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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

'This is our land for three thousand years.' Israeli parliament approves new takeover

2025-07-25

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukanov

[REGNUM] At the end of the spring session, the Israeli Knesset adopted a resolution calling on the government to extend the country's sovereignty to the entire territory of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank, WBRI).

The initiative, supported by all parties in the government bloc, aims to “restore historical justice” and return the “originally Israeli” lands to their proper status.

Despite the declarative nature of the resolution and assurances from official Tel Aviv that it does not in any way affect the legal status of the West Bank, the outlines of the Israeli government’s immediate plans are quite discernible behind the initiative of conservative forces.

HISTORICAL CALL
A proposal to extend Israeli sovereignty to the entire “historical” territory of Judea and Samaria, ensuring Israel’s “total control” over the entire territory of the West Bank, was submitted to the Knesset by a group of conservative MKs: Limor Son-Armelech (“Jewish Power”), Dana Iluza (“Likud”), Simch Rothman (“Religious Zionism”) and Oded Forera (“Yisrael Our Home”).

The parliamentarians' position was subsequently supported by Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, who stated that the land claimed by Israel "has been Jewish by historical right for the past three millennia."

The initiative became a definite challenge to the established status quo.

In accordance with the Oslo Accords (1993), the West Bank is divided into three zones. Israel currently has full control over about 60% of the West Bank (Area C), and exercises indirect (protective) control over another 24% of the territory, but does not directly interfere in Palestinian affairs (Area B).

However, at least 17% of the ZBRI site remains under the undivided control of the Palestinian Authority (Area A), which does not suit the revanchists. The call for establishing full control over Judea and Samaria, according to the Knesset members, should "promote historical justice."

Moreover, the resolution also targets the Israeli population.

The joint initiative was a show of consensus between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party and the rest of the conservative camp and was meant to underscore the unity of the coalition government.

Moreover, it was the ultra-Orthodox and conservative parties, which had recently threatened Netanyahu with a split in the ruling camp, that provided the initiative with the most ardent support: out of 120 members of the Knesset, just over 70 people voted for the “historic resolution” (including several independent parliamentarians).

The opposition bloc mostly abstained from the vote - MKs from the largest Yesh Atid and Blue and White parties considered the question of "extending full sovereignty" of Israel to the ZBRI "too populist" and difficult to achieve in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip.

13 people spoke against – representatives of the United Arab List (RAAM) and the Democratic Camp. Some of them demonstratively left the meeting. However, their demarche was more symbolic in nature and did not affect the outcome of the vote.

CHANGE WITHOUT CHANGE
The resolution on the “indisputable right” to the West Bank was the first in the history of modern Israel to receive support from the Knesset. Before that, Israeli parliamentarians, although regularly calling for “decisive action” from the podium, were reluctant to publicly challenge the Oslo Accords (concluded with significant participation of American Democrats).

The most that expansionists have managed to achieve so far is to include on the agenda at the end of 2024 an item on non-recognition of a Palestinian state, which subsequently “evolved” into the current resolution.

However, Israel is not yet trying to push the issue too much, not without reason fearing an even greater cooling of relations with Arab partners and an upsurge of anti-Semitism in neighboring countries. And so they are calling on the world community not to take the Knesset resolution too seriously.

Thus, several hours after the Knesset adopted the resolution on the ZBRI, official comments on the topic were given by the Prime Minister’s Office, the Israeli General Staff, representatives of the command in the West Bank, as well as the press offices of all Israeli intelligence agencies.

The leitmotif of their statements in all cases was the same: Tel Aviv continues to work to ensure security in the West Bank in the same manner as before, and the legal status of the Palestinian territories does not change.

TACTICS OF CREATING "BUFFERS"
However, even taking into account the fact that the parliamentarians’ appeal to the government is still purely symbolic in nature (and official Tel Aviv constantly emphasizes this), the likelihood that it will be “heard” in the future is quite high.

Moreover, overall favorable conditions are developing for shifting the “center of gravity” of Israeli actions to the Jordan Valley.

First of all, the Israeli government's course is influenced by the position of the United States.

The Republicans returning to the White House in 2025 show little loyalty to the Palestinians, especially in light of the stalled negotiations on a deal between Hamas and Israel.

Donald Trump is unhappy with the “isolation and inertia” of the remaining Palestinian factions from the peace process and constantly threatens to not recognize Palestine if the settlement fails.

In addition, Tel Aviv well remembers the “deal of the century” proposed by Trump in 2020, which implied the transfer of part of the territories of zones “A” and “B” to the Israeli side in exchange for international recognition of the State of Palestine.

Although the deal failed and gave way to the Abraham Accords, aimed at normalizing relations between Israel and Arab countries, in the current circumstances the White House is quite capable of taking it out of the archives and trying to promote it again. This time from a position of strength.

In addition, the Israeli right retains certain hopes for a "creeping expansion" in the West Bank. In addition to the tactics of expanding Jewish settlements and turning them into outposts, which the "hawks" led by Itamar Ben-Gvir are counting on, creating a split with the help of local forces seems promising.

The public unrest in the Palestinian city of El-Khalil (Hebron), provoked in early July by calls from several local spiritual authorities for the construction of an “independent emirate” and peace with Israel, quite clearly demonstrated that Tel Aviv has someone to rely on in the event of large-scale expansion.

Moreover, the tactic of creating “buffers” has successfully proven itself in neighboring Syria, where the Jewish state, with the support of the Druze, was able to strengthen its presence in the disputed Golan Heights.
The deepening governance crisis in the Palestinian National Authority also plays into the hands of the Israelis.

Supporters of the current PNA leader Mahmoud Abbas are rapidly losing public support, and his potential successor, Fatah representative Rouhi Fattuh, lacks the necessary authority. His rise to power risks provoking unrest and a new split among the Palestinians.

Moreover, the increased pressure in Judea and Samaria can always be justified by issues of national security and the activation of Hamas.

The frequency of Israeli raids in the West Bank is growing, and law enforcement reports increasingly include reports of the arrest of “Hamas recruiters,” which gives Tel Aviv a long-term trump card: the opportunity to accuse Palestine of preparing to open a “second front” against Israel.

In this case, control over the disputed territories will be taken under the pretext of preventive self-defense.

However, for now, the Netanyahu government is in no hurry to act, preferring to observe the media effect of the initiative put forward by the Knesset.

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Europe

'Victims of Nazism' and 'Jewish Propaganda'. Poles Want to Rewrite History

2025-07-25

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Khavich

[REGNUM] July has been a kind of "month of historical remembrance" in Poland for many years. Since 2001, under pressure from the West, the country has been marking the anniversary of the mass murder of Jews in the town of Jedwabne, committed by local Poles on July 10, 1941.

And the anniversary of the beginning of the Volyn massacre of Poles (July 11, 1943) has been officially declared the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide committed against the citizens of the Second Polish Republic (Poland in 1918–1939. — Ed.) by Ukrainian nationalists since 2016.

In 2025, the name of this memorial date was changed, and July 11 in Poland became the Day of Remembrance of Poles - victims of the genocide committed by the OUN* and UPA* in the Eastern Borderlands (territories - Ed.) of the Second Polish Republic.

It is worth noting that this is not just a renaming.

Firstly, unlike the 2016 decision, the nationality of the victims of the genocide is clearly indicated - Poles, and not abstract "citizens of the Second Polish Republic". Secondly, the organizations that committed the genocide of Poles are specifically named - the OUN* and UPA*, now glorified in Ukraine, and not simply "Ukrainian nationalists".

Finally, today's Western Ukraine was called the "Eastern Territories of the Second Polish Republic", which caused particular anger in Kyiv.

It was expected that the events on the occasion of the anniversary of the beginning of the Volyn massacre would become the most resonant in Poland. Especially since the action at the controversial monument to the victims of this ethnic cleansing of Poles, erected on the border of the Lublin and Podkarpackie Voivodeships, was taken under the patronage of the elected President of Poland Karol Nawrocki.

But all the cards were spoiled by the right-wing populist politician Grzegorz Braun, who supported Nawrocki in the second round of elections.

"JEWISH PROPAGANDA"
This outrageous member of the European Parliament arrived in Jedwabne on July 10 and from there went on air on Radio Wnet with openly anti-Semitic statements.

"Here, on the one hand, another spectacle is being prepared, an act of anti-Polish, Jewish propaganda with a state celebration and police protection. And on the other hand, Polish compatriots have gathered in large numbers to demand the truth, and therefore the resumption of the exhumation in Jedwabne," Braun said.

At the same time, the politician called the decision of the Polish Prosecutor General Lech Kaczynki in 2001 to stop the exhumation of graves in Jedwabne “criminal” and taken under pressure from the Jewish lobby.

Then Grzegorz Braun said that various organizations, “positioning themselves as Jewish, condemn those who tell the truth.” “The truth that ritual murders are a fact, but Auschwitz with its gas chambers is, unfortunately, a fake. And whoever speaks about this will be accused of terrible things, condemned for honor and faith,” the politician said, after which he was taken off the air.

Brown's statements provoked a strong reaction.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that if Braun had been a Russian agent, “he could not have done his job better.” “Every time Russia needed to harm Poland, it raised anti-Semitic noise here,” Sikorski said, adding that “Holocaust denial excludes us from civilized nations.”

Polish President Andrzej Duda, in turn, also condemned Brown's remarks and released a photograph of him with Edward Mosberg, a survivor of World War II and two concentration camps.

The Attorney General's Office has added new charges to the ones already handed to Brown (including using a fire extinguisher to extinguish a Hanukkah lamp in the Sejm in 2023), and parliament is preparing a special resolution condemning the politician.

Of course, no one would have reacted to Grzegorz Braun like that if it weren’t for his growing popularity.

In the first round of the presidential elections on May 18, 2025, 6.34% of voters (more than a million people) voted for this politician, although no poll gave him more than 4% of the vote. Currently, the extra-parliamentary party "Confederation of the Polish Crown" (not to be confused with the "Confederation" in the Sejm), headed by Braun, has a rating that consistently exceeds 6%. This will ensure its entry into parliament in the event of early elections, which are becoming increasingly likely.

Such results horrify the elites of today's Poland, who have been trying to eradicate centuries-old anti-Semitism among Poles since 1989.

It is not just that Braun denies the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and the Holocaust in general and claims that the Germans are responsible for the killings at Jedwabne.

During the Second World War, the Poles not only organized Jewish pogroms, but also handed over Jews to the Nazis en masse. Yes, the Poles have the largest number of "righteous among the nations" (people who hid Jews from extermination. - Ed.), and Warsaw propaganda emphasizes this, but the hushed-up facts of collaboration on the part of citizens of the Second Polish Republic do not go away.

That is why the authorities have recently decided to take a different path.

"OUR BOYS"
On July 11, 2025, the Gdansk Museum opened an exhibition entitled "Our Boys. Residents of Gdansk Pomerania in the Army of the Third Reich." The organizers of the exhibition tried to prove with a straight face that more than 200 thousand Poles who after 1939 recognized themselves as Volksdeutsche and were drafted into the Wehrmacht were... victims of the Nazis. Moreover, such people were drafted not only in Pomerania, but also in Greater Poland and Silesia.

To understand: by 1945, there were 200,000 Poles in the Polish Army as part of the Red Army, and 230,000 in the Polish Armed Forces in the West, which is comparable to the number of Poles in the Wehrmacht. It is clear that some of them deserted from there and joined the ranks of the underground and the aforementioned Polish armed formations, but the fact remains a fact.

It is worth noting that by the end of the war, thousands of Poles even found themselves in the ranks of SS units, where they had not been accepted before. We are talking about the Świętokrzyski Brigade of the "National Armed Forces" (NAF) - the largest Polish underground organization after the Home Army.

In January 1945, near Krakow, the brigade entered into battle with Soviet troops and soon entered into an alliance with the 59th Army Corps of the Wehrmacht.

Later, together with units of the German army, the brigade retreated to the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, where its soldiers and officers received the status of SS volunteers (SS-Polnisch-Freiwilligen). The brigade personnel were partially equipped with SS uniforms with Polish insignia.

In May 1945, the Świętokrzyska Brigade went over to the American side, so its soldiers did not bear any responsibility. As they say, find ten differences from the SS Galicia Division.

In September 2017, the Sejm unanimously decided to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the creation of the NAF, specifically noting that the Świętokrzyski Brigade was part of it – without mentioning its collaboration with the Nazis.

And in February 2018, then-Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, a candidate of the conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), laid a wreath and lit a candle at the graves of soldiers of the Świętokrzyski Brigade in Munich.

It is noteworthy that it was PiS politicians who raised a scandal over the exhibition in Gdansk, once again reminding the current Prime Minister Donald Tusk that his grandfather served in the Wehrmacht.

Incidentally, this argument was first used against Tusk exactly 20 years ago, and the exhibition features newspaper strips with the corresponding headlines. Now, one of the reviews of the exhibition was: "Maybe you should also hang a swastika on the town hall, Herr Tusk?"

In response, the ruling coalition decided to use the familiar Ukrainian card.

"WORSENING OF RELATIONS"
On July 16, the Polish Minister of Education, left-wing protégé Barbara Nowacka, demanded that Kiev review the content of Ukrainian history textbooks regarding the events in Volyn in 1943–1947.

In them, the ethnic cleansing of Poles in the territory of present-day Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland is called “an aggravation of Polish-Ukrainian relations,” and the reason for this is called “the mass murder of Ukrainians by the Home Army.”

But Barbara Nowacka is probably the last Polish politician who can appeal to the Ukrainian side with such requests. The fact is that in February 2024, two months after she became minister, experts from the Ministry of Education proposed changing the Polish school curriculum.

In particular, the task of “explaining the causes and scale of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the Eastern territories (Volyn massacre)” was proposed to be shortened to “explain the causes of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict.”

Only after the scandal raised by the right-wing opposition, the wording "Volyn massacre" remained in the program. At the same time, the minister still defends the idea of a common history textbook for schools in Poland and Ukraine and demonstrates a willingness to compromise on this issue.

By the way, Barbara Nowacka will retain her post in the Polish government after its reformatting, announced for July 25, unlike the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Hanna Wróblewska.

And the exhibition at the Gdansk Museum has nothing to do with it – according to rumors, Vrublevskaya is being dismissed after Kyiv complained that she did not allow the exhumation of UPA* fighters’ graves on Polish territory.

It is worth noting that, for the most part, these fighters also wore German uniforms until 1943 – though not those of the Wehrmacht, but of the auxiliary police – but in Poland they are in no hurry to recognize them as victims of the Nazis, unlike “our lads.”

PROPERTY CLAIMS
What is happening on the banks of the Vistula once again confirms the truth of the thesis that history is politics turned to the past. And it is not only a matter of votes that politicians' statements about Auschwitz or the Volyn massacre can bring, but also of much more material matters.

For example, constant reminders by Jewish organizations about the role of Poles in the Holocaust turned into demands to hand over to them the property of Polish Jews killed by the Nazis who left no heirs.

And people from the Eastern Borderlands continue to demand compensation from Ukraine for property lost during the Volyn massacre and the subsequent resettlement of more than 800 thousand Poles to Poland.

This resettlement took place within the framework of the "Agreement on Mutual Exchange of Population in Border Regions" between Soviet Ukraine and the Polish Committee of National Liberation (the provisional government of communist Poland). According to the same document, almost 480 thousand Rusyn-Ukrainians were resettled from their lands in Poland to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.

At the same time, as recently as July 16, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the resettlement of Ukrainians from the territory of Poland after 1944 as “deportation.” The law provides for “restoration of the rights of the deported,” in particular, material and moral compensation, as well as social benefits.

Recalling last year’s statement by then Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba that the eastern part of today’s Poland is “Ukrainian territory,” one can expect Kiev to demand compensation for the deportees and their descendants from Warsaw.

If not with real money, then with the possibility of not repaying loans provided by Poland, especially after the start of the Second World War.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Plans to overthrow Zelensky revealed in Ukraine

2025-07-25

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Opponents of the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, have begun implementing a three-stage plan to overthrow him. This was reported by the Ukrainian publication Strana.ua.

According to the publication’s source, the organizers of the protests against the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) plan to publish in the media in the near future a number of “particularly impressive corruption cases that NABU investigated against Zelensky’s inner circle and top officials.”

"For now, well-known commanders are keeping silent. But if the protests continue and expand (and especially if there are some incidents with casualties), then the likelihood of support for the protests from part of the army will increase," the publication added.

Thus, the publication cites three goals of the protests in Ukraine. First, Zelensky will be forced to fully return the powers of NABU. And if he does this, he will lose the loyalty and fidelity of the security forces, and will also show his strategic weakness and inability to manage the vertical of power.

"The second stage is to achieve the resignation of Yermak [Andriy Yermak, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine] and the head of the government, Yulia Svyrydenko, who is close to him (for example, by initiating a criminal case against her by NABU detectives). Zelensky will be offered (or rather, is already being offered) to make Yermak a "scapegoat" in the story of the curtailment of NABU's powers and to fire him. To do this, the organizers of the protests plan to use the contradictions within the presidential team, where many are unhappy with Yermak (primarily Arakhamia and Budanov (Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, an individual included in the Russian Federation's list of terrorists and extremists. - Ed.). The resignation of the heads of the Office and the government will finally unbalance Zelensky's system of power, " Strana.ua reported.

In conclusion, Zelensky will be offered to either become a “wedding general” or leave his post.

As previously reported by IA Regnum, on July 22, Zelensky signed a law on the liquidation of NABU and SAP. Later, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported that a group of Ukrainian parliamentarians intend to challenge this law, since so many articles of the regulations were violated during its adoption that such a possibility seems quite likely.

After the liquidation of NABU, the head of the Kiev regime faced unprecedented protests from the population. On the same day, protests took place in Kiev and Lviv. They were joined by the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko. The number of protesters exceeded a thousand people.

According to Ukrainian media, rallies also took place in Vinnytsia, Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk), Zhitomir, Krivoy Rog, Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovograd), Nikolaev, Odessa, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, Uzhgorod, Kharkov, Khmelnytskyi, Chernihiv and Chernivtsi.

On July 23, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that corruption remains a pressing problem for Ukraine and that significant amounts of Western funds have already been squandered.

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Home Front: Politix

White House says 'The View' could be cancelled next following Joy Behar''s anti-Trump tirade

2025-07-25

[NYPOST] A White House spokesperson warned ''The View'' co-host Joy Behar that her show could be next on the chopping block after her latest tirade against 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...
on Wednesday.

During the show, Behar and her fellow hosts responded to Trump's call for former President Barack Obama
If you like your coverage you can keep it...
to be criminally investigated for allegedly manufacturing intelligence that prompted the Trump—Russia collusion narrative.

''First of all, who tried to overthrow the government on Jan. 6?'' Behar said. ''Who was that again? That was not Obama.

''The thing about him is he's so jealous of Obama, because Obama is everything that he is not: Trim, smart, handsome, happily married, and can sing Al Green's song 'Let's Stay Together' better than Al Green. And Trump cannot stand it. It's driving him crazy. Green is not a good color.''

In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers called out the show's ratings and suggested it could be ''pulled off-air'' if Behar didn't stop attacking Trump.

''Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's no surprise that 'The View's' ratings hit an all-time low last year. She should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump's historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off-air,'' Rogers said.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Damascus asks Turkey for defense support after sectarian clashes and Israeli strikes

2025-07-24

[IsraelTimes] Deadly violence in Syria has increased Israeli-Turkish tensions, and Ankara harshly criticized Israel’s airstrikes last week

Syria’s interim government has requested ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s support to strengthen its defense capabilities, Ottoman Turkish officials said Wednesday, following sectarian violence over the past two weeks that drew in Israeli strikes.

The defense ministry officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to procedures, said that Syria has also sought assistance to combat "terrorist organizations," including the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

Turkey was working toward providing training, advisory services and technical support to help strengthen Syria’s defense capacity, the officials added. Syrian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

Turkey was believed to provide assistance to Syrian rebels fighting Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
, the country’s ousted leader. Now, it is a prominent supporter of the government that replaced Assad last year, headed by Ahmad al-Sharaa. It has been seeking a defense agreement with Damascus that could reportedly include establishing Ottoman Turkish military bases on Syrian territory.

Wednesday’s news, which came days after ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful festivities between Bedouin Arab tribes and Druze militias in the southern province of Sweida, means that Ankara will likely be stepping up its presence and activity in Syria.

The situation in Syria has increased tensions between Turkey and Israel, which is occupying the former no-man’s land adjacent to its border as a buffer zone. In April, Israel struck five cities in Syria, including more than a dozen strikes near a strategic air base in the city of Hama, where Turkey reportedly has interests in having a military presence. Israel accused Turkey of trying to build a "protectorate" in Syria.

That month, Turkey and Israel held talks on creating a deconfliction mechanism in Syria that would avoid festivities between the two countries. They reportedly reached an agreement following a month of talks.

Turkey has vocally criticized the recent Israeli strikes, with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claiming Tuesday that Israel wants a divided Syria. Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the <span class=Inverse>First</span>

...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
, long a harsh critic of Israel, accused it last week of using the Druze minority in Syria as a pretext for expanding into the war-torn country.

Ankara also backs an agreement reached between Sharaa’s administration and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, to integrate into Syria’s national army. Implementation of the deal has stalled, with a major sticking point being whether the SDF would remain as a cohesive unit in the new army or be dissolved completely.

On Tuesday, Fidan warned Kurdish and other groups in Syria against exploiting the tensions to pursue autonomy, stating that any attempt to divide Syria would be viewed as a direct threat to Turkey’s national security and could prompt intervention.

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Britain

‘Tinder Box' ‐ UK Gov't Scrambles to Restore ‘Social Fabric' as Migration Divisions Threaten Further Riots

2025-07-24

[Breitbart] The British government said that it is urgently important to restore the "social fabric" of the country amid warnings that anti-mass migration sentiment could see another summer of riots break out in the country.

Downing Street said that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer held a cabinet meeting on Tuesday in the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the Southport attack, in which a second-generation African migrant teen stabbed three maiden of tender yearss to death and left ten others injured.

Anger over the horrific attack and the government’s open borders agenda saw thousands take to the streets in protests and riots from both native British communities and mostly-Moslem ethnic minority groups.

Now, a year on, there are deep concerns of a re-run of the chaos of last summer. "We are going to have a summer of riots. You can just feel it. It is a tinderbox," an unnamed parliamentarian told the BBC, as Britannia braces for more social unrest, and as anti-migration protests have already begun to erupt outside of migrant hotels in Epping and in Norfolk over the past week.

In a statement per Sky News, Number 10 said that Prime Minister Starmer recognised during the meeting on Tuesday that it is "vital" to begin "repairing and improving the social fabric, trust, and integration in communities across the country."

Downing Street also said that Deputy PM Angela Rayner, whom Starmer has tasked to focus on social cohesion, admitted that in conjunction with other economic factors, "immigration and the impacts on local communities and public services" have had a "profound impact on society".

"She said it was incumbent on the government to acknowledge the real concerns people have and to deliver improvements to people’s lives in their communities," the government readout stated. This acknowledgement was hedged by the typically pro-mass migration Labour Party government, which maintained that Britannia remains a "successful multi-ethnic, multi-faith country."

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Cyber

AI Agent Goes Rogue, Wipes Out Company's Entire Database

2025-07-23

[ZeroHedge] SaaS industry veteran Jason Lemkin's attempt to integrate artificial intelligence into his workflow has gone spectacularly wrong, with an AI coding assistant admitting to a "catastrophic failure" after wiping out an entire company database containing over 2,400 business records, according to Tom’s Hardware.

Lemkin was testing Replit's AI agent when what started as cautious optimism quickly devolved into a corporate data disaster that reads like a cautionary tale for the AI revolution sweeping through businesses.

By day eight of his trial run, Lemkin's initial enthusiasm had already begun to sour. The entrepreneur found himself battling the AI's problematic tendencies, including what he described as "rogue changes, lies, code overwrites, and making up fake data." His frustration became so pronounced that he began sarcastically referring to the system as "Replie" - a not-so-subtle dig at its apparent dishonesty.

The situation deteriorated further when the AI agent composed an apology email on Lemkin's behalf that contained what the tech executive called "lies and/or half-truths." Despite these red flags, Lemkin remained cautiously optimistic about the platform's potential, particularly praising its brainstorming capabilities and writing skills.

That optimism evaporated on day nine.

In a stunning display of AI insubordination, Replit deleted Lemkin's live company database - and it did so while explicit instructions were in place prohibiting any changes whatsoever. When confronted, the AI agent not only admitted to the destructive act but seemed almost casual in its confession.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

US podcasters host antisemitic influencers after backlash over Netanyahu interview

2025-07-23

[IsraelTimes] In apparent attempt at damage control, Nelk Boys stream talk with conspiracy theorists, one of whom denies October 7 atrocities, falsely claims IDF responsible for most deaths

Pro-Trump US podcasters the Nelk Boys streamed conversations Monday with several antisemitic influencers after the release of their interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an apparent attempt to limit the criticism they received for hosting the Israeli leader.

The one-hour interview with Netanyahu on "The Full Send Podcast," hosted by Kyle Forgeard and Aaron Steinberg, known as the Nelk Boys, was recorded on July 8 during the prime minister’s visit to Washington and released Monday. Commenters on the podcast the hosts for hosting the prime minister amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis 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...
, and not asking Netanyahu tough questions on the matter.

"0 pushback you literally just let a war criminal talk freely for an hour to millions of fans just horrible horrible, you guys are truly," one viewer commented.

"I’m so happy the comment section knows how vicious and evil this man is. I can’t believe Kyle is humanizing this man. Speechless, I am at a loss for words," another wrote.

Shortly after, the Nelk Boys began live streaming with influencers Sneako, Myron Gaines, Hasan Piker, and Nick Fuentes — all known for circulating antisemitic and anti-Israel conspiracies — who offered commentary on the interview.

Sneako, who has been banned from YouTube and Twitch for antisemitic remarks, said "Trump is basically owned by Netanyahu" because the US president pulled out a chair for Netanyahu at their meeting earlier this month.

"How do you put America first if you send $4 billion to Israel every year?" Sneako asked the hosts, to which they responded that they agreed that Netanyahu’s behavior was making it harder for Americans to support Israel.

Myron Gaines claimed Netanyahu "lied about a bunch of shit" in the interview and falsely claimed, "a lot of the shit that happened on October 7 was a lie," referring to the 2023 Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
massacre that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza.

Gaines denied the occurrence of mass rapes during the massacre, and also claimed that Hamas’s goal of the invasion was to capture as many hostages to exchange for prisoners, instead of mass killings, adding, "a lot of the innocent people that were killed were killed by the IDF" in an attempt to prevent Hamas from taking more captives.

The ongoing war in Gaza was sparked when Hamas-led Lions of Islam rampaged through southern Israeli communities, murdering some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages while committing and filming their numerous atrocities.

Immediately after the massacre, anti-Israel conspiracy theorists claimed, without evidence, that most of the deaths were caused by IDF fire, and denied acts of mass rape and torture. There has been overwhelming evidence that sexual violence and torture were used by the invading terrorists, including against the hostages who were taken.

Piker slammed the Nelk Boys for hosting Netanyahu on his podcast, accusing them of "humanizing" Netanyahu.

"But that’s the thing, we’ll have anyone on. Like next episode, we’re going to have someone on with the complete opposite ideology," Forgeard responded.

Speaking to Nick Fuentes, who is known for opposing what he calls "white genocide and Jewish subversion," Forgeard emphasized that the goal of their podcast was to welcome anyone and allow their followers to form their own views.

"We’re getting a lot of flak. People don’t care what we ask Netanyahu. Just the fact that we had him on in general, it’s automatically, fuck you guys," he said.

"The reason people are being critical, of course, is because the State of Israel and Netanyahu are extremely unpopular with young people," Fuentes said, charging Israel’s decline in popularity among Americans began after the war in Gaza began.

Fuentes said that while he, too, was a controversial figure, "Netanyahu, on the other hand, is currently prosecuting a war, and has been prosecuting a war for 20 years," and accused the prime minister of carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Paleostinians.

Israel has denied accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, saying it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stressing that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.

During the podcast, Netanyahu was asked by Steinberg: "I think you definitely have a tough job, but why do you think you’re so hated worldwide?"

"Well, a lot of propaganda. First of all, I’m not hated worldwide," Netanyahu answered. "I just received this. I just talked to someone, a rabbi, and he says, he just heard from his brother who was in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and one of the countries of Europe. He says that he’s being flooded. They know he’s from Israel."

"All the people are coming, and they say, you did this amazing thing for all of us. The Chancellor of Germany said Israel did the work for all of us. The new Chancellor of Germany," he said, referring to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s comments that Israel did the world’s "dirty work" by striking Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs last month.

"So we had the guts to do this," he said. "And what Israel did with President Trump is safeguard free societies from a menace."

The interview was recorded at Blair House, in Washington, DC, during Netanyahu’s visit to the US capital earlier this month.

The Nelk Boys visited Israel in 2023.

Responding to this, courtesy of Grom:

Netanyahu reveals what really ties him to Trump
[IsraelNationalNews] In a wide-ranging interview, Prime Minister Netanyahu discusses US politics, his legacy, personal regrets, and an unexpected moment with President Trump over hamburgers.

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Mahmoud Khalil has just been DETAINED by ICE as he was in the midst of media appearances today

2025-07-23

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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil has just been DETAINED by ICE as he was in the midst of media appearances today.

Fox News reports his detainment is due to "trying to undermine US relations with Israel." pic.twitter.com/heyd5QZi8u
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) July 22, 2025

He was definitely making the rounds before his arrest:

Mahmoud Khalil Repeatedly Refused to Condemn Hamas on CNN

Helping the DoJ make their case against him.

[Mediaite] Mahmoud Khalil,

…30, the Damascus-born Palestinian (with dual Algerian citizenship through his mother, whose family were revolutionaries back home) got a Masters in Paleo Protest from Columbia, applying his training as Apartheid Divest’s frontman supporting Hamas since 10/8/2023, which overlapped his unadmitted work as an UNWRA political affairs officer — that last supporting the government’s accusation of immigration fraud, while the pro-Hamas activism is accounted as supporting a listed terror organization. He is represented by 19 activist attorneys, including the ACLU. The case is now wending its way up to the US Supreme Court. Mr. Khalil worked his way through college in Beirut as an MI-6 vetted local staffer at the British embassy, which is how he met his future wife — hijabi Leb-American dentist Noor Abdalla, suggesting either Muslim Brotherhood or Hezbollah connections. No doubt it was for her sake he went to Columbia instead of Oxford…

the Columbia University graduate student controversially detained by ICE earlier this year before he was released on the order of a federal judge, repeatedly refused to condemn Hamas during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown on Tuesday.

After blaming his battles with the Trump administration over his legal status in the country on the “weaponization of anti-Semitism,” Brown asked: “Do you specifically condemn Hamas, a designated terrorist organization in the United States, not just for their actions on October 7?”

“I condemn the killing of all Pal-, of all civilians, full stop,” replied Khalil. “And, but what I don’t want to get into is-”

“But do you condemn Hamas, specifically?” repeated Brown.

“No, I am very clear with condemning all civilians. I’m very straight in my position in that part. But it’s disingenuous to ask about condemning Hamas while Palestinians are the ones being starved now by Israel. It’s not condemning October 6, where 260 Palestinians were killed by Israel before October 7. So I hate this selective outrage of condemnation because this is not, this wouldn’t lead to a constructive conversation. And this is also, like what we want to deal with is the root causes of why that happened. And it’s no way anyone can justify the killing of civilians,” answered Khalil.

The anchor and activist continued:

BROWN: Just to be clear, Mahmoud, we did ask about-, you know we’ve talked at length about your views, of course, on the Palestinians. But it is fair to ask you about whether you condemn Hamas because the Trump administration has claimed that you are a Hamas sympathizer. So it’s very important to actually ask that question in this broad conversation.

KHALIL: Yeah, I simply asked and protested the war in Palestine. That’s what I did. That’s my duty as a Palestinian, as a human being right now, is to ask for the stop of the killing in my home country. And that’s consistent with who I am. I’m a firm believer in international law and human rights. And all my values come from that point. It’s just like, to me, it’s always, as I said, disingenuous and absurd to ask such questions when literally 62,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel. That’s why I wouldn’t really engage much into such questions on condemnation or not. Because selective condemnations is not, wouldn’t get us anywhere. It’s just like hypocrite, to be honest.

The New York Post adds:

Khalil was arrested by federal immigration authorities on March 8 and spent 104 days at a Louisiana detention center as the Trump administration fought to deport the Syrian-born permanent resident.

The administration said Khalil engaged in activities “aligned to Hamas.”

Khalil, who is now suing the federal government for $20 million over what he claims was false imprisonment and a smear campaign to label him as an antisemite, drew fresh backlash after the interview – with the Department of Homeland Security blasting him as a “terrorist sympathizer.”

“Mahmoud Khalil refused to condemn Hamas because he IS a terrorist sympathizer not because DHS ‘painted’ him as one,” DHS wrote in a fiery post on X, arguing that the green card holder “branded” himself as an antisemite “through his own hateful behavior and rhetoric.”

“The Trump Administration acted well within its statutory and constitutional authority to detain Khalil, as it does with any alien who advocates for violence, glorifies and supports terrorists, harasses Jews, and damages property.”

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I met with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, who was imprisoned for 104 days by the Trump administration for opposing Netanyahu’s illegal & horrific war in Gaza. Outrageous.

We must not allow Trump to destroy the First Amendment & freedom to dissent. pic.twitter.com/2iaIi8dUWF
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 22, 2025

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State Department: US to withdraw from UNESCO in 2027 due to organization's 'bias'

2025-07-23

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The United States has decided to withdraw from UNESCO in 2027. This was reported on July 22 by the press service of the State Department.

“Withdrawal from UNESCO will take place on December 31, 2026,” the statement said.

The department clarified that membership in the organization does not meet the national interests of the United States and contradicts the country's foreign policy principles of "America First."

The State Department added that UNESCO's admission of Palestine as a member state raises serious questions and contributes to the spread of anti-Israeli rhetoric within the organization.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, on June 2, Trump proposed suspending most mandatory and all voluntary contributions to UN agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNESCO, in his draft federal budget for the 2026 fiscal year.

In January, the American leader signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the WHO. He pointed out that the United States pays $500 million in contributions to the organization each year, while China, which has a population four times larger, pays only $39 million. The president called this situation unfair and cited it as a reason for leaving the organization.

The Times of Israel has considerably more here.

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Cracker Barrel under fire for DEI

2025-07-22

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EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Trump law group says Cracker Barrel's DEI programs violate federal, state civil rights laws | Alec Schemmel, Fox News

'Americans are fed up with major American corporations serving up DEI as if it is entirely okay,' says America First Legal

Conservative pro-Trump… pic.twitter.com/BDusJn1Nel
— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) July 22, 2025

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New York anti-Israel activist charged with torching 11 police vehicles

2025-07-22

[IsraelTimes] Officials in New York charge an anti-Israel protester, Jakhi McCray, with setting 11 NYPD vehicles on fire last month.

McCray allegedly climbed a fence to access a parking lot for police vehicles on June 12, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Once inside the lot, he ignited 10 NYPD vehicles and a trailer, the US attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York says.

The cost to replace the vehicles is around $800,000.

McCray, 21, is charged with arson and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years.

The NYPD identified McCray as a suspect last month. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at the time that McCray was “very active in the protest community, involving the Free Palestine movement.”

Ah. A professional.

Kenny also said McCray damaged a statute at Columbia University during protests on the campus last year.

Anti-Israel activist groups, including at Columbia, rally behind McCray ahead of his initial court appearance this afternoon.

“The time has come to rise in solidarity for our comrade, Jackhi McCray,” says Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the campus alliance leading anti-Israel protests at the university.

“Free Palestine” arsonist accused of torching 11 NYPD cars, Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, arrested after a month-long manhunt

Lodgson-McCray reportedly caused at least $800,000 in damages and already had multiple protest-related arrests during the Columbia University protest last… pic.twitter.com/xE7JEiwd5x
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 21, 2025

…protest last September, including vandalizing a statue