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[Regnum] Terrorist groups operating in northern Mali have confirmed their cooperation with the Kiev regime, which is a cause for serious concern. This was stated by the head of the Malian Foreign Ministry, Abdoulaye Diop.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Tsk! And again I say tsk! On the other hand, Russia has rented terrorists in job lots from Turkey (Turkic Moslem Brotherhood types and former ISIS gunnies who fled the battlefield for safer employment as Ottoman Proxy bullyboys) and North Korea. Pot/kettle, or more Biblically motes and beams. You aren’t fooling anyone, O Russian Regnum reporter.
"Recently, some terrorists in northern Mali have also confirmed their cooperation with Ukraine. This is a cause for serious concern for us," he told TASS.
He clarified that terrorists, with the support of Ukraine and other countries, would like to change the regime in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Russia will fight Ukraine's support for terrorists in Africa. According to Georgy Mikhno, acting director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for New Challenges and Threats, the Kiev regime actively and openly supports terrorist groups on the African continent.
In early August, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Senegal, Yuriy Pivovarov, published a video supporting Malian terrorists, after which he was summoned to the Senegalese Foreign Ministry, and the Malian authorities severed diplomatic relations with Ukraine.
On August 7, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the Kiev regime had decided to open a “second front” in Africa due to the lack of opportunity to defeat Russia on the battlefield. According to her, Ukraine “indulges” terrorist regimes in African countries friendly to Russia.
In July, leading researcher at the Center for the Study of Russian-African Relations and Foreign Policy of African Countries at the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, former Russian Ambassador to Mali and concurrently to Niger, Yevgeny Korendyasov, in a conversation with Regnum News Agency, expressed the opinion that Ukraine’s main goal in Africa is the desire to set African countries at odds with Russia.
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... has decided to end its role as mediator between Israel and Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... amid long-stalled negotiations for a 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... ceasefire and hostage release deal, a diplomat familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Saturday.
The diplomat, who is not American, also confirmed Friday’s revelation by the US that Doha told Hamas officials late last month to leave the country, but appeared to deny that the decision was taken in connection with a request from the Biden administration.
The diplomat said Qatar made the decision on its own, determining that it could not continue mediating between Israel and Hamas if neither side was willing to negotiate in good faith. And if it is no longer mediating, there is no purpose for Qatar to allow Hamas to maintain its offices in the country, the diplomat said.
The diplomat lamented that the long-foundering ceasefire and hostage release negotiations "became more about politics and elections" for both Israel and Hamas, as opposed to a "serious attempt to secure peace." The diplomat claimed both sides backed out of commitments they had made throughout the negotiations and were only engaged in them for the purpose of "political optics."
Earlier this week, former defense minister Yoav Gallant suggested to the families of hostages held in Gaza that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has kept the war going for political reasons, not security ones, preventing a ceasefire and hostage release deal.
The diplomat said that once the decision was made by Qatar to cease its mediating role and to kick Hamas officials out of the country, it first informed the other mediators — the US and Egypt — and then told Hamas and Israel. The notification was provided at the end of October.
No timeline was given for when Hamas will leave Doha, but it is not something that can happen overnight, the diplomat indicated.
The diplomat stressed that Qatar’s decision isn’t necessarily permanent and could be reversed if both sides demonstrate a sincere willingness to negotiate in good faith.
This is what happened in April, when Qatar quietly pushed Hamas out of the country, the diplomat says. The terror group’s leaders went to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , but the US and Israel asked Doha to bring them back in order to resume talks, after attempts to do so with Hamas in Ankara did not succeed.
Indeed, two government officials revealed that sequence of events to The Times of Israel in May.
The diplomat speculated that after Hamas leader 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... ’s liquidation in Tehran, Hamas officials will once again head to Turkey. This could place Ankara in a difficult position, though, as the Biden administration made clear Friday that it doesn’t want its allies hosting the terror group.
An Israeli official in Netanyahu’s office issued a statement to news hounds welcoming Qatar’s decision, saying that no country should host the terror group.
The Israeli official asserted that Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s election victory this week also contributed to the decision, suggesting that the Republican president-elect would not have supported Hamas’s continued presence in Doha.
At the same time, a senior Hamas official contradicted the diplomat and US officials, telling news hounds on condition of anonymity that the terror group had not received any directive from Qatar to leave the country.
Interesting. No doubt at some point we’ll find out what is actually true, and what is the fertile Arab imagination..
Qatar has hosted Hamas officials in Doha since 2012 when the terror group moved its headquarters out of Damascus amid the Syrian civil war. Successive US administrations from both parties urged Qatar to serve as a conduit to the terror group.
Following Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, the US informed Qatar that Doha would not be able to maintain "business as usual" with the terror group. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the administration held off on asking the Gulf state to shutter the Hamas office, viewing the communication channel with the group to be as critical as ever in brokering a ceasefire and hostage release deal.
Those talks yielded a week-long deal last November, but they have failed to secure a permanent ceasefire or the release of the remaining 101 hostages.
A US official told The Times of Israel on Friday that Hamas’s execution of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin along with five other captives in late August, and subsequent rejection of more ceasefire proposals, are what led the administration to change its approach regarding the terror group’s continued presence in Doha, deeming it "no longer viable or acceptable."
The US decision also coincided with its unsealing of indictments against Hamas officials, including one of its top leaders Khaled Meshaal, who is known to reside in Doha, the US official said.
"After rejecting repeated proposals to release hostages, its leaders should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any American partner," a second senior administration official told The Times of Israel.
The official said Hamas showed no signs of budging from "unrealistic positions" in the negotiations, maintaining conditions that would have effectively ensured its ability to remain in power in Gaza — "something the US and Israel will never accept."
Two weeks ago, the US asked Qatar to kick out Hamas, the US official said, adding that Doha agreed and gave the notice around October 28.
Details regarding when the expulsion of Hamas officials will actually take place and where they will be ordered to go are still being worked out, the US official added.
The official stressed that the administration is continuing to pursue a number of initiatives aimed at securing a hostage deal before the end of US 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 term and believes that the combination of Hamas’s expulsion from Qatar, US sanctions and other tools at Washington’s disposal could succeed in coaxing the terror group to come down from its demands.
The US official stressed that Doha has played an "invaluable role" as a mediator throughout the conflict. It’s unclear what role Qatar will be able to play moving forward, once it no longer hosts Hamas leaders.
Qatar has come under fire from Congressional Republicans who have been less praiseworthy of Doha’s role in the conflict and argued that the Gulf emirate could have placed more pressure on Hamas to secure a deal.
The Biden administration has repeatedly pushed back against this criticism and has relied on Qatar as a mediator in several other conflicts in addition to the one in Gaza.
Egypt is likely to continue playing a mediating role, given the contacts that it maintains with Hamas leaders in bordering Gaza.
Al-Araby says that information reported by media outlets, including The Times of Israel, is inaccurate.
However, an Arab official tells The Times of Israel that the Al-Araby report is false, calling it a “smokescreen” put on by sources who do not support the decision to oust Hamas.
Senior Biden administration officials told The Times of Israel overnight that Qatar informed Hamas over a week ago that it must close its diplomatic office in Doha.
Qatar has hosted Hamas officials in Doha since 2012, when the terror group moved its headquarters out of Damascus amid the Syrian civil war and after successive US administrations from both parties urged Qatar to serve as a conduit to the terror group.
Following Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, the US informed Qatar that Doha would not be able to maintain “business as usual” with the terror group. However, the administration held off on asking the Gulf state to shutter the Hamas office, viewing the communication channel with Hamas to be as critical as ever in brokering a ceasefire and hostage release deal.
A US official told The Times of Israel that Hamas’s execution of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin along with five other captives in late August and subsequent rejection of more ceasefire proposals are what led the administration to change its approach regarding the terror group’s continued presence in Doha, deeming it “no longer viable or acceptable.”
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[IsraelTimes] Maersk says vessel not carrying ‘military weapons or ammunition’; Spain has been one of Israel’s biggest critics in Europe over war in Gaza, recognized Palestinian state this year
A Maersk container ship has been denied entry to the Spanish port of Algeciras, the Danish shipping company said Saturday, denying that the vessel is transporting arms to Israel.
"The cargo to be transshipped through the port does not include any military weapons or ammunition," Maersk said in a communique.
Spanish daily El Pais earlier this week cited Spanish government officials saying that the ship, as well as another also belonging to Maersk and due to dock later this month, "will not stop in Spain," according to the press, because its cargo includes weapons being delivered to Israel.
Spain, which is seeking to convince other European countries to recognize a Paleostinian state, has refused to dock ships transporting arms to Israel.
"To gain clarity for future operations, we have consulted the Spanish authorities to understand why entry was denied for cargo no different than previous shipments that have routinely been transshipped through this port without incident," the Danish company said.
"It is our understanding that Spain has in its discretion changed its criteria and is now rejecting vessels that carry anything military-related going to, or from, Israel, notwithstanding such cargo being legal."
We’re not antisemites or anything uncouth like that, it’s just that Joooooos are icky, so we have to keep them far away, even if it would be legal for anyone else — it’s a scientific fact. You don’t want to be an ignorant anti-science ignoramous, do you?
The Maersk Denver diverted first to Tangier and, according to the specialized VesselFinder site, is now en route to Oman.
Spain, which has stopped exporting arms to Israel, is one of the European countries most critical of Israel’s offensive 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 anddisproportionate response... Alongside Ireland and Norway, the country recognized a Paleostinian state in May, drawing ire from Israel, which said the move incentivized terrorism.
BREAKING: The Dutch government is opening an investigation into their failure to prevent the pogrom on Israeli Jewish fans.
The Mossad urged Dutch authorities to tighten security at the stadium and hotels after violent, antisemitic rhetoric surged online, but it appears no… pic.twitter.com/t5uABUWTwh
… but it appears no action was taken to warn local police or fans.
The Dutch Minister of Justice says they are examining why Israel’s warnings were dismissed and improperly handled.
Jews deserve for hate crimes against us to be taken seriously. Will you listen to us now?
Dutch prosecutors impose fines on dozens of suspects in Amsterdam attacks on Maccabi fans
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors in Amsterdam say that four suspects remain detained on suspicion of violent acts, including two minors, and that 40 people had been fined for public disturbance and 10 for offenses including vandalism over the brutal assaults on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in the Dutch city. The prosecutors add that they expect to make more arrests.
Druze Maccabi Tel Aviv fan says he yelled in Arabic to distract Amsterdam assailants
[IsraelTimes] Melhem Asad, a resident of the northern Druze town of Kisra-Sumei who is fan of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team, recalls to Channel 12 news how he yelled in Arabic at a group of assailants in Amsterdam to prevent them from attacking Jewish fans of the team.
According to Asad, Maccabi fans were escorted by police to the match against Ajax due to anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrations but after the game “the local police just screwed up.”
“They didn’t guard us, we felt really exposed,” he says.
Asad says that he had nearly made it safely back to his hotel after the brutal attacks started when he encountered a group of Arabic-speaking suspects planning to assault Maccabi fans.
“I told them that no Jews are still here, that they escaped. I did everything to confuse them… I directed them the other way and then ran toward groups of Israelis and warned them that there are immigrants who are looking to hurt them,” he tells the network, explaining he told his fellow Maccabi supporters to take off their blue and yellow jerseys so they couldn’t be identified.
Asad says the violence reminded him of Hamas’s October 7 onslaught last year.
“I feel that God sent me at the right time and to the place to save whoever was possible,” he adds.
The Dutch government is investigating whether and how warning signs highlighted by Israel were missed in the events leading up to this week’s widespread attacks by local Arab and Muslim gangs on Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans in Amsterdam, Justice Minister David van Weel said in a letter to Parliament.
“An investigation is still being conducted on possible warning signs from Israel,” Van Weel said in his letter late on Friday evening.
“The Public Prosecution Service has stated that it aims to apply fast-track justice as much as possible,” van Weel said, adding that it is “the absolute priority” to identify every suspect.
Police on Saturday said four people remained in custody of the 63 people initially detained.
MOSSAD WARNINGS
A senior Israeli security official said Friday that Israeli security services had identified a “flare-up” on Dutch social media ahead of the game with calls by pro-Palestinian groups to hold a violent protest near the stadium.
“Due to this, the Mossad passed a warning to security services in the Netherlands with a request to immediately and significantly reinforce the security for Israelis in the area of the stadium and across the city, with an emphasis placed on hotels where the fans were known to be staying,” the official said.
However, he noted that Israel’s National Security Council had not been briefed on the threats and as such did not issue a warning to the public, including the some 3,000 fans who had traveled to see the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax.
The official noted that the attacks, which he said “spread like wildfire” were apparently organized by Islamic elements in the Netherlands, and not by Iran, which has been accused of fomenting violent attacks on Israeli targets in other parts of Europe, particularly Sweden and Denmark.
Hebrew media on Friday also detailed that other Israeli ministries had also identified threats ahead of the game, with the Diaspora Affairs Ministry, which monitors antisemitism around the world, drawing up a warning document on Wednesday that highlighted the “very high risk” of such attacks, Channel 12 news reported.
It said the warning was based on “indications” in social media monitored by the ministry, which showed overt online coordination of plans for violent demonstrations, including an online post by a Dutch Palestinian group headed “No Zionists in UEFA/FIFA.”
PUBLIC AND FANS NOT WARNED
The ministry’s warning noted that protesters were being told not to carry Palestinian flags or other signs of Palestinian affiliation, and said the organizers were presenting the planned violent protests as constituting “a direct clash” with Israeli security forces and the Mossad.
The TV report said the ministry drew up its warning document in the light of what it saw as “the open encouragement of violence by the organizers of the demonstrations,” and the fact that there would be many children and identifiable Israelis in Amsterdam for the Maccabi Tel Aviv-Ajax soccer match.
The TV report said the Diaspora Affairs Ministry’s warning was shared with the Foreign Ministry and “a discussion was held.” But neither of the ministries, nor the National Security Council, issued warnings or guidelines to Maccabi or to the fans.
The report said the head of Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, is now in touch with his Dutch counterpart amid the ongoing investigation of suspected assailants who are in Dutch police custody, and what it classed as ongoing security issues.
It also said, without sourcing the claim, that there were “high alerts” at Israeli and Jewish facilities in Europe, and concerns about security at several forthcoming sporting events involving Israeli teams in the coming days.
While the outlet noted that Sports Minister Miki Zohar has recommended against Israeli fans traveling to matches in Europe, it stressed that the National Security Council, which issues such warnings, hasn’t done so and has no intention of changing the current travel guidance warnings.
Holland is on the NSC list of countries where a “Level 2” designation applies, indicating a “potential threat” and the need to take “precautionary measures.”
Israeli officials said 10 citizens were injured in the overnight violence. Hundreds more Israelis huddled in their hotels for hours, fearing they could be attacked.
Many said that Dutch security forces were nowhere to be found as the Israeli tourists were ambushed by gangs of masked assailants who shouted pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel slogans as they hunted, beat and harassed them.
The mayor of the Dutch capital on Friday banned demonstrations for three days and gave police emergency stop-and-search power after the attacks which she called “antisemitic hit-and-run squads.”
Mayor Femke Halsema said Maccabi soccer fans had been “attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks” around the city, and that riot police intervened to protect them and escort them to hotels.
“Antisemitic hit-and-run squads” managed to evade a force of around 200 officers, she said.
Halsema said city police had been taken by surprise after security services failed to flag the match against Ajax Amsterdam as high risk.
Ajax is known as a soccer club with links to Amsterdam’s Jewish community because visiting fans had to pass the city’s Jewish quarter to get to the club’s former stadium. Ajax fans sometimes wave Star of David flags and chant the Dutch word for Jews.
Security has been tightened in the city, where a service was planned at a Jewish monument on Saturday.
The incidents in Amsterdam spurred fears of similar violence across Europe. However, a basketball match in Italy involving Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv on Friday ended without incident.
Israeli authorities had advised fans to stay away from that game. “Calls continue on social media to harm Israelis and Jews, and there are concerns that the events of the last 24 hours may lead to a wave of copycat actions and further disturbances and attacks against Israelis abroad,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Friday.
“In light of this, the National Security Council is advising Israelis to avoid attending Maccabi Tel Aviv’s game in Bologna and to avoid displaying visible Israeli or Jewish symbols as much as possible.”
The EuroLeague match, which Virtus Bologna won 84-77, was held amid extra security ordered by Bologna’s police chief, who also assigned a special escort to the Israeli team, Italian media reported.
“Growing antisemitism is unacceptable and horrible, and it is our duty to guarantee complete security to all our citizens of the Jewish religion,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a statement.
[IsraelTimes] Manhattan DA says suspect called Jewish passenger a ‘Zionist’ and warned ‘we’ll find you and there will be consequences,’ around time of widely decried rally against Nova exhibit
New York prosecutors indicted a man for an antisemitic hate crime that allegedly occurred around the time of controversial protests against an exhibit on the October 7, 2023, Nova music festival massacre.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ...Soros-owned and operated Manhattan DA. Putting vicious and blood-thirsty criminals in jail only makes them unhappy, and they've led such hard lives after all... said Friday that Christopher Husary, 36, had been indicted for attempted coercion as a hate crime and aggravated harassment.
Bragg’s office said Husary’s alleged victim, a 35-year-old Jewish man, boarded a subway at Fulton St. station in lower Manhattan on the evening of June 10 and saw Husary drawing an inverted red triangle, a Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... symbol, on a subway door.
The Jewish man then allegedly used his cell phone to photograph Husary, who then approached the man, who was wearing a kippah, and demanded he delete the photo.
According to Bragg’s office, Husary berated and threatened the Jewish man, calling him a "Zionist" and saying, "You’re not a real Jew." He then added, "We’ll find you and there will be consequences."
The victim reported the incident to police two weeks later, on June 22, Bragg’s office said. The same day, the New York Post published an article identifying Husary as a resident of a wealthy the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... suburb with a history of legal trouble. Soon afterward, the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force launched an investigation into the incident.
The incident occurred around the time that protesters gathered outside a Lower Manhattan exhibit commemorating the victims of Hamas’ massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7, where more than 360 people were killed.
The protest, led by the hardline activist group Within Our Lifetime, was widely decried as antisemitic by government officials and Jewish leaders.
Protesters gathered in Union Square before taking the subway to the exhibit. A man appearing to match Husary’s description, and wearing a Hezbollah shirt, was at the Union Square protest. The New York Post report similarly said Husary wore a mask and a Hezbollah shirt at the protest.
In a separate incident on the same day, a protester in a crowded subway car in the same area allegedly demanded that "Zionists" identify themselves. Anas Saleh, 24, was arrested weeks later and charged with attempted coercion in the third degree for the incident.
Widely circulated footage showed a man matching Saleh’s description shouting, "Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist" on a packed subway car.
"This is your chance to get out," the man shouted. The call was repeated by other activists on the train, many of whom were wearing keffiyehs, or Paleostinian scarves frequently worn by activists, that covered their faces.
Antisemitic hate crimes have surged in New York City in the past year.
Prosecutors are pursuing hate crimes charges in a number of high-profile cases, including in an indictment announced this week against activists who allegedly sprayed Hamas triangles on the home of the Brooklyn Museum’s Jewish director. That incident was also tied to a campaign led by Within Our Lifetime.
[IsraelTimes] US president-elect says he believes in enforcing sanctions and then removing them, expected to ease clamps on Russian energy
Former US president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s return to the White House could mean tougher enforcement of US oil sanctions against Iran, potentially trimming global supplies, but his administration could struggle to get China, Iran’s top crude customer, to cooperate, analysts said.
Cracking down on OPEC-member 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... would support global oil prices, but the effect could also be offset by other Trump policies, from measures to expand domestic drilling, the imposition of tariffs on China that could depress economic activity, or an easing of relations with Russia that could unfetter its sanctioned crude shipments.
"Trump cuts both ways for oil prices," said Clay Seigle, an independent energy strategist in Houston, adding that tariffs and trade wars would pull down US gross domestic product and oil demand with it.
Iranian crude exports have shot to the highest level in years in 2024 as the country found ways to sidestep punitive sanctions targeting its revenue. Trump re-imposed the sanctions during his first presidency after he unilaterally withdrew the US from a Western nuclear deal with Tehran in 2018.
Trump has said during his campaign that US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... ’s policy of not rigorously enforcing oil-export sanctions has weakened Washington and emboldened Tehran, allowing it to sell oil, accumulate cash and expand its nuclear pursuits and influence through armed proxies.
Jesse Jones, head of North American upstream at Energy Aspects said a Trump administration return to a maximum-pressure campaign on Iran could lead to a 1-million-barrel-per-day decrease in Iranian crude exports.
"That could be done relatively quickly without additional legislation, just by enforcing sanctions that are already on the books," he said.
ClearView Energy Partners, a research group, has estimated some 500,000 bpd to 900,000 bpd could be taken out of the market.
’MILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION’
But a tougher stance on Iran also means cracking down on China, which does not recognize US sanctions and is the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s biggest oil customer.
"The million-dollar question is how much significant financial pressure you’re willing to put on Chinese financial institutions," said Richard Nephew, a Columbia University professor and a former US deputy special envoy for Iran.
Nephew said China could retaliate by strengthening work in the BRICS club of emerging economies, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and others, including by reducing reliance on the dollar in deals in oil and other goods.
Trump spoke at the New York Economic Club in September about the risks to dollar dominance that sanctions can bring.
"I was a user of sanctions, but I put them on and take them off as quickly as possible, because ultimately it kills your dollar, and it kills everything the dollar represents," Trump said at the time.
"So I use sanctions very powerfully against countries that deserve it, and then I take them off, because, look, you’re losing Iran. You’re losing Russia," he said.
China and Iran have built a trading system that uses mostly Chinese yuan and a network of middlemen, avoiding the dollar and exposure to US regulators, making sanctions enforcement tough.
Seigle said cracking down on Iran could be bullish for oil prices. But the impact could be muted especially if Trump follows through on campaign promises to impose blanket tariffs on US imports to protect domestic manufacturing, including 60 percent levies on anything from China.
"A trade war that pulls down GDP would reduce oil demand and take prices lower," Seigle said.
Ed Hirs, energy fellow at the University of Houston, said Trump was also likely to ease sanctions on Russia’s energy industry, imposed by Western countries as punishment over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Trump promised during his campaign to "settle" the war in Ukraine before taking office in January.
"I would expect Trump would relieve all sanctions on Russian oil," Hirs said.
Western sanctions on Russian oil are not intended to halt flows, but only to limit Russia’s revenue from exports to $60 a barrel for those sales using Western maritime services. The sanctions have shifted the market for Russian oil off Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to China and India, adding costs for Russia.
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Is there a trans-Asian pipeline? If not then the oil has to go by ship. A try at Taiwan would result in a shut down of all such imports in to China. That's putting your neck in a noose.
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...The Iranians - among all their other problems right now - have a single-point failure system for getting their oil out. There's only so many places the tankers can onload, there's only one way out, and once they're in open water, the US Navy can still make them wish they'd never left port.
Don't have to sink them, don't have to capture them. Just make 'em turn back.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s foreign minister is seeking to distance Tehran from the US Justice Department revelations that it sought to assassinate US President-elect Donald Trump, who reports indicate could renew the US “maximum pressure” campaign on the Islamic Republic when back in the White House.
“Remember the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran right after our President’s inauguration? Everyone knows who did it and why,” writes Abbas Araghchi on X, referring to the killing of the Hamas leader in late July that Iran has blamed on Israel.
“Now, with another election, a new scenario is fabricated with the same goal: as a killer does not exist in reality, scriptwriters are brought in to manufacture a third-rate comedy. Who can in their right mind believe that a supposed assassin SITS IN IRAN and talks online to the FBI?!”
Araghchi insists that Iran respects the American people’s choice of president, but “the path forward is also a choice. It begins with respect.”
He also claims: “Iran is NOT after nuclear weapons, period. This is a policy based on Islamic teachings and our security calculations. Confidence-building is needed from both sides. It is not a one-way street.”
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[JPost] Legislation introduces prison terms for promoting Zionism and displaying Zionist symbols to incite communal hatred. Land of the Pure and Peace™
In an unprecedented move, Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Interior approved a bill on Thursday imposing prison sentences for promoting Zionism. The legislation aims to curb incitement to communal hatred amid concerns over the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
The new bill stipulates that promoting Zionism to incite communal hatred can lead to a prison term of up to three years. Displaying Zionist symbols with the intent to cause public unrest carries a sentence of up to two years.
Senator Afnanullah Khan of the ruling Muslim League-N party introduced the Criminal Law Amendment Bill. Khan claimed that the ideology of Zionism promotes violence, citing the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
Speaking during a session led by Senator Faisal Saleem Rehman, Khan asserted that Zionist ideologies currently influence the world. He stated, "It is written in the books of Zionism that those who do not agree with you should be killed. They are martyring children in Gaza under this ideology."
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Great Muslim Achievements
"Oh, wow!"
Pure Paks bred a flawless green cow
Whose Mohammedan moos
Repelled elephants Jews.
"Pakistan's Zionismusrein now!"
"Whew."
"Close call."
"Dodged a bullet."
"Allyoohoo akbar!"
"The U.S. told Israel in a letter last month it must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on U.S. military aid."
[IsraelTimes] The United States appears to be reinforcing its presence in the Middle East ahead of an expected Iranian attack on Israel, with the American military confirming Thursday that F-15 fighter planes have arrived in the region.
“Today, US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles from the 492nd Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, England, arrive in the US Central Command area of responsibility,” the military command responsible for the Middle East said on social media.
The aircraft join the B-52 Stratofortress bombers, tanker aircraft and Navy destroyers that US Defense Lloyd Austin ordered to deploy to the Middle East earlier this week, as well as the advanced THAAD, or the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, system to that the US rushed to Israel last month.
The anti-missile system is a critical part of the US military’s layered air defense systems and adds to Israel’s already formidable anti-missile defenses amid indications of an imminent Iranian response to Israel’s recent retaliatory strike.
On Thursday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran’s network of terror proxies remained strong despite the killing of many of their senior leaders.
The “leaders of the resistance” are “still fighting,” he said, according to a report on Iran’s state television.
“God willing, the world will see a day when the Zionist regime will be defeated by them,” he added, referring to Israel.
The October 1 attack was Iran’s second-ever direct attack on Israel, having launched some 300 missiles and drones at Israel in April, after a decades-long shadow war.
[IsraelTimes] Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer secretly visited Russia last week, Army Radio reported Sunday, in what appeared to be part of Israel’s efforts to reach a ceasefire in Lebanon where it is battling the terror group Hezbollah.
Dermer’s office said that it had no comment on the report.
Dermer then flew to Washington on Saturday night for talks with US officials, the Ynet outlet reported.
Russia is a major player in Syria, and its cooperation in a diplomatic arrangement to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could be an important piece of a deal that keeps the Iran-backed group from rearming.
Syria, an ally of Tehran, is a key supply route of weapons from Iran to the Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah, which Israel says has suffered massive damage to its leadership, infrastructure, and arsenal as a result of the Israeli military offensive. That ground operation was launched after 11 months of near-daily rocket fire and drone attacks — at times deadly — which caused the evacuation of some 60,000 residents from areas close to the northern border.
Meanwhile, Lebanese politicians told the Hezbollah-affiliated outlet Al-Akhbar that US special envoy Amos Hochstein told them he assured the country’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Mikati last week that he would arrive in the country within ten days.
However, other unnamed sources told the outlet that Lebanon has not been given any official date for Hochstein to arrive, with one source casting doubt on the envoy’s ability to achieve anything after coming up emptyhanded for the past year. The source noted that Israel has said it will expand its ground operation in southern Lebanon and that Iran is believed to be posed to launch a third direct attack on Israel.
Meanwhile, US President-elect Donald Trump has informed the Biden administration that he expects to see progress in the efforts to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the Ynet news site reported Saturday.
Citing anonymous US officials, the report added that Hochstein is confident that the two sides will be able to reach an agreement and bring an end to more than a year of cross-border fighting and Israel’s ground operation in southern Lebanon.
On Friday the Lebanese MTV outlet cited unnamed US sources as saying that Trump told Hochstein to continue his work and “make a deal with Lebanon.”
US officials have said they will make a final push to reach deals on the conflicts between Israel and the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups, although it is unclear how much leverage they have over Israel and other actors in the region now focused on the incoming Trump administration.
In October, ahead of the November 5 presidential election, Trump pledged to end the “suffering and destruction in Lebanon.”
“I want to see the Middle East return to real peace, a lasting peace, and we will get it done properly so it doesn’t repeat itself every 5 or 10 years,” he added at the time.
A Russian delegation visited Israel on October 24. A source in Netanyahu’s office told The Times of Israel that the Russian delegation’s visit was not connected to hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023
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Good. About time they did something constructive instead of destructive.
[IsraelTimes] Nonprofit takes on project initiated by grandson of murdered Kibbutz Kfar Aza co-founder, who says ‘no need to wait for the state’ with volunteers lining up to help.
Very wise. The state is straining to finish the war that must be fought. There’s no need for civilians to add to the country’s burdens when they can self-organize to fix the problem. And also it will keep these people from giving aid and comfort to the enemy and angering their fellow Israelis by protesting against the Netanyahu government.
The first 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... -border neighborhood to be fully renovated since the October 7 massacre last year will be in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, thanks to the initiative of the 32-year-old grandson of a woman murdered on that day, and the Brothers and Sisters in Arms organization.
Omri Ronen was born on the kibbutz. When he was young, the family moved to central Israel’s Kochav Ya’ir, but returned frequently to Kfar Aza to visit relatives, among them his grandparents.
On October 7, his widowed grandmother, Nira, 86, a co-founder of the kibbutz, was murdered in her home alongside her Filipina caregiver, Angie Aguirre.
After nearly 200 days serving in a special IDF reserve unit, Ronen — married with an eight-month-old son — visited Kfar Aza with his father to find that none of the ruins had been rebuilt.
In his grandmother’s house, he found a note in her day planner written in Arabic by one of her killers. It said, "You will die here. You won’t remain here."
"Not only aren’t we dead, we are alive and are here to stay," Ronen told The Times of Israel.
He approached the kibbutz’s leaders and argued that rebuilding had to start as soon as possible without waiting for the authorities. After a while, they gave him the green light.
Having protested against the government’s controversial judicial reforms with Brothers and Sisters and Arms, it was natural for him to undertake the project as part of that group.
With kibbutz approval, Ronen chose Green Floors, a neighborhood of 16 units built in the 1970s to house 17- and 18-year-old kibbutz members (Ronen’s father and aunt had both lived there). It subsequently housed other young people from the kibbutz and elsewhere.
Nobody was murdered there on October 7, unlike the adjacent neighborhood, which remains as it was until the kibbutz decides what to do with it.
"I wanted the young people’s area renovated first because the young people are the life of the kibbutz," Ronen explained.
"The kibbutz was the life project of my grandfather and grandmother, which is why I’m so determined to continue it."
The Green Floors units were pocked with holes from bullets and mortars, their doors and windows smashed in, and their interiors vandalized by the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... terrorists, Ronen said. One apartment had been burned.
When he issued a call through Brothers and Sisters in Arms for volunteers, nearly 6,000 people responded.
"Brothers in Arms have been with me from the start. They are the best people there are," said Ronen. "We’re in a new situation. The state doesn’t know how to cope. Brothers in Arms knows how to organize and get things done. Everyone is volunteering. Even the materials are donated."
The two-month project started during the recent Sukkot holiday. If all goes as planned, on the first night of Hanukkah, on December 25, 16 young people who lived on the kibbutz before October 7 will receive the keys to completely renovated, fully furnished apartments, complete with pergolas and exterior landscaping.
To date, around 1,000 people from all regions and sectors of society have come to the building site to help, many with no construction experience who are willing to learn on the job. On each day, someone different manages the work. (When this news hound visited, it was architect Roy Gordon).
Volunteers range from youngsters doing a year’s community service through HaShomer HaHadash (which seeks to strengthen Zionist values) to a man in his 80s.
Ronen wants to repeat the project in other communities along the Gaza border and the Lebanese one in northern Israel. He wants to get the engines of growth moving and show the authorities that it can be done. "I don’t think we need to wait for the State of Israel," he said. "People are lining up. They want to give. It helps build resilience and takes them out of hopelessness to Zionist work. They’re excited to come."
"We took all the units apart and just left the skeletons," he went on. "Now we’re building."
"The message is that they broke us, but we will build back better and more beautifully and stand up to terror. We are here to stay."
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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