[ShabelleMedia] In a significant move towards the future of its governance, Somalia has officially requested the termination of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) by the end of its current mandate in October 2024.
This decision was announced by the Somali government on May 9, 2024, marking a crucial transition in the nation’s partnership with the United Nations.
Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Moalim Figi expressed gratitude for the support and cooperation extended by the United Nations Mission throughout its tenure in Somalia. The government’s request comes after a thorough consideration of its strategic priorities, indicating a transition to the next phase of cooperation with the UN.
Established in 2013, UNSOM has played a pivotal role in supporting the Federal Government of Somalia with peacebuilding, state-building, and governance efforts, as the country strives to recover from decades of conflict. The mission has been instrumental in promoting peace, stability, and development in Somalia.
The request for the termination of UNSOM’s mandate reflects the progress Somalia has made in recent years and its growing confidence in managing its own affairs. The Somali government has emphasized its commitment to continuing collaboration with the UN on sustainable development goals beyond UNSOM’s departure.
The United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... have received a copy of the letter requesting the termination of UNSOM’s mandate. The swift conclusion of the necessary procedures to terminate the Mission by the end of October 2024 has been kindly requested by the Somali government.
This move signals a new chapter in Somalia’s journey towards self-governance and development, as the nation looks forward to increased international support, especially in the context of 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... Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) exit.
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[Regnum] The Pentagon has ordered the full withdrawal of American troops from Niger over the next few months, Politico newspaper writes on May 10.
“The Department of Defense has ordered approximately 1,000 US troops in Niger to leave the country over the next few months,” a US official told the publication.
As Regnum reported, in March the Niger authorities terminated the military agreement with the United States, which allowed American military personnel to remain in the country. Niger's Interior Minister Mohamed Toumba said the country is interested in the Russian military training its troops.
On May 3, Reuters, citing a Pentagon representative, reported that Russian military personnel entered the air base in Niamey. On the same day, a source in the security forces of the African state clarified that the US military had declared increased combat readiness due to the deployment of Russian troops in Niger.
On May 8, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said at a hearing in the Appropriations Committee of the US Senate that Washington would have to withdraw all its troops from Niger.
The United States tried to the last to maintain a military presence in Niger, and the authorities in Niamey had to begin deploying the Russian contingent before the Pentagon removed its personnel. At the same time, with the departure of the Americans, it is likely that Niger’s military cooperation with Russia will further deepen. Ivan Loshkarev, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Political Elites at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO, shared this opinion with a Regnum correspondent.
#5
The new AQ set up in Afghanistan is spread out with camps in every province. It will have to be addressed by cogent adults after the senile, corrupt and stupid are shown the door.
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Who bets that oil will be discovered shortly and US troops will be back, as invaders this time.
Or possibly a Russian plot that requires a regime change operation. Hey, it worked well in other countries.
it makes a lot more sense if you view the deep state as a supranational organization that runs the US military for its own goals. The American people are just a hostile occupied population, like Germany after WW2.
[NYPost] A high school which published a yearbook with a page dismissing the October 7 terror attack on Israel says it will print a new version without the page.
A full return and replace? Expensive, but it’s the right thing to do.
In the email to parents of students at Bellaire High School, principal Michael Niggli said he was “surprised by the content” — which dismissed the attack which claimed the lives of 1,200 and resulted in over 240 hostages being taken — as “what happened, happened.”
Of those hostages, 128 remain in captivity, according to Israel.
Niggli also said the school will be “enforcing new editorial protocols,” to ensure something similar doesn’t happen again in the email, sent Sunday.
The usual thing is to replace the advisor and fire the student editor…
“Although the yearbook staff and their sponsorship are charged with editing the content of the publication as they have been for many years, as principal of Bellaire High School I will need to make some adjustments to that process.
“We will be enforcing new editorial protocols for all student publications in the coming weeks as we prepare for 2024-25,” Niggli wrote to parents.
The school featured the page as an Arab student’s “account of the Israel-Gaza conflict” in the original printed version of the yearbook.
No problem there, so long as an Israeli student’s account is included
“Would Palestine have ended up differently if October 7 didn’t happen? Everybody would want to change the past, but what happened happened,” the unidentified student was quoted saying in the page.
“Many movements started right after then that were pro-Palestine after that attack, which motivated me and my friends to also take a stand. We had to show the world that we wouldn’t stop fighting for our freedom.”
How many of them have the genocidal “From the river to the sea…” as their motto?
Palestine is not recognized as a self-governing state by the US or many other major world powers.
A photo of the original yearbook page was shared by concerned Bellaire High School parent Yafit Bar,
…sounds like an Israeli name — bet her child has a perspective on events over there, too…
who told The Post that the issue is “personal for her” because her brother Leon Bar was ambushed and killed in Israel in the wake of Hamas’ October terrorist attack.
…or an interview, if the kid didn’t feel up to writing something him or herself.
Leon was voluntarily shuttling injured civilians in his car to the hospital in southern Israel on October 8 when killed by a Hamas terrorist.
In a later statement, the school said it will “provide a revised yearbook to any student who would like them.”
So not a full recall and replace. Instead they will create Jewish ghetto for their high school yearbook. Fascinating.
In a later statement, Principal Niggli said: “The Bellaire High School community is one of the most diverse schools in Houston Independent School District. That diversity is one of our greatest attributes – it makes us stronger.
“The Carillon, our nationally acclaimed yearbook, is a source of pride for everyone at Bellaire High School, and when it was released last Thursday, many in our community were disappointed to see that it included content that reflected only one perspective of a very complex issue.
“I’m disappointed that one of our most celebrated traditions might divide our community instead of bringing it together. But more than anything, I deeply regret that this created a circumstance where some of our students didn’t feel safe and supported in our school. We will work to prevent this from happening again.”
But whatever work they do will not include getting rid of the Jew-hating entry in the yearbook.
During the Oct. 7 attack, brutal Hamas terrorists committed acts of sexual violence, including gang rape against civilians, United Nations experts have concluded.
In response to an Niggli’s email, an Instagram page entitled “protest.bellaire.now2024” also posted Sunday urging students to walk out of class May 10 to show their opposition to the principal’s response, saying his action “undermines” student “voices … and hinders free speech.”
#1
An official yearbook published by a public school is a public forum to which there should be content neutral access.
I think robust counter speech which is still protected in the US would have been a better approach than censorship.
It is better to know what the consensus opinion within certain groups is than to accept mendacious bromides like "Islam is peace."
"We had to show the world that we wouldn’t stop fighting for our freedom.”
They fight for their freedom to kill the Jews and to enslave the non-Muslims on Earth.
"It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet."
Hassan al-Banna, Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood / Hamas
Hamas,[d] an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, lit. 'Islamic Resistance Movement'),[52] is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist[53] political and military movement governing the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.[54]
Hamas was founded by Palestinian imam and activist Ahmed Yassin in 1987, after the outbreak of the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation. It emerged from his 1973 Mujama al-Islamiya Islamic charity affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.[55]
[IsraelTimes] Overdue filing, which could be sent as early as Friday, will use critical language to describe suspected violations, but won’t find Israel misusing arms or blocking aid, Axios says.
Despite desperately wanting to do otherwise, the Biden administration’s State Department constrained by the facts to eventually tell the truth.
#1
US: Israel may have used American-made weapons inconsistently with humanitarian law The State Department reported to Congress that Israel may have acted inconsistently with international law while using American-made weapons. "Given Israel's significant reliance on U.S.-made defense articles, it is reasonable to assess that defense articles covered under NSM-20 have been used by Israeli security forces since October 7 in instances inconsistent with its international humanitarian law obligations or with established best practices for mitigating civilian harm."
[IsraelTimes] Jewish groups, politicians criticize president for withholding supply of bombs to Israel that, citing past civilian fatalities, he does not want used in population centers in Rafah
#7
Hello, American Jews! Time to vote for someone else in November. Maybe someone with a proven record of getting Arab and Moslem states to recognize Israel instead of attacking it.
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#8
The ones who "need to feel good about themselves" will still vote dem.
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#9
3/5 of my liberal Jewish friends at a dinner table with me right now just said they’re voting for Trump after not voting for him last time. https://t.co/WdZhDYzXUC
[GEO.TV] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has claimed that the crisis-hit and cash-strapped Pakistain faces debt-repayment challenges.
The development came hours after an IMF support team reached Pakistain on Friday to hold talks regarding the South Asian nation's request for a fresh bailout package under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF).
In its staff report on the country issued earlier this month, the Washington-based lender said: "Pakistain’s capacity to repay the fund is subject to significant risks and remains critically dependent on policy implementation and timely external financing."
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Israel Katz calls a decision by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... General Assembly to upgrade the status of Paleostinians in the UN a "prize for Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,," in a statement released by his office.
"The absurd decision taken today at the UN General Assembly highlights the structural bias of the UN and the reasons why, under the leadership of UN Secretary-General [Antonio] Guterres, it has turned itself into an irrelevant institution," Katz says.
The United Nations General Assembly votes to back a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council "reconsider the matter favorably."
The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a full UN member — a move that would effectively recognize a Palestinian state — after the United States vetoed it in the UN Security Council last month.
The assembly adopted a resolution on Friday with 143 votes in favor and nine against, including the US and Israel, while 25 countries abstained. It does not give the Palestinians full UN membership, but simply recognizes them as qualified to join.
The General Assembly resolution "determines that the State of Palestine...should therefore be admitted to membership" and it "recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favorably."
An application to become a full UN member first needs to be approved by the 15-member Security Council and then the General Assembly. If the measure is again voted on by the council it is likely to face the same fate: a US veto.
The General Assembly resolution adopted on Friday does give the Palestinians some additional rights and privileges from September 2024 — like a seat among the UN members in the assembly hall — but they will not be granted a vote in the body.
The Palestinians are currently a non-member observer state, a de facto recognition of statehood that was granted by the UN General Assembly in 2012.
#4
I once believed in international organizations. But what exactly is the purpose of the UN these days? They mostly seem to agree on one thing only: Bashing Jews and Israel. And Biden is about to join the mob.
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#6
Basically, the whole world except Israel and the US are against destroying Gaza. And the US is far from unified on the issue of support for Israel. Many consider it the equivalent of sending machetes to the Hutu in Rwanda.
It's not even a right/left issue, significant numbers of Democrats and Republicans agree on the issue, for different reasons. Democrats support Hamas while Republicans are just the same old neonazi antisemites they always have been.
#7
I can give you the perspective from NE Ohio. We saw a bunch of civilians raped and slaughtered in an operation executed by Hamas. We are pretty unified in wanting to see Hamas exterminated as a public service to all. There are some Soros funded Astro turf demonstrations occurring on some of our college campuses. That just pisses us off and makes us more eager to vote for Donald Trump. Biden is likely to continue to capture the hearts and minds of his Palestinian sympathizing constituents. That will just make the electoral wipe out complete.
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#8
Basically, the whole world except Israel and the US are against destroying Gaza
Most of the world couldn’t care less. Just like the college protests, there is a small but very noisy group of haters who feel an overwhelming need to help those whose life goal is to kill all the Jooooooos, rape their wimmin, and take their stuff.
#9
Democrats support Hamas while Republicans are just the same old neonazi antisemites they always have been.
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@#5 - US out of North America! (lol, couldn't resist).
US can't even pull out of the WHO let alone that filthy organization on the Hudson.
#11
Most of the antisemitism is coming from america first MAGA not the campus left. They don't like sending money to furrin countries especially da jooz.
#12
It’s a marvel that people like Jumbo Glaitle3315 manage to go on despite being so disconnected to reality. Nowadays Hamlet would have said, “The wish! The wish is the thing, whether one’s a commoner or king!”
[GEO.TV] With Israel all set to invade Rafah, a UN General Assembly (UNGA) session on a resolution about "rights and privileges" for Paleostine that would call on the Security Council to favourably reconsider Paleostine’s request to become the 194th member of the UN has begun, Al Jazeera reported.
Addressing the session, Paleostinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said: "I stand before you as more than 35,000 Paleostinians have been killed, 80,000 have been maimed, two million have been displaced, and everything has been destroyed.
"I stand before you as the Israeli prime minister is ready to kill thousands more to ensure his political survival."
He added: "Your vote today of course says a lot about your solidarity with Paleostine but also about who you are and what you stand for."
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I stand before you as the Israeli prime minister is ready to kill thousands more
Is Bibi going to kill them all himself or is he going to contract it out to the IDF? I'm kind of an economy of scale guy myself, but I imagine he is fed up with all this rotten nonsense.
#6
Zero thanks to 20 million Russians who died, too.
But today's Jewish people(example, Victoria Nuland) are still angry at pogroms going centuries back to the time of the Czars. This is why we're set to go to war with Russia, to put an end to them forever. The world will learn to fear crossing Jews.
#8
Zero thanks to 20 million Russians who died, too.
What a pity True German Ally is no longer with us. He’d spoken of being moved directly from a Nazi concentration camp to a Soviet stalag in his youth, only years later winning his way back to freedom in West Germany.
The Soviet Army — and Soviet civilians back home — did not die for the sake and saving of Europe’s Jews, and they’d have been furious at the suggestion that there was any reason they should do so, brutalized as they’d been for two decades by Soviet brutality on a similar scale on one hand and the similar level of societal antisemitism on the other hand.
#9
I have read that the Soviets paused short of Warsaw to allow the Nazis to slaughter the resistance fighters who rose up anticipating a Russian liberation.
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[GEO.TV] Paleostinian resistance group Hamas wants calmness and a real hostages for prisoners swap deal, but Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the war to continue, Hamas bigwig Khalil al-Hayya said on Friday, adding Hamas did not suspend nor withdraw from the ceasefire negotiations.
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#5
In most hostage situations there is daily hostage video of someone reading today’s newspaper. That seems to be absent unless I am missing something. If there is no proof of living hostages, there isn’t any reason to take Hamas prisoners.
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#6
Honestly, Israel should execute 1000 prisoners a day until all hostages are released.
Oh, they're out of prisoners? There's plenty more Gazans available.
[FOX] The Biden administration told Congress it would waive sanctions on military sales to several Middle Eastern nations the day before President Biden himself publicly declared that the U.S. would not give Israel offensive aid if it invaded Rafah.
Some of those countries have been accused playing an active role in the proliferation of Hamas and other terror groups intent on wiping Israel off the map.
The State Department sent Congress a notification on Tuesday that it would extend existing sanctions waivers for Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen Libya, Qatar and Saudi Arabia through April 30, 2025, according to a copy of the notice obtained by Fox News Digital on Friday.
Biden made the high-stakes ultimatum to Israel's government in a CNN interview that aired Wednesday night as it prepares for a ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The city is currently home to more than a million Palestinians who left other parts of the Gaza Strip, where Israel has conducted its mission to eradicate the terrorist group Hamas.
President Biden said Israel would continue to see U.S. support for its defensive systems, like the Iron Dome, in the CNN interview. He added, however, that "if they go into Rafah, I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem."
The day before, however, the administration appears to have quietly greenlit the sale of "defense articles or defense services" to countries the U.S. previously accused of engaging in anti-Israel boycotts, according to the document.
Under current law the president is allowed to implement and extend sanctions waivers on Arab nations boycotting Israel if the waiver "is in the national interest of the United States" and if the U.S. deems the waiver "objectives of eliminating the Arab League boycott."
The notice was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
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I saw excerpts from the State Department's report this morning on CNN and Fox (I am a captive audience at the gym.) I don't think I have ever seen more weasel words in my life.
Quite a far cry from Jesus' exhortation to "let your yes be yes and your no be no." More like T. S. Eliot's "In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a mdinute will reverse."
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More Biden administration micromanaging with malicious intent.
[IsraelTimes] The US says it is "deeply concerned" about a recent CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... report revealing significant allegations of abuse of Paleostinian detainees at Israeli detention facilities holding terror suspects detained during the ongoing war with Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, 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.
"We have seen these reports on alleged prisoner abuse at this prison. It’s deeply concerning, very troubling," White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says in a briefing.
"We are reaching out to our Israeli counterparts to get more information here about these allegations and our expectation is that we’ll get good answers here...Our expectations are of the highest standard when it comes to the treatment of prisoners," Kirby adds.
#3
More Biden administration micromanaging with malicious intent
It could be fear. They didn't expect so much criticism of the weapons backstab. So now it's "we were right to deny Israel weapons - they are devil incarnate."
[An Nahar] Paleostinian movement Hamas said in a statement that the head of its political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , has received a phone call from caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
"The two sides discussed the latest political and military developments, especially the negotiations to stop the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and the ongoing invasion of Rafah," the statement said.
Haniyeh praised "the Lebanese positions in support of the Paleostinian people and their steadfastness and struggle," stressing that "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 on the line of resistance in support of the Paleostinian people."
Lebanon has offered "deaders, especially in this battle," Haniyeh added.
Haniyeh also noted that "stopping the aggression against Gaza will contribute to stopping the escalation on the Lebanese front and other supporting fronts."
For his part, Mikati praised the position of the Hamas movement in accepting the mediators’ proposal to stop the assault on Gaza, noting Lebanon’s "firm position on Paleostine" and highlighting "the historic relationship between the two peoples."
Mikati also lauded "the steadfastness and firmness of the Paleostinian people and the emphasis on the right of return."
He also noted the importance of following up on efforts related to UNRWA’s operations in Lebanon.
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.
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
[FOX] The Biden administration told Congress it would waive sanctions on military sales to several Middle Eastern nations the day before President Biden himself publicly declared that the U.S. would not give Israel offensive aid if it invaded Rafah.
