[NYPost] A controversial Islamic group — which the White House cut ties with after its director said he was “happy” about Hamas’ terror attack against Israel on Oct. 7 — is facing allegations of sexual assault and harassment. The suit could see the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) forced to open its books amid claims secret foreign donors are funding its multi-million budget.
Lori Saroya was once, in the words of one person who knows her, the “golden child” of CAIR. Based in Blaine, Minnesota, where she was a CAIR chapter leader, Saroya became so important to the national leadership that they brought her to the White House and groomed her to become a senior leader because she was the group’s “pride and joy.”
Now Saroya, 42, is shaping up to be CAIR’s worst nightmare as she pushes back in an ugly legal battle with the controversial Muslim civil rights organization that includes charges of sex assault and harassment allegations involving several CAIR leaders.
Saroya, who is now the first Muslim to serve on the Blaine City Council, filed a federal defamation lawsuit against the group last week in federal court in Minnesota. That suit was in response to a statement put out by CAIR in January 2022, accusing Saroya of “cyberstalking” CAIR staffers by using burner email and social media accounts to spread “Islamophobic tropes and conspiracy theories” about the organization. In her complaint, Saroya said that the press release led to her being bullied online and made her so afraid that she stopped going to her mosque. She also said the allegations in the press release came up during job interviews and she wasn’t offered jobs by those people. She has said she left CAIR after she called on the organization to look into sex assault and harassment allegations against several leaders, including one Saroya — who other members praise as “courageous” — said “engaged in a pattern of unwelcome and highly inappropriate conduct” toward her.
Saroya’s filing comes almost two years after CAIR dismissed its own federal defamation suit against Saroya in which leaders accused her of waging “a systemic and continuous internet smear campaign designed to damage [CAIR’s] reputation and to cause it severe economic harm.”
CAIR also charged in that lawsuit that Saroya “voluntarily resigned” from CAIR after a female staffer said Saroya had harassed her to the point that “the female staffer was contemplating seeking a restraining order.”
Saroya calls CAIR’s claims “outrageously false” in her own civil complaint and one of her lawyers wrote in the suit that all the organization’s accusations are “part of a concerted effort to blacken her reputation, destroy her credibility, and silence her and others who have raised serious concerns about CAIR’s abuse of women, dishonest practices, and violations of civil rights, among others.”
“The complaint lays out a record of serious problems within an organization that holds itself out as as civil rights organization but as the complaint makes clear has engaged in a pattern of conduct which is the very opposite,” Saroya’s Boston-based lawyer, Jeff Robbins, told The Post.
Formed in 1994 by a group of young Muslim activists concerned about the rise in anti-Muslim discrimination, CAIR is now the biggest Muslim civil rights group in the US and includes about 33 local chapters across the US.
But there has also been controversy around the group and its uber-powerful co-founder of CAIR, Nihad Awad, who is Palestinian-American.
Last month, the Biden administration said it had ended its work with CAIR on crafting a national antisemitism strategy after Awad said he was “happy” to witness Hamas’ terror attack against Israel on Oct 7. Awad made the shocking statement at the 16th Annual Convention for Palestine in Chicago on Nov. 24, according to video footage circulated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
The New Venture Fund — part of a liberal dark-money network — gave $40,000 to the Arizona chapter of the CAIR which shared a template on Instagram to help others denounce school administrators or employers who issue statements “in support of Israel.”
CAIR was also rocked by a lengthy National Public Radio investigation in April 2021 that focused mainly on the then-head of the Florida chapter of CAIR, Hassan Shibly, and allegations involving secret marriages, bullying and sexual harassment. Shibly has denied the allegations reported by NPR. The report included claims from numerous women who had issues with Shibly as well as other senior leaders at CAIR.
Saroya, however, according to several people who know her, was unusual in having the courage to stand up to the CAIR leadership. Prior to resigning from CAIR in 2018, she headed CAIR’s Minnesota chapter from 2007 to 2016 and then jumped to the national office as a national chapter development director and board member.
A former volunteer for CAIR, who did not want to be identified publicly, told The Post that she witnessed some of the same abusive behavior on the part of CAIR senior leadership that Saroya claims she did. She blamed Awad for engendering a culture of fear at CAIR which enables senior leaders to target staffers and volunteers, mainly women.
[Gateway] hicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has called for a ceasefire in Gaza, because all of the cool kids on the left are doing that now.
You would think that a man in charge of a city that sees multiple shootings every week would know better than to even bring up this topic, but that apparently didn’t occur to Johnson.
People on social media quickly reminded him.
FOX News reports:
Chicago mayor calls for Gaza cease-fire, but social media reminds him of violence gripping his own city
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was lampooned Thursday after calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war when many pointed out that his own city could use one.
Chicago has become infamous for its crime crisis. Fox News analyst Gianno Caldwell, who lost his 18-year-old brother to a 2022 shooting incident in Chicago, has called his hometown an "active war zone."
Johnson has joined other progressives in calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying "the killings need to stop," but his remarks didn’t go over well with conservatives when Chicago PBS reporter Heather Cherone shared them on social media.
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a tool of the Chicago Teacher's Union. You knew he would be a stupid puppet
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^^ figured that just because he lives in Chicago
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Reading that deal about 'ordinary Chicago residents' scolding people for incorporating the name 'Chicago' with the name of various war zones was funny.
Almost as funny as that scold for the LA Times telling people not to bad mouth California after fleeing.
[AFRICANEWS] Algeria is gearing up for an election year with an ageing president and an opposition that is yet to present a candidate.
The oil-rich North African country faces mounting political and economic challenges as public dissatisfaction rises. Yet it remains unclear whether Algeria's presidential election, likely to be held in December, will inspire serious campaigning.
The Rally for Culture and Democracy, among the rare opposition parties maintaining a notable public presence in President Abdelmajid Tebboune 's Algeria, this week called on the government to "put in place political conditions for a debate to find a way out of crisis."
Still, no candidate has stepped forward to challenge Tebboune, Algeria's 78-year-old leader who came to power in 2019 and has not announced plans to run for a second term. He's maintained an air of mystery, contending last month that "the people will decide the right moment" for such an announcement.
The country's leading army general, Said Chengriha, has offered support for Tebboune, praising "the projects implemented over the past 4 years" and calling for "the continuation of this work."
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[IsraelTimes] Four key members involved in strikes on vessels in Red Sea and weapon procurement targeted in new sanctions, which rebel group chief says won’t affect ’our will and determination’
Sanctioned were Houthi Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi, Houthi Naval Commander Muhammad Fadl Abd al-Nabi, coastal defense forces chief Muhammad Ali al-Qadiri, and Procurement Director Muhammed Ahmad al-Talibi.
The targeting of ships linked to Israel will continue until aid reaches the Paleostinian people in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , Yemen
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They're damned sure gonna need them.
[KavkazUzel] Members of the Public Chamber of Chechnya reported on the delivery of clothes and food to Palestinian refugees who are in the Shali region.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that on December 22, 2023, the number of Palestinian refugees who arrived in Chechnya exceeded 200. The Chechen authorities announced their intention to build a residential complex for them with 35 apartments. Six groups for studying the Russian language were organized for children and adults, and a group of 14 schoolchildren began studying the Russian language and mathematics at a school in the village of Avtury.
Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Nationalities of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, at a meeting with refugees, said that they should maintain cleanliness and be more organized, and they should not rush the Chechen authorities to solve their problems. Dudayev’s reproaches to the guests contradict the Chechen traditions of hospitality, Caucasus experts and human rights activists noted.
Members of the Public Chamber of Chechnya reported on the transfer of humanitarian aid to refugees from Palestine who are in the temporary accommodation center Gorny Klyuch. how families from the Gaza Strip “had to urgently leave their homes, and no one was ready for this.”
As follows from the report on the page of the Public Chamber of Chechnya "VKontakte", the refugees were delivered complex kits: winter clothes, children's toys and food. Photos accompanying the post show boxes being unloaded from a truck.
Earlier, the head of Chechnya reported that each family of refugees who arrived in Chechnya from Palestine was allocated 100 thousand rubles from the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation. Using the funds from the fund, it is also planned to build a residential complex for refugees.
Let us remind you that there is no official information about the sources of financing of the Kadyrov Foundation. According to the head of Chechnya, money is given to the republic by Allah, as well as by “good people.” At the same time, public sector employees in the republic are obliged to transfer about 10% of their income to charity every month, according to the Caucasian Knot certificate “ Kadyrov Foundation: how they spend “money from Allah”.
The reception of immigrants from Palestine was organized on the initiative of the federal authorities, suggested Caucasus experts Akhmet Yarlykapov and Ruslan Kutaev. The decision to accept a small number of Palestinians was made by the authorities of the republics, since it is beneficial to their image and will not hit the budget, objected political scientist Sergei Zhavoronkov.
[GEO.TV] Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has stressed that Pakistain has "definitely given a clear message to the entire region including India" through its response to Iranian airspace violation.
"[After the airspace violation,] Pakistain has left with no option other than responding to Iran. The response has definitely had a message for India too and the entire region too," the premier said while speaking to a private news channel on Thursday.
After 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... launched a surprise attack in 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... claiming to target a bully boy outfit last week, Pakistain's military targeted terrorist hideouts inside the Iranian border on January 18.
Pakistain's retaliation, however, killed a number of bully boyz during the intelligence-based operation — codenamed "Marg Bar Sarmachar", the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had said in a statement.
Iran's attack, which Pakistain's Foreign Office termed "unprovoked and "unacceptable", left two children dead and injured three girls, stating that it violated the country’s illusory sovereignty.
PM Kakar gave credit to Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir for Islamabad’s response to Tehran. "Despite the prevailing political crisis, the entire nation supported the reaction."
"It was a difficult decision to make as we are very clear to immediately respond to such action from India. In this case, Pakistain has no border conflict with Iran. The whole world was looking towards Pakistain to see how we react to such violations."
The premier bluntly said: "Iran took a wrong step, so we responded, otherwise, we would have been chosen to stay silent. I still couldn’t find a logical reason behind Tehran’s move in the presence of active communication channels."
Amid heightening Pak-Iran tensions, the premier said that he deliberately avoided releasing a statement despite being pressed by many people. "I didn’t release a statement as the next response would be our true expression."
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Of course after the Paki face saving response, they unilaterally backed down and resumed normal relations.
[GEO.TV] Pakistan has "credible evidence" for Indian agents' link to the killings of two of its citizens on Pakistani soil, Foreign Secretary Syrus Qazi said Thursday, exposing the “sophisticated and sinister” Indian campaign of extra-territorial and extra-judicial killings.
The statement comes months after both Canada and the United States separately accused Indian agents of being linked to assassination attempts on their soil. However, New Delhi has rejected Ottawa's allegations and has launched an investigation into Washington’s claims.
"These are killings-for-hire cases involving a sophisticated international set-up spread over multiple jurisdictions," Foreign Secretary Syrus Qazi told reporters during a press conference in Islamabad.
Already strained by historical baggage and border disputes, Islamabad and New Delhi's ties hit new lows after 2016's Kulbushan Yadav spy arrest and the 2019 revocation of Indian Illegal Occupied Jammu and Kashmir's (IIOJK) special status.
The Kashmir move, a blatant violation of international laws, froze diplomacy and choked trade between the two adjoining countries. Pakistan has, for more than four years, conditioned restoring ties with its nuclear neighbour to the restoration of IIOJK’s special status.
[GEO.TV] The US State Department on Thursday declined to comment on India’s involvement in the murder of two Pak nationals in Sialkot and Rawalakot in 2023.
Foreign Secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi made the revelation earlier today in a presser, where he said that Shahid Latif was assassinated outside a mosque in Sialkot on October 11 while Muhammad Riaz was "assassinated during Fajr prayers inside a mosque in Rawalakot on September 8.
He said that the law enforcement agencies have apprehended the button mans'>button men involved in the liquidation attempts and the investigations confirmed New Delhi’s hand into these murders.
When asked for a response comment on the pressing matter, a US State Department spokesperson declined to comment.
"I would refer you to Pak authorities on this and have nothing further to add," the official said in an email response to Geo.tv.
"Today, Pakistain said that they have arrested Indian agents allegedly involved in the killing of two Pak nationals on its soil in a similar fashion as a Sikh leader was assassinated in Canada," he was asked. The query had also mentioned the Indian attempts to assassinate a US national on its soil.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejected Ottawa's allegations and has launched an investigation into Washington’s claims.
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No problem with allowing Taliban to rest over night (RON) at Paki Frontier Border Corps posts, or transporting them to weapons cache sites, medical facilities, or the PX.
[NY Post] Boy, that'll really hurt them
The United Nations organization for refugee assistance in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has fired several staffers over claims they took part in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel, the agency said Friday.
“The Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on October 7,” Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General, said in a statement.
“To protect the agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay.”
[IsraelTimes] Israel has declassified more than 30 orders made by government and military leaders, which it says rebut South Africa’s claim in the International Court of Justice that it is committing genocide and instead show that it is seeking to limit civilian deaths in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reports.
The report comes a day before the ICJ is slated to rule on whether to issue an injunction ordering an immediate ceasefire.
The documents aim to demonstrate that incendiary comments made by Israeli officials — which South Africa used to argue intent in Jerusalem to commit genocide — played no role in the decision making.
Part of Israel’s defense is to prove that whatever politicians may have said in public was overruled by executive decisions and official orders from the war cabinet and the military’s command.
"The prime minister stressed time and again the need to increase significantly the humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip," reads one declassified document — the minutes from a November 14 cabinet meeting.
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I think we can all predict the ICJ verdict "This court deplores anti-humanirian actions in any shape and form. And, especially deplores Genocide. Accordingly, the courts calls for a speedy, and permanent, solution to the Jewish Problem."
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Dehumanization gives justification to commit war crimes
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It rather boggles the mind how completely the net has been over run with paid trolls and bots. They have the manpower to spam this site? Can't even imagine what it's like on facebook or reddit.
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[Regnum] Washington and Baghdad agreed to hold a meeting of the working group of the US-Iraqi High Military Commission (HMC), which will consider the presence of US forces and the international coalition in Iraq, the press service of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on January 25.
“This will ultimately help establish a clear timetable for the duration of the international coalition's presence in Iraq,” the statement said.
The Foreign Ministry reported that instead of a coalition military presence aimed at fighting IS (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), they plan to form bilateral cooperation.
Information about the planned negotiations was confirmed by the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin. His statement was published on the department’s website on January 25.
“In the coming days, the United States and the government of Iraq will begin meetings of the US-Iraq Military High Commission working group,” Austin said.
As Regnum reported, the special representative of the Russian President for the Syrian settlement, Alexander Lavrentyev, earlier on January 25, at a meeting on Syria in Astana, said that the United States had given a signal of readiness to withdraw troops from Iraq. He added that this process, as practice has shown, can last for years. The only time when the Americans quickly withdrew troops was in Afghanistan, but a dangerous situation developed there, Lavrentiev clarified.
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How fast can we safely get out? So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
[IsraelTimes] Prime minister marks Tu Bishvat with visit to Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by 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... Division base, plants tree to honor fallen soldiers and vows to eliminate Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... : ’We will be here, and they will not’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday there was "no substitute" for a decisive victory over the country’s enemies, during a Tu Bishvat visit to the Israel Defense Forces’ Gaza Division headquarters, which was battered during Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
The prime minister planted a tree with soldiers of the Border Defense Corps’s 414th unit, in honor of those in the unit and the Gaza Division who were killed during the onslaught and the ensuing war, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
"Here, in this place, on October 7, soldiers fell, the best of our sons and daughters. May God avenge them," he told the troops. "And today we plant trees in this bloody and grief-filled soil. Trees that live in their memory."
The Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, or the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, is also called the Jewish new year for trees, and is marked by a festive meal featuring fruits and nuts. The day also doubles as an ecological awareness day in Israel, marked by tree planting.
Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman and the head of the Gaza division Maj. Gen. Amit Yamin accompanied Netanyahu on the visit, close to the Gaza border.
"Hamas came to uproot us; we will uproot it. Hamas came to exterminate us; we will exterminate it. We will deepen our roots in our land; we will uproot our enemies. We will be here, and they will not," Netanyahu said.
The prime minister stressed the importance of continuing to build communities and revive those that were destroyed in the October 7 massacre, making them even more successful than they were.
"A decisive victory means the elimination of Hamas, the return of our hostages, and we won’t give up that goal," he said.
"Therefore, on Tu Bishvat, here, next to the Gaza Strip, I say in the clearest way, there is no substitute for deepening our roots [in this land] and no substitute for complete victory over our enemies."
Netanyahu has been adamant about achieving in full the goals of the war, including destroying Hamas and rescuing the hostages, though some senior IDF officers and war cabinet minister Gadi Eisenkot have described those objectives as fantasies.
[IsraelTimes] Passages had brought some 11,000 visitors to communities Kfar Aza and Netiv Ha’asarain the years leading up to the attack
Pro-Israel Christians from the United States, in Israel on a solidarity visit, donated $500,000 to help two communities cope with the trauma of the murder of many of their members by Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... Death Eaters on October 7.
Another extraordinary group of Christians. We’e starting to build a collection of such stories in the Rantburg archives.
The delegation of some 20 donors and alumni of Passages, a pro-Israel organization that subsidizes group visits to Israel for young American Christians, split the donation equally between Kibbutz Kfar Aza and Netiv Ha’asara, two communities where button men from 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... butchered dozens of people and set on fire many buildings.
Passages, which was established eight years ago, has had a longstanding connection with both communities because it has brought roughly 11,000 Christian students there on visits several times a year, Paul Webber, Passages’ chief advancement officer, told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.
Webber said that despite the devastation at Kfar Aza, "The trees, the grass, the homes were recognizable" to him. But his contacts in Kfar Aza, who came to the now-evacuated kibbutz to meet the delegation there, were not the same, he said.
"These are people we’ve known for years. And now when we’ve met them they seemed scarred, changed for life. The quiver in their lips as the words left their mouths, you could tell that they’re seeing over and over the horror that they had witnessed," Webber, a 60-year-old father of five who grew up in New York but lives in Arizona, said while holding back tears.
The encounter made the delegation decide to donate toward various psychological treatments and activities, especially for the many young survivors from the affected communities.
Passages, which has an annual budget of about $15 million, is sometimes called "the Christian Birthright" — a reference to the Jewish nonprofit Taglit Birthright Israel program, which has brought to Israel about 800,000 Jews who’d never visited it before. Passages raised the money it donated to Kfar Aza and Netiv Ha’asara in a special charity drive following October 7.
"As an organization that seeks to build bridges of friendship with Israel and the Jewish community, Passages will show up and continue to show up to stand in solidarity with Israel," Scott Phillips, CEO of Passages, said in a statement. "We’ll continue to introduce more and more young Christian leaders in America to Israel’s story."
[GEO.TV] International humanitarian and rights organizations on Wednesday called on countries to halt weapons transfers to Israel in a bid to end 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... conflict, or risk being complicit in possible war crimes.
In a joint statement, the 16 groups urged UN member states to stop sending weapons, parts and ammunition to "stop the crisis in Gaza and avert further humanitarian catastrophe and loss of civilian life."
"Israel's bombardment and siege are depriving the civilian population of the basics to survive and rendering Gaza uninhabitable.
"The civilian population in Gaza faces a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented severity and scale," the statement added.
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The civilian population in Gaza faces a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented severity and scale
Blame their Arab bruders who don't want to take them in.
Yes, but for how long? I still hold by my bet on under three weeks.
[GEO.TV] The Paleostinian resistance group Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... said Thursday that it would comply ceasefire in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... if the UN's top court ordered so, provided that Israel did the same.
The International Court of Justice will rule on Friday in a case of alleged genocide in Gaza brought by South Africa against Israel.
"In case The Hague-based ICJ issues a ruling to cease-fire, the Hamas movement will abide by it as long as the enemy does the same," Hamas said in a statement.
South Africa has alleged that Israel stands in breach of the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... ’ Genocide Convention, signed in 1948 as the world’s response to the Holocaust.
Pretoria wants the ICJ to issue so-called "provisional measures", emergency orders to protect Paleostinians in Gaza from potential breaches of the convention.
Orders from the ICJ, which rules in disputes between countries, are legally binding and cannot be appealed.
If the ceasefire verdict is ordered, Hamas will also release Israeli captives it holds in Gaza in exchange for Paleostinian detainees in Israeli jails, the group said.
It also called for an end to the ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, which the group rules, and for allowing humanitarian aid and reconstruction materials into the territory.
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"It also called for an end to the ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip,..." And what about th Egyptian blockade. Egypt no more wants to accept Palestinians than it wants to accept Jewish citizens.
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icj and un are worthless and the US should not support them. Any one who treats a person who adheres to a woman is worth less than a man is despicable or democrat.
[Rudaw] The majority of churches in Iraq's southern oil-rich Basra lie empty as 80 percent of Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac Christians who had originally lived in the province have migrated either to the Kurdistan Region or abroad in search of a more secure and prosperous life.
Basra province was once home to a significant Christian minority, with over 7,000 families calling it home. That number has significantly dwindled to 350, according to data from the Basra Churches Council.
"There are threats. That is why Christians migrate. Whenever there is an opportunity, they do not miss it and they leave," Aram Sabah, head of the Chaldean Archdiocese of Basra and southern Iraq, told Rudaw on Wednesday, attributing the migration to a set of reasons including marginalization and lack of security.
"There are many reasons that lead to Christian migration. When there is a weak law in place, or your rights are not given and you are considered a third-class citizen, you will migrate abroad whenever you see an opportunity," Sabah said. "It hurts us a lot. A large number of Christians have migrated due to threats to their lives, marginalization, lack of rights, insults, and even death threats."
Of 17 churches in Basra, nine are shut and two others burned down.
Residents of Basra are angry at the mass exodus of the Christians and ask them to return to the province.
"There is no ethnic discrimination in Basra in general. It does not matter whether you are a Sunni, a Shiite, or a Christian. I ask all Christians to return to the province of Basra, because there is peace and security here," Habeeb Saadun, an elderly resident of Basra said. "Now, please. Quit hitting me!"
Abbas Ali, another inhabitant of Basra said "We hope they will return to their country, because this country is theirs as well. Thanks be to God, the security has been stable recently."
Sajjad Abdul Hussein, a taxi driver, for his part, said "We do not discriminate against anyone. We are all brothers and united. There must not be discrimination against any side."
Iraq’s Christian community has been devastated in the past two decades. Following the US-led invasion in 2003, sectarian warfare prompted followers of Iraq’s multiple Christian denominations to flee, and attacks by ISIS in 2014 hit minority communities especially hard.
Fewer than 300,000 Christians remain in Iraq today, according to data obtained by Rudaw English from Erbil's Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda in 2022.
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The underlying,complaint is that the dhimmi sheep refuse to stick around to be sheared, the dhimmi wheat refuses to stay and be harvested as is the hierarchy ordained by Allah himself.
[Garowe] According to The Wall Street Journal, in a rare instance of cooperation, U.S. officials conveyed to 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... crucial intelligence about a potential terror threat from ISIS-Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, ahead of the catastrophic suicide kabooms on January 3, 2024, in Kerman, Iran. Despite the U.S. alert, Iranian forces were unable to thwart the attack, which claimed over 80 lives.
The confidential intelligence shared suggested a high likelihood of an ISIS-K assault in Iran, offering specific details regarding the potential location and timing. This information was intended to assist Iran in either averting or lessening the impact of the terror strike.
The attack occurred during the commemoration of the death anniversary of Qassem Soleimani , a key commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds force, and targeted a crowded event in Kerman. Soleimani had been killed in a U.S.-orchestrated dronezap in 2020.
Adhering to a ’duty to warn’ policy, the U.S. alerts governments, including adversaries, about immediate lethal threats to prevent the loss of innocent lives. This approach has been consistent across different U.S. administrations.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the response from Iranian officials to the U.S. warning was not publicly acknowledged, and the reasons behind their inability to prevent or mitigate the attack remain uncertain. This incident is among the most lethal in Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Following the attack, ISIS took responsibility, underscoring its ideological enmity with Iran’s Shia Moslem majority. ISIS-K, which surfaced in Afghanistan in 2015, has been implicated in numerous major attacks, including the 2021 Kabul airport bombing.
This instance of intelligence sharing between the U.S. and Iran, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, is notable given the historically tense relations between the two nations. It brings to mind a similar situation in 2019 when the U.S. provided Russia with intelligence that helped thwart a terror plot in St. Petersburg.
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[Regnum] Members of terrorist organizations from the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria are participating in hostilities in Ukraine on the side of Kyiv. This was stated on January 25 by the Russian President's special representative for the Syrian settlement, Alexander Lavrentyev.
Yes, but which ones? Is the Ukraine hiring mercenaries from the same pool Russia’s been hiring from?
“There is evidence that some members of terrorist organizations, including those located in the Idlib de-escalation zone, are already operating in Ukraine,” Lavrentyev said in an interview with TASS.
He clarified that these are often immigrants from the former republics of the USSR.
Tajiks and Uzbeks and Chechens and such?
As Regnum reported, in June it became known that the US Central Intelligence Agency was recruiting Syrian Kurds for the Ukrainian army. Sources said that the American intelligence service is already negotiating with representatives of Kurdish units, sheikhs of a number of clans, in order to send those who want to fight as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
I’m confused. Kurds are not from the former Soviet Union.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on December 19 that the majority of foreign mercenaries, who are actively recruited into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were destroyed by Russian forces. According to him, we are talking about more than 5.8 thousand foreign fighters. These included 1,427 mercenaries from Poland, 466 from the USA and 344 from Great Britain.
In addition, 103 war criminals who distinguished themselves with particular cruelty were eliminated on Ukrainian territory.
It is also known that since the beginning of the special operation, over 300 mercenaries from France arrived in Ukraine to participate in hostilities on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 130 of whom were destroyed during the fighting.
The French Foreign Ministry refused to admit that the French military was fighting on the side of Kyiv. At the same time, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow has reliable information about the participation of mercenaries from France in the armed conflict in Ukraine.
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Idlib is home Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), that whole area is populated by hardcore followers of al-Zawahiri. Cindy McCain did some NonProfit work around Idlib, and McCain visited the city - one might think these were his moderate rebels. Maybe.
I've read: HTS leaders have been coordinating with senior leaders of the Turkistan Islamic Party group, Ansar al-Tawhid, and Hurras al-Din groups, to facilitate the passage of the extremists from Idlib to Turkey and then on to Ukraine.
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