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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Al Jazeera says Palestinian Authority has allowed it to resume work in West Bank

2025-05-13

[IsraelTimes] Qatari network was banned by PA from broadcasting in the territory following ‘misinformation’ and ‘incitement’ in its coverage of Ramallah’s crackdown on terror groups

Al Jazeera’s Ramallah bureau chief said Monday that the news channel can resume working in the West Bank, after Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
lifted a ban that had been in place since January.

"Paleostinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to lift the ban on the Al Jazeera network and allow its crews to resume work in the Paleostinian territories starting tomorrow morning," Waleed Omari said, in a statement to the Israeli-Paleostinian Foreign Press Association.

A Paleostinian official confirmed the removal of the ban to AFP, but the PA did not issue a formal announcement.

The Paleostinian Authority in January ordered the temporary suspension of Al Jazeera broadcasts across the West Bank, against the backdrop of the 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...
i network’s critical coverage of Ramallah’s crackdown on terror groups in the territory.

The PA accused the network of "misinformation, incitement, sedition and interference in Paleostinian internal affairs."

In late December, Al Jazeera had condemned what it said was an "incitement campaign" by PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party against the network in some areas of the West Bank.

"This campaign follows the network’s coverage of festivities between Paleostinian security forces and resistance fighters in Jenin," Al Jazeera said in a statement at the time, lionizing the anti-PA fighters, many of whom were affiliated with the Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror groups.

The Qatari broadcaster has close ties with Hamas and has long been accused of having a distinct anti-Israel slant.

The network is already banned from broadcasting from Israel, amid a long-running feud with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has only worsened during the ongoing war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. Israeli officials have long complained about Al Jazeera’s coverage, which they say is heavily influenced by Hamas and endangers IDF troops in Gaza.

A court, reviewing the temporary ban, determined that there was a "close connection" between Al Jazeera and Hamas, that some Al Jazeera news hounds in Gaza had turned themselves into "assistants and partners" with Hamas, and that some of them had even carried out terror attacks.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

PA has stopped paying over 1,600 prisoners as part of reform — sources

2025-05-12

[IsraelTimes] Two Palestinian sources familiar with issues concerning Palestinian security prisoners tell the Times of Israel that the Palestinian Authority has, as of this month, stopped paying the salaries of 1,612 prisoners held in Israeli prisons.

The move comes as the PA is implementing its new welfare system, which will offer stipends to Palestinians strictly based on financial need and will not account for the length of one’s prison sentence, as was the case in the previous scheme.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree in February cancelling legislation that codified the old so-called “pay-to-slay” system, but it has taken time to come into effect, and some prisoners have continued receiving stipends based on the old policy until now.

Last month, The Times of Israel revealed that the PA invited the US to certify that the new system is in place starting June 1.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Putin: Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe in the full sense of the word

2025-05-11

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Gaza Strip is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe in the full sense of the word, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 10.

Tell Hamas to open their overstuffed warehouses full of stolen humanitarian supplies. That’ll take care of the problem.

At a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Kremlin, the head of the Russian state stated that Moscow is concerned about the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, is monitoring its development and is providing assistance to the Palestinian people.

"We are following with concern and empathy the tragic events in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, which have claimed the lives of more than 51,000 people.

So the Hamas official claims. No way of knowing if it’s true, but repeated analysis shows they definitely lie about how many of that number are fighters versus civilians.

Tensions are also growing on the West Bank. The Gaza Strip is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe in the full sense of the word," Putin said.

The President also noted that the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone continues to deteriorate, and a sustainable settlement of the conflict is only possible on the basis of the two-state principle. Putin suggested that Abbas discuss possible additional steps by Russia that would contribute to de-escalation of the conflict.

Abbas, in turn, thanked Putin for his political support for Palestine and the supply of humanitarian aid. He stressed that he is categorically against US President Donald Trump's idea of resettling Palestinians from Gaza as a "way" to resolve the conflict.

They’re in no way related to the Arab population in the West Bank, so he doesn’t care that they have minimal food, no power, clean water, or sanitation, and no roofs over their heads. Though to be fair, only the food and roofs are new — the problems with power, water, and sanitation go back for years.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, Putin previously noted that peace in the Middle East cannot be restored as long as historical injustice against Palestine persists.

The President pointed out that the key condition for peace in the region is the implementation of the two-state formula (Israeli and Palestinian), previously approved by the UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.

But rejected by Israel so long as the PLO or Hamas are the counterparties, so the UN’s opinion simply does not matter. Come back in a generation or two, and we’ll see if their attitude has improved.

The President also stated that Russia will do everything possible to resolve the grave and long-standing Middle East crisis.

That’s nice.

Earlier in May, Gaza Health Ministry Director General Munir al-Barash noted that the critical food shortage and lack of access to clean drinking water among residents of the sector allowed the UN to officially recognize the enclave as a famine zone.

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Israel warns its citizens abroad about planned global protests over Gaza Tuesday

2025-04-22

[IsraelTimes] Israelis should not display national symbols, says National Security Council, which is expecting pro-Palestinian protests around the world; Hamas calls for West Bank campus rallies

Israel on Monday alerted its nationals abroad to take caution ahead of mass pro-Paleostinian protests planned worldwide for Tuesday, warning that the demonstrations could spark violence against Israelis.

The warning from the National Security Council (NSC) came after over 18 months in which Jews and Israelis around the world have been repeatedly targeted in attacks linked to the war against Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
in Gazoo.

In a statement, the NSC said that it had "identified many calls online to hold events and protests in countries around the world led by various pro-Paleostinian groups."

"These events may turn ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful against Israelis," the statement warned, adding that "terror supporters and lone wolves could integrate into protests in order to carry out attacks."

The NSC advised Israelis abroad to obey local security services, notify them in case of distress, not display Israeli symbols in public, avoid protests, and remain alert.

Such specific NSC warnings are relatively rare and based on concrete intelligence.

Hamas last week called for protests across the globe over the weekend, though these were not accompanied by a warning.

On Monday, a senior Hamas official called on Paleostinians in the West Bank, particularly in universities, to hold "angry marches" and mass events across the territory on Tuesday in protest of Israel’s "war of extermination."

In a message on the terror group’s Telegram, Abdel Rahman Shadid argued that "the student movement in the West Bank must play a role in stopping the genocide and taking urgent action for Gaza in all squares and universities, in light of the ongoing war of extermination, and in continuing the heroic battle of the Flood of al-Aqsa" — Hamas’s name for its October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel that sparked the war.

Hamas also called for "escalating all forms of resistance to confront the occupation’s aggression and displacement plans in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem."

Israel’s warning to nationals abroad was issued amid a dramatic rise in protests, calls for violence, and attacks on Israelis in the last year and a half following the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and the subsequent war, notably in Amsterdam in November when 10 people were maimed after angry mobs chased Israeli soccer fans through the city, forcing hundreds to hide in their hotels.

Hamas has previously called on Paleostinians and their supporters around the world to protest Israel, calling for "days of rage" immediately following the October 7 onslaught, in which some 1,200 were killed and 251 were taken hostage, and after the liquidation of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
in August 2024.

Pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel groups, including student groups at Western universities, have adopted this practice and had even called for their own "days of rage" to commemorate the first anniversary of the October 7 assault in October 2024, including vigils, lectures and protests.

Widespread protests have been held by students for the last year and a half, some of which resulted in harassment and violence against Jewish and Israeli students.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

WSJ: Israel Hit Hamas Where It Hurts Most

2025-04-18

[HOTAIR] 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...
? Tunnels? Tehran? Yes, the IDF hit Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
in all of those places, including in Iran's capital when Israel took out its top leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
.

However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
the Wall Street Journal reports that the IDF and Israeli intelligence have struck hardest at the heart of Hamas -- its wallet:

Israel last month cut off supplies of humanitarian goods to the enclave, some of which Hamas had been seizing and selling to raise funds, according to Arab, Israeli and Western officials. Its renewed offensive has targeted and killed Hamas officials who played important roles in distributing cash to cadres and sent others into hiding, Arab intelligence officials said.

In recent weeks, the Israeli military has said it killed a money changer who was key to what it called terrorist financing for Hamas as well as a number of top political officials in rapid succession.

The result for Hamas has been a debilitating squeeze.

Salary payments to many Gaza ~~babus~~ government employees have ceased, while many senior Hamas fighters and political staff began receiving only about half of their pay midway through last month's Ramadan holy period, the intelligence officials said. Rank-and-file Hamas fighters' pay had been averaging around $200 to $300 a month, they said.

When the Israelis cut off aid transports after the end of the cease-fire, Western nations howled their objections. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
Israel is under no obligation to feed a population that launched a war against it, at least not unless that population capitulates. More importantly, the cutoff of that aid also eliminated a large amount of the leverage Hamas has over that population and in controlling the forces in Gaza.

This isn't a police action; it's a war, one triggered by Hamas with the most monstrous atrocities seen in scope and particulars in decades, if not centuries. Israel warned after the October 7 massacres that the time had come to settle all accounts in the Middle East, especially with Hamas. Unless they surrender and leave Gaza, Israel intends to utterly destroy them rather than return to a frozen conflict that allows Hamas to rebuild again. This time, the Israelis are taking aim at their ability to survive, not just to get them to sign a meaningless cease-fire.

If this sounds familiar, it should. The Israelis used the same strategy against Hezbollah when Iran's other proxy insisted on joining the war. After Operation Grim Beeper took out most of Hezbollah's command structure, they eliminated His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
too, who had been the linchpin of Iran's proxy strategy for destroying Israel and controlling the region.

But the Israelis also went after Hezbollah's finances too, targeting their bank al-Qard al-Hasan (AQAH) both figuratively and literally. The IDF destroyed several AQAH locations around Beirut last fall. That stripped Hezbollah of funds at a moment when 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 ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
had difficulty in transferring enough operational cash to their proxy in Leb
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
. As a result of the comprehensive Israeli attack on Hezbollah, they could no longer function as a security force for Iranian toady Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
, who had to flee when his forces collapsed soon after Hezbollah got neutered.

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards reveal major underground missile complex

2025-03-27

[HodhodYemenNews] The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled on Tuesday an underground “missile city” containing tunnels filled with thousands of precision-guided missiles of various types, including the ‘Khaybarshegan’, ‘Sejjil’, ‘Emad,’ and ‘Haj Qasem.’

Iranian media reported that the new city was unveiled in the presence of Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri and Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.

During the event, Major General Bagheri emphasized the rapid development of Iran’s missile capabilities, noting the continued strengthening of defenses and progress beyond the operation known as “True Promise II,” with a significant portion of the planned implementation completed.

The Times of Israel expands:

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#Iran’s IRGC unveils new underground #missile base which is home to thousands of precision-guided missiles including Kheibar Shekan, Haj Qasem, Ghadr-H, Sejjil, Emad, and more. https://t.co/feMwOqIAM1 pic.twitter.com/FSLLknsONb
— Iran Nuances (@IranNuances) March 25, 2025

Iran’s military chief claims capabilities are now 10 times stronger than thoseused in October missile attack on Israel; several Iranian-made missiles identified in footage

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps revealed one of its underground "missile cities" to Iranian media outlets Wednesday, as tensions with the West boiled over its nuclear program.

An Israeli flag could be seen placed on the ground in the footage at the unveiling — a practice common in the Islamic Theocratic Republic that allows people to trample the flag as an offense against the Jewish state.

Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, and the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, were present in the footage, touring around on vehicles and speaking to personnel at the undisclosed location.

Bagheri told personnel during the tour of the base that "Iran’s iron fist is far stronger than before," and claimed that Tehran was developing its defensive capabilities faster than its rivals, as quoted by Press TV.

"The enemy will definitely fall behind in this balance of power," he said.

"All the [defensive] dimensions that are required for generating a [military] capability that is 10 times [greater than] the one deployed during Operation True Promise II, has been created," Bagheri added, mentioning Iran’s name for its second missile attack on Israel in October.

Iranian media outlets identified several domestically produced missiles in the footage, including the "Emad," a missile with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles); "Sejil" with 1,500-2,500 kilometers (930 to 1,550 miles); "Qadr H" with 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles); "Kheibar Shekan," with 1,450 kilometers (900 miles) and "Haj Qassem," with 1,400 kilometers (870 miles).

Iranian media outlets said the base was new, but such a claim could not be verified.

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 ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
launched its first-ever direct attack on Israel in April 2024, firing some 300 attack drones and missiles in response to the killing of several Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members in an ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
near Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.

Months later, in October, Iran launched some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for the killings of His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
and Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
, the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
, respectively.

In both instances, the Iranian assaults were largely thwarted by Israel’s air defenses in cooperation with the US and its regional allies. Israel twice bombed Iran in response, the second time destroying much of its air defense systems as well as some rocket and drone manufacturing sites.

Amid growing concern in the West over Iran’s continued nuclear enrichment, US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
sent the Islamic republic’s leadership a letter offering talks for a new nuclear deal earlier this month while restoring a sanctions campaign and threatening military action if diplomacy is unsuccessful.

The letter was delivered to Tehran on March 12 by UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said Monday the door was open for "indirect negotiation" on the matter but dismissed the prospect of direct talks "until there is a change in the other side’s approach toward the Islamic republic."

The top Iranian diplomat said Tehran would not engage in direct talks with Washington under threats so long as Trump maintains his "maximum pressure" policy of economic sanctions.

Iran, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction, denies seeking a nuclear weapon, but it has ramped up its enrichment of uranium up to 60 percent purity, the only country in the world without a nuclear weapons program to do so, and has obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

In first, court freezes some Israeli funds to PA in support of lawsuit by terror victim’s family

2025-03-26

[IsraelTimes] The Jerusalem District Court issues a first-of-its-kind order to freeze NIS 50 million ($13.7 million) worth of Palestinian Authority funds, the Ynet news site reports.

The move comes after Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife and two daughters were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in April 2023, initiated a lawsuit against the PA’s Prisoners Club and Martyrs Fund over stipends known as the “pay for slay” policy, which provides monthly payments to the families of Palestinian assailants killed or imprisoned for attacking Israelis.

“PA resources should not support terrorism,” Rabbi Dee says. “I urge other terror victims in Israel to pursue similar action. Together, we can strip the enemy of their assets.”

The order aims to compensate the families of terror victims by withholding funds diverted to terror salaries, the plaintiff’s legal team says, according to Ynet.

In February, PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree canceling legislation.

Dee’s legal action follows the Knesset’s approval last year of the Compensation of Victims of Terrorism Bill, which enabled victims of terrorism and their families to file damages-seeking lawsuits against parties offering financial support or compensation for committing acts of terrorism.

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Fifth Column

Georgetown U instructor detained by ICE claims he was 'doxxed and smeared'... as jaw-dropping Hamas link emerges

2025-03-21

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A university student and part time professor is facing deportation over his alleged links to Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
amid President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
's immigration crackdown.

Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral student at Georgetown University, was taken into custody by masked ICE agents outside of his home in Rosslyn, Virginia on Monday night.

Suri's attorney Hassan Ahmad has filed a petition in federal court in Virginia on Tuesday calling for his release, likening the case to that of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, Politico reports.

He claimed his client is only being targeted because his wife is a Paleostinian, noting they have 'long been doxxed and smeared' for their support of Paleostinian rights.

The Department of Homeland Security, however, alleges Suri been involved in 'actively spreading Hamas propaganda' and 'promoting antisemitism'.

His wife, Mapheze Ahmad Yusef Saleh, is the daughter of Ahmed Yusef who was an advisor to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
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...
, according to Campus Watch.

'Suri was a foreign exchange student at Georgetown University actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media,' a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Fox News.

'Suri has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas.

'The Secretary of State issued a determination on March 15, 2025 that Suri’s activities and presence in the United States rendered him deportable under INA section 237(a)(4)(C)(i).'

Suri endorsed Hamas online even though his Georgetown bio says he focuses his studies on the 'grinding of the peace processor in the Middle East.'

In one now-deleted post, he reportedly denied reports of the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

'Three lies by Israeli occupation, no proof whatsoever of babies beheaded, rapes or mass killing at carnival,' the postdoctoral student, who also teaches a class on majority and minority rights in South Asia, wrote at the time, according to Campus Watch.

In another post from years ago, Suri reportedly expressed support for Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yasin.

He is said to have posted a video saying, 'This is what Hamas argues. Sheikh Yaseen giving the reasons why his group is fighting for their land which was stolen.'

Suri even reportedly posted a video showing Hamas forces of Evil holding Israeli child hostages, writing: 'This is how Hamas men deal with kids on Oct. 7.'

His wife, a US citizen, has also spoken out on social media about her support for the terrorist group, and spoke about her role in Hamas' government.

She told Arabic-language media that she served with the terror group's Committee to Break the Siege in Gaza - which happened to be chaired by her father, the National Review reports.

At one point, she even reportedly expressed her hatred for her adopted country, declaring in Arabic on Instagram: 'America is the plague.'

On Monday, agents informed Suri they were with the Department of Homeland Security, and told him that his student visa has been revoked, a petition for his release claims.

It says Suri was put in deportation proceedings under the same provision of immigration law that the Trump administration invoked to try to deport Khalil.

The provision gives the Secretary of State the power to deport noncitizens if he or she determines that their continued presence in the United States would threaten foreign policy - though Suri has not been charged with a crime in the United States.

Following his arrest on Monday, Suri was taken to a facility in Virginia and is expected to be transferred soon to a detention center in Texas.

As of Wednesday night, an online locator for immigration detainees showed he was at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement staging center at an airport in Alexandria, Louisiana, Politico reports.

His lawyer Hassan Ahmad said he has not been able to contact his client since he was detained, and said he is now unsure whether he will have to refile Suri's petition for release in Louisiana.

Ahmad told Politico he is prepared 'to do whatever we can to release our client from detention and afford him due process.'

He then went on to hit out at the Trump administration for Suri's arrest.

'This is just another example of our government abducting people the same way they kidnapped Khalil,' Ahmad argued.

Khalil's case has become a flashpoint for Trump's pledge to deport activists who participated in the wave of protests on US college campuses against Israel's military assault on Gaza.

The Trump administration has argued pro-Paleostinian protests on college campuses have included support for Hamas and anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
, though, has fired back at critics of Khalil's arrest, saying that it is 'not about free speech.'

'When you come to the United States as a visitor, which is what a visa is, which is how this individual entered this country, on a visitor's visa, you are here as a visitor. We can deny you that visa,' the U.S. top diplomat argued.

If someone said they intended to come to the U.S. as a student 'and rile up all kinds of anti-Jewish student, anti-Semitic activities' and shut down universities, they would be denied the visa, Rubio said.

He added: 'If you actually end up doing that once you're in this country on such a visa, we will revoke it.'

'This is not about free speech. This is about people who don't have the right to be in the United States to begin with,' the secretary of state said.

'No one has a right to a student visa. No one has a right to a green card,' Rubio added.

He said the U.S. can deny one for 'virtually any reason.'

In a statement to DailyMail.com, Georgetown University said it was not aware of Suri engaging in illegal activity.

'Dr. Khan Suri is an Indian national who was duly granted a visa to enter the United States to continue his doctoral research on peacebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan.

'We are not aware of him engaging in any illegal activity, and we have not received a reason for his detention.

'We support our community members' rights to free and open inquiry, deliberation and debate, even if the underlying ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable. We expect the legal system to adjudicate this case fairly.'

Judge bars US from deporting Georgetown student detained for alleged Hamas ties

Of course. It will be fun when something is done about these activist Progressive judges sticking their rulings where they don’t belong.

[IsraelTimes] A federal judge has ordered US President Donald Trump’s administration not to deport Badar Khan Suri, an Indian man studying at Washington’s Georgetown University whose lawyer says the United States is seeking to remove him after it accused him of harming American foreign policy.

According to the three-paragraph order by US District Judge Patricia Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, the order will remain in effect until lifted by the court.

The Department of Homeland Security has accused Badar Khan Suri of ties to the Palestinian terror group Hamas and said he had spread Hamas propaganda and antisemitism on social media. On March 15, Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined Suri could be deported for those activities, according to DHS.

Suri is living in the US on a student visa, married to an American citizen, and has been detained in Alexandria, Louisiana, according to his lawyer. He is awaiting a court date in immigration court, his lawyer says.

Federal agents arrested him outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, on Monday night. The lawyer welcomes Thursday’s ruling and calls it “the first bit of due process Dr. Khan Suri has received since he was snatched from his family Monday night.”

DHS doesn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday’s court order.

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Europe

German election winner says he’ll ensure Netanyahu can visit despite ICC warrant

2025-02-25

[IsraelTimes] Friedrich Merz vows to ‘find a way’ for PM to travel to and from Germany without arrest; premier hails Merz for ‘openly defying ICC’s scandalous decision’ to accuse him of war crimes

German election winner Friedrich Merz said Monday he would make sure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can visit Germany despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for the Israeli leader.

Merz, who is expected to become Germany’s chancellor after his conservative CDU/CSU bloc came first in an election on Sunday, told a presser he had spoken with Netanyahu.

"I told him that we should see each other soon after the government is formed," Merz said. "In the event that he plans to visit Germany, I have committed myself to find a way to ensure that he can visit Germany and leave again without being arrested."

Merz said it was a "completely absurd idea" that an Israeli prime minister could not visit Germany.

Netanyahu’s office said he had congratulated Merz and that the German election winner had invited the premier to visit.

"Merz thanked the prime minister for his call and said he would invite him for an official visit to Germany, openly defying the ICC’s scandalous decision to label the prime minister as a war criminal," said the Prime Minister’s Office.

The ICC issued arrest warrants in November against Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for allegedly targeting civilians and using starvation as a weapon of war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. Israel has rejected the accusations, with some calling the arrest warrants antisemitic.

The ICC also sought to prosecute slain Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
leaders Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
, Muhammad Deif and Yahya Sinwar for crimes against humanity perpetrated during and after October 7, 2023 — when thousands of Hamas-led bully boyz stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

All three terror criminal masterminds had already been killed by Israel by the time the ICC issued the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.

Reacting to Merz’s remarks, the ICC said states have a legal obligation to enforce its decisions, and any concerns they may have should be addressed with the court in a timely and efficient manner.

"It is not for states to unilaterally determine the soundness of the court’s legal decisions," the court said.

GERMAN LEFTIST PARTY BLASTS INVITATION
The Left party in Germany called Merz’s invitation a "disaster" and accused him of "double standards."

Germany has always insisted that international arrest warrants must be implemented, said Left co-leader Jan van Aken.

"If Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
comes to Germany, then this arrest warrant must be implemented. The same applies to Netanyahu," said Aken, referring to an ICC arrest warrant issued for the Russian leader over the deportation of children from Ukraine.

The German government had previously said it was "examining" the ICC warrant against Netanyahu and that it was bound by the court.

But German officials carefully avoided saying whether they would act on the warrant, referring to the country’s "great responsibility towards Israel" as a consequence of the Holocaust.

Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
imposed sanctions on the ICC, accusing it of "abusing its power" in issuing the warrant against Netanyahu.

Merz still needs to find a partner to form a coalition before he becomes chancellor, which could be a lengthy process.

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Palestinian officials decry Abbas’s decision to end ‘pay-to-slay’ policies

2025-02-12

[IsraelTimes] Several Palestinian officials denounce Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s decree ending the controversial “pay-to-slay” policy that conditioned welfare payments to Palestinian security prisoners on the length of their sentences in Israeli jails, in addition to providing stipends to the families of terrorists killed while carrying out attacks.

The decree, issued yesterday and expected to affect tens of thousands of people, states that families of prisoners and slain attackers who require welfare assistance will be eligible for stipends based solely on financial need, as is the case with other Palestinians.

Qadura Fares, head of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority’s committee overseeing prisoner affairs, calls for the decree’s immediate withdrawal, warning that it will impact “approximately 35,000 to 40,000” families.

He adds that such a significant decision should have been discussed at all levels of the Palestinian political leadership, arguing that “allowances for prisoners have always been a point of consensus” among Palestinian factions.

Also present at the press conference is Hilmi al-Araj, head of the Center for the Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights, who calls for the decree to be “rescinded as though it never existed,” condemning both “its timing and its content, as the prisoners are on the verge of freedom.”

Araj is referring to the ongoing ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas, under which almost 2,000 Palestinian security prisoners will be released from Israeli prisons in exchange for hostages held in Gaza since October 7, 2023.

The Hamas terror group has condemned Abbas’s decision and called for its “immediate reversal.” >

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Six months later, Hamas officially admits Muhammad Deif killed by Israel

2025-01-31

[IsraelTimes] Terror group also confirms deaths of other commanders in war; ICC expected to cancel arrest warrant it issued for Deif in November

Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
front man Abu Obeida confirmed in a video statement Thursday that Muhammad Deif, the once-elusive commander of the terror group’s military wing, had been killed in an Israeli strike over the summer.

The terror group’s announcement came more than six months after Deif’s killing in a July 13 ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
, with Hamas previously denying he had been killed.

Abu Obeida in his video statement also confirmed the deaths during the war of Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing; Ghazi Abu Tama’a, head of combat support; Raad Thabet, the military wing chief of staff; Rafa’a Salameh, commander of the Khan Younis Brigade; Ayman Nofal, commander of the Central 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...
Brigade; and Ahmed Ghandour, commander of the Northern Gaza Brigade.

Hamas had previously only announced the deaths of Nofal and Ghandour.

Israel targeted Deif and Salameh in an airstrike on a Hamas compound, killing dozens in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The IDF confirmed Salameh’s death a day later, and Deif’s on August 1.

Until the July strike, Deif had survived seven Israeli attempts on his life over the years, some of which had maimed him.

According to a November report, Hamas was initially unable to confirm Deif’s death, partly due to the state of his badly disfigured remains. At the time, unnamed Hamas sources told the London-based, Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat paper that the group accepted that Deif had been killed, but Thursday’s statement marked the first time the organization officially acknowledged it.

The sources also told the paper at the time that two people had been arrested on suspicion of leading the IDF to Deif, including the slain military chief’s courier, who according to some reports had tipped the army off.

Despite the IDF announcing that it had killed Deif in August, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him on November 21 along with warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.

The ICC listed the charges against Deif as crimes against humanity of murder, extermination, torture and sexual violence as well as war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture, hostage-taking, outrages upon personal dignity and sexual violence.

As of Thursday evening, the ICC had not yet canceled the warrant. It previously dropped charges against Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
and Yahya Sinwar after they were killed by Israel.

Netanyahu and Gallant were both charged with war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and intentionally targeting a civilian population, and crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts during the war in Gaza.

Deif, along with Hamas’s Gaza leader Sinwar, was an architect of Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel, when thousands of forces of Evil broke through the border and killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, while taking 251 people hostage to Gaza. He had topped Israel’s most-wanted list since 1995 for his involvement in the planning and execution of a large number of terror attacks, including many bus bombings in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Born as Muhammad Masri in 1965 in Khan Younis, the terror leader became known as Muhammad Deif after joining Hamas during the First Intifada, or Paleostinian uprising, which began in 1987.

He was arrested by Israel in 1989 and spent about 16 months in detention.

Rising up the Hamas ranks, Deif developed the group’s network of tunnels and its bomb-making expertise. He was held personally responsible by Israel for the deaths of dozens of Israelis in suicide kabooms in the 1990s.

The last known attempt to eliminate Deif before the successful one in July, according to the military, occurred in May 2021, when Israel and Gazook terror groups fought in an 11-day flare-up known as Operation Guardian of the Walls.

Prior to 2021, Israel had tried to kill Deif during the 2014 war in Gaza, but narrowly missed, instead killing his immediate family members.

Other liquidation attempts took place in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2006.

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Al Jazeera airs footage of slain Hamas chief Sinwar at different parts of Gaza war

2025-01-25

[IsraelTimes] One shot shows Sinwar on battlefield, another shows him in an apartment, looking at a map; terror group confirms deaths of top officials months after Israel said they were killed

The Al Jazeera network on Friday aired unseen footage purporting to show slain Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
leader Yahya Sinwar during different points of the war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, some four months after he was killed in a firefight with Israeli troops in the southern city of Rafah.

In one shot published in the report, Sinwar can be seen walking through a battleground with a walking stick, wearing a military vest, and with a blanket covering his body so he cannot be identified from afar.

The footage shows the Hebrew word "north" graffitied on the wall where Sinwar briefly resided, indicating that Israel Defense Forces soldiers had operated in that home before the terror leader arrived there.

Another shot shows Sinwar wearing a polo shirt, walking through a residential apartment and at one point kneeling on the floor with another man, pointing at a map spread out in front of them.

In the report, the 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...
i channel also showed what it said was the order Sinwar signed to begin the terror group’s October 7, 2023 onslaught at 6:30 a.m. that day.

They had the footage and said nothing so that they could get footage of the invasion. Such lovely people, all.

The massacre, which sparked over 15 months of war in Gaza, saw some 3,000 Hamas-led ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.

Israel has long accused Al Jazeera of cooperating closely with Hamas and says that its news hounds in Gaza are operatives of Paleostinian terror groups.

If proof were needed, this proves it even more.

In October, the IDF published documents captured in Gaza that it said proved direct communication and cooperation between the Qatari network and Hamas, as well as documents showing that six active Al Jazeera news hounds were members of terror groups.

The outlet has fiercely denied
No, no! Certainly not!
Israel’s allegations and accused it of systematically targeting Al Jazeera employees in the Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera is banned from broadcasting from Israel and was recently also suspended by the Paleostinian Authority against the backdrop of the Qatari-based network’s critical coverage of Ramallah’s recent crackdown on terror groups in the West Bank.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her.
Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?...
the owner of the house where IDF forces purportedly killed Sinwar said on Friday that his ruined apartment in Rafah has become a macabre tourist attraction for admirers of the terror chief since a fragile hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect on Sunday.

Ashraf Abu Taha said he returned to the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah late on the night of October 17, shortly after Sinwar’s death, to find the ruins of his house mobbed by journalists and residents hoping to get a glimpse of the chair where Israeli drone footage showed Sinwar had been sitting in his final moments.

"I came at 11 o’clock. I was late, and I found people gathered with the journalists, almost thousands. I wondered what was happening. I found that they had come to take photos in the house," Abu Taha said.

In the video, shot right before IDF troops killed him and flattened part of the building, Sinwar — badly maimed, covered in dust and wrapped in a Paleostinian keffiyeh — hurled an object toward the drone. Israelis called it a sign of his weakness but Paleostinians have hailed it a final show of defiance against the more powerful Israeli army.

The chair on which he died has become somewhat of a Paleostinian nationalist symbol, Abu Taha suggested. He and his son have placed the seat and a vest they say was Sinwar’s on top of the ruins of their home.

"People are now saying the neighborhood is not Tal al-Sultan anymore, but it’s Tal al-Sinwar," he said, referring to the name of his neighborhood.

Also Friday, meanwhile, Hamas acknowledged that an Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
last summer eliminated Rawhi Mushtaha, Gaza’s de facto prime minister, along with another top official.

The Israel Defense Forces announced in October 2024 that Mushtaha had been killed in an airstrike on a tunnel in northern Gaza three months earlier, along with Hamas officials Sameh al-Siraj, who held the security portfolio in Hamas’s political bureau, and Sami Odeh, the head of Hamas’s "general security mechanism."

The Hamas statement on Friday confirmed the deaths of Mushtaha and Odeh only.

Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas and return the hostages taken on October 7, 2023, saw the military target many of Hamas’s leaders including the shadowy head of its military wing Muhammad Deif in a Gaza airstrike, political chief Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
in a kaboom in Tehran, both in July last year.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 46,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,000 ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems inside Israel on October 7.

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