[8am] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... have intensified restrictions against Shia Moslems by banning the import of Shia religious books and prayer texts into Afghanistan. Pilgrims returning from Karbala have voiced concerns over the Taliban’s harsh treatment and the prohibition on transferring these religious materials at border crossings. They report that during book collections, the Taliban insult Shia followers, calling them "polytheists and infidels." The Taliban also confiscate all religious books they consider contradictory to Hanafi jurisprudence from educational and university libraries, and this practice continues.
Several Karbala pilgrims have complained about the Taliban’s actions and the ban on transferring Shia religious books and prayer texts. They explain that after spending significant sums to purchase these materials during their visits to Shia holy sites in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Iraq, they face confiscation and derogatory treatment at the Islam Qala border crossing.
Some pilgrims have shared with the Hasht-e Subh Daily that the Taliban use harsh and offensive language while collecting religious books. These pilgrims say the Taliban refuse to acknowledge Shia religious freedoms and continually mock their religious practices and rituals.
Abdul Hussain (pseudonym), a recent pilgrim returning from Karbala, has voiced serious concerns about the Taliban’s behavior at the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province. He reports that the Taliban show little respect for Shia religious beliefs and practices. He explains, "The Taliban thoroughly searched everyone entering from Iran, both men and women. They even inspected clothing and bags for religious books and prayer texts, offering no explanation other than that bringing books was forbidden."
Another anonymous pilgrim describes how the Taliban confiscated his religious books and labeled him a "polytheist and infidel," subjecting him to insults and humiliation. He recounts, "They searched all of us pilgrims, seized two volumes of books from my suitcase, and threw away a pocket-sized prayer book. When I tried to protest, they used extremely offensive language, calling me a polytheist, infidel, and enemy of the religion."
This pilgrim initially believed that such behavior might not reflect the Taliban’s official policy and could be the actions of individual members. He approached a Taliban official at Islam Qala to explain the situation, only to encounter even harsher treatment. He says, "I spoke to a more organized Taliban official who was sitting in a corner with a communication device. He refused to listen to my concerns and claimed I had been treated well. He reiterated that bringing Shia religious books into the country was prohibited and insulted me further."
Over the past three years, the Taliban have imposed severe restrictions on Shia religious ceremonies, removed Ja’fari jurisprudence from universities, and barred followers of this sect from visiting pilgrimage sites. Additionally, the Taliban have annulled the Personal Status Law for Shia Moslems, enacted in 2008, which had allowed Shia Moslems to handle legal, religious, and procedural matters according to Ja’fari principles.
The Council of Shia Scholars has repeatedly raised concerns with Taliban officials about preserving Ja’fari jurisprudence and upholding the Personal Status Law. Despite these appeals, the Taliban have ignored their demands and imposed even more restrictions.
[KhaamaPress] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Agency for Asylum (EUAA) reported on Monday that 45,000 Afghans sought asylum in European countries during the first half of 2024.
The report, published on Monday, September 16, stated that by the end of July, a total of 513,000 people had applied for asylum in European countries.
The EUAA noted that while the total number of asylum applications remained steady compared to the first half of 2023, some regional variations were observed.
During this period, 71,000 Syrians made asylum requests, making them the most significant applicants in Europe.
The report also highlighted that Afghan asylum seekers predominantly applied in countries like Germany, Greece, La Belle France, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , Belgium, Italia, and others.
The number of Afghan asylum applications to European countries decreased by 18% compared to the same period in 2023.
Additionally, the report emphasized that European Union member states accepted approximately 65% of Afghan asylum applications.
However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... it is worth noting that many European countries have recently tightened their immigration policies to reduce the number of illegal entries, leading to stricter regulations and fewer approvals for asylum seekers.
The continued migration of Afghans to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... underscores the ongoing humanitarian crisis, even as the number of asylum applications has declined. The tightening of immigration policies in European countries poses new challenges for Afghan migrants colonists seeking safety and stability in the region.
[KhaamaPress] Swedish prosecutors have charged a 52-year-old woman from the country with "genocide and crimes against humanity" for her actions against women and kiddies of the Yazidi religious minority in Syria.
It is reported that this woman traveled to Syria and joined ISIS.
Mikael Westerlund, her attorney, stated that the accused returned to Sweden in 2020 and is currently in prison, where she denies the new charges.
Prosecutors identified her in court documents as Lina Ishaq, a 52-year-old Swedish citizen facing charges of genocide and war crimes for her collaboration with ISIS between 2014 and 2016 in Syria. They stated that she traveled to Syria to assist in establishing ISIS rule.
Ms Ishaq was also the first person charged in Sweden for aiding in the recruitment of her minor son, age 12, as a child soldier. She was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison. The boy died in Syria when he was sixteen, in 2017.
The Swedish prosecutor’s office announced that she is accused of "purchasing or receiving civilian women and kiddies from the Yazidi minority" in Raqqa, Syria, and mistreating them as slaves.
The prosecutor added, "In addition, they were subjected to severe suffering, slavery, or other inhumane acts. They were deprived of freedom and prevented from leaving, violating international law."
Under Swedish law, courts can prosecute individuals for crimes against international law committed abroad. The prosecutor emphasized that crimes against humanity may include murder, sexual assault, torture, and forced labor as part of a widespread or systematic attack against civilians.
This case highlights Sweden’s commitment to holding individuals accountable for their actions related to international crimes. As legal proceedings unfold, it serves as a reminder of the ongoing struggle for justice for the Yazidi community and the broader implications of accountability for war crimes.
[IsraelTimes] Two panelists at Albany event would not share stage with Jewish moderator Elisa Albert, an outspoken Israel supporter, who says she is ‘not surprised’ by such reactions since Oct. 7
An authors’ panel at an Albany book festival Saturday has been canceled after organizers said two panelists refused to share a stage with the "Zionist" moderator.
Elisa Albert, who is Jewish, was set to moderate a panel at the Albany Book Festival on Saturday called "Girls, Coming of Age." But on Thursday, she received an email from a festival organizer informing her that the event had been canceled: Two of the three panelists — authors Lisa Ko and Aisha Abdel Gawad — objected to sitting on the panel with Albert because they did not want to appear with a "Zionist." The third panelist was to be Emily Layden.
The proper answer to such things is to continue the panel with new and improved participants, and blackball those so unprofessional as to try to bully the committee. Let them spend a few years out in the cold for it. To punish the innocent in the name of a pallid sort of political balance is sheer moral cowardice.
Albert said the cancellation is of a piece with her experiences since Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... attacked Israel on October 7.
"Unfortunately, I’m not surprised," Albert told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Friday. "I’ve been really vocal from the get-go, and I’ve lost many friends. I’ve seen my whole professional life wildly altered. I’m not surprised at all. I’ve seen all kinds of people behaving in all kinds of ways that are on the spectrum of this exact same kind of bigotry, complicity, fear — all of it."
Albert, who lives in Albany, first learned about the panelists’ objections on Thursday afternoon, when she got an email from Mark Koplik, the assistant director of the New York State Writers Institute, which is organizing the festival.
"We have a crazy situation developing and we’d love to talk on the phone," Koplik wrote in a message that JTA obtained.
"Basically, not to sugar coat this, Aisha Gawad and Lisa Ko don’t want to be on a panel with a ’Zionist,’" he added. "We’re taken by surprise, and somewhat nonplussed, and want to talk this out."
By Thursday evening, Albert had been notified by Paul Grondahl, director of the Writers Institute, that the event had been canceled.
"We regret this situation, which was out of our control," Grondahl wrote in an email obtained by JTA. "It is unfortunate for everyone involved."
Grondahl added, "I wish this were otherwise. We will find a way to air these issues we have discussed in a deeper, more considered, more carefully planned event with intentionality and context."
The cancellation of the panel is the latest in a long series of literary events to be upended or nixed because of disputes over the Israel-Hamas war and Zionism. Activists have sought to hinder the careers of authors they deem "Zionist," many of whom have Jewish heritage.
In one notable recent instance, a launch event for Jewish journalist Joshua Leifer’s new book, "Tablets Shattered," at a Brooklyn bookstore in August was canceled because one of its employees objected to the event’s "Zionist" rabbi moderator.
Some of those facing the criticism have not expressed public support for Israel. Gabrielle Zevin, who wrote the bestseller "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow," for example, has faced calls for cancellation despite saying nothing publicly about Israel or the war.
Albert, on the other hand, has been an outspoken advocate for Israel since the outbreak of the war nearly a year ago, when thousands of Hamas operatives stormed southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking 251 hostages.
On Instagram, she has posted aggressively and frequently in support of Israel and against Hamas and those she perceives as supporting it, including pro-Paleostinian protesters in the United States, whom she has called "terror apologists."
On Friday afternoon, following the cancelation, she appeared to embrace the cancellation, posting an image of her latest book — "The Snarling Girl," a collection of personal essays published last month — with the text, "Now’s as good a time as ever to promote Zio lit!" She later added a selfie with the text "Friendly local Zio bitch" over it.
Ko, Abdel Gawad and Layden did not respond to requests for comment, and as of Friday afternoon, their social media profiles do not mention the cancellation. But Ko has been involved in multiple pro-Paleostinian activist efforts since the start of the war on October 7, 2023. On November 6, she posted that she would be hosting a panel called "Unlocking Our Voices: Writing against genocide" later that month.
She described the event as "a space to clear our throats + direct reflections into action + solidarity." She added, "Free Paleostine."
On Friday, Ko’s online schedule of events still included a listing of the panel. The festival also did not put out a public statement about the panel’s cancellation, though news of it has spread on social media. The festival’s most recent post on the social platform X, which does not address the dispute, has drawn more than a dozen replies condemning the decision.
In a statement to JTA, Koplik criticized the panelists who objected to Albert and expressed dismay over the cancellation.
"We unequivocally condemn antisemitism," he said. "We never would consider removing Elisa, and we stood up to those who wanted to remove her. We no longer had a panel to be moderated. We fully support Elisa’s expression of outrage and disappointment. We believe in civil dialogue, and we condemn intolerance of any kind. I can’t tell you how sad and upsetting this is for me personally."
In his statement, Koplik also wrote that "one participant refused to participate, and another decided not to do so in support."
Albert told JTA she hoped that the festival organizers would put out a statement about the incident and was frustrated that they had not. She said she had proposed an alternative to the scheduled panel in which she would appear alone, without her co-panelists, to discuss their objections to her with whoever was in the audience. But the festival declined.
"They said, ’No, that’s not fair. People will be affronted. It’s a panel about girls coming of age. Nobody came to talk about antisemitism or the conflict in the Middle East,’" Albert recounted. "And I was like, ’Well, s—t, but this got hijacked by some bigoted people."
[IsraelTimes] Green Party candidate, who is Jewish, leads among Muslim voters in swing states of Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin amid anger at Democrats for support of Israel in war against Hamas.
[GEO.TV] Pakistan and China have agreed to strengthen strategic cooperation in key areas, including counter-terrorism efforts, cross-border cooperation, and measures to combat smuggling.
The agreement was reached during a meeting between Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and a high-level Chinese delegation led by the Minister for Political and Legal Affairs, Chen Mingguo, in Islamabad.
The Chinese delegation included Xinjiang's Deputy Secretary of the Committee of Parliamentary and Legal Affairs, the Executive Director General of Police, and the Vice President of the Xinjiang Police Academy.
During the meeting, both sides agreed to conduct joint police and paramilitary exercises in Gilgit-Baltistan or Xinjiang, with GB police officers set to train at the Xinjiang Police Academy.
In this regard, a Pakistani delegation, led by the Federal Secretary of Interior, will soon visit Xinjiang to enhance cooperation.
It was also agreed that comprehensive measures would be taken against terrorism, which is a global issue. Speaking on the occasion, Naqvi said that Xinjiang province is of vital importance for Pakistan in its relations with China.
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[Rudaw] Nearly 600 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) returned to their homes in the Nineveh and Salahaddin provinces on Thursday, and over 1700 have registered to return, an official from the Iraqi migration and displaced ministry told Rudaw.
Ali Abbas, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Displacement and Migration, told Rudaw that 599 displaced persons, residing in the Harsham camp for the internally displaced on the outskirts of Erbil city, left for their homes.
Abbas said that "a few days after the displaced individuals return and confirm their settlement, they will be given the benefits promised in exchange for their return."
The Iraqi government has offered four million Iraqi dinars (about $3,050), a fridge, a stove, and a television to families who voluntarily return to their homes.
In addition to Thursday’s returnees, over 1,700 more have registered to return to their homes, according to Abbas.
In April, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported there were 1,098,913 internally displaced persons (IDPs) across the country, primarily in Duhok, Erbil, Nineveh, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Sulaimani provinces. At the time, it had recorded 4,871,916 people who had returned to their homes after the defeat of 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.... (ISIS).
Baghdad had set July 30 as the deadline for the Kurdistan Region to close its camps, though that timeline was later extended. Erbil refused to forcibly close the camps and in response, Iraqi Minister of Migration and Displacement Evan Faeq Jabro filed a lawsuit against the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
Abbas told Rudaw in August that there are still about 20,000 families residing in the IDP camps across the Kurdistan Region.
Despite the financial incentive, many families are reluctant to leave because of continued violence in their places of origin, a lack of reconstruction following the destruction of their homes, and little in the way of basic services.
Human rights advocates have expressed concern about Iraq’s push to close the camps, saying that all returns must be voluntary, safe, and dignified.
There are more than 630,000 IDPs in the Kurdistan Region, though most of them reside outside of the 23 camps established across Duhok, Erbil, and Sulaimani provinces, according to March figures from the KRG’s Joint Crisis Coordination Center.
IOM, citing data it collected in Iraq from April 1 to June 6, said that nearly a fifth of displaced persons "did not return to their location of origin and are considered secondarily displaced IDPs."
[Rudaw] Iraq’s ministry of migration and displaced announced on Tuesday that four thousand people have been repatriated from the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria housing Islamic State (ISIS) suspects, as Baghdad continues the repatriation of nationals from the camp.
“The Iraqi government has begun the process of rehabilitating the returned displaced –persons after conducting a comprehensive security check on them,” Karim al-Nouri, undersecretary for the Iraqi ministry of migration and displaced, told state media. “About four thousand Iraqis have been returned.”
Nouri said that individuals who have “blood in their hands” and are considered security threats are not granted a return to Iraq.
Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the 40,000 ISIS-linked people who have been held at the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria’s (Rojava) Hasaka province since the defeat of the jihadists in 2019. The camp has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism.
The repatriation of ISIS-linked citizens has sparked opposition in Iraq, with tribes unwilling to accept and welcome people associated with the group that committed heinous human rights abuses and war crimes from 2014 to 2017, when they controlled vast swathes of the country.
Most repatriated individuals are resettled in al-Jada camp in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, to be prepared for reintegration into their communities and then returned to their hometowns.
[IsraelTimes] Analysts say Istanbul-based Zaher Jabarin, now in charge of West Bank terror activity, seeking to prove mettle with return to high-profile attacks
In late August, former Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... chief Khaled Mashaal delivered a speech in which he declared the terror group’s intent to revive suicide kabooms by West Bank Paleostinians against Israelis.
Over the next four days, a pair of boom-mobiles went off in a West Bank settlement bloc south of Jerusalem and a suspected third one was neutralized at the entrance to another settlement north of Ramallah. Weeks earlier, a jacket wallah walking the streets of Tel Aviv was killed when the bomb he carried in his backpack detonated by accident.
Though relatively ineffectual — four Israelis suffered non-life threatening wounds — the bombings still managed to send a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... signal that the terror group was attempting to flip the calendar back two decades to the days when suicide kabooms were its hallmark.
At the forefront of orchestrating these attacks is Zaher Jabarin, Hamas’s newly appointed leader in the West Bank, analysts say.
Jabarin assumed the position following the liquidation of his predecessor, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut in early January.
Based in Istanbul, Jabarin remains a lesser-known figure among Hamas’s senior command, though his background mirrors that of more prominent leaders such as Yahya Sinwar and al-Arouri.
Born in Salfit in the central West Bank in 1969, Jabarin joined a then-fledgling Hamas in the late 1980s, playing a crucial role in expanding the group’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, into the northern West Bank.
He was arrested by Israeli forces in 1993 and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was later among over 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners released in the 2011 deal to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from captivity 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... Like Sinwar and al-Arouri, Jabarin is fluent in Hebrew thanks to the nearly two decades he spent in Israeli prison, and he is thought to possess a deep understanding of Israeli society. But in contrast to them, Jabarin, who was exiled to Syria, has remained largely behind the scenes and is unknown by most Israelis.
"Unlike Sinwar or al-Arouri, Jabarin is not viewed as particularly sophisticated or charismatic within Hamas, nor as a clever or brave leader," said Michael Milshtein, head of the Forum for Paleostinian Studies at the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University. "This makes him eager to prove his capabilities, especially in light of the legacy of his predecessor."
From his base in Istanbul, Jabarin is believed to be orchestrating a new wave of suicide kabooms from the West Bank, seeking to strike at Israel’s core as its capabilities in Gaza have been heavily reduced. While no boom-mobiles or suicide attacks have been reported for the past two weeks, experts believe that the wave has not ended.
Does he have a cell phone? a pager? laptop? microwave? toaster? Does he know any nice squirrels? It recently became much more interesting to be an anti-Zionist jihadi than it used to be…
Suicide attacks were a hallmark of Hamas operations in the 1990s and early 2000s, with Jabarin himself recruiting the notorious Yahya Ayyash, known as "the Engineer." An expert bombmaker responsible for multiple deadly attacks in the mid-1990s, Ayyash was assassinated by Israel in 1996.
In the years since the end of the Second Intifada, Hamas appeared to move away from a focus on bombings, which require sophisticated planning and organization to carry out, though there have still been sporadic attacks with explosives.
In the last decades, the group has concentrated on building up its rocket capabilities and underground fortifications in Gaza and on shooting, ramming and knife attacks from the West Bank.
According to Milshtein, Jabarin’s turn back toward bombings comes amid frustration within Hamas over West Bank Paleostinians’ failure since October 7 to join in the fight against Israel.
"Since the first day of the war, Yahya Sinwar has repeatedly called for opening a second front in the West Bank," he said. "Yet despite nearly a year of conflict in Gaza, the West Bank has remained relatively calm. There’s now pressure to show that Hamas in the West Bank can contribute to the broader effort."
Israeli officials believe Jabarin was responsible for dispatching Hamas operative Jaafar Muna from Nablus to Tel Aviv on August 18 with a large bomb intended for a suicide attack, according to veteran Arab affairs commentator Yoni Ben Menachem, a senior analyst for the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs.
Following the failed Tel Aviv bombing, Hamas shared propaganda posters on social media featured posters depicting Ayyash’s image alongside bombed-out buses with the slogan: "Who will restore Ayyash’s glory?"
While the three attempted bombings in August were the first to come close to succeeding in years, the threat has never really subsided, experts say.
"The motivation and capacity for these operations never went away, as evidenced by the discovery of multiple explosive factories by the IDF in the West Bank over the years," said Guy Aviad, a Hamas expert and a former IDF historian. "Fortunately, many were thwarted."
MONEY MAN WITH A NOD FROM ERDOGAN
Jabarin’s influence extends beyond military operations. As the longtime head of Hamas’s Financial Bureau, which like him is based in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , he controls millions of dollars that are funneled into terrorist activities, particularly in the West Bank.
After his release in 2011, Jabarin was exiled to Syria, then in the throes of civil war. Like other Hamas leaders who decamped from Damascus, Jabarin spent years living between 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 Turkey, ultimately settling in Istanbul.
There, he assumed leadership of the Financial Bureau and acted as deputy to al-Arouri, who lived in Istanbul until 2016.
Under Jabarin’s management, the department has invested substantial sums in Ottoman Turkish real estate and stock markets,
…all sorts of potential for Mossad shenanigans there…
while laundering profits through a network of money changers in Turkey, 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... , and the Gulf, Aviad said.
These funds are then channeled to Hamas operatives in the West Bank and Gaza, Aviad said.
Hamas also benefits from donations collected by Widows & Orphans Ammunition Fund organizations based in Europe, North America, and other parts of the world.
Hamas’s lucrative financial operations in Turkey have flourished with the tacit approval of the Ottoman Turkish government under President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... "You cannot run a Hamas office in Turkey without government consent," Aviad noted.
Turkey’s willingness to harbor Hamas leaders has long been a major point of contention affecting ties between Ankara and Jerusalem. In December, Turkey reportedly warned Israel of "serious consequences" if it targeted Hamas operatives on Ottoman Turkish soil.
With Erdogan’s protection, Hamas can operate largely freely in Turkey, where the group has situated some of its most vital branches.
Before Jabarin, al-Arouri was thought to have directed and helped finance terror activity in the West Bank from Turkey, including the 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens, which sparked a large Israeli crackdown in the West Bank and a devastating war in Gaza.
In addition to Hamas’s Financial Bureau, Turkey also hosts part of the terror group’s technological arm, responsible for developing military capabilities for Hamas units in the Paleostinian territories. (The other part is in Lebanon.)
According to a 2021 report by the Alma Research Center, a note from a Hamas cell revealed that hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros transited through this bureau using money changers and were intended for use in training camps and to conduct a sniper course.
As Hamas suffers heavy losses in Gaza, experts predict that Jabarin’s position within Hamas will grow in importance, particularly as he pushes to rekindle high-profile suicide kabooms from the West Bank.
"One year ago, he was not at the top echelons," said Milshtein. "But today, I’d say he is one of the top five leaders of Hamas, especially after the death of Muhammad Deif, Marwan Issa, 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... and Saleh al-Arouri. He is the one responsible for the second most important arena after Gaza. He has become very prominent."
[IsraelTimes] Each of the pagers that went kaboom! on their Hezbollah owners across 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... on Tuesday, injuring thousands of the terror group’s operatives, was individually detonated, with the attackers knowing who was being targeted, where he was, and whether others were in close proximity, Channel 12 claims.
In a lengthy report quoting Israeli and foreign sources, the TV channel says those behind the attack were determined to ensure that only the person carrying the pager would be hurt by the blast.
"Each pager had its own arrangements. That’s how it was possible to control who was hit and who wasn’t," it quotes an unnamed foreign security source saying.
The report says: "They knew who he was with and where he was, so that the vegetable seller in the supermarket would not be hurt" when a pager went kaboom! on a man alongside him. This is a reference to footage from the pager explosions in which a man is apparently blown up by his pager next to a fruit and vegetable stand.
The TV report adds several other new details to what has been uncovered so far regarding the unprecedented attack, which Hezbollah has blamed on Israel and Israel has not officially confirmed.
It quotes an unnamed foreign security saying "tens of thousands of pagers" were produced, and manufactured with the knowledge that the client would check them carefully. Therefore, the pagers had to work properly and betray no indication that they had been primed with explosives. Their appearance and weight had to be unchanged.
Interviewed in the report, Ronen Bergman, an investigative news hound for The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... and Yedioth Ahronoth, says the whole scheme was dreamed up by a brilliant female intelligence operative, aged less than 30, somewhere in the Middle East.
Whoever was responsible, the report says, decided to set up a factory to build the devices from scratch — so that "it won’t be a device that we will tamper with; it will be a device that we will produce." The New York Times came to the same conclusion in a report on Thursday.
The ability to supply the device to Hezbollah was helped by the fact that the terror group cannot make purchases on the open market, because of suppliers’ fears of US sanctions, and therefore must routinely work with intermediary suppliers.
Channel 12’s report says that when, on October 10, the IDF and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had pressed for Israel to attack Hezbollah, rather than focus initially on Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... after its October 7 invasion and massacre, "it is reasonable to assume" that buttons detonating these devices would have been pressed, and very heavy air strikes on Hezbollah would have followed.
In the event, the IDF focused first on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , and Hezbollah has been pounding northern Israel ever since.
The report, which was approved by the Israeli military censor, says Hezbollah bought more pagers after its military chief Fuad Shukr was killed in a targeted IDF strike in Beirut in July, and thereafter used pagers even more widely because of its growing wariness about using mobile phones. Hezbollah, the report says, long assumed that Israel would be a threat to its cellphone communications in the event of a major escalation, and thus widely integrated the use of pagers.
While Channel 12 repeats the widely reported assessment that the pagers were detonated this week because of a fear that the Trojan Horse devices were about to be exposed by Hezbollah, it also quotes a foreign security source saying this was not the case, and that Israel decided it needed to step up its actions against Hezbollah.
Amos Yadlin, a former IDF intelligence chief, says more broadly that Israel’s goal is to cause Hezbollah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> to realize that his attacks on the north "are costing him more than he’s gaining," including in terms of support within Lebanon.
The report says it was regarded as "preferable" that the large number of Hezbollah fighters whose devices went kaboom! be badly injured rather than killed, in part because of the immense strain this placed on health services in Lebanon, and by extension the raised domestic pressure on Hezbollah.
A foreign security source tells Channel 12 that the detonating pagers operation is by no means considered a strategic attack, and that Israel has much more dramatic capabilities.
The source says Israel has spent years developing these far more extensive capabilities for use against Hezbollah and Iran, but not as regards to Hamas — apparently because it underestimated the danger posed by Hamas — and that this partly explains the failure to prevent the October 7 catastrophe. The capabilities used thus far in Lebanon are "relatively low-level," the source says.
Eyal Hulata, a former National Security Adviser, tells Channel 12 after the report airs that thousands of Israelis have been working for years to create capabilities to ensure security for Israel. "There are more capabilities like these," he says, referencing the recent events in Lebanon. Given the collapse of public faith in the security establishment after the October 7 failure, it is important for Israelis to know this, says Hulata, who is also a former head of the Mossad’s technological branch.
[IsraelTimes] Doctoral student Leo Franks arrived in April as a tourist and began the aliyah process. But after arrests in the West Bank, his passport was confiscated, and now he’s being deported
When Leo Franks landed in Israel in April, he could see the next stage of his life taking shape.
A British Jew, Franks, 25, had recently started his doctorate in history at a prestigious American university. He came to a country whose legal history he hoped to make the center of his research. Franks had been to Israel many times before and even had an Israeli girlfriend. On this trip, he hoped to make aliyah — to become an Israeli himself.
Entering the country on a tourist visa, Franks, a graduate student at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley, quickly began the paperwork to exercise his rights under Israel’s Law of Return, the guarantee of citizenship to Jews around the world that is at the heart of the country’s national identity. He then moved in with his girlfriend and prepared to start his new life.
Now, five months later, Israeli immigration authorities are showing him out.
Franks’ immigration troubles don’t stem from any doubts about his Jewishness, an obstacle that some aliyah applicants face. Rather, the problems began after Franks’ left-wing views took him to a West Bank flashpoint and an anti-government protest in Jerusalem, where he was briefly detained. Franks believes he was deliberately punished for his political activism and prevented from making aliyah by officials in Israel’s Interior Ministry, which handles immigration and citizenship.
"The story here is that the courts have given the Ministry of Interior free rein to make decisions about who can be a Jew in Israel on the basis of his politics," he said in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Or maybe you're just too much of a pain in the ass and a future provocateur that they made the call to avoid the obvious future issues?
The degree to which Franks’ activism factored into his immigration troubles — his citizenship application was mysteriously closed and he currently faces an order to leave the country by Sunday — is not clear. The Interior Ministry did not respond to questions from JTA. While it raised concerns about his entanglements with law enforcement and about his motivation for being in the country in communications with Franks, the ministry did not directly say it was ordering him to leave because of his political activity.
Still, he and his attorney, as well as a number of others who have been tracking the Israeli government’s handling of left-wing activists, believe there is a strong connection.
"Was the ministry targeting him because he is some kind of activist? I can’t say. It’s clear the police want these activists to leave the country, and that was the end result of the ministry’s actions," said Franks’ Israeli immigration attorney, Ira Rozina.
At this point one begins to wonder what — and how — Mr Franks was protesting at UC Berkeley. Israel has enough Antifa cadres here — it doesn’t need to import more anti-Israel terrorists, however much one might prefer to attack the police and those who disagree with them at the source of such things. Lots more detail about thr handling of his case at the link.
[IsraelTimes] Only 39% of respondents in Strip now say assault on southern Israel that sparked war was correct move, though in West Bank 64% still think terror group made the right call.
Next time figure that out before your lords and masters drag you nose-deep into the swamp and get lost. Now y’all are stuck until they surrender to the hated Zionist Entity. Think of this as a teachable Annus Horribilis, to be burnt on your heart in letters of flaming poo.
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The grand lesson of the twentieth century was about wars being started by the party that eventually lost.
That would imply that the reasoning for going to war was BS. Maybe you shouldn't have started this $hit.
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Regret - you mean they regret the decision. Good. Plenty more regret to come.
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What is it with the regrets? When your leaders bring martyrdom nearer and thus paradise, should hoot not rejoice?
[AFRICANEWS] A show of force designed to project power. But don't nobody answer the phone!
Iran's armed forces have held a parade annually since 1980. But this year's event takes on special importance and symbolism given the high tensions in the region prompted by Israel's war on Gaza
During the parade, Tehran displayed its latest missiles and drones, including the Shahed 136B drone and the Fattah hypersonic missile. "Now with MOAR ISLAM!"
An older version of the Shahed drone has been reportedly used by Russia during its war with Ukraine.
President Masoud Pezeshkian appealed for unity in his address to the crowds.
"If we are united, if we join hands, Israel the usurper will not be able to commit the crimes it's committing now in the region," said Pezeshkian.
"No evil (country) has the courage to even harbour the idea of invading our soil in their mind," Pezeshkian added.
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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.
...Arabic for 
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
