[Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... Tribune] South Darfur’s acting governor dismissed 70 tribal leaders on Sunday, accusing them of supporting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and directing legal action against them for alleged involvement in the destruction of cities across Sudan.
Governor Bashir Mursal said the leaders were involved in mobilizing fighters, harbouring mercenaries from neighbouring countries, and inciting attacks on infrastructure in South Darfur and other states, including the capital Khartoum.
"It was decided to dismiss 70 omdas and sheikhs in South Darfur state for their support and bias towards the Rapid Support Forces," Mursal said in a decree seen by Sudan Tribune.
He accused the dismissed leaders of playing a key role in the RSF’s recruitment efforts, alleging they mobilized fighters from their tribes to be sent to conflict zones in Khartoum, El Fasher in North Darfur, and other areas.
Mursal also held the group responsible for "systematic killings" in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, as well as looting, rape, and the deaths of thousands within their communities. He called for them to be prosecuted.
The dismissals, which target leaders from various tribes, including the Fur, Masalit, and Rizeigat, follow Mursal’s earlier decision on November 9 to sack seven other tribal leaders for their alleged RSF affiliations.
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An interesting report. It is often impossible to separate the beligerants without a scorecard. Here it is implied the Fur (an Islamic African tribe) is working in concert with its usual enemy the Rizayqat (an Arab cattle nomad tribe). This would be a strong indication that the various tribes in Darfur just might want to coalesce and form a break-away and multi-ethnic Republic. But first they will have to take the capital, El Fashr.
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After which, one imagines, they will fall to fighting among themselves, yes?
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar blasts Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema for saying on a panel that she regrets using the word "pogrom" to describe violence against Israeli soccer fans earlier this month.
"The statement made by the Mayor of Amsterdam is utterly unacceptable," writes Sa’ar on X. "The failure that occurred on that night must not be compounded by a further grave failure: a cover-up."
"Hundreds of Israeli fans who came to watch a football match were pursued and attacked, targeted by a mob asking for their passports to check if they were citizens of the Jewish state," says Sa’ar. "There is no other word for this than a pogrom."
The day after the game between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, Halsema said in a presser that "boys on scooters crisscrossed the city looking for Israeli football fans. It was a hit-and-run. I understand very well that this brings back the memory of pogroms."
Yesterday, she accused Israel of using the word as "propaganda."
"I have seen how the word ’pogrom’ became very political, propaganda, in fact," she said. "The Israeli government speaks of a Paleostinian pogrom on the streets of Amsterdam, Dutch politicians use the word ’pogrom’ to discriminate against Moroccan residents, Moslems. That is not what I meant and that is not what I wanted."
"The application of the term ’pogrom’ was not an Israeli invention," Sa’ar fires back. It was used by Dutch politicians who recognized the severity and antisemitic nature of the incident."
"We will never again accept the persecution of Jews on the soil of Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... or anywhere else!"
Geert Wilders is celebrating today's major victory, announcing that Prime Minister Dick Schoof has confirmed the Public Prosecution Service can now prosecute those responsible for the “Jew Hunt” in Amsterdam as terrorists. This means that upon conviction, these jihadis can be… pic.twitter.com/0hG9M7Zw56
…these jihadis can be stripped of their Dutch citizenship, and no new law is required. But it gets even better. The government is now considering adding antisemitism as a direct, specific reason to revoke nationality. (Jihadis across the Netherlands are panicking) Wilders calls this “fantastic news,” as it directly supports his unwavering push for harsher consequences—including deportation and revocation of citizenship of dual nationals —for those hunting Jews in the Netherlands.
Above Geert Wilders Demands Removal of Dutch Passports for Moroccan 'Jew-Hunting' Rioters: 'This is Terror, Plain and Simple'
[Jpost] 'There are areas where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly homosexual or lesbians to be more attentive,' says Barbara Slowik.
Berlin Police Chief Barbara Slowik has issued a warning to Jews and LGBTQ+ individuals to exercise caution in certain areas of the German capital amid rising antisemitism and hate crimes. Speaking to the press, Slowik emphasized the need for vigilance in the wake of recent events, particularly following the attack by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023.
"There are no so-called no-go areas, meaning areas that are too dangerous to enter," Slowik stated, as reported by Die Zeit. "However, there are areas, and we must be honest at this stage, where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly homosexual or lesbians to be more attentive," she added, emphasizing the importance of caution in public spaces.
Slowik explained, "Unfortunately, there are certain neighborhoods where predominantly Arab-descended people live, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups," and where "open anti-Semitism is articulated there against people of Jewish faith and origin.”
Highlighting the tensions in certain neighborhoods, Slowik explained, "Unfortunately, there are certain neighborhoods where predominantly Arab-descended people live, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups," and where "open anti-Semitism is articulated there against people of Jewish faith and origin," according to Der Standard - Archäologie. She stressed that her intention was not to stigmatize any community, stating, "I do not want to 'defame' any particular group of people as perpetrators," as reported by Süddeutsche Zeitung.
While the police chief did not specify the exact areas of concern, she linked the increase in antisemitic incidents to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. "This understandably increases the fear within the community of becoming a target of an attack," Slowik noted, adding, "That fear and concern remain, I can understand," as reported by Die Zeit.
Since October 7, 2023, the Berlin police have initiated over 6,200 investigations related to antisemitism and incitement to hatred, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung. A significant portion of these cases involves hate postings on the internet, property damage, and propaganda offenses. "Of the 1,300 investigations regarding violent crimes, it is mostly about attacks or resistance against police officers at demonstrations," Slowik indicated.
Despite the rise in reported incidents, direct violent crimes against Jewish individuals remain relatively low. "Fortunately, the violent crimes against Jewish people are low, but without question, every act is one too many," Slowik emphasized, as noted by Die Zeit. She acknowledged the heightened sense of insecurity within the Jewish-Israeli community, stating, "People from the Jewish-Israeli community in Berlin perceive the total number of anti-Semitic crimes, which raises their fear of becoming targets of attacks," according to Der Standard - Archäologie.
In her remarks, Slowik also underscored the complexity of the situation, acknowledging the diverse backgrounds of the city's residents. "I do not want to 'defame' any particular group of people as perpetrators," she stated, emphasizing the importance of not generalizing or assigning blame to entire communities.
Other incidents in Berlin include a football fan being attacked for wearing a scarf with a Star of David on it, a petrol bomb attack on a synagogue shortly after the Oct 7 massacres in southern Israel, and a couple being attacked in a fast-food outlet for speaking Hebrew.
On the day of the Hamas massacres, men handed out sweets in celebration in the Berlin neighbourhood of Neukolln, an incident that shocked Germany and led to deep anxiety over whether the recent waves of migration had made Jewish life less safe.
Neukolln, also famous for its LGBT nightlife, is the Berlin district with the highest Arab population. The two communities have coexisted for years, although there have been several incidents of gay couples being physically assaulted in recent years.
Earlier this month, a large majority of lawmakers in the Bundestag, Germany’s national parliament, voted for a new resolution against anti-Semitism that mentioned migration from the Middle East as a factor. The resolution, drafted by the Greens, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats, warned of an “alarming extent of anti-Semitism based on migration from countries where anti-Semitism and hostility to Israel are widespread due to state indoctrination”.
The resolution could lead to refugees having their asylum status taken away if they are found guilty of committing anti-Semitic crimes.
The migration debate flared again in the summer amid fears of a rise in terrorism, but is likely to play second fiddle to Germany’s stagnating economy in the upcoming election. The hard-Right Alternative for Germany has cited the protection of the country’s Jewish minority as a reason to push through a much tougher policy of mass deportations of refugees back to countries such as Syria.
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The hard-Right Alternative for Germany has cited the protection of the country’s Jewish minority as a reason to push through a much tougher policy of mass deportations of refugees back to countries such as Syria.
That isn't true anymore. The AFD has Corbynized itself over the past 2-3 years. Many of their leading politicians are increasingly pro Erdogan, Qatar, Iran, Russia and their adjuncts like Hezbollah and Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] The US warns Turkey against hosting Hamas leaders, after an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel over the weekend that the terror group’s senior officials based in Doha fled last week to Ankara.
Turkey has not denied that Hamas officials are now in the country, but has insisted that it is not opening an office for them.
The US says it asked Qatar to oust Hamas leaders, arguing that the terror group has refused to substantively engage in negotiations for months.
Qatar has denied taking this step due to US pressure, but has admitted to halting its mediating role.
Asked during a press briefing about The Times of Israel’s reporting on Hamas officials moving to Turkey, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says Washington does not “believe the leaders of a vicious terrorist organization should be living comfortably anywhere,” including NATO allies such as Turkey.
Miller notes that some Hamas officials, such as Khaled Meshaal, are under US indictment and should be turned over to the United States.
“We will make clear to the government of Turkey, as we have made clear to every country in the world, that there can be no more business as usual with Hamas,” he adds.
[IsraelTimes] Reports that Palestinian terror group Hamas’s office has moved to Turkey do not reflect the truth, a Turkish diplomatic source says, adding members of the group visited the country from time to time.
Doha said last week it had told Hamas and Israel it will halt its efforts to mediate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal until they show willingness and seriousness.
Turkey has fiercely criticized Israel over its offensives in Gaza and in Lebanon and does not deem Hamas a terrorist organization. Some Hamas political officials regularly visit Turkey.
The denials come after an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel yesterday that senior members of Hamas’s abroad leadership left Qatar last week for Turkey.
The Arab diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, downplayed the significance of the move for the terror group, stressing that Hamas’s leadership abroad already spends much of its time in Turkey when they are not holding meetings in Qatar.
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A remembrance of things past:
Turkey, the Global
Muslim Brotherhood,
and the Gaza Flotilla
Steven G. Merley (2011)
Abstract: This report presents the results of an investigation into the role played by the
Global Muslim Brotherhood and its Turkish allies in the May 2010 Gaza flotilla.
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Turkey never let the 4th ID transit Turkey in the Iraq Attack. Bush didn't have the BALLS to kick them out of NATO then.
They are not our allies NO MATTER what their supporter in STATE or the PENTAGON think.
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"They're just visiting." And fleas and tick are 'just visiting'.
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3dc,above, is correct. We are still based at Incirlik in Turkey, although there is no real need for it. We have 'almost' closed our base down on countless occasions, but inevitably we don't want to hurt the Turks' feelings.
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[IsraelTimes] The US Senate could vote as soon as Wednesday on legislation that would block arms sales to Israel, backed by politicians who say Israel is obstructing aid shipments desperately needed by Paleostinian civilians 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 "resolutions of disapproval" were filed by Senator Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... , an independent who caucuses with Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... . Strong bipartisan support for Israel means the resolutions are not expected to pass, but backers hope they will encourage Israel’s government and President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... ’s administration to do more.
"This war has been conducted almost entirely with American weapons and $18 billion in US taxpayer dollars. Israel has dropped US-provided 2,000-pound bombs into crowded neighborhoods, killed hundreds of civilians to take out a handful of Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... fighters, and made little effort to distinguish between civilians and combatants," Sanders says in a statement.
"These actions are immoral and illegal," he says.
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen on Monday says he supported the joint resolutions of disapproval, as did Democratic Senator Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... last week.
US law gives Congress the right to stop major foreign weapons sales by passing resolutions of disapproval. Although no such resolution has both passed Congress and survived a presidential veto, the law requires the Senate to vote if a resolution is filed. Such resolutions have at times led to angry debates, embarrassing to past presidents.
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Pure antisemitism. Without these hundreds of tons of bombs, Isreal cannot make the rubble in Gaza bounce. There won't be anywhere left to live soon. Bye bye Hamas!Then bring in the bulldozers to level the place. Gone forever.
[IsraelTimes] Prison service says ‘wardens found something’ in prisoner’s cell; reports say it was a rubber strip that the suspect could have used to hang himself
The American president, as head of the executive branch of government, has the ultimate authority to classify or release information and documents. Everyone below him acts on what is ultimately his responsibility and permission. This was the error the Justice Department made in raiding his formally approved storage lock-up for the copies of documents he chose to keep there. In contrast, for the two decades Joe Biden kept classified documents in open bins in his unlocked garage as a US senator and vice president, he did not have the statutory right to do so. As prime minister and chief executive of the Israeli government, doesn’t Bibi Netanyahu have the right to see anything produced by government functionaries, even if they are cranky generals who don’t like him even a little bit?
Eli Feldstein, a former front man and aide to Prime Minister Netanyahu who is a central suspect in the Prime Minister’s Office leaks affair, was put under suicide prevention watch in prison on Monday.
"Wardens found something in the cell of a security prisoner held in a jail in the south that necessitated, in accordance with the instructions of the prison commander, his immediate transfer to a cell where he could be monitored to prevent a suicide," the service said in a statement, without naming the prisoner.
Hebrew media identified Feldstein as the prisoner who was transferred, and reported that prison guards found a rubber strip in the cell that he could have used to hang himself.
On Sunday, the State Attorney’s Office informed the court that it intends to indict Feldstein and another key suspect in the affair.
Feldstein and the other suspect, whose name has not been released for publication, are suspected of transferring classified information to harm the state, collecting classified material to harm the state, and conspiring to commit a crime, among other charges.
Feldstein is suspected of leaking a classified document to the German newspaper Bild in order to change the public discourse over the fate of the Israeli hostages being held by Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... 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... ; have Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar blamed for the impasse in hostage release negotiations; and imply that protests demanding the release the hostages were playing into Hamas’s hands.
According to the information released Sunday by Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court judge Menachem Mizrahi, the IDF initiated an investigation into a possible leak after the publication of the Bild report due to the highly sensitive nature of the document.
After initial checks by the army’s information security department, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi himself requested that the Shin Bet domestic security agency open its own, secret investigation in parallel to help identify those behind the leak.
The identification of the main alleged culprit, the noncommissioned officer reservist, led the Sherlocks to three other suspects involved in the leak — two IDF reserve officers, and a career NCO — and eventually to Feldstein as well.
Over the course of the investigation, "a grave leak axis was exposed" which began with the reservist NCO, "who decided of his own accord to remove a top secret and sensitive document from the IDF’s authority in order to pass it to the political rank," the court said.
The court noted that the Bild report came just after the murder of the hostages and the subsequent protests against the government "and as part of a desire to change the public discourse and direct the finger of blame at [Hamas leader] Yahya Sinwar."
Investigators believe that the leak of the document had the potential to do severe damage to national security, the court disclosed, while the IDF came to the conclusion that the leak harmed the war aim of freeing the hostages, as well as the operations of the IDF and the Shin Bet security service in Gaza.
A lawyer for Feldstein did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the information released by the court.
Netanyahu is not a suspect in the case. A gag order still applies to aspects of the case.
Thus far, Netanyahu has not been implicated directly in the scandal that has landed Feldstein behind bars, but Kan suggests that the premier may have even directed the aide to leak the classified intelligence in order to skew the public debate regarding a hostage deal in his favor.
Kan says that Netanyahu expressed interest in the document that Feldstein brought to his attention.
[IsraelTimes] PM confirms that a ‘specific component’ in Iran’s nuclear program was hit in last month’s strikes, in Knesset speech repeatedly interrupted by family members of hostages
Speaking nearly two weeks after the US election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly criticized the Biden administration’s judgment and policies at major junctions in Israel’s ongoing war against Iran and its proxies.
“The US had reservations and suggested that we not enter Gaza,” said Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on Monday. “It had reservations about entering Gaza City, Khan Younis, and, most critically, strongly opposed entry into Rafah.”
Administration officials had publicly urged Israel to calibrate its Rafah offensive to minimize civilian harm.
“President Biden told me that if we go in, we will be alone,” Netanyahu said. “He also said that he would stop shipments of important weapons to us. And so he did. A few days later, [US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken appeared and repeated the same things and I told him — we will fight with our nails.”
The US withheld a single shipment of 2,000-lb bombs, allowing all other weapon transfers to continue.
Netanyahu also criticized US positions after Iran’s drone and missile attacks on Israel: “Again, we were told by our friend that there is no need to respond. And I said that sitting and not reacting is not acceptable, and we responded.”
‘SPECIFIC COMPONENT’ IN IRAN NUKE PROGRAM HIT
The prime minister said that the Israeli response last month took out air defense batteries and “inflicted real damage on Iran’s ballistic missile production capability,” as well as targeting its nuclear program.
“It’s not a secret, it has been published,” Netanyahu said. “There is a specific component in their nuclear program that was hit in this attack.”
However, Netanyahu added that Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon has not been blocked. “We’ve delayed it… but it has progressed” over the past few years, he said. Iran has “advanced its enrichment; it still has a long way to go in other areas.” The imperative to stop Iran’s march to the bomb “is on us,” he said.
Israel’s April strike on Iran, Netanyahu said, took out one of four Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defense batteries around Tehran. In October, Israel destroyed the remaining three batteries and caused serious damage to Iran’s ballistic missile production capabilities and its ability to produce solid fuel, which is used in long-range ballistic missiles.
Last week, the Axios news site revealed that Israel destroyed an active nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin during last month’s attack on Iran.
Addressing attempts to reach a ceasefire in Lebanon, Netanyahu said: “The most important thing is not (the deal that) will be put down on paper.”
Rather, he said, “We will be compelled to ensure our security in the north (of Israel) and to systematically carry out operations against Hezbollah’s attacks… even after a ceasefire,” to keep it from rebuilding.
Netanyahu also said there was no evidence that Hezbollah would respect any ceasefire reached, and stressed: “We will not allow Hezbollah to return to the state it was in on October 6, 2023.”
HOPES FOR PROGRESS ON HOSTAGES
Netanyahu’s address was interrupted repeatedly by opposition lawmakers and by protesters in the gallery who laid out posters with the faces of hostages held in Gaza. Some were ejected by Knesset security.
Netanyahu told the Knesset plenum that he had met with aides and members of security services until 3 a.m. a night earlier to discuss new ways to get hostages home.
“To date, we have brought back 154,” he said. “117 alive, and another 37, unfortunately, no longer alive.”
He argued that senior US officials agree that maximum pressure must be applied on Hamas so that it will back off its “unrealistic” demands for a deal.
One challenge of the war that we won’t give up on, he said, is “how to extract from those murderers, from Hamas, how to extract from those tunnels, the rest of our hostages… Victory includes freeing the hostages. And we will achieve it as well,” he said.
“We will bring home dozens more hostages, I hope in the near future.”
He said the focus now is on harming Hamas’s ability to rule Gaza — a claim he has made for months.
“I asked the IDF to come up with an orderly plan to eradicate the governmental capacity, which is related to the denial of their ability to distribute humanitarian aid,” he said. “We want to ensure that the humanitarian aid is not looted by Hamas and others.”
‘THE PUBLIC IS NOT STUPID’
As he has done repeatedly in recent weeks, Netanyahu blasted the “countless leaks from the cabinet and the negotiating team.”
“The leaks seriously harm the chance of obtaining a deal for the release of hostages, they delay the release of our hostages,” he said.
While Netanyahu did not refer to the ongoing investigation of the alleged theft of IDF intelligence documents and the suspected leak of one of the documents by his former aide Eli Feldstein — who has been in detention for three weeks — he implied that there is a discriminatory focus in what the law enforcement authorities choose to investigate.
“I have called time after time for the phenomenon [of leaks from the cabinet and negotiating team] to be investigated,” he said. “I asked, how can it be that leaks that cause immense damage to the State of Israel are not investigated? I was told: You need to send a letter. So I sent a letter, setting out a range of terrible, criminal leaks, that do tremendous harm to Israel.”
He continued, “And yet, as of this moment, nobody has been investigated and nobody has been arrested [for those leaks]. Nobody’s life has been ruined,” he says, another implied reference to the ongoing detention of Feldstein. “Everybody understands what’s going on here. Nobody is stupid. The public is not stupid… The people are not stupid.”
His cabinet initially planned to launch an attack against Hezbollah in October, he says, but had to move up the planning “when our special means was about to be revealed.”
“From the moment I learned that this was about to be revealed, I decided that it was necessary to act immediately,” he claims. “There were those who argued that the US should be informed ahead of time. I argued that the US should not be informed because this could lead to either resistance or a leak, which is the same thing. A leak would have immediately demonstrated the effectiveness of the move. I denied it outright — and we acted.”
Netanyahu says that in the subsequent operations, 70-80 percent of Hezbollah rocket and missile capabilities were destroyed.
He also speaks about his deliberations ahead of the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah: “A legitimate argument arose that such an action could lead to the expansion of the campaign.”
“There was a completely legitimate debate, and there was also a second demand,” he continues. “The demand was to update and coordinate this attack with the US. Again, with all due respect to our friends in the US, I rejected it outright.”
He says that the debate over whether to strike Nasrallah continued on his September flight to New York ahead of his speech to the UN.
“Two hours later, I called the defense minister and IDF chief of staff, and said that we had to eliminate the man. When we landed in New York, we convened the [security cabinet]. There was almost an absolute majority. One person argued differently, but the entire cabinet got behind it, and we made the decision, it was carried out — and the rest is known.”
Netanyahu says Israel has destroyed all four of Iran’s S-300 batteries
[IsraelTimes] In his speech to the Knesset, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at length about the results of Israel’s two strikes on Iran, in response to ballistic missile and drone attacks in April and in October.
In response to the April attack, Israel destroyed one of the four S-300 air defense batteries around Tehran, he says.
In the second strike in late October, Israel destroyed the remaining three batteries, he says. Israel struck other air defense systems, and Iran’s missile production capabilities, he continues.
He also confirms an Axios report that the Israeli strikes destroyed an active nuclear weapons research facility in the Parchin military complex, outside of Tehran. “There is a certain element of the nuclear program that was damaged in this attack.”
Netanyahu says he has spoken about stopping Iran’s nuclear program recently with both US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that “the only thing that Hamas wants is a deal that ends the war and for the IDF to leave the Strip in order to return to power,” according to Israel National News. “I am not ready to allow that under any circumstance.”
He continues to insist that Hamas “sees the pressure on Israel”
…all credit to the Biden-Harris administration, whoever they are…
and therefore believes that it can hold out for a better deal, according to the report.
The security establishment has warned that such a positions is a likely death sentence for the hostages.
The security establishment should remember their glory days when what they did and thought was known only to themselves and their civilian masters. This arguing in the news media is both unprofessional and unwise, as it makes them look petty and incompetent and the nation look weak and divided.
Netanyahu says he gave instructions that by Thursday he is to have on his desk a plan for replacing Hamas in the distribution of humanitarian aid, says the outlet.
“We’ve struck Hamas militarily, but we haven’t harmed their ruling capabilities enough,” says Netanyahu according to Channel 12.
Members of the committee tell the outlet that Netanyahu that does not believe that an agreement in Lebanon will be effective, and therefore Israel is insisting on freedom of action against Hezbollah, according to Channel 12. Netanyahu tells the lawmakers that those demands are not being supported by the mediating countries, according to the report.
He tells the group that Israel’s decision to refrain from attacking “certain targets” in Iran in response to ballistic missile attacks was not made because of an American ultimatum, according to the Knesset readout of the meeting.
Netanyahu tells the lawmakers that efforts to reach a hostage deal with Hamas are still taking place.
Netanyahu says Israel is still looking to close deals to release a small number of hostages, and that Israel is offering money and safe passage for Gaza who release hostages they are holding.
He tells the lawmakers that Hamas continues to insist that the IDF withdraw fully and that Hamas remain the ruler of the Gaza Strip, and that he will not accept those terms.
Netanyahu notes that Israel has made significant progress in destroying Hamas’s military, but only “partial progress” in destroying its ruling capacity, especially the distribution of humanitarian aid.
America openly playing the anti-Israel bully for as long as Joe Biden lives in the White House.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli security cabinet voted last week to increase the amount of aid entering Gaza to 250 trucks per day, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller reveals during a press briefing.
The US sent Israel a letter demanding a series of steps to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, warning that failure to adopt those measures risks placing Israel out of compliance with US law, which bars the transfer of weapons to countries that block humanitarian aid from civilians.
One of the letter’s demands was for Israel to increase the amount of aid to 350 trucks a day.
While Israel fell short of this and other demands, the US said it had made enough progress in meeting them to maintain compliance with US law. The decision came days after the election of Donald Trump, who would likely have reversed any US decision to withhold weapons from Israel.
Miller says that Netanyahu also instructed Defense Minister Israel Katz to make every effort to ensure that Israel meets the 350 truck benchmark.
Israel has also removed 30 items from its list of “dual-use items” that are banned from entering Gaza, as requested by the US in its letter to Israel, Miller says.
Israel also expanded the Muwasi humanitarian zone by 25%, Miller adds.
The IDF is also implementing a UN plan to prepare for winter, which includes repairing roads, facilitating the entry of winter-specific aid and vaccinations for winter specific diseases, Miller says.
This series of steps are revealed for the first time by the US, apparently because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government wants to avoid criticism from its hardline supporters. Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners have opposed such measures to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, arguing that aid should be withheld in order to pressure Hamas to release the hostages.
[IsraelTimes] The only alternative to the UN Palestinian agency’s work in Gaza is to allow Israel to run services there, its chief tells reporters, repeating calls for countries to resist an Israeli ban on the organization.
Philippe Lazzarini,
…the hateful, venal ass who runs UNRWA with malice aforethought…
UNRWA commissioner-general, is in Geneva for a strategy meeting with donors, after it was banned by Israel from operating there last month in what he said is one of the darkest moments in the agency’s history.
“I have drawn the attention of the member states that now the clock is ticking…. We have to stop or prevent the implementation of this bill,” he tells reporters, saying there is no alternative to the agency’s services in Gaza besides allowing Israel to take them over.
Israel has worked to blackball the agency after repeated revelations of its ties to Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] The Biden administration has sanctioned Amana, the settlement movement’s main development organization.
While the impact of the move was likely blunted by this month’s election of Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... , who may well reverse such sanctions,
…seems likely…
it still sends a signal to other Western countries that have followed the US in imposing similar sanctions against Israeli gunnies in the West Bank for the past year.
What signal? “Indulge yourself until President Trump or the local populists replacing you reverse it” Apres mois, le deluge only works if you never want to get back into power.
Amana has maintained ties with individuals and outposts that have already been sanctioned by the US for perpetrating violence in the West Bank, the Treasury Department says in its announcement.
The Biden administration considered targeting Amana for months, given that barring American companies from any financial interaction with the organization could severely hamper the settler development arm’s ability to operate. In recent months, settler leaders had been lobbying the Israeli government to try and thwart the move.
An Amana subsidiary, Binyanei Bar Amana, along with a smaller outpost construction firm, Eyal Harei Yehuda, were also designated by the Treasury Department, together with three individuals.
In total, 17 individuals and 16 entities have been sanctioned through an executive order signed by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... last February, which allowed the US to target those destabilizing the West Bank amid mounting frustration over Israel’s failure to crack down on settler violence.
[IsraelTimes] Britain says state-owned Iran Air and Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines to face asset freeze and restrictions for supplying weapons for war against Ukraine.
The United Kingdom imposed sanctions against Iran’s national airline and shipping carrier on Monday, measures it said were taken in response to Iran’s transfer of ballistic missiles and military supplies to Russia.
The state-owned 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... Air and Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) will face an asset freeze for its role in supplying weapons to Russia for use on the battlefield against Ukraine, Britannia said.
"Iran’s attempts to undermine global security are dangerous and unacceptable," British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said. "We reiterate our call on Iran to cease its support for Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine."
The sanctions will further restrict Iran Air’s direct commercial air services to and from the UK.
Britannia also sanctioned the Russian Port Olya-3 cargo ship, which delivered the weapons, and said it would not be allowed to enter any UK port.
Iran Air has been designated for sanctions several times over the past year, including measures imposed by the US, UK, Germany La Belle France and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . The airline is fully banned from operating at EU airports, and other measures have been taken to restrict the airline’s ability to fly through European airspace.
In September, the United States accused Iran of supplying ballistic missiles to Russia, calling it a "dramatic escalation."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... told news hounds that "Russia has now received shipments of these ballistic missiles," and that the "supply of Iranian missiles enables Russia to use more of its arsenal for targets that are further from the front line."
"This development and the growing cooperation between Russia and Iran threatens European security and demonstrates how Iran’s destabilizing influence reaches far beyond the Middle East," Blinken said.
Blinken said Iran has trained dozens of Russian military personnel to use its Fath-360 close-range ballistic missile system, which has a maximum range of 75 miles (121 km).
Iran has previously supplied Shahed drones used by Russia in Ukraine, but has denied providing Russia with ballistic missiles.
The Kremlin hasn’t explicitly rejected the accusation, and has said that Russia was cooperating with Iran including on "the most sensitive" areas.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[IsraelTimes] The US warns Turkey against hosting Hamas leaders, after an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel over the weekend that the terror group’s senior officials based in Doha fled last week to Ankara.
[IsraelTimes] The US Senate could vote as soon as Wednesday on legislation that would 
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..always the voice of sweet reason...
...46th president of the U.S. 
[IsraelTimes] Britain says state-owned Iran Air and Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines to face asset freeze and restrictions for supplying weapons for war against Ukraine.
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
