[JustTheNews] "Conducting patrols, either on foot or mounted, creates a more proactive and adaptable posture compared to static posts," Army Maj. Jennifer L. Staton, a Defense Department spokesperson, said in a statement.
The Department of Defense on Tuesday announced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered troops at the U.S. southern border to begin conducting patrols to dissuade people considering entering the country illegally.
The directive, which was given last week, is a change after the troops were largely static in Texas and Arizona. There are currently 9,000 active troops along the southern border, who have largely carried out logistics and back-end work, per Politico.
Defense officials said that the troops will still not be used for law enforcement activities, which is prohibited by federal law, but will report all illegal crossings to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"Conducting patrols, either on foot or mounted, creates a more proactive and adaptable posture compared to static posts," Army Maj. Jennifer L. Staton, a Defense Department spokesperson, said in a statement. "The dynamic approach of patrolling allows service members to cover a larger area of the border, affording them dynamic observation across multiple angles and distances."
Service members assigned to the Joint Task Force Southern Border can now move either on foot or onboard Stryker armored vehicles.
The troops will be armed and are allowed to protect themselves if necessary, Army Maj. Jared Stefani said last week.
The presumption of the meaning of the phrase 'international terrorist organization' is ISIS.
Bless you for defining that, badanov — I’ve been very frustrated because I couldn’t figure out which group they meant.
[KavkazUzel] Four residents of Ingushetia, including two minors, are suspected of failing to report terrorist crimes.
According to the investigation, in August 2024, the suspects, during a personal meeting with two residents of Ingushetia, learned that they had sworn allegiance to the leader of an international terrorist organization. Knowing about the terrorist crimes, they did not report this to law enforcement agencies. Earlier, a case was opened against the two residents of the republic with whom the suspects met for participating in a terrorist organization and preparing a terrorist attack, the Investigative Committee for Ingushetia reported.
Cases have been opened against four residents of the republic under Article 205.6 of the Russian Criminal Code (failure to report a crime). The punishment under this article is up to one year of imprisonment, according to a statement on the department's website today.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" previously reported that on March 19 it became known about the detention of a resident of Ingushetia, who helped the participants of the attack on the security forces to hide. According to the investigation, in his house he hid people wanted for an armed attack on law enforcement officers in the Republic of Ingushetia and the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania. The man also provided them with food and transportation services.
On March 20, it became known that a resident of Ingushetia is suspected of failing to report a crime due to a meeting with a suspected member of a terrorist organization.
[IsraelTimes] Graduates, including a former Dutch Supreme Court justice and a former foreign minister, accuse UvA of capitulating to violent anti-Israel activists who occupied campuses last year
More than 50 alumni of the University of Amsterdam will return their diplomas on Friday to protest their alma mater’s decision to unilaterally cut ties with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The board of the school, which goes by the acronym UvA, decided last week to put an end to the school’s student exchange program with Hebrew University because of what it calls "concerns about academic freedom" and the risk that academic cooperation could benefit the Israel Defense Forces.
But critics, including a growing number of Dutch politicians, accuse the university of bowing to the demands of violent mostly peaceful anti-Zionist activists
…not even pretending that it’s sheer love of the Palestinians that moves them to hate Israel…
who occupied two of its campuses in the Dutch capital in May. Vandalism and violent mostly peacefulfestivities between police and masked rioters caused more than 4 million euros ($4.3 million) in damage.
At the time, UvA rector Peter-Paul Verbeek was heavily criticized for negotiating with masked protestors and not dismissing their demands to cut all ties with Israeli universities. Instead, the school agreed to set up a committee to examine its ties with outside schools.
The university said this month it had decided to accept the commission’s recommendations to end its cooperation with Hebrew University, as well as some Hungarian institutions. At the same time, it announced it would continue collaborating with the Chinese Scholarship Council, despite concerns of PhD students being forced to share information with Beijing or pledge allegiance to the Chinese government.
Detractors characterized the decision as a double standard toward the Jewish state. In a statement announcing the protest, the 50 alumni expressed "shame" over the school’s behavior.
"UvA should instead have taken measures to protect the safety of Jewish students who feel threatened by the explicitly anti-Zionist character of protests at the university," the statement read.
Their diplomas "are no longer a source of pride," the alumni added.
On Friday, the alumni will return their diplomas to UvA board chair Prof. Edith Hooge. This will be done on the school’s Roeterseiland campus, one of the sites that had to be cleared by riot police last year.
Among the alumni taking part are former Dutch foreign affairs minister Uri Rosenthal, who initiated the campaign, former deputy chief justice of the Dutch Supreme Court Ernst Numann, and Ronny Naftaniel, founder of the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel.
Another notable participant is Keyvan Shahbazi, an Iranian writer who fled to the Netherlands in 1983 after being tortured by the Islamist regime in Tehran.
Rosenthal is currently chairman of the 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... Free Committee, for which he was put on an Iranian terror list. Many Dutch Persians can be seen at pro-Israel protests.
"The quality of universities degenerates when they cowardly have their policies dictated by professional activists who often have no connection to said universities," the alumni statement said.
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[REGNUM] The streets of Swedish cities are shaking from explosions and filled with the sounds of gunfire. Ethnic gangs
…Kurds, Syrians, Iraqis, mixed Moslem, and the occasional Eastern European and Caucasian …
that have flooded the country are sorting out their relationships with each other and settling scores with businessmen who do not want to pay tribute to the bandits. The Swedish authorities are unable to curb the criminals, but the US authorities have intervened in the situation.
The US government has imposed sanctions against Foxtrot, the largest criminal group operating in Sweden and actively penetrating other EU countries. However, the Americans did not do this out of a desire to ensure the safety of ordinary Swedes – Washington was alarmed by information about Foxtrot’s connections with hostile intelligence services.
THE GANGS HAVE BECOME CRAMPED
With the police powerless to deal with the ethnic gangs that have infested Sweden, Swedes are increasingly turning to the Almighty. It has gotten to the point that the Stockholm diocese of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church recently introduced the practice of regular prayer services, during which believers call on the Lord to stop the bombings in city districts and suburbs.
No doubt the gangsters are glad for it, as it keeps the locals happily occupied without visibly interfering in the proceedings.
Bishop Andreas Holmberg explained: "We pray that the spiral of threats, revenge and violence will be broken. That those who are about to commit crimes will come to their senses and see their enemies as their neighbours."
But once upon a time, prayers for liberation from the fury of the Scandinavians, that is, including the ancestors of today's Swedes, were heard in Catholic churches throughout Europe. Who could have imagined that now the defenseless victims of alien raids have become the descendants of the ruthless Vikings.
By the way, the idea of holding prayers appeared after a corresponding request from police officers working in one of the municipalities of Stockholm. They are now frankly not coping with their duties and decided to enlist the support of heaven.
And at the beginning of the year, an event occurred that could become a terrible harbinger of the situation in the country deteriorating even further. On January 29, the 65-year-old uncle of the famous mafioso Rawa Majid, known as the Kurdish Fox, was shot dead in Stockholm.
Majid, the leader of Sweden's largest criminal network, Foxtrot, emigrated to Turkey several years ago and runs his group remotely. His competitors, unable to reach the Kurdish Fox himself, have decided to eliminate Majid's relative, who is believed to have held a prominent position in Foxtrot.
Police officers who quickly arrived at the scene of the elderly Kurd's death managed to spot the killer before he escaped. The 30-year-old criminal tried to shoot at the law enforcement officers, but was detained by them.
The investigation concluded that the killer was hired by another large group, Dalennätverket (named after its place of origin, the Dalen district in the Stockholm suburb of Enskede). Like Foxtrot, Dalennätverket is involved in drug trafficking, racketeering and contract killings – and the two are a bit cramped in small Sweden.
Majid will undoubtedly now seek revenge on his rivals. Crime experts predict a return to 2023, when the number of street shootings increased sharply due to the escalation of gang wars.
Therefore, on the same day, January 29, a decision was made to transfer an additional police force of one hundred people to Stockholm, who were called in from other cities. Investigators attribute the sharp increase in the number of explosions on the streets of Swedish cities at the beginning of the year to the feud between Foxtrot and Dalennätverket.
NEED TOO MUCH MONEY
In total, according to police data, there are 14,000 active criminal groups in Sweden – but the most powerful of them are Foxtrot and Dalennätverket. Moreover, a process that was widely discussed last year is continuing in the Swedish criminal world – criminals are becoming increasingly younger.
In 2024, a quarter of suspects in criminal cases were under 18. In fatal shootings, a third of suspects in 2024 were under 18, and about ten were under 15.
Ethnic gangs are happy to hire underage killers, whose fear threshold is significantly lowered because they do not face the same harsh punishments as adults.
At the same time, criminals have reached such a level of power that they are already influencing the activities of large corporations, which are forced to evacuate from crime-ridden areas.
Thus, recently the “great exodus” from the Chista district in Stockholm has begun – the telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson, the property management company Coor, the electronics manufacturer Fujitsu, the Royal Institute of Technology, and the software and hardware manufacturer IBM have moved their offices and production facilities from there.
If five years ago the occupancy rate of business facilities in Chista was 91%, then by the end of last year this figure had dropped to 53%. The reason is simple - in recent years, migrants have begun settling in the area en masse, and it has become extremely unsafe.
Employees of the companies located here began to be attacked on their way to work, and such incidents became more and more frequent. And eventually the management of the companies considered it best to leave the dangerous territory altogether.
More and more Swedish taxpayers' money is being spent on fighting crime. This year, 2025, the amount allocated from the state budget for these purposes will be 86.7 billion kronor (769 billion rubles, or 7.5 billion euros). This is 8 billion kronor (10%) more than the year before.
It is expected that in 2027 the corresponding expenditure item will reach 100 billion crowns. For comparison: in 2023 it was 69 billion. That is, every year the amounts that have to be spent on the fight against crime are growing rapidly. And this is against the background of a parallel increase in defense spending and chronic underfunding of infrastructure.
UNCLE SAM CAME TO THE RESCUE
The scale of Foxtrot's activities has been assessed even in the United States. Washington is frightened by the ambitions of Rava Majid and his associates. American intelligence agencies claim that Foxtrot cooperates with the Iranian Ministry of Information and National Security and is involved in the attacks on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm.
Early last year, unknown persons threw a grenade at the embassy building, which flew over the fence, landed near the building, but fortunately did not explode. Sappers were called to the scene and defused the explosive device. The police opened a criminal case in connection with an attempted terrorist act.
The embassy building was later attacked in May and October 2024. Mossad said it believed Iran, acting through Swedish crime groups, was behind the incidents.
The Israeli embassy in Copenhagen suffered similar troubles, with several grenades thrown at it on October 2, 2024. Danish police quickly arrested a teenager, who is currently under investigation. The Swedes suspect that this teenager may have information about the attacks on the embassy in Stockholm, and may have even participated in them.
There is every reason for this suspicion: it is known that Foxtrot and other groups operating on Swedish territory, as mentioned above, are increasingly hiring minors to commit criminal acts.
Moreover, there have already been cases of these, as the press calls them, "soldiers" being sent on missions from Sweden to Denmark. On February 5, the Copenhagen City Court ruled that the suspect would be extradited to the Swedish authorities after the completion of the trial in Denmark.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the Foxtrot network is involved in arms smuggling and violent crime throughout northern Europe. He said Foxtrot members are responsible for numerous shootings, contract killings and assaults.
For this reason, the US authorities have imposed sanctions on Foxtrot. This means that all property and financial assets belonging to Rava Majid and his accomplices in the US are blocked. And if they themselves come to the US, they are subject to arrest. The purpose of the sanctions is to hinder the work of the criminal network and limit its opportunities for international activity.
Donald Trump is considered one of the most "pro-Israel" US presidents and is extremely hostile towards Iran. And so the news that a criminal group created in Sweden by people from the Middle East is cooperating with Iran and attacking the Israeli diplomatic mission has prompted the US authorities to act.
The Swedish government is extremely reserved about Trump's activities. They do not dare to openly criticize him in Stockholm, but they do not approve of his declared desire to quickly end the military actions in Ukraine - since, in the opinion of the Swedes, this would be a "victory for Russia."
But Washington's decision to "sanction" Foxtrot is welcomed by Swedish authorities. Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer said that these sanctions will help strengthen the effectiveness of the Interior Ministry's work in combating organized crime.
His joy in this case is understandable. The Swedish authorities have long demonstrated their helplessness in the face of organized ethnic crime - they are unable to defeat it, or even deal a powerful blow to it. And so the Swedes are pleased that at least part of the solution to this problem has been taken on by their overseas "partner".
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His joy in this case is understandable. The Swedish authorities have long demonstrated their helplessness in the face of organized ethnic crime - they are unable to defeat it, or even deal a powerful blow to it. And so the Swedes are pleased that at least part of the solution to this problem has been taken on by their overseas "partner".
Europe is lost. All Trump will do is handicap their enemies money. If Europe won't stand up and do the fighting...oh well!
American academia watches closely to see what will soon happen to them.
[IsraelTimes] Union also seeks court order against deportation of non-citizen activists; separate suit by Oct. 7 victims accuses protesters of spreading Hamas propaganda, knowing ahead of time about attack
Groups representing Columbia University professors on Tuesday sued the administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States... over its effort to force the Manhattan university to tighten rules on campus protests and put a Middle Eastern studies department under outside oversight, among other measures.
Which law firms are supporting the Hamas-lovers pro bono, or is this a service provided by the law school?
Faculty groups also filed a separate lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the Trump administration from deporting non-citizen anti-Israel campus activists, following the arrest earlier this month of Columbia graduate and Paleostinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States.
Do faculty groups have standing to sue in this situation?
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand...... nine US and Israeli citizens who were victims of the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... onslaught of October 7, 2023 — including relatives of people murdered or taken hostage, and two people affiliated with Columbia who reported mistreatment there — sued organizers of the pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protests on Monday, accusing them of serving as Hamas’s "propaganda arm" and having prior knowledge of the terror group’s shock assault.
Oh. That does change things.
The defendants included Khalil.
All three lawsuits were filed in Manhattan federal court.
In one of the lawsuits on Tuesday, the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation accused the Trump administration of trying to force the university’s hand by canceling $400 million in federal funding and threatening to withhold billions more in the future.
The university is not entitled to billions of dollars of government money, after all.
The plaintiffs said the lawsuit "challenges the Trump administration’s unlawful and unprecedented effort to overpower a university’s academic autonomy and control the thought, association, scholarship, and expression of its faculty and students."
"The Trump administration is coercing Columbia University to do its bidding and regulate speech and expression on campus by holding hostage billions of dollars in congressionally authorized federal funding — funding that is responsible for positioning the American university system as a global leader in scientific, medical, and technological research and is crucial to ensuring it remains so," they said.
The Trump administration hasn’t got as far as forcing anything. This is just to get the university’s attention to get them to the table. Forcing will put several billion dollars of federal funding at risk. The university has something like a $15 billion endowment, so in theory they could walk away, getting by on their savings — and no doubt there are plenty of Progressive donors who would do their bit to make up the shortfall — but apparently the university is not keen to give up what has up to now been easy money.
Columbia has been a focal point of anti-Israel activity since thousands of Hamas-led snuffies stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, triggering the ongoing 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... war.
The Trump administration has accused the university of having antisemitic harassment on campus and demanded that it place one specific department — Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Studies — into academic receivership, an unusual move where university administrators take control away from the faculty at a department that has been deemed dysfunctional. The Trump administration declined to specify evidence of its claims.
The evidence is all over the internet, O intepid Reuters reporter. Run and find out for yourself, instead of trusting those horrid MAGA Trumpsters to tell you the truth. They would, but you are the one getting paid to report — do your job.
Critics of the Trump administration have said that the receivership demand did not provide constitutional, statutory or regulatory authority and is meant to punish scholars in the department for views that the Trump administration does not like.
Views? No, though they aren’t keen on the Jew-hate. It’s the vicious behaviours that the current government has a problem with.
Columbia has already partly acquiesced to the administration’s demands in an effort to regain funding, saying it had already begun hiring security with arrest powers, that it was working to hire new faculty with joint positions in the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the School for International and Public Affairs, as well as hire a new administrator to review the leadership and balance of Middle Eastern programs.
Let’s take a look in a few months and see how many of the new hires are Progressive “Jews” who hate Israel.
The actions against Columbia have created a "pervasive climate of fear and self-censorship" not only at its New York City campus but at universities around the country fearing retaliation from the administration, the lawsuit said, adding the actions chilled speech, threatened academic freedom and that students from all backgrounds should be protected from harassment.
Being forced to think instead of their custom of letting their freak flags fly does feel that way.
It is asking the court to order the administration to restore the $400 million in canceled grants and contracts and to block it from taking any action to enforce its demands.
No.
Also on Tuesday, the AAUP and other academic associations sued for a court order barring the Trump administration from deporting or threatening students based on their political views.
Also no.
The lawsuit said the arrest of Khalil and Trump’s threat of further arrests had "created a climate of repression and fear on university campuses."
Khalil, who was born and raised in a refugee camp in Syria, entered the US on a student visa in 2022 and became a legal permanent resident in 2024. A federal judge last week ruled that he must remain in the United States for now.
Khalil was a leading member of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which has endorsed "armed resistance" against Israel and called "for the total eradication of Western civilization."
We know. That and his activism for Hamas are why he lost his green card.
The Trump administration claimed after Khalil’s arrest that he had withheld his previous work for UNRWA, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... agency for Paleostinian refugees, in his visa application, saying that was grounds for his deportation.
Lying or incomplete information on the application is longstanding grounds for deportation.
UNRWA has said Khalil was briefly an unpaid intern. Israel has accused the aid agency of serving as a front for Hamas, and at least one Israeli hostage has reported having been held in an UNWRA facility in Gaza.
Both Columbia faculty lawsuits accuse the Trump administration of trampling on the right to free speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Constitutional free speech does not encompass activism for listed terror groups or overthrowing the government of the United States or organizing riots.
For its part, the US Justice Department said it "makes no apologies for its efforts to defend President Trump’s agenda in court and protect Jewish Americans from vile antisemitism." Columbia, which is not a party in either lawsuit, did not respond to a request for comment.
ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS ACCUSED OF ACTING AS ’PR FIRM’ FOR HAMAS
In a lawsuit filed Monday, people behind the anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia were accused of having coordinated their efforts with Hamas to further its attacks since 2023.
Besides Khalil, the defendants include Within Our Lifetime-United for Paleostine, Columbia Students for Justice in Paleostine ("CSJP"), Columbia-Barnard Jewish Voice for Peace, and some of the groups’ leaders.
The civil lawsuit accuses the defendants of violating US antiterrorism legislation and the law of nations and seeks unspecified compensatory, punitive and triple damages.
"It would be illegal for Hamas to directly retain a public relations firm in the United States or hire enforcers to impose their will on American cities." the complaint said. "Yet those are precisely the services that the [defendant groups] knowingly provide to Hamas."
The plaintiffs also accused some group defendants "on information and belief" of having prior knowledge of the Hamas attack. They cited the timing and substance of statements made shortly before, during and after the atrocities occurred, including a CSJP post on Instagram three minutes before the attack that said "We are back!!"
The defendants or lawyers who have represented them in Columbia-related litigation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mark Goldfeder, a lawyer at the National Jewish Advocacy Center representing the plaintiffs, said in an email that the defendants’ coordinating activities with Hamas were known because they have said so repeatedly.
"There is nothing wrong with being pro-Paleostinian, and pro-Hamas speech is still protected speech in most contexts," he said. "The issue here is the material support of and coordination with a designated foreign terrorist organization."
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Freed hostage says NY pro Hamas protests bolster terrorists Shlomi Ziv, rescued from Gaza, joins lawsuit filed against pro-Palestinian groups protesting at Columbia University, claiming they were a public relations campaign for Hamas
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] The Gateway Pundit reported on the disgusting comments coming from Obama Judge Patricia A. Millett, who serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
In recent remarks, Millett claimed that Nazis received ''better treatment'' under the Alien Enemies Act than the violent mostly peaceful mostly peaceful gangsters deported by the Trump administration.
''There were planeloads of people,'' Millett said during a hearing about the legality of the deportation flights.
''There were no procedures in place to notify people.''
''Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than has happened here.''
Border Czar Tom Homan did not hold back when responding to Millett's unhinged remarks.
Homan told Fox Business host Stuart Varney, ''Well, it's disgusting, right? What? Comparing this to the Holocaust? Comparing this to the Nazis? I mean, come on, give me a break. I don't even know what the comparison even means.''
''All I know, we follow the process. The President of the United States, through his proclamation, invoked the authorities he has within the Alien Enemies Act, an act that was enacted by Congress and signed by the President.''
''We're enforcing the law with the laws that are on the books.''
''We're not making this up. Unlike the last administration, who several district court judges said, not only were they ignoring the law, they were actually violating the law when they were abusing the parole process.''
''We're going to use every tool in the toolbox to arrest public safety threats and national security threats and get them out of this country. The President Trump committed to the American people, the worst first, that's what we're doing.''
''That plane, TD8, MS-13, they're a designated terrorist organization. We were removing over 200 turbans from this country, and we're going to keep doing it because that's what the American people want.'' I'm relying on memory here, and I'm getting pretty old, so memory's probably not perfect. In June 1942 eight Nazi spies were put ashore by submarine in Operation Pastorius. Four went ashore at Long Island, and the other four went ashore in Florida. Two of the eight Aryan Soopermen (not the two who were American citizens, either) turned themselves in and testified against the other six. They were tried by a military tribunal (see Supreme Court decision ex parte Quirin 317 US 1 (1942)) and all eight were sentenced to death. President Roosevelt commuted the sentences of the two who had turned themselves in. The other six swung within ninety days of getting their feet wet.
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Since she is making such POLITICALLY OVERTONE comments, then her Legal judgment and objectively are in SERIOUS question.
The DOJ should conduct a judicial review of Obama appointed Judge, Patricia A. Millett, on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Then present its findings to Congress.
Congress has the authority to remove her, according to the US Constitution w/o SCOTUS approval.
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The Congress could, and should, abolish the entire DC federal system, including the Appeals Court, and start all over with sane and unbiased judges.
The Nazis who were tried at Nuremberg got better judges than Judge Patricia A. Millett.
[NYPOST] The Columbia University student facing deportation after she was arrested at an anti-Israel protest can't be detained by the feds, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Manhattan federal court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald issued a temporary restraining order blocking immigration authorities from detaining 21-year-old Columbia junior Yunseo Chung.
A Korean green card holder who arrived in America at the age of seven, the high school valedictorianess naturally joined in the fun — just part of the American college experience, donchaknow. Given that she was arrested, it seems safe to assume that the police finally winkled her out of her hiding place, wherever that was.
''I don't think there is any evidence in the record that she would be a danger to the community,'' Buchwald said in court before issuing the ruling.
''The notion of putting this 21-year-old, who nothing in the record suggests is a danger — into ICE detention — is not a particularly appealing result,'' the judge said.
The feds have not claimed, for instance, that Chung had illegally possessed weapons or communicated with a foreign terrorist group, Buchwald noted.
But she’s a green card holder who acted to support a listed international terror group, so she broke the rules.
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Another judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York giving Congress another reason to abolish that court system and set up a replacement with better judges.
[FoxNews] 'We are not a sanctuary state and therefore we’re not supporting localities that are declared sanctuary cities,' Youngkin said
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, is threatening to withhold state funding from local governments if they do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement officials.
The proposal comes as the governor seeks to eliminate the Commonwealth's "sanctuary cities," which are areas that choose to protect migrants without legal status rather than cooperate with federal officials to enforce immigration law.
Youngkin first floated the idea of withholding funding in December. The governor has now proposed it as an amendment to the state budget passed by the General Assembly, according to Fox 5 DC.
The proposal would ensure that state funding does not go to counties or cities with "sanctuary city" policies such as ignoring detainer requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the outlet reported.
The governor has been particularly critical of Democrat-run counties in northern Virginia, including Fairfax. He said there must be full cooperation on immigration enforcement to continue receiving funding.
"This is not a decision for people to make locally," he said, according to Fox 5 DC. "This is for the betterment of all our safety. We are not a sanctuary state and therefore we’re not supporting localities that are declared sanctuary cities."
[FoxNews] 'The gravy train is over,' said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Sexy.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner and Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem have forged a new inter-agency initiative aimed at ensuring federal housing funds do not go to illegal immigrants.
The two secretaries signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday cementing the partnership, which will serve to end what they call "wasteful misappropriation" of taxpayer-funded public housing resources going to illegal immigrants rather than U.S. citizens. The new initiative will facilitate data sharing between the two agencies via newly established lines of communication, according to a press release about the effort, which added that U.S. veterans stood to benefit from the move.
"American tax dollars should be used for the benefit of American citizens, especially when it comes to an issue as pressing as our nation’s housing crisis," Turner said Monday. "This new agreement will leverage resources, including technology and personnel, to ensure American people are the only priority when it comes to public housing. We will continue to work closely with DHS to maximize our resources and put American citizens first."
In total, per HUD, there are roughly 9 million people who live in subsidized housing across the country. Meanwhile, about 59% of noncitizen households – those including green card holders or illegal immigrants – use one or more public assistance programs, costing taxpayers as much as $42 billion annually, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for lower immigration levels.
Tens of millions of dollars – at least – went to housing for migrants, including for all-expense-paid stays at hotels for some, during the Biden administration. Some states, such as Pennsylvania and Arizona, passed measures during the Biden administration aimed at ensuring illegal immigrants do not take public housing resources from Americans who need them.
President Donald Trump, shortly after his inauguration, signed an executive order calling for an end to illegal immigrants' use of public resources.
"The Biden Administration prioritized illegal aliens over our own citizens, including by giving illegal aliens taxpayer-funding housing at the expense of Americans. Not anymore," Noem said in a statement Monday. "The entire government will work together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally. If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now. The gravy train is over."
As part of the new initiative, HUD will provide a full-time staff member to assist with operations at the federal government's Incident Command Center, which facilitates information sharing between agencies during national crises.
Additionally, in conjunction with the establishment of the new initiative, Turner ordered numerous federal housing programs under his purview to comply with Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980, which bars HUD-funded service providers from providing assistance to illegal immigrants.
[IsraelTimes] Ilan Goldenberg, a former senior aide in the Biden and Obama administrations, announces that he will be joining the dovish, pro-Israel lobby J Street
…the Soros Open Foundations sock puppet analogue to AIPAC, whose role is to provide a “pro-Israel” cover for leftwing and Democratic politicians who hate Israel...
as its senior vice president and chief policy officer.
No doubt a good fit.
Goldenberg most recently served as director for Jewish outreach on former US vice president Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign.
And then she lost — by a lot. That must be symbolic of something.
“J Street is already uniquely positioned with its reach both into Jewish and progressive circles. But I hope to help build on that by helping grow coalitions that can fight to bring all the hostages home and end the war in Gaza; prevent annexation and reverse the negative trends of settlements and violence in the West Bank; support progress toward a regional peace that leads to Israel’s integration into the Middle East and the creation of a Palestinian state; prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon while avoiding an unnecessary military conflict; counter antisemitism; and fight for American and Israeli democracy,” Goldenberg writes in a Substack post announcing the move.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is pausing some green card applications, including refugees brought to the United States by former President Joe Biden, to better screen and vet applicants.
“To better identify fraud, public safety, or national security concerns, USCIS is placing a temporary pause on finalizing certain Adjustment of Status applications pending the completion of additional screening and vetting,” a spokesperson for the agency told Breitbart News:
This is in alignment with Presidential Executive Order 14161, Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats, and the presidential action Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Designated Global Terrorists. [Emphasis added]
The pause, first reported by CBS News, will include hundreds of thousands of refugees brought to the U.S. by the Biden administration — including perhaps some Afghan refugees — who are now looking to adjust status and secure green cards.
Likewise, some immigrants who secured asylum under the Biden administration have also had their green card application processes halted for the time being.
In late January, Trump signed an executive order suspending all refugee resettlement to the U.S. after the Biden administration imported hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants who were given humanitarian parole.
Though non-governmental organizations (NGOS) and a federal judge out of Seattle, Washington, sued to prevent Trump from halting refugee admissions, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will allow the administration to carry out its executive order.
[IsraelTimes] A US intelligence report assesses that Iran isn’t currently building a nuclear weapon, according to Reuters.
But will they, as soon as they have all the parts ready for assembly? And are they working toward getting all the parts ready to be assembled?
It also finds that Russia is developing a new satellite meant to carry a nuclear weapon, which could have “devastating consequences” for the US and the world.
Is this a five year thing or a sometime in the future one? And what about China?
#8
From the people who failed to predict the collapse of the Soviet empire, pick up on 9/11, and have engaged in regime change in our own country. Yeah, right.
#10
I recall the 2007 Intelligence Estimate when Bush came to power and the IC said the same darn thing, that Iran was not pursuing a path to nuclearization.
[IsraelTimes] Treasury department says the three, who work in Tehran’s Ministry of Intelligence, all played a role in Levinson’s abduction, detention and probable death
The United States has imposed sanctions on three Iranian intelligence officers for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of former FBI Special Agent Robert Levinson, the US Treasury and State departments said in blurbs on Tuesday.
The sanctions on Reza Amiri Moghadam, Gholamhossein Mohammadnia, and Taqi Daneshvar of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security are the latest linked to the disappearance of the former FBI agent, who Washington believes was kidnapped in 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... and died in captivity.
As a result of the sanctions, any property of the men under US jurisdiction must be blocked, and Americans are generally barred from dealing with them. Foreign persons also risk blacklisting for dealing with them.
"Iran’s treatment of Mr. Levinson remains a blight on Iran’s already grim record of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuse," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. "The Department of the Treasury will continue to work with US government partners to identify those responsible and shine a light on their abhorrent behavior."
Levinson, who was working as a private investigator, disappeared in March 2007 after traveling to an island controlled by Iran for a meeting seeking information on alleged corruption, but the Washington Post reported in 2013 that Levinson, who had retired from the FBI, was working for the CIA and had gone on a rogue mission aimed at gathering intelligence on Iran.
The three sanctioned individuals all played a role in Levinson’s abduction, detention, and probable death, as well as efforts to cover up Iran’s responsibility, the Treasury Department said.
The sanctions are being imposed under an executive order signed by former President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... , which seeks to hold to account terrorist organizations, criminal groups, and other "malicious actors" who take hostages for financial or political gain.
The US previously sanctioned two other Iranian officials in December 2020 whom it accused of involvement in Levinson’s disappearance.
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Muslim Americans in Public Service's ties to terrorist supporters could raise concerns about its efforts to place employees inside government
Muslim Americans in Public Service is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that coordinates with federal agencies to help Muslims obtain and advance careers in government. To do so, it partners with Islamic organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations,
…one of many branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in America…
that have either condoned terror attacks or have been linked to terrorist organizations.
In addition to CAIR, the nonprofit known as MAPS touts the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations as one of its partners and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Helping Hand for Relief and Development as two of its sponsors. MAPS has worked with CAIR to host events that bring together MAPS members "across all levels and branches of government." And while it does not disclose its donors, it says it receives "sizable in-kind donations" from its partners, as well as funding from "federal agencies," nonprofits, and state commissions.
Perhaps it’s time to cut them off from federal agencies — turn DOGE loose on them to figure out donation flows, and maybe member connections if they have a little spare time and bandwidth in the midst of all else that they’ve got going.
MAPS’s affiliation with those groups—all of which have praised or been linked to terrorist organizations—could raise concerns about its efforts to place employees inside the federal bureaucracy. While it's unlikely MAPS will have success placing political appointees in the Trump administration, which has opposed affinity groups that support DEI initiatives in federal agencies and is staunchly at odds with MAPS's criticism of Israel, the group's top members include some career officials entrenched in the federal government.
MAPS thrived during the Biden administration and now boasts thousands of members, including intelligence community officials who hold high-level security clearances, according to Maaty, the group’s chairman.
Formed in 2021, MAPS is led by a board of current and former career federal employees, according to the group’s website and their LinkedIn profiles. Ahmad Maaty, the founding chairman of MAPS, is a senior economist at the Department of Justice. Other board members include Veterans Affairs official Hasan Shanawani, Office of Management and Budget examiner Farrah Pappa, United Nations mission adviser Mariya Ilyas, and White House policy analyst Ameer Abdulrahman, a former official for Democratic Senate candidate Morgan Harper.
While MAPS largely focuses on job-related issues that impact its members, it has weighed in on some political issues. The group criticized the Biden administration over its support for Israel in the war against Hamas, saying that it "disagrees with many of the policy positions taken by the current Administration." It also condemned the 2023 censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) over her statements calling for the eradication of Israel and denounced the removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over anti-Semitic remarks.
Since then, MAPS has hosted panels and networking events thanks to support from its terror-tied partners.
Earlier this month, for example, MAPS hosted an event that ICNA and Helping Hand cosponsored. One of its featured speakers, Nicole Fauster-Bradford, is the community advocacy director at CAIR. She spoke alongside Sarah Khasawinah, a senior policy adviser in the Senate.
Former ICNA president Mohsin Ansari has spread anti-Semitic tropes about the "liberal anti Muslim media headed by Jews," according to reports. He has also praised Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a Bangladeshi cleric convicted of war crimes against Hindus, as a "very, very, very special person." Congress has investigated both ICNA and Helping Hand over their alleged links to Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , a Pakistani terrorist group.
CAIR, for its part, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal Hamas financing case in 2008. The Biden White House distanced itself from the group after its executive director stated he was "happy" about the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023.
In addition to the March event, MAPS held an annual networking event in January that ICNA and Helping Hand cosponsored. It featured Ansari as a speaker.
In a statement sent to the Washington Free Beacon, MAPS said it "engages independent organizations with various audiences," like CAIR, ICNA, and Helping Hand, "to increase its civic engagement and reach those with a desire to serve the public." It did not answer questions on CAIR's Oct. 7 rhetoric and the groups' ties to terror organizations.
MAPS thrived during the Biden administration and now boasts thousands of members, including intelligence community officials who hold high-level security clearances, according to Maaty, the group’s chairman.
Oh? Tracing connections could prove profitable, should the Trump administration be interested in reducing the concentration of probable jihadis in America…
In 2023, then-transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg recorded a video message praising MAPS, saying that "so many core Islamic values reflect American values." In April 2024, the group hosted an event at the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Agriculture where then-secretary Tom Vilsack spoke in praise of the group. ICNA and Islamic Relief USA, a subsidiary of Islamic Relief Worldwide, which Israeli authorities sanctioned for allegedly funneling money to Hamas. The State Department condemned Islamic Relief Worldwide in 2020 over its leaders’ "vile anti-Semitic vitriol."
[IsraelTime] The United Nations is cutting its international staff in Gaza by around a third, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday, citing safety concerns.
“We are trying to reduce the number of international staff by about one-third and this is really because the Secretary-General (Antonio Guterres) doesn’t have the power of guaranteeing the safety of UN staff,” UN spokesperson Alessandra Vellucci tells a Geneva press briefing, saying that this meant around 30 of 100 international staff.
The agencies affected included the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the UN children’s agency, she adds.
Normies responding to Judicial Activism in Israel
[IsraelNationalNews] Activists from the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization on Wednesday morning protested outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Gila Canfy Steinitz in Mevaseret Zion, blasting her decision to intervene in the dismissal of ISA chief Ronen Bar.
The activists protested the judge's interference in the government's decisions, when the government acted with full legal authority on the matter. They also noted that Bar "is responsible for the horrific intelligence failure and also did not awaken the Defense Minister and Prime Minister on October 7, and did not update them on the situation.
Bnayahu Ben Shabbat, task coordinator at Im Tirtzu, said, "Judge Canfy Steinitz appropriated authority without any permission or legal basis. The Supreme Court dictatorship tramples the will of the nation. In a sane world, Ronen Bar would have stepped down or been fired on October 8 [,2023]. He cannot have remained in his position for even another minute. The Supreme Court judges must not interfere."
[IsraelTimes] The Jerusalem District Court issues a first-of-its-kind order to freeze NIS 50 million ($13.7 million) worth of Palestinian Authority funds, the Ynet news site reports.
The move comes after Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife and two daughters were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in April 2023, initiated a lawsuit against the PA’s Prisoners Club and Martyrs Fund over stipends known as the “pay for slay” policy, which provides monthly payments to the families of Palestinian assailants killed or imprisoned for attacking Israelis.
“PA resources should not support terrorism,” Rabbi Dee says. “I urge other terror victims in Israel to pursue similar action. Together, we can strip the enemy of their assets.”
The order aims to compensate the families of terror victims by withholding funds diverted to terror salaries, the plaintiff’s legal team says, according to Ynet.
In February, PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree canceling legislation.
Dee’s legal action follows the Knesset’s approval last year of the Compensation of Victims of Terrorism Bill, which enabled victims of terrorism and their families to file damages-seeking lawsuits against parties offering financial support or compensation for committing acts of terrorism.
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My comment yesterday
"The 1 on 1 personal touch has always seemed to have had greater deterring impact to those that followed such scum, than an air strike. "
No doubt. Doing the best with what they believed at the time — everything changed on 10/7/2023.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned twice that Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif was appropriating funds provided by Qatar, Channel 12 reports, citing three security sources.
The first warning came in 2019 when then-Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman warned that Deif was taking millions from the funds entering Gaza, a year after the monthly payments began being transferred, the report says.
Then, in 2020, Military Intelligence warned Netanyahu again that $4 million was being taken by Deif each month, the report says.
Deif was slain in an airstrike last year amid the Israel-Hamas war.
The Prime Minister’s Office denies that Netanyahu ever received such warnings. It says it was warned that Hamas’s military wing was siphoning $4 million from its public funds, which came from “other sources,” and not the Qatari aid, the PMO says.
From 2018, Qatar provided hundreds millions of dollars in cash to pay for fuel for the Strip’s power plant, to pay Hamas’s civil servants and to provide aid to tens of thousands of impoverished families. The payments were publicly encouraged by Netanyahu.
The payments came under renewed scrutiny following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, as their apparent goal of keeping Israel’s southern border quiet by improving the economic situation in Gaza dramatically backfired.
[IsraelTimes] Some 120 Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... bully boyz were tasked with assaulting the southern city of Beersheba on October 7, 2023, around 40 kilometers 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... , but were stopped by security forces, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The bully boyz who failed to arrive at the southern city did not return to Gaza but joined the massacres in other communities closer to the border, according to recordings of Col. Elad Shushan, the IDF officer in charge of investigating the day’s events at Kibbutz Nirim.
The information came from documents recovered in Gaza during the early months of the military’s ground offensive, Kan reports.
The report says that the dispersal of forces who failed to attack targets farther from the border contributed to the fact that some southern communities were attacked by hundreds of terrorists, and not 30 each as originally planned by Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] PA president under growing pressure to make space for new generation of leaders, as world community hopes Ramallah can gear-up to take on larger task of resuming governance in Gaza
The world community is full of fools. Ramallah’s PLO/PA can’t, even if Israel would trust them to try.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> is planning to replace his longtime intelligence chief Majed Faraj, capping off a wider purge of security heads in Ramallah that began several months ago, a Paleostinian official, a European diplomat and a Paleostinian source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.
Faraj is one of Abbas’s closest confidants and has worked to bolster security coordination with Israel in the West Bank since becoming head of the PA’s General Intelligence Service in 2009.
But Abbas is facing mounting pressure from Arab and Western allies to reform the Paleostinian Authority and make way for a new generation of leaders, so that the PA is better equipped to potentially take on the larger task of once again governing 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... after the war there. After Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005, Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... violent mostly peacefully took power there in 2007, pushing out Abbas’s Fatah faction.
Fatah being the largest faction in the PLO, and therefore of its figleaf, the PA.
Last March, Abbas fired all of his ministers and formed a new cabinet led by Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa, another longtime ally. In recent months and weeks, he has replaced the heads of the PA’s Security Forces, Preventive Security Service, police and civil defense. Three of those four agencies are now headed by former senior members of Abbas’s security detail.
Not looking far afield, then, to bring in young, new blood with new ideas.
Faraj is the last security chief to remain in his post, and the three sources speaking to The Times of Israel said he is hoping to avoid the fate of his now-former counterparts. At the very least, Faraj is hoping to shift to a spot on the Paleostine Liberation Organization’s powerful Executive Committee.
The sources said a final decision regarding Faraj’s fate is expected in the coming weeks, with the PA president likely to appoint a new intel chief. Spokespeople for Abbas and Faraj did not respond to requests for comment.
In a further bid to address demands from allies and donor countries to reform the PA, the 89-year-old Abbas
….oh my — I hadn’t realized he was quite that elderly…
announced earlier this month that he would create the position of vice president in addition to granting amnesty to expelled members of his Fatah party.
A placeholder to run things until a new Number 1 is chosen — or chooses himself — after President Abbas dies in office?
Speaking at a Cairo summit of Arab leaders to discuss plans for the post-war management of Gaza, Abbas said he would also soon convene the PLO’s long-dormant legislative body, the central council.
Soon being totally undefined, we note. Not that it matters— the PLO is not capable of holding Gaza, which has an entirely different set of clans.
Abbas, who has not stood for elections since winning a four-year term in 2006,
…now approaching his sixth extension of that four year term…
insisted he is willing to do so if Israel allows balloting in East Jerusalem.
Israel annexed East Jeruslaem in 1980, taking it off the table, but President Abbas like to pretend he would hold elections if he could, though all know that his party would lose resoundingly to Hamas if elections were actually held. This is why they have not been since Hamas drove the PLO out of Gaza.
In November, Abbas declared that if his post were to become vacant before elections are held, he would be temporarily replaced by Rawhi Fattouh, the former speaker of the Paleostinian Legislative Council.
A statement posted to the PA’s official Wafa news site said that in such an event, Fattouh would serve as interim president for no more than 90 days, during which presidential elections would be held. But if it were not possible to hold elections, the Paleostinian Central Council could grant a one-time extension to the interim president’s term.
Another reform announced by Abbas in February — which was aggressively pushed by Western countries — saw the cancellation of legislation that conditioned welfare payments to Paleostinian security prisoners on the length of their sentence in Israeli jails.
A.k.a. Pay to Slay. They like to pretend it’s something else in the new, improved version.
Payments to prisoners and the families of slain attackers have not yet been updated, though, because the cash-strapped PA is running several months behind on the stipends, two Paleostinian officials told The Times of Israel last week.
Ugly details at the link, for those who want to know.
[IsraelTimes] 31-year-old, whose partner Matan Zangauker is still captive, tells NYT she was groped during abduction, passed out and woke up half-naked in Gaza with 7 gunmen standing over her.
[IsraelTimes] Deputy cyber defense chief Nitzan Amar says that the intensity of cyberattacks against Israel has tripled since the outbreak of the Hamas war on October 7, 2023, as Iran and its proxies, including Hezbollah, joined hacking efforts.
“The last year was not a normal year, but a challenging and unique one,” says Amar speaking at the global Cybertech 2025 conference in Tel Aviv. “Ever since the war broke out, we have observed a major amplification in the scope of Iran and Hezbollah malicious activity targeting Israeli entities.”
“Despite our enemies’ efforts, not a single attack targeting an Israeli entity was able to harm neither our national infrastructure, nor the IDF operational freedom to fulfill its missions since October 7,” Amar remarks.
Amar cautions that Israel experienced a 300 percent increase in phishing attacks, the highest ever, seeking to “exploit information, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and disrupt the daily life of Israeli civilians.”
He listed various types of cyberattacks, including rapid exploitation of newly discovered security vulnerabilities, such as “unprecedented-scale DDoS attacks, and cyber intrusions via Managed Service Providers (MSPs).”
“During the war, we began implementing the ‘Cyber Dome’ program to bolster national cyber defense,” says Amar. “We deployed advanced defensive technologies that played a crucial role in mitigating these threats.”
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[ColonelCassad] The administration of US President Donald Trump supports Israel in the war against Hamas not only with diplomacy, arms supplies and intelligence, but also by sending a private military company (PMC) to the Gaza Strip. What is the mission of this company and who is behind it? Military observer Alexander Hoffmann specially for VFokus Mail. STRATEGIC CORRIDOR
In January of this year, the little-known American PMC UG Solutions received a major contract to provide security in the Netzarim corridor during the truce between Israel and Hamas. The corridor is of strategic importance for the Gaza Strip, since it provides communication between the north and south of the enclave. The presence of “third party” forces there was a condition of the agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinian movement.
Another American PMC, Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), is responsible for the logistics and planning of UG’s operations in the Gaza Strip. Together with them, security in the corridor is provided by contractors from Egypt, agreed upon with the special services of the Arab Republic.
According to SRS, the contractors for the contract were determined by the "agreeding parties." And it is being financed by unnamed "Arab countries." The United States, Qatar, and Egypt participated in mediating between the Israelis and Hamas.
UG hired at least a hundred U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) veterans and former CIA officers to work in the Netzarim corridor. Their salary is up to $1,250 per day and an advance of $10,000. Insurance in the event of death or injury to a mercenary is $500,000.
Although Israel's participation in financing the contract is denied, it is extremely unlikely that it will be implemented without the support of Tel Aviv. After all, PMCs must work in one of the jurisdictions.
"GREEN BERETS"
The founder of UG is Jameson Govoni, a U.S. Army SOF veteran. The Green Beret served in the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), where he carried out combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The SRS is led by a more experienced Green Beret from the 7th Group, Philip Reilly. After the SOF, he spent almost 30 years in the CIA, where he headed the Special Activities Division (now the Special Activities Center) of the Operations Directorate, which specializes in carrying out covert military and political missions, and also led the operations of the Counterterrorism Mission Center (CTMC), which is responsible for the combat use of attack drones.
At the same time that Govoni was on a mission in Afghanistan, Reilly was the CIA chief of station in that country. After working for the agency, the latter took the position of senior vice president for operations at the American PMC Constellis (the successor to Blackwater, the famous contractor for the Pentagon and the CIA).
Govoni and Reilly knew each other before their meeting in the Gaza Strip and continued their "combat career" in the private sector. The PMC status allows them to deny official Washington's involvement in the military intervention.
MISSION IN GAZA
The UG and SRS contract covers the "first stage" of the truce - until Hamas and Israel release some of the captives within 42 days (the deadline expired on March 1), or until hostilities between the parties continue (they have already resumed). Last week, Hamas representatives reported that on March 19, US mercenaries allegedly left the Netzarim corridor before IDF forces entered it.
However, the American PMCs will remain in the Gaza Strip until their "customers decide that their services are no longer needed" - so they say themselves. That is, in fact, they are there indefinitely. Where does their desire to stay there come from?
SRS PMC, as investigative journalists have found out, is a front company of the American company Two Ocean Trust, established a couple of months before the ceasefire. It is engaged in private capital management - it helps wealthy clients with investments.
Here we should think about the seriousness of Trump's plans to turn the Gaza Strip into a "Middle Eastern Riviera". In addition to investments and the eviction of Palestinians, its creation will require the presence of American PMCs, mastering the financial flows from investors from Trump's entourage.
Mercenaries will receive fees for ensuring the security of US investments in the future "resort", the territory of which Israel will first raze to the ground - to clear the site for construction. Therefore, American PMCs are there for a long time.
SPONSORS AND PATRONS
UG was established in March 2023. Since 2017, Govoni also headed the operations of the American non-governmental organization (NGO) Sentinel Foundation. The PMC indicated that UG is a "commercial division" of Sentinel.
The NGO receives funding from major evangelical Christian donor organizations such as Samaritan's Purse, as well as from the foundation of American football star and Protestant fundamentalist Tim Tebow. They are ardent Trump supporters.
Govoni founded Sentinel together with another Green Beret, Glen DeWitt, who also headed the NGO. The co-founder of the organization was an Army Special Operations Forces specialist in intelligence and knew Govoni from his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
In October-November 2023, DeWitt already conducted "reconnaissance" in the Gaza Strip - he was there for two and a half weeks, evacuating American citizens. At the same time, in the first month of the war in Gaza, it was almost impossible to get into the enclave without the help of Israeli or Egyptian intelligence services.
As emphasized in Sentinel, DeWitt acted with the "knowledge of the US State Department." His mission was organized with the support of Republican Senators Mark Mullin and Lindsey Graham, an ideological Russophobe who is included in Russia's list of terrorists and extremists.
Senator Graham? Now that’s an unexpected turn!
"THE GRAY ZONE"
The presence of American PMCs in the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict allowed the Trump administration to influence the situation in the Gaza Strip and intervene in it "on the ground" without the use of American armed forces. This is the very "gray zone" for which the "Green Berets" are being trained.
Thus, in mid-February, employees of the supposedly "humanitarian" Sentinel were spotted in the Netzarim corridor with weapons in their hands. This once again reminded us that the Sentinel NGO and the UG PMC are a single entity, and the good intentions under the veil of Christian virtue are just a screen for mercenaries attracted to the implementation of Trump's plans in the Gaza Strip.
This practice is traditional for the CIA - to breed legal entities between which SOF veterans with experience in participating in operations under the agency's leadership roam. SRS and UG are just shell companies paving the way for a larger mercenary presence in the Gaza Strip.
The idea of deploying a US contingent there to protect the "resort" is almost impossible to push through Congress. And finding a reason to attract mercenaries with US passports there is not that difficult - a plausible "humanitarian" reason will always be found.
Thus, the US, through PMCs, created a bridgehead in the Gaza Strip. While the Israelis are razing it to the ground, Washington is accumulating forces there, conducting reconnaissance and preparing for a large-scale project of Trump's "riviera".
[IsraelTimes] The United States has handed Syria a list of conditions that it wants Damascus to fulfill in exchange for partial sanctions relief, six people familiar with the matter tell Rooters, including ensuring foreigners are not in senior governing roles.
US Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Levant and Syria Natasha La Belle Franceschi gave the list of demands to Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani at an in-person meeting on the sidelines of a Syria donor conference in Brussels on March 18, according to two of the people — a US official and a Syrian source familiar with the matter.
Rooters is first to report both the list and the in-person meeting, the first high-level direct contact between Damascus and Washington since 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... took office on January 20, has been previously reported.
Rooters spoke to six sources for this story, including two US officials, a Syrian source, a regional diplomat, and two sources in Washington familiar with the matter. They all requested anonymity to discuss the high-level diplomacy.
Among the conditions placed by the United States are Syria’s destruction of any remaining chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... stores and cooperation on counter-terrorism, the two US officials, the Syrian source, and both sources in Washington say.
Another demand was making sure imported muscle are not installed in senior roles in Syria’s governing structure, the US officials and one of the sources in Washington say.
Syria has already appointed some foreign ex-rebels, including Uyghurs, a Jordanian, and a Turk, to its defense ministry — a move that alarmed foreign governments.
Washington also asked Syria to appoint a liaison to assist US efforts to find Austin Tice, the US journalist who went missing in Syria over a decade ago, according to two US officials and both sources in Washington.
In return for fulfilling all the demands, Washington would provide some sanctions relief, all six sources say. One specific action would be a two-year extension of an existing exemption for transactions with Syrian governing institutions and possibly the issuance of another exemption.
The US would also issue a statement supporting Syria’s territorial integrity, the source says.
Washington did not provide a specific timeline for the conditions to be fulfilled.
Syria’s foreign ministry did not respond to requests for comments. A spokesperson for the State Department says the agency does not "discuss our private diplomatic conversations publicly." Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce last week said Washington was monitoring the actions of the interim rulers.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s currency drops to a record low of 1,039,000 rial to the US dollar today, according to Iranian currency tracking website Bonbast.com, losing more than half its value since President Masoud Pezeshkian took office in August.
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...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 
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] The Gateway Pundit reported on the disgusting comments coming from Obama Judge Patricia A. Millett, who serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
[NYPOST] The Columbia University student facing deportation after she was arrested at an anti-Israel protest can't be detained by the feds, a judge ruled Tuesday.
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
