of a Boston University English professor and a Harvard writing teacher. She attended prestigious prep schools and was praised in Democratic circles for her activism beginning when she was just 14.
Walsh on Saturday claimed there was much love in Iran for Khamenei despite his government’s brutal crackdown earlier this year that left between 7,000 to 30,000 protesters dead, according to human rights groups.
She was briefly a leader in the Democratic Socialists of America after quitting over after making dubious claims that it was too cozy with pro-Israel interests.
Since the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks, she has been one of the biggest American mouthpieces for Iran’s Islamist regime.
The regime ally, who lives in Lebanon, claimed more Iranians than ever were now standing with the regime following the war with the US, slamming the conflict as a total loss for America.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian poet leads chants of ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America,’ threatens Trump’s life, as mourners declare fealty to new leader and urge revenge; 3 of Khamenei’s sons appear, but not Mojtaba
Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend the funeral prayers for the late ayatollah Ali Khamenei, signaling a new confidence in their safety as calls grew for the killing of US President Donald Trump.
Their presence before hundreds of thousands of people in the capital Tehran would have been unthinkable during the Iran war, which saw airstrikes in its opening moments on February 28 kill the 86-year-old Khamenei, his family members, and other officials.
Israel also targeted others who appeared publicly during the war, in at least one case likely using their public appearance to fix their position for a strike.
But still unseen was Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. He is believed to be in hiding after being wounded in the airstrike that killed his father. His face was disfigured, and he suffered a significant injury to one or both legs, people close to his inner circle told Reuters.
Israel has threatened to kill him as well, as he leads a theocracy now negotiating with the United States over a permanent end to the war and over Iran strangling traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global energy supplies.
One of the enduring mysteries of October 7 is why Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, chose not to join in. When Hamas’s Nukhba forces flooded into the south, Hezbollah’s Radwan forces were poised for a similar push in the north—but the order never came.
One of the enduring mysteries of October 7 is why Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, chose not to join in. When Hamas’s Nukhba forces flooded into the south, Hezbollah’s Radwan forces were poised for a similar push in the north—but the order never came.
A newly published set of internal Hezbollah documents, analyzed by researchers at the Amit Institute for Terrorism and Intelligence Research, sheds light on years of coordination between the two Iranian tentacles in the run-up to the attack and why Nasrallah ultimately didn’t pull the trigger.
The alliance faced its first real test two years earlier, during the May 2021 conflict, Operation Guardian of the Walls. Internal Hamas documents reveal that during the operation, a joint intelligence war room was established in Beirut, staffed by Hamas, Hezbollah and the IRGC. Through this channel, Hezbollah supplied Hamas with intelligence on request. Khaled Ghanem, then head of Hamas’s overseas military intelligence, wrote in an internal report that the war room was operational from the second day of fighting through the day after it ended, and that Hamas had requested—and received—information on Israeli military deployments, aerial intelligence activity and fighter jet movements.
That wasn’t the only intelligence Hezbollah seemingly had access to.
One of the most striking disclosures involves the Israeli military’s “Metro” operation—a deception designed to lure Hamas fighters into their tunnel network by making them believe a ground invasion was imminent so Israeli forces could then strike underground. According to the same Hamas intelligence report, it was Hezbollah that tipped Hamas off, roughly two hours before the ground assault began, that the operation wasn’t a real invasion at all but a ploy to draw fighters into the open and build a target bank—effectively exposing the Israeli bluff before it worked. A senior Israeli security official who helped command the operation later confirmed to Army Radio that Hezbollah did indeed play a significant role in unraveling that ruse.
The documents also reveal that Hezbollah helped Hamas avoid the targeted killing of Ahmad Ghandour, commander of the northern Gaza brigade (later killed during the current war), by detecting a buildup of Israeli intelligence surveillance over his location in the Jabaliya refugee camp and warning Hamas roughly two hours in advance that an assassination attempt on a senior figure appeared imminent.
Despite this support—along with tacit approval for Palestinian factions in Lebanon to fire rockets into Israel from Lebanese territory—Hamas came away from the operation disappointed. In one exchange, a senior Hamas official abroad pressed Hezbollah’s response coordinator to push for greater involvement in order to tie down Israeli forces in the north, complaining that Hezbollah’s support so far had been limited.
A year later, in May 2022, a pivotal meeting took place in Beirut: senior Hamas officials sat down with Nasrallah and a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard general. The Hamas delegation argued conditions were ripe for expanding the conflict with Israel into a full-scale, multi-front campaign—pointing to a wave of terror attacks then sweeping the West Bank and Israeli cities, Israel’s fragile political standing at the time (the meeting came just two days after the ruling coalition shrank to 59 Knesset seats and two months before the Bennett-Lapid government collapsed), and a wave of regional normalization that Hamas wanted to derail.
Surprisingly, Nasrallah didn’t embrace the idea. He told the Hamas delegation the concept was sound in principle and worth discussing, but insisted any campaign first needed clearly defined objectives. Did Hamas expect this confrontation to force a complete Israeli withdrawal? Or was the aim something more limited, like simply preventing Jews from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound—a modest goal, he noted, that wouldn’t require war at all? In effect, Nasrallah was asking Hamas to define its strategy and war aims before he’d commit Hezbollah to anything.
Hamas reported back to Sinwar that they hadn’t yet defined clear war objectives and that Nasrallah remained hesitant. Sinwar responded with his plan.
The most ambitious scenario—internally called “The Second Promise” (later renamed the “Jericho Wall” plan behind October 7)—envisioned Hamas striking with full force in a surprise, multi-front war aimed at toppling Israel. Sinwar called it the preferred option, tying its timing to a Jewish holiday—Passover, most fittingly. This is the first evidence that he didn’t originally target October 7 at all; he was initially eyeing Passover 2023. He also sketched softer scenarios involving partial Hezbollah participation, but in every version treated the Jordanian border as key, envisioning guerrilla forces infiltrating from Syria and Jordan.
Nasrallah responded favorably, calling it a realistic scenario, and said he’d bring it to Khamenei for final approval.
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
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...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 
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
