Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police and pro-Israel demonstrators in midtown Manhattan
The march was just one of many protests held throughout the United States on Tuesday, as Israel continued airstrikes into the Gaza Strip
Other demonstrations occurred in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington D.C. and Dearborn, Michigan where President Joe Biden was touring a Ford Motor Company plant
The president has called for a ceasefire, but protesters condemned his support for Israel
The US approved a $735million weapons deal with Israel that included precision-guided missiles, a week before the conflict began earlier this month
[ToloNews] As the US forces have announced withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of trailer trucks loaded with scrap from destroyed vehicles and equipment that belonged to American troops are leaving the Bagram Airfield on a daily basis as the process continues in full swing.
Those who purchase the material say that so far the scrap has been worth millions of dollars.
Some residents of Bagram said that such equipment should have been handed over to Afghan forces instead of being scrapped by the US military. But US forces have said the equipment will be scrapped so it does not fall into enemy hands.
According to Bagram residents, over 20 to 30 trailer trucks loaded with scrapped equipment leave the airfield every day and are sold outside.
"Their spare parts are good, but not when they are scrapped. Now that they are leaving, they are scrapping all their equipment at the base," said Haji Hasib, a Bagram resident.
"All the vehicles are armored Lexus and Hilux SUVs. They bring it from the provinces to the Bagram Airfield where they have equipment that presses it. Each of their vehicles is worth over 100,000 dollars. They are all from the Afghan nation's blood," said Shakir, a Bagram resident.
Scrapped parts of armored vehicles, military equipment, other vehicles and electronics are seen among the scrapped equipment that is taken out of the airfield.
"They are not handed over (to Afghan forces). They are brought here and are scrapped and are sold to our Afghans for the price of iron scrap," said Mohammad Asif, a Bagram resident.
"There are various things among them," said Shakir, a Bagram resident.
The Afghan government has said that equipment worth $1 billion will be handed over to the Afghan forces.
"They should be handed over to Afghan forces because they are at war. Our security is not good. We are in dire need of them," said Abdul Wahab, a Bagram resident.
Bagram Airfield has been the biggest airbase of the US military in Afghanistan over the last 20 years. US forces started a withdrawal on May 1, a process that is expected to be completed by Sept. 11.
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Each of their vehicles is worth over 100,000 dollars. They are all from the Afghan nation's blood," said Shakir, a Bagram resident.
Wrong. They are from the bank accounts of American taxpayers.
Too expensive to fly them back to the United States and, even if it wasn't, the government doesn't want them competing in the car market with new Fords, Chryslers and Chevrolets. But that would be one way for Uncle Sam to recoup some of his expenses and it would be very cool to have one sitting in the driveway.
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Fuck you Abdul Wahad. To many of our young ppls blood has been spit in your shithole of a country.
Hey, hey now. Let's blame the right people. The murderers are in Washington, DC.
Not long ago Egypt was lurching from IMF loan to IMF loan, padded with “loans” from the rich Gulf countries and the annual peace payoff from Uncle Sugar. How did Egypt become the kind of big shot financial heavyweight that throws around $500 million checks?
[AlAhram] The Egyptian initiative will include training young Paleostinian cadres in developmental programs in order to become acquainted with the latest developments in management, leadership, and technology
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced on Tuesday the allocation of $500 million as part of an Egyptian initiative for the reconstruction of 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 Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the presidency said in a statement.
Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the Gaza Strip have killed more than 200 Paleostinians, including many children and women in the last eight days. The airstrikes destroyed tens of buildings, leaving hundreds of Paleostinians homeless.
As per the presidential directives issued during the trilateral summit with La Belle France and Jordan in Gay Paree, specialised Egyptian companies will be involved in the reconstruction process.
The Egyptian initiative will include training young Paleostinian cadres in developmental programmes in order to become acquainted with the latest developments in management, leadership, and technology.
The training programmes will be provided by the country's National Training Academy (NTA) in partnership with major international institutions, the NTA said in a statement on Tuesday.
The NTA said five full grants will be allocated for Paleostinians in the Executive Presidential Leadership Program.
It also will offer an online training program for 200 Paleostinian trainees on leadership and management, the statement added.
Founded in 2017 as per a presidential decree, the academy's Board of Trustees is chaired by President El-Sisi.
The board involves 11 members, including Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, Planning and Economic Development Minister Hala El-Said, and Director of the General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel.
Egyptian authorities on Sunday opened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip and received a number of injured Paleostinians due to the recent Israeli aggression.
On Monday, Health Minister Hala Zayed announced dispatching 65 tons of medicines and medical supplies worth EGP 14 million to aid Gaza.
Watch out, guys. Israel tried sending aid to Gaza yesterday, and one of their soldiers was shot.
Egypt also allocated 11 hospitals nationwide to receive injured Paleostinians from Gaza.
[FOX] The leading Black Lives Matter organization declared "solidarity with Palestinians" Monday, a week after Hamas terrorists in Gaza began firing a relentless barrage of rockets into Israel, indiscriminately shelling civilian targets as well as dropping some missiles short and blowing up buildings within its territory.
"Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians," the group tweeted. "We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. ( always have. And always will be ). #freepalestine."
The announcement prompted a "thank you" tweet from the controversial Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which has for years called for an economic embargo of Israel.
[DAILYCALLER] Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation co-founder Patrisse Cullors ...Sticky fingered co-founder of Black Lives Matter. An avowed communist, she collects real estate like people used to collect stamps, when not checking into luxury resorts for conferences... was identified as the co-chair of an art company that received business from three activist groups under her control, a press release obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation shows.
The art company, Trap Heals, was founded and led by the father of Cullors’ only child, the DCNF previously reported.
“I feel personally and from an ethical perspective, there are a huge number of problems here,” longtime charity ethics expert Doug White told the DCNF.
[OneIndia] A Delhi court has granted two more months to complete the investigation against an alleged member of terrorist outfit al-Qaeda, arrested in connection for providing logistic and financial assistances to other members of the organization in India and abroad.
Special Judge Dharmender Rana allowed an application moved by Delhi police, which had sought more time to complete the probe against Sabeel Ahmed.
The accused, a member of banned terrorist outfit al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS), was arrested on February 22 by the special cell of Delhi Police, for providing assistance to other members to carry out terrorist activities.
The police had moved the application since the investigation related to the accused was still continuing and the period to file charge sheet against him was going to expire on May 22, 2021, i.e. three months from the arrest.
If the charge sheet was not filed within three months from the arrest, or the court had not granted more time to the probe agency to complete the investigation, the accused would have been entitled to get statutory bail in the case.
The judge observed that the prosecution had set out a case for the extension of the statutory time period to conclude the investigation.
As a cumulative effect of the aforesaid discussion, I have no hesitation in observing that the prosecution has set out a case for extension of the statutory time period to conclude investigation and the application at hand deserves to be allowed.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the IO (investigating officer) is not divested of his obligation of concluding investigations expeditiously. Therefore, he is permitted to conclude the pending investigation qua accused Sabeel Ahmed till July 22, 2021, the judge said in an order passed on May 13.
In its application seeking extension of the period to complete the probe by August 18, the police said the investigation could not be concluded despite efforts due to present pandemic situation.
The application was opposed by advocates M S Khan and Qausar Khan, appearing for the accused, who said that the probe agency had already got enough time to complete the investigation.
Ahmed is also an accused in suicidal terror attack at Glasgow Airport (United Kingdom) on June 30, 2007.
He was deported from Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were, to inclid Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... on August 20, 2020 and was taken into custody by NIA in another terror case lodged in Bengaluru.
His custody was later taken by the special cell of Delhi Police in the present matter on February 22, this year.
[TheGuardian] A local administration in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has defied a state high court order and bulldozed a mosque, in one of the most inflammatory actions taken against a Muslim place of worship since the demolition of the Babri Mosque by a mob of Hindu nationalist rioters in 1992.
The mosque, called Masjid Gareeb Nawaz Al Maroof, in the district of Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh, had stood for at least six decades, since the time of British rule, according to documents held by its committee.
On Monday, police and security services moved into the area and cleared it of people, then brought in bulldozers and demolished the mosque buildings. Debris was then thrown into a river, according to images and local accounts. Security services have been deployed to prevent anyone coming within a mile of where the mosque stood.
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[NPASYRIA] Jabar Yawar, the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, revealed to North Press, a new security agreement with the Iraqi army.
Yawar said that they had agreed with Baghdad to form a joint fighting force for operations against ISIS, in particular the areas that are considered as gaps between the areas of the two forces’ deployment.
Early in May, the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, called to activate pre-emptive operations to confront the move of ISIS through security coordination between Iraqi forces, including the Peshmerga.
The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga indicated that these areas are distributed on a strip that extends from Khanaqin near the Iranian border to the areas of al-Rabiah and Suhaila near the Syrian border.
Earlier, it was agreed to form joint coordination centers between Peshmerga officers and Federal Army officers in the governorates of Diyala, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Makhmour, and another center in Nineveh governorate, according to Yawar.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US officials are pressing their Israeli counterparts and Tel Aviv’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to expedite willingness to reach a ceasefire, source familiar with Washington’s recent diplomatic efforts said Tuesday.
Despite no such language being publicly released in statements from the White House, State Department or Pentagon, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... struck an aggressive tone during a phone call with the Israeli premier on Monday, according to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... The US has blocked three attempts by the UN Security Council to release a statement that calls for an end to the violence between Paleostinian factions and Israeli forces, which spilled over into its second week.
Diplomats said the US ambassador to the UN reiterated previous stances from US officials that a UN statement would not help de-escalate tensions.
[IsraelTimes] Reports late Tuesday that Israel and Paleostinian terror groups in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip will cease fire on Thursday morning sparked a flurry of denials from all parties involved, while the White House continued applying behind-the-scenes pressure on Jerusalem to wind down the fighting.
Egypt has proposed an Israel-Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, ceasefire through private channels that would take effect on Thursday at 6 a.m., Channel 12 news reported. The report cited Paleostinian sources saying Hamas had agreed to the offer, while there had been no response from Israel.
But it took less than an hour for denials to begin pouring in.
"No agreement or specific timings for the ceasefire were reached," Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the terror group’s leadership, said in a statement.
The efforts to coordinate a ceasefire — led by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , Egypt, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and other countries — are ongoing, al-Rishq said. "While emphasizing that the efforts and contacts of the mediators are serious and continuous, the demands of our people are clear and well-known."
Exercising similar caution, a diplomatic source familiar with Egypt’s efforts to broker a ceasefire in the fighting, which began on Monday, May 10 with a Hamas rocket barrage at Jerusalem, told The Times of Israel that negotiations were still ongoing and no such agreement had yet been reached.
Several Hebrew media outlets quoted an "Israeli official" who also poured cold water on the report.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... both Israel and Hamas have vehemently denied reports of ceasefires to end previous rounds of conflict over the years, which nevertheless went into effect shortly thereafter.
The Haaretz daily on Tuesday night quoted another Israeli official who said that barring any last-minute surprises, a ceasefire would indeed likely be reached by Thursday morning.
"There is no decisive [win] and there likely won’t be," the official said. "Everyone is tired."
According to Channel 13, Hamas was seeking reassurances from Israel that it would not attempt to kill the terror group’s leaders during the ceasefire — a demand rejected by Israel — while Jerusalem was demanding the terror group hold its fire for several hours while it weighs the ceasefire offer, a condition rejected by Hamas.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier on Tuesday said the military operation, now in its ninth day, would go on "as long as needed to restore calm for the citizens of Israel."
The White House has so far resisted international calls for ramping up public pressure on Netanyahu. It has made the calculation that Israel will not respond to international resolutions or public demands by the US, and that its greatest leverage is behind-the-scenes pressure, according to the person familiar with the administration’s discussions.
Separately, a UN Security Council emergency meeting earlier Tuesday on the situation in Gaza ended without any result, four diplomats involved told The Times of Israel.
The closed-door session was the fourth in nine days held by the top UN body and came a day after the US blocked a joint statement calling for a ceasefire for the third consecutive time.
While the Norwegian, Chinese and Tunisian missions that initiated Tuesday’s meeting did so to increase international pressure for a ceasefire, two Security Council diplomats told The Times of Israel they weren’t really sure why another consultation was held, given that member states knew the US position had not moved in the previous 24 hours.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, at least 212 Paleostinians have been killed so far in the nine days of the conflict, including more than 60 children. It was not immediately clear if this ministry tally included all of those killed or if there were Hamas operatives not included in the count. According to the IDF, more than 120 of those killed were members of Hamas and over 25 were members of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... as of Monday night.
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Hezbollah seems rather quiet or is it just the usual filtering of the news by the Ministry of Truth?
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See how IDF idiotic high profile actions does prevent Israel defence? The leftist anti semitic/western media could not be more thankful of IDF media dumbness. IDF gave the media 3 days news about a destroyed building. A building that to a common person have no apparent military value.
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It's the result of decades of employing a promotion system based upon having the right boxes filled as a simple substitute for determining the 'right stuff'.
It's nothing new. In the 20s and 30s there was a continuing budget battle between big ship and big carrier proponents until December 7, 1941.
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Well, they look pretty cool whenever I've seen them steaming in or out of San Diego Bay. But from everything I've heard, the littoral concept was plagued from the git go with all kinds of design issues and technical problems.
Defend the high seas, overseas trade routes and American shores. Provide sea lift for the Marines.
Forget ISIS.
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/\ The Danish Flyvefisken-class patrol vessel certainly seems like a handy, small, and efficient coastal vessel at 54 metres and 450 tonnes. Compared with the (stupidly?) ambitious Freedom-class LCS at 115 metres and 3,900 tonnes...
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After 15 years, the Navy’s littoral combat ships are still in search of a mission
I was going to make a joke about being unable to locate the littoris, but I have been reliably informed this is not the Latin plural of 'littoral'
As for the "Mission Module" concept, bean counters love that stuff. One size fits all! We're saving money! We have spreadsheets and bar charts to prove it. Pity it never works very well. That is really the only fly in the ointment.
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The LCS was basically meant to be kinda sorta like the Absalom class vessel, but twice as fast; once they put that requirement in them, the had negative weight margin and no base weapons systems. ("We'll fix that later, because they're modular." Only they didn't.)
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb ...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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 top diplomat is expected to step down from his position this week, a senior Foreign Ministry official said late Tuesday, hours after the minister accused Gulf countries of supporting ISIS in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
Charbel Wehbe, who is currently the foreign minister in a caretaker capacity, unleashed a reckless diatribe against Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were, to inclid Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and the Gulf during a televised interview with al-Hurra on Monday.
Following public backlash from Lebanese officials, politicians and the public, Wehbe will now "probably announce that he’s stepping down," the ministry official told Al Arabiya English.
Beirut has already been reeling from strained ties with the Gulf due to Hezbollah’s increased influence and role in state institutions following the election of President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , an ally of the Iran-backed group, in 2016.
Apart from his accusations, which he did not provide any evidence for, Wehbe also used racist terms to describe the people of Saudi Arabia.
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait summoned Lebanon’s ambassadors to their respective countries due to Wehbe’s remarks.
The Gulf Cooperation Council demanded a formal apology from Wehbe for his comments.
Aoun appointed Wehbe to be the foreign minister after Nassif Hitti resigned a day before the catastrophic Beirut blast due to his frustration with Hassan Diab’s government.
A week after succeeding Hitti, Wehbe became a caretaker minister following the resignation of Diab.
It is unclear who will succeed Wehbe, who was the diplomatic adviser of Aoun before being tapped to head Lebanon’s foreign policy.
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[Rudaw] The United States on Monday slapped terror sanctions on three people and a Ottoman Turkish-based entity accused of providing financial, material, and technical support for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS).
"The individuals and company being designated today played a crucial role connecting ISIS with a network of international donors and enabled ISIS to access the financial system in the Middle East," reads a statement from the US Treasury.
Alaa Khanfurah is accused of transferring funds to ISIS members throughout Syria from Khanfurah’s The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... -based money service and sending thousands of dollars to ISIS financial controllers.
Idris Ali Awad al-Fay, who is currently in Iraqi custody, is accused of using the "Turkey-based al-Fay Company to facilitate the global distribution of currency on behalf of the terrorist group." He previously held leadership positions in both al-Qa’ida and ISIS, according to the Treasury.
Al-Fay Company was also designated for its activity as an intermediary between foreign donors and ISIS, including members being held in al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria.
The third person sanctioned is Ibrahim Ali Awad al-Fay, brother to Idris, who managed al-Fay Company in the absence of his sibling. Both brothers have sent funds to ISIS, the Treasury stated.
According to a Pentagon report, the US estimate ISIS has "probably tens of millions of dollars" in cash reserves and operates a network of couriers smuggling cash between Iraq and Syria and transfers fund "often through logistical hubs in Turkey."
Despite the territorial defeat is ISIS, the group "remains active and maintains connections to the financial system," the US Department of State said in a statement released shortly after the Treasury announcement.
"In countries throughout the Middle East, ISIS has relied on key money services business operators, like those designated today that allow ISIS to obfuscate its transactions. The Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS will continue to target ISIS’ illicit financial activities to include its disbursement of millions of dollars in cash reserves across the region," it added.
ISIS was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019. Remnants of the group have returned to earlier insurgency tactics, ambushing security forces, kidnapping and executing suspected informants, extorting money from vulnerable rural populations, and carrying out kabooms.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[FOX] The leading Black Lives Matter organization declared "solidarity with Palestinians" Monday, a week after Hamas terrorists in Gaza began firing a relentless barrage of rockets into Israel, indiscriminately shelling civilian targets as well as dropping some missiles short and blowing up buildings within its territory.
...Sticky fingered co-founder of Black Lives Matter. An avowed communist, she collects real estate like people used to collect stamps, when not checking into luxury resorts for 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were, to inclid Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
[TheGuardian] A local administration in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has defied a state high court order and bulldozed a mosque, in one of the most inflammatory actions taken against a Muslim place of worship since the demolition of the Babri Mosque by a mob of Hindu nationalist rioters in 1992.
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were, to inclid Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
