[IsraelTimes] Azhar Ali, a candidate for Britannia’s Labour Party, apologizes after recordings emerged of him saying that Israel had "allowed" the October 7 onslaught by the Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terror group in southern Israel to take place to give a "green light to do whatever they bloody want" 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... The candidate in this month’s Rochdale
...famed for the authorities ignoring for over a generation that its very underage schoolgirls were being groomed by and for the pleasure of the local “Asian” gents, a few of whom were finally sent to jail in recent years...
byelection "apologized unreservedly to the Jewish community" for his "inexcusable comments," The Guardian reports.
"Hamas’s horrific terror attack was the responsibility of Hamas alone, and they are still holding hostages who must be released," Ali says.
The apology comes after recordings emerged of Ali making the controversial comments.
"The Egyptians are saying that they warned Israel ten days earlier... Americans warned them a day before [that] there’s something happening... They deliberately took the security off, they allowed... that massacre that gives them the green light to do whatever they bloody want," he says in the recordings, obtained by The Mail on Sunday.
Labour is still facing criticism for allowing Ali to be a candidate despite the comment, The Guardian reports.
In November, Labour leader Keir Starmer was hit by a string of resignations from his frontbench in the House of Commons, after he faced a rebellion from his MPs over his refusal to back a ceasefire in Gaza.
Under the leadership of previous party chief Jeremy Corbyn, Labour was accused of allowing antisemitism to fester within its ranks. Starmer has said he had to "rip antisemitism out" the party.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive, aimed at eliminating Hamas, after the terror group’s October 7 massacre, which saw some 3,000 snuffies burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages of all ages under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities. The vast majority of those killed as button men seized border communities were civilians — including children and the elderly — many of them massacred amid brutal atrocities.
[IsraelTimes] A London theater has issued an apology after a comedian it hosted allegedly harassed a Jewish audience member and ordered him to "leave my fucking show" when the spectator did not applaud a Paleostinian flag. Perfidious Albion, it's what they do. It's what they've always done.
The Soho theater says it has opened an investigation into the Saturday incident "which has caused upset and hurt to members of audience attending and others."
According to witnesses, Paul Currie placed Paleostinian and Ukrainian flags onstage and invited the audience to stand and applaud.
"When we all sat down again, [Currie] looked toward a young man sitting in the second row and said: ’You didn’t stand, why? Didn’t you enjoy my show?’ a witness recalls to the Campaign Against Antisemitism watchdog.
"The young man, who we discovered soon after was Israeli, replied: ’I enjoyed your show until you brought out the Paleostinian Authority flag.’"
The witness says Currie responded, "Get out of my show. Get the f*ck out of here. F*ck off, get the f*ck out of here" as several other audience members cheered the comedian on and shouted, "Get out" and "Free Paleostine" until the young man left.
The witness, who was also Jewish, says, "It felt like we were welcome in the theatre as long as our identities [as] Jews weren’t known, and the minute our identities were known, we felt threatened."
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The witness, who was also Jewish, says, "It felt like we were welcome in the theatre as long as our identities [as] Jews weren’t known, and the minute our identities were known, we felt threatened."
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/\ Such thoughtfulness to be enjoyed in Israel as well, once you establish the proper oligarchic hierarchy and aristocratic structure. Use your national intelligence framework or a radical tribal affiliate as a template. Feel free to use both. Their guidance will be crucial. Effective theater for the masses would include the retention of the Knesset and supporting media.
The national flag can be changed at some future date. Display of the old standard must of course be outlawed.
Obviously, 'open borders' must come a bit later. Some social turbulence will result. I recommend blaming Russia. 'Hope and change' will come. You'll see.
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[KavkazUzel] After checking the statement about Seda Suleymanova’s detention by Chechen security forces, the prosecutor’s office stated that the girl voluntarily left for the republic from St. Petersburg, human rights activists reported.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on August 23, 2023, security forces came to 26-year-old Seda Suleymanova and her fiance, who fled from Chechnya to St. Petersburg, and detained them, explaining that the girl was suspected of stealing jewelry. Then the young man was released, and the girl was sent to Grozny, where she was interrogated as a witness in a theft case and handed over to her uncle and aunt. The lawyers were not allowed to meet with the client, citing her refusal of their services. On October 20, Suleymanova’s fiancé Stanislav Kudryavtsev announced that he had converted to Islam and asked to meet with her, but received no response from the girl’s relatives. Nothing has been known about Seda Suleymanova’s fate for 150 days, her friend said on February 1 at a picket near the St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office.
Seda Suleymanova turned to human rights activists back in October 2022 because she was afraid that her family might commit an “honor killing,” since her relatives from Grozny were not satisfied with her lack of religiosity. In January 2023, Seda found a job and decided to stay in St. Petersburg. In February of the same year, her relatives already tried to kidnap her, but she managed to escape. After this, Seda changed her job and address, but remained in St. Petersburg, where she was detained in August.
Human rights activists received a response from the prosecutor's office to a statement in which they asked to check the actions of the security forces who took Seda Suleymanova and the fact of her disappearance, the SOS Crisis Group reported today. “The application was filed in August 2023 [immediately after the lawyers were unable to find Seda at the police station in Grozny. The prosecutor’s office began an investigation only after hundreds of applications demanding an investigation into the abduction. However, there are many oddities in the prosecutor’s response: no police officers are mentioned, nor detention,” says a publication on the telegram channel of the human rights organization.
According to the response from the prosecutor's office, Seda Suleymanova was summoned for questioning and voluntarily went to Grozny to give evidence, after which she went to her family. “As noted in the document, “preventive measures or procedural coercion, including detention and bringing” were not used against Seda. That is, according to the prosecutor’s office, the St. Petersburg police did not force Seda to go to Chechnya. Moreover, the prosecutor’s office claims, that there is no evidence of Seda’s involvement in the criminal case for which she was brought to Chechnya,” the publication notes.
The version of the prosecutor's office contradicts the words of Suleymanova's fiancé Stanislav, human rights activists pointed out. The publication quotes his words: “They put me in front of the peephole of the apartment, and when Seda opened the door, they immediately burst in. She fell to the floor, shook in shock, cried, said that they would kill her at home. She called it an “honor killing.” ".
Women whose behavior is considered a disgrace by their relatives may become victims of “honor killings” in the Caucasus. These murders are committed by relatives themselves, most often a father or brother, says the Caucasian Knot report “ Honor Killings in the North Caucasus.”
In addition, there is a video recording of a conversation between lawyer Seda Suleymanova and St. Petersburg police officers, who reported that the girl was taken away by security forces from Chechnya. However, the prosecutor's office "did not take into account the video recording, the witness's testimony and the lack of an arrest report," the publication states.
“The lawyers will appeal the decision of the prosecutor’s office. In addition, two more applications were filed: to the Investigative Committee and to the prosecutor’s office regarding the possible murder of Seda,” the statement says.
Let us recall that on February 7, the SOS Crisis Group reported that two sources in Chechnya voiced a version of the murder of Seda Suleymanova by relatives. Human rights activists demanded that the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office check information about a possible "honor killing", noting that "nothing has been heard about Suleymanova for more than 150 days."
The long absence of information about the fate of Seda Suleymanova does not give reason to believe that she was killed, experts familiar with the realities of Chechnya told the Caucasian Knot. “Honor killings” are not committed for lack of religiosity; the relatives could limit themselves to isolating the girl, they explained.
Earlier, on August 29, 2023, the Ombudsman of Chechnya, Mansur Soltaev, in a report on a meeting with Seda Suleymanova, stated that the girl was not in danger and was safe. Human rights activists then noted that Soltaev did not publish a video of the conversation, but only a photo in which a mark similar to a hematoma was visible on the girl’s neck.
On September 4, 2023, Mansur Soltaev announced a return visit to Suleymanova. According to him, the girl met him in a good mood and did not express any complaints. At the same time, in the short video that Soltaev published, Suleymanova simply accompanies him to the gate, and music is superimposed on the video.
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[Regnum] Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran in Volgograd, stated in court that he did not think about the consequences, but only wanted to earn extra money.
During a hearing of the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny, he said that on May 4, 2023, he burned the Koran and filmed it on his mobile phone, after which he sent the filmed video to a user of the Telegram messenger with the nickname “//”.
“After burning, I wrapped the remains of the Quran in a T-shirt and later threw it in the trash. I did this in order to obtain material resources. I didn’t think about the consequences,” Zhuravel said.
Answering questions, Zhuravel said that he did not know the customer personally, but had been communicating with him since the end of February 2023 in the chat of the Telegram channel, and the contact was established while viewing public news on the topic of a special military operation.
After this, Zhuravel, on the instructions of the customer, filmed the movement of special equipment in Volgograd, posted leaflets on the topic of evacuation of the population, and took other actions.
He also said that he bought the Koran with his own money. Later, 800 rubles were transferred to him, he did not receive any other money and thought that the reward would come later.
As Regnum reported, the incident with the burning of the Koran occurred in Volgograd in May 2023. Local resident Nikita Zhuravel was detained on suspicion of committing a crime. He admitted that he acted on the instructions of the Ukrainian intelligence services, which promised to pay him a reward of 10 thousand rubles. On May 22, the Central District Court of Volgograd sent him under arrest.
Later, Russian Justice Minister Konstantin Chuychenko said that the attacker would serve his sentence in one of the regions of the country with a predominantly Muslim population.
Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case for insulting the feelings of believers, and at the end of May the accused was taken to the pre-trial detention center in Grozny. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation explained that Zhuravel’s case was transferred to investigators in Chechnya, since the agency received numerous appeals from residents of the republic calling for them to be recognized as victims.
In October, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, showed footage of a meeting with Zhuravel and said that he doubts that the young man arrested for burning the Koran sincerely wants to convert to Islam. He called the detainee a provocateur and saboteur who acted in the style of European intelligence services.
Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel testified at a court hearing in Grozny that he burned the Koran in hopes of receiving a monetary reward.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on November 2, 2023, the court in Grozny began to consider the case of Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel, accused in the case of burning the Koran. He is accused of violating the right to freedom of conscience and religion and hooliganism. On February 7, the court hearing at which Zhuravel was supposed to testify was postponed at the request of the defense.
On May 20, 2023, security forces detained Nikita Zhuravel in Volgograd. According to investigators, the detainee said that he recorded a video of the burning of the Koran at the direction of the Ukrainian special services and received 10 thousand rubles for it. He handed over the recording to an employee of the Ukrainian special services, for whom he also filmed military facilities, Sledkom reported.
Nikita Zhuravel, while testifying in court, said that he was guided by material interests, Chechnya Segodnya news agency reports today. “On May 4, 2023, I burned the Koran and filmed it on my mobile phone. I sent the video to a user of the Telegram messenger with the nickname “//“. After burning, I wrapped the remains of the Koran in a T-shirt and later threw it into a trash can on the territory of my university. I did this with the purpose of obtaining material resources,” the agency quotes the defendant as saying.
Answering questions from the participants in the process, Zhuravel said that he did not know the customer personally, but had been communicating with him since the end of February 2023 in a telegram channel chat.
Zhuravel noted that, on the instructions of the customer, he filmed the movement of special equipment in Volgograd, wrote with paint: “Beware, today there is a killer in the city” on the wall under the bridge and posted leaflets on the topic of evacuation of the population. According to him, he bought the Koran with his own money, and later 800 rubles were transferred to him - he did not receive any other money, assuming that the reward would be “at the end of the cooperation,” RIA Novosti reports today.
[IsraelTimes] Dutch government vows to appeal after judge says there is ‘undeniable’ risk exported parts are being ‘used in serious violations of international humanitarian law’.
The Netherlands must stop delivering parts for F-35 fighter jets used by Israel 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, a Dutch court ruled on Monday following an appeal by human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... organizations. The groups had argued that supplying the parts contributed to alleged violations of international law by Israel in its war with the Paleostinian terror group Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... in the Gaza Strip.
"The court orders the State to cease all actual export and transit of F-35 parts with final destination Israel within seven days after service of this judgment," said the ruling.
"It is undeniable that there is a clear risk that the exported F-35 parts are used in serious violations of international humanitarian law," Judge Bas Boele said in reading the ruling, eliciting cheers from several people in the courtroom.
The Dutch government said it would appeal the order,
Good.
arguing the F-35s are crucial for Israel to protect itself from "threats in the region, for example from Iran, 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... , Syria and Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. 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? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... The US-owned F-35 parts are stored at a warehouse in the Netherlands and then shipped to several partners, including Israel, via existing export agreements.
"In doing so, the Netherlands is contributing to serious violations of humanitarian law of war in Gaza," the rights groups had argued.
Government lawyers have said banning transfers of F-35 parts from the Netherlands would effectively be meaningless as the US could deliver them from elsewhere.
Lockheed Martin Israel, the local division of the US aerospace giant that manufactures the F-35, said it was evaluating the impact of the ruling.
"We’re working closely with the F-35 Joint Program Office to evaluate the impacts the recent Dutch court ruling will have on our supply chain," the company said. "We stand ready to support the US government and allies as needed," it said.
In December, the district court in The Hague had said that supplying the parts was primarily a political decision that judges should not interfere with.
"The considerations that the minister makes are to a large extent of a political and policy nature and judges should leave the minister a large amount of freedom," the court ruled at the time.
Dutch authorities had said it was unclear whether they even had the power to intervene in the deliveries, part of a US-run operation that supplies parts to all F-35 partners.
Government lawyer Reimer Veldhuis told the judge at the time that even if it were to uphold the rights lawyers’ legal arguments and ban exports, "the United States would deliver these parts to Israel from another place."
He added that Israel has the right to self-defense.
Damn straight."Israel must be able to respond to threats from the region. That must, of course, happen within the framework of international law," Veldhuis said.
But he noted that the government "believes that a clear risk of serious breaches (of international law) through the use of F-35s cannot at the moment be established."
According to the Lockheed Martin website about the F-35, every one of the high-tech jets has parts that were manufactured in Dutch factories.
International law experts have told AFP that human rights violations are likely being carried out by both parties to the conflict.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague, which rules on disputes between states, has said Israel must do everything possible to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza.
If both are misbehaving, how can the Netherlands justify punishing only Israel?
That ruling “strengthens our confidence in a positive ruling in our case,” said PAX Netherlands, one of the rights groups involved in the appeal.
Dutch government vows to appeal after judge says there is ‘undeniable’ risk exported parts are being ‘used in serious violations of international humanitarian law’.
I'm sure citizens of German and Japanese cities would concur circa 1944-5.
[Al Jazeera] When Nawaz Sharif, the three-time former prime minister, emerged on the balcony of his party’s headquarters in Lahore on Friday night, fireworks went off as he was given a rousing welcome by the crowd of nearly 1,500 people.
Sharif started out with what has now become the staple of his public addresses, asking the crowd of his Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) supporters, “Do you love me?”. The response, “We love you!”, echoed among his adoring audience.
Yet, more than three days after Pakistan voted in general elections, there is little evidence that the sentiment of Sharif’s core supporters is shared by the wider public in the nation of 241 million people that stunned analysts in their voting patterns on February 8. [insert definition of insanity here]
For weeks before the elections, the PMLN was viewed by experts as the favourite to secure a clear victory that would give the 74-year-old political veteran another chance to rule Pakistan. Once targeted by Pakistan’s military establishment, Sharif appeared to have won the favour of the generals for the 2024 vote.
So confident were Sharif and the PMLN of their win that they had scheduled a victory speech from their leader for Thursday night, barely hours after polls closed. Then, the results started coming in, and the bubble was burst.
“As the voting patterns emerged, it shocked and surprised the party, forcing a rethink which is why they were in complete silent mode for nearly 12 hours,” said Majid Nizami, a political analyst, and a specialist on elections.
When Sharif finally addressed supporters on Friday, he claimed victory, but acknowledged that his party had failed to secure a simple majority and so would need coalition partners to form a government.
“This was not the result the party was expecting. They thought they would achieve more than 85 percent of seats from Punjab province, but initial trends showed they were barely getting 50 percent of seats,” Lahore-based Nizami told Al Jazeera.
Almost all of the remaining seats in Punjab, the bastion of Sharif’s PMLN, went to candidates backed by former PM Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) — a party that experts believed had been decimated by targeted political and legal attacks in recent months.
WHAT WENT WRONG? As the dust settles on the election results, the PMLN has emerged with 75 seats in the national assembly, trailing PTI-backed independent candidates by 20 seats.
The PTI alleges widespread manipulation and tampering, insisting that it has been denied a far larger majority and that their mandate has been “stolen” to benefit Sharif and his PMLN.
So, what happened to the PMLN, a party that, as late as early 2022, was leading opinion polls in popularity over PTI and was considered the strongest party in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous and electorally important province?
For Lahore-based political analyst and editor Badar Alam, the roots of PMLN’s disappointing performance in the polls can be traced back to April 2022 when Imran Khan, the PTI chief, and then-prime minister were ousted through a parliamentary vote of no-confidence.
At the time, Sharif was in self-imposed exile in the United Kingdom, after a series of corruption-related convictions. His party allied with the country’s other traditional political force, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and others under what was called the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), to topple Khan’s government.
They succeeded. But, said Alam, “once Shehbaz Sharif, Nawaz’s younger brother, took over as prime minister, his attention went towards removing all the cases and convictions against his elder brother.”
These are cases that have haunted the Sharif brothers for three decades. The elder Sharif, who ruled the country twice in the 1990s, has been dogged by corruption allegations since then. In 1999, he was ousted in a military coup. His third term in power, after the PMLN won the 2013 elections, was marked by intensifying rivalry with Khan, who eventually won the 2018 election, backed at the time by Pakistan’s powerful military establishment that has ruled the country directly for more than three decades and has influenced politics from behind the scenes for much of the rest of the country’s existence.
Yet, since relations between Khan and the military soured, and he was ousted in 2022 — with the military now seemingly backing the PDM government — Pakistan has been through torrid political, economic and security crises.
Salman Ghani, a political analyst who has been covering the PMLN for a long time, said that as the leading party of the PDM, the decisions of that government hung heavy around the Sharif brothers’ necks.
“The 16-month rule of PDM caused almost irreversible damage to the PMLN. The tenure saw massive inflation, hitting the public everywhere, including their own vote bank,” Ghani told Al Jazeera. “Theirs is a party of development and the economy; people support them for delivery, not for ideology. That perception was destroyed in that time.”
Pakistan was on the verge of defaulting on loans last year, with its foreign reserves depleting to less than $4 billion dollars, and its rupee depreciating rapidly against the US dollar. A $3 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund helped stave off a default temporarily.
Sharif returned home from his exile three months before the elections. Many analysts believe that Sharif’s return and the subsequent change in his legal fortunes — with convictions against him dropped and restrictions against contesting elections removed — were made possible only because the military had decided to back him in the 2024 vote.
Meanwhile, Khan has been charged in more than 100 cases; was jailed in August and barred from contesting in the elections; and was sentenced in three separate cases just the week before the February 8 polls.
Meanwhile, Khan has been charged in more than 100 cases; was jailed in August and barred from contesting in the elections; and was sentenced in three separate cases just the week before the February 8 polls.
His party faced a crackdown — senior party officials were arrested, many were apparently coerced to leave his movement, and the PTI was barred from even using its election symbol, the cricket bat, in the elections. Its candidates were forced to contest as independents.
But the PTI wasn’t the only party that suffered. The PMLN and the military, seen by many ordinary Pakistanis as being behind the crackdown, made the mistake of underestimate popular support for Khan, said Ghani.
“When a person is oppressed, their support increases massively. We saw that in the case of Nawaz Sharif himself. Those who are pushed against the wall, they are the ones to retaliate the most. PMLN did not understand this,” he added.
Alam, the Lahore-based analyst agreed.
“Not even once did they [the PMLN] condemn the violence and persecution of the PTI; in fact, they played their part in fully subjugating them. This made PMLN a victimiser, resulting in public anger against them,” he said.
A party leader acknowledged that the PMLN had been blindsided by the recent election results.
“PMLN is on the defensive; Nawaz Sharif is on the defensive,” he told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity.
The insider also blamed “sycophants” within the party, whom he accused on focusing on their own interests, for the PMLN’s failure to adapt its messaging as public opinion started to swing against it.
“Nawaz Sharif used to be very adept at handling media himself, but now that isn’t the case,” he said.
While the PMLN supremo, in his speech on Friday, did name other parties the PMLN might seek alliances with to form a government, he did not mention the PTI.
Alam said that PMLN and Nawaz Sharif must show some “grace”.
“PMLN came in as a party that was a government-in-waiting. PTI and Khan were in survival mode, but they upset the predictions. The country is in crisis, and it is imperative for Sharif, if he thinks he is a statesman, to concede and ask PTI to form a government,” Alam said.
Lahore-based Ghani said that the election risked compounding the country’s political, economic, and security challenges.
“Countries, when they hold elections, their objective is to bring stability. Democracy functions when it holds elections, and a mandate is earned. In our country, the election result is causing further instability,” he added.
Ghani said that Sharif, in his Friday speech, ought to have acknowledged the support of voters for Khan and the PTI, and indicated a willingness to “reach out to them”.
But what about the party’s own support base and future? It’s not looking very good for the PMLN, said Nizami, the analyst.
“Their strength and hegemony were in central Punjab area, from where they used to sweep the number of seats. It was unthinkable for them to lose votes. Yet, they have been losing ground to PTI and are unable to stop the rot,” he said.
[GEO.TV] Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) chief Pir Sibghatullah Rashidi has categorically rejected the 2024 election results and announced the relinquishing of two Sindh Assembly seats that were won by the political alliance.
"We reject this ’anti-state’ election results as it was not prepared by returning officers [ROs] but ’someone else’," the senior politician 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... on Monday.
"Someone had given me a suggestion to dissolve GDA which I rejected. I was also asked to form an alliance with [Pakistain Peoples Party co-chairman] Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in... to get some seats for the Pakistain Moslem League-Functional (PML-F)."
The politico further said that they would never accept "charity seats".
"We will not let anyone run the next government. The GDA parties will continue to stage peaceful protests within constitutional boundaries until the conduct of transparent elections."
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[GEO.TV] Former PTI leader Faisal Vawda has predicted that the minus-PPP government will not last more than six months in the country.
Speaking on Geo News, Vawda: “If Nawaz Sharif becomes the prime minister and the PPP is not part of the alliance, then the firecracker will go off in six months.”
There are more chances that Shehbaz Sharif will become the premier again, he added.
[GEO.TV] Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz central leader Khawaja Asif ruled out an impression of ’horse-trading’ of independent candidates in a bid to reach the numbers required to get a simple majority in the parliament after the 2024 nationwide polls.
"It is Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... ’s (PTI) habit to raise issues in every election. Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) has also accepted the election results," Asif criticised while speaking to Geo News’ programme ’Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’ today.
He detailed that the number of PML-N seats increased in the parliament after some independent candidates announced their loyalty to the Nawaz-led party. "We are not luring anyone but the independent candidates are themselves willing to join us," he claimed.
[GEO.TV] Asif said that his party has the right to get the prime minister’s office after winning a majority.
To a question, the senior politician replied that Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... has not lost his hopes in the current political scenario and his party was passionate about serving and providing relief to the masses.
Elaborating on his party’s ongoing efforts to gather coalition partners for the next government, he said that PML-N has also held fruitful talks with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... -Pakistain (MQM-P).
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[GEO.TV] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) leader Latif Khosa has ruled out the possibility of forming a "coalition government" and complained that the Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... -founded party is being sidelined despite securing the highest number of votes in the February 8 nationwide polls.
"It is a tragedy that a party with the highest number of votes is not being recognised," the senior advocate said while talking to Geo News’ programme ’Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’ on Monday.
It was a common democratic practice to extend invitations to the parties who won the highest number of seats after an electoral event, he deplored, adding that the Imran-led party was not being recognised despite securing the highest number of votes.
Detailing his party’s future strategy after the final election results’ announcement, the politico said: "We did not have a good experience of forming a coalition government. We would prefer to sit on opposition benches to serve the nation."
[GEO.TV] After facing setbacks in the February 8 general elections as both the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party and the Jamaat-e-Islami failed to show any electoral progress, IPP's Patron-in-Chief Jahangir Tareen and JI's Emir Sirajul Haq announced resigning from the party offices on Monday.
Subsequently, Pervez Khattak — the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-Parliamentarians (PTI-P) chief and former aide of PTI founder Imran Khan — also announced "taking a break from politics" after the election setback.
Tareen, an influential politician who was once a close aide of incarcerated former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, has faced humiliation in the nationwide February 8 general elections as his newly-formed party grabbed only two National Assembly (NA) and one provincial assembly seats.
Citing poor electoral performance, the IPP founder announced quitting politics and his party position in a post on X.
“I would like to thank everyone who supported me in this election and want to offer my congratulations to my opponents. I have immense respect for the will of the people of Pakistan. Therefore, I have decided to resign from my position as Chairman IPP and step away from politics altogether,” the senior politician wrote on his official X handle.
“My gratitude to all the members of IPP. I wish them the absolute best. By the Grace of Allah, I will continue to serve my country to the best of my ability in a private capacity. May the next few years see Pakistan prosper IA. Pakistan Zindabad,” he added.
In another development on the political landscape today, the chief of the politico-religious party, Sirajul Haq tendered his resignation citing “failures to get the targeted electoral results.”
The Siraj-led party failed to win a single NA seat, however, it grabbed five provincial seats.
Qaiser Sharif, JI’s Central Secretary Information of, confirmed the development regarding the party chief’s resignation which he tendered after taking responsibility for disappointing electoral performance in the general polls.
Sharif said that JI’s Secretary General Ameerul Azeem summoned an emergency session of the central shura on February 17 at the party’s headquarters — Mansoora Lahore. “The central shura’s session will commence at 10am and mull over the situation [post-resignation of the JI emir].”
.@UNLazzarini it’s not that you didn’t know, it’s that you didn’t WANT to know. We exposed terror tunnels under UNRWA schools and supplied evidence that Hamas’ exploits UNRWA. We implored you to carry out a comprehensive search of all UNRWA facilities in Gaza. But not only did… https://t.co/bJsD66OwoO
... - UNRWA staff left its headquarters in Gaza City on 12 October following the Israeli evacuation orders and as bombardment intensified in the area.
- We have not used that compound since we left it nor are we aware of any activity that may have taken place there.
- We understand, through media reporting, that the Israeli Army has deployed troops within the UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza City.
- We are therefore unable to confirm or otherwise comment on these reports.
- In times of “no active conflict” UNRWA inspects inside its premises every quarter, the last inspection for the UNRWA Gaza premises was completed in September 2023.
- UNRWA is a Human development and humanitarian organisation that does not have the military and security expertise nor the capacity to undertake military inspections of what is or might be under its premises.
- In the past, whenever suspicious cavity was found close to or under UNRWA premises, protest letters were promptly filed to parties to the conflict, including both the de facto authorities in Gaza (Hamas) and the Israeli authorities. The matter was consistently reported in annual reports presented to the General Assembly and made public.
- These recent media reports merit an independent inquiry that is currently not possible to undertake given Gaza is an active war zone.
- The Israeli Authorities have not informed UNRWA officially about the alleged tunnel.
... But not only did you refuse, you chose to stick your head in the sand.
Take responsibility and resign today!
Every day we find more proof that in Gaza the UN=Hamas and vice versa. Anything the UN says or claims about Gaza cannot be trusted.
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But not only did you refuse, you chose to stick your head in the sand your ass.
First they complained they had none, now they complain it's only some. When they got lotsa, they'll complain about its second rate quality.
[GEO.TV] The World Health Organisation ...Kind of like the Center for Disease Control only run by the UN, with about the results you'd expectt... (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday reiterated calls for a ceasefire 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... and expressed particular concern at Israeli attacks on Rafah where most of the enclave's inhabitants have fled.
Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s overnight killed 48 people in Rafah, local health authorities said.
Ghebreyesus said only 15 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza were "still partially or minimally functioning" and that aid workers were doing their best in impossible circumstances.
Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, he said the WHO, the UN's health agency, continued to call for safe access for humanitarian personnel and supplies, for Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... to release hostages, and for a ceasefire.
Israel's four-month war in Gaza has killed more than 28,000 people, say health authorities in the enclave. The UN has said more than 85% of Gazooks have been displaced and that Gaza faces famine, with one in five children under five acutely malnourished.
Last week, Israel said it planned to assault Rafah, the last relatively safe place in the enclave, to which more than one million displaced people had fled, camping on the street, in empty lots and on the beach.
"I am especially concerned by the recent attacks on Rafah where the majority of Gaza's population has fled the destruction," he said.
"So far, we have delivered 447 metric tons of medical supplies to Gaza, but it's a drop in the ocean of need, which continues to grow every day," he said.
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[GEO.TV] The UN agency for Paleostinians UNRWA needs to be able to continue its work while allegations that a handful of its 13,000 staff 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... were involved in the October 7 attack on Israel are investigated, the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Monday.
"Nobody else can do what UNRWA is doing, allegations need to be verified... let's wait for the investigations to take place," Borrell said ahead of a meeting of EU development ministers in Brussels.
"In the meantime, people have to continue to eat, have to continue going to the doctors." "... They're running low on ammunition..."
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UNRWA needs to be able to continue work amid investigations
[GEO.TV] Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency UNRWA, remains resolute, stating he has "no intention to resign" amidst allegations linking some staff members to the attack on Israel, Al Jazeera reported.
The UN agency, responsible for aiding Palestinians in Gaza, faces funding suspensions from several donor countries following the accusations.
UNRWA initiated an investigation into the matter and has taken action by dismissing staff members implicated in the attack.
[IsraelTimes] La Belle France evacuated 42 people from Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... today, including Frenchies and staff of the French cultural institute, La Belle France’s foreign ministry says.
"After a request from La Belle France, 42 people today left the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing," the ministry says in a statement. It adds that more than 200 people have now left the stricken territory, following official French requests.
[IsraelTimes] The two hostages freed in an overnight operation have said they were held captive in the home of a family in Rafah, the Ynet news site reports.
According to the report, Fernando Marman, 61, and Louis Har, 70, told Sheba Medical Center, where they are now being treated, that the reason for their relatively good health despite being held hostage for 129 days was that they were imprisoned in 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 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... home — the implication being that they were not held in a tunnel.
Marman and Har were taken hostage from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7.
Clara Marman, 62, who is Marman’s sister and Har’s partner, was also taken, as was their other sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela’s daughter, Mia, 17.
The Leimbergs and Clara Marman were released on November 28 as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and the United States between Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... and Israel.
Clara, back in Israel, has said that all five were kept together, and at one point, they were moved in a small car to Rafah, "actually, very close to Nir Yitzhak."
[IsraelTimes] Foreign minister Shoukry appears to rebuff reports that Cairo could suspend agreement if IDF pushes into southern 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... city, risking influx into Sinai.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Monday that Cairo is committed to upholding its peace treaty with Israel, amid reports in recent days that the agreement may be in jeopardy if the military proceeds with an offensive on the Gazook city of Rafah, abutting the border with Egypt.
Cairo has expressed worries that an Israeli push into Rafah, which has swelled with Gazooks displaced from parts of the Strip, could create a crush of refugees pushing into the Sinai desert and exacerbate a humanitarian crisis in the Strip.
Cairo’s top diplomat was asked about the potential impacts of such an assault on his country’s relations with Israel by a news hound .
"There is a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, which has been in effect for the past 40 years and will continue to be. We are actively dealing with this matter at this stage," Shoukry said, during a trip to Ljubljana, according to quotes carried by Sky News Arabic.
The comments came days after The Wall Street Journal reported that Egyptian officials warned the decades-long peace treaty between Egypt and Israel could be suspended if Israel Defense Forces’ troops enter Rafah, or if any of Rafah’s refugees are forced southward into the Sinai Peninsula.
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#2 But they are. I remember a 1980es paper I've seen (in LANL library) that compared Egypt Arab DNA to Saudy & Coptic. It's a lot closer to Saudi than to Coptic.
[IsraelTimes] Visa ban comes after La Belle Francesca Albanese denies Oct. 7 murderous Moslems were motivated by hatred for Jews, blames ’Israel’s oppression’; refugee agency head rejects calls to step down.
Israel officially banned the UN’s special rapporteur for the West Bank and 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... and moved to evict the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees from offices on state-owned land, stepping up a campaign against elements of the world body it alleges are sympathetic to Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... Special Rapporteur for the Paleostinian Territories La Belle Francesca Albanese had already been refused entry into Israel for months, but on Monday was officially banned, the Foreign Ministry and the Interior Ministry announced.
The open-ended move came in reaction to comments from the Italian lawyer that appeared to justify Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
"The ’greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century’?" Albanese wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, responding to a Le Monde post reporting on French President Emmanuel Macron honoring the victims of Hamas’s onslaught, including a number of Frenchies. "The victims of 7/10 were not killed because of their Judaism, but in response to Israel’s oppression. La Belle France & the international community did nothing to prevent it. My respects to the victims."
On Sunday, Foreign Minister Israel Katz called on UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... to fire Albanese, who has been widely pilloried in the past for comments deemed antisemitic.
"The era of Jews being silent is over," Katz and Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said in Monday’s joint statement.
"If the UN wants to return to being a relevant body, its leaders must publicly disavow the antisemitic words of the ’special envoy’ — and fire her permanently. Preventing her from entering Israel might remind her of the real reason why Hamas slaughtered babies, women, and [the elderly]."
Hamas’s October 7 massacre saw some 3,000 murderous Moslems burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing over 250 hostages of all ages under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities. The vast majority of those killed as button men seized border communities were civilians — including babies, children and the elderly. Entire families were executed in their homes, and over 360 people were slaughtered at an outdoor festival, many amid horrific acts of brutality by the terrorists.
UN special rapporteurs are unpaid, independent experts mandated by the Human Rights Council. They do not speak for the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , but report their findings to the council’s fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms.
In response to the visa ban, Albanese wrote on X on Monday: "BREAKING: Israel’s ’denying me entry’ is not news."
She said "all" special rapporteurs for the occupied Paleostinian territories have been denied entry by Israel since 2008.
"This must not become a distraction from Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, which are taking a new level of horror with the bombing of people in ’safe areas’ in Rafah."
Israel has previously criticized Albanese after she and other UN-mandated rights experts said in November that Paleostinians in war-battered Gaza were "at grave risk of genocide." In a statement on October 14, she accused Israel of aiming to ethnically cleanse Gaza, while not mentioning the Hamas attacks on Israel.
Albanese said during the 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas that the "Jewish lobby" was in control of the United States. She has also sympathized with terror organizations, dismissed Israeli security concerns, compared Israelis to Nazis, accused the Jewish state of potential war crimes, said Israel controlled the BBC, and claimed that the Jewish state started wars out of greed.
Her comments Monday came hours after Israeli special forces rescued two hostages from Hamas captivity in Rafah in southern Gaza, in a complex operation that involved battles with murderous Moslems and massive Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
Israel’s ties with several UN bodies and representatives have soured since the start of the war with Hamas in Gaza.
Israeli Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf said Monday that he had ordered the director general of the Israel Lands Authority to evict UNRWA from any state land it is currently occupying, given the mounting allegations.
In a letter, Goldknopf instructed ILA director Yaakov Quint to "immediately halt" all agreements between the ILA and UNRWA "and remove them from the territories leased to them" by the state — such as the organization’s offices in Maalot Dafna and Kafr Aqab in Jerusalem.
UNRWA "acted in the service of Hamas and even took part in the brutal massacre on October 7," Goldknopf wrote, accusing the UN body of acting against Israel, while based on Israeli soil. "Together with the director general of the Israel Land Authority, I intend to put an end to this and remove them from Israel."
It was unclear whether Goldknopf has the authority to execute the move.
Last week, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the UN agency’s offices in Jerusalem to call for its removal, shouting "UNRWA is a chapter of Hamas!"
[IsraelTimes] Soldiers dispatched to scene after man spotted entering Strip near Be’eri, motive unknown.
An Israeli civilian crossed into 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 near the devastated community of Kibbutz Be’eri on Sunday, in circumstances still under investigation, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The IDF said the civilian was spotted by soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras, who dispatched troops to the scene but apparently arrived too late because a short while later, the civilian returned on his own to Israel where he was then detained.
Authorities were still investigating why he entered Gaza.
It was not immediately clear how deep into the Strip he reached before returning.
The IDF did not detail how the man crossed into the Strip, although some parts of the Gaza border fence remain open for Israeli military convoys.
Last month, two young Israeli children managed to slip under the Gaza border fence, heading toward the Strip while carrying an Israeli flag. The IDF said the two children crawled under the fence, built in Israeli territory, but did not cross into Gaza territory.
The Gaza border area is a closed military zone as war is waged against Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... . Inside Gaza, Paleostinians are generally prohibited from reaching areas near the frontier, with the army working to expand a buffer zone running along the border.
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has met with Ziad al-Nakhaleh, secretary general of 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... , Hezbollah says in a statement.
Was the Mossad listening in?
It does not say where or when the meeting was held.
Betcha IDF Intelligence knows.
According to he statement, the two terror leaders discussed "the latest developments," and the "support provided by the axis of resistance in the various arenas."
The heads of the two Iran-backed terror groups also held talks on "expected developments," the statement says.
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[IsraelTimes] The two hostages freed in an overnight operation have said they were held captive in the home of a family in Rafah, the Ynet news site reports.
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