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Africa Horn
Mediators suspended Sudan's ceasefire talks Indefinitely
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Saudi, American, and African mediators have indefinitely halted negotiations between Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
’s military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) due to the failure of both parties to fulfil their obligations, including implementing agreed-upon confidence-building measures and withdrawing military forces from key cities.

According to sources close to the negotiations, progress stalled when the RSF resisted the army’s demand to withdraw their forces from cities and civilian facilities and end their presence on roads and in cities. The RSF negotiators insisted on maintaining their bases and checkpoints in areas under their control in the capital, Khartoum.

Negotiations resumed in late October after the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
and IGAD joined the Saudi-American mediation efforts. At that time, Sudanese military leaders announced their willingness to return to the negotiating table pointing out that the RSF showed flexibility to withdraw from cities.

On November 7, the two parties agreed on measures to facilitate humanitarian aid access to civilians and to form a joint mechanism headed by the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
. Additionally, they agreed to implement confidence-building measures, including arresting leaders of the former regime who had beat feet from prison. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
they failed to reach a ceasefire agreement, which is crucial for enforcing the humanitarian deal.

Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  Quietly, indeed very quietly, The US State Department created a task force under US Ambassador to Sudan John Godfrey to engage both sides in the ongoing civil war. The United States and Saudi Arabia were leaders involved in talks and in June 2023 announced a cease-fire had been reached. It was soon broken and all subsequent efforts to end the conflict have failed. The RSF has the upper hand, and the Islamist military have moved their capital to Port Sudan (or even into Egypt?). It appears the civil war will end when most of Darfur, western Sudan, is lost to the Arabs and won by the African tribals.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 12/05/2023 16:55 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger Military Governments Meet In Bamako, Set To Launch Federation
That should prove interesting.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2023 2023-12-05 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Haftar holds talks with representatives of Libyan Toubou
[LIBYAUPDATE] Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), met today with representatives of Libyan Toubou at the LNA’s main headquarters in Benghazi.

According to a statement by the LNA’s media office, Haftar thanked the representatives for their visit, and commended Toubou people, whom he described as "an important part of the Libyan social fabric", for their courage and role in combatting terrorism alongside LNA forcers,

For their part, the delegation renewed their commitment to the unity and stability of Libya, and "their full support for the national project of the General Command of the Libyan Armed Forces."

Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  The Toubou seemingly live to fight. Historically, they served as the bodyguard for the last Libyan king. Expelled, they then fought Qadafi (with the support of US military in an unknown war) as he tried to impose his rule on the Libya-Chad borderland. (See book, Africa's Thirty Years' War)
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 12/05/2023 16:47 Comments || Top||


Niger's ruling junta has revoked the country's military partnership with the European Union
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Niger is only important because it is a source for Uranium yellowcake. Where that resource is now headed seems anyone's guess.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 12/05/2023 16:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Sadly, Joseph Charles Wilson IV passed away in 2019. His CIA Analyst attention whore wife Valerie Plame still inhabits this Earth, with past or no future contributions, apparently
Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2023 19:23 Comments || Top||


Europe
'Europeans Will Succumb To Islam' - Former Top German Spy Issues New Warning
[REMIX] Germany’s former top domestic spy chief, Hans-Georg Maaßen, said in a new interview that Europe is facing an unprecedented crisis due to mass immigration, that Islam is well poised to conquer Europe, and that Germany and Austria could do much to stop the crisis but are choosing not to.

"A completely different culture is approaching us. We are not at all prepared for this, as we’re incapable of resolving conflicts even by means of violence, like family clans do from the Arab states. These people resolve conflicts by violence, whereas people in Central Europe think that this can only be done through the courts," said Maaßen, who served as president of the Office of the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) from 2012 until 2018, said in his interview with FPÖ TV.

"The Europeans will succumb to Islam. On the one hand, because they are unable to even see this conflict coming, and on the other, because they are incapable of resolving conflicts in a similar fashion," he said, stating that "the end result will be the gradual destruction of our European cultures."

Maaßen described Europeans as living without a vision or mission, whereas other competing cultures have a clear idea of what they are and what their objectives are.

"We don’t know where we want to go. What should Germany or Austria look like in 2030? We are living only in the moment, and therefore we are losing out to others who have a religion or ideology, who know where they want to go. We lack a mission," he continued. "Mostly Muslims come to us with a completely different awareness of culture, religion and family. In secular Europe, religion and family — if they are still important at all — are a matter for the individual, but in these cultures it is a matter for the clan."

POPULATION REPLACEMENT BY DESIGN
Maaßen said that European politicians are actively allowing mass immigration because, according to him, "our politicians want a different population. The political left follows the course of the anti-German ideology. The more heterogeneous a population, the less able it is to articulate itself and have a democratic say. The more politics accepts immigrants from other countries as they see fit and grants them citizenship, the more politics selects the people of the state and influences the election results. These migrants then vote differently than the locals."

Maaßen said during the interview that countries like Germany and Austria have the tools necessary to stop immigration, but they are making a conscious choice not to.

"Germany and Austria could start rejecting people at the borders from one day to the next — due to the third country regulation," the former spy chief stated. "Furthermore, the state could deport or ensure voluntary departure for "hundreds of thousands of foreigners who do not want to integrate and who could commit crimes and continue to depend on social benefits from the state."

One of the major sticking points for Western governments is that third nations have refused to take back foreign nationals, but Maaßen said there are a host of tools for dealing with these recalcitrant nations.
Like airdrops from 30,000 feet
Story is also available at ZERO.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/05/2023 03:29 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Captured in a nutshell by Herr Maaßen. An identical plague has also descended here:

Population replacement by design

Maaßen said that European politicians are actively allowing mass immigration because, according to him, "our politicians want a different population. The political left follows the course of the anti-German ideology. The more heterogeneous a population, the less able it is to articulate itself and have a democratic say. The more politics accepts immigrants from other countries as they see fit and grants them citizenship, the more politics selects the people of the state and influences the election results. These migrants then vote differently than the locals."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/05/2023 3:41 Comments || Top||

#2  They already have been except for Hungary and Poland.
Posted by: Chris || 12/05/2023 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  The "Expansion of Islam" is in full swing yet again. Just like in 1100 AD and it will only end when good people have had enough and fight back.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/05/2023 9:58 Comments || Top||

#4  I can imagine France getting very, very ugly when they've finally had enough and it's too late for them to manage the problem in a more civilized manner. Well, just remember what the Algerians had to do to get rid of the French. Then I can imagine all the condemnations by those who haven't yet figured it out. Ferdinand and Isabella got wise but it was nasty what they had to do.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/05/2023 12:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Feminists are about to find out what true patriarchy is.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/05/2023 13:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Who gets to play Charles Martel, Vlad Tepes and El Cid this time?? Oh, and can we drum up a Ghengis Kahn too?
Posted by: AlanC || 12/05/2023 14:17 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
FLA AG Moody Puts Media Companies on Notice Following Reports of Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations
[WQCS ht to Don Surber] Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and a coalition of attorneys general have issued issued a warning to media companies with possible ties to foreign terrorist organizations.

Attorney General Moody and the coalition sent a letter reminding the publisher of the New York Times, the CEO of the Associated Press, the CEO and editor in chief of CNN and the president of Reuters that providing material support to terrorists and terror organizations is a crime. This follows reports that individuals hired by these outlets have troubling ties to Hamas.

Read the full letter here.

Attorney General Ashley Moody said, "Following the abhorrent Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, reports began to emerge of news organizations employing people embedded within Hamas and potentially with knowledge of the attack before it was carried out. I, along with 13 other attorneys general, are putting the media companies on notice: ensure that you are following federal and state law."

The letter states, "If your outlet’s current hiring practices led you to give material support to terrorists, you must change these policies going forward. Otherwise, we must assume any future support of terrorist organizations by your stringers, correspondents, contractors, and similar employees is knowing behavior."

The letter goes on to cite a recent bipartisan congressional letter to Reuters saying, "Those lawmakers ask several questions that should be answered, including whether Reuters had prior knowledge of the attack and whether the Reuters journalist had contact with Hamas or its agents before the attack."

The attorneys general of the following states joined Attorney General Moody in sending the letter: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia
Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2023 08:37 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Honest Reporting:
“On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.
“What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and the New York Times, notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically.
“Four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.
“Eslaiah, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza.
“Four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.
“Eslaiah, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza.”
Those were not news photos. Those were souvenirs. The terrorists documented their war crimes and AP and the rest paid for a few of them.
14 state attorneys general just put the media on notice.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2023 9:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Good find, Frank G. Kudos to the fourteen attorneys general for drawing this line in the sand. I can only hope Ohio will be counted among them next time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2023 21:08 Comments || Top||

#3  "Hatem All"?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2023 23:34 Comments || Top||


Rockefeller Brothers Fund funding pro-Palestinian groups, at least one Israel calls ‘terrorist’ org
[NYPost] Pro-Paleostinian groups such as those who spread hate at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting this week, have been lavishly funded by the Rockefeller family’s main charitable arm.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has links to two groups the Israeli government designated "terrorist organizations," a review of public records by The Post shows.

Founded in 1940, the famous clan’s $1.3 billion fund — where Justin, Wyatt and David Rockefeller Jr. sit on the board of trustees — has shelled out more than $2.6 million since 2018 directly or indirectly to at least six anti-Israel organizations, several of which openly celebrated Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
’ Oct 7 terrorist attack on the Jewish state.

Samidoun Paleostinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, whose logo was affixed to an ad promoting Wednesday’s rally, is a "fiscally sponsored project" of the nonprofit Alliance for Global Justice.

In August 2022, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave the Alliance $100,000.

Israel designated Samidoun a terrorist organization in February 2021 and Germany banned it last month.

Samidoun, founded in 2011, condemned the United Kingdom in 2021 for classifying Hamas a terrorist organization, and cheered the Oct 7 terrorist incursion:

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has awarded at least $215,000 to Defence For Children International-Paleostine, according to their website and IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
tax forms.

The Israeli government declared the group a terrorist organization in October 2021.

Undeterred, the fund issued a new $50,000 grant to the organization in 2022.

The fund gave at least $490,000 for "general support" to the Jewish Voice for Peace, according to public grant disclosures on their website since 2019.

Despite its name, the group is a notorious anti-Israel organization and a front for mainstreaming antisemitic ideas, critics say.

A Grand Central demonstration organized by the group in October led to more than 300 arrests.

"Jewish Voice for Peace is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism. JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel," according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The group has been banned by Columbia University for repeatedly holding "threatening" campus events, the school said last month.

The fund has also donated at least $515,000 to the The Tides Center, earmarked specifically to support Paleostine Legal, a pro-Paleostinian advocacy group, records show. The nonprofit trumpeted the Oct 7 attacks as "one of the most significant acts of Paleostinian resistance."

"It’s the height of irony that the Rockefeller Foundation supports the anti-Israel, Soros-funded Tides Foundation and many other antisemitic Israel-bashing groups, that are now holding ugly, disgusting, vile Jew-hating displays at the Christmas Tree event at the Rockefeller Center," said Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America. "Just desserts I say."

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also sent at least $710,000 to the Adalah Justice Project and $605,000 to the Middle East Policy Network (also known as al-Shabaka).

Both organizations celebrated Hamas’ Oct 7 attacks in public statements.

The fund defended the grants and noted that it donated to more mainstream Israel groups as well, such as J-Street and the The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

"We categorically reject any claim that our grantee organizations support, materially or ideologically, acts of terrorism," said spokeswoman Sarah Edkins "Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion for people of all races, ethnicities, and genders is critical to our mission, and RBF is deeply concerned about indications of growing antisemitism."

Edkins added, "The Fund’s only relationship with Alliance for Global Justice is as the fiscal sponsor for one grantee of our Sustainable Development program, South Bronx Unite."

Hat tip Skidmark in comments.
Israel's UN ambassador slams Soros for donations to 'pro-Hamas groups' seeking destruction of Jewish state

[FoxNews] Report claims Soros organization has given millions to US groups who allegedly support terror group

Left-wing activist billionaire George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
is facing intense criticism from Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. for pumping over $15 million into a network of nongovernmental organizations that allegedly support Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
.

"George Soros’ donations to organizations that seek the destruction of the State of Israel as a Jewish state is shameful. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
I am not surprised," Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan told Fox News Digital.

"For years, Soros has backed and transferred money to organizations supporting BDS that want to isolate Israel," added Erdan, who has been leading the diplomatic campaign at the U.N. to spell out Hamas’ crimes against humanity. "They have never been about real peace or any solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict."

BDS is an abbreviation for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state. The German and Austrian parliaments classified BDS as an antisemitic movement that resembles the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses during the nascent phase of the Holocaust.

Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of "The Soros Agenda," told Fox News Digital, "Support of pro-Hamas, pro-Paleostinian groups in the U.S. is not limited to foreign entities. It also comes directly and indirectly from U.S.-based foundations. George and Alexander Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) is one of them."

"Soon after he settled in the White House, Biden appointed Robert Malley as his special envoy to Iran," Ehrenfeld wrote in her book. "Malley is the former president and CEO of the Soros-funded, Brussels-based International Crisis Group, which, like Soros, has been criticizing Israel and praising Hamas. "

The U.S. and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
have designated Hamas a foreign terrorist organization. A number of recent probes claimed to show OSF funneled significant funds into virulently anti-Israel NGOs that are allegedly pro-Hamas.

Fox News Digital reported in October on Biden’s now-suspended 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...
envoy Malley for his push to engage with the U.S.-designated terrorist movements, Hamas and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the 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. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
-based Hezbollah.

"There's so much misinformation about them. ... I speak to them and my colleagues speak to them [Hamas], and now we may disagree with them, but they have their own rationality ... none of them are crazies," Malley said in the film "Cultures of Resistance®."

The New York Post noted last month that Soros has funneled over $15 million to groups who are anti-Israel and carry water for Hamas’ agenda.

OSF donated $13.7 million to the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based Tides Center, a number of whose recipients are nonprofits who reportedly justify the obliteration of the Jewish state.

Tides supports the Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, which posted a photograph on Instagram of a bulldozer demolishing Israel’s security fence on the day of Hamas’ bloody slaughter with the caption, "Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison... no cage goes unchallenged."

When pressed in a number of Fox News Digital press queries if Soros’ philanthropic empire, OSF, considers Hamas a terrorist organization, a spokeperson for the OSF based in London refused to answer.

The OSF spokesperson, however, said the "Open Society Foundations utterly condemn the brutal attacks on Israeli citizens on Oct. 7. We grieve for the lives lost and injured and those taken hostage and their families. Like so many others around the world today we also feel the same pain for the Paleostinian citizens whose lives are now being lost in tragically mounting numbers because of the conflict."

The OSF spokesperson added, "There must be accountability for the war crimes and breaches of humanitarian law that have occurred."

When asked about the accusations that OSF funds pro-Hamas NGOs, the OSF spokesperson noted, "Any of our grantees have different perspectives and routinely disagree with each other, but our funding strategy, which has evolved over 20 years, is targeted towards working towards a secure future where rights and freedoms are respected. There is strict U.S. anti-terrorist legislation that determines which organizations a foundation like OSF can fund. We devote a lot of effort to ensuring full compliance."

In 2007, Soros wrote an opinion article for the Financial Times in which he slammed the U.S. and Israeli governments for not recognizing Hamas as the legitimate government of 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 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...
Strip.

OSF has also funded two progressive NGOs called Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and IfNotNow. On the day Hamas massacred 1,200 people, JVP issued a statement that "the source of all this violence" was "Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression."

The names of the Jewish NGOs are misleading, mainstream experts on antisemitism argue. The Jewish NGO Anti-Defamation League wrote that "Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism."

The ADL added, "JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel." OSF has pumped at least $650,000 into the JVP’s coffers since 2017.

According to the ADL, the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
chapter of IfNotNow circulated a flier that showed an image of a paraglider, a clear reference to the Hamas bully boyz who invaded Israel as part of their aerial campaign to wipe out Jews. IfNotNow is one of the principal organizers of the U.S.-based campaign against Israel since Oct. 7, noted the ADL. According to reports, IfNotNow received $400,000 from Soros’ OSF.

JVP, which was founded in California, supported the Hamas-animated "Great Return March" in 2018, a precursor to Oct. 7, which was a series of attempts by Paleostinians in Gaza to invade Israel by breaching its security border barrier.

OSF provides funds to obscure Jewish NGOs whose mission is to exploit their Jewish identity to turn the bashing of Israel (and support for terrorism) into a politically and socially correct campaign, according to critics like Joshua Muravchik.

Writing in the Jewish magazine Commentary, he noted, "Deploying its ’Jewish’ identity in attacking Israel is JVP’s métier, one might say its purpose. The cutting edge of this work, as the episode of SJP’s tweets illustrates, is to deflect accusations of antisemitism."

Soros’ son, Alex, recently took over the reins of his father’s $25 billion fortune. In June, Israel's minister of diaspora affairs and social equality, Amichai Chikli, told Fox News Digital, it "looks like the son is a replica of his father. We have no expectation that his son will be a big Zionist."

Fox News Digital reached out to JVP, The Tides Center and IfNotNow for comment. They did not immediately respond.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2023 2023-12-05 01:46 || Comments || Link || [41 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Rockefeller spokeswoman Sarah Edkins: "Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (!) for people of all races, ethnicities, and genders is critical to our mission..." The broad uses the three code words essential to today's wokism. Frankly, the only Rockefeller that demonstrated at least a body temperature IQ was David.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 12/05/2023 16:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Naming names and turning on the floodlight will help get the cockroaches out: "So you support the mass rape and execution of Israeli women"?

Gets harder to answer in the bright light
Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2023 19:17 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas have refused to release ten female hostages 'because they do not want the women to reveal what they have been subjected to while held captive'
[DM]
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2023 10:20 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  Hamas have refused to release ten female hostages

Because they're longer alive - don't overestimate Arab self control.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2023 10:42 Comments || Top||


#4  ^ Isn't that how USA gummint schools are run too?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/05/2023 11:05 Comments || Top||


#6  Genesis 34
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/05/2023 13:23 Comments || Top||


260,000 firearm permits sought since Oct. 7, after Ben Gvir’s push to arm civilians
[IsraelTimes] National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir confirmed on Monday that more than 260,000 new requests for firearm permits have been submitted to his ministry since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel.
3,000 approvals per day, up 30x what went before? He is turning Israel into Switzerland. The next time someone tries a blitzkrieg or a third intifada, they’ll face a gun behind every tree and blade of grass — and contrary to the Koran, none will call, “There is a Jew behind me, O Muslim, come and kill him!”
The requests are in line with Ben Gvir’s successful push to expand eligibility requirements for a firearm license, which his ministry said has increased the potential permit pool by "tens of thousands."

The update comes as Ben Gvir’s National Security Ministry stands in the crosshairs of public scrutiny. On Sunday, the head of the ministry’s firearms permit body resigned his position in the wake of questions over the department’s conduct, and November 30 saw an armed civilian rubbed out by an off-duty soldier, when the former interceded in a deadly terror attack and the soldier seemingly disobeyed open fire procedures, all during Ben Gvir’s incessant calls to slacken rules of engagement. The soldier is being investigated and was arrested Monday.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2023 2023-12-05 02:03 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They are in a WAR ZONE, with Terrorists celibrating and videotaping murdering and decapitating babies and still the Government requires a gun permit?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2023 4:00 Comments || Top||

#2  A gun is NOT a magic wand.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2023 4:33 Comments || Top||

#3  The eligibility requirements for obtaining a firearm seem to exclude certain religious groups.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/05/2023 5:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Horse, barn door.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/05/2023 7:01 Comments || Top||

#5  ^#3
I looked at from the standpoint that any TERRORIST will bypass the registration process anyway. Which places those seeking self-protection at a handicap from those that would do them harm.

Just like NYC, Chicago etc... do here in the USA. Where Criminals easily obtain firearms 3rd hand for couple $100 and are armed. Where citizen have to undergo a background checks, sometimes taking days IF EVEN ALLOWED to have a firearm for that locale.
Posted by: Snusoger Panda7726 || 12/05/2023 8:44 Comments || Top||

#6  ^#2 Having one has proven quite magical several times in my life. The person who was behaving threateningly "magically" became less threatening.
Posted by: Secret Master || 12/05/2023 11:28 Comments || Top||

#7  I remember commercials with Sally Struthers encouraging us to send food to starving children. The Biden Admin certainly doesn’t want Israeli families to be able to protect themselves. I expect that there will be the opportunity to sponsor needy Israelis in regard to their home defense through a donation program for those with excess. Probably the same bunch of guys who evacuated terps from Afghanistan will run a program.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/05/2023 14:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Guns also magically cause leftists to lose their minds and become drooling liars (even more than they already are) just by coming up as the topic of conversation.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/05/2023 14:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Remember: They don't hate guns. They hate your guns.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/05/2023 17:21 Comments || Top||


IDF officials: 15,000 likely killed in Gaza since start of war, 5,000 of them are Hamas
[IsraelTimes] Reports citing anonymous Israeli officials in both AP and AFP say that the IDF believes the overall 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...
corpse count claimed by Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
is fairly accurate, and that more civilians have been killed than Hamas operatives. The comments appeared to emerge from an off-record briefing for foreign journalists conducted by military officials.

An unnamed IDF official cited by AP says that at least 15,000 Paleostinians in Gaza have died since the outbreak of the war on October 7. The army says it estimates more than 5,000 of the Gaza deaths to be Hamas terrorists.

AFP quotes an unnamed Israeli official: "I’m not saying it’s not bad that we have a ratio of two to one," noting that the use of human shields was part of Hamas’s "core strategy."

"Hopefully, [the ratio] will be much lower" in the coming phase of the war, the official adds, noting that "in the south, because we have basically doubled the population, operations are much more precise."

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said earlier today that around 15,900 people have been killed so far in the Strip.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2023 2023-12-05 01:51 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  It is prohibited to seize or to use the presence of persons protected by the Geneva Conventions as human shields to render military sites immune from enemy attacks or to prevent reprisals during an offensive (GCIV Arts. 28, 49; API Art. 51.7; APII Art. 5.2.c). It is hence prohibited to direct the movement of protected persons in order to attempt to shield military objectives or operations. Many categories of persons are specifically protected by humanitarian law, such as civilians, the wounded and sick, prisoners of war, and medical personnel.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2023 2:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Saddam did the same
Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2023 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Grom, Hamas did not sign the Geneva Conventions. Thus they think they are not bound by them.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/05/2023 11:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Thus they think they are not bound by them.

Therefore, also, they are not entitled to the "protections" of the conventions, either...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/05/2023 12:07 Comments || Top||


Fate of Hamas in south Gaza will be 'same and worse' as in north: Gallant
[GEO.TV] Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has said that the IDF troops will not leave the northern Gaza Strip’s city of Jabaliya and Shejaiya neighbourhood until completely destroying Hamas’s infrastructure, Times of Israel has reported.

“Golani troops have returned to Shejaiya to ‘close a circle.’ This time they will not leave it until all the terror infrastructure located there is eliminated,” Gallant said.

Threatening the freedom fighters in the southern Gaza, the Israeli minister said that the ongoing military action in the north of the Gaza Strip, "will soon lead to shattering [Hamas in] the entire area of ​​Gaza City and the north of the Gaza Strip".

"The fate of the terrorists in the Hamas battalions there will be the same as those in the north and worse,” Gallant warned.

“We will continue until victory and until all goals are achieved: the elimination of Hamas and the return of the hostages to Israel," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Hamas warns a 'war of liberation' bigger than October 7 massacre is 'coming soon': Israeli spy chief vows to kill all the terror group's leaders around the world as mastermind behind kibbutz massacre is eliminated
MEMRI video can be watched at the link.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A top Hamas official has claimed that the terror group is 'not far off' from launching a 'war of liberation' that he says will be bigger than the October 7 incursion into Israel. Hamas political bureau member Osama Hamdan made the stark claims in an interview with Lebanese media outlet Bel Moubashar Online. In the interview, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), he 'promise[d] that a war of liberation is coming, not just another October 7,' adding that he thinks such an event is not far off.

Hamdan, in his late 50s, also expressed no regret for 'shattering an entire division of the occupation army', referring to the 1,200 Israelis, almost all of whom were civilians, killed by Hamas during the October 7 incursion.

The group targeted young women and children, as well as families, killing thousands and kidnapping hundreds in the chaos of the incursion. The terror group's gunmen were seen parading the body of 22-year-old Shani Louk, who was partying with her friends hours before at the Nova festival near Kibbutz Re'im, in the back of a 4x4 truck. While her family held out hope that she was still alive, her family confirmed her passing in late October, though the circumstances of her death, as well as where and how the bone from her skull was found, are not currently clear.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  There will be a time for investigations. Now we are fighting.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2023 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Seeing it already here in Atlanta.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2023 4:02 Comments || Top||

#3  ^But in Atlanta they're winning - so, you are not accused of genocide (at present, genocide is successful resistance to extermination attempts). But, I expect, any resistance will become genocide. After all, Globalists make no secret of their plans to reduce human population of Earth by order of magnitude - impossible if people resist.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2023 4:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Quite the mouth on this terrorist
Posted by: Injun Sheger1721 || 12/05/2023 16:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Khaled Masha (as written above) should read Khaled Mashal. He goes back to the founding of Hamas in 1987. In 1992, he was a founding member of the Hamas politburo and subsequently its chairman.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 12/05/2023 17:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Masha Masha Masha. Never about Jan.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/05/2023 21:04 Comments || Top||


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