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Africa North

Tunisia activists launch Gaza-bound convoy in 'symbolic act'

2025-06-10

[GEO.TV] Hundreds of people, mainly Tunisians, launched on Monday a land convoy bound for 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...
, seeking to "break the siege" on the Paleostinian territory, activists said.

The modern version of a Children’s Crusade, and just as ineffective. In the original, the children ended up dead or enslaved long before they neared Jerusalem.

Organisers said the nine-bus convoy was not bringing aid into Gaza,

No Aid??? Wow.

but rather aimed at carrying out a "symbolic act" by breaking the blockade on the territory described by the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
as "the hungriest place on Earth".

Still hungry after the 1.5million or so Gazans received 11 million meals over the past two weeks via GHF alone, never mind what the UN-linked NGOs have handed out? That’s nuts.

The "Soumoud" convoy, meaning "steadfastness" in Arabic, includes doctors and aims to arrive in Rafah, in southern Gaza, "by the end of the week", activist Jawaher Channa told AFP.

It is set to pass through Libya and Egypt, although Cairo has yet to provide passage permits, she added.

Both Egypt and Israel would have to open the border crossing into Gaza for them. What odds?

"We are about a thousand people, and we will have more join us along the way," said Channa, spokesperson of the Tunisian Coordination of Joint Action for Paleostine, the group organising the caravan.

Greta Thunberg and her fellow selfie jihadis were intercepted just before they arrived in Gaza, and are now being sent home by Israel But I was reminded of Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian activist-journalist with the International Solidarity Movement, who won his way into Gaza in 2008, and stayed on, doing all the activist things including reporting on the 2008-9 Gaza war … until 2011, when the ungrateful local Al Qaeda affiliate kidnapped him, and within 24 hours murdered him by hanging. Perhaps Israel should let the Tunisians through, to enjoy in full measure all the pleasures of Gaza for themselves.
The Times of Israel adds:

The overland effort — organized independently but moved up to coincide with the high-profile maritime flotilla that was seized by the Israeli Navy Monday — is made up of activists, lawyers, and medical professionals from North Africa. It plans to traverse Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt before reaching Rafah, the border crossing with Egypt that has remained largely closed since Israel’s military took control of the Gaza side in May 2024.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Blinken meets family of US-Turkish activist killed by IDF in West Bank

2024-12-17

[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met earlier today with the family of Aysenur Eygi,

… more fully Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, she was born in Turkey, died in the West Bank from a single bullet hole behind one ear 20 minutes after the shooting stopped — and in the meantime she lived in America long enough to gain citizenship and a new husband whom she left behind to protect rampaging Palestinians with her body and her blood from those eeeeevil Zionisters…

a Turkish-American activist shot dead by the IDF in the West Bank earlier this year, the State Department says.

Blinken expressed condolences to the family and reiterated his belief that the incident should never have happened, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says during a press briefing.

And it wouldn’t have, had she stayed at home, or at least spent her vacation touring around the harmless and picturesque.

Blinken also informed the family that Israel has told the US in recent days that the IDF is finalizing its investigation into Eygi’s killing, and that the State Department will keep the family in the loop on the matter.

In other words, nothing has changed, but he wants to posture in front of the cameras to demonstrate how much he cares for Israel’s avowed enemies one last time.

Asked whether he would back the Eygi family’s call for an independent investigation into her killing, Miller says that is a matter for the Justice Department to decide.

At least for the next few weeks. After that the decision will belong to President Trump and his team.

Eygi’s husband Hamad Ali told reporters after the meeting with Blinken that the secretary was “attentive,” but “repeated a lot of the same things we’ve been hearing for the past 20 years, particularly since Rachel Corrie’s killing.”

Twenty years Ms. Eygi was six. How much attention was she paying to events far from Turkey?

Corrie, a 23-year-old American International Solidarity Movement activist, was killed in Gaza while attempting to block an Israeli army bulldozer that was engaged in a home demolition operation. An Israeli court absolved the driver.

Israel’s initial findings on the killing of Eygi do not exonerate Israeli security forces, Miller said in September, warning that Washington would consider other measures if it is not satisfied with the results of a full Israeli probe.

Israel acknowledged that its troops shot the 26-year-old on September 6, while she took part in a protest near Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, but said it was an unintentional act during a demonstration that turned violent.

Eygi was a human rights activist and volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement,

… a leftwing Palestinian “peace movement” founded shortly before 9/11 with funding from the Holy Land Trust that uses international activists as human shields to protect Palestinian terrorists and provide propaganda for the Palestinian cause. Cf. Rachel Corrie, a.k.a. St. Pancake...

which calls for resisting Israeli rule over Palestinians using non-violent methods.

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The Grand Turk

Father of Turkish-American activist urges US to investigate her killing in West Bank

2024-09-13

This one is very curious. How did she come to be shot with a single bullet behind the left ear, twenty minutes after the shooting stopped? Why did the Palestinian medics try six times to restart her heart if she visibly had a bullet through her skull? What was a nice Turkish-American girl doing flying around the world on her own from the age of eighteen? Why did she go on her own to a dangerous situation in the West Bank when she was a newly graduated and happily wed?

[IsraelTimes] Mehmet Suat Eygi welcomes Turkish investigation into ‘arbitrary murder’ of his daughter Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who IDF has said ‘with high probability’ was fatally shot by troops

The father of the Ottoman Turkish-American activist fatally shot in the West Bank on Thursday welcomed ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s decision to initiate an investigation into her death and called on the United States to do the same.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi

…age 26, activist with the International Solidarity Movement, which hosts far-left activists from around the world to provide human shields for violent PLO protests against Israel…

who held Ottoman Turkish and American citizenship, was killed last Friday during demonstrations against settlements in the West Bank. A witness who was there, Israeli protester Jonathan Pollak, said she posed no threat to Israeli forces and that the shooting came during a moment of calm, following festivities between stone-throwing protesters and Israeli troops firing tear gas and bullets.

The Israel Defense Forces said this week in a preliminary report that Eygi was "with high probability" fatally hit by IDF troops’ mistaken gunfire, while expressing regret for the killing.

Turkey’s Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc announced Thursday that Turkey had launched its own investigation into her death days.

Mehmet Suat Eygi, who is based in Seattle but spoke in western Turkey, said he was very happy to learn that Turkey had opened an investigation into what he called the "arbitrary murder" of his daughter.

"I hope that the American government does the same," he said.

He said his daughter was 10 months old when the family left Turkey for the United States. "She studied in the schools there, she grew up with freedoms there. She is a citizen of that country," he said. "I hope the American government will show the same sensitivity."

He was speaking in the Aegean coastal town of Didim, where Eygi used to come for vacations and spend time with family members — and where she is expected to be buried. Eygi’s grandfather’s home and the street where the house is located was adorned with Ottoman Turkish flags — an honor usually bestowed to Ottoman Turkish soldiers killed in conflict.

The Ankara chief prosecutor’s office was leading the Ottoman Turkish probe, Tunc said, adding that Turkey would seek international arrest warrants for those responsible for her death. He also said Turkey would present findings to a UN court overseeing a genocide case against Israel filed by South Africa over the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an 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...
sparked by Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
’s October 7 attack. The charges in the case are rejected by both Israel and the US.

"We will take every judicial step for our martyred daughter, Aysenur," Tunc said.

Mehmet Suat Eygi said his daughter was a "special person" who cared about nature and human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
and traveled to Brazil, Australia and Mexico to campaign for environmental and human rights issues.

And world peace. It’s a requirement to add caring about world peace if you’re pretending to be a true humanitarian, as opposed to a cause junkie or a jihad tourist.

Eygi, who attended Seattle schools and graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology this year, was married and was financially comfortable, her father said. "She could have enjoyed a comfortable life, but she pursued her ideals. She left everything and went to the hell of the Middle East. She was that idealistic," Eygi said.

Another relative, Ali Tikkin, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Eygi’s family believes she was deliberately targeted by Israeli soldiers.

"There was no error or accident," he said. "I think it was a message to the world."

Tikkin, who is married to Eygi’s aunt, described the activist as a "free-spirited person" who began traveling the world on her own at an early age.

"Even at the age of 18 or 19, she went to different countries of the world on her own. First she started traveling out of curiosity. Later she took part in organizations by the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
," he said. "She was sensitive to events happening around the world."

A statement released by the Paleostinian Authority’s Ministry of Justice and signed by two forensic doctors said Eygi was brought to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, in the West Bank, after she was hit with a bullet fired by the Israeli army. The young woman had no signs of life as her heart was not beating, the statement said, adding that the bullet entered from behind the left ear causing damage to the brain.

I would love to know if it is the same kind of bullet used by the IDF, or something else. But I don’t imagine the PA will share.

Medical staff tried for a sixth time to reactivate her heart with no luck and she was considered dead at 2:36 p.m. on Friday. The statement said the bullet damaged the brain and the skull and different shrapnel caused tears and bruises.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that the Biden administration was aware of outside analyses saying that Ezgi Eygi was shot 20 minutes after the festivities ended, raising questions about the Israeli military’s role in her death. "This awful, awful killing never should have happened," said Jean-Pierre, but declined to say whether the administration was satisfied by the initial investigation by the Israel Defense Forces.

Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry officials said Eygi’s body was expected to be flown from Tel Aviv to Baku, Azerbaijan and arrive in Turkey on Friday. Burial was likely to take place on Saturday.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF regrets ‘indirect and unintended’ fire that likely killed US woman in West Bank, Biden pronounces it an accident

2024-09-11

[IsraelTimes] Initial report says troops aimed at ‘main instigator,’ not at Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi; activist’s family demands independent probe; Blinken slams ‘unprovoked and unjustified’ killing

An American peace activist who was rubbed out in the West Bank last week had "with high probability" been hit by IDF troops’ mistaken gunfire, the army said Tuesday, expressing regret for the killing.

The military says it has completed an initial probe into the killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, who also held Ottoman Turkish citizenship. The probe, carried out by commanders, has found that Eygi was likely killed by "indirect and unintended IDF fire, which was aimed at a main instigator" during a riot.

"The incident occurred during a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful gathering of dozens of Paleostinian suspects, who burned tires and threw stones at forces at Beita Junction," the IDF said, adding that it "expresses its deepest regret over the death."

The thing about putting yourself forward as a human shield during a crossfire is that you are likely to find yourself crossed by fire, with painfully predictable results.

The Military Police has also launched an investigation into the killing and will submit the findings to the Military Advocate General for review. The IDF said Israeli officials have submitted a request to carry out an autopsy.

Eygi, a Ottoman Turkish-born American citizen, was an activist with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), "a Paleostinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation" with non~~violent~~ mostly peaceful tactics. The ISM holds regular demonstrations at Beita Junction, near Nablus in the northern West Bank.

The killing came a day before the IDF wrapped up a 10-day counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank, which the army said killed more than 30 button men. The IDF renewed operations in Tullkarem on Tuesday.

Biden says US-Turkish activist ‘got hit by accident,’ after IDF expresses regret over killing

[IsraelTimes] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
says the killing of a US-Ottoman Turkish activist during a protest in the West Bank last week appears to have been an accident, after the IDF said she had "with high probability" been hit by soldiers’ mistaken gunfire and expressed its regret for her death.

"Apparently it was an accident — it ricocheted off the ground, and she got hit by accident," Biden tells news hounds, hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
said the killing was "unprovoked and unjustified."

Glory be. I can only imagine how bad the polling is if the president’s handlers put those words in his mouth.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

ISM aware that they face 'genocidal military' in occupied West Bank

2024-09-09

[Geo.tv] Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM),

…a leftwing Palestinian “peace movement” founded shortly before 9/11 with funding from the Holy Land Trust that uses international activists — some naive dupes, others Antifa-style, knowingly doing a rotation as human shields to protect Palestinian terrorists and provide propaganda for the Palestinian cause. Cf. Rachel Corrie, a.k.a. St. Pancake…

Neta Golan, told Al Jazeera that Palestine is at the forefront for the struggle of human rights.

''Palestine is at the forefront of this struggle for human rights and the rights of indigenous people to stay on their land. People come to be part of resisting the system that steals land and implements an unjust system — when they come here, they can actually confront this system,'' the co-founder of ISM stated.

Golan also stated that the volunteers who come to the occupied West Bank know the risks and they are aware that they are facing a genocidal military.

It’s amazing how bad the Israelis are at that genocide thingy…

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

~~US activist~~ American Turk is newest St. Pancake, shot dead by IDF at W. Bank anti-Israel protest; girl killed as settlers storm village

2024-09-07

Removed herself from the gene pool — and very neatly, too. So there’s that.

[IsraelTimes] Army probing circumstances of 26-year-old’s death near Nablus; 13-year-old reportedly shot inside her room as extremist Israelis enter town, clash with locals

The slain woman was named as Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, an American originally from Turkey. She was reportedly an activist with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

An American woman was shot and killed by IDF troops during a protest near Nablus in the northern West Bank on Friday, two doctors told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

Separately, a 13-year-old Paleostinian girl was reported rubbed out when bully boy settlers stormed a village near Nablus and clashed with villagers.

In the first case, witnesses and Paleostinian media reported that the woman was shot by Israeli troops while attending a pro-Paleostinian demonstration against settlement expansion in the Paleostinian town of Beita, southeast of Nablus.

Dr. Ward Basalat said the 26-year-old woman was shot in the head and died after arriving at a hospital. Dr. Fouad Naffa, the head of the hospital, also confirmed the death of an American citizen.

The slain woman was named as Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, an American originally from ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
. She was reportedly an activist with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

ISM is a leftwing Palestinian “peace movement” founded shortly before 9/11 with funding from the Holy Land Trust that uses international activists as human shields to protect Palestinian terrorists and provide propaganda for the Palestinian cause. Cf. Rachel Corrie, a.k.a. St. Pancake.

The Israeli military said it was investigating the matter.

Protests happen regularly and have grown ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful in the past. A month ago, American citizen Amado Sison was shot in the leg by Israeli forces, he said, as he tried to flee tear gas and live fire.

According to the IDF, during operations near the town of Beita close to Nablus, troops shot up a "main instigator" who was hurling stones at the forces and had "posed a threat."

"A claim that a foreign citizen was killed by gunfire in the area is being investigated. The details of the incident and the circumstances of her being hit are under investigation," the IDF added.

If you deliberately walk across the highway during rush hour, you don’t get to complain about being hit by cars.

"We deplore this tragic loss," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

What about the poor Israeli soldiers, traumatized by Ms Eygi’s successful suicide-by-IDF? Has his excellency, the American secretary of state, no sympathy for his plight?

Asked if the United States would take action against Israel, Blinken said: "First things first — let’s find out exactly what happened and we will draw the necessary conclusions and consequences from that.

"When we have more info, we will share it, make it available and, as necessary, we’ll act on it," he said. "I have no higher priority than the safety and protection of American citizens wherever they are."

”Mr. Secretary! Mr. Secretary! Do you know the history of the International Solidarity Movement? Or are you trying to protect Vice President Kamala Harris’s chances with the anti-Israel vote?”

Turkey also condemned the "murder committed by the Netanyahu government."

"Israel is trying to intimidate all those who come to the aid of the Paleostinian people and who fight peacefully against the genocide.

Just to clarify: when the Jews are genocided, 6 million of them are murdered and their bodies turned into soap and mattress stuffing in an attempt to wipe the entire population off the face of the earth. When Palestinians are genocided, their population goes up from 1 million in 1948 to 4 million today, while the IDF pauses a war to get polio vaccines and chef-made prepared meals to the civilian population Boy, those dumb Israelis really do not understand how its’s done...

This policy of violence will not work," a statement from the Foreign Ministry said, accusing Israel of "crimes against humanity."

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact...
Paleostinian media reported that a 13-year-old was killed after being shot by Israeli forces near Nablus amid a clash between bully boy settlers and local villagers.

She was evacuated at death's door from the village of Qaryut to a hospital in Nablus, according to the PA official news agency Wafa, where doctors pronounced her death.

According to the report, Bana Amjad Bakr was shot while in her room at her home in Qaryut.

The Yesh Din rights group said the incident began when dozens of settlers, allegedly guarded by Israeli soldiers, stormed the West Bank village and lit fires in the area. The shots that killed Bakr were fired during festivities that ensued between the settlers and Paleostinian villagers.

Earlier Friday, Kan reported that a car was set alight overnight and the word “Dire Revenge" graffitied in Hebrew along with a Star of David in the West Bank village of Khirbet Abu Falah, near Ramallah.

Arrests of perpetrators in such so-called "price tag attacks" on Paleostinians by settlers are exceedingly rare and rights groups lament that convictions are even more unusual, with the majority of charges in such cases being dropped.

In Jenin, Paleostinian media reported earlier that Israeli troops had withdrawn from the West Bank city following a 10-day operation. The Paleostinian Authority’s official Wafa news agency said the troops pulled out of the city at dawn. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
the army said that "troops are continuing with the operation until its objectives are achieved."

The IDF has been carrying out a major operation in the northern West Bank since August 28. The operation — internally dubbed "Summer Camps" by the army — began with simultaneous raids on Jenin, Tulkarem and the Far’a camp near Tubas, with the goal of dismantling Iran-backed Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
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 networks in the three areas of the northern West Bank.

So far, according to the IDF, more than 36 button men have been killed in the operation, among them the head of Hamas in Jenin and the head of Islamic Jihad in the Tulkarem area. Another 46 wanted Paleostinians have been detained.

Violence in the West Bank has surged in the past year, following the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were massacred and 251 were taken hostage.

Since that date, Israeli troops have arrested some 5,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,000 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 670 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or turbans carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 29 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces have been killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.

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Home Front: Politix

America! Palestinian activist Huwaida Arraf (D-BDS) wants a seat in US Congress for Michigan

2022-02-27

Any citizen can run, but winning is a bit harder. Here’s hoping her beautiful face and and smooth talk don’t enable this very connected Palestinian “activist” — founding member of the International Solidarity Movement and the Free Gaza Movement — to win.

[IsraelTimes] Christian former resistance organizer has alarmed bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
-area Jewish and pro-Israel groups with her plans to enter a crowded Democratic field ahead in the August 2022 primary

Now running for Congress in Michigan: a Hebrew-speaking Paleostinian Christian who is married to a Jew and spent time living on an Israeli kibbutz before rejecting coexistence efforts in favor of advocating for Paleostinian resistance.

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Southeast Asia

Singapore Muslim soldier arrested for planning stabbing spree outside synagogue

2021-03-11

[IsraelTimes] Amirull Ali intended to ambush and kill at least three Jewish men as they left prayers, security officials say; he also planned to travel to 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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...
to join Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.

A radicalized Singaporean Moslem soldier has been arrested for planning a deadly stabbing spree against Jews, officials said Wednesday.

Such cases are rare in multi-ethnic Singapore, where different religious and ethnic groups generally live peacefully side by side.

Amirull Ali, 20, planned to ambush and kill at least three Jewish men as they left a synagogue after prayers, security officials said. Israel’s Channel 12 specified that he intended to target the Maghain Aboth Synagogue.

He became radicalized after researching the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict online and planned to travel to Gaza in the Paleostinian territories to join Islamic terror group Hamas’s military wing, they said.

In a highly tribal society, outsiders don’t generally fare well unless they are both connected and bring lotsa money, a high level of desirable skills, or are good for propaganda purposes, like Rachel Corrie, a.k.a. St. Pancake, the American member of the International Solidarity Movement who got herself run over by an armoured IDF bulldozer.

"Amirull was very serious, he had made detailed preparations, he had a knife prepared for his attack," Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam told local media.

"He decided to target the abdomen area because that’s where the heavy bleeding will cause quick death," the minister said.

But Amirull — who had been doing compulsory national service as an administrative support assistant

...alternate story line: Singaporean Walter Mitty imagines himself a fearsome Lion of Islam...

— shelved his plans as he was uncertain whether he would attain martyrdom.

But he was arrested anyway. How humiliating!

Nevertheless, the defense ministry became suspicious and raised the alarm, leading to his arrest this month.

Amirull was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial for up to two years.

In December, authorities detained a 16-year-old who planned to attack two mosques in Singapore after being influenced by a massacre of Moslem worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Singapore, a city-state of 5.7 million, is mostly ethnic Chinese but is also home to a sizable ethnic-Malay Moslem minority. Its Jewish population is tiny, numbering only around 2,500, according to local media.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Remembering Rachel Corrie, canonized as Saint Pancake, Killed by Israeli Bulldozer (VIDEO)

2020-03-20

[PalestineChronicle] Twenty-three-year-old American peace

activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip in 2003.
She was a western leftist who thought it would be a good idea to protect Muslims who would have thrown her off a building. Turns out it wasn't a good idea.Born on April 10, 1979, in Olympia, Washington, Corrie dedicated her life to defending Palestinian rights. In 2003, she went to the Gaza Strip as a member of the International Solidarity Movement.
She was LARPing at being a radical. Until another LARPer came and put her in the role of flattening her out and making her a part of a complete breakfast. squish

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Africa North

International activists en route to break siege on Gaza... again

2015-06-02

[AlAhram] A fishing trawler from Sweden is set to be joined by up to eight other boats as part of a third Freedom Flotilla

How utterly boring. But perhaps this time it will be Egypt telling them to get themselves to a nunnery, instead of Israel.

A fishing vessel has set sail from Sweden, as part of a new humanitarian aid flotilla to break a nine-year siege on the Israeli-occupied Gazoo strip, five years after a first attempt ended in the death of nine activists.
A naval and land blockade has restricted the movements of people and goods from and to the Gazoo strip, since the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement won parliamentary elections and became its de-facto ruler in 2006.

As part of the Freedom Flotilla III fleet to break a siege affecting the lives of up to 1.8 million Gazooks, the Marianne boat set off from Sweden on 10 May, with nine people from Sweden and Norway, as well as humanitarian aid, on board.

"This move will serve to break the illegal and inhuman siege on Gazoo," Charlie Andreasson, one of the Swedish activists currently on board the Swedish boat, told Turkish news agency Anadolu.

The boat is set to join other ships from Greece, Norway, Italia, Canada, South Africa, Spain and ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and expected to reach Gazoo by mid-June.

Tunisia's former president Moncef Marzouki is among the human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
activists and politicians from around the world heading to Gazoo this year, according to the International Freedom Flotilla Coalition statement released on Saturday.

Over the past five years, activists from the International Solidarity Movement supporting Paleostinians have repeatedly attempted to break the siege on Gazoo by arriving by sea on "freedom flotillas" or by land through Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

Since the last war on Gazoo, the Karam Abou-Salem cross-border has become the only commercial port for goods and fuel to reach Gazoo.

Repeated attempts
As part of the first Gazoo Freedom Flotilla, six ships headed to the strip in May 2010.

Israeli forces raided the ships in international waters, killing nine activists and injuring dozens others on the Mavi Marmara ship from Turkey on May 31, 2010, sparking tensions between Turkey and Israel. In 2013, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologised to Turkey over the attack.

In 2014,

International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
chief prosecutor Fatou B. Bensouda said that, although there was a reasonable basis to believe that "war crimes" had been committed," it lacks "sufficient gravity" to come under ICC jurisdiction.

The Greek Coast Guard stopped the boats involved in a second attempt to break the siege in 2011.

Rafah border crossing
Paleostinians have traditionally used the Rafah crossing between Gazoo and Egypt to access education or medical treatment in Egypt and further abroad, but Egyptian authorities have kept the crossing mostly closed since former president Mohammed Morsi's ouster in 2013, citing security concerns in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, where Islamist murderous Moslems have been waging an insurgency against Cairo.

On the rare occasions that the crossing is opened, such as last Tuesday, Paleostinians are allowed into Gazoo, but not out.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Al Yarmuk Tragedy: Where Are the Pro-Palestinians?

2015-04-19

Al Yarmuk is a camp in the outskirts of war-torn Damascus. There are those who call it a refugee camp, meaning that all his residents are Palestinian refugees from 1948 and their direct descendants, while the reality is that the camp was established in 1957. It was never acknowledged by the Syrian regimes since then as a refugees camp, and Syrian regimes, as we know, have never missed an opportunity to score propaganda victories by relating everything bad under the sun to the "Zionist Entity." In fact, the neighborhood was ruled as part of the district of Damascus. Be that as it may, in the collective awareness of people, the camp became associated with the Palestinian tragedy, part of the conflict with Israel. As is customary in this conflict, names are always symbolic, part of the historic narrative, which has been so significant in the history of the conflict. Yarmuk was the scene of the battle in 636 A.D when the Arab-Muslim invaders defeated the army of the East Roman Empire, itself a foreign occupier of the land, and started their own occupation of the country they would later call Palestine. Not so relevant to today's situation? It is in the eye of the beholder.

In the Syrian civil war starting in 2011, the camp has become a zone of action. First, these were the rebels loyal to the Free Syrian Army [FSA] who cooperated with Palestinian factions, fighting against other Palestinian factions loyal to the Assad regime, which were backed by the Alawite-dominated Syrian army pro-Assad forces ended up losing, the Syria army entered into full-scale action, shelling indiscriminately the camp, besieging it and bringing about starvation, the spread of contagious diseases, in short bringing havoc to the place and its residents.

All this time, all the fighting parties there swore their allegiance to the Palestinian struggle against Israel, while massacring each other, mostly Palestinian residents. The UN is represented in the camp through the notorious anti-Israel Unrwa Agency, which made noises about the bad conditions in the camp, but to no avail. Who would listen to an outcry about the plight of Palestinians, when Israel is not involved?, when Israel cannot be blamed? Well, the tragedy got a turn to the worse in recent weeks, as ISIS fighters infiltrated the camp from the Hajar Al Aswad district of Damascus, trying to root out what is left of the pro-Assad elements, and when ISIS is in action, the news are bad, very bad.

The fighting soon became an all-out, free for all entanglement of all the various militias and Syrian army forces operating in the arena, with shuttering effects on the unarmed civilians in the camp. Unspeakable atrocities have taken place, though seem to have subsided in recent days. But alas, where is the pro-Palestinian community of the world? where is the International Solidarity Movement, the BDS movement, the Jewish voice for Peace, the partisans of Justice for Palestine[and pardon me all the other groups involved... limited space considerations prevent me from mentioning you]. Well, they are silent, and not because they do not know what is happening. They know it very well, as there is world-wide coverage of the carnage.

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Corrie family loses Supreme Court appeal over daughter’s death

2015-02-13

[IsraelTimes] Court upholds ruling exempting army from paying damages since death ocurred in a war zone

Booyah! St. Pancake gets what she deserves!

Israel's Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision on civil damages in the case of US peace activist Rachel Corrie
...aka Saint Pancake. A member of the lefty International Solidarity Movement, she attempted to stare down an Israeli bulldozer in 2003...
, who was killed in the West Bank in 2003 by a military bulldozer.

The high court on Thursday upheld a ruling by the Haifa District Court exempting Israel from paying civil damages for wrongful death to Corrie's family since the incident occurred in a war zone.

Corrie, 23, a pro-Paleostinian activist from Olympia, Washington, was wearing an orange vest and attempting to stop a bulldozer from demolishing a Paleostinian home in Rafah in the Gazoo Strip when she was killed. The army said that the area where the incident occurred was named a closed military zone; the claim has been disputed.

An Israeli army investigation following Corrie's death found that the driver of the bulldozer could not see Corrie and did not intentionally run over her. The report accused Corrie and the pro-Paleostinian International Solidarity Movement of "illegal, irresponsible and dangerous" behavior.

Witnesses say that Corrie was clearly visible and that activists shouted for the bulldozer to stop before it hit the college student.

The Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a separate lower court decision, however, on the possible mishandling of the autopsy on Corrie's body, which will require further investigation by the court into the autopsy and the possible misplacement of some of Corrie's remains.

The Corries lost a lawsuit against Caterpillar Inc., the US company that manufactured the bulldozer that killed their daughter.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking...
The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported Wednesday that the one-woman play "My Name is Rachel Corrie," based on the activist's journal writings, will be staged Off-Broadway in April at the Culture Project's Lynn Redgrave Theater in the East Village. The play was last performed in New York a decade ago amid great controversy in the theater and Jewish communities.

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