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Little wonder the name 'Esther' is seldom used in these modern times:
In the biblical book named after her, Esther is a young Jewish woman living in the Persian diaspora who finds favor with the king, becomes queen, and risks her life to save the Jewish people from destruction when the court official Haman persuades the king to authorize a pogrom against all the Jews of the empire.
[GEO.TV] Denmark's parliament has approved a groundbreaking law criminalising the public burning of religious texts, with a particular focus on addressing protests in Moslem nations over Holy Koran desecration.
The legislation, securing 94 votes in favour and facing opposition from 77 members in the 179-seat Folketing, specifically targets the "inappropriate treatment of writings with significant religious importance for a recognised religious community."
The law, pending formal approval by Queen Margrethe later this month, prohibits the public burning, tearing, or defilement of holy texts, both in person and through disseminated videos.
Offenders may face fines or up to two years in prison. The Ministry of Justice underlines that the law aims to counteract "systematic mockery," contributing to an increased terrorism threat in Denmark, particularly in the wake of public protests involving Holy Koran burning ...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship.... s in Denmark and Sweden earlier this year.
The weather in Denmark is frightful;
Not snow, something oh-so-delightful:
Each Dane throws confetti,
So white and so pretty;
So spiteful... and perfectly rightful.
Meanwhile, in real life... Lisa turns into a camel. Not that I've actually watched a Simpsons episode this millennium.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dozens of Palestinians have been pictured stripped to their underwear, bound and lined up on their knees, after reportedly being captured by Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza. prepare for a lot of handwringing
Footage shared by Israeli media appears to show Israel Defence Forces (IDF) troops rounding up scores of men and transporting them on the back of trucks.
The men are believed to have surrendered in the Jabalia refugee camp and other areas around northern Gaza, with Israeli outlet Walla saying they were stripped 'to rule out the possibility that they were carrying weapons'.
Dozens of captives are reported to have been paraded through Palestine Square in Gaza City, with shoes and sandals strewn across the street in one image.
When asked about the images, IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari seemed to confirm that the men had been taken prisoner but did not clarify whether those pictured were members of Hamas or civilians.
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israeli troops have detained and interrogated hundreds of people in Gaza suspected of militant links.
Hagari told reporters: 'Jabalia and Shejaiya are 'centres of gravity'... for terrorists, and we are fighting them.
'They are hiding underground and come out and we fight them. Whoever is left in those areas, they come out from tunnel shafts, and some from buildings, and we investigate who is linked to Hamas, and who isn't. We arrest them all and interrogate them.'
Walla outlet claimed on Wednesday afternoon that Israeli soldiers from the 261st Reserve Brigade had arrested those pictured and were 'investigating' them.
The news site reported that those arrested were not expected to be moved to Israel but investigated in Gaza 'since there is a likelihood that the suspects are innocent people living in a humanitarian tunnel shelter in the vicinity'. likelihood = not a chance
There have been unconfirmed reports that the men were captured from UN-run schools in the north of the territory.
The Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet said its correspondent Diaa Al-Kahlout was among those detained and had been taken to an unknown location.
Israeli forces have encircled major urban centres as they seek to destroy Hamas over its unprecedented attack on October 7, when terrorists broke through Gaza's militarised border to kill around 1,200 people and seize hostages, 138 of whom remain captive, according to Israeli figures.
Since Israel began bombarding the small enclave in response, more than 17,170 Palestinians have been killed and 46,000 wounded, according to the Gaza health ministry.
It comes as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in his strongest public criticism of Israel's conduct of the war on Hamas in south Gaza, said there was a gap between the government's declared intentions to protect civilians and the casualties.
'As we stand here almost a week into this campaign into the south, it remains imperative that Israel put a premium on civilian protection,' Blinken said after meeting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron in Washington.
'And there does remain a gap between... the intent to protect civilians and the actual results that we're seeing on the ground.'
It emerged last night that Blinken had told the Israeli government that he expects it to end the war in Gaza within the next month amid concerns over the growing death toll there.
During meetings last week, sources who were present told The Times that Blinken made it clear that Israel would have until January to finish its ground operation against Hamas terrorists.
Blinken stressed that while the US supports Israel's campaign to destroy Hamas, the heavy death toll in Gaza means that President Joe Biden expects the war to end three months after it began.
Meanwhile, Biden spoke separately by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan's King Abdullah on Thursday.
Biden 'emphasized the critical need to protect civilians and to separate the civilian population from Hamas including through corridors that allow people to move safely from defined areas of hostilities,' the White House said.
But despite the US warnings, Israel pressed on with its offensive in and around Gaza's main cities today as the death toll rose to more than 17,000 according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
Early Friday, the health ministry reported another 40 dead in strikes near Gaza City, and 'dozens' more in Jabalia and Khan Yunis.
Backed by air power, tanks and armoured bulldozers, Israeli troops are fighting in Khan Yunis, the biggest city in southern Gaza, as well as in Gaza City and Jabalia district in the north.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday troops had closed in on the Khan Yunis home of Hamas's Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, 61, vowing 'it is only a matter of time until we find him'.
It comes as the armed wing of Hamas said on Friday it had repelled an an attempted hostage rescue by Israeli special forces in the Gaza Strip, inflicting several military casualties, and that a captive also died in the incident.
Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades said its fighters discovered a special forces unit mounting a rescue attempt and attacked it, killing and wounding several soldiers. It did specify the location of the incident.
It said a captive Israeli soldier was killed, naming him as Sa'ar Baruch, 25. Lists of the hostages published by Israel identify one of them as Sahar Baruch, a civilian student who was 24 when he was seized from his home during the deadly Oct 7 cross-border Hamas rampage that sparked the war.
The Israeli military, which freed a captive soldier in Gaza in late October and is waging a Gaza offensive designed in part to recover 138 remaining hostages, had no immediate comment.
#2
...Let me make a suggestion to the Israeli Government: Take mugshots of every one of these goons, along with DNA samples.
Then publish the pics and the names - so no one worries, of course, that their little Mahmood is missing - along with a note remarking on their cooperation with the Israeli authorities.
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We did the same thing with Japanese prisoners. Some were known to carry grenades and booby traps hidden in their clothing. It's a prudent precaution.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
12/08/2023 12:46 Comments ||
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Feed them and care for them properly. Just make sure there's enough polonium 210 in the food. Watch their families watch them waste away. Undertake a study about the tunnel networks exposing them to radioactive metals and shit.
Stripping and parading? What good does that do? What's next? Put them in dresses and fcuk them? I'll bet there's a Geneva convention for that too.
#10
I think the very mention of underwear was a propaganda effort to make people think of Abu Ghraib.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/08/2023 14:46 Comments ||
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#11
Who wants to see Pals in the buff? Appalling Iranian stuff
Is found UNDERGROUND!
Thus was Israel bound
To seek counsel and get really rough.
[cue ICC billy goats Gruff]
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says that a few days ago it killed two bigwigs in Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’s intelligence division, in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... 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.
It says one of the officials, Abed al-Aziz Rantisi, was responsible for Hamas’s observation capabilities, and was involved in the planning of the October 7 attacks.
He was killed in a strike on a Hamas intelligence command room, along with Ahmed Ayush, who the IDF says is a senior operative in the terror group’s observation array in the al-Qarara battalion.
The IDF says the command room that was hit in the strike was a center for all of Hamas’s observation capabilities, and it "served as a significant strategic asset for the management of the fighting."
[Jpost] IDF continues maneuvering inside southern city of Khan Yunis • army raids Hamas military post, training complex inside refugee camp.
Israeli forces continued operations across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, clashing with Hamas terrorists in raids on the Jabaliya refugee camp and the southern city of Khan Yunis, the IDF said.
In Khan Yunis, a Hamas terrorist was seen escaping the ruin of a tunnel destroyed by an IDF drone while holding a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher, in footage shared by the military.
IDF fighters from the 71st Battalion directed the drone and struck the terrorist down.
Forces from the IDF's 98th Division, accompanied by Air Force aircraft, struck and downed dozens of terrorists and terror targets in Khan Yunis. A Duvdevan special force last night destroyed a tunnel shaft in the city after encountering a terror cell seen exiting the tunnel.
IDF RAIDS HAMAS MILITARY POST, TRAINING COMPLEX INSIDE REFUGEE CAMP
In Jabaliya, the 460th Brigade raided Hamas's Beisan military outpost located inside the refugee camp. Israeli forces located a network of underground tunnels leading in and out of the post, as well as a hidden military training complex and a warehouse used for storing weaponry.
In addition, Israeli Navy forces struck Hamas terror bases using precision-guided munitions and mortar fire.
American troops in Iraq and Syria managed to capture over thirty suspected ISIS operatives last month
Central Command said two terror cells had been dismantled by troops, one of which was responsible for attacking prisons in Syria to release extremists
The US launched counterstrikes on Iranian proxies in Syria last month , following a wave of missile and drone attacks on US troops in the region
The United States Central Command has revealed it killed kill four ISIS terrorists and detained 33 extremists in Iraq and Syria in November.
Central Command said that last month they managed to kill three ISIS operatives, and detain 14 others while in Iraq.
In neighboring Syria, US forces managed to take out one other extremist and detained 19 others. In a statement, they said these targeted efforts had been to disrupt operations by two terror cells in the region. One cell was reportedly responsible for planning attacks on prisons in Syria in an attempt to free radical prisoners held there.
General Michael Erik Kurilla said: 'Even in the midst of complex challenges within the region, CENTCOM remains steadfast to the region and the enduring defeat of ISIS.'
In October, CENTCOM said they had conducted 387 operations against the Islamic State Group in Iraq and Syria. That figure was already much higher than what American forces did in all of 2022 to wipe out the extremist group.
In 2022, US troops and partner forces killed at least 686 suspected ISIS fighters, 220 of those in Iraq and a further 466 in Syria.
While fewer ISIS fighters have been killed this year in Iraq and Syria, U.S. troops and partner forces have captured more suspected ISIS operatives than in 2022. With these latest figures from CENTCOM, the total number of operatives detained is now 516 for the year, compared to 374 last year.
The US launched counterstrikes on Iranian proxies in Syria last month, following a wave of missile and drone attacks on US troops in the region.
Since the Gaza war erupted with a deadly Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, US forces deployed in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 66 times.
The US Air Force used F-15E fighter jets and targeted the Iranian Revolutionary Guard training facility in North Abu Kamal, and a militia safe house in Mayadin. The Iran-backed militant groups claimed responsibility for the attacks and said they were in response to US support for Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
#4
While this is very good news.
Looking at how much US Inter-agency Time, Resources, Manpower and $$ Millions are being used to accomplish such results. There has to be a better R.O.I process with faster, greater results.
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...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship....
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
