It is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman – or a Christian. Disease is rampant, and children as young as 4 are being forced to work in mines.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is 95% Christian, yet the faithful are being targeted by jihadists. Just last month, Islamist ADF terrorists, who want the eastern part of the country to become a Muslim Caliphate, rounded up 70 Christians and beheaded them – in a church.
Women are under threat too. According to the U.N., 895 cases of rape were reported in the last two weeks of February alone – an average of more than 60 a day.
In the east, "Sexual violence and human rights abuses remain rampant, as is the looting and destruction of civilian homes and businesses," Patrick Eba, deputy director of UNHCR’s Division of International Protection, said this week.
Eba added that "hundreds of thousands of people (are) on the move", fleeing the violence, with many crossing into neighboring countries.
Over 150 women inmates were raped, and many of them then burned to death, in Goma in October last year. As M23 rebels advanced on the city, prison guards at the local jail fled. Hundreds of male inmates are said to have jumped over a wall and raped the women, before escaping.
The sick are also at risk. Earlier this week, the U.N. humanitarian affairs coordination office (OCHA) reported that armed men had raided at least two hospitals in North Kivu’s capital Goma, abducting dozens of patients.
Disease also stalks people – with three mystery "outbreaks" in the past six months in the DRC. In the latest, the World Health Organization stated late last month that 60 have died and a further 1,318 have shown symptoms of suffering from an as yet unidentified serious illness in Equateur Province.
The agency said the disease spreads through the body fast "with a median time from onset of symptoms to death of one day." Tests for Ebola and the Marburg virus have come back negative so far.
In the Eastern Kivu provinces of the DRC, hundreds of thousands have been displaced, as rebel groups, often foreign-backed, push back government troops in a war "playing out in one of the poorest regions of earth," analyst Frans Cronje told Fox News Digital, adding, "Thousands have been killed, disease pandemics are commonplace, (and) women live under the constant fear of rape and abuse."
"The conflict in the DRC is essentially about control of critical minerals", Cronje, an advisor for the Yorktown Foundation for Freedom, continued. "Scores of rebel groups and some state actors are engaged in the conflict. The two Kivu provinces contain vast deposits of these minerals that could be used in applications from defense and AI to green energy."
Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and editor of the Long War Journal, told Fox News Digital, "I would argue that the minerals are only partially, or even tangentially, related. The main violence plaguing Congo runs from regional political issues, like Rwanda/M23 (rebel group), to ethnic like CODECO, (an association of militia groups) to religious, like Islamic State Central Africa Province, aka ADF, (rebel group) to just general localized banditry. And some groups do control and make money from artisanal mines, but not all."
And, for more than a decade, children in some DRC areas have faced extreme exploitation and abuse, reportedly from China, forced to mine deep underground in its quest for metals such as cobalt. An estimated 70% of the world’s cobalt is produced in the DRC, according to Michigan State University’s Global Edge Research Organization. China is said to either own, or co-own with the DRC’s government, 80% of the DRC’s cobalt mines.
This modern-day child slavery continues despite outcry. A report to a joint House and Senate Committee in November 2023 stated that the DRC "is a country that has been brutally pillaged throughout history, fueled by corrupt men’s unquenchable thirst for power, riches, land, rubber, copper, palm oil, and now cobalt, all at the expense of innocent women, men, and children."
"Children as young as 4 are forced to mine cobalt, "Jason Isaac told Fox News Digital last year. Isaac is the founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute.
The FDD’s Bill Roggio told Fox News Digital there are steps the Trump administration could take, "from counter-terrorism against one of IS' most active global branches (ISCAP) to walking back a potential massive regional war, or even to improving good governance, a more stable, secure and prosperous Congo would do wonders for the global economy and regional security."
Yemen’s Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi threatens to resume attacks on Israeli ships if aid isn’t delivered to Gaza within four days. pic.twitter.com/QBIaxQ3iEX
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[Regnum] A secret crematorium was found on the territory of one of the ranches in the Mexican state of Jalisco, where police officers also found about 200 pairs of shoes, charred human remains and bullet casings. This was reported on March 8 by the publication Swissinfo.
The crematorium was found on a ranch that was surrounded by law enforcement several months ago during an operation that resulted in the arrest of 10 armed men, the release of two kidnapped people and the discovery of a body. The ranch is also said to have a crude obstacle course that was used as a recruitment and training center for the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel.
Representatives of public associations involved in the search for missing persons claim that the remains found may belong to people who disappeared without a trace. The activists also appealed to the authorities to conduct a more thorough investigation.
The police are currently working to identify the people to whom the remains belong. According to the national search commission, more than 15,000 people are missing in the state of Jalisco.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on September 29, 2021, in the Nuevo Laredo region of Tamaulipas state in Mexico, police discovered an underground crematorium with human remains.
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said on March 1 that if Mexican authorities continue to do nothing against local drug cartels, Washington will have to take decisive action. In turn, US Department of Government Effectiveness chief Elon Musk said that the only way to deal with Mexican cartels is to conduct a special operation in Mexico.
[GEO.TV] The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Britain said on Saturday they supported an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that would cost $53 billion and avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave.
"The plan shows a realistic path to the reconstruction of Gaza and promises — if implemented — swift and sustainable improvement of the catastrophic living conditions for the Palestinians living in Gaza," the ministers said in a joint statement.
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I don't think they have a meaningful say in the matter.
Was it the Art of the Deal?
Where Trump announced the USA will take control of Gaza.
Then stepped back and watched the EU suddenly have a serious self-interest.
AND/OR!
Could it be, because the EU sees and fears its own large Islamic population living inside the EU, due to EU Open Borders?
[IsraelTimes] Reform Rabbi Ari Jun, a self-described liberal Zionist, has called for empathy for Palestinians in Gaza; protest organizers say his values don’t align with theirs
When Rabbi Ari Jun learned that faith leaders were invited to speak at a rally in Cincinnati against neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... s and white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... , he quickly responded that he would be there.
As the former director of the local Jewish community relations council who recently took the helm of a progressive Reform synagogue, Jun has experience responding to antisemitism and a passion for social justice.
But a week later, he was told he was off the docket. The reason: He is a Zionist.
"Some of your values do not truly align with the values this protest is trying to represent," Laini Smith, an organizer of the rally being held Sunday in the city’s Washington Park, told him via text message.
Billie Pittman, another organizer with Queen City United, a progressive group, spelling things out even more clearly: "Rabbi Ari Jun is a well-known Zionist, and while this event is intended to oppose Nazis and white supremacy, allowing Zionists to participate undermines the original goal of the demonstration."
”Dear lord, can you imagine?! Letting Jews stand with us against Nazis — we’d get their cooties just from breathing the same air!”
Pittman also posted on the event’s Facebook page: "We are in the works of having another speaker from the Jewish community."
That’s a misquote. That person meant “Jewish” community.
The about-face by Queen City United comes as progressive Jews around the United States and beyond continue to struggle with how they fit into the political communities they called home before the onset of the Israel-Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... war on October 7, 2023.
Only the stupid ones struggle. To the rest of us it is obvious that Jew-hate is fashionable on the American left once again.
The war broke out after Hamas-led forces of Evil invaded Israel, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 251.
Many progressive Jews have reported feeling excluded by litmus tests — often implicit, but sometimes explicit — that require them to denounce Israel’s very existence in order to be welcomed in political spaces.
Jun offers a case study in these dynamics. A graduate of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College, he said as he assumed the role of senior rabbi at Temple Sholom in January that he was eager to rebuild interfaith relations and continue the synagogue’s longstanding tradition of social justice.
Temple Sholom is actually Reconstructionist, the terribly earnest Unitarianism of Judaism with all that entails.
He has also been a vocal critic of the Israeli government and its right-wing US supporters, even challenging some centrist orthodoxies in the immediate wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel. "If our empathy extends only to Israelis and Jews ... we play into Hamas’s hands," he wrote on his own blog in November 2023, in advance of the Jewish community rally in Washington DC that drew an estimated 300,000 people. Last month, he wrote in an op-ed in the Cincinnati Enquirer that US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s 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... plan is "nothing short of the dictionary definition of ethnic cleansing."
Terribly earnest but not necessarily rigorous thinkers, in the sadly typical far left way.
He has also drawn scorn from some non-Jewish progressives, for example from the Cincinnati Socialists last year, for his attitudes about Israel and Zionism.
Those attitudes put him in the American Jewish mainstream. According to a 2021 Pew Research study, 80 percent of US Jews say caring about Israel is an essential or important part of what being Jewish means to them. Nearly 60% said they personally feel an emotional attachment to Israel. Last year, the American Jewish Committee Survey of American Jewish Opinion found that 85% of US Jews think it is important for the United States to support Israel in the aftermath of October 7.
"I would call myself a liberal Zionist," Jun said. "I am attacked by people to the right of me in the Jewish community for being insufficiently allegiant to Israel, and I am attacked by progressives for having any association with Israel. I don’t consider all anti-Zionism to be antisemitism, but I do know there is a dramatic overlap between the two."
The rally’s organizers did not publicly announce that they had disinvited Jun. As the news emerged on Thursday, both critics and supporters of his exclusion posted a flood of comments on the event’s Facebook page.
"This is a shameful march that’s a complete lie. I am a progressive, but progressives can’t stand for equality when you exclude Jews," wrote Rabbi Sammy Kanter, director of Jewish learning at the local JCC. "Excluding a minority group is not a rally against hate, but rather breeds more!"
Mohammad Ahmad, who leads a pro-Paleostinian group in Northern Kentucky, just across the Ohio river from Cincinnati, praised the decision to disinvite Jun.
"As a Paleostinian, I want to thank the brave organizers of this event for taking a clear stance against Zionism and all forms of white supremacy in the Tri-State area. Bravo and well done," he wrote. "Zionism is unequivocally racism and Zionism is, without a shadow of doubt, an ultranationalist, fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... , and far-right ethno-supremacist ideology that has inflicted so much harm not just on Paleostinians in Paleostine, but on so many other marginalized groups, including right here in Cincinnati."
The organizers, too, weighed in on the Facebook page. Smith wrote they believe that "standing up against white supremacy, neo-Nazism, and other forms of oppression requires us to critically engage with the full scope of ideologies and actions that perpetuate harm," and that they believe hate has no place in Cincinnati.
"The decision to not invite Rabbi Jun-Ballaban was not based on his Jewish identity, but rather on a fundamental divergence in values," Smith wrote. "Our event is rooted in a commitment to challenging white supremacy, ethnic cleansing, and the ongoing harm against marginalized communities."
Previously, according to private messages between Jun and Smith that Jun shared, his plan was to speak about the threat of white supremacy, which Smith said "would be perfect."
Jun had even told his congregants that to "counter Nazism," they would need to show up in spaces where they may feel uncomfortable. Since his dismissal by organizers, he said he feels differently.
"It’s one thing to go to a rally expecting different people with disagreeing viewpoints to show up as their full selves, and for that to create discomfort and to live with that discomfort," Jun said. "It’s another thing for us as a Jewish community to be told, ’You cannot show up as your full selves.’"
ADL gave A grades to eight schools: Brandeis University, CUNY Queens College, CUNY Brooklyn College, Elon University, Florida International University, University of Alabama, University of Miami, and Vanderbilt University.
Notable improvements were identified at CUNY Queens College, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Michigan State University, SUNY Purchase College, SUNY Rockland Community College, Tufts University, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and Vanderbilt University, all of which moved up by two grades. Harvard, Tufts University and UNC Chapel Hill had previously received failing grades.
The ADL gave failing marks to 13 schools: California Polytechnic State University, DePaul University, Evergreen State College, Haverford College, Loyola University New Orleans, Pitzer College, Pomona College, Portland State University, Scripps College, The New School, University of California – Santa Barbara, University of Illinois – Chicago, and University of Minnesota.
Columbia University and its sister school, Barnard College, both received D grades. While both schools have made progress in enforcing antisemitism policies, violent protests continue to threaten Jewish students, with anti-Israel activists disrupting a History of Modern Israel class at Columbia in January and occupying a building on Barnard’s campus in February.
Until last week, I had been seriously considering teaching at Columbia University next year as a visiting professor. But I’m now convinced that to do so would be folly—to serve as a prop or a fig leaf. Moreover, I feel doing so would mean putting myself and my students at risk.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., along with the Dept of Education and GSA, announced a comprehensive review of Columbia University’s federal contracts and grants in light of the university's failure to adequately respond to rampant antisemitism on campus. pic.twitter.com/9al8B7SxBn
Anti-Israel demonstrators protest former PM Bennett at Columbia University
[IsraelTimes] More than 200 pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather in front of Columbia University in New York to demonstrate against former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who was at the campus for a speaking engagement. None of the individual protesters at the event, many of whom wore masks or traditional Palestinian keffiyehs, agree to speak with AFP journalists.
“The decision to host a man with such a violent and openly discriminatory record sends a message that the university values some voices over others,” a spokesperson for Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition — one of the groups taking part in the protest — says in a statement.
Anti-Israel activists release new footage of Columbia building takeover last year
[IsraelTimes] An anti-Israel activist group releases new footage of protesters preparing to clash with police inside a Columbia University campus building last year. The protest group, Unity of Fields, says it is releasing the footage in response to the expulsion of a student involved in the takeover. The footage comes out as the Trump administration threatens the university’s funding due to antisemitism. Unity of Fields, formerly known as Palestine Action US, is a hardline anti-Israel activist group that is not formally tied to the campus. The group has released other footage related to Columbia in the past, such as anti-Israel vandalization around the campus.
Protesters forcibly occupied the building, Hamilton Hall, last spring, prompting a police crackdown and dozens of arrests. After police cleared the building last year, the NYPD said many of those arrested were not university students or affiliates. Most had their charges dropped.
BREAKING: Columbia has issued its first expulsion for alleged involvement in the occupation of Hind's Hall.
In response, we are releasing never before seen footage of the Battle of Hind's Hall--which was smuggled out in a militant's bra--with a message to the Student Intifada: pic.twitter.com/j0YFBvvvYU
Yale Law School Scholar Is Member of US-Sanctioned Terror Fundraising Organization
[FreeEacon] .Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, placed on “immediate administrative leave” as university investigates allegations of membership in Samidoun, an organization sanctioned by the U.S. government in October in an announcement that described it as a "sham charity" and a "front organization" for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a foreign-designated terrorist organization.
Samidoun’s website indicates that Doutaghi, whom it describes as "a doctoral student of international law and a member of the international Samidoun Network," delivered a speech in Iran at a Samidoun-sponsored screening of the film Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight. Abdallah, the founder of the Lebanese Armed Military Forces, was sentenced by a French court to life in prison in 1987, convicted of complicity in the 1982 murders of U.S. military attaché Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov, as well as involvement in the attempted 1984 assassination of the then-American consul general in Strasbourg, Robert Homme.
The federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism says the probe will investigate whether the university system has violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination.
“This Department of Justice will always defend Jewish Americans, protect civil rights, and leverage our resources to eradicate institutional Antisemitism in our nation’s universities,” says US Attorney General Pamela Bondi.
Most federal probes into campus antisemitism are filed under Title VI, which prohibits discrimination in institutions that receive federal funding.
Jewish legal groups are also seeking to expand the use of Title II, a law that prohibits discrimination in public spaces.
BREAKING: Terror supporters are currently outside of the Ohio State University Hillel harassing Jewish students, chanting for a “global intifada.”
Can you imagine the outrage if Jews showed up outside of the Muslim student association and harassed them? pic.twitter.com/XuQCTsmwRQ
First freeze everything, then restart those worth doing.
[IsraelTimes] The UN nuclear watchdog’s ability to monitor Iran’s nuclear program has been disrupted after US President Donald Trump suspended two programs that provide aid to international nuclear inspectors, the New York Times reports, citing current and former US government nuclear experts.
The two programs were suspended by a sweeping executive order signed by Trump on the first day of his presidency that froze all US foreign aid programs for 90 days.
Citing unnamed sources, the Times says that the two programs are intended to support the International Atomic Energy Agency by recruiting and training atomic inspectors, and supplying it with the equipment and sophisticated lab devices needed for examining samples.
According to the Times, one of the programs has since been restored, although the other remains frozen.
While the IAEA declines to comment on the reported aid cuts, the US State Department, which is supposed to fund the programs, tells the Times that US national security is a top priority, and that “certain US assistance to programs that support International Atomic Energy Agency efforts and capabilities to inspect nuclear facilities worldwide, including in Iran, are continuing.”
The State Department does not say, however, whether any of the programs have been frozen or cut.
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[Regnum] The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has accused Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip. This was reported on March 8 by the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera.
Israel has been accused of continuing to kill Palestinian civilians and blocking all humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. It is noted that the OHCHR report states that at least 58 Palestinians, including ten children and three women, have been killed since the ceasefire.
“Attacking Palestinians who are not actively participating in the hostilities constitutes a war crime, regardless of the restrictions on movement imposed by Israel,” the OHCHR report emphasizes.
The UN agency said the Israeli blockade, which has now entered its seventh day, has resulted in a sharp rise in prices that could once again trigger famine in the Palestinian enclave.
"As an occupying power, Israel has a legal obligation to provide essential services to the Palestinians living under its control. Any denial of essential services to civilians may amount to collective punishment, and the use of starvation as a weapon of war constitutes a war crime," the OHCHR explained.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that in mid-January, Israel and Hamas, during negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, concluded an agreement on a temporary truce in the Gaza Strip. It should take place in three stages: the first - Israel will withdraw its troops from Gaza, and Hamas will release 33 hostages, the second - the release of the remaining Israeli prisoners and a permanent ceasefire, the third - an exchange of bodies of the dead.
On February 22, Hamas released the last of the hostages in the first phase of the truce. Israel was supposed to release 602 Palestinian prisoners, including at least one with a life sentence, from prison as part of the exchange. On February 23, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the release of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners from prisons was suspended due to the “humiliating ceremonies” of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas during the release of Israeli hostages.
On February 27, Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the International Red Cross.
On March 2, Israel agreed to a US proposal for a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during Ramadan and Passover. The decision was made by Netanyahu, with the participation of the defense minister and the negotiating team.
On March 6, US President Donald Trump threatened members of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas with death if they did not release all Israeli hostages and return the bodies "immediately."
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What about all the war crimes that the UN commuted in Gaza? I noticed that nobody seems to be accusing UN of war crimes that they actually commuted!
[IsraelTimes] Tens of thousands of Moslem worshipers flock to al-Aqsa Mosque atop the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan.
The Jordanian Waqf, which manages the site, says some 90,000 people were in attendance during midday prayers.
The prayers took place amid heavy police presence across the Old City, and with limited attendance from West Bank Paleostinians due to Israeli authorities restricting their access to the site.
As was the case last Ramadan, Paleostinian males aged 55 and older, women who are at least 50 years old, and children aged 12 and below can enter Jerusalem to attend the prayers after receiving a permit from Israeli authorities.
Just outside the Temple Mount compound, near Lion’s Gate, some 100 others perform the prayer under heavy police presence.
Cops and border guards are seen manning temporary checkpoints throughout the Old City. Law enforcement said yesterday that some 3,000 officers would be deployed throughout Jerusalem.
[IsraelTimes] Aid organizations operating 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 are being forced to scale back programs or pay out of pocket after the Trump administration froze hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments as part of its cuts to USAID.
According to three USAID officials speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... for fear of retribution, the Trump administration approved over $383 million in funding on January 31 to ensure the survival of the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza.
But since then, they say that there have been no confirmed payments to any partners in the Middle East, leaving organizations without promised funds.
Senior officials at aid organizations say that they have spent millions of dollars on supplies and services out of pocket and cannot afford to continue operations indefinitely, while others are already being forced to lay off workers and scale down operations, according to internal USAID information shared with the AP.
Among the organizations impacted by the freeze is the International Medical Corps, a global nonprofit that provides medical and development assistance. It was awarded $12 million to continue operations at two hospitals in Gaza, including at the largest field hospital in the Strip, whose construction was funded by USAID at the request of the Israeli government.
It has now requested payback of over $1 million, says one USAID official, adding that the freeze has forced the organization to lay off some 700 staff members and offer only basic services at the hospitals, with a skeletal crew.
A former IMC staffer says the program providing life-saving treatment for malnutrition is almost frozen for lack of funds, and that the current nutrition services are at a minimum level.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... termination letters severing the contracts between USAID and Gaza partners have also been sent out to organizations that were major providers of shelter, child protection and logistical support in the Gaza aid operation, a USAID official says.
Some of the termination letters seen by the AP were signed by new USAID deputy chief Peter Marocco — a returning political appointee from Trump’s first term. They instruct organizations to "immediately cease" all activities and "avoid additional spending chargeable to the award," citing a directive from Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... .
[GEO.TV] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Israel will send a delegation to Doha on Monday in an "effort to advance negotiations" on the fragile ceasefire in Gaza.
"Israel accepts the invitation from US-backed mediators, will send a delegation to Doha on Monday in an effort to advance negotiations," a statement from Netanyahu's office said Saturday.
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A German convert in Syria is probably former ISIS — they specialized in Europeans and European converts. Al Nusra/HTS mostly seems to to prefer native Syrians and entire units that together came from elsewhere in the Ummah.
For those who may have noticed, a sort of Euro problem solving technique. At least for the past several hundred years or so.
Their churches remain empty while thier trenches continue to fill. Meanwhile the hinges on the Gates of Vienna are clattering once again. Interesting times, these.
Is that in addition to the damage caused when Hezbollah’s portside fertilizer stash blew up, taking out half the city, or including it?
[IsraelTimes] The World Bank estimates Lebanon’s recovery and reconstruction costs will amount to some $11 billion following the war between Israel and Hezbollah, which ended with a ceasefire last November.
“Reconstruction and recovery needs following the conflict that affected Lebanon are estimated at $11 billion,” the World Bank says in a report assessing damage and losses from October 8, 2023 — when Hezbollah began launching attacks on Israel unprovoked — to December 20, 2024.
[GEO.TV] Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> said on Saturday that Tehran will not negotiate under pressure by a "bullying country", a day after US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... said he had sent a letter to the country's top authority to negotiate a nuclear deal.
In an interview with Fox Business, Trump said "there are two ways 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... can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal" to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
In a meeting with senior Iranian officials, Khamenei said the aim of Washington's offer for negotiations was to "impose their own expectations", Iranian state media reported.
"The insistence of some bully governments on negotiations is not to resolve issues, but to dominate and impose their own expectations."
"Talks for them is a path to have new expectations, it is not only about Iran's nuclear issue. Iran will definitely not accept their expectations."
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The good news is that we don't need to negotiate with him.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
...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 
