[AlAhram] The Cairo Criminal Court acquitted Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, the sons of ousted president Mohammed Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , and others, in the case known in the media as "manipulating the stock exchange" on Saturday.
The court also postponed its rule on preventing nine defendants accused in the same case from disposing of their money, including Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, till 11 March.
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Former Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman says PM Benjamin Netanyahu sent Mossad chief Yossi Cohen to Doha on February 5 to ensure Qatar continues its financial aid policy to Hamas, according to an interview he gave to Israel’s Channel 12.https://t.co/FAuOoJJLY8
[Guardian] A homeless man has appeared in court charged with stabbing a prayer leader with a kitchen knife at a London mosque.
Daniel Horton, 29, is accused of grievous bodily harm and possession of a bladed article. He appeared at Westminster magistrates court on Saturday. Horton spoke only to state his nationality as British and confirm his name and date of birth.
Raafat Maglad, 70, was treated in hospital for stab injuries after being injured at London Central mosque in Regent’s Park on Thursday.
Maglad, known as the muezzin ‐ the person who makes the call to prayer ‐ returned to the mosque for Friday prayers less than 24 hours after the incident.
The prosecutor, Tanyia Dogra, said Maglad suffered a 1.5cm wound to his neck. She told the court the victim and defendant were known to each other because Horton had been attending the mosque for a number of years.
Horton, who the court heard had been sleeping rough since last year, was remanded in jug to appear at Southwark crown court on 20 March.
[Jpost] The "Classic Days" auto show in Berlin’s main shopping district was cancelled because "the anti-Jewish al-Quds day demonstration was permitted by the authorities at the same time."
The "Classic Days" organizer Frank Peppel told the paper that on May 16 a hate demonstration will take place. "It's a shame for Berlin," said Peppel, adding "Several hundred thousand visitors have to give way to murderous Moslems who protest against Jews."
Peppel told the paper that he applied for a permit in May 2019 for the Classic Days and heard nothing from the authorities for six months. In early January, the authorities told him that the Al Quds Day has priority.
The founder of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, launched the Al Quds Day in 1979 calling for the destruction of Israel. Al Quds is the Arabic word for Jerusalem. The Berlin Al Quds demonstration has been held each year since 1996 in the capital.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... and Berlin mayor Michael Muller have ignored appeals over the years from the Israeli and American governments, as well as Germany’s Jewish community, to ban the antisemitic rally.
Al Quds in Berlin is attended by members and supporters of the EU and US designated terrorist organizations Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine. In addition to the operatives from Iran’s chief proxy, Hezbollah, German neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... s have participated in the event.
Germany’s government refuses to ban all of Hezbollah in the federal republic, where 1,050 Hezbollah members and supporters raise funds and recruit new members, according to German intelligence reports reviewed by the Post.
The Federal Republic has merely banned Hezbollah’s so-called "military wing" in Germany. The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , Israel, Britannia, the US, Canada, and many Latin American countries have classified Hezbollah’s entire movement a terrorist entity.
[Jpost] Iran’s intelligence ministry obtained visas from the German and US governments to produce anti-Western films that whitewash Tehran’s repression of Iranian protestors and bash the US and Israel.
From the American government? How on earth did they manage that?
In a Friday article headlined "Iran's Intelligence Ministry Makes Movies in Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... , Trumpets Islamic Theocratic Republic's Narrative," Radio Farda first reported that "some 15 crew members went to Berlin to make the movie with Type-D multiple-entry Schengen visas issued by the German Embassy in Tehran. Some German-based Iranian filmmakers also helped the crew.
Hopefully by now the Germany-based Iranian filmmakers are thoroughly bugged, and their connections traced...
[IsraelTimes] Pro-Palestinian activist Brad Parker on Friday said that Belgium rescinded an invitation for him to address the UN Security Council, which it currently chairs, after being pressured by Israel.
%z, a senior advisor at Defence for Children International-Paleostine (DCI-P) had been invited by Brussels to address the UN over allegations of rights abuses in Israel and the Paleostinian territories.
Israel claimed he was too biased to address the forum and summoned Belgian diplomats to protest the invitation.
Parker told AFP he would no longer address the body after being informed that the parameters of the meeting had changed.
"What I have been told is on Monday the Belgian government has changed the briefing to be closed consultations, which effectively means I won’t be speaking," Parker told AFP, adding he was "deeply frustrated."
He said he had planned to give an "evidence-based statement" on "grave violations in Israel and the occupied Paleostinian territories from 2014 to the end of 2019."
"It is frustrating once again the political context has worked to silence our voice."
The Ynet news site reported Israeli diplomatic officials were pleased by Belgium’s decision.
DCI-P describes itself as working to protect "the human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... of Paleostinian children."
Israel says the NGO’s board includes individuals affiliated with the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, considered a terrorist organization by the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union, the United States and Israel.
Foreign Ministry front man Lior Haiat said Parker is "known for extreme positions against Israel."
Israel’s ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Emmanuel Nahshon, wrote on Twitter earlier this month that inviting Parker to speak created "unnecessary tension" that was "easily avoidable."
Parker said the Israeli allegations against him were "an attempt to silence legitimate human rights work that exposes the reality for children impacted by Israeli military occupation."
Israel summoned a top Belgian diplomat twice earlier this month over the issue, while the Belgian foreign ministry summoned Nahshon to censure him for retweeting a tweet critical of Brussels’s choice to invite Parker.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that he will meet with both Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on March 5 to discuss Syria’s Idlib.
Hibernation is over, guys ‐ time to crawl out and check if you can see your shadow.
[Jpost] Protests are planned to mark both the Great March of Return and Land Day, as well as in demonstration against Trump's Deal of the Century peace plan.
The Paleostinians are planning mass demonstrations along the border between 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 Hamaswith 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 and Israel on March 30 to mark the second anniversary of the Great March of Return and Land Day.
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Passe' now I suppose, but when I last dabbled in the field, we paired a microwave with the laser to 'clear the air'. Made the coolest sound. Something of a corona discharge.
Lebanese journalist @DimaSadek, known for her support of the #LebanonProtests, says she has been summoned by security authorities for spreading “fake news” after the head of the Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil filed a complaint against her.https://t.co/PlVqHFQg8H
The UN has suggests that the Tal Abyad border crossing between Syria and Turkey be used to deliver aid to civilians in northeast Syria after Russia and China blocked the world body from using a crossing point on the Iraqi border to provide help.https://t.co/nezS43k0n9
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