[IsraelTimes] Announcement comes a day after 100,000 protested against Israel in Dhaka; Muslim-majority country removed text in 2021 but maintained its non-recognition policy on Israel
Bangladesh has restored an "except Israel" inscription on passports, local media reported Sunday, effectively barring its citizens from traveling to Israel.
Israel is a flashpoint issue in Moslem-majority Bangladesh, which does not recognize it.
The phrase "valid for all countries except Israel," which was printed on Bangladeshi passports for decades, was removed in 2021 during the later years of ousted prime minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... ’s tenure. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat... Hasina’s government at the time clarified that the country’s stance on Israel had not changed.
Nilima Afroze, a deputy secretary at the home ministry, told Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) news agency on Sunday that authorities had "issued a directive last week" to restore the inscription.
"The director general of the department of immigration and passport was asked to take necessary measures to implement this change," local newspaper The Daily Star quoted Afroze as saying Sunday.
The Bengladeshi population’s support for an independent Paleostinian state was visible on Saturday when around 100,000 people gathered in Dhaka in solidarity with 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... Demonstrators beat the images of 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... , Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi because of their support for Israel.
Symbolic coffins and effigies representing civilian casualties in Gaza were also carried during the rally.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, headed by former prime minister the loathesome Khaleda Zia ...Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, Pak foil, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... , and other Islamist groups and parties expressed their solidarity with the rally.
[IsraelTimes] Legislation approved by parliament, ratified by president, and takes immediate effect.
The Maldives, a small Islamic republic of 1,192 strategically located coral islets, is known for its secluded white sandy beaches, shallow turquoise lagoons and Robinson Crusoe-style getaways.
Official data showed that only 59 Israeli tourists visited the archipelago in February, among 214,000 other foreign arrivals. However, nearly 11,000 Israelis visited the luxury tourist hotspot last year, accounting for a tiny 0.6 percent of the Maldives’ total tourist arrivals.
[KhaamaPress] A recent Daily Mail report reveals that nationals from Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... and Afghanistan are disproportionately arrested for sexual crimes in the UK. While conservative media use these findings to criticize immigration policies, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups argue that such reports fuel discrimination and unfairly generalize migrants colonists.
A controversial report published by the British newspaper Daily Mail on Sunday, April 13, claims that Sudanese and Afghan nationals rank first and second, respectively, in arrests related to sexual crimes in the UK.
The report, which has sparked significant media and social media attention, alleges that British police arrested over 8,500 foreign nationals on charges of sexual crimes in 2024 and the first two months of 2025.
According to the Daily Mail report, data collected from 43 police departments in the UK shows that among the 8,500 foreign nationals arrested for sexual crimes, Sudanese nationals had the highest number of arrests, while Afghan nationals ranked second with 281 arrests.
The report also placed Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n, Iranian, and Iraqi nationals in third to fifth positions, respectively, while countries such as Hungary, Ukraine, and Finland had the lowest arrest rates.
This report by Daily Mail has been framed as an indication of the "immigration challenges" faced by the UK and is linked to ongoing debates about immigration policies and public security in the country. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat... the report provides no further details on the nature of the crimes, the age of the arrestees, or their immigration status.
As the issue of immigration and crimes committed by foreign nationals remains a sensitive and controversial topic in the UK, the report has generated reactions from both sides of the debate. Conservative media outlets like Daily Mail have used such reports to criticize government immigration policies, while human rights groups and migrant organizations have accused these reports of fostering discrimination and unfair generalizations about migrants colonists.
As of the time of writing, there has been no official statement from British police or the Home Office to confirm or deny the statistics. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat... posts on the social media platform X reflect heated discussions among users, with some supporting stricter immigration policies, while others dismiss the report as "anti-immigrant propaganda."
[IsraelTimes] Britain bans entry, freezes assets of Foxtrot and its leadership, a month after similar move by US which cited criminal group’s part in thwarted January 2024 Israeli embassy attack
Britannia has sanctioned the Swedish-based Foxtrot criminal network and its leader, Rawa Majid, over "their involvement in violence against Jewish and Israeli targets in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... on behalf of the Iranian regime," UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Monday.
The sanctions, which the UK Foreign Office said would include travel bans and asset freezes, come a month after the US State Department slapped sanctions on Majid and Foxtrot, citing their part in a thwarted attack on Israel’s embassy in Stockholm in January 2024.
In a written statement, Lammy accused 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... of using "criminal gangs across the world to threaten people."
He said the sanctions are part of Britannia’s "ongoing response to Iranian hostilities in Europe," which has seen Westminster sanction "450 Iranian individuals and entities, in response to the regime’s human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations, nuclear weapons program and malign influence internationally."
Iran is sworn to Israel’s destruction and promotes that aim through a network of Middle East proxies that includes 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... ’s Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... , 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.... ’s Hezbollah and 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... ’s 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... rebels. It has also sought to attack Israeli and Jewish targets around the world.
Last month, Britannia said all people working in the country for Iran, its intelligence services or the Revolutionary Guard would have to register on a new list or face jail.
Iran became the first country to be placed on a stricter Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ), which aims to boost the UK’s national security against covert foreign influences.
The measures, which will come into effect later this year, will make failure to register a criminal offense, with a potential maximum sentence of five years in jail.
According to the UK government, British authorities have responded to more than 20 Iran-backed plots since 2022, which presented potentially lethal threats to British citizens and residents. Since 2020, Western security agencies have foiled at least 33 Iranian plots against Western officials as well as Jewish and Israeli targets in Europe and North America, according to court documents reviewed by Rooters.
In May 2024, Mosssd ...... said Foxtrot, acting on behalf of Iran, was behind an bomb discovered and destroyed by law enforcement at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm that January. According to Mossad, Iran has been behind a string of terror attacks by criminal networks on Israeli embassies in Europe since the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza and triggered a spike in antisemitism around the world.
Mossad’s Swedish counterpart Säpo confirmed the statement, saying Iran has for years carried out security-threatening activities inside Sweden.
The Israeli spy agency said at the time that Majid, the Foxtrot leader also known as the "Kurdish Fox," had been working with Iran for months. He had fled to Iran from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member, but not the most reliable... in September 2023, pursued by international law enforcement and Iraqi security forces, according to Mossad, which said he was arrested by Iran and recruited to plan a string of attacks in Europe against Jewish and Israeli targets.
[IsraelTimes] Two NGOs seek warrant against FM over military action at Gaza Strip hospital in 2024 and detention of its director; Jerusalem says top diplomat will not cut short trip
Two legal NGOs in the United Kingdom sought arrest warrants Wednesday against Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar during his visit to London, accusing Israel’s top diplomat of committing crimes 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 during the ongoing war with Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... "Sa’ar cannot walk freely in London while innocent Paleostinian civilians are buried under rubble. His role in the killing of Gaza’s civilians demands accountability," said Dyab Abou Jahjah, founder of the Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation, which filed the arrest warrant alongside the UK-based Global Legal Action Network (GLAN).
The foreign minister "has no intention to shorten his trip or to change his plans in any manner," the Foreign Ministry told The Times of Israel in response to the warrant, which was filed with the UK’s Attorney General and Director of Public Prosecutions, according to a joint statement from the two NGOs.
"The charges focus on [Sa’ar’s] role in the siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza," GLAN wrote on X, which it said led to "the abduction and torture" of hospital director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh.
Israel detained Abu Safiya along with nearly 240 others during a raid on the hospital in northern Gaza in December 2024, alleging that Hamas was using it as a command center.
The IDF said it suspects Abu Safiya of being a Hamas member. In February, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, a Paleostinian rights group representing Abu Safiya, claimed he was subject to repeated physical abuse during his ongoing detention in Israel.
Launched in September 2024, the Hind Rajab Foundation has used social media posts by Israeli soldiers, officers and reservists in an attempt to have them arrested for alleged war crimes when they travel abroad.
During what was termed a "private visit" to London on Tuesday, Sa’ar met with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy for discussions that addressed Iran’s nuclear program, as well as negotiations to free hostages from Gaza, according to an Israeli readout.
The nature of the visit could impact the success of the arrest warrant requests, as under British law, Israelis are protected against such action if they are on an official trip.
There have been previous attempts to see Israeli officials arrested during trips to the UK, notably against then-foreign minister Tzipi Livni in 2009 when, ahead of a planned visit, a British court issued a warrant for her over alleged war crimes committed by the IDF during a three-week conflict in Gaza. In the end, Livni did not go through with the trip, and the threat of an arrest kept her out of the UK until authorities in 2011 granted automatic immunity to all Israelis on official visits to the country.
Britannia changed the law to make it more difficult to obtain arrest warrants against Israeli figures by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The amended law helps those visiting Britannia in an official capacity. Those making trips of a personal nature are left vulnerable.
In 2015, Livni, by then an opposition member of Knesset, again visited the UK to attend a women’s summit. Anti-Israeli activists applied to have an arrest warrant issued, as the visit could be considered personal. To preempt the problem, Livni arranged to meet with senior UK government officials, enabling the Knesset speaker to approve her travel as an official visit, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported at the time.
The following year, Livni was back in the UK to attend a conference and British police summoned her for a "voluntary interview" over her involvement in Israel’s 2008 war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The request was reportedly dropped after an exchange between Israeli and British diplomats that granted her diplomatic immunity.
In 2015, former defense minister and IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz was nearly arrested when he visited London. At the time, Mofaz was greeted at the airport by two Israeli diplomats. His arrest was avoided after swift action by the Israeli Embassy in London and the British Embassy in Israel.
[PJ] I'm beginning to think Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen isn't playing with a full deck, and if I were one of his constituents, I'd be thinking long and hard about re-electing him.
First, there are just under 6.3 million people living in Maryland, but this guy is so focused on just one that he doesn't really seem to be doing what the state's voters elected him to do.
Second, the one person he's focused on is not only affiliated with a foreign terrorist organization, but he's also not even a U.S. citizen and has a history of violence.
Third, Van Hollen wasted a whole lot of taxpayer money today when he boarded a plane to El Salvador to go attempt to meet with and free this man — who, again, is a Salvadoran citizen — and smuggle him back into the United States.
Fourth, El Salvador's president and several top government officials were literally in Washington, D.C., for at least three days this week, and, as far as I know, refused to meet with Van Hollen as per his request (though based on the date of the statement put out by Van Hollen's office, it looks like he kind of made the request at the last minute).
Plus, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele sat in the Oval Office and said that he would not be sending this so-called "wrongly deported Maryland father" back to the United States. The Supreme Court even ruled that the United States does not have to bring this man back into our country, only facilitate his return should El Salvador choose to do so.
Anyway, as he promised, Van Hollen skipped out on 6.3 million Marylanders today and hopped on a plane to Central America, where he intended to meet with the Salvadoran government and Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the non-U.S. citizen in question.
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yes no Visa
At initial hearing Garcia pleaded that a rival El Salvador gang wanted to kill him and the judge ruled that he could not be deported to El Salvador. Had the USA deported him to another country, there would be no problem for nutzoid Judge Xinis to rule about. Of course, no other country would be likely to accept Garcia unless they had made a deal with El Salvador to deport him there a day or two after receiving him. So there is that.
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So for the last couple weeks, people building Kilmor into a disadvantaged father just trying to make it by selling papers at a kiosk when an ICE agent noticed copies of Vanidades and scooped him up, were full of horse shit.
You know, because if there were one fitting this description, the usual suspects would be banging the bells like Lars Ulrich.
And to top it off, Kilmor isn't just a soldier, he is a fookin NCO, at least.
And senator clownshoes here goes 'dont you know who I am?' and puts his thumb print on it.
Brilliant. I hear Disney is hiring the like minded.
[KhaamaPress] A recent Daily Mail report reveals that nationals from Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... and Afghanistan are disproportionately arrested for sexual crimes in the UK. While conservative media use these findings to criticize immigration policies, human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups argue that such reports fuel discrimination and unfairly generalize migrants colonists.
A controversial report published by the British newspaper Daily Mail on Sunday, April 13, claims that Sudanese and Afghan nationals rank first and second, respectively, in arrests related to sexual crimes in the UK.
The report, which has sparked significant media and social media attention, alleges that British police arrested over 8,500 foreign nationals on charges of sexual crimes in 2024 and the first two months of 2025.
According to the Daily Mail report, data collected from 43 police departments in the UK shows that among the 8,500 foreign nationals arrested for sexual crimes, Sudanese nationals had the highest number of arrests, while Afghan nationals ranked second with 281 arrests.
The report also placed Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n, Iranian, and Iraqi nationals in third to fifth positions, respectively, while countries such as Hungary, Ukraine, and Finland had the lowest arrest rates.
This report by Daily Mail has been framed as an indication of the "immigration challenges" faced by the UK and is linked to ongoing debates about immigration policies and public security in the country. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the report provides no further details on the nature of the crimes, the age of the arrestees, or their immigration status.
As the issue of immigration and crimes committed by foreign nationals remains a sensitive and controversial topic in the UK, the report has generated reactions from both sides of the debate. Conservative media outlets like Daily Mail have used such reports to criticize government immigration policies, while human rights groups and migrant organizations have accused these reports of fostering discrimination and unfair generalizations about migrants colonists.
As of the time of writing, there has been no official statement from British police or the Home Office to confirm or deny the statistics. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... posts on the social media platform X reflect heated discussions among users, with some supporting stricter immigration policies, while others dismiss the report as "anti-immigrant propaganda."
[NY Post] Van Hollen looks like a stoopid asshole after the two (2!) protection orders against Father-Of-The-Year Illegal are revealed Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month, was a member of the criminal organization with the street name "Chele," newly released documents revealed.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi shared additional evidence Wednesday afternoon to support President Trump’s claims that Abrego Garcia is a member of the notorious international gang.
A past proven and reliable source told cops with the Prince George’s County police that Abreago Garcia is an active member of MS-13 with the Westers clique in March 2019, according to the gang interview field sheet.
The confidential source further advised that he is the rank of "Chequeo" with the moniker of "Chele" and that his clothes were reportedly affiliated with the gang.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A keffiyeh-clad attendee at a pro-Palestine fundraiser in Michigan vowed that people at the event are willing to fight and die to bring down the 'American empire.'
A resurfaced video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows a man at the Stories for Liberation event in Dearborn Heights on February 7 called for the United States to be brought down.
The event, hosted by the Palestinian Youth Movement at Newora Cafe, was a poetry night and raffle fundraiser to 'strengthen the steadfastness of the people of Gaza.'
Dearborn Heights - as well as the neighboring city of Dearborn - have some of the highest populations of Muslims in the United States.
Dearborn was dubbed the U.S. 'Jihad Capital' by The Wall Street Journal and made headlines last year when protesters at a pro-Palestine rally chanted 'death to America.'
The video showed the attendee promising to work towards and even sacrifice themselves to end America.
'We do feel like change needs to come, because change must come. And in the form that it must come is that this empire, the American empire that's been hurting our people since the beginning, the imperial Western powers that have been hurting our people since the beginning, they must fall,' the man said.
'And inshallah, inshallah, they will fall. And my message to people of Gaza and oppressed people across the world is that there are people here, both young and old, who are going to be willing to fight and are willing to put their lives and everything they can on the line to bring these empires down. Because they must come down.'
The alarming message sparked immediate backlash online, with some calling for the federal government to investigate his claims.
'This guy is speaking calmly & clearly & the lady next to him had that Squeaky look in her eyes. TRUST he means what he’s saying people,' actor Michael Rapaport said.
'I’ll never get used to the hypocrisy of the people calling for the fall of America while living in America - particularly the ones that moved here,' said another.
A third person said, 'I have such a tough time understanding this. How do you live in America, benefit from everything it offers, but then want it to fall? Why not just go live in a country that has the qualities you desire?'
'These people are dangerous hateful idiots,' added a fourth.
Even those who said they are pro-Palestine slammed the man for his beliefs claiming he is hurting the movement.
'You're going to get Dearborn blown up. We're with you on stopping our Country from being complicit in genocide, but the stand you're taking is making it a no choice situation,' one person said.
'We don't want your ideology or Israel's. We want to restore the Constitutional Republic.'
Donald Trump won Michigan in the 2024 election after attending a campaign event with Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi and local Imam Belal Alzuhairi in October.
'We, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace, not war,' Alzuhairi told the crowd of a few thousand, who cheered loudly.
'The bloodshed has to stop all over the world. And I think this man can make that happen. I personally believe that God saved his life twice for a reason.'
Many voters in Dearborn refused to vote in the primaries because residents are fiercely divided over the war in Gaza.
[APNEWS] Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday and met with the country's vice president to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.
Van Hollen said at a news conference in San Salvador that Vice President F lix Ulloa said his government could not return Abrego Garcia to the United States and declined to allow Van Hollen to visit him in the notorious gang prison where he is being held.
''Why is the government of El Salvador continuing to imprison a man where they have no evidence that he's committed any crime and they have not been provided any evidence from the United States that he has committed any crime?'' Van Hollen told news hounds after the meeting. ''They should just let him go.''
[IsraelTimes] An earlier statement by Katz, read as signaling transfer of goods will be resumed soon, was met with intense coalition backlash; Hostage Families Forum decries his ’empty words’
Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that Israel has no intention of allowing humanitarian aid into 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 until a "civilian" mechanism is established to bypass Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’s control of supplies.
The minister was forced to clarify his position after his initial statement on the matter sparked uproar in the coalition for asserting that Israel would resume aid to the enclave through private firms, without clarifying that there was no immediate plan to do this.
In his first statement made in the morning, Katz said Israel would eventually resume humanitarian aid, but only through "civilian companies," to keep food and equipment from falling into the hands of Hamas.
He said Israel’s policy in Gaza includes "stopping humanitarian aid, which undermines Hamas’s control over the population, and creating an infrastructure for the distribution [of aid] through civilian companies later on."
But even signaling a general intention to resume aid was met with a furious response from members of the coalition.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir hit out at Katz, vowing to do everything in his power to stop the "historic mistake" of allowing aid into Gaza.
"It’s a shame we don’t learn from our mistakes. As long as our hostages are dying in the tunnels, there is no reason for a gram of food or aid to enter Gaza," Ben Gvir wrote on X.
Culture Minister Miki Zohar tweeted that the "despicable murderers in Gaza deserve no humanitarian aid" regardless of how it is transferred. "Only hellfire for the perpetrators of terror until the last of our hostage brothers and sisters return home safely," he said.
Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman, whose party is in the opposition, derided the prospective resumption of aid as "surrender."
In a clarifying statement, Katz said: "Israel’s policy is clear and no humanitarian aid is about to enter Gaza. In the current reality, no one is going to bring any humanitarian aid into Gaza, and no one is preparing to bring in any such aid."
The minister then explained that he had been referring to the more distant future when discussing the prospect of aid distribution via private firms.
"It is a shame that there are those who are trying to mislead," Katz continued.
In his earlier statement, Katz also emphasized Israel had ramped up military pressure on Hamas to agree to a deal "within the Witkoff framework," referring to the proposal of US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff.
"The pressure on Hamas to reach a deal is heavy, and the tension between it and the local population is increasing," he said, asserting that Egypt had for the first time set "the disarming of Hamas and the demilitarization of Gaza" as a condition for a deal.
He also touted Israel’s recent seizure of territory in the Strip, saying that "hundreds of thousands of residents have been evacuated and tens of percent of the territory have been added to the security zones," referring to Israel’s expanding buffer zone on the Gaza border, which now includes some 30% of the enclave.
But Katz’s insistence on continuing the war prompted criticism from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which lamented that Israel "is choosing to seize territory over hostages."
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump waved off an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites planned for next month in favor of negotiating a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program, the New York Times reports, citing administration officials and others.
According to the newspaper, Trump informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his decision to not support such an attack amid the negotiations with Iran when the premier visited the White House earlier this month. During their meeting, Trump announced the United States would begin negotiations with Iran on a deal to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
The report says Trump decided not to back the Israeli attack plans, which would have required US military support to carry out, due to internal disagreements in the administration. It adds that Netanyahu was pushing for the attack to take place as soon as next month.
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"the New York Times reports"
The NYT is famous for their leakages. In this case, it may be a good thing.
Imagine a near future, when negotiations are sticky and the mad mullahs are being stubborn, Trump can say "Look, let's make a deal. Last time, I got Netanyahu to call off the attack, but I don't think I can persuade him a second time. You know how they are."
[IsraelTimes] Hamas is struggling to pay its members in Gaza, including senior terror operatives, due to a worsening cash crunch, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Citing Arab, Israeli and Western officials, the US newspaper notes Israel’s decision to block humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip, some of which Hamas took and sold. It also quotes Arab intelligence officials who say the renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza has taken out Hamas members who play key roles in doling out cash to operatives, while others have been forced to hide.
The intelligence officials add that employees in Gaza’s Hamas-led government have stopped receiving payments, while senior operatives and political figures received half of their wages over Ramadan and rank-and-file fighters get $200-$300 monthly.
The Israeli and Western officials say Hamas was facing a cash squeeze before the ceasefire and hostage release deal that took effect in January, providing the terror group an opportunity to generate revenue by taxing merchants, demanding trucks make payments at checkpoints and seizing goods to fence. Hamas also reportedly uses funds it has overseas to buy humanitarian aid to sell in Gaza, turning it back into cash.
[IsraelTimes] Mother says ‘he’s aged 10 years’; says they heard about video from media: PM’s son ‘is drinking margarita on Miami beach while my son is underground, and he doesn’t have time to update me?’
Whining about Bibi’s government not catering to their egos snipped.
The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group released a video on Wednesday showing hostage Rom Braslavski, 21, whom they are holding captive 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.
The video was the first recorded sign of life for Braslavski, 558 days since the off-duty soldier, a resident of Jerusalem, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, where he was working as a security guard. His family has shared testimonies from partygoers that Braslavski rescued them amid the onslaught.
The family approved publication of a short clip from the video, with the hostage’s face blurred. Based on the content, the footage was filmed in recent weeks.
In the clip — whose contents were likely dictated by his captors — Braslasvski is heard complaining of an unspecified illness that makes his whole body itch, and appealing to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... to secure his release, asking: "Where are you?"
In the video, Braslavski also describes his general physical and mental condition as difficult, and speaks about the ongoing bombings in Gaza. Addressing Netanyahu, he demands: "Can you get me out of here?"
Last month, Sasha Troufanov — released in the January hostage-ceasefire deal that has since collapsed — said he was briefly held alongside Braslavski in Gaza, providing the first evidence of any sort that the latter was alive after his abduction.
Tami Braslavski, Rom’s mother, learned of the video from news reports and said no representative from the government had reached out to inform her of the clip before it was made public.
"I don’t even recognize my son. He has aged 10 years. This isn’t my Rom. He’s tough, and he looks terrible. If they broke Rom, they’ll break anyone," she charged.
In an interview with Ynet last month, Tami Braslavski recounted the stories she’s heard of her son taking care of people amid the onslaught, when more than 5,000 Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -led forces of Evil invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Rom "had a number of opportunities to get out of there that day," his mother said, but "from 6:30 in the morning, until the moment he was kidnapped [between 2-4 p.m.], he was moving from place to place [helping people]."
"Some of them he rescued, some of them he encouraged, giving them the strength, the hope, the faith that they’d get out of there," she said, adding that "dozens" of people had reached out to her with their own personal stories from that day.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 59 hostages, including 58 of the 251 kidnapped by Hamas-led forces of Evil on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF.
[iIsraelTimes] Condemning ‘contradictory’ statements by Witkoff on Trump’s demands, Araghchi says Tehran ‘will find out the true opinions’ of the US in next round of talks.
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.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
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..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
