Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics. [ColonelCassad] After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, opium production decreased by 95%.
It was their opium, or grown under their protection before, when they were the unloyal opposition, as it were. They were so efficient the market was saturated and their warehouse stuffed full, so shutting things down until all that was used up just makes sense.
A report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime shows that poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has declined from 233,000 hectares at the end of 2022 to 10,800 thousand in 2023. Opium production has similarly fallen from 6,200 tons to 333 tons this year.
The estimated volume of heroin exported this year is 24-38 tons, compared to 350-580 tons last year.
But the UN is not happy about it: the organization says the sudden contraction of Afghanistan's opium economy will lead to potential "humanitarian consequences for many vulnerable rural communities" as producers are forced to turn to much less profitable alternative crops.
They weren’t let to switch crops, before, because the Taliban wanted the income to finance their little insurrection. And now, when they can switch, we’re to feel sorry for them because they won’t make as much from buyers who won’t think to cut off their heads for imagined insubordination?
Farm incomes, estimated at $1.36 billion in 2022, fell 92% this year to $110 million, according to the UN, and the losses are expected to have a wider impact on the country's already struggling economy.
We don’t know how it is at the UN, but we at the editorial office know for sure: drugs are evil.
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As soon as the Americans were removed, the production of heroin without the main beneficiaries of drug trafficking collapsed.
It was exactly the same on the eve of the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, when the Taliban set records for reducing the production of narcotic raw materials.The Taliban have a plus in their karma - they basically keep one of their main promises.
Sure. The Taliban force production, then enforce cessation, thus increasing profits in both directions.
This directly concerns us, since a significant part of this flow came through Central Asia to Russia. The Taliban need to retrain peasants for agricultural crops, which China, Russia and Iran have long been offering them.
So did the Americans, as I recall, but the Taliban lived among them, with knives to their necks.
Æthiopia's federal army regained control of the Orthodox holy town of Lalibela (north) on Thursday, following the overnight departure of snuffies who had largely seized it the previous day, residents said.
Members of the Amhara Fano "self-defense" militia "left during the night. The federal army is in control of the town", a resident of Lalibela, world-famous for its rock-hewn churches, told AFP on Thursday morning on condition of anonymity.
The Fano - informal militias of volunteer citizen-fighters - supported the Æthiopian army during the two-year conflict with the rebel authorities of the neighboring Tigray region, which ended with an agreement signed in November 2022 in Pretoria.
This agreement, seen as a reversal of alliances in the face of territorial disputes between Amhara and Tigray, exacerbated tensions in Amhara. These escalated into open conflict when the federal government attempted to disarm regional forces in April.
"Until early this morning, the Fano controlled most of the town. When we woke up, they were finishing leaving town," confirmed another resident, who also requested anonymity for security reasons.
"I can see the ENDF (Federal Armed Forces) deployed in the streets", he added.
According to these two residents, who were contacted separately, no further festivities were audible on Thursday, the day after a day in which gunfire and explosions rocked the town.
On Wednesday afternoon, several residents had reported that the Fano were in control of most of Lalibela, and that federal forces had been pushed back to the outskirts of a base on the edge of town.
On Wednesday and Thursday, it was not possible to verify the statements made by local residents, as the federal authorities denied journalists access to Amhara.
Neither the federal government, nor the Æthiopian army, nor the regional authorities could be reached or responded to AFP messages since Wednesday. No reports of the fighting were available.
The second most populous country in Africa (120 million inhabitants), Æthiopia, a mosaic of 80 peoples, is torn apart by multiple simultaneous but unrelated conflicts.
[IsraelTimes] UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will hold the Metropolitan Police commissioner "accountable" for his decision to allow a mass pro-Paleostinian demonstration against the Israel-Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war to go ahead this Saturday.
Sunak says that a march taking place on Armistice Day would be "provocative and disrespectful," but organizers have resisted his pleas and those from the Met Police to postpone the demonstration.
Met Police chief Mark Rowley has said the rally does not meet the threshold for requesting a government order to stop it going ahead, and a ban would be an "incredibly rare last resort."
[IsraelTimes] London’s Metropolitan Police says it is powerless to stop a pro-Palestinian rally from going ahead Saturday, despite the date falling on Armistice Day, when Brits honor their war dead.
Despite officially falling on November 11, Armistice Day ceremonies will only take place Sunday. UK politicians and others had sought for the pro-Palestinian rally to be pushed off due to the day’s solemnity and fears that London’s cenotaph could be vandalized.
“The laws created by Parliament are clear. There is no absolute power to ban protest, therefore there will be a protest this weekend,” Commissioner Mark Rawley says.
He says intelligence about the potential for disorder “does not meet the threshold to apply for a ban,” noting that organizers have agreed to stay away from the cenotaph and Whitehall.
Weekly pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests in London have drawn up to 100,000 people, with some featuring clashes between cops and demonstrators.
Near Manchester, police have been dispatched to guard the cenotaph in Rochdale after it was daubed with “free Palestine” on Tuesday, the BBC reports.
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[KavkazUzel] Dagestan athletes, including MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov, have repeatedly glorified Russia on the world stage, commentators in the Dagestan public said in response to a call from State Duma deputy Andrei Kartapolov and member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Kirill Kabanov to check gyms in Dagestan for the subject of the spread of extremist ideology.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, Dagestani athletes Khabib Nurmagomedov and Makhmud Magomedov at the end of October called for leniency towards participants in the riots at Makhachkala airport that occurred on October 29 due to the report of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, in response to calls from athletes, said that the instigators of the riots should be punished .
On October 30, the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov , called the rioters at the Makhachkala airport marginalized, accusing them of trying to split Russian society and violating one of the main adats. He addressed the protesters, promising inevitable punishment . 201 people were detained for participation in the riots at Makhachkala airport , administrative protocols were drawn up for 155 of them, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on November 5.
State Duma deputy Andrei Kartapolov and member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Kirill Kabanov called for checking Dagestan mixed martial arts gyms for the spread of extremist ideology there, News.ru reported on November 3.
A post about the statement by Kartapolov and Kabanov was published on the evening of November 8 on the VKontakte social network in the Voice of Dagestan public page, which has more than 181 thousand subscribers. As of 12.25 Moscow time, this post received 233 likes with user reactions and 516 comments. Most of their authors criticized State Duma deputies.
“You better do other things, normal people work out in our gyms, there are no bad people in our gyms and there never will be,” said Ramiz Khalikov .
“Gyms are where true patriots are raised. Because patriotic education has long been closed in schools,” wrote Gadzhi Magomedov .
“Athletes from Dagestan only elevated Russia, but deputies of this kind always caused harm,” says Shamil Aripov .
“They don’t know what to come up with anymore. So let’s check all gyms in Russia for extremism,” said Arthur Gebekov sarcastically .
“First we need to check these deputies,” says Aslam Magdimagomedov .
“We should take on more serious problems instead of dealing with nonsense,” said Abubakr Abakarov.
“Don’t take this information to heart, these are just deputies, so many people have so many opinions,” noted Ali Aliyev.
Let us recall that on October 29, mass riots occurred at Makhachkala airport due to reports of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured in the riots, including nine police officers. 201 people were detained for participation in the riots at Makhachkala airport , administrative protocols were drawn up for 155 of them, the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North Caucasus Federal District reported on November 5.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov gained worldwide fame after a fight with American fighter Conor McGregor, which took place in 2018. Nurmagomedov's fellow countrymen are watching his career. More than 20 local residents came to the house of the head of the village of Sildi to watch the fight between Nurmagomedov and McGregor. The villagers celebrated their fellow countryman's victory by slaughtering a ram. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a biographical information about Khabib Nurmagomedov.
[AFRICANEWS] La Belle France will allocate an additional €80 million to humanitarian aid for the Paleostinian people this year, bringing the total to €100 million, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday.
Rewarding the Gazans for supporting Hamas’s Black Shabbat massacre? So much for your pledge to stand firm against ... well, whatever it was you were going to stand firmly against.
The French president was speaking at the start of an international aid conference on Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an 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... in Gay Paree, bringing together more than 50 nations to address the besieged Paleostinian enclave's growing needs including food, water, health supplies, electricity and fuel.
Macron appealed for Israel to protect civilians, saying that "all lives have equal worth" and that fighting terrorism "can never be carried out without rules."
No wonder the Nazis ran roughshod over France, back in the day.
He called for a humanitarian pause in fighting to allow aid to reach Gaza civilians.
"Since 7 October, La Belle France has announced an additional €20 million in humanitarian aid and we are going to increase this effort to €100 million for 2023," Macron said.
"Today, I am also calling on all the countries present to increase their financial contributions to the Paleostinian civilian population via the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ," Macron said.
He noted that the UN estimates the people of Gaza and the West Bank need $1.2 billion (€1.12 billion) of humanitarian aid.
They wouldn’t have needed anything, had they not triggered the consequences of their actions. How does it teach them to behave better, if they are rewarded for doing their best to plumb the ultimate levels of evil?
Macron praised the initiatives of individual countries to deliver aid to Gaza, including Jordan parachuting in health supplies, the UAE setting up a field hospital and Cyprus proposing a maritime corridor, as well as the air bridge set up by the EU.
If I were a French Jew, I would be selling out and moving to Israel. France is no longer a country that deserves the benefits of Jewish citizens.
"I hope that today's conference can also help us, perhaps, to bring together all these efforts" and "become more effective," he said.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, pointed out that the EU had quadrupled its humanitarian aid for Paleostinians.
"The suffering of the Paleostinians has been going on for 75 years," said Paleostinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh.
Amd for 75 years, they’ve done their best to
"Time is precious. Six children are killed every hour" in Gaza, he added.
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Macron appealed for Israel to protect civilians, saying that "all lives have equal worth"
Not to the Muzzies, and not to us - anymore.
p.s. Try thinking of it as retroactive abortion, Emmanuel. Feel better now?
They're gonna be conquered by the Medes and the Persians, and then by the Greeks?
[GEO.TV] Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar Thursday strongly condemned Israel's war on Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an 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... , particularly the elimination of Paleostinian children, likening it to the "pharaohs" who killed children on the advent of Prophet Moses' birth.
Demanding for Israel's offensive to be stopped immediately, the premier said: "Unfortunately, the people who claim to be the followers of [Prophet] Moses are following the path of pharaohs."
PM Kakar's condemnation came during the 16th Economic Cooperation Organisation Summit in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he was delivering a speech before participants of member countries.
He insisted all ECO member states immediately rally behind Paleostinians, stop the cessation of violence and encourage the humanitarian corridor to help the "unfortunate" and "defenceless" people of Paleostine. Those same defenseless Paleostinians who erupted a month ago to kill, maim, rape, and chop the heads off babies? Pray tell us, sir: What should be an appropriate penalty for those actions?
Condemning Israel for its atrocities on the residents of Gaza, PM Kakar said: "The incessant and lethal bombardments of Gaza by the Israeli forces is a deplorable act, which calls for international condemnation. This issue needs to be addressed in accordance with the relevant United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Security Council (UNSC) and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) resolutions."
They’ve been there since the Taliban took over the first time round, before 9/11. At some point they have to either be absorbed or sent away.
[GEO.TV] As a crackdown on illegal foreigners continues in Pakistain, the government plans to send back registered migrants colonists as well after deporting the undocumented settlers, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's caretaker Minister for Information Jan Achakzai said on Thursday.
"So far, 80,000 immigrants colonists from Balochistan have left Pakistain. After this, [we] will send back the registered refugees as well," Achakzai said while addressing a presser in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... The minister said that the foreigners living in Pakistain should have the authentic documents.
Hundreds of thousands of foreigners have got fake identification cards, he added.
"We have not taken the responsibility of the illegal residents. The crackdown on the illegal migrants colonists will continue," Achakzai said, while warning the government in Afghanistan against giving harsh statements. "Pakistain knows how to crush all kinds of terrorism."
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[The WRAP] CNN has severed ties with Gaza-based photojournalist Hassan Eslaiah after he was discovered to be embedded with terrorist group Hamas.
The news network said in a statement Thursday that their working relationship with the freelancer began after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel — attacks that the organization maintained it "had no prior knowledge of."
"We had no prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks. Hassan Eslaiah, a freelance journalist who has worked with a number of international and Israeli outlets, was not working for the network on Oct. 7. As of today, we have severed all ties with him," the statement read.
The decision came following a report from the pro-Israel watchdog group Honest Reporting that named several Gaza-based photojournalists working for major news media companies including CNN, The New York Times, the Associated Press and Reuters and raised "ethical questions" regarding their proximity and relation to Hamas.
Of Eslaiah, Honest Reporting wrote that he "crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza." The group also said that it "obtained screenshots of Eslaiah’s now-removed tweets on X in which he documented himself standing in front of the Israeli tank. He did not wear a press vest or a helmet, and the Arabic caption of his tweet read: ’Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.’"
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CNN was also on hand for the Roger Stone, Nov 2019 early morning FBI raid.
And they were on exact location prior to, with a full crew, where the violent confrontation between police and 'J-6 Insurgents' battled it out.
Almost as if it had been staged.
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when i watch tv it is newsmax or rav period. but my wife likes ohio state football and sometimes i sneak-a-peek but i am an SEC fan. Oh and she watches NYPD BLUE re-runs and sometimes i watch.
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Re: the photo on the left. Given the prevalence of evil hiding behind a pretty mask, it's refreshing in a way to see a monster who actually looks like what he is.
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If CNN fired all of its compromised employees, it would be down to just a janitorial staff unless the CCP is going through their trash. With them shutdown, how would we know what the CIA wants us to think?
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They are spies hiding under cover of being "journalists." They should be executed on the battlefield as the laws of warfare dictate.
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No worries - Associated [with terrorists] Press or Rooters [for terrorists] will hire him at higher pay.
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“I hate newspaper men. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.”
“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”
“We encounter a lot of weapons, a lot of tunnels. Here you saw one under a children’s room. We found them in playgrounds, we found them in kindergartens, and in mosques. Tomorrow morning someone will say ‘Why did they attack a mosque?’ This is why,” Adoniram said.
[IsraelTimes] The absence of many workers from their jobs due to the ongoing war with the Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... terror group has been costing the Israeli economy an estimated NIS 2.3 billon ($600 million) per week, or about 6 percent of GDP, according to a research report by the Bank of Israel.
The report measures the weekly cost in the first three weeks of the war, which broke out on October 7, and attributes the drop in labor supply to the massive mobilization of reserve soldiers, the evacuation of residents in the south and north, and the closure of the education system, making it hard for parents to work.
The cost calculation breaks down into NIS 1.25 billion due to the complete closure of educational institutions, NIS 590 million due to the absence at work of 144,000 evacuated residents from war-affected areas, and about NIS 500 million due to the mobilization of about 360,000 reserve soldiers.
The partial opening of the education system in recent days may reduce the cost, the central bank notes.
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Yea, well, we'll have to cut some (super essential) social services.
And Israelis will have to cut down on travel abround - after that we seen the last month, shouldn't be too hard.
On the other hand, IMI exports will raise significantly. And expenses on security involving handling "Palestinians" with silk gloves will decrease.
[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group has posted propaganda videos showing two Israeli hostages held in 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 an 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.
One clip shows an elderly woman, and the second clip shows a young boy. Media outlets name them as Hannah Katzir, 77, and Yagil Yaakov, 13, both kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7.
The pair speak in Hebrew, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of causing the ongoing situation.
Hostages saying what they were told under threat to say.
It is the first time Islamic Jihad has posted footage of hostages it is holding.
The content of this and other similar videos are almost sure to have been dictated by the hostages’ captors and are widely regarded as an attempt at psychological warfare.
Indeed.
According to Rooters, the PIJ’s armed wing says it will soon release a woman and a boy — possibly the same two captives — for "humanitarian and medical reasons" once the "appropriate measures are met."
Recall, dear Reader, that Umm Al Fahm is the home base of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel. Given that Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra’am Party, the political front of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, is driving out of his party an MK who voiced doubts about reports of Hamas atrocities, it looks like the October 7th Black Shabbat Massacre was a definite learning experience for the Arab population of Israel as well as the Jews.
[IsraelTimes] A recent friendly match between soccer teams from the Arab towns of Umm Al Fahm and Kafr Qasim began with a moment of silence for the victims of the October 7 Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... massacre, the Israel Football Association says.
Association board member and Umm al-Fahm team owner Muhammad Abu Alam says in a statement that he jointly made the decision to hold a moment of silence along with his Kfar Qasim counterpart Bilal Badir.
"Out of great pain that has not let up, we expressed the deep partnership and unity of all of us in a symbolic act of a minute’s silence in memory of the fallen. Wishing for better and beautiful days, for Arabs and Jews alike," says a statement from Abu Alam.
[IsraelTimes] US officials believe the corpse count 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 an 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... may well be even higher than the more than 10,000 reported by the Strip’s Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... -run Health Ministry, Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf told a US House panel yesterday.
Is she one of the staffers who signed one of those dissent memos, unhappy because America hasn’t nuked Israel for picking on those poor, brown Palestinians?
Israeli officials, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... and others have challenged the ministry’s figures — which topped more than 10,800 killed in Gaza as of today — as exaggerated.
"We think they’re very high, frankly, and it could be that they’re even higher than are being cited," she says, later adding this is "very possible."
Leaf says US officials draw on "sourcing from a variety of folks who are on the ground," but gives no other details of the US assessment.
Leaf notes that Hamas health officials do not separate the numbers of civilians and fighters killed, and says it is difficult to know the true number of deaths as long as the fighting continues.
[GEO.TV] Paleostinians should govern 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 an 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... once Israel ends its war against Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... , the United States said on Wednesday, pushing back against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's idea that Israel would be responsible for security indefinitely. That because the Paleostinians have been doing such a bang up job of running the place to date.
Hamas button men from Gaza burst through the border to Israel on Oct 7 and killed 1,400 people, Israel says. Now a month later, Washington has begun discussing with Israeli and Arab leaders a future for the Gaza Strip without Hamas rule. So... Israel's doing the work and Biden and the "Arab leaders" are doing the supervising?
While a plan has yet to emerge, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... on Wednesday outlined in the most comprehensive comments on the issue to date Washington's red lines and expectations for the besieged coastal territory. "We see Gazoo as a potential rival to the Riviera or maybe Costa Brava, assuming the locals can get used to all the titties. Decent restaurants, good wines, that sort of thing."
“...Like Lebanon used to be, before they lost the plot.”
"No reoccupation of Gaza after the conflict ends. No attempt to blockade or besiege Gaza. No reduction in the territory of Gaza," Blinken said at a presser in Tokyo. Blinken said there may be a need for "some transition period" at the end of the conflict, but that post-crisis governance in Gaza must include Paleostinian voices. How about a resident Israeli Governor General? All armed groups to be dissolved? Disarming the police? (Recall how many cops went jihad in Afghanistan?) A ban on rocketry? A Paleostinian governing staff under Israeli supervision? A citizenry that can do as they please as long as it doesn't involve rioting?
"It must include Paleostinian-led governance and Gaza unified with the West Bank under the Paleostinian Authority." I'd go with the Governor-General idea. I wouldn't give you two cents for the Paleostinian authority, even though it chews through a bunch of my tax dollars.
Israeli officials have since tried to clarify they do not intend to occupy Gaza after the war, but they have yet to articulate how they might ensure security without maintaining a military presence. Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza in 2005. How about "step out of line again and we'll pound you to paste? Again."
It’ll need to be “..Even more.” Again doesn’t convey the gravity attached to not learning the lesson this time.
The Paleostinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, says Gaza, where Hamas has ruled since 2007, is an integral part of what it envisions for a future Paleostinian state. I can say I'm six foot three, handsome, blonde, with a full head of hair, and irresistible to women. I remain three inches shorter, homely, dark and bald, and women sometimes say "ew!"
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no. gaza should be erased and be part of israel. if occupants dont like it they can move to eastern jordan or syria. lets see how jordan and syria welcome them.
Possibly they haven’t offered the only thing Israel will take in trade: all the hostages.
[GEO.TV] Taher al-Nono, a political adviser to Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , said on Thursday that unspecified negotiations were continuing and no deal had been reached with Israel so far.
He gave no more detail in a statement posted on the group's Telegram channel.
The White House had said earlier in the day that Israel would begin daily four-hour pauses in northern 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 an 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... to enable Paleostinians to flee Hamas-Israeli fighting in the coastal enclave.
Will Hamas stop blocking their passage at gunpoint? Will Hamas stop popping out of their war tunnels to attack Israel during the pauses? It will get interesting, whichever way Hamas chooses.
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[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces releases a phone call it says is further evidence of Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s use of ambulances for terror.
In the call, an apparent Hamas operative can be heard speaking to a Gazook man, saying he "can leave with any ambulance" he wants.
The context of the call is not clear.
The Shin Bet also releases quotes from the interrogation of several Hamas members who took part in the October 7 onslaught and were captured.
"Al-Qassam has its own ambulances, some of which are located on the military base. The appearance of the ambulances is similar to the civilian ambulances so that they will not arouse suspicion or be bombed by Israel," says one Hamas terrorist.
Another Hamas terrorist says that "during combat, the ambulances are used, among other things, to evacuate fighters, commanders and operatives. They also transport food, cargo and weapons in them because that is the safest way to transport them."
[IsraelTimes] The High Court of Justice rejects a petition demanding the police be ordered to approve an anti-war demonstration in the Arab-Israeli towns of Um al-Fahm and Sakhnin, siding with the police that such an event would divert critical manpower during a time of intense security challenges.
The Hadash political party together with senior Communist party officials had petitioned the High Court to enable such demonstrations to go head in the face of stiff police opposition to such events at present, including that of Police Commissioner Kobi Shabbtai.
In a unanimous decision, Justices Isaac Amit, Yael Wilner and Ruth Ronen point out in their ruling the unprecedented period of war the country is experiencing, facing Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in the south and Hezbollah in the north, and in which the home front has suffered massive rocket barrages and other attacks.
The justices accept the police argument that due to these security threats and the heavy burden of missions on the police at present, it could not dedicate the necessary manpower to protecting public order and ensuring the safety of protesters in a large political demonstration at present.
"Many coppers would need to be diverted for this purpose at the expense of emergency, life saving missions," writes Amit in his opinion. He adds, however, that "the gates of protest, demonstration and processions are open also during times of war" and that the decision relates to the specific request made by the petitioners.
Amit writes therefore that the police must continue to evaluate every request for to hold a protest on its own merits and based on the prevailing circumstances.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ColonelCassad] After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, opium production decreased by 95%.
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
