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Militant attacks kill 64 people in north-eastern Mali
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Afghanistan
MoI Recruits 74,000 people in Military, Civil Sectors
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that by the order of the Islamic Emirate's Leader, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, 74,000 people in the military and civil sectors will be recruited to this ministry after the completion of the investigation of the reform commission.

MoI front man Abdul Matin Qani confirmed this to TOLOnews and said that priority will be given to those who have worked with the Islamic Emirate in the past twenty years.

In the meantime, the Islamic Emirate's front man, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that people will be recruited to security institutions based on need.

"It is based on the need -- how much Afghanistan needs and how much our cities and districts need troops to be there to provide more security to the people and maintain security," Mujahid said.

Some military analysts said that in addition to recruiting these people, attention should also be paid to their professional training and equipment.

"They need loyal and professional personnel in the military sector, whether in the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Interior, or Intelligence, and they also need vehicles and equipment," said Tahir Yarghal, a military analyst.

"Currently, due to the brain drain and the fleeing of youth-- the thousands of youth who go abroad every day and drown in the waters; for the time being, we need to spend on our youth rather than the military," said Hadi Qureshi, another military analyst.

It is not clear yet how many of these people will be recruited in the military and civil departments of the Ministry of Interior, and there is no news about the recruitment of military forces of the previous government in this ministry.
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Africa Horn
U.S. military in Africa denies to have carried out an air strike on Wednesday
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Somalia: SNA shift tactics in Al-Shabaab war, gives locals roles
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] has shifted tactics in the fight against al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
, VOA has established, giving locals many advanced roles on the battlefield, in the latest revival of operations against the krazed killers, who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.

In the strategy, officials say, locals will play a significant role in coordination and execution, while the military will take auxiliary roles. Already, there have been notable withdrawals of the Somali National Army from various frontlines, which could compromise the fight against the krazed killers.

Local fighters, officials say, will be registered for monthly stipends which will act as incentives for their participation. In the long run, authorities said, the local fighters will be integrated into the national army, as a reward for their efforts to eliminate the murderous Moslems in the country.

The national intelligence agency is tasked with leading the registration and vetting of fighters to prevent infiltration of krazed killers, officials said. A few months ago, the government used local fighters in Galmadug and HirShabelle states, during the first phase of operations against the al-Qaeda-linked group.

Brigadier General Abdirahman Turyare, the former national intelligence chief, who is now helping mobilize the local fighters, confirmed the tactical changes to VOA Somali in an interview.

"The current mobilization is different from the mobilization that was taking place in the past few months, which only focused on the national armed forces," Turyare said.

"The plan is to remobilize the armed forces, rest some of those soldiers who have been in the front line for a year and a half, replace them with the newly trained forces, and remobilize the Ma’awisley [local militias] and to let the local community lead the fight," he said.

The change came after a federal army-led military operation suffered a setback following a deadly al-Shabaab attack on two military brigades. They had been sent deep into al-Shabaab territory in the Cowsweyne village last month with the goal of capturing it, VOA reports.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Niger authorities have limited visits to the French ambassador
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The new Niger authorities have banned visits from the French Ambassador to the country, Sylvain Itte , to everyone except members of the French diplomatic mission. Al-Arabiya TV channel reports this, citing sources in the security services of the African state.

Earlier it was reported that in Niamey, cars with representatives of the EU and Spain were unable to enter the French Embassy. The delegation planned to talk with the ambassador.

As Regnum reported , on the night of July 26, a coup d’état took place in Niger. A group of military men came to power in the country and removed the President of the Republic, Mohamed Bazoum, from government .

On August 25, the new Niger authorities demanded that Sylvain Itte leave the country within 48 hours. They explained their decision by the actions of the French authorities, contrary to the interests of the African republic.

In turn, the French Foreign Ministry released a statement saying that Paris took note of this request. However, the department noted that the military, which came to power in Niger, does not have the authority to contact the ambassador with such a request.
Posted by: badanov || 09/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Gabon's military leader hosts newly appointed interim PM Raymond Ndong Sima
[AFRICANEWS] Gabon's strongman General Brice Oligui Nguema has hosted the country's newly appointed interim prime minister, Raymond Ndong Sima, at the Presidential Palace in Libreville and tasked him with proposing a government lineup.

Speaking to AFP shortly after his appointment was announced, Ndong Sima said he would submit a proposed government lineup to Oligui "in three or four days."

"They've given me a roadmap, and I will try to work in the direction that the military have determined... for restoring all our institutions, and especially everything concerning the framework for elections," he said by phone.

Ndong Sima said he wanted to take time for "broad consultations... so that people belonging to all political families are included" in the government.

His appointment, announced on state TV, was made in a decree by the new strongman, General Brice Oligui Nguema, who was sworn in as interim president on Monday.

In his inauguration speech, Oligui vowed to hold "free, transparent and credible elections" to restore civilian rule, but did not give a timeframe.

He also said he would soon announce a transitional government that drew on figures from across the political spectrum.

Posted by: Fred || 09/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Under the sign of an inverted 'A'. A new military conflict is brewing in Transcaucasia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Sergey Adamov

[REGNUM] Armenia and Azerbaijan are again on the brink of war. The armed forces of Azerbaijan are actively massing armored vehicles and artillery to the border with Armenia. Observers note that the equipment is marked with quick identification marks in the form of an inverted letter “A” (∀), which may indicate preparation for a full-scale military operation.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan state that Armenian troops are violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement. In turn, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated that Azerbaijan is preparing new military provocations against Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia - these statements are actively broadcast by Western media, for example the French channel France 24.

Numerous videos are published on the Internet indicating the concentration of Azerbaijani troops on several sections of the border at once: in the area of ​​the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, as well as near the borders of the Syunik region in southern Armenia. Let us explain - the access of Azerbaijani troops to the Armenian border in this area became possible as a result of the Second Karabakh War. Then, let us remind you, NKR lost the so-called security belt - the areas around Nagorno-Karabakh occupied by Armenian forces, which also covered the Armenian border.

A number of sources claim that it is here, near the borders of Syunik, that a new military operation of the Azerbaijani army may begin with the aim of occupying the strategically important area of ​​the Syunik, or Zangezur corridor. In this region, a narrow 40 km stretch of Armenian territory separates most of Azerbaijan and the Nakhichevan enclave (which shares a border with Turkey).

CORRIDOR OF DISCORD
The Azerbaijani side insists on creating a land route between Azerbaijan and Turkey. This route was essentially mentioned in Moscow’s November 10, 2020 ceasefire statement in Nagorno-Karabakh. The ninth point of the agreement states: Armenia guarantees the safety of transport communications between the western regions of Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan with subsequent access to Turkey. This is possible through Armenian territory itself along the Iranian border. But in reality, the Zangezur corridor remains on paper - there is a danger that Azerbaijan will begin to break through it by force.

In the conditions of cooling relations between Yerevan and Moscow (and this is supported by the Armenian-American exercises announced for September and the recall of the permanent representative of Armenia to the CSTO), Armenia may be left alone in the confrontation with Azerbaijan and Turkey.

But it seems that another regional power, Iran, which traditionally supports Armenia in the Armenian-Azerbaijani confrontation, plans to take part in the confrontation over the Syunik corridor.

Iranian television published a video calling for support for the territorial integrity of Armenia. The video contains footage from Iranian army missile exercises and hints at the possibility of providing military assistance to Armenia. Previously, Tehran has repeatedly stated that it will not allow a military invasion of Armenian territory.

IRAN MAY DECIDE TO PREEMPTIVELY SEND IN TROOPS
For Iran, the existence of the Syunik (Zangezur) corridor, controlled by Armenia, is strategically important, so Tehran will strive to prevent a military operation by Azerbaijan and Turkey, military expert and Iranist Yuri Lyamin told IA Regnum.

“The Syunik corridor is important for Iran, as it connects the main part of Armenia with Iran,” the expert explained. “Moreover, trade routes to the ports of Georgia run through Armenia. Since Iran is under powerful sanctions pressure, the country's government is interested in the maximum variety of available transport corridors. If there is a threat of Azerbaijan’s seizure of the said Syunik region of Armenia, then Iran may well resort to a preventive deployment of troops.”

Tehran also opposes the creation of a single Turkish-Azerbaijani alliance on its northern borders, which could directly threaten the country’s security. Northern Iran is home to a large number of ethnic Azerbaijanis , among whom separatist sentiments are strong . Therefore, Iran will strive to prevent the creation of a united Turkic front.

Moreover, Azerbaijan will not be able to independently conduct military operations against Iran. However, there are a number of problems on the way to bring Iranian troops into the territory of Armenia.

WILL PASHINYAN TURN TO THE AYATOLLAH?
“Most likely, one entry of Iranian troops will be enough to stop potential hostilities in that area, since Azerbaijan is unlikely to want an open conflict with Iran over this,” Lyamin notes.

Another thing is that the entry of Iranian troops will require an official appeal from the Armenian authorities. That is, an appeal from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan or the de jure head of Armenia, President Vahagn Khachaturian , to the leadership of Iran: spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi . But whether it will happen in this case is still a big question, notes Lyamin.

“Pashinyan is very actively trying to attract Western mediators, who are unlikely to accept Iranian intervention. So they will have to choose: Iranian help here and now or verbal guarantees from the West ,” the expert points out.

In principle, Iran can also do without direct intervention in the conflict “on the ground” by using its missile and aviation arsenal, the orientalist argues.

“I very much doubt that Azerbaijan will enter into an open military conflict with Iran for the sake of Syunik,” believes Lyamin.

Firstly, this is, after all, the internationally recognized territory of Armenia, which in itself forces Azerbaijan to act more carefully, the expert explained.

Secondly, Baku should be wary of the situation escalating into a large-scale conflict with Iran, since the Azerbaijani oil and gas infrastructure is very vulnerable to attacks from Iran.

“Azerbaijan, of course, can also inflict painful injections with the help of existing missiles and UAVs, but Iran’s strike capabilities are simply incomparably greater,” the expert adds.

ZANGEZUR BLITZKRIEG
Azerbaijan can decide on a full-scale military operation in the Syunik corridor only under one condition, the expert believes. This condition is speed. If in a short period of time the region is occupied by Azerbaijani troops, Iran will be presented with a fait accompli and there will no longer be a harsh reaction from Tehran. It is possible that Ankara and Baku are preparing for precisely this scenario—a blitzkrieg—Lyamin does not exclude it.

On the other hand, Lyamin notes, it is possible that the relocation of individual units to the border with Armenia by the Azerbaijani army is a show of force.

The expert recalled that Azerbaijan more than once after the 2020 war resorted to forceful pressure on Armenia in order to persuade Yerevan to make concessions, including territorial ones.

“Azerbaijan has a very significant military advantage over Armenia, and therefore it can choose different options ,” the orientalist noted. — That is, there may be a demonstration of force in the form of exercises, there may be a limited military operation in a specific area, and so on. Potentially, Azerbaijan could try to carry out a larger-scale short operation, testing the limits of a possible reaction from Russia and Iran. In preparation for the upcoming, larger intervention . "

A DIRECT CLASH IS EXCLUDED, A PROXY WAR IS LIKELY
Major regional powers - Turkey and Iran - have not yet demonstrated readiness for open war. On September 3, negotiations were held between Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdellahian and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan. Both sides expressed their commitment to peace, but Iran once again made it clear that it will not allow the Syunik corridor to be captured.

“We welcome negotiations between Yerevan and Baku and will not accept any geopolitical changes in the region and blocking of the existing transit route in the region,” Abdellahian said.

In the coming years, a direct armed conflict between Turkey and Iran is unlikely, Lyamin believes. But at the same time, both countries can provide military assistance to their allies, so the threat of a proxy war still remains.

“Iran and Turkey are not interested in a direct conflict with each other, since both sides already have enough problems there. In addition, they do not want to break off fairly close economic ties. But I would be careful not to think about five years in advance. There are too many different factors that can change during this time . ”

In the short term, Azerbaijan may consider the possibility of conducting a local military operation, intending to occupy part of the territory of the unrecognized NKR or disputed areas on the border with Armenia, Lyamin emphasizes.

If Armenia, Russia and Iran are unable to influence the situation, a larger war may be planned in the future, which will not leave major regional players aside.
Posted by: badanov || 09/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies

#1  Armenia is supported by Russia and Iran.
Russia because they're fellow Greek Orthodox. (and also because Russians love Armenian cognac).
Iran supports Armenia against Azerbaijan because, despite being a predominantly Shia country, Azeris been know to say to Iran: "Sod off swampy! We don't need your Ayatollahs to tell us that women may wear, and - definitely not - when it's alright to f#ck a chicken!"

Azerbaijan is supported by Israel & Turkey because it's hated by Iran.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/09/2023 2:37 Comments || Top||

#2  A useful summary of the usual counterintuitive alliances, Grom.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/09/2023 13:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Gracias
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/09/2023 13:42 Comments || Top||

#4  A knock-on effect of the Ukraine invasion. Russia was seen as the guarantor of Armenia. Russia is now weakened and fully occupied with its war. Azerbaijan gets frisky, Iran threatens to step in, as Russian proxy and/or 'cuz nothing says Muslim brotherhood like knifing your fellow believers.
Posted by: Nero || 09/09/2023 15:00 Comments || Top||

#5  When I saw Transcaucasia, I was expecting to see a picture of Admiral Levine.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/09/2023 15:13 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ *Bada Bing!*
Posted by: Frank G || 09/09/2023 17:35 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden Regime is [considering] Forcing Illegal Immigrants to Stay in Texas as Blue States Grapple with Migrant Crisis
[Gateway] The Biden regime is reportedly considering forcing illegal immigrants who enter the country to the border areas of Texas. The goal is to make it easier for these families to undergo and fail asylum screenings, thereby expediting their deportation, according to three U.S. officials who spoke with The LA Times.

Under the proposed plan, illegal immigrant families would be restricted to Texas—or potentially other border states—and their locations would be monitored through GPS devices such as ankle bracelets.
Actually tracking them instead of letting them roam free? Inconceivable!
"Family deportations are historically lower than those of single adults because of the complications of logistical planning needed to apprehend both children and parents," says a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official.

According to investigative reporter Todd Bensman, most of these illegal immigrant families are "fake families and asylum fraudsters."
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#1  Looking behind the big curtain ....

If you wanted to flip a RED State,. Wouldn't sequestering 100's of 1, 000's of illegals there, then granting them blanket US Citizenship be a good step in that direction?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/09/2023 6:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Stay in Texas. How about stay in Mexico. Your 'authority' on movement ended at the border.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2023 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  So the Biden policy has morphed in interment camps or building a wall around Texas.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/09/2023 15:17 Comments || Top||

#4  their locations would be monitored through GPS devices such as Obama Biden phones.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2023 15:36 Comments || Top||

#5  "If I Were President," or, ID: Part Trois

A bright pea-green banner unfurled
As citizens ["FIRST!"] of the world
Left the red, white and blue
With new passports, green too,
And a million green Democrats hurled.

Or, [Esperanto for "Exorcist"]?
Posted by: Ulereth Elmamp1090 || 09/09/2023 18:39 Comments || Top||

#6  And in each passport, gently tucked,
A Starbucks gift card read, "Get f-cked."
Posted by: Ulereth Elmamp1090 || 09/09/2023 18:51 Comments || Top||

#7  And then of course we'd brain-drain the whole freaking world like a giant flock of flying monkey vampire zombies. Immigration policy in full:

Seclude for a comfortable wait
All who knock at America's gate.
"Welcome! Eat, drink, and rest
For your marshmallow test:
One short year of rice, beans,
Books, and not making scenes,
Learning English and all
While you work on the wall...
Then the flip of a coin
Will decide if you'll join
Us... for thrill-packed Year 2, in a state!
Year 3? Random county.
Year 4? You're a townie.
The townspeople vote...
And it's back on the boat,
Or you're in! Ain't America great?
Posted by: Ulereth Elmamp1090 || 09/09/2023 19:18 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Chitral attack ‘isolated incident’, not sanctioned by Afghan govt: FM Jilani
[Dawn] Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on Friday said this week’s terrorist attack on two military posts in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Lower Chitral district was an "isolated incident" and not sanctioned by the interim Afghan government.

On Wednesday, at least four coppers embraced martyrdom while more than 16 fighters were killed as holy warriors’ attempts to enter Pakistain from Afghanistan were foiled by troops deployed along the border with Afghanistan.

Militants had attacked two security checkposts in the southern part of the district. The pre-dawn attack had targeted check posts in Astui Pass and Jinjiret Koh situated in the south of Lower Chitral, bordering the Afghan province of Nuristan. Astui Pass is located in the Bumburet Valley, one of the three valleys in southern Chitral where the Kalash community resides.

"Terrorists’ movement and concentration in Gawardesh, Pitigal, Barg-e-Matel, and Batash areas of Nuristan and Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
s of Afghanistan had already been picked up and were timely shared with the interim Afghan government," the military’s media wing had said, adding that the Afghan government was "expected to fulfil its obligations and deny the use of Afghan soil by Lions of Islam for perpetuating acts of terrorism against Pakistain."

The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain (TTP) had reportedly grabbed credit for the attack through its spokesperson, Mohammad Khorasani.

Commenting on the matter while responding to a question on rising terrorism in Pakistain emanating from Afghanistan, FM Jilani told Dawn.com: "It was an isolated incident and we don’t think it had their (Afghan government) sanction."

The foreign minister later reiterated his stance and said ongoing dialogue with the Afghan government on surging militancy was "very positive".
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


Afghanistan-based terrorists attacking Pakistan with advanced weapons
[GEO.TV] The Foreign Office on Friday expressed concerns over the "advanced weapons" being used by the holy warriors in Afghanistan to attack Pakistain and its security agencies.

"These modern weapons have fallen into the hands of holy warriors in Afghanistan who are using these [weapons] to attack Pakistain and its security agencies," said FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in a weekly briefing.

She said the situation needs international attention and called upon all stakeholders to assume the responsibility that they have in this regard.

The FO spokesperson also reaffirmed Pakistain's commitment to eradicate the menace of terrorism.

The spokesperson said Pakistain and the United States have a robust dialogue on multiple areas including on security and counter terrorism matters.

She said Pakistain has been communicating with the US and other partners both inside and outside the region about Pakistain's security concerns.

She hoped our friends and partners would understand the security compulsions that Pakistain has in this region including the threat of terrorism and the security situation because of the difficult and aggressive posture of our eastern neighbor.

Posted by: Fred || 09/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)

#1  Instead of rocks and clubs they now have Biden's left overs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2023 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Finally, I feel like I'm sorta getting my money's worth as a taxpayer on this deal.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/09/2023 10:44 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Nearly 1,500 unidentified bodies recovered in Mosul since ISIS war, says official
[Rudaw] There are nearly 1,500 bodies of unidentified people that have been uncovered in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
since the city was retaken from Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) faceless myrmidons around six years ago, the forensics medicine department in Nineveh said on Wednesday.

"The number of unidentified bodies recovered since the liberation of Mosul from the old areas of the city reached 1,495 bodies, while the number of known bodies whose graves were uncovered reached 3,749," Shahed Arif Hamid, the director of forensics medicine in Nineveh province, told Rudaw’s Mushtaq Ramadhan.

ISIS swept through Iraq in 2014, capturing cities across the center and north of the country in a brazen offensive, including Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city and the capital of Nineveh province, where the group’s former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared its so-called "caliphate."

The city was retaken in a major Iraqi and Kurdish counteroffensive in 2017, supported by the US-led global coalition.

According to Hamid, Mosul’s civil defense teams, who are responsible for uncovering remains from the rubble, receive fewer remains than previous years as there are no decomposing bodies left.

"If there is no claimant, the remains are left unidentified and in storage until a database for missing persons is announced, and anyone who has lost a relative must donate blood to match the samples with the missing bodies," she said.

Mosul’s Old City, on the western bank of the Tigris River that divides the city into two, was severely damaged as a result of the fight against ISIS and bombardments by both the Iraqi air force and the US-led coalition.

The process of uncovering bodies in Nineveh province began in May 2018, through government teams and volunteers.

According to statistics from Iraq’s High Commission for Human Rights, there are more than 800 bodies of children among the bodies of civilians exhumed in Mosul.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Abbas: Ashkenazi Jews ‘are not Semites,’ Hitler killed them for their ‘social role’
[IsraelTimes] Repeating antisemitic canards he’s previously invoked, Paleostinian leader claims European antisemitism the result not of ’enmity’ toward Jews but to their role as moneylenders

In a recent speech, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
repeated a number of antisemitic canards he has made over the years, including unfounded claims about the the origins of Ashkenazi Jews and that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
had Jews slaughtered because of their "social role" as moneylenders, not because of enmity toward Judaism.

Speaking last month at his Fatah party’s Revolutionary Council, Abbas outlined the baseless theory that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from ancient Israelites but an ancient Ottoman Turkish people known as the Khazars, who according to a discredited theory converted to Judaism en masse.

"The truth that we should clarify to the world is that European Jews are not Semites," Abbas said, according to a translation of his remarks by the Middle East Media Research Institute. "They have nothing to do with Semitism."

"So when we hear them talk about Semitism and antisemitism, the Ashkenazi Jews, at least, are not Semites," he added.

Abbas has previously claimed publicly that Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of Khazars, including a 2018 speech in which he charged that Jews’ "social behavior" caused the Holocaust, another assertion he reiterated in his recent speech.

"They say that Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews and that Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
hated the Jews because they were Jews. Not true. It was clearly explained that [the Europeans] fought [the Jews] because of their social role, and not their religion," Abbas said in August. "Several authors wrote about this. Even Karl Marx said this was not true. He said that the enmity was not directed at Judaism as a religion but to Judaism for its social role."

"The [Europeans] fought against these people because of their role in society, which had to do with usury, money and so on and so forth," he continued.

qAbbas then appeared to repeat the stab-in-the-back myth that Hitler subscribed to after World War I, blaming the Jews and others for Germany’s loss in the conflict.

"Everybody knows that during World War I, Hitler was a sergeant. He said that he fought the Jews because they were dealing with usury and money. In his view, they were engaged in sabotage, and this is why he hated them," Abbas said. "We just want to make this point clear: This was not about semitism and antisemitism."

"As for the eastern Jews, they are Semites," he added, referring to Jews from the greater Middle East.

Abbas also launched a fresh diatribe against the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 document issued by the British government declaring support for a "national home" for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, which he charged America was a party to at the time.

"Who invented the [Jewish] state? It was Britannia and America, not just Britannia," he claimed. "I am saying this so that we know who we should accuse of being our enemy, who has harmed us and took our homeland away, and gave it to the Israelis or the Jews."

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan ripped into Abbas on Wednesday, after the translation of the PA leader’s remarks was published.

"This is the true face of Paleostinian ’leadership,'" Erdan wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "Just as Abbas blames the Jews for the Holocaust, he also blames the Jews for all the Middle East’s issues. While he spreads this pure antisemitism he also pays Paleostinian bandidos hard boyz for murdering Israelis and publicly commends Paleostinian terrorism.

"The world must wake up and hold Abbas and his Paleostinian Authority accountable for the hatred they spew and the ensuing bloodshed it causes. There must be zero tolerance for Paleostinian incitement and terror!" the envoy added.

Abbas has a history of making antisemitic claims and incendiary comments about the Holocaust, including saying in May that Israel "lies like" chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Last year in Germany, he accused Israel of perpetrating "50 holocausts" at a presser alongside Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Israel, Germany, and the US reacted to the statement with shock and outrage.

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#1  EU announces €296 million of support to the Palestinian people

One can't help wondering: are the allocated funds calculated as a fixed sum per Jew killed? Are there special bonuses for women and children?
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