[Rudaw] US-based Moslemholy man Muhammed Fethullah Gülen >... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...> , who was accused of orchestrating the attempted coup against the Ottoman Turkish government of 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... in 2016, died on Monday, sources close to the holy man announced.
"Dear Friends, Our teacher passed away on October 20, 2024, at 21:20 [US time] in the hospital where he had been receiving treatment for a while," read a post on X from Herkul Nagme, a website dedicated to publishing updates on Gulen’s life and his videos where he addresses his followers.
"His doctors will make a statement about the hospital process in the coming hours," it added
He was 83 years old.
Gulen and his transnational Hizemt [Service] movement, have been accused by Erdogan and the Ottoman Turkish government of orchestrating the 2016 failed coup attempt in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... that killed more than 240 people. His movement was declared a terrorist organization just two months before the incident and a countrywide crackdown ensued to capture his followers.
"Fethullah Gulen, the traitor and enemy of religion, who spent his entire life plotting against the Republic of Turkey, has died," Ottoman Turkish state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
TRT said on X.
Gulen moved to Pennsylvania in 1999, and has been residing there since then despite calls by Erdogan to return to Turkey in 2013.
In 2000, Gulen was tried in absentia and was charged with attempting to embed his supporters into civil service and important governmental positions to overthrow the government.
The charges were reversed in 2008 under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and then-prime minister Erdogan, who enjoyed good relations with the holy man until an abrupt end in 2013 after a corruption scandal involving Erdogan’s closest circles pitted the two men against one another. The Ottoman Turkish president accused Gulen of creating a "parallel state" within Turkey.
Erdogan’s consolidation of power has been denounced by Gulen, who has referred to the Ottoman Turkish president as a "dictator" and encouraged the US and European governments to do more to restore political freedoms in Turkey.
Gulen was stripped of his Ottoman Turkish nationality in 2017.
Gulen’s Hizmet movement has focused on establishing schools across the globe, claiming to increase the quality of education. The movement established its first schools in central Asia and later spread globally.
The movement established the first schools in the Kurdistan Region in 1994 in Erbil, and three years later in Sulaimani. The schools teach English, Kurdish, Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish languages.
Gulen’s followers claim the founding of the schools is in line with the vision of Kurdish Islamic scholar Said Nursi and his teachings, who had a vision of establishing schools to spread Islamic teachings.
Gulen was a one-time ally of Erdogan but they fell out spectacularly, and Erdogan held him responsible for the 2016 attempted coup in which rogue soldiers commandeered warplanes, tanks and helicopters. Some 250 people were killed in the bid to seize power.
Gulen, who had lived in self-imposed exile in the US since 1999, denied involvement in the putsch.
According to its followers, Gulen’s movement — known as “Hizmet” which means “service” in Turkish — seeks to spread a moderate brand of Islam that promotes Western-style education, free markets and interfaith communication.
Since the failed coup, his movement has been systematically dismantled in Turkey and its influence has declined internationally.
Known to his supporters as Hodjaefendi, or respected teacher, Gulen was born in a village in the eastern Turkish province of Erzurum in 1941. The son of an imam, or Islamic preacher, he studied the Quran from infancy.
In 1959, Gulen was appointed as a mosque imam in the northwestern city of Edirne and began to come to prominence as a preacher in the 1960s in the western province of Izmir, where he set up student dormitories and would go to tea houses to preach.
These student houses marked the start of an informal network that would spread over the following decades through education, business, media and state institutions, giving his supporters extensive influence.
This influence also spread beyond Turkey’s borders to the Turkic republics of Central Asia, the Balkans, Africa and the West through a network of schools.
FORMER ERDOGAN ALLY
Gulen had been a close ally of Erdogan and his AK Party, but growing tensions in their relationship exploded in December 2013 when corruption investigations targeting ministers and officials close to Erdogan came to light.
Prosecutors and police from Gulen’s Hizmet movement were widely believed to be behind the investigations, and an arrest warrant was issued for Gulen in 2014, with his movement designated as a terrorist group two years later.
Soon after the 2016 coup, Erdogan described Gulen’s network as traitorsh and “like a cancer,” vowing to root them out wherever they are. Hundreds of schools, companies, media outlets and associations linked to him were shut down and assets seized.
Gulen condemned the coup attempt “in the strongest terms.”
“As someone who suffered under multiple military coups during the past five decades, it is especially insulting to be accused of having any link to such an attempt,” he said in a statement.
In a crackdown after the failed putsch, which the government said targeted Gulen’s followers, at least 77,000 people were arrested and 150,000 state workers including teachers, judges, and soldiers suspended under emergency rule.
Companies and media outlets regarded as linked to Gulen were seized by the state or closed down. The Turkish government said its actions were justified by the gravity of the threat posed to the state by the coup.
Gulen also became an isolated figure within Turkey, reviled by Erdogan’s supporters and shunned by the opposition which saw his network as having conspired over decades to undermine the secular foundations of the republic.
Ankara has long sought to have him extradited from the US.
Speaking in his gated compound in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, Gulen said in a 2017 Reuters interview that he had no plans to flee the US to avoid extradition. Even then, he appeared frail, walking with a shuffle and keeping his longtime doctor close at hand.
Gulen had traveled to the US for medical treatment, but remained there as he faced a criminal investigation in Turkey.
[ShabelleMedia] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... [UN] High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has successfully supported the repatriation of 157 Somali nationals from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , where they faced dire conditions.
The group, consisting of men, women, and children, departed from Aden, southern Yemen in a boat, marking a significant operation to aid vulnerable populations.
Somalia’s Embassy in Yemen, with logistical support from UNHCR, organized the return to help those who were stranded and enduring severe hardships.
The repatriation effort underscores the ongoing challenges faced by refugees and asylum seekers in Yemen, a country grappling with prolonged conflict and humanitarian crises.
The returnees had been living under difficult circumstances, with limited access to basic necessities and healthcare, compounded by Yemen’s political instability and economic downturn.
The operation not only alleviates their immediate plight but also reflects a broader commitment to international refugee protection and repatriation.
UNHCR officials have stated that the organization continues to monitor the situation of Somalis in Yemen, ensuring that those who wish to return home can do so safely and voluntarily.
This repatriation is part of a series of efforts aimed at helping the most vulnerable reintegrate into their home communities with the necessary support.
The journey back to Somalia represents hope for these individuals to rebuild their lives, although challenges in Somalia itself, including security and economic issues, remain significant.
The UNHCR and other humanitarian organizations are expected to provide further assistance upon their return to facilitate their reintegration.
[France24] The newly formed French government plans to adopt another, tougher immigration bill next year, and leading the charge is hardline Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. It is the latest in a series of moves under French President Emmanuel Macron to tackle immigration, a favourite talking point of the far right.
All just proposals, so far, but they trend in the right direction.
Shortly after Bruno Retailleau took over as interior minister he made it clear he had a “law-and-order” agenda, vowing among other things to crack down on illegal immigration.
“The French people want more order order in the streets, order at the borders,” he said upon taking up his new role in late September after more than two months of political impasse in France.
Retailleau has denounced “mass immigration”, suggesting that France could be overwhelmed by migratory flows in a rhetorical shift that echoes the long-time refrains of the far right.
While immigration has seen a steady rise in France over the past decade, it pales in comparison to rates seen in other European nations. Some 5.8 million immigrants lived in France at the start of 2013, equal to 8.8 percent of the population, according to official statistics.
By 2023, France was home to 7 million immigrants, or some 10.7 percent of the population. In comparison, immigrants made up around 19 percent of the population in Germany, 16 percent in Spain and 14 percent in the United Kingdom in 2022, according to official and OECD statistics.
The issue was catapulted to the forefront once again in the wake of the grisly rape and murder of a 19-year-old student known only as Philippine in September. The main suspect was a young Moroccan man previously convicted of rape who had been ordered to leave France.
After having served a five-year sentence, he was released in September on the condition that he regularly report to the authorities after Moroccan authorities failed to deliver the travel documents necessary to expel him.
In response to this “abominable crime”, Retailleau called for laws making it easier to deport foreigners convicted of criminal acts.
"It is up to us, as public leaders, to refuse to accept the inevitable and to develop our legal arsenal to protect the French," he said.
"If we have to change the rules, let's change them."
The French parliament had already adopted a tougher immigration law that was backed by the far right back in December, prompting the left to once again accuse Macron’s government of caving to extremes. France’s highest court later struck down parts of the law, deeming them unconstitutional.
Other EU governments are also cracking down on migration, with Germany tightening its borders for a six-month period starting in September and Italy controversially transferring migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean to processing centres in Albania.
Retailleau’s proposals range from restricting access to medical care to expanding the use of detention centres while also pressuring origin and transit countries to accept more migrants.
RE-WRITING THE RULE BOOK
A 2012 plan that came into effect under former interior minister Manuel Valls allowed for up to 30,000 undocumented migrants to be legalised every year. Individuals can request asylum based on family links (a process known as chain migration) or based on their status as a “temporary worker”.
Retailleau plans to replace the law with a new, more restrictive one. Being granted legal status would be attributed more slowly, he said, and “based on the reality of a job and the possibility of integration”.
Retailleau has also made clear he wants to extend the maximum period that immigrants can remain in detention centres from the current 90-day limit. He has proposed increasing this period to 210 days for the perpetrators of sexual crimes “in line with the rules for terrorists”, he says.
PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN
The Philippine case has sparked a new round of debate over expulsions, notably when a prior criminal conviction is at question. The “obligation to leave French territory” (OQTF) is a judicial order for a foreign national to leave France either immediately or within 30 days. Today only 7 percent of OQTFs are executed, mainly because origin countries are often reluctant.
Retailleau has floated offering visas and development aid in exchange, or threatening to impose tariffs, to pressure countries to take back their nationals. The interior minister also wants transit countries to be more willing to take back people who cannot be returned to their country of origin, for example Afghanistan.
He promised to nominate a special envoy in the weeks to come who would oversee concluding migration agreements with transit countries.
ACCESS DENIED
Among one of the most controversial measures proposed by Retailleau is reducing State Medical Aid (AME), which provides free healthcare to undocumented migrants.
“France is one of the European countries that gives the most advantages and I don’t want France to be a singular case, or for it to be the most attractive country in Europe for a certain number of social services, or access to healthcare,” he said.
A similar proposal last year prompted medical workers to vow to disobey the new rules, pledging to “continue to treat undocumented patients free of charge and based on their needs, in accordance with the Hippocratic Oath”.
The proposal has led to divisions even within the government.
“There is no way we can touch State Medical Aid. AME also insures the health of the French by limiting certain contagions,” warned Health Minister Geneviève Darrieussecq.
Ah, the French. Such masters of diplomacy, steeped in the subtlest of diplomatic language and merde.
[IsraelTimes] French official says Paris supports Israel, but can’t allow weapons used in Gaza or Lebanon to be promoted while president pushes for ceasefire; Israel blasts move as ‘a disgrace’
Amid anger over French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ban Israeli firms from exhibiting at a major naval arms show, an official in the Élysée Palace denied on Monday that Israeli companies were being boycotted.
"There was never any intention to prohibit Israeli companies from participating — allowing access, visiting, holding meetings — in trade exhibitions in La Belle France," said the French official. "Israeli companies interested in this will of course be able to enter the Euronaval exhibition. There is nothing in the French government’s position that can be interpreted as a boycott of Israeli companies in Euronaval."
The official asserted that La Belle France’s support for Israel and its right to defend itself "has always been unequivocal and without exception."
"However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... " explained the official, "while French diplomacy is clearly calling for a ceasefire 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 a rusty 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 Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... — the only way to curb the escalation and achieve peace and stability in the region — it would be inconsistent to allow any promotion of weapons used in Gaza and Lebanon, which cause unacceptable damage to the civilian population."
The official said, "We made it clear to the Israeli authorities that the participation of the companies setting up booths must reflect this balance, which is in line with La Belle France’s position. Also, companies whose equipment is not used for offensive operations in Gaza and Lebanon will of course be able to set up booths at the exhibition."
Euronaval, the organizer of the November 4-7 event, said in a statement last week that the French government had informed it that Israeli delegations were not allowed to exhibit stands or show equipment, but could attend the trade show. The decision affected seven firms, it said.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Sunday that his ministry would take "legal and diplomatic measures" against Macron’s decision.
An Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Jerusalem will take the issue to French courts, where they will claim illegal discrimination by Macron, who has grown increasingly critical of Israel’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon.
Writing on X in French and Hebrew, Katz said the "anti-democratic" boycott is unacceptable coming from an ally, and called on La Belle France and the West to support Israel, "the only state on the front lines" against the "Iranian axis of evil and radical Islam."
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also ripped into the decision, writing on X that Macron’s actions were "a disgrace" and that La Belle France had adopted "a hostile policy toward the Jewish people."
La Belle France had previously barred Israeli firms from participating in the Eurosatory military trade show, which took place in Gay Paree in June, as Macron was urging a ceasefire in Gaza.
The French president has provoked outrage in Jerusalem over his call for an arms embargo on Israel earlier this month, saying it was the only way to end the fighting in Gaza and in Lebanon, a former French colony where Gay Paree still wields great influence.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had blasted Macron’s statement, calling it "a disgrace," and "anti-democratic."
[IsraelTimes] Opposition leader Yair Lapid meets with European Union Ambassador to Israel Dimiter Tzantchev and tells him that an arms embargo on Israel that is being pushed by some EU nations is “unforgivable.”
Lapid tells Tzantchev that “an arms embargo on Israel at a time when we are fighting against terror organizations is unacceptable and unforgivable.”
“We have here a democratic country fighting against terrible antisemitic terror organizations and we need to fight them and defeat them, you can’t put an arms embargo on Israel under these conditions,” a statement from his office quotes Lapid as saying.
Several EU nations led by Spain and Ireland have called for an arms embargo on Israel.
Lapid also urges the EU to work with Israel to craft a deal that would see the hostages seized by Hamas returned.
Journalist says ‘ashamed to be French’ after Macron’s criticism of Israel
French journalist Philippe Val lambastes his leader’s criticism of Israel amid the war in Gaza and Lebanon.
Israel’s Channel 12 airs a recent segment on Europe 1 Radio in which Val invites listeners to imagine if France had been under extended attack by enemies, displacing large segments of the population.
“Imagine under what mental strain France and its people would be if we were in Israel’s place,” he says.
“The demands from Israel are too high,” he said. “It is asked to live under the threat of terrorism, unretrained antisemitism and boundless barbarism but to maintain a good image.”
As for French President Emmanuel Macron’s criticism of the war’s conduct and his call to stop supplying offensive weapons to the Jewish state, Val says: “For the first time in a long time I was ashamed to be French. I wanted to tell Israelis I’m sorry. Do not mistakenly think all French think like the president that represents us. Believe us, the vast majority of the French stands by you.”
[IsraelTimes] In talks for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Arab mediators made the proposal to now-slain terror chief, who rejected the idea, Wall Street Journal says
Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... leader Yahya Sinwar, killed by IDF troops last week, was at one stage offered the chance to leave 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 a rusty 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... Strip in exchange for allowing Egypt to negotiate on the terror group’s behalf for a hostage deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
"I’m not under siege, I’m on Paleostinian soil," Sinwar reportedly told Arab mediators in response to the proposal, soon after the start of the war sparked by the October 7, 2023, massacre, which he orchestrated.
According to the report, as the war went on, Sinwar accepted that he was likely to be killed and according to mediators, suggested that the terror group choose a leadership council to govern and manage the transition after his death.
According to the report, based on interviews with Israeli, US, Hamas and Arab officials, Siwnar repeatedly told Hamas negotiators in 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... to not agree to a ceasefire deal, saying in one message that high civilian deaths in Gaza would put international pressure on Israel. Sinwar was said to be holding out in the hope that the fighting in Gaza would trigger a regional war against Israel.
As Israel closed in on Sinwar, destroying the Gaza tunnel infrastructure where he was hiding, he was forced to spend more time on the surface, which increased the chances of him being killed.
In a message to prepare for his possible death, Sinwar warned that Israel would offer concessions if he was killed but that Hamas should not give in.
The report said that under a previous government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attempts were made to kill Sinwar and his military chief Muhammad Deif, but Israeli officials believed that the terror leaders were deterred. Netanyahu’s successor (and predecessor) Naftali Bennett proposed assassinating Sinwar on at least two occasions before his government collapsed, according to the report.
Sinwar, who was seen as a major obstacle to a hostage deal, was killed last Wednesday in an encounter with IDF troops operating in southern Gaza’s Rafah. Israel says Deif was assassinated in July.
Sinwar’s death has sparked hopes of a renewed opportunity to revitalize the long-stalled negotiations for the release of the 101 remaining hostages held by Hamas and for an end to the fighting between Israel and the Paleostinian terror group that has reduced much of the enclave to rubble over the past 12 months.
Officials in Egypt are hoping that Sinwar’s death will provide new impetus to stalled negotiations for a ceasefire, including changing Israel’s "uncompromising position" on Gaza after the war ends, the Saudi-based al-Arabiya network reported Monday.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is due to visit Israel on Tuesday and then Egypt the day after. al-Arabiya reported that talks in Cairo will focus on establishing an international force to oversee the administration of Gaza and the strategic border between the enclave and Egypt, the so-called Philadelphi Corridor. Israel has insisted on maintaining some control over the corridor, saying it needs to prevent weapons smuggling into Gaza.
The Obama Biden-Harris administration is looking for an excuse to cut Israel off.
[IsraelTimes] State Dept. checking whether Force 100, tasked with guarding terror suspects at Sde Teiman base, violated human rights — if so, future aid would violate US’s ‘Leahy Law’
The US State Department is investigating an Israeli military unit charged with guarding Paleostinian terror detainees, on suspicions that the unit has committed human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations, according to a Monday report by Axios.
If the State Department concludes that the allegations are true, and that Israel has not adequately addressed the violations, the US is obligated under American law to cease providing military aid to the unit and prevent it from participating in exercises with US troops.
Several soldiers in the IDF’s Force 100 unit are already facing charges in Israel of sexually assaulting a Paleostinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility.
The July arrests of the soldiers accused of participating in the alleged assault prompted riots, including break-ins, at the Sde Teiman base where the soldiers were arrested, as well as the Beit Lid base, where the soldiers were then taken and held.
Protesters also disrupted a High Court of Justice hearing regarding petitions against the treatment of Paleostinian terror detainees at the Sde Teiman facility.
Prominent activists, including politicians, some of whom are part of the government, participated in the riots.
Sde Teiman has been used to house terror operatives who allegedly participated in Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’s October 7 attack last year, as well as Paleostinian suspects detained over the course of the subsequent 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... The facility has faced serious allegations of human rights violations, and Israel has transferred almost all of those initially held there to other facilities. The High Court declined, however, to order the detention center closed, as several rights group petitioned it to.
If the US State Department finds Force 100 responsible for human rights violations, the unit could be blacklisted under the 1997 "Leahy Law," which forbids the US providing military aid to foreign security, military, or police units that have violated human rights.
The US Embassy in Jerusalem contacted the Israeli Foreign Ministry last week, with a list of questions about the unit and its alleged crimes, Axios reported, citing two senior Israeli officials.
A similar set of questions about the unit was sent several months ago, the report said, citing a US official.
The questioning was "part of a consultation process we started with the Israelis about this unit as part of our Leahy Law agreement," the US official said. The embassy reportedly confirmed that this was the context for the American inquiry.
Israel and the US have a memorandum of understanding requiring the US to coordinate such reviews with their Israeli counterparts, Axios noted in its report Monday, citing another American official.
The White House, pressed for comment on Monday, declined to address the report, saying only that the US has "processes in place to assess and look at things" when serious allegations are levied toward countries with a US security relationship.
In April, the US said it had determined five units of Israel’s security forces had committed human rights violations — all before the outbreak of war with Hamas’s attack last October — but declined to sanction any of them, saying four of those units had addressed their problems.
The State Department confirmed in the spring that it was investigating the ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion — presumably the fifth unit referred to — over alleged human rights violations in the West Bank, but said in August that the concerns were "effectively remediated," and did not impose sanctions.
[IsraelTimes] The US has concluded that the Paleostinian Authority has met the requirements laid out by Israel for Jerusalem to extend indemnification needed to allow Israeli banks to continue conducting transactions with Paleostinian banks, according to a US official familiar with the matter.
These would be the same PA banks involved in PA government Pay For Slay payments to those attacking Israelis in the West Bank and Israel proper? Yes, O Biden-Harris administration, let us reward that kind of behaviour bigly.
The recognition from the US is aimed at pushing the Israeli government to extend the corresponding banking agreement with the Paleostinians for at least another year in order to avert an economic crisis in the West Bank.
The agreement is set to expire on October 31, after Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich agreed to extend it for only three months over the summer, despite US pressure for a much longer period. As the deadline approaches, the US has grown increasingly worried that Smotrich wouldn’t extend it further.
In recent months, Smotrich’s office informed the PA Finance Ministry and the Biden administration that Israel would be willing to further extend the corresponding banking agreement if the PA conducted a risk assessment of its financial system and if a similar review by the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force was scheduled.
The Treasury Department notes in a readout on a rare phone call held earlier today between US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo and PA Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa that the PA has met both of those requirements.
Adeyemo noted the PA’s progress on the issue, including completing key milestones for assessing risks within its jurisdiction and bolstering effective compliance with international standards, the US readout says.
"They discussed the importance of the correspondent banking relationships between Israeli and Paleostinian banks to the security and economic stability of the region," the readout notes.
Adeyemo "stressed the importance of preventing Lions of Islam and violent mostly peaceful holy warriors" from raising, using, and moving funds in the West Bank, the Treasury readout adds, apparently referring to US sanctions against settler holy warriors.
[IsraelTimes] Two Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... sources say the Paleostinian terror group is moving toward appointing a Doha-based ruling committee rather than a single successor to its chief Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli troops last week.
"The Hamas leadership’s approach is not to appoint a successor to the late chief, the martyr Yahya Sinwar, until their next elections" scheduled for March "if conditions permit," a well-informed source from the group tells AFP.
A five-member committee that was formed in August following the liquidation of political chief 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... in Tehran "will take over the leadership of the group," the source adds.
The committee was formed to facilitate decision-making given the difficulty of communicating with Sinwar 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 a rusty 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... before his death.
Sinwar was named the Gaza chief of the holy warrior group in 2017, before rising to become the overall leader of Hamas after Haniyeh was assassinated in July.
The source says the committee is made up of representatives of West Bank, Gaza and the Paleostinian diaspora, namely Khalil al-Hayya for Gaza, Zaher Jabarin for the West Bank and Khaled Meshaal for Paleostinians abroad.
It also includes the head of Hamas’s Shura advisory council Mohammed Darwish and the secretary of the political bureau, who is never identified for security reasons.
All current members of the committee are based in 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... According to the source, the committee is tasked with "governing the movement during the war and exceptional circumstances, as well as its future plans."
He added that it is authorized to "make strategic decisions".
Another source from the group says that the Hamas leadership discussed a proposal that was made "internally" to appoint a political chief without announcing their name.
But, the source adds, the leaders preferred to rule through the committee.
Sinwar was killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza on Wednesday, more than a year into the devastating war in the territory sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attack that he orchestrated. The attack killed some 1,200 people and took another 251 hostages.
The original, American strains of Black Hebrew Israelites range from hard-working mystics to viciously racist sovereign citizen types who carry guns, don’t pay taxes, and move into houses they claim to own by right of being the aboriginal population. The branch that moved to Israel in 1969 has evolved into something much better. May the memory of this young man’s sacrifice be a blessing on his people and all Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Elishai Young, 19, who fell in Gaza, had not yet completed the 18 months of active duty needed for him, his mother, and his special needs brother to obtain Israeli citizenship
The death on Saturday in the northern 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 a rusty 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... Strip of Sgt. Elishai Young, 19, from Dimona, in southern Israel, reopens the decades-long campaign for state recognition of the non-Jewish Hebrew Israelites Community to which he belonged.
Young, of 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion, was buried on Monday at the Dimona Military cemetery in the presence of IDF soldiers, and family and friends.
The Hebrew Israelites Community, which has around 2,500 members (down from 3,000 just a few years ago due to people leaving the country), believes it is descended from an ancient Israelite tribe.
It was founded in 1966 by an Afro-American, Ben Carter, a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... steelworker who renamed himself Ben Ammi Ben-Israel and claimed to be God’s representative on earth. The Dimona community put down roots in 1969.
In 2013, then-Minister of Interior Gideon Sa’ar decided that those who completed more than 18 months of military service would receive citizenship, along with their immediate family.
Young, his mother, brother, and late father were given permanent residency some years ago. But the soldier fell before completing those 18 months.
Asked whether citizenship would nevertheless be considered given the circumstances, an IDF spokesperson referred The Times of Israel to the Interior Ministry and the Population and Immigration Authority. As of press time, the latter had not yet given an answer.
Ashriel Moore, one of the community’s spokespeople, told The Times of Israel that Young’s father died several years ago, leaving his mother to care for him and an older brother who has special needs. "His mother is having a hard time," Moore went on. "Elishai helped with the older son. She didn’t want him to go into a combat role. She said she only had Elishai to help."
Moore said that the community observed three days of mourning, with people visiting a mourning tent and providing food and support for the family.
The community participates fully in local life and campaigns on behalf of Israel. Children attend local state schools; most eligible youngsters serve in the IDF.
The community does not subscribe to any particular religion, observes Shabbat and Jewish Holy Days mentioned in the Old Testament, circumcises its male children eight days after birth, and requires women to observe the biblical laws of purification.
It is not recognized as Jewish by Israel’s religious authorities.
In 2003, then-Interior Minister Avraham Poraz offered permanent residency to community members who had temporary resident status and had been in Israel for over a decade.
In 2010, some community members began to receive full Israeli citizenship.
But in 2021, the Interior Ministry’s Population and Immigration Authority ordered 51 individuals without status to leave the country within 60 days. All had entered Israel from the US as tourists and had remained illegally once their permitted three-month stay was up.
Moore, who is coordinating a campaign to stop the deportations, noted that some of those ordered to leave were born in Israel (where birth does not confer citizenship). Others had Israeli-born children. Those not eligible for US citizenship or who had given it up were stateless and had nowhere to go, he went on.
Five individuals have since left Israel. In February 2023, a court in Beersheba, in southern Israel, ordered the Interior Ministry to solve the problem.
Since then, however, the group’s lawyers, who are trying to secure permanent residency for the group, have been playing ping-pong with a court in Jerusalem, the Interior Ministry, and the Population and Immigration Authority.
"They keep asking for more documents," Moore said. "For example, they ask people born and raised here who have never been to the US to submit a US police report [showing no criminal record]. "
"We can’t produce all the documents being requested. We’re waiting to hear when there will be another court hearing. We remain in limbo. Slowly but surely, people are leaving. I think that’s part of the strategy. It’s like a war of attrition."
He went on, "We’re trying to schedule another court date, but the ministry continues to kick the can down the road, asking for more time, saying they can’t appear in court because their lawyers are on IDF reserve duty. It’s a lot of nonsense."
’AN INSEPARABLE PART OF US’
At Young’s funeral, a former deputy commander of the 401st brigade, Zafrir Har Shoshanim, praised him for his bravery and commitment, and noted that Young’s battalion commander was still fighting for his life, having been injured during the same incident just meters away.
"You fought like lions," said Har Shoshanim. "You were proud of your family, your community," he said of Young. "You helped your brother [with special needs]. You had a high level of commitment and insisted on being at the front. Your commanders knew they could depend on you. You were reliable, organized, willing to do anything from the smallest thing to the biggest. You were a special character. Also a man of music. Music was your life. You are an inseparable part of us."
Before collapsing in tears, Young’s mother, Shiria, a widow, recalled how Young would call and promise, "Mom, don’t worry, I’m coming home."
Friends and relatives spoke about a young man who tried to be the best in everything he did, including his studies, who insisted on going into an IDF combat unit; a man who was devoted to music, and could often be seen wearing earphones.
Benny Biton, Dimona’s Mayor, called on the government to grant citizenship to those in the community who don’t yet have it, particularly following Young’s death.
"100 percent of this community serves in the IDF," the mayor said at the funeral, "and we’ve been living with them for nearly 50 years."
Two Israeli soldiers were killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip earlier today, the IDF announces.
They are named as Staff Sgt. Ofir Berkovich, 20, from Modi’in, and Sgt. Elishai Young, 19, from Dimona.
Both served with the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion.
Their deaths bring Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 357. The number includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry contractor.
The military also announces that an officer with the 188th Armored Brigade’s 53rd Battalion was seriously maimed earlier today by an explosive-laden drone in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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...
[IsraelTimes] Up to 1,000 women and kiddies needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gazoo to Europe, the head of the World Health Organization’s Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... branch says.
Israel "is committed to 1,000 more medical evacuations within the next months to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ," Hans Kluge says in an interview with AFP, adding that the evacuations would be facilitated by the WHO and the European countries involved.
He says the evacuations will be facilitated by the WHO — the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... ’ health agency — and the European countries involved.
The WHO Europe has already facilitated 600 medical evacuations from Gaza to seven European countries since the latest war began there in October 2023.
[NAHARNET] Israel gave the U.S. a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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 allow displaced civilians from both sides of the border to return to their homes, two U.S. officials and two Israeli officials told U.S. news portal Axios.
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office gave the paper to the White House ahead of President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... 's envoy Amos Hochstein's visit to Beirut on Monday to discuss a diplomatic solution to the conflict, Israeli officials said.
The U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, who is a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sent the document to Hochstein on Thursday.
Israeli officials said the paper came out of discussions Dermer had with the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Israeli army about the principles Israel demands be part of any diplomatic solution to end the war with Hezbollah.
One Israeli demand is that the Israeli army be allowed to engage in "active enforcement" to make sure Hezbollah doesn't rearm and rebuild its military infrastructure in the areas of southern Lebanon that are close to the border, an Israeli official said.
The official added that Israel also demands its air force have freedom of operation in Lebanese air space.
These two demands contradict U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which states that the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) enforce a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
"We are talking about 1701 with increased enforcement. Our main message is that if the Lebanese army and UNIFIL do more, the IDF (Israeli army) will do less and the other way around," the Israeli official told Axios.
A U.S. official said it is highly unlikely Lebanon and the international community would agree to these conditions, which would dramatically undermine Lebanon's illusory sovereignty.
Hochstein arrived in Beirut on Monday and met with acting prime minister Najib Mikati, speaker of parliament Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... and other Lebanese officials and discuss the Israeli demands.
Berri told al-Arabiya on Sunday that Hochstein's visit is "the last chance before the U.S. elections to reach a solution" to the war in Lebanon.
He stressed there is consensus in Lebanon about U.N. Resolution 1701 and made clear he refuses to amend it in any way, which is effectively what Israel is reportedly demanding.
Hochstein is pushing for a wide-ranging deployment of the Lebanese armed forces in southern Lebanon as part of every diplomatic solution that ends the war in Lebanon, U.S. and Israeli officials say.
In recent years, the Lebanese Army had very limited forces in the area.
Hochstein wants to have at least 8,000 Lebanese troops deployed in southern Lebanon, the officials said.
The U.S. envoy also wants to upgrade UNIFIL's mandate so it would be able to help the Lebanese Army prevent armed individuals or groups who are not under the control of the Lebanese government from being deployed near the border with Israel.
U.S. officials say that since the 2006 war, UNIFIL barely enforced resolution 1701 and didn't prevent Hezbollah from building wide-ranging military infrastructure in southern Lebanon in violation of the resolution.
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[IsraelTimes] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy... has signaled "tacit approval and explicit support for Israel’s unlawful military aggression against Iran," Iran’s mission to 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... says, citing remarks by Biden in Germany last week.
"The United States will bear full responsibility for its role in instigating, inciting and enabling any acts of aggression by Israel against the Islamic Theocratic Republic of 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... ... as well as for the catastrophic consequences on regional and international peace and security," Iran’s UN mission says in a letter to the UN Security Council.
Biden, on a visit to Berlin, also told news hounds he has an understanding of how and when Israel will respond to the missile attacks by Iran. He declined to elaborate.
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A Known Wolf Whore: The Pentagon has reportedly named Chief of Staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Ariane Tabatabai, as the prime suspect for an alleged leak of classified documents, Sky News Arabia reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Pentagon official.
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Lovely
Ariane Tabatabai is the chief of staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations. She is also an officer in US Naval Intelligence. She has access to all naval movements and all special forces operations in the world, and specifically in the Middle East. pic.twitter.com/zsbXPkcLLf
"The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier."
#9
If Trump wins, a significant number of senior political appointee and SES pro-Iranian players in the IC/DoD universe are going to be very nervous. Not just about keeping their job but rather, about avoiding prosecution and their future in the classified workplace.
I strongly suspect they know that those institutions have a number of genuine patriots still in place, along with a fair number of "ambidextrous" careerist players who have mastered the defense of their respective rice bowls over the years. Many of both groups have kept "insurance policies" and alibi documents over the past 4 years (or longer). As the cleansing begins at Langley, Nebraska Avenue, Meade and the "E" Ring, I expect the emergence of all sorts of surprises that would never see the light of day if Kamala is installed. Many of those surprises will involve Iran and what was done to support it.
Wiki cite: "THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE POLYGRAPH
A Counterintelligence Polygraph asks the candidate questions limited to those necessary to determine whether the examinee ever had any involvement with or knowledge of espionage/sabotage against the United States, unauthorized contact with representatives of a foreign government, or unauthorized disclosure of classified material. A Counterintelligence Polygraph is the most common polygraph. Within the Department of Defense (DoD), polygraph examinations used to determine initial eligibility for special assignment or special access are limited to counterintelligence questions.
The DoD CI exam questions cover:
Espionage
Sabotage
Terrorist Activities
Deliberate damage of U.S. Government Information Systems
Intentional compromise of U.S. Government Classified Information Secret contact with a foreign national or representative"
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Pentagon denies senior staffer investigated for document leak Press secretary says Ariane Tabatabai is 'not a subject of interest' in the ongoing investigation into how classified documents on Israel's planned attack on Iran, appeared online; says Pentagon is in contact with Israel regarding details of the investigation
Makes sense, she would (did?) inform Iran - not leak to American press.
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Makes sense, she would (did?) inform Iran - not leak to American press.
Good point. Someone in her office, perhaps? My initial guess was an uber-woke intern somewhere fighting for Paleostinian Justice rather than doing their damn job.
Out of the control of the Biden-Harris administration perhaps. But the IDF’s perspective is necessarily a bit different.
[IsraelTimes] US envoy Amos Hochstein holds talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut on conditions for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, saying that the conflict has “escalated out of control.”
He says that it was “not enough” for both sides to commit to UN resolution 1701, which ended the last round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 and which calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.
Hochstein says that neither Hezbollah nor Israel had adequately implemented the resolution, and that while it would be the basis for the end to current hostilities, the US was seeking to determine what more needed to be done to make sure it was implemented “fairly, accurately and transparently.”
“We are working with the government of Lebanon, the state of Lebanon, as well as the government of Israel to get to a formula that brings an end to this conflict once and for all,” he says.
After what he called a “very constructive” meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a close ally of Hezbollah who has been engaging in diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, Hochstein says:
“The United States wants to end this conflict absolutely as soon as possible. That is what President [Joe] Biden wants, that is what we all are working towards.”
[IsraelTimes] US special envoy Amos Hochstein says in Beirut that Lebanon and Israel just committing to UN Resolution 1701 is not enough and that the United States is working to devise a formula to end the conflict once and for all.
“Tying Lebanon’s future to other conflicts in the region was not and is not in the interest of the Lebanese people,” Hochstein says after meeting with Lebanon’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, adding that the United States wants to end the conflict “as soon as possible.”
UN Resolution 1701, which ended the last round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.
The resolution has gone largely unenforced since it was passed in 2006, allowing Hezbollah to build up a formidable arms cache and defensive capabilities, with neither UNIFIL peacekeepers nor the LAF willing to challenge the Iran-backed terror group.
Israel has repeatedly portrayed its offensive in southern Lebanon as essentially stepping in and doing UNIFIL’s job for it.
[Jpost] A former United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) soldier, under the alias Michael, testified that UNIFIL was "totally subject to Hezbollah" when he worked in Lebanon 10 years ago in an interview with Danish news site B.T. on Sunday.
UNSTO, founded in 1948, is the first peacekeeping mission the United Nations ever created; with the mission of "monitor[ing] ceasefires, supervise[ing] armistice agreements, prevent[ing] isolated incidents from escalating and assist[ing] other UN peacekeeping operations in the region to fulfil their respective mandates.
The soldier had been tasked with observing and reporting violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 of 2006, which called for southern Lebanon to be without Hezbollah.
Despite the organization’s mission, Michael reported, "We were totally subject to Hezbollah. We clearly had limited freedom of movement. For example, we never operated after dark for fear of Hezbollah. So they had free time in the evening and night hours."
Michael also reported that UNIFIL and UNTSO workers had their access to cities in southern Lebanon restricted by Hezbollah, who would stop them when they tried to enter certain areas.
"They simply blocked the road. They were not visibly armed but aggressive, and it was quite clear that they were members of Hezbollah - we knew very well who decided things, especially in the Shiite cities," said Michael. "They didn't want us to see what they were doing."
Despite their obligations, Michael testified that workers would simply observe from a distance when suspicious persons photographed the Israeli border.
"When we patrolled the Blue Line, we often saw 'civilians' very close to the Israeli military installations taking pictures," he said. "When that happened, we withdrew and observed from a distance — we were simply instructed to do so." When I served as reservist on the Lebanese border, we were told that UNIFIL acts as Hezbollah observers, reporting our movements to the terrorists.
...Michael’s interview came in tandem with an Israel Hayom report that Hezbollah terrorists captured by the IDF testified that Hezbollah paid money to UNIFIL personnel to use their bases for operations - a claim UNIFIL denied to the Jerusalem Post.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli military apologizes for a strike that killed three Lebanese soldiers in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... yesterday, saying it is not battling the country’s military and its soldiers believed they were targeting a vehicle belonging to the Hezbollah terror group.
The IDF says it struck a truck that had entered an area where it had previously targeted a Hezbollah truck transporting a launcher and missiles.
The military says IDF troops were not aware that the second truck belonged to the Lebanese army, adding it is "not operating against the Lebanese Army and apologizes for these unwanted circumstances."
The Lebanese troops were killed on a road connecting the border village of Ain Ebel to the nearby town of Hanin. The deaths brought the number of Lebanese troop casualties to eight, since all-out war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah last month.
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For one, the paychecks say Army of Lebanon, and the paymaster is Saudi Arabia; for the other, the paychecks say Hezbollah, and the paymaster is Iran. For the first the troops are probably 50% or more Hezbollah, for the other the troops are 100% Hezbollah.
[IsraelTimes] Israel has sent a message to Hezbollah that should the terror group attempt to target Israeli leaders again, the IDF will raze Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh district to the ground, Hezbollah’s stronghold in the Lebanese capital, according to unnamed sources quoted by the Saudi al-Hadath news channel.
The message, reportedly conveyed through a third party, comes after Hezbollah launched a drone to target Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in the coastal city of Caesarea on Saturday.
The prime minister and his wife were not at home at the time of the attack and that there were no injuries in the incident, the PMO said.
Al-Hadath notes that this was not Hezbollah’s first attempt to target an Israeli political figure, as it tried at least twice in the past.
[IsraelTimes] Caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati says "there have been no contacts with Hezbollah since the middle of last month," in an interview with the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV channel.
Mikati raised the ire of 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... when he accused Tehran last week of "blatant interference in Lebanese affairs and an attempt to establish an unacceptable guardianship over Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... ," after Iran’s speaker of parliament said the country was willing to take part in negotiations over the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry front man denies that charge, and says that Tehran "has never had any intention or [has initiated any] action that could be suspected of interfering in Lebanon’s internal affairs."
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