[ToloNews] The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation has reported the deportation of more than 3,800 Afghan families from neighboring countries in the past month.
Abdul Mutalib Haqqani, spokesperson for the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, stated that out of this number, fourteen families were deported from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , 1,017 families from Pakistain, and the rest from Iran, all of whom have returned to Afghanistan.
The spokesperson added: "In the past month, 3,845 Afghan families have returned to the country from neighboring countries, including fourteen families from Turkey, 1,017 families from Pakistain, and the rest from Iran. Assistance has been provided to returnees at border crossings, and some have even been transported to their areas."
Simultaneously, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has also reported the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Afghan migrants colonists from 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... this year. According to the UN agency, Iran plans to deport two million undocumented foreign nationals by March next year.
Caroline Gluck, spokesperson for UNHCR in Afghanistan, stated: "In the past year hundreds of thousands of people have been returned to Afghanistan many of them forced back despite UNHCR’s non-return advisory. The authorities in Tehran have said that they plan to expel two million undocumented foreigners by next march; and new arrivals here have significantly increased since September. UNHCR’s position is that all returns should be voluntary, and carried out in safety and dignity."
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... some citizens recently deported from Iran have expressed serious challenges. They call on officials in the caretaker government to provide them with basic living facilities.
"I have many problems; I have 12 to 13 dependents, some of whom are sick, and my parents are elderly," said Sher Mohammad, a migrant deported from Iran.
"I am unemployed. I have no work, no place to sleep, and no food," said Eslahuddin, another deportee. Some would have hesitated to leave
Earlier, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation also reported that over 900,000 Afghan migrants colonists returned to the country from Iran, Turkey, and Pakistain in the first eight months of the current solar year.
Turkey arrests and deports 60 Afghan refugees
[KhaamaPress] Following a surge in arrests and deportations of Afghan refugees in Turkey, officials have reported that 60 Afghan refugees were detained in the cities of Izmir and Bitlis, with 21 of them deported.
NTV television reported on Friday, December 20, that these refugees were detained over the past week due to “lack of legal residency documents” and subsequently deported.
Turkish authorities have also arrested three individuals on charges of human trafficking and handed them over to judicial and legal bodies.
The report mentioned that 39 of these refugees were detained in the tourist district of Çeşme in Izmir, with the deportation process for them already underway.
This comes amid a growing trend of arrests and deportations of Afghan refugees in recent months from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey.
Earlier, the Turkish Coast Guard reported the detention of 60 Afghan refugees, including 27 children, as part of their operations.
According to official statistics, over 300,000 Afghan refugees live in Turkey, many of whom face serious challenges, including arrests, residency restrictions, and forced deportations.
Turkey has intensified its operations targeting Afghan refugees, with officials repeatedly emphasizing their commitment to returning these individuals to their home country.
[AFRICANEWS] After being forced to withdraw its troops from the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... in West Africa, La Belle France's president said on Friday that its military base in Djibouti could assume a great role.
Emmanuel Macron said it would be ''reinvented'' as a projection point for the country's missions in Africa.
Currently the base is more focused on the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Indo-Pacific than it is on Africa.
Macron described the move as a strategic decision which is part of La Belle France's restructuring of its approach on the African continent.
''Our role is changing in Africa, but that's what we wanted because the world is changing in Africa, because public opinion is changing, because governments are changing,'' he said.
''And because we decided in a sovereign way in February 2023, after several years of gradual change, to rebuild a partnership that is based on partners, respected.'
He was speaking on Friday after sharing a Christmas dinner with the 1,500 French soldiers at its airbase in Djibouti, which recently renewed its defence cooperation treaty with Gay Paree.
That makes it home to La Belle France's largest military contingent aboard.
French forces were successively pushed out of Mali, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... , and Niger — all three under military rule - between 2022 and 2023.
Its troops have begun withdrawing from Chad in the latest blow to its dwindling influence across its former colonies in Africa.
Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... has requested the departure of French troops while they are being reduced to a bare minimum in Gabon and Cote d'Ivoire.
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"Camp Lemonnier provides, operates and sustains superior service in support of combat readiness and security of ships, aircraft, detachments and personnel for regional and combatant command requirements; and enables operations in the Horn of Africa while fostering positive U.S.-African Nation relations. Camp Lemonnier is a U.S. Navy led installation operated by Commander, Navy Region Europe, Africa, Central via U.S. Naval Forces Africa and Commander, Navy Installations Command.
The Base supports approximately 4,000 U.S., joint and allied forces military and civilian personnel and U.S. Department of Defense contractors. Additionally, the base provides employment for approximately 1,000 local and third country nation workers."
NEW: Libyan National Army, led by Khalifa Haftar, training to operate FPV drones under the guidance of unidentified instructors (highly likely Russians).
[AFRICANEWS] The situation caught La Belle France by surprise. It was preparing to start withdrawing its ground troops in Chad from next week.
Then on Friday, Gay Paree received a communique from the authorities demanding the total withdrawal of all personnel from its base in N'Djamena by 31 December.
This is another setback for La Belle France. Chad was the last stronghold of French influence in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... of West Africa.
Gay Paree was planning to begin repatriating its soldiers from Tuesday, although sources suggest negotiations were underway for a gradual withdrawal ending in March.
Now, Gay Paree has had to speed things up, sending the first 120 men back to La Belle France on Friday afternoon.
The situation in the country has evolved rapidly.
In October, 40 Chadian soldiers were killed in an attack by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... holy warriors on a military post in the Lake Chad region.
The government accused La Belle France in particular of refusing to provide information and assistance following the violent mostly peaceful attack.
Gay Paree' failure to help did not go down well with N'Djamena which demanded the withdrawal of French soldiers from Chad, ending its defence pact.
This was followed by a series of demonstrations in towns across the country calling for the French army to leave.
The end of the Chad-La Belle France defence pact raises questions about who N'Djamena might turn to next and what this means for the region.
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[IsraelTimes] The Houthi-run Yemeni Transport Ministry and the Red Sea Ports Corporation announces that Israeli strikes on the port city of Hodeida in western Yemen since July have caused $313 million in losses, according to a report by the Turkish state-owned Anadolu news agency.
The Houthi Transport Minister Mohammed Ayash Quhim said in a statement late last week that IDF attacks on the port are a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the generally accepted charters and protocols that criminalize targeting ports.”
Last week, Israeli jets carried out strikes on the Hodeida port — which Israel had struck twice before — and for the first time, in the rebel-held capital Sana’a.
The IDF operation coincided with the Houthis firing a missile that hit a school in central Israel last week.
Israeli military sources said the strikes were aimed at paralyzing all three ports used by the Houthis on the coast of the country. It was the third time Israel has struck Yemen in response to Houthi attacks, including a July strike after a drone killed a civilian in Tel Aviv.
[IsraelTimes] Days after the IDF carried out intense airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel, “There are going to be more attacks.”
“Houthis are now the focus,” says the official.
Their turn being in the barrel? How nice.
Yesterday, the US said it struck targets in Yemen’s rebel-held capital, hours after a missile fired by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels struck Tel Aviv, causing injuries.
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“The Houthi Transport Minister Mohammed Ayash Quhim said in a statement late last week that IDF attacks on the port are a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the generally accepted charters and protocols that criminalize targeting ports.”
It’s like an SNL sketch.
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[GEO.TV] Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen's Houthi rebels, says the US strikes "support the terrorism of the temporary Israeli entity to continue the genocide and siege of the people of Gaza".
"The American terrorist attacks confirm the lawless rampage and criminality in the region," he said on X.
"The reckless terrorist actions against Yemen do not stop the support [for Gaza]," the official added.
The Red Sea has seen high military activity for more than a year as the US forces continue to attack the Houthis, who have attacked ships in the region in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.
The US army said it struck drones and missiles of the group over the Red Sea on Saturday and attacked its infrastructure in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
Whereas Houthis attacking American naval ships and commercial shipping from all over the world is perfectly acceptable? Stick it in your ear and rotate, Houthis.
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Houthi Minister of Defense, General Mohammed Naser al-Atiffi, threatens the US: “We possess the means to sink your fleets, battleships, submarines, and aircraft carriers. The Red Sea will become your graveyard.” pic.twitter.com/um6fsOyXGx
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"While we Nassers today aren't as toothy
Or even as keen on the truth,
We'll still moidelize youse
And then take us a snooze,
Just like Egypt's!" said, strangely, a Houthi.
[WahingtonFreeBeacon] Polish officials said they will arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in compliance with a warrant from the International Criminal Court if he attends the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
"We are obliged to respect the provisions of the International Criminal Court," Władysław Bartoszewski, Poland’s deputy foreign minister, told Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita on Friday.
Dozens of world leaders are expected to attend the anniversary event on January 27, which will honor the estimated 1 million Jews who died in the Nazi genocide. Netanyahu is not due to attend the ceremony, according to Rzeczpospolita.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November, which Israel appealed last week. Israel argued that the ICC does not have power over Israelis since the country is not bound to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the international court in 1998. Neither Israel nor the United States are parties to the treaty.
"The State of Israel denies the authority of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and the legitimacy of the arrest warrants," Netanyahu said in response to his arrest warrant.
U.S. Republican politicians also vowed to sanction the ICC and erode its legitimacy on the world stage following Netanyahu’s arrest warrant.
"The ICC has no credibility and these allegations have been refuted by the U.S. government," said Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.), President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States... 's incoming national security adviser. "Israel has lawfully defended its people & borders from genocidal terrorists. You can expect a strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January."
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Poland does some good things and then it does some things to remind us that Europe is a dumpster fire.
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The Poles sat on their hands when the Germans were liquidating the Warsaw Ghetto. They'd get the same level of assistance when the Soviet army paused outside Warsaw as the Germans finished off the city later.
Olaf Scholz and socialist politicians insulted by angry crowd in Magdeburg. They are the real responsible ones. Only AfD will be able to save Germany. pic.twitter.com/5EDc8ttTub
[IsraelTimes] Police report scuffles at far-right protest attended by thousands on Saturday night calling for migrants to be deported
A man suspected of driving a car into the Magdeburg Christmas market in Germany in an attack that killed at least five people and injured scores of others faces charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday, after the man was remanded in jug.
The suspect is a 50-year-old doctor from 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 rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... who has lived in Germany for almost two decades.
A magistrate ordered the man, identified in German media as Taleb A.,
…previously identified in the Rantburg archives as Dr Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, a psychotherapist who settled in Bernburg near Magdeburg and practiced there since 2006. He was finally granted legal residency and asylum status in 2016. His name is Shiite, and he hails from Hofuf in the Shiite region of Saudi Arabia. While he paraded his anti-Islam stance and work to rescue women escaping to the West from Saudi Arabia, including in news interviews as recently as a few days ago, his statements about the necessity of killing lots of Germans to punish them for importing so many Moslems from Syria, and the act of driving a rented BMW into a Christmas market suggest, coupled with the accusation that he fled Saudi Arabia not because he was an apostate but to avoid prison for assaulting a woman, fit in with the idea that this was a Sudden Jihad Syndrome attack, long planned. And then there is the fact that he had taken drugs before commencing his attack, a common jihadi behaviour…
into pretrial custody after prosecutors pressed charges of murder on five counts, multiple counts of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm, according to a police statement.
It identified the dead as a nine-year-old boy and four adult women, aged 52, 45, 75 and 67.
Authorities said 200 people were maimed, including 41 at death's door. They were being treated in multiple hospitals in Magdeburg, which is about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, and beyond.
German authorities have not named the suspect, who has permanent resident status in Germany, and media reports do not give his full name in keeping with local privacy laws.
Police reported scuffles at a protest attended by around 2,100 people on Saturday night, one day after the attack. Right-wingers had billed the gathering on messaging app Telegram as a "demonstration against terror."
Protesters wearing black balaclavas could be seen holding a large banner with the word "remigration," a term popular with far-right supporters seeking the mass deportation of migrants colonists and people deemed not ethnically German.
The tag on the video is the East Plano Islamic Center, located in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. EPIC was established in 2003, according to Wikipedia, and is led by Imam Nadim Bashir, Ustadh Mohamad Baajour, Sheikh Dr. Yasir Qadhi, Sheikh Sajjad Gul, and Morad Awad. Pakistani-American theologian, Sheikh Qadhi is labelled a moderate Salafist, presumably because as of 2011 he was speaking in English much more moderately than he had done in the past. His most famous student is Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, known as the Pantibomber for his failed attempt on Christmas Day 2009 to blow up the plane he was on by igniting a TATP bomb sewn into his underpants, courtesy of the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula bomb maker, and his PhD is from Yale. He’s the one speaking so triumphantly in the video.
[CollegeFix] Report reveals universities likely violated Title VI, calls for increased ‘viewpoint diversity’
A U.S. House of Representatives committee report released Thursday detailed how universities likely violated Title VI by failing to protect their Jewish students on campus.
Following "a more than 7-months long investigation into antisemitism on American college campuses," the Committee on Education and the Workforce found that administrators "refused to crack down on antisemitism," states the 43-page Staff Report on Antisemitism.
"In fact, many colleges handed down disparate disciplinary actions for Jewish students versus their antagonists—the students who engaged in antisemitic behavior, encampments, and intimidating tactics such as campus checkpoints and tax-exempt organizations that enabled and funded violent mostly peaceful campus protests, among other troubling findings," it states.
The report also blames federal government departments and agencies for "entirely avoid[ing] any accountability for institutions to which they award millions of dollars annually."
The key findings of the report include that universities "granted shocking concessions" to "antisemitic encampments" and neglected to "enforce their rules and impose meaningful discipline."
Further, some "radical faculty" hindered meaningful action while "so-called university leaders expressed hostility to congressional oversight and treated campus antisemitism as a public relations issue, not a serious problem demanding action."
The committee recommends that universities enforce conduct policies, "forcefully reject antisemitism," "recognize that discrimination against ’zionists’ is an unacceptable antisemitic civil rights violation," and increase "viewpoint diversity."
"The House-wide investigation has uncovered deeply troubling realities about how antisemitism has been allowed to fester unchecked, including in universities and institutions across the country, with little to no accountability or oversight to prevent its continued spread," the report states.
It specifically cites Columbia University, University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Los Angeles, Harvard University, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Yale University, and others as the schools responsible for some of the worst violations.
"Columbia stands out for its egregious failure to combat antisemitism on its campus, despite its president acknowledging that the University was in violation of its Title VI obligations," the report states.
In February, the committee subpoenaed Harvard for withholding documents in the House’s antisemitism probe, The College Fix previously reported. Then in August, the committee subpoenaed Columbia requesting information on anti-Israel protesters’ 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... Solidarity Encampment.
"On October 8th, the world saw that antisemitic hatred was alive and well at American institutions of so-called ’higher’ education. As a result, the reputation of many of these schools has been in free fall," Chairwoman Virginia Foxx stated in a news release announcing the new report.
"Stopping that free fall comes down to one word: accountability. We need accountability because without it, we cannot guarantee that Jewish students have the safe learning environment they deserve," she stated.
MORE: Bill to combat campus antisemitism stalled in Senate
…stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate. But Republicans will have a majority in the 2025 Senate session so this can be readdressed then — an issue that I understand is a priority for President Trump as well.
[IsraelTimes] US President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg to serve as deputy secretary of defense.
Feinberg, who is Jewish, is the co-chief executive of Cerberus Capital Management LP, a private equity firm he co-founded in 1992. He served on an intelligence advisory board during Trump’s 2017-2021 White House term.
Feinberg would serve as the No. 2 official at the Pentagon under Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host who faces questions about allegations of alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct. Hegseth has denied any wrongdoing.
[IsraelTimes] Speaking to CBS News, former spies reveal YouTube ads and fake showrooms set up as part of years-long ruse to convince terror group to buy rigged devices
Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents have shared new details about a deadly clandestine operation years in the making that targeted Hezbollah Death Eaters in Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and Syria using exploding pagers and walkie-talkies three months ago.
“We can’t use the pagers again because we already did that. We’ve already moved on to the next thing. And they’ll have to keep on trying to guess what the next thing is."
One of them said the psychological effect the attack had on Hezbollah’s leader, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , who he asserted saw pagers blow up operatives right next to him, was a "tipping point of the war."
The agents spoke in English with CBS "60 Minutes" in a segment aired Sunday night. They wore masks and spoke with altered voices to hide their identities.
On September 17, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah operatives across Lebanon suddenly began to explode, injuring those holding them, and killing over two dozen. A day later, hundreds of walkie-talkies also blew up, injuring or killing scores more.
The attacks, swiftly attributed to Israel, came as Israel began to step up a counteroffensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah, which began striking Israel almost immediately after the allied Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7, 2023, attack.
Some 1,200 people in Israel, mostly civilians, were killed in the Hamas onslaught, and 251 were taken hostage, sparking the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... One agent said the operation started 10 years ago using walkie-talkies laden with hidden explosives, which Hezbollah didn’t realize it was buying from Israel, which it has sworn to destroy.
"We created a pretend world," said the officer, who went by the name "Michael."
Phase two of the plan, using the booby-trapped pagers, began in 2022 after Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency learned Hezbollah had been buying pagers from a Taiwan-based company, the second officer said.
The pagers had to be made slightly larger to accommodate the explosives hidden inside. They were tested on dummies multiple times to find the right amount of explosive that would hurt only the Hezbollah fighter and not anyone else in close proximity.
Mossad also tested numerous ringtones to find one that sounded urgent enough to make someone pull the pager out of their pocket.
The second agent, who went by the name "Gabriel," said it took two weeks to convince Hezbollah to switch to the heftier pager, in part by using false ads on YouTube promoting the devices as dustproof, waterproof, providing a long battery life and more.
He described the use of shell companies, including one based in Hungary, to dupe the Taiwanese firm, Gold Apollo, into unknowingly partnering with the Mossad.
Hezbollah also was unaware it was working with Israel.
Gabriel compared the ruse to a 1998 psychological film about a man who has no clue that he is living in a false world and his ostensible family and friends are actors paid to keep up the illusion.
"When they are buying from us, they have zero clue that they are buying from the Mossad," Gabriel said. "We make like ’Truman Show,’ everything is controlled by us behind the scene. In their experience, everything is normal. Everything was 100% kosher including businessman, marketing, engineers, showroom, everything."
Michael said the Mossad had "an incredible array of possibilities" for creating foreign companies with no traceable link to Israel.
"Shell companies over shell companies to affect the supply chain to our favor," he said. "We create a pretend world. We are a global production company. We write the screenplay, we’re the directors, we’re the producers, we’re the main actors, and the world is our stage."
By September 17, Hezbollah Death Eaters had 5,000 pagers in their pockets. When Israel triggered the attack, the pagers began beeping, and users were instructed to push two buttons simultaneously for an incoming encrypted message, a feint aimed at ensuring both their hands were on the device when it went kaboom!.
The devices would explode even if the person failed to push the buttons, Gabriel said.
The next day, Mossad activated the walkie-talkies, some of which went kaboom! at funerals for some of those killed in the pager attacks.
Gabriel said the goal was more about sending a message than actually killing Hezbollah fighters.
"If he just dead, so he’s dead. But if he’s maimed, you have to take him to the hospital, take care of him. You need to invest money and efforts," he said. "And those people without hands and eyes are living proof, walking in Lebanon, of ’don’t mess with us.’ They are walking proof of our superiority all around the Middle East."
In addition, the psychological effect the attack had on Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was a "tipping point of the war," Gabriel said.
He asserted that the veteran Hezbollah leader saw pagers exploding and injuring people who were right next to him in his bunker. Asked how he knows that, Gabriel said, "It’s a strong rumor."
Two days after the attack, Nasrallah gave a speech.
"If you look at his eyes, he was defeated," Gabriel said. "He already lose the war. And his soldier look at him during that speech. And they saw a broken leader."
In the days after the attack, Israel’s air force hit targets across Lebanon, killing thousands. Nasrallah was assassinated when Israel dropped bombs on his bunker.
By November, the war between Israel and Hezbollah, a byproduct of the deadly attack by Hamas-led Death Eaters in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, ended with a ceasefire.
Michael said that the day after the pager explosions, people in Lebanon were afraid to turn on their air conditioners out of fear that they would explode, too.
"There is real fear," he said.
Asked if that was intentional, he said, "We want them to feel vulnerable, which they are. We can’t use the pagers again because we already did that. We’ve already moved on to the next thing. And they’ll have to keep on trying to guess what the next thing is."
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"We’ve already moved on to the next thing. And they’ll have to keep on trying to guess what the next thing is."
Genetically-bred exploding sheep and goats?
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The Mossad used to shut up.
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"The Mossad used to shut up."
The Mossad must want this out there, or they would have easily 'quieted' these guys down.
So: Mossad likes the way this makes Hez look incompetent in the eyes of the arab world.
And then there's all these wounded guys walking around, claiming they were civilians.
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[IsraelTimes] Almost all of the top brass of Israel’s defense establishment thinks Israel should attack “inside Iranian territory,” Israel’s Channel 12 news reports.
The question of tackling Iran — a possible reference both to efforts to deter the Houthis and to Iran’s nuclear facilities — has also come up repeatedly in meetings of the Israeli security cabinet, according to the report, even as Israel has focused in recent days on ways to counter the upsurge in missile attacks by the Houthis.
The report says Israel assesses that the Houthis took a decision to escalate missile and other attacks, and that their actions against Israel are not always coordinated with Iran or even appreciated by Iran.
Channel 12 quotes unnamed Israeli political and military leaders assessing that Tehran’s leadership thinks Israel may attack it soon, and asserting that the regime leadership is holding frenzied consultations to decide what to do about this.
In a report that it stresses was approved by the military censor, Channel 12 says that at recent meetings of Israel’s political and military leadership, it has been said that the Iranians believe Israel chose to accept a ceasefire in the north in order to free up resources to deal directly with Iran and exact a price from the regime.
Channel 12 says the Israeli sources believe Iran is concerned at the potential for an Israeli attack for three key reasons: because Israel has destroyed Iran’s air defenses in a way that enables access for the IAF; because it accepted the ceasefire in Lebanon; and because of Donald Trump’s election.
Channel 12 also says that in the Israeli leadership discussions, it has been said that Israel must do everything to ensure Iran does not return to Syria or Lebanon.
But the outlet also cites unnamed sources as saying that Israel should avoid a protracted confrontation with Tehran right now since it would not serve Israel’s interests — though Israel must still nurture and advance its operational capabilities regarding Iran.
[IsraelTimes] An IDF hostage rescue operation conducted in Gaza last December that resulted in the death of hostage Sahar Baruch, 25, was meant for Noa Argamani, who was ultimately rescued some six months later, Channel 12 reports.
The report says the soldiers embarked on the mission with intelligence that Argamani was being held in a building in Gaza, but that the intelligence was faulty, and the hostage in the terrorists’ custody was Baruch.
The report adds that the soldiers were immediately fired upon as they entered the building, and that during the ensuing firefight, Baruch was killed, but that it remains unclear whether he was killed by Hamas or by friendly fire.
Baruch was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023, when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air, and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Argamani, 26, was later rescued from central Gaza in an Israeli commando raid in June along with three other hostages, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian TV network says Hamas demanding ‘special consideration’ in exchange; Palestinian official tells BBC 90% of negotiations are done, but Philadelphi remains sticking point
As mediators in Cairo and Doha continued efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and the Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... terror group, international reports purported to shed some light on some of the gaps remaining between the two parties.
An Egyptian report on Sunday claimed that Israel is demanding the freeing of 11 Israeli men in the first round of hostage releases, while a report from the BBC the previous evening said that the talks are 90 percent agreed upon, although control of the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -Egypt border remains a sticking point.
Israel has been largely mum on any recent developments in the negotiations being brokered by Egypt and 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... , with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying last week that "that the less we discuss this, the better." The families of the hostages still being held captive have demanded in public statements that a deal be reached to release all of their loved ones in one stage, calling a partial release a "death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... " for those left behind.
Unnamed sources told Egypt’s al-Ghad outlet on Sunday that Israel has requested the inclusion of 11 men on the list of hostages to be released in the first phase of a potential hostage-ceasefire deal, with Hamas apparently demanding further compensation in return for setting them free.
According to the report, the first phase of the potential deal between Israel and Hamas will see 250 Paleostinian prisoners released from Israeli prisons in exchange for the children held in Gaza, the five female soldiers, and the older and sick captives.
While not specifically mentioned by the report, it is assumed that the first round of releases will also include the female hostages who are not serving in the military.
According to the report, Israel has requested the release of 34 hostages in the first phase, including 11 considered by Hamas to be soldiers. The terror group classifies all Israeli men of military age to be soldiers.
However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... al-Ghad said Hamas had agreed for the 11 to be included in the first phase in return for "special consideration" in the deal, implying that Paleostinian prisoners who also do not fit the agreed-upon categories could be released.
The outlet said other areas under discussion include the reopening of the Rafah Border Crossing between Gaza and Egypt, the potential withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Netzarim Corridor, which divides north Gaza from the south, and the return of Gazook civilians to the north of the Strip without conditions, but with vehicle inspections.
The report also claimed that talks were being held on a gradual Israeli withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border, a route that Netanyahu long vowed would remain under Israeli control, although Defense Minister Israel Katz reportedly said last week that the corridor "would not constitute an obstacle to a deal; there is flexibility from Hamas on this issue."
But a senior Paleostinian official involved in the negotiations told the BBC on Saturday that Philadelphi is one of the areas of contention, claiming that 90% of other issues in the talks have already been decided upon.
The official said that ongoing talks in Doha are considering the potential creation of a buffer zone along Gaza’s border with Israel that would be several kilometers wide, which would have an Israeli "military presence."
Once these issues are resolved a potential ceasefire could begin within days, the official told BBC.
According to the report, the deal will see 20 Paleostinian prisoners released for every female soldier freed in the first stage of the ceasefire, with the names of those prisoners not yet decided upon.
The report did not say if any male hostages will be released in the first stage and also does not mention either children or the women held in Gaza who are not serving in the military.
The BBC said Gazook civilians will be permitted to return to the north of the Strip "under a system with Egyptian/Qatari oversight," echoing similar claims in the Egyptian report. Additionally, around 500 trucks will bring humanitarian aid into Gaza every day.
The BBC reported that the third stage of such a deal would see the end of the war, with Gaza to be "overseen by a committee of technocrats from the enclave, who would not have previous political affiliations but would have the backing of all Paleostinian factions."
The report said it is assumed that the released prisoners will not include Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his part in planning three terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada.
Barghouti, 65, is often touted as one of the top candidates to succeed octogenarian the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> as leader of the Paleostinian Authority. He is especially favored by the younger generation, who perceive him as untainted by the PA’s corruption and collaboration with Israel.
Responding to a media report that Barghouti’s family recently visited Qatar to discuss his release to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... as part of a hostage deal, Netanyahu’s office issued a statement on Saturday declaring, "the terrorist Marwan Barghouti will not be released if and when a deal is made to release the hostages."
Hamas-led Lions of Islam kidnapped 251 people during their murderous onslaught through southern Israel on October 7, 2023, including soldiers from IDF bases along the border, partygoers from a music festival and families snatched from their homes. Ninety-six of the hostages remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
An Israeli TV report on Saturday evening claimed that Hamas has still not provided Israel with a list of living hostages held by terror groups in the Gaza Strip who would be exchanged during a deal.
[IsraelTimes] As working groups continue their efforts in Doha to hammer out a hostage deal in Gaza, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel that Hamas has provided “signs of life” for several hostages.
Israel knows the whereabouts of most of the hostages, says the official, but would not say whether Hamas had provided a list of living hostages.
Israel will not accept an end to the war as part of a deal, says the official, but instead would agree to something along the lines of a “prolonged ceasefire.”
Ninety-six of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
[GEO.TV] Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Israel has not succeeded in achieving its goals in Gaza.
''Were you victorious in Gaza? Is someone a victor if they kill forty-something thousand women and children with bombs and fails to realise even a single one of the goals set out from the start?'' he told a gathering of followers in Tehran, as quoted by Al Jazeera.
''Did you destroy Hamas? Did you free your captives from Gaza?''
''Hezbollah is alive. The Palestinian resistance is alive, Hamas is alive, jihad is alive. You are not victors, you have been defeated," he added.
Israel is not anywhere near done. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran, on the other hand, aren’t doing at all well.
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Similarly, nazism hasn’t been entirely eradicated, which is why the U.S. has 10,000s of troops in Germany for 80 years after WWII “ended.” With zero plans to remove them.
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All it takes to prove that statement a lie. Is to point to their leadership sponsoring, invading and demanding the genocide, rape and murder of non islamics. All just in in the last 2,000+ years.
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Great discussion early today in the comment section of AoS. One poster there pointed out that there were practically ZERO contemporary mentions of Muhammad during the period he was alleged to have lived, suggesting that he was a made-up character.
Yes, I get it that its a made-up religion, but that's the first time I've come across the idea that Mo himself may not have existed.
"In 610, an Arab salesman with a charismatic personality attracted a small cult of credulous fanatics by claiming to be a prophet. Though his "revelations" were self-referential and occasionally contradicting, he was successful in manipulating his followers with promises of heavenly reward and threat of divine wrath. The god heard only by him told them to lie and steal for him, to give their children to him for sexual pleasure and, eventually, to gruesomely murder his detractors..."
"There are two ways to approach a study of Muhammad. One is with reverence. The other is with skepticism. Thinking persons choose the latter. They are not influenced by the number of Muslim believers in the world today or by their force of belief because these are meaningless in determining truth. Thinking persons care about fact."
"The facts presented here about the life of Muhammad and the origins of Islam are fully supported by the works of early Muslim biographers upon which all later scholars rely. References can usually be found in the secondary articles cited, if they are not provided directly."
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Ye merry monthe yclept al-Haj
When Moslems maken pilgrimage
To Mecca, mill about and stare
At everywhere He isn't, there
He also wasn't, poor Mahound,
Nor yet the faith he didn't found,
For filthy infidels and such
Preferred a prophet they could touch...
Reapplying learnings from elsewhere. The Taliban in Afghanistan still call themselves an interim government, even though they have no intention of handing the reins over to anyone else. But it keeps the powerful democracies of the world from acting while they await the appearance of thr projected final government. Separately, the Moslem Brotherhood actively recruits female cadres, as did ISIS — organized women control the distaff side of the population much better than men do, and they happily and competently take over all sorts of support roles, thrilled to be included instead of stuck at home dealing with household concerns.
[KhaamaPress] The Political Affairs Directorate of the Syrian Interim Government has appointed Aisha al-Dabbs as the first woman to oversee women’s affairs in the interim government.
The Political Affairs Directorate of the ruling Syrian government has released an image of Aisha al-Dabbs as the only woman in the new government, highlighting her attention to the rights, social, cultural, and political issues of Syrian women.
Aisha al-Dabbs is an active civil society and humanitarian figure who previously worked for the Innovators Foundation in Idlib province, Syria.
At the time of the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... ’s regime, Aisha al-Dabbs wrote on her Facebook account that Syrian women must be involved in restoring their country to its rightful place.
This appointment comes at a time when there were concerns that the roles and rights of women might be overlooked in the new government structure.
In an interview after her appointment, Aisha al-Dabbs stated that the Syrian Interim Government will create opportunities for women to participate in all areas of society, in accordance with their abilities and qualifications.
She told Al Jazeera that women from all provinces and ethnicities of Syria will play an active role in the national conference, which is set to define the framework of the new government.
She viewed the establishment of the Women’s Affairs office and the appointment of a woman to lead it as a response to all questions regarding the future of women in the new government.
The international community, considering the history of the new Syrian leaders’ affiliations with al-Qaeda and their radical ideological beliefs, has expressed concern that, like the Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... , they might strip women of their rights.
Aisha al-Dabbs’ appointment represents a significant step in the inclusion of women in the political processes of Syria, particularly at a time when women’s rights have often been sidelined in conflict-ridden regions. Her background in civil society and humanitarian work positions her well to advocate for policies that support women’s empowerment, social justice, and the rebuilding of Syria.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis... this appointment also occurs amid ongoing political contradictions. While al-Dabbs’ role could contribute to greater gender equality, the conflicting statements about women holding high-ranking positions, such as in the Ministry of Defense, reveal the challenges of balancing tradition and progress in a post-conflict society.
In a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, al-Sharaa says his administration will not allow for arms outside the control of the state.
The Islamist leader has said that his nascent government intends to eventually overhaul Syria’s constitution and institutions, after felling the Assad regime in a lightning offensive at the beginning of this month.
The Wife of Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, who is a British National, has reportedly filed for Divorce in Moscow while requested that Russian Authorities allow her and her Children to return to the U.K, for Urgent Medical Treatment. pic.twitter.com/grXLTf3oga
[DeccanHerald] While Iran has been struggling with issues with its infrastructure for years, the President warned that the problem had reached a critical point. Government offices in Iran are closed or operating at reduced hours. .
Although Iran has one of the biggest supplies of natural gas and crude oil in the world, it is in a full-blown energy crisis that can be attributed to years of sanctions, mismanagement, aging infrastructure, wasteful consumption ...
Officials have said the deficit in the amount of gas the country needs to function amounts to about 350 million cubic meters a day, and as temperatures have plunged and demand has spiked, officials have had to resort to extreme measures to ration gas...
Yes, but Iran’s nuclear bomb program is ticking along nicely, and Israel has had to spend billions since 10/7 to defend against the depredations of the Axis of Evil. A totalitarian oligarchy has to make choices, donchaknow.
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
