[KhaamaPress] Pak officials have announced an increase in the deportation of Afghan migrants colonists, with over 400,000 individuals returned to Afghanistan through the Torkham border crossing alone.
According to the Pak newspaper Dawn, this surge in deportations began on November 1, 2023. Officials have emphasized that the number of voluntary returns by Afghan migrants colonists has also risen during this period.
This development comes amid heightened responses to the deportation and detention of Afghan migrants colonists from both 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 Pakistain. The process of expelling 1.7 million undocumented Afghan migrants colonists from Pakistain officially started on November 2, 2023.
According to statistics from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, over 680,000 migrants colonists had returned to Afghanistan from Pakistain by July of this year since the start of the deportation process.
It is important to note that the forced deportation and detention of Afghan migrants colonists in Iran and Pakistain have consistently drawn international criticism.
The significant increase in deportations highlights ongoing challenges faced by Afghan migrants colonists in the region. As both Pakistain and Iran intensify their enforcement measures, the humanitarian implications for returning migrants colonists cannot be overlooked.
[KhaamaPress] Hossein Sharafati Rad, the director of the Bureau of Foreigners and Immigrants in Khorasan Razavi, Iran, stated that more than 3,000 undocumented Afghan citizens are arrested daily and subsequently returned to Afghanistan through the Dogharoun border after legal procedures are completed.
According to the state-run news agency IRNA, Sharafati Rad reported that he recently visited proposed sites for the construction of a camp for “undocumented Afghan nationals.” He emphasized that this camp is planned to be built on 20 hectares of land in Taybad, Iran, near the Dogharoun border.
The Iranian official highlighted that identifying undocumented foreign nationals across the country and facilitating their return to their home countries is one of the Ministry of Interior’s top priorities by the end of the year. This reflects a broader strategy to manage immigration and border security more effectively.
Statistics from the Bureau of Foreigners and Immigrants in Khorasan Razavi indicate that Mashhad, after Tehran, has the highest number of foreign migrants, with nearly 400,000 of them holding identification and residency documents. However, the trend of arresting and deporting Afghan migrants from Iran has noticeably increased.
Taybad is located 225 kilometers southeast of Mashhad, making it a significant point for managing border crossings. As Iranian authorities intensify their efforts to regulate immigration, the implications for Afghan migrants seeking refuge or work in Iran become increasingly complex.
The Iranian government’s heightened focus on the deportation of undocumented Afghan migrants underscores ongoing challenges in managing cross-border migration.
The establishment of camps and increased enforcement actions reflect both security concerns and the broader socio-political dynamics in the region.
[Garowe] In yet another breathtaking shake-up in security forces, Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has sacked a senior commander in the Somali National Army (SNA), just at the time the country is actively involved in the fight against al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... The al-Shabaab Death Eaters control large swathes of rural central and southern regions, but the recent military operations have significantly dealt them a huge blow, leaving hundreds contemplating joining the government by defecting from the military.
But the efforts to thwart the threats from the group have suffered a huge blow after the army ground forces commander Brigadier General Dayah Abdi Abdulle was dismissed by the president. The ground forces are responsible for the fight against al-Shabaab.
Abdulle, an accomplished soldier, has been leading various battlefronts across the country until his dismissal. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... in the recent past, the war against al-Shabaab has slowed down due to a lack of pressure from the Somali government and allied partners.
He was replaced by Colonel Khalid Abdullahi Omar, former head of the Jubaland Intelligence and Security Agency (JISA). Dayah held the position for one year and has been working with various regional security forces in pursuit of stability in Somalia.
Frequent changes in army leadership linked to ongoing failures in the fight against al-Shabaab in Somalia, observers say. The group has been posing threats to the country's security, often launching small to medium-scale sporadic attacks, targeting government troops and innocent civilians.
The Somali National Army is set to take over security responsibilities from the allied forces, who are set to leave the country by the end of 2024. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... a new mission dubbed the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) is set to take over.
Somalia's government has, however, rejected possible participation of the Æthiopian National Defense Forces, after the country accused Addis Ababa of plans to annex parts of Somalia. Æthiopia signed a disputed MoU with Somaliland ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells.... , with Somalia insisting the agreement goes against international laws.
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[Regnum] The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Benin and Togo is monitoring information about the movement of American troops from Niger to Benin. This was reported on November 3 by the head of the Russian diplomatic mission Igor Evdokimov.
“The embassy is monitoring reports of the redeployment of American troops from Niger to Benin... We, unlike our Western colleagues, recognize Cotonou’s right to freely choose its partners in the sphere of defense and security,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
In late June, US Chief of Staff Charles Brown travelled to Botswana to discuss the possible redeployment of troops from Niger to other West African countries. According to Reuters, the talks included initial talks with Benin, Ivory Coast and Ghana, to discuss the prospects of establishing new US military bases in those countries.
The start of the withdrawal of US troops from Niger was announced on June 8 by the Chief of Staff of the Republic's ground forces, Colonel Mamane Sani Kiau. On September 16, the US Africa Command announced that the withdrawal of troops had been completed without complications by a mutually agreed date.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in mid-March, the Niger authorities deprived the American military of the opportunity to be on their territory, breaking the military agreement with the United States. As the head of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mohamed Toumba, reported, Niger is interested in the country's troops being trained by Russian, not American, military personnel. Russian servicemen entered the territory of the military airbase in Niamey in early May.
[IsraelTimes] Yemen rebels get ‘unprecedented’ outside military support, in particular from Iranians and Hezbollah, making them a potent force, according to report presented to Security Council
It said joint operations centers have been set up in Iraq and Leb with Houthi representatives "aimed at coordinating joint military actions of the Axis of Resistance®."
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... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels are transforming themselves into a "powerful military organization" due to "unprecedented" military support from outside sources, particularly Iran and Hezbollah, according to a UN report published Friday.
The Iranian-backed Houthis have exploited the Israel-Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... war in Gazoo and worked to enhance their status in Iran’s self-described "Axis of Resistance®," which includes Hamas and Hezbollah, to gain popularity in the region and beyond, the experts monitoring sanctions against the Houthis said in the 537-page report to the UN Security Council.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza last year, the Houthis, who have controlled large swaths of war-torn Yemen for a decade, have "exploited the regional situation and enhanced cooperation with the Axis of Resistance®," the UN experts said.
The panel noted "the transformation of the Houthis from a localized gang with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization, extending their operational capabilities well beyond the territories under their control."
The report, which analyzed the period from September 2023 through July 2024, said such a transformation was aided by the transfer of military materiel and financial support.
The rebels also benefited from training and technical assistance provided by the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, as well as Hezbollah and pro-Iran groups in Iraq, the UN experts said.
All Iran’s little puppets train together. And just look what Hamas got out of it!
It said joint operations centers have been set up in Iraq and Leb with Houthi representatives "aimed at coordinating joint military actions of the Axis of Resistance®."
"The scale, nature and extent of transfers of diverse military material technology provided to the Houthis from external sources, including financial support and training of its combatants, is unprecedented," the report warned.
The report is based on testimony from military experts, Yemeni officials and sources close to the Houthis. Experts found that the rebels themselves lack the ability to "develop and produce complex weapon systems," such as the missiles they have used to target ships in the Red Sea.
But they also said some of their weapons bear similarities with equipment used by Iran and Iran-backed groups.
To support Hamas — which led the cross-border attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 that sparked the war in Gaza — the Houthis have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, disrupting global shipping in a key geopolitical area. They have also directly attacked Israel with ballistic missiles and drones.
Despite Houthi claims that they would target ships linked to Israel, the panel said its investigations revealed the rebels have been targeting vessels indiscriminately.
Its analysis of data from the International Maritime Organization, the US and the United Kingdom revealed that at least 134 attacks were carried out from Houthi-controlled areas against merchant and commercial vessels and US and UK warships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden between Nov. 15, 2023 and July 31, 2024.
"The group’s shift to actions at sea increased their influence in the region," the UN experts said. "Such a scale of attacks, using weapon systems on civilian vessels, had never occurred since the Second World War."
The attacks have seriously disrupted a route that carries 12 percent of global trade, triggering reprisal strikes by the United States and Britannia against rebel targets in Yemen. Israel has also twice bombed Houthi targets in retaliation for ballistic missile and drone attacks, including one that killed a man in Tel Aviv.
Houthi fighters are being trained outside Yemen, either in Iran or at Hezbollah training facilities in Lebanon, the panel said.
It’s like an all-inclusive vacation… with flaming hoops and everything.
Hezbollah was named as one of the Houthis’ "most important supporters" due to the terror group’s involvement in rebel decision-making, support for assembling weapons systems, financing, "ideological guidance" and propaganda efforts.
Can we call them Little Hezzy and Big Hezzy now?
The report said the Houthis have carried out a vast recruitment project, resulting in a force that numbered 350,000 in mid-2024, as compared with 220,000 in 2022.
More bodies to feed, to clothe, to keep motivated when they inevitably become bored with flaming hoops — how can the Houthis afford it? And what will they do with them? At best they'll make a superior kind of cannon fodder, I suspect. But even Hamas and Hezbollah are falling like sheaves of wheat to IDF sickles, while the IRGC appear helplessly unaware as Israeli commandos and Mossad sneak in and out unnoticed.
"While the panel has not been able to independently verify the number of newly recruited fighters, a large-scale mobilization would be a matter of concern," it said.
The Houthis also have been recruiting large numbers of Yemeni youths and children as well as exploiting Æthiopian migrants colonists, forcing them to join the fight against the government and engage in trafficking narcotics, it said.
Mighty Æthiops but not Somalis? Are they really that different?
Exploiting high illiteracy rates, particularly in tribal areas, they have reportedly mobilized boys as young as 10 or 11, often despite parental opposition," they said. "Recruitment sermons and weekly classes on jihad are reportedly delivered in schools."
Child recruitment reportedly increased after the war in Gaza started and the US and UK Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Yemen, the experts said. Yemen’s government said it received 3,298 reports of child recruitment in the first half of 2024, with youngsters reportedly used as human shields, spies and in combat — and for planting landmines and explosives, reconnaissance and as cooks.
Ten year old cooks? Look for dinners of burnt hotdogs with s’mores for dessert, and cold cereal with milk for breakfast — assuming the economy has improved to the point of supporting both hotdogs and milk…
The Houthis have been engaged in a civil war with Yemen’s internationally recognized government, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, since 2014, when they took control of the capital Sanaa and most of the north.
The Hamas-led attacks in October last year killed 1,200 people in Israel, mostly civilians. The day after the Hamas attack, Hezbollah began firing rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, also saying it was supporting Gaza, and eventually escalating into a broad conflict that has included an ongoing, limited Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon.
For a given value of limited that involves eradicating all signs Hezbollah was ever there.
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Mike, I like how they’re now being commanded by Hezbollah officers, and getting to go off to Lebanon and Iran for training. I’m imagining boot camp in the Bekaa Valley followed — for a select few —by specialty courses at an IRGC base in Iran. And a slew of YouTube videos of them not understanding orders in Lebanese Arabic or Farsi, and trying gamely to master jumping jacks. Like the Afghans.
[BBC] When they say it's not about the cash? It's all about the cash
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the concept of reparations for former colonial nations affected by slavery "is not about the transfer of cash".
In his first comments since 56 Commonwealth leaders signed a statement saying the time had come for a conversation about reparations, Lammy told the BBC that was not "the debate people are wanting to have".
The UK government previously ruled out paying reparations for slavery and Downing Street said its position included "other forms of non-financial reparatory justice too".
Lammy said the UK would instead look to develop relations with African nations through sharing skills and science.
What form could reparations for slavery take?
UK will not pay out over slavery, says Reeves
During his first visit to Africa as foreign secretary, Lammy said reparations were not about money, "particularly at a time of a cost of living crisis".
Reparations are measures to make amends for past actions deemed wrong or unfair, and can range from the financial to symbolic.
Caribbean nations have made a 10-point plan for reparatory justice in which they call for a full formal apology, education programmes, healthcare and direct monetary payments.
Speaking in Lagos, a Nigerian port city once central to the transatlantic slave trade, the foreign secretary said the period was "horrific and horrendous" and had left "scars".
"I am the descendant of enslaved people, so I recognise that."
Lammy said it was right that an apology had been made "and we commemorated the abolition of the slave trade" when Labour was last in power.
The UK has never formally apologised for its role in the slave trade, though in 2007 then-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "Well actually I have said it: We are sorry. And I say it again now."
The British government and the monarchy played a key role in the centuries-long slave trade from 1500, alongside other European nations.
Britain also had a key role in ending the trade, through Parliament's passage of a law to abolish slavery in 1833.
Lammy's remarks followed the discussion of reparations at a summit of Commonwealth leaders in Samoa in October.
Amid growing calls from Commonwealth heads of government to pay reparations for the country's role in the slave trade, Downing Street had insisted the issue would not be on the table.
But Sir Keir Starmer later signed a document calling for talks on "reparatory justice" alongside other Commonwealth leaders - though he said there had been no discussions about money at the meeting.
Lammy said he believed developing nations would benefit as part of that through things such as the transfer of technical skills and science expertise from the UK.
"'Tis a world fulla tings, innit bruvver,
Great Britain did never discover,
But somewhere between
London Bridge and Benin,
She find SLAVERY, and lawwwd, how we suffer!"
Are you sure you’re not just sulking because you’re being probed for wrongly donating a quarter of a million pounds of government funds to UNRWA for Gaza, to enable your wife’s family to escape the embattled enclave?
[IsraelTimes] The Foreign Ministry has officially informed the UN that Israel has ended the 1967 agreement recognizing Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, after the Knesset passed legislation to severely limit the operations of the agency in Israel and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“UNRWA, the organizations whose employees took part in the October 7 massacre and many of whose workers are Hamas operatives, is part of the problem in Gaza, not part of the solution,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz says in a statement. “The UN was provided with countless pieces of evidence regarding Hamas operatives who work in UNRWA, and nothing was done.”
FM Katz dismisses idea that no other agency can do UNRWA work, says it handles only 13% of Gaza aid; Israel’s UN envoy says Israel won’t cooperate with groups that promote terror.
[IsraelTimes] Russia, China, Iran among signatories of missive, which comes a month after Erdogan’s similar demand to UN; Turkish FM: ‘Selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide’
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s foreign minister said Sunday that it had submitted a letter to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... , signed by 52 countries and two inter-governmental organizations, calling for a halt in arms deliveries to Israel.
"We have written a joint letter calling on all countries to stop the sale of arms and ammunition to Israel. We delivered this letter, which has 54 signatories, to the UN on November 1," said Hakan Fidan at a presser in Djibouti, where he was attending a Turkey-Africa partnership summit.
"We must repeat at every opportunity that selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide," said Fidan, adding that the letter is "an initiative launched by Turkey."
Among the signatories were Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , Brazil, Algeria, China, 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 Russia. The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, both inter-governmental organizations within the UN, also signed the document.
Last month, Ottoman Turkish 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... called on the UN to impose an arms embargo on Israel. He said the measure would be an "effective solution" to end Israel’s war on Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... 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... , which was sparked when thousands of Hamas-led Death Eaters stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
Erdogan has been a harsh critic of Israel throughout the war in Gaza, at one point appearing to say he would invade Israel to end the war. In May, he banned trade with Israel, ending the two countries’ robust economic ties.
Erdogan also met with Hamas 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 Istanbul in April, several months before he was slain in a kaboom in Tehran widely attributed to Israel. Government officials told The Times of Israel earlier this year that Hamas’s leadership had briefly moved from 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 Turkey that month amid tensions with Doha.
Some of Israel’s allies have also floated restricting arms deliveries to the country. French President Emmanuel Macron said last month that an arms embargo is the only way to end the war in Gaza. In September, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer halted the delivery of some weapons out of fear they could be used to commit war crimes, but stopped short of calling for a full embargo. Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly also announced in September that she was suspending some 30 permits for arms shipments to Israel, saying Ottawa would not have "arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza."
Israel’s two largest arms sources, the United States and Germany, have resisted calls for an embargo on Israel, though each has been accused of withholding certain arms during the war.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel has identified targets in Iraq it will strike if Iran-backed militia continue to attack Israel from there,
”Hey you! You there, in the black beard —- yes, you! Just to let you know that you are now a target if your idiot friends have any more missile s3x, so make sure they knock it off!”
and has warned Baghdad, the London-based Saudi Elaph news site reports.
Unnamed officials apparently tell the outlet that satellites have monitored Tehran working to transfer ballistic missiles and related equipment from Iran to Iraqi territory, with the presumed goal of using them in an expected upcoming attack on Israel.
Satellites have monitored… *Snicker*
The report says Israel is monitoring and identifying targets belonging to the Iran-backed militias, as well as Iraqi state targets, and has warned Baghdad that it must rein in the militias and stop them from using its territory to launch attacks.
Good luck with that. The government of Lebanon has been warned for decades to control Hezbollah, but they, too, consider themselves hopeless.
Iraqi sources are said to have expressed concern that Iran is using Iraq to shift the fighting away from its own territory.
Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel in response to Jerusalem’s October 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and facilities and which Iran said killed at least five people.
Yes, yes very scary. Remember that these are the people who staffed Iran’s counter-Mossad department in the IRGC… with Mossad agents. Who dutifully hunted for Mossad spies for years, providing the senior generals with regular reports until one day desks sat empty — it was later said they’d all decamped for Israel.
Israel’s retaliatory strikes on Iranian military facilities came weeks after the Islamic Republic’s October 1 attack, in which Iran launched some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, killing a Palestinian man in the West Bank.
Any further attacks from either side could engulf the wider Middle East, already teetering over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s ground operation of Lebanon, into a wider regional conflict just ahead of the US presidential election on Tuesday.
[IsraelTimes] Former Ben Gvir aide and IDF spokesperson reportedly worked closely with Prime Minister’s Office despite failing security clearance; identities of 3 other suspects still under wraps
Is this actually meaningful, or just yet another attack by the Israeli deep state on the man they hate most in all the world? I don’t have a sense of where this falls.
A court partially lifted a gag order Sunday on a case surrounding suspected leaks of classified information by an associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unsealing the name of the central suspect and several other details.
Eli Feldstein, a spokesperson working with the Prime Minister’s Office, is accused of divulging top-secret information with national security implications to European media outlets, according to a ruling published Sunday evening by Rishon Lezion Magistrate Court head Menahem Mizrahi.
The names of three other suspects remain gagged by the court, but it confirmed that they were connected to the defense establishment.
"The investigation began after significant suspicions arose in the Shin Bet and IDF — including as a result of media publications — that secret and sensitive intelligence information was taken from the IDF and removed illegally, sparking concerns of serious harm to national security and a danger to the sources of the information," the court noted. "As a result, damage could have been done to the ability of defense bodies to achieve the goal of freeing the hostages [held 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... In recent days Netanyahu had sought to distance himself from the case, claimed no one from his office was arrested or was under investigation, and pushing back against critics who claimed the leaks had been politically expedient for him. The premier had downplayed the affair and had publicly called for the gag order to be lifted.
According to multiple outlets, however, Feldstein had functioned as a PMO employee in all but name over the past year, and was frequently in the premier’s close orbit. He is seen beside Netanyahu in various photos over the past year. Kan news reported that Feldstein was technically working for the PMO’s director-general and not the office itself due to failing a polygraph test, which made him ineligible for the security clearance required to work at the PMO, but was in close contact with the premier regardless.
The leaked documents are said to have formed the basis of a widely discredited article in the London-based Jewish Chronicle — which was later withdrawn — suggesting Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... had planned to spirit hostages out of Gaza through Egypt; as well as an article in Germany’s Bild newspaper that said Hamas was drawing out hostage talks as a form of psychological warfare on Israel.
Israeli media and other observers expressed skepticism about those articles, which appeared to serve Netanyahu’s demands in the talks and to absolve him of blame for their failure.
The case first became public on Friday, four days after Feldstein was arrested in an early morning police raid. He was remanded in jug until Tuesday at least, when another hearing is scheduled.
Ynet reported that Sherlocks are examining four separate issues in the case: the leaking of top-secret documents; allowing an adviser without security clearance to access meetings and premises that should have been off-limits to him; negligence in the handling of classified documents; and the use of documents to influence public opinion on a hostage deal.
Some of the suspects in the ongoing investigation could face up to 15 years in prison, Ynet said, citing an official familiar with the details.
Feldstein, 32, had been an officer in the military’s spokesperson unit, serving as front man for the religious Netzah Yehuda battalion and for the army’s West Bank Division. He was at one point an operations officer within the IDF Spokesman’s unit, winning plaudits as the first Orthodox person in the role, according to the Ynet news site.
Following his discharge from the military, the Bnei Brak native briefly worked as a spokesperson for Otzma Yehudit head Itamar Ben Gvir, who is now national security minister.
On Saturday, the PMO did not deny allegations that a document was leaked from Netanyahu’s office, but sought to distance the premier himself from the episode. It claimed that the spokesperson "never participated in security discussions, was not exposed to or receive classified information, and did not take part in secret visits."
"The published document never came to the Prime Minister’s Office from the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate, and the prime minister learned about it from the media," the PMO asserted.
On September 6, Germany’s Bild outlet published a report that cited a document captured in Gaza indicating that Hamas’s main concern in ceasefire negotiations with Israel was to rehabilitate its military capabilities, and not to alleviate the suffering of Gaza’s civilian population. The spring 2024 document, which Bild said it had obtained exclusively, without offering further details. It said the document was found on a computer in Gaza that belonged to then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
The IDF launched a probe into the information leak at the time and said that the document was found in Gaza some five months ago, and was not written by Sinwar but was rather a recommendation paper drawn up by a mid-level Hamas officer.
The PMO called it "ridiculous" to allege that a sympathetic article in Bild "caused any damage to the negotiations for the release of the hostages, or to the security of Israel."
Regarding a debunked September 5 Jewish Chronicle article "Sinwar’s secret plan to ’smuggle hostages to Iran'" — which alleged that a document had been uncovered in the Gaza Strip proving that Sinwar was planning to smuggle himself and some of the hostages out of Gaza and from there to 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... — the IDF said it was unaware of any such document actually existing.
The Jewish Chronicle announced in mid-September that it had fired the writer who penned that articles and other, amid doubts about their veracity, and had removed his stories from its website.
An IDF officer has been arrested as part of the investigation into leaked classified documents from the Prime Minister’s Office, according to Hebrew media reports, bringing the total number of suspects in the case to five.
The leaked material was not found by IDF forces in Gaza, according to the Kan public broadcaster, but was uncovered through “another type of intelligence.” The case is being taken so seriously by prosecutors in part because it risks revealing to Hamas key intelligence-collection methods.
[IsraelTimes] Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits the Ephraim Regional Brigade, which operates around Tulkarm and Qalqilya in the West Bank, and holds an assessment with top commanders, his office says.
In a statement, Gallant says that due to military operations weakening Iran’s proxies Hezbollah and Hamas, the Islamic Republic is now “looking for additional routes for terror, and are pouring everything they can into Judea and Samaria,” referring to efforts by Tehran to arm terrorists in the West Bank.
Interesting that the [Biden-]Harris administration would say such a thing.
[IsraelTimes] American B-52 bombers arrive in region as Israel reportedly identifies initial signs of Iran preparing for attack, vows strong response even if strike carried out via proxies.
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Everyone knows this is Iran's preemptive strike against Israel for their upcoming resolve to keep Iran from having a nuclear bomb! Israel knows this, and Samson is waiting!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...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 
...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
