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BREAKING: Over 100 illegals arrested in a DEA sting operation targeting an illegal, underground nightclub in Colorado Springs, CO.
The DEA says there was drug trafficking, pr0stitution, crimes of violence, and weapons seized.
Over a dozen active duty military members were working as armed security or attending the club.
Members of Tren de Argua, MS-13 and Hell's Angels were attending the club.
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More footage of the DEA raid at an illegal, underground nightclub in Colorado frequented by MS-13 & Tren de Aragua. Over 100 illegals were arrested.
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What should happen to the active duty military members who worked at or frequented the club withh illegal alien foreign terrorist gang members??
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INSANE. Over a dozen ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY members were working as security or attending the illegal, underground nightclub with MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gang members in CO.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Power outages in the city of Aden, under the control of the Saudi-led coalition, have surged to 19 hours per day, doubling the suffering of citizens amidst a stifling heatwave and a rapid collapse of services.
The people of Aden are facing an unprecedented electricity crisis, coinciding with a sharp deterioration in living conditions, which will exacerbate the suffering of families already deprived of the most basic necessities of life.
The electricity crisis worsened after the ''Petromasila'' power plant, which operates on crude oil, ceased functioning, in addition to the depletion of diesel fuel for the remaining power stations.
The pro-coalition government has not made any effort to import emergency fuel shipments, sparking widespread anger among citizens in Aden, with calls for an uprising against the government headquartered in Ma'ashiq Palace.
In a related context, the exchange rate of the US dollar has exceeded 2,521 Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i riyals, while the Saudi riyal's selling price is nearing 665 Yemeni riyals. This has further impacted citizens' living conditions due to rising prices of essential goods.
It appears that Aden's electricity crisis will not end anytime soon, threatening to ignite a wave of angry protests at any moment as authorities continue to ignore citizens' basic demands.
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A heatwave in Aden. Hoodathunkit?
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[RedState] Across the Atlantic in the United Kingdom, Nigel Farage's Reform Party is making some headway in the polls. Mr. Farage and his fellows are gaining confidence and are starting to put out policy proposals - and one set of policies, on illegal immigration, looks broadly familiar.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage unveiled a sweeping four-point plan on immigration on Thursday, promising a crackdown on illegal migration and the appointment of a new ’Deportations Minister’ under a Reform-led government.
Speaking in Dover, the symbolic heart of Britain’s migration crisis, Farage declared: "We will bring a total end to all asylum claims from people who come here on travel visas or as students," while reaffirming his pledge to take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and repeal the Human Rights Act.
We have our own "Deportations Minister," although we don't call him that; we call him the Border Czar, that being the famous and dedicated Tom "The Hammer" Homan. I would suggest to Mr. Farage that, should the Reform Party win big enough to propel him into the Prime Minister's chair, he could do a lot worse than to send his Deportations Minister over to the United States to confer and compare notes with Mr. Homan.
Oh, and Mr. Farage should find the Deportations Minister a cool nickname, too.
Reform is pulling ahead of Labour and the Conservatives in at least one poll.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Opioids 1000 times stronger than morphine and an animal sedative used to lace street drugs have been detected in Australia's wastewater.
The discovery has been described as a "red flag" and comes as the deadly class of synthetic opioids - nitazines - claims dozens of lives in Australia.
Some 180 wastewater samples from 60 sites nationwide were analysed, with about three to six per cent of samples including five different nitazenes.
These synthetic opioids have become one of the fastest-growing psychoactive substances in the world since emerging in the illicit market in the late 2010s.
Many users overdose after taking nitazenes unknowingly, with compounds often mixed into illicit drugs such as heroin and ketamine as well as MDMA, also known as ecstasy.
The study of Australian wastewater in August 2024 found high rates of xylazine, a sedative used by vets on animals and not approved for human use in Australia.
It was detected in one in four samples.
"Given the potency of nitazenes and the health complications associated with xylazine, even low-level detections are a red flag," study co-first author and University of South Australia academic Emma Keller said on Monday.
The researchers developed a highly sensitive method to detect the substances in wastewater, providing a potentially vital early warning tool to health authorities.
"This is the first time a comprehensive suite of nitazene compounds and xylazine has been monitored in Australian wastewater," co-first author Corbus Gerber said.
Dr Keller and Dr Gerber's method is adaptable and can be quickly updated to detect new derivatives as they emerge.
That would be an essential capability as drug manufacturers continue to tweak chemical structures to evade legislation, the university said.
The research was published on April 22 in the latest issue of peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
One funder was the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which is among several public authorities alarmed at the surging use of nitazenes.
Since 2021, nitazenes have been detected in every state and territory, and have been linked to at least 23 overdose deaths in Victoria and seven in South Australia alone.
A coroner in recent weeks concluded four people, one as young as 17, who died in the same Melbourne house in June 2024 had overdosed on cocaine laced with nitazenes.
Health authorities in NSW and South Australia have issued multiple urgent warnings about nitazenes being sold as black-market oxycodone or other substances.
Customs officials intercepted more than 60 imports of the killer group of drugs in 2023 and 2024, largely originating from Hong Kong, the UK and Canada.
Australian Federal Police have described nitazenes "like playing Russian roulette" with lives.
[FoxNws]\ White House displays lawn signs highlighting illegal immigrant crime.
White House displays yard signs of the 100 'worst illegal immigrant criminals' arrested in Trump's first 100 days
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The employees who actively 'help' may be in legal jeopardy. However, probably not so for those who simply fail to notify ICE or ignore illegal activities.
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[OneIndia] Following the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed the lives of 26 Indian tourists, tensions between India and Pakistain intensified.
On Saturday, Pakistain accused India of abruptly releasing water into the Jhelum River without notifying Pak authorities.
A Dunya News report highlighted a sudden rise in water levels near Muzaffarabad in Pakistain-occupied Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , attributing the surge to India.
The local administration declared a water emergency in Hattian Bala, approximately 40 km from Muzaffarabad along the Jhelum River, and issued warnings via mosque announcements. The report noted that these alerts sparked panic among residents living near the riverbanks.
According to the report, the water originated from Anantnag in Kashmir and flowed through the Chakothi region of Pakistain-occupied Kashmir.
Pak authorities condemned the action, labelling it a "complete violation of international rules and water agreements".
These allegations followed India's decision to suspend the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in response to the Pahalgam attack, which was perpetrated by Pakistain-based terrorists.
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It's called 'flushing'.
Supply your own jokes, not goin there.
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If it’s a story we want that can’t be found elsewhere, we’ll source even from the dreaded Ay Pee, Snowy Thing, though we strongly prefer local sources when we can get them.
[IsraelTimes] Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... announce that they will pay Syria’s debt to the World Bank totaling roughly $15 million, according to a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency.
"The ministries of finance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the state of Qatar jointly announce their commitment to settle Syria’s outstanding arrears to the World Bank Group, totaling around $15 million," the statement says.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign minister Sa’ar calls behavior shameful; Swiss Fencing Federation expresses ‘regret,’ vows to probe protest; Israeli team said hurt by display
The traditional response for poor sportsmanship is to strip the athlete/team of awards and suspend them from competition for a period of time commensurate with the level of insult.
Israel’s under-23 fencing team won a gold medal at the European Championships in Estonia on Saturday, but joy over the victory was quickly marred when the Swiss team they defeated turned their backs during the Israeli national anthem.
The protest drew condemnation from Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who panned the Swiss for “disrespectful behavior” and being sore losers.
The Swiss Fencing Federation said it would probe the incident.
Did they do it? Yes, all saw it and we have it on video, beamed to the entire world at that moment. What more can possibly be needed?
Israel’s team of Alon Sarid, Fyodor Khaperski, Yonatan Masika, and Itamar Tavor beat the Swiss 45–34 to take the gold medal. It was a remarkable achievement for the Israelis, who were ranked seventh at the start of the contest.
However, when the Israeli national anthem “Hatikvah” played, the Israeli team and bronze medalists turned sideways to face the flags, while the Swiss fencers — Yan Auri, Theo Broshar, Yonatan Fohriman, and Sven Vines — remained looking straight ahead.
Are you sure you’re Swiss? Those are Moslem manners you’re displaying.
Sarid said that though the teams shook hands before the contest, after the final ended “some avoided us,” in remarks quoted by the Ynet news site.
He said the Israeli team members was only made aware of the Swiss protest after the ceremony when they saw photos of the incident.
“It was very hurtful to see the attitude we received when we won,” Sarid said. “This is disrespecting us, the fencers, and disrespecting the country we represent.”
“Sports should bring people together, not divide them,” a representative of the Israel Fencing Association told the media.
“Respect!” wrote foreign minister Sa’ar on X of the Israeli team’s gold medal. “Congratulations to the Italian team for winning the bronze,” “Shame on the Swiss team for their disrespectful behaviour. You don’t know how to lose and behaved in a manner which is an embarrassment to you and the country you’re supposed to represent.”
The Foreign Ministry was in contact with Swiss authorities, leading the president of the Swiss Fencing Federation to express “regret” over the behavior of its team. In a statement, the federation said that the protest action was not raised before the contest and that it will look into the matter with team members when they return to the country.
The Foreign Ministry said it will continue to follow up on the matter to ensure that “appropriate steps” are taken.
Yael Arad, chairwoman of the Israeli Olympic Committee, called the Swiss team’s behavior “a provocation,” saying in a statement that it contradicted Olympic values.
“Their failure to respect sportsmanship speaks volumes about them as athletes and young people,” said Arad, the first Israeli to ever win an Olympic medal with her silver in judo in 1992. “I would expect them to set aside differences and show mutual respect, especially after such a decisive loss.”
Anti-Israel sentiment around the world has spiked following the October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel led by Palestinian terror group Hamas that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.
Israel’s fencing team has faced protests in the past. In May 2023, Iraq’s national fencing team pulled out of a match against Israel at the World Fencing Championship in Istanbul.
[IsraelTimes] Revised rules allow for all flags ‘legally permitted’ in host country Switzerland to be waved in crowd at song contest, while artists can only display flags of their home countries
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Israel’s fencing team has faced protests in the past. In May 2023, Iraq’s national fencing team pulled out of a match against Israel at the World Fencing Championship in Istanbul.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have rescued two Yazidi men from the grip 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) after years in captivity, an affiliate of the Iraqi labor ministry confirmed to Rudaw on Sunday. This marks the second such rescue by the SDF in under two weeks.
The individuals, identified by Rudaw by their initials D.R. and O.K., were reunited with their families under the supervision of the Yazidi Affairs Office, an affiliate of the Iraqi ministry of labor.
Born in 2003, D.R. is from the village of Kocho (Kojo), while O.K., born in 2006, hails from the village of al-Wardiya. Both villages are located in the predominantly Yazidi district of Shingal (Shingal) in northern Iraq.
In June 2014, ISIS seized control of large swathes of territory in Iraq’s north and west. A little over a month later, in August, the group launched a wide-scale attack against the Yazidi community in Iraq's northern Shingal.
The rescued captives, D.R. and O.K, "were kidnapped by ISIS Lions of Islam in 2014," Sarab Ilias, head of the Yazidis affairs office at the Iraqi ministry of labor told Rudaw on Sunday.
"Unfortunately, during [the military] operations and bombings, D.R. lost a leg and O.K. lost an arm," Ilias explained, adding that the two men were "reunited with their families," who currently reside in Shingal and the Qadiya camp located in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province.
Notably, this is the second such operation led by the Kurdish-led SDF in less than two weeks.
The SDF in mid-April announced that they had rescued a Yazidi man who had been kidnapped by ISIS around 11 years ago, when he was just eight years old.
The Kurdish-led force then said that its military units carried out a "special security operation" to free the kidnapped Yazidi identified as O.K.
O.K. was quoted by the SDF statement as sharing the harrowing story of his abduction by ISIS.
"I was born in 2006, and I was just a child when ISIS kidnapped me in 2014. ISIS captured me and my family, but separated me and my brother."
He said that he was held in the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , which ISIS in 2014 declared as the capital of its proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq. He remained in Mosul for three months before being separated from his brother and transferred, along with 60 other Yazidi children, to the city of Albu Kamal in eastern Syria.
"After arriving in al-Bukamal, ISIS subjected us to a three-year religious indoctrination course. I was given the name ’Osama al-Sinjari.’ Then we were moved to the Syrian desert for another three years of military training," he recounted.
O.K. noted that near the end of 2024 and "while I was getting treatment at one of the ISIS hideouts in the Homs desert, the hideout was struck by an intense Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... from the [US-led] Global Coalition [to Defeat ISIS], which resulted in the death of 20 terrorists, including high-ranking commanders."
"I miraculously survived the bombing," he said, expressing his relief and gratitude toward the SDF for "liberating him and thousands of other Yazidis, particularly women, from the grip of ISIS."
ISIS’s 2014 assault on Shingal resulted in the abduction of 6,417 Yazidi women and kiddies, many of whom were subjected to sexual slavery and forced labor. Despite being territorially defeated in Iraq by 2017 and in Syria by 2019, ISIS continues to pose a security threat in the region.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... has recognized the systematic targeting of the Yazidis as genocide. Up to 200,000 Yazidis were displaced from Shingal, many of whom now live in camps across the Kurdistan Region, particularly in Dohuk province.
As of now, 2,590 Yazidis remain missing, according to the Office of Rescuing Abducted Yazidis, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency.
[IsraelTimes] The Saudi Al-Arabiya channel reports that as part of negotiations for a hostage release deal and a ceasefire, Egypt is demanding a “full file” from Hamas regarding the condition of the hostages in Gaza by early May.
The report doesn’t specify what such a file will include.
The channel also reports that the mediators are considering the possibility of a short-term ceasefire, but Israel is refusing and insisting on the disarmament of Hamas.
The Hamas delegation in Cairo, which arrived in Egypt on Saturday morning and included all five senior officials who currently make up the organization’s leadership council, left Cairo last night after less than 24 hours in the country.
[IsraelTimes] A nuclear deal with 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... must remove its ability to enrich uranium, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jewish News Syndicate policy conference in Jerusalem, as the US engages in direct nuclear talks with Tehran.
"A real deal that works is one that removes Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons," he says.
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... said last week that Washington seeks a deal that would prevent Iran from enriching any uranium, while his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi called the issue of enrichment "non-negotiable."
"Dismantle all the infrastructure of Iran’s nuclear program," says Netanyahu. "That is a deal we can live with."
If the two sides agree on more lenient deal, says Netanyahu, Iran will simply run out the clock and wait for the end of Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... ’s term.
He also says that Iran’s ballistic missile production must be part of the talks as well.
"The question of defense capacities and the country’s missiles is not [on the agenda] and has not been raised in the indirect talks," Iran’s Foreign Ministry front man said after the latest round of talks on Saturday.
Netanyahu says he has stressed this position to Trump, and that he is in close contact with the US.
"A bad deal is worse than no deal," he argues, repeating his position that the "only good deal" would be one modeled on the deal that Libya agreed to in 2003.
The prime minister claims that Israeli covert action over the years has set Iran’s nuclear program back a decade.
Turning to the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , Netanyahu says that at the end of the fighting, "Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... will not be there. And were not going to put the Paleostinian Authority there."
"Why replace one regime that is sworn to our destruction with another regime that is sworn to our destruction?" he asks.
Expanding on his position that the PA is no better than Hamas, Netanyahu argues that "Hamas says we will destroy Israel by terror and military conquest right away, and the PA says, ’No, you destroy it politically and driving it through propaganda and lawfare to the ’67 boundaries, and then you can do the military thrust because you’re a few kilometers from the sea.'"
The idea of creating a Paleostinian state to foster peace is "folly," he says.
Netanyahu indicates that he did not trust the Biden administration with Israeli military secrets.
He says he refused to tell Washington ahead of the September 2024 beeper operation against Hezbollah: "I don’t read the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that often, but why give them the advance? It would be on the net."
He reveals that Israel bombed the scanning machine that Iran sent to Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... once Hezbollah suspected that its beepers were booby-trapped. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... once three pagers were sent to Iran to be checked, he decided to act.
He also says that Israel stopped Iranian airborne troops from reaching Syria to protect Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... in December as rebels captured Damascus.
In addition to Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, Israel is also fighting another front, he says — the "deep state." He says the entrenched left-wing babus bureaucrats threaten Israel’s democracy, a line Netanyahu has used repeatedly since Trump, who has made similar claims about the US, returned to office.
More about all of that plus President Trump’s thinking here.
[IsraelTimes] PM claims Tehran tried to send ‘one or two airborne divisions’ to help the embattled Bashar al-Assad, says planes were intercepted by Israel and turned back around
Israeli warplanes last year intercepted Iranian aircraft headed toward Syria, preventing them from delivering troops meant to assist the country’s embattled president at the time, Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... , Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.
The remarks in a speech gave a new glimpse into Israel’s thinking in the final days in power for Assad, a longtime enemy who was tossed by Islamist-led forces of Evil last December.
Speaking to a conference hosted by the Jewish News Syndicate in Jerusalem Netanyahu claimed that arch-rival 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... wanted to save Assad after watching the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group in neighboring Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... suffer heavy losses in fighting with Israel.
"They had to rescue Assad," Netanyahu said, claiming that Iran wanted to send "one or two airborne divisions" to help the Syrian leader.
"We stopped that. We sent some F-16s to some Iranian planes that were making some routes to Damascus," he said. "They turned back."
He gave no further details.
In the days leading up to the fall of Assad, Israel had observed Tehran sending troops to bolster the Syrian dictator, and warned it against taking the opportunity to smuggle weapons across the border into Lebanon.
"We need to make sure that we are not threatened. We are a sovereign country and we will make sure that Iranian weapons are not smuggled to Hezbollah," then-IDF front man Daniel Hagari said at the time.
The final rebel offensive that toppled Assad broke out just days after a ceasefire came into effect between Israel and Hezbollah, bringing to a halt more than a year of fighting, including several months of all-out war.
The fighting in Lebanon meant that, in the months leading up to Assad’s ouster, Hezbollah withdrew its operatives from Syria, including the north, to focus on battling Israel. The rebels pointed to the terror group’s withdrawal from Syria as one of the reasons they faced little resistance as they captured city after city from Assad’s forces.
"We looked at the [ceasefire] agreement with Hezbollah and understood that this is the time to liberate out lands," a rebel commander told Israel’s Channel 12 at the time. "We will not let Hezbollah fight in our areas and we will not let the Iranians take root there."
Even with Assad gone, Israel has remained vigilant over Syria, distrustful of its new Islamist government led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
A day after the fall of the Assad regime, Israel sent its troops into a UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces on the strategic Golan Heights, and has kept them stationed there since.
It has described its presence in southern Syria’s buffer zone as a temporary and defensive measure, though Defense Minister Israel Katz has said that troops will remain deployed in the area "indefinitely."
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[israelTimesJ Marlin Stutzman says new Syrian leader signaled openness to Israel normalization, but listed concerns to be addressed first, notably not including progress toward Palestinian state
The new Syrian leader successfully exerted himself to be charming.
Fresh off a visit to Syria where he became one of the first US politicians to meet the country’s new Islamist president, a Republican politician cautioned against Israeli efforts to divide the country, which is in its initial months of recovery since the collapse of the Assad regime.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman
…(R), farmer, business owner, Baptist, in case that last matters…
said in a Friday interview with The Times of Israel that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa expressed "openness" to joining the Abraham Accords normalization agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors, but had several concerns that needed to be addressed beforehand.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
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..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
