[NYP] A Jewish mother who took her 4-year-old son to what she thought would be a family-friendly puppet show in Lower Manhattan earlier this month was horrified when the performance morphed into an Israel-bashing disgrace, she told The Post.
"The Cardboard Pizza Puppet Circus," a show created and performed by puppet troupe the Boxcutter Collective
…the Collective part of their name hints at their collection of opinions…
that the ensemble describes as "a celebration of" New York City, was featured at this year’s International Puppet Fringe Festival, a multi-day celebration sponsored in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.
"Featuring dancing skyscrapers, giant rats, fossil-fuel-fighting flowers, a live brass band, and Lady Liberty herself," the show’s description reads.
But 15 minutes into the Aug. 13 performance, the show shifted from covering New York-centric topics into controversial political positions against the Jewish state, said the Brooklyn mom, 43, who declined to be named.
"The anti-Israel stuff came out of nowhere," the mom said.
The Boxcutter Collective proved its pro-Palestinian bona fides in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 atrocity against Israel in which 1,200 men, women and children were killed, when it performed in the “Gaza Monologues” in November 2023 – on “The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” – in response to the “horrific war taking place in Gaza.”
“I knew that if I shouted something against Hamas, the crowd would turn against me, so I kept my mouth shut,” the mother told The Post. “My generation is now experiencing a fresh iteration of antisemitism here in New York that my family escaped back in the Soviet Union.”
Manuel Moran, the festival’s founder and producer, told Jerusalem News Syndicate earlier this week that organizers may have been in the dark about the troupe’s rogue content.
“As with many festivals, the full content of a production is not always known in advance, and the company premiered many elements of this work as part of the event,” he told JNS. “We stand behind our role in providing a platform for artists while recognizing that artists are responsible for their own work and should be able to speak to it directly.”
Moran told the outlet that in addition to a Yiddish-tinged skit appearing during the festival, an Israeli troupe, Hanut Theater Company, was invited but couldn’t arrange visas.
Calls made to the Boxcutter Collective, the International Puppet Fringe Festival, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts went unanswered.
[ShabelleMedia] Uganda will withdraw all its troops from Somalia by August 1, 2027, the country’s military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba said, setting a specific date for an exit after nearly two decades of involvement in the country’s security operations.
"We are withdrawing completely from Somalia by the 1st of August 2027. They will not be UPDF in Somalia after that," Kainerugaba said in a post on X on Friday, August 28, 2026.
It was not immediately clear whether the date announced by Kainerugaba, the son of President Yoweri Museveni ...President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote... , had been formally approved by the Ugandan government.
Uganda has been one of the main contributors to African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... security operations in Somalia since 2007, helping Somali forces fight al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... , the al-Qaeda-linked turban group.
The latest announcement comes less than a month after Uganda hosted an extraordinary summit of countries contributing troops to the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).
At the July 31, 2026, summit in Kampala, Uganda called for sustained international support for Somalia’s peace and security and backed efforts to secure sustainable financing for the mission.
That position highlights the uncertainty surrounding the future of AUSSOM, which is helping Somalia’s security forces take greater responsibility for the country’s security.
AUSSOM FACES FUNDING CRISIS
The future of the nearly 12,000-member AUSSOM mission has been put under pressure by a U.S. decision to stop supporting United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... logistical and operational assistance to the African Union force from the start of 2027.
The United States notified the African Union in July that it would not fund the mission beyond Dec. 31, 2026, according to documents reviewed by People Daily.
AUSSOM relies heavily on U.N. support for essential services, including food, water, fuel, medical assistance and troop transportation.
The United States has said it will not oppose renewal of AUSSOM’s mandate but will reject continued U.N. logistical or operational support for the mission.
Washington has also criticised Somalia’s progress in taking responsibility for its own security after years of international assistance.
The funding decision has raised concerns within the African Union and among diplomats about the mission’s ability to continue operating without an alternative source of logistical and financial support.
The Institute for Security Studies said the U.S. decision could have serious consequences for AUSSOM because the mission depends on American funding for much of its logistical support.
SOMALIA SEEKS GREATER SECURITY RESPONSIBILITY
Somalia has been working to assume greater responsibility for its own security as international forces gradually reduce their role.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called for foreign troops to eventually leave Somalia, arguing that the country cannot indefinitely depend on international forces to protect its illusory sovereignty.
"We should give the foreign troops a beautiful bouquet and send them home," Mohamud said.
But the transition remains difficult as al-Shabaab continues to carry out attacks and operate in parts of southern and central Somalia.
AUSSOM replaced the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia in January 2025 and was established to support Somali security forces during the transition.
The prospect of a Ugandan withdrawal comes as the African Union, Somalia and troop-contributing countries seek ways to maintain the mission despite the funding crisis.
[ToloNews] Afghans continue to migrate to European countries through illegal and dangerous routes, journeys that in some cases involve detention, the risk of drowning, and human trafficking.
The UK Home Office says that in the year ending June 2026, Afghans accounted for 13 percent of migrants colonists who arrived in the country by small boats.
According to the ministry’s figures, Afghans were the third-largest group among these migrants colonists, after citizens of Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... . However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the number of Afghans who arrived in the UK by small boats during this period fell by 37 percent compared with the previous year.
Alireza Karimi, a migrant rights activist, said: "This issue once again highlights the need to create safe and legal pathways for migrants colonists. Traveling via sea and illegal routes not only exposes migrants colonists to human traffickers but, in many cases, also puts their lives at serious risk."
Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... Ottoman Turkish media have reported that the country’s coasties detained 37 irregular migrants colonists during an operation in waters near Ayvacik.
Among those detained were 36 Afghan citizens and one Iranian citizen, including 17 children.
These incidents come as some Afghans continue to take dangerous sea and land routes in an attempt to reach European countries.
Mohammad Sediq Anwari, a political analyst, said: "The Islamic Emirate should provide proper pathways and solutions for young people so they can be employed in government institutions, helping prevent illegal migration."
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s migration authorities previously reported that more than 19,500 Afghan asylum seekers were detained across the country during the first six months of this year.
Afghan citizens make up the largest number of detained asylum seekers in Turkey.
[KhaamaPress] Germany has confirmed that a technical team from Kabul is in the country to help establish the procedures needed for more deportations of Afghan nationals to Afghanistan.
According to German broadcaster NDR, the three-member delegation arrived in Germany last Wednesday on a 30-day visa issued by the German Embassy 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... after transiting through Doha. The report said the visit had been kept confidential and was not disclosed to the German public.
Germany’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the team’s presence on Friday, saying the visit is directly linked to preparations for additional deportations of Afghan citizens. The ministry described the delegation as a temporary technical support team tasked with creating the administrative and consular arrangements required for future deportation flights.
NDR reported that the delegation is currently staying at the Afghanistan Embassy in Berlin’s Grunewald district and is expected to travel to Bonn and Munich next week, where Afghanistan’s consulates are located, as part of the mission.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... have not publicly commented on the delegation’s visit or Germany’s confirmation of the mission.
The visit follows Germany’s broader policy of increasing deportations of Afghan nationals convicted of serious crimes. The governing coalition has previously said it intends to resume deportations to Afghanistan through practical arrangements with authorities in Kabul despite the absence of formal diplomatic recognition of the Taliban government.
NDR also reported that Taliban representatives visited Germany last year with a separate objective: replacing diplomats appointed by Afghanistan’s former republican government. Two Taliban-appointed diplomats are now effectively managing Afghanistan’s embassy in Berlin and its consulate in Bonn, according to the report.
The latest mission comes after several rounds of talks between German officials and Taliban representatives over what Berlin describes as the deportation of criminal Afghan migrants colonists.
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the policy has drawn criticism from human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations and refugee advocates, who argue that coordinating deportations through Kabul amounts to greater engagement and normalization of relations with the Taliban. Rights groups have urged the German government to halt the process, warning that returning Afghans to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan could expose deportees to serious security and human rights risks.
Middle Eastern colonists expanding cultural and political control of their corner Europe, whether or not they are actually Moslem.
[Rudaw] More than 200 Kurdish candidates are running for seats in Sweden’s parliament, regional councils and municipalities as the country prepares for elections on September 13.
One of the most prominent candidates is Kurdish politician Gulan Avci, a senior Liberal Party figure who is running to become mayor of Stockholm. Avci, a former Swedish MP who stepped away from politics, returned after Liberal Party leader Johan Pehrson withdrew from politics to lead the party in the capital.
Polls, however, suggest Avci faces a difficult race for the post.
"They threatened to kill my children and told them, ’You don’t have much time left, say goodbye to life.’" Avci, speaking to Swedish state media about the personal cost of her political career, said she had received threats against her children.
Around 170,000 Kurds live in Sweden, according to information obtained by Rudaw’s Diaspora program on Friday, giving the community a significant presence as the country heads toward a closely contested election.
The left- and right-wing blocs are each polling at around 46 percent, making the Kurdish vote potentially decisive in races that are expected to be settled by narrow margins.
Another Kurdish candidate, Sairan Askari, is running in all three elections — in the parliamentary, regional and municipal races in Orebro. Originally from the Kurdistan Region, Askari has lived in Sweden for more than 37 years.
She told the Diaspora program that she entered politics after becoming dissatisfied with decisions made by Swedish institutions.
"Many decisions were being made by institutions that I did not think were right and I had criticisms of them. That was what prompted me to enter politics. Our responsibility in Sweden is more difficult because we live between two different cultures," she said.
Askari said Kurdish candidates can help Kurdish and immigrant communities understand Swedish laws and integrate into society.
"We need guidance and awareness for the Kurdish diaspora... so that they understand the laws and integrate into Swedish society. There are many Kurds here, and our participation strengthens our position," she said.
The potential influence of Kurdish voters was seen in the 2021 political crisis, when Kurdish-Swedish politician Amineh Kakabaveh cast a decisive vote that helped Magdalena Andersson become Sweden’s first female prime minister.
Kakabaveh, who is originally from Saqqez, a major Kurdish city in Iran's Kurdistan province (Rojhalat), supported Andersson without seeking a ministerial position or financial benefits.
This year's Kurdish candidates include Kadir Kasirga, a Social Democratic politician and advocate for Kurdish rights, including the rights of Kurds in northeast Syria (Rojava).
Sweden will hold parliamentary, regional and municipal elections on September 13. It will be the country's first general election since joining NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... , following the end of its longstanding policy of military non-alignment.
Swedish citizens can vote in all three elections, while foreign citizens who have lived in Sweden for at least three years can vote in regional and municipal elections.
Early voting has already begun, with Swedish embassies also preparing for the election.
[IsraelTimes] Research by AMCHA Initiative links prior anti-Israel advocacy to genocide accusations, arguing that scholars gave political rhetoric academic legitimacy
Claims of genocide against Israel that became prominent on US college campuses after the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... attack were largely concentrated among academics and speakers who had already supported the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, according to a Wednesday report.
The report argues that academics had granted legitimacy to the BDS movement’s aim of stigmatizing Israel.
The report, by the AMCHA Initiative, a nonprofit that documents antisemitism and combats anti-Israel activism on US campuses, analyzed 278 recordings of events sponsored by academic units at US schools. Academic units included departments, centers, programs, institutes and schools.
The events took place on 51 US campuses during the 2024-2025 academic year. The study, called "When Political Advocacy Acquires Academic Authority: BDS and the Genocide Accusation on US Campuses," selected colleges and universities that Hillel International identified as being popular with Jewish students.
Of those events, 93 featured speakers who had promoted BDS before the October 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel. Support for BDS included signing onto petitions, published writing backing BDS, social media posts and participating in boycotts.
The analysis found that events with BDS supporters were 40 times more likely to include genocide accusations — 85% of those events accused Israel of genocide, compared to 2% of events that did not involve boycott activists.
The strong correlation between prior BDS support and genocide accusations suggested that the charge was "not simply a broadly shared feature of academic discussion about Israel and 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... ," the report said.
"Rather, its use was overwhelmingly concentrated among speakers who entered the post-October 7 period with a preexisting commitment to taking action against Israel," the study said.
At the 83 events that included genocide accusations, there was a median of seven such accusations. One event featured the accusation 53 times, the report said.
The events with BDS-supporting speakers were also nine times more likely to be sponsored by an academic unit led by a director who supported the boycott movement — 56% compared to 6%.
At one event described in the report, on October 20, 2023, Middle East studies departments at six universities co-organized a "Gaza in Context" online teach-in. Anti-Israel speakers referred to "genocidal warfare," "clearly a genocidal war," "genocidal intent," a "genocidal machine," and "the realities of genocide in real time." The participating programs were from Georgetown, George Mason, Rutgers, Harvard, Brown and the University of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... The universities that held the most events with pro-BDS speakers and genocide accusations, among those surveyed, were Brown, Georgetown and Harvard.
A central goal for the boycott movement is the "anti-normalization" of Israel. The BDS movement defines "normalization" as participating in any program with Jewish Israelis. BDS makes exceptions for Jewish Israelis who recognize the boycott movement and programs that constitute "co-resistance against the Israeli regime."
The study argued that genocide accusations also stigmatize Israel by making engagement with the Jewish state "morally unacceptable."
"The findings reveal a strong connection between the genocide accusation in academic programming and a preexisting political effort to boycott and isolate Israel," the study said. "That relationship suggests the genocide accusation is functioning as a form of anti-normalization within the BDS movement."
The genocide charge also harms pro-Israel students, who can be framed as supporting genocide — or backing an "extraordinary moral crime" — due to their defense of the Jewish state, the report said.
One quarter of the events with BDS-supporting speakers also called Israel genocidal in the event’s promotional materials. While event organizers cannot control what speakers say, making the accusation in official materials gave "institutional authority" to the political accusations, the study said.
For the events making the genocide accusation in promotional materials, 96% were sponsored by an academic unit with a pro-BDS director.
Boosting the accusation at universities gives the genocide charge purchase off-campus, because scholars are seen as having more authority than political activists, the study argued.
The authors said the research outlined a pathway for the genocide charge — from political activists, to sympathetic scholars who provided institutional authority, to the broader public.
The study also highlighted how early in the war genocide accusations emerged. Between October 10 and October 24, 2023, when Israel began ground operations in Gaza, 14 academic units on 12 US campuses accused Israel of genocide. Every one of those academic units was led by someone who supported BDS before the Hamas attack, the report said.
On October 10, 2023 — three days after the Hamas attack in which invaders from Gaza killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and kidnapped 251 — for example, the The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department at University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Santa Cruz posted a statement on its website decrying "Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza."
Genocide, the "crime of crimes," is legally defined as acting with the intent to destroy a group of people.
While genocide is an international crime with a strict definition, the term is also used in a colloquial sense.
The UN’s International Court of Justice has said that genocidal intent must be the only reasonable interpretation for acts of suspected genocide.
Some anti-Israel critics have also sought to expand the legal definition of genocide to make the charge against Israel.
As of 2026, no international courts have found Israel responsible for genocide in Gaza. The ICJ is still reviewing the case brought before it by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide.
"To describe a state as committing genocide is not merely to criticize a government policy," the AMCHA Initiative study said, but "casts continued engagement with it as potentially complicit in an extraordinary moral evil."
The authors called for university safeguards against academic politicization, enforcement mechanisms to review misuse of academic authority for political purposes, withholding public funding over politicization, and legislation against political academic boycotts.
#3
Herbie heils from his Vaushist far height,
"Sure, the antisemitic are Right!"
To Americans true --
"And your little dog, too!" --
Mccoy cackles, "Let's you and Joo fight!"
[Jpost] As previously reported by The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, the CBC circulated a memo last week to reporters and editors instructing them not to refer to the attacks as “terrorist attacks.”
Following an international outcry about a memo advising reporters to not refer to 9/11 as 'terrorism,' CBC has announced it has revised its editorial guidelines on the matter.
As previously reported by The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) circulated a memo last week to reporters and editors instructing them not to refer to the attacks as “terrorist attacks.”
The memo was authored by Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC News, and sent to reporters and editors.
[Rudaw] Iranian companies are continuing to pursue business in the Kurdistan Region at the Erbil Build Expo despite US sanctions and rising costs linked to ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran, with one company saying its production costs have increased by around 25 percent as import routes become more difficult.
The Erbil Build Expo, Iraq’s largest international construction trade fair, brings together companies from the construction, infrastructure and related sectors. The event serves as a business platform connecting international companies with markets in the Kurdistan Region and wider Iraq.
The 16th edition of the expo is taking place from August 27 to 30 at the Erbil International Fairground, with Iranian companies continuing to participate despite the ongoing tensions between the US and Iran.
Ali Samiei, the export department manager of an Iranian tile company, told Rudaw’s Dilnya Rahman on Saturday at the expo that the US sanctions "have always existed; there is nothing new. We were under sanctions before, and we still are now," adding that companies have adapted to the situation and are continuing their operations.
Samiei’s remarks come after the US Treasury Department on Monday imposed sweeping economic sanctions as part of what it described as an "unprecedented" economic campaign against Iran, dubbed Operation Economic Outcast.
Another Iranian company at the expo is facing similar challenges. Parviz Khani, manager of a steel and metal industry company that has operated for 30 years, said the tensions have created difficulties for its business. The company produces about 70 percent of its raw materials domestically and imports the remaining 30 percent from China, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and India, according to Khani.
"Since we are currently facing issues in the Persian Gulf and importing has become difficult, we are forced to use alternative routes through Iraq, Turkey and Afghanistan. Consequently, we are certainly facing higher costs, and the price of goods will rise," he said.
Khani said production costs have risen by about 25 percent as Persian Gulf disruptions have made imports more difficult.
The impact is also visible at this year’s construction exhibition, where only seven Iranian companies participated, a 70 percent decline from previous years, according to Sorusht Sazani, representative of the Iraq-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... Joint Chamber of Commerce in the Kurdistan Region.
Sazani said more Iranian companies had planned to participate but were unable to attend because of the regional tensions.
Despite the decline in participation, Iranian businesses continue to seek stronger trade ties with Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. Sazani said annual trade between Iran, Iraq and the Kurdistan Region is worth about $12 billion.
"Despite the existence of sanctions, Iranian companies have their eyes set on expanding trade and investment in their neighboring country," he said.
Following the launch of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran on February 28, the Strait of Hormuz, a major energy chokepoint for around one-fifth of global oil supplies, has seen no return to normal shipping.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) late Friday dismissed statements by US officials saying the Strait of Hormuz was open for transit amid reports of increased maritime traffic through the vital corridor.
After fighting for six weeks, the two sides reached a preliminary ceasefire in early April, followed by the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding in mid-June, establishing a truce and set a 60-day window for negotiating a final agreement.
Despite the MoU, both sides have traded multiple rounds of strikes, the latest escalating on July 8 before subsiding later that month amid a US-imposed blockade in effect since mid-July despite Iran's continued claim of illusory sovereignty over the waterway and attempts to coerce commercial vessels into seeking authorized passage.
[Rudaw] Iraq's Iran-aligned armed group Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada
…one of the major Iraqi Shiite paramilitaries that belong to the IRGC…
has set 10 conditions for cooperating with Baghdad’s efforts to regulate the weapons of armed factions, including the withdrawal of US and Turkish forces from Iraq and the expulsion of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
In a statement on Saturday, the group said its position was based on what it described as the need to protect Iraq’s sovereignty and national interests, while maintaining that its weapons were a response to security threats.
Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada said its cooperation with any initiative to regulate weapons would depend on fulfilling 10 conditions.
The first condition calls for the “complete withdrawal of the American occupation from Iraq by land, sea, and air,” as well as an end to US military presence under any title. The group also demanded that Iraqi airspace not be used to launch attacks against other countries, particularly neighboring states.
The statement comes as Baghdad faces mounting pressure to place all weapons under state control. Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s government has set September 30 as the deadline for armed factions to disarm, making the move a key priority of his administration, with Washington also backing the effort.
“Carrying weapons to face dangers was not a luxury or a decision made without justification; rather, it was the product of circumstances and requirements imposed by realistic challenges,” Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada said.
“However, they may return whenever necessity dictates, and there is no power in existence that can prevent it then,” it added.
[Jerusalem Post] A survey found that 52% of Israelis worry about revealing their nationality abroad, while 41% have changed travel plans or behavior since October 7, including canceling trips.
Over half of Israelis fear identifying as such abroad since October 7, according to a survey conducted by the Center for Jewish Impact this month.
The poll covered a range of topics affecting Israelis today, including social cohesion, religious divides, and diplomacy.
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Americans should be careful about trumpeting nationality while abroad as well. Back in the 1980s, a girlfriend of mine, in Turkey for an archeology dig, claimed to be Canadian to reduce the harassment.
Both Hezbollah and Hamas firmly refuse to stop trying with all their might and main to kill all the Jooooos they can reach. I don’t understand why outsiders insists that Israel keeps negotiating with them, under the circumstances.
🚨 HEZBOLLAH REJECTS FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejects the framework agreement with Israel, calling for its cancellation and denouncing the proposed pilot zones.
“We reject the framework agreement with Israel and call for its cancellation.”… pic.twitter.com/OXD8q0oHwg
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.
President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...
... the personification of Somali state failure...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...Arabic for 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...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 
