[ToloNews] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council sanctions committee has announced a 23-day travel exemption for Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, deputy prime minister for economic affairs.
In a statement, the committee said that the purpose of this exemption is for Baradar’s travel to Doha for medical treatment.
Pray for sepsis.
The Security Council’s statement mentions that this exemption has been issued under resolution 1988 and is valid from February 9 to March 3, 2025.
The UN Security Council sanctions committee stated: "On 7 February 2025, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) approved a travel ban exemption for Abdul Ghani Baradar Abdul Ahmad Turk (TAi.024) regarding his visit to Doha, State of 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... , from 9 February 2025 to 3 March 2025 for medical treatment."
"If Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar’s travel is for medical purposes, I hope it also has a political aspect to help Afghanistan emerge from economic and political isolation," said Zalmai Afghanyar, a political analyst.
The statement also mentioned that a three-day travel exemption to Russia has been granted to the head of Afghanistan’s Central Bank.
The committee added that this exemption was granted for his visit to Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, to participate in the Ural Cybersecurity in Finance Forum, scheduled from February 19 to 21.
"For Afghanistan’s economic growth and to bring the country out of isolation, Mr. Baradar and his colleagues should take steps during this trip," said Samim Shamsi, another political analyst.
Previously, the UN Security Council sanctions committee had also issued travel exemptions this year for three officials of the Islamic Emirate, including the acting ministers of interior, foreign affairs, and Hajj and religious affairs.
What’s the point of sanctions if exemptions are issued every time one of them wants to go somewhere?
He’s got it entirely backward, but that’s only to be expected. The learning curve will be uncomfortable.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi tells the head of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder that the establishment of a Palestinian state is “the only guarantee” for lasting peace in the Middle East.
During his meeting with Lauder in Cairo, Sissi calls for starting the reconstruction of war-battered Gaza “without displacing its residents from their land,” according to a statement from his office.
Long years without water, plumbing, or electricity, asbestos-riddled dust, the floors falling into the broken tunnels, and the walls wired with Hamas antipersonnel mines - how much does hate the Gazans to force them to remain in such surroundings?
The Egyptian leader’s remarks come as Arab countries are scrambling to come up with an alternative to a controversial plan floated by US President Donald Trump to take over Gaza, redevelop the coastal territory and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Trump’s proposal envisages permanently resettling Gaza’s Palestinian residents elsewhere, including Egypt and Jordan, drawing widespread condemnation from Arab and world leaders.
“The establishment of a Palestinian state… is the only guarantee to achieve lasting peace,” Sissi tells Lauder.
According to the Egyptian presidency statement, Lauder praised Egypt’s “wise efforts” to restore stability in the region.
The leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are set to met in Riyadh on Thursday to discuss Trump’s proposal, ahead of an emergency Arab League summit in Cairo a week later to discuss the same issue.
[FreeBeacon] Centro CSO head Carlos Montes cofounded the Brown Berets, a paramilitary-style organization modeled after the Black Panthers
The primary organization behind the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests that swept through Los Angeles last week is headed by Carlos Montes, a longtime left-wing radical who cofounded a holy warrior group, has praised terrorists, and has faced several FBI and police investigations.
In the late 1960s, Montes cofounded the Brown Berets, a paramilitary-style organization modeled after the Black Panthers that emerged during the Chicano movement. He was later accused of starting fires at a Los Angeles hotel where then-Gov. Ronald Reagan was speaking and had his home raided as part of a federal investigation seeking potential ties to terrorist organizations. While charges didn’t stick, Montes has been a staunch proponent of radical leftist movements for decades and has pushed pro-Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... sentiment.
More recently, Centro Community Service Organization (CSO), under Montes’s leadership, has been the primary organizer behind the protests that gripped Los Angeles following President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... 's swearing in, a Washington Free Beacon review of social media posts found.
"Join plans for J20 rally: Legalization for All, No Deportations, Women and Reproductive Rights & Stand with Paleostine!" Montes wrote on Facebook advertising an Inauguration Day protest. Several left-wing organizations endorsed the protest, including Unión del Barrio, a radical left-wing holy warrior group offering "self-defense" training to combat ICE raids, the Free Beacon has reported.
Centro CSO organized more intense protests between Jan. 31 to Feb. 9 as Trump's deportations began to take shape. Left-wing activists blocked major roads and highways, engaged in acts of felony vandalism, assaulted coppers, and a teenager was even stabbed.
Such protests are par for the course for Montes. On his personal website, the Centro CSO chief touts his leadership within the Brown Berets, where he served as a minister of information, and boasts about working alongside major figures in the Marxist-Leninist Black Panthers holy warrior group.
Montes "worked to forge alliances with the Black Panther Party and supported the Free Huey Newton political prisoner’s campaign. Worked with Bunchy Carter and John Huggins of the Black Panther LA Chapter and established Black and Brown relations," his website reads.
In 1970, Montes went "underground" due to "heavy repression and threats"—until Los Angeles police arrested him in 1977, according to his website. He was among a group of Chicano murderous Moslems accused of starting fires in a Los Angeles hotel as Reagan was giving a speech in 1969—one year before Montes went into hiding. He was ultimately found not guilty.
In 2011, Los Angeles police descended on Montes’s home in an early morning raid. They had a warrant to search through his computer, phones, and other devices as well as look for guns—illegal for him to own because of a felony conviction for throwing a soda can at a police officer during a 1969 protest.
Montes claimed that when he was put in the back of a squad car, a plainclothes FBI agent asked him about the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO)—a Marxist-Leninist organization working to "build a new, revolutionary, communist party" in the United States.
The raid was apparently part of an FBI investigation into the FRSO’s Anti-War Committee, Los Angeles Magazine reported. The bureau launched the probe after two FRSO members told an undercover informant that the committee raised money for two designated terrorist organizations: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. .Montes claimed the B.O. regime’s FBI investigation was part of an effort to suppress and harass legitimate protesters.
Most of the charges against Montes were dropped, but he pleaded no contest to a felony perjury charge stemming from a firearms violation: He had falsely sworn that he’d never been convicted of a felony while buying a shotgun. He was sentenced to three years probation and 180 hours of community service.
Despite his arrests, Montes has been a consistent champion of left-wing causes. His website claims he "participated in solidarity with the El Salvadorian revolutionary struggle" in 1992 and formed an activist group in Cuba. He backed the 1994 armed Zapatista uprising in Mexico, though it isn’t clear what support he gave. Montes joined socialist celebrations in Nicaragua in 2022 and in Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... in 2023.
In the late 1990s, Montes assumed control over the Los Angeles activist group, Community Service Organization, and reorganized it into Centro CSO. He’s used the group to organize protests against law enforcement, to push "full legalization" for illegal immigrants colonists, and to bring "an end to ICE repression." Centro CSO has committed to organizing "for the rights of the undocumented, quality public education, and supporting, in solidarity, other communities seeking social justice."
While the group is not a legally established nonprofit, it does solicit donations. A recent GoFundMe page lists Montes as the beneficiary of the nearly $9,000 raised.
Centro CSO was a driving organizer behind nearly a dozen highly disruptive anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles last week, the Free Beacon’s review found. While the Legalization For All Network made the formal call to action, the group’s website listed Centro CSO as the only Los Angeles organizer.
"STOP ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS!! WEEK OF ACTION 1/31-2/9," read a Legalization For All Instagram post that listed Centro CSO as a collaborator. "Join chapters of the L4A Network in holding protests and other actions from coast to coast to fight back against Trump’s racist executive orders and demand no more deportations!!!"
Some protests encouraged students from local schools to walk out of their classes, while others were supported by FRSO, which Montes is a member of. FRSO’s Los Angeles chapter frequently credited Centro CSO for the demonstrations, including the major Feb. 2 protest in which thousands of protesters shut down the 101 Freeway and clashed with law enforcement before dispersing in the evening.
"Tens of thousands of Chicanos hit the streets of Los Angeles to demand an end to the attacks on Raza! They want an end to deportations! They want Migra out of our barrios!" Centro CSO wrote on Instagram that day.
While ICE has not conducted any targeted operations in Los Angeles since Trump took office, the agency is scheduled to conduct a "large scale" deportation raid in the city by the end of February, according to an internal government document reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. ICE has focused on removing dangerous aliens with criminal records, resulting in 11,000 arrests as of Monday.
Montes and Centro CSO have also participated in dozens of anti-Israel demonstrations, including pro-Hamas protests. In the wake of the terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, Centro CSO announced that it stood "in complete solidarity with the Paleostinian people in their resistance against Israel."
"We in Centro CSO in Boyle Heights and our sister chapter, CSO Orange County unequivocally stand in solidarity with our Paleostinian brothers, sisters and families in their resistance against apartheid and occupation by Israel," Centro CSO wrote in an Oct. 25, 2023, statement. "We support the resistance against the genocidal regime that has dispossessed Paleostinians for 75 years."
On the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack, Centro CSO organized a protest celebrating the massacre and blamed Israel for committing "genocide." Photos and video of the event consistently showed Montes as a leading figure at the protest.
"This October marks one year of since Israel’s Zionist genocide in Paleostine. Join us in the streets of Boyle Heights to stand against the Zionist occupation that has been backed by the U.S. and stand in solidarity with Paleostinians!" the group wrote on Instagram.
Earlier, in 2017, Montes posted an article to his Facebook page praising the PFLP, including its secretary general, Ahmad Sa’adat, and Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, the PFLP leader responsible for the 2001 murder of Israeli minister Rehavam Ze'evi
Centro CSO did not respond to a request for comment. Montes directed an inquiry to a representative, who reacted to a Free Beacon text with a heart emoji.
[PJMedia] Readers were shocked when we reported that USAID had paid Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... and Al Qaeda terrorists. Now we've found out how they moved the money.
In the story "USAID Pays the Terrorists Who Kill Us," I wrote:
The U.S. State Department and USAID pay millions of dollars per week to the Taliban, the bin Laden family leading the group, and the Haqqani terror network. Remember those guys? Didn't we wage a 20-year-long war to get rid of them ...???
...We left Afghanistan, left behind billions of dollars in equipment, the strategically important Bagram Air Base, and all the biometric data of our Afghani supporters who put their lives on the line to help our efforts to get the Taliban and the murderous Moslems they were hiding from us. So, of course, when Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... , Tony Blinken, and Jake Sullivan had us bug out in disgrace, they left the Taliban a ready-made kill list of our allies.
Former CIA targeter and DoD employee Sarah Adams has reported that the bin Laden, Mullah Mohammad Blinky Omar ...a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality. Died of an unspecified ailment in a Pak hospital... , and Taliban families have intermarried. Paying the Taliban is paying al-Qaeda. That wasn't the plan when U.S. troops went into Afghanistan 20 years ago to get the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones...... and his al-Qaeda terror cell, which brought down the World Trade Center Towers.
After the Biden administration left Afghanistan in shame on Aug. 30, 2021, somehow, inexplicably, the U.S. government, through USAID, began to pay off the same people who tried to kill us.
According to the Horowitz Freedom Center's Daniel Greenfield, USAID laundered $1.7 billion to the Taliban through a series of banks, accounts, shell organizations, and other entities. USAID says it had no idea. You make the call after you see how Greenfield connected the banking dots.
The UN flew the currency to Afghanistan and deposited it in an unnamed 'private' bank.
Then it paid NGOs on the ground who converted the money into the Taliban's Afghani currency at an exchange rate set by the Taliban.
— Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) February 13, 2025
In November 2022, the bag men for the Afghanistan Bank crowed over the stacks of cash that fell off the back of a plane.
There was $40 million in this shipment, according to Google Translate.
Greenfield reported at Front Page Magazine that the $40 million "on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the U.N., which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan."
Greenfield reports the money from USAID was laundered through the U.N., turned into hundreds of dollar bills at a New York bank that kept the Afghanistan bank accounts, and then put in shrink-wrapped bags on pallets and sent to the terrorists. That money, in turn, was put into private Afghanistan banks since, at the time, normal banking with the Taliban was operational. That money was then doled out to USAID-approved NGOs.
The money was to go to humanitarian causes, according to an Inspector General's report, but as we've since learned, the Taliban, and by extension, al-Qaeda, sit on the boards of all the NGOs in Afghanistan, so "humanitarian aid" is funneled to terror training camps and other non-humanitarian needs, according to Adams. I'll just bet they'll rebuild the schools for girls they destroyed any minute now.
"USAID claimed it didn't send money to the Taliban because it put the money in UN accounts it didn't control," Greenfield reported. "UN claimed it didn't send the cash to the Taliban, just put it in a private bank and the NGOs did business with the Taliban when they converted dollars to Afghani," he says. Greenfield reported that the Biden administration "sent both dollars and Afghanis to the Taliban."
The conclusion is that this was no mistake and no misunderstanding. This was an intentional act by the Biden administration to funnel money to the Taliban.
And here's the dirty payoff. "The Biden admin funded the entire Taliban economy by not only printing money for them, but sending them the dollars to exchange for Afghanis that the Taliban used to make the Afghani into a top currency. The dollars gave the Taliban control over Afghanistan," he writes.
Not only did we cede the country, but we also paid the Taliban off to take it over, and we bugged out in shame.
This sounds similar to how Biden hid his millions of shakedown dollars from Russia ($3.5 mil), Ukraine ($6.5 mil), Romania ($3 mil), China ($8 mil), and Kazakhstan ($142,300 for Hunter to buy a car). It makes you wonder if Biden got a Taliban kickback, doesn't it?
[OneIndia] The United States has sent back 104 illegal Indians on US military aircraft which landed in Amritsar on Wednesday as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration. The deportees, hailing from multiple states including Haryana, Gujarat
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... , Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
.... , Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Chandigarh, had entered the US illegally using what is commonly referred to as the 'donkey route.'
Among the deportees, Jaspal Singh spoke about the manner in which the illegal immigrants colonists were brought back to India. He said that they were handcuffed and had their legs chained throughout the journey, with restraints removed only upon arrival in India.
Speaking to ANI, he said, "... I was lied to that I would be sent legally but I was sent by 'donkey' route... I faced a lot of difficulties on the way. Now that I am back here, I will work here... I crossed the border with difficulty... I reached there in 8 months... I was placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at the US border for 20 days and then I was sent back... Our hands and feet were chained and we were told that we were being sent back to India. It took us 40 hours to reach Amritsar Airport... Everyone was chained except for the children... Now we will do farming here. The local MLA has said that the government will help us. We request the government to help us in getting our money back. We were lied to and sent illegally via donkey route..."
WHAT IS 'DONKEY ROUTE'?
The 'donkey route,' also known as 'dunki,' is a term used to describe the complex and unauthorized pathways migrants colonists take to reach countries like the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, according to a report in Business Insider. Well, the term has its roots in the Punjabi language. It comes from an idiom meaning "to hop from place to place.".
HOW THE ROUTE WORKS
Initial Departure: Many migrants colonists start their journey with tourist visas to Schengen countries in Europe, allowing them to travel freely across multiple nations.
Facilitation by Agents: 'Consultants' provide forged documents and guidance on entering the countries illegally.
Transit Through Multiple Countries: Migrants pass through various countries, including West Asian nations like the UAE, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , and Azerbaijan, before heading towards Central and South America.
Final Leg: The most dangerous part involves crossing the Guatemala-Mexico border, where migrants colonists often travel hundreds of kilometres on foot or hidden in vehicles, facing harsh conditions and the constant threat of arrest.
If caught, the illegal migrants colonists face months-long detention upon reaching their destination, only to be eventually sent back.
[OneIndia] India's Foreign Secretary, Vikram Misri, announced on Friday that the United States has notified the Indian government about 487 people of Indian origin who are facing possible deportation.
According to Misri, these individuals are reported to be in the US without proper documentation. The foreign secretary confirmed that the Indian government is working closely with the Trump administration to ensure the safe return of these individuals.
Misri stated that the Indian government is in touch with US authorities to resolve the issues related to these individuals and is closely monitoring the situation.
Regarding the standard operating procedure used by US authorities for deporting immigrants, Misri said that the Indian government is aware that these procedures have been in place for a long time.
I can feel the spirit of Dron protectively hovering over the proceedings, no matter where the rest of him might be occupied. ;-)
[IsraelTimes] Economy Minister Nir Barkat says visit to New Delhi marks ‘breakthrough’ to advance a trade agreement, as Trump pushes vision of connecting India, Europe, and the US through Israel
Israel and India are seeking to sign a long-touted free trade agreement as early as this year, with US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... revamping plans for a proposed US-India trade corridor through Israel.
Leading a large business delegation to New Delhi last week, Economy Minister Nir Barkat, said that the visit marked "a breakthrough in the economic relations between Israel and India."
"The largest business delegation ever sent from Israel is proof of our commitment to deepening economic ties, expanding Israeli exports, and opening the Indian market to groundbreaking Israeli technologies," said Barkat. "Cooperation between our nations will drive economic growth, strengthen mutual investments, and create new jobs in both countries."
The rapprochement comes during the same week Trump continued a push from his predecessor Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... to build a rail and shipping corridor linking India with the Middle East, Europe, and the US — an ambitious project aimed at fostering economic growth and political cooperation.
During a meeting at the White House with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, Trump announced that the two leaders "agreed to work together to help build one of the greatest trade routes in all of history."
"It will run from India to Israel to Italia and onward to the US, connecting our partners, roads, railways, and undersea cables," Trump said.
"This is the big idea: creating a connection from India, through Israel, to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and all the way to the US, according to Trump’s vision," an Israeli government official told The Times of Israel. "This is why we will sign a new trade agreement with India."
"This is why there is a major rapprochement between Israel and India, and this is why we sent the delegation," the official said.
Last week’s business delegation to New Delhi included over 100 Israeli companies, in the areas of cybersecurity, smart agriculture, renewable energy, digital health, water technologies, AI, and big data. The participating companies held over 600 business meetings and engaged with hundreds of Indian business leaders to foster economic partnerships, expand mutual investments, and strengthen bilateral ties. During the visit, the delegation met with Indian business giants such as TATA group, Nasscom, and GMR, and participated in the India Energy Week.
"Israel’s capabilities in innovation and security are extraordinary, and the technology demonstrated in ’Operation Beepers’ [a reference to Israel’s clandestine operation on the Hezbollah terror group in September] is truly inspiring and unique — we want it here too," said India’s Commerce & Industry Ministry, Piyush Goyal. "There are immense opportunities for collaboration between Israel and India, which will lead to significant geopolitical and economic achievements in the region."
During a business forum meeting in New Delhi attended by the Israeli delegation led by Barkat, Goyal announced that he would lead a business delegation of hundreds of Indian executives to Israel in 2025. The delegation will focus on expanding investments in Israeli companies, advancing technological collaborations, and promoting key sectors, such as water technologies, cybersecurity, healthcare, and advanced agriculture.
In 2024, bilateral trade volume between Israel and India reached $5 billion, which included $2.5 billion in Israeli exports, $1 billion in diamond trade, and $1.5 billion in imports from India to Israel.
Bilateral ties between Israel and India go beyond diamonds. Israel is the fourth largest supplier of military hardware to India. Cooperation agreements have also multiplied in the fields of water systems, agriculture, health, and solar energy.
[IsraelTimes] Medical officials warn that the hostages left in Gaza may face life-changing and permanent disabilities, with information from freed captives suggesting that Alon Ohel is in danger of losing his sight.
According to the Kan public broadcaster, there are indications that Ohel, 24, who has been held by terrorists in Gaza since October 7, 2023, has shrapnel in one eye and can only see shadows out of it.
Medical officials who are in close contact with Ohel’s family tell the outlet that testimonies from freed captives indicate that he is danger of losing sight in both eyes due to his untreated injuries and ill-treatment.
Last week, his mother Idit Ohel issued a heartrending plea for his release, saying she had been told that he is being held starving in chains in a Hamas tunnel and has multiple untreated injuries.
“He has shrapnel in his eye, he has shrapnel in his shoulder, he has shrapnel in his arm. Alon was bound in chains, this entire time, and he had almost no food — at most one pita a day, over a very, very, very long time, more than a year,” the anguished mother told Channel 12.
[IsraelTimes] Despite reports predicting he would go free in yesterday’s prisoner release as part of the hostage deal, detained Gaza hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya remains in Israeli custody, according to his lawyers. What is his Nom De Guerre?
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, a Gaza-based Palestinian rights group representing Abu Safiya, says that Israeli authorities issued an order last week to detain the doctor without charges under a 2002 law dealing with unlawful combatants.
The decision comes after Abu Safiya’s lawyer visited him in Ofer Prison and claimed his client had been subjected to “torture and ill-treatment, including being held in solitary confinement for more than 20 days,” the group says in a statement.
Although Hebrew media reports claimed that Abu Safiya was one of the 333 Gazans slated for release yesterday, his name did not appear on the list distributed by Palestinian prisoners’ organizations.
Israel detained Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, along with nearly 240 others during a raid on the medical facility in December 2024, alleging that Hamas was using it as a command center.
The military said it suspects Abu Safiya of being a Hamas member.
In its current form, the Unlawful Combatants Law permits high-ranking IDF officers to issue a temporary detention order against an inmate whose release could harm state security. The order must be ratified by a civilian court within 45 days, upon which it can last for up to six months before being renewed.
[IsraelTimes] Association for Civil Rights in Israel calls proposed legislation, which will also block groups from filing lawsuits in Israel, ‘a direct assault on Israel’s democracy’
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation on Sunday voted in support of a bill that would levy massive taxes on NGOs — nongovernment organizations — funded by foreign governments, and erode their right to file lawsuits in Israeli courts.
The bill, sponsored by Likud MK Ariel Kallner, would allow the government to tax foreign government donations to domestic nonprofits at a rate of 80 percent while also stipulating that courts need not consider petitions by groups "primarily financed by a foreign political entity."
If passed into law, the legislation would apply to NGOs that do not also receive Israeli state funding. The finance minister, with the approval of the Knesset Finance Committee, would be allowed to exempt organizations from the new rules "in special circumstances."
The bill would likely block human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations from being able to operate in Israel and the West Bank, as many of them rely on funding from foreign governments.
Human rights groups — such as B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, and the New Israel Fund — have long been targeted by the Israeli right and even the political center over their focus on alleged Israeli human rights abuses against the Paleostinians.
"The purpose of this bill is to reduce the indirect influence of foreign governments and political entities on the State of Israel. This influence is manifested, among other things, in direct financial support for nonprofit organizations in Israel, which act as agents of change on behalf of these entities," the bill’s explanatory notes state.
The bill argues that such external funding "goes beyond the limits of the democratic framework and harms the illusory sovereignty and independence" of Israel.
If two countries have a dispute, "they must try to convince each other through diplomatic means, dialogue and negotiation between counterparts, but not through financing change agents and organizations whose purpose is to lead change from within in favor of the aforementioned foreign interests," it adds.
Following the Ministerial Committee’s vote on Sunday, the Association of Civil Rights in Israel accused the government of attacking liberal civil society groups while leaving right-wing organizations untouched.
"This proposed legislation is a direct assault on Israel’s democracy and part of the ongoing judicial coup. It represents a systematic attack on all institutions that check government power, and specifically targets human rights organizations working to protect minorities in Israel and Paleostinians in the occupied territories," Noa Sattath, ACRI’s executive director, told The Times of Israel.
"The selective taxation targets only foreign state funding from Israel’s closest allies — including the United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member states — who support democracy, human rights, and minority protection. Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... right-wing organizations relying on private donations remain unaffected, and the finance minister has discretionary power to exempt certain organizations while those receiving state funding are automatically excluded."
A previous version of the bill was shelved amid an international uproar nearly two years ago.
That proposal, also sponsored by Kallner, did not touch on NGOs’ legal standing but mandated that any nonprofit group that engaged in public advocacy two years before or after receiving a donation from a foreign government would lose its status as a public institution and would no longer be eligible for tax exemptions, and in addition would be hit with a 65 percent income tax.
The Biden administration aggressively lobbied both publicly and behind the scenes against the bill alongside nearly a dozen countries in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... that give millions of dollars a year to various civil society organizations operating in Israel and the West Bank, particularly ones that seek to promote the conditions necessary for a future peace agreement between Israel and the Paleostinians.
This led to the bill being pulled from the Ministerial Committee on Legislation in May 2023. Likud sources said at the time that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was responsible for the decision to withdraw the bill. The premier was said to be reluctant to advance the ally-angering legislation while still waiting for a coveted invite to the White House, among other diplomatic considerations.
The Biden administration wanted USAID, the State Department, and who knows who else to donate government funds to Israeli NGOs that would support Progressive projects and politics, no matter the preferences of the local population and government.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... in a letter to Elon Musk, who leads the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency, Otzma Yehudit politician Yitzhak Kroizer stated on Sunday that the US government had previously used "American funds to exert improper influence in Israeli affairs" — specifically citing the now-defunct V15 organization.
"It is evident that American funds have been improperly allocated in Israel, throughout the Middle East, and indeed across the globe. Given your recent efforts to ensure greater transparency and accountability, I respectfully request access to available information regarding subsidies and grants provided to non-governmental organizations, media outlets, and individual journalists operating in Israel," Kroizer wrote.
"Publicly available sources already indicate that USAID and other U.S. government agencies have allocated millions of dollars to these entities within a relatively short period of time. The misuse of foreign funds in Israel, particularly in ways that undermine national interests and the democratic process, is a matter of the utmost concern," he continued. He also asked for a meeting to discuss the matter.
In the 2015 elections, the US-funded V15 organization was accused by Likud of inappropriate political meddling for its ostensible efforts to unseat Netanyahu by encouraging center-left voters to go vote on election day. The state comptroller cleared the organization of any campaign law violations.
In 2017, the Knesset passed the so-called V15 law, which aims to prevent wealthy donors from using political organizations to bypass election funding laws.
[IsraelTimes] Over 16 months after Sasha Troufanov was abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023, global retail platform for the first time publicly acknowledges he worked on Amazon Web Services team
Global retail giant Amazon on Saturday finally broke its silence about a Russian-Israeli employee who was kidnapped by Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... on October 7, 2023.
In a message to Amazon employees upon the release of Sasha Troufanov on Saturday morning, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy for the first time acknowledged Troufanov’s role in the company.
Troufanov, 29, was released from Hamas captivity along with Sagui Dekel-Chen and Iair Horn as part of phase one of a mediated ceasefire-hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas. He was informed upon his release that his father was murdered during the Paleostinian terror group’s brutal October 7 attack, and burst into tears at the news.
Troufanov had been working at Amazon Web Services as an electrical engineer at the time of his capture. The company has faced criticism for declining to acknowledge that an employee was taken hostage by Hamas.
In a letter published after Troufanov returned to Israel, Jassy told employees that he was "incredibly relieved" that Troufanov had been released from captivity, and that Amazon had been silently acting on his behalf.
"Since we learned of Sasha and his family’s abduction, we’ve had a dedicated team working behind the scenes with experts to support efforts to secure their release and to ensure that we did the right thing for them and their safety," Jassy wrote. This included "painfully not commenting publicly for fear that we would negatively impact their ability to be released or how they were treated in captivity," he added.
Troufanov, now 29, was visiting his family at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel when he, his mother, his grandmother, and his girlfriend were taken captive by Hamas on October 7, 2023. His father was killed by forces of Evil in the attack.
Troufanov’s mother, grandmother, and girlfriend were released during a weeklong ceasefire in November 2023. Troufanov was released on Saturday after 498 days.
"It’s been an extremely trying time for everybody who knows and cares for Sasha — a lot of angst and feelings of helplessness," wrote Amazon’s 57-year-old Jewish CEO. "But, it can’t approach what Sasha and his family have been through, and we will continue to support them and do everything we can to help them heal."
Some 1,200 people were murdered and 251 taken captive, mostly civilians, when thousands of Hamas-led forces of Evil burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea on October 7, 2023.
Seventy of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain 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... , including the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF.
[IsraelTimes] Gustavo Petro, who cut ties with Israel after accusing it of genocide, calls for release of Israeli-Colombian hostage as tribute to country’s ‘solidarity with Palestinians’
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday posted footage of himself in 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... holding a picture of Israel replaced with a Paleostinian state, and called for the release of Colombian-Israeli Elkana Bohbot, who is held hostage by Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... 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... , as a "tribute to Colombia and its solidarity with the Paleostinian people."
The video was taken during Petro’s visit to Doha’s Thumama Medical Center, where he met with hospitalized Gazook children, whom he referred to as survivors of genocide, in a post welcoming the recent sign of life from Bohbot.
In the video, a child gives Petro a picture that shows the outlines of Mandatory Paleostine from before 1948 — Israel’s borders, with the West Bank and Gaza but without the Golan Heights — framed in a checkered pattern reminiscent of a Paleostinian keffiyeh. Inside the borders is a large key — a well-known symbol among Paleostinian refugees, many of whom kept the key from their ancestral homes.
Petro, whose government cut ties with Israel in May amid the war in Gaza, can be seen smiling as he clutches the picture, flanked with children, in front of a Qatari flag.
The Colombian president recounted his visit to the hospital in a post on the sign of life that came from Bohbot.
The 35-year-old was snatched from the Re’im-area Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led forces of Evil stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
"We hope for his prompt release," wrote Petro. "His freedom is a tribute to Colombia and to its solidarity with the Paleostinian people. I hope that his united family can travel to Colombia."
Bohbot was one of a reported 12 hostages for whom Israel received a sign of life last week following the release of captivity survivors Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy as part of the month-old Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, which Qatar helped mediate.
Their release was the fifth in the deal’s ongoing first phase, which comprises women, children, civilian men over 50 and those deemed "humanitarian cases." Bohbot is slated for release only in the deal’s second phase, which would see Hamas release all remaining living hostages. Israel has not committed to the second phase.
Writing about the sign of life from Bohbot, Petro said he had met in his office with the hostage’s young son Uriel, whom he wished "very happy days."
"May the children’s pain recede," added Petro.
He proceeded to describe his tour of the Doha hospital, where he had met with Gazook children and "embraced their broken and mending bodies."
"I looked into their eyes and saw hope in them," said Petro. "The hope of the world after a genocide."
Petro said he and the Colombian ambassador to Qatar, who is "descended from a Paleostinian father," were working to bring Gazook children to Colombia for medical treatment.
"The reconstruction of Gaza will not be a matter of bricks, roads or real estate," said Petro. "Fundamentally, it is the reconstruction of the social fabric of a people, of an ancestral culture."
Though Petro did not mention Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , the comment was apparently a rebuke of the US president’s plan to oust Gaza’s residents and rebuild the Strip as a "riviera of the Middle East."
"Humanity cannot ostracize a people after a genocide," said Petro. "Gaza is Paleostine, period."
Colombia followed neighboring Bolivia last May in ending longstanding ties with Israel. Petro had for months assailed Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group, which rules Gaza, likening it to the Holocaust and drawing accusations of antisemitism from Jerusalem. Bogotá also supports South Africa’s case in the International Court Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza — a charge Israel has angrily rejected.
[IsraelTimes] With Trump’s support, PM says, Israel ‘can and will finish the job’ against Iran; Rubio says all hostages must be released – ‘It is not optional’ – and ‘Hamas must be eradicated’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... "are working in full cooperation and coordination" 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... , the premier said on Sunday alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... "We have a common strategy and we can’t always share details of this strategy with the public," Netanyahu said, "including when the gates of hell will be open, as they surely will if all our hostages are not released, until the last one of them."
Netanyahu made the comments to the press after meeting with Rubio in his office in Jerusalem.
Last week, Trump suggested that if all of the hostages were not freed by Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... by midday Saturday, the ceasefire should be abandoned and "let hell break out."
Hamas released three living male hostages on Saturday, as required by the deal, after having said on Monday that it was suspending hostage releases until further notice.
Netanyahu convened his security cabinet Saturday night to decide on next steps, but gave no indication in statements about what Israel will do.
Contradictory Israeli statements after Trump’s comments last week threatened a return to war if "our hostages" and "all of them" weren’t released. Another message said nine hostages had to be released "in the coming days," referring to the number of captives known to be alive who at that point had yet to be released under the current ceasefire phase.
Trump said Saturday it was up to Israel to decide how to respond to Hamas missing his deadline. Israel, he wrote on his TruthSocial platform, must decide "what they will do about the 12:00 O’CLOCK, TODAY, DEADLINE imposed on the release of ALL HOSTAGES."
"The United States will back the decision they make!"
Alongside Rubio on Sunday, Netanyahu promised that Israel will achieve its war goals of toppling Hamas, bringing back all the hostages, and making sure Gaza doesn’t pose a threat to Israel in the future.
He added that America’s "unequivocal support" will help Israel achieve these goals faster.
Rubio told the press gathered in the Prime Minister’s Office that Trump is "a man that speaks clearly and unambiguously, who makes clear his views on issues."
The first issue Trump has been clear on, said Rubio, is that the "hostages need to come home, they need to be released."
"That must happen. It’s not optional."
Later Sunday, Rubio told President Isaac Herzog that Trump is "strongly and deeply committed" to the return of "every single hostage" being held in Gaza, and won’t rest "until all of them are home."
Rubio added in his appearance with Netanyahu that Trump "has been very clear that Hamas cannot continue as a government or military force, and frankly as long as it stands as a force that can govern, as a force that can administer, or as a force that can threaten by use of violence, peace becomes impossible."
"It must be eradicated, it must be eliminated," Rubio declared.
Hamas and Israel are currently implementing the first 42-day phase of the ceasefire, and negotiations have yet to begin for the second phase. Israel has not sent negotiators with a mandate to advance such talks, despite being required to do so under the deal’s terms.
The second phase is expected to cover the release of the remaining hostages and include discussions on a permanent end to the war.
Rubio and Netanyahu also discussed Trump’s controversial vision for the future of Gaza. While Netanyahu was at the White House earlier this month, and on numerous occasions since, Trump has called for the permanent relocation of all Gazooks, and for the US to rebuild the war-torn territory.
Some US officials have since sought to paint the plan as a temporary relocation, but Trump has not.
Netanyahu said he spoke with Rubio about Trump’s "bold vision for Gaza, for Gaza’s future, and how we can work together to ensure that future becomes a reality."
Rubio also praised the plan as "something that is new, something that frankly took courage and vision in order to outline. It may have surprised and shocked many, but what cannot continue is the same cycle to repeat over and over again and wind up in the exact same place."
Apart from Herzog, Rubio also on Sunday met hostages’ families, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid.
FINISHING THE JOB ON IRAN
Netanyahu said none of the issues discussed on Sunday were more important than Iran.
"Israel and America stand shoulder to shoulder in countering the threat of Iran," he said at his joint appearance with Rubio. "We agree that the ayatollahs must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons. We also agreed that Iran’s aggression in the region has to be rolled back."
He boasted that Israeli military operations have badly weakened the Iranian axis in the region. With Trump’s support, said Netanyahu, "we can and will finish the job."
Rubio also talked tough on Iran, saying the Islamic Theocratic Republic is overwhelmingly responsible for the problems plaguing the Middle East.
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... "is the greatest single force of instability in the region," he argued, saying it is "behind every terrorist group, behind every act of violence, behind every destabilizing activity, behind everything that threatens peace and stability for millions of people" throughout the region.
When he speaks of Iran, Rubio stressed, he is referring to the regime. And the people of Iran, he said, "are victims of that regime."
Violence in Gaza, the West Bank, Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , Syria, and Iraq "all have behind them one common theme — Iran. And that must be addressed," Rubio said.
A nuclear Iran "can never happen," he said, adding that Trump has been very clear on that issue as well.
The US intelligence community recently presented assessments that Israel is considering strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, and that the attacks could come this year, according to the Washington Post.
Iran, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction, insists its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes. However,
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In addition, The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported earlier this month that American intelligence indicates a covert team of Iranian scientists was exploring ways to quickly develop a nuclear weapon if the country’s leadership decided to pursue one.
The two also discussed the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, which Netanyahu said Israel had triggered through its weakening of the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon.
"If any other force in Syria today believes that Israel will permit other hostile forces to use Syria as a base" for attacks on Israel, said Netanyahu, "they are gravely mistaken."
"Israel will act to prevent any threat from emerging in southwest Syria," he pledged.
Ahmed al-Sharaa, who was appointed interim president last week, is a former jihadist rebel leader who headed the hard boyz who toppled president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... in December. He has begun making international trips to shore up support in the region.
Replacing one destabilizing force for another is not a positive development.
Rubio said in Jerusalem that "replacing one destabilizing force for another is not a positive development. And that is something we will watch very carefully."
They also discussed Lebanon, Netanyahu said. "Israel is committed to the ceasefire and the understandings we reached in November, and expects the government of Lebanon to be equally committed."
"Hezbollah must be disarmed," he said, "and Israel would prefer the Lebanese army does that job," but Israel will do what it must.
Hezbollah is required under the ceasefire agreement with Israel to vacate southern Lebanon. Israel was given 60 days, until January 26, to withdraw from the area. The withdrawal deadline was extended, with Beirut’s approval, to February 18. Israel is reportedly seeking to stay longer in some areas of south Lebanon.
Regarding Lebanon, Rubio said that Israeli and US goals are aligned and the same: "A strong Lebanese state that can take on and disarm Hezbollah."
Netanyahu says he and Rubio also discussed hostile international institutions, including the UN General Assembly, UN Human Rights Council, and the ICJ and ICC in The Hague. He says they discussed coordinating efforts to counter lawfare against the US and Israel, to neutralize this threat "once and for all."
[IsraelTimes] Political official says issue to be discussed, after Hamas briefly balked at releasing hostages and claimed Israel violated truce by barring bulldozers, trailers from Strip
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly did not give approval for the entry of mobile homes and heavy equipment into the 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 during Saturday night’s security consultations, in a potential breach of the ceasefire deal with Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... "Following a security consultation chaired by the prime minister, it was decided that the issue of trailers will be discussed in the coming days," the Kan public broadcaster quoted a political official as saying. "Israel is fully coordinating with the United States."
According to reports, the ceasefire and hostage release agreement explicitly states that supplies and equipment can be brought in to Gaza to establish at least 60,000 temporary living facilities. The details of the deal have not been published in full.
Images last week showed mobile homes and earthmoving equipment waiting at the Rafah Border Crossing from Egypt.
Last week, the Hamas terror group protested that Israel was blocking their entry and said that talks to get the ceasefire-hostage deal back on track had included discussions on a number of specific items, including such homes and equipment.
Following a week of uncertainty in the wake of the announcement, which prompted 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... to suggest Israel issue an ultimatum and demand the release of all hostages, Hamas and its ally Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... released three hostages Saturday, in accordance with the original agreement, and Israel released some 369 security inmates in return.
The apparent refusal by the premier to approve the entry of the equipment to the Strip comes as Netanyahu reportedly wants to extend the ongoing first phase of the deal beyond the designated 42 days, which are set to end on March 1, and secure the freedom of more hostages as part of phase one, including more hostages Israel now knows are in poor health.
The premier reportedly wants Israel’s negotiators to argue to the 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... i and Egyptian mediators, with US support, that it’s also in the interests of Hamas to extend phase one, and thus the current ceasefire, since phase two has not been finalized and the war would resume if no agreement is reached on phase two.
Netanyahu has thus far refused to allow Israel’s negotiators to engage in talks on the agreement’s second phase, which would see the release of the remaining hostages in exchange for a permanent end to the war.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) announced on Sunday that American forces delivered a second batch of humanitarian aid to displaced persons from areas northwest of the enclave.
The head of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES) office for internally displaced persons and refugees, Sheikhmous Ahmed, confirmed that "the relief supplies were delivered by American forces." He added that "this is the second batch of aid provided" by US troops with the aim of supporting displaced persons from Afrin, Shahba, and Tal Rifaat.
In 2018, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and allied Syrian militias seized Afrin from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which serves as the backbone of Rojava’s de facto army, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The offensive led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Kurds from Rojava, many of whom sought refuge in the nearby Shahba region. Later, the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) forces attacked SDF posts in Shahba and captured the area, prompting further displacement to other Kurdish-controlled regions.
The new batch of American aid includes baby formula, clothing, detergents and medical supplies, which will be distributed to shelter centers housing the displaced persons in Raqqa and Tabqa, according to Ahmed.
In a statement posted on X on Sunday, the SDF emphasized that the aid "will help alleviate the suffering of those displaced," stressing "the importance of sustained support for the region to ensure stability and promote development, which is essential for preventing the resurgence of [the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ] ISIS."
Recent changes in US policy have posed challenges for the Kurdish-led administration in Rojava, particularly regarding the distribution of humanitarian aid. The suspension of foreign aid by the Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... administration has impacted essential services in camps like al-Hol, raising concerns over security and the return of ISIS.
Of note, the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria’s Hasaka province is home to some 40,000 residents with ties to ISIS, who have been held there since the group's defeat in Syria in 2019.
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Syria's interim government on Thursday to work with the US-led coalition against bully boy groups, emphasizing the need to integrate the SDF into Syria's transitional process. Macron also called for substantial aid to rebuild Syria, amid uncertainties over the future of US military support.
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