From time to time we check on the countries around Afghanistan to see that yes, they continue to send back more of the millions of Afghan refugees that have been accumulating in the near-abroad since the Soviet era. The profits for hosting them dried up after the Biden-Harris Politburo gave Kabul to the Taliban.
[ToloNews] In the past five months, Pakistan has forcibly deported more than 20,000 Afghan families through the Torkham crossing.
Baz Mohammad Abdul Rahman, Director of Refugees and Repatriation in Nangarhar, told TOLOnews that seventy percent of these families have been resettled in Nangarhar province.
He stated: “The number of returnees is 97,883 individuals, with 70 percent of them settled in Nangarhar and the remaining 30 percent relocated to other provinces. In Nangarhar alone, 14,316 families—comprising 68,591 individuals—have been resettled.”
According to recent UN statistics, since 2023, Iran and Pakistan have forcibly returned more than three million Afghan migrants to Afghanistan.
Many of the families deported from Pakistan have faced serious challenges in finding shelter and a place to live upon returning to Afghanistan.
They are calling on the interim government and aid organizations to assist them in securing shelter.
Arman Khan, a recently deported returnee, said: “When we crossed through Torkham, the Pakistani police told us we had to pay two thousand rupees. We paid the money and were allowed to pass.”
Mir Ahmad Khan, another deportee, said: “If we are supported for even one year, we can stand on our own again. A hand of cooperation must be extended to us.”
According to recent UN statistics, since 2023, Iran and Pakistan have forcibly returned more than three million Afghan migrants to Afghanistan.
[ToloNews] Seven years ago, Ghulam Nabi, along with his wife and six children, left for Iran to escape poverty, insecurity, and unemployment.
But today, after years of living in exile, he is once again in Kabul—not by choice, but by force.
Ghulam Nabi, deported from Iran, describes his challenges: “We left here because of poverty and hardship, hoping for a better life there. For the first two or three years, no one bothered us, but in recent months, the pressure increased significantly. We were always running from the police, but eventually, around four o'clock, they caught us all and took us to a camp.”
Alongside him, thousands of other families are returning—people who had lived in Iran or Pakistan for years but now have to rebuild their lives in Afghanistan from scratch.
Arefa, deported from Iran, said: “We returned from the border and are now facing many difficulties. We lived in another country for a while, and now we’ve come back to our homeland. We ask our government to help us.”
Aziz, deported from Pakistan, said: “We were working and earning a living in Pakistan, but now that we’ve returned to Afghanistan, we are facing many problems and need cooperation and support.”
According to a recent report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 107,000 Afghan migrants were deported from Iran and Pakistan in just one week—from May 11 to May 17.
The IOM stated in its report that between May 11 and 17, there were 58,200 entries from Iran and 49,245 entries from Pakistan into Afghanistan, recorded by the organization.
Experts warn that the mass deportation of migrants without any preparedness for their reintegration could trigger a new humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
Mohammad Khan Talebi Mohammadzai, a migrant rights activist, said: “As long as the return of migrants is not voluntary and supported by international organizations, such actions are considered a violation of human rights. International organizations and humanitarian bodies must negotiate with host governments about harsh migration policies to ease the difficulties faced by migrants.”
Meanwhile, the International Crisis Group has urged the European Union to apply political pressure on Pakistan to halt the forced deportation of Afghan refugees.
The Crisis Group said in a report: “The EU should also scale up its response within Afghanistan, enhancing assistance for returnees and host communities."
Alireza Karimi, another migrant rights activist, echoed this view: “EU pressure can be somewhat effective, especially if it is accompanied by threats of financial aid cuts and reduced diplomatic ties. However, to fully prevent deportations, a multilateral solution is needed.”
Previously, a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated that 380,000 Afghan migrants have been deported from neighboring countries this year alone and stressed that Afghanistan is not prepared to accommodate this number of returnees.
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The innocent fools do not grasp that the Talibs feel no obligation whatsoever to any but their own. On the contrary, they will never get anything promised by those the Talibs conquered.
[Garowe] Authorities in Mogadishu may find it difficult to explain the circumstances surrounding the alleged misuse of helicopters donated to the Somali National Army (SNA) for operational and logistical support in the ongoing war against al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... While details remain limited, multiple sources have implicated Villa Somalia—the presidential palace—in what appears to be a developing scandal that may trigger audit investigations and renewed scrutiny from international donors.
According to confidential sources, helicopters intended for the Somali National Army [SNA] have allegedly been rented out as private charters to military officials and personnel from other security sectors. This practice reportedly involves aircraft donated by international partners, raising serious concerns over transparency and accountability.
The rental fees for these flights are said to range between $5,000 and $8,000 per trip, covering personnel transport, medevac, and rescue operations. If confirmed, the scandal could test the integrity of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's administration, particularly as it depends heavily on international support in the fight against terrorism.
Somalia reportedly received six Bell 412 helicopters between 2023 and 2024 from Italia and other partner nations as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen its counter-terrorism capabilities. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... sources allege that Villa Somalia registered the aircraft under a private company named Gem-Tech, managed by Ahmed Nur—a close associate of President Mohamud.
After registration, the helicopters were repainted and marked as belonging to the Somali Air Force (SAF), yet continue to operate under the call sign "6-Oscar," which is typically reserved for civilian aircraft. This discrepancy has raised further questions about the opacity of their operations and potential misuse.
These allegations surface amid a broader climate of uncertainty surrounding the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).
The mission’s future is now in doubt after the United States signaled plans to suspend its funding until the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and other donors contribute matching amounts. The U.S. has historically played a leading role in financing and supporting AUSSOM, including training elite units such as the Danab Special Forces.
The funding freeze follows long-standing concerns over misuse of resources in Somalia’s security sector. Former U.S. President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... had withdrawn American troops over what he labeled "resource wastage," though they were later redeployed by President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... "Somalia and its international partners are facing a serious reckoning," said security analyst Abdisalam Guled.
"The AUSSOM mandate is due to expire within weeks, and there’s little likelihood of an extension given the financial shortfalls. Embassies and international bodies are slowly scaling back their presence in a quiet, gradual withdrawal. The question now is: what’s next for Somalia?"
Concerns over the potential misappropriation of donated equipment and other public resources could further erode donor confidence at a time when al-Shabaab is regaining momentum in central regions.
Villa Somalia has not officially responded to the allegations. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, no stranger to controversy, has previously dismissed accusations involving his family in corruption and questionable business dealings as politically motivated "witch-hunts" orchestrated by the opposition.
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[Garowe] Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) is reportedly on the brink of internal collapse, following an escalating political dispute within the federal government’s top leadership.
Reliable sources speaking to Garowe Online revealed that the agency, currently headed by Abdullahi Mohammed Ali "Sanbaloolshe," is grappling with a deepening internal crisis sparked by a failed political maneuver by Villa Somalia — the seat of the Presidency — to reinstate former director Mahad Salad to the helm of NISA.
Mahad Salad, who previously led the agency, is said to have re-engaged in direct interference with NISA’s operations after the move to remove Sanbaloolshe stalled. As a result, the agency has seen a slowdown in its day-to-day functions, with multiple senior officers reportedly refusing to take orders from the current director.
Security sources confirm that Sanbaloolshe is currently away from the capital, overseeing a military operation in the Hiraan region. His absence has allowed loyalists of Mahad Salad to quietly take over several key internal operations, further undermining the official chain of command.
The growing division within NISA came to the fore recently when a group of journalists were briefly detained in Mogadishu. According to multiple reports, the arrest was carried out without the knowledge or approval of Director Sanbaloolshe, allegedly on orders from officers aligned with Mahad Salad.
Over the past several years, NISA has increasingly become politicized, with its leadership consistently aligned with Villa Somalia. Since 2017, most of the agency’s directors have been political allies of the presidency, a trend critics say has eroded its neutrality and professionalism in national security matters.
Analysts warn that if the current internal rift remains unresolved, it could severely compromise Somalia’s security operations and lead to a full-blown institutional split within NISA — a development that would carry serious national security implications.
[GEO.TV] In a major development, Kuwait has lifted its 19-year-long visa ban on Pak citizens, the Ministry of Overseas Paks' Focal Person Mustafa Malik said on Monday.
In a statement, the focal person said that the Kuwaiti government had resumed issuing work, family, visit, tourist, and commercial visas to Paks. It will provide thousands of people with opportunities for employment, business, and tourism in Kuwait, Malik added.
''All these visas can be obtained through the online platform,'' the focal person said, adding that the world was opening its doors to skilled Pak workers.
He further said that an annual job quota would be allocated for Paks in Italia, adding that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) had also been signed with Italia.
"Arab countries are also keen to employ skilled workers from Pakistain," the focal person added.
[KhaamaPress] Kuwait has revoked citizenship of over 37,000 people, mostly migrant women, sparking widespread human rights concerns and legal uncertainty.
The Kuwaiti government has revoked the citizenship of more than 37,000 people since August 2024, a move that has sparked widespread criticism from human rights groups and regional analysts. The majority of those affected are migrant women who had acquired citizenship through marriage.
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the mass revocation is part of a sweeping “reform initiative” launched by Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah after assuming power in December 2023. Since then, he has dissolved the parliament and suspended parts of the constitution, citing national purification as a goal.
In a televised address in March, the Emir vowed to “cleanse Kuwait of impurities” and return the nation to its “original people.” Analysts interpret this as an attempt to restrict citizenship to individuals with documented ancestral ties to the country.
Official data indicates that at least 26,000 women have lost citizenship under the new policy, primarily those who had gained it through marriage. The law now cancels all citizenships granted to foreign spouses since 1987, leaving thousands at risk of statelessness and legal limbo.
Even high-profile cultural figures have not been spared. Renowned pop singer Nawal El Kuwaitia and actor Dawood Hussein are among those stripped of citizenship, reflecting the policy’s reach beyond migrants to well-known national icons.
Observers argue that this strategy signals a more exclusionary definition of national identity under the new leadership. Critics warn that this could deepen social divisions and damage Kuwait’s reputation as a relatively open Gulf state.
As the international community watches closely, the question remains whether Kuwait will face pressure to reverse or soften the sweeping policy. The coming months may define the country’s future direction on human rights and inclusivity.
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Despite being just 2% of the population of Wales, the Muslim community of Cardiff is allowed to blast Islamic calls to prayer 5 times a day. The earliest one being at 5 am.
#2
And what happens when restless natives step out on their stoops and roar back MozartMen of Harlech?Schindler's List night ghetto clearance long shot?
[BBC] A fight involving machetes at a Melbourne shopping centre has prompted an Australian state to fast-track the country's first-ever ban on the weapon's sale.
The ban - to start in Victoria this Wednesday, instead of September - comes after two gangs attacked each other at Northland shopping centre in Preston on Sunday afternoon. A man, 20, remains in hospital in a serious condition.
Sounds like immigrant gangs, what the Australians call “Lebanese”, which means any of a number of ethnic gangs from the Moslem Middle East — Lebanese, Syrians, Kurds, etc, and even some that are mixed. As I recall — it’s been a while since we looked at them — they make their money from international drug trafficking as well as the usual gang activities, and are tied in to the jihadi networks of Hezbollah, ISIS, and Al Qaeda as well.
Victoria's premier said the ban will "choke the supply", adding "the community shouldn't have to deal with these weapons in their shopping centres - neither should our police".
Sounds like the kind of thing the Australian authorities and news media said about guns — how did that work out for y’all? Did disarming the law-abiding result in any less criminal violence thereafter?
Two boys, aged 16 and 15, were on Sunday charged with affray, intentionally causing injury, and possession and use of a controlled weapon.
On Monday, police said two men, aged 20 and 18, had also been arrested and were being interviewed. All four people were known to police previously.
"This was a planned fight between two rival youth gangs with no innocent bystanders hurt," said deputy commissioner David Clayton.
"Fortunately, these events are not very commonplace in Victoria," he said, adding that youth knife crime is "rare" but "frightening".
Clayton said one in 10 knife crimes in the state is committed by young people, and often happen in public places.
Emergency services were called to the shopping centre in Preston - about 11km (seven miles) north of Melbourne - just after 14:30 local time (05:30 BST) on Sunday after reports of up to 10 people fighting.
Police said the investigation "remains ongoing" and more arrests are expected. Three of the four machetes used during the attack have been seized, police said.
Victoria's Premier Jacinta Allan described the attack as "appalling".
"We must never let the places where we gather - where families come together, to meet, to shop, to enjoy the peace of their weekend - become the places we fear," Allan said at a press conference.
"It took the United Kingdom 18 months to bring about a ban on machetes and we are moving to do it within six months," she added.
In March, Victoria announced legislative changes to its Control of Weapons Act, making it illegal to sell or possess machetes, with the new law to start in September.
The ban covers machetes, which are broadly defined as "knives with a cutting blade longer than 20cm". It does not include knives primarily used in kitchens.
A three-month amnesty from September means anyone with a machete can place them in specially designated boxes at police stations.
Police also thanked a man who held down one of the alleged offenders until police arrived, saying he "performed an outstanding job", but added they don't encourage the public to become involved in such incidents.
In England and Wales, a ban on "zombie-style" knives and machetes was introduced last September, making it illegal to own, make, transport or sell a wide range of "statement" knives favoured by criminal gangs.
#4
The Muslim Goal for the last 1400+ years has been laid out in plain sight.
An it's what any country should expect letting Muslim's in.
Quran/Koran 2:191 Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.
Koran 3:28 Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.
Koran 3:85 Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.
Koran 5:33 Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam.
Koran 8:12 terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Quran.
Koran 8:60 Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.
Koran 8:65 the unbelievers are stupid, urge the Muslims to fight them .
Koran 9:5 when opportunity arises kill the infidels wherever you find them.
Koran 9:30 the Jews and Christians are perverts,fight them.
Koran 9:123 make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.
Koran 22:19 Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies.
Koran 47:4 Do not hacker for peace with the infidels, Behead them when you catch them.
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Machetes are the problem but not the Machetier.
Ban pencils because the math is wrong.
That's the logic displayed here folks.
The more they force me to live with people where we need to ban things b/c the people are not compatible with Western Culture, the more I support limited genocides. I'm over multiculturalism.
[IsraelTimes] Reports say ministers tell UK, France and others that Israel is considering annexing Area C of West Bank and legalizing outposts; Sweden summons Israeli envoy over Gaza aid
Israeli government ministers have reportedly warned key European countries that any unilateral recognition of a Paleostinian state could prompt Israel to take unilateral measures as well, potentially including the annexation of parts of the West Bank, according to Monday reports.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer personally warned French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy that Israel could respond to recognition of a Paleostinian state by annexing Area C of the West Bank and legalizing unauthorized outposts, the Haaretz outlet reported, citing a foreign diplomat familiar with the matter.
A separate report by Israel Hayom said Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar conveyed a similar message to counterparts in the UK, La Belle France, and other nations, warning that steps against Israel would be met with Israeli actions such as extending illusory sovereignty to West Bank settlements and parts of the Jordan Valley.
"Unilateral moves against Israel will be met with unilateral moves by Israel," Sa’ar reportedly said.
The warnings came ahead of a French- and Saudi-led summit set to take place in New York next month, where French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to promote coordinated recognition of Paleostinian statehood.
While the US has said it will not participate, other European countries are still deliberating.
Some, including Germany, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, have reportedly voiced opposition to unilateral recognition. Others, such as Spain — which recognized a Paleostinian state last year — and Malta — which has said it will do so at the summit — are expected to say they support countries announcing unilateral recognition.
After Macron said last month that La Belle France was considering recognition of Paleostinian statehood, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said such a move would be a "huge prize for terror."
La Belle France’s recognition of Paleostinian statehood would mark a major policy shift for Gay Paree and risk antagonizing Israel, which insists such moves by foreign states are premature.
La Belle France would be the most significant European power to recognize a Paleostinian state, a move the United States has also long resisted.
Israel has argued that unilateral recognition of a Paleostinian state now will be viewed as a reward for Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s October 7 onslaught. Israel’s military campaign to rid the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip of Hamas has sparked worldwide sympathy for Paleostinians and galvanized support for recognizing statehood in some capitals.
The threats come amid mounting European opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza.
On Monday, Sweden announced that it would summon the Israeli ambassador to protest against Israel’s refusal to freely allow aid into Gaza.
"We do not support what the Israeli government is currently doing by denying access to Gaza. Absolutely not," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said, according to the TT news agency.
A spokesperson for Mr. Kristersson confirmed this summons to AFP.
"We have been very clear about this, both nationally and with many other European countries. The pressure is now increasing — there is no doubt about it. And for very good reasons," the Swedish leader added.
Israel’s block on aid since early March, which has caused severe shortages of food and medicine, was partially lifted last week in the face of mounting international indignation. Since the blockade was lifted, hundreds of aid trucks have entered the Strip, mostly containing food, but UN officials and local aid workers have said that Israel’s renewed military action in the Strip makes effective distribution near impossible.
Kristersson also said he was in favor of a reassessment of the association agreement between the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and Israel. The bloc has ordered a review of it to see if Israel is respecting human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... and democratic principles.
"This requires a consensus, and we are not there yet. But many of us are working in that direction," he said. "The current actions of the Israeli government are pushing more EU countries to impose stricter demands on Israel."
According to French diplomats, 17 of the 27 EU member states have so far said they back a review of the agreement, with Germany being the most notable abstention.
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This is a fundamental pivot against Israel by the Merz coalition.
For the last couple of days there's been coordinated messaging by coalition officials indicating a leftward realignment in their Israel policies.
It started with the anti-semitism commissioner and continued with Merz, the FM, the leftist Vice Chancellor and some foreign policy expert MPs.
All shifted their positions in a leftward / anti-Israel direction. The Vice Chancellor has at least implied support for an arms embargo and sanctions. A prominent leftist traditionally pro-Russian and anti-Israel social democrat MP is openly calling for an arms embargo. The FM demands an immediate cease fire and then the implementation of the two state "solution."
I can only speculate about the reasons. Merz coalition has a slim, unstable majority in parliament which might have forced him to make secret concessions to the left in exchange for his election.
The above mentioned leftist MP recently held secret negotiations with the Russians. Maybe selling out Israel is buying some concessions from the Russians.
A tin foil hat scenario would involve a deal with pro-Iran elements in the Trump 47 administration. Germany would help intimidate Israel into acquiescing to a nuclear armed Iran in exchange for a favorable trade deal for Europe.
Whatever the explanation, this is a huge shift. Germany's policy position is now qualitatively identical to Ireland's and Spain's now.
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^Yea, well. Fortunately for Israel the non-Islamic/Wakandan "anti-Zionism" is based in Western Europe - which (just as Napoleon & Hitler before them) got itself into a fight with Russia.
#8
Here's a statement made today by German FM Wadephul (Deepl translated):
“The government of the state of Israel, which in my view must be completely distinguished from the people who live in the state of Israel, I believe that this government must know very clearly that we will not allow ourselves to be instrumentalized, and that our one hundred percent fight against anti-Semitism and our complete support for the right to exist and the security of the state of Israel, must not be instrumentalized for the conflict, for the warfare that is currently being waged in the Gaza Strip, so we will not allow ourselves to be put under political pressure as the German government and put in a position where we are forced to show solidarity, which will not be possible in this form. ”
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Is this any of your business, Germany? Since when are you a moral authority? And how are you enjoying your Russian LGN, that you've been importing behind your moral preening and saber rattling?
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[REGNUM] Uganda has been rocked by a diplomatic row. The focus has been on German Ambassador Matthias Schauer, who Ugandan authorities have accused of supporting anti-government forces and attempting to undermine the stability of the state. The row has gone beyond the usual diplomatic attacks.
Kampala suddenly curtailed military cooperation with Berlin, thereby demonstrating its seriousness in taking the insults inflicted on it.
However, such an escapade could prove quite costly for Uganda in the long run, especially since the spat with the Europeans has once again drawn attention to the country's long-standing internal problems.
PROTEST NETWORK
According to statements by the country's Defense Ministry's public information department, the cooling of relations was due to "subversive activities" by Europeans.
According to intelligence agencies, the embassies of “a number of EU countries” were involved in financing and mobilizing Ugandan dissident groups working to overthrow the “eternal” President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (in power continuously since 1986), and the German ambassador acted as the “conductor” and manager in this process.
The “provocateurs and bombers” detained by counterintelligence in different parts of the country six months ago allegedly also claimed to have connections with the German embassy.
The key figure around whom the protest network was built is identified by authorities as Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known by his stage name Bobby Wine.
The singer and musician, who ran for president in 2021, is considered Museveni's main challenger for the seat. He is convinced that the incumbent "won by deception" and used administrative leverage to crush the national opposition and send Ssentamu to jail.
However, despite this, Bobby Wine is ready for a rematch and has already stated his intention to participate in the 2026 campaign.
The Europeans do indeed have some benefit from supporting the "singing president". Unlike Museveni, who is focused on balancing between Beijing and the US, Wine aims to expand strategic ties with the EU (mainly with France and Germany), as well as to create a favorable regime for European business in Uganda.
Given the rapid expulsion of Europeans from Africa, Kampala's loyal attitude could well turn Uganda into a hub for EU investment in the continent.
Interestingly, representatives of the Ugandan intelligence services are silent about when exactly the German embassy began to maintain business relations with the opposition, given that Schauer has been working in the country since 2020 and had not raised any complaints before that.
This creates a vast space for informational speculation. To the point that Bobby Vine's political image was created with the active participation of European political strategists and with European money.
PERSONAL GRIEVANCES
However, there is an opinion that the current diplomatic row is rather a consequence of an earlier spat between Kampala and the EU, in which Ambassador Schauer unwittingly played the role of catalyst.
At a closed meeting with the country's top officials in March 2025, European diplomats criticized Uganda's current course. In particular, they criticized the ongoing pressure on the opposition and public figures, extrajudicial persecution, blackmail and torture.
The German ambassador, who was present at the meeting, supported his colleagues' line. The object of his criticism was the head of state's son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who holds the post of commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
The latter has repeatedly allowed himself to make controversial publications on social networks, where he bragged, among other things, about torturing Eddie Mutwe, the opposition leader’s bodyguard, whom he had kidnapped.
Schauer also mentioned the inadmissibility of any persecution of Bobby Wine's supporters (meaning persecution without legal grounds), which greatly offended his interlocutors.
And although the heavyweights of Ugandan politics present at the meeting – in particular, the commander-in-chief’s uncle, General Salim Saleh – reacted calmly to the Europeans’ attacks and promised to “bring their colleague to heel,” the meeting had the opposite effect.
The Europeans' statements about the inadmissibility of persecuting opposition members quickly revealed a "double bottom," and the scandal led to Kampala demonstratively ending its military contacts with Berlin.
A DE FACTO CLAIM TO THE ENTIRE EU
At first glance, stopping military cooperation with Germany was relatively easy for Uganda: Berlin occupied a relatively small share in the structure of Kampala's military imports. Even among its neighbors in the European Union, it never rose above fifth place, supplying mainly components for wheeled vehicles.
This is largely due to the fact that the majority of the Ugandan army's arsenal to this day consists of Soviet weapons and equipment, as well as their "clones" from Warsaw Pact countries, which is why the products of the German military-industrial complex were not in great demand.
Even with the start of Kampala's transition to modern weapons in the second half of the 2010s, Berlin's position did not improve much: the promising market was quickly divided between arms giants - the US, UK, China and Russia. And corporations from South Africa established themselves in the wheeled vehicle sector.
European countries continued to act primarily as suppliers of the remnants of Soviet arsenals and donors of spare parts.
On the other hand, by promoting a diplomatic scandal, the Ugandan leadership has effectively made a claim to the entire European Community, whose leaders have already expressed solidarity with Berlin and promised to reconsider their attitude toward the course chosen by Kampala.
Germany also has its own trump cards.
Previously, Berlin has repeatedly acted as a guarantor of the purity of Kampala's arms deals with other countries. For example, it participated in the supply of Israeli-made ATMOS self-propelled guns to Uganda, and also transferred, with the consent of the United States, several batches of Humvee light military off-road vehicles, which were in service with the Bundeswehr.
The discrediting of the German diplomatic corps in the eyes of the world community could well become an unofficial basis for tightening the procedure for mediation in arms deals - something the German establishment is hinting at quite transparently to the Ugandans. Even if only through the mouths of influential retirees for now.
If the conflict deepens, the German meticulousness characteristic of the arms business will be elevated to the absolute, which will slow down the process of rearmament of the Ugandan army and cause unrest among the military elite.
Museveni's cabinet is unlikely to be happy to receive such a "gift" on the eve of the presidential elections scheduled for January 2026. But Kampala, apparently, is not yet ready to back down, thereby acknowledging the artificial nature of the scandal.
Whatevs. As long as he remains locked up until he is sent back to whichever pit he emerged from, I’m good. And his little “American” wife, too.
[ToloNews] Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist arrested by U.S. immigration agents in March, met his month-old son for the first time on Thursday before an immigration hearing, his attorneys said.
A Damascus-born Palestinian with dual Algerian citizenship, highly connnected, possibly an MI6 asset, Mr. Khalil, 30, was a frontman for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the student coalition that spearheaded violent and vicious anti-Israel protests at the school, hosted at least one specially designated foreign terrorist, and broke into, occupied, and vandalized a university building, which led the Trump administration to treat Columbia like a post-Civil War southern state in need of Reconstruction. He is being represented pro bono by 19 attorneys in his fight against extradition, including CUNY law professor Ramzi Kassem. He was previously vetted by the British government for the Syria office of the British embassy in Beirut, earning a security clearance for their soft power projects, on one of which he worked with his future wife — Lebanese-American dentist Noor Abdalla, 28, who interestingly is a hijabi.
After the daylong hearing, Judge Jamee Comans of the LaSalle Immigration Court in Jena, Louisiana, did not decide whether the U.S. government can proceed with deporting Khalil.
She was to rule at a later date. Before the proceedings began Khalil met with his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, and their baby Deen inside the Jena facility, an encounter made possible by a judge's ruling on Wednesday that Khalil must be allowed to meet with his wife.
"Mahmoud was able to see his baby and hold his baby and talk to his wife and hold his wife this morning," Amy Greer, one of his attorneys, told reporters after the hearing, adding that lawyers allowed the family privacy and were unable to relay details of the encounter.
Khalil, a leader in the Columbia University student movement that has criticized Israel's military campaign in Gaza, has become a central figure in the U.S. debate over the war and Trump administration tactics to use its jailing and deportation powers against political opponents.
The Trump administration has said his presence could harm U.S. foreign policy interests.
Khalil says he is the victim of U.S. repression of free speech.
That’s because he mistakes violence for speech.
His son was born after Khalil was arrested on March 8 as the State Department revoked his green card.
They’re just as murdered for standing with Israel, but it’s interesting.
[RichardPollock] The Killer Didn't Care If They Were Christians - They Attended A Jewish Event
Last week, when alleged killer Elias Rodrigues
…the stereotypical Red Diaper Baby English major whose name is alternately spelt Elias Rodriguez…
bumped off Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., he thought he was killing Jews.
It was clearly a targeted liquidation of Jewish participants at an American Jewish Committee’s event for young professionals.
Tough guy Rodrigues fired 21 slugs into the unarmed a couple. A maimed Sarah reportedly tried to crawl away from him, but he continued to shoot her until she was lifeless.
As he was being led away from the museum, he proudly chanted, "Free, Free Paleostine."
But what Rodrigues didn’t know is that for most of last year, his targets were regular Sunday attendees at the Episcopal Church, Ascension and Saint Agnes Church in downtown Washington.
Before he came to the United States, Lischinsky also attended the Anglican Christ Church in Jerusalem.
And the "Jewish" event he targeted was an ecumenical meeting between young professionals who were interested in humanitarian solutions to the Middle East conflict.
Rodrigues didn’t realize it, but his hateful blindness serves as a warning: this unforgivable violence may begin with Jews, but their rage is directed toward all of Western Judeo-Christian civilization.
Many of the ugly, in-your-face anti-Israel protests we have witnessed since October 7 have been led by so-called pro-Paleostinian "anti-imperialists." They regard all of the West as their enemy. Since October 7, the pro-Paleostinian movement regularly dubbed President Biden "Genocide Joe."
There is an old saying that the Jewish people have always served as the canaries in the coal mines. They serve as a warning to others living in free societies that senseless hate is coming their way.
Washington Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde and the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, Dean of the Washington Cathedral understood that the murders of Yaron and Sarah were filled with "brutal irony" since the two were attending a multifaith gathering.
"We cannot ignore the brutal irony of where and when these murders occurred: Yaron and Sarah had just attended an event that brought together multifaith attendees to discuss humanitarian initiatives," the two religious leaders said in a statement they issued after the murders.
Of course, this "fact" didn’t matter to the killer.
The Episcopal leaders further wrote about the couple, "Their attraction to Christ seemed to have deepened their love for their Jewish sisters and brothers as well as their commitment to serve the people of Israel."
In their reporting about last week’s killing, much of the mass media, especially the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , emphasized in their headlines that Yaron and Sarah worked at the Israeli Embassy. The "unstated" message was that they died because of 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... . The two young people simply were collateral damage to that war. End of story.
But life is more complicated and profound.
On Sunday, I attended the majestic Ascension and Saint Agnes Church where the local Rector movingly eulogized the couple as more than 100 perishioners looked on. The main sanctuary displayed a picture of the two with candles below and a cross of Jesus.
Although I’m Jewish and wore a yarmulka to the church, I was warmly welcomed by many congregants and by the clergy.
Father Dominque Peridans, in his remembrances for the two at the end of the liturgy, he observed that "Yaron, is a Hebrew name which means ’full of joy.’" Rather than a Jew, "He was dedicated to the Christ, Jesus. He worshipped with the community of Messianic Jews."
Messianic Jews combine Christian theology with select elements of Judaism. Its adherents consider themselves to be a form of Judaism, but it’s generally considered to be a form of Christianity. Messianic Jews are deep believers in Israel.
Father Peridans told the congregants that Yaron was respectful of all other religious faiths, "He actively participated in interfaith dialogue and was dedicated to bridging cultural and religious divides."
The same could be said of Sarah. Prior to joining the Israeli Embassy, she went to Israel for five weeks to work at Tech2Peace, an organization that brought together young Israelis and Paleostinians for joint projects.
The Jewish News Syndicate reported, "She focused on the experiences of 12 Israeli and Paleostinian participants in a seminar organized by Tech2Peace at Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, a Jewish-Arab village halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, documenting their stories and the complexities of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
She also worked at the United States Institute for Peace in Washington, D.C., a federal agency that studies peaceful resolution to conflicts around the world. Rodrigues never wanted to bother himself with such niceties.
Still, other American Leftwing krazed killer groups hailed the killer.
A group that describes itself as "anti-imperialist" called, "The Bronx Anti-War" posted that what Rodriguez "did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism" and "We need more Elias Rodriguez in this world" in a pair of social media posts Thursday.
And of course, the Iranians heralded the killing. Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor of the Iranian news outlet Kayhan predictably wrote, "Any news of our dear brother Elias Rodriguez, who sent two Zionist wild animals in Washington to hell with a bullet?"
Israel’s "Law of Return" never defined who is a Jew. But the State recognizes people in which one parent is Jewish. Both Yaron and Sarah had one parent who was Jewish.
Yaron’s parents live in Israel where he was buried just outside of Jerusalem. The Israeli Foreign Ministry accepted the body upon his return to the country.
Sarah was born into a family that is tied to reform Judaism. Her funeral will be held on Tuesday at Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kansas. The Israeli Ambassador to the United States is expected to attend.
Yesterday swksvolFF wondered about the ex-miscreant’s admirable English. Now it is revealed he was an interpreter, which explains it.
[KhaamaPress] Jamal Ahmad Wali, a former Afghan interpreter for U.S. forces and father of four, was recently involved in a tragic armed confrontation with police in the United States.
Jamal Wali
Wali had resettled in the U.S. with his family shortly before the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s return to power in Afghanistan. According to community sources, his emotional state had deteriorated significantly after several close family members, including his brother, were reportedly killed by Talibs or allied groups in Afghanistan. This traumatic news added to the already heavy burdens he carried as a refugee trying to adjust to life in a new country.
Despite his past service and dedication, Wali struggled financially and mentally after resettlement. He had been working with a private security company in the U.S., likely due to his military background. However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... he found it increasingly difficult to cover basic living expenses, including utility bills and vehicle insurance. These financial pressures eventually led to the suspension of his driving license, yet out of necessity, he continued driving to maintain his job. On the day of the incident, police attempted to stop him for a routine check, but Wali tried to flee. When his vehicle eventually ran out of fuel, a confrontation occurred. After a tense exchange, Wali, likely overwhelmed by stress and trauma, drew a weapon, resulting in a violent mostly peaceful standoff.
He was a 36-year-old Afghan citizen who served as an interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. During the traffic stop incident in Fairfax County, Virginia, Wali became argumentative and refused to obey police commands. He then drew a gun and fired at the officers, hitting two before police fatally shot him. Bodycam footage later showed Wali expressing frustration and anger towards the U.S. government, stating he felt trapped in the country and unable to return to Afghanistan.
And yet it would have been worse for him and his family had they gone back, where he would have been killed by the Taliban regime after torture, and who knows what would have happened to his three sons and daughter? (Photo of him and the kids in traditional attire at the link) In the end he chose suicide by cop.
The incident highlights the psychological and economic toll on many Afghan refugees who served alongside coalition forces but struggle to rebuild their lives amid trauma and limited support. Wali’s wife, who neither works nor speaks English, is now left to care for their four children alone, without a steady income or community assistance. There are concerns that his children may be placed into state care if immediate help is not provided.
This tragedy has raised urgent calls from community members and advocacy groups to provide legal aid, mental health counseling, and financial support for refugee families—especially former interpreters who faced personal risks during the war. The story underscores a wider issue: the lack of adequate mental health resources and social services for refugees coping with trauma, cultural dislocation, and poverty.
Jamal Wali’s case is a somber reminder that those who risked their lives supporting U.S. missions must receive ongoing care and dignity in their new lives. It calls for coordinated efforts by government agencies, civil society, and diaspora organizations to prevent similar tragedies through robust support programs and culturally sensitive outreach.
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His allegiance was with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, a polity that did not recognize the sovereignty of Western nations per the Rushdie rules and that violated all standards of decency (as defined by Western civilization) by imposing the death penalty on ideological deviants.
Why should such a person not be expected to be a mortal enemy?
Maybe, if back then the Bush administration had prosecuted Rahman's prosecutors and judges for crimes against humanity things in general wouldn't have developed in such an atrocious way.
Not just his Americanese, he hit all the BLM talking points as well.
Now, IIRC, it wasn't just a routine check, but didn't he run a stop light? And the whole situation didn't feel like he ran from the police until his gasoline was exhausted or there would have been multiple vehicles and everyone with their game faces on, not a casual solo stroll up to the vehicle.
And it was a suspended license. One doesn't lose their driver's license because they are low on money. Registration/Tags, sure, but not the license.
Just feel like there is a little more going on here than someone who doesn't think traffic laws apply to him and chooses then to gun fight his way back to Afghanistan. And the usuals who would normally front page this are rather quiet.
That assumes he wasnt struggling in Afghanistan. Seems his whole life was a struggle. PSTD to the extreme.
Couple Points:
1.) I would not receive the same courtesies that this gentleman received from Fairfax County Cops. I grew up dealing w/ Fairfax County Cops where they all think they are State Police. The moment I ever stopped cooperating with Fairfax PD was the moment things would escalate very quickly for me - not in good ways. If I ever tried to elude Fairfax, dogs and helicopters would be called out. This man did not cooperate at all and Fairfax was very nice to him.
2.) He was known to the Fairfax Police Community as he had several run ins with the cops over the last few years. It is not the first time he eluded police, and is not the first time he brandished a firearm during a traffic stop.
Some articles say he was pulled over for speeding. Others say b/c his registration was expire. I can tell you this --- Pro Tip: If cops recognize you, not good - they will pull you over more frequently. And that is probably the case with this dude.
And delighted they were to poke a finger in the American and Israeli eyes they were, too.
[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian delegation wins the right to fly its flag at the World Health Organization after a symbolic victory in a vote that its envoy hopes will lead to greater recognition within the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and beyond.
The proposal, brought by China, Pakistain, 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 others, at the global agency’s annual assembly in Geneva passes with 95 in favor and four against — Israel, Hungary, Czech Republic and Germany — and 27 abstentions.
Israel argued against the WHO resolution. Its main ally, the United States, which plans to exit the WHO, did not participate.
La Belle France and Japan voted in favor of the proposal while Britannia abstained.
"It is symbolic and one act but a sign that we are part of an international community to help on health needs," the Paleostinian Authority’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Ibrahim Khraishi, tells Rooters. "I hope we will soon have full membership of the WHO and all UN forums."
Last week, the Paleostinians won the right to receive notifications under the WHO’s International Health Regulations — a set of global rules for monitoring outbreaks.
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[IsraelTimes] GHF doesn’t reveal how much aid so far delivered, but says amount will increase each day; group names new CEO after previous one resigns due to concerns over Israeli restrictions
The Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said it commenced operations in the Gaza Strip on Monday, delivering truckloads of food to newly established distribution sites, from which the supplies were then distributed to a number of Paleostinians.
The announcement followed Hebrew media reports claiming that the US- and Israel-backed GHF did not manage to begin operating in Gaza on Monday as initially planned.
The GHF statement did not specify how much aid was distributed, but it did include photos of a number of Gazooks picking up boxes of aid from a distribution site. It said more trucks will be delivered on Tuesday and that the flow of aid will increase each day.
The foundation made a point to condemn what it said have been Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... death threats against aid groups who have agreed to cooperate with GHF, as well as efforts to block Paleostinians from reaching distribution sites.
"It is clear that Hamas is threatened by this new operating model, and will do everything in its power to see it fail," GHF said.
GHF also announced that John Acree has been named its interim executive director, after its previous chief resigned on Sunday and indicated that Israeli restrictions were preventing the initiative from being able to adhere to humanitarian principles. Acree is a "senior humanitarian practitioner with more than two decades of global field experience in disaster response, stabilization programming, and civil-military coordination," GHF said.
While technically an American company, GHF was established earlier this year in close coordination with Israeli authorities who felt existing aid distribution mechanisms led by the UN and other international organizations were insufficient in preventing the diversion of aid by Hamas.
Israel wanted to create a small number of distribution sites where pre-selected familial representatives would be able to pick up a heavy box full of food for their families in a zone secured and operated by American private contractors.
GHF still needs support and cooperation from existing humanitarian organizations, as it seeks to gain credibility on the ground. That backing has yet to come, though, with the UN and many other international organizations in Gaza vowing not to cooperate with the GHF, arguing that its aid initiative violates humanitarian principles by requiring Gazooks to walk long distances in order to retrieve aid and limiting distribution to southern Gaza, in what would forcibly displace the Paleostinian population.
UN officials have also raised concerns that the organization could be used to "weaponize" aid by restricting who is eligible to receive it.
A small number of lesser-known organizations have agreed to cooperate with the GHF thus far, including the US-based aid group Rahma Worldwide, whose logo was seen in the photos of boxes being distributed to Gazooks on Monday.
GHF says it is made up of former humanitarian, government and military officials. It has said its distribution points — three in southern Gaza and one in central Gaza — will be guarded by private security firms and that its aid will reach a million Paleostinians — around half of Gaza’s population — by the end of the week.
Under pressure from allies, Israel began allowing a trickle of humanitarian aid into Gaza last week after blocking all food, medicine, fuel or other goods from entering since March 2. Aid groups have warned of famine and say the aid that has come in is nowhere near enough to meet mounting needs.
Hamas warned Paleostinians on Monday not to cooperate with the new aid system, saying it is aimed at furthering those objectives.
Earlier Monday, Hamas executed four men it claimed had looted some of the aid trucks that have begun entering Gaza, according to sources familiar with the incident.
”How dare you try to cut in on our exclusive rights! Aiiiii — now you must DIE!!”
One source said the four were involved in an incident last week in which six security officials were allegedly killed by an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... as they were working to prevent gang members from hijacking aid trucks.
Aid groups have said that deliveries have been hampered by looting, claiming Israel is to blame for creating a situation in which hundreds of thousands of people have been driven to desperation by aid blockade. Israel has accused Hamas of stealing aid, and says aid needs to be tightly controlled to prevent it from helping the terror group.
Israel resumed near-daily aid deliveries to Gaza last week, after a pause since March 2. Since then, 665 trucks of aid have entered the Strip.
COGAT says the aid delivery comes “following the recommendation of professional IDF officials and in accordance with the directive of the political echelon.”
Today’s trucks include food, medical equipment and pharmaceutical drugs, COGAT says.
The aid underwent an inspection by Israeli authorities before entering Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing.
COGAT does not comment on whether the trucks headed for the new aid distribution sites in Gaza, which according to reports, did not begin operations today as planned.
He really is a vile little man. Are any in the opposition not?
“Our job is to ask the government tough questions, and with such a question I take the podium today: Is the State of Israel behind two shell companies established in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... and the United States, GHF and SRS, to organize and finance humanitarian aid in Gazoo?" Lapid asks from the Knesset rostrum ahead of a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu’s office confirmed this morning that the distribution of assistance under the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) had begun, launching a system that Israel says is meant to keep aid from being diverted to the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... terror group.
While technically an American company, GHF was established in close coordination with Israeli authorities. Aid groups and the UN have refused to cooperate with the new initiative, saying it would create even more displacement of the Paleostinian population, fail to meet local needs, and violate humanitarian principles that prohibit a warring party from controlling humanitarian assistance.
GHF has published a 14-page document detailing its distribution plan, including the names of those leading the project. Two American companies, Safe Reach Solutions (SRS) and UG Solutions, were selected to serve as onsite contractors.
According to The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , the project wasn’t simply built in coordination with Israel, but is "an Israeli brainchild" proposed during a 2023 meeting of "like-minded officials, military officers and business people with close ties to the Israeli government."
According to a separate Haaretz report published yesterday, SRS entered Gaza without security clearance from the Shin Bet, as is the procedure.
In a swift reaction, Netanyahu spokesperson Omer Dostri says: "Israel does not fund the humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip. Israel and the United States are working in full coordination and through various channels to cut off aid from reaching Hamas."
[IsraelTimes] Jordan condemns a visit by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to the Temple Mount.
“The practices of this extremist minister and his continued incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque… do not negate the fact that East Jerusalem is an occupied city over which Israel has no sovereignty,” says a statement from the foreign ministry of Jordan.
The Temple Mount is the holiest place in Judaism, where two biblical Temples once stood, and Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third-holiest shrine in Islam, making the site a central flashpoint of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel captured the Temple Mount and Jerusalem’s Old City from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. However, it allowed the Jordanian Waqf to continue to maintain religious authority atop the mount. Under their 1994 peace treaty, Israel recognized Amman’s “special role… in Muslim holy shrines in Jerusalem.”
[IsraelTimes] National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir declares that Jewish prayer, including full prostration, is allowed on the Temple Mount as he pays a Jerusalem Day visit to the contested holy site.
Flanked by Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf and MK Yitzhak Kroizer, both members of his ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party, Ben Gvir says that “many Jews are flooding the Temple Mount.”
“Today, thank God, it is possible to pray on the Temple Mount, to bow down on the Temple Mount – we thank God for that,” the far-right minister declares — adding that he and his colleagues had come to “pray for the safety of the hostages” and “for victory in the war.”
A photo apparently shows Kroizer prostrated on the Mount alongside other Jews as a police officers look on.
Meanwhile, MK Zvi Sukkot, of the far-right Religious Zionism party, was filmed walking across the holy site with an Israeli flag, repeatedly declaring “the Temple Mount is in our hands.”
Ben Gvir has long rebuffed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated insistence that the decades-old status quo, which bans Jewish prayer on the site, remains in force.
The Prime Minister’s Office says it is looking into the matter.
Ben Gvir says he also prayed for the success of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious pick to head the Shin Bet security agency, Maj. Gen. David Zini.
“And I pray for the success of the new head of the Shin Bet: that he will pursue our enemies, that he will mow down our enemies, as he has done throughout his years – to be professional, and to distinguish between an enemy and a friend: those who love are embraced, and enemies are mowed down,” he says.
Ben Gvir last visited the Temple Mount in early April, eliciting criticism from the coalition’s ultra-Orthodox members as Haredim believe it is forbidden to tread in the holy site due to its sanctity.
Jews are not officially allowed to pray at the Temple Mount, but the Israel Police, which comes under the purview of Ben Gvir’s ministry, has increasingly tolerated limited prayer there.
Ben Gvir has said repeatedly that his policy is to allow Jewish prayer there, drawing rebukes from US and international officials, as well as warnings from the security establishment that conflict over the site poses a risk to national security.
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Rid of Hashemites (imported by Perfidious Albion after WWI - to establish Arab-Palestinian state). Expel all Arabs from Judea & Samaria to the new Palestinian state.
[NAHARNET] There is an available chance to reactivate the file of the release of Lebanese captives held by Israel in conjunction with the expected release of Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped by Iraq in 2023 by the Iran-backed Ketaeb Hezbollah group, which is not linked to Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... 's Hezbollah, Western diplomatic sources said.
The sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that Hezbollah's leadership prepared a list containing the names of 15 Lebanese captives, of whom seven were captured during the latest Israel-Hezbollah war and eight were detained during the ceasefire period.
The daily added that the deal also involves an Iranian citizen and a Paleostinian national.
Sky News had reported Saturday that an agreement was reached to exchange prisoners between Iraq, 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 Israel, which involves ''Hezbollah members, a Lebanese sea captain, an Israeli-Russian academic and an Iranian citizen.''
[NEWARAB] Israel has rejected a new 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... ceasefire proposal put forward by Paleostinian-American academic and Trump ally Bishara Bahbah amid signs of renewed pressure from Washington to end the war.
Regional news outlets reported on Monday that Bahbah has proposed a solution similar to the framework drawn up by the Trump administration, but included a personal guarantee from the US president that Israel will enter talks to permanently end the war.
The Trump framework, recently proposed by US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, would see both sides agree to a truce lasting between 45 and 60 days. Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... would release 10 living captives, and Israel would free Paleostinian detainees.
Israeli officials strongly rejected the terms in comments to local media, just hours after details of the proposal began to surface.
"Israel rejects the proposal of the American-Paleostinian mediator — this is an unacceptable and illogical proposal," sources told Kan.
The plan "cannot be accepted by any responsible government", another official told The Times of Israel.
The Netanyahu government has insisted it will only agree to a temporary ceasefire according to the so-called 'Witkoff outline', but refuses to discuss ending the war until Hamas surrenders and leaves Gaza.
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[NEWARAB] Washington rejected Monday an assertion by Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... that the group had accepted a 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... ceasefire proposal that reportedly involves the liberation of 10 hostages in two batches and a 70-day truce.
A front man for US envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed to news agency AFP reporting by Axios that he had rejected claims by the Paleostinian group that it had agreed to his proposal for a hostage and ceasefire deal.
This comes after Rooters reported earlier on Monday that Hamas has agreed to the proposal by Witkoff for a Gaza ceasefire.
"The proposal includes the release of ten living Israeli hostages held by Hamas in two groups in return for a 70-day ceasefire and a partial withdrawal from the Gaza Strip," the source told Rooters.
More than 50 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Monday in the north of the territory, most of them women and kiddies.
An Israeli strike on a family home in Jabalia killed 19 people and another Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a school-turned-shelter for displaced people killed more than 30.
“What I have seen from Hamas is disappointing and completely unacceptable,” Witkoff tells the Axios news site.
Witkoff says Israel is prepared to agree to a temporary ceasefire that would see half of the living and deceased hostages return “and lead to substantive negotiations to find a path to a permanent ceasefire, which I agreed to preside over.”
“That deal is on the table. Hamas should take it,” Witkoff says.
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Sanctions are not the endpoint of this thing. Israel is the endpoint… or rather the IDF.
[IsraelTimes] Day after Trump hints agreement may be imminent, Tehran’s Foreign Ministry says interim deal not on table while president says Tehran ‘will survive’ even if talks fall apart
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... will not consider temporarily suspending uranium enrichment to secure a nuclear deal with the US, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, adding that no date had yet been set for a sixth round of talks with Washington.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... the country’s president appeared to downplay the consequences should talks fall apart, saying Iran won’t starve under sanctions.
The negotiations between Washington and Tehran aim to resolve a decades-long dispute over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and both sides have taken a tough stance in public over the issue of Iran’s uranium enrichment.
Asked about reports that Iran could freeze enrichment for three years to reach an agreement, spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei told a presser: "Iran will never accept that."
Baqaei also ruled out the possibility of an interim nuclear deal with the US, dismissing media reports that a provisional agreement was being considered as a temporary step toward a final deal.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Monday Iran would be fine even if the sides are unable to come to a deal and more sanctions are applied, according to state media.
"It’s not like we will die of hunger if they refuse to negotiate with us or impose sanctions. We will find a way to survive," Pezeshkian was quoted saying.
US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... said on Sunday that US negotiators had "very, very good" talks with an Iranian delegation over the weekend and appeared to hint that a deal was coming together.
"I don’t know if I’ll be telling you anything good or bad over the next two days, but I have a feeling I might be telling you something good," he told news hounds in northern New Jersey after leaving his golf club, where he spent most of the weekend.
Iran is waiting for further details from mediator Oman regarding the timing of the next round of talks, Baqaei said.
"If there is goodwill from the American side, we are also optimistic, but if talks are aimed at curbing Iran’s rights then talks will get nowhere," he added.
Trump wants to curtail Tehran’s potential to produce a nuclear weapon that could trigger a regional nuclear arms race and threaten Israel, but has been vague on whether his administration would accept a limited amount of nuclear enrichment.
During his first term, the US president ripped up a 2015 deal that capped nuclear enrichment at just 3.67 percent, and in recent years Tehran has begun to produce material to near-weapons grade levels.
Iran, for its part, maintains its nuclear program is exclusively for civilian purposes and is seeking to lift devastating sanctions on its oil-based economy.
Israel has threatened to take military action to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, but is seen as unlikely to do so while talks are taking place. Jerusalem has demanded that any deal completely dismantle Iran’s ability to enrich nuclear material at any level.
Iran, which avowedly seeks Israel’s destruction, has consistently denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits... it has been enriching uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, has obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities, and its officials have increasingly warned that they could pursue the bomb.
Iran’s foreign ministry on Monday said that uranium enrichment is an integral part of the country’s “peaceful nuclear program” and ruled out making “the slightest concessions” despite Washington’s demands.
“What is quite clear and perhaps does not need to be emphasized is that enrichment is an integral part of Iran's peaceful nuclear energy and nuclear industry must be maintained, and we will not make the slightest concession in this regard,” ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said during his weekly presser.
His comments come as Iran continues to defend its uranium enrichment rights in ongoing nuclear talks with the United States, while Washington has repeatedly stressed that Tehran must stop enriching uranium.
Baghaei said that Oman, which is mediating the talks, “will take this red line into account.”
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The ISLAMIC Elite aren't worried, they have their usual backdoor resources. Resources that the working class would be punished or put to death by the Republic Guard storm troopers, if caught using or with.
[Rudaw] Fars news agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Sunday accused Halabja’s female governor of "disregarding diplomatic principles" after she appeared at a Tehran tourist attraction without wearing a hijab, in an official visit with the Kurdistan Region’s governors that also met the Iranian president.
"The governor of Halabja, who had traveled to Tehran as a member of the delegation of governors of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, attended one of Tehran's tourist attractions without wearing a hijab last Thursday, disregarding diplomatic principles and disrespecting Iranian laws," Fars news said on X.
A compulsory hijab was imposed 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... since the 1979 Islamic revolution in public places and governmental institutions.
Halabja Governor Nuxsha Nasih joined a delegation of Kurdistan Region governors, including Erbil’s Omed Xoshnaw, Sulaimani’s Haval Abubakir, and Duhok’s Ali Tatar, in a visit to Iran last week to meet their counterparts from the Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan provinces in western Iran (Rojhelat).
On Thursday, they met with President Pezeshkian, discussing bilateral relations between Tehran and Erbil and cultural and trade ties, with the president reaffirming his support for mutual agreements between both sides.
The comments from Fars news come as the government faces challenges in enacting a new hijab bill and enforcing stricter obligations under its existing hijab laws.
They also come as the Iranian government struggles to enforce its existing compulsory hijab law, with a larger number of women defying authorities by appearing in public without the scarf.
Rudaw English reached out to Governor Nasih but she was not readily available for comment.
On Sunday, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf said that the country’s top national security body has advised against enacting the new hijab bill as tensions continue among hardline politicians over the controversial legislation.
Under the bill, women who violate mandatory hijab rules face escalating penalties, including fines, travel bans, and digital restrictions. Repeat offenses can result in prison sentences ranging from 3 months to 1 year and fines up to 1.65 billion rials (about $2,357).
The legislation notably came despite challenges the Iranian government faced enforcing existing hijab laws, especially after the nationwide protests which swept through the country in 2022 sparked by the death of a young Kurdish woman, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, while in morality police custody for allegedly wearing a lax hijab.
[NAHARNET] The disarmament of the first Paleostinian camps in Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... will begin in mid-June in three Beirut camps, President Joseph Aoun confirmed Monday.
A joint Lebanese-Paleostinian committee met for the first time last week following an accord between Lebanese and Paleostinian leaders on disarming Paleostinian camps as Lebanon seeks to impose its authority on all its territory.
The Lebanese and Paleostinian sides agreed on starting a plan "to remove weapons from the camps, beginning mid-June in the Beirut camps, and other camps will follow," a Lebanese government official told AFP on Friday.
Lebanon hosts about 222,000 Paleostinian refugees, according to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... agency UNRWA, many living in 12 overcrowded official camps.
Most are descendants of Paleostinians who fled or were expelled from their land during the creation of Israel in 1948.
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[NAHARNET] Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said that Hezbollah's ''resistance'' will continue ''because it is the choice of the people and those who believe in it.''
''This resistance is a defensive resistance, it is a rejection of occupation, it is refusal to surrender,'' Qassem said in a televised speech marking the 25th anniversary of the liberation of south Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... from Israeli occupation.
''Resistance® is a choice. Sometimes it fights and deters, sometimes it perseveres and prevents, and other times it stays patient and ready,'' Qassem explained.
He added that ''resistance does not mean that there would be weapons moving every day or firing every day.''
''Resistance® is an approach, an orientation. Weapons are a tool for use when needed, in the appropriate way, and according to interest,'' Qassem went on to say.
He added: ''Let it be clear to everyone: do not request anything from us from now on. Let Israel withdraw, halt its aggression, release the captives and complete all the obligations present in the (ceasefire) agreement and after that we will act accordingly.''
''We have said it and we reiterate: if the state fails in its performance, the other options are present. Do not ask me what the other options are, but you can know that the resistance does not remain silent over injustice and does not surrender,'' Qassem said.
''Let no one threaten us. We cannot be threatened. We have only two choices and no third: victory or martyrdom — and we're ready for them,'' Hezbollah's leader added.
Addressing U.S. President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... and lauding his decision to stop the bombing campaign in 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... , Qassem warned that ''allowing Israel to continue its actions in Lebanon will strip America of an important opportunity for investments in Lebanon and the region.''
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[NAHARNET] This week is supposed to be ''decisive'' regarding the file of weapons inside Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... 's Paleostinian refugee camps, ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Monday.
''Lebanese official authorities are awaiting answers within hours from the Paleostinian side regarding the mechanism for handing over weapons in five of the camps in the first stage, which is supposed to be finalized before mid-June,'' the daily said.
''A second stage will follow during which the rest of weapons will be handed over in the rest of the camps, most notably Ain al-Helweh,'' ad-Diyar said.
A Lebanese official meanwhile told the daily that ''the official Paleostinian sides will this week prove whether they are serious in their cooperation and whether they will push for a speedy handover process.''
The disarmament of Paleostinian camps in Lebanon will begin next month based on an accord with visiting Paleostinian 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....> , a Lebanese government official told AFP on Friday.
The Lebanese and Paleostinian sides agreed on starting a plan "to remove weapons from the camps, beginning mid-June in the Beirut camps, and other camps will follow," the source told AFP.
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[NAHARNET] Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said ''the region has grown tired of Iranian-U.S. polarization,'' hoping Arabs will return to Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... ''We will not remain silent over any arms outside the state's control,'' Salam added, in an interview with Sky News Arabia.
''The majority of the Lebanese people stands by us and my strength comes from regaining the people's confidence in the state and my project is the rebuilding of the state,'' the premier said.
Asked about the chants that accused him of being a ''Zionist'' during a recent football match, Salam said he was not ''provoked'' by the chants, noting that ''treason accusations in Lebanon have become political weapons.''
''I'm sad because a part of Lebanon is occupied and we are advocates of peace, but we want a just and sustainable peace,'' the PM added.
As for the Paleostinian arms in Lebanon's refugee camps, Salam said: ''What's dangerous about the camps' arms is that they may lead to an inter-Paleostinian strife, and Paleostine's strength today does not come from arms, but rather from international recognition and diplomacy.''
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..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...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...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...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 
...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 
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
