[NEWARAB] For the first time in the school's history, pro-Paleostinian activists were removed from the University of Michigan's student government over failing to do their job.
Student president Alifa Anam Chowdhury and Vice President Elias Atkinson, both pro-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... activists, were found guilty of dereliction of duty based on Chowdhury's four unexcused absences from assembly meetings and Atkinson's failure to hold the required twice-monthly meetings.
This was after a seven-day student judicial hearing, which lasted over 20 hours.
The activists were found not guilty of other allegations, with Chowdhury being accused of incitement to violence and cyber access, violations, and defamation and Atkinson also being accused of incitement to violence.
The trial follows Chowdhury's presidential campaign in April under her "Shut It Down" platform. She promised to withhold funding from student organizations unless Michigan's Board of Regents agreed to divest its endowment from Israel.
As the university was reluctant to divest, Chowdhury blocked over $1.3 million in funds for student activities for 400 campus groups after being elected.
This led to the student assembly voting to overrule the budget freeze in October, a meeting attended by many protesters. The same meeting also voted down a resolution to redirect some student funds to a university in Gaza.
The former president also allegedly changed the password to the student government account and posted a message about her frustration with the vote's outcome.
The following month, Chowdhury and Atkinson were impeached for "inciting violence" against student representatives who opposed the Gaza aid measure and calling critics "Zionists" on the student government's social media account.
Chowdhury was also impeached for "failing to fulfil the duties of her office".
The motion says Chowdhury "gravely endangered the security of students and the functioning of the Central Student Government".
The judges said they had "no choice but to do as the constitution commands and as the evidence compels".
[FoxNews] A trio of House 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... in the progressive "Squad" is demanding an end to the U.S.-led investigation into a key ally's anti-Israel arms embargo.
Reps. Rashida Tlaib ...the very first ever Paleostinian-American ever sworn into Congress in 2019. She is a member of The Squad and consistently votes against the U.S. national interest. She's a Dem, naturally, from a safe district you wouldn't want to live in (Michigan's 12th congressional district). She wants the country to be kinda like Gaza only without any Jews for neighbors... , D-Mich., Cori Bush ...politician, nurse, pastor, and Black Lives Matter activist formerly serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district, since 2021, and probably all years after that until she dies. The district includes all of the city of St. Louis and most of northern St. Louis County. There are few normal people to be found there. Soon after being sworn in, Bush joined The Squad, a group of Socialist Dem lawmakers intent on wrecking the country. She posted a photo on Twitter of herself, the four original Squad members, and another new member, Jamaal Fire Alarm Bowman, with the caption "Squad up."... , D-Mo., and Summer Lee, D-Pa., wrote to the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), an independent agency that oversees maritime trade affecting the U.S., regarding Spain's "decision to deny port entry to ships carrying weapons bound for the Israeli government and its ongoing genocide against the Paleostinian people 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... "This investigation is a reckless insult to our allies in Spain, which has only sought to enforce in good faith its sovereign national policies and uphold international law, including its treaty obligations to prevent genocide," the hardline-left politicians wrote.
"It is bad enough that the United States is violating these same obligations and its own domestic laws by sending these weapons. We urge you to immediately suspend this obstruction of justice and withdraw this misguided investigation."
Spain, a longstanding U.S. ally and fellow member of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... , said it would stop selling weapons to Israel when its war with Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... broke out in October 2023.
Since then, the Spanish government has been accused in three separate instances of refusing ships from docking in its ports over allegations those ships were carrying weapons meant for Israel.
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told state TV channel RTVE of one of the incidents in May, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "The Middle East needs peace. That is why this first denial of authorization will start a policy for any boat carrying arms to Israel that wants to dock at a Spanish port."
The FMC opened its probe earlier this month after receiving information that "indicates Spain has refused entry to certain vessels on at least three separate occasions this year," a blurb read. "The two most recent instances involved U.S.-flagged vessels."
The agency will now "investigate whether regulations or practices of foreign governments result in conditions unfavorable to shipping in the foreign trade of the United States."
[GEO.TV] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) founder Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... 's nephew Hassan Khan Niazi is among 60 more "culprits" sentenced by the military court for their involvement in the May 9 riots, the military's media wing said on Thursday.
"The Field General Court Martial has promulgated the punishments to the following remaining 60 culprits after examining all evidence, ensuring the provision of all legal rights to the convicts, completion of due process and the appropriate legal proceedings," said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a blurb.
Underscoring the conclusion of the military trial of all the accused, involved in the May 9 riots, under military custody, the ISPR noted that all the convicted individuals retained the right to appeal and other legal recourses, as guaranteed by the Constitution and the law.
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The spokesperson of #UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned escalations between #Israel and Yemen, saying Israel’s airstrikes on #Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport, the Red Sea ports and power stations are alarming.https://t.co/hRhumgbFtKpic.twitter.com/6NxJh939j0
Hamas changed the rules on 10/7. That the New York Times — which ignored the Nazi Holocaust, too — misses that point is telling. That some of those wearing the IDF uniform also miss it is troubling, but that’s of a piece with the idiots prioritizing anti-government protests even though it provides comfort to the same enemy that is holding the captives prisoner.
[IsraelTimes] Officers could endanger up to 20 civilians to kill a low-level fighter in immediate aftermath of Hamas attack, report says, and often hit targets selected partly using AI tools
The Israeli military significantly loosened its rules of engagement in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... attack, letting officers approve striking targets in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip that had been low-priority or off-limits in earlier wars, and allowing strikes that endangered more civilians than had previously been tolerated for similar targets, according to an investigation published Thursday in The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... The investigation, which cited more than 100 soldiers and officials, including some 25 who helped plan, vet, or approve strikes, echoed some previous reports alleging widespread use of artificial intelligence software to select targets, as well as claims that a few strikes that targeted Hamas leaders endangered more than 100 noncombatants each. If you believe the New York Times on anything they say
The Israel Defense Forces, responding to the article, confirmed that its rules of engagement had changed when the war broke out, but maintained that all practices remained consistent with international law.
The military also emphasized the unique nature of the fighting in Gaza, where terror operatives fight from within populated areas and exploit an extensive tunnel system beneath the enclave. The fighting also occurred as Hamas held some 251 hostages, 100 of whom remain in captivity.
According to The New York Times, Israeli military leadership issued an order at 1 p.m. on Oct. 7 — as the Hamas invasion was ongoing — that granted mid-ranking officers authority to target low-ranking Hamas fighters, and allowed them to risk killing up to 20 civilians in each strike. These were far looser rules of engagement than had been the policy during previous rounds of fighting against the terror group, The Times reported.
In previous wars against Hamas, many strikes were only approved once it was concluded that no civilians at all would be harmed, while other strikes endangered up to five, the report said. Ten or more civilians would be endangered for the sake of killing a combatant only on rare occasions, according to the report.
The newspaper said that after the initial loosening of the rules of engagement, Israel tightened them again on November 5, 2023, requiring officers to seek special permission to endanger more than 10 civilians when striking low-ranking terror operatives who did not pose an imminent threat to Israeli troops. By late January, the report said, officers needed special permission "for nearly all such deadly strikes, except for those targeting the most senior Hamas commanders."
The report also said that whereas previous wars saw the military target murderous Moslem and sites that had been researched and selected far in advance, the pace of Israel’s offensive against Hamas in the wake of its cross-border onslaught meant the existing target banks were quickly depleted after October 7, and many new targets were selected with comparatively little research beforehand, sometimes with the aid of artificial intelligence programs.
The AI software used to select targets relied in part on cell phone usage rates and similar, relatively low-resolution metrics to establish the number of civilians in an area, rather than long-term surveillance of a particular building, as Israel used in earlier campaigns, the report said.
The IDF told the paper that "officers always verified the information provided" by AI systems, and denied that AI tools were anything more than a "starting point" of the target selection process. The report asserted, however, that the verification process changed from unit to unit, according to multiple officers.
The Times said Israel also made less use of warnings to urge civilians to flee before a strike, including "roof knocks," in which a small-load explosive is detonated on the roof of a building before a bomb with destructive power is dropped on the same location. According to the report, the IDF’s high command made roof knocks optional within hours of Hamas’s invasion.
It further said the IDF dropped larger bombs on Gaza targets than it had in previous wars, including 1,000 and 2,000-pound bombs, which made up 90% of the munitions dropped in the war’s first two weeks.
A senior military official who spoke to the newspaper noted that heavy munitions were often required to damage Hamas’s tunnels deep underground.
In its report, The Times contrasted two strikes that targeted the same senior Hamas commander, Shaldan al-Najjar: the first in August 2014, during Israel’s last ground war against Hamas in Gaza, and the second on October 10, 2023, three days after the terror group’s attack last year.
In 2014, Israel took stringent precautions to avoid civilian casualties — warning Najjar’s neighbors three times to escape, then conducting a "roof knock" — and indeed no one was harmed at all in the strike, including Najjar himself. By contrast, when Israel targeted the terror operative in 2023, Najjar was killed alongside 20 members of his extended family, according to the report.
In another strike detailed by The Times, some 42 people were killed when Israel struck a residential building while targeting a Hamas tunnel in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on November 16, 2023.
At the time, the neighborhood was largely depopulated — Israel had called on all residents of northern Gaza to evacuate south in advance of the IDF’s ground operation — and The Times noted that if Israel assessed the building’s occupancy based on cell phone usage in the area, it may have significantly underestimated the strike’s risk to civilians.
Some officers began to "sound the alarm," the report said, with air force analysts urging as early as November 2023 to use more drone surveillance to check for civilians in areas that had been marked for strikes, but it said "little to no action was taken" in this regard.
Citing "11 officers involved in target selection," the paper said the military rarely made an effort to count how many civilians had been killed in each strike.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 45,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 18,000 combatants in battle as of November and another 1,000 forces of Evil inside Israel on October 7.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 392.
[NEWARAB] It's been a month since a ceasefire deal to halt the devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect, and residents of Beirut's southern suburbs have trickled back to their homes.
Dahiyeh — the Arabic word for suburb and the name given to the area south of the Lebanese capital — was hammered by weeks of Israeli strikes. Streets which once never slept in the densely populated suburbs have been left in ruins, after buildings were reduced to rubble within seconds during the offensive.
Cleanup operations begun straight after the war ended on 27 November, as Dahiyeh's displaced residents rushed back to check on what was left of their homes, businesses and other places, saddened by the destruction but keen to rebuild.
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Hezbollah — and the Lebanese state — now face the arduous challenge of reconstruction, in a country already suffering from years of an unprecedented financial crisis.
Unlike the aftermath of the 2006 war where states were quick to assist Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... in rebuilding, a difficult reality looms this time. Hezbollah has come out of the war hurt and undoubtedly diminished and assistance is not as forthcoming as it was after the last major conflict.
BUILDINGS AT IMMINENT RISK OF COLLAPSE
The intense bombardment has left many buildings in Dahiyeh structurally weakened and facing imminent collapse, endangering civilians in an area that is trying to bounce back to life despite uncertainty, especially with the approach of winter that usually brings with it heavy winds and rain across Lebanon's coastal areas.
Haret Hreik, in the heart of Beirut's southern suburbs, was one of the areas worst hit by Israeli attacks.
Its deputy mayor, Ahmad Hatoum, told The New Arab that 102 buildings in his municipal area alone have been destroyed, with 50 more needing to be torn down, adding that more than 260 buildings have been partially damaged.
Across the whole of Dahiyeh, he says around 417 buildings have been destroyed, with over 1,500 buildings partially damaged. He did not mention how many more buildings need to be demolished outside Haret Hreik.
These figures are subject to change as the municipality continues to make assessments, he says.
"Regarding the buildings at risk of collapse and those which will be demolished, as well as getting rid of the debris, this is all partly tied to a tender that will take place on 3 January 2025 by the Union of Municipalities for the [Beirut] Southern Suburbs," Hatoum told TNA, estimating that the process of clearing up the wreckage could take up to three or four months once it begins.
He said the municipality has taken precautions, cordoning off streets around hazardous areas.
The deputy mayor says the 265 buildings currently documented as partially damaged in Haret Hreik will be assessed by the municipality, so "every building that is considered to be a risk to residents or its vicinity — whether in Haret Hreik or anywhere else in the Dahiyeh — we will not let anybody use it or come near it."
But to Hatoum, these dangerous do not only lie in the buildings barely standing and that may fall to the ground at any moment. He says dangers will persist as long as Israel continues with it crimes against civilian populations.
"As long as there is Israel — and as long as there is a Zionist regime attacking civilians, unbothered by international laws, dangers will exist and they will continue," he tells TNA.
The cross-border fighting between Hezbollah and Israel erupted over the war on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... in October last year, but Israel escalated it into a full-blown war in September, killing thousands of people in Lebanon, including civilians and combatants.
A US-brokered deal ended the violence, but Israel continues to violate the agreement every day, striking what it claims are Hezbollah elements in southern Lebanon and vowing to keep the group weakened.
"But our people are used to this, our people are living in a state of constant political and economic instability, and 2024 is not their first experience. But we hope it is the last," Hatoum says, commending what he called the bravery shown against Israel by the Dahiyeh's residents — and Hezbollah's supporters in general.
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[AFRICANEWS] The Kremlin on Monday commented on reports in Ottoman Turkish media, denying that Asma al-Assad, the wife of former Syrian President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , had filed for divorce and left Russia.
Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov also denied Ottoman Turkish media reports that Assad's travel restrictions and his property assets had been frozen.
When asked whether this information was true, Peskov replied: "No, it does not correspond to reality."
Ottoman Turkish and Arab media reported on Sunday that Asma al-Assad had filed for divorce in Russia, where the Assad family was granted asylum this month after the opposition seized control of Damascus in a lightning advance.
Asma al-Assad's name was associated with the reign of her husband, Bashar, who ruled Syria for 24 years, but her fate after she and her family fled Damascus has become the subject of many questions, especially after developments from Britannia, on whose soil she spent half her life.
The forced exile represents the final blow to the reputation of Asma al-Assad, who was once seen as an asset to the Syrian regime after her marriage to Bashir al-Assad in 2000, who succeeded her father, Hafez al-Assad, as the country's president. her father? Quality Journolism
In March 2012, Asma al-Assad's assets were frozen as part of European sanctions that London maintained despite its exit from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , justifying itself by claiming that she "benefits from the Syrian regime to which she is linked".
In response to a question posed a few hours after the fall of Assad, in the House of Commons, the position of British Foreign Secretary David Lammy was categorical.
Lamy said: "In recent days I have seen reports that Asma al-Assad, who is a British citizen, is trying to come to our country. I confirm that she is subject to sanctions and is not welcome.
He added: "I will do my best to ensure that no member of this family is resident in the UK."
Earlier, a senior Labour government official, Pat McFadden, said the authorities had "made no contact and received no request for Assad's wife to come to the UK".
Asma, who belongs to the Sunni sect while her husband is from the Alawite sect, embodied, at the beginning of her marriage to Assad, a symbol of modernity, leading to a radical change in the role of the Syrian First Lady, after Anisa, Bashir al-Assad's mother, remained on the sidelines when her husband was president.
The couple had three children, two boys and a girl. Their eldest son recently graduated from Moscow University with a degree in mathematics.
Last May, the Syrian presidency announced that Asmaa al-Assad had leukemia after being treated for breast cancer between 2018 and 2019.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[NEWARAB] For the first time in the school's history, pro-Paleostinian activists were removed from the 
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