[ZEENEWS.INDIA] A total of 96 Death Eaters Monday joined Afghanistan's peace and reintegration process in the northern province of Baghlan, an official said.
"The 96 Death Eaters renounced violence and laid their arms in quiet provincial capital Pul-e-Khumri," the official told Xinhua.
The former Death Eaters were active in Pul-e-Hissar and Khost districts in the province, 160 km north of national capital Kabul, the official said.
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[ZEENEWS.INDIA] Afghanistan's new leader -- whoever it may be -- will include the loser of the presidential runoff in a proposed unity government, a US official said on Monday.
The United States served as a key broker in Saturday's breakthrough in Kabul which saw Afghanistan's rival claimants to the presidency, Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... and Ashraf Ghani, agree to an audit of all votes cast.
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Gee, sorta like our pre-Article 12 days:
"Constitutionally, the manner for choosing electors is determined within each state by its legislature. During the first presidential election in 1789, only 6 of the 13 original states chose electors by any form of popular vote. Gradually throughout the years, the states began conducting popular elections to help choose their slate of electors, resulting in the overall, nationwide indirect election system that it is today.
Under the original system established by Article Two, electors could cast two votes to two different candidates for president. The candidate with the highest number of votes (provided it was a majority of the electoral votes) became the president, and the second-place candidate became the vice president."
Hope it works out better for the Afghani's than it did us. How do they "do" duels in AfPak, anyway?
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A few well placed rounds fired in the direction of the pirates actually turns them away. The 'take away' appears to be that [for financial reasons] international transporters of goods and products eventually win the day, our border with Mexico being no exception.
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Yet by far the most successful tactic contributing to the drop in successful attacks has been sending commercial ships out to sea past Somalia with armed private security on board.
I remember when the "experts" said that this would never work. I could never figure that one out.
[GatestoneInstitute] Over the past week there are voices coming out of Egypt and some Arab countries -- voices that publicly support the Israeli military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
They see the atrocities and massacres committed by Islamists on a daily basis in Iraq and Syria and are beginning to ask themselves if these serve the interests of the Arabs and Muslims.
"Thank you Netanyahu and may God give us more [people] like you to destroy Hamas!" -- Azza Sami of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.
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Not feeling the love for their Hamas "brothers" any more?
[Al Ahram] Thousands attended a funeral in North Sinai's Al-Arish for eight persons who were killed late Monday in an explosive attack, reported Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.
The funeral on Monday afternoon was reportedly filled with families and residents angrily chanting against terrorism.
The victims were killed following the firing of mortar rounds, allegedly by Sinai-based murderous Moslems, at a military post in the lovely provincial capital of Al-Arish.
Among the slain were a 10-year old girl and a soldier. Another 28, including 7 children, were seriously injured.
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[Daily Beast] Gen. Hiftar worked with Gaddafi, then the CIA. Now he says he'll purge Libya of Islamists and jihadists. Is he his country's savior -- or just another militia leader?
I think the word the Beast is looking for is 'warlord'...
MARJ, Libya -- Legend has it that in 1987, in the middle of a dirty little war in the Chadian desert, Libyan General Khalifa Hiftar stood with his men as enemy troops flooded onto the airbase he was guarding. Most of the Libyan forces had been driven back across the border or captured during Muammar Gaddafi's disastrous invasion of Chad. Hiftar, with a just few hundred soldiers, fired all the ammo he had left. Then, completely surrounded by the enemy troops, he threw the spent rifle at them.
Men who have served with Hiftar said it is this hardheadedness on the battlefield that means he will not give up his latest mission: to "save" Libya by wiping out militias and extremists that have run riot since the 2011 revolt that toppled Gaddafi.
But is Hiftar, whose background includes service with both Gaddafi and the CIA, really the man to do it? Can he bring order to Benghazi, scene of the terror attacks in 2012 that cost the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans their lives, and the Obama administraion some of its imperiled credibility?
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[ABERFOYLESECURITY] In recent weeks, Nigerian security forces have claimed that some groups of semi-nomadic Fulani herdsmen engaged in bitter and bloody conflicts with farmers in several Nigerian states are actually composed of members of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... . A statement from Nigerian Director of Defense Information Major General Chris Olukolade claimed the potentially dangerous identification came during the interrogation of Fulani herdsmen incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! after a series of killings and arson attacks in Taraba State (Vanguard [Lagos], April 23; Leadership [Abuja], April 24; Nigerian Tribune, April 24). Reports of Boko Haram members (who are mostly members of the Kanuri ethno-cultural group) disguising themselves as Fulani herdsmen while carrying out attacks in rural Nigeria are common. Though many of these reports may be attempts to deflect responsibility from Fulani herders for attacks on sedentary farming communities throughout north and central Nigeria, even the perception that the Fulani herdsmen have joined forces with Boko Haram could propel Nigeria into a new and devastating civil war.
With origins in the Senegambia region, the Fulani now stretch across some 20 states in West Africa and the Sahel belt, ranging from Guinea-Conakry to Sudan. Though the Fulani herders once existed in a symbiotic relationship with sedentary agriculturalists in this region (involving the fertilization of fields by cattle who fed on the vegetative debris left over after crops had been taken in and the exchange of meat and milk for grain and other agricultural products), this relationship has been disturbed in recent years by environmental changes that have driven the herders further south, massive growth in the size of Fulani herds, the growth of practices such as agro-pastoralism, the expansion of farmland into traditional corridors used by the herders and the general collapse of customary conflict-resolution methods.
Many Fulani now tend to reach for automatic weapons to resolve disputes with agricultural communities. This has in turn led to the development of "self-defense" forces in the agricultural communities and the growth of cattle-rustling. Vigilante groups are often more trusted than the Nigerian security forces, which are often suspected of collusion with the herders and/or Boko Haram. Farmers routinely accuse the Fulani herders of allowing their animals to feed on still-growing crops and contamination of community watering-places. The rape of non-Fulani women by herders is also identified as a growing source of conflict and prevents women from carrying out traditional and necessary roles in gathering food and water. The herders in turn accuse the farmers of denying them access to grazing areas when alternatives cannot be found.
The conflict between herders and farmers is not solely a Nigerian problem, but is now common across the Sahel. The fact that the Fulani are nearly exclusively Moslem and the agricultural communities are largely Christian in Nigeria adds the disturbing possibility that this bloody conflict could shift into a sectarian conflict that could be easily exploited by Boko Haram krazed killers. The increasing number of recent attacks on Nigerian churches by Fulani gunnies or holy warriors posing as such is an unwelcome trend. Pastoralist-sedentary agriculturalist violence is now common in a growing number of Nigerian states, though Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa and Plateau states remain the most affected.
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[USATODAY] Three months ago, Nigeria closed schools in the northern state of Borno to protect students from bombings by Islamic forces of Evil who later kidnapped 300 girls. Amina Gambo attends class behind closed doors in a friend's house.
"I will try and cover the remaining syllabus at home with the help of my teacher," the 15-year-old says. "I have not gone to school for the last two years."
She says, "I really need to prepare for exams next year. I wish somebody could transfer me to another school."
As the search for 219 girls remaining in captivity continues, schools are closed for 120,000 children in Borno because of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorist group's murderous campaign to shut down all education except for classes that teach strict Islamic values. The group's name means "Western education is sinful" in the African language Hausa.
Monday, a global champion of education for girls, Pak activist Malala Yousafzai, celebrated her 17th birthday in Nigeria to promote efforts to release the girls kidnapped April 15.
"My birthday wish this year is 'Bring Back Our Girls' now and alive," Malala said, using the social media slogan that has been picked up around the world to demand freedom for the girls. Malala was shot in the head by a member of the Taliban, another hard boy Islamic group, because of her campaign to ensure education for girls.
This past weekend, a major bridge on a northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n highway was bombed, the suspected work of Boko Haram to limit access to its base camps in the Sambisa Forest, where the government says some of the kidnapped girls may be held.
Nigerian authorities closed schools in Borno in March after a bomb detonated in a crowded marketplace in Bama, killing at least 20 people. Boko Haram is suspected in that attack, as well.
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[Iran Press TV] Protesters have gathered outside the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in Scotland to protest 'biased coverage' of Israel's atrocities in Gazoo, Press TV reports.
During the protest in Glasgow, demonstrators held a minute of silence in honor of those killed during Israeli attacks on the coastal sliver.
In other rallies held in Glasgow and Edinburgh, protesters brandished placards with the names of Paleostinian children murdered during Israel's ongoing aggression against Gazoo.
Press TV reports the protesters as chanting "Free Free Paleostine."
Protesters also gathered signatures for an open letter to the Scottish government, urging a boycott against Israel.
Over the last few days, similar protests have been held all over the world to show solidarity with the people of Gazoo.
In Gay Paree on Monday, police fired teargas to disperse demonstrators who threw projectiles at officers. Thousands of people attended another rally in the French city of Lille. Protesters described the Israeli raids as disproportionate and against the civilian population.
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Were the unbiased protestors sporting beards and barbeque covers?
[Al Ahram] An Australian convert to Islam incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the Philippines for using the Internet to urge people to join "jihad" in Iraq and Syria was branded "a fraud" Monday by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
Robert Edward Cerantonio, 29, who also goes by the name Musa Cerantonio, was detained in the central city of Cebu on Friday and will be deported to Australia, Philippine police said.
A report in The Australian newspaper last month described Cerantonio as a preacher and "one of (the Islamic State's) most influential propagandists", but Bishop belittled the Melbourne native.
"It seems that he is just a fraud, because he was saying that he was fighting in Syria and Iraq when all the time he was holed up in a flat in the Philippines," she told Sky News.
"So presumably he's a fraud who has tried to dupe people into this dangerous activity. What happens to him will be a matter for the authorities."
Cerantonio was arrested at the request of the Australian government and will be deported because Canberra has cancelled his passport, making him an illegal alien, Philippine officials said.
The Philippines has a large Mohammedan minority in the southern region of Mindanao, a hotbed for a decades-old Mohammedan insurgency and where Islamic hard boyz linked to Al-Qaeda also operate.
But Cebu's police commander, Chief Superintendent Prudencio Banas, said there was "no evidence linking him to any terror act".
Police said they had been monitoring his activities since February when he arrived in Cebu, the country's largest metropolis outside Manila.
He lived with a Philippine woman and moved around Cebu until his arrest at a one-room apartment near the airport.
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[ZEENEWS.INDIA] A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber, charged with obstructing the probe into the blasts, and his roommate "simultaneously" told the FBI a backpack belonging to the suspect had been thrown into a dumpster, an agent said Monday.
Azamat Tazhayakov is the first of three friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to face trial on charges of interfering with the investigation into the blasts by removing a laptop and the backpack, which contained empty fireworks casings, from Tsarnaev's room three days after the April 15, 2013, attacks that killed three people and injured 264.
FBI Special Agent John Walker interviewed Tazhayakov, his roommate and fellow Kazakh exchange student Dias Kadyrbayev and a woman described as Kadyrbayev's girlfriend in the days after the attacks, at one point recovering a baseball cap and ash tray taken from Tsarnaev's room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
On April 20, the second day of interviewing the friends, Walker told the pair that the FBI was trying to find the backpack.
"They told me simultaneously that the backpack had been placed in the dumpster and that a refuse truck had removed the dumpster from the location the previous day," he said. Walker acknowledged that Tazhayakov had not said that he had thrown the backpack into the dumpster, and that it was Kadyrbayev who described the dumpster and its location on the grounds of the apartment complex in New Bedford, Massachusetts, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Boston.
Other FBI agents recovered the backpack at a landfill several days later. It contained fireworks with the gunpowder removed, a spiral notebook, a jar of Vaseline - which an FBI forensic examiner has testified can be used to make an bomb - and a homework assignment from an ethics class in which Tsarnaev was enrolled.
Prosecutors rested their case following Walker's testimony on Monday, the defense presented no witnesses and U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock set closing arguments for Wednesday.
FBI agent Farbod Azad testified last week that Tazhayakov told him he and Kadyrbayev and a third man, Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts, had removed the backpack and a laptop from Tsarnaev's dorm room. Tazhayakov's attorneys say their client never touched the backpack or the fireworks, and that it was Kadyrbayev who threw them out.
Kadyrbayev's girlfriend, Bayan Kumiskali, said in a videotaped deposition shown in court that she became upset when she learned of the backpack and asked her boyfriend to "get it out of the apartment."
The attorneys argued before the trial that Tazhayakov's statements during an initial FBI interview, which began April 19 and ran into the next morning, should not be admitted at trial because he had not believed he was free to go at the time.
Tazhayakov could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted of obstruction of justice and conspiracy. Kadyrbayev faces the same charges. Phillipos is accused of the lesser charge of lying to Sherlocks. Tsarnaev is awaiting trial on terrorism charges.
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A Vaseline bomb? really? I mean I just use it on hinges and stuff, you know like regular folk.
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Tazhayakovcould face up to 25 years in prison if convicted of obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
Obstruction of Justice.... is that still a punishable, criminal offense ?
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... on Monday said that public demonstrations and protests were fundamental rights of the people and the government should not be afraid of them, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives, he however added that there should have been another date for the protest rallies of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) and Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) instead of August 14 — the independence day of Pakistain.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that his party has also been a part of several 'million marches,' adding that such protests do not bear fruit.
PTI to finalise long march plan on 15th
He said that anti-US mindset in the country would not be satisfied as long as "we are called an ally of America."
Getting the coalition support fund alongside claiming not to be part of the global coalition in the war on terror is an open contradiction, said the JUI-F chief, adding that Pakistain cannot call it an "internal affair" until its stops taking foreign money.
"We need to get out of these contradictions," said Fazl.
The JUI-F chief emphasised on the need for an uninterrupted democratic system in the country, questioning why democracy has always been portrayed as a "failed experiment."
Commenting on the ongoing operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Wazoo, he said that wars have never eradicated enemies. "Operation in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... did not completely eliminate Death Eaters from there," he added.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: The judicial commission probing the Khuzdar mass grave incident submitted its report containing statements from 57 individuals to the Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... government on Monday, a senior administration official said.
Home Secretary Balochistan, Akbar Hussain Durrani told Dawn.com that Justice Noor Muhammad Muskanzai, who is heading the commission, submitted the report.
Durrani said that the judicial commission conducted thorough hearings with regards to the mass grave and submitted a comprehensive report to the provincial government.
"We cannot make the report public at this point of time," he said, adding that it would be made public after the arrival of Chief Minister Balochistan Dr Abdul Malik Baloch from abroad.
Sources in Home and Tribal Affairs Department Balochistan told Dawn.com that the number of dead bodies reached 17 in the mass grave in Totak area of the province.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Baloch nationalists put the figure high than what was being claimed by the officials.
"The number of dead bodies in Totak is more than official figures," seasoned Baloch nationalist leader, Dr Hayee Baloch told Dawn.com.
He urged upon the government to take action against those involved in the incident.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... the home secretary however assured that people would be apprised about the facts regarding the mass grave and nothing would be hidden from them.
In late January 2014, a shepherd had spotted a mass grave in district Khuzdar's Totak area.
The news drew criticism from human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups, political parties and civil society. Subsequently, Chief Minister Dr Malik Baloch announced the formation of a judicial commission to bring facts about the tragedy.
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"really, it was just like any other mass grave. No reason to make a big deal of it"
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[DAWN] Director General of Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA), Arshad Khan was suspended on Monday over complaints of delays in cash disbursement and non-registration of internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Sardar Mehtab Abbasi issued the suspension orders following which Secretary Administration Abdul Majeed was posted as acting DG FDMA.
The displacement of North Wazoo residents began with the Pakistain Army's announcement of a grand operation named 'Zarb-e-Azb' against Talibs in the stronghold following a Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakisitan-claimed attack on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport and failure of peace talks between government and Taliban negotiators.
So far more than 900,000 IDPs have been registered with the FDMA, among them 235,499 are male and 261,734 are female, and the rest 393,636 are children who are faced with sever health hazards and ailments.
Almost half of that number, mostly children and women, face serious health hazards due to poor hygienic conditions, in addition to severe hot weather which has increased ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection), gastro infections, skin and other water borne diseases.
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[BBC] Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has urged PM Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... to apologise for saying the Kurdish region authorities are sheltering bully boys.
In an exclusive BBC interview, Mr Zebari said that unless Mr Maliki withdrew his remarks, Kurds would find it very difficult to work with him.
Kurdish ministers have suspended participation in government in protest.
The row between the autonomous region and the Baghdad authorities threatens to further destabilise the country.
Kurds have seized areas left by Iraq's army as jihadist snuffies advanced.
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[TRIBUNE.PK] Israel was on Tuesday weighing an Egyptian truce proposal for an immediate ceasefire after a week of the most deadly violence in and around Gazoo for years.
Cairo has proposed a ceasefire which would come into effect at 0600 GMT, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convening ministers from his security cabinet to consider the offer, which has won support from Washington.
But the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement, whose bully boyz have fired hundreds of rockets at Israel in the past week, ruled out any end to the fighting without a fully-fledged agreement as the corpse count in Gazoo from the eight-day conflict rose to 188.
Cairo's proposal came after Washington warned Israel against a ground offensive and as US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... was due to arrive in Cairo to throw his weight behind diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed, Egyptian state media reported.
US President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... welcomed the Egyptian initiative, describing the deaths of Paleostinian civilians as a "tragedy" while expressing support for Israel's right to defend itself against rocket attacks.
"We are encouraged that Egypt has made a proposal to accomplish this goal that we hope can restore the calm that we are seeking," said Obama.
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[Ynet] The Red Thingy announced that there is a water crisis in the Gazoo Strip. Officials said in a statement issued by the humanitarian movement that hundreds of thousands of people in the Gazoo Strip have been without water for several days due to repeated bombings of water infrastructure.
Interesting subjectless passive voice there. Like their electricity problem, did the Gazan rocketeers again miss Israel and damage themselves?
Not that it would bother me much if the Israelis did whack the pumping station...
The head of the International Red Thingy delegation to Israel and the Territories Jacques de Mayo said that within days the entire population may face a desperate shortage of water.
Just as well, since Israel's electric company could not restrain themselves, and yesterday started repairing the connection destroyed by a Gazan rocket.
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The Germans bombed (then rocketed) England. The favor was returned with interest. In the end, the Germans ended up with no water, electricity, basic resources, et al. Sympathy for the real aggressor - 0.
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Gaza drilled water wells and overpumped the aquifer, so it is brackish now. Israel supplied water to them. Then in the wastewater department they built sewage containment ponds. Some bright individuals started mining the pond dikes for sand. Then a sewage pond failed and their was a flood of sewage through parts of Gaza.
As a practicing Pisces, these folks are seriously water challenged and should not be allowed to play with water.
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Then a sewage pond failed and their was a flood of sewage through parts of Gaza.
Flood of sewage or parade? How could you tell?
Wait, I know -- the sewage smelled better and had more humanity.
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The people of Gaza support killing Jews, they are learning there are consequences for their actions. Stop supporting the killing of Jews or die. Pretty easy.
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they are learning there are consequences for their actions.
I wouldn't bet a large sum on that, 49 Pan. It's not something they've managed to learn despite repeated cause/effect cycles in the past decade alone.
[Al Ahram] Israel is to indict three Jewish Lions of Islam with murder over the brutal killing of a Paleostinian teenager, officials said Monday, as it emerged their initial target was an eight-year-old child.
According to a statement given to Petah Tikvah magistrates court near Tel Aviv, a 29-year-old man and two minors aged 17 are to be charged on counts of murder, kidnapping with intent to murder, arson and attempted arson, all committed "on racist-nationalistic grounds," police said.
Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, was kidnapped from east Jerusalem on July 2 and burned to death by Jewish Lions of Islam in a suspected Dire Revenge™ attack for the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers.
The brutal murder triggered days of violent protests in east Jerusalem that quickly spread to Arab towns across Israel, with stone-throwers fighting pitched battles with riot police.
A police statement, issued after a court lifted the gag order on the case, said all three suspects had confessed to the killing and carried out a reenactment for Sherlocks.
Seven arrests were made in connection with the case, although four people were released after police and the Shin Bet internal security agency determined they were not directly involved.
In a separate statement, Shin Bet said the three suspects confessed to killing Abu Khder in Dire Revenge™ for last month's kidnap and murder of the three Israeli teens by Paleostinian Lion of Islams.
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This is a key difference between Israel and Palestine: Israel is a nation of laws. Jews who unjustly kill Arabs are prosecuted.
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Weren't those paleos who cold bloodily murdered that pregnant mother and her three daughters a few years ago made into heroes?
That gentlemen is the difference between a civilization (Israel) and An uncivilized pack of animals.
[BBC] Egypt has proposed a ceasefire to end a week of cross-border fire between the Gazoo Strip and Israel. The initiative, announced by the foreign ministry, urges a ceasefire starting on Tuesday morning followed by a series of meetings in Cairo with high-level delegations from both sides.
It comes ahead of an urgent meeting of Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... foreign ministers in Cairo.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the faction that controls Gazoo, confirmed that truce efforts were under way but said no deal had yet been done.
Israeli officials said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet would convene on Tuesday to discuss the proposal.
Paleostinian officials say at least 175 people in Gazoo have been killed by Israeli air strikes since the offensive began last Tuesday. Israel says nearly 1,000 rockets have been fired from Gazoo in that time.
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The Egyptian military's love of Hamas is probably somewhere a notch or two above their love for the Muslim Brotherhood.
[Al Ahram] Washington warned its Israeli ally Monday against any ground invasion of Gazoo, as Egyptian officials said the US top diplomat was headed to the region to join efforts to end a week of deadly violence.
The White House stopped short of criticising Israel over the civilian casualty toll from its devastating air and artillery bombardment of the densely populated Paleostinian enclave that has drawn flak from the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... watchdogs.
It said the Israeli government had the "right" and "responsibility" to defend its citizens against rocket attacks by its Islamist foe Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, from its Gazoo stronghold.
But it said even more civilians would be put at risk were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to heed hardliners in his governing coalition and send in troops and armour.
With Israel's punishing air campaign in its seventh day, the corpse count in Paleostine's Gazoo strip hit 177, prompting growing calls for a ceasefire which have so far showed little sign of progress.
Ahead of an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, Hamas shot down hopes of a deal to end the violence, saying no serious moves had been made.
"Talk of a ceasefire requires real and serious efforts, which we haven't seen so far," Hamas MP Mushir al-Masri told AFP in Gazoo City.
"Any ceasefire must be based on the conditions we have outlined. Nothing less than that will be accepted," he said, in a show of defiance in the face of the withering Israeli bombardment.
Israel has said it is not ready to countenance a ceasefire either, as it seeks to deal ever harsher blows to Hamas and stamp out its capacity to fire rockets against it from Gazoo.
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As long as Hamas is unrepentant, it seems silly to expect the Israelis to care more about the Paleostinians than the Paleos do themselves.
Previously, the Israelis could 'mow the lawn' whenever Hamas got uppity, back when over-sized bottle rockets tended to land harmlessly in the desert. Now that Hamas has upgraded rockets that can reach major cities, Israel no longer has that luxury. Iron Dome has stopped a hundred or so rockets. Eventually, one will get through.
The choice becomes crush the new, upgraded Hamas now, or take the hit on a major city. A cease-fire is just a change for Hamas to obtain better weapons.
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"But it said even more civilians would be put at risk were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to heed hardliners in his governing coalition and send in troops and armour."
Guess DC is unclear on the concept of "Human Shields." Should there be civilian casualties on the Israeli side, all hell will, deservedly, break loose.
[IsraelTimes] Does Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu really support a two-state solution, or is his rhetoric to this effect disingenuous? Did he genuinely seek an accommodation with the Paleostinians during the nine months of US-brokered negotiations that collapsed in April, or was he just stringing the Americans and the Paleostinians along, while his heart is truly with the settlement enterprise?
These are fundamental questions — questions you'd think Israelis and the watching world would long since have been able to answer, especially given that Netanyahu is Israel's second-longest serving prime minister ever. In fact, though, while many pundits claim to have definitive answers, most Israelis would acknowledge that they've never been entirely sure how Netanyahu sees a potential resolution of the Paleostinian conflict, which concessions he's truly ready to make, what his long-term vision looks like.
But now we know.
The uncertainties were swept aside on Friday afternoon, when the prime minister, for the first time in ages, gave a presser on Day Four of Operation Protective Edge.
He spoke only in Hebrew, and we are in the middle of a mini-war, so his non-directly war-related remarks didn't get widely reported. But those remarks should not be overlooked even in the midst of a bitter conflict with Gazoo's Islamist rulers; especially in the midst of a bitter conflict with Gazoo's Islamist rulers. The prime minister spoke his mind as rarely, if ever, before. He set out his worldview with the confidence of a leader who sees vindication in the chaos all around. He answered those fundamental questions.
Netanyahu began his appearance, typically, by reading some prepared remarks. But then, most atypically, he took a series of questions. And while he initially stuck to responses tied to the war against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, its goals, and the terms under which it might be halted, he then moved — unasked — into territory he does not usually chart in public, and certainly not with such candor.
For some, his overall outlook will seem bleak and depressing; for others, savvy and pragmatic. One thing's for sure: Nobody will ever be able to claim in the future that he didn't tell us what he really thinks.
He made explicitly clear that he could never, ever, countenance a fully sovereign Paleostinian state in the West Bank. He indicated that he sees Israel standing almost alone on the frontlines against vicious Islamic radicalism, while the rest of the as-yet free world does its best not to notice the march of extremism. And he more than intimated that he considers the current American, John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... -led diplomatic team to be, let's be polite, naive.
Perhaps most news hounds switched off after he'd delivered his headlines, making plain that "no international pressure will prevent us from acting with all force against a terrorist organization (Hamas) that seeks to destroy us," and that Operation Protective Edge would go on until guaranteed calm was restored to Israel. If they did, they shouldn't have.
Netanyahu has stressed often in the past that he doesn't want Israel to become a binational state — implying that he favors some kind of accommodation with and separation from the Paleostinians. But on Friday he made explicit that this could not extend to full Paleostinian illusory sovereignty. Why? Because, given the march of Islamic extremism across the Middle East, he said, Israel simply cannot afford to give up control over the territory immediately to its east, including the eastern border — that is, the border between Israel and Jordan, and the West Bank and Jordan.
The priority right now, Netanyahu stressed, was to "take care of Hamas." But the wider lesson of the current escalation was that Israel had to ensure that "we don't get another Gazoo in Judea and Samaria." Amid the current conflict, he elaborated, "I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan."
Earlier this spring, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon sparked a storm in Israel-US ties when he told a private gathering that the US-Kerry-Allen security proposals weren't worth the paper they were written on. Netanyahu on Friday said the same, and more, in public
Not relinquishing security control west of the Jordan, it should be emphasized, means not giving a Paleostinian entity full illusory sovereignty there. It means not acceding to the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's demands, to Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... 's demands, to the international community's demands. This is not merely demanding a demilitarized Paleostine; it is insisting upon ongoing Israeli security oversight inside and at the borders of the West Bank. That sentence, quite simply, spells the end to the notion of Netanyahu consenting to the establishment of a Paleostinian state. A less-than-sovereign entity? Maybe, though this will never satisfy the Paleostinians or the international community. A fully sovereign Paleostine? Out of the question.
He wasn't saying that he doesn't support a two-state solution. He was saying that it's impossible. This was not a new, dramatic change of stance by the prime minister. It was a new, dramatic exposition of his long-held stance.
Naming both US Secretary of State John Kerry and his security adviser Gen. John Allen — who was charged by the secretary to draw up security proposals that the US argued could enable Israel to withdraw from most of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley — Netanyahu hammered home the point: Never mind what the naive outsiders recommend, "I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans' expert, 'We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel's people.'"
Netanyahu didn't say he was ruling out all territorial compromise, but he did go to some lengths to highlight the danger of relinquishing what he called "adjacent territory." He scoffed at those many experts who have argued that holding onto territory for security purposes is less critical in the modern technological era, and argued by contrast that the closer your enemies are, physically, to your borders, the more they'll try to tunnel under those borders and fire rockets over them.
It had been a mistake for Israel to withdraw from Gazoo, he added — reminding us that he'd opposed the 2005 disengagement — because Hamas had since established a terrorist bunker in the Strip. And what Hamas had been doing in Gazoo — tunneling into and rocketing at the enemy — would be replicated in the West Bank were Israel so foolish as to give the Islamists the opportunity.
"If we were to pull out of Judea and Samaria, like they tell us to," he said bitterly — leaving it to us to fill in who the many and various foolish "theys" are — "there'd be a possibility of thousands of tunnels" being dug by holy warriors to attack Israel, he said. There were 1,200 tunnels dug in the 14-kilometer border strip between Egypt and Gazoo alone, he almost wailed, which Egypt had sealed. "At present we have a problem with the territory called Gazoo," the prime minister said. But the West Bank is 20 times the size of Gazoo. Israel, he said flatly, was not prepared "to create another 20 Gazoos" in the West Bank.
Beyond Israel's direct current confrontation with Hamas, and the eternal Paleostinian conflict, Netanyahu also addressed the rise of Islamic extremism across the Middle East — covering the incapacity of affected states to resist it, and Israel's unique determination and capacity to stand firm. He said Israel finds itself in a region "that is being seized by Islamic extremism. It is bringing down countries, many countries. It is knocking on our door, in the north and south."
But while other states were collapsing, said Netanyahu, Israel was not — because of the strength of its leadership, its army and its people. "We will defend ourselves on every front, defensively and offensively," he vowed.
And in a passage that was primarily directed at Israel's Islamist enemies, but might equally be internalized by those he plainly regards as Israel's muddle-headed self-styled friends, he added: "Nobody should mess with us."
[IsraelTimes] OLD CITY, Jerusalem — The siren on Saturday evening caught 'Azza 'Alan and her family preparing for Iftar, the traditional meal breaking the fast of Ramadan.
"I shut my five daughters at home, we didn't leave," the 26-year-old housewife told The Times of Israel. "We have no bomb shelters here in the Old City. We have God who protects us."
The rockets flying over Jerusalem seem to have left Jerusalem's Paleostinians not only more defiant but also much more angry at Israel. Gazoo is widely viewed as the victim of perpetual Israeli aggression, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, as the champion of the Paleostinian cause. While proud of their hardened positions, residents of the Old City remain deeply suspicious of Israeli media, refusing to be photographed and often to use their real names.
The sirens scare the children, admitted 'Alan, but added that she cheers her children up by saying that they are meant to "scare the Jews."
"We tell them that the Jews want to take Jerusalem from us, they want to take the Al-Aqsa Mosque," she said.
Unlike previous Ramadans, where permits were generously granted to Paleostinians from the West Bank to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, this year access remains extremely limited even to Jerusalem residents, with worshipers under the age of 50 often denied entry.
Israel's Home Front command has issued its protection guidelines in Arabic, and — with reported rocket landings in or near the Paleostinian cities of Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah — the IDF's Civil Administration has distributed the guidelines throughout the West Bank, Israeli radio has reported.
But shopping for children's clothes in an Old City alleyway, Um Jumaa, 35, said that even if bomb shelters existed, she wouldn't use them. When the siren began on Saturday evening she opened her home's windows and went outside with her family.
"We were very happy. The children were shouting allahu akbar and we were clapping. We explained to them that Jews have attacked children and this is retaliation. They say 'My God, may they [the rockets] hit the Jews, and may they die, just the way they hit us.'" Even if rockets hit the Old City, she added, she would have no problem because "we are no different from them [in Gazoo]."
Abu Hatem, a 65-year-old resident of Kufr Aqab in northeastern Jerusalem, said that in the absence of bomb shelters in his neighborhood, when the sirens sound people stay home and continue watching TV.
"When someone constructs an apartment building, he doesn't construct bomb shelters, instead he makes parking for cars," said Abu Hatem, sitting outside a sweets shop.
Sounds of kaboom are nothing strange for Paleostinian children in Jerusalem, said Abu Hatem, "who grow up hearing gunfire while they're still in their mothers' womb."
For Abu Hatem, Hamas's rockets are simply self defense. "What power does Hamas have compared to Israel?" he said. "It's like a small child which gets beaten up as it grows older."
It was Israel, he opined, which launches a war against Hamas every few years to show its public that it is capable of defending it.
"Abu Mazen [the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ] said we want negotiations, not shooting, but they [the Israelis] shoot anyway."
Time and again, passersby in the alleys of the Moslem Quarter boasted their steadfastness in the face of the rockets raining down from Gazoo. One man said he was driving past a Jewish neighborhood on his way to the north Jerusalem suburb of Qalandia on Saturday when the siren went off.
"The Jews, the police, the army, everyone got down and lay on the ground, while we continued normally, and my children signaled the victory sign," he said. "Death is a virtue. A person doesn't get to live one minute more than God assigns him."
A shoe salesman, asking to be named Abu Jihad after the Lion of Islam Fatah chief killed by Israel in 1988, said that Jerusalem children often take to the streets as the sirens blast to identify with the children of Gazoo.
"The children love the sound of the siren as though it was a children's game," he told The Times of Israel, as he watched a small TV broadcasting images of destroyed buildings in Gazoo. "We tell them 'come inside,' and they say 'I don't want to come in, I want to die like those in Gazoo'."
Footage of destruction and suffering in Gazoo only makes Hamas more popular on the Paleostinian street, Abu Jihad insisted. "We don't trust the PA. It is a treacherous authority which coordinates its security with Israel. Only yesterday Abu Mazen [Abbas] said that Hamas is profiteering in war. He's a war profiteer and a traitor. He should leave the country rather than speak that way."
[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva said that every rocket and mortar fired from Gazoo toward Israel is a "crime against humanity."
Speaking on July 9 to Paleostinian Authority TV on the possible risks involved if Paleostinians leaders ask to join the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... — as they have threatened to do in order to push for measures against Israel — Ambassador Ibrahim Kraishi
He'll be a representative of the Palestinian Authority/Fatah/the PLO, of course, and naturally thinks poorly of those Hamas buggers running the Gaza Strip at the moment.
said the "Paleostinian weakness" in terms of international law is the indiscriminate firing of rockets at Israel.
"The missiles that are now being launched against Israel, each and every missile constitutes a crime against humanity, whether it hits or misses, because it is directed at civilian targets," said Kraishi during the interview, translated by MEMRI.
The ambassador said that, by contrast, Israel's actions follows legal procedures, because the IDF warns Gazook civilians to leave sites and areas before they are bombed.
"Many of our people in Gazoo appeared on TV and said that the Israelis warned them to evacuate their homes before the bombardment. In such a case, if someone is killed, the law considers it a mistake rather than an intentional killing because [the Israelis] followed the legal procedures."
"As for the missiles launched from our side, we never warn anyone about where these missiles are about to fall or about the operations we carry out," he says.
Kraishi also said the "settlements [in the West Bank], the Judaization [of Jerusalem], the checkpoints, the arrests, and so on" were also considered "war crimes" under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
[BLOOMBERG] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing its agencies to deliver aid across borders into rebel-held areas in Syria without Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Horror of Homs... consent.
The approval will enable the agencies to "immediately" deliver aid to 1.3 million Syrians, said Mark Lyall Grant, the U.K. ambassador to the UN, according to a transcript of his remarks to the council.
The 15-member Security Council was united in support of the proposal by Australia, Jordan and Luxembourg, to give UN humanitarian agencies and their partners the legal authority to use four crossings on Syria's borders with Iraq, Turkey and Jordan without the Syrian government's authorization.
The resolution also orders UN monitors to be deployed to the crossings to inspect the aid consignments and confirm their "humanitarian nature."
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D *** NG IT, doesn't the UNO know that ... ...
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