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... ese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Thursday called for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to be designated a terrorist group and urged the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... to reinstate Sudan's membership.
Speaking at the China-Africa forum in Beijing, Burhan accused the RSF of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, citing the violence in West Darfur's capital, El Geneina, as an example.
The RSF and allied Arab militias are accused of ethnically assassinations against the non-Arab Masalit people in Darfur, including the liquidation of the state governor.
Burhan, who also heads Sudan's ruling Sovereign Council, described the RSF's actions since the conflict erupted in April as a ''major conspiracy'' aimed at seizing power and serving ''immature regional powers.''
He stressed that the RSF's rebellion has caused immense suffering for the Sudanese people and poses a threat to regional peace and security.
Burhan called on African nations to support Sudan in achieving peace and stability and to reconsider the decision to suspend Sudan's AU membership following the 2021 military coup.
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China's Xi promises $50 billion for Africa
China-Africa ties ‘best in history’ claims Xi, as Beijing steps up military aid
China Is Not Pushing Africa Into Debt Trap, South African President Says
Chinese President Xi proposes elevation of China-Africa relations
China Woos Africa, Casting Itself as Global South’s Defender
China, South Africa sign eight trade and investment agreements
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, seeking contrast with Washington, said Beijing offered Africa modernization without ‘Western-style’ suffering.
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $51 billion in funding and at least 1 million jobs for Africa on Thursday as the U.S. and China vie for influence there.
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Sooner or later the conman runs out of gullible customers, and needs to find a new grift. Guess the African nations aren’t there yet.
On Thursday, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... , commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), vowed to drive development and restore stability across Libya, prioritizing the neglected southern regions.
Speaking at the First Conference on the Reconstruction of the South in the city of Sebha, Haftar emphasized that southern Libya would be at the forefront of his efforts in the coming period.
''We will achieve development and stability in Libya, and the south will be our priority,'' Haftar declared in his address, underscoring the strong popular support for his forces, particularly in the south. His comments reflect a broader commitment to addressing the long-standing issues of neglect and underdevelopment in this strategically important region. "I'm seeing a huuuge entertainment/hospitality economy!"
The conference attracted key political and military figures, including Aguila Saleh, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief of Staff of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Abdel-Razek al-Nathouri, Osama Hammad, the Parliament-designated Prime Minister, and Director of the Libya Development and Reconstruction Fund, Belgasim Haftar.
Their attendance underscored the event's importance, signaling a unified effort to address southern Libya's development needs.
Libya's southern region, rich in resources but historically overlooked, has faced decades of neglect, lacking essential services like healthcare, education, and infrastructure. This has made it a hotspot for smuggling, human trafficking, and militia activity. Haftar's pledge to prioritize the south reflects his intention to stabilize the region and integrate it into national reconstruction efforts.
In his remarks, Ageela Saleh called for dialogue and cooperation among all Libyan factions to solve the country's ongoing political crisis. He emphasized that developing and reconstructing various regions of Libya, including the south, would be a key focus in the coming years.
The south holds significant strategic importance for Libya, not only due to its natural resources, including oil and gas, but also because of its geographic location bordering countries like Chad, Niger, and 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... . Control over this region is crucial for managing migration routes and trade, yet it remains one of the most underdeveloped parts of the country.
Haftar's forces maintain a strong military presence in the area, and his speech signals a new push to bring economic and social improvements to a long-neglected part of Libya.
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QFT: Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies [supported by europe].
McCain had his moderate islamists, and european union has theirs.
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The rebel Sudanese could not continue their war with the Arab center were it not for the supplies reaching it through southern Libya, and with Haftar's OK.
Libya's House of Representatives Speaker, Ageela Saleh, has urged all parties to engage in dialogue and cooperation to resolve the country's issues and maintain national security.
Speaking at the Reconstruction of the South Conference organised by the Libya Development and Reconstruction Fund on Thursday in Sabha ...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft..... , Saleh pledged to work on the development and rebuilding of various regions in Libya in the coming period.
In his address, Saleh emphasised that gangs are obstructing the smooth political transition in Libya and posing a threat to stability.
He reiterated the call for the removal of gangs from the capital, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , and affirmed the House of Representatives' support for the efforts of the General Command of the Libyan National Army (LNA) to establish security, stability, and development in southern Libya.
The first conference on rebuilding the south commenced in Sabha, attended by several key figures, including LNA's Commander-in-Chief Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... , Chief of Staff General Abdulrazzaq al-Nadhouri, Prime Minister designated by the House of Representatives, Osama Hammad, and the Director of the Libya Development and Reconstruction Fund, Belgasem Haftar, along with other political, military, and government leaders.
Saleh highlighted the need for unity and collaboration among Libyan factions to address the ongoing challenges facing the nation.
He stressed that the reconstruction of the south is crucial for the country's broader efforts to achieve long-term peace and prosperity. The presence of prominent leaders at the conference underlines the importance placed on rebuilding efforts in the region and the commitment to overcoming the political and security obstacles hindering progress.
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I am amazed that the Libyan crazies, who have been relegated to Tripoli and the northwest, have managed to survive this long. Haftar, I do believe, has American citizenship (he lived in the USA for a number of years). Now why the CIA has maintained a relatively 'hands off' posture with regard to Libya indicates that they cannot control Haftar and are content to let things play out as they will (a la their posture in the Sudan).
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Good recollection, S MAI. According to Fred’s little auto-translate about Field Marshal Haftar in the posted article:
…He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship…
[Breitbart] Germany’s AfD has has acquired a list of the forenames of all 2023 gang rape suspects in one federal state, claiming it shows the vast majority are of migrant heritage.
Not the hard jihad of the sword of the soft jihad of the law, but the fun jihad of rape.
"A clear trend is evident" in the forenames of those named as suspects in gang rapes in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), it is stated, after the Alternative for Germany (AfD) faction applied for a release of information not found in normal government data releases.
There were 209 reported ’gang rapes’ in NRW in 2023, a publication by the state’s interior ministry answering questions by two parliamentarians from the right-wing-populist, anti-mass migration AfD reports. The document notes while there is no actual definition of gang rape in German law, the research was facilitated by looking at reported rape cases where suspects were recorded as not working alone.
In those cases 155 suspects have been identified, and 71 of those are German citizens. Known migrants colonists are therefore already thought responsible for over half of attacks, the statistics reveal, but the disparity becomes even more clear when the forenames — which can be released in line with German privacy law, if not the surnames — are studied, it is claimed.
The state’s AfD faction say adding those known migrants colonists to German citizens with what it describes as obviously not German-heritage forenames suggests a massive 76 per cent of suspects are of foreign heritage. A separate analysis of the same data by German newspaper of record Die Welt states that even when counting out all "doubtful" name cases such as Jason or Luca, it still finds 78.1 per cent of suspects "in all probability had a migration background".
Welt notes "German" suspects on the list included individuals with names like "Bilal, Ibrahim or Muhammed". As previously reported, as mass migration continues to transform German society, names like Mohammed and its spelling variants are already becoming more popular in Germany for new-born babies.
The analysis by Welt is remarkable for a mainstream right-centrist European newspaper, given the now long accepted official position that nationality is defined by passport alone, and to question this or dig deeper in individual heritage is said to be a racist act.
Announcing the release of the data, the AfD reflected there had been a gang rape in NRW "every 42 hours" in 2023 and said they questioned the usefulness the less informative official statistics regularly published.
NRW AfD politicians Markus Wagner and Enxhi Seli-Zacharias had, consequently, requested more detailed information. Also revealed was the fact the most common NRW city for gang rapes was Cologne ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... — already long-notorious for such crimes — and the most common countries of origin for suspected gang-rapists were Syria, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Wagner said of the data he forced into the public domain: "Like knife violence, beatings, Islamist attacks or groping in public swimming pools, the increase in gang rapes is not a matter of fate. This form of abuse, which often lasts several hours, is a crime imported primarily by unbridled migration. The probability is high that right now, at this very moment, a group of immigrants colonists in NRW is raping an innocent victim. We owe it to our wives and daughters and everyone affected to stop unregulated migration immediately."
Indeed, just hours after Wagner made reference to Germany’s problem of sexual assaults at public pools, another such case in Germany hit the headlines, with a 12-year-old girl allegedly raped in a pool changing room, the suspect said to be a Syrian national.
The gang-rape statistics came from the NRW AfD faction just days after they secured the release of other statistics pertaining to knife crime in the state. It found 47 per cent of suspects were migrants colonists, but the AfD had not pulled off the name forename request trick with that dataset demand, and consequently were left only asking rhetorically how many of the German suspects were themselves of migrant background. The party accused the Green coalition government of covering up migrant crime by awarding German citizenship to migrants colonists.
No link yet - check Gateway Pundit in a bit Nothing of this title in Pundit's archive
A Fox News link is here, for a five minute interview with the two that Fairbanks names below. I see nothing relevant on Gateway Pundit as of 12:15 a.m. ET.
[Ingraham Angle - FoxNews] this evening (5:00 pm MST); relevant discussion begins at 43 minutes, with a teaser at 38 minutes before commercials]
An unnamed law firm produced an email regarding two unnamed NGO's, that with state and federal funding helped relocate Venezuelan gang members out of Denver in order to "spread the pain," beginning in spring 2023. Benefits included deposit assistance for apartments, and three months rent in some cases.
Notes:
o Laura's guests are the Aurora city councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky, and reporter Jonathan Choe with TPUSA
o Concentrated effort to run the residents out of the building
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I guess I should apologize for flimsy reporting, but I recorded the show using Directv Stream, and took notes of the segment while going forward and backward. The title and text of the segment were discussed verbatim by Ingraham, but she only referred once to the part about the apartment complexes being owned by a Tren de Aragua "company," and she didn't discuss this in detail.
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You put down enough breadcrumbs that I was able to cobble something together for us, Fairbanks, and this was a very useful atarting point for discussion. Not everything here needs to be one of Fred’s hilariously sarcastic in-lined beauties. Thank you for helping make Rantburg even better.
[IsraelTimes] Resolution listing dozens of companies passes unanimously following raucous public debate; mayor says vote is meant ‘to send a signal’ to Israel to end war
The text of the Portland resolution includes a "Divestment List" of dozens of companies, ranging from well-known businesses including General Electric, Intel, Boeing, Caterpillar and Volvo to Israel-based organizations such as Israel Bonds and the Bank of Jerusalem. It also includes weapons manufacturers such as Northrop Grumman.
The city council of Portland, Maine voted unanimously on Wednesday evening to divest from companies that do business with Israel, becoming the fourth US city to pass such a measure since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war on October 7.
The resolution, passed after a raucous public comment session in which supporters outnumbered opponents, calls to "divest the City of Portland from all entities complicit in the current and ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... and occupation of Paleostine."
The Portland legislation included a list of dozens of companies from which the city will divest after the law is enacted. Mayor Mark Dion indicated that he will sign it.
"I try to align what I believe and try to figure out what is right and just. And I’m going to vote to support this," Dion, a former sheriff who is also a voting member of the council, said following public comment.
He added that while he understood Israel’s "desire for retribution," he believes that "our role collectively is to grab their shoulder and say, ’It’s enough. It’s simply enough.’ And pull them away. And that’s sometimes the greatest act of friendship you can do for someone you hold dear, as I hold my friends in the Jewish community."
With friends like this slimy Jew-hater, who needs enemies?
Dion’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.
The Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine, the local Jewish federation, said it was "outraged, and unbelievably disappointed" at the resolution’s passage.
"At this time, we are focused on concrete ways to ensure the Jewish community who lives in and around Portland, Maine feels supported and safe," chief development officer Ashley Inbar told The Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "We are investigating every possible avenue in front of us to make those goals manifest."
Sell out and move. This is a community that does not deserve Jewish residents.
The passage of the resolution marks an escalation of how local governments are addressing the war in Gaza. In the months following October 7, a range of cities passed symbolic resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the war. Now, the Portland measure and others like it are seeking to materially penalize Israel for its military campaign by depriving it of economic investment.
The vote also signals that divestment campaigns, once largely the province of university student governments, are gaining traction on the municipal stage, as well.
The Jewish federation, which recently announced the hire of its first-ever CEO, had encouraged members to show up to the meeting to oppose the resolution. In a statement prior to the vote, the federation argued it was a "performative gesture" that promotes a "one-sided blame for the conflict."
"We want peace and an end to the war, but demanding that Israel capitulate to Hamas, allowing it to rebuild its terrorist infrastructure, is not pro-peace," Inbar said during the meeting. She added that the city council "is a municipal body with no standing in matters of international law or foreign policy," and said that "divestment could have significant economic complications for Portland."
The measure was backed by the Maine chapter of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace and by the Maine Coalition for Paleostine.
"We are outraged and grief-stricken by the continued atrocities perpetrated by Israel and fully support our city heeding the call to divest," the state’s JVP chapter said in a statement on Instagram.
The resolution mentions the corpse count of Paleostinians killed in Gaza since October 7, as well as the number of Paleostinians maimed and at risk of famine. It does not mention Hamas, the Israelis killed on October 7 or the Israeli hostages being held in Gaza.
"We acknowledge that members of our community are directly impacted by the ongoing violence that’s happening, and we have a duty to voice our concerns and take steps that we can control on the local level," April Fournier, the councilmember who sponsored the resolution, said during Wednesday’s council discussion on the measure.
Portland is not the biggest city by population to endorse such a resolution. The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, cities of Richmond and Hayward, which passed similar resolutions earlier this year, are larger. But Portland, the first East Coast city to approve an Israel divestment measure, also marks the first time the largest city in a state — and the center of the state’s Jewish community — has done so.
Portland’s council passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire earlier this year. Many municipalities have debated and passed ceasefire resolutions in the months since October 7, but municipal resolutions specifically calling for Israel divestment remain relatively rare.
The text of the Portland resolution includes a "Divestment List" of dozens of companies, ranging from well-known businesses including General Electric, Intel, Boeing, Caterpillar and Volvo to Israel-based organizations such as Israel Bonds and the Bank of Jerusalem. It also includes weapons manufacturers such as Northrop Grumman. The local federation claimed that at least 7,000 Portland residents were employed by the listed companies.
Local Jews showed up to both support and oppose the resolution during the evening’s public comment session, where supporters of the resolution outnumbered opponents and which the mayor interrupted several times to warn spectators against clapping and whistling. The raucous scene was typical of public meetings nationwide at which Israel-related measures are on the table.
The first person who rose to public comment was a Jewish Portlander who voiced support for it, called Israel’s actions in Gaza a "genocide" and said there should not be a Jewish state. Another Jewish speaker, who opposed the resolution, focused his remarks on countering the genocide allegations against Israel; a third, who runs a local venture capital firm that invests in Israel, argued it was a bad business move. Other speakers said they had relatives who had been killed by Israeli settlers.
Among the Jewish opponents of the bill was Rabbi Levi Wilansky, who works at the Portland-based Chabad Lubavitch of Maine. Wilansky argued that the resolution was "antisemitic," saying it suggested that Israel should abandon the hostages held by Hamas.
But the mayor was undeterred by the Jewish opposition.
"I don’t harbor any fantasy that we’re changing the economic playing field for those who invest in providing arms and supplies to the effort in Gaza," he said. "I’m voting yes because I think it’s important that we say ’it’s enough’ and to send a signal, and the conversation will begin."
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say Mohammad Bazzi sold real estate in Michigan, then transferred funds abroad; ask judge for hearing this month to facilitate change of plea
A dual Lebanese-Belgian citizen accused by the United States of financing Lebanese terror group Hezbollah is expected to plead guilty in a criminal case charging him with sanctions evasion and money-laundering conspiracies.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said in a court filing on Thursday that lawyers for Mohammad Bazzi told them he wishes to change his plea. Bazzi, 60, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." last year to three felony counts, including attempting to transact with a sanctioned terrorist organization.
Bazzi’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The US Treasury Department placed Bazzi on its sanctions list in 2018 over his alleged ties to Hezbollah, which Washington considers a terrorist organization.
Prosecutors said Bazzi covertly sold real estate he owned in Michigan and transferred the funds abroad, in violation of those sanctions.
Bazzi was extradited to the US in April 2023 from Romania, where he had been arrested two months prior.
Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi has funneled millions of dollars to the terrorist organization Hizballah.
Prosecutors and Bazzi’s lawyers jointly asked US District Judge Dora Irizarry to schedule a hearing later this month for Bazzi to change his plea. Guess he's been watching Hunter.
[FoxNews] A native of Pakistan named Asif Merchant was allegedly the assassin selected by Iran
Senator Chuck Grassley released FBI records on Thursday showing that Iranian-backed plotters sought to assassinate former President Donald Trump and other prominent American political figures in relation to the killing of Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani was the head of the Quds Force, part Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC).
The records, provided to Grassley through legally protected whistle blower disclosures, reveal that Iran potentially targeted "politicians, military people or bureaucrats" including President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, and former candidate Nikki Haley.
A native of Pakistan with ties to Iran, Asif Merchant, has been charged for his involvement in the assassination plot. Merchant provided evidence to the FBI in a proffer agreement.
According to the FBI records, Merchant believed he was in for a kill-for-hire scheme that would offer him a cut of $50,000 for successful completion. In his interrogation, Merchant provided options for shooting former President Trump at both indoor and outdoor speaking engagements.
Merchant further expressed that he could hit a target up close or from further away, that a pistol would be best for indoors, but a rifle was necessary otherwise. He believed he had about a 50% chance of success, according to the FBI records.
Asif Merchant communicated with Iran via English language notes smuggled in packages for different extended family members.
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It seems the FBI didn't really release the material; they were only released by Congressional circumstance. Git it straight, the FBI (America's KGB) does not release crucial documents.
Pakistain International Airlines's (PIA) Deputy Station Manager in Birmingham Iqbal Javed Bajwa has reportedly stepped down after his educational certificate was found fake.
A spokesperson of the national flag carrier told Geo News that the higher-ups had sought resignation from Iqbal, who is reportedly a brother of former army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa, for submitting "fake" educational certificates.
He said that the official had been served a show cause notice on July 13, 2024, through the PIA's finance manager in Birmingham on allegations of possessing a fake degree.
Iqbal had reportedly been asked to prove the authenticity of his Intermediate degree within seven days or face termination, for breaching relevant clauses of PIA's Employees Disciplinary Policy 2019, as per The News.
It was discovered that the Intermediate certificate submitted by Iqbal was fake, as the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Lahore did not verify his roll number 25703.
The board confirmed to PIA management via a letter that Iqbal had not passed the Intermediate examination under that roll number or name.
The notice was issued in light of the national airline's directive last August, requiring all employees to submit their educational certificates and documents.
Sources said that Iqbal has been a long-time employee of the national airline who was recruited at the PIA's Rawalpindi office in 1977 and later acquired local regular employee status after relocating to the United Kingdom in the late 1980s.
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Someone wasn't kicking back his 10% to the right people!
[Israel365News] “The theme of UNRWA education is ‘peace starts here.’ How could it possibly be that a U.N. social work agency would be using their education system to prepare kids for war?”
Revelations by Israel’s government about the United Nations Relief and Works Agency have shattered the group’s carefully cultivated image as a humanitarian organization, revealing it to be no less than an arm of Hamas in Gaza. However, little light has been thrown on UNRWA’s identical role in Judea and Samaria.
A new film, “UNRWA at War,” focuses on the educational side of UNRWA’s activities, in which children are taught not just to hate, but to kill. Just as it did in Gaza, UNRWA is inculcating children with the same genocidal creed in Judea and Samaria, only in this case for Fatah, the controlling party in the Palestinian Authority.
The roughly 20-minute film was released by the Jerusalem-based Center for Near East Policy Research on Sept. 1 and is available online.
The center’s director, David Bedein, told JNS that the movie shows what’s happening in Bethlehem. “That’s the next place they [the terrorists] are going to break out,” he said.
When could such an attack take place? “It could be as soon as tomorrow,” he said.
It's all about killing the Jews. “I want to stab them again and again”, “I want to become a suicide bomber”, etc.
The film shows that terrorists, such as Dalal Mughrabi, a Fatah member who participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel, in which 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, were murdered, are routinely held up as heroes and role models in UNRWA schools. Images of Mughrabi and other terrorists adorn the schools’ walls.
In the film, Arab students in Judea and Samaria, products of UNRWA schools, speak of Mughrabi with reverence.
“She’s like my sister, like my mother. She’s part of our people,” says a boy from the Al-Amari refugee camp east of Ramallah. A girl of about six, also from Al-Amari, says, “Dhalal Mughrabi is a Palestinian martyr. She fought against the Jews. She blew them up.”
Bedein, who has been sounding the alarm regarding UNRWA for decades, describes the indoctrination the kids are receiving as “murder education.” UNRWA, he said, is a “machine” that produces genocidal children in a “cookie-cutter” manner.
Kutaiba Hatab, 15, attends the UNRWA Boys School in the Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah in Samaria. Asked in the film what he’s taught about the right of return, he says, “To fight, and to keep fighting, until Palestine is liberated!” He goes on to state that when he grows up, “I’ll be a jihadist and fight for Allah!”
“Do you hate Jews,” an interviewer asks Rada Abu-Hatab, 12, an UNRWA student in Jenin. “Yes, a lot,” she answers. “I want to fight and become a martyr and ascend to heaven with Allah!”
Mohammed Mahmud Khalil, an UNRWA student from Ein Arik, an Arab town near Ramallah, says, “What is the solution to Jerusalem? To kill the Jews. We’ll get rid of the Jews … With Allah’s help, I will become a holy warrior.”
All the children connected the Hamas invasion of Oct. 7 to the right of return, characterizing the gruesome attack as an effort to liberate the land from the Jews.
“Oct. 7 is related to the right of return because Hamas reconquered part of our land that was taken by the occupiers,” says Osama Belashe, an UNRWA student from Jalazone. “In school our teacher taught us we have to return. Even if Israel gives us compensation [to stay here] we have to return.”
For Bedein, the most important thing the film documents is that at UNRWA, children receive military training. In previous films, Bedein has shown that these training camps were set up near Israel Defense Forces bases.
He worries that Israel has been slow to adapt to the post-Oct. 7 reality. “They’re making the same mistake they made last October, not paying attention to the preparations for war in the UNRWA camps,” he said.
However, he sees signs of awakening, noting a recent Israel Army Radio report that the military intended to investigate military training at UNRWA camps.
And next week, Bedein is to present his findings to a Knesset committee. “People who did not take me seriously over a period of 36 years are now taking me seriously,” he said.
Incompetence, or willful blindness, on the part of the Israeli authorities is a recurring theme for Bedein.
He said the Foreign Ministry has a special division dedicated to overseeing UNRWA, yet its representatives were oblivious regarding the weapons held at UNRWA camps. He brought them to the Askar camp bordering Nablus (Shechem) to show them. “They had no idea about the guns,” he said.
Moreover, Israel never exercised what oversight it had, he said. “Israel has the power to veto anything in Palestinian education. What we learned from Oct. 7 is that they weren’t doing it,” he added.
“Back in the 1980s, I began this conversation with how humanitarian supplies were sold in the open market and with no supervision,” Bedein said. “And they [Israel] didn’t make any changes. There was no oversight. To say they’re not doing their job is an understatement,” he added.
Although many have argued for doing away with UNRWA, according to Bedein that’s not a realistic solution. The organization is too embedded in the territories and in the United Nations, and the General Assembly would never accept it, he argued. However, he continued, it is possible to change UNRWA from within by pointing out the absurd situation and demanding change.
“The theme of UNRWA education is ‘peace starts here,’” he said. “How could it possibly be that a U.N. social work agency would be using their education system to prepare kids for war?”
Bedein has put together a five-point plan for changing UNRWA from within:
1. Cancellation of the new UNRWA curriculum based on jihad.
2. Disarmament of UNRWA schools and cessation of paramilitary training.
3. Dismissing UNRWA employees affiliated with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah.
4. Resettling fourth- and fifth-generation refugees from the 1948 war rather than keeping them in perpetual refugee status.
5. Demanding an audit of donor funds.
He has met five times with Antonio Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, whom he said is open to his proposals.
While UNRWA was always corrupt, he said, it wasn’t always the way it is now, he said.
Even the children going through the schools, while they spoke of “their homes in Jaffa,” didn’t talk about going back and killing everyone in Jaffa as they do now, he said.
“The change took place after 1992 when the PLO was put in charge by [then-Foreign Minister] Shimon Peres,” he said. “UNRWA was handed over to the PLO.”
For years the UN operated schools in Gaza that indoctrinated the youth with hate, antisemitism, and terrorist aspirations. Today we see the results of this evil. pic.twitter.com/xj1AWZrsYC
[IsraelTimes] Kiryat Shmona mayor laments destruction of city, says terrorists must be made afraid to fire at Israel; four drones fired, barrage of five rockets launched at north
More rockets were fired at Israel from 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... in August than in any previous month since war broke out almost a year ago, according to data published by the Shin Bet security agency Thursday.
The report said that 1,307 rockets were fired at Israel in August from the northern front, meaning Lebanon and Syria, amounting to just over 40 a day on average, with the vast majority coming from Lebanon.
July saw 1,091 rockets, June saw 855, May saw 1,000, April saw 744, March saw 746, February saw 534, and January saw 334, according to the Shin Bet.
Exact data was not immediately available for October, November, and December 2023, but the quantity was known to be smaller than in August.
By contrast, only 116 rockets were fired at Israel from 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... in the last month, the report said.
The mayor of Kiryat Shmona lamented Thursday that his largely evacuated northern border town had been badly battered by rockets fired by bully boyz from Lebanon, with many homes being destroyed.
"Unfortunately, every day we have to tell more families that they will not have a home to return to, there are houses that need to be demolished and rebuilt," Avichai Stern told the Ynet news site.
He asked why the lives of northern residents were apparently of lower value than those who lived in the center of the country, apparently referring to the IDF’s preemptive strike last month as Hezbollah was preparing to launch an attack on the Tel Aviv area.
"We need to get to a point where [terrorists] are afraid to fire at Kiryat Shmona," he said.
Tens of thousands of residents of northern border communities have been evacuated since the start of the war, displaced from their homes for close to a year. Many accuse the government of not taking enough action against Hezbollah to enable them to return home safely.
On Thursday, two suspected drones launched from Lebanon were shot down by air defenses, the Israel Defense Forces said, adding that the two targets were intercepted over Lebanese airspace, and did not cross into Israeli territory. Later on, another two suspected drones were launched from Lebanon at the Western Galilee. The IDF said at least one impacted near Ya’ara.
In the afternoon, a barrage of some five rockets were also launched from Lebanon at the Ramot Naftali area, and some of the rockets were intercepted by air defenses, the IDF said.
After more than 100 rockets and missiles were launched by Hezbollah at northern Israel on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces conducted a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s across southern Lebanon overnight.
Fighter jets struck more than 10 Hezbollah rocket launchers and other terror infrastructure, the IDF said, adding that the targets had "posed a threat to Israeli civilians."
The strikes were carried out in southern Lebanon’s Jebbayn, Zawtar ash-Sharqiyah, and Ramyeh, according to the IDF.
Separately, the IDF said it had struck a Hezbollah site in southern Lebanon’s Qana in the afternoon.
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon’s Kafra was also reported Thursday morning in Lebanese media.
A short while later, Hezbollah announced the death of operative Abbas Anis Ayoub, killed "on the road to Jerusalem," its term for members slain in Israeli strikes.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 20 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 433 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 76 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed.
[IsraelTimes] Rescued hostage describes being shot and captured and his 11-month ordeal; report says slain captive Eden Yerushalmi had been starved in captivity, body weighed only 36 kgs
Farhan al-Qadi, who was taken hostage by Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... on October 7 and rescued by IDF troops last week, told Channel 12 News on Wednesday that he was kidnapped because he refused to show Hamas faceless myrmidons where they could find Jews during their massacre of some 1,200 people in southern Israel.
In an interview with the broadcaster, al-Qadi retraced his last 11 months, from when he was taken hostage while at work near Kibbutz Magen by 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 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... border until his rescue.
When the sirens started on October 7 al-Qadi thought it was another standard volley of rockets of the sort frequently fired at Israel from Gaza, until his brother phoned him and told him there had been a terrorist infiltration, he told the channel.
"I went outside and I saw 100 meters from me where three Hamas faceless myrmidons were shooting in my direction and running toward me," he said.
Al-Qadi said they caught him and tested him to make sure he was a Moslem and then said to him, "Take us in your car to wherever we can find Jews."
"I was prepared to die rather than point them to a Jew, not even to a cat. The whole moshav are good friends of mine," al-Qadi told Channel 12.
When he refused to show them where Jews might be, the faceless myrmidons shot him in the leg, knocked him to the ground, and tied his hands behind his back.
Al-Qadi was then thrown into a car and taken to Gaza where he saw a group of foreign workers being taken down into a tunnel. At this point, his leg was in so much pain he couldn’t walk and one of the faceless myrmidons decided to take him to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Since he couldn’t walk, al-Qadi was forced to climb up the stairs in the hospital on all fours. As they watched him, he said, they laughed and said, "Look, here’s our dog walking."
"There were a lot of people and you could see their joy; they felt like they’d won," al-Qadi recalled.
Eventually, he was taken to see two doctors who sewed up his injury without anesthetic while interrogating him.
"I told that the pain in my soul was worse than the pain in my leg. I was thinking of my family and how they wouldn’t have Farhan anymore," he said.
After his leg was sewn up, al-Qadi was taken to the same room as 85-year-old diabetic Aryeh Zalmanovich, a hostage from Nir Oz who was injured in his head and hand.
The two were kept in the same room for a month and a half, with Zalmanovich in the bed and al-Qadi sitting in the chair.
"He told me stories. He had a granddaughter he loved so much and two sons who live up north, and he talked about them every chance he got," al-Qadi recalled, adding that some mornings Zalmanovich would tell him he had dreamed the two had been released together.
Eventually, al-Qadi was moved to a different room alone, and Zalmanovich was moved to the same room a week later. Over the next few days, al-Qadi said, Zalmanovich’s health deteriorated drastically and he barely spoke.
"The day he died, at around noon, he started to talk. I got up and went closer to him, and he was saying goodbye to the kibbutz, goodbye to his friends, goodbye to his granddaughter... It broke me. I tried to talk to him, I was calling him ’Aryeh, Aryeh,’ but nothing. He wasn’t hearing me. And then it was all over," said al-Qadi, adding that he had come to feel like Zalmanovich was his family.
A couple of hours later, al-Qadi was taken into a room with Zalmanovich’s body, two Hamas terrorists, and a videographer and was ordered to say that Zalmanovich had been gravely ill and they had done everything they could to help him.
A few weeks later, al-Qadi was moved to a house in Khan Younis that was destroyed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... the next morning. Hamas then waited until civilians began evacuating from the city to camouflage al-Qadi among them, and he was taken to a tent that was kept closed.
From there, al-Qadi was taken to a tunnel that was accessed under a house, where he spent the next eight months.
Al-Qadi told Channel 12 that he spent that time sleeping and reading the Koran.
"I thought to myself that if this was how I was being treated as a Moslem, how were the Jews being treated?" he said.
He asked at some point to be with some other hostages but was refused because they saw him as a traitor and an enemy worse than the Jewish Israelis.
"Had you told us where there were Jews, you would have stayed with your family," he was told.
He was found and rescued by IDF troops last week, and he said the soldiers welcomed him warmly but the welcome he got back in Israel was not as warm.
Al-Qadi described being criticized and threatened over the last week after the right-wing Channel 14 quoted him saying that he saw himself as Paleostinian more than Israeli. In fact, what he had said was that it didn’t matter whether someone was Israeli or Paleostinian; everyone deserved to be free.
"It really hurts me," he said. "I was shot in the leg because I didn’t want to give up Jews. That’s how we grew up, that’s how my grandfather grew up, and it’s how my children are growing up. Ninety percent of the residents in Israel, Moslems, Jews, Bedouins, are together, one family, one people, Jewish and Arab. No one can take away that togetherness," he said.
Having experienced the prolonged captivity himself, al-Qadi ended his interview with a call to get the hostages released.
"Get them out of there, and then do whatever you want, [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu," he said, adding that while he was free and happy to be back with his family, his head was still in Gaza.
Note also this:
Channel 12 also reported on Wednesday that Eden Yerushalmi, whose body was recovered from Gaza over the weekend along with five others after they were murdered a day or two before the army reached them, appeared to have been starved and had lost 10 kilos in captivity, weighing only 36 kilos (79 lbs) when she was recovered.
Ninety-seven of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF.
Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab and MPs Ibrahim Kanaan, Alain Aoun and Simon Abi Ramia met Thursday in Diman with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.
Bou Saab and Aoun have been recently expelled from the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... while Abi Ramia and Kanaan have resigned from it.
A rift with FPM chief Jebran Bassil was the main reason behind the departures, with the MPs accusing Bassil of monopolizing decisions and the FPM accusing them of violating the Movement's charter and policies.''
''We came to take the patriarch's blessings to know how we can save the country,'' Kanaan said from Diman.''
''Loyalty is for the cause and we're still in our position and have not changed,'' Kanaan added.
Aoun for his part told MTV that ''those who lack loyalty and have betrayed the cause are the ones hurling insults at us.''
''I call on them to pray and meditate because our work is patriotic,'' Aoun added.
Speaking after the meeting, Kanaan said that ''the first required breakthrough is a presidential breakthrough, via a national alliance that we are seeking to create, in order to rescue 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... from the state of chaos and current collapse and rebuild the governing institutions.''
''Our objective is to create a domestic, Christian and national dynamism that would create a breakthrough in the stalemate and we are extending our hands to everyone,'' the MP added.
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...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...
...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...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...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...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...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...
