[FoxNews] The BBC questioned the damning report's methodology
A new report found the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) guilty of violating its own editorial guidelines over a thousand times in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
According to The Telegraph, the report analyzed four months of BBC output on television, radio, online, podcasts and on social media during the height of the conflict and found a "deeply worrying pattern of bias" against Israel.
British lawyer Trevor Asserson and a team of about 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists used artificial intelligence to analyze nine million words from the news outlet, starting the day of the October 7, 2023, terror attack.
Long known, but it’s very useful to have it quantifiied.
The researchers allegedly identified 1,553 instances where the BBC violated its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, accuracy, editorial values and public interest.
The report accuses the BBC of downplaying Hamas terrorism and painting Israel as the aggressor in dozens of instances.
Israel was associated with "war crimes" four times more frequently than Hamas (127 vs. 30); genocide 14 times more often (283 vs. 19), and breaching international law six times more often than Hamas (167 vs. 27).
BBC reporters who had shown hostility toward Israel on social media were also featured in the network's war coverage, the report claimed.
Researchers reportedly found 11 instances on the BBC's Arabic channel, where it featured reporters who had previously made public statements in support of terrorism and Hamas.
"The findings reveal a deeply worrying pattern of bias and multiple breaches by the BBC of its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, fairness and establishing the truth," the report said, according to the Telegraph.
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The biggest lie they tell is when they try to pass themselves off as journalists. They are not journalists, they are propagandists. They have an agenda and if the truth gets in the way of their agenda, the truth suffers.
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^Nope. They just have a distorted picture of the World and filter out anything that doesn't fit.
[Axios] Ten generals and admirals are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris from Republican attempts to tie her to the chaotic 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Why it matters: The withdrawal has emerged as a major campaign issue in the lead-up to Tuesday's presidential debate, with Harris coming under fire from former President Trump, House Republicans and parents of victims of the Abbey Gate suicide attack, which killed 13 American service members.
The push to defend Harris comes from retired military brass, including three with four-stars: Admiral Steve Abbot, who served as deputy homeland security advisor to George W. Bush, Gen. Lloyd W. Newton and Gen. Larry R. Ellis, who has never previously endorsed a political candidate.
Some of the military officials are also fanning out on TV this week to defend Harris' record, two people familiar with the plans told Axios.
Driving the news: "Without involving the Afghan government, [Trump] and his Administration negotiated a deal with the Taliban that freed 5,000 Taliban fighters," the retired military officials wrote in a National Security Leaders for America letter first obtained by Axios.
The group accused Trump of leaving Biden and Harris with no plans to execute a withdrawal and little time to do so.
"This chaotic approach severely hindered the Biden-Harris Administration's ability to execute the most orderly withdrawal possible and put our service members and our allies at risk," they wrote.
Trump "continually disrespects those who serve in uniform, including wounded warriors, prisoners of war, and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice," they added.
The other side: Trump and his Republican allies have sought to elevate the voices of the Gold Star families, laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider at Arlington National Cemetery on the third anniversary of the bombing.
Trump has also tried to cleanse his record with veterans, telling podcaster Shawn Ryan last month that he never called Americans who died in war "suckers and losers." — "Who would say that? A stupid person would say that."
What we're watching: On Tuesday, GOP congressional leaders including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will present the Congressional Gold Medal to the families of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the 2021 attack.
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It's frightening to imagine how these generals and admirals would perform if we got into war with a determined and industrialized enemy in which our national security really was at stake.
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The Wiki CV for all three of the 4-buttons are long retired and all have/had post career MIC contractor/lobbyist links, two of the three are POC and two of the three openly endorsed the Light-bringer at the beginning of 08. Flag Officers that are followed by MIC careers often have a tendency to lean in the direction that is good for the company. In recent years it seems to be the Uniparty/Left coalition.
As for the plan, I seem to recall reading something about a scheduled consolidation of Class VII Major End Items onsite at Bagram, air-bridge of equipment out while maintaining a secure base and extended range perimeter with US forces, and then collapsing US presence and stable passage of control with AFGHAN Army takeover? Nothing but open source discussions by those involved post-withdrawl, but it seemed like there was that plan, not the mess that actually happened.!
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^^
"The half-life of a retired senior field grade/flag officer rolodex is about 18 months". Advice from a contractor years ago about what most retired guys actually brought to the company!
(Rolodex does date it a bit I fear).
[IRNA] The president of Pakistain's Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... (Assembly of Islamic Clerics) political party has said that the US is not in a position to claim defending human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... as it is the main supporter of Israeli crimes 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 US is the main supporter of the Israeli regime's crimes in Gaza, and it cannot be a flag-bearer of human rights. Instead, it is a real violator of human rights'', Fazal-ur-Rehman said on Saturday night as he addressed a gathering by thousands of his party's supporters in Lahore.
He blamed the US for killing people in other countries as well, including Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Libya, stressing that Washington is not in a position to claim it is protecting international law.
Fazal-ur-Rehman also referred to attempts inside Pakistain to push for normalization with the Israeli regime. He said that those attempts failed eventually, as the Pak people remained strong in their support for the oppressed Paleostinians.
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One of these days, IDF will drop a nuke on Mecca and end your pseudo-religion.
[FoxNews] Hezbollah's tunnels are based on operational blueprint from North Korea
Despite Israel’s nearly one-year-long war with Hamas in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attacks, security experts continue to sound the alarm that Jerusalem’s greatest threat actually lies to the north in Lebanon, where Hezbollah has developed a sophisticated tunnel system.
Hezbollah, an Islamic terrorist organization that has long had the backing of Iran, has over the last two decades developed a network of tunnels that stretch more than 100 miles in cumulative length throughout southern Lebanon.
Though the existence of the tunnels has been known for decades, the significant role they play in arming Hezbollah has once again come to light during the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza, where terrorists have not only relied on tunnels for operational rearmament and maneuvering capabilities but also to house hostages taken by Hamas nearly a year ago.
While it is estimated that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have eradicated roughly 80% of Hamas’ tunnels, Hezbollah’s tunnels, which have largely remained untouched since the war in Gaza began, are believed to be far more sophisticated and "significantly larger," according to a report by the Alma Research and Education Center, a nonprofit organization that researches Israeli security challenges along its northern border.
Hezbollah is believed to have begun mining its tunnels after the Second Lebanon War in 2006 in close coordination between Iran and North Korea after Tehran reportedly derived "inspiration" from Pyongyang and the tunnels that it developed in the aftermath of the Korean War.
Iran deemed North Korea a "professional authority on the subject of tunneling" due to its experience in digging tunnels for military use when it attempted to drill tunnels across the Korean Demilitarized Zone in an attempt to militarily invade areas just north of Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
While the tunnels and their intended use were never realized by the authoritarian nation, two of the four neutralized tunnels uncovered were reportedly capable of accommodating up to 30,000 troops per hour along with armaments like armored personnel carriers, tanks and field artillery – an operational blueprint Hezbollah has turned to in its fight against Israel.
The report found that Hezbollah under the advisership of North Korea – a relationship that may have begun as far back as the 1980s – built two types of tunnels across southern Lebanon, "offensive tunnels and infrastructure tunnels."
The offensive tunnels were intended for similar operational use as North Korea’s, and at least six tunnels were discovered by IDF forces that led into Israeli territory during Operation Northern Shield, which began in December 2018.
Alma's research found that some of Hezbollah’s tunnels are also capable of transporting ATVs, motorcycles and other "small vehicles," though it did not specify the number of terrorists that they could accommodate.
The tunnels are equipped with "underground command and control rooms, weapons and supply depots, field clinics and specified designated shafts used to fire missiles of all types," the report said, noting that arms like rockets, surface-to-surface missiles, anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft missiles can be fired from "shafts" in the tunnels. "These shafts are hidden and camouflaged and cannot be detected above ground."
The tunnels are believed to connect the capital of Beirut, where Hezbollah’s central headquarters is located and its logistical base in the Beqaa Valley near the Syrian border, to southern Lebanon.
"We call this inter-regional tunnel network ‘Hezbollah's Land of the Tunnels,’" the Alma report first released in 2021 detailed, noting the tunnel system is more akin to a "metro" of tunnels rather than one long tunnel.
The second series of tunnels Hezbollah mined, known as the infrastructure tunnels, form an underground network in and near southern Lebanese villages that establishes the first and second "lines of defense" against an Israeli invasion – a project of "enormous magnitude," according to the Alma report.
One such tunnel is estimated to be nearly 28 miles long, prompting the question as to how the terrorist organization was able to get away with building such a sophisticated system without opposition from the Lebanese government.
"Hezbollah does try to keep the locations, routes, internal structure, etc., of these tunnels a secret. [It] does this by expropriating territories, by preventing civilians from entering into certain areas and by taking advantage of [its] presence and influence in the government," Boaz Shapira, a researcher with Alma, told Fox News Digital.
Shapira said Hezbollah not only has the support of roughly 40%-50% of the Lebanese population, it is "much better funded, organized, trained and armed" than the Lebanese government, army, police or even the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, which has a force of some 10,500 peacekeeping troops in Lebanon and that were put in place after the 2006 war.
But its growing power within Lebanon has moved it to the top of the list when it comes to Israeli security threats, according to not only Shapira but also former IDF Major Gen. Yaakov Amidror.
"Lebanon’s government is too weak to counter Hezbollah," Amidror told Fox News Digital. "Everything important is decided by Hezbollah, not by the government."
Hezbollah is believed to have as many as 50,000 terrorists and, according to Shapira, its sphere of influence has extended to nearly every branch of Lebanon’s security apparatus.
"Taking action against Hezbollah would be perceived as cooperation with Israel and basically as treason in Lebanon, and in the past year also against the Palestinians," he said. "That means that no one in the army has any incentive for challenging Hezbollah."
Shapira said demographics inside the once predominately Christian nation have shifted over the last several decades, and it now has a majority Muslim population – though the U.S. State Department analyzes the breakdown in Muslim populations in Lebanon as nearly equally divided between Shiite and Sunni groups.
"This trend is happening in the army as well. That means that almost every Shiite soldier in the army has a brother, cousin, friend that is a Hezbollah terrorist," Shapira said.
Amidror, a distinguished fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America after serving as Israel's former national security adviser to the prime minister and a 36-year veteran of the IDF, told Fox News Digital he believes Israel needs to take a proactive approach when it comes to countering Hezbollah.
"We should initiate the war against Hezbollah," he said, noting that the timing of its operation is the main variable that needs to be determined.
"It will not be an easy job. It will be a very, very devastating war for us and for Lebanon," the retired major general said. "Remember that at least 50% of their missiles had been hidden within populated areas.
"The casualties will be huge, [a] devastating war for us and for them," Amidror continued. "This is why it is so problematic to fight these organizations, because they are fighting from within their own population, [and their] targets are the Israeli population.
"When you fight from within civilians and your targets are civilians, it's very complicated to fight it," he added.
[Jpost] Such reasonable people. Abdulmalik Dehamshe, former leader of the Islamist Ra’am party,
…the political party of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel…
stirred up a storm after a series of statements he made in an interview with Makan, the Arabic-speaking outlet of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, in which he justified Hamas’s bloody incursion into Israel on October 7 and cast doubt on the accounts that took place in that horrific day.
In the interview, Dehamshe claimed that those who were taken into Gaza on October 7 were not "hostages" but rather "prisoners of war," which Hamas took in order to free the other prisoners of war who are in Israeli prison.
He then asked the surprised anchors: "Are the prisoners in Israel not human beings? Do they not have the right to be freed?"
The anchors then attempted to confront him with the fact that the hostages were innocent civilians, but Dehamshe replied, in a matter resembling some of the talking points relied by Hamas officials on various occasions, that those who took civilians were in fact Gazan civilians who went into the Envelope following Hamas militants, rather than Hamas militants themselves.
When the anchors tried to push back and asked whether Dehamshe is in fact legitimizing what took place on October 7, the former MK replied simply: "There is no need for me to grant legitimization - it's a legitimate act, everyone who fights their occupier has international legitimacy according to international law."
When asked whether there is international legitimacy for raping women, murdering children, and burning them alive, Dehamshe answered: "Show me one picture of a Hamas man who murdered a child or murdered a woman! We did not see such murders." Then he quickly added: "Maybe there was, in fact, murder, but if there was - it was done by [Gazan] civilians who came in, not Hamas! All of Gaza came in!"
Dehamshe then pointed to a video showing a horrified woman held by Hamas captors in her home with her children, lauding the Hamas terrorist who had just broken into her house under a barrage of rockets for the fact that he had asked her permission to eat some bananas and told her not to be afraid because "they are Hamas."
When pushed again regarding the hundreds of civilians killed and kidnapped, Dehamshe answered with a mere "Hamas fought and killed and took prisoners from the Israeli police and army. That's what Hamas did."
Finally, Dehamshe added: "Where is the assurance that there was a murder of Israeli citizens? Or the accusations about sexual or non-sexual things?"
WHO IS DEHAMSHE?
Dehamshe served as a Knesset member between 1996 and 2006 and is still regarded highly in the Islamic Movement.
— what the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel calls itself. It was founded in the early 1970s by Sheikh Abdullah Nimr Darwish, a preacher from Kafr Qasim. Some time later the militant arm, calling itself the Northern Branch, split off and based itself in Umm al Fahm, leaving the original group to go in for the usual Muslim Brotherhood politics, calling itself the Southern Branch until ready to present itself to the world as the Ra’am party...
As a lawyer, he represented his past Hamas founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and has lauded the terrorist leader multiple times. He also served time in Israeli prison for security-related issues.
[Geo.tv] Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM),
…a leftwing Palestinian “peace movement” founded shortly before 9/11 with funding from the Holy Land Trust that uses international activists — some naive dupes, others Antifa-style, knowingly doing a rotation as human shields to protect Palestinian terrorists and provide propaganda for the Palestinian cause. Cf. Rachel Corrie, a.k.a. St. Pancake…
Neta Golan, told Al Jazeera that Palestine is at the forefront for the struggle of human rights.
''Palestine is at the forefront of this struggle for human rights and the rights of indigenous people to stay on their land. People come to be part of resisting the system that steals land and implements an unjust system — when they come here, they can actually confront this system,'' the co-founder of ISM stated.
Golan also stated that the volunteers who come to the occupied West Bank know the risks and they are aware that they are facing a genocidal military.
It’s amazing how bad the Israelis are at that genocide thingy…
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https://www.ism-norcal.org
ISM Northern California – Supporting Palestinian-led nonviolent …
WEBThe International Solidarity Movement podcast episode five: ISM Vounteer Experiences on the Frontlines. In the fifth episode of the International Solidarity Movement podcast we are joined in the village of At-Tuwani by two ISM volunteers – Herbie and Maria – who both spent several months volunteering as internationalists in Palestine.
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[IsraelNationalNews] After MK Ofer Cassif requested to visit Kiryat Shmona to show his support, Mayor Avichai Stern responds, 'before you ask to show support, stop weakening us.'
MK Ofer Cassif of the extreme-left Hadash party
…extreme left and primarily Arab…
approached the Mayor of Kiryat Shmona, Avichai Stern, and asked to come and show his support for the residents, but was met with a refusal.
"Hello Avichai, I am interested in coming to visit you, to strengthen and show support, and see if we can help," MK Cassif wrote to Stern and received a resolute response, “Hi Ofer, first of all, thank you for wanting to show your support for Kiryat Shmona, but unfortunately, before you offer your support, I suggest that you stop weakening us," the Mayor wrote to the Knesset member.
He added, "For years you have been acting against our heroic IDF fighters, claiming that they are committing 'genocide' and going against the State of Israel and against the Zionist-Jewish vision of our wonderful nation, while accusing us of occupation, while every inch of land here is ours and only ours.”
"On the day you change your anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish narrative, stop harming the state of the Jewish people and stop calling our heroic fighters 'murderers,' only then will we be happy to welcome you to Kiryat Shmona," concluded Stern.
Cassif, who did not like the reaction, replied: "I stood and will continue to stand by all the residents of the bombed and burned communities of the north, which have been abandoned by the right-wing government, whether they are my supporters or my opponents. It's time to put an end to the tribalism that is destroying us, where we don’t operate according to principles of universal justice, but according to the closeness or identity of any specific person."
[Naharnet] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that he has instructed the army and security forces to prepare to change the situation on 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... 's border, where Israel has been engaged in near-daily festivities with Hezbollah since October 8 last year.
''Iran's strongest arm is Hezbollah in Lebanon. I have instructed the IDF (army) and all security forces to prepare to change this situation. There is no possibility that we will continue in the current situation, and we are obligated to safely return all the residents of the north to their homes,'' Netanyahu said during the weekly cabinet session, according to Israel's Channel 12.
The fighting has displaced tens of thousands of Lebanese and Israeli residents on both sides of the border and Israel has repeatedly vowed to act to return its citizens through war or diplomatic action.
The cross-border violence has killed some 614 people in Lebanon, mostly fighters but also including 138 civilians, according to an AFP tally. On the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights, authorities have announced the deaths of at least 24 soldiers and 26 civilians.
Israel and Hezbollah had on August 25 exchanged heavy fire that briefly raised fears of an all-out war. On that day, Israel said around 100 warplanes launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting hundreds of rocket launchers across southern Lebanon to thwart an imminent Hezbollah attack. Hezbollah for its part said it launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israeli military and security bases, including at a key intelligence base in Tel Aviv's suburbs.
Hezbollah called the attack a response to the killing of one of its top commanders, Fouad Shukur, in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs in July.
The August 25 exchange of fire did not set off a long-feared war, and the heavy firepower and lack of civilian casualties allowed both sides to claim a sort of victory and step back. But tensions remain high.
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[NAHARNET] A senior Israeli security official told Israel's Channel 12 on Sunday that "the campaign 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... is getting closer, although the exact timing has not yet been determined."
According to the security source, Israel faces two scenarios: ''reaching a deal (with Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... over a 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... ceasefire and prisoner exchange) or collapsing the negotiations and quickly entering a direct war against Hezbollah.''
According to the bigwig, the first scenario is ''reaching a deal, a situation in which Israel will be able to choose its preferred timing for future action against Hezbollah targets.''
''Within this scenario, there is hope that Hezbollah will refrain from firing during this period, which will allow the IDF (Israeli army) to complete its preparations in an optimal way and plan the next moves carefully. The clear advantage of this scenario is the possibility of operating under more favorable conditions for Israel,'' the official said.
''The second scenario is the collapse of the negotiations (with Hamas). In such a situation, it is expected that Hezbollah will continue firing at the northern settlements, which may force Israel to enter into action more quickly, under less favorable conditions for it,'' the official added.
The security source emphasized that the Israeli army is in ''the final stages of completing preparations for the possible campaign.''
''The comprehensive preparations include extensive ground preparations, alongside preparation for all possible types of attack. According to him, the army is ready for any scenario and completes preparations both on the ground and in the air. The extent of the preparations indicates the seriousness of the intentions on the part of Israel and the understanding that the next campaign could be complex and challenging,'' Channel 12 said.
The security source noted that Israel is responding to Hezbollah's fire and is hitting the organization "in an unpleasant way." However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... he emphasized that despite the tactical ''successes,'' a significant strategic achievement has not yet been achieved.
The security source also emphasized that the damage caused to Hezbollah is ''significant.''
''The raiding force of the Radwan force, the organization's elite unit, was damaged, and dramatic damage was caused to the infrastructure along the border. This damage to Hezbollah's operational capabilities may affect its ability to operate in the future,'' the source said.
''Furthermore, most of the Radwan force retreated beyond the Litani River, which indicates the significant impact of the IDF's operations on the deployment of Hezbollah's forces,'' the source added.
The fighting has displaced tens of thousands of Lebanese and Israeli residents on both sides of the border and Israel has repeatedly vowed to act to return its citizens through war or diplomatic action.
The cross-border violence has killed some 614 people in Lebanon, mostly fighters but also including 138 civilians, according to an AFP tally. On the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights, authorities have announced the deaths of at least 24 soldiers and 26 civilians.
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To reduce casualties, why not try an invasion from the sea (a la Inchon) just south of the Litani River? I wonder, why do I get a new 'name' on Rantburg every six months or so?
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^ Because you cleared your cookies?
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I remember when "clearing your cookies" meant to knock the 'woo-woo' out of you in a fist fight!
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.... insists on boycotting a presidential dialogue initiated by Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , as 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... remains without a president since Michel Aoun ...former president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... 's term ended in October 2022, almost two years ago.
"I am flexible," Geagea said in a radio interview on Thursday night. "But I cannot be flexible about Hezbollah's decision to start a war in south Lebanon," he added, as he dubbed Berri's dialogue anew "unconstitutional".
Geagea said the so-called Axis of Defiance plans to control Lebanon. "As long as it is unable to do it militarily, it will try at all costs to control it politically by electing a president of its choice."
Geagea said he will not describe Hezbollah as a terrorist organization as he hopes to "attract" the group to the Lebanese framework. "The only way to meet with Hezbollah, is when it becomes a Lebanese party with a Lebanese agenda only," Geagea said, adding that ties with Hezbollah cannot be completely cut.
He also said he has a good relation with Hezbollah's ally, Berri, but that he finds the way Berri is dealing with the presidential vote "unacceptable".
On another note, Geagea said that he thinks the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... 's disintegration is "in Lebanon's interest", after two MPs were expelled from the FPM and two others deliberately resigned.
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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.
[Axios] Ten generals and admirals are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris from Republican attempts to tie her to the chaotic 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
...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...
