[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The leader of 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... i revolution Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... Abdul-Malik al-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... , on Thursday accused several Arab and Islamic governments of colluding with ''Israel'' through normalization and economic ties, despite the ongoing Israeli military aggression and humanitarian crisis in 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
In his weekly speech on Thursday, Sayyid Abdul-Malik denounced what he described as the ''systematic starvation'' of over two million Paleostinians, blaming Arab regimes that claim to represent the Islamic world for failing to act.
He said many of these governments are complicit, either through silence or overt cooperation.
''Normalization is no longer a mere diplomatic relationship,'' he said. ''It has become open collaboration with the enemy of the nation. Some Islamic regimes that publicly express sympathy for the Paleostinians are, in reality, among the top trading partners of the Israeli occupation.''
Sayyid al-Houthi claimed that these governments play a ''functional role'' in discouraging public support for the Paleostinian cause, accusing Arab media of echoing Israeli and American narratives that portray pro-Paleostinian resistance groups with suspicion.
He criticized efforts to pressure Paleostinian factions to disarm, saying demands to strip Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... and Hezbollah of their weapons only serve Israeli interests. ''Our nation is in dire need of weapons to defend its dignity,'' he said. ''Calling for disarmament in the face of aggression is the height of foolishness.''
Sayyid al-Houthi argued that the Israeli occupation is rooted in an ideology that dehumanizes Arabs and Moslems. ''What the Zionists are doing is not just political — it's ideological, viewing Arabs as subhuman,'' he said.
He also gave details of Yemen's military operations in solidarity with Gaza.
According to Sayyid Abdul-Malik, Yemeni armed forces have carried out 11 attacks in the past week using drones and hypersonic missiles against Israeli targets.
He confirmed that a total of 1,679 operations have been launched, including naval strikes that have disrupted shipping through the port of Eilat (also known as Umm al-Rashrash), causing what he described as ''significant economic losses.''
Despite a joint US-British-Israeli bombing campaign that has reportedly hit Yemen with nearly 2,900 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, al-Houthi said the movement's support for Gaza remains unchanged.
''Our principled position in support of the Paleostinian people will not waver,'' he said.
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[IsraelTimes] The UN rights chief slams Britain’s ban on activist group Palestine Action as a “disturbing” misuse of UK counter-terrorism legislation, and urges the government to rescind its decision.
“The decision appears disproportionate and unnecessary. It limits the rights of many people involved with and supportive of Palestine Action who have not themselves engaged in any underlying criminal activity but rather exercised their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association,” Volker Turk says in a statement.
The group was banned earlier this month by the UK over a series of vandalism incidents, including breaking into an Air Force base and damaging planes.
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[Regnum] The three immediate perpetrators of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Muhammadsobir Faizov and Saidokram Rachabalizoda took drugs before the attack. Like the Medieval Hashashin? Traditional, I suppose…
“On the way to the crime scene, [they] used an unidentified narcotic substance, which included mephedrone, in order to dull their sense of fear,” the case materials, which TASS has reviewed, state.
After this, the defendants attacked the concert hall.
The materials also state that the accused claimed that shortly before the attack they were given some liquid containing a drug, after which they began to hallucinate.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the terrorist attack at the Crocus in Krasnogorsk occurred on the evening of March 22, 2024. A group of armed men broke into the building, opened fire, and then started a fire. As a result, 149 people died. Another 609 people were injured, and one is missing. The total damage from the attack amounted to about 6 billion rubles.
The four direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack were detained the following day. They later confessed that the attack was organized by the Ukrainian special services. The organizers of the terrorist attack were put on the wanted list.
[Rudaw] A Yazidi woman, captured by the 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) at the age of 11, has rebuilt her life in the US. She endured torture and immense suffering, and the loss of family members during the brutal ISIS genocide against the Yazidi community. Many of her loved ones are still missing.
She was rescued from ISIS captivity in 2016 and arrived in the US six months ago to build a new life there.
In the halls of the US Congress, Navin on Wednesday joined several prominent figures and American officials in a ceremony marking the 11th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide.
"We were rescued from ISIS in 2016. Our entire family fell into ISIS hands. Until now, a large part of my family is missing - my father, sisters, brothers, and uncles. We still don't know anything about them. We want the government to help us search for our missing family members and assist those who have been rescued," she told Rudaw.
Although the Yazidi cause has garnered widespread sympathy in the US, Nadine Maenza, former chief of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) told Rudaw that it is time to move beyond words.
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[IsraelTimes] United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher demands Israel provide evidence for its accusations that staffers with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs are affiliated with Hamas, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Friday.
In a letter sent to the UN Security Council on Thursday, Fletcher says the remarks by Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon were the first time any such concern had been raised.
The accusations were “extremely serious and have security implications for our staff,” says Fletcher in the letter. “I expect the Israeli authorities to immediately share any evidence that led them to make such claims to the council.”
He says OCHA engages with all parties to armed conflict to secure humanitarian access, press for the protection of civilians and promote respect for humanitarian principles, adding: “As Israeli authorities know, our contacts with Hamas have also supported hostage releases.”
Danon declared at a UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday that Fletcher and OCHA were no longer neutral and that hundreds of OCHA employees would undergo security vetting. Israel would also restrict OCHA visas to one month, he said.
“Israel has uncovered clear evidence of Hamas affiliation within OCHA’s ranks,” Danon told the 15-member council, without providing evidence.
Israel in January cut ties with UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, over its ties to terror groups, including Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] As Israeli leader visited in April, Hungarian PM Orban called Budapest’s commitment to International Criminal Court ‘half-hearted,’ and began the process of leaving it
A panel of judges at the International Criminal Court has reported Hungary to the court’s oversight organization for failing to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited Budapest in April, stating that the move undercut the court’s ability to bring suspects to justice.
The Israeli leader received a red carpet welcome from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a state visit, in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant. Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant are accused of crimes against humanity in connection with the war 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 a rusty 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... Israel staunchly rejects the charges, insisting all its warfighting is in accordance with international law and pointing to efforts to avoid civilian casualties and facilitate the entry of international aid. It also disputes the court’s jurisdiction over the matter since the country is not a member of the court.
In a filing released late Thursday, the three-judge panel wrote that "the obligation to cooperate was sufficiently clear to Hungary" and the failure to arrest Netanyahu "severely undermines the Court’s ability to carry out its mandate."
The ICC has no police force and relies on countries worldwide to execute arrest warrants.
The court’s oversight body, the Assembly of States Parties, has limited powers to sanction Hungary. It will consider the next steps during its annual meeting in December.
The Hungarian leader, regarded by critics as an autocrat and the EU’s most intransigent spoiler in the bloc’s decision-making, has defended his decision not to arrest Netanyahu.
During the visit, Orban said his country’s commitment to the ICC was " half-hearted " and began the process to withdraw Hungary from the court.
Orban signed the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the court, in 2001 during his first term as prime minister.
The court dismissed arguments from Hungary that Parliament never incorporated the court’s statute into Hungarian law, saying "it was Hungary’s responsibility to ensure that such legislation was in place."
The decision comes as Gaza’s population of more than 2 million Paleostinians is in a humanitarian crisis, reliant on the limited aid allowed into the territory and beset with distribution problems, amid Israel’s war against the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group, which is still holding 50 hostages.
It’s the third time in the past year that the court has investigated one of its member states for failing to arrest suspects. In February, judges asked Italia to explain why the country sent a Libyan man, suspected of torture and murder, home on an Italian military aircraft rather than handing him over to the court.
In October, judges reported Mongolia to the court’s oversight organization for failing to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... when he visited the Asian nation.
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Even if one were to give this 'ICC' the maximal benefit of the doubt, the fact remains that the state actors behind 10/7 remain unmolested by the court's 'justice.'
The 'ICC' doesn't even make an effort to achieve a semblance of equitable justice.
Objectively the "Rome Statute" in an anti-Western alliance because "International Law" is essentially the will of the Third World sh**hole regimes that dominate the UN.
The "ICC" is a court as much as a cargo cult airport is an airport.
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The UN has a Marxist worldview, they divide the world into oppressor and oppressed.Those deemed oppressor can do no right while those deemed oppressed can do no wrong.
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[IsraelTimes] Unlike Marcon, Starmer stops short of announcing when he’ll recognize Palestinian statehood; in call with Canadian counterpart, FM Sa’ar signals possible Israeli retaliation against Paris
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Friday that recognizing Paleostinian statehood should be part of a wider plan for lasting security for Paleostinians and Israelis, in an apparent split from La Belle France, which announced its plan to take the step already in September.
Starmer said in a video statement that he is working with allies of the UK to advance a "pathway to peace" in the region and that recognizing a Paleostinian state is part of that process.
"But it must be part of a wider plan which ultimately results in a two-state solution and lasting security for Paleostinians and Israelis. This is the way to ensure it is a tool of maximum utility to improve the lives of those who are suffering — which of course, will always be our ultimate goal," the British premier added.
Starmer didn’t elaborate further on the "wider plan" on which recognition of Paleostine is conditioned, and he stopped short of declaring that he would take the step at the UN General Assembly in September as French President Emmanuel Macron announced he would do on Thursday.
While Starmer has indicated interest in the step, he faces some of the same pushback from conservatives domestically and from the US that Macron dealt with before ultimately moving ahead. Several Israeli ministers have also pushed to annex the West Bank if the countries go forward with recognizing a Paleostinian state.
Starmer’s statement came after an emergency call on Friday held by the leaders of Britannia, La Belle France, and Germany about the growing hunger crisis 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 a rusty 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... All three support a Paleostinian state in principle, but Germany said it has no immediate plans to follow La Belle France’s step, which Macron plans to formalize at the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... General Assembly in September.
Starmer, who is under mounting pressure to formally recognize Paleostinian statehood, both from opposition politicians and from members of his own Labour Party government. Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Tuesday called for an announcement "while there’s still a state of Paleostine left to recognize."
More than 140 countries recognize a Paleostinian state, including a dozen in Europe. But La Belle France, home to Europe’s largest Jewish and Moslem communities, will become the first major Western country, and first Group of Seven country, to recognize a Paleostinian state, potentially giving greater momentum to a movement so far dominated by smaller nations that are generally more critical of Israel.
Israel and the US both denounced the decision as a reward for Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terrorism.
Britannia has long supported the idea of an independent Paleostinian state existing alongside Israel, but has said recognition should come as part of a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict.
Any such solution appears far off. There had been no substantive Israel-Paleostinian negotiations for years, even before the terror group Hamas launched the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, which killed 1,200 people and sparked the current war.
The worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where hunger is spreading and children have starved to death, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry, has caused alarm even among Israel’s closest allies.
Germany has traditionally been a particularly staunch ally of Israel in Europe, with relations rooted in the history of the Holocaust. It says recognizing a Paleostinian state should be "one of the concluding steps" in negotiating a two-state solution, and it "does not plan to recognize a Paleostinian state in the short term."
But Berlin, too, has sharpened its tone recently, describing Israel’s actions in Gaza as unacceptable and pushing for greater humanitarian aid, but still appears to favor trying to influence Israeli officials by direct contact.
The German government said in a statement Friday that it is in a "constant exchange" with the government and other partners on issues including a ceasefire in Gaza and the need to drastically improve humanitarian aid. It said it is "prepared to increase the pressure" if there is no progress, but didn’t elaborate on how.
Britannia has halted some arms sales to Israel, suspended free trade talks, and sanctioned far-right government ministers and bad boy settlers, but Starmer is under intense pressure to do more.
Labour politician Emily Thornberry, who chairs Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said a majority of committee members supported immediate recognition of the state of Paleostine.
"We’ve been in favor for 40 years of a two-state solution, and yet it’s been drifting," she told Times Radio, saying Macron’s announcement should be a "kickstart" for the grinding of the peace processor.
FM HINTS AT RETALIATION OVER FRENCH PALESTINIAN STATE RECOGNITION
In a phone call with his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused Hamas of thwarting Gaza truce-hostage talks and appeared to threaten retaliatory steps to La Belle France’s announcement yesterday that it would recognize Paleostinian statehood, according to a readout from Israel’s foreign ministry.
"The diplomatic assaults on Israel in this sensitive period for negotiations encourage Hamas to harden its stances," Sa’ar told Anand, according to the readout.
Sa’ar wrote on X that he told Anad that Israel said yes to the framework proposed by US special envoy Steve Witkoff while "Hamas stubbornly hardened its position."
Regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the United Nations and aid groups have warned of soaring hunger, Sa’ar in the conversation with Anand accused the UN of "not fulfilling its commitments to bring aid into Gaza" and preferring instead to engage in the "de-legitimatization of Israel," the Israeli readout said.
"I also said that unilateral steps by La Belle France and other countries will only push Israel to take steps of its own," Sa’ar wrote on X, without elaborating. "The French initiative harms the chances of achieving a hostage deal and ceasefire."
Some opponents of countries unilaterally recognizing a Paleostinian state maintain that the move is merely symbolic when done without Israel’s cooperation, adding that a Paleostinian state can only be the result of negotiations between both sides of the conflict.
But supporters of the move say the current Israeli government is uninterested in such talks or a two-state solution and that the framework can therefore only be advanced through diplomatic pressure.
US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... also commented on Macron’s announcement.
"Here’s the good news, what [Macron] says doesn’t matter," the president told news hounds on Friday. "[Macron]’s a very good guy, I like him. But, that statement doesn’t carry any weight."
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... a coalition of leading American Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, UJA-Federation of New York and the World Jewish Congress said Friday that they had declined an invitation to meet with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in response to Macron’s announcement.
"We are deeply concerned that La Belle France’s approach undermines prospects for a mutually negotiated future for Israelis and Paleostinians," the organizations said in a joint statement. "By taking such a unilateral step, La Belle France not only emboldens Death Eaters but risks the security of the Jewish people around the globe, along with alienating moderate voices and undermining the credibility of French diplomacy in the region."
They argued that Macron has backpedaled on the conditions he laid out three months ago for recognition of a Paleostinian state, including the release of the remaining hostages still held in Gaza and Hamas’s surrender.
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[IsraelTimes] US president says terror group not interested in deal; echoing Witkoff, PM says Jerusalem weighing ‘alternative options’ to free hostages
US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... declared Friday that Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... isn’t interested in reaching a hostage deal and signaled backing for Israel advancing its military operations against the terror group.
"Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal. I think they want to die," Trump told news hounds outside the White House a day after the US and Israel announced that they were pulling their respective negotiating teams from Doha, where proximity talks with Hamas had been taking place for nearly three weeks.
Washington and Jerusalem fumed at Hamas over the response it submitted Thursday to the latest proposal for a 60-day 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 a rusty 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... truce and hostage release deal. Egypt and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... took a more nuanced approach, while indicating that the Hamas response indeed contained too many requests for changes to the proposal. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt... they maintain that the gaps are bridgeable, an Arab diplomat and a source involved in the mediation effort told The Times of Israel on Friday.
Trump painted a far more bleak outlook and appeared to even accept that the US may not be able to secure the release of the remaining 50 hostages — 20 of whom are believed to still be alive.
"I said this was going to happen," Trump told news hounds, claiming to have predicted the current impasse.
"We got a lot of hostages out. But when you get down to the last 10 or 20, I don’t think Hamas is going to make a deal because that means they have no protection. And basically that’s what happened," he said.
"I think what’s going to happen is they’re going to be hunted down," Trump continued. "It [has] gotten to a point where [Israel is] going to have to finish the job."
Israel is "going to have to fight, and going to have to clean it up. You’re gonna have to get rid of [Hamas]," he said, acknowledging that the situation is "sort of disappointing."
’MUSCLE FLEX’
Trump’s comments on Friday indicated that he has all but given up on the negotiations in Doha — which would mark a major shift for the US president, who for months has expressed his desire to quickly end the war and who just a week earlier prematurely announced that 10 hostages would soon be released.
Israel was quickly falling in line on Friday, with Netanyahu’s office issuing a statement that said Jerusalem and Washington were "considering alternative options to bring our hostages home."
The statement echoed one issued a day earlier by US special envoy Steve Witkoff.
But a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel Friday that there are no new ideas for securing the release of the hostages and that the only military strategies that haven’t been pursued would put the captives at risk.
Earlier Friday, the families of several hostages still in Gaza met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... at the White House in order to receive an update regarding the negotiations.
One hostage relative told The Times of Israel that during one of their earlier meetings this week with Trump officials, the families were assured that the decision to withdraw the US negotiating team from Doha was a "muscle flex" tactic aimed at coaxing Hamas to come down from some of its demands, particularly ones regarding the number of Paleostinian security prisoners it wants released in exchange for the 10 living hostages and 18 bodies of slain hostages who would be released in five batches during the two-month ceasefire under discussion.
When the hostage families pressed Trump aides as to why they weren’t promoting a comprehensive deal, as opposed to the staged framework on the table, the US officials insisted that the administration is committed to securing the release of all hostages, the relative said, confirming a Channel 12 report.
STAYING THE COURSE
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... Egypt and Qatar issued a joint statement on Friday asserting that they were continuing their mediation efforts to secure a ceasefire, and explaining that the US and Israel had merely recalled their negotiators "to hold consultations before resuming dialogue." They added that the practice was "normal in the context of these complex negotiations."
The two Arab countries insisted that some progress was made in the last round of negotiations and that they remain committed to securing a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal.
Egyptian media reported earlier Friday that talks would still pick back up next week, and Hamas official Bassem Naim told news hounds the same.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the source involved in mediation efforts and the Arab diplomat denied that hostage negotiations were scheduled to resume next week. The two sources said nothing has been scheduled yet and that Egypt and Qatar were still awaiting directions from Witkoff.
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[REGNUM] On July 24, the Israeli Attorney General's Office filed charges of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. For a country at war, which is also regularly subject to terrorist attacks, this might seem routine. If not for the identity of the accused.
According to the investigation, the terrorist attack was prepared by a 70-year-old resident of Tel Aviv. The pensioner, suffering from a fatal disease, decided to carry out the dangerous action allegedly "for reasons of conscience," hoping that with the death of the leader of the right-wing coalition, the country would have a chance to get out of the crisis.
But, contrary to public expectations, she has never done business with Iran, which is confirmed by state prosecutors. However, there are forces in Israel that suggest “digging deeper” and looking for hidden connections.
"CITIZEN X"
Due to the fact that the case has a great public resonance and is connected with the security of the top officials of the Jewish state, the special services do not disclose the identification data of the detainee. In thematic materials, she is most often referred to as a "retiree from Tel Aviv" or "citizen X".
On the other hand, the investigative bodies do not skimp on her portrait. Among other things, it is noted that the detainee was a "civic activist" and "a regular at protests." She also supported the course of one of the opposition centrist parties (most likely, Yesh Atid, headed by former Prime Minister Yair Lapid) and "systematically criticized the Netanyahu government."
According to investigators, the pensioner decided to organize the assassination attempt "for ideological reasons." She believed that the Israeli prime minister's reckless actions "drove the country into a crisis," turning ordinary Israelis into "international pariahs." And the unwillingness to admit mistakes weakened the Jewish state more than any armed conflict.
Such judgments, by the way, are quite popular in opposition circles, and law enforcement officials were not too surprised by them. Moreover, another factor served as a trigger for the transition from words to deeds.
TAKE TO THE GRAVE
According to Israeli media, the detainee suffered from a fatal illness and at some point decided to take Netanyahu to her grave. Apparently, she was trying to provoke early elections in Israel and thus help the country get out of the crisis.
She planned to carry out her plan using an improvised explosive device, converted from an RPG round, and tried to enter the black market for weapons through acquaintances and other activists. She also studied the security system of government institutions and the routes of Netanyahu's car.
The pensioner was turned in by her own people.
Good to know they aren’t totally vile, being merely anti-democratic, selfish, short-sighted, and dangerously wrong.
One of the comrades in the protest movement, a retired Shin Bet officer, became an unwitting listener to the revelations of “citizen X” and hastened to report this to his former superiors.
Not totally lost to the dark side…
However, as it turned out later, he was not the only “vigilant citizen” – the special services received at least three requests from different people (most of them opposition-minded citizens), with whom the pensioner managed to enter into negotiations.
The opposition’s rapid distancing from its activist is not surprising – the overwhelming majority of Israel’s protest forces are not interested in a forceful solution to the domestic political crisis and reject terror as a method of achieving goals.
Moreover, an assassination attempt on the prime minister could damage the image of the entire Israeli opposition movement, especially given the fact that the activities of most protest groups and social movements were funded by American Democrats.
Embarrassing to have that revealed for all involved, one imagines, but healthy for the body politic.
The auditors of the US House of Representatives reported this publicly a few days ago. For obvious reasons, there were no people willing to add the label of anti-state terrorism to the “outside-controlled protests”.
"VICIOUS CONNECTIONS"
A specific feature of the case is that “Tehran’s interests” do not figure in it at all, unlike most similar scandals, where the “Iranian trace” became the main version in the first days, and any activity to destabilize the situation in Israel was linked to the “strategic interests” of Tel Aviv’s opponents.
In the case of "citizen X," the prosecution is inclined to consider the assassination attempt "the result of a clouded mind," and plans to insist on compulsory treatment for the detainee without imprisonment. Especially since she prepared the act of retaliation alone and did not receive external funding, although she tried to involve several like-minded people in the case.
Even the most desperate "mole hunters" could not bring themselves to declare the pensioner an "Iranian agent." For a combination of reasons, she was not kept in a pretrial detention center, but released on the condition that she not visit government institutions. And a separate line was written prohibiting her from approaching Netanyahu and "any facilities where he may be."
However, there are still those who want to look for traces of Iranian intelligence in this high-profile case.
In particular, there are calls to recall the case of 73-year-old businessman Moti Maman, arrested on charges of working for the Iranians a year earlier. Like "citizen X," Maman planned an assassination attempt on the Israeli prime minister and, at the initial stages, justified his plans with "high ideals." And only later, under pressure from investigators, did he admit to financial interest and contacts with Iranian intelligence services.
Alarmists insist that the current detainee could have acted according to a similar scheme.
The evidence for this version is extremely shaky.
For example, it was noted that the detainee allegedly mentioned Maman several times in conversations with her comrades and noted his "civic courage." Attempts were also noted to promote a version that the pensioner, like Maman before her, interacted with Turkish public activists and conducted "active correspondence with them on social networks," allegedly receiving "valuable instructions."
Small bloggers associated with far-right political forces are particularly zealous in this matter. And their interest is most likely due to the desire to shift public attention from inter-factional friction in the government (some of which was provoked by the far-right) to the “Iranian threat.”
However, the investigation has not yet confirmed any of the rumors being circulated. And it has also warned particularly zealous commentators about responsibility for fabricating fakes.
The desire to connect the “Maman case” and the “case of citizen X” should be interpreted rather as an attempt to further discredit the opposition in the eyes of the public and once again emphasize the “vicious connections” of the opponents of the ruling camp.
However, despite the apparent tactical benefit of such coverage, this trend does not receive support from Netanyahu – at least not publicly.
The prime minister is not interested in dividing society in the context of ongoing conflicts on external borders, nor in giving each high-profile case a “spy flair.” Moreover, the Israeli opposition is in a depressed state even without additional pressure, and it seems unnecessary to transfer resources to it.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] As the American The Wall Street Journal writes with reference to American officials, it turns out, not one, as was previously known, but two American THAAD SAM batteries in Israel helped repel Iranian missile attacks. That is, the USA still transferred the second THAAD battery to Israel before the war.
There are only seven such batteries in the US. Moreover, during the 12 days of the war, these two American THAAD batteries alone spent more than 150 interceptor missiles in Israel. This is about a quarter of all missiles for THAAD purchased by the US Department of Defense for all time.
A large number of ship-based interceptor missiles from American destroyers were also used, not to mention the use of rockets of Israeli anti-aircraft missiles of the "Hets" (Arrow) family. What a density of anti-missile defenses there was, and despite this, some of the Iranian missiles still broke through to the targets until the very last moments of the war.
As it was said even during the war, Iran steadily penetrated the powerful consolidated air defense/anti-aircraft defense system of the USA and Israel, inflicting significant losses on Israel until the end of the war.
The key problem is that the USA and Israel underestimated Iran's missile capabilities and the stability of its internal structure, as a result of which it was not possible to achieve the collapse of Iran's military-political leadership, and it was not possible to neutralize Iran's strike capabilities.
Therefore, the war was hastily ended, as it would only get worse. The further along, the funnier the wartime jokes about the complete victory of Israel.
[NAHARNET] One of La Belle France's longest-held inmates, the pro-Paleostinian Lebanese hard boyGeorges Ibrahim Abdallah, arrived in Beirut on Friday, having been released from prison after more than 40 years behind bars for the alleged killings of two diplomats.
At around 3:40 am (0140 GMT), a convoy of six vehicles with flashing lights left the Lannemezan prison in southwest La Belle France, AFP journalists saw.
Hours later, the 74-year-old was placed on a plane and deported back to Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , to be welcomed by family members on his return to Beirut at the airport's VIP lounge.
Dozens of supporters, some waving Paleostinian or Lebanese Communist Party flags, gathered near the arrivals hall to give him a hero's reception, an AFP correspondent said. He later received another hero's welcome by Hezbollah demonstrators on the airport road, where he got out of the car to salute them.
In his first public address after being released, Abdallah took aim at Israel's ongoing war in 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, where human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations have warned of mass starvation.
"The children of Paleostine are dying of hunger while millions of Arabs watch," he said.
"Resistance® must continue and intensify," added the former schoolteacher.
''We bow to the deaders of the resistance and the resistance is not weak, seeing as its leaders are deaders and not traitors,'' Abdallah added.
''Israel is living the last chapter of its existence,'' he said.
Abdallah's family had said previously they would take him to their hometown of Kobayat, in northern Lebanon, where a reception is planned.
Abdallah was detained in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for his alleged involvement in the murders of U.S. military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Gay Paree.
- 'PAST SYMBOL' -
The Gay Paree Court of Appeal had ordered his release "effective July 25" on the condition that he leave French territory and never return.
While he had been eligible for release since 1999, his previous requests were denied with the United States -- a civil party to the case -- consistently opposing him leaving prison.
Inmates serving life sentences in La Belle France are typically freed after fewer than 30 years.
Abdallah's lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, visited him for a final time on Thursday.
"He seemed very happy about his upcoming release, even though he knows he is returning to the Middle East in an extremely tough context for Lebanese and Paleostinian populations," Chalanset told AFP.
The charge d'affaires of the Lebanese Embassy in Gay Paree, Ziad Taan, who saw Georges Abdallah before his departure, told AFP that he was "well, in good health, very happy to return to Lebanon to his family and to regain his freedom."
AFP visited Abdallah last week after the court's release decision, accompanying a politician to the detention center.
The founder of the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions (FARL) -- a long-disbanded Marxist anti-Israel group -- said for more than four decades he had continued to be a "militant with a struggle."
After his arrest in 1984, French police discovered submachine guns and transceiver stations in one of his Gay Paree apartments.
The appeals court in February noted that the FARL "had not committed a violent mostly peaceful action since 1984" and that Abdallah "today represented a past symbol of the Paleostinian struggle."
The appeals judges also found the length of his detention "disproportionate" to his crimes, and pointed to his age.
[NAHARNET] U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has reminded that during his latest visit to Beirut, he stated that Hezbollah is ''an issue that must be resolved by the Lebanese themselves,'' reaffirming a ''long-standing position of the United States -- that Hezbollah represents a challenge which only the Lebanese government can address.''
''The United States remains ready to support Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... , should the government uphold and enforce the state's monopoly on all arms, and that only the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has the constitutional authority to operate within its borders,'' Barrack said in a statement posted on his X account.
''As (U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... ) has rightly emphasized, our goal in Lebanon is 'a strong Lebanese state that can take on and disarm Hezbollah,''' Barrack added.
''The United States draws no distinction between Hezbollah's political and military branches. We view the group in its entirety as what it is: a foreign terrorist organization,'' he said.
''By contrast, the United States recognizes the LAF as the sole legitimate national military institution and a pillar of Lebanon's illusory sovereignty and the key to securing a stable and prosperous future. It is now incumbent upon Lebanon's politicianship -- and the LAF -- to demonstrate the resolve and political will to, in the words of @POTUS (U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States... ) 'seize a new chance for a future free from the grip of Hezbollah terrorists,''' Barrack added.
''On that path, the United States will stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Lebanon,'' he went on to say.
We can't possibly be the problem.
[NAHARNET] Hezbollah political bureau member Mahmoud Qmati called Friday for unity in Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... amid ongoing domestic and international pressure for Hezbollah to disarm after a bruising war with Israel.
"We are ready for dialogue about a defense strategy," Qmati said, adding that only national unity could help Lebanon and warning that divisions among the Lebanese people would only serve Israel.
"Our call today is clear: We must unite for Lebanon. If we give up our strength and our weapons, that would be the end of Lebanon."
Qmati said that Lebanon is in danger, "in the eye of the storm", and is facing existential threats from all directions - east, west, north, and south. He cited French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack's statements that Lebanon could become a part of Israel or Syria. "That is why we must all be united around the Lebanese army to defend the nation, its entity, dignity, illusory sovereignty, and the unique Lebanese formula in this region."
Qmati said that Hezbollah can fight alongside the Lebanese army and that the monopoly of arms is to protect Lebanon domestically against destructive weapons and mafias that do not defend or serve Lebanon and not against those "who are resisting an external enemy."
"The resistance was created to protect the country," Qmati said, "and we will not accept describing it as Lebanon's problem."
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...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
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