[IsraelTimes] Milei vows ‘unwavering commitment to recognizing terrorists for what they are’; move comes days before 30th anniversary of AMIA bombing, which Buenos Aires has blamed on Tehran.
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[KavkazUzel] The Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus has appealed to the President of Russia and the State Duma with a request not to adopt the bill of its vice-speaker Vladislav Davankov on the ban on religious clothing. The muftis of the North Caucasus stated that this decision violates the rights of believers. Commentators on the social network supported their appeal, noting that Davankov's initiative has already caused a split in society.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladislav Davankov proposed to give educational institutions the right to ban the wearing of religious clothing, as well as to empower legislative and municipal assemblies to introduce a ban on wearing religious clothing in public places. State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Mikhail Matveyev and Sergei Obukhov also prepared a bill that proposes introducing fines for wearing clothing that conceals the face in public places.
On June 23, Trinity Day, which is one of the main Christian holidays, militants attacked synagogues and an Orthodox church in Derbent and Makhachkala. After this, the clergy of the North Caucasus republics recommended introducing restrictions on wearing religious clothing. Mufti of Dagestan Akhmad-Afandi Abdullaev announced a fatwa banning the niqab.
Clergy complain to Putin about violation of believers' rights
The Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus (CCMC) stated that if Vladislav Davankov's bill banning the wearing of religious clothing is adopted, it will be a violation of Muslim rights. The clergy emphasized that the ban is unacceptable and will lead to a split in society.
The statement of the KCMSC, addressed to the President of Russia and the Chairman of the State Duma, was published on July 8 in the Telegram channel "Islam in the North Caucasus".
"We ask you to pay attention to the fact that with his project Mr. Davankov is not just trying to deprive Russian citizens of the right to fully comply with religious norms, but is also conducting openly anti-Islamic activities. In his project, he repeatedly touches upon the Islamic religion and only the Islamic religion, speaks of examples of banning Islamic clothing, and points not only to the niqab (the KCMSC has already expressed its official opinion on the inappropriateness of wearing it in modern conditions), but also tries to denigrate and ban both the hijab, which is mandatory for Muslim women, and any religious clothing," the statement says.
Davankov refers to the Constitution, which states that the Russian Federation is a secular state and that no religion can be established as a state or mandatory one. However, the Constitution also states: "The Russian Federation, united by a thousand-year history, preserving the memory of ancestors who passed on to us ideals and faith in God..." In addition, the Russian anthem contains the words "Our native land protected by God," the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus noted.
Davankov noted that the secular nature of education ensures equality for students, and that this helps prevent discrimination based on religious or cultural grounds. But he himself suggests banning religious clothing for Muslims. This is precisely discrimination, noted the KCMSC.
Arguments about national security in the context of educational institutions are also untenable, since not a single terrorist attack by Muslim girls wearing hijabs has been committed in educational institutions. Instead of fighting religious clothing, Davankov should direct his efforts to improving the education of young people and supporting the special military operation in Ukraine, the statement said.
"It is absolutely forbidden to prohibit or restrict mandatory religious clothing for Muslim women, including in educational institutions, under the pretext of adopting a single secular uniform by local act. It would be absolutely wrong to allow educational institutions to regulate students' clothing by local regulations. This is the path to division. <…> We ask that such anti-state and anti-religious initiatives not be allowed to be adopted," the KCMSC stated.
As of 12:00 Moscow time, there are no comments on the Kremlin and State Duma websites regarding the appeal of the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus.
[BBC] Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services. They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza.
Microsoft says they violated its terms of service - a claim they dispute.
"They killed my life online," said Eiad Hametto, who lives in Saudi Arabia.
"They’ve suspended my email account that I’ve had for nearly 20 years - It was connected to all my work," he told the BBC.
He also said being cut off from Skype was a huge blow for his family.
The internet is frequently disrupted or switched off there because of the Israeli military campaign - and standard international calls are very expensive. With a paid Skype subscription, it is possible to call mobiles in Gaza cheaply - and while the internet is down - so it has become a lifeline to many Palestinians.
Some of the people the BBC spoke to said they suspected they were wrongly thought to have ties to Hamas, which Israel is fighting, and is designated a terrorist organisation by many countries. But Mr Hametto denied he had any such links.
“We are civilians with no political background who just wanted to check on our families," he said.
Microsoft did not respond directly when asked if suspected ties to Hamas were the reason for the accounts being shut. But a spokesperson said it did not block calls or ban users based on calling region or destination.
"Blocking in Skype can occur in response to suspected fraudulent activity," they said, without elaborating.
Salah Elsadi, who lives in the US, also told the BBC that in April, he was kicked out of his account - and all services linked to his Microsoft Hotmail account.
"I've had this Hotmail for 15 years," Mr Elsadi told the BBC.
"They banned me for no reason, saying I have violated their terms - what terms? Tell me.
"I've filled out about 50 forms and called them many many times."
Another Palestinian the BBC spoke to, Khalid Obaied, said he now no longer trusted Microsoft.
"I paid for a package to make phone calls - then, after 10 days, they ban me for no reason," he said.
"That means it's only because I’m a Palestinian calling Gaza.”
[IsraelTimes] Complying with previous court order, Netherlands has temporarily stopped sending F-35 parts to Israel, but rights group argues it is sidestepping ban by shipping them to America
A Dutch court on Friday rejected a claim from a group of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... organizations that the Netherlands is dodging a court order to stop sending F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel by supplying the parts to the United States.
The Hague District Court ruled that Oxfam Novib, Pax Nederland and The Rights Forum had not shown any evidence that the Dutch government was ignoring the earlier ruling.
In February, an appeals court told the Dutch government to halt the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, citing a clear risk of violations of international law if they are used in strikes on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . The Dutch government appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court, but said it was abiding by the order in the meantime by halting direct exports to Israel.
The aid groups went back to court last month, arguing the country was evading the ban by sending the parts to the US, which was then sending them on to Israel. They demanded a fine for the alleged breach.
The groups are "giving too broad an interpretation" to the earlier judgment, the court wrote in Friday’s ruling.
The organizations said they disagreed with the decision and were considering further legal action. "It is unacceptable that the Netherlands remains knowingly complicit in violations of the laws of war by Israel in Gaza," they said in a joint statement.
During a hearing in June, the Dutch government said it was unable to track the parts after they left the Netherlands and warned against placing further restrictions. Reimer Veldhuis, a lawyer representing the government, cautioned that seeking to prevent more exports of F-35 parts to nations other than Israel could put at risk supplies to militaries around the world who operate the advanced fighter jets at a time of soaring international tensions.
The Netherlands is home to one of three F-35 European regional warehouses.
The Dutch Supreme Court will take up the larger case in September.
[GEO.TV] The legal troubles of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) founder Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who anti-establishment Pak premier, who was hounded out of office, arrested, jailed, and will likely be hung by his political opponents... and his wife Bushra Bibi have refused to die down as the couple have been arrested in new National Accountability Bureau (NAB) reference related to Toshakhana gifts, Geo News reported citing sources on Saturday.
The development came hours after a district and sessions court in Islamabad acquitted the former premier and his spouse in the iddat case — also known as the un-Islamic nikah case — which was the last hurdle in the couple's release from jail.
The court accepted the couple's pleas seeking annulment of their conviction in the iddat case. Additional Sessions Judge Muhammad Afzal Majoka announced short order reserved earlier in the day.
Khan and Bushra were sentenced to seven years in prison and awarded a fine of Rs500,000 each, in February earlier this year after a trial court found their nikah to be fraudulent as Khawar Maneka, Bushra's ex-husband, moved the court against the couple's marriage.
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[IsraelTimes] The head of the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... agency for Paleostinian refugees says a donors conference has raised enough money to keep its operations in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... running until the end of September.
Philippe Lazzarini told the pledging conference at its opening yesterday morning that UNRWA only had funds until the end of August.
At the end of the conference, he tells news hounds the total amount in pledges won’t be known until the following week. But he says he is confident there will be enough new money in its $850 million annual budget to keep the agency running for another month and pay its 30,000 staff who provide education, primary health care and other development activities to about 6 million Paleostinian refugees.
Another whole month? Be still my heart.
UNRWA has been tight on funds since Israel alleged that 12 of the agency’s 13,000 workers in Gaza participated in Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... ’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza. The agency terminated the contracts of all those employees. Still, 16 countries suspended funding UNRWA, amounting to about $450 million.
Israel has long accused UNRWA of funneling money into Hamas’s coffers and letting the terror group use the agency’s facilities. The IDF has found a Hamas data center located directly beneath UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, in addition to numerous findings indicating the use of the agency’s assets for terror purposes.
Lazzarini tells news hounds that 14 donors have officially resumed funding and he believes "very soon" a 15th country — the United Kingdom — will come back.
The United States, which was the biggest donor to UNRWA, providing the agency with $340 million in 2022 and several hundred million in 2023, was among the countries halting funding. The US Congress has prohibited any payments to UNRWA until March 25, 2025.
[IsraelNational News] Residents of the north, bereaved families, and relatives of hostages protested outside the Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, calling for continued pressure on Hamas and against a deal with Hezbollah.
Not the Antifa-types marching every week to demand Bibi step done for whatever the latest reason is.
The northerners call for total war in the north: "We're not going back to the north without security and without victory." Some evacuees lay down on the road in sleeping bags and declared: "We have no home, we have been left stranded in the street."
Minister Silman encouraged the protesters: "It's amazing to see everyone fighting for the victory of the State of Israel. We are all one people, fighting to defeat our enemies on all fronts and to bring the hostages home."
Matan Jerafi, head of the mission department at the Im Tirtzu movement, said: "We congratulate the Prime Minister and the security establishment on the elimination of Deif, hoping it will prove successful. Hamas's inability to respond from Gaza to assassination attempts proves there is no substitute for control on the ground. This is precisely the moment to shift into high gear, complete the takeover of the Strip, and eliminate all Hamas leaders. This is the message that will be understood well even in the bunkers in Beirut. Only military pressure will defeat Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon, only military pressure will return the hostages."
Yehoshua Shani, father of Uri Mordechai, may he rest in peace, and one of the founders of the Valor Forum, said: "We came this morning to the government meeting to remind the Prime Minister and the ministers why we went to war. We went to war to eliminate the enemy, and the deal currently being discussed is a reckless deal that will sentence the remaining hostages to death and put all Israeli citizens at risk. This will be a very problematic message for our enemies, so we demand from here that the Israeli government give the order to continue the eliminations, to topple Hamas, and to say no to a reckless deal. We need to return the residents of the north and the south to their homes and eliminate Hamas down to the very last terrorist. We call on the government to press on the gas, order the IDF to continue fighting, conduct significant eliminations, and eliminate Hamas!"
[GEO.TV] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> has said that Israel and the US were responsible for the attack on the al-Mawasi refugee camp that killed at least 90 people.
"The Paleostinian presidency condemns the slaughter and holds the Israeli government fully responsible, also the US administration that provides all kinds of support to the occupation and its crimes," Abbas said in a statement.
He also hit out at Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... for the ongoing 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 an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . "The presidency sees that by escaping national unity, and providing free pretexts to the occupation state, the Hamas movement is a partner in bearing legal, moral and political responsibility for the continuation of the Israeli war of genocide in [the] Gaza Strip."
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[Regnum] Militants from the radical Palestinian movement Hamas constantly beat hostages captured during the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023,Russian Andrei Kozlov, recently released from captivity, told The Wall Street Journal.
According to Kozlov, first his hands were tied with a rope, then they were chained. With each passing day, the man lost hope of being saved.
Recalling the details of his stay, the man said that the prisoners were placed on dirty mattresses, and in the heat, blankets were thrown over them. People were also forbidden to approach the windows so as not to be seen by neighbors, the publication writes, citing Kozlov.
According to the man, the "most brutal guard" sometimes allowed him to watch TV, but then his mood changed and he would threaten to kill him. Kozlov claims that he recognized the guard as journalist Abdullah al-Jamal, who is associated with Hamas. The hostages were held by him from October to March, and were later moved to the house of the journalist's father.
The Israeli military was able to free the Russian and three other hostages from captivity on June 8. IDF soldiers entered the apartment on the third floor of the residential building. The Palestinian journalist was then liquidated.
The Russian appealed to Israel to negotiate a prisoner exchange, since the military had only saved six people. Other attempts had failed.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on June 11, the Hamas leadership promised to release two other Russians held in the Gaza Strip if there was a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave.
On June 8, Kozlov, who was released from captivity, almost burst into tears at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . The Israeli prime minister posted a corresponding video on his Telegram channel on June 8. The next day, his parents flew from St. Petersburg to meet their son . Upon arrival in Tel Aviv, they were taken to the Sheba Medical Center, where Kozlov and other rescued hostages were already located.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict escalated on October 7, when Hamas launched a massive rocket attack on Israel and captured several settlements. During the attack, the militants also attacked a music festival in southern Israel. The Guardian later reported that at least 260 bodies were found after the attack on the festival. Israel launched retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip and regained control over it.
On October 8, the Israeli authorities declared the country in a state of war. This was followed by a large-scale ground operation by the IDF in the Gaza Strip at the end of October. However, the IDF also began to strike civilian targets. Thus, on October 31, the army struck the Jabaliya refugee camp. According to the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry, about 400 people were killed and injured in the strike .
According to the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini, as of April 2024, more than 34,000 people have died
…interesting that the Regnum reporter is ignoring Hamas number updates for about the past three months…
in the war in the Gaza Strip in six months, including about 13,000 children. More children have died in Gaza in six months than in all the conflicts in the world over the past four years, the head of UNRWA added.
How close to zero is the probability that claim is true, dear Reader?
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in October 2023 that terrorism has no justification, but that the bombing of hundreds of thousands of residents of the Gaza Strip cannot be watched without pain.
A neatly balanced statement, feeling like agreement to whichever side the listener might be on.
The Russian leader recalled that during the shelling, a huge number of innocent people are indiscriminately killed, who have nowhere to hide from it.
The Times of Israel has more from and about the new Israeli, an immigrant from Russia who was working security at Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7th, and was for a while held captive by Abdallah Aljamal, a Palestine Chronicle correspondent
Rescued hostage recounts abuse by Hamas captors, emotional reunion with family: Andrey Kozlov describes June 8 as a ‘birthday’ after daring op in which he and other Israelis were rescued, says he was afraid his family wouldn’t again hear him say ‘I love you’
#5
The Bear and his socialist pal--
"Lies!"
Who raped entire nations? Those allies?
"How dare you remember!"
[stomps out the last ember
as somewhere the last "fascist" gal dies]
Playing good cop while those actually running things continue refining uranium and shipping weapons to Iran’s various catspaws.
[IsraelTimes] Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian claims EU reneged on commitments to mitigate sanctions following US withdrawal from nuclear deal, but he is looking to turn a page in relations
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EU is upset with Iran for supplying missiles and drones to Russia.
Then there is the terrorism stuff and the making high grade Uranium stuff.
And Torture of its own citizens.
but, yeah improved relations
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[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ....Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005.... has warned that "the situation in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... cannot wait for a settlement for the situation in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ," stressing the need for the government to "take decisive and instant measures regarding the southern front in terms of implementing Resolution 1701."
Geagea also reiterated that "activating the southern front was a major sin and not a mistake."
As for the presidential file, the LF leader underlined his full rejection of the notion that the next president will be elected by the 2026 parliament, noting that the LF is "exerting utmost effort to guarantee that the presidential election battle will not be postponed until after the upcoming parliamentary polls."
Accordingly, Geagea called on "centrist MPs" to "shoulder their responsibilities and contribute to the election of a president in an instant manner," emphasizing that "this step is the only way to exit the current crisis."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[IsraelTimes] Complying with previous court order, Netherlands has temporarily stopped sending F-35 parts to Israel, but rights group argues it is sidestepping ban by shipping them to America
...aka 
..always the voice of sweet reason...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
