[IsraelTimes] Fadah Jassem once said Israel was ‘not born’ but ‘dropped like a bomb in the middle of Palestine’; also sorry for feting her new role with emojis of 17 states, leaving out Israel.
A new Twitter hire responsible for curating news coverage of the Middle East and North Africa has apologized for tweets harshly critical of Israel made in 2010 and 2011 after they generated controversy on social media this week.
Fadah Jassem, a former journalist who lives in London, also apologized for not including Israel’s flag alongside those of 17 other Middle Eastern and North African countries, including the Palestinian flag, in a tweet announcing her appointment as “editorial curation lead for the MENA program.”
The omission of the Israeli flag first earned Jassem scrutiny from pro-Israel groups early Monday. The watchdog group StopAntisemitism tweeted: “Hey @FadahJassem — seems you forgot something.” The group Israel War Room asked Twitter for a response, saying the omission reflects “either woeful ignorance of the territory @FadahJassem is supposed to cover, or antisemitic erasure of the only Jewish state.”
Hours later, GnasherJew, a UK investigative outfit that was instrumental in exposing antisemitism within the Labour Party, leading ultimately to the party’s split, unearthed and reposted the decade-old tweets.
One, from September 2010, says Israel was “not born” but “dropped like a bomb in the middle of Palestine.” Another appears to show support for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has a record of antisemitism; it quotes Farrakhan taking issue with US support for Israel.
Jassem’s posts come amid ongoing questions about objectivity in social media news coverage, a major source of news across the globe. According to a recent Pew survey, about half of Americans get some of their news via social media.
While Twitter’s editorial curation teams do not produce original reporting, they are responsible for creating Twitter “Moments,” or aggregations of news stories from a particular region or event. Curation teams “find and highlight great Tweets,” according to Twitter.
Jassem came to the role from a five-year stint at a tech company; she previously worked as a producer and editor for several television networks, according to her Linkedin profile. She graduated in 2010 from a London university where she wrote a dissertation about generational gaps in the Middle East, focusing largely on Syria, a country to which she has a personal connection, according to a profile shared by the school.
Jassem initially responded to some of the online criticism of her, answering a question on Twitter from Emanuel Miller of Honest Reporting, a group devoted to calling out what it identifies as anti-Israel bias in media, with an apology.
“I can see that I have been ill-informed with some tweets when younger,” she wrote. “I apologise for any offence caused by these particular tweets and like I said for forgetting the Israeli flag with reference to MENA as I did others.”
Jassem has since protected her account, so it is no longer publicly visible.
Twitter did not respond to a request for comment Monday.
The incident follows other recent controversies in which public-facing employees have attracted scrutiny and sometimes backlash for social media posts about Israel. Earlier this year, the Associated Press fired Jewish staffer Emily Wilder for tweets about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the news organization said violated its social media policy on bias. In Northern California, UC Merced said in August it was investigating teaching professor Abbas Ghassemi for tweets railing against “Zionists” that the university chancellor called “repugnant.”
In the tech world, Google reassigned its head of diversity, Kamau Bobb, earlier this year after blog posts from 2007 were unearthed in which he claimed, in a post about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that Jews have an “insatiable appetite for war” and an “insensitivity” to suffering.
[AlAhram] The supreme leader of the Taliban warned Thursday against the danger of turncoats and infiltrators in the movement that has taken charge of Afghanistan.
Reflecting the seriousness of the threat, the reclusive Haibatullah Akhundzada issued a rare written public statement to urge Taliban commanders to purge their ranks.
In it he says "all those elders of their groups must look inside their ranks and see if there is any unknown entity working against the will of the government, which must be eradicated as soon as possible.
"Whatever wrong happens, the elder will be responsible for the consequences of the actions in this world and in the afterlife," he warned, in a statement tweeted out by multiple Taliban accounts.
The Islamist militant movement seized power in August after overrunning the capital and ousting the collapsing US-backed government, declaring a new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
But after 20-years of guerrilla warfare, the Taliban has been forced to expand their ranks rapidly by recruiting former foes, allied Islamist militants and young madrassa students.
Now that it is the government, the movement faces attacks in its turn from hardline factions like the Islamic group-Khorasan.
[ToloNews] The United Nations High Commissions for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a report that 3.5 million people have been displaced in Afghanistan because of conflict and insecurity.
Expressing concerns over the situation of internally displaced people in Afghanistan, the UN agency added that efforts are underway to assist the displaced people before winter approaches.
The report says: “Conflict and insecurity have displaced 3.5 million Afghans inside the country, including some 700,000 forced from their homes so far this year. UNHCR is rushing to provide winter assistance to some 500,000 displaced Afghans, returnees and local host communities by the end of 2021.”
In the meantime, in a separate report in October, Takeshi Moriyama, a senior emergency coordinator at UNHCR, said: “About 18.4 million people were in need of assistance. Now, with this winter coming up, we are forecasting 24.4 million people who are going to require food, healthcare and nutrition. It is very urgent that we provide support.”
Meanwhile, homeless families at a Kabul camp complained about their living conditions as the cold weather approaches.
Gul Mohammad, a displaced person, said: “A rocket hit our house, one of my relatives was killed and my son was injured, we have nothing now to go back home with, even the cost of transportation.”
Displaced people are urging the international community to provide them with immediate humanitarian assistance.
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displace sucks displace this displace datplace who cares cloz the or i gonna displace yo leg bonz itz coldz out i wuz suppoze to be goiong to displace butt the fauci vidz phucked that place and displace all upz! we need to clean displace upz !
[KhaamaPress] The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has announced that they will be funding Afghan teachers directly and without involving the de-facto authorities, the Taliban.
The International community has presently blocked money to the Taliban-led administration and has announced that they are setting up a system to fund the teachers without giving money to the Taliban.
UNICEF’s Afghanistan Chief of Education Jeannette Vogelaar in her latest interview with Reuters said that they would begin registering teachers of public schools in order to put them in the system.
“The best way to support the education of girls in Afghanistan is to continue supporting their schools and teachers. UNICEF is calling upon donors not to let Afghanistan’s children down” said Vogelaar.
The UNICEF has said that funding the Afghan teachers is the only way to help reopen schools for Afghan girls in Afghanistan.
It has been more than two and a half months since the high schools and universities have been closed in Afghanistan but the Taliban have recently said that they will soon open schools and universities for girls.
[ToloNews] The World Food Program (WFP) started distributing cash to poor families, with each receiving 3,500 Afghanis (approx. 33 US dollars) per month in Afghanistan.
It is reported that more than 4,000 families will receive this emergency cash for the next four months.
The WFP has started this program to decrease poverty as the country’s economy is crumbling.
“We are going to provide and distribute each family 3,500 family per month and this is a complete process for four months”, said Sami Alokozai, WFP representative in Kabul.
“There are many people, having nothing to eat and wear, and they have nothing to make their houses warm," he said.
The families who gathered in Kabul to receive aid said they lived in desperate conditions and require more humanitarian aid before the winter.
“This aid is not enough, but we thank God, we can buy flour now,” said Sughra Hussaini.
Nahid is another displaced woman who lives in a Kabul camp with six family members.
“I have not received even a loaf of bread, no one helped me,” Nahid told TOLOnews.
After the Taliban came into power, Afghanistan's economy has rapidly declined and poverty and hunger are on the rise.
#Sudan’s army says the formation of a new government is now “imminent,” following last week’s military takeover which triggered international condemnation and mass anti-coup protests.https://t.co/K4zWxoNoRa
The #UN special envoy for #Sudan says talks had produced the contours of a potential deal on a return to power-sharing, including restoration of the ousted prime minister, but it has to be agreed in “days not weeks.”https://t.co/IKnz0GwYbj
[LIBYAREVIEW] Libyan Foreign Minister, Najla al-Mangoush said Libya could work with the US on extraditing a man wanted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
Al-Mangoush told the BBC that "positive outcomes are coming" in the case of Abu Agila Mohammed Masud.
In the Rantburg archives as Abu Agila Mohammad Masud...
Masud is alleged to have been a top bomb-maker for former Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... . He is a former Libyan intelligence official who is currently imprisoned on unrelated charges. He has been charged in the US with terrorism-related crimes, with officials claiming he helped build the bomb which downed the aircraft, and set the timer.
The FM said the Libyan government "understands the pain and sadness" of the victims’ families but "needs to respect the laws". She added that the US and Libya were collaborating on the case, and it was progressing.
The deadly attack on Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York killed 270 people, including 190 Americans. Of those who died, 35 were study-abroad students who were returning home for Christmas, while 11 were killed on the ground in the Scottish town.
Libya claimed the credit in 2003, and paid compensation to the families.
The current Libyan government wants to maintain good relations with the US, and Washington hopes to have Masud extradited. The BBC’s Orla Guerin in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... says the signs are that ultimately the suspect will be handed over.
US officials also say Masud conspired with another Libyan intelligence official, Abdel-Baset al-Megrahi who was the only man convicted for the attack.
Al-Megrahi maintained his innocence until his death in 2012. His family has vowed to clear his name in the UK courts.
Among bereaved relatives in the UK, there are questions and doubts. Some believe 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... was to blame for downing the plane not Libya, and the new charges are a smokescreen.
[IsraelTimes] Cyprus signs a deal for Israel’s military to build an electronic surveillance system, monitoring activity along the UN-patrolled Green Line across the divided Mediterranean island.
“It is an electronic surveillance system that will provide us with images 24 hours a day,” says Cypriot Defense Ministry spokesperson Christos Pieris. “It will be installed at various points on the Green Line.”
The 180-kilometer (112-mile) Green Line has split the island from east to west since 1974. It divides the Republic of Cyprus, the European Union’s most easterly member, from the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognized only by Ankara.
The surveillance system will monitor activity such as smuggling and illegal migration, as well as provide military intelligence, officials say. The security system, costing 27.5 million euros ($32 million), is expected to take three years to complete.
[DW] An anti-discrimination campaign to promote acceptance of the hijab has been canceled by the Council of Europe following outrage in France and across Europe. Some are furious it was even made, others that it was pulled.
Young European Muslims say a decision to cancel a newly launched EU online campaign to promote acceptance of hijab is "an attack on human rights."
"Attacks on this vital campaign take place in a wider environment of a shrinking of civic space, where government actors routinely censor and limit the freedom of speech when it doesn't fit their political agenda," said the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations (FEMYSO).
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We're getting fucked royally here at home with these vaccine mandates and y'all are worried about the women of Afghanistan. Glad their priorities are straight.
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Uncle Sam took pretty good care of AFG females for 20 years. Nothing lasts forever. How about some attention to the crisis on our Southern border. Things like DEAD women and children, human trafficking (slavery), drugs, cartels, etc.
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and y'all are worried about the women of Afghanistan.
It was their pilot program whose success would be the guarantor of current and future socio-cultural awareness. The Virture of Wokeness. And as it inevitably led to QWERTY inclusionism, why Project Afghanistan never had a chance.
The Military Industrial Complex and Forever War Profiteers catch a lot of shit, and rightfully so, but it was this Cultural Imperialism which sealed the failure.
If they were serious they'd introduce legislation to put the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the toughest sanctions possible with equally tough sanctions imposed on nations or organizations engaged in circumvention.
Since rejection of Afghan barbarism should be a consensus position a veto proof majority should be attainable.
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"...QWERTY inclusionism...". I LIKE that. Good one. Let these bitches pick up guns and go enforce their drooling drivel. I'll chip in for the ammo.
Better. Put Kamala in the lead position. Lord help me.
Oh, and pick up whatever Americans that were left behind while they are at it.
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[IsraelTimes] Delegation of 12 MEPs, including a former prime minister, visits with President Herzog, urges cooperation on antisemitism, innovation.
Senior members of the European Parliament viewed a Hezbollah tunnel at the Israel town of Zarit on the Lebanon border on Thursday.
The delegation, organized by ELNET-European Leadership Network, flew by helicopter from Jerusalem to the border, where they were briefed by the Israel Defense Forces on the security situation in Lebanon.
The cross-border tunnel, plunging more than 80 meters (260 feet) below ground, was the largest and deepest of six passageways that Israel said members of the Hezbollah terror group had dug as part of a plan to carry out attacks against soldiers and civilians.
They were sealed off in a highly-publicized 2019 operation, though Israeli military officials regularly give visiting dignitaries tours of tunnels on its borders with Gaza and Hamas to demonstrate the threats it faces.
The 12 lawmakers on the delegation — which includes a former prime minister and several former ministers — are in Israel on a five-day visit.
On Tuesday, they met with Knesset members, and on Wednesday, they had an audience with President Isaac Herzog.
They also visited Jerusalem’s Old City and Yad Vashem, where they discussed antisemitism in Europe.
“We are two democracies under threat — different threats,” Antonio López-Isturíz White, MEP from the European People’s Party-Spain and chairman of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Israel, said to Herzog.
“You have the survival threat against Iran and its proxies, and we have threats raging from populism and regimes that undermine our democracy. There are things that we believe you need us [for] — like the Horizon program, trade, and the fight against climate change. And we need you, for the security of Europe, for your expertise in this fascinating time of new technology.”
Herzog pointed to the intellectual and cultural heritage Israel shares with Europe as the foundation for future cooperation. He also praised the recently-launched European Union Strategy on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life, and urged the European Parliament to fight antisemitism.
“The arrival of these respected members of the European parliament is another significant step toward strengthening the vital relationship between Israel and Europe,” said Shai Bazak, CEO of ELNET-Israel.
“The purpose of the delegation is to provide them with an in-depth understanding of the economic, security, and civil conditions in Israel, in order to foster future collaborations and initiatives. I am confident that the tour will encourage us to advance our mutual interests further.”
The delegation is led by Lopez-Isturi White.
Joining him were former Estonian prime minister Andrus Ansip; Assita Kanko of Belgium; Elena Yontcheva of Bulgaria; Isabel Benjumea Benjumea of Spain; Jens Gieseke of Germany; Manolis Kefalogiannis of Greece; Michael David Lega of Sweden; Ljudmila Novak of Slovenia; Andreas Schwab of Germany; Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez of Spain; and EPP Deputy Secretary-General Christian Kremer.
The visit comes weeks after Israel and the EU finalized their agreement for Jerusalem to join the EU’s largest research and innovation program, Horizon Europe.
The EU noted that joint projects with Israel have led to breakthroughs in climate change, public health and safe transportation.
[Rudaw] The United States will continue to cooperate with the Kurdish led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in its fight against Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, a Pentagon spokesperson told Rudaw on Wednesday.
“Our position with respect to our cooperation with the SDF has not changed, nor has our mission in Syria which is solely focused on the ISIS threat. That threat remains, those missions continue, and our cooperation continues,” John Kirby said.
Kirby’s comments come as Turkey steps up its attacks in areas of northeast Syria covered by 2019 ceasefires brokered by Washington and Moscow. Several civilians and Kurdish fighters have been killed.
Kurdish leadership have called on Russia to step up in its role as monitor of the ceasefire and end Turkey’s attacks.
In recent months, the People’s Protection Units (YPG) have expressed disappointment that the global coalition against the ISIS have remained silent on increasing Turkish attacks.
Ankara believes that Syrian Kurdish forces of the YPG and SDF are offshoots of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which it has named a terrorist organization. It considers the Syrian Kurdish groups a threat to Turkey’s national security.
Erdogan and other Turkish officials hinted at a new military operation against the YPG-dominated SDF in northern Syria last month without specifying the area, but Ankara’s officials have anonymously told Reuters that their target is Tal Rifaat.
Tal Rifaat is located in northwest Syria. The city is surrounded by farmland, located halfway between Aleppo and the Turkish border. The SDF denies any military presence there but local sources have told Rudaw English that the group is there, disguised as regime soldiers.
The SDF’s political wing, the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) has held meetings with top American officials in Washington last month. A security source told Rudaw that this is the main reason behind Turkey’s fresh threats, as it has openly opposed any political or military achievement for Syrian Kurds.
[SHAFAQ] The suffering of rural communities across northeast Syria controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is being amplified by Ottoman Turkish-backed gangs. Already struggling with severe climate change-linked drought, these areas have experienced even more severe water shortages since May, when the Syrian National Army (SNA) built three earth dams in areas under their control, cutting off the vital Khabur river 80 kilometers northwest of Hasakah city. New research by PAX, conducted through interviews on the ground and satellite imagery, has shown the depth and consequences of the dam construction on the lives and livelihoods of Syrian farmers.The summer of 2021 was one of the hottest ever recorded in northeast Syria. The impact of the extreme heat was magnified by very limited rainfall, which meant agricultural communities had less water than ever at their time of greatest need. According to humanitarian agencies, over 12 million Syrians currently face dire consequences from lack of rain and water in the Euphrates River.
For farmers in and near the Khabur valley, the impact of these shortages was further compounded by the blockage of the river, the Euphrates’ largest tributary and a historically non-seasonal waterway. During fieldwork carried out along the M4 highway in September 2021, PAX interviewed farmers and pastoralists around Tel Tamer, many of whom were struggling with intense water scarcity. The cutting of the river’s flow came at a time of severe drought and high diesel prices, which are preventing many farmers from operating their pumps. With no irrigation, vast tracts of agricultural land are being left fallow.
This is the latest instance in which water has been used as a weapon of war during the conflict in Syria, adding a new unpredictable challenge to farmers’ lives. Since the incursion in parts of northeast Syria by Ottoman Turkish forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed gangs, populations in the area face serious challenges around access to water. Starting in October 2019, the SNA disrupted the water flow from the Alouk Water Station to Tel Tamer and Hasakah on over 20 occasions, leaving close to a million people without access. The lack of rain in Spring 2021 also resulted in lower water levels, as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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Guys, one request.
Please replace Mustafa Kemal's picture with one with Erdogans. Something like ( https://www.israellycool.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/erdogan-horse.jpg )
Because, whatever the modern day Neo-Ottomanistan is, it has no real relation to Turkey anymore.
[An Nahar] Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Thursday again urged Information Minister George Kordahi to step down over an unprecedented diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , saying his resignation would be "a priority.""I reiterate my call for the information minister to put national interest first," Miqati said in a speech from the Grand Serail, shortly after he met in Baabda with President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... .
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[An Nahar] The judge leading investigations into last year's Beirut port blast was forced to stop work Thursday over a lawsuit filed by an ex-minister he had summoned for interrogation.Tarek Bitar was informed of a "lawsuit submitted by former public works minister Youssef Fenianos... which forced him to pause the probe until a ruling is issued," a court official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
It is the third time that Bitar has had to suspend his probe in the face of lawsuits filed by former ministers suspected of negligence over the August 2020 explosion.
The total number of lawsuits filed against Bitar now stands at 15, according to judicial sources.
Similar temporary suspensions have plagued the course of the probe over the past weeks but previous cases to remove the judge have been turned down.
But in a sign that the suspension may be prolonged, the court asked Bitar to hand over the details of the case to enable it to review the lawsuit, according to a copy of the decision seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The latest comes amid a campaign led by Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... demanding Bitar's replacement over allegations of "bias" that have been widely dismissed by rights groups and families of blast victims.
Hizbullah's representatives in government have said they will boycott Cabinet meetings until it takes a clear stand on demands to replace Bitar.
The Cabinet, as a result, has failed to hold a single session in three weeks.
Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Thursday condemned attempts to force his government to intervene in judicial affairs, in a thinly veiled criticism of Hizbullah.
"We have tried as much as possible to keep the Beirut blast probe under the purview of the judiciary and we have rejected any kind of (political) interference," Miqati told a news conference.
Human rights groups and victims' relatives fear the repeated suspensions are a prelude to Bitar's removal, which would further derail the official inquiry into Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... 's worst peace-time tragedy.
Bitar's predecessor, Fadi Sawwan, was forced to suspend his probe for the same reason before he was finally removed in February, in a move widely condemned as political interference.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Vietnam has been in talks with Iranian authorities over the seizure last month of a Vietnamese oil tanker off the Iranian coast, in an effort to guarantee the safety of the crew, the Southeast Asian nation’s said on Thursday.
Talks had taken place on a diplomatic level in Hanoi and Tehran "to verify information and settle the incident to ensure safety and humane treatment for Vietnamese citizens," Vietnam foreign ministry spokeswoman Pham Thu Hang told a regular briefing.
The Pentagon on Wednesday rejected claims by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that they thwarted an attempt by the United States to detain a tanker carrying the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s oil in the Sea of Oman.
American officials said Iranian forces had actually seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker, MV Southys, and US naval forces were just monitoring the situation.
Hang said the captain of the Vietnamese tanker in a telephone call with the embassy on Oct 27 had confirmed all 26 crew had been treated well and were in good health.
"The foreign ministry will continue to closely monitor the situation, and work with Iranian authorities to settle the case in accordance to the laws, and at the same time, will proceed with necessary measures to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of Vietnamese citizens," Hang said.
Vietnamese-flagged SOTHYS is currently transferring 700,000 barrels of Iranian crude oil to an identified Iran-flagged vessel, TankerTrackers says.https://t.co/pYWxnJahy5pic.twitter.com/8ObEA6AD2S
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Vietnam has opened up after an eternity(year or more) of covid lock down. Harris trip was a free pass to travel there when nobody else could. I called her a super spreader.
#Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati calls on Information Minister George Kordahi to “prioritize national interest” but stopped short of asking him to resign over comments that led to a diplomatic rift with the #Gulf.https://t.co/TtfOzGc2qC
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warns Western governments he will accept no “excessive demands” in #nuclear talks set to resume later this month after a five-month gap.https://t.co/BEidjCtqJW
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hezbollah claimed on Thursday that Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... ’s actions in response to Information Minister George Kordahi’s comments were tantamount to "waging war" on Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... ."The Saudi reaction... amounts to waging war and [Kordahi’s comment] does not justify hasty measures against Lebanon and its people," the Iran-backed Shia movement’s parliamentary bloc front man, Hassan Ezzeddine, said, as quoted by NBN TV.
Kordahi sparked a diplomatic crisis with Gulf countries because of his comments on Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s involvement in the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... war. He said the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s were "defending themselves... against foreign aggression [by the Arab Coalition]" during an interview aired on August 5.
Saudi Arabia expelled Lebanon’s envoy from the country and banned all Lebanese imports. Bahrain and Kuwait followed suit, and the UAE withdrew its diplomats from Beirut and banned its citizens from traveling to Lebanon.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told Al Arabiya on Sunday that the crisis was bigger than Kordahi’s statements, and that the main crisis is the growing Hezbollah influence in Lebanon’s politics.
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati has tried to contain diplomatic fallout early on by rejecting Kordahi’s comments and stressing that they had nothing to do with the government’s policy.
Mikati urged Kordahi again on Thursday to prioritize the national interest of Lebanon: "I repeat my call to the Minister of Information to... adopt the stance that needs to be taken and give priority to the national interest."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] La Belle France said on Thursday it could still act with its partners against 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... at an upcoming meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog's board after Tehran said it would return to nuclear talks with world powers at the end of November.
Western powers scrapped plans in September for a resolution criticizing Iran at the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency after Tehran agreed to prolong monitoring of some nuclear activities and invited IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to Tehran for talks on key outstanding issues.
The decision by the US, La Belle France, Britannia and Germany not to push for a resolution by the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors avoided an escalation with Iran that could have killed hopes of resuming wider talks in Vienna on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
Iran and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , which coordinates those negotiations, said on Wednesday that all sides had agreed to return to the Austrian capital on Nov. 29.
Western states have increasingly become frustrated that Iran has failed to fully honor a monitoring agreement with the IAEA, continues to breach its 2015 accord, and has yet to allow Grossi to come to Tehran for high-level talks that had been promised in September. It has also not properly addressed outstanding questions on past nuclear activities.
"Iran must resume dialogue and cooperation with the agency without delay to make progress on outstanding issues," French Foreign ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre told news hounds in a daily briefing.
When asked whether Iran's decision to return to the nuclear talks would make it unlikely that Western powers rebuke Tehran when the IAEA board holds it next quarterly meeting from Nov. 18, Legendre said Gay Paree remained extremely concerned about Iran's breaches of its obligations and commitments, including those made in September.
"Together with our partners, we remain very attentive to ensuring that Iran respects its commitments, and we remain in close consultation on the response to be provided on this," she said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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