Inside their OODA loop: the red-green nexus Fifth Column trying in vain to protect its own. They forget that President Trump owns the NSA, the FBI, the Justice Department, and all those DOGE coding hotshots who have been tracing flows and connections. Did the anxious students remember to delete their bank information showing connections to questionable funding? Did they remember to return the money so they can claim they weren’t paid for vicious, illegal protests?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Worried college students at some universities have begun deleting the names of pro-Palestine protesters published online in response to Donald Trump pledging to deport 'Hamas sympathizers'.
Trump, 78, signed a January 30 executive order to cancel the student visas of anyone who had shown support for the Palestinian terror group.
In response, the editorial board at The Exponent, an unofficial newspaper serving Purdue University, announced in an article that it would be 'removing the names, images and likenesses of every such student from our website published since Oct. 7, 2023'. It said the move aimed 'to protect the identities of pro-Palestinian students', adding that it 'refuses to be party to such a blatant violation of the First Amendment rights of potentially hundreds of Purdue students'.
'Further, in future coverage, no such information or images will be published online or in print by the Exponent — no exceptions — until this autocratic attack on free speech is overturned,' the article, penned by anonymous 'editorial staff' added.
Purdue University is a public research facility in West Lafayette, Indiana specializing in science, tech, and engineering studies. The college told DailyMail.com in a statement that they are 'unaffiliated' with The Exponent, which is an 'independent foundation'.
The Exponent is currently overseen by editor-in-chief Seth Nelson, who writes about 'poverty, homelessness and drug addiction' according to his LinkedIn.
Trump's executive order targets people living in the US on visas, including students, who broke laws during demonstrations following the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel. The president said he would instruct his Justice Department to 'aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews'.
He added: 'To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice... we will find you, and we will deport you.
'I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.'
It was the latest in a slew of orders that Trump has signed since becoming President as he looks to fulfill his campaign promises.
Many universities, particularly Columbia University in New York City, became the site of pro-Palestinian protests last year during the Israel-Hamas war. The students involved made radical demands that their universities sever financial ties to Israel and that the US end its military support for its longtime ally.
Trump's latest order gives leaders of government agencies and departments 60 days to provide the White House with recommendations on how to identify anti-Semitic threats.
It comes as Trump welcomed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House this week - the first foreign leader to visit during the US president's second term in office. During the visit, Trump claimed he would take over Gaza and turn the war-torn Palestinian territory into the 'Riviera of the Middle East'.
Trump's latest executive order, due to be signed on Wednesday,
NB: it was signed. Hence the panic…
is his second focusing on anti-Semitism.
During a rally in New Jersey last May, Trump also promised: 'When I am President, we will not allow our colleges to be taken over by violent radicals.
'And if you come here from another country and try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or anti-Semitism to our campuses, we will immediately deport you.'
He also tackled the issue in his first term. In 2019, Trump signed an executive order instructing federal officials to expand the interpretation of the Civil Rights Act to include 'discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism'. This added anti-Semitism to the list of prohibited behavior for programs which receive federal funding.
During the college campus protests, some Republicans wanted to use that order to take away federal funding from universities which defended the demonstrations as free speech. Republicans denounced the protests during the 2024 election campaign as an example of liberal bias at elite universities. Several House committees, led by Republicans, investigated federal funding to colleges and threatened to withhold research grants and other government support. And they issued a report calling for more to be done to address anti-Semitism.
Since the ceasefire announcement between Israel and Hamas, college protests have subsided.
That’s one view of the cause. President Trump’s EO is more likely the reason.
[Epoch Times] Border czar Tom Homan promised on Feb. 6 to find those responsible for leaking the details of a raid targeting members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang and hold them accountable.
The Venezuelan gang has become increasingly active in the United States amid a years-long surge in illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. It is one of several high-threat groups the Trump administration has prioritized for deportation.
"This isn’t a game," Homan told reporters outside the White House. "When operations get leaked like that, it puts our officers at great risk."
"We know that TDA is dangerous. Everybody can agree to that," Homan said. "But when they get a heads up that we are coming, it’s only a matter of time before our officers are ambushed. Their job is dangerous enough, so we are going to address this very seriously."
The raid in question took place on Feb. 5 in Colorado. Before approaching the gaggle of reporters, Homan told Fox News that his team had already identified the source of the leak, which is not the first to hinder the border operations.
"Look, I said from day one, we want to be transparent with the American people," he said. "We’ve invited numerous media outlets along, but right now, it’s all about operational security.
"So we may have to stop the media ride-alongs because—I’m not pointing the finger at them—but the less people that know about these operations, the safer it is for our agents."
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[REGNUM] In 2011, the Turkish and Syrian governments went their separate ways, like ships at sea, and for more than ten years they had no contact, except for meetings at the level of heads of the Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, and intelligence services, mediated by Russia. In the last two years, Damascus and Ankara have been preparing to restore ties, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan wanted to meet with Bashar al-Assad. However, to the delight of the Turkish leader, this was no longer necessary.
Now the Turks do not have to negotiate for a long time on unfavorable conditions for establishing diplomatic relations, which depended on the demands to withdraw troops from the northern territories of Syria. If earlier Turkey, with certain exceptions in the form of Kurdish zones, had control only over a thin corridor from the Mediterranean to the border with Iraq, now Ankara can lay claim to broad influence in the capital of Syria.
The head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Ibrahim Kalin, was praying at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus just four days after the change of power, and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan became the first diplomat to visit the Syrian capital.
Turkey's leadership in Syria, it must be said, was deserved. After all, after the introduction of Russian troops in 2015 and subsequent operations by Assad's army, the armed opposition lost significant territories.
Its former sponsors, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, withdrew, and after Turkish military operations in the north against ISIS* and the Kurdish YPG, the rebels either came under full Turkish control (as the Free Syrian Army, later renamed the Syrian National Army) or were heavily dependent on it (as was the case with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* and smaller groups in Idlib).
The Americans and Europeans have shifted their focus from the fight against Assad to the fight against Iran and the protection of the Kurds, settling in the Euphrates region.
It is therefore not surprising that the first foreign guests in Damascus are Turks, and one of the top priority destinations for the representatives of the new Syria is Ankara and Istanbul. On January 15, a large delegation headed by Foreign Minister Asad Hassan al-Shibani arrived in the Turkish capita . He was also accompanied by Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Kasra and General Intelligence Director Anas Hassan Khattab.
Given that Turkey is Syria's main military supporter, it was expected that the most important person in the Syrian leadership, Ahmad al-Sharaa, would choose Turkey as his first country to visit. But before arriving in Ankara, al-Sharaa left for a two-day visit to Riyadh.
This circumstance, on the one hand, is surprising. After all, the KSA has not been the main player in Syria for a long time, and moreover, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, together with his colleagues from the League of Arab States, has actually legitimized the "dictator" by returning Assad to the LAS.
However, in politics, such steps are called diversification. Al-Sharaa does not want to fall under complete dependence on Turkey and be Erdogan's puppet, like the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Therefore, he needs to pursue a policy of multipolarity.
High-level Europeans, including the heads of the French and German Foreign Ministries, as well as EU representatives, have come to Damascus, but they demand too much in return – democracy, inclusiveness, an agreement on the creation of Kurdish autonomy. And from the general experience of the Middle East, it follows that the “Westerners” are dangerous and unreliable allies. Al-Sharaa remembers the history of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi well.
The Gulf monarchies do not lobby for human rights and democracy, but they have fat wallets that the UK and the US, especially Donald Trump, covet. Half-destroyed Syria needs money. And what about Syria - Erdogan himself went on a tour of the Gulf to save the lira, which was falling into the abyss. Where there is money, there is politics.
Damascus wants to have the support of Arab countries, whose leader Saudi Arabia is trying to position itself not without success. Syria is aiming even wider, hoping to legitimize itself and gain weight in the Islamic world through bin Salman. Such support will strengthen Damascus's independence from Ankara, and at the same time will become, albeit light, but still a bulletproof vest against Israel, which has expanded its occupation of Syrian lands.
What the parties actually agreed on in Riyadh is still unclear. In general, during this transition period there are almost no specifics on any international issue, including the fate of the Russian bases.
At the same time, having flown to Ankara after Riyadh, the interim president of Syria appeared before Erdogan as a much more authoritative leader than he had been just a few days ago. Negotiations with Erdogan are a recognition of both al-Sharaa and the realities “on the ground”. And Turkey is now the most influential of the bordering countries. And al-Sharaa is not averse to monetizing the potential offered by its northern neighbor.
It is clear from the content of the speeches of the two leaders that the special relations between Syria and Turkey stem not only from the former's great dependence on the latter. Al-Sharaa and Erdogan are also linked by relative ideological closeness.
The Syrian oppositionists who came to power, including armed ones, and various militant groups set the task of establishing an Islamist regime in the country in one form or another. Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party are their model and guide in this direction.
From the very first days of the change of power, Ankara made it clear that it was ready to help Damascus build state institutions. And Erdogan said at a meeting with his guest that he attached "great importance to the creation of the country's administration." Al-Sharaa, for his part, appreciated "Turkey's efforts to ensure the political and economic success of the current Syrian administration."
The Syrian authorities also cannot ignore the fact that Turkey supported the anti-Assad forces almost alone and until the very end. “Turkey did not leave the Syrian people alone in their most desperate and difficult days,” Erdogan said. His guest did not skimp on words of gratitude in response, saying that he would never forget how Erdogan let millions of Syrian refugees into his country, and how “Syrian and Turkish blood mixed in the liberation struggle.”
The refugee issue will also remain a common point of contact for a long time. Türkiye would like to bring millions of Syrians home so as not to burden its economy and reduce social tensions.
For Al-Sharaa, this is a big burden. It is not that Erdogan will terrorize Syria, like Europe, with a “migration baton,” but Damascus will still be obliged to take Ankara’s opinion into account. But money will also be needed to support the refugees, and in this regard, the help of the Arab monarchies becomes even more relevant.
The most painful issue for Erdogan, perhaps even more than refugees, remains the YPG, the Kurds and their separatism.
Since Assad's fall, Turkish troops have carried out several operations against them in Manbij and Tel Rifaat, but Ankara wants the complete destruction, disarmament or evacuation of YPG and SDF fighters, the lead structure in the northeast.
Al-Sharaa is negotiating with Kurdish representatives, the Kurds themselves initiated the talks. However, there are no specifics yet. The Kurds sometimes raise green-white-black flags, sometimes demand autonomy for their political institutions and armed forces.
Erdogan and al-Sharaa share a position on the territorial integrity and unity of Syria, hinting that there will be no independent Syrian Kurdistan. However, the Turkish president wants more practical steps in this direction.
"We discussed the steps that need to be taken against the separatist terrorist organization and its supporters occupying northeastern Syria. I told him that we are ready to provide Syria with the necessary support in the fight against all forms of terrorism, be it Daesh or PKK," Erdogan said after the talks, expressing satisfaction with al-Sharaa's "firm will" in the fight against terrorism.
Ash-Sharaa himself is in no hurry to drive the horses to the east.
He speaks of interest in a strategic partnership with Turkey in all areas. He also noted that Ankara and Damascus are working on "creating a common strategy to counter security threats in the region" and discussing issues of Syria's integrity in the northeast. However, there is still no clarity regarding a military solution to the issue or ultimatums to the Kurds.
What explains such caution?
Perhaps, the hope for a diplomatic solution to the issue, fear of Turkey's strengthening after the next military operations, in which the key player will be the SNA, not HTS*. Also, al-Sharaa is forced to look back at the US and the EU, from which he needs the lifting of international sanctions, without which Arab rials and dirhams will not flood the Syrian market.
In terms of the economy, Turkey depends, firstly, on the lifting of sanctions under the US Caesar Act, and secondly, on funding from the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Turkey understands the scale of the upcoming reconstruction work and is ready to participate in the construction of infrastructure facilities. "Turkey is ready to provide the necessary support for the reconstruction of Syria," Erdogan said, adding that the Arab and Islamic world should provide material support to the Syrians.
To sum up, we can say that Turkey holds the lead in terms of geopolitical influence in Syria. Western countries have only opened embassies, Arab countries can buy Syria, but they need permission from the West.
Turkey has a presence on the ground in the form of military bases and under certain conditions (if Al-Sharaa does not decide to go to war with the YPG) it can increase it. Incidentally, according to media reports, the construction of two permanent Turkish military bases in Syria is currently being discussed.
At the same time, it is worth noting that the competition for influence over the new Syrian leadership has already begun and will only intensify. Al-Sharaa invited Erdogan to visit Syria "as soon as possible", but Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has already been there. Someone else may appear there before Erdogan arrives.
In short, Ankara has a good starting position, but to play its cards successfully, it needs to take into account a number of other factors, including the West's sanctions toolkit, the Gulf's financial advantages, Arab solidarity, and Israeli pressure. And, of course, one should not discount Ahmed al-Sharaa's still underestimated desire for independence.
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And here Yip-yip had already changed the maps to show his new vilayet.
[Breitbart] Non-Government Migrant Shelters (NGOs) are feeling the impact as illegal entries continue to dwindle across the southwest border after President Trump’s swift actions to control the border and carry out mass deportations. Non-profit organizations that received hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government under the Biden Administration began to close their doors.
From Texas to California, the shelters that once counted on a steady flow of cash from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Food and Shelter Program and later by FEMA and Customs and Border Protection jointly under the Shelter and Services Program are no longer receiving released asylum-seeking migrants from the Department of Homeland Security. The released migrants, now the missing part of the equation necessary to receive millions of tax-payer dollars, are causing the rapid closures of shelters in Texas and Arizona in the first few weeks of the new administration.
The latest private non-government migrant shelter to close is in San Antonio, Texas, just a few miles from the San Antonio International Airport. The Migrant Resource Center (MRC) has been run in partnership with the City of San Antonio and Catholic Charities since 2022. On Monday, city officials announced that the shelter would be closing as fewer migrants are being received.
In late January, just days after President Trump’s inauguration, two shelters closed in Pima County, Arizona. County Officials announced the closures in Tucson after the Border Patrol discontinued migrant releases immediately following the 47th President’s inauguration. The end of migrant releases in Arizona and other border regions also spelled doom for those two shelters.
The Arizona shelters, one on Drexel Road in Tucson that temporarily houses 650 migrants and another known as Casa Alitas that provides services to more than 100 migrants, had been in operation for several years during the Biden-Harris administration.
Breitbart Texas visited each of the Arizona shelters and the Migrant Resource Center in Texas several times during high migrant crossing periods. It observed a constant influx of migrants released to non-government entities. The facilities served as transportation coordination hubs that moved hundreds of thousands of migrants from the border region into the interior of the United States yearly.
According to FEMA, in Fiscal Year 2024, Congress appropriated $650 million tax-payer dollars for the Shelter and Services Program to reimburse non-government shelters in multiple border and interior cities nationwide.
The drop in illegal border crossings since the inauguration of President Trump will likely mean more shelters will shutter in the coming days and weeks. On Sunday, less than 500 migrants were apprehended crossing the southwest border, according to a source within Customs and Border Protection. In the Del Rio Sector of the United States Border Patrol, less than 25 migrants were apprehended making landfall on the banks of the Rio Grande on that day, a far cry from thousands of migrants crossing illegally in that region on several days during December 2023.
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Poof, the truth will out! The invasion was meant to happen, to change the demographics of the US to support a permanent Demokrat aristocracy. There must be consequences for the willful theft of much of our children's future prosperity and security!
[IsraelTimes] Controversial plan reportedly caught Netanyahu, top White House aides off guard; Rubio says Gazans’ displacement would be only temporary, contradicting US president.
All the deets at the link, including who said what in appalled disagreement. Bit we know this was just President Trump’s opening bid, with no idea what the final thing will look like except that it won’t be a return to the unacceptable status quo ante.
[IsraelTimes] Measures against alleged front company for Iranian military come after Trump signs order resuming ‘maximum pressure’ campaign, aimed at ‘driving Iran’s oil exports to zero’
The US Treasury announced financial sanctions on Thursday, the first under the new administration of Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... , that target an "international network" accused of shipping Iranian oil to China to fund Tehran’s military activities.
The sanctions target the network for "facilitating the shipment of millions of barrels of Iranian crude oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the People’s Republic of China," the Treasury Department wrote in a statement.
The oil was shipped on behalf of Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff and a sanctioned front company called Sepehr Energy Jahan Nama Pars, the Treasury statement noted.
"The Iranian regime remains focused on leveraging its oil revenues to fund the development of its nuclear program, to produce its deadly ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, and to support its regional terrorist proxy groups," said US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
"The United States is committed to aggressively targeting any attempt by 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... to secure funding for these malign activities," he added.
The Treasury’s actions follow US President Trump’s recent decision to reinstate his so-called maximum pressure campaign against Iran over allegations that it is trying to develop nuclear weapons.
Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday reimposing the tough policy of sanctions against Iran, similar to those he levied during his first term, adding he hoped he would not "have to use it very much."
The memorandum instructs every department in the US government to design sanctions on Iran, especially in relation to nuclear activities, a White House aide told Trump at the signing ceremony.
It also directs the Treasury and State Department to implement a campaign aimed at "driving Iran’s oil exports to zero."
[GEO.TV] US President 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... will sign an executive order on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court for targeting the United States and its allies, such as Israel, a White House official said.
The order will place financial and visa sanctions on individuals and their family members who assist in ICC investigations of US citizens or US allies, said the official.
The move by Trump comes after US Senate 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... last week blocked a Republican-led effort to sanction the ICC in protest at its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister. Netanyahu is currently visiting Washington.
The ICC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ("OH shit!")
The court has taken measures to shield staff from possible US sanctions, paying salaries three months in advance, as it braced for financial restrictions that could cripple the war crimes tribunal, sources told Rooters last month.
In December, the court's president, judge Tomoko Akane, warned that sanctions would "rapidly undermine the Court's operations in all situations and cases, and jeopardise its very existence."
This is the second time the court has faced US retaliation as a result of its work. During the first Trump administration in 2020, Washington imposed sanctions on then-prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and one of her top aides over the ICC's investigation into alleged war crimes by American troops in Afghanistan.
The 125-member ICC is a permanent court that can prosecute individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression against the territory of member states or by their nationals. The United States, China, Russia and Israel are not members.
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Declare it a terrorist organization, all members, aides, etc are now valid targets for special operations to remove from the living.
[Jpost] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Saudi Arabia had enough land to provide the Palestinians with a state in a Channel 14 interview on Thursday.
"The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they have a lot of land over there," he said.
When questioned about a Palestinian state as a condition of normalization, Netanyahu said he "would not make an agreement that would endanger the State of Israel."
"Especially not a Palestinian state. After October 7? Do you know what that is? There was a Palestinian state, it was called Gaza. Gaza, led by Hamas, was a Palestinian state, and look what we got — the biggest massacre since the Holocaust," he said.
The interview was conducted during Netanyahu’s Washington visit, which began with a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump, where the president announced his plan for the US to control the Gaza Strip.
Additionally, the two discussed the potential for normalization with Saudi Arabia, with Netanyahu saying, "I think peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia is not only feasible, I think it's going to happen."
However, shortly after the press conference, the Saudi foreign ministry stated it would not discuss ties with Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state. We need your ties like we need a noose on our necks.
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Lots of empty space in the Sinai peninsula. Probably need to build a desalination station somewhere along the coast, but after that, it's trailer parks and tract homes. You could even create gated communities to keep the riff-raff out. Or in, depending.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas supposed to say Friday which captives it will release; Jerusalem reportedly dispatching negotiators to Doha over weekend for talks on rest of 1st phase, but not 2nd stage
Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... is expected to release a fifth batch of Israeli captives on Saturday as part of the hostage release and ceasefire deal, as US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s controversial proposal to relocate Paleostinians from 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... fueled further uncertainty on whether the multiphase agreement will hold up.
A list of the three hostages to be released is expected in Israel by 4 p.m. on Friday.
According to Channel 12 news, Israel is pressuring mediators to secure the release of Shiri Bibas and her young sons, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 2. Hamas has violated the deal by releasing captive female troops and male civilians before the children and their mother, and Israel has said it has "grave concern" for their lives. The father, Yarden Bibas, was released last Saturday.
A Hamas official cited by the network said the terror group would see how Trump’s plan to "take over" the Gaza Strip progresses before deciding on the fate of the deal. According to the network, the terror group is unlikely to thwart the rest of the first phase, including Saturday’s expected hostage release.
On Thursday, the government approved a list of Paleostinian prisoners to be released in return for the hostages. Three prisoners were removed from the list at the last minute, including Mahmoud Atallah, a terror convict accused of raping a prison guard, who was replaced with an identically named security prisoner, according to the Israel Hayom newspaper.
In total, Israel has said it would release up to 1,904 Paleostinian prisoners — including 737 serving life terms for dozens of murders — in return for 33 Israeli hostages during the deal’s first phase.
So far, 13 Israelis have been released, along with five Thai hostages freed outside the framework of the deal.
Though talks for the second phase were supposed to commence Monday, Netanyahu has pushed off sending a negotiating team, reportedly until he returns from Washington next week.
A working-level negotiating team, led by the outgoing Shin Bet deputy director — known by his Hebrew initial "Mem" — is expected in Doha over the weekend, but is empowered to discuss only the first phase, not the second, according to Channel 12. Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... Netanyahu’s front man denied reports that the premier presented in Washington a plan to end the fighting in Gaza — a sine qua non for the second stage, but a red line for the right flank of Netanyahu’s coalition.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Member of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... 's political bureau Ezzat al-Resheq said that US president Donald's latest remarks about taking over 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... and relocating its residents elsewhere reflect ''misperception and deep ignorance about Paleostine and the region.''
''Gaza is not a common land for any party to decide to control, but rather it is part of our occupied Paleostinian land, so any solution must be based on ending the occupation and fulfilling the Paleostinian people's rights and not on the mentality of a real estate businessman or the mentality of muscle and domination,'' Resheq said on Wednesday.
Resheq added that Trump's remarks on Gaza ''vindicated further the unlimited US bias in favor of the Israeli occupation regime and the Zionist aggression against the Paleostinian people and their legitimate rights.''
The Hamas official affirmed that the Paleostinian people and their leaders, backed by their Arab and Islamic nations and the world's free people, would frustrate all the displacement plans targeting them.
In another statement, the Hamas Movement condemned in the strongest terms Trump's remarks on Gaza, describing them as ''hostile to the Paleostinian people and their national cause.''
Hamas said that such remarks by Trump would ''not serve regional stability'' and would only ''pour fuel on the fire.''
''We, alongside our Paleostinian people and national leaders, will never allow any country in the world to occupy our land or impose guardianship over our great people whose blood flowed like rivers in order to liberate our land from the occupation and establish our Paleostinian state with Jerusalem as its capital,'' Hamas said.
Hamas called on the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the UN to convene urgent meetings to take firm and historic positions that preserve the Paleostinian people's national rights.
In a joint news conference with the Israeli prime minister in the White House on Tuesday, Trump said the US would ''take over'' and ''own'' Gaza after resettling Paleostinians elsewhere under a redevelopment plan that he claimed could turn the Paleostinian coastal enclave into ''the Riviera of the Middle East.''
In a flagrant announcement upending decades of US policy towards the Paleostinian-Israeli conflict, Trump claimed that his administration would spearhead development in Gaza to ''supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.''
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''Gaza is not a common land for any party to decide to control, but rather it is part of our occupied Paleostinian land, so any solution must be based on ending the occupation and fulfilling the Paleostinian people's rights and not on the mentality of a real estate businessman or the mentality of muscle and domination,''
hell it's only 5 times the size of a small Montana ranch that only 2 live on. Why the hell should the rest of the world give a damn about 1.2 million welfare mother breeders of Satan's horde?
"It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet."
Hassan al-Banna
"Gaza is not a common land for any party to decide to control"
They don't recognize the sovereign existence of any Western nation.
Why should any Western nation respect their 'sovereignty?'
[NAHARNET] MP Ghayath Yazbek of the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... on Thursday said that ''Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... has demonstrated an advanced and alarming image about the (Shiite) Duo's future performance in Cabinet.''
He was referring to Berri's reported disagreement with PM-designate Nawaf Salam over the so-called ''fifth Shiite minister,'' which torpedoed the announcement of the new cabinet line-up.
''To put it shortly, the guys (Berri and Hezbollah) have not changed their old habits: they either get what they impose or they obstruct. If the president and the PM-designate wait for the Duo to quit its bad habits, they will wait a lot and the state will not move forward,'' Yazbek added.
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I guess there won't be a lot of return flights landing. ☺
[TWZ] Iran’s Wacky Aircraft Carrier Has Entered Service. Questions about the Shahid Bagheri's capabilities remain, especially with the reappearance of the infamous Qaher 313 in a new drone form.
Iran has finally shown a drone taking off and landing on – in the latter case with the help of arresting gear – the deck of the country’s unusual new ‘drone carrier,’ the Shahid Bagheri. Newly emerged imagery also shows various drones and crewed helicopters on the flight deck, which has a ski jump at the bow end, including the appearance of ‘drones’ styled after the infamous Qaher 313. Officially touted as a sea base-like ship, Shahid Bagheri has now been shown launching a small missile boat and is armed itself with cruise missiles along with weapons for self-defense.
The new pictures and videos of the Shahid Bagheri were released around a ceremony earlier today marking its formal entry into service with the naval arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The conversion of the ‘carrier’ from a commercial container ship reportedly started in May 2022, and it began sea trials in its new configuration in November of last year.
The imagery from today’s ceremony includes footage showing a modified Ababil-3 drone with an arresting hook, which does not appear to retract or otherwise be capable of being stowed during flight, launching from the Shahid Bagheri‘s 590-foot (180-meter) flight deck. What is presumably the same drone is seen in another clip recovering on the deck by catching an arresting wire with its hook. The Ababil-3 also has two small turbojet engines installed, one under each wing, which could provide valuable additional performance for operations from a short flight deck without the aid of a catapult.
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